Giorno: 25 Gennaio 2023

Met police officer who was posted at school admits child sexual offences

Read More A serving Metropolitan police officer who was posted in a north London school has pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse offences. PC Hussain Chehab, 22, admitted four counts of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15, three counts of making indecent photographs of a child, and sexual communication with a child. […]

Microsoft investigates outage affecting Teams and Outlook users worldwide

Read More Microsoft is investigating an outage that has hit users of its products worldwide including Teams and Outlook. The US tech firm said it was investigating “issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services”, referring to a suite of products that includes its Teams messaging and videoconference service, Outlook email and word and excel programmes. Microsoft […]

GOP bill would stick Congress members with veterans’ health care plan to call attention to failing VA

Post Content A Republican bill introduced this week would force members of Congress and their staff to get health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs, a change aimed at forcing lawmakers to recognize the longstanding problems with the VA. House and Senate lawmakers and staff are required to get their health coverage through the […]

New Zealand’s Incoming PM Chris Hipkins Pledges to Prioritize Cost of Living

Read More Chris Hipkins speaks to members of the media, after being confirmed as the only nomination to replace Jacinda Ardern as leader of the Labour Party, outside New Zealand’s parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on Jan. 21, 2023. (Lucy Craymer/Reuters) Chris Hipkins on Wednesday pledged to make the cost of living his “first priority” […]

Rishi Sunak told to ditch plans to overhaul human rights laws

Read More Rishi Sunak is being urged to abandon the government’s controversial attempt to overhaul human rights legislation after a warning that the bill of rights appears to “tip the balance” in favour of the state and seriously damages people’s ability to enforce their rights. A cross-party committee of MPs and peers said the bill, […]

Nadhim Zahawi under pressure to quit ahead of PMQs as standards watchdog criticises his threats to sue – UK politics live

Read More Keir Starmer will use his questions at PMQs to try to establish when Rishi Sunak learnt details of Nadhim Zahawi’s tax arrangements, Robert Wright and George Parker write in the Financial Times. They say: Sir Keir Starmer, Labour leader, will demand answers from Sunak at prime minister’s questions. “The key question to Sunak […]

McCarthy says Santos will be removed from Congress if Ethics Committee determines he broke the law

Post Content House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Tuesday that Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., will be removed from Congress if an investigation by the House Ethics Committee concludes he violated the law. The committee’s investigation was launched following reports that Santos fabricated parts of his background, including his education and work history, during his 2022 […]

How load-shedding hurts people with disabilities

Read More People with hearing, breathing and mobility disabilities and who depend on devices powered by electricity ‘have been immobilised’ . Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images As load-shedding ramped up, Anne McCrindle was woken by the sounds of a beeping alarm warning her that the eight-hour battery for the ventilator that helps her quadriplegic […]

Warehouse staff in Coventry stop work in UK’s first official Amazon strike – business live

Read More The government’s spending watchdog has warned that Britain’s prospects for growth have worsened, and that it would revise its forecasts down. In a private submission to the Treasury, the Office for Budget Responsibility told the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, that it overestimated the prospects for medium-term economic growth and would lower them, the Times […]

Schiff, Swalwell, Omar respond after Speaker McCarthy keeps them off committees: ‘Political vengeance’

Post Content Reps. Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Ilhan Omar, who were stripped of their committee assignments by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, have accused him of “political vengeance” in a statement Tuesday evening after he again blocked their appointments. “It’s disappointing but not surprising that Kevin McCarthy has capitulated to the right wing of his […]