38 m. ago Hawaii lawmakers raise the state's hotel tax to help the islands cope with climate change

Hawaii lawmakers have passed first-of-its-kind legislation that increases the state’s lodging tax

Society

41 m. ago Farage pledges to ban WFH and slash wasteful spending in new Reform

Farage promised radical changes including slashing spending on consultancy, reducing council 'overreach' into issues such as diversity initiatives, and imposing a 'change of culture' on staff.

Politics

1 hour ago US asks judge to break up Google’s ad tech business after requesting Chrome sale

After Google lost its first monopoly trial, government asks it to sell off units of its core internet ads businessGoogle on Friday faced a demand by the US government to break up its hugely profitable ad technology business. The request came after a judge found the tech giant was commanding an illegal monopoly for the second time in less than a year.“We have a defendant who has found ways to defy” the law, US government lawyer Julia Tarver Wood told a federal court in Virginia, as she urged the judge to dismiss Google’s assurance that it would change its behavior. “Leaving a recidivist monopolist” intact was not appropriate to solve the issue, she added. Continue reading...

Economics

1 hour ago JENNIE BOND 'Seething Prince Harry is not going to make Charles and William change their minds'

Prince Harry has opened up about his hopes of reconciling with his family in an emotional new interview, though royal expert Jennie Bond has revealed why this won't happen any time soon

Politics

2 h. ago Scientists confirm people really do get drunker in the summer than winter

The experiment found that rodents in the colder climate recovered from alcohol intoxication more quickly in a study to see if alcohol tolerances changes with the seasons

Politics

2 h. ago Airdrie boss says task was getting through Ayr United clash, but full focus is on play

Rhys McCabe made five changes as he looks to seal survival

Politics

2 h. ago Texas AG opens investigation into toothpaste companies over fluoride exposure. But, dentists say it’s safe

Despite decades of data, Trump administration leaders are working to change the federal fluoride regulations

Events

4 h. ago Five years on: how Covid changed sport for better and for worse

With the pandemic in the rearview mirror it was clearly a boost for Fifa and Saudi Arabia but harmed grassroots sport and player welfareSound the trumpets, beat the drum, let loose the buttock-rockets of hope. One of the strangest and most unsatisfying things about the Covid-19 pandemic, among a great many deeply strange and unsatisfying things, is that it never actually had a shared end date or ceremonial send-off.Jarringly so, because this was a period in the national life built around a rigid roster of public events. The numerical rules. The weekly banging of pots in honour of people you secretly consider to be serfs. Such unlikely figures as health secretary Matt Hancock appearing in public every day in order to say inauthentic-sounding things about public health, all the while resembling the doomed subcommander of an imperial space galleon who keeps announcing that he’s got the situation under control sir, just as the bridge behind him is cleaved in two and he’s sucked out into...

Politics

4 h. ago US designates two powerful Haitian gangs as terrorist groups

Rubio calls Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif ‘threat to US national security’ and says support for groups could lead to chargesThe United States has designated a powerful Haitian gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital city as a “transnational terrorist group”.The criminal coalition known as Viv Ansanm (Live Together), and another faction, the Gran Grif gang, which in October took responsibility for a shocking massacre of at least 115 people in the agricultural town of Pont-Sondé, were both covered by the move on Friday. Continue reading...

Events

5 h. ago Enjoy homemade frozen treats this heatwave as Cuisinart slashes £100 off 'instant' ice

Enjoy frozen treats with family and friends this bank holiday weekend, without paying extortinate prices at your local ice-cream shop as Cuisinart have axed their ice-cream maker by a massive £100

Society

5 h. ago Keir Starmer urged to listen to voters amid Labour anger over by

Keir Starmer said Labour understood people's frustrations and vowed to go 'further and faster' to bring about change after a bruising local election night saw Reform make gains

Politics

5 h. ago The beautiful Greater Manchester park with ice cream and cocktails to visit this bank holiday

The region boasts a number of beautiful parks, woodlands and green spaces, but there's one in particular that's easy to get to by car and public transport

Politics

5 h. ago Scientific societies say they'll do national climate assessment after Trump dismissed report authors

Two major scientific societies say they will fill the void from the Trump administration’s dismissal of scientists writing a cornerstone federal report on what climate change is doing to the United States

Politics

6 h. ago KEVIN MAGUIRE: 'Turquoise Trumpism threatens Labour after destroying the Tories'

'Labour massacred councillors in areas like Durham are entitled to blame Downing Street for lost seats. So what does Starmer hear when the PM says he gets it and will deliver change even more quickly?'

Politics

6 h. ago Viral Manchester restaurant opens new Trafford Centre café with cute animal

Panda-inspired mango flavoured ice cream, anyone?

Politics

6 h. ago Man arrested after 'filming young girl' in changing rooms at Scots swimming pool

Police launched a probe after receiving a report of voyeurism at the Waterfront Leisure Complex in Greenock.

Events

8 h. ago Six sacked Soccer Saturday pundits and what really happened – including Charlie Nicholas

Soccer Saturday was once the must-watch show for football fans but has undergone a number of changes in recent years that has seen the likes of Charlie Nicholas axed at Sky Sports

Politics

8 h. ago Donald Trump is 'missing one major instrument of power and makes one simple change'

Harvard professor Joseph Nye Jr. j has shared how Donald Trump can improve on his leadership and it all starts with a simple change in tactics - he suggested that the US President tries a softer approach

Politics

8 h. ago My mothers’ group goes camping every year. A lot has changed, but I’m grateful we still have each other | Holly Wainwright

Author Holly Wainwright reflects on her decade-long friendships with the women she met in a strip-lit shopping mall when her first child was a newbornWe knew it was coming. The camping trip when the kids would be up later than the parents, adult ears tuned in not for tears and temperatures but for tent zips flicking up and down at midnight, our alcohol audited and phone trackers at hand.This past Easter weekend, it arrived. The count was the same: 11 adults, 14 kids. The destination was new, but not unusual. A classic Australian campground – powered sites, a well-worn kitchen and a toilet block with a code it takes days to remember. A tepid, kidney-shaped pool and a sandy track to a beach stretching away in all directions. Continue reading...

Politics

8 h. ago Trump is renaming Veterans Day to honor World War I soldiers

The president also revealed he wants to change the name of VE-Day on May 8 to ‘Victory Day for World War II’

Events