73 minutes ago SNP using government quangos to avoid taking responsibility for their actions

In his Daily Record column, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says the buck will stop with ministers if he wins next year's Holyrood election.

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9 hours ago California fires live: Governor Newsom suspends environmental laws to allow rebuilding in fire zones

At least 16 people have been killed so far as death toll expected to rise, Los Angeles county sheriff says Full story: stronger winds threaten further destruction, officials warnPoliticians quibbling as LA burns: Newsom’s latest beef with TrumpDetails emerge about the LA fire victimsA video shows a fire tornado spotted in the Palisades blaze:As is noted in our news report on the California wildfires, at least 20 arrests have been made for looting. Officials have imposed a mandatory curfew in evacuation zones as well as in the city of Santa Monica, which is next to Pacific Palisades. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Scott McTominay's Napoli increase Serie A lead amid more £40m Man Utd links as Scotland ace ends drought

Rollercoaster weekend in Italy for number of Scotland stars

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51 minutes ago California governor accuses Musk of ‘encouraging looting’ with misleading LA fires claim

Factually incorrect posts shared by Elon Musk on his social media site claim California governor Gavin Newsom decriminalised looting

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9 hours ago NHS hospital recruits 'corridor nurses' to treat patients on trolleys in overwhelmed A&E department

A London hospital is recruiting staff to work as 'corridor nurses' to treat patients waiting in trolleys as they face a period of 'extraordinary pressure'.

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73 minutes ago Swinney is taking control of the NHS because he knows it is his Government's weakness

Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says Swinney has presided over a remarkable turnaround for the SNP, but voters may still punish him over public services.

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17 hours ago Chinese investment of £600 million in UK ‘a start’, says Cabinet minister

Science Secretary Peter Kyle said the Chancellor has returned from China with ‘solid commitments for investment’.

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2 hours ago The council bosses who failed victims of the Rotherham grooming gang: How senior leaders have pursued roles as government advisers, bankers

The independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation condemned senior officials who 'underplayed' the scale of the 'appalling' abuse against girls as young as 11.

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73 minutes ago The SNP government is failing patients and staff feel worn out and demoralised

Record View says it's encouraging that John Swinneyhas taken charge of the way his government runs the NHS, but they must cut waiting times, improve staffing levels and ease the pressure.

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24 hours ago ‘A welfare state with a budget on the right side of zero’: Iceland’s youngest

Kristrún Frostadóttir, who entered politics just four years ago, speaks to the Observer about feminism, the far right and reopening talks on joining the EUNearly 45 years ago, Iceland made history by producing the world’s first elected female president of a country, setting it on a path to being the global feminist frontrunner it is today.Since then it has had multiple female presidents and prime ministers, but it wasn’t until three weeks ago, when social democrat Kristrún Frostadóttir took office, that the country’s two top positions were both held by women at the same time. It comes after Halla Tómasdóttir became Iceland’s second female president in August. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago ‘Increased survival rates’ for bladder cancer patients given immunotherapy drug

Experts said Durvalumab could be a ‘game changer’.

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73 minutes ago Scottish Labour MP encourages colleagues to speak out and 'hold UK Government to account'

EXCLUSIVE: Brian Leishman said backbench Labour MPs have to "make sure that the values and the ideals and the principles of the Labour Party are enacted in Government."

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27 hours ago This £22m school opened in September. So why are staff now facing redundancy and being told state of the art facilities may never be used?

The 'much needed' Ysgol Robert Owen, funded by the Welsh Government and Powys Council, has empty places and is making cuts five months after opening

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8 hours ago United Airlines passengers' horror after loss of cabin pressure forces emergency descent

The pilot of United flight 4166 plane full of passengers made an emergency descent to 10,000 ft after the cabin of the United Airlines flight suffered a rapid decompression

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3 hours ago Government 'will start flogging your health data' in new move to 'turbocharge' Labour's growth plans with AI

Ministers are getting ready to open up the UK's store of NHS data to large tech companies in a bid to place the country at the centre of the worldwide AI revolution.

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9 hours ago JD Vance slams ‘incompetent’ California government as Gavin Newsom battles wildfire conspiracy theories

California governor slams ‘delusional’ Trump while incoming VP highlights fire hydrants failing on firefighters

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3 hours ago ANDREW NEIL: We're ruled by the most useless government in living memory. Elon Musk threatens their monopoly... bring it on!

Elon Musk and Dominic Cummings are in cahoots to upend British politics as we've known it, bringing down Keir Starmer in the process.

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11 hours ago Swedish PM says country neither at war nor at peace as armed forces enter Baltic

Ulf Kristersson says ‘hostile intent cannot be ruled out’ as increased surveillance follows suspected cable sabotage The Swedish prime minister has said that his country is neither at war nor at peace as he announced that Sweden would be sending armed forces into the Baltic sea for the first time as part of increased surveillance efforts amid a spate of suspected sabotage of undersea cables.The country announced it will contribute up to three warships and a surveillance aircraft to a Nato effort to monitor critical infrastructure and Russia’s “shadow fleet” as the alliance tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago BROOKE SHIELDS: My mother's alcoholism was a source of agony for me. I was always on edge... always guilt ridden. I wanted my own daughters to be free of those feelings

As a kid, I was burdened by obligations - whether to my mother, societal pressure, the demands of the movie industry or the public's expectations of who I was supposed to be.

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11 hours ago Sweden neither at war nor at peace, says PM, as warships sent to Baltic Sea

Ulf Kristersson says ‘hostile intent cannot be ruled out’ as increased surveillance follows suspected cable sabotage The Swedish prime minister has said that his country is neither at war nor at peace as he announced that Sweden would be sending armed forces into the Baltic Sea for the first time as part of increased surveillance efforts amid a spate of suspected sabotage of undersea cables.The country announced it will contribute up to three warships and a surveillance aircraft to a Nato effort to monitor critical infrastructure and Russia’s “shadow fleet” as the alliance tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure. Continue reading...

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4 hours ago Labour ministers are urged to urgently crackdown on LED headlights that dazzle other drivers

The Government is being urged to commission an independent study into the issue after a survey found nine in 10 drivers think at least some headlights on cars on the road today are too bright

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11 hours ago China's mystery HMPV virus spreads to India and Malaysia as cases 'skyrocket' in UK

The human metapneumovirus (HMPV) has recorded a 'significant increase' in China and is now reportedly spreading to other countries, with India and Malaysia being hit

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5 hours ago How much the average house seller made last year compared to when they bought

On average, sellers had owned their home for just under nine years

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13 hours ago California fires could be costliest disaster in US history, says governor

Gavin Newsom accuses Trump of spreading disinformation after president-elect calls emergency response ‘incompetent’

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13 hours ago Watch live: Los Angeles County officials give wildfire update as death toll rises

Watch live as Los Angeles County officials give an update on the deadly wildfires today (12 January) as California governor Gavin Newsom described the tragedy as the worst natural disaster in US history.

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5 hours ago Minister seeks to ease road safety concerns over brighter LED headlights

Motorists say they are feeling the strain of brighter headlights ‘more than ever before’, according to the AA.

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14 hours ago Keir Starmer ‘will act on findings of Tulip Siddiq investigation regardless of outcome’

Minister hits back after Tories call for PM to sack anti-corruption minister at centre of Bangladesh property rowKeir Starmer will act on the findings of an independent investigation into Tulip Siddiq’s conduct regardless of the outcome, a cabinet minister has said, as Kemi Badenoch called for her to be sacked.Badenoch, the Conservative leader, accused the prime minister of appointing “his personal friend as anti-corruption minister and she is accused herself of corruption”, after the Bangladesh government raised serious concerns about Siddiq’s links to the regime of Sheikh Hasina, her aunt. Continue reading...

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5 hours ago Scots ‘can benefit from Trump uncertainty’ in green energy investment: Forbes

The Deputy First Minister also defended the Government’s stance that it would meet the President-elect.

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14 hours ago Gavin Newsom is slammed for car crash interview as he furiously tries to shift blame for LA fires

Governor Gavin Newsom has given a list of possible reasons for how the wildfires in Los Angeles got so out of control while also denying he's been pointing the finger at others in an interview.

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7 hours ago ‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI

Keir Starmer plans to ‘unleash’ technology with massive investment and deployment, despite public fearsArtificial intelligence will be “mainlined into the veins” of the nation, ministers have announced, with a multibillion-pound investment in the UK’s computing capacity despite widespread public fear about the technology’s effects.Keir Starmer will launch a sweeping action plan to increase 20-fold the amount of AI computing power under public control by 2030 and deploy AI for everything from spotting potholes to freeing up teachers to teach. Continue reading...

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14 hours ago Sweden to contribute up to 3 warships to reinforced NATO presence in the Baltic

Sweden's government says the country will contribute up to three warships to a NATO effort to increase the alliance’s presence in the Baltic Sea as it tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure

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8 hours ago Labour's Tulip Siddiq is under fresh pressure to quit as Bangladesh's new leader says London properties given to the anti

Labour's anti-corruption minister is under fresh pressure to quit over her links to Bangladesh's ousted regime after the new leader of the country intervened in the controversy.

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16 hours ago £39m Russian superyacht owned by key Putin aide STILL on lockdown in London 'prison'

The £39m superyacht Phi, owned by a Russian property tycoon, was seized by the UK government back in 2022 - and remains imprisoned in Canary Wharf, covered in unsightly scaffolding

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10 hours ago California governor accuses Musk of ‘encouraging looting’ with misleading claims

Factually incorrect posts shared by Elon Musk on his social media site claim California governor Gavin Newsom decriminalised looting

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16 hours ago Urgent cyber attack warning as couples' sex toys 'could be weaponised by hackers'

Remote-controlled sex toys could be 'weaponised' by hackers as they don't use encrypted connections with smart phones, according to a concerning new government report

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11 hours ago The Guardian view on capital punishment: an upsurge in executions should concern us all | Editorial

The vast majority of countries have outlawed the death penalty. Yet the annual toll is growing – and Donald Trump wants to increase its useThe good news: Zimbabwe has just banned the death penalty. While it should remove an exemption clause, which might allow for capital punishment’s return were a state of emergency to be declared, the decision is another welcome step in the global journey towards abolition: 113 states have now banned executions.The bad news is that fewer countries have been killing more people in the last few years. Last May, Amnesty International recorded 1,153 executions in 2023, a 31% increase from the previous year and the highest level for almost a decade. (The figure is an underestimate since countries including China, believed to be the world’s largest executioner, do not publish data on the death penalty.) There was no letup in 2024. Iran reportedly executed more than 900 people. Saudi Arabia is believed to have killed another 330, compared with 172 in...

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16 hours ago Rise in vigilante attacks in US highlight growing online DIY terrorism resources

Availability of manuals and instructions on less moderated apps and forums is making extremist content accessibleA spate of recent vigilante and extremist attacks in the US have highlighted how the booming availability of internet resources is a growing national security concern.Experts and world governments have been sounding the alarm on digital radicalization as accessibility to materials such as assassination manuals, files for 3D printed guns, or something as simple as ChatGPT grows. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago The Guardian view on Argentina’s austerity year: painful cuts, rising poverty and a geopolitical gamble | Editorial

In his first 12 months Javier Milei has imposed drastic economic measures – sparking protests while banking on an IMF bailoutThe first foreign leader to meet Donald Trump after his victory last November was Argentina’s president, Javier Milei. The affinity is obvious: both are political outsiders united by extreme-right rhetoric and a penchant for anarchic capitalism. Mr Milei promised a war on bureaucrats, brutal public spending cuts and sweeping deregulation of Latin America’s second-largest economy. Predictably, the outcome has been devastating: a recession plunged more than half the country into poverty within the first six months of 2024.Mr Milei did not so much win the last election as the previous government lost it. When voters went to the polls in October 2023, monthly inflation stood at around 8%, fuelling frustration with the established parties and anxiety about the future – sentiments Mr Milei skilfully exploited. After his victory, monthly inflation soared to...

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17 hours ago US supreme court curbed public scrutiny as it boosted security before Roe ruling

Memo obtained by the Guardian mandates that court would maintain ‘exclusive’ control of all security-related recordsA newly uncovered document reveals that the US supreme court sought to beef up judicial protection, while also reducing public scrutiny of the court’s doings, before the court’s controversial decision to overturn Roe v Wade.The heavily redacted memorandum of agreement (MOA) on security is dated March 2022, and was obtained by the Guardian after being recently surfaced by governmentattic.com. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago JD Vance says Biden left Trump a ‘dumpster fire’ and lays out Jan 6 pardon strategy

Incoming vice president claims ‘we need to rectify’ prosecution of January 6 rioters who did not commit violence

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17 hours ago California governor Gavin Newsom hits out at 'delusional' Donald Trump over wildfire criticism

California governor Gavin Newsom has hit at Donald Trump over his LA wildfire response claims, calling the president-elect “delusional”.

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11 hours ago Ministers from 17 countries meet for Saudi talks on speeding aid to Damascus

Riyadh meeting also discussed keeping pressure on Syria’s new leadership to meet commitment to inclusive transitionMinisters from 17 Middle East and western countries have met in Riyadh to discuss how to speed aid to the new Syrian government while keeping pressure on the caretaker leadership to meet its commitment to run an administration representative of all religions and ethnic groups.The meeting on Sunday came as protesters in Syria called on the west to move faster on lifting economic sanctions, and so persuade more refugees to return from Europe and the states surrounding the country. Continue reading...

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18 hours ago Fury as California Governor Newsom claims 'he doesn't know how LA wildfires happened' and appears to throw LA Mayor Bass under the bus for not giving him 'straight answers'

Gavin Newsom has been accused of 'passing the buck' in his latest attempts to defend his response to the devastating 'Palisade Fire' which continues to rage.

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13 hours ago Dominic Cummings and Elon Musk in alleged WhatsApp plot to derail UK politics

Dominic Cummings and Elon Musk, who are both fiercely anti-establishment, are said to be scheming on WhatsApp to derail politics and the government in the UK

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19 hours ago Drinking tap water 'could be putting 27million people at greater risk of dementia'

Millions of people who live in 'softer water' areas could be at an increased risk of developing dementia, according to a new study

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