The credibility of UK economic data has been thrown into doubt after senior officials at the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and the Bank of England raised serious concerns about the reliability of statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Speaking to MPs on the Treasury select committee, Richard Hughes, chairman of the OBR, warned that “trying to ...
Amazon has stunned the tech world with a last-minute bid to acquire TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing platform currently facing a US ban over national security concerns linked to its Chinese ownership. The move comes just days ahead of a critical enforcement deadline. Under legislation signed into law in April 2024 by then-President Joe Biden, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, ...
The FBI received a record number of new agent applications in Director Kash Patel’s first full month leading the bureau, with the flood of law enforcement job-seekers nearly doubling the monthly average since 2016. There were 5,577 new FBI agent applications submitted in March, Fox News Digital has learned. The last time the bureau saw a monthly figure even close ...
Vice President JD Vance said the message in a new docuseries echoed the direction of the Trump administration’s recent actions – and the rest of the world would be wise to take notice. He offered remarks Tuesday night at an exclusive screening of the film adaptation of author Rod Dreher’s ‘Live Not By Lies’ – first-hand interviews with civilian figures ...
UNITED NATIONS – The DOGE Caucus just got a consulting offer from an initiative looking to remove waste in the United Nations. Dynamic Oversight for Global Efficiencies in the U.N. (DOGE-U.N.) is looking to help the caucus identify cost-cutting opportunities and hold the U.N. accountable. ‘Accountability should extend beyond domestic institutions to global organizations that America funds. And they all ...
OTTAWA – As Canadians brace themselves for President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ of reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, one political leader in Canada believes it could spark the start of a new era of Canada-U.S. relations free of cross-border taxes. Maxime Bernier, who served as foreign affairs minister in former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government and now heads the right-wing ...
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., condemned the Senate filibuster as an ‘abuse of power’ in 2022, years before his party praised him for launching the ‘longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history’ on Tuesday. Booker set the record for longest Senate floor speech at 25 hours and 5 minutes after starting to speak at 7 p.m. on Monday. The filibuster has been ...
A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing federal probationary workers in 19 states and Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. U.S. District Court Judge James Bredar’s order directs 18 federal agencies to ‘undo’ the ‘purported terminations’ of thousands of probationary federal workers before Tuesday, April 8th, though the order only applies to states whose attorneys general brought the case. ...
For centuries, high-value assets like real estate, fine art, and private equity have remained largely inaccessible to average investors, locked behind high minimum investments and complex ownership structures. Today, that paradigm is shifting dramatically as blockchain technology enables the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs), making them divisible, more liquid, and globally accessible. At the forefront of this transformation stands Eugene ...
Taxpayers have until 5 April 2025 to take advantage of a limited-time opportunity to top up their state pension by making backdated National Insurance Contributions (NICs), according to leading audit, tax and advisory firm Blick Rothenberg. The government previously extended the deadline to allow individuals to fill in gaps in their NIC records for any tax year from 2006 onwards. ...