37 h. ago POLL OF THE DAY: Should juries be told whether defendants are asylum seekers?

Pakistani national Sheraz Malik, 28, was found guilty of raping a 'vulnerable' teenage girl whom he and a friend pounced on in a park in the constituency of Reform MP Lee Anderson.

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37 h. ago The US drew up a plan to invade Canada in 1930. Now Trump is reviving old fears

Now the US is vying regional dominance, experts point to War Plan Red as proof its Canadian allyship has always been flimsyFirst, American forces would strike with poison gas munitions, seizing a strategically valuable port city. Soldiers would sever undersea cables, destroy bridges and rail lines to paralyze infrastructure. Major cities on the shores of lakes and rivers would be captured in order to blunt any civilian resistance.The multipronged invasion would rely on ground forces, amphibious landing and then mass internments. According to the architects of the plan, the attack would be short-lived and the besieged country would fall within days. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago ‘Enemy of Europe’? How Trump’s push for Greenland spooked far

Leaders and voters who formerly applauded US president’s aims have been growing increasingly uneasy Donald Trump’s attempted Greenland grab has driven a wedge between the US president and some of his ideological allies in Europe, as previously unstinting enthusiasm and admiration collides with one of the far right’s key tenets: national sovereignty.Trump’s subsequent disparaging remark that Nato allies’ troops “stayed a little off the frontlines” while fighting with US forces in Afghanistan has only deepened the divide, piquing far-right patriotic sentiments and prompting an avalanche of criticism. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago A week of ICE and outrage in Minneapolis: the turmoil of the days leading up to Alex Pretti’s death

Since the Trump administration sent ICE agents into the city in December, there have been 3,000 arrests and two fatal shootings. In the freezing cold, as the crisis deepens, the Minnesotan people continue to resistIn many ways, Alex Pretti and Renee Good could have been any of the dozens of Minneapolis residents I met last week. Among them were teachers, store clerks, Uber drivers, charity workers and clergymen – a patchwork of humanity withstanding what many have called the Trump administration’s siege on their city, which began in December last year and has led to 3,000 arrests, two fatal shootings, and routine rights violations in an operation defined by government brutality.What the administration has attempted to laud as the largest immigration operation in US history has instead become a fully fledged crisis, and the sharpest test of American democracy under Trump’s second term. Continue reading...

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39 h. ago Teofimo Lopez vs Shakur Stevenson is a fight for the future of American boxing

Lopez and Stevenson would have fit right in at any point in the electric Eighties and Nineties but, as Steve Bunce writes, US boxing needs them to deliver right now

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40 h. ago Tourists ditching US trips after fury over Trump and ICE, poll suggests

Exclusive: Four out of five of 12,000 respondents on X say they would not go to America

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40 h. ago IShowSpeed says incredible Africa trip ‘opened my eyes’ as streamer ends viral tour of continent

‘I’ve done so many incredible things in my life but this trip is different,’ said the American streamer as he concluded his tour of the continent

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41 h. ago Jake Paul’s fiancee Jutta Leerdam shows off incredible figure in black bikini as she enjoys hot tub with boxer

JAKE PAUL's fiancée Jutta Leerdam set pulses racing this week with a steamy clip of the couple on social media. The 27-year-old is preparing to represent the Netherlands in the Winter Olympics next month. The speed skater has been hard at work preparing for next month's competition. But she's also making sure to take as...

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41 h. ago Katy Perry and Pedro Pascal among celebrities calling for citizen action after Minnesota shootings

Singer Billie Eilish called Alex Pretti ‘a real American hero’ while the NBA Players Association says they ‘can no longer remain silent’

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42 h. ago 'Come on Margaret': Did Queen Elizabeth's first 'viral moment' help bring America into WW2?

Robert Hardman explained how Elizabeth was winning over American hearts from childhood, starting with her very first radio broadcast on October 13, 1940.

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42 h. ago Alexander Zverev keeps his cool to see off rising star Learner Tien

Zverev moved through to the semi-finals with a 6-3 6-7 (5) 6-1 7-6 (3) victory.

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42 h. ago Streamer IShowSpeed samples food and learns traditional dances in African tour

The American streamer and YouTuber IShowSpeed is wrapping up a 28-day tour of Africa aimed at showcasing the continent's cultural diversity

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42 h. ago I pranked Americans into thinking I was a member of the Royal family

Max Fosh, 30, from London, appeared on the Spent podcast, in association with Nationwide, where he revealed some of his wildest purchases to host Matt Edmondson.

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42 h. ago Go west! Richard Avedon’s working class heroes – in pictures

From crying miners to birthday girls via a body therapist and a meat packer, portraits from Richard Avedon’s celebrated series In the American West are on show in a new exhibition curated by his granddaughter Continue reading...

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43 h. ago A young refugee fleeing after Kristallnacht, Marianne will never forget the final embrace with her father

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the children who fled Nazi persecution. Marianne Philipps, now 102, recalls the final hug with her father before boarding the Kindertransport - a farewell she would never forget. Beth Abbit reports.

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43 h. ago The young 'Survivor Guardians' keeping stories of the Holocaust alive

Holocaust Memorial Day: Emilia, Joe and Dylan have made new friends with incredible stories to tell. Beth Abbit reports on a remarkable and vital project.

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43 h. ago Why even renewable energy firms are worried by speed of North Sea oil industry's decline

Nick Tyrone expected renewables companies to be overwhelmingly positive the energy sector’s future. He was wrong

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43 h. ago ‘From national jokes to national treasures’: The rise, fall and rise again of Take That

A new Netflix documentary offers the most comprehensive look yet at the remarkable story of one of the UK’s biggest boybands. Roisin O’Connor speaks to director David Soutar about getting the band to trust him with telling it

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44 h. ago California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of Trump

Newsom launched a review of the platform, despite TikTok saying a systems failure was responsible for the issueCalifornia governor Gavin Newsom has accused TikTok of suppressing content critical of president Donald Trump, as he launched a review of the platform’s content moderation practices to determine if they violated state law, even as the platform blamed a systems failure for the issues.The step comes after TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, said last week it had finalised a deal to set up a majority US-owned joint venture that will secure US data, to avoid a US ban on the short video app used by more than 200 million Americans. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago White House blames Minnesota Democrats and distances Trump from Alex Pretti ‘assassin’ remarks

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the shooting and killing by a federal immigration officer of Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti “occurred as a result of a deliberate and hostile resistance by Democrat leaders in Minnesota.”

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