8 d. ago Trump says treasury chief Scott Bessent no longer being considered for Fed chair

Trump may soon name pick for open Fed board seat and Fed chair nominee, but Bessent wants to stay in current roleDonald Trump said he would “shortly” announce his pick for an open seat on the Federal Reserve’s board of governors and possibly his nominee for Fed chair as well, but that he had removed the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, from consideration since Bessent wants to remain in his current job.In a CNBC interview, Trump called it a “pleasant surprise” that the Fed governor Adriana Kugler had decided to leave her seat now instead of when her term ends in January, a move that appears to have accelerated Trump’s decision on who to appoint to an open seat on the Fed board with possible plans to promote that person to the top policymaking role when the term of the Fed chair, Jerome Powell, ends in May. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Tell us: have you seen live music with your family recently?

We would like to hear your experiences of going to live music concerts with your familyAhead of Oasis’s reunion shows this year, you could certainly have expected to tick a lot of sights off your bingo card: bucket hats? Check. Wall-to-wall Adidas? Present and correct. Enough lager consumption to fill the Thames? Naturally. Perhaps less anticipated was the prevalence of families at these shows: multigenerational groups spanning from excited kids seeing their first big gigs to aunts, uncles and grandparents who could remember seeing the band back in the 90s.On the first night in Cardiff, one woman told us about attending a show in the city 31 years ago while she was pregnant with her son, now bringing along his own young daughter; another boy was celebrating his 10th birthday there with his dad, who saw the band with his own father when he was a teenager. There have been similar scenes at Pulp’s big shows: when they performed to a hometown crowd at Sheffield’s Tramlines last week, th...

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3 w. ago Woman attends job interview but gets slammed for 'inappropriate outfit'

A woman claims she was "shamed" at a job interview as the manager who she met with deemed her outfit to be "inappropriate." The story has since gone viral online as it's got people talking

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3 w. ago I met him once during a job interview and he stalked me relentlessly

Jen, a recruitment consultant from the UK, bravely shared her story in the first episode of To Catch A Stalker, the latest BBC Three documentary series hosted by Zara McDermott.

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3 w. ago Tomorrowland is hit by fresh tragedy as woman dies just days after fire swept festival

The 35-year-old Canadian woman was one of some 100,000 revelers attending the annual electronic music festival in the Belgian town of Boom that began on Friday.

Events

4 w. ago Gregg Wallace slammed by Lorraine Kelly for 'strange and inappropriate' actions

Gregg Wallace has faced criticism from ITV chat show host Lorraine Kelly, who addressed the MasterChef presenter's recent controversy and axing from the BBC show

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