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'I earn £20k and live with my son. The Budget means we will pay more tax'
Rachel Clun, Kris Bramwelland Emer Moreau Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced her Budget after weeks of speculation. The changes…
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We’re living through a seismic workforce disruption. Business leaders are poised to have a significant impact on the way our economy is…
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Your company’s AI strategy is backward
Enterprises across the globe are pouring an estimated $1.5 trillion into artificial intelligence, and the results are already significant:…
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Menopause at work is an equity issue
Let’s be honest: When we talk about workplace equity, menopause rarely makes the agenda. But it should. This life stage impacts half the…
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NHS doctor suspended over alleged antisemitic social media posts
An NHS resident doctor has been suspended by a medical tribunal for 15 months after posting alleged antisemitic comments on social media.…
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Champions League: Liverpool v PSV Virgil van Dijk concedes penalty
Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk concedes a penalty after handling the ball and Ivan Perisic scores the resulting penalty to give PSV the…
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MIT study finds AI is already capable of replacing 11.7% of U.S. workers
A new study from MIT that shows that AI might be poised to replace a lot more jobs than what initial estimates might predict. According to…
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Georgia judge drops 2020 election interference case against Trump
A Georgia judge has dismissed the sprawling 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump, ending the final effort to prosecute the…
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Weekly claims for unemployment benefits drop
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits declined last week in a sign that overall layoffs remain low, even as several…
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Annoyed by a ‘New York Times’ headline? It seems like that’s increasingly the Gray Lady’s goal
The job of a headline is to draw attention to the article beneath it. When a headline instead draws attention to itself, it feels as wrong…
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Budget 2025 summary: Key points from Rachel Reeves’s speech
Paul SeddonPolitical reporter Rachel Reeves has set out details of her second Budget since becoming chancellor. A number of measures from…
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15 high-cost drugs, including Ozempic, get major Medicare price reductions in latest negotiation round
A wave of vital prescription drugs is about to get a lot cheaper for people on Medicare. The Trump administration announced Tuesday that…
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The case for not loving your job
Discussions around the role of work in our lives are frequently divided into two camps. “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in…
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Transgender athlete 'was very dishonest', says world's strongest woman Andrea Thompson
A British athlete crowned the world's strongest woman says she was "robbed" of her winning moment after it emerged the original champion…
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FRANCESCO CLARK: THE UNBREAKABLE FORCE
BEHIND CLARK’S BOTANICALS — HOW HE TURNED TRAGEDY INTO THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENT BEAUTY The Making of a Fashion Prodigy Before the beauty…
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Ikea just made speakers you’ll actually want to display
Ikea just launched a new collection of speakers that double as actual pieces of art. The collection, which includes three round bluetooth…
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Electric vehicle owners to face pay-per-mile tax
Pritti MistryBusiness reporter A new tax for electric and hybrid vehicles has been announced by the chancellor in the Budget. From April…
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X’s new feature revealed many popular U.S. political accounts are located in other countries
They go by names like @TRUMP_ARMY_ or @MAGANationX, and their verified accounts proudly display portraits of President Donald Trump, voter…
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RealPage barred from using real-time data to set rents under new DOJ settlement
Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other’s moves and push rents higher using confidential data,…
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Properties worth more than £2m in England face new tax
Michael Sheils McNameeBusiness reporter Owners of tens of thousands of properties in England valued at more than £2m are set to be hit…
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As the holiday shopping season kicks off, these overseas sellers struggle to keep U.S. customers
At Fleece & Harmony, a woolen mill and yarn shop in bucolic Belfast, Prince Edward Island, in Canada, owner Kim Doherty used to be able to…
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This charming new font is a love letter to San Francisco’s public transit
Most people don’t give the display screens on their commuter trains a second thought, but for designer Emily Sneddon, they’ve proved to be…
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Salary sacrifice: Pension tax break reduced by chancellor
Some pension savers will face a hit to the amount of money they can put into their pension without paying national insurance (NI), under…
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Grab your keys and some tissues. Chevrolet’s new holiday ad is a tearjerker
Hooboy, here we go again. Chevrolet has once more rolled out a tearjerker ad for the holidays. Created by ad agency Anomaly, “Memory Lane”…