Will Shu, founder and chief executive of Deliveroo, will step down once the company’s £2.7bn takeover by US rival DoorDash completes next month. Shu, who launched the food delivery platform in 2012, holds a 6.6% stake and is expected to make around £195m from the sale of shares and performance awards triggered by the deal. Shu said his decision to ...
Retail bosses are warning that rising levels of shoplifting and violence against staff are deterring young people from entering the sector, deepening the industry’s recruitment crisis. Jonathan James, owner of James Convenience Retail, which runs around 40 stores under the Select Convenience brand, said fears over safety are making roles less attractive. “It’s just completely going unchecked and that is ...
The UK public sector has swelled to its largest size in over a decade, even as the wider economy struggles with a hiring slowdown. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show almost 6.2 million people now work in the public sector – the highest since 2011 and up 75,000 in the past year. The total includes a record ...
House Main Street Caucus Chairman Mike Flood, R-Neb., will refer Democratic colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for a House Ethics Committee investigation, he first told Fox News Digital. It is the latest move in the GOP-led fallout over Omar’s response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist who was shot and killed in Utah during a college campus ...
Hunter Biden was involved in discussions about pardons toward the end of his father’s White House term, a source familiar with Jeff Zients’ interview with the House Oversight Committee told Fox News Digital on Thursday. Zients met with House investigators behind closed doors for over six hours — the final former Biden administration official to appear in House Oversight Committee ...
Shortly after announcing a strategy to go after deceptive direct-to-consumer advertising by the pharmaceutical industry, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human Services released a parody video of a drug advertisement – a pointed way of emphasizing the fact that the United States is largely unique in allowing drug ads. ‘Tired of endless drug ads promising ...
Senate Republicans rammed through dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees on Thursday in their first flex of the Senate’s new rules for confirmations. Lawmakers voted along party lines to confirm 48 of Trump’s nominees, many being for undersecretary or assistant secretary positions in a variety of agencies throughout the federal government and ambassadorships. Senate Republicans went ‘nuclear’ last week to ...
Thomas A. Berry ABC has announced that it is suspending Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely. This comes in the wake of two important events. First, Kimmel delivered a monologue in which he said that “The MAGA Gang” was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.” And second, FCC Chairman Brendan ...
Brandan P. Buck This morning, President Trump asserted that his administration is attempting to “get back” Bagram Airfield (BAF), the Soviet-built and formerly US-occupied military facility in Afghanistan. According to CNN, the administration wants to reoccupy the facility to surveil western China, improve access to rare earth minerals, counter the Islamic State’s (ISIS) presence in the region, and serve as a ...
This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). A top conservative watchdog is suing the federal health care bureaucracy alleging they are stonewalling results of a study started under the Obama administration looking into the effects of transgender therapy pharmaceuticals on ...