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Staying in a job for the health insurance? About 1 in 4 Americans do, a survey says
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Wisconsin’s warning rankles Kalshi
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Voices: ‘Same gang, different seats’: Readers unimpressed as Andy Burnham names new cabinet
Andy Burnham has unveiled his first cabinet as prime minister, but Independent readers have reacted with widespread scepticism, arguing the reshuffle simply reshuffles familiar Labour faces rather than delivering genuine change. Many commenters noted that most of the top team, including John Healey, Ed Miliband and Shabana Mahmood, previously served under Sir Keir Starmer, with…
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Burnham unveils VAT cut on energy bills as Haigh appointment sparks backlash
The PM’s first cost-of-living move scraps VAT on electricity from October, though poverty campaigners warn Healey faces a tougher task than Reeves; elsewhere, Nine cuts thirty newsroom jobs, Nauru launches football, and Doncaster plans a memorial for Mackenzie Swift.
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Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar has been hit hardest in a wave of layoffs across Disney’s studios, TV networks and ESPN, with several hundred jobs cut despite the animation studio’s summer box-office success with “Toy Story 5”. The cuts, confirmed by a Disney spokesperson on Tuesday, come as the company continues restructuring under new chief executive Josh D’Amaro, who…
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Disney to cut hundreds more jobs in fresh restructuring drive
Disney has cut hundreds more jobs across the company as part of an ongoing corporate restructuring under chief executive Josh D’Amaro, with the reductions spanning corporate functions, ESPN, Disney Entertainment Television and its film studios. Pixar is understood to be the worst-hit studio despite releasing two films this year, including the successful Toy Story 5,…
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The many many different faces in top UK Government jobs in the last ten years
Since 2016, the UK has burned through ministers at a striking rate: eight chancellors, nine foreign secretaries, ten education secretaries and six prime ministers, a pace of turnover far exceeding the decade before. The article contrasts this with the relative stability of 2006-2016, when far fewer people held these posts, highlighting how increasingly frequent reshuffles…
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Fox News Power Rankings: Voters say they’re in economic pain, but will Democrats gain?
A Fox News “Power Rankings” analysis examines falling approval for President Trump’s handling of the economy, with the cost of living now the dominant concern among American voters. The piece notes the parallel with Trump’s 2024 campaign, when he promised to “make America affordable again” and went on to sweep the swing states with improved…
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MORNING GLORY: America is winning its battle with Iran. It’s only a matter of time
A Fox News opinion piece argues that the United States is gradually prevailing in an ongoing military conflict with Iran, framing the outcome as inevitable despite mounting casualties on multiple sides. The article, part of the “Morning Glory” opinion column, presents a pro-US, pro-Trump administration perspective on the war and Washington’s strategy for ending it,…
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LIZ PEEK: The Trump economy is doing better than the media want to admit
In an opinion piece for Fox News, columnist Liz Peek argues that the US economy under President Donald Trump is performing better than mainstream media coverage suggests, and urges Republicans to publicise this record of tax cuts and growth ahead of the midterm elections. She contends that positive economic indicators are being under-reported, leaving Trump…