Nicola Sturgeon quizzed on Scottish border by Guru-Murthy Sign up to receive our rundown of the day's top stories direct to your inbox SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info In a concerning report on Scotland's economic future, the Institue for Government (IFG) claimed the current deficit, combined with maintaining the level of public spending would not be sustainable if the country left the UK. The report also claimed the current deficit would increase rapidly and may provide lasting damage to public finances in the long-term. Gemma Tetlow, author of the report and chief economist at the IFG, claimed Scotland must address the reality of the fiscal imbalances which would occur after independence. Trending In order …
After Reports of Astros’ Cheating, M.L.B. Is Left to Restore Trust
A.J. Hinch was defiant before Game 4 of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium last month. Hinch, the manager of the Houston Astros , denied reports that his team had been relaying catchers’ signs by whistling from the bench during the series opener in Houston. He was especially upset that the reports were based on anonymous sources. “I suggest they put their name by it if they’re so passionate about it,” Hinch said, and it was a good point: Going on the record always lends more credibility to a story. The Astros are learning this now, because Mike Fiers — knowingly or not — has heeded Hinch’s advice. Fiers put his name behind his comments in The Athletic this week, saying that the Astros electronically (and illicitly) stole signs in 2017, when he was a member of the team. Their method: monitoring the catcher’s signals from a video feed piped into an area just off the entrance to the dugout, and then banging a trash can to alert the hitter. High-tech …
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Rotherham child sexual exploitation report: At a glance
Published 26 August 2014 Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Related Topics Rotherham child abuse scandal An estimate that 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 is among the key findings of an independent report by Professor Alexis Jay into the handling of child sexual exploitation (CSE) by social services and police in the South Yorkshire town. Appalling abuse Prof Jay's report describes the abuse as "appalling" and says it included the rape of girls as young as 11 by "large numbers of male perpetrators". Children were raped by multiple attackers, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten and intimidated, the report revealed. Some were doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, while others were threatened with guns, made to watch "brutally violent rapes" and warned they would …
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Jakarta judges reported for ethics breach over delays on ruling in air pollution case
A. Muh. Ibnu Aqil (The Jakarta Post) PREMIUM Jakarta ● Wed, September 15, 2021 Frustrated with repeated delays on the ruling in the Jakarta air pollution citizen lawsuit, a team of lawyers representing the plaintiffs has reported the judges to the Supreme Court supervisory body and the Judicial Commission over an alleged ethics breach. The panel of three judges at the Central Jakarta District Court -- Saifuddin Zuhri, Duta Baskara and Tuty Haryati -- have postponed the ruling eight times in the past four months, the most recent being last Thursday when they pushed the schedule to Thursday this week. The citizen lawsuit is the first of its kind aiming to hold authorities accountable for air pollution in the country. It was filed in July 2019 by 32 residents of Greater Jakarta against seven public officials: the President, the environment minister, the health minister, the home minister and the governors of Jakarta, Banten and West Java. The plaintiffs demanded they …
‘America’s Got Talent: Extreme’ stuntman hospitalized after explosive accident leaves him unresponsive: report
close Video Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines for October 15 Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Jonathan Goodwin, a stuntman on "America's Got Talent: Extreme" is reportedly in the hospital after suffering injuries from a daring stunt that left him unresponsive. TMZ, citing sources, reports that Goodwin was performing a stunt in a straitjacket that saw him hanging by his feet from a wire as two cars were also dangling in the air on either side of him. Goodwin was tasked with attempting to free himself from the restraints and land on an air mattress as he and the vehicles were swinging in the air. The stunt reportedly took a horrific turn when the swaying cars crashed into one another, with Goodwin in between them. The cars then erupted "in a gigantic fireball," the outlet reports , causing Goodwin to fall to the ground and hit his head. Sources told …
With latest mission, China renews space cooperation vow
6 BEIJING (AP) — Shortly ahead of sending a new three-person crew to its space station, China on Friday renewed its commitment to international cooperation in the peaceful use of space. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said sending humans into space was a “common cause of mankind,” and China would “continue to extend the depth and breadth of international cooperation and exchanges” in crewed spaceflight and “make positive contributions to the exploration of the mysteries of the universe.” China is to send two men and one woman to spend six months aboard the Tianhe core module of its space station, with liftoff from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China scheduled for shortly after midnight Saturday. It will be China’s longest crewed space mission, a new milestone for a program that has advanced rapidly in recent years. China was excluded from the International Space …
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The Latest: UK lab suspended over false negative COVID tests
8 LONDON — British health officials say 43,000 people in southwest England may have been wrongly told they don’t have the coronavirus because of problems at a private laboratory. The U.K. Health Security Agency says a lab in Wolverhampton, central England has been suspended from processing the swabs after reports of false negatives. The faulty results are among tests processed at the Immensa Health Clinic Lab between early September and this week. The issue was uncovered after some people who were positive for COVID-19 when they took rapid tests went on to show up as negative on more accurate PCR tests. One local authority, West Berkshire Council, has told people who were tested at the government-run Newbury Showground site between Oct. 3 and 12 and were told they were negative to get tested again. Britain conducts about 1 million coronavirus tests a day and reported almost 40,000 new infections a day over the past …
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White House plans to address economic risk of climate change
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is taking steps to address the economic risks from climate change, issuing a 40-page report Friday on government-wide plans to protect the financial, insurance and housing markets and the savings of American families. Under the report, the mortgage process, stock market disclosures, retirement plans, federal procurement and government budgeting are all being reconsidered so the country could price in the risks being created by climate change. The report is a follow-up to a May executive order by President Joe Biden that essentially calls on the government to analyze how extreme heat, flooding, storms, wildfires and broader adjustments to address climate change could affect the world's largest economy. “If this year has shown us anything, it’s that climate change poses an ongoing urgent and systemic risk to our economy and to the lives and livelihoods of everyday Americans, and we must act now,” Gina McCarthy, the White House national …
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Democrats take fight vs. Trump to Virginia: The Note
The TAKE with Rick Klein It's not just Republicans who are counting on former President Donald Trump to turn out their voters. First lady Jill Biden on Friday will kick off a trend of sorts -- nationally prominent Democrats campaigning in Virginia for Terry McAuliffe in the governor's race against Glenn Youngkin, with final voting two-plus weeks away. Really, though, Democrats are squaring up against Trump. The former president and his supporters are helping their messaging at the moment -- even as Youngkin walks as fine a line as any Republican can conjure these days. The final stretch was teed up to Democrats' liking by a bizarre scene Wednesday night outside Richmond. A campaign rally for the GOP ticket -- where Trump himself called in to tout Youngkin, and where Steve Bannon spoke -- featured a Pledge of Allegiance to a flag purportedly flown at the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the riot at the Capitol. Youngkin later called that "weird and wrong" and condemned …
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First lady Jill Biden will stump in New Jersey, Virginia to help elect Democratic governors
First lady Jill Biden is hitting the campaign trail Friday, hoping to help deliver victories for Democrats in two gubernatorial elections. Biden will travel to Virginia and New Jersey to campaign with former Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Gov. Phil Murphy in their respective states. An incumbent Democratic governor hasn't won reelection in New Jersey since the 1970s, but public polling indicates Murphy is better positioned heading into November than McAuliffe. Polls conducted in mid-September from Stockton University and Monmouth University showed Murphy with a nine-point and 13-point lead, respectively, over Republican Jack Ciattarelli, a former assemblyman. While Virginians rejected former President Donald Trump at the ballot box twice and Democrats made significant gains in the commonwealth, including securing a trifecta government when he was in office, McAuliffe only has a slim 2.5-point lead over GOP nominee Glenn Youngkin, according to FiveThirtyEight's polling average. …