Category: News


Covid: Planned redundancies at lowest level since 2015


Redundancy figures for June from the Insolvency Service saw 15,661 positions put at risk in Great Britain.


Western wildfires: Over 300K acres burned across 6 states; 2 firefighters dead after plane crashes in Arizona


More than 300,000 acres are burning across six states across the western United States on Sunday as the region battled yet another brutal heat wave that shattered records and strained power grids.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2021/07/11/western-united-states-wildfires-california-oregon-arizona/7932453002/

Biden administration cancels additional $55.6 million in student debt


The Department of Education canceled an additional $55.6 million in student loan debt for 1,800 students who were victims of a for-profit college fraud, bringing the total amount of canceled student loan debt by the Biden administration to $1.5 billion.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/09/biden-administration-cancels-1-5-billion-student-loan-debt/7917250002/