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The fallout from Boris Johnson's resignation as an MP leads Sunday's newspapers as they start looking at what happens next.While some focus on the impact on his decision with by-elections and beyond to a general election, other titles concentrate on the turmoil in the Conservative Party.The Sunday Mirror's message is simple, as it concentrates on Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's call for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to get a backbone: and call a general election.

A Conservative MP said she is deeply disappointed not to have been chosen as the party's candidate to fight a revised version of her current seat.Theo Clarke announced the outcome of Friday's Stafford Conservative Association selection meeting on Twitter.The parliamentarian, who has recently returned from maternity leave, also revealed that she had been on the receiving end of abuse since announcing she was having a baby.

The Conservative party has asked all of its MPs to say by 5 December if they are planning to stand again at the next election.While former PMs Boris Johnson and Liz Truss have indicated they'll contest their seats at the next election, the deadline has led to a number of Tory MPs going public to say they won't - including a few surprising names.

The decision by Boris Johnson to quit as an MP ahead of publication of the Partygate report does not mean it is the end of his political career, an ex-adviser to the former PM has said.Will Walden said Mr Johnson "had seen the writing on the wall".The Commons Privileges Committee has looked at whether the ex-PM lied to Parliament over No 10 lockdown parties.

Liz Truss kept the gift of a fancy hat she was given during her brief tenure in No 10 but failed to find time to do any entertaining at Chequers, according to government transparency data.The former prime minister chose to purchase the hat donated by Amanda Denton Millinery in line with rules for ministers for gifts worth 140 or more received in their official capacity.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has reportedly invoked the specter of a potential Andrew Cuomo comeback bid while hitting up donors for her re-election campaign, warning he may challenge her for her seat.Sources told the Daily Beast that they heard the two-term New York Democratic senator saying as much in her pitch to some deep-pocketed backers.

New York's former chief judge - who resigned in July while facing an ethics probe - still has court officers assigned to chauffeur and protect her using a pair of state-owned SUVs, The Post has learned.One of the bodyguards was repeatedly seen sitting in a black Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo outside ex-Judge Janet DiFiore's swank penthouse condo in Westchester County this week.

Two of former President Donald J. Trump's lawyers who had represented him in the classified documents investigation resigned from his legal team the day after he was indicted, according to a statement they released on Friday.The lawyers, James Trusty and John Rowley, left Mr. Trump's defense team in a state of chaos and confusion as he faced the most serious legal threat of his career: a 38-count indictment filed in Miami accusing him of illegally retaining documents after he left office about some of the country's most sensitive national security secrets and of engaging in a conspiracy with an aide to obstruct the government's repeated efforts to retrieve them.

For much of Andrea Agnelli's tenure as Juventus ' president, it was his cousin John Elkann who was in the background.As the man in charge of Juve's holding company, Exor, Elkann would pop in now and then with his thoughts on the team but understandably let his cousin run the show and not try to overstep all that much.

Pakistan's former premier Imran Khan said his party was quitting the country's regional and national assemblies, as he made his first public appearance since being wounded in a gun attack earlier this month.r Khan, a former cricket star turned politician, was ousted in a no-confidence vote in parliament in April.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister and opposition leader Imran Khan, center in seated, addresses to his supporters during a rally, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022.Khan said Saturday his party was quitting the country's regional and national assemblies, as he made his first public appearance since being wounded in a gun attack earlier this month.

Two of former President Donald J. Trump's lawyers who had been engaging directly with the Justice Department have left his team, according to a social media post by Mr. Trump and a statement from the lawyers.The lawyers, James Trusty and John Rowley, left Mr. Trump's legal team a day after he was indicted on seven federal counts related to his handling of government documents at his Florida home and resort, Mar-a-Lago.

For the longest time, Kaleigh Kurtz, a defender on the Carolina Courage professional women's soccer team, was silent about her abuse.She dared not come forward to say that Paul Riley, her then-coach at the Courage, had made her feel uncomfortable by saying suggestive things, including asking her about her sex life and describing what sexual positions he preferred.

WASHINGTON  Seven Democratic senators called for the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday to investigate whether Twitter had violated a privacy agreement with the agency since Elon Musk took over the company.In a letter to Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., the lawmakers said they were worried that Mr. Musk's reported changes to internal reviews and data security practices further put consumers at risk and that Twitter had broken the terms of a 2011 legal settlement with the regulator.

Former Everton captain Alan Stubbs has called for "major changes from boardroom level down" after the club survived relegation on the final day of the season.The win extended their 69-year stay in English football's top tier."There are two [feelings] - relief and anger," Stubbs told 5 live.

Juventus have been docked 15 points following an investigation into the club's past transfer dealings, Italy's football federation (FIGC) says.The Serie A giants were accused of fixing their balance sheets by artificial gains from club transfers.Juventus had been in third place but the penalty will drop them to 10th.

Serbian police on Thursday urged citizens to lock up their guns after a 13-year-old boy used his father's guns in a shooting rampage that killed eight of his fellow students and a school guard, sending shock waves through the nation.Thousands of people in Belgrade and other cities throughout the Balkan country lined up to lay flowers, light candles and leave toys to commemorate the victims of the shooting that happened in a central district in the Serbian capital on Wednesday morning.

Kosovo on Monday accused neighboring Serbia of trying to destabilize the country by pressuring members of the ethnic Serb community to resign from their posts for not accepting Pristina's decision to change illegal vehicle license plates.Prime Minister Albin Kurti said Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vucic, has been in close coordination with Russia and China and is trying to sabotage the European Union-mediated dialogue.

Rep. Mark Takano is reintroducing a bill that would hack eight hours off of the standard work week.Rep. Mark Takano speaks during a news conference on October 15, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Zach Gibson / Getty Images Rep. Mark Takano is planning to introduce a proposal that would shorten the standard work week in the U.S. to four days as the idea gains traction in Washington.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors has offered the job of running the day-to-day-operations of its government to a top figure in the New California movement pushing to split California into two states.In an unusual news release, county officials announced that "a majority of the board" had made a "preliminary job offer" to Chriss Street, vice president of New California and a former treasurer of Orange County, to be the county's chief executive officer.

They haven't been seen in the City Council chambers since Monday, when they were shouted at by an outraged crowd who demanded their resignations.Reporter: Jackie Fortier, KPCC
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Military surgeon Jiang Yanyong is seen in a hotel room in Beijing on Feb. 9, 2004.Jiang Yanyong, a Chinese military doctor who revealed the full extent of the 2003 SARS outbreak and was later placed under house arrest for his political outspokenness, has died, a long-time acquaintance and a Hong Kong newspaper said on March 14, 2023.

Twitter laid off at least 200 of its employees on Saturday night, three people familiar with the matter said, or about 10 percent of the roughly 2,000 who were still working for the company.Elon Musk, who acquired the social media platform in October, has steadily pared back its work force from about 7,500 employees as he has sought to reduce costs.

Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk yesterday asked if Apple "hates free speech"-because the iPhone maker isn't spending as much on Twitter advertising as it used to."Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter.Do they hate free speech in America?"Musk wrote."What's going on here @tim_cook?"

Many professionals dream about shifting into a new role or perhaps an entirely new career.Of course, making the case for yourself in a new industry may be challenging, especially if you lack directly relevant experience.But even beyond the obstacle of convincing others to give you a shot, there's often a larger conundrum: how to pay for it.

Los Angeles police have launched a criminal investigation into the recording of a conversation that included racist comments and was leaked online, leading to the resignation of two officials involved, the police chief said.The leaked audio, which was posted anonymously on Reddit and obtained by The Los Angeles Times earlier this month, details a year-old conversation between then-City Council President Nury Martinez, council members Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Leon and then-Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera.

The Los Angeles City Council held its first in-person meeting in nearly two weeks on Tuesday, plowing through its agenda and taking more than 90 minutes of phone-in public comment while demonstrators shouted, chanted and jeered from the audience.The sounds of nonstop protest were deafening inside the council chamber, where audience members repeated their call for the ouster of Councilmen Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León, making it all but impossible to hear either the council members or the phone-in testimony.

Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown turned in his resignation Wednesday, just one day after Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost a re-election bid in the Windy City.Brown served as Chicago's top cop for two years, a tenure marred by spiking violence and stagnant progress on police reforms - the same issues that caused Lightfoot to become the city's first incumbent mayor to not be re-elected in four decades.

Nearly one in five police officers plan to quit within the next two years amid low morale and dissatisfaction over pay, research suggests.An annual survey by the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) also found that 19% of officers polled never or almost never have enough money to pay for essentials.

The global pandemic fostered a huge uptick in remote work as many companies were required to shut their physical offices for months.For many office employees, remote work meant finding any space to set up a laptop, be it a designated home office, a garage, a basement or even a kitchen table.For others, however, remote work meant something entirely different - an opportunity to see the world.

The chaos from Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has driven away advertisers as the company struggles to hang onto its most significant source of revenue.Half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers have left the site since Musk became CEO in October.Twitter has cut its advertising revenue projection for the last three months of the year to $1.1 billion from $1.4 billion, and the number may continue to slip, according to three people with knowledge of the subject cited by the New York Times.

Anadolu Agency via Getty Images  One month into Elon Musk's chaotic takeover of Twitter, the company is once again trying to reassure advertisers and users about the direction of the platform.In its first since Musk's acquisition, the company attempted to explain what "Twitter 2.0" means for the company.

Layoffs and resignationsincluding a wave over Thanksgiving weekendhave decimated the insights and analytics teams at Twitter, according to people familiar with the matter, leaving questions about who's still around to handle audience measurement and brand safety issues.The departures are among thousands that have reduced Twitter's workforce by more than half since Elon Musk took control of the social platform late last month, but now appear to be particularly steep in measurement and analytics.

To see things start to filter out of Turin in the wake of Juventus ' entire board of directors suddenly resigning is no surprise.That is how these things work - you get the first big of a big news, and then subsequent big news (which is sometimes even bigger) starts to roll out as more and more people look into what's going on and source come forward.

With a deadline looming for Twitter employees to either sign a pledge to work extra hours or request severance, Elon Musk eased a return-to-work mandate he'd issued a week ago, telling employees Thursdaythey'll be allowed to work remotely if their managers assertthey are making "an excellent contribution."

People chant slogans as they condemn the shooting incident on a long march held by Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Wazirabad, Pakistan, Friday.(Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)ISLAMABAD - In his first public appearance after he was shot in the foot, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said he had received information about the attack a day before it occurred, describing it as a plan to kill him.

Almost a million NHS workers could be involved in strikes and other forms of industrial action before Christmas.A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: We are giving over 1 million NHS workers a pay rise of at least 1,400 this year, as recommended by the independent NHS Pay Review Body.