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They say it will ease traffic, but I can't see it myself, said Lyn Loines about Britain's biggest road-building project, connecting north Kent with Essex via a huge, six-lane, 2.6-mile tunnel under the Thames.Construction of the 9bn Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) will be on the doorstep of Loines's house near Gravesend, blocking a view of green belt land that takes in lines of trees and rolling fields of bright yellow rapeseed.

Peers are launching an inquiry into private health companies paid millions of pounds to courier NHS medicines in England, after the Guardian exposed how sick children and adults were being harmed by botched, delayed or missed deliveries.The House of Lords public services committee will examine the extent of the problems in homecare medicine services, and the impact on patients, clinicians and the wider health service.

The government risks undermining faith in AI unless it becomes more open about its own use of the technology, campaigners have warned.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sought to position the UK as a leader in designing new AI rules at a global level.But privacy campaigners say its own use of AI-driven systems is too opaque and risks discrimination.

Companies that do not adopt flexible working will struggle to hire in the next five years, according to an entrepreneur who is hoping to be a Tory mayoral candidate.Natalie Campbell, co-chief executive of Belu Water, is due to speak at a cross-party event hosted by the 4 Day Week Campaign on Tuesday when it will publish its mini-manifesto.

One year after Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should reconsider whether the Constitution affords Americans a right to birth control, Democrats and reproductive rights advocates are laying the groundwork for state-by-state battles over access to contraception an issue they hope to turn against Republicans in 2024.

Junior doctors have mounted picket lines again on Wednesday after launching a three-day strike over pay amid warnings of an exodus of staff because of unbearable working conditions in the NHS.Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) took industrial action across England as the long-running row looked further away than ever from being resolved.

Rishi Sunak will tell technology leaders he wants to make the UK both the intellectual and the geographical home of artificial intelligence (AI) regulation.In a speech to open London Tech Week on Monday, the Prime Minister is set to say that the extraordinary possibility of AI advances must be carried out safely as he positions Britain as a potential home of a global regulator.

Senior Tories have called for Boris Johnson to be blocked from standing again as an MP as the party attempts to draw a line under a weekend of mayhem triggered by his resignation.Former minister Tobias Ellwood said Mr Johnson should not be allowed to stand again until he has shown commitment to the party, after a tumultuous few days which left it in turmoil.

The mandarin accused of referring Boris Johnson to police over the latest Partygate allegations has been given a gong.Alex Chisholm, the permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office, was knighted for public service in the King's birthday honours list.The Partygate scandal erupted again last month over fresh concerns that Mr Johnson breached Covid-era lockdown rules.

The head of a peace-building organisation who helped to bring about the historic handshake between the late Queen and former IRA commander Martin McGuinness, is to be made a CBE.Peter Sheridan, the chief executive of Co-operation Ireland, is being recognised in the King's Birthday Honours.Mr Sheridan was previously made an OBE for services to community in his previous career as a high-ranking member of the PSNI.

A woman who was diagnosed with incurable cancer more than five years ago has been made an MBE for her work campaigning to bring a life-prolonging drug to patients in Scotland.Jen Hardy, 56, from Edinburgh, is recognised in the King's Birthday Honours for her services to cancer support, which has also included setting up the charity Cancer Card to help others in need.

Leading figures from the arts world in Scotland have been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours list.Christopher Hampson, chief executive and artistic director of Scottish Ballet, becomes a CBE for services to dance.Peter Lawson, chairman of Scottish Opera, is also made a CBE for services to the arts in Scotland.

A strike by junior doctors in England will continue on Thursday as new figures showed that more than half a million appointments and procedures have been postponed due to industrial action since December.Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) will mount picket lines outside hospitals across the country for the second of a three-day walkout in a long-running row over pay.

University applicants' personal statements are read for just two minutes on average, a report has suggested.The majority of higher education admissions professionals said decisions about which applicants should be offered a university or college place are primarily made on the basis of grades, a survey found.

The gross national debt exceeded $32 trillion for the first time on Friday, underscoring the country's unsettling fiscal trajectory as Washington gears up for another fight over government spending.A Treasury Department report noted the milestone weeks after Congress agreed to suspend the nation's statutory debt limit, ending a monthslong standoff.

Watches and Wonders Geneva proved one thing earlier this spring when it attracted 43,000 visitors, almost twice its 2022 attendance: The watch fair is back.Many in the industry had voiced doubts that such costly events were worth the investment even before the disruption of the pandemic.But opinions seem to have changed, and the rest of the 2023 calendar is dotted with the likes of Singapore Watch Week, Geneva Watch Days and the Salon Internacional Alta Relojeria in Mexico City.

Ivan Menezes, who as chief executive of the spirits corporation Diageo used his canny understanding of the drinking public to help the company grow into a global colossus, died on June 7 in London.He was 63.The cause was complications of emergency surgery for a stomach ulcer, a Diageo spokesman said.

The European Union took an important step on Wednesday toward passing what would be one of the first major laws to regulate artificial intelligence, a potential model for policymakers around the world as they grapple with how to put guardrails on the rapidly developing technology.The European Parliament, a main legislative branch of the E.U., passed a draft law known as the A.I. Act, which would put new restrictions on what are seen as the technology's riskiest uses.

Since his early 20s, Curtis Stephenson has dreamed of being a dad.As the youngest of three kids, he watched his siblings raise his nieces and nephews and thought, Oh my God, I want that, said Mr. Stephenson, the manager of a wine bar in Ottawa.Now 43, he and his partner, who is 36, have been trying to conceive a baby for more than a year.

A federal judge on Tuesday urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to strike a compromise with Binance that would allow the global cryptocurrency exchange to continue operating in the United States as it fights a civil fraud lawsuit filed by the regulator.Last week, the S.E.C. charged Binance and its U.S. affiliate with mishandling customers' deposits and lying to regulators.

Two years ago, the Grammy Awards abruptly increased the number of nominees permitted in its top categories, going to 10 slots on the ballot, from eight.Now, it is going back.The Recording Academy, the organization behind the Grammys, said on Friday that the number of nominees would once again be set at eight in the four top categories album, record and song of the year, and best new artist for the 66th annual awards, scheduled to be presented in early 2024.

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Getty Images Earlier this week, a coalition of 17 music publishers-including Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music and Sony Music Publishing-filed a $250 million lawsuit against Twitter for "massive copyright infringement."

T ributes have been paid to a Holocaust survivor who tirelessly campaigned for greater awareness of the genocide and represented Britain at the Olympics.Sir Ben Helfgott, 93, survived Buchenwald concentration camp and was one of 732 child survivors who came to the UK to rebuild their lives, known as The Boys.

R ufus Norris has announced he is to quit British theatre's top job leaving as artistic director and chief executive of the National Theatre in 2025 and describing his stint in charge as the most challenging time in our history.The director, who steered the Southbank institution through the Covid crisis, brought stars including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Olivia Colman, Anne-Marie Duff and Cate Blanchett to its stage after taking over in 2015.

GDP was up 0.2 per cent in the month, in line with City forecasts, following a 0.3 per cent slump in March, according to figures today from the Office for National Statistics.However, GDP only grew a meagre 0.1 per cent overall in the three months to April, the ONS said.Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: We are growing the economy, with the IMF saying that from 2025 we will grow faster than Germany, France and Italy.

Privacy advocates are urging food banks to stop using facial recognition software, claiming it poses a serious risk to users' privacy, dignity and security.Several food banks in London are asking users to submit face scans to allow them to choose food from shops.The Face Donate app-based system also has the potential to track purchases.

Donald J. Trump will make his first appearance in federal criminal court on Tuesday.But the former president has been pleading his case for days in a far friendlier venue the court of Republican public opinion, where he continues to dominate the 2024 field.For Mr. Trump and his team, there has been a sense of familiarity, even normalcy, in the chaos of facing a 37-count indictment in the classified documents case.

Binance has suffered setbacks in two European markets after it announced plans to quit the Netherlands and came under investigation by French prosecutors.The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange said it was leaving the Dutch market after it failed to obtain a licence from the country's central bank.

For almost a decade Nicola Sturgeon, as the leader of the Scottish government, was the uncontested figurehead of the push to break Scotland's centuries-old union with England.Her resignation earlier this year and now her arrest on Sunday over an investigation into her Scottish National Party's finances leaves the fate of the movement in flux.

The PGA Tour and LIV Golf have not yet closed a stunning partnership agreement announced only last week, but vows from Washington to slow or stop the deal or at least make it uncomfortable for golf executives crystallized on Monday, when the Senate opened an inquiry into the arrangement.Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut and the chairman of the chamber's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said Monday that he had demanded that both the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabian-funded LIV give up a wide array of documents and communications tied to the agreement.

1686544243 Nicola Sturgeon issued a defiant statement after she was released from custody on Sunday.The former first minister was questioned as a suspect by detectives looking into claims that 600,000 in donations for an independence campaign was misspent by the party.She was later released without charge pending further investigation.

Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon speaks during a press conference in February at Bute House in Edinburgh.Sturgeon has been arrested by police investigating the finances of Scotland's pro-independence governing party.Jane Barlow/AP LONDON Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who dominated politics in Scotland for almost a decade, was arrested and questioned for several hours on Sunday by police investigating the finances of the governing, pro-independence Scottish National Party.

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Shoreline Village, a popular Long Beach tourist and shopping destination near the Queen Mary and the Aquarium of the Pacific, would be renovated with new retail developments and parking as part of a proposal under consideration by city and state officials.The city's Planning Commission, which will vote on the plan Thursday, hopes that the remodeling would enhance connectivity by improving pedestrian access, bike ramp access, additional parking, dock access, bike parking and storage, according to planning documents.

A British Sign Language GCSE is one step closer to being taught in schools as the Government launches a consultation on the content of the subject.The Government is aiming for the British Sign Language (BSL) GCSE to be first taught to pupils in England from September 2025.Views on the qualification including the language skills to be studied and the role of history are being sought from teachers, employers and the deaf and hearing communities in a 12-week consultation.

There's a new tech titan in town and he's preparing to enter the pantheon.How do we know?Well, Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, has the company: He co-founded Nvidia in 1993, and the market cap is now about $950 billion, though at the end of May it was briefly in the $1 trillion club, putting it in a similar league to Apple, Alphabet and Amazon.

New York will get a new dance festival this fall: Van Cleef & Arpels, the French luxury jeweler, announced on Tuesday that it would sponsor a 16-day event partly aimed at bringing more international choreographers and ensembles to the city.The festival, Dance Reflections, will feature groups like LA(HORDE), a French collective that will perform a work set to electronic music with the Ballet National de Marseille.

Police Scotland's investigation into alleged financial irregularities within the Scottish National Party (SNP), known as Operation Branchform, has taken a further twist after Nicola Sturgeon was arrested.Police Scotland said the former SNP leader, who quit in February, is in custody and is being questioned by detectives.

UK businesses have improved female representation on their boards, research shows, but two-fifths of FTSE 100 firms still do not have a woman in one of their top four executive roles.The proportion of women on the boards of the 585 FTSE all-share listed companies has risen over the past year from 36% to 40%, according to the analysis of Companies House data.

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When considering a nearby swimming hole this summer, water scientists recommend that Los Angeles County residents first check the latest river report card before taking a dip.While freshwater recreation sites across L.A. have seen improvements in recent years, scientists with the environmental nonprofit Heal the Bay note there's still a lot of work to be done to limit waterway pollution.

The United States Golf Association acknowledged Wednesday that it had heard ferocious opposition to its proposal for professional players to use balls that travel shorter distances but it also signaled no interest in abandoning its ambitions to rein in equipment in the next several years.The association and the R&A, a governing body based in Britain, had in March proposed a rule that they estimated could trim top golfers' tee shots by an average of about 15 yards.

The PGA Tour said Tuesday night that Jay Monahan, its commissioner, was recuperating from a medical situation and that two of its other executives would oversee the tour's day-to-day operations for the time being.The tour's four-sentence statement came one week after Monahan, 53, announced that the tour had reached a partnership deal with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, which bankrolled the LIV Golf league that has clashed with Monahan's circuit for more than a year.

What an ending.Your favorite N.B.A. team has just clinched a championship.The superstar, drenched in sweat, fulfilled his hero's journey.The players are exhausted, but jubilant.Some of them are crying.Out comes a gleaming trophy, the coveted prize that gives the grueling season its meaning, and it's obvious who should lift it first: the billionaire who owns the team.

One of the three Britons who died after a diving boat burst into flames in the Red Sea off Egypt has been named as Christina Quinn.The 58-year-old was on a medium-sized scuba diving boat called Hurricane that went up in flames off the resort town of Marsa Alam on Sunday.St Luke's Hospice Plymouth, where Ms Quinn was chief executive, confirmed she was one of the victims.

A devoted father-of-two was making up to 100 bets a day on betting websites and had previously racked up 18,000 in debts due to a pervasive gambling addiction before he took his own life, an inquest has heard.Luke Ashton, 40, from Leicester, who died on April 22 2021, was a happy man who had no diagnosed mental health issues, his wife Annie told an inquest into her husband's death on Wednesday.

A long-awaited merger of Vodafone and Three will bring the biggest shake-up in the UK mobile market for over a decade, experts say with significant consequences for all anyone in Britain using a device.The 15bn deal will see the two firms combine to make one of Europe's biggest operators, with about 27 million customers and more than 11,500 staff.

Further applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in the NHS are on the horizon in a bid to free up doctors' time and provide better support to patients.Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, said patients are already benefiting from advancements in technology.In stroke care, AI is already in use in more than four out of five stroke networks, helping clinicians to reduce the time to deliver effective treatment by an hour, tripling the number of stroke patients recovering with no or only slight disability from one in six, to just under half.

ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall said the broadcaster does not recognise allegations of a toxic culture at This Morning, saying it deeply disappoints me.The chief executive faced questions from MPs alongside ITV managing director Kevin Lygo and general counsel and company secretary Kyla Mullins about former host Phillip Schofield's exit during Wednesday morning's Culture, Media and Sport Committee session in Parliament.

Jonathan Ross has remembered artist John Romita, famed for his role in creating Marvel characters Wolverine and Mary Jane Watson, as a kind, generous, compassionate and thoughtful man following his death, aged 93.Romita died peacefully in his sleep, his son confirmed in a Twitter post on Wednesday, describing his father as the greatest man I ever met.

ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall will appear before a parliamentary committee to answer questions about the broadcaster's approach to safeguarding and complaint handling after former employee Phillip Schofield's exit from This Morning.The chief executive will face questions from MPs on the This Morning row at a session of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Wednesday morning.

Perhaps more than any other American city, New York relies on a growing army of delivery workers who have braved successive waves of Covid, extreme weather and toxic air as remote work has reshaped the economy.Now, they're getting a raise.Starting July 12, New York City's app-based delivery workers must be paid at least $17.96 an hour, not including tips the first such minimum pay-rate in the country for an industry that exploded in popularity during the pandemic.

It wasn't hard to spot J. Harrison Ghee at the official Tony Awards after-party outside the United Palace theater in Washington Heights on Sunday night they towered over much of the crowd in a vibrant blue gown, with a statuette in hand and a trail of well-wishers close behind.After their groundbreaking win for best leading actor in a musical they became the first out nonbinary performer to win in the category the gown color, it seemed, was fortuitous.

Richard E. Snyder, the imperious publishing executive who built Simon & Schuster into the nation's largest book publisher, died on Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles.He was 90.The cause was heart failure, said his son Matthew, who lives in California and had moved his father there as his health declined from sepsis and other problems.

Diablo IV, the latest version of a video game franchise that has gained millions of fans over its more than 25 years, has broken internal records for its publisher Blizzard and surpassed more than $666 million in sales since its debut on June 6.The game combines elements of different parts of the franchise, from the dark and gothic atmospherics of fighting demons to an always-online approach where players can link up with friends and strangers alike to slay monsters.

Sandeep Mathrani was supposed to be WeWork's savior.A real estate executive, he became the chief executive of the troubled office space company in 2020 after a failed initial public offering pushed it to the brink of collapse.He instilled discipline and order on a business that had grown fast and chaotically under its co-founder Adam Neumann.

Last month, hundreds of well-known people in the world of artificial intelligence signed an open letter warning that A.I. could one day destroy humanity.Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war, the one-sentence statement said.

Hello! Welcome back to On Tech: A.I., a pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how to use it.Last week, I told you how to use creative A.I. tools that generate and edit stunning images.Now let's move on to automating some time-consuming, sometimes tedious, parts of many office jobs.

In California, it's perfectly legal for landlords to ask renters to cough up more than $10,000 before handing over the keys to a new apartment.That's because under state law, property owners can charge up to two months' rent as a security deposit, on top of the initial lease payment.For a furnished unit, deposits can be as much as three months' rent.

Electric bikes must have number plates and insurance in order for pedestrians to be safe, Conservative MPs and the industry have said.They want them to be regulated in the same way as other vehicles given the damage they can do if they hit someone.E-bikes can weigh twice as much as a conventional bicycle and, while most cannot travel faster than 15.5mph by law, some have been modified to go much faster.

It is almost certainly a fact that Richard Montanez did not invent Flamin' Hot Cheetos.That revelation, which came to light as part of a 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation, arrived at a rather inconvenient time, considering a biopic based on Montanez's inspirational 2013 memoir, A Boy, a Burrito, and a Cookie: From Janitor to Executive, in which he claims to have invented the spicy snack, was already in development.

It is both astonishing and somehow unsurprising that Boris Johnson sought a knighthood for his father before the idea was vetoed.There is little left Johnson can do to shock the public or political establishment, after his chequered premiership that left him as the first prime minister to be hit with a criminal fine while in office.

In the autumn of 2020, the Tory leader of Woking council announced he was stepping down.In his valedictory speech, David Bittleston insisted Woking was not merely the best council in the country but was going places.Ahead of us, this borough has an exciting future, he declared.Bittleston's self-congratulatory boosterism was par for the course.

Artwork by Banksy set to go on public display in Margate will hopefully spark conversations among thousands of people on domestic abuse, organisers said.The street mural titled Valentine's Day Mascara was first discovered on the side of a house in the Kent seaside town, 200 metres (more than 650ft) down the road from its new home at Dreamland amusement park.

Industrial action in the NHS should not become business as usual, a senior health chief has warned, as patients brace for more walkouts this month.Sir Julian Hartley, the chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents trusts providing NHS hospital, mental health, community and ambulance services in England, said the long-term impacts of strikes on patient care was a major concern.

Households with traditional prepayment meters have been urged to avoid missing out on 400 worth of help with their bills by June 30, with 130 million still available to be claimed.The Claim Your Energy Voucher Day is a final push to encourage the remaining households to claim their vouchers before the scheme ends in a month.

A record 2.4 billion was paid out in motor claims in the first quarter of this year as firms find surging costs increasingly challenging to absorb, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI).More expensive vehicle repairs, rising second-hand car costs and longer repair times are among the challenges faced by insurers, although there are some signs that cost pressures from whiplash-related claims are easing.