Image copyright Getty Images Hardly a month goes by without news of another wave of shops shutting. So, how many shops have closed recently – and what’s behind the High Street crisis? What shops are closing? A record 2,481 shops disappeared from UK High Streets last year – up 40%, according to the accountancy firm […]
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Google has long prided itself on a workplace culture in which employees are encouraged to speak their minds and engage in philosophical debates. But now the company, stung by recent controversies, is trying to rein in its famously freewheeling employees. On Friday, Google issued new workplace guidelines that ordered its staff to refrain from insulting
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The Sacramento Kings and the NBA have announced they are taking no action against Luke Walton after not finding enough evidence during an investigation into allegations that the coach sexually assaulted a woman. The team and league began a joint investigation in April following a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by former sportscaster Kelli Tennant,
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When Jay Inslee dropped out of the presidential race on Wednesday night, he found something that had eluded him throughout months of campaigning: national recognition. Mr. Inslee, the Washington governor and self-described climate change candidate, struggled to stand out in the 2020 field and never managed to reach the Democratic National Committee’s polling threshold to
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It’s no secret that bullying is a major issue for kids. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, between 1 in 4 and 1 in 3 U.S. students say they have been bullied at school. Even if your child is not getting bullied, odds are he or she has witnessed someone else fall victim
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“Queer Eye” star Karamo Brown is facing criticism for praising his “Dancing With the Stars” co-contestant Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary who repeatedly lied to the American public on behalf of President Donald Trump’s administration. In an interview with “Access Hollywood” on Wednesday, Brown called Spicer a “good guy, really sweet guy.” “People would look at
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Walmart said Friday that is working on a resolution with Tesla after the retailing giant sued the electric car company’s energy division for installing rooftop solar panels that caught fire. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday, Walmart said Tesla installed solar panels that went up in flames on seven of its store rooftops between 2012 and
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Wisconsin wide receiver Quintez Cephus was declared eligible to play Friday, a year after he was suspended in the fallout from a sexual assault allegation that resulted in his acquittal by a jury at trial. Cephus was suspended from the team in August 2018 after prosecutors charged him with assaulting two women in his apartment
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WASHINGTON — Joe Walsh, a conservative radio show host and a former Tea Party congressman from Illinois who is expected to announce a long shot primary challenge to President Trump in the coming days, is wooing the husband of Kellyanne Conway, Mr. Trump’s former campaign manager, for a senior role in his campaign — a
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The Latest on the gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming (all times local): 12 noon. Some economists saw Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech in Jackson Hole as setting the stage for further interest rate cuts this year. A quarter-point rate cut reduction in September is considered all but certain. Some think the
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