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UK spending watchdog refuses to sign off government accounts

National Audit Office criticises ‘material and pervasive’ gaps in public sector audits

Business - Financial Times - Yesterday

This Group Refuses to Stop Tracking Disinformation

Though a larger coalition of fact checkers has disbanded, a team of students and researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle is still working to document how lies online threaten to ...

Business - The New York Times - November 1

Pennsylvania judge refuses to block Musk's $1M giveaways

A Pennsylvania judge on Monday refused the Philadelphia district attorney’s request to block daily $1 million giveaways from Elon Musk’s pro-Trump super PAC in the lead-up to the election. Judge ...

Politics - The Hill - November 4

Starmer refuses to condemn Hong Kong crackdown

UK premier said he had ‘frank’ discussions with Xi Jinping at G20 but declined to air criticism publicly

World - Financial Times - November 19

Man has 500 bikes for Africa refused at port

World - Yahoo News - 4 days ago

Jussie Smollett refuses to speak the truth: Actor's ‘attackers’

In 2021, Smollett was found guilty of five counts of disorderly conduct after it turned out he set up the attack.

Politics - The Hill - 4 days ago

Woman faced travel insurance refusal after US car accident

Jane Rubens' family say they faced accepting her return to the UK or having her insurance cancelled.

UK Budget as it happened: Rachel Reeves raises tax, spending and borrowing

Taxes rise as chancellor delivers the first Labour budget since 2010

Business - Financial Times - October 30

Watchdog says cladding removal deadline may be missed

It says up to 60% of buildings with dangerous cladding have still not been identified.

'I didn’t think there was cause to shoot Chris Kaba' – police watchdog lead defends sending case to CPS

Sal Naseem tells the BBC he wasn't convinced Mr Kaba presented a sufficient danger to justify being shot.

Water watchdog boss claimed £170 Mulberry wallet on expenses

Alan Sutherland stood down last year after a report revealed lavish spending at the Water Industry Commission for Scotland.

PSNI not 'rigorous enough' in investigating Simpson death

For several months, Katie Simpson’s death in 2020 was treated by detectives as a suicide.

BBVA bid for Sabadell dealt blow by antitrust watchdog

Spain’s CNMC will submit €11bn hostile takeover to a more rigorous ‘phase 2’ review

World - Financial Times - November 12

Watchdog to probe police use of force on children

Figures show that children are twice as likely to experience the use of force from officers than adults.

Consumer watchdog to oversee digital wallets, payment apps

Large companies that offer digital wallets and payment apps will now be overseen by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB finalized a rule Thursday to bring companies handling ...

Politics - The Hill - 5 days ago

Loyalty cards offer genuine savings, watchdog says

Supermarket customers can save money with loyalty cards but should still shop around.

Cannon refuses recusal from Trump assassination attempt suspect's case

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday refused to recuse herself from overseeing the case of the suspect accused of attempting to assassinate former President Trump at his golf course. Ryan ...

Politics - The Hill - October 29

Aileen Cannon, Judge in Trump Assassination Case, Refuses to Recuse Herself

The man accused of plotting to shoot Donald J. Trump at his golf course had asked the judge to step aside, saying she had been praised by the former president and listed as a possible Trump appointee.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 29

With razor thin margins in the election, will Americans still refuse to vote?

The 2024 presidential election is expected to be close, with a recent report describing the margins as "razor thin" in key swing states, and four underutilized techniques are proposed to increase ...

Politics - The Hill - November 1

Election fact check: County officials can't refuse to certify election results

Local officials are legally required to certify election results -- but the process has become politicized since Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results.

New Canadian councilors refuse to swear allegiance to King Charles

Five newly elected councilors in Dawson City, Canada, have refused to swear a mandatory oath of allegiance to Britain's King Charles III.

Han Dongfang, Once China’s ‘Worst Nightmare,’ Refuses to Back Down

Neither jail nor exile to Hong Kong has stopped Han Dongfang, a former Tiananmen Square protest leader, from championing workers’ rights. “If you’re born stubborn, you go everywhere stubborn.”

Top stories - The New York Times - November 10

Kidnappers took his staff, then his son. But this Haiti doctor is refusing to flee

Dr Jean William ‘Bill’ Pape runs free health services and says people’s needs cannot wait for an end to the gang warfare that is tearing the country apart. Years of gang warfare have shuttered ...

World - The Guardian - November 15

'Spa refused me a massage because I have cancer'

Sindy Sidhu is calling for the misinformation around massage treatments for cancer patients to be addressed.

Protesters in Georgia's separatist Abkhazia region refuse to cede control of government buildings

Opposition protesters in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia have refused to cede control of key government buildings seized during rallies on Friday during which at least 14 people were ...

World - ABC News - November 16

Whoopi Goldberg claims bakery refused her service due to her politics

“The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg implied that a Staten Island bakery refused to take her order because of her liberal politics. The bakery denied the accusation and claimed they were having ...

The IRS refuses COVID claims, leaving small businesses in limbo

The IRS has delayed processing of properly submitted ERTC claims, leaving small businesses in the dark and owed over $100 billion, while the Biden administration has not addressed the wider issue ...

Politics - The Hill - 6 days ago

Standoff as Canada Yukon town council refuses to swear oath to King Charles

Council in Yukon territory deadlocked, citing the crown’s tarnished relations with Indigenous peoples in the region. The council of a town in Canada’s Yukon territory has been locked for weeks in ...

World - The Guardian - 6 days ago

WATCH: Dog finds bed in Costco aisle, refuses to leave without it

Blue got to take the bed home!

Town council in Canada at standstill over refusal to take King Charles oath

The council has refused to take the oath due to the Crown’s history with Canada’s indigenous people.

Young people who refuse to work to lose benefits, says minister

Liz Kendall says young people will have a responsibility to take up new opportunities for "earning or learning".

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