42 m. ago California judge halts Trump’s mass layoffs of federal workers amid government shutdown

Trump administration notified roughly 4,100 federal employees last week they were being laid off amid a lapse in government funding

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45 m. ago Palestinian bodies returned by Israel show signs of torture and execution, say doctors

Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says doctor at Nasser hospital in GazaGaza ceasefire – latest updatesMany of the 90 bodies of Palestinians returned to Gaza by Israeli authorities under the ceasefire deal showed signs of torture and execution, including blindfolds, cuffed hands and bullet wounds in the head, according to doctors’ accounts.As part of the US-brokered truce, Hamas has handed over the bodies of some of the hostages who died in the course of the war, and Israel has transferred two groups of 45 Palestinians killed during the fighting. The exchange was carried out through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Continue reading...

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86 m. ago Madagascar's president rose to power off youth discontent and was taken down by it

Andry Rajoelina, once a young mayor who led protests against Madagascar's government, has been ousted as president

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94 m. ago Midwife scrawled heart rates on incontinence pad before home birth tragedy that killed mum and baby

Jennifer Cahill, 34, died in hospital the day after giving birth at the property she shared with her husband in Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

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94 m. ago Celebrity Traitors star Alan Carr addresses health scare he 'can actually feel getting worse'

Comedian Alan Carr has opened up about a health diagnosis that has left him requiring 'frightening' treatment

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99 m. ago Who left the Celebrity Traitors tonight? Updating list of banishments and murders in episode 3

Celebrity Traitors will reveal the first banishment of 2025 - but who will it be? 🕵️ ♂️📺

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1 hour ago Airline prices to change by ‘less than cost of coffee’ with green fuel guarantee

Keir Mather promised that ticket prices will be “kept under continual review”, once the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Bill clears both Houses.

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1 hour ago Putin protest in St Petersburg as hundreds chant 'old man in bunker still thinks it's 1985'

Hundreds of Russian came together to chant lyrics from a banned song by a Ukrainian rapper which says 'when the czar dies, we'll dance again' in a rare message of defiance

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2 h. ago Rain saves England at Women’s World Cup and ruins Pakistan hopes of historic win

England 133-9, Pakistan 34-0; match abandonedNat Sciver-Brunt admits England ‘weren’t good enough’Pakistan came agonisingly close to a first one-day international win against England in Colombo on Wednesday, reaching 34 without loss in pursuit of a DLS-adjusted target of 113 before torrential downpours curtailed their hopes of making history.England’s batting has lurched from one disaster to another during this World Cup – they had to be bailed out by Heather Knight against Bangladesh and by Nat Sciver-Brunt against Sri Lanka – and it looked like their frailties would return as they collapsed to 79 for seven in the opening 25 overs. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Alan Carr's devastating health diagnosis he 'can actually feel getting worse'

Despite battling the challenging condition, Alan has remained incredibly active in his television work as he recently joined the Celebrity Traitors line up

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2 h. ago Baby’s death was not related to built hospital environment, sheriff finds

The sheriff found there were no precautions which could reasonably have been taken that may have prevented Sophia’s death.

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2 h. ago AI robotics firm raises funding with help from Scottish National Investment Bank

Launchpad opened a research and development centre in Edinburgh last year, solidifying ties with the city.

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3 h. ago Truck driver charged after 8 family members, including 5 children, killed in fiery ‘chain reaction’ crash

Eight occupants were found dead in the van, and one individual may have been pregnant, coroner says

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3 h. ago Marksman who fatally shot man faced ‘decade of legal madness’ – Sir Mark Rowley

The officer, known only as W80, shot Jermaine Baker as police stopped a plot to snatch two prisoners from a van near Wood Green Crown Court in 2015.

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3 h. ago 'Serial sex offender' charged with murdering sex worker and strangling another was on bail 'for attacking eight women on the underground'

Simon Levy is accused of carrying out attacks on a total of 11 woman which culminated in the murder of a sex worker and the rape and strangulation of another victim while he was out on bail.

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3 h. ago D’Angelo was far more than the shirtless sex symbol he was painted as

The late singer’s iconic music video for Untitled (How Does It Feel) had him unfairly pigeonholed for much of his careerExperimental, sensual and political, D’Angelo radically redrew the boundaries of soul music‘The architect of Black Gen X sonic feeling and eloquence’: D’Angelo’s 10 greatest tracksThe news of D’Angelo’s death following a privately handled pancreatic cancer diagnosis had shocked fans crying Shit, Damn, Motherfucker – a cult favorite from the 1995 Brown Sugar album that heralded the R&B singer as a force in the blossoming neo-soul movement. But the winking references on social media to that crash-out song, about a man who discovers his girl in bed with his best friend and lets rage take over, were soon crowded out by shirtless images of the four-time Grammy winner as tribute. It’s the last thing he’d want to be remembered for.The images all derive from the same source: the 2000 music video for Untitled (How Does It Feel), from D’Angelo’s sophomore album, Voodoo. ...

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3 h. ago 'Murdered' migrant hotel worker 'traumatised by asylum seeker who abused her over 'biscuits he didn't like'

Sudanese national Deng Chol Majek, who claims he is 19, is on trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court accused of the 'vicious' murder of Rhiannon Whyte, 27.

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3 h. ago Trump hates this ‘super bad’ photo of him in Time magazine. I almost feel sympathy almost | Emma Brockes

This is a man who once mocked the movements of a disabled reporter, so we’ll take what schadenfreude we can getIt is, in my experience, often the photo that does it. You can be nice or mean, bland or snide, accurate or wildly off-base. But none of what you write as a journalist matters much in comparison with the photo that runs alongside it. That’s the main determinant of how bitterly a subject will complain about a piece, or whether they will tip from mildly annoyed to actively raging. In this regard, Donald Trump, who went after Time magazine this week for using a photo of him on the cover he has called “super bad” and “the Worst of All Time”, has acted in a way that, unusually for the president, is in line with how other people act.Even more unusually, he’s not wrong. The Time cover, shot from below to give readers an unrestricted view up Trump’s nose, is extremely unflattering. His turkey wattle neck looks like a ski run after the snow has melted. His eye is reptilian. His hair...

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4 h. ago Witness describes ‘terrified’ screams of hotel worker ‘stabbed by asylum seeker’

A close friend of Rhiannon Skye Whyte heard three screams and then silence at the time she was fatally stabbed, a jury has heard.

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4 h. ago How elder care can rupture sibling relationships: ‘I didn’t have much choice’

Guardian readers shared how caring for ageing parents with siblings tested – and sometimes broke – family bondsWhen Katrina, 60 (who withheld her last name for privacy), moved in with her family in Mexico during Covid, it made sense for her to manage her aging parents’ medical care; she’s a nurse. Her sister, who has an MBA, took care of the administrative tasks. It was the first time the family had all lived together since Katrina was in high school. The lockdown was a “very challenging, wonderful” time, she says.At first, the division of responsibilities between the two sisters worked well. But slowly, Katrina started to feel there was “scope creep”. Instead of staying in her administrative lane, her sister started weighing in more and more on Katrina’s management of medical matters. Continue reading...

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