I came across this story today and thought it was pretty funny. Then I looked around and discovered it was part of a trend. There have been quite a few stories in the last few weeks about Gen-Z office workers and how truly special they are. In San Francisco, some managers have decided to hire...
Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez on Saturday held a rally outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in New York City to promote her recently introduced No Masks for ICE Act. “We would never accept it if the NYPD operated in...
Ben King Business reporter BBC Cdr Stephen Clayman says he understands victims’ frustration at how long the investigation is taking Criminal trials over the Post Office Horizon IT scandal may not start until 2028, the police officer leading the investigation has told the BBC. “The teams need to be really meticulous and [pay] attention to...
Ottilie Mitchell & Martin Heath BBC News, Northamptonshire Dunn family Harry Dunn, 19, died outside RAF Croughton in Northamptonshire in 2019 The family of Harry Dunn, the motorcyclist killed in a crash outside a US military base in the UK, said an inquiry into how the Foreign Office (FO) handled the case would start within...
A controversial South African politician central to a row over race relations in the country has been denied entry to the UK. The Home Office said Julius Malema had been deemed “non-conducive to the public good” and that it was “undesirable” to grant him entry. In a letter published by local media outlet News 24,...
George Thorpe BBC News, South West Met Office The Met Office has issued a weather warning for thunderstorms across England and Wales on Saturday A warning for thunderstorms has been issued across parts of England and Wales including Devon and Cornwall. The Met Office said the warning would be active between 09:00 and 18:00 BST...
A yellow warning for thunderstorms has been issued by the Met Office for large parts of England and Wales. The warning, which covers the majority of southern England, parts of the Midlands and most of south Wales, comes into effect from 09:00 BST on Saturday and lasts until 18:00. Around 10-15mm of rain could fall...
The UK has recorded its warmest spring on record and its driest in more than 50 years, provisional Met Office figures show. It was also the sunniest spring on record for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and the second sunniest in England since the amount of hours of sunshine began to be recorded in 1910....
Low reservoir levels and reduced river flows have become commonplace across the UK due to a spring deficient in rain. Many water companies will be hoping for a wet summer to redress the balance and help avoid the need to introduce restrictions to water usage in the months ahead. However, the seasonal forecasts are a...
Ana Faguy BBC News Reporting fromClarksdale, Mississippi Reuters/ Kevin Wurm When Edna Nicole Luckett sings the Blues on the stage at Red’s, her voice, deep and soulful, echoes against the walls. The juke joint in Clarksdale, Mississippi is one of the last of its kind in the region, a landmark for a bygone era of...
Will Grant Mexico and Central America correspondent Reporting fromCiudad Juárez BBC Silvia Delgado defended the notorious drug lord, El Chapo. Now she’s running for office As drivers sit in traffic near the Bridge of the Americas connecting Mexico with the USA, Silvia Delgado weaves between the cars handing out leaflets. “I’m standing for penal judge,”...
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Watch: A black eye and a gold key – Musk’s last day at Doge Elon Musk’s time in the Trump administration has come to an end with a news conference in the Oval Office in which he and the US president defended the work of Doge – and...
Eight months after U.S. President Donald Trump publicly called for a policy of “remigration” — a term that’s become a rallying cry among far-right groups in Europe and sparked comparisons to ethnic cleansing — the U.S. State Department said Thursday that it plans to create an office devoted to the project, with refugee aid resources...
MIT has announced that it will shutting down its main DEI office after a lengthy review that began in January 2024. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced it will shut down its DEI office, joining a raft of universities scrambling to scale back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs amid President Donald Trump’s anti-diversity...
Lucy Hooker Business reporter Photo by ANDY RAIN/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Compensation for sub-postmasters is not being decided by a “kangaroo court”, the body overseeing the payouts has said, pushing back against allegations made by Sir Alan Bates. Sir Alan, who led the campaign for justice, said he had been made a “take it or leave it” offer...