50 h. ago Education Secretary ‘surprised’ by Dundee University staff job loss total

Interim principal at the University Professor Shane O’Neill confirmed that 700 staff members could lose their jobs at the crisis-hit institution.

Society

3 d. ago Job loss tally at Dundee University rises to 700 staff in "devastating" update

Interim principal provides MSPs with more details on cuts aimed at helping to save £35m

Politics

3 d. ago Job loss tally at Dundee University to include 700 staff in 'devastating' update

Interim principal provides MSPs with more details on cuts aimed at helping to save £35m

Politics

3 d. ago Dundee University jobs cull to hit 700 staff as 'devastating' update issued

EXCLUSIVE: Interim principal Shane O'Neill provided more details in a letter to Holyrood committee convener Douglas Ross.

Events

1 week ago Small Business Administration to reorganize, cut about 2,700 jobs

The Small Business Administration said it will cut its workforce by 43%, or about 2,700 jobs, as part of a reorganization

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2 w. ago In The Style: popular UK fashion brand returns from administration with rescue deal, securing 87 Jobs

The brand has been saved from administration in a deal that preserves 87 jobs 💼

Economics

2 w. ago Trump administration pauses $175m in funds to UPenn over trans athlete policy

White House official reportedly calls funding freeze ‘just a taste of what could be coming’ for Ivy League universityUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has paused $175m in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s college sports.Citing an unnamed “senior administration official”, Fox Business said the pause was “not a direct result” of a Title IX investigation into the University of Pennsylvania’s transgender athletes policy that was announced by the federal Department of Education in February. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Thames Water's "Class B" creditors consider Supreme Court appeal after losing restructuring challenge

The bondholders say they need to see the wording of the Court of Appeal dismissal before making a decision that could prolong legal wrangling

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2 w. ago Thames Water's £3 billion restructuring challenge dismissed by Court of Appeal

The decision means Britain’s biggest water company can fight on for another year rather than run out of cash later this month

Economics

2 w. ago Thames Water set for another vital court ruling amid administration warning

A former senior director said the water firm could collapse soon without a funding deal, which would bring it under temporary state ownership.

Events

2 w. ago Notable Tesla investor says he hopes Musk’s government role is ‘short

Christopher Tsai retains faith in carmaker’s earnings potential despite backlash that has seen its shares take a hitA devoted investor in Elon Musk’s Tesla – and once a close childhood friend of the US president’s eldest son and namesake – says he hopes the world’s richest man’s role in cutting federal spending for Donald Trump’s administration is “short-lived” and that he returns to managing his businesses.Investment manager Christopher Tsai, whose firm has tens of millions of dollars tied up in Tesla, said the stock market had demonstrated clear signs of displeasure with Musk’s activities at the so-called department of government efficiency. And, in an interview with the Guardian, Tsai said: “I hope his involvement with [Doge] is short-lived so he can spend even more time on his businesses.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago DOGE lease cancellations: Which government offices could be closed this year and when

The General Services Administration, working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, has notified landlords that federal agencies will be terminating hundreds of leases for offices and buildings in the coming months

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3 w. ago ‘We have ignored lessons’: how Covid continues to affect lives five years later

The ways the pandemic has shaken Guardian readers’ worlds – from new businesses to difficulty socialisingIt’s been five years since the Trump administration declared a nationwide emergency across the US on 13 March 2020, The announcement came days after the World Health Organization (WHO) designated Covid-19 a global pandemic.Since then, there have been 1,222,603 deaths from Covid in the US. Much of the country, along with the rest of the world, has moved on from the pandemic, with fewer people wearing masks and life returning to the way it was before the outbreak started. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The US Postal Service helped build the Black middle class. Trump could end that legacy

Trump is expected to privatize the USPS, where Black people make up 29% of the staff, and cut down on the number of jobsIn recent weeks, the fate of the United States Postal Service (USPS), a revered and vital public institution, has been uncertain. Since the start of his second presidency, Donald Trump has launched major changes to the federal government. Along with billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the president has carried out widespread layoffs at agencies such as the Small Business Administration and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with the purported goal of cutting costs and boosting efficiency. Now, Trump is turning his focus to the post office, an agency he has long been critical of and one that he may be privatizing.In addition to delivering upwards of 343.5m pieces of mail and packages a day, the post office is responsible for administering official government forms such as passport applications, and providing banking...

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3 w. ago Musk claims cyber attack on social network X came from ‘Ukraine area’

Outage is latest trouble for world’s richest person’s business interests since he joined the Trump administration

Events

3 w. ago Down to business: What Melania’s new menswear obsession means for the Trump administration

Between a camel-colored Ralph Lauren suit and a Dolce & Gabbana tuxedo, Melania Trump has been sporting a lot of menswear recently. Kaleigh Werner explores what she might be trying to tell us

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