#Public Policy
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🇺🇸 Nurses at 4 N.Y.C. Hospitals Vote to End Strike, but It Continues at One
[USA]
At Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals, health care workers ratified a deal to end the walkout, but nurses remain on the picket line at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.
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🇬🇧 Scrap proposed England holiday tax, hospitality bosses urge
[United Kingdom]
Critics say the proposed tax could force families to shorten trips or spend their money overseas.
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🇬🇧 Health board bosses have 10% pay rise suspended after union backlash
[United Kingdom]
Executives at NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde were previously handed temporary rises worth up to £20,000 per year.
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🇺🇸 Mamdani Wants to Test Free Bus Service During World Cup
[USA]
The mayor is seeking the governor’s help in making bus service free when the New York City area plays host to the soccer tournament this summer.
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🇬🇧 ICE will be 'key part of security' at World Cup in US
[United Kingdom]
The acting head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has told a congressional committee that the agency is "a key part of the overall security apparatus for the World Cup" when asked if he ...
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🇺🇸 CoreCivic earnings up next: Can contract wins offset startup costs?
[USA]
Related: #Economy, #Finance
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🇺🇸 Watch: Top House Judiciary Republican, Democrat open Bondi hearing
[USA]
Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican from Ohio who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the committee, opened their hearing where Attorney General Pam ...
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🇺🇸 There’s no need to create unnecessary fear over the Burbank airport
[USA]
'The air traffic controllers, these unseen heroes of the aviation system, know exactly where everyone is because all airplanes, including the trainers at Van Nuys, have transponders that emit a signal...
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🇺🇸 Sen. Rand Paul says "there's a loss of public trust" in ICE amid scrutiny over crackdowns
[USA]
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky talks with "CBS Mornings" about the brief El Paso airspace closure and immigration crackdowns in U.S. cities, adding "I think there's a loss of public trust" in I...
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🇺🇸 Job Growth Was Overstated, New Data Shows
[USA]
Annual revisions show that employers added far fewer jobs in 2024 and 2025 than previously estimated.
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🇺🇸 Federal Debt to Hit Record Levels, Budget Office Warns
[USA]
President Trump has reshaped the country’s economic policies, but the outlook for the budget remains dire.
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🇺🇸 Trump Decries a ‘Nation of Renters’ but His New Policy Promotes One
[USA]
President Trump’s recently announced executive order that would bar big investors from acquiring single-family homes includes an exemption that allows them to build homes for rent.
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🇺🇸 Canada launched major gun reforms in 2020 after its deadliest mass shooting.
[USA]
Related: #National Security, #Gun Control
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🇬🇧 New plan to fix 'ageing and fragile' schools exposed by Raac crisis
[United Kingdom]
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says the government's 10-year strategy is a "turning point" for schools.
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🇺🇸 Mother recounts weeks in immigration custody with her U.S. citizen children
[USA]
The Trump administration has said its immigration crackdown targets the worst of the worst, but many people without criminal records are getting swept up and detained — some of them along with their f...
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🇺🇸 "Fraud tourists" from Philly plead guilty to defrauding Minnesota programs
[USA]
Two Philadelphia-based men accused of traveling to Minneapolis after a friend told them the taxpayer-funded programs there presented "a good opportunity to make money," pleaded guilty to wire fraud on...
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🇬🇧 Ireland’s basic income for the arts scheme becomes permanent
[United Kingdom]
<p>When piloted, initiative that provided €325 a week to eligible artists recouped more than its net cost, study shows </p><p>Ireland is creating a scheme that will give artists a weekly income in the...
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🇺🇸 WATCH LIVE: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore delivers 2026 State of the State address
[USA]
Gov. Wes Moore is set to speak to the people of Maryland during his State of the State address at the State House in Annapolis on Wednesday where he is expected to address issues facing Marylanders, s...
Related: #Governance, #Economy -
🇬🇧 NI to join trial to assess use of puberty blockers
[United Kingdom]
The trial will assess the risks and benefits of the drugs in children who question their gender.
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🇺🇸 TrumpRx probably won’t fix our unnecessarily high drug prices
[USA]
An L.A. Times reader recalls a time when his prescription went from $170 to $12 for seemingly no reason at all.
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🇺🇸 U.S. healthcare doesn’t have to be this expensive or complex
[USA]
'The rat’s nest of our insanely complex and increasingly unaffordable insurance system doesn’t have to exist. No other high-income country puts its people through such unnecessary real suffering,' wri...
Related: #Healthcare Reform, #Insurance -
🇺🇸 Obamacare sign-ups drop, but the extent won't be clear for months
[USA]
Experts say Affordable Care Act sign-up data won't be clear until people who were enrolled have paid — or not — their new, often much higher, premiums.
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🇺🇸 Securing Dual-Use Pathogen Data of Concern
[USA]
arXiv:2602.08061v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training data is an essential input into creating competent artificial intelligence (AI) models. AI models for biology are trained on large volumes of ...
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🇺🇸 NYC nurses reach a deal to end a strike at 2 major hospitals while walkout continues at another
[USA]
Nurses and two major hospital systems in New York City have reached a deal to end a nearly monthlong strike over staffing levels, workplace safety and other issues
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🇺🇸 Less than 14% arrested by ICE in 2025 had violent criminal records, DHS document shows
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According to a new Department of Homeland Security document obtained exclusively by CBS News, less than 14% of those arrested by ICE during President Trump's first year back in office had violent crim...
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🇬🇧 £5bn council SEND debts to be paid off by government
[United Kingdom]
It comes days after the Local Government Association warned that eight in 10 English councils would face bankruptcy, if they had to honour deficits.
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🇬🇧 Pubs don’t deserve special measures | Letters
[United Kingdom]
<p>Singling out pubs for government help when other high street businesses are also suffering is wrong, writes <strong>Michael Newman</strong>. Plus letters from <strong>John Whitney</strong> and <str...
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🇺🇸 Majority of immigrants arrested by ICE don't have violent criminal records, document shows
[USA]
Less than 14% of immigrants arrested by ICE during President Trump's first year back in office have violent criminal records, a DHS document obtained by CBS News shows. Immigration correspondent Camil...
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🇺🇸 Less than 14% of immigrants arrested by ICE last year had violent criminal records, data show
[USA]
The Trump administration says it is looking to deport the most dangerous criminals, but an internal DHS document shows a vast majority of undocumented immigrants arrested by ICE have not been charged ...
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🇺🇸 We Legalized Marijuana. Now We Must Regulate It.
[USA]
Given the growing harms from marijuana use, American lawmakers should do more to regulate it.
Related: #Health, #Legislation