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NHS prescription charges in England will be frozen for the first time in three years, the government has announced.It means the cost of prescriptions will be kept under the cost of £10 – at £9.90 – in a move the government says will deliver £18m in savings for patients. Meanwhile, a three-month prescription prepayment certificate (PPC) will be frozen at £32.05, while a 12-month PPC will remain at £114.50.The announcement comes as voters across England head to the polls on Thursday for local council elections.Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “Fixing our NHS will be a long road – but by…

The bosses of four of Britain’s biggest banks are secretly urging the chancellor to ditch the most significant regulatory change imposed after the 2008 financial crisis, warning her its continued imposition is inhibiting UK economic growth.Sky News has obtained an explosive letter sent this week by the chief executives of HSBC Holdings, Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest Group and Santander UK in which they argue bank ring-fencing “is not only a drag on banks’ ability to support business and the economy, but is now redundant”. The CEOs’ letter represents an unprecedented intervention by most of the UK’s major lenders to abolish…

LOS ANGELES — The State Bar of California has disclosed that some multiple-choice questions in a problem-plagued bar exam were developed with the aid of artificial intelligence.The legal licensing body said in a news release Monday that it will ask the California Supreme Court to adjust test scores for those who took its February bar exam.“The debacle that was the February 2025 bar exam is worse than we imagined,” Mary Basick, assistant dean of academic skills at the University of California, Irvine, Law School, told the Los Angeles Times. “I’m almost speechless. Having the questions drafted by non-lawyers using artificial…

NEW YORK — Hovering in the doorway of her roommate’s bedroom one evening in July 2006, TV production assistant Miriam Haley said Harvey Weinstein — her boss — had forcibly performed oral sex on her, her then-roommate testified Thursday at the ex-movie mogul’s retrial.“I said, ‘Miriam, that sounds like rape. I think you should call a lawyer,’” but a shaken Haley seemed disinclined to do so, recalled the ex-roommate, Elizabeth Entin. If secondhand, it was the first testimony jurors have gotten so far about any of the alleged sexual assaults at the heart of the retrial, which opened Wednesday. Haley…

NEW YORK, April 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Geron Corporation (“Geron” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: GERN) and certain officers. The class action, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and docketed under 25-cv-02563, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons and entities other than Defendants that purchased or otherwise acquired Geron securities between February 28, 2024 and February 25, 2025, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”), seeking to recover damages caused by Defendants’ violations of the federal securities laws and to…

Brandon Nimmo hit a grand slam and matched a franchise record with nine RBIs, helping the New York Mets pound Washington Nationals 19-5 on Monday.Nimmo also hit a three-run drive in his seventh career multihomer game. The 32-year-old outfielder had four hits and scored four times after beginning the day with a .192 batting average.Mets vs. Nationals Highlights | MLB on FOX Check out the best moments between the New York Mets and the Washington Nationals! New York earned a split of the four-game series. The Mets have won nine of 11 overall to improve to a major league-best 20-9.Jeff…

CONCORD, N.H. — Nineteen states that refused to comply with a Trump administration directive aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools went a step further Friday, filing a federal lawsuit challenging what they consider an illegal threat to cut federal funding.The lawsuit filed in Massachusetts by Democratic attorneys general seeks to block the Department of Education from withholding money based on its April 3 directive ordering states to certify their compliance with civil rights laws, including the rejection of what the federal government calls “illegal DEI practices.” States also were told to gather signatures from local…

HALLE, Belgium — Gilles Gui was looking for the magical purple bluebells that raise their heads each spring under the budding beech leaves of the Hallerbos forest, an annual explosion of color that draws crowds from around the world. And in these times full of stress and anxiety about wars, economic threats and other tensions, he found something else too: a sense of tranquility.“I notice that there’s a lot of silence in my head when I’m done,” Gui said. “Yeah, it helps me keep some peace in my mind, really just take my mind away from everything that’s going on.”Spending…

Darius Garland will get at least a couple more days off, after the Cleveland Cavaliers ruled the All-Star guard out of Game 4 of their Eastern Conference first-round series against the Miami Heat on Monday night.Garland is dealing with a sprained left great toe.The Cavs entered Monday with a 3-0 series lead. Game 5, if necessary, would be at Cleveland on Wednesday. If Cleveland wins Game 4, it would be off until a home series-opener in the Eastern Conference semifinals against Indiana or Milwaukee — and that matchup wouldn’t start until Saturday at the earliest.Garland aggravated the issue late in…

Washington — The House passed a bipartisan bill Monday that makes it a federal crime to post real and fake sexually explicit imagery online of a person without their consent, sending the legislation that was backed by first lady Melania Trump to the president’s desk. The bill, known as the “Take It Down Act,” cleared the lower chamber in a 409-2 vote. The two “no” votes came from Republicans. The Senate unanimously passed the measure in February. The legislation requires social media companies and other websites to remove images and videos, including deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence, within 48 hours after a…