President Joe Biden‘s brother James Biden has abandoned a new clean-energy investment firm he launched in the United Kingdom after a White House ethics review and new rules aimed at banning conflicts of interest. James Biden, and his wife Sarah Biden, had started a limited liability partnership called 2BT, Financial Times reported, which planned to invest … Read more
France, birthplace of the man who first discovered the principle of vaccination, last week abandoned its bid to create a coronavirus vaccine. The Pasteur Institute – named for Louis Pasteur who invented vaccines against rabies and anthrax – halted its project with US drugs company Merck after disappointing clinical test results. The announcement came as … Read more
All primary schools in London will now close for the start of the new term after the government U-turned on its decision to keep some open despite rising Covid cases. The government bowed to protests, legal pressure and scientific advice on New Year’s Day after it initially omitted a number of boroughs from the forced … Read more
Mother abandons attempt to get Covid test ‘after staff said her 19-month-old baby had to wear a mask’ Sophie Asher says staff issued incorrect information about the law around masks She and daughter Maya left after becoming upset at the site in Crewe this week Cheshire East council says it’s ‘inadvisable’ to bring small children … Read more
President Donald Trump’s campaign has withdrawn a central part of its lawsuit seeking to stop the certification of the election results in Pennsylvania, shrinking the case to a small number of ballots. Ahead of a Tuesday hearing in the case, Trump’s campaign dropped its allegation that 682,479 mail-in and absentee ballots were illegally processed without … Read more
Audioboom owner Nick Candy abandons attempts to find a buyer for the podcast firm By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:54 BST, 14 October 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 14 October 2020 Audiogloom: Nick Candy pictured with wife Holly Valance A podcasting group backed by property tycoon Nick Candy has abandoned attempts to … Read more
Prue Leith abandons her latest book in battle with ‘ridiculous’ PC brigade after she was left at loggerheads with her publisher Prue Leith opens up about row over what she could include in her new book The Great British Bake Off judge says she has a half-written novel she abandoned Miss Leith also said she believes … Read more
Trump ABANDONS policy to deport foreign students when their university classes go online after being sued by Harvard and MIT The Trump administration has reversed its attempt to force foreign students to leave the US if college classes are held entirely online this fall due to COVID-19 Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced the decision on … Read more
The Trump 2020 campaign abandoned online sign-ups Monday to his next rally in Arizona after being spammed with fake entries by teen trolls on TikTok. The campaign removed its online form for the Tuesday event and instead told Trump supporters to just turn up to the Students For Trump rally. The drastic move was taken … Read more
The Government performed a dramatic U-turn over its heavily-delayed coronavirus tracking app today and agreed to use an existing system developed by tech giants instead of building its own. Ministers are expected to set out this afternoon that they are scrapping custom-made software for the NHSX app and use a system already developed by Apple … Read more