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The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) has blamed budget tax hikes for a deeper half-year loss. The UK’s largest employee-owned business, which owns John Lewis department stores and Waitrose supermarkets, reported a headline loss before tax and exceptional items of Β£34m for the six months to 26 July. That compared to a Β£5m loss in the…
This story is part of Imageβs October Abundance issue, reveling in indulgence, maximalism and the deliciously impractical. On a Wednesday evening in August, Celeste Perkins walked into El Atacor #1 in Cypress Park holding a towering three-tiered cake, frosted in American buttercream and airbrushed in oversaturated hues of red, green and blue. Thick, excessive piping…
Ministers are being urged not to meet the Israeli president during an expected visit next week, as the government continues to condemn his country’s expanded military offensive in Gaza. Isaac Herzog will be in Britain on Wednesday and Thursday, Sky News understands. Downing Street has declined to comment, only saying it would set out any…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ U.S. and Mexican officials agreed Wednesday to bolster cooperation on joint security concerns, including drug smuggling, illegal migration and arms trafficking, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended President Trumpβs controversial decision to order an attack on an alleged smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea. The top U.S. diplomat held his first meeting with…
βChainsaw Man β The Movie: Reze Arc,β the Japanese anime from Crunchyroll and Sony, claimed the top spot at the domestic box office this weekend, taking in an estimated $17.25 million, according to Comscore. The R-rated movie, based on Tatsuki Fujimotoβs popular manga series, follows teen demon hunter Denji, who is betrayed by the yakuza…
Former AI company founder and CEO Matt Shumer joins “CBS Mornings” to break down Anthropic’s report about one of its AI models, Claude Mythos Preview. In the report, the company warned the program was “too powerful” to be released to the public and it worried about the program, which is designed to find security flaws…
Electric vehicle charger firms have warned that soaring energy bills will have to be passed on to drivers, risking a major setback for the government’s green goals. Charging companies are being saddled with massive network charges that have increased by an average of 462% over the past three years, industry body ChargeUK has found. There…
A Labour councillor said far-right protesters should have their throats slit and drew his finger across his throat at an anti-racism protest following the Southport murders, a court has heard. Ricky Jones, 58, who is on trial for encouraging violent disorder, called demonstrators “disgusting Nazi fascists” at the protest in east London, last August. Jones,…
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In the slang, βmidβ means disappointingly mediocre, forgettable, uninspiring. On TikTok, a classic rant starts: βItβs called the Midwest because everything in it is mid! Skyline Chili? Mid! Your Cincinnati Reds, who havenβt won a World Series since 1990? M-M-M-Mid!!!β Today, the Reds are five games over .500, and one of four teams that appear…
