14 h. ago Bereaved mothers call for urgent action to fix mental health services

The families were backed by Melanie Leahy who led a ten-year campaign for a public inquiry into mental health related deaths in Essex.

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19 h. ago Torres Strait community leaders in ‘deepest pain imaginable’ as federal court dismisses landmark climate case

Class action led by two community leaders argued government had legal duty of care to prevent or deal with damage linked to global heatingSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesTwo Torres Strait community leaders are shocked and devastated after the federal court dismissed a landmark case that argued the Australian government breached its duty of care to protect the Torres Strait Islands from climate change.The lead plaintiffs, Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai from the islands of Boigu and Saibai, sought orders requiring the government to take steps to prevent climate harm to their communities, including by cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the pace climate scientists say is necessary.Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Federal court dismisses landmark Torres Strait climate case but warns of ‘bleak future’ without urgent action

Class action led by two community leaders argued government had legal duty of care to prevent or deal with damage linked to global heatingSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesThe federal court has dismissed a landmark case brought by two Torres Strait community leaders that argued the Australian federal government breached its duty of care to protect the Torres Strait Islands from climate change.In delivering the decision, however, Justice Michael Wigney noted: “There could be little if any doubt that the Torres Strait Islands and their inhabitants face a bleak future if urgent action is not taken to address climate change and its impacts.”Get Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email Continue reading...

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28 h. ago UK a ‘powder keg’ of social tensions a year on from summer riots, report warns

Research finds a third of people rarely meet anyone from a different backgroundThe UK is a “powder keg” of social tensions, with a third of people rarely meeting anyone from different backgrounds, research has found.A report from the thinktank British Future and the social cohesion group Belong Network found that a year on from last summer’s riots, there was a risk of unrest being reignited unless urgent action was taken to address issues of polarisation and division. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Tesla's Autopilot system is in the spotlight at a Miami trial over a student killed while stargazing

A federal court in Miami began considering Monday whether Elon Musk's car company should share blame for the death of a stargazing university student after a runaway Tesla sent her flying 75 feet through the air and severely injured her boyfriend

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30 h. ago US supreme court allows Trump to resume gutting education department

Justices lift federal judge’s order that reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass layoffs in win for presidentThe US supreme court on Monday cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education as part of his bid to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more control by the states.In the latest high court win for the president, the justices lifted a federal judge’s order that had reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass layoffs at the department and blocked the administration from transferring key functions to other federal agencies. A legal challenge is continuing to play out in lower courts. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago The Guardian view on a climate reckoning: an annual address could set a new standard for political accountability | Editorial

The energy secretary framed environmental action as practical and patriotic, not in terms of wordy ideological pieties. But holding the line won’t be easyEd Miliband is a target for the political right; not because he’s irrelevant, but because he’s effective. The bacon sandwich gags and “Red Ed” jokes mask a deeper unease: that Mr Miliband, with his dogged insistence on science, public investment and long-term thinking, is right. Now, as energy secretary, he has delivered what he calls an exercise in “radical truth-telling” and a stark warning to MPs that rejecting climate action is a betrayal of future generations. The language, for once, isn’t overblown. It’s belated.By highlighting the Met Office’s annual State of the UK Climate report, Mr Miliband shows that the hotter, wetter and more arduous future we feared has already arrived. Extremes are becoming the norm: the number of very hot days has quadrupled; in the last 250 years, six of the 10 wettest winter half-years have o...

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34 h. ago Met Office warns extreme weather is 'becoming UK's new normal'

The State of the UK Climate report has warned that extremes of heat and rainfall are becoming the norm as Britain's climate warms

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63 h. ago Kate Middleton quizzed by Roger Federer after breaking Wimbledon rule

When Swiss tennis champion Roger Federer joined the Princess of Wales on the tennis court, he was quick to correct her when she made a major tennis faux pas

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3 d. ago ‘We don’t want to be climate refugees’: Torres Strait uncles fear for their islands and their people

This week Australia’s federal court is due to make a decision in a landmark climate case that could safeguard the future of the island communitiesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastUncle Paul Kabai and Uncle Pabai Pabai are afraid for the future of their ancestral homelands.Their country on the outer islands of Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait), less than 10km off Papua New Guinea, is under siege from the impacts of the climate crisis. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago US border officers discover 14 toucans stashed in car dashboard – driver said he had no idea how they got there

Carlos Abundez, 35, of San Ysidro, appeared in federal court Wednesday on charges of smuggling the birds in his Volkswagen Passat earlier this month

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4 d. ago British man, 58, accused over '£78million fake wine scam' is extradited to the US and appears in court

James Wellesley, 58, pleaded not guilty during his arraignment in Brooklyn federal court following his extradition from the UK where he was arrested in 2022.

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4 d. ago Man accused of attempting to assassinate Trump wants to represent himself at trial

The suspect in President Trump’s second assassination attempt told a federal judge he wanted to fire his court-appointed defense team

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4 d. ago Appeals court throws out plea deal for alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks

A divided federal appeals court has thrown out an agreement that would have allowed accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead guilty in a deal that would have spared him the risk of execution for al-Qaida’s 2001 attacks

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5 d. ago Study exposes ‘alarming’ inequalities among child deaths in intensive care

Experts have called for urgent action in light of the findings, which they described as ‘deeply troubling’

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5 d. ago Heatwaves could cause 34,000 deaths per YEAR in the UK by 2070, scientists predict

The annual number of heat-related deaths in England and Wales is set to rise up to fiftyfold because of climate change, experts have warned.

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5 d. ago Federal employees ‘waiting on pins and needles’ for the ax to fall after Supreme Court allowed Trump’s job cuts

One National Institutes of Health staffer said, ‘F*** it ... I’m ready to retire if I can’

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5 d. ago Judge strikes down Trump’s birthright citizenship order in new legal challenge after Supreme Court ruling

Judge’s ruling in new class-action case protects all children who could be denied citizenship under Trump’s executive order

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5 d. ago Novak Djokovic is ready to face Jannik Sinner and the other young guys at Wimbledon

Novak Djokovic is more than a decade older than any other man in the Wimbledon semifinals

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6 d. ago Brazil’s president rebuffs demand to cease inquiry into Bolsonaro after Trump tariffs – live updates

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva posts statement on social media saying the country ‘will not accept any form of tutelage’ after US levies 50% tariffsTrump targets Brunei, Libya and Moldova with latest threat of US tariffsTrump says Bolsonaro ‘not guilty of anything’ amid Brazil coup trialThe US justice department has sued California over state policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ school sports, alleging that allowing them to do so violates federal anti-discrimination laws.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, claims that California’s policies violate Title IX, which affords legal protection against sex discrimination.Our Fed Rate is AT LEAST 3 Points too high. “Too Late” is costing the U.S. 360 Billion Dollars a Point, PER YEAR, in refinancing costs. No Inflation, COMPANIES POURING INTO AMERICA. “The hottest Country in the World!” LOWER THE RATE!!!ANYBODY BUT “TOO LATE.”In effect, we went on hold when we saw the size of the tariffs and essentially all ...

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