The GSA abolished its child-care office this month , firing all but one of the employees who didn’t take the deferred resignation offer.

Child-care advocates and former employees expect the office’s closure to result in less oversight and higher costs.

At least half of the children at these centers are required to be children or dependents of federal employees, though many families with no ties to the government use them.

Of the 82 child-care centers listed on the GSA website, 15 are in D.C. , 10 are in Maryland and one is in Virginia .

The GSA -overseen centers play an outsize role in the Washington -D.C. region.

One former GSA employee said the office was neglected and underfunded by the agency’s leadership.

Catholic Charities in San Diego will lay off 73 employees at its two shelters.

Jewish Family Service will do the same with about 115 employees at a San Diego Rapid Response Network shelter.

Casa del Migrante in Tijuana may also be forced to cut back services.

Border crossings began to fall after then-President Joe Biden issued an executive order in June limiting who could be screened for asylum at the border.

The agency didn't detail how much it cost to operate the San Diego facility, but in a news release first announcing the closures in other states, it estimated $5 million to $30 million per month for each facility.

In Tijuana , Casa del Migrante braced itself for months ahead of Jan. 20 for what was expected to be a higher number of deportees based on Trump ’s campaign promises of mass deportations.

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Primark boss Paul Marchant resigns after an allegation by a woman about his behaviour.

Mr Marchant co-operated with the investigation and apologised to the individual.

Primark is a key part of the wider ABF business, contributing 9.4bn in sales in the last financial year .

Goldman Sachs expects aggressive duties from the White House to raise inflation and unemployment.

The firm raised its forecast for inflation this year to 3.5% , cut its GDP outlook to just 1% and raised its unemployment view to 4.5% .

The investment bank now expects that tariff rates will jump 15 percentage points, its previous "risk-case" scenario.

Home loan rates probably won't fall drastically over the next few months .

Fannie Mae predicts the 30-year fixed rate will be 6.5% in Q2 2025 — and the Mortgage Bankers Association puts it at a whopping 6.8% The average 15-year mortgage rate is 5.91% today .

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The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate is 6.59% right now, according to Zillow .

If you want a lower rate, try saving more, improving your credit score, or paying down some debt.

Mortgage rates aren't expected to drop drastically in the near future, though they may inch down here and there.

Prince Harry says he is "in shock" after quitting as a patron of AIDS charity Sentebale .

Harry co- founded the charity in 2006 in honor of his mother, Princess Diana , nine years after she was killed in a Paris car crash.

Co-founder Prince Seeiso of Lesotho , as well as the board of trustees, joined Harry in leaving the charity.

Charity Commission says it is aware of concerns about the charity's governance.

Taiwo Owatemi, a government whip and MP for Coventry North West, made the claim after the landlord charged her extra to allow her cockapoo, Bella , to stay at her second home in London .

MPs can claim expenses to help cover work and living costs in London if their constituency is outside the capital.

Disability campaigners have called the claim a 'disgrace' as she is currently helping the government push through 5bn in cuts to disability benefits.

CBRE Investment Management sees potential for global listed real estate to outperform broad equities.

Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX) is a retail provider of data centers, allowing enterprise tenants to house servers and networking equipment in a co-located environment.

CFRA analyst Kenneth Leon upped the company’s stock from “Hold” to “ Strong Buy ,” setting the price objective to $ 985.00 .

Baron Funds , an investment management company, released its Q4 2024 investor letter.

The fund said that Equinix should compound its earnings per share at approximately 10% over the next few years .

Overall, EQIX ranks 5th on our list of best real estate stocks to buy according to billionaires.

Sentebale chair Sophie Chandauka accuses Prince Harry of “harassment and bullying at scale” after he announced his resignation last week .

The Duke of Sussex founded the charity with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and Prince Harry in 2006 .

The two originally set up the charity to honor their late mothers, Princess Diana and Queen Mamohato .

Harry and Seeiso said last week that the relationship between the charity’s trustees and the chair of the board “broke down beyond repair”.

Sentebale chair Dr Sophie Chandauka says Prince Harry is the 'number one risk' to the charity she ran with him.

She says he tried to "eject" her from the organisation after she refused to give a statement in support of the duchess.

She also accuses the prince of briefing against the charity in an attempt to force it to fail.

Dr Chandlerauka said she wasn't allowed to discuss the loss of sponsors when the Sussexes left the UK - but she was told: "It's an uncomfortable conversation to have with Prince Harry in the room" She also said she was asked to give Meghan a statement after a polo fundraiser - which she refused.

Source close to former trustees of the Sentebale charity has described Dr Chandauka 's account of the polo match as 'highly misleading' Sky News contacted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex about the contents of the interview with Trevor Phillips .

They declined to offer any formal response, but a source close to the former trustees described as categorically false.