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Hollywood Bowl under pressure from boom in darts and mini-golf bars

Bowling alley group posts record revenue and lifts outlook despite UK slowdown due to growth of leisure activity venues

World - Financial Times - October 21

Putin gathers allies to show West's pressure isn’t working

Russian President Vladimir Putin is welcoming more than 20 world leaders to the Brics summit.

US consumers cut back on spirits as cost of living pressures bite

Drinkers who splashed out during pandemic pull back from vodka, rum and Scotch whisky

Business - Financial Times - October 22

Oliver Glasner facing make-or-break four games to save Crystal Palace job

Palace failed to win any of their first eight league games Graham Potter among candidates to replace Austrian Oliver Glasner’s position as Crystal Palace manager is under mounting pressure ...

World - The Guardian - October 22

Does Premier League title race pressure cause mistakes?

Monday Night Club's Mark Chapman, Andros Townsend, Rory Smith and Chris Sutton talk about the psychological impact of a Premier League title race.

Pressure is mounting on prosecutors to review Musk's $1M swing-state petition giveaway

Prosecutors are facing pressure around payments that Elon Musk's America PAC made to people who signed a petition supporting free speech and gun rights.

Volvo Cars says it will not support Northvolt as it slashes sales guidance

Swedish group says it will not invest in its battery group partner amid softening demand for vehicles in key markets

Business - Financial Times - October 23

With Pressures at Home and Abroad, China's Xi and India's Modi Thaw Ties

The two leaders held their first formal meeting in five years as they seek to ease tensions and focus on other geopolitical and economic challenges.

World - The Wall Street Journal - October 23

Justin Trudeau pressured to resign by backbench MPs within own party

Disgruntled members of Liberal party give Canadian leader deadline of 28 October to step down before likely electoral drubbing. Disgruntled members of Canada’s Liberal party have given Justin ...

World - The Guardian - October 23

DA recommends resentencing for Menendez brothers following family, public pressure

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón on Thursday recommended resentencing for Lyle and Erik Menendez.

Putin's 'hybrid warfare' pressures neighbors at a crossroads to turn away from the West

The American presidential election isn’t the only vote that the Kremlin has its eyes on — and, arguably, is seeking to get its hands in.

Lamar Jackson’s Ability to Handle Pressure Is Fueling the Ravens’ Surge

Blitzes aren’t having the same impact on the Baltimore quarterback that they once did.

Sports - The New York Times - 4 days ago

Bloomberg, After Months of Pressure, Donates $50 Million to Help Harris

The former mayor of New York City is known for making political donations late in the campaign season. Democrats had been lobbying him to spend more.

Top stories - The New York Times - 2 days ago

Olney: How Aaron Boone copes with baseball's most pressure-packed job

The New York Yankees' manager has been second-guessed, criticized, even booed -- but he's never wavered in his approach.

Sports - ESPN - 2 days ago

Inflation is down — but the middle class is still feeling financial pressure. Here's why

Economists say there's a strong role for policy in affecting the prices of essential goods for American families.

Business - CNBC - Yesterday

How are investors preparing for the Budget?

Executives are seeking to minimise their exposure ahead of what could be the biggest tax-raising statement for a generation

Business - Financial Times - Yesterday

Trump is considering halting federal grants to police depts. that decline to conduct mass deportations

As Trump promises the largest mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in US history if re-elected, his team is considering withholding federal police grants from local law enforcement agencies ...

Man posed as utility worker charged with murder over home invasion as police hunt second suspect

A man who was caught on camera posing as a utility worker to gain entrance to a Michigan house on Friday has been charged with murdering a man in a "gruesome" attack and tying up his wife, ...

‘I will be hunted down for my Taylor Swift jokes!’ Rose Matafeo on her scary return to standup

She won comedy’s top award, reinvented the romcom and now hosts Junior Taskmaster. So why does the New Zealand comic need Buddhist podcasts to get through the day?. Rose Matafeo is bad at endings. ...

World - The Guardian - October 15

The Hunt Report: New Haven RB next up for a program that pumps out talent, plus other Division II standouts

You probably don't know these prospects, but NFL scouts sure do

Sports - CBS Sports - October 15

Job hunting is demoralising enough without having my personality eviscerated by an AI interviewer | Anna Spargo-Ryan

I did not ask to receive feedback after my interrogation by a chatbot – but the third-party AI platform did an uncanny impersonation of the boss from my first job. I’ve recently found myself back ...

World - The Guardian - October 17

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