The minimum wage should be raised to £15 an hour, the Trades Union Congress says, as it declares it is “time to put an end to low-pay Britain”. Currently, workers aged 23 and over are entitled to a minimum wage of £9.50 with lower rates for younger employees, but the TUC says all workers should
Direct current fast charger manufacturer Tritium has officially opened the doors of its new EV charger manufacturing facility in Lebanon, Tennessee – its first production footprint in the United States. With it, Tritium intends to bring over 500 new jobs to the state. Tritium ($DCFC) is a global manufacturer of hardware and software for DC
We’re updating the way we think about the price levels of two stocks in the Club portfolio — upgrading Qualcomm (QCOM) to a 1 rating after a recent pullback and downgrading Devon Energy (DVN) to a 2 rating after a recent rally. Qualcomm upgrade We are upgrading our rating on QCOM to a 1 rating
A former US police officer has pleaded guilty to helping falsify the search warrant used in the killing of Breonna Taylor. Ms Taylor, 26, was killed on 13 March 2020 when officers in Louisville, Kentucky, carried out a “no-knock” warrant and broke down her flat door. Her boyfriend thought it was someone breaking in and
In this article TWTR Peiter Zatko, who is also known as Mudge poses for a portrait on Monday August 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. Matt McClain | The Washington Post | Getty Images A Twitter whistleblower is alleging “extreme, egregious deficiencies by Twitter” related to privacy, security and content moderation, according to complaints filed with
Kherson, in southern Ukraine, has been under Russian occupation for almost six months. Information about what is happening there is limited as Russian occupation forces continue to tighten their grip. Sky News spoke to people still inside and others who have recently escaped to understand what’s going on. All described a city, a region, living
A CNN review of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort raises new concerns over the home being able to meet the standards needed to store classified documents. CNN’s Brian Todd reports. #CNN #News
Jennifer Lopez has posted her first picture from her Georgia wedding to Ben Affleck. The couple tied the knot last week in front of family and friends at her husband’s Georgia mansion. It came a month after they married at a Las Vegas drive-through wedding chapel. The latest ceremony was a somewhat more elaborate affair,
Aug 23, 2022 Alyssa RoenigkESPN Close Alyssa Roenigk is a senior writer for ESPN whose assignments have taken her to six continents and caused her to commit countless acts of recklessness. (Follow @alyroe on Twitter). COCO GAUFF IS at a crossroads. She’s sitting in the passenger seat of her first car while her dad, Corey,
Police are investigating a social media post which appeared to show a Plaid Cymru councillor posing with a gun while commenting that he was making sure “there wasn’t any English people trying to cross the channel”. Jon Scriven, who represents Penyrheol in Caerphilly, subsequently deleted the Facebook post and apologised. A Plaid Cymru spokesman said
The ending of the latest Minions film, The Rise Of Gru, has been altered for its release in China, social media users across the country have claimed. If you don’t want to know how the film ends – either here or in China – look away now… Censors have apparently included an addendum which states
7:00 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” THE MOST BEAUTIFUL play in Major League Baseball exists because its practitioner embraced a long-held axiom: Form follows function. Once upon a time, Trea Turner was a habitual head-first slider, his fingers
UK private sector growth has moved closer to stagnation as it slowed to a new 18-month low, dragged down by a slump in factory output, latest data indicates. The closely watched S&P Global/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) composite flash estimate dropped to 50.9 in August from 52.1 in July, its lowest since February 2021 and
The arrow of time is a concept that defines the unidirectional flow of time. In simple words, it dictates that time only flows in one direction, from the past to the future. Despite the idea being decades old, scientists are yet to make considerable progress in unravelling the mysteries behind the phenomenon. A new study has
The launch of the mission that aims to put humans back on the moon is on course for lift-off as planned, NASA bosses say. Artemis 1 was given the green light last week during a flight readiness review at Kennedy Space Center. It will blast off from Florida today – drawing hundreds of thousands of
It was a 3am rise for a dawn police raid in Surrey. But the home secretary – a regular at these kind of events – wanted to project a steady hand at the Home Office, getting on with business as usual when everything else is in a state of flux. On this occasion, the raid was a
Today marks six months since Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine. The war’s half-year point coincides with Ukrainian Independence Day, which in normal circumstances would see citizens celebrating 31 years of independence from the former Soviet Union. Follow Ukraine war live updates But instead, curfews are in place in the cities of Kyiv or
Putin ally Alexander Dugin has said his daughter told him she felt “like a warrior” and a “hero” before she died in a car bombing Russia has blamed on Ukraine. Darya Dugina, 29, attended a festival on Saturday night before a remotely-controlled explosive device planted in her 4×4 blew up as she was driving on
Police have described the moment a gunman shot into the house of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel, killing her and injuring her mother. Olivia was killed shortly after 10pm on Monday night after a 35-year-old man, being chased by another man with a gun, forced his way into her house. The gunman followed and put his hand
Scientists have, for the first time, identified a novel property in a compound that makes it stand apart from the rest. It has been discovered that a compound named vanadium dioxide (VO2) behaves like a human brain and can remember previous external stimuli. Scientists have recently proposed the idea to use VO2 as an alternative