July 2019

And the most-played song on UK radio is… Chasing Cars

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption “I still have a really deep relationship with that song,” says Gary Lightbody. “It’s a beautiful moment every time you play it.” Snow Patrol’s ballad Chasing Cars has been crowned the most-played song of the 21st Century on UK radio. Originally released in 2006, the lovestruck ballad never reached […]

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‘I asked the bank to block my spending. They wouldn’t’

Image copyright Money and Mental Health Image caption Suzanne Hoddy says the system should be more supportive In hospital, being treated for depression, and believing she did not have a future, Suzanne Hoddy started spending money on family and friends. It was the 33-year-old’s second hospital admission, having experienced periods of acute mental health problems.

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Trump To ‘Take A Look’ At Google For ‘Treason’ After Fox News Segment

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would “take a look” at Google after billionaire investor Peter Thiel claimed without evidence that the tech giant may have been infiltrated by the Chinese government. Trump’s announcement came via tweet and appears to have been inspired by a “Fox & Friends” news clip of Thiel’s Monday

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‘I Don’t Trust You Guys’: Lawmakers Unite to Take Aim at Big Tech

“No, that is not true,” Mr. Sutton replied. Representative Joe Neguse, a Colorado Democrat, focused on Facebook. He pointed out that not only is Facebook the world’s largest social network, but that those ranked third, fourth and sixth — WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram — are Facebook properties. Owning the four of the top six

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Trump’s New Top Labor Official Is Expected to Advance an Anti-Labor Agenda

Congressional Republicans, members of their staffs and conservative activists regularly flew first class to Saipan, an island just north of Guam in the Pacific Ocean. They slept at the beachfront Hyatt Regency, and dined on fresh Japanese cuisine. The junkets in the late 1990s were organized by Patrick Pizzella. The Northern Mariana Islands, a commonwealth

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Ava DuVernay’s ‘When They See Us’ Scores The Most 2019 Emmy Nominations For Netflix

Ava DuVernay’s series “When They See Us,” which told the stories of five black and Latino men who were wrongly convicted of a brutal crime as teenagers, earned the most Emmy nominations for Netflix this year, The Hollywood Reporter reported.  The limited series scored 16 noms on Tuesday, which topped the list for the streaming service platform,

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New clues on why women’s Alzheimer’s risk differs from men’s

New research gives some biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s disease and how this most common form of dementia varies by sex. At the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, scientists offered evidence that the disease may spread differently in the brains of women

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