A host of hospital building projects in England are being delayed with some having to wait up to 14 years before work starts, the government says. Health Secretary Wes Streeting said the plans – which formed part of a 2019 election promise by the Conservatives for 40 new hospitals by 2030 – were not affordable.
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Elon Musk is now the sole leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy stepped down to pursue a gubernatorial campaign in Ohio, officials said Monday. Ramaswamy co-founded DOGE with Musk in November 2024 as part of President Donald Trump’s “Save America” initiative to cut government waste, reduce regulations, and
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US crude futures down $1 a barrel on Trump plan to boost fossil fuel output By Reuters Investing.com Oil dips as market awaits Trump’s executive orders on energy Reuters Oil Prices Fall Ahead Of Trump Inauguration OilPrice.com US crude futures down $1 a barrel on Trump plan to boost fossil fuel output Yahoo Finance WTI extends its decline below
Video platform Rumble on Monday announced its first Bitcoin buy, less than two months after revealing a strategy to put the cryptocurrency on its balance sheet. Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that the company bought its first Bitcoin on Friday. It isn’t clear how much Bitcoin that Rumble bought, but the
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is due to make a statement from No 10 on Tuesday morning about the public inquiry into the Southport attack where three young girls were stabbed to death. Eighteen-year-old Axel Rudakubana pleaded guilty on Monday to killing Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar
While signing the executive orders in the Oval Office, Trump casually took questions from reporters on topics ranging from the war between Russia and Ukraine — saying he plans to talk with President Vladimir Putin “soon” — to TikTok to Biden’s last-minute pardons for the former president’s family members. “I guess now I have precedent
A Brazilian man was arrested after he was caught on camera walking over and whacking the store’s manager in the head with a shovel. Southland Post/X A Brazilian man was arrested after he was caught on camera seemingly calmly grabbing a shovel off a store wall before walking over and whacking his wife’s boss, the
Kolkata, India Reuters — An Indian court awarded a life sentence on Monday to a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where she worked in the eastern city of Kolkata, rejecting demands for the death penalty and saying it was not a rare crime. The woman’s