A group of British retailers has urged ministers to follow Donald Trump’s lead in abolishing a tax loophole that allows Chinese ecommerce platforms such as Shein and Temu to avoid customs duties. Prominent figures including Theo Paphitis, Julian Dunkerton, Touker Suleyman and Harold Tillman argue the current “de minimis” rule gives foreign companies an unfair edge. In the US, President ...
Plans to introduce a British Sign Language (BSL) GCSE from September 2025 are facing a lengthy delay, leaving students and campaigners disappointed. Despite the government’s pledge last year to roll out the qualification by the start of the 2025 academic year, education officials have acknowledged it could take several more years before a final syllabus is ready for UK secondary ...
Leading Aesthetic Supplier Expands Product Line with Innovative Botulinum Toxin Medical Spa RX, a trusted name in medical and aesthetic supplies, now offers Re N Tox, a cutting-edge botulinum toxin type A solution designed to address facial wrinkles, muscle spasms, and various medical conditions. Healthcare professionals seeking top-quality products for their patients may now access this advanced formulation through a ...
Lancaster-based startup CCI Photonics has secured significant new funding to develop its groundbreaking technology for rapid infection detection and antibiotic screening. Launched by Lancaster University researchers, the spinout aims to deliver test results in as little as 15 minutes—dramatically faster than traditional methods, which can take up to 72 hours. The investment pot includes £200,000 from the Northern Powerhouse Investment ...
BT is preparing to remove diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) metrics from the bonus calculations of thousands of its middle managers, just weeks after its chief executive denounced businesses that roll back their inclusivity commitments. Currently, as much as 10 per cent of annual bonuses for around 37,000 BT managers is tied to targets for gender, ethnicity and disability representation, ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is refusing to attend the Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Johannesburg this year, in protest of the South African government’s controversial land seizure bill. The bill, which was signed last week, permits South African authorities to expropriate land ‘for a public purpose or in the public interest,’ promising ‘just and equitable compensation’ to those impacted ...
: Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., came out in support of a GOP effort in the upper chamber to get moving on legislation to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda. It would be a significant departure from current plans for the House to pass a bill first, amid infighting by House Republicans over spending levels. ‘I appreciate Chairman Graham’s leadership ...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has recently become the target of Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts to slash government waste and spending, bringing increased scrutiny to the record of Samantha Power, the agency’s administrator during almost the entire Biden administration. Power, who previously served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017 in the ...
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On Wednesday morning, the markets wavered, with cautious trading across the board, except for the Dow, which outpaced the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. Looking for stocks showing strength amid the uncertainty, I turned to the Market Movers tool on my Dashboard. What I found caught my attention. FIGURE 1. MARKET MOVERS TOOL. AMGN, third from bottom, caught my attention, as ...