Getty Images Taylor Swift held eight shows in London over the summer A police escort for Taylor Swift was not the result of “undue influence” from senior politicians attending the singer’s London concerts, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said. The decision was made by senior police officers, although Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Mayor of…
The creator of Bitcoin has allegedly been identified for the first time in an HBO documentary. The documentary claimed to have finally unveiled the elusive cryptocurrency creator as a relatively unknown Canadian software developer. Set to air on US TV network HBO, ‘Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery’ claims that Peter Todd, who was engaged in…
Angela Rayner is set to announce her long-awaited workers’ rights package later this week, but all might not be as it was hoped. The Employment Rights Bill, a cornerstone of Labour’s manifesto offering to its base, has long been discussed as a landmark piece of legislation to be implemented upon seizing the keys to Downing…
When Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance claimed Haitian immigrants had caused infectious-disease rates to “skyrocket” in Springfield, local health commissioner Chris Cook checked the records. They showed that in 2023, for example, there were four active tuberculosis cases in Ohio’s Clark County, which includes Springfield, up from three in 2022. HIV…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security advisor said she has not seen evidence that federal politicians are “traitors” through their dealings with foreign governments. Speaking at the Hogue commission into foreign interference Wednesday, Nathalie Drouin suggested a recent report by a cross-partisan national security committee gave the mistaken impression that some MPs were betraying their…
In May, Melinda French Gates resigned as co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and announced that she was dedicating $1 billion over the next two years to women’s organizations. On Wednesday, part of that vision unfolded — French Gates launched Action for Women’s Health, a $250 million fund for non-profits supporting women’s mental…
With less than a month to go until the election, Democrats continue to invest more in presidential advertising than Republicans. Since Joe Biden dropped out of the race in late July, the Harris campaign and outside Democratic groups have spent $820.4 million on paid media, according to a new report from advertising intelligence and analytics…
As the clock runs out on the 2024 election cycle, Fox News still hopes to have a chance to host a presidential debate. The network sent letters to both the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns on Wednesday inviting them to participate in a Pennsylvania-held debate on either Oct. 24 or Oct. 27 and moderated…
Google responded to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust proposals for breaking up the company to address its dominance in search and online advertising, asserting that the remedies will harm user security, raise costs for consumers across industries, and stifle AI innovation. Google’s response presented three arguments on why the DOJ proposals may backfire…
As Prince Harry is set to unite with his wife Meghan Markle in California after a three-week-long solo tour of the US, UK and Africa, amid speculations of their divorce, reports suggested that the Duke of Sussex will hold ‘crunch talks’ with Meghan Markle about the way ahead. But not the way ahead in their…
