40 m. ago Diane Abbott suspended again by the Labour Party over race row letter

The veteran MP said in a BBC interview that she stood by a letter she wrote in 2023 where she suggested antisemitism and prejudice against travellers was not as bad as racism based on colour

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52 m. ago New book sheds light on Lincoln’s misunderstood killer: ‘he’s not that person at all’

In Midnight on the Potomac, author Scott Ellsworth looks back at the tumultuous last year of the US civil warScott Ellsworth’s new book, Midnight on the Potomac, is about the last year of the American civil war and “the crime of the century”: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by the actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington on 14 April 1865.Asked how the book came to follow The Ground Breaking, his acclaimed history of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, Ellsworth said his thoughts focused on two areas: historical parallels to the modern-day US, and the true crime genre. Continue reading...

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81 m. ago Post Office issues 'sincere apology' after 'major outage' stops customers from sending parcels

The Post Office confirmed that the outage was not cyber-related

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82 m. ago Netflix drops 'hilarious' movie with Too Much star as Lena Dunham series soars charts

The series boasts a number of cameos from A-list stars

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96 m. ago Bus passengers are feared injured in crash as five emergency service helicopters race to the scene

Calls came in at about 3pm today reporting a bus had left the A396 between Wheddon Cross and Timbercombe in Somerset.

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1 hour ago Ship banned from Tall Ships Race due to Russian sanctions turned away at Orkney

The Russian-born captain said he still intended to sail across the North Sea with the Tall Ships Races despite being banned from several ports on the route.

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1 hour ago Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data, including addresses, to ICE

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will gain access to personally identifiable information for all of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees

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1 hour ago New favourite emerges in race to replace John Torode on BBC's MasterChef

It comes after the Australian chef (pictured), 59, was axed from the cooking competition in an announcement from the broadcaster on Tuesday afternoon.

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2 h. ago Teen's 'joke' about his manhood forced Spirit plane to race to deserted corner of airport over bomb fears

The drama saw a Spirit Airlines flight ordered to a quiet area of Fort Lauderdale Airport over fears it could explode.

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2 h. ago Lord Voldermort Casting Odds Latest: Here are the 9 actors in the frame to play the Dark Lord in Harry Potter TV reboot

It’s the casting call that Harry Potter fans are most fascinated by.

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2 h. ago Tour de France 2025: Pogacar v Vingegaard as stage 12 heads for summit finish in Pyrenees – live

Updates from the 181km ride from Auch to HautacamStage-by-stage guide | And you can drop Luke a mail“I’m OK. Nothing too bad,” Pogacar tells Matt Stephens after his crash yesterday. “My whole left arm is open, burned off skin. And I hit my hip a little bit and my shoulder, but luckily I was back on the bike quite fast. Today is another day. It’s not the first time I crashed and continued the race. It’s more important the legs than my arm. I have a super-strong team around me. I am so grateful I can rely on them, even if I have a hard day today, but I hope not.“It’s really sad to lose another young talent,” Pogacar says of Samuele Privitera’s death at the Giro della Valle d’Aosta yesterday. “It’s devastating. It’s one of the most dangerous sports in the world. Sometimes the risks we are taking are too far. I’m really sad for all his family. May he rest in peace he deserves to “not be bothered” now. It’s a sad loss.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Border Patrol hiring spree offers lessons as another immigration agency embarks on massive growth

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 10,000 employees over five years, echoing a Border Patrol expansion in the 2000s

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3 h. ago 'Hilarious' sequel to iconic Robin Williams comedy is streaming for free

Robin Williams' iconic nineties comedy gets a new lease of life in this 2017 sequel, available to stream now

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3 h. ago Tour de France 2025: stage 12 heads for summit finish in Pyrenees with Evenepoel in trouble – live

Updates from the 181km ride from Auch to HautacamStage-by-stage guide | And you can drop Luke a mail“I’m OK. Nothing too bad,” Pogacar tells Matt Stephens after his crash yesterday. “My whole left arm is open, burned off skin. And I hit my hip a little bit and my shoulder, but luckily I was back on the bike quite fast. Today is another day. It’s not the first time I crashed and continued the race. It’s more important the legs than my arm. I have a super-strong team around me. I am so grateful I can rely on them, even if I have a hard day today, but I hope not.“It’s really sad to lose another young talent,” Pogacar says of Samuele Privitera’s death at the Giro della Valle d’Aosta yesterday. “It’s devastating. It’s one of the most dangerous sports in the world. Sometimes the risks we are taking are too far. I’m really sad for all his family. May he rest in peace he deserves to “not be bothered” now. It’s a sad loss.” Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Morrisons bans staff from doing one thing to make big change for customers

The supermarket chain has told its store staff that it is limiting their access - and the change comes into force in a matter of weeks

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5 h. ago Tall Ship Race vessels arrive in Aberdeen ahead of four day spectacular

The festival in Aberdeen is expected to attract around 400,000 people

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5 h. ago Myanmar's military government recaptures strategic town from rebels

State media in Myanmar say the Southeast Asian nation's military government has recaptured a strategic gateway town after nearly a year of effort, marking a rare turnaround in the country’s northeast, where an alliance of ethnic rebel militias seized a large swath of territory in an offensive that began in late 2023

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5 h. ago Disgusting moment fast food worker SPITS in food while packing customer's takeaway burger order

This is the disgusting moment a fast food worker was caught on camera spitting in the food, while packing a customer's burger takeaway order.

Economics

5 h. ago Morrisons makes major change for customers at tills and in aisles

Supermarket chain is trying to ensure staff are on hand to assist at self service tills and finding items

Economics

5 h. ago I hate to be the scowling lesbian at the feast – but here’s what worries me about the new Austen adaptations | Emma Brockes

I love Jane Austen. But a fresh revival of the idea that what a woman needs most is to marry a man is the last thing we needWhat is the main lesson we take away from Jane Austen? I know novels aren’t manuals, but the Austen industry encourages a certain self-help approach to its products – and Austen herself was full of what we no longer call bossy opinions. From the books, there are endless shrewd judgments about how to be a woman of substance. From the screen adaptations, we learn just how nice it would be to have a big house in Derbyshire. There is the general rule of true love overcoming all obstacles. But there is also this: that there is no worse fate to befall a woman than to fail to lock down a man.Two new Austen adaptations are heading our way: a Netflix miniseries of Pride and Prejudice, and a new movie version of Sense and Sensibility. They join Too Much, Lena Dunham’s new show that riffs on our relationship with romcoms – how we use them as templates and ideals – a clear...

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