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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia has confirmed that she did not pass the bar exam in the United States. Zacharia disclosed the result during a Fox News programme, confirming that she had not passed the examination.

Kristi Noem has left her role as Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Shield of the Americas, but will continue working on the initiative as a senior adviser at the State Department. A State Department official said Noem’s envoy status expired last month. She will now advise Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on the military and political coalition, which is focused on combating drug traffickers. Noem took on the envoy position in April, shortly after Mr Trump removed her as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. At a September meeting attended by leaders of the coalition’s 19 member…

Employee engagement is significantly higher when workers trust their leaders, ADP chief executive Maria Black has said, with employees who trust their chief executive and senior leadership 41% more likely to be engaged. Speaking at the Most Powerful Women Summit in California, Black said trust in colleagues had an even stronger association with engagement. Employees who trust the people they work with are 60% more likely to be engaged, according to ADP data. “Trust is a direct corollary to engagement,” Black said. “So if we want to drive engagement, productivity, and a vibrant world of work that, candidly, I want…

Billy Joel has said he may never perform again after his neurologist told him he is not allowed to drive or take to the stage while he undergoes further tests. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the singer said he did not yet know what the future held for his live performances. “I have to take a series of tests before I know,” he said. Joel added: “I’m not allowed to drive. And I can’t do performances because what the neurologist told me, every time you do a show, it’s like you’re getting a concussion.” The 77-year-old is auctioning…

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed a lawsuit against HailgateA2 LLC and its owner, John Klein, alleging they falsely presented the business as being associated with the University of Michigan and failed to deliver tickets and sports memorabilia to customers. The complaint, filed on October 8 in Wayne County’s 3rd Circuit Court, accuses the company of breaching the Michigan Consumer Protection Act through misleading ticket sales, unauthorised use of university branding and the non-delivery of goods. The state is seeking financial damages, civil fines, the dissolution of HailgateA2 and orders preventing the defendants from selling University of Michigan-related tickets…

A Virgin Australia flight attendant has become an online sensation after serenading passengers during a domestic flight from the Gold Coast to Melbourne. Cabin manager David Hammond performed Tina Turner’s 1984 hit What’s Love Got to Do With It? after picking up the aircraft’s intercom receiver and using it as a makeshift microphone. Footage shared on Instagram shows Mr Hammond singing in his Virgin uniform. While some passengers appear disengaged, others sway, clap along and join in. The performance took place on Thursday’s VA736 service, a daily flight between Queensland and Victoria that departs at 11.55am. The video was posted…

A 62-year-old mother-of-two spent £13,500 on private heart surgery after failing to receive an NHS appointment letter, only for the delayed Royal Mail delivery to arrive three days later with a date for the same procedure. Wendy Worth, from Gloucester, used her inheritance to pay for a coronary angioplasty at Gloucester Royal Hospital on July 22, fearing her condition could worsen before she heard from the NHS. But on July 25, she received a second-class letter dated July 9 informing her that she could undergo the operation free of charge on August 3. Mrs Worth, who works as an administrative…

Marissa Mayer has warned that nobody can say with certainty how artificial intelligence will develop, while arguing that the chances of a damaging outcome remain below 50 per cent. The former Google executive and Yahoo chief executive said AI represented “a new form of intelligence” during a discussion with Diane Brady at the annual Most Powerful Women Summit in California. “Anyone who says they know how this is going to play out is either lying or arrogant or both,” Mayer said when asked about the debate surrounding frontier AI laboratories. She said the uncertainty applied in both directions, acknowledging that…

Britney Spears was spotted having lunch in New York City while attempting to keep a low profile, using a scarf to cover her face as she dined at RinTinTin. The pop star spent just over an hour inside the restaurant before appearing to leave with food to go. Her bodyguards were later seen carrying a brown paper bag from the venue. Eyewitnesses said Spears drank three glasses of red wine during her visit. It was not clear whether she had been recognised inside the restaurant. After getting into a car, Spears was seen smoking cigarettes in the back seat while…

Australians are being urged to donate unwanted clothes as the Australian Red Cross and Uber offer free collections from homes across six capital cities on Saturday. The annual Uber x Red Cross Clothing Drive will run from 10am to 4pm in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra, with donations collected from doorsteps and delivered to Red Cross shops. People can book a free courier through the Uber or Uber Eats app. The initiative is running for the eighth consecutive year and aims to give quality pre-loved clothes, shoes and accessories a second life while raising funds for Red Cross…