19 h. ago Judge pauses Trump administration plans to end temporary legal protections for Venezuelans

A federal judge is pausing plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, one week before they were set to expire

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26 h. ago Questions about language signage at station legitimate, says Little

The DUP is questioning the projected £145,000 cost of installing Irish language signage at Belfast Grand Central Station.

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54 h. ago Alan Shearer pays emotional tribute to dad at Newcastle parade

Newcastle legend Alan Shearer was among the hundreds of thousands of people who took to the town centre on Saturday to celebrate the Magpies' big Carabao Cup win against Liverpool

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3 d. ago Organizers accuse Trump of trying to silence federal workers with union order

Union leaders say president is union-busting as he seeks to eliminate collective bargaining across agenciesUS politics live – latest updatesUnion leaders have accused Donald Trump of union-busting in a “blatant” attempt to silence them after the president stepped up his attacks on government unions on Thursday, signing an executive order that attempts to eliminate collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers.The order limits the departments and classifications of federal workers who can organize a union and instructs the government to stop engaging in any collective bargaining. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Asda groceries: UK supermarket to raise pay by 4.7% for hundreds of thousands of staff

The supermarket is investing in its employees with pay rises and new family-friendly policies 🌟

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4 d. ago Hundreds of thousands of Newcastle United fans expected at bus parade

The local council leader said the Carabao Cup winners’ party will be one of the biggest events the city has seen.

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5 d. ago Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the Catholic Church’s newest saint

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5 d. ago The stark impact of DWP rule changes laid bare as millions to lose out

The changes to disability benefits and Universal Credit are expected to push hundreds of thousands of people into poverty

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7 d. ago ITV reveals future of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? as Jeremy Clarkson

The former Top Gear presenter, 64, has fronted the hit quiz show since 2018, during which time hundreds of thousands of pounds have been won, and features like Ask The Host have been added.

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7 d. ago Post Office scandal Horizon victim blasts 'torture' of waiting for compensation after 'derisory' offer

Former sub post master David Farry lost hundreds of thousands of pounds due to the Post Office's Horizon software scandal, and was eventually forced to sell his property

Events

8 d. ago $921 for Othello: why have Broadway tickets gotten so expensive?

A blockbuster production of the Shakespeare tragedy might boast Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal but it’s sparked a debate over excessive pricingHow much would you pay to be in the same room as Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, watching them work? Is that price in the mid-hundreds of dollars? And would you double it to nearly a thousand for a slightly better seat?The 15-week limited Broadway run of William Shakespeare’s Othello, featuring one of our greatest living actors in the title role (and another, pretty damn good actor as Iago), is betting that at least some people would. Orchestra-level advance tickets to the show run between $216 and $921, depending on where you sit (those $216 tickets, more in line with what a less starry straight play might charge, are at the far side of the row, which at least means you’re getting a slightly lesser chance of catching Covid or the flu alongside your mild discount). It’s the latest innovation in live-theater pricing, where you no...

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8 d. ago $921 to see Denzel Washington’s Othello? How Broadway tickets got so expensive

A blockbuster production of the Shakespeare tragedy might boast Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal but it’s sparked a debate over excessive pricingHow much would you pay to be in the same room as Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, watching them work? Is that price in the mid-hundreds of dollars? And would you double it to nearly a thousand for a slightly better seat?The 15-week limited Broadway run of William Shakespeare’s Othello, featuring one of our greatest living actors in the title role (and another, pretty damn good actor as Iago), is betting that at least some people would. Orchestra-level advance tickets to the show run between $216 and $921, depending on where you sit (those $216 tickets, more in line with what a less starry straight play might charge, are at the far side of the row, which at least means you’re getting a slightly lesser chance of catching Covid or the flu alongside your mild discount). It’s the latest innovation in live-theater pricing, where you no...

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8 d. ago A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended her

Emory University put Umaymah Mohammad through ‘one of the most dehumanizing’ experiences of her life as a new front opens in the silencing of pro-Palestinian voicesUmaymah Mohammad has wanted to be a doctor for as long as she remembers. She traces her ambition to the story of her mother, one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel to Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and who contracted polio as a toddler. Despite living with the debilitating disease, Mohammad’s mother went on to raise five children and obtain a graduate degree in the US.It’s the story of a woman who “overcame unbearable medical circumstances”, Mohammad said. It also taught the Palestinian American about “the sociological determinants of health”, she said, as Mohammad believes displacement contributed to her mother catching the disease, due to the poor sanitary conditions entire communities of Palestinian refugees faced at the time. Continue reading...

Economics

1 week ago Heathrow boss defends running of airport after criticism of shutdown

Thomas Woldbye says most other airports operate similar back-up power systems to Heathrow, as Ed Miliband announces investigationThe chief executive of Heathrow has defended the running of the airport after a fire at an electrical substation stopped about 1,300 planes and disrupted the journeys of hundreds of thousands of global passengers.It comes after Willie Walsh, the International Air Transport Association’s director general, criticised Heathrow for the disruption, while the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has now ordered the National Energy System Operator to “urgently investigate” the outage. Continue reading...

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1 week ago DHS pulls legal status for 500,000 Cubans, Venezuelans and others in latest Trump immigration crackdown

The Department of Homeland Security says it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans

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1 week ago Vale community centre that cost hundreds of thousands still doesn't have long

A petition opposing the development years ago called the project a "white elephant" and argued the centre should have been built elsewhere

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1 week ago ‘Colossal failure’: what the papers say about the Heathrow airport shutdown

Chaos at Europe’s busiest airport caused by a substation fire dominates UK front pages on SaturdayThe closure of Heathrow, Europe’s busiest airport, due to a fire at a nearby electrical substation dominates the front pages of British newspapers on Saturday, with more than 1,350 flights cancelled and journeys disrupted for hundreds of thousands of passengers.The Guardian splashes with “Chaos and anger as fire shuts Heathrow airport”, above a picture of anxious travellers, and an article that focuses on Downing Street’s reaction: that there are “questions to answer” as to how a power failure could cause such disruption. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The obscure Jimmy Lai ruling that exposed the erosion of Hong Kong’s rule of law

The moves that barred the media mogul’s choice of lawyer are immune from legal challenge, giving the national security committee what one expert called ‘the powers of a police state’The dwindling freedom in Hong Kong over the past few years has been described as “death by a thousand cuts”. Critics have been jailed, elections have been transformed into “patriots only” affairs, journalists have been harassed and hundreds of thousands of people have left.This week, an obscure legal development has, in the eyes of some legal experts, inflicted another cut on the city’s once revered legal system. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Heathrow partially reopens after fire that caused power cut and travel chaos

Airport expects to be fully operational on Saturday, but airlines say closure will have ‘huge impact’ in coming daysDowning Street has said there are “questions to answer” after a fire at an electrical substation closed down London Heathrow airport, stopping more than 1,350 flights and disrupting the journeys of hundreds of thousands of passengers.Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation into the “unprecedented” incident that left Britain’s biggest airport unable to function as engineers tried to restore power, but said there was “no indication of foul play”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Fire at London’s Heathrow shuts airport, disrupts travel for hundreds of thousands

Fire at London’s Heathrow shuts airport, disrupts travel for hundreds of thousands  The Times of Israel

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