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LONDON, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Surging household energy bills and food prices pushed British inflation to a new 41-year high in October, according to data published a day before finance minister Jeremy Hunt announces tax hikes and spending cuts to control price growth. Consumer prices rose by 11.1% in annual terms last month, the highest …

Negotiators are hoping by advancing both of these measures they will draw Democratic and Republican leaders into the negotiations to speed the process along and ultimately lead to a final package. The two bills show how far the bipartisan group of negotiators took the process but also the limits of their effort, as they weren’t …

Posted: Dec 9, 2020 / 04:29 AM EST / Updated: Dec 9, 2020 / 04:30 AM EST BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — In the coming weeks COVID-19 vaccines will be given out at 50 Indiana hospitals to front line health care workers. It will also be administered to the staff at long term care facilities. “I think …

A legal case challenging the validity of Melbourne’s coronavirus lockdown is being filed in the High Court of Australia as the state remains under some of strictest restrictions in the world. “This is not what we signed up for and is inconsistent with a free society, representative democratic government and civilised living,” hospitality business owner …

In total, it means the Republican Party will have thousands of people on hand to shape every element of voting — both on Election Day and in the days after. It’s a massive undertaking — one the RNC calls its largest election-year legal effort ever. And it’s one that could determine the winner of the …

The messy back and forth came just hours before Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D.-N.Y.) and top White House officials are set to meet in the Capitol for another round of talks. Enhanced unemployment benefits expired last week for more than 30 million Americans and an eviction moratorium also expired. The small business …

With the scheduled launch of two NASA astronauts into orbit Wednesday, SpaceX aims to propel the U.S. into a historic new era of commercially led space exploration. No company has flown commercially developed hardware carrying humans and rendezvoused with the international space station. If successful, it would be a resounding achievement for Space Exploration Technologies …

Education  |  Learning  |  News releases  |  Technology  |  UW and the community  |  Video March 27, 2020 Narrow boxes, stuffed with bubble wrap and precious cargo, awaited shipping labels. Laptops, zipped up tight in black bags, lay in neat rows. And an assortment of spray cleaners, paper towels and disinfecting wipes collected on a …

DALLAS — Uber – already putting a spotlight on the Dallas area – is adding a cutting-edge technology to Dallas. The ride-sharing company will begin an effort to gather data for mapping the North Texas city, the first step toward possible self-driving tests, according to Sarah Abboud, communications manager at the company. Uber …

Image copyright NASA-JPL/Caltech Image caption The rover was turned upside down so engineers could attach the helicopter Engineers preparing the next American Mars rover have installed one of its most exciting experiments – a chopper. The mini-helicopter is regarded as a bonus on the 2020 mission. It will be the first such aircraft deployed on …