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Welsh National Opera drops shows over funding cuts
Company bosses say tour cutbacks are "unavoidable" amid building financial pressures.
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RAF Scampton asylum costs were wrong - Home Office
The initial estimate was £5m but the Public Accounts Committee say it is now closer to £27m.
2 min read - US PoliticsThe Canadian Press
Biden visits his Pennsylvania hometown to call for more taxes on the rich and cast Trump as elitist
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden returned to his working-class childhood hometown of Scranton on Tuesday to call for higher taxes on the rich and cast Donald Trump as an out-of-touch elitist, part of an attempt to blunt the populist appeal of his predecessor’s comeback bid. Biden's stop opened three straight days of campaigning in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania while his opponent spends much of the week in a New York City courtroom for his first criminal trial. Biden use
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MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009
The measures, championed by PM Rishi Sunak, pass despite opposition by several leading Conservative figures.
4 min read - BusinessThe Canadian Press
Business boom: Record numbers of people are starting up new small businesses
NEW YORK (AP) — Record numbers of people are starting new businesses, and more and more of them are women and minorities, according to a new study. New business applications jumped in 2020 as the pandemic started, and have continued to be filed at a record pace. More than 5 million applications were filed in 2021 and 2022 and a record 5.5 million new business applications were filed in 2023. Payroll firm Gusto surveyed 1,300 owners who started their small business last year to discover their cha
1 min read - SportsBBC
James McClean: Wrexham player 'makes no apology' over anti-monarchy song
Wrexham's James McClean says he makes no apology for singing an anti-monarchy song as the club celebrated promotion.
1 min read - US PoliticsThe Canadian Press
First six jurors are chosen for Trump's hush money criminal trial
NEW YORK (AP) — The first six jurors for Donald Trump's hush money trial were chosen Tuesday after lawyers grilled members of the jury pool about their social media posts, political views and personal lives to decide whether they can sit in fair judgment of the former president. The court began filling out the jury of 12 people, along with six alternates, who will decide whether to convict Trump of charges accusing him of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal during his 2016 pres
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