Hospitality businesses will be forced to close, while others will have to cut jobs and investment as a result of changes to National Insurance announced in the Budget, according to a letter to the Chancellor signed by the bosses of more than 200 of the country’s biggest restaurants the United Kingdom. café and hotel businesses. … Read more
About 612,000 people moved to Texas between 2022 and 2023, new census data shows. Most Americans who moved to Texas came from California and Florida, followed by New York and Illinois. Americans continue to look for affordability and employment in the Lone Star State. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics on the go … Read more
Many Americans save much more than they need. That’s largely due to concerns about higher costs of living, especially in retirement, experts told BI. Many high-income Americans are hoarding cash and trying to cut costs wherever they can. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics on the go in a personalized feed. download the … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that Nikki Haley — who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during his first term and then ran against him for the Republican nomination this cycle — will not be invited to join his administration. He also said that Mike Pompeo, who served as both secretary of state … Read more
Donald Trump, campaigning in Pittsburgh a day before the election, has missed a deadline to submit a code of ethics, a delay that could hamper his transition to the White House. CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump has missed a deadline to file an ethics pledge promising to avoid conflicts of interest and … Read more
Note: Exit poll percentages may have been updated since this post. In the 2024 electionTen states had put abortion-related measures to the vote – and in seven of them, Americans voted to protect access to abortion. But support for these ballot measures exceeded support for Kamala Harris, who made abortion rights a hallmark of her … Read more
Legendary actor Denzel Washington has taken on the project of adapting August Wilson’s cycle of ten plays, depicting slices of black life in each decade of the twentieth century. But it’s Washington’s children — John David Washington, Malcolm Washington and executive producer Katia Washington — who have taken up the baton for “The Piano Lesson,” … Read more
SShortly after opening his restaurant in North London, Hugh Corcoran noticed a pattern among some of his guests: large groups were ordering tap water, starters and main courses to share. So he took to social media. “Restaurants are not public banks,” he wrote on his Instagram last week. “You are there to spend money.” By … Read more
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now on a shortlist proposed by some Trump allies to serve as the next head of the Department of Health and Human Services, multiple people close to the president-elect’s campaign say. Hopes among Kennedy’s supporters that he could be nominated to lead the department have grown in recent days after … Read more
Elwood Edwards, an announcer and local TV worker who became internationally known as the voice of AOL’s “You’ve got mail!” promptly to millions at the dawn of the Internet age, has died, AOL announced. He was 74. He died Tuesday at his home in New Bern, North Carolina. His daughter Sallie Edwards said the cause … Read more