Becky Morton Political reporter Starmer announces he is abolishing NHS England NHS England will be abolished and brought under “democratic control” in an attempt to cut bureaucracy and duplication, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. The organisation, which oversees the country’s health service, will be brought into the Department of Health, and the PM said the […]
The status of whether the world is being impacted by an El Nino or a La Nina is determined by water temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific. (NOAA) After a period of persistent La Niña conditions, the equatorial Pacific Ocean is showing strong signs of a shift toward the neutral state of the El […]
Is Elon Musk planning to use artificial intelligence to run the US government? That seems to be his plan, but experts say it is a “very bad idea”. Musk has fired tens of thousands of federal government employees through his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and he reportedly requires the remaining workers to send the […]
A judge has ordered several federal government agencies to reinstate the jobs of probationary employees fired en masse by the Trump administration last month. Judge William Alsup called the sacking of these employees part of a “sham” strategy that aimed to circumvent proper procedures for reducing the federal workforce. The order will apply to thousands […]
Baroness Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman have accused the Covid inquiry of an “establishment cover-up” after their second attempt to be given an official role in the inquiry was rejected. The couple claimed they were the targets of a “politically motivated witch hunt” after the inquiry’s chairwoman, Baroness Hallett, refused their application to be […]
Gloucester have three Wales starters with Anscombe joined by scrum-half Tomos Williams and centre Max Llewellyn. Wing Josh Hathaway and lock Freddie Thomas are also in the squad, while forwards coach Rhys Thomas has been involved in the backroom staff. England will arrive at the Principality Stadium as title contenders, although a bonus-point France victory […]
We’re doing our NBA Awards Watch every Thursday until the end of the regular season, and each week we’ll emphasize a new award. This week, we’ve got Rookie of the Year. Sandwiched between the class with Victor Wembanyama and the upcoming Cooper Flagg sweepstakes, this rookie class has been one we’ve known isn’t likely to […]
Wall Street’s slide resumed on Thursday, another anxiety-induced drop that left the S&P 500 on the verge of closing in a “correction” — a symbolic marker of the speed at which investors have fled the stock market in recent weeks. Traders, economists and business leaders have been grappling with a rapidly shifting economic landscape as […]
Reuters The rise is attributed to increasing scepticism about immunisation The number of measles cases in the European region doubled last year to reach the highest level in 25 years, health officials say. A joint report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN children’s fund, Unicef, said children under the age of five […]
Tom Singleton Technology reporter Getty Images US politicians, civil rights campaigners and the BBC are all calling for a High Court hearing about a data privacy row between Apple and the UK government to be held in public. The tech giant is taking legal action after the Home Office demanded the right to access customer […]