79 m. ago Judge approves Harvey Weinstein’s request to sleep at hospital during retrial

Ex-media boss moved from Rikers Island jail to Manhattan hospital as he awaits rape and sexual assault retrialHarvey Weinstein has been moved to a New York City hospital after a judge approved the ailing ex-studio boss’s request to stay there rather than in jail when he is not in court for his retrial on rape and sexual assault charges.The judge, Paul Goetz, late on Thursday ordered that Weinstein, 73, be immediately relocated from the city’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex to the prison ward at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan so he can receive necessary medical treatment. Continue reading...

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83 m. ago A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country

A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son’s birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges

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2 h. ago Lanarkshire residents struggling to pay council tax bills urged not to delay seeking help

Advice Direct Scotland, which runs the free moneyadvice.scotservice, said stricter recovery policies are likely to have the biggest impact on vulnerable people.

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2 h. ago Former Texas teacher accused of sexual relationship with middle school student

Kara Hernandez faces charges of indecency with a child involving sexual contact and an improper relationship with a student

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2 h. ago Arsenal v Lyon: five key factors in the Women’s Champions League semi

Joe Montemurro and Renée Slegers are reunited but can they find a way to stop each other’s array of attacking talent?The former Arsenal manager Joe Montemurro, who left the club at the end of the 2020-21 season, returns to the Emirates Stadium when Arsenal host the eight-time European champions Lyon on Saturday in their Champions League semi-final first leg. Montemurro, who led Arsenal to a first Women’s Super League title in seven years in 2019, was previously back in N5 in 2023, where his Juventus team lost 1-0 in the Champions League. Arsenal look very different, on and off the pitch, to the club he left. They upped their investment in and commitment to the women’s side after a review towards the end of Montemurro’s tenure, but a face familiar to him sits in the home dugout. While with Arsenal Montemurro was paired with Renée Slegers on the Uefa coach mentor programme in the early stages of the former Netherlands international’s coaching journey. Montemurro describes her as “a pe...

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3 h. ago FDA is quietly drawing up plans to end routine food safety inspections, report claims

The FDA denied that it was planning to make the changes

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3 h. ago The £15 collagen powder on Amazon for 'stronger' hair and 'youthful' skin

Over 17,600 Amazon customers have left a review for this bestselling collagen powder that "really works."

Economics

3 h. ago Driver crams van inside of lorry as it's spotted hanging out the back on motorway

Police collaborated with a government-charged company in order to crack down on irresponsible driving on motorways – but were faced with a strange sight while driving along

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4 h. ago Man sentenced in connection with serious sexual assaults in Lanarkshire over 14

James McCall, from Pudsey in Leeds, was found guilty of nine charges including four of rape and two of assault against two women and was given a 17-year extended sentence with 12 years in custody on Wednesday, April 16, at the High Court in Glasgow.

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4 h. ago Woman asks lover to look after dog then watches awful act unfold on Ring camera

Casie Wendel was away at Coachella festival last year when the bloke she was seeing did something unspeakable after being charged with looking after her dog for the weekend

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5 h. ago Brits could slapped with £100 charge on top of bills in new government scheme

Experts have warned that Brits could be forced to pay another whopping £100 charge on their yearly bills as the government contemplates a new net zero scheme with the EU

Economics

5 h. ago Shocked students return to Florida campus after shooting that killed two

Suspect arrested and charged with attack on Florida State University in Tallahassee that also left six injuredStudents at Florida State University (FSU) were to return to a campus in shock on Friday to retrieve the belongings they abandoned in their scramble to escape a gunman, including laptops, handbags and even shoes, and a vigil is planned in the evening, after a student killed two people and left six others injured.Many gathered on Thursday night around a makeshift memorial on a sidewalk on campus, bringing candles, flowers, teddy bears and notes for the survivors. The impromptu memorials, dotted around the campus in the state capital of Tallahassee, came just hours after authorities arrested and charged a fellow student, Phoenix Ikner, 20, with the shooting. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Warped Minnesota dad 'forced son to have orgy with three women for his 15th birthday and joined in'

William Roy Witt, 39, has been charged with criminal sexual conduct for pressuring his son into having sex over the course of several years.

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6 h. ago Police Scotland to review trans policies following Supreme Court judgment

Police Scotland confirmed it was reviewing its Transitioning at Work policy based on self-identifying “as part of our wider sex and gender review”.

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7 h. ago GMB's Richard Madeley forced to make diet change after worrying he'd 'faint on air'

Good Morning Britain star Richard Madeley has opened up about the strict routine he has to follow to make sure he doesn't 'faint on air' in the middle of the ITV show

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7 h. ago Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (Tape Two) review – love, grief and self

PC, PS5, XBox; Don’t NodThe concluding half of this two-parter may be lacking in interactive challenges, but is profound, sensitively structured and emotionally resonantOne thing you realise as you get older is that memories are plastic and that the stories you tell about your life change with every recollection, depending on who you are at the time. This is one of the themes – and indeed the mechanics – of Lost Records, a narrative adventure about four teenage girls who develop an intense friendship in rural Michigan during the summer of 1995. In the first instalment, they form a band, discover an old shack in the woods to use as a clubhouse, and encounter a supernatural force emanating from a deep hole they discover nearby. But as autumn draws in and the girls plan a climactic rock gig, tragic secrets are uncovered.Cleverly, the story is told mostly in flashback, as the characters meet again, decades later, in their long-abandoned home town – they’re older, wiser and with new pers...

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7 h. ago Tatar Bunar, London EC2: ‘No faff, no lectures. Just dinner, and lots of it’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

Tatar Bunar, London EC2: ‘No faff, no lectures. Just dinner, and lots of it’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants  The Guardian

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7 h. ago Police Scotland orders policy review in wake of Supreme Court gender definition ruling

Police Scotland has issued an update in the wake of Wednesday’s ruling by the Supreme Court on the definition of a woman.

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8 h. ago Scottish Ballet: The Crucible, Aberdeen review: 'prayer books wielded like weapons'

Choregraphy and score work in perfect tandem to evoke the hysteria and hatred engulfing Salem in Scottish Ballet’s revival of The Crucible, writes Kelly Apter

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8 h. ago Tunde Adebimpe: Thee Black Boltz review – a sparkling solo debut

(Sub Pop)The TV on the Radio frontman’s sharp pop instincts kick in on a multifaceted synth-punk-funk set born out of deep personal lossYou would not know, on first listen, that this effervescent debut solo album by the sometime frontman of TV on the Radio was steeped in grief. Tunde Adebimpe’s sister died during the pandemic when these songs were taking hesitant shape in an LA studio that Adebimpe, now a successful actor, shares with multi-instrumentalist and co-producer Wilder Zoby.Those difficult feelings – and others, about living in “a time of tenderness and rage” – became snaggle-toothed synth-punk cuts and bouncy synth-pop sounds. On Drop, there’s beat-boxing; on The Most, a Sleng Teng reggae riddim ambush; while on Somebody New, you can hear a punk-funk echo of New Order. Only ILY, a finger-picked folk song addressed to his sister, breaks character, adding “balladeer” to Adebimpe’s varied CV (former stop-motion animator, illustrator). “How’d you get so low?” asks God Knows, ...

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