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Rachel Reeves will insist she has “the right economic plan for our country” and that “working people are better off” thanks to Labour when she delivers her spring forecast to the Commons today. Addressing MPs, the chancellor will set out the need to ensure “stability in public finances”, as the world becomes “yet more uncertain”,…
Ulysses Jenkins, the pioneering Los Angeles-born video artist whose avant-garde compositions embodied Black experimentalism, has died. He was 79. Jenkinsβ death was confirmed by his alma mater Otis College, where he studied under renowned painter and printmaker Charles White in the late 1970s and returned as an instructor years later. The Los Angeles art and…
A Plaid Cymru Welsh government would aim toΒ establishΒ a national commission to explore Wales’s constitutional future, including a potential path toward independence, within its first 100 days in office. The party’s leader, Rhun ap Iorwerth, confirmed a Plaid Cymru Welsh government would rule out a referendum should the it win power in May’s election. But his…
The warm smiles coming from Chadrack Mpoyi are plentiful these days. After forcefully dominating the paint and protecting the rim in Crean Lutheran wins, the imposing big man beams as teammates, classmates and supporters congratulate him. He offers a hug in return. Mpoyi says heβs having fun each game in his one season of high…
Stocks slid on Friday as higher-than-expected inflation data and mounting fears about artificial intelligence’s economic impact weighed on investors. The S&P 500 fell 30 points, or 0.4%, to close at 6,879, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 521 points, or 1.1%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite sank 0.9% on the day. The losses followed the…
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil Β βΒ When President Trump returned to the White House last year, observers in Brazil expected immediate hostility towards leftist President Luiz InΓ‘cio Lula da Silva, who in 2022 had defeated the far-right former president and MAGA ally Jair Bolsonaro. The expected clash with Trump came in July, when he imposed 40% tariffs on…
Fresh conflict in the Middle East threatens to make the cost of petrol more expensive for motorists in the UK, experts have warned. Escalating oil prices could see higher costs for consumers across the British economy – and the first place those rises will show up is at the fuel pumps. Will the cost of…
In the summer of 1991, Nirvana filmed the music video for βSmells Like Teen Spiritβ on a Culver City sound stage. Kurt Cobain strummed the grunge anthemβs iconic four-chord opening riff on a 1969 Fender Mustang, Lake Placid Blue with a signature racing stripe. Nearly 35 years later, the six-string relic hung on a gallery…
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “stands by” his decision not to join in with the strikes on Iran carried out by the United States and Israel. The UK leader was speaking in the House of Commons, as he updated MPs and the public on the latest situation in the Middle East. Sir Keir restated that…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, says his company refused to allow its AI product, Claude, to be used by the Trump Administration without certain guidelines (such as not using its AI to power fully-autonomous weapons without any human involvement). That prompted President Trump to announce Friday that he is…
