78 m. ago Trump makes false claims about crime in Washington DC as homeless camps are cleared

President’s comments come after protesters heckled officers who stopped cars at checkpoint along busy streetDonald Trump falsely claimed that crime in Washington DC is “the worst it’s ever been” on Thursday, amid a federal takeover of the city’s police department and deployment of the national guard and federal agents in the city.“Washington DC is at its worst point,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “It will soon be at its best point.” He also baselessly accused DC law enforcement officials of giving “phony crime stats” and said “they’re under investigation”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Labour's war on boomers: Gordon Brown stole your old age, now Starmer and Reeves plan to finish the job, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN

In their desperation for money to throw at their various client groups, this government has deliberately targeted older people. We're seen as a rich seam to be mined to exhaustion.

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2 h. ago Eighty years after Victory in the Pacific Day, Ron – now 101 – remembers a slightly lonely celebration

Ron Gee Kee was a naval coder in Darwin when news came on 15 August 1945 that Japan had surrendered to the allies Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBen Chifley called it a “glorious moment”. On 15 August 1945 half a million people poured on to the streets of Sydney to celebrate the end of six years of war.News spread quickly after Emperor Hirohito announced that Japan had accepted the allies’ demand for unconditional surrender. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago India and Pakistan tensions spill over into contest over whose flagpole is bigger

Nationalist rivalries are on show at border crossing where soldiers in elaborate uniforms perform flag ceremonies each nightAt a remote, monsoon-soaked border checkpoint, Indian soldiers will mark Independence Day by raising the country’s tricolour on a mast that towers above a Pakistani flag flying just across the frontier – part of an ongoing vertical duel in South Asia’s fraught politics.Call it flag warfare: a contest not of weapons but of height, waged by two nuclear-armed neighbours that only three months ago fought a four-day battle which threatened to escalate into full-scale war. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Sydney restaurant faces human rights complaint after temporarily denying entry to people wearing keffiyehs

Exclusive: Racial Justice Centre to file Australian Human Rights Commission complaint against Merivale restaurant Jimmy’s FalafelGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Racial Justice Centre is preparing to file a group complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission after a Sydney restaurant denied dine-in service to people wearing Palestinian keffiyehs during a 20-minute period last weekend.The legal centre will file the complaint to Australia’s national anti-discrimination body on behalf of six Palestinian complainants, regarding an incident that took place on 3 August at Merivale-owned Jimmy’s Falafel in the Sydney CBD after the Sydney Harbour Bridge march, first reported by the Sydney Morning Herald. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Supreme Court allows Mississippi to require age verification for social media as states move to protect children online

At least 12 other states have enacted similar age verification laws, hoping to protect children from online harms

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6 h. ago Brandon Blackstock's death certificate reveals Kelly Clarkson's ex suffered severe symptom amid cancer battle

The former stepson of Reba McEntire had been fighting skin cancer - malignant melanoma - for three years. He died last week at his home in Butte, Montana at the age of 48.

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6 h. ago Teens arrested after boy, 17, horrifically injured in Wigan machete attack

The incident happened at around 5:30pm on Wednesday on a street in Wigan and left the young victim 'bleeding heavily' with potentially life-changing injuries to his hand

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7 h. ago Emmerdale's Charity in baby DNA scandal as Ross Barton twist changes everything

Emmerdale's latest episode saw Charity Dingle's betrayal exposed moments after announcing she was pregnant as surrogate for Sarah Sugden and Jacob Gallagher on the ITV soap

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8 h. ago Champion bodybuilder dies at 37... as sport mourns seventh sudden death in six months

Champion bodybuilder Hayley McNeff has passed away at the age of 37, becoming the sixth bodybuilder to pass away within the past six months.

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8 h. ago Trump falsely claims crime in Washington DC is ‘worst it’s ever been’

President’s comments come after protesters heckled officers who stopped cars at checkpoint along busy streetUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump falsely claimed that crime in Washington DC is “the “worst it’s ever been” on Thursday, amid a federal takeover of the city’s police department and deployment of the national guard and federal agents in the city.“Washington DC is at its worst point,” Trump said from the Oval Office. “It will soon be at its best point.” He also baselessly accused DC law enforcement officials of giving “phony crime stats” and said “they’re under investigation”. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Premier League’s big show is back, full of thrills but facing new threat to its power | Barney Ronay

Clubs are spending like the world is on fire but the title looks to be between Liverpool, Manchester City, Arsenal and ChelseaAnd I heard, as it were, a sound of thunder. I heard multitudes marching to the big kettle drum. Not to mention, it should be said, even larger multitudes talking on the wicked and unholy internet about agent sightings, failed here-we-gos and the Alexander Isak wheel of global conspiracy.Let he that hath understanding count the number! Because, let’s face it, it really is an absolute beast of a number, 215 live Premier League games on Sky Sports alone, an endless rolling debauchery of games, of graphics that go whoosh, of arguments by the lighted dias. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Supreme Court allows enforcement of Mississippi social media age verification law

The Supreme Court has refused to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children

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9 h. ago Wallabies and Springboks in identity swap for clash amid thin air of Highveld | Daniel Gallan

The frenemies meet in this year’s Rugby Championship opener at Ellis Park where they are expected to rip pages out of the other’s playbookOne team boasts some of the most menacing forwards found anywhere in the world. The other is developing a scintillating backline capable of tearing apart any defence. Business as usual, then, for a Wallabies versus Springboks clash. Except this time, like the characters of Freaky Friday, the two sides have switched identities ahead of the first round of the Rugby Championship.Australia might have lost the British & Irish Lions series but they were one referee’s decision at the breakdown away from causing a seismic upset. That the margin was so small was thanks largely to the thundering cameos of Will Skelton, Rob Valetini, Taniela Tupou and a handful of other meaty men who provided the front-foot grunt that was absent in the first Test in Brisbane. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Dundee Utd vs Rapid LIVE as Jim Goodwin makes two changes for Conference League showdown

It's a massive night for the Tannadice men who are hoping for a famous European win that would put them on the brink of the group stage

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10 h. ago Lanarkshire gym group ties in with British Heart Foundation to support lifesaving research

New Age Fitness has pledged to raise £10,000 over a 12-month period.

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10 h. ago Inquiry into disgraced NHS Tayside surgeon Sam Eljamel set to take place next month

Sam Eljamel was accused of harming as many as 200 people, with some suffering life-changing injuries.

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11 h. ago Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott faces trial for child sex abuse

Trial set for next August in GlasgowThe 48-year-old denies both chargesThe former world snooker champion Graeme Dott is to stand trial next year over allegations of child sex abuse. The 48-year-old is accused of two charges relating to primary school age children.The allegations span between 1993 and 1996 involving a girl, and 2006 to 2010 involving a boy, both in the Glasgow region. A virtual hearing at the high court in Glasgow on Thursday was told Dott, who was not present, denies the charges. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott faces trial for child sexual abuse

Trial set for next August in GlasgowThe 48-year-old denies both chargesThe former world snooker champion Graeme Dott is to stand trial next year over allegations of child sexual abuse. The 48-year-old is accused of two charges relating to primary school age children.The allegations span between 1993 and 1996 involving a girl, and 2006 to 2010 involving a boy, both in the Glasgow region. A virtual hearing at the high court in Glasgow on Thursday was told Dott, who was not present, denies the charges. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Football Daily | Wayne Rooney, Tom Brady and a serving of ultra

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Today’s Football Daily would like to start with the topical events of 15 February 1983. That was the day Manchester United outplayed and outviolenced Arsenal in the first leg of their Milk Cup semi-final at Highbury. United won 4-2; they were 4-0 up after 80 minutes before taking their foot off Arsenal’s throat, and shinbone, and head. “Perhaps we’ve been concentrating too much on passing and technique,” lamented Don Howe, Arsenal’s head coach and assistant to the manager, Terry Neill. “Against United we went out to strike the ball about instead of putting some meat into the game.” In 1980s English football, there was no place for veganism. Things have changed since the days when ABH was a bookable offence, and only then after the first 10 minutes, but English football still has a pretty noxious meat footprint. Continue reading...

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