Seven years ago, I wrote an essay about what life would feel like if I didn’t struggle with saving money. In it, I envisioned the power of having enough in emergency funds to tide me over in case I needed to leave an abusive job or relationship. But writing that…
Dead Russian Wagner mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was dubbed the “second Nelson Mandela” just days before he was killed in a fiery plane crash. The 62-year-old was one of 10 people killed when his Embraer Legacy 600 plane plummeted to the ground on a flight between St Petersburg and Moscow…
She had barely opened her town hall to questions when Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a Republican from a competitive district in Iowa, was pressed to defend her opposition to abortion rights. “One of the main functions of the federal government is to protect life,” Ms. Miller-Meeks, who won election in 2020…
Days after being sworn in as Florida’s governor in 2019, Ron DeSantis pardoned the Groveland Four, a group of Black men who had been wrongfully accused of sexually assaulting a white woman decades earlier. At the time, Mr. DeSantis’s decision seemed like it could serve as a vital olive branch…
European Parliament: ‘What is the EU doing for me?’ Over three years later, the UK remains alone among countries to have been a part of the European Union (EU) and left it behind. Some predicted the departure would herald the bloc’s unravelling, others that Britain’s spectacular demise outside of the…
A Ryanair passenger was left angry and baffled after being stranded by the airline in an empty airport in sweltering heat. Scottish bloke Greg, who only gave his first name to Edinburgh Live, was dumped in a random airport in Adagir, Morocco – 150 miles away from where he was…
By DANIEL KOZIN (Associated Press) CEDAR KEY, Fla. (AP) — Florida residents living in vulnerable coastal areas were ordered to pack up and leave Tuesday as Hurricane Idalia gained steam in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and threatened to unleash life-threatening storm surges and rainfall. Idalia also…
Supermarket bosses have warned Vladimir Putin’s restriction on grain exports from Ukraine could impact efforts to reduce food price inflation in the UK. The significant surge in food prices looks to be easing due to lessening supply limitations caused by the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2020….
A horrific inbred clan was passed between generations and finally brought down after a child was overheard at school. The Colt family, an alias given by courts in New South Wales, was started by Tim, who arrived in Australia from New Zealand in 1970. He and his wife June, who…
Ukraine returns 11 children from Russia Nearly 6,000 Ukrainian children evacuated or forcibly removed from occupied territories will start school in Russia on September 1 as part of the Kremlin’s “re-education” programme, Russian officials have reported. The Ministry of General and Vocational Education of the Rostov Region, which neighbours the…