A former Conservative MP has been reprimanded for “brazen and drunken” sexual misconduct in one of parliament’s bars. Aaron Bell, who was the Tory MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme until July, was found by a parliamentary watchdog to have “abused his position of power” by touching a woman “on her left thigh, waist and bottom inappropriately and…
Anne Wojcicki attends the WSJ Magazine Style & Tech Dinner in Atherton, California, on March 15, 2023. Kelly Sullivan | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki and New Mountain Capital have submitted a proposal to take the embattled genetic testing company private, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities…
Rockaa | E+ | Getty Images How to qualify for IRS Free File For the 2025 season, you can use IRS Free File if your adjusted gross income, or AGI, was $84,000 or less in 2024. You calculate AGI by subtracting certain tax breaks from your total, or gross income. The figure will be line…
Look at any drinks menu today and you’ll likely see classic Italian amari standing side by side with similarly bittersweet and fortifying after-dinner offerings from countries as far afield as Mexico, Japan and Vietnam. Despite the agita this might cause some Italian producers, this new wave of global amaro-inspired liqueurs is only growing. Italy…
Reading Time: 3 minutes You might wanna turn away right about now, Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford. Marvel has released the fourth installment in a previously-beloved franchise — but, thus far at least, critics don’t exactly seem smitten with Captain America: Brave New World. It marks Mackie’s first time taking on the lead and it…
Sudan’s brutal civil war appears to be approaching a decisive phase as the country’s military reported sweeping gains in the symbolic battle for the capital. As a ruinous conflict, often characterised by bloody stalemate, nears its two-year anniversary, the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) declared a string of rapid advances across the country against the paramilitary…
A view of the Jeep Plant where United Auto Workers members are picketing on September 18, 2023 in Toledo, Ohio. Sarah Rice | Getty Images DETROIT — Automaker Stellantis announced plans Wednesday to cut a manufacturing shift and indefinitely lay off roughly 1,100 workers at a Jeep plant in Ohio. The company, which has been…
Donald Trump had a fiery phone call with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen over his demands to buy Greenland, according to senior European officials. Speaking to the Financial Times, officials said that Trump, then still president-elect, spoke with Frederiksen for 45 minutes last week, during which he was described to be aggressive and confrontational about…
The Ernakulam District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has ordered an investment firm to pay an investor ₹4.68 lakh after collecting investments offering an exorbitant interest rate of 12.50% for five years. The Commission comprising president D.B. Binu and members V. Ramachandran and Sreevidhia T.N. issued the verdict on a petition filed by Vignesh M., originally…
Packages with the logo of Amazon are transported at a packing station of a redistribution center of Amazon in Horn-Bad Meinberg, western Germany, on Dec. 9, 2024. Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty Images Amazon is shutting down “Prime Try Before You Buy,” a competitor to Stitch Fix that allowed Prime members to try out…
