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Microsoft gaming division suffers further layoffs

  Last week, it was   rumored   that Microsoft was getting ready for a major round of layoffs within the Xbox team.   Bloomberg  is now reporting   that employees in the company’s gaming division were informed of job cuts Wednesday morning. The PC giant has been on a cost-cutting mission lately,   announcing   it would let go of 3 percent of its global workforce earlier this summer, and announcing a   further 9,000 job cuts   on Wednesday. According to  Bloomberg , Microsoft’s Stockholm-based King division, famous for  Candy Crush , is laying off 10 percent of its staff, representing roughly 200 jobs. While some other European gaming offices are also cutting, US units are reportedly being informed later Wednesday.
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Majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's second term, but he leads on immigration: new poll

                              


WASHINGTON – A majority of Americans say they disapprove of  second term – with even some Republicans hitting the president – as immigration remains his strongest policy issue.

A new  conducted along with SurveyMonkey, found that 45% of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, while 55% disapprove. Those figures remain unchanged  in April.

Trump's rating differs along party lines. Among Republicans, 89% approve of the president's second term in office, compared to eight percent of Democrats and 35% of Independents. Approximately 12% of Republicans said they disapprove of the president's job, compared to 92% of Democrats and 65% of Independents.

Republicans were five percentage points less likely to report that they strongly support the president's administration, compared to the survey results from April. Much of that shift came from respondents who say they identify with the president's MAGA – Make America Great Again – movement.

The survey also found a so-called intensity gap among Republicans and Democrats over how they feel about the Trump administration’s actions. Pollsters asked respondents to pick one emotion from a list: Thrilled, happy, satisfied, neutral, dissatisfied, angry and furious.

Fifty-one percent of Democrats agreed that they feel "furious" about the Trump administration, compared to 23 percent of Republicans who agreed.

GOP survey respondents also shifted seven percentage points away from feeling "thrilled" about Trump from earlier surveys: 25% of Republicans said they felt thrilled over Trump’s actions in the latest poll, compared to 32% who said the same in April.

Still, only one percent of Republicans said they felt furious over Trump’s actions.


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