The prime minister said the government was putting a “record level of funding” into schools in England, after Jeremy Corbyn asked her about some closing early on Fridays. The Labour leader said she did not “seem to be aware of the crisis facing education” when he asked about pupil funding and some schools crowdfunding for […]
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday the redesign of the $20 bill to feature 19th century abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman has been delayed. The decision to replace Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president, with Tubman on the $20 bill had been made by Mnuchin’s predecessor, former Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, who had served in the
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Deborah James was 35 when she found out that she had stage 4 bowel cancer. While undergoing treatment, she has written and spoken out about the need for people to be aware of the symptoms of bowel cancer and why we need to pay more attention to our poo. She has a column in The
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Image copyright Getty Images The much talked-about Sir Elton John biopic, Rocketman, is released in the UK this week following its glitzy unveiling at the Cannes Film Festival. The movie, directed by Dexter Fletcher and starring Taron Egerton chronicles the colourful career of the musician; from his early life as Reginald Kenneth Dwight to becoming
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WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust division staff has recommended the agency file a lawsuit to block T-Mobile US Inc’s $26 billion acquisition of smaller rival Sprint Corp, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The final decision on whether to allow two of the four nationwide wireless carriers to
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A mild winter and previously completed replenishment projects have left New Jersey’s beaches in great shape for the start of the summer tourism season. Coastal experts say most beaches are nice and wide as a result of years of replenishment by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that kicked into high gear after Superstorm Sandy
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More than two weeks ago, hackers seized parts of the computer systems that run Baltimore’s government. It could take months of work to get the disrupted technology back online. That, or the city could give in to the hackers’ ransom demands. “Right now, I say no,” Mayor Bernard Young told local reporters on Monday. “But
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Dealing a blow to Olympic boxing officials after months of investigations, the IOC has set up a vote next month on removing the sport’s governing body AIBA from organizing bouts at the 2020 Tokyo Games. The International Olympic Committee’s executive board on Wednesday proposed suspending AIBA — a move that will go before the full
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Lawmakers took steps to safeguard the bill from legal challenges, amending the wording so that it covered an array of public officials, federal executive branch employees and political party leaders. Under the legislation, the commissioner of the New York Department of Taxation and Finance would be permitted to release returns to the chairmen of the
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The amount of federal loans that undergraduate students can borrow is capped each year, depending on the student’s year of college. The maximum is generally $5,500 for freshmen, $6,500 for sophomores and $7,500 for both juniors and seniors. The amount borrowed over all is limited to $31,000. Students who need to borrow more may have
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