4 d. ago Mum and baby located after placenta discovered in Greater Manchester park

A cordon was put in place on Friday after a member of the public raised the alarm

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5 d. ago The Guardian view on Trump and reality: from promoting alternative facts to erasing truths | Editorial

The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of dataWhat does the public need to know? The Trump White House boasts of being the most transparent administration in history – though commentators have suggested that the inadvertent leak of military plans to a journalist may have happened because senior figures were using messaging apps such as Signal to avoid oversight. Last week, it released thousands of pages of documents on John F Kennedy’s assassination. Donald Trump has declared that Kennedy’s family and the American people “deserve transparency and truth”.Strikingly, this stated commitment to sharing information comes as his administration defunds data collection and erases existing troves of knowledge from government websites. The main drivers appear to be the desire to remove “woke” content and global heating data, and the slashing of federal spending. Information resources are both the tar...

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8 d. ago Scots support retaining Trident nuclear deterrent, poll shows

The finding puts the public at odds with the SNP’s long-standing opposition

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2 w. ago Hospital staff forced to 'put public at risk' from Ebola and Monkeypox in dirty clothes

As some of the lowest-paid NHS staff prepare to go on strike over working conditions, they reveal the scandal forcing them to put the public at risk with contaminated clothes

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2 w. ago Critics warn staff cuts at federal agencies overseeing US dams could put public safety at risk

Experts are warning that Trump administration workforce cuts at federal agencies overseeing U.S. dams are threatening their ability to provide reliable electricity, supply water to farmers and protect communities from floods

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2 w. ago Russia seizes hundreds of Ukrainian troops and threatens to treat them 'like terrorists'

Vladimir Putin made a public appearance in military uniform on Wednesday - hours after Donald Trump threatened to " devastate" Russia's economy in a chilling warning

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2 w. ago Dentists 'frustrated' by overprescription of certain drug 'putting public at risk of existential threat'

Dentists warn that one drug class won't cure toothaches, but are widely overprescribed

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2 w. ago Danny Jones and wife Georgia 'are now on a break' following his 'ultimate betrayal'

Danny Jones and wife Georgia have been married for 10 years and appeared to put on a public show of togetherness in photographs on Tuesday - but reports claim all isn't as it seems

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3 w. ago Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet romance fears after PDA and kissing pics

Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet put on a public display of affection at a tennis match on Sunday, with a body language expert now weighing in on their behaviour

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3 w. ago Oklahoma schools chief seeks donations to put Bibles in classrooms

Oklahoma's top public schools official is continuing his quest to put a Bible in classrooms

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3 w. ago What to do with a 7ft metal Prince Andrew – help us decide from space to Pizza Express

HELP US DECIDE! Options includes taking it to Pizza Express in Woking, putting it in 'stocks' and letting the public pelt it with lettuces and launching it into space on a livestream

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4 w. ago Putin's 'secret women' pushed into Russian public eye as 'mistress' gets new role

Mad Vlad, 72, reportedly has two young boys – Ivan, nine, and Vladimir junior, five – with Alina Kabaeva, 41, who drew the despot's attention after she won gold at the 2004 Olympics in Greece

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