A YouTube contractor was addressing the Austin City Council on Thursday, calling on them to urge Google to negotiate with his union, when a colleague interrupted him with jaw-dropping news: His 43-person team of contractors had all been laid off. “I was speechless, shocked. I didn’t know what to do,” Jack Benedict, a YouTube data […]
Republican presidential candidate and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event Thursday in Falls Church, Va. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP Republican presidential candidate and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event Thursday in Falls Church, Va. Alex Brandon/AP Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley says her […]
St Helens made it three wins from three in a feisty encounter with Leigh Leopards to stay top of Super League. The teams continued their feud from last season’s Challenge Cup semi-final as Leigh’s John Asiata was sin-binned after only 40 seconds. Asiata was later injured but the visitors stayed in touch as Zak Hardaker […]
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, More wealthy corporations than ever are biting off bitcoins By Joe Tidy & The Visual Journalism Team Cyber correspondent The price of Bitcoin is close to its all-time high, thanks in large part to US finance giants. Investment banks like Grayscale, BlackRock and Fidelity, are pouring billions of dollars into […]
Italy’s national anti-doping tribunal banned Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba for four years after a drug test in August showed levels of testosterone that could not be created naturally. Should Pogba serve the full length of the suspension, it seems likely that his career is over. Pogba, who turns 31 next month, was provisionally suspended in […]
Marks & Spencer has claimed victory after Michael Gove’s decision to block a controversial plan to raze and redevelop its main store on London’s Oxford Street was ruled to be unlawful. The levelling up secretary refused permission to redevelop the site near Marble Arch in the West End in July last year, in a win […]
SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT maker OpenAI is planning to appoint several new board members within the next month, as the company’s regulatory troubles mount. The board is drawing closer to announcing new members following the dramatic November overhaul of the company’s governance, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition […]
George Galloway wins Rochdale seat by 12,335 votes after running on pro-Palestine campaign. A controversial left-wing United Kingdom politician has registered a landslide win in a parliamentary by-election on a platform of promising to advocate for Gaza. George Galloway won the seat in the northern English town of Rochdale by 12,335 votes after a fractious […]
TORONTO — Sarah Nurse was driving home from a recent PWHL Toronto practice when she got a bit of sage advice. It wasn’t from a podcast or a friend on the phone. The advice came courtesy of a billboard on the side of the road in Canada’s most populous city, featuring her own face with […]
Paul Pogba made 233 appearances during two spells with Manchester United and re-signed for Juventus in 2022 Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba says he is “sad, shocked and heartbroken” after being banned from football for four years for a doping offence. “Everything I have built in my professional career has been taken away from me,” he […]