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President says Social Security Fairness Act will benefit ‘Americans who have worked hard all their lives’ Joe Biden has signed into law a measure that boosts social security payments for current and former public employees – such as teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public-service workers – in what the White House has described as…

Bestselling author and Netflix producer said extensive early experience of grief was ‘very cruel but effective teacher’ American thriller writer Harlan Coben said experiencing “quite a bit of tragedy” in his 20s made him a better writer. The bestselling author, who wrote the Myron Bolitar thriller series and novels turned Netflix shows such as Fool…

Child poverty plan must address the 70% of families with at least one parent in work, Resolution Foundation says Labour must offer extra support to working parents, including with childcare and commuting, if it is to fulfil its promise of cutting child poverty, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has argued. The government’s manifesto promised an “ambitious…

Edgar Matobato says he killed again and again for former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. Now he’s trying to stay alive to testify.

Officials say evidence supports theory suspect, 42, carried out deadly attack alone but reveal leads are being pursued Federal authorities investigating the avowed Islamic State (IS) sympathizer who carried out the New Year’s Day Bourbon Street terror attack in New Orleans said they are still investigating his potential associates elsewhere in the US and abroad….

The leader of the anti-immigrant Freedom Party of Austria, founded by former Nazis in the 1950s, was expected to be asked to enter into talks to form a new government.

Four weeks after the fall of the Assad regime, Israel is pressing on with a military campaign on Syrian soil.