3 h. ago Trump designates Thursday as a day for US to celebrate victory in World War II. Here's what it means

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation designating Thursday as a day for the United States to celebrate victory during World War II

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3 h. ago Energy Star, efficiency program that has steered consumer choice, targeted in cuts

Consumer and environmental groups are criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to eliminate its Energy Star offices

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6 h. ago How much Swansea Council subsidises running of city leisure centres

The current model using a specialist provider is 'way more affordable', according to one senior officer, compared with the council running the facilities itself

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13 h. ago Labour's youngest councillor, 19, quits after being branded a racist for calling for CCTV in minicabs

Daisy Blakemore-Creedon, 19, claimed she had been subjected to bullying and anti-Semitic abuse as she announced her abrupt resignation from the group at Peterborough City Council.

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23 h. ago The blanket ban on mobile phones introduced by two Scottish city schools

Edinburgh City Council hopes the move to ban mobile phones during class time will increase the focus on learning.

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24 h. ago Trump, Congress and city council: Managing relationships, DC's mayor walks a tightrope

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28 h. ago Judge bars Trump administration from shrinking agencies that fund libraries, settle labor disputes

A federal judge has temporarily barred President Donald Trump’s administration from dramatically shrinking three agencies that fund libraries, settle labor disputes and support state business contracting programs

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29 h. ago A tax on college endowments began in Trump's first administration. It could soon rise

A tax on the endowments of America’s wealthiest colleges began during President Donald Trump’s first administration, collecting 1.4% of their investment earnings

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35 h. ago Weekly black bin collections could return to part of Salford under new proposal

There are plans for a new 'town' council in the city.

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4 d. ago Scientific societies to do climate assessment after Trump administration dismissed authors

Two groups join forces for peer-reviewed research after key contributors on Congress-mandated report dismissedTwo major US scientific societies have announced they will join forces to produce peer-reviewed research on the climate crisis’s impact days after Donald Trump’s administration dismissed contributors to a key Congress-mandated report on climate crisis preparedness.On Friday, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) said that they will work together to produce over 29 peer-reviewed journals that will cover all aspects of climate change including observations, projections, impacts, risks and solutions. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Council offer woman forced out of home over unsafe building room in drugs death hotel

Wendy Murray was forced from her home by the council due to an adjoining building being deemed dangerous - and was told to move into a hotel where nine drug users died.

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4 d. ago London police chief and city council member tender resignations

London police chief and city council member tender resignations  Lexington Herald Leader

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5 d. ago Worlds collide: R.E.M. rereleases 'Radio Free Europe' single to benefit the threatened news service

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5 d. ago Gloucestershire County Council election 2025 results in full

Results for Gloucestershire County Council election for Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester City, Stroud and Tewkesbury

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5 d. ago Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from dismantling library services agency

A federal judge has agreed to temporarily block the Trump administration from taking any more steps to dismantle an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the nation

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7 d. ago Wealthy Edinburgh residents to be asked to spend more money on city projects by council

A fundraising team will be formed by Edinburgh City Council to approach wealthy residents about contributing more.

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7 d. ago After 100 days, Trump has destroyed Trumpism | Sidney Blumenthal

The president’s approach: tackle problems that don’t exist via policies that won’t workIn the 2024 election, Donald Trump eked out a narrow victory, by 1.5 percentage points nationally, the lowest popular vote margin in 56 years, since Richard Nixon’s wafer-thin win by 0.7 points in 1968. Trump claimed he had won an enormous historic mandate to impose a counterrevolution. “The American people have given us a mandate, a mandate like few people thought possible,” Trump boasted on 6 March in his address to the Congress.His election rested on two principal issues, immigration and inflation. He demonized immigrants (“poisoning the blood” of the country), raised the bogeyman of transgender people, and racialized the Democratic candidate, Vice-President Kamala Harris, whom he claimed had decided herself she was Black. In the minds of the marginal voters who swung to him, however, immigration and inflation were conflated, factors impinging on their standard of living and economic security. ...

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7 d. ago Birmingham bin strikes laid bare as refuse collectors to lose up to £8,000 each year

Unite says Birmingham City Council has "been playing games" after the union found the authority - declared bankrupt in 2023 - has decided to now cut bin lorry drivers' pay

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8 d. ago Trump administration tells Congress it plans to label Haitian gangs as foreign terror organizations

The Trump administration has told Congress that it intends to designate Haitian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations

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8 d. ago AmeriCorps cuts prompt two dozen states to sue Trump administration

About two dozen states have sued the Trump administration over the dismantling of AmeriCorps

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