British actor Idris Elba said he has had “deep conversations” with Sir Keir Starmer about how to tackle knife crime. The Luther star met with the Labour leader earlier in the week at an event where they spoke to the families of knife crime victims. On Sunday, following a rousing speech on the West Holts […]
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Starmer and I have had deep conversations on tackling knife crime
British actor Idris Elba said he has had “deep conversations” with Sir Keir Starmer about how to tackle knife crime. The Luther star met with the Labour leader earlier in the week at an event where they spoke to the families of knife crime victims. On Sunday, following a rousing speech on the West Holts […]
How the Biden campaign is tackling its Black and Latino voter problem
For months, polls have shown President Joe Biden losing support among Black and Latino voters, potentially handing former President Donald Trump a prime opening to steal longtime Democratic loyalists in November. It’s meant chest-thumping by Trump and Republicans who boast that they’re forcing Biden to defend what should be reliably Democratic turf. Trump held a […]
Tackling water shortages with ‘Star Wars’ tech
When a severe drought hit the Indian city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, in 2016, residents including student Swapnil Shrivastav had access to a limited amount of water each day. “We were rationed to two buckets of water a day, which we collected from water tanks,” he says. While he says it’s not uncommon […]
Gavin Newsom confronted at press conference about missing $24bn spent on tackling homelessness
California’s governor Gavin Newsom was confronted while being probed at a press conference over the state’s spending of $24 billion to tackle homelessness. Mr Newson led a conference on Friday announcing that California’s budget deficit is at least $45 billion and proposed various spending cuts to state worker jobs, education programs and health services. He […]
CNM and NMSP collaborate on class tackling cold cases
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Local college students are about to help police crack cold cases in our state. It’s part of a new course teaming Central New Mexico Community College students with New Mexico State Police. In July 1989, the body of Janis Pulliam was discovered in Elephant Butte Lake. Her car was found abandoned at […]
Former British home secretaries call for political consensus on tackling extremism
Tackling extremism must not become a political football in the lead-up to the British general election, a group of senior figures including three Conservative former home secretaries have said. Priti Patel, Sajid Javid and Amber Rudd are among the signatories to a statement calling for “as broad a consensus as possible” in tackling extremism from […]
Clock ticking on tackling Germany’s worker shortage, ministers warn
Germany’s struggle to address its shortage of millions of skilled workers could cost the country its place as one of the world’s leading economies if the government does not act soon, said Labour Minister Hubertus Heil on Monday. “If we don’t address the problem of labour and skills shortages now, it will become the main […]
Why this U.S. senator from Utah is tackling the pornography crisis
Before the internet’s rise in the 1990s and the popularization of smartphones in 2010s, pornography was relegated to VCRs, magazines and brick-and-mortar buildings. Now pornography websites bring in billions of users and it’s available in people’s pockets at virtually any time. As access has changed, so much of the country’s views on it have also […]
Jennifer Aniston has been tackling pimples with this Mario Badescu lotion for nearly 30 years — and it’s under $20
How South Korea Is Tackling Its Demographic Crisis
An elderly man carrying a cart with cardboard in downtown Seoul on June 8, 2017. Credit – Getty Images/iStock Some 24.5% of South Koreans aged 70 and above were still working as of January, local media reported Monday, as officials increasingly look to keep more elderly in the workforce to address a demographic crisis. Elderly […]
Kansas man recalls tackling suspect in mass shooting at Chiefs rally
Trey Filter had a restless night of sleep Wednesday. The 40-year-old Maize man was still trying to process his role in helping catch one of the suspects in the mass shooting that left 22 wounded and one woman dead at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade and rally Wednesday. It happened […]