A few days ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, embarked on a media tour to defend his decision to lay off thousands of his department’s workers. He announced a plan last week to cut 10,000 jobs, in addition to the estimated 10,000 jobs cut through retirements and buyouts in the early weeks of […]
The Trump administration’s move to gut an agency that aims to support minority-owned businesses has alarmed Democratic lawmakers and nonprofits, who say the action could harm job growth and businesses that rely on the agency’s services. President Trump signed an executive order last month that would effectively dismantle seven agencies “to the maximum extent consistent […]
By Tim Britton, Johnny Flores Jr. and Andy McCullough Every week, we ask a selected group of our baseball writers — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results, with the average rankings of our panel in parentheses. The first weekend of the baseball season offered its […]
Getty Images A range of household bills, including council tax, water, gas and electricity have risen today. The BBC’s cost of living correspondent, Kevin Peachey, has been answering your most asked questions on the price rises. Why are bills going up? Tashi and Chris asked why bills are going up. This is a very simple […]
The allies discussed developments of the ongoing war in Ukraine as well as relations between the two countries. China and Russia are “friends forever, never enemies”, Chinese’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said in remarks in a visit to Moscow during which he has held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Sergey […]
China’s Xiaomi, a consumer electronics giant turned automaker, said it is cooperating with a police investigation into a fatal crash involving one of its electric vehicles while the driver was using the car’s autonomous driving features. A Xiaomi SU7 sedan drove into a concrete guardrail on an expressway in eastern China late on Saturday night […]
The United States is ending its financial support for family planning programs in developing countries, cutting nearly 50 million women off from access to contraception. This policy change has attracted little attention amid the wholesale dismantling of American foreign aid, but it stands to have enormous implications, including more maternal deaths and an overall increase […]
The world’s biggest powers were deep in a trade war. Economic losses from the tariffs that President Trump had imposed on most of the world, along with global retaliation, were accumulating. Jobs were being lost, inflation was ticking up and the world was both frustrated with and anxious about the United States. While the stakes […]
Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has said he is not affected by speculation over Trent Alexander-Arnold’s future amid reports the defender is closing in on a move to Real Madrid. Alexander-Arnold — alongside teammates Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk — is out of contract at Anfield this summer. Last week, a source told ESPN […]
Chloe Parkman BBC News, South West Danny Lawson/PA Wire People have been advised to “shop around” in a bid to save money Citizens Advice has urged people in Cornwall to “seek help at an early stage” if they are struggling with the cost of living. Gas and electricity bills went up for millions of households […]