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Judge blocks probe of Federal Reserve in victory for bank
“This process has been arbitrarily undermined by an activist judge,” Pirro said at a fiery press conference responding to the decision, which quashed subpoenas – orders to compel someone to give testimony – from her office seeking information from the bank about cost overruns at renovations of its offices.
Somerset dad facing difficult summer as food larder donations plunge
“If this trend keeps happening one or two years down the line, I don’t know,” she said. “We can’t keep buying food [and] if people can’t afford to donate the food then we’ll struggle.” Loki Stokes, the food bank’s food logistics manager, added that he has “never seen our stock this low”. “We try to…
UK drug price rises ‘necessary’, says Lord Patrick Vallance
The price the NHS pays for medicines will need to rise to stop a wave of pharmaceutical investment leaving the UK, science minister Patrick Vallance has said. His comments follow several recent announcements from some of the world’s largest drug companies either pausing or scrapping UK projects. Critics in the sector say low prices for…
