The Bull Ring

ℍ𝕠𝕨 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡’𝕤 𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝔹𝕖𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕖 ℝ𝕖𝕝𝕦𝕔𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝔸𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕤 𝕎𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕠 𝕕𝕖𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥 𝕚𝕞𝕞𝕚𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕌𝕊. 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕤𝕖𝕖𝕞𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕛𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕗𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕪 𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪. T he German barber, restaurant-owner and property speculator Friedrich Trump and his young wife Elisabeth did not intend to spend their married life in the United States. Both had been born in the small town of Kallstadt, in the Pfalz (or Palatinate) region in southwestern Germany, not far from the French border. Ex US President Trump loves the poorly educated Americans. Thats why he loves June (Redacted) and Tuition et al As a young man in the 1880s Friedrich had left Europe to seek his fortune in America during the Gold Rush, heading to Washington State and the Yukon to open hotel-restaurants catering to gold-diggers. After marrying Elisabeth in 1901 the couple moved to ...

  Outcry after hospitals denies new mums toast and tea after labour Rachel Helyer Donaldson , Journalist rachel.helyerdonaldson@rnz.co.nz Toast and a cuppa are the least we can offer a new mum after going through labour, critics say, after a hospital cancelled provision of the pantry staples. Photo: pixabay Hundreds of Wellington residents have piled on to social media to call for tea and toast to be put back on the menu of the city's maternity wards. An email seen by RNZ to Capital, Coast and Hutt Valley staff on Thursday explains its patient food service provider, Spotless, will no longer provide bread and certain other foods on wards. Hospital services general manager Shane King told staff the patient food services budget had a $1.5 million overspend last financial year. He said much of the food was being eaten by staff and patient visitors: "In our current fiscal environment, it is untenable for these practice...

𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕜𝕤 𝕏 𝔹𝕒𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕫𝕚𝕝 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕫𝕚𝕝 𝕨𝕒𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕕𝕠𝕘 𝕞𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕝𝕠𝕔𝕜 𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝔼𝕝𝕠𝕟 𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕜'𝕤 𝕏 𝕒𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕥 𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕣 B razil's telecommunications regulator said on Friday local time it was proceeding to suspend access to Elon Musk's X social network in the country in compliance with an order from a judge who has been locked in a months-long feud with the billionaire investor. The move followed the expiry of a court-imposed deadline for the popular social media platform to name a legal representative in Brazil. Musk has argued that Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes is trying to enforce unjustified censorship, while the judge has insisted that social media needs hate speech regulations. "They're shutting down the #1 source of truth in Brazil," Musk said in a post on X on Friday. . . X remained accessible in Brazil on Friday evening local time. The feud has also led to the freezing earlier thi...

𝔸𝔹𝔹𝔸 𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕡 𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔 𝕒𝕥 𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕚𝕘𝕟 𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕊𝕨𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕡𝕠𝕡 𝕘𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕡 𝔸𝔹𝔹𝔸 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕒𝕤𝕜𝕖𝕕 𝕌.𝕊. ℝ𝕖𝕡𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝔻𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕕 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕡 𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕠𝕤 𝕒𝕥 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕒𝕚𝕘𝕟 𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕤, 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕒𝕟𝕕'𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕕 𝕝𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕝 𝕤𝕒𝕚𝕕. A BBA hits including ' The Winner Takes It All ', 'Money, Money, Money' and 'Dancing Queen' were played at a rally held by Trump and his running mate JD Vance on 27 July in Minnesota, accompanied by videos, said Swedish daily  Svenska Dagbladet , which had a reporter at the event. . . "Together with the members of ABBA, we have discovered that videos have been released where ABBA's music has been used at Trump events, and we have therefore requested that such use be immediately removed and tak...

  New Zealand First member's bill seeks to disband Auckland Transport Maia Ingoe , Journalist @MaiaIngoe maia.ingoe@rnz.co.nz New Zealand First wants to disestablish Auckland Transport. Photo: LDR New Zealand First wants to kill Auckland's transportation authority and allow council to create a new organisation. NZ First leader and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters said Auckland Transport was a failed experiment without enough accountability to the people of Auckland. Auckland Transport was first established in 2010, when Auckland's seven districts amalgamated into the city council, taking over the work of the Auckland Regional Transportation Authority. It is one of four council-controlled organisations in Auckland, with the council responsible for appointing at least 50 percent of the board. New Zealand First has introduced a member's bill that would disestablish Auckland Transport. Peters said if passed i...

FBI says gunman spent months seeking a target, then settled on Trump By Andrew Goudsward and Andy Sullivan , Reuters BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA - JULY 13: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on 13 July 13, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP The gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump mounted a "sustained, detailed effort" to attack a major gathering of some sort before deciding to target the Republican presidential candidate at a Pennsylvania rally in July, FBI officials said on Wednesday. FBI officials said Thomas Crooks, 20, searched more than 60 times for information about the Republican presidential candidate and his then-rival, Democratic president Joe Biden, before registering for the Trump rally in early July. "We saw ... a sustained, detailed effort to plan an attack on some events, meaning he looked at any number of events or ta...

  Trump staff had physical altercation with Arlington cemetery official - US media report Donald Trump lays a wreath alongside Marine Corporal Kelsee Lainhart (Ret.) and and US Marine Corps' Sergeant Tyler Vargas-Andrews (Ret.) at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on August 26, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. Photo: AFP Two members of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign staff had a "verbal and physical altercation" with an Arlington National Cemetery official during a visit by Trump this week, NPR reported on Tuesday. Trump on Monday participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery honouring the 13 service members killed during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Later in Detroit, Trump blamed Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival for the White House, and President Joe Biden for what he termed a "catastrophic" withdrawal. Photo: AFP ...

  Junior doctors warn losing admin staff will hurt patients after call for voluntary redundancies Ruth Hill , Reporter ruth.hill@rnz.co.nz Losing more admin staff will load more paperwork on doctors - taking them away from patients, a union representing junior doctors says. Photo: 123rf Junior doctors warn losing more admin support will hurt patients as they will have less time to care for them. Health New Zealand is asking for voluntary redundancies from admin and advisory staff, as it continues to cut costs. A union representing junior doctors, Speciality Trainees of New Zealand, said the current hiring freeze on support staff had already loaded more paperwork on its members. Union spokesperson Emma Littlehales said "so-called back-office redundancies" would impact frontline medical staff and their patients. "Our members have already seen the effect of a hiring freeze on their work and how it has taken away ...

ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕕𝕣𝕠𝕡 𝕚𝕟𝕧𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕘𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 ℕ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝 𝕄ℙ ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕕 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕒𝕘𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕥 ℕ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝 𝕄ℙ 𝔻𝕒𝕧𝕚𝕕 𝕄𝕒𝕔𝕃𝕖𝕠𝕕'𝕤 𝕗𝕒𝕚𝕝𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕖 $𝟙𝟟𝟠,𝟛𝟡𝟜 𝕚𝕟 𝕕𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤. T he Electoral Commission  referred the matter to police  in June after the MP for New Plymouth had a month earlier unveiled what he called an "inadvertent error". A police spokesperson said they had "completed their enquiries into this matter and no further action will be taken" in a statement to RNZ on Thursday. . . The backbench MP had originally disclosed just $29,268 in donations from seven donors, but later amended it to $207,662 from 24 donors. In May MacLeod said he thought he was  filing a return for the 2023 year only , so left out 18 donations he had received when he became a candidate the previous year. He also failed to disclose a $10,000 donation from 2023...

ℂ𝕝𝕚𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝕚𝕤 𝕒𝕟 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕦𝕝𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℙ𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕗𝕚𝕔 𝔻𝕖𝕡𝕦𝕥𝕪 ℙ𝕣𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕍𝕒𝕠𝕧𝕒𝕤𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕚𝕒 𝕎𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕟 ℙ𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕓𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕔𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕒𝕕𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕥𝕠 ℙ𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕗𝕚𝕔 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕠𝕟 𝕔𝕝𝕚𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖. V aovasamanaia Winston Peters' time at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga is over as the Deputy Prime Minister headed home on Tuesday. His departure signalled Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's arrival for his first PIF summit. But Peters' farewell speech in Nuku'alofa, hours before his flight, has not been received well by many people. . . The Minister for Foreign Affairs downplayed the impact of emissions on climate change, casting doubt over whether Aotearoa would continue to offer any generous climate finance when the current Budget runs out next year. "Do I believe in climate change? The answer is for thousands and thousands and thousan...