Britain
UK’s Post Office scandal: Indian-origin woman rejects ex-boss’s apology for wrongful imprisonment
APRIL 12, 2024
Seema Misra.
An Indian-origin ex-manager of a Post Office in the UK, has rejected her former boss's apology, pointing to how she had been pregnant for two months when wrongly imprisoned more than 12 years ago after being convicted for a theft.
“I was eight weeks pregnant. They need to apologise to my youngest son. I have not accepted...
APRIL 12, 2024
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a law banning the obstruction of an official proceeding that has been used to charge 330 defendants who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
On Jan. 6, 2021, Joseph Fischer allegedly entered the U.S. Capitol, along with more than 2,000 others, in the effort to stop the counting of the...
Business
Former Obama adviser: Kushner engaged in ‘level of corruption that we’ve just never seen’ with foreign relations
APRIL 11, 2024
Ben Rhodes, Former Obama deputy national security adviser
Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner engaged in a “level of corruption that we’ve just never seen” when talking about his firm’s recent investments overseas.
Rhodes said that Kushner engaged in corruption when asked about The New York Times’s recent reporting that detailed...
Automobile
‘Fighting for our lives’: Tesla driver in LA says his car ‘dies every day’ and he’s ‘over it’ — why the current state of EVs is pushing consumers over...
APRIL 11, 2024
Why the current state of EVs frustrates consumers
An electric vehicle (EV) driver in Los Angeles has taken to TikTok to make his feelings known about one of America’s most sought-after car brands.
“Do not get a Tesla,” he warned.
In a clip that has garnered over 700,000 views and 2,700 comments, technology commentator TechByAntrell made his case.
“We are literally...
Business
Environmentalists protest as Biden administration approves huge oil export terminal off Texas coast
APRIL 11, 2024
FILE - An oil tanker passes along a channel, March 2, 2022, in Port Aransas, Texas. President Joe Biden's administration has approved construction of The Sea Port Oil Terminal, a deepwater oil export terminal off the Texas coast that would be the largest of its kind in the United States. Environmentalists called the move a betrayal of...
APRIL 4, 2024
Neel Kashkari, Federal Reserve Bank President. Kashkari warned Thursday that the Fed may not cut rates at all this year if inflation remains sticky. - Joshua Roberts/Getty Images
Homebuyers hoping to capture a lower mortgage rate on the back of the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates in 2024 may have to wait a little longer.
The housing market, still...
APRIL 4, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the U.S. economy and his administration's effort to revive American manufacturing, during his visit to Flex LTD, a factory that makes solar energy microinverters, in West Columbia, South Carolina, July 6, 2023.
President Joe Biden is fighting to persuade Americans that the U.S. economy is the world's best.
His opponent,...
APRIL 4, 2024
The slew of elections lined up in this fiscal year bodes well for Gold. As a lot of countries go into elections this year, Gold would likely remain in the spotlight, said Naveen KR, smallcase Manager & Senior Director at Windmill Capital. (Image: Reuters)
Gold hit a fresh lifetime high price of Rs 70,275 per 10 grams in...
APRIL 4, 2024
Donald Trump Joe Biden Polls Before Election. - Photo-illustration by Newsweek/Getty
A new poll shows President Joe Biden holding a double-digit lead over former President Donald Trump in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania seven months before the general election.
The survey, conducted by Franklin & Marshall College between March 20 and 31, revealed that Biden leads Trump, the...
APRIL 2, 2024
For all of his complaints about the timing and his insistence that his various indictments and trials are an effort to block his return to the White House, Donald Trump has benefited enormously from the overlap of his campaign and his legal travails, and he continues to do so.
The most obvious way this is true is that...