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What to look for in Mays local elections: Tories on defensive and Reform hoping for gains
2025-05-05 02:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
The English local council elections on 1 May are a big test for the three parties almost tied in the national polls: Labour, Reform and the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats will also be hoping to do well in areas where they are strong and have a big aim of displacing the Tories as the second largest party in local government.As the polls suggest, the contest is wide open. The Conservatives are in the worst position as they are defending the most seats in more than 900 wards, which they won at the high-water mark of Boris Johnsons popularity in 2021. Of the 23 authorities holding elections, 19 are controlled by the Conservatives and just one by Labour, with the others under no overall control. There are about 1,600 seats up for grabs and six mayoralties.Labour will be hoping to take many of these seats in the first big post-election indicator of how it is doing in government. The party is narrowly ahead in many opinion surveys, but governing parties can find local elections challen...
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Marvel's Young Avengers Project Canceled
2025-05-05 01:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
The Young Avengers wont be reassembling after all. Last year, Marvel Comics editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski announced that the teen team who debuted in the pages of 2005s Young Avengers #1 by co-creators Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung would be reuniting for their 20th anniversary in 2025. There have been two Young Avengers teams, but now were deciding which characters for natural story reasons are going to join the new Young Avengers team, Cebulski said at Osaka Comic Con, naming founding members Iron Lad, Patriot, Hulkling, Wiccan, and Hawkeye as potential recruits. Videos by ComicBook.comBut in a recent update posted to his Substack blog, original Young Avengers editor Tom Brevoort revealed that those plans have fallen through.RELATED: Marvel Editor Reflects on the Young Avengers 20 Years Later: Nobody Liked the IdeaRight this second, there isnt any Young Avengers project on the horizon, the Marvel Comics Executive Editor, SVP and X-Men Group Editor wrote in response to a...
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Scammers are posing as IRS agents and stealing people's money. One man's story proves it can happen to anyone.
2025-05-05 01:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Credit: Jeffrey Hazelwood / Mashable Composite; Liudmyla Lishchyshyna/OlyaSolodenko/Allvisionn/iStock/Getty Images Plus Brad K. was to put it mildly exhausted. In May 2024, he was a brand-new father to a weeks-old baby, balancing the new responsibility with his role as a husband and dog dad."They say the three biggest life stressors are having a kid, moving, and starting a new job," he said in an interview with Mashable. "And I did all three at the same time, within a month of one another."Sleep deprived and facing one of life's most stress-inducing transitions, Brad, admittedly, wasn't his normal, clearheaded self when an unknown number called him after a long day of grocery and Home Depot runs, driving home with dinner for him and his wife.A man was on the other end, speaking in what Brad recognized as a regional accent. He explained, with the lack of urgency stereotypically associated with civil servants, that Brad had misfiled his taxes. He still owed more than $800 to the fede...
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