Businesses in the UK are increasingly frustrated with HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) as service standards continue to fall, according to a recent survey. For the first time, a majority of over 10,000 respondents, surveyed by HMRC’s Administrative Burdens Advisory Board (ABAB), rated their experience as “poor.” Accountants and business advisers warn that trust in HMRC is eroding, with inefficiencies ...
Voters in storm-ravaged parts of the Southeast could face new hurdles at the ballot box this year following the destruction wrought by Hurricanes Helene and Milton, back-to-back disasters that have sparked a flurry of new outreach from states, parties, and even campaigns themselves in a bid to expand voters’ access to the polls and ensure their votes are counted. Though ...
Years before Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and started the latest war in the region, the terror group plotted other assaults, including a scheme to blow up a skyscraper in Tel Aviv while pressuring Iran to assist in its battle against the Jewish state, according to documents found by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, the Washington Post ...
Sources close to the White House report an ongoing rift between President Biden and his staff and Kamala Harris and her staff – with issues tracing back to the initial weeks following Harris’ nomination by the Democratic Party. The squabbles have ranged from whether Biden’s main surrogates should continue going on TV or be replaced with new Harris surrogates, to ...
When Wall Street rings its opening bell, there are two things you need to do to start your day: Get the big picture on what’s happening in the markets. Spot the market opportunities, especially the ones that aren’t apparent. There are plenty of ways to get your market updates. The slowest way would be to tune into financial news, scroll ...
Which market sentiment indicators should we follow to validate the current bull market phase and anticipate a potential market top? David Keller, CMT breaks down three sentiment indicators he’s watching in October 2024, explains their calculations and methodology, reviews their signals during previous bull market cycles, and describes a “market top playbook” for market sentiment. This video originally premiered on ...
Clark Neily If you haven’t seen the Netflix blockbuster Rebel Ridge, you should. Billed as a Rambo-meets-Jack-Reacher police procedural whose protagonist is triggered by a costly encounter with civil forfeiture that quickly snowballs into brutal conflict with a corrupt rural police department, the film delivers that dopamine-laced punch of catharsis you’re craving. An added bonus is the vexing authenticity of ...
Walter Olson The Florida Department of Health has sent a letter to Gainesville television station WCJB demanding that it cease airing a campaign ad in support of Amendment 4, a ballot initiative that would liberalize the state’s abortion law. In the ad, “Caroline” from Tampa states that undergoing an abortion was necessary to save her life and that “Florida has ...
It’s not every day that a member of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus sits down to meet with the Democratic commander in chief, but national crises have a way of creating strange bedfellows. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital she was not expecting a call late last week when her phone screen flashed with an unknown Washington, ...
Jennifer Huddleston October has seen a number of bad headlines about the popular social media app TikTok. First, 13 states and the District of Columbia alleged that the platform harmed kids and “addicted” them to the app. Then, a Kentucky Public Radio report published documents that the company knew about the potentially negative impact and behavior of the app’s minor ...