News
Georgia’s Abrams navigates voting law fight with eye on 2022
Georgia's well-known voting rights advocate, Stacey Abrams, is taking a carefully balanced approach in response to new laws many people have said are an attempt to suppress votes of people of color
Source: The Independent
Japanese leader asks Pfizer for additional vaccine supply
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has asked the U.S. drug maker Pfizer Inc. for additional supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine to speed up the inoculation drive that lags behind many other countries
Source: The Independent
As Biden improves with vets, Afghanistan plan a plus to some
Voters who served in the military have long leaned Republican, but there are signs that Democrat Joe Biden may have cut into that advantage
Source: The Independent
Business
Neil Woodford and partner shared £1.5m payout before collapse
The pair took out the generous dividends from Woodford Investment Management over April and May 2019, new accounts showed. But weeks later, in June, the fund was suspended.
Source: Daily Mail
Amanda Staveley starts Barclays damages appeal
A judgment found the bank 'guilty of serious deceit', but damages were not ordered because the court could not establish that Staveley's firm PCP had suffered a loss due to Barclays' wrongdoing.
Source: Daily Mail
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Is PensionBee a honeypot?
For most people, the issue is not whether or not
to save with or invest in PensionBee, set up by Romi Savova (pictured), it is that they are simply saving too little.
Source: Daily Mail
The Covid crisis: some people think it’s all over … it isn’t
Source: The Guardian
Johnson will not stumble until Starmer tackles him on Brexit
Source: The Guardian
Fire-and-rehire is a brutal way to rebuild a company. It must be banned
Source: The Guardian
Arts&Culture
Asian-American Artists, Now Activists, Push Back Against Hate
Newly spurred to action to combat bias, they generate subway posters, leverage social media, stage Zoom webinars. “Our community couldn’t take being invisible any longer,” one artist says.
Source: The New York Times
Taking Over Victory Gardens to Make a ‘Theater for All’
Ken-Matt Martin, the esteemed Chicago theater’s first Black artistic director, is going in with his eyes open.
Source: The New York Times
Trudy Tyler and the postman she accidentally kissed
After an awkward encounter with Glenn the postman, Trudy Tyler gets serious about catching Minky the hamster. By Christine Manby
Source: The Indipendent
Simon Cowell, 61, cuts a casual figure in an unbuttoned shirt
Simon Cowell cut a casual figure as he headed to America's Got Talent filming in Pasadena, California on Sunday.
Source: Daily Mail
The Portuguese coach’s 17 months in charge at the North London club failed to deliver the successes that marked his career at teams like Chelsea and Real Madrid.
Players and scouts adjusted their methods to account for the absence of a traditional combine in Indianapolis.
A breakaway league would remake European soccer to benefit a few rich teams, but we will watch it anyway.
