President Trump’s escalating initiative to drastically cut the federal work force has reached the Social Security Administration, a crucial program that keeps millions of older Americans out of poverty, which said on Friday that it would reduce its head count by more than 12 percent. The Social Security Administration, which sends about 73 million retired […]
Tom Espiner, Faarea Masud and Sean Dilley BBC Business Getty Images Expansion at Gatwick Airport has moved a step closer after the government gave the plan its tentative backing. On the surface Gatwick’s plans look relatively straightforward. In contrast to Heathrow, which wants to bulldoze houses and reroute the M25, Gatwick is proposing to shift […]
Danielle Codd Business reporter BBC Tom says he worries constantly about how he’s going to pay to make his building safe Flat owners are being hit with huge bills for fire safety work because their blocks are not tall enough to qualify for funding announced after the Grenfell Tower fire. The previous government launched the […]
Imagine you are video chatting with a distant friend who is eating lunch, and your pal’s sandwich looks delicious. What if you could ask your friend to dip a sensor into the meal, and give you a taste? Remote snacking has moved a bit closer to virtual reality. In a paper on Friday in the […]
Son Heung-Min and Mohamed Salah were born just over three weeks apart in the summer of 1992. Both are legends at their respective clubs. But while one of them describes this season as the best of his life, with Liverpool now overwhelming favorites to win the Premier League, the other has found his untouchable status […]
Mr. Schwarz says on his website biography that he lives in the Midwest. (A P.O. box in Ringwood, Ill., is listed on the People’s Union USA website.) On social media, he goes by TheOneCalledJai and has directed supporters of his organization to follow his personal accounts under the same name as he sells merchandise and […]
Danny Lawson/PA Media The judge told Neil Speakman he had to “face up to the responsibility” A farmer who killed his three-year-old son when he reversed a defective vehicle into him has been jailed. Albie Speakman suffered catastrophic injuries when he was struck by a telehandler driven by Neil Speakman on their family farm in […]
Skype, the video calling service that had hundreds of millions of users, is closing in May, its owner Microsoft has said. It was once one of the world’s most popular websites and allowed people to make voice calls via their computers to friends and family all over the globe for free. Skype was not the […]
The Ebola outbreak in Uganda, which had seemed to be in retreat, has claimed a new victim: a 4-year-old boy who died on Monday, according to a State Department cable viewed by The New York Times. News of the child’s death comes even as the Trump administration has canceled at least four of the five […]
Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting at Trump Tower, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP hide caption toggle caption Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP KYIV — President Trump is set to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House today to sign a preliminary deal to give the […]