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LONDON — Plagued by near-endless misfortune and embarrassing scandals and facing a major defeat in next week’s general election, Britain’s ruling Conservative Party has picked up a loaded gun and once again pointed it at the party’s feet.Britain’s gambling watchdog is investigating at least five senior Conservative Party officials as part of an investigation into allegations they placed bets on the timing of the UK general election, due for July 4.This is a very British scandal: sordid, sad and funny.It also inspires an unusual level of disgust from many voters: A YouGov poll of 3,739 Britons on Tuesday found that…
Marie Gibbs, CEO of Oxford University InnovationOxford University Innovation Celebrating the first reasonably warm weather of the British summer, the University of Oxford this week hosted around 50 local and international investors on a tour of the city, visited the nearby Science and Innovation Campus, and met face-to-face with spinout companies. That may not seem particularly unusual, but in this case the focus was on emerging deep tech startups, reflecting the need to attract capital to a sector of the innovation economy rife with both opportunity and investor risk. Organised by Oxford University Innovation’s (OUI) Office of Technology Transfer, the…
LUBBOCK, Texas – Devrys Britt Jr. and James Clark Jr. are teenagers who are on a mission to beautify Lubbock one yard at a time this summer. The teenage cousins have started a business called Young Boy Lawn Services and are actively building a clientele. Woman and 2-year-old boy killed in Lubbock County crash The boys, ages 15 and 13, started weeding their family’s yards and soon realized they could make money doing it. “They would get together and ask people through Dunbar if they needed their yards mowed, and Dunbar would do it cheaply,” said one of the boys’…
Mikal Bridges is heading to Manhattan to reunite with former teammates.According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Brooklyn Nets reached a deal on Tuesday night to trade Bridges to the New York Knicks in exchange for Bojan Bogdanovic and a ton of future draft capital, including four unprotected first-round picks.Per ESPN sources, the Knicks will send four unprotected picks (2025, 2027, 2029, 2031), Milwaukee’s protected 2025 first-round pick, an unprotected 2028 pick swap, a 2025 second-round pick and a 2026 second-round pick in exchange for Mikal Bridges. https://t.co/E4pTq3wCMP— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 26, 2024The deal reunites Bridges, a former Villanova University…
With just 30 days until the Olympics, the U.S. team is starting to form and there will be no shortage of athletes representing the Midwest. A number of athletes with ties to Chicago, Illinois and several Midwestern states have already qualified, with several more still waiting to find out if they will qualify. The Paris Olympics will officially kick off on July 26 with a highly ambitious aquatic opening ceremony, but some events are scheduled to begin even earlier. The opening ceremony will be the first to be held outside a stadium, with around 10,500 athletes parading on boats on…
NEW DELHI: The Congress-led opposition has not demanded vote division during the Speaker elections. Though the party maintained that it was for the sake of bipartisanship, it created the impression that the change in policy was linked to the Congress’s reluctance on the issue.The major constituent parties of the INDIA block — SP, DMK, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP-SP — had moved a motion to nominate K Suresh as chief minister, but the TMC did not join in. When the government’s motion in favour of Om Birla came up for vote, the opposition parties abstained from voting and allowed the…
WASHINGTON (AP) supreme court It seems they are ready to allow a state of emergency. abortion According to a copy of the ruling, briefly posted on the court’s website on Wednesday and obtained by Bloomberg News, if a pregnant patient’s health is at serious risk in Idaho, …of document The ruling suggests the court will decide it should not have been so quick to get involved in a case challenging Idaho’s strict abortion ban. The 6-3 vote will reinstate a lower court order that allowed hospitals in the state to perform emergency abortions to protect the health of pregnant patients.…
The shopping section is Amazon’s most aggressive response to the growth of bargain sites like Temu and Shein.Amazon.com Inc. plans to open a section of its shopping site featuring cheap products shipped directly from Chinese warehouses to consumers overseas, technology news site The Information reported, citing slides shown to Chinese sellers. The new marketplace is Amazon’s most aggressive response to the growth of bargain sites like Temu and Shein, and will sell off-brand fashion, home and everyday items, with products delivered to customers within nine to 11 days, according to the slides, the report released on Wednesday said. The e-commerce…
KOLKATA: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen on Wednesday asserted that the recent results of the Indian Lok Sabha polls point to the fact that India is not a “Hindu nation”.Sen, who arrived in Kolkata from the US in the evening, also expressed displeasure with continuing to imprison people “without trial” under the new system.”The election results reflect that India is not a ‘Hindu nation’,” Sen told a Bengali news channel at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.”We always hope to see change with every election. Some of the things that happened earlier (during the BJP-led Central government) like jailing people without…
Support independent journalism in Ukraine. Join us in this fight. Become a member Support us just once Elections were canceled. Martial law gave new wartime powers to the presidential office. The main opposition party in Congress was banned after the full-scale invasion. More than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s opposition parties have weakened but continue to exert influence over Ukrainian politics, experts say. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his party still control parliament, but other lawmakers continue to exert some influence over Ukraine’s public and international stance on the issue. Moreover, an active civil society serves as another check…