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By Aurelia FosterBBC News16 April 2024Updated 18 April 2024Image source, Getty ImagesPrime Minister Rishi Sunak effectively wants to ban smoking in the UK.MPs have voted to back the government's plans to create a "smoke-free generation",…

Pulling all-nighters to assemble PowerPoint presentations. Punching numbers into Excel spreadsheets. Finessing the language on esoteric financial documents that may never be read by another soul.Such grunt work has long been a rite of…

The Army is seeking to bring back retired soldiers to fill critical manpower shortages, according to a service-wide directive published this week. The All Army Activities (ALARACT) document describes how Army retirees can find and apply…

ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. — School districts are trying to combat the use of vapes in school. Guilford County Schools is installing these devices this Spring. Other districts like Rockingham, have had the detectors for years. WFMY News…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is president of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and an adviser to Allianz and GramercySeemingly everywhere…

by Madeleine Hubbard   The Department of Health and Human Services is telling hundreds of California-based employees to work from home for the foreseeable future due to rising crime in the area surrounding the Nancy Pelosi Federal…

by Nick Pope   The Biden administration announced Friday that it will spend up to $1.2 billion to fund two direct air capture (DAC) carbon removal projects, according to the Department of Energy (DOE), a technology which some reports…

This is the 10-year anniversary of the death of Larry Grathwohl, who, as his obituary stated, “risked his life to defend his nation, first in Viet Nam as a member of the 101st Airborne Division where he was awarded the…

New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows a large increase in the number of U.S. workers who took part-time positions for economic reasons compared to the previous month. The BLS released its monthly employment situation…

Although graduation season is coming to a close for the class of 2023, it seems few Gen Z graduates see employment as the next step. According to recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, workforce participation…