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Budget 2025 summary: Key points from Rachel Reeves’s speech
Paul SeddonPolitical reporter Rachel Reeves has set out details of her second Budget since becoming chancellor. A number of measures from…
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15 high-cost drugs, including Ozempic, get major Medicare price reductions in latest negotiation round
A wave of vital prescription drugs is about to get a lot cheaper for people on Medicare. The Trump administration announced Tuesday that…
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The case for not loving your job
Discussions around the role of work in our lives are frequently divided into two camps. “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in…
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Transgender athlete 'was very dishonest', says world's strongest woman Andrea Thompson
A British athlete crowned the world's strongest woman says she was "robbed" of her winning moment after it emerged the original champion…
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FRANCESCO CLARK: THE UNBREAKABLE FORCE
BEHIND CLARK’S BOTANICALS — HOW HE TURNED TRAGEDY INTO THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENT BEAUTY The Making of a Fashion Prodigy Before the beauty…
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Ikea just made speakers you’ll actually want to display
Ikea just launched a new collection of speakers that double as actual pieces of art. The collection, which includes three round bluetooth…
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Electric vehicle owners to face pay-per-mile tax
Pritti MistryBusiness reporter A new tax for electric and hybrid vehicles has been announced by the chancellor in the Budget. From April…
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X’s new feature revealed many popular U.S. political accounts are located in other countries
They go by names like @TRUMP_ARMY_ or @MAGANationX, and their verified accounts proudly display portraits of President Donald Trump, voter…
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RealPage barred from using real-time data to set rents under new DOJ settlement
Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other’s moves and push rents higher using confidential data,…
Business
Properties worth more than £2m in England face new tax
Michael Sheils McNameeBusiness reporter Owners of tens of thousands of properties in England valued at more than £2m are set to be hit…
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As the holiday shopping season kicks off, these overseas sellers struggle to keep U.S. customers
At Fleece & Harmony, a woolen mill and yarn shop in bucolic Belfast, Prince Edward Island, in Canada, owner Kim Doherty used to be able to…
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This charming new font is a love letter to San Francisco’s public transit
Most people don’t give the display screens on their commuter trains a second thought, but for designer Emily Sneddon, they’ve proved to be…
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Salary sacrifice: Pension tax break reduced by chancellor
Some pension savers will face a hit to the amount of money they can put into their pension without paying national insurance (NI), under…
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Grab your keys and some tissues. Chevrolet’s new holiday ad is a tearjerker
Hooboy, here we go again. Chevrolet has once more rolled out a tearjerker ad for the holidays. Created by ad agency Anomaly, “Memory Lane”…
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An immigration agent’s use of ChatGPT for reports is raising alarms. Experts explain why
Tucked in a two-sentence footnote in a voluminous court opinion, a federal judge recently called out immigration agents using artificial…
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Neuroscience of Thanksgiving and happiness: How to maximize the health benefits of practicing gratitude
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, a time when we give thanks and practice gratitude for what we have, we turned to neuroscience to…
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UK economy growth forecasts lowered from next year
The UK economy is expected to grow at a slower rate than previously expected from next year, the government's official forecaster has…
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Twenty-four Nigerian schoolgirls released over a week after abduction
A group of 24 Nigerian girls who were abducted from their boarding school over a week ago have been released, the country's president…
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Global stocks rise after Wall Street surges on hopes for lower interest rates
Shares in Europe and Asia advanced on Wednesday after benchmarks on Wall Street surged on hopes the Federal Reserve will soon opt to cut…
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The Download: AI and the economy, and slop for the masses
There's a lot at stake when it comes to understanding how AI is changing the economy right now. Should we be pessimistic? Optimistic? Or…
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Thanksgiving flight today? This map shows which airports have the most delays and cancellations
The Thanksgiving travel period is in full swing. Today is the last day before Thanksgiving, which means millions of Americans will be…
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What the Budget means for you and your money
Kevin PeacheyCost of living correspondent Chancellor Rachel Reeves is announcing her Budget, but details were published early by the…
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Stranger Things: All you need to know about season five
Pete AllisonCulture reporter It's been over three years since Stranger Things fans' last visit to Hawkins, Indiana. The fictional US town…
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is the perfect event for our attention-addled age
In an age of high-turnover trends, ubiquitous screens, and fractured attention spans, a lengthy televised parade organized by a venerable…