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Officers closed one lane of the Colchester-bound carriageway between Chelmsford and Hatfield Peverel shortly before 6pm.

Justice Secretary David Lammy floundered as he was grilled for the first time since his extraordinary dodging of questions in the Commons yesterday.

Government agencies would also have to report losses due to automation.

ai-pocalypse  A bipartisan pair of US Senators has introduced a bill that would require companies and government agencies to report AI-related layoffs, and it couldn't come at a better time. October jobs data suggests AI is driving the largest wave of layoffs headed into the end of the year that we've seen since 2003. …

Hut 363 sits on Mudeford Spit, a remote sandbank in Christchurch Harbour, Dorset, that can only be reached by a 20-minute walk, land train or short ferry ride.

Footage of the McDonald's spat began with the customer repeatedly accusing the manager of lying, as she sought a refund for two sandwiches.

Esteban Santillan, 19, confessed to stealing $40 from a lemonade stand run by two children in August 2024. The man admitted to the brazen crime during a traffic stop.

The university dropout's rise to stardom has seen him bag gigs on Michael McIntyre 's The Wheel, as well as co-hosting the MOBO Awards in 2020 with Maya Jama.

No injuries have so far been reported but, in a heartbreaking clip, a distraught Spoelstra can be seen pacing around the outside of the property with his hand on his head.

Hannah Allwood, 39, discovered her pet five-month-old horse, called King, barely alive at her livestock farm in Keighley, West Yorkshire on Monday.

In March 2023, 22-year-old trainee solicitor Ivy Ganguly was climbing the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. She after developed a fever that wouldn't go away...

The Prince of Wales, 43, embarked on a whirlwind of engagements while in Brazil.

American manufacturing's postwar boom from the 1940s through the 1970s resulted from conditions that cannot be recreated, a story on WSJ argues. Global competitors had been destroyed by war. Energy was cheap. Unions could demand concessions without fearing job losses to foreign rivals. Strikes were frequent in steel, auto, trucking, rubber and coal mining. That relentless pressure from an organized working class raised real wages and created fringe benefits including health insurance and retirement pay. Government support for unions kept executive salaries at just a few times median income. Stock buybacks were illegal or frowned upon. President Eisenhower declared at the 1956 dedication of the AFL-CIO national headquarters that "Labor is the United States." The system began unraveling by the mid-1960s. The Vietnam War drained federal coffers. Inflation accelerated as government deficits exploded. Nixon abandoned the gold standard in 1971, unleashing currency volatility. The 1973 OPEC oil embargo quadrupled energy prices. Foreign competition returned from Japan, Korea and West Germany. American companies carried mounting legacy costs like pensions that discouraged investment in upgrades and research. Milton Friedman declared in a 1970 New York Times essay that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. Clinton signed NAFTA in 1993 and championed the World Trade Organization in 1995. Bethlehem Steel employed around 150,000 people in the mid-1950s. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Its former hometown plant in Bethlehem, Pa., is now a casino.

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Natalie Chadwick (pictured) struggled to confirm her name, age and address while in court accused of killing Luke Harden in Bacup, Lancashire, in the early hours of Saturday.

Her career began in Seattle when she scored commercial acting jobs. When she was 13 she talked her parents into moving to Los Angeles with her so her movie dreams could come true.

I was wholly impressed by everything it had to offer

Rockstar says it fired staff for leaks, but the IWGB accuses the GTA maker of union-busting

Rockstar Games denies claims that it fired several employees over their union activity, insisting that it sacked the team members for leaking confidential information.…

Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers

Cloud vendors’ commercial models poorly serve scientists, forcing them to struggle for value amid tightening budgets, according to research.…

Throughout this series of The Celebrity Traitors, the British public has fallen in love with what rugby fans knew long before: the charm, wit, and irrepressible mayhem of Joe Marler.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is asking Automatic.CSS -- a company that provides a CSS framework for WordPress page builders -- to change its name amid public spats between Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg and Automatic.CSS creator Kevin Geary. Automattic has two T's as a nod to Matt. "As you know, our client owns and operates a wide range of software brands and services, including the very popular web building and hosting platform WordPress.com," Jim Davis, an intellectual property attorney representing Automattic, wrote in a letter dated Oct. 30. "Automattic is also well-known for its longtime and extensive contributions to the WordPress system. Our client owns many trademark registrations for its Automattic mark covering those types of services and software," Davis continued. "As we hope you can appreciate, our client is concerned about your use of a nearly identical name and trademark to provide closely related WordPress services. Automattic and Automatic differ by only one letter, are phonetically identical, and are marketed to many of the same people. This all enhances the potential for consumer confusion and dilution of our client's Automattic mark."

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Monisha Rajesh, who is now an author in her own right, was one of the earliest critics of Clanchy's award-winning 2020 book Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me.