12 minutes ago Hillbilly Elegy star Glenn Close says she ‘doesn’t know what happened’ to JD Vance

Actor expressed confusion over Vance’s ‘whole different personality’

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13 hours ago Inside the 'Counterfeit Street' unit where fake perfume and watches went for £15

A 68 year-old trader has been convicted and sentenced - again

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11 hours ago Manchester City fan cries in court after he 'went too far' at Liverpool away game

Kian Holt was spotted banging on a metal wall and chanting slurs at rival fans 'out of anger'

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46 minutes ago Stuart Hogg: Former Scotland captain faces sentencing after admitting to abuse of estranged wife

Stuart Hogg, the former Scotland captain, will face sentencing today over domestic abuse charges

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15 hours ago Harry Maguire banned from driving for doing 85mph on a 50mph road near Manchester Airport

Maguire was not present at Bolton Magistrates' Court today when magistrates handed out a 'discretionary' 56 day driving ban

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2 hours ago Elon Musk is a monster bully on the loose, but he can only get his way if we let him | Martin Kettle

The democratic order has faced down tyrants and megalomaniacs before. The name of the game for liberals for 2025 and beyond must be survivalThey can smell the fear. And they are thrilled by what they can smell. Fanned by a mesmerised media at home and abroad, the thrill excites them into fresh provocations. Donald Trump knows the US’s allies’ nerves are jangling as his second presidency approaches – and he wants to keep it that way. Elon Musk is similarly glorying in his power to provoke and misinform without suffering penalty or reprimand – least of all from most of Britain’s politicians and press.Both men are bullies. And this is what bullies do. However, there is no disputing that this is also their moment. The Trump inauguration on 20 January will be an in-your-face celebration of America First power. It will also be a requiem that consigns large parts of the rules-based postwar global settlement to the grave.Martin Kettle is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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15 hours ago Trump to declare national economic emergency in order to push through tariffs, report says

President-elect has threatened nations including Canada, Mexico and China with steep duties on their products even before taking office

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53 minutes ago Shamima Begum and British ISIS members should be allowed back in UK, says Trump terror chief

Sebastian Gorka said any nation which wishes to be seen as a "serious ally" of the US should commit to the international fight against the extremist group by repatriating citizens

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3 hours ago ‘A very dicey situation’: Arctic rivalry behind Trump’s push for Greenland

The island has long been vital to US security and its importance is only increasing

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17 hours ago Labour 'offering to pay Mauritius nearly £9billion' as part of Chagos Islands deal in bid to rush through agreement before Donald Trump re

The Government is currently scrambling to save its agreement to surrender control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which hosts a strategically vital UK-US military base.

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2 hours ago London named the best destination in the world in the 2025 Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Awards, with New York top in the U.S. Is YOUR favourite spot a winner?

The winners for the awards were identified based on the quality and quantity of global Tripadvisor reviews specific to several award subcategories between October 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024.

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3 hours ago Gavin Newsom appears on the verge of tears as he is confronted over Trump's claims he caused LA fires

Gavin Newsom became emotional when asked about Donald Trump placing the blame on the California governor for the disastrous, killer wildfires that have ravaged the state.

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17 hours ago Trump considers declaring national economic emergency to impose tariffs

Move would allow president-elect to implement broad tariffs after threatening Panama, Greenland and CanadaDonald Trump is mulling over the idea to declare a national economic emergency to impose widespread tariffs, CNN reports, as the president-elect escalates threats to seize the Panama Canal, acquire Greenland and force Canada into becoming a US state.The emergency powers move would allow Trump to implement broad tariff measures against both allies and adversaries through the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, according to four sources familiar with the discussions. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Russell Brand faces court after being charged by police with driving offences

A police prosecution of Russell Brand is due to be heard by the courts today

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7 hours ago DAN MCLAUGHLIN: Trump's 'crazy' scheme to take Greenland and Panama by force is really his most ingenious real estate deal yet

There are three things to remember in real estate: location, location, location. It's all you need to know about Trump's vows to take Greenland and the Panama Canal, by any means necessary.

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19 hours ago Group of masked teens who raided Apple store 'stole £50k of phones', court hears

Horrified shoppers fled with their children the group of 10 helped themselves to the phones at the store at Brent Cross Shopping Centre, northwest London.

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4 hours ago Country over party should be approach of Anas Sarwar as he tries to halt Labour freefall

Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says Scottish Labour cannot go for unswerving loyalty to Keir Starmer if they want to turn around their dismal poll rating.

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8 hours ago Trump and Justice Alito spoke just hours before urging Supreme Court to block hush money sentencing

The president-elect called the conservative justice the night before a last-ditch demand to stop his sentencing in New York

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20 hours ago Trump ‘considering national economic emergency declaration’ to allow new tariffs; UK borrowing costs rise again – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsRise in UK borrowing costs could push Reeves to new public spending cutsTwo UK investment trusts have urged their shareholders to resist an attempt by a US hedge fund to take control.Janus Henderson’s European Smaller Companies Trust, and its Henderson Opportunities Trust, both recommended that investors vote against Saba Capital’s attempt to shake-up their boards and appoint its own directors instead. “The European Smaller Companies Trust is a well-managed investment company whose strategy has delivered long-term outperformance.“Saba is attempting to take control of your Company by removing a highly qualified, independent board that acts in all shareholders’ interests. It’s clear that Saba’s motives are self-serving. It would like to install directors who would not be independent of the Company’s largest shareholder and has indicated that it may appoint itself as investment manager.The cleverness of Weinstein’s campaign is t...

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5 hours ago Britain MUST take back Shamima Begum and other Isis members from Syrian prisons, Trump's terror chief says

Sebastian Gorka, a British-American, called on Sir Keir Starmer to bring the citizens home as part of his 'commitment' to the international fight against the jihadist group.

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8 hours ago British IS members in Syria should be allowed home, says Trump’s counter

Sebastian Gorka says letting people in prison camps return to Britain would benefit the ‘special relationship’ with USBritish nationals being held in Syrian prison camps for fighting on behalf of Islamic State should be allowed to return to the UK, Donald Trump’s incoming counter-terrorism chief has said.Any country that wants to be a “serious ally” to the United States should commit to the international fight against the extremist group by repatriating its citizens, according to Sebastian Gorka. Continue reading...

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28 hours ago Stock market today: Asian shares slip after Wall St slumps despite strong US economic data

Asian markets are mostly lower after shares slumped on Wall Street despite better-than-expected reports on the U.S. jobs market and business activity

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6 hours ago New Orleans hires former New York police czar amid investigations into security after terror attack

New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick says she has hired former New York Police Commissioner William J

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9 hours ago Melania Trump joins Donald in the Capitol Rotunda to pay respects to Jimmy Carter ahead of his funeral

The 78-year-old president-elect said it was 'great' to be back in Congress before heading in for talks.

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32 hours ago Lawyers collecting $148 million judgment from Rudy Giuliani say World Series rings must be given up

Lawyers for two election workers who are owed $148 million in damages from Rudy Giuliani say the evidence proves their clients are entitled to three World Series rings that the former New York City mayor says he gave to his son

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6 hours ago Critics Choice Awards and Bafta Tea Party among events impacted by fires

Production has come to a halt on several television programmes as US authorities attempted to bring the Californian blaze under control.

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9 hours ago ESPN’s Stephen A Smith claims Americans can ‘relate’ to Trump ‘talking smack’ about Canada

Trump has also been calling for the US to acquire Greenland since his first term

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7 hours ago Longshoremen reach tentative agreement with ports, shippers, averting a potential strike

U.S. longshoremen have reached a contract agreement with ports and shippers, averting a potential strike that could have damaged the American economy

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9 hours ago Canadian politician urges THREE U.S. states to join their country in response to Trump... with an enticing offer

Another Canadian politician suggested that some states leave the U.S. and join the neighbors to the north.

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8 hours ago SAS troops had a 'golden pass' to 'get away with the murder' of Afghans, court papers claim

A British Special Forces unit had a 'golden pass allowing them to get away with murder', a former senior military officer told a public inquiry.

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9 hours ago KEIR STARMER: My Labour government will put people smugglers out of business by hitting them where it hurts

'Across Europe, shadowy criminal gangs are making millions from smuggling people into Britain', writes SIR KEIR STARMER

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9 hours ago Cheryl 'being terrorised by convicted killer': Stalker 'showed up at country mansion star lives at with son Bear just days after Liam Payne's funeral'

Daniel Bannister, 49, has said to have become 'fixated' with the Girls Aloud star, 41, and even turned up at her and her seven-year-old son Bear's home.

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9 hours ago How much did it cost U.S. to acquire its territories? What to know as Trump escalates calls to take Greenland

The U.S. has purchased multiple territories and states since it’s formation

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9 hours ago Migrant exploitation is a progressive issue. That’s why we will now take the toughest steps ever to stop it | David Lammy

Our new sanctions regime targets those profiting from irregular migration and organised immigration crime. We must be focused and smartIn January 1946, the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, stared into the geopolitical fog. The second world war had only just ended. The cold war, which would last more than four decades, was only just beginning. It was hard to see six months, let alone six years ahead.But Bevin did not sit waiting for the fog to clear. He was a minister of action, who saw that what matters is not just what Britain says, but what it does. What matters is not just what Britain wants, but what it builds. What matters is having a strategy. This is why Clement Attlee’s 1945 general election manifesto was called Let Us Face the Future.David Lammy is British foreign secretaryDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. ...

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10 hours ago Meta rolls back hate speech rules as Zuckerberg cites 'recent elections' as a catalyst

It wasn’t just fact-checking that Meta scrapped from its platforms as it prepares for the second Trump administration

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9 hours ago Fire hydrants ran dry in California, highlighting a major problem in firefighting

Some Los Angeles fire hydrants have run dry as demand soared for water to quell wildfires that broke out across the county

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10 hours ago ‘It would be like Hawaii’: Republicans open to Trump’s Canada and Greenland proposal

‘There’s some good arguments,’ one Republican senator tells The Independent ahead of Trump’s return to Capitol Hill

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10 hours ago Elon Musk uses wildfires to attack California’s DEI practices — as MAGA faithful spread wild conspiracies

Musk joined President-elect Donald Trump in lashing out at state officials and pointing fingers over the devastating fires

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10 hours ago Mexican president hits back at ‘misinformed’ Trump: ‘Why don’t we call it Mexican America?’

‘I think that yesterday, President Trump was misinformed, with all due respect to President Trump,’ Claudia Sheinbaum stated after his Gulf of America suggestion

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11 hours ago Man arrested for trying to bring a machete into the US Capitol Visitor Center

Police say a man has been arrested for trying to bring a machete and knives into the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center

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10 hours ago The cosmetics billionaire behind Trump’s obsession with buying Greenland

Trump’s interest in aquiring Greenland has a long and storied history

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11 hours ago Pamela Anderson looks radiant in white after getting her first SAG Awards nomination for The Last Showgirl

Pamela Anderson looked absolutely radiant as she arrived at the SiriusXM studios in New York City. The Baywatch star, 57, wore an oversized white cardigan and wide-legged pants from Chanel.

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11 hours ago Barcelona able to field Olmo and Víctor after Spain’s sports council intervenes

Sports council grants players temporary registrationPair could feature in Sunday’s Spanish Super Cup finalDani Olmo and Pau Víctor will be able to play for Barcelona after Spain’s supreme sports council (CSD) granted them temporary registration while it investigates an appeal lodged by the club against the removal of their licences by La Liga.Registration did not arrive in time for Olmo or Víctor to play the semi-final of the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday night, but they will be available for Sunday’s final against Real Madrid or Real Mallorca. Continue reading...

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12 hours ago Stowaways on planes and inside landing gear raise worries about aviation security

What is going on with aviation security

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11 hours ago Quakers pull NYT ad rather than bow to pressure to drop Israel ‘genocide’ claim

Organization said paper’s refusal ‘outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth’, choosing ‘silence over accountability’The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization that advocates for peace, said on Monday the group cancelled a planned advertisement in the New York Times in response to the paper refusing to allow it to refer to Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide.“The refusal of The New York Times to run paid digital ads that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza is an outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth,” said Joyce Ajlouny, general secretary for the AFSC, in a press release. “Palestinians and allies have been silenced and marginalized in the media for decades as these institutions choose silence over accountability. It is only by challenging this reality that we can hope to forge a path toward a more just and equitable world.” Continue reading...

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13 hours ago Ohio Supreme Court hears arguments in watchdog group's records dispute with state attorney general

The Ohio Supreme Court has heard arguments in a long-running public records dispute involving state Attorney General Dave Yost and a watchdog group

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11 hours ago Quaker group pulls NYT ad over paper’s refusal to let it call Israel’s Gaza bombing ‘genocide’

Organization said paper’s refusal ‘outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth’, choosing ‘silence over accountability’The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization that advocates for peace, said on Monday the group cancelled a planned advertisement in the New York Times in response to the paper refusing to allow it to refer to Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide.“The refusal of The New York Times to run paid digital ads that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza is an outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth,” said Joyce Ajlouny, general secretary for the AFSC, in a press release. “Palestinians and allies have been silenced and marginalized in the media for decades as these institutions choose silence over accountability. It is only by challenging this reality that we can hope to forge a path toward a more just and equitable world.” Continue reading...

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13 hours ago Criminal's mother 'died ashamed of him' as 'everyone in her block of flats' talked about her

"Mark’s behaviour makes me feel ashamed and disappointed..."

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11 hours ago Trump blasted for ‘obsession’ over Greenland by Democrats as he returns to Capitol Hill: Live

Congressional Democrats suggest president-elect focus on cost of living over fantasies about US territorial expansion as he returns to D.C. to meet with GOP senators

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14 hours ago Revealed: Teen rapper, 14, stabbed to death on Woolwich bus was due in court tomorrow accused of bringing machete into college

Aspiring drill rapper Kelyan Bokassa was said to have brought the weapon into Ravensbourne College in Greenwich on May 3 last year.

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