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Pierce Thiot, Creative Executive at Maximum Effort, Dies at 40
Pierce Thiot, Maximum Effort’s head of creative for brand and entertainment, has died aged 40 from a pulmonary embolism at his home in Orem, Utah. His death is significant within advertising and entertainment because he helped shape campaigns designed to function as popular culture rather than conventional commercials. Thiot spent almost five years at Ryan…
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Karol G’s Complicated and Relatable Heartbreak Brought Her Back to the Top of the Charts (Critic’s Take)
Karol G’s album No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto has displaced Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos from the top of Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart, while two songs from the record have also reached No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs. The critic argues that the achievement matters because Karol G has succeeded with a…
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Trump admin blocks more than $1.6B in potentially improper Medicare lab payments, agency says
US officials say they have blocked or recovered more than $1.6 billion in potentially improper Medicare payments to laboratories since President Trump returned to office. The action is intended to protect the Medicare Trust Fund by identifying suspected fraud before payments are made, including claims for tests allegedly never performed, medically unnecessary tests and inflated…
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Fed has ‘work to do’ if price rises don’t ease for Americans, Warsh says
Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh said the US central bank may need to act if it cannot become confident that inflation is easing sufficiently. Although summer data was better than expected, he said the overall picture had not improved meaningfully, signalling that the Fed’s priority remains returning inflation to its 2% target. US prices rose…
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True cost of Brexit on UK trade revealed as calls to rejoin single market grow
Logistics UK estimates that Brexit is costing the UK £11.7bn annually in lost exports compared with 2019, intensifying calls for closer trading arrangements with the EU. The findings matter because supporters of greater alignment argue that reduced trade barriers could support business growth, investment and productivity. The trade association said goods-export tonnage has fallen 20.7…
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Football Daily | Rangers and Celtic united by farce in Europe and sanctions at home
Celtic and Rangers both suffered damaging European exits, compounding a difficult week for Scottish football and leaving only Celtic and Hearts in continental competition. Celtic squandered a 4–0 aggregate lead against Lask, while Rangers lost on penalties to Jablonec after already exiting another qualifying competition; the results have increased scrutiny of Rangers manager Derek McInnes.…
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Andy Burnham says he will sit out new vote on legalising assisted dying to avoid influencing MPs
Andy Burnham says he will not take part in the forthcoming Commons vote on legalising assisted dying, arguing that, as Prime Minister, he should not influence MPs’ personal decisions. The move preserves the Bill as a free vote and matters because it returns Parliament to a divisive issue involving end-of-life choice, safeguards and care provision.…
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Pakistan tells Miliband: We’re not taking back Rochdale grooming gang leader, during first meet
Pakistan has refused Britain’s request to accept Shabir Ahmed, described as the leader of the Rochdale grooming gang, despite efforts by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband to secure his deportation. The refusal leaves the Government facing continued legal and practical obstacles in removing Ahmed, who has been stripped of British citizenship but remains protected from deportation…
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Andy Burnham to abstain on assisted dying Bill ahead of Commons vote
Andy Burnham says he will abstain from the next Commons vote on the assisted dying Bill, arguing that the Prime Minister should not influence what is intended to be a free vote for MPs. The move maintains the Government’s neutral position on whether the law should change. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill…
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Division, drama and power – what next for Infantino and Uefa?
Uefa has escalated its dispute with Fifa president Gianni Infantino by seeking US court access to documents that could support potential legal action in Switzerland over Fifa’s abandoned private-investment plan. Its lawyers accuse Infantino of criminal mismanagement, secrecy and selling stakes in competitions at an unfairly low valuation, while Fifa and Infantino have not responded…