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  • Why DVLA appointed Tim Moss its new chief executive

    Prior to his role at the Welsh Government, Moss was chief exec at the Intellectual Property Office. The Department for Transport said Moss’s time at the Welsh Government and IPO have given him “extensive experience” managing functions including HR, finance and digital and data. It said he has also had oversight of several independent inspectorates…

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  • NHS England chief exec Amanda Pritchard resigns from office

    NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard has announced she will stand down from her post at the end of the current financial year, as health service leaders stressed the need for a “new relationship” with the Department of Health and Social Care.   Pritchard became NHS England chief in the summer of 2021 after serving as…

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  • Does Mohamed Salah’s legacy at Liverpool make him Premier League’s greatest footballer?

    They think it’s all Mo-ver. It probably is now. To the surprise of nobody, Mohamed Salah was yet again the catalyst for another big Liverpool win as Arne Slot’s side put Manchester City to the sword in their own backyard. That 2-0 triumph means they are now 11 points clear of Arsenal at the Premier League summit and the red-hot favourites to clinch a 20th…

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  • Apple Monday said it plans to help bring online a quarter-million-square-foot factory in Texas by 2026 to build artificial intelligence servers and will add about 20,000 research and development jobs across the U.S. Apple said that it plans to spend $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, though that figure includes…

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  • Liverpool took a big step to winning the Premier League, crushing an uninspiring Manchester City in a showdown on Sunday.  Mohamed Salah stole the show, scoring one and providing an assist to send Liverpool 11 points clear at the top of the table although they have played a game more. The Egyptian opened the scoring…

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  • President Donald Trump, delivering a victorious speech to a packed crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday, told supporters that under his administration, the “fraudsters, liars, cheaters, globalists, and deep state bureaucrats are being sent packing.” “The illegal alien criminals are being sent home,” he said. “We’re draining the swamp. And we’re restoring government…

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  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted President Donald Trump’s abrupt firing of the nation’s senior military officer amid a wave of dismissals at the Pentagon wasn’t unusual, brushing aside outcry that the new administration is openly seeking to inject politics into the military. He also suggested more firings could come. “Nothing about this is unprecedented,” Hegseth told…

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  • New FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to be named the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a Justice Department official said Saturday. Patel could be sworn in next week, the official said, putting Patel in charge of two of the Justice Department’s largest agencies in an unusual arrangement that…

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  • Border czar Tom Homan told Newsmax on Saturday that he continues to be perplexed at the pushback the Trump administration is getting from Democrat politicians across the country saying “national security threats should be a nonpartisan issue.” Earlier this week President Donald Trump removed top ICE official Caleb Vitello expressing frustration that the number of deportations of…

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  • The State Department told employees not to answer it. Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were told: Definitely reply. And in some parts of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, staffers received instructions to draft a response but not send it yet. After Elon Musk led a move to email all 2.3 million…

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  • Deloitte among top companies with highest impact from DOGE cuts

    Specific companies are already feeling the effects of cost cutting by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with the first wave of publicly available data showing a number of government consultants facing hundreds of millions of dollars in canceled or renegotiated contracts. They include some prominent names, such as Deloitte. The ended contracts for that multinational…

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  • In the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, participants chose Sen. Adam Schiff of California and California Gov. Gavin Newsom as the two Democrats who pose the greatest threats to the U.S. and the GOP. As CPAC closes out its final day, attendees were asked various questions about the state of the Republican Party and…

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  • Ahead of his speech at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) conference in Washington DC, US President Donald Trump commented on Saturday’s hostage releases. “We had the hostages given back today,” he said to reporters ahead of his address.  “It’s disgraceful what’s going on there. They’re not in great shape, but we’ve also seen them in…

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  • Sir Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this is a “significant moment” for European security amid the continued fallout between the Ukrainian leader and Donald Trump. In a phone call this morning, the prime minister reiterated the UK’s “ironclad support” for Ukraine and said he would discuss safeguarding Kyiv’s sovereignty with the US president. Sir Keir also spoke with…

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  • Why international students should consider leaving Canada

    It may be a wiser choice for international students in Canada who are unable to meet the requirements for permanent residency, to relocate back to their home countries. This is because Canada’s immigration policies aim to limit the number of temporary residents in the coming years, as there is a high number of temporary residents…

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  • Former Military Head of State, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, has recounted a civil war experience that nearly took his life after his command, 82 Battalion, came under heavy bombardment from Biafran forces on March 27, 1969. IBB stated that the Biafran artillery began an uninterrupted bombardment of their positions, noting that not even Nigerian troops’ aggressive…

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