Prime minister to express concern about ‘over-medicalising’ normal worries with diagnoses as mental health conditions.
Rishi Sunak will today claim Britain is suffering from a “sicknote culture”, as he warns there is a risk of “over-medicalising” normal worries by diagnosing them as mental health conditions.
In a speech on how to reduce people being signed off sick from work, the prime minister will say the government is planning to trial getting “work and health professionals” to issue fit notes, shifting away from GPs carrying out this role.
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The school’s president, Minouche Shafik, authorized officers to clear the encampments set up by students demanding divestment.
Tensions on Columbia University’s campus continued to rise on Thursday as the New York police department began breaking up student protests over Israel’s war on Gaza, at the direction of the school’s president, and arrests were made.
Hundreds of students pitched tents and began camping out in the center of the famous central campus from early morning on Wednesday in protest, demanding a ceasefire and for the university to financially divest from Israel, prompting Columbia’s president, Minouche Shafik, to issue a stark warning.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter said she was suspended Thursday by Barnard College after refusing to leave an encampment set up on campus in support of Gaza.
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The best way to get investors to stop focusing on something is to stop telling them at all.
Netflix said Thursday it will no longer report quarterly membership numbers and average revenue per membership starting in the first quarter of 2025.
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Rafael Enrique | Lightrocket | Getty Images LOS ANGELES — Netflix reported earnings that beat on the top and bottom line after the bell Thursday.
Here are the results: Earnings per share: $5.28 per share compared with the $4.52 per share expected by LSEGRevenue: $9.37 billion compared with the $9.28 billion expected by LSEGTotal memberships: 269.6 million compared to 264.21 million expected, according to Street Account
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The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage sits around 7.5%, the highest level since mid-November of last year, according to Mortgage News Daily.
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The European Commission is proposing an EU-UK deal that would go further, lasting up to four years with no restrictions on time spent working, studying, training or volunteering.
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Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The ironclad relationship that India Prime Minister Narendra Modi has developed with CEOs of the largest U.S. tech companies is giving his nation the foreign support that India has craved for more than a decade.
Those ties also have boosted Modi's own profile ahead of key elections that start Friday, a former Indian government official told CNBC on the condition of anonymity.
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Buckle up, content creators — the all-new Adobe Express mobile app is now available on iOS and Android, and it’s packing a fresh glow-up with its bundle of new generative AI tools. In a nutshell, the same intuitive features powered by Adobe’s creative generative AI (Firefly) originally available only on the Adobe Express desktop version, are now ready for you to take anywhere.
Adobe Express, the all-in-one AI content creation app, is faster and easier to use than before. Start a post, edit a video, create a mood board or collage, or remove the background on a photo or video in an instant. Or begin a social post for work using Adobe Express on your desktop, then finish, schedule, and publish your project from wherever you are. You can also collaborate with your team in real-time from anywhere, dialing in a more seamless on-the-go workflow.
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Bridget Thorne, a Republican elected in Fulton county in 2022, has spread election fraud lies and accused county employees of crimes.
A Fulton county commissioner in Georgia has been operating a private Telegram channel for years, propagating debunked claims about the 2020 election, and spreading accusations of crimes by county employees, including Ruby Freeman, an election worker defamed by Rudy Giuliani in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2020 loss.
Bridget Thorne, a Republican representing the relatively conservative cities of Fulton county north of Atlanta, indirectly identifies herself as the creator and administrator of the Fulton County Elections channel on Telegram, a mobile messaging platform, in multiple posts to its page. The channel uses the official logo of the Fulton county board of registration and elections.
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Panel urged denial of Israel funds because of serious human rights violations but state department has not yet acted, report says.
The US state department has failed to act on internal reports of human rights abuses by Israeli army and police units, according to a new report, raising new questions over whether Washington’s continued supply of arms to Israel is breaking US law.
The ProPublica investigative journalism site quoted officials as saying that a special panel set up by the Biden administration had recommended that multiple Israeli military and police units be denied US funding because of serious human rights abuses. But the state department has yet to act on the recommendations.
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The NBA's exclusive window with incumbent media partners Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery will expire April 22 without a signed deal, according to sources.
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Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Meta on Thursday announced its free artificial intelligence assistant, Meta AI, is rolling out across its social media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Messenger.
The assistant can answer questions, create animations and generate images, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a video. Meta AI was built on the company's latest large language model called Meta Llama 3, which was also announced Thursday.
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In a congressional hearing, Republicans used specious charges of rampant antisemitism to advance an illiberal agenda on campuses.
As Jewish faculty at Columbia University, we watched with alarm as our president, Minouche Shafik, appeared before the House education and workforce committee on Wednesday to answer questions about antisemitism on our campus. While we are deeply concerned about antisemitism, we are also disturbed by the ways the hearing – like those in December, and surely those to follow – used specious charges of rampant antisemitism to advance an illiberal agenda.
We were shocked that President Shafik capitulated to its mendacious premises and failed to stand up for fundamental academic principles of honest intellectual inquiry and free expression. Most galling was the absence of any acknowledgment of the relentless devastation in Gaza: the urgent reason for the student protests that the committee caricatures and condemns as antisemitic.
Alisa Solomon is a writer, professor of journalism, and the director of the arts and culture concentration at the Columbia Journalism School. Marianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and professor in the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Sarah Haley is associate professor of history at Columbia University. Helen Benedict is a novelist and professor at Columbia Journalism School.
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Forty-eight people died when a blaze tore through nightclub in Artane in February 1981.
The 48 young people who died in the Stardust nightclub disaster in Dublin in 1981 were unlawfully killed, an inquest jury has found.
The devastating blaze at the venue in Artane, north Dublin, broke out in the early hours of 14 February 1981.
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Mike Gallagher, a representative from Wisconsin, is stepping down on 19 April, before end of his term.
The Republican lawmaker Mike Gallagher has suggested that he is resigning from his seat in Congress because of death threats and swatting targeted his family.
Gallagher, a US representative for Wisconsin, shared more insight into his decision to vacate his seat while talking with reporters on Tuesday, the NBC affiliate WLUK reported.
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As doctors report more severe allergy symptoms in patients, scientists are blaming climate change and severe weather. NBC News' Anne Thompson reports.
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Donald Trump was in court as a jury of 12 was impanelled for the hush-money trial against him.
The former president vented some criticisms of the trial, including the temperature in the Manhattan court building.
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It turns out that, eight years into the Trump takeover of the Republican Party, there are still a few surprises left. On Wednesday morning, Mike Johnson, the accidental Speaker of the House, finally made the choice that he had spent months evading and released the text of long-stalled legislation to send over sixty billion dollars in assistance to Ukraine, among other national-security priorities. He promised a vote this weekend. The threat was real that, if he proceeded, a small faction of the most extreme Trumpists in the House—a loudly pro-Russia lot—would soon force him out of the post that he would not have got in the first place without Trump’s support.
And yet, by Wednesday afternoon, there was Johnson, speaking to the cameras in the Capitol’s ornate Statuary Hall. His words were unexpectedly passionate, his delivery crisp. Invoking this “critical” moment in the world, Johnson said, “I can make a selfish decision”—namely, keeping his job by not moving forward on the aid for Ukraine and, once again, caving to the sort of angry nihilists who have bullied the past three Republican Speakers out of the House. “But I’m doing here what I believe to be the right thing.” He talked about why aid for Ukraine was “critically important,” adding, “I really do believe the intel and the briefings that we’ve gotten.” This was yet another heresy for many Republicans, who, following Trump, have spent years tearing down the truthfulness and reliability of America’s intelligence agencies.
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DOVER, Del. -- A bill allowing doctor-assisted suicide in Delaware narrowly cleared the Democrat-led House on Thursday and now goes to the state Senate for consideration.
The bill is the latest iteration of legislation that has been repeatedly introduced by Newark Democrat Paul Baumbach since 2015, and it is the only proposal to make it to a floor vote. After lengthy debate, lawmakers voted 21-16 for the measure, which needed at least 21 affirmative votes for passage.
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Tesla sent notices canceling some separation agreements, according to two laid-off employees and a notification seen by Business Insider.Elon Musk previously stated some severance packages were "incorrectly low."The cancellations came after some workers received severance offers for two months of pay.
Some laid-off Tesla workers received a notification that their separation agreements had been canceled on Thursday and to expect new ones, two laid-off workers told Business Insider.
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Alarm bells ring in Matt Murray’s head when a prescription for misoprostol comes through his independent pharmacy in Boise, Idaho.
“Are there directions on the prescription that show what it’s being used for?” said Murray, a pharmacist and director of operations for Customedica Pharmacy. “If not, then we would probably need to call the [doctor’s] office and confirm why it’s being prescribed.”
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When Caitlin Clark suits up for her first professional game, she'll instantly be one of the biggest draws in the WNBA.
The 22-year-old is one of the most talked-about names in American sports — she is now the owner of the top-selling jersey ever for a draft pick — but the sharpshooting guard won't be paid like it by her team.
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Seven men and five women have been selected as jurors for Donald Trump's criminal trial.The jury skews male and white collar.Jurors include 3 men who work in finance and 2 male lawyers.
Twelve of Donald Trump's peers — 7 men, and 5 women — have been chosen to decide the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president.
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"It's a very unfair, very bad thing," said the Republican, who will challenge President Joe Biden, a Democrat, for the White House in November's election.
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The Nordstrom family is once again considering taking the department store private and has formed a special committee to evaluate bids, it announced on Thursday.
CEO Erik Nordstrom and president Pete Nordstrom recently told the company's board of directors that it's interested in pursuing a take private deal for the 123-year-old department store, Nordstrom said in a news release.
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Not to put a fine point on it, but the House Of Representatives has been at the zoo for so long that it's turned into one.
On Thursday, the House finally got around to confronting Speaker Mike Johnson's grand design for foreign aid—individual bills for aid to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. The bills came before the House Rules Committee and then the fun began. Chairman Michael Burgess (R-Texas) opened the hearing by trying to hang every current crisis on the president's "weakness." Ranking Democratic member James McGovern (Worcester, represent!) checked out his last nerve and found Burgess jumping up and down on it.
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Iran-backed Hezbollah wants to avoid a regional war but will respond in kind to any Israeli escalation, Naim Qassem told NBC News in an exclusive interview.
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Gina Raimondo, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, says any lawmaker or CEO who says childcare is social policy is wrong. It's the foundation for a strong economy.
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Mr Zelensky is known to have flown out of Rzeszow-Jasionka on foreign visits. In December 2022, he flew back to the airport after a visit to Washington. Other foreign dignitaries, such as US President Joe Biden, have transited via the airport on their way to Ukraine.
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The new movie "Civil War" is controversial — some people love it and others hate it.But some people also say they're upset about "Civil War's" marketing.These people need to find a better use of their time.
Have you seen "Civil War," the new movie about, um, a civil war in the US?
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Well, the time has come to delete your Tinder account. Maybe you're a lucky user who's found your person! Or maybe you're just sick of the fire emblem staring back at you every weekend night when you don't have a date.
Either way, here's how to do it.
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(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To This Post) Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin' gets done and where lights flicker in the opposite loft and in this room, the heat pipes just cough.
We begin in Tennessee, which really is coming up hard on the rail in the race to be the wingnuttiest of wingnut states. From the BBC:
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The glorious thing about the specificity of Taylor Swift's storytelling is that it somehow becomes universal. You apply it to your life; her late-night phone calls, car rides, and whirlwind of emotions become your own.
But lately, the billionaire songwriter and her immense fan base appear more concerned with Swift's narrative than the beauty and freedom of its interpretation. Where fans once envisioned their own flings and feelings, they now look for clues and identities. Instead of assigning songs to moments in their lives, fans now assign songs to often unsubstantiated celebrity gossip.
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A few years ago, the U.K. tech startup Nothing jumped into the AirPods competitor game with its first wireless earbuds. They weren't amazing, but it sounds like things have changed since then.
Reviews went up for the new Nothing Ear (a) earbuds on Thursday — and these new $100 earbuds have earned high marks from just about everyone. Between a swanky new colorway, surprisingly great sound quality, and that shockingly low price, critics are really liking Nothing Ear (a).
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Sometime next year, the Ford Motor Company will begin to produce electric trucks at BlueOval City, a sprawling manufacturing complex in an impoverished rural area of western Tennessee. The multibillion-dollar project, which received a federal loan through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that President Biden signed in 2021, has already created thousands of construction jobs that pay substantially more than locals are accustomed to earning. Landing a job at BlueOval City “changed my life,” one worker recently said. Another was able to begin the process of buying her first home, a plan she’d delayed for years.
As a report published by the Center for American Progress noted, these workers were hired under a project-labor agreement, a collective-bargaining contract that requires construction projects to pay employees union-level wages and benefits. Inserting prevailing wage standards and other worker-friendly rules into domestic-spending programs is one of the reasons that many scholars and union officials have come to view Joe Biden as the most pro-labor President since Franklin Roosevelt, a designation he has proudly embraced. And yet awareness of these policies hasn’t always filtered down to the rank and file. Employees at BlueOval City interviewed in the CAP report praised Ford for investing in their region, but none thanked President Biden, whose role seemed to escape their notice. According to the report, “Workers are inclined to support everyone associated with the project yet likely to need additional education to understand the role that politicians who supported it played.”
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A battle over library books is dividing Metropolis, Illinois, which shares a name with Superman’s home. A pastor is framing the fight as a clash between good and evil.
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Lawrence Hecker is charged with raping teenager after strangling him in 1975 in a New Orleans church.
A mental competency hearing has been delayed again for a 92-year-old retired Catholic priest faced with charges of raping a teenager after strangling him unconscious in 1975 in a New Orleans church.
Lawrence Hecker’s trial on state charges of aggravated rape, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated crime against nature and theft has been delayed several times since January.
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Some members of Generation Z are worried they are aging more quickly, thanks to social media influencers selling products. But skin care experts said the claim is false. Rather, it largely boils down to perception.
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And this, dear friends, is why we occasionally still call it Tiger Beat On The Potomac.
Maybe it was calculated. The setting, a bodega where a man was fatally stabbed in 2022, certainly was. And maybe Trump’s freewheeling performance was, too. But not far from where he rode down the escalator on his way to the White House in 2015, Trump’s appearance on Tuesday was a reminder of Trump’s ability not only to manufacture a sideshow, but to turn it into the main act — more Trump the thirsty tabloid character than Trump the former president or Trump the accused. My god, the bedazzlement!
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TikTok could be banned in the United States with Congress on the brink of passing a bill that would push parent company ByteDance to divest of the app.
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The winning entries of the annual World Press Photo Contest have just been announced. This year, according to organizers, 61,062 images were submitted for judging, made by 3,851 photographers from 130 different countries. World Press Photo was once again kind enough to share some of this year’s global and regional winners, gathered below.
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Hopes of a ceasefire have ebbed, concerns about an assault on Rafah endure, and aid remains wholly insufficient.
The Middle East is “on the precipice” and “one miscalculation, one miscommunication, one mistake, could lead to the unthinkable,” the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, warned on Thursday. Israel has vowed to retaliate to Iran’s weekend barrage of missiles and drones – itself a response to Israel’s killing of two generals at an Iranian diplomatic facility in Damascus. It is hard to have confidence in either’s ability to calibrate their actions when both have misjudged already.
Yet the spectre of full-scale regional conflict, and the many deaths that could result, must not draw attention away from the almost 34,000 Palestinians already killed in Gaza, according to its health authorities, and the many more who will soon die without an immediate ceasefire and massive increase in aid in what Mr Guterres called a “humanitarian hellscape”.
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The World Health Organization’s chief scientist warned bird flu may evolve and transmit from human to human after an outbreak among cattle and goats in the U.S. led to the infection of a Texas man.
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An IndyStar sports columnist apologized for his exchange with Caitlin Clark at a press conference.Gregg Doyel made Clark's hand heart towards her, making what he called a "clumsy and awkward" remark.Doyel wrote in a column that what he said was "wrong," and apologized.
Indianapolis Star sports columnist Gregg Doyel apologized after an offputting exchange with No. 1 WNBA draft pick Caitlin Clark, saying in a column that he was "part of the problem."
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Investing in semiconductors may be the most efficient way to play the artificial intelligence boom, according to VanEck's CEO.
"Semiconductors have become the heart of the AI trade," Jan van Eck told CNBC's "ETF Edge" this week.
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