Labour MP Tracy Brabin has been elected as the first West Yorkshire mayor, triggering a by-election in her old seat. The Batley & Spen MP tweeted on Sunday night: ‘We did it! I’m proud to be the first West Yorkshire Metro Mayor and I’m incredibly humbled and grateful for every single vote. ‘I will fight […]

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(BLOOMBERG) – Working from home for more than a year may revolutionise some parts of business but I think most people in the United States will be back at their desks in September. Let’s talk numbers. Of the 150 million or so people who were employed in March, 31.6 million telecommuted, according to the US […]

Stocks have soared under the new president, and the Dow has generally preferred Democrats since 1901. But don’t count on that for the future. By Jeff Sommer From the moment he was elected president in 2016 through his failed campaign for re-election, Donald J. Trump invoked the stock market as a report card on the […]

Michael Gove has dismissed a second referendum on Scottish independence as a “massive distraction” as he repeatedly refused to say whether the UK government will seek to block a possible vote in court. Appearing on Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, the cabinet minister said the SNP’s demand for another independence vote revealed a […]

Democrats are struggling to build a surefire legal strategy to block new Republican-backed restrictions on voting rights, relying on broadly worded warnings and urgent pleas that are designed, in part, to build political pressure on the White House, Congress and the Justice Department to act, as well as to engage their supporters to mobilize in […]

SINGAPORE – Ahead of Hari Raya Aidilfitri on Thursday (May 13), some 2,000 families in need here will be receiving a gift pack consisting of poultry and other food items, as part of an initiative by Muslim voluntary welfare organisation Jamiyah Singapore. On Sunday, Bukit Panjang MP Liang Eng Hwa and Parliamentary Secretary for Social […]

SINGAPORE – Two accidents last month have shown that trucks and lorries should not be used to transport migrant workers, and the labour movement is working with partners to push for the implementation of different transport arrangements as soon as possible, said National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) assistant secretary-general Melvin Yong on Sunday (May 9). […]