The House Ethics Committee said on Thursday that it had ordered Representative David Schweikert, Republican of Arizona, to pay a $50,000 fine and face a reprimand by the House after finding that he violated 11 House ethics rules. The committee said Mr. Schweikert had agreed to the penalty as part …...Read More
House Panel Finds Arizona Congressman Violated 11 Ethics Rules
End of the line for the buffet car
To think it was only last year — 1 BC (Before Covid), as it may one day be renamed, 2019 on our current reckoning. I took the early Great Western train from South Wales to Paddington, the one that served breakfast. Different world. It was a proper breakfast, too. English …...Read More
Kit headache as Arsenal and Chelsea shift NHS and BLM logos to make way for Heads Up patch
Arsenal and Chelsea have been handed a kit headache ahead of Saturday’s FA Cup Final. Both clubs have been asked to add patches for Heads Up - the Prince William-led mental health charity - on the front of already congested shirts. It has meant that in order to satisfy the …...Read More
Street stalls are thriving and homes nearby are in demand
Today's home-buyers face a new problem. If they are considering moving to a different town, how can they distinguish between those town centres that will bounce back when the pandemic has passed, and those which will be commercial black spots? Several experts believe the answer may lie in our street …...Read More
Trump claims bombshell demand to DELAY election was to get media 'talking' about voter fraud claim
President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat to delay November's election, citing concerns mail-in voting could lead to a 'rigged' and 'crooked' result as one of the Republican Party's most prominent conservative members said Trump should be impeached over the matter. Trump, in a brief news conference at the …...Read More
SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Charles's old school upsets former pupils with plan to open campuses in China
Numbering the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales and Zara and Peter Phillips among its alumni, £41,250-a-year Gordonstoun can lay claim to more royal connections than any other public school of the modern era. But that has not insulated it from complaints by former pupils who are ‘horrified’ and …...Read More
Bryan Cranston reveals he had COVID-19 and calls himself 'one of the lucky ones' after recovering
Bryan Cranston revealed Thursday that he'd been sickened with COVID-19 and had already recovered. The 64-year-old Breaking Bad star said he'd had the illness 'a little while ago' in a video shot outside a blood and plasma donation center. The actor filmed himself donating his antibody-containing plasma while urging his …...Read More
Steve Jobs' widow Laurene Powell Jobs enjoys a summer escape in the French Riviera
Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has been spotted enjoying a summer holiday in the French Riviera aboard her $110 megayacht, Venus. Joined by friends and family aboard the 260-foot luxury yacht, Powell basked in the blazing hot Mediterranean sun off Cannes on Tuesday. The billionaire …...Read More
As Schools Shut Down, a New Federal Program Eased Child Hunger, Study Finds
WASHINGTON — An emergency federal program created in March to offset the loss of school meals led to substantial short-term reductions in child hunger, according to a new analysis of census data by the Brookings Institution. As the coronavirus pandemic closed the nation’s schools, the program, Pandemic-EBT, aimed to help …...Read More
Undocumented Housekeeper Who Worked at Trump Property Could Face Deportation
An undocumented immigrant who worked for years at President Trump’s luxury golf resort in New Jersey and later revealed that he employed many immigrants who are in the country illegally has been placed in deportation proceedings. Victorina Morales, 47, worked for more than five years as a housekeeper at the …...Read More
