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Gillian Keegan, UK education secretary, has signalled she will fight any Home Office attempts to cut migration into Britain by driving away overseas students, saying universities were a “hugely valuable” export success. Keegan, in an interview with the Financial Times, said she wanted to build on the UK’s booming export market in university education, and

Comcast’s map mistake — Comcast gave false map data to FCCand didnt admit it until Ars got involved Comcast insisted false data was correct; error seems to affect dozens of homes. Jon Brodkin – Feb 9, 2023 2:41 pm UTC EnlargeAurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 196 with 0 posters participating Share this story

Amid the highest inflation since 1981, consumers across the United States are not only struggling to keep up with their savings goals, many are falling deeper into debt to cover the rising cost of living. One study by LendingTree last year found that 43% of Americans were likely to resort to credit cards and loans

em you later! — A quick look at the Switchs new Game Boy and Game Boy Advance emulation Nintendo’s oldest handhelds are finally playable on its newest handheld. Andrew Cunningham – Feb 9, 2023 11:52 pm UTC Enlarge / The Switch Online Game Boy Advance emulator will look and feel familiar if you’ve used the

Stablecoin holders seek stability in turbulent markets, allowing for predictable returns through U.S dollar-denominated yield. The largest risk most crypto investors are exposed to is market volatility, as digital assets may fluctuate by double-digit percentage points in a single day. Thanks to new innovations in decentralized finance (DeFi), stablecoin holders can earn low-risk yields that

It was a raucous, interactive, and argumentative State of the Union like no other. And when it was over, President Joe Biden had provided a clear signal of how he plans to contest the 2024 presidential election. Leaning hard into his populist Scranton Joe persona, an energetic and feisty Biden sparred with congressional Republicans heckling

Are federal officials violating the First Amendment when they pressure social media companies to suppress “misinformation”? That is the question posed by a federal lawsuit that the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana filed last May. New York Times reporter Steven Lee Myers warns that the lawsuit “could disrupt the Biden administration’s already struggling efforts

Nelson Peltz has called off his fight against Walt Disney a day after the company unveiled a restructuring plan involving the loss of 7,000 jobs, ending one of the biggest corporate battles in recent years. The end of the activist investor’s push removes a distraction for chief executive Bob Iger, who is seeking to steer

#TwitterDown — Twitter experiencing international outages; most users cant tweet or DM Musk pausing Twitter feature updates amid global outage, report says. Ashley Belanger – Feb 8, 2023 11:35 pm UTC EnlargeSOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket reader comments 344 with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on

Cboe Global Markets Inc. CBOE , the proprietor of the worlds largest options exchange, has Mini-SPX (XSP) Weekly Options in its portfolio of market-defining products. Since 1973, Cboes innovation has defined many of the markets popular constituents, including the Volatility Index (VIX), electronic communication networks and options contracts listings. As the retail trading community rose

information wants to be (free) — Microsoft Teams Free data wont transfer over to Microsoft Teams (free) $4-per-user-per-month Essentials tier is the only way to keep your stuff. Andrew Cunningham – Feb 8, 2023 9:26 pm UTC Enlarge / Having a great meeting in Microsoft Teams.Microsoft reader comments 73 with 0 posters participating Share this

Picture this: youre a business that just made a sale, and youre excited because soon you will receive a payment vital to your survival. However, the payment never seems to clear, and your customer wont pick up the phone. If this sounds familiar, how do you respond? Well, many businesses, due to their limited bandwidth

Pin Share Tweet Email SHTFPreparedness may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. An intruder was attempting to break into a residence in Missoula, Montana, on Sunday afternoon, and the armed homeowner warned him to stop. But the intruder didnt heed that warning, broke through a screen door,

In a recent interview with CBN News, God’s Not Dead star Kevin Sorbo detailed how an encounter with the late evangelist Billy Graham changed his life. Sorbo, who was just 13 years old at the time, attended one of Grahams crusades one August at the St. Paul Fairgrounds.It was so moving for me; I remember

Russian President Vladimir Putin is reportedly facing the threat of his trusted lieutenants clandestinely plotting to overthrow him if his Ukraine invasion turns out to be a failure, it was reported in June 2022. Putin's close aides could attempt a coup in a very secretive manner so that they are not caught by the president,

(RNS) — Visiting houses of worship in the United States, you can’t help but see empty pews, giving the impression that organized religion in the United States is in trouble. Increasingly, those who study church attendance and related matters are doing the math: In a recent study that projects what faith in America might look like

learn from the past — How the world of the end-Triassic extinction was similar to todayand how it differed Past environmental crises let us reverse-engineer how our planet works. Howard Lee – Feb 8, 2023 12:30 pm UTC EnlargeVictor Leshyk reader comments 29 with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on

Green Check Verified (GCV),a fintech provider of compliant cannabis banking solutions and services haslaunched Green Check Connect or GCC a new marketplace enabling marijuana-related businesses to find reliable financial service providers. The idea behind this marketplace is to help cannabis companies with one of their biggest struggles financial, as it connects them with providers that

Classics, sequels, and a heck lot of re-releases — Nintendo Direct gives us Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom details, Metroid, and more Also: Samba de Amigo, a Castlevania Dead Cells, Advance Wars, and Pikmin 4. Kevin Purdy – Feb 9, 2023 12:45 am UTC Enlarge / “Link gets an ancient-tech ATV/combine/dragster” was not in most

With persistent inflation and the aggressive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve, the stock market in 2022 experienced its most volatile year since 2009. The S&P 500 has been on a shaky decline since January 2022, and despite a few short-lived rebounds, it was down 19.4% at the end of 2022. Intraday volatility the