The Nebraska State Capitol is seen in Lincoln, Nebraska, on May 14, 2024. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images The Nebraska state lawmaker at the center of the debate over whether the state will switch to a winner-takes-all system in the Electoral College says he will not […]
Getty Images Almost seven in 10 Post Office sub-postmasters have experienced an “unexplained discrepancy” on the Horizon IT system since January 2020, a survey has revealed. It suggests faults remain in newer versions of the accountancy system still used by the Post Office, which has been at the heart of one of the worst miscarriages […]
A transcript from a key meeting at the firm behind the ill-fated Titan submersible has revealed the CEO said in 2018: “No-one is dying under my watch – period.” It captures a heated exchange between OceanGate chief Stockton Rush and his former director of marine operations, David Lochridge, plus three other staff. The log shows […]
Nurses in England have said the government’s award of a 5.5% pay rise is not enough, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said. Two-thirds of the 145,000 members of the RCN who voted online said the rise was not fair. The pay award for 2024-2025 was announced by the chancellor at the end of […]
No 10 confirms single person council tax discount won’t be cut in budget Last night Genevieve Holl-Allen in the Telegraph said the government would not be getting rid of the council tax discount for single people in the budget. Earlier this month, at PMQs and again in a briefing with reporters, Keir Starmer refused to […]
PA Media Dentistry is one of the strands being looked at as part of this new cross-border approach The NHS and politics are never far apart. Health is the almost perennial chart-topper when it comes to lists of voters’ concerns. In Wales, given the NHS was a Welsh invention, and given the current length of […]
A spate of allegations of sexual misconduct has rocked the film industry in India’s southern state of Kerala, triggering a flood of police cases and leading to calls for a broader reckoning within what is known as Mollywood. The latest wave of the #MeToo movement, which first took off in 2017, erupted after the findings of […]
Getty Images Violet Charlesworth in Highland dress A new BBC Sounds series, Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley, examines the story of an English-born fraudster who was obsessed with Scotland. A car crashes at a dangerous bend on a clifftop road in Anglesey, North Wales, on a moonlit night in January 1909. The vehicle’s two passengers […]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Kalel Mullings’ teammates used to tease him because he didn’t look that fast. Mullings, a former linebacker, stands 6 feet 2 and weighs 233 pounds. If Michigan’s skill-position players lined up at the goal line and ran a 100-yard sprint, he probably wouldn’t win. He entered this season in the shadow […]
Fiona lost her baby Aliona following a series of issues with her maternity care Many of the maternity failings at scandal-hit hospitals are becoming more widespread, England’s NHS regulator says. Investigations into units in Shrewsbury and Telford and East Kent found poor care may have contributed to babies dying or having life-changing injuries. But the […]