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Brexit has made UK economy and productivity ‘weaker’ than thought, says Reeves
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Brexit has made UK economy and productivity ‘weaker’ than thought, says Reeves

Rachel Reeves has said Brexit made the UK’s economy and productivity “weaker” than initially forecast when the UK voted to leave the European Union. But the Chancellor expressed determination that “the past doesn’t define our future” as she set out plans to scrap paperwork and red tape for thousands of UK businesses in a bid to boost lacklustre economic growth at the Regional Investment Summit in Birmingham on Tuesday. The gathering of business leaders and investors came after more gloomy news for the Chancellor as Government borrowing in September hit the highest level for the month in five years. The data from the Office for National Statistics piles more pressure on Ms Reeves ahead of the November 26 Budget, in which she will have to fill a black hole estimated at around £50 billion by some economists. Ms Reeves said the autumn statement will detail her “plans based on the world as it is, not necessarily the world as I might like it to be” as global volatility and a hike in defence spending “puts pressure on our economy”. She said exiting the EU had caused more damage than forecasters had expected at the time, with the expected downgrade of the budget watchdog’s previous assumptions likely to make her task of balancing the books even harder. The Chancellor told reporters: “The Office for Budget Responsibility do the forecasts for the economy. When we left the European Union, or when we voted to leave, they made an estimate about the impact that would have. “What they’ve done this summer is go back to all of their forecasts and look at what actually happened compared to what they forecast. “What that shows – and what they will set out – is that the economy has been weaker and productivity has been weaker than they forecast, despite the fact that they forecast that the economy would be weaker because of leaving the EU… “I am determined that the past doesn’t define our future and that we do achieve that economic growth and productivity with good jobs in all parts of the country.” Ms Reeves highlighted more than £10 billion in investment commitments secured at the summit, as well as deregulation and reform to planning and capital markets. The OBR’s assessment will be published in detail alongside the Budget, in which the Chancellor has already acknowledged she is looking at potential tax rises and spending cuts. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has suggested Ms Reeves will need to find around £50 billion a year by 2029-39 to meet her goal of balancing day-to-day spending with tax revenues while maintaining “headroom” of around £10 billion against that target. Asked about her promise not to deliver another tax-raising statement, Ms Reeves said: “This year has been particularly volatile in terms of world events, from Ukraine to the Middle East, to the higher trade tariffs that countries around the world including the UK face. We’re not immune to that, despite the fact that we’re doing trade deals with the EU, India and with the US. “Of course, that puts pressure on our economy, as does the increased defence spending to keep us safe in an uncertain world. “I’ll set out all my plans based on the world as it is, not necessarily the world as I might like it to be, in the Budget on November 26.” Addressing business leaders at Edgbaston Stadium earlier, the Chancellor detailed measures to reform the company merger process, regulations for drones and reforms for artificial intelligence (AI). She said a cross-economy AI “sandbox” would allow firms to develop new products “under supervision by regulators”. This would speed up the approval of AI for use in areas including “legal services, planning assessments and advanced manufacturing”. The Civil Aviation Authority will set out steps towards launching commercial drone operations which could allow unmanned aerial vehicles to be widely used for tasks from “surveying sites for development to delivering blood supplies for the NHS”. Panels reviewing company mergers will be reformed to “provide greater certainty on whether transactions will be subject to merger control”. She also confirmed plans to create simpler corporate reporting rules for more than 100,000 businesses, including removing the need for small business owners to submit lengthy director reports to Companies House.

Sophie Wingate
King Charles and Cate Blanchett Join Forces For a Top-Secret Podcast Recording
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King Charles and Cate Blanchett Join Forces For a Top-Secret Podcast Recording

Unbeknownst to the larger public, Blanchett and King Charles secretly met last July in bucolic Windsor Park to break bread over their mutual interests. They joined forces with Dr. Elinor Breman, a former actor who is now Kew’s senior research manager in seed conservation to record the Unearthed: The Need for Seeds in the Gardens of Windsor Palace produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the first episode of which was released on Monday, Oct. 20. Both Blanchett and King Charles have advocated for issues of sustainability and the protection of biodiversity, topics discussed with Breman on the podcast. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which manages the Millennium Seed Bank in Wakehurst, is renowned for its role in nature conservation, and celebrated its 25-year anniversary with the podcast recording. King Charles has a history with the organization. In 2000, then still Prince of Whales, Charles officially opened the seed bank, of which he is patron. Images from the conversation show the sartorial symmetry between King Charles and Blanchett. Whether it was coordinated or not, both, in fact, opted for an elegant gray jacket with a well-defined pattern for the meeting. If Blanchett opted for the classic Prince of Wales pattern (an avowed homage to the sovereign? Possibly), the king opted instead for pinstripes, pairing the jacket with his matching pants, making for a refined ensemble. Blanchett, on the other hand, paired her double-breasted jacket with what at first glance appears to be a chemise dress with a maxi gold print, by Erdem, and black leather shoes, just like the royal. A fortuitous, yet curious color and style complicity. It was King Charles’s second podcast appearance of the year, after he shared some of his favorite songs in a March Apple Music special. Blanchett, who is ambassador for Wakehurst, says in the podcast, “There is an urgency to the work that the seed bank does. I was shocked to learn that 97% of the wildflower meadows have been decimated. I don’t think it’s something that we quite understand here, because we look around us and in the immediate term, we see so much natural beauty. But we don’t think how fragile it is.” Originally published in Vanity Fair Italia

Laura Scafati
'Canvas Is Artistic': Stunning Time-Lapse Video Gives A Glimpse Of Bengaluru Skies On Diwali Night
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'Canvas Is Artistic': Stunning Time-Lapse Video Gives A Glimpse Of Bengaluru Skies On Diwali Night

A time-lapse video, which also left Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman impressed, has left the internet in awe of Bengaluru’s night sky as the city celebrated Diwali. The creator of the video, Srihari Karanth, posted the one-minute video on X and said it had been shot for an hour between 7 pm and 8 pm. He did not, however, mention in which part of the city he had shot the video. Watch the video here: An hour of Deepawali lights over Bengaluru, painted into a minute! Shot between 7 and 8 PM today. #LightPainting #Fireworks pic.twitter.com/q2ovqpivdS— Srihari Karanth (@sriharikaranth) October 20, 2025 The video shows the skies in Bengaluru lighting up with fireworks. Karanth, who is an aerial content creator associated with Karnataka tourism as well, said on X: “An hour of Deepawali lights over Bengaluru, painted into a minute!” Sharing the video, Nirmala Sitharaman admired the artist’s impression of Bengaluru’s night sky on Diwali and said “this has come out so well”. “This has come out so well. The canvas is artistic. Brush strokes are camera exposure. Great effort,” Sitharaman said in a post on X. This has come out so well. The canvas is artistic. Brush strokes are camera exposure. Great effort. https://t.co/cOuH2wTFoB— Nirmala Sitharaman (@nsitharaman) October 20, 2025 The post, which already has 7.84 lakh views, was much appreciated by internet users. “Absolutely brilliant. What is this photography technique called? Can we do it on iPhone? If yes how,” said an internet user while another said: “If this isn’t art what is.” Many asked Karanth how he had created such an effect, to which he said he used long exposure with the shutter open throughout the video. He said he shot the video on his GoPro 11 using the long exposure mode. “It was shot on a GoPro 11 using the long exposure mode, which keeps the shutter open until recording is stopped. The timelapse was for an hour almost,” he told an internet user.

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Ex Helldivers 2 and Battlefield devs' chaotic new FPS offers one final chance to try its playtest
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Ex Helldivers 2 and Battlefield devs' chaotic new FPS offers one final chance to try its playtest

The narrative that 'all new shooters are doomed' simply isn't true - fresh blood is always welcome and can prosper if it manages to offer fans of the best FPS games something unique. Built by former Battlefield and Helldivers 2 devs, Heart Electric is doing just that, combining the hero shooter vibes of Overwatch, some slick movement mechanics, and four-team showdowns. If games like The Finals, Apex Legends, and of course Overwatch 2 are your bag, it's certainly one to watch. And you'll be able to try it soon, too: Heart Electric's new playtest kicks off this Friday, but if you're speedy, there's still time to get your name down. Finding a middle ground between a full-blown battle royale and a two-team arena shooter, Heart Electric throws four teams of three players into the same map, tasking you with depleting your foes' energy so that you're the last team standing. However, objectives known as Hearts will be there for the taking (or stealing, should they already be captured). Claiming a rival team's Heart will give your squad more energy, but these objectives will quickly turn into hotspots of activity, so it's a risky strategy if you go in without a plan. As you'd likely expect, there's a variety of characters to choose from, each with unique abilities and playstyles. One of them even has a jetpack and wingsuit combo, giving big Falcon energy. However, an additional tactical layer comes in the form of Magnetic Flux, a mechanic that can enhance your movement and manipulate anything metal in the environment. Pick up a church bell and use it as a shield, or launch the nearest shiny object at an enemy player to bamboozle and damage them. You'll also get access to a fairly flexible loadout system, which lets you head into battle with whatever combination of guns, mods, and perks you want. When you combine all of that strategic potential with several teams on the same map, things can get pretty chaotic. If you don't believe me, there's still time to apply for the upcoming playtest and experience it for yourself. With three maps, several heroes, and fully customizable loadouts all on offer, there'll be plenty to mess around and experiment with too. Heart Electric's new playtest runs from Friday, October 24 to Sunday, October 26. To register, simply head to the game's Steam page before it kicks off. If you miss out on this occasion, I'm sure more playtests or betas will come along in the future, but you can always get competitive in some of our favorite multiplayer games instead. To see what else is on the horizon, head to our upcoming PC games list. If you manage to get into the playtest and give Heart Electric a go, come over to the PCGamesN Discord server to let us and our community know what you thought.

Jamie Hore
Surprise! Even Tradwives Like to Share Nudes, Talk About Sex, and Be Single
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Surprise! Even Tradwives Like to Share Nudes, Talk About Sex, and Be Single

Lacey shares nude photos on her OnlyFans—but “I’m not sleeping around with 10 different men, like what Bonnie Blue’s doing,” she tells Vanity Fair. Her largely male followers “want a relationship. Obviously I can’t be an in-person girlfriend to 500,000 people.” So she launched Date Anya because “there needs to be a way that people can really hone in on what they want. There’s been a lot of pushback, because people want a pill. They don’t want to make fundamental changes in their lives.” She says she’s looking for a man who dresses well, communicates, and wants to live a “godly” lifestyle. She also wants one who takes charge. “Let’s say me and my future husband have differing opinions,” she says. “If he hears me out, I’m happy. But whatever he thinks is best for the household, at the end of the day, I will follow him in that.” In theory, putting something in the dictionary is supposed to settle its meaning once and for all. But already, Cambridge Dictionary’s definition of tradwife—which the reference manual added just a couple months ago—feels out of date. According to that dictionary, a tradwife is “a married woman, especially one who posts on social media, who stays at home doing cooking, cleaning.” Now, though, it seems that the word has become an umbrella term for a still-shifting set of values, one a woman needn’t be married to espouse. The social media phenomenon of the tradwife is usually traced back to the pandemic era, when social distance and doomscrolling led increasing numbers of women to the feeds of influencers who were dolled up like 1950s housewives or doing Laura Ingalls Wilder cosplay. But as the conservative manosphere reached peak saturation after last year’s election, a market opportunity emerged for the women who see themselves as those men’s potential partners. In this space, tradwife is less of a literal descriptor and more of a marketing term for a woman who is willing to put herself second in her real—or theoretical—marriage. Lacey, for one, aspires to this sort of relationship. “The full meaning of a tradwife is like you do the sourdough, you frolic in the field, you have your animals, but also at the end of the day, you submit to your husband,” she says. “He is the head of the household, and you live your life in a very godly way. There’s a lot of people that really don’t want to get into that. They just want to have the fun parts of that.” But if you want to do it the right way—as defined by Lacey—then she thinks you count as a tradwife, even if your housework includes some camgirling on the side. For conservative magazine Evie, getting raunchy is also okay—as long as the sex is safely within wedlock. In April, the outlet published a story headlined “I Grieved Through My Vagina and It Healed Me,” a first-person account of a woman who responds to the death of a friend by having sex with her husband. The magazine, which has a stated goal of rejecting feminism in favor of “femininity,” and whose founders also created a Peter Thiel–backed wellness app for women, mixes profiles of prominent women like Ballerina Farm’s Hannah Neeleman and MAHA influencer Vani Hari with laments about how online pornography has ruined men. The “grieving vagina” post came with a content warning: “Contains explicit adult content and is intended for married women for educational purposes only.” Conservative Christians have used similar messaging to excuse content they might otherwise find objectionable since the Victorian era, but social media has supercharged its reach. The increased normalization of this content has also revealed deep cracks in right-wing unity. In August, a group of conservative women went viral for a profane public fight about influencer Sarah Stock’s engagement announcement. What began as a post of her small but nice engagement ring turned into a MAGA-woman cage match, complete with unprintably lewd rants alleging public sex at a Turning Point USA event. The fight pitted some women who believe that women should work outside of the home against the ones who think they shouldn’t, but above all else, it made for fascinating social media fodder. Savanna Stone, a 20-year-old stay-at-home wife who went viral earlier this year for making a video about wearing a sundress for her husband, found herself in the middle of the fight, defending Stock. “The right-wing mean girls make me want to log off,” says Stone in an interview, noting that she was surprised to learn how many of her fellow conservative influencers were not living a traditional lifestyle either by being unmarried or working outside of the home. “This is why I don’t identify as a conservative or right wing. I’m my own person. Don’t put me in that box. It’s just interesting to me how these women call themselves conservative, but they’re really not conserving anything.” Stone says she didn’t even realize she was making content that could count as tradwife-adjacent until long after she started going viral for telling the story of how she got married when she was only 18. Her first video to break containment, filmed as a Get Ready With Me, told the tale in a straightforward way and was met with quite a bit of shock. “I didn’t even say anything controversial,” she says. “The comments still keep coming in today. They’re like, ‘Ugh, just give it 10 years. Can’t wait for the divorce.’ Just all these terrible things.” She wasn’t expecting a huge audience when she started sharing videos on TikTok either: “When I first started posting on social media, I wasn’t really chronically online, so I actually didn’t even know that was a word until I started posting.” But her detractors called her a tradwife, and so did the New York Post; soon the label stuck. “My own personal belief is I don’t think anyone’s actually traditional in 2025,” she says. “I mean, I use a washing machine, I use a dishwasher. I’m not hanging my clothes on a line.” Like other conservative social media influencers, Stone took the pushback as evidence that she should keep going. Her main message is that it’s okay to get married young. “This isn’t a weird thing. My grandparents got married at 16, so 18 is completely normal.” She lives in Florida with her husband, Noah, whom she’s with because she wanted “to marry a good leader who follows God so that I can completely trust him and submit to my husband.” Nevertheless, she doesn’t want to be the face of the tradwives. “My perspective on all the labels is you can be a wife and have a great career,” she says. “You can embrace traditional values while also being a modern woman and using your cell phone and putting on makeup every day, whatever it may be.” Earlier this year, theater director Josh Boerman and June Sternbach, social media editor at The Onion, were concerned that the left wing wasn’t paying enough attention to the new conservative approach to marriage and mothering. So they created a podcast called Ill-Conceived, where the pair draw out the connections between seemingly distinct trends like tradwife content, homeschooling networks, and Project 2025. In their show, they argue that the term tradwife really has morphed in meaning since it first entered the lexicon. “It’s just shifted more to appealing to the male gaze,” Boerman tells Vanity Fair. “It’s a mercenary space because you are always competing for attention. If you are not at all times delivering on the fantasy, somebody else is going to deliver on it in a more compelling way. And so there is this constant pressure to keep up and keep on top of the trend.” Ultimately, they’ve decided that tradwife is less a word that describes an actual lifestyle and more of a social media genre, like Outfit of the Day or Get Ready With Me—with tinges of soft-core pornography to boot. “I also don’t get the sense that these people have an ironclad ideological commitment to the honest-to-goodness natalist agenda,” Boerman adds. “They are not suffused with a desire to have 12 kids. But the people who do want that future can take these performances and use them as propaganda to their own ends.” Sternbach is particularly fascinated by the new spate of “sexy” tradwives because she has seen similar delusions pop up on very different corners of the internet. “Everyone feels lonely, everyone feels very hopeless. So they look at this very aspirational content and they’re like, ‘One day I can be happy. One day I will have the perfect life,’” she says. “The part of their brain that is screaming at them, ‘This is fake’—they suspend their disbelief.” It’s easy and fun for left-leaning bystanders to look at tradwife content and focus on the inherent hypocrisy of women choosing to embrace subservience. But Sternbach warns progressives not to fall into this trap: “Being hypocritical is not important to these people. It’s about ideologically winning, and that’s what they value more than anything else,” she says. “White nationalism, Christian nationalism—you start to see the pieces unfold [in] every rhetorical strategy and topic these conservatives talk about. I feel like I’m creating a corkboard with a bunch of string. That’s how I’ve been seeing the world now.” Lacey and Stone are 19 and 20 years old, respectively—but the roots of the recent tradwife shift were planted much longer ago. “People on the left, including myself, don’t look long-term enough,” says Sternbach. “The right put forth a very intentional long-term project, and the ones who started it knew they would not be around [for all of it]. They would die [before] seeing it come to fruition.” In our conversation, Sternbach mentions Alena Kate Pettitt, one of the original tradwife influencers. In 2024, Pettitt told The New Yorker that she was moving away from the movement after it had “become its own monster” and a new generation was taking it to mean something other than an enthusiasm for housecleaning. Talking to the content creators, it’s easy to imagine that their views on gender relations will change as they experience the setbacks of young adulthood. But even if they do, the conservative project will be happy to find new tradwives to take their place.

Erin Vanderhoof
'You're not alone': Houston event geared for people with disabilities aims to open doors
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'You're not alone': Houston event geared for people with disabilities aims to open doors

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- If you have a disability, there are ways to break into the job market you may not know about. For nearly 20 years, the Houston White Cane Safety Day has given people with disabilities a way to connect. During Monday's event, hundreds of participants learned about jobs and resources from various organizations, and tables were filled with folks who know what they're going through. "I had a car accident in 1993 that left me totally blind," Ron Graham explained. It was a life-changing event that Graham says left him feeling alone. "I felt like the Lone Ranger trying to find resources and information, and I promised myself it would not be this hard for others," Graham recalled. More than 20 years later, Graham has done just that. He formed the Houston Area Visually Impaired Network, which connects people with resources and organizations across the city. "You're not alone," Graham explained. "There are others out there. There are resources and information. Get in touch." Resources were on display at the University of Houston on Monday, and people with disabilities connected with organizations. But they also had doors open for them with employment. Workforce Solutions has a vocational rehabilitation program that helps people with disabilities. Each month, Eyewitness News partners with the organization for the ABC13 Who's Hiring job fair. This month, ABC13 wanted to highlight the assistance to help people with disabilities. "They get that first check, and their eyes just light up. They have gotten the fever of going to work and that independence," Texas Workforce Commission rehabilitation services regional director Susan Lindsey said. "That fever of accomplishment." The program works with teens looking for their first job and older Texans with disabilities. It's not just about job seekers. The program also recruits employers. Right now, federal data shows there are some industries where persons with disabilities outpace the average worker. Those industries include sales and offices, service, production, and transportation. "A person with disabilities provides a unique set of skills and experiences to be able to empower local economies and businesses as well," Workforce Solutions executive director Juliet Stipeche said. It's a difference Graham didn't realize at first. Years later, he attends events like this to let others know how they can make a difference. "If you had told me then that I'd still be blind today and tell me my life is blessed, I'd said you were crazy, but it is," Graham said. "It's blessed." For updates on this story, follow Nick Natario on Facebook, X and Instagram.

Nick Natario
ChatGPT Usage Has Peaked and Is Now Declining, New Data Finds
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ChatGPT Usage Has Peaked and Is Now Declining, New Data Finds

Earlier this month, data analyzed by Deutsche Bank showed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT revenue was starting to plateau in Europe, suggesting that enthusiasm for the AI chatbot app to beat may be waning. That’s despite the industry’s sky-high promises of delivering a technological revolution, as astronomical amounts of money continue to be poured into building out AI infrastructure. Now it appears that a similar story may be playing out elsewhere in the world as well. As TechCrunch reports, third-party app intelligence firm Apptopia found that ChatGPT’s mobile app usage appears to have stopped around the beginning of September — and has actually started to decline since then. Despite only being two-thirds into October, Apptopia warns that ChatGPT global downloads are down over eight percent month-over-month. Even more ominously for OpenAI, data shows that ChatGPT users in the US are spending less and less time with the app, with average time spent per daily active user dropping 22.5 percent since July. Apptopia suggests that it’s not simply a matter of people becoming more efficient with their ChatGPT prompts, since both average time spent and the average number of sessions are declining. It’s far from a death knell for the Sam Altman-led company — millions of people are still downloading the app each day. The data is also limited to mobile data and doesn’t include desktop users. However, it does suggest that OpenAI’s narrative of explosive growth is fading. Growing concerns over an AI bubble have stoked fear into investors as of late, with even industry insiders warning that large language models like ChatGPT may turn out to be a dead end. Simultaneously, widespread disillusionment with the tech, particularly concerning hallucinations, is becoming more apparent by the week. The company’s latest GPT-5 model has also failed to impress, with a recent study finding that it’s actually worse than its predecessor GPT-4o when it comes to ensuring AI safety. The model’s rollout quickly turned messy in August and was met with a major user revolt. As OpenAI continues to search for alternative sources of revenue, from ads to monetizing its text-to-video generator app Sora, ChatGPT remains the firm’s most important lifeline. As the Financial Times reported earlier this month, paying ChatGPT subscribers represent roughly 70 percent of its annual recurring revenue. While Altman boasted that 800 million people are using the app, only five percent are willing to pay for a subscription, indicating it’s struggling to convince the vast majority of users that it’s worth $20 per month. Besides growing disillusionment, users may also be flocking to OpenAI’s ever-present competition, such as Google’s Gemini. In short, OpenAI will have to find new ways to attract users — and convince them to pay for a subscription. It’s clearly desperate: the company recently announced it will allow for “mature” ChatGPT apps. More on ChatGPT: If You Were Bankrolling OpenAI, the Percent of ChatGPT Users Willing to Pay for It Might Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

Victor Tangermann
Jubilee Hills bypoll: Congress factions clash in Rahmathnagar during campaign
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Jubilee Hills bypoll: Congress factions clash in Rahmathnagar during campaign

Hyderabad: Tension prevailed at Rahmathnagar in the Jubilee Hills constituency on Tuesday when Congress leaders clashed among themselves during electioneering in the area. Supporters of corporator CN Reddy, who had aspired to contest the by-election, and former corporator Bhavani Shankar exchanged abuses and slogans against each other. The clash reportedly erupted due to internal differences and a lack of active participation in campaigning for the party’s candidate, Naveen Yadav. Led by Labour Minister G Vivek Venkatswamy, both Reddy and Bhavani Shankar, along with their supporters, had gathered for lunch at a party leader’s residence in Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, SPR Hills. However, supporters of Bhavani Shankar and Nagesh Nayak accused C N Reddy’s group of not actively participating in the campaign. Reacting sharply, Reddy’s supporters questioned their rivals’ commitment to the party. The heated exchange soon turned into a physical altercation that lasted for nearly 20 minutes. Videos of the two groups hurling abuses and engaging in scuffles went viral on social media. Despite repeated appeals from senior leaders for restraint, the warring groups refused to back down initially. It took considerable effort from senior Congress leaders to finally bring the situation under control.

Telangana Today
Japan's new PM Takaichi vows economic stimulus to fight inflation
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Japan's new PM Takaichi vows economic stimulus to fight inflation

TOKYO - Japan's newly elected Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Tuesday that she will draw up a stimulus package to address rising living costs. Speaking at a press conference, Takaichi, who was elected Japan's first female minister earlier in the day, also ruled out an early dissolution of the House of Representatives for a snap election, saying her minority government will prioritize economic policies instead. The 64-year-old new leader instructed ministers and officials at her first Cabinet meeting to compile a stimulus package, a person familiar with the matter said. She pledged to "swiftly" abolish the provisional gasoline tax rate and increase the nontaxable income threshold from the current 1.03 million yen ($6,800) by "listing to opposition parties' opinions." The economic measures are intended to "boost people's net income and reduce households' burden," Takaichi said, adding that she will make every effort to ease the negative impact stemming from U.S. President Donald Trump's higher tariffs. As her Liberal Democratic Party's coalition with its new partner, the Japan Innovation Party, lacks a majority in both parliamentary houses, Takaichi, a staunch conservative, called on other parties to cooperate for political stability. She said her government is willing to "flexibly" accept policy proposals from opposition forces unless they conflict with those of the LDP. On the diplomatic front, Takaichi said she is looking forward to meeting with leaders from other countries at Association of Southeast Asian Nations-related meetings in Malaysia this weekend and an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit from late this month in South Korea. Takaichi, known for her hawkish views on diplomacy and defense issues, also said that the government will start working on revisions of its key security documents, including the long-term policy guideline National Security Strategy.

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Listen to RRI in English – October 21, 2025
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Listen to RRI in English – October 21, 2025

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Enzo Maresca admits change is needed after torrent of Chelsea red cards
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Enzo Maresca admits change is needed after torrent of Chelsea red cards

Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has emphasised that discipline “is something that we have to improve” after his side picked up four red cards across their last six matches. Speaking ahead of the home match against Ajax in the Champions League on Wednesday, the Italian was asked whether he thinks his side has a discipline problem after sendings off in the losses to Manchester United and Brighton as well as the more recent wins over Benfica and Nottingham Forest. And Maresca referenced “completely avoidable” red cards in his response, explaining that “it's something that we can do better”. “I think some of the red cards, we will avoid that,” he explained. “For instance, the last one [against Forest] I think that one is completely avoidable, because it's 0-3, the game is finished. “I think Joao Pedro's red card against Benfica was the last minutes of the game, Malo was the last minutes of the game, so it depends, they are all different kinds of red cards, but again, it's something that we have to improve.” However, the 45-year-old did offer something of an excuse for the incidents against Manchester United and Brighton, explaining his side “don't want to concede, they want to continue to be aggressive”. “If you see Trevoh's red card against Brighton, you can say, OK, allow him to shoot, and then we'll see,” added the Italian. “Man United is exactly the same. It's a decision that you have to take in one second, in two seconds, so it's not easy for the players. “The last one, I think that was a huge mistake, because the game is finished, it's 0-3. But again, they were shouting between them, they don't want to concede, these kind of things also show the desire that they don't want to concede, they want to be intense, aggressive.” Maresca said that he wanted to help his players understand what they can do differently rather than punish them, though the Blues boss did lament the recent string of red cards, pointing out that is makes selection difficult with the number of injuries the squad is contending with. “It's very difficult, especially because many of the injuries we had, has been the day before the game or two days before the game, when we already had an idea about the game” he added. “But it's something that we are trying to adapt and try to learn. For the players also it's complicated, because sometimes you plan for some players, OK, you want to play in one week, and then suddenly you need other players because you end up thinking to start the injury.” The Blues are currently missing five senior players – including Cole Palmer, Liam Delap and Levi Colwill – due to injury, though Maresca offered an update on both Delap and Enzo Fernandez, who has been a doubt ahead of the Ajax game. “Enzo took part in the session yesterday, we have one more session this afternoon, we see if we decide with him tomorrow,” he said. “Liam is very close, he is not working with us yet, he is still out, but hopefully he can start in the next days, [to] take part in the session[s] with us.”

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Grace Wales Bonner confirmed to lead menswear at major fashion house
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Grace Wales Bonner confirmed to lead menswear at major fashion house

Grace Wales Bonner has been appointed menswear creative director at Hermes, with her first collection scheduled for January 2027. Her appointment is part of a wider trend of new designers taking leadership roles at major fashion houses, including Chanel, Dior, and Gucci. The fashion industry is undergoing significant design team reshuffles in an effort to recover from a two-year slump. Separately, Matthieu Blazy, 40, launched his highly anticipated debut collection as creative director for Chanel at Paris Fashion Week. Blazy's theatrical show, featuring a celestial theme and attended by celebrities, received a standing ovation, marking a new era for the heritage French fashion house.

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Apple Martin Performed At a Nashville Bar While Dad Watched from the Audience
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Apple Martin Performed At a Nashville Bar While Dad Watched from the Audience

She’s also stealing a bit from her musician father. The 21-year-old Vanderbilt senior recently made her musical debut, taking the stage at Nashville’s Cannery Hall with the band Jade Street. On Friday, Martin was captured on TikTok wearing a white, midriff-bearing camisole and belting out the tune “Satellite” alongside musicians and Vanderbilt peers Eli Meyuhas and Zachery Zwelling. While she starts off a bit shaky, Martin gains confidence over the course of the rock ballad, which will be released as a single on October 28. According to The Vanderbilt Hustler, Apple’s famous musician father was in the crowd cheering her on. Chris Martin “made it clear to fans that while he enjoyed meeting them, he was there to support his daughter and didn’t want the night to be focused on him,” reported the student newspaper. Apple Martin is actively involved in Vanderbilt’s theater community, appearing with the cabaret group Original Cast and starring in a musical parody of Love Island called Love on an Island, while studying law, history, and society. “I would love to do theater because I adore it so much,” she told Interview regarding her post-college career. “I’ve obviously never done film before, but I’ve been trying to get involved in student films. I was born a theater kid.” “Satellite” isn’t Apple’s first foray into music. She also has songwriting credits on her dad’s songs “Let Somebody Go” and “feelslikeimfallinginlove.” “I constantly remind myself how grateful I am to have these opportunities,” Martin recently told The Telegraph. “I know this is not a normal way to grow up by any means. But my parents did a really good job of instilling in me that…I have to work.” Originally story appeared in VF España.

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Wes Moore to open this year’s Texas Tribune Festival
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Wes Moore to open this year’s Texas Tribune Festival

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Following our announcement of the full 2025 Texas Tribune Festival lineup, we have even more big news to share: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore opens this year’s festival in conversation with former “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd. Elected governor in 2022, Moore joins Todd for a wide-ranging conversation on the state of his state, the state of the nation, and the state of his party in this extraordinary moment. Our opening keynote begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13 at First Baptist Church Sanctuary, following a full day of can’t-miss TribFest programming in downtown Austin. Moore is the 63rd governor of Maryland, the first Black governor in the state’s 246-year history, and only the third African American ever elected governor in the United States. He’s the author of “The Other Wes Moore,” a perennial New York Times bestseller, and the recent “Five Days,” which tells the story of Baltimore in the days that followed the death of Freddie Gray in 2015. Todd is host of “The ChuckToddCast,” a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with political leaders. The six-time Emmy winner previously moderated “Meet the Press” and co-moderated major presidential debates. Our opening keynote is just one of more than 120 conversations across three days with national and Texas leaders shaping our politics, policy and our future. At TribFest, they come to engage with one another — and you — because those who gather here shape the future of our communities. Buy your TribFest tickets now and join the conversation. Disclosure: New York Times has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune’s journalism. Find a complete list of them here.

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