Post Office scandal: Investigator denies claims of ‘mafia’ behaviour
Stephen Bradshaw comes face to face with sub-postmasters he investigated at the Horizon scandal inquiry.
Stephen Bradshaw comes face to face with sub-postmasters he investigated at the Horizon scandal inquiry.
Business & FinanceEconomy 14 December 2023, 4:50 am 1 minute Reuters was first to report that the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) carried out its first climate risk assessment of more than two dozen banks in recent months, laying the groundwork for heightened scrutiny of Wall Street’s accounting for…
Republicans and Democrats don’t seem to agree on much these days. But despite the gridlock in Congress, both political parties have for years supported spending billions on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. Their goals include reducing perceived shortages of STEM workers, boosting American innovation and competitiveness and diversifying this highly paid workforce. The…
Netflix (NFLX.O) has defeated a lawsuit filed by shareholders in a federal court in California that accused the streaming entertainment company of hiding the extent to which account-sharing was hindering its growth. A Texas-based investment trust sued in May 2022, after Netflix shares lost a third of their value when the company said subscribers were decreasing for the…
Taxpayers may want to delay filing their returns closer to the April 15 deadline as Congress negotiates a $100 billion bill that could offer breaks to both parents and businesses, experts said. The bipartisan group, led by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.), is wrangling over restoring some…
You may have heard during the last few days about the resignation by the president of a smallish university in New England. Pundits, politicians and alumni are currently locked in a debate over whether Claudine Gay’s decision to step down after only a months-long tenure as president of Harvard was due to accusations that she…
LAS VEGAS — Volkswagen’s voice assistant integrating ChatGPT into its cars will be able to converse with users in a back-and-forth dialogue by the middle of the year, the carmaker said on Monday as it presented the technology in Las Vegas. Volkswagen presented its first vehicles featuring ChatGPT, to be available for customers in North America…