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The decision by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer comes amid a national uptick in illnesses tied to vaping and concern that companies are marketing to children.
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When Notre Dame QB Ian Book heaved a ball toward the sideline, he accidentally broke the Louisville dancer’s nose, and now she’s becoming Insta famous
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NPR’s Rachel Martin talks to Joel Klein, a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla., about Hurricane Dorian which is battering the Bahamas with high winds and torrential rains.
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(Bloomberg) — Follow @Brexit, sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, and tell us your Brexit story. U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid promised to end a decade of austerity as a snap election looms.In his first set piece since becoming finance minister, Javid said no government department would see their day-to-day budgets cut next year and announced the fastest increase in spending in 15 years.In a sign the government is prepared for an election, Javid was reprimanded twice by Speaker John Bercow for focusing too much on Brexit and the opposition Labour Party rather than on spending plans.The spending round sets departmental budgets for the fiscal year 2020 to 2021. Javid said he’d deliver a 4.1% real increase in day-to-day spending, with more than 13 billion pounds added to total spending. Since coming to power in July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson already committed billions of pounds for health, police and schools.Javid said every government department would have their spending increased at least in line with inflation. After saying the government is “turning the page on austerity,” the chancellor announced or reconfirmed pledges including:A 6.2 billion-pound increase for the National Health ServiceA 1.5. billion-pound increase for local government social care budgetsIncreases for the Ministry of Justice and Crown Prosecution ServiceAn extra 160 million pounds for Scottish farmersJohn McDonnell, who shadows Javid for the opposition, said the statement was full of “meaningless platitudes” and described it as “grubby electioneering.”Javid also said looking into how the Treasury can coordinate fiscal policy with the independent Bank of England’s monetary policy if the economy needs it.And he’s reviewing the government’s fiscal framework to make sure it meets his economic priorities of boosting infrastructure. That review will take place before a Budget planned for later this year.But he also stressed fiscal discipline will remain and that he would stick to the fiscal rules set by his predecessor Philip Hammond. “We will live within our means and growth will come from every corner,” he said. He also said he’d set a high bar for funding new infrastructure projects.Brexit Chancellor Fights to Be Heard Over Johnson’s CampaigningThe spending commitments come without new forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility, meaning Javid will have to wait until the Autumn Budget to discover whether he is on course to meet rules designed to keep the budget deficit and debt under control.In March, the fiscal watchdog estimated the government had 15 billion pounds ($18 billion) of “headroom” to increase borrowing before reaching the maximum deficit permitted, set at 2% of gross domestic product in 2020-21. A supplementary rule requires government debt to be falling as a share of GDP in the same year, and Johnson has vowed to keep bringing down the debt burden in coming years.However, his room for maneuver has almost certainly shrunk, with the economy on the brink of recession and government spending rising much more quickly than predicted in the spring. Crashing out of the EU without a deal would push the deficit well above target, possibly forcing the government to turn off the spending taps again.\–With assistance from Andrew Atkinson, Jill Ward and Lucy Meakin.To contact the reporter on this story: Jessica Shankleman in London at [email protected] contact the editors responsible for this story: Tim Ross at [email protected], Brian Swint, Fergal O’BrienFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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British finance minister Sajid Javid said he was “turning the page on austerity” as he outlined spending increases which are widely seen part of a push for an early election by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to break the country’s Brexit impasse. “A new…
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India officially declared on Wednesday that the leaders of two Pakistan-based militant groups are terrorists under a new law. The Home Ministry named Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, as ter…
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Louisville woman goes from homeless vet to fashion queen and this weekend, she will host a fashion event to benefit the military at Fourth Street Live
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(Bloomberg Opinion) — For anyone keeping score, this week’s parliamentary battles may look to be going against Boris Johnson. But you would expect that: He’s fighting them in parliament, hallowed ground in British democracy but enemy turf for this pri…
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NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks with celebrity chef Jose Andres about deploying his nonprofit organization, World Central Kitchen, to the Bahamas to provide food aid after Hurricane Dorian.
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A new NPR probe found low-income areas in dozens of major U.S. cities are more likely to be hotter than wealthier ones, and people with severe mental illness are impacted by that increase in heat.
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Following the catastrophic damage left by Hurricane Dorian, the big question now is: How to get help to the people who are in places that can’t even be reached?
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