1 hour ago US bombing of Yemen compounding dire humanitarian situation – rights groups

Anti-Houthi air campaign, details of which were revealed in Signal scandal, has brought further destruction to countryA ramped-up US bombing campaign on Yemen has killed civilians and brought further destruction and uncertainty to the poorest country in the Middle East, compounding an already dire situation after Donald Trump cut aid, according to local people, humanitarian workers and rights groups.“Now the rampant bombing has started, you never know which way things will go,” said Siddiq Khan, who works as a country director in Yemen for the aid charity Islamic Relief. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Nevada can enforce dormant 1985 law requiring parental notification of abortion, judge rules

A federal judge has ruled that Nevada can start enforcing a 40-year-old state law at the end of the month that requires parents be notified before a minor can get an abortion

Society

7 h. ago Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation case must continue in New Jersey

Ruling does not guarantee Columbia University protester will be moved out of a detention facility in LouisianaA federal judge has ruled that the legal battle over Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation should continue to play out in New Jersey, rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to transfer the Columbia University protester’s case to Louisiana.In a written decision on Tuesday, the US district judge Michael Farbiarz in Newark said the jurisdiction over the case should remain in New Jersey since Khalil was being held there at the time his lawyers filed their habeas corpus petition. The judge described the government’s argument otherwise as “unpersuasive”. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Musk’s Doge to fire all local workers and US diplomats from USAID, sources say

Unofficial Trump adviser’s cost-cutting team to finalize shuttering the foreign aid agency on which millions dependUS politics live – latest updatesElon Musk’s cost-cutting team is finalizing the dismantlement of the US Agency for International Development, ordering the firings of thousands of local workers and US diplomats and civil servants assigned to the agency overseas, two former top USAID officials and a source with knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.On Friday, Congress was notified that almost all of USAID’s own employees were being fired by September, all of its overseas offices shut, and some functions absorbed into the state department. Continue reading...

Politics

18 h. ago Dumfries and Galloway Council workers could strike in dispute over pay

Unison union officials say more than 90 per cent of members who took part in a consultation are in favour of striking.

Economics

24 h. ago Former Medellin Cartel boss released in Colombia after judge rules his sentence expired

The ally of Pablo Escobar has served more than 30 years in prison

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24 h. ago Leicester Square buskers are 'psychological torture' says judge

Leicester Square buskers are 'psychological torture' says judge  BBC

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27 h. ago Alabama can't prosecute groups who help women travel to get an abortion, federal judge says

A federal judge has ruled that the Alabama attorney general can't prosecute groups who help Alabama women obtain abortions in another state

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28 h. ago Alabama police officer denied immunity for shooting armed Black man in his front yard

An Alabama judge ruled that a police officer was not acting in self-defense when he shot an armed Black man who was standing in his own front yard

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31 h. ago Sean Combs' sexual assault lawsuit thrown out in latest court ruling

Sean Combs - also known as rapper P. Diddy - has had another lawsuit against him dismissed after a judge ruled that the anonymous plaintiff had failed to follow court orders

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32 h. ago Gene Hackman judge blocks public access to police footage of late actor and wife

A judge has ruled that photos and videos from actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa's deaths will not be available to the public

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32 h. ago Gene Hackman judge blocks public access to police footage of late actor's body after tragic death

A judge has ruled that photos and videos from actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa's deaths will not be available to the public following arguments from the star's estate

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32 h. ago Twitter: Breaking the Bird review – how all the hate speech flooded in

This film shows how a ‘hallucinogenically optimistic’ vision descended into the hellscape we know today. Young, confident men really should not rule the internet It turns out that Mike Judge’s supposed sitcom Silicon Valley was a documentary after all. My bad, as the people young and in touch enough with the world to have known this all along may still say.Twitter: Breaking the Bird is a 75-minute CNN film chronicling the rise, fall and possibly end of the social media site that was launched by a group of eager young things in 2006 amid a widespread belief – at least in the Valley – in the power of the internet to remake the world in radically better ways. This, a co-founder or two has come to consider since, may have been a “hallucinogenically optimistic” view. Well, we were all young once. Although that feels – and in no small measure because of Twitter – like a very long time ago. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Former Medellin Cartel boss released in Colombia after a judge rules his sentence expired

Colombian authorities have released former Medellin Cartel boss Carlos Lehder after a judge ruled that a drug trafficking sentence issued in Colombia against the 75-year-old had expired

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35 h. ago Gene Hackman judge set to rule on whether star's death investigation records can be kept private

Santa Fe-based Judge Matthew Wilson is considering a request from Hackman's family that documents related to his death remain sealed.

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36 h. ago Buskers in London's famous Leicester Square perform 'psychological torture' on local workers on a daily basis and some are so bad they need to be stopped, a judge has ruled

Staff at Global Radio, home to stations including LBC, Heart FM and Classic FM, say the racket through their windows is so bad they are forced to make phone calls in cupboards.

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36 h. ago Buskers in London's famous Leicester Square perform 'psychological torture' on local workers on a daily basis

Buskers in London's famous Leicester Square perform 'psychological torture' on local workers on a daily basis  Daily Mail

Science

36 h. ago Elizabeth Hurley's favourite perfume 'ideal' for spring reduced to £25 is still £70 at John Lewis

"This is my favourite perfume worn on a mainly daily basis. Although it's a light scent, a little goes a long way"

Economics

38 h. ago Teacher accused of sex with student exchanged 25,000 texts with victim, police say

Allison Havemann-Niedrach, 44, was ‘obsessed’ with the teen, and would sit with him for lunch on a daily basis at school, according to prosecutors

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39 h. ago Leicester Square busking likened to 'psychological torture' by judge

Leicester Square busking likened to 'psychological torture' by judge  Evening Standard

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