6 h. ago Founder of crypto platform Celsius Network is sentenced to 12 years in prison

The founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network has been sentenced to 12 years in prison

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6 h. ago New York set to lower hiring age of prison guards to 18 amid correction officer shortage

New York is set to lower the minimum hiring age for prison guards from 21 to 18, a move to boost the ranks of corrections officers during a shortage that was exacerbated after the state fired more than 2,000 guards after a weekslong strike that crippled the state’s prison system

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6 h. ago Monster who terrorised children dies 'not knowing he was in prison'

Local NHS services 'refused' to help with the paedophile's care

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8 h. ago Dramatic moment jailhouse Romeo who had fling with prison nurse and phone sex with guard tries to flee police in a Mercedes

Harri Pullen, 27, had been in a relationship with jail nurse Elyse Hibbs, 27, and engaged in phone sex with prison officer Ruth Shmylo, 26, over a four-year period in HMP Parc, Wales.

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10 h. ago Sugababes' Keisha Buchanan 'beaten' and 'controlled' by footballer ex, court hears

Sugababes singer Keisha Buchanan's footballer ex partner is accused of and denies assault, controlling aspects of the star's life, harassment and breaching a court order

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10 h. ago Big Brothers Big Sisters member arrested on child porn accusations

Big Brothers Big Sisters said Joel Michael Paris is no longer employed at the organization

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10 h. ago Ukraine brands Vladimir Putin's Victory Day ceasefire a 'farce' as Russian forces 'breach it 700 times'

Kyiv has accused Moscow of violating the three-day ceasefire more than 700 times in its first 12 hours

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11 h. ago Coinbase agrees to buy Deribit for $2.9bn in digital market’s biggest deal 

Crypto industry prepares for expected wave of demand from banks and asset managers

Economics

11 h. ago Husband butchered wife and left her in bin before £23k shopping spree with her credit card

Jack Potter, 72, has been sentenced to 15 years-to-life in state prison for the 2003 murder of his wife, Laurie Diane Potter in California, USA before dumping her legs in a bin

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11 h. ago Fears Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner could flee to country without extradition treaty if he walks free from prison

Christian Brueckner is currently in German jail for raping a woman in 2005 in the part of Portugal's Algarve region where three-year-old Madeleine McCann went missing in 2007.

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11 h. ago Awful final photo of autistic boy, 4, tortured to death by dad's girlfriend...as she turns on waterworks in court

The tears of Crystal Stephens, 48, didn't prevent a judge from sentencing her to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the savage murder of little Brandon Steckler Jr.

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12 h. ago Revealed: Autopsy suggests South Carolina botched firing squad execution

Records obtained by the Guardian indicate shooters did not hit Mikal Mahdi according to protocol, which lawyers say caused prolonged sufferingA South Carolina firing squad botched the execution of Mikal Mahdi last month, with shooters missing the target area on the man’s heart, causing him to suffer a prolonged death, according to autopsy records and his attorneys.Mahdi, 42, was shot dead by corrections employees last month in the second firing squad execution this year in South Carolina. The state has aggressively revived capital punishment over the last seven months and brought back the controversial firearm method that has rarely been used in the modern death penalty era. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Queen Letizia and King Felipe sue shopping centre after 'security staff member leaked pictures of teenage daughter Princess Leonor'

Spain's Royal Family reportedly consider the images a breach of Leonor's privacy, resulting in them taking legal action for the first time, according to Lecturas.

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12 h. ago Family of man sent to El Salvador prison looks for any signs he’s still alive: ‘We don’t know anything’

Jerce Barrios told his family he might be transferred from a California detention center – no one’s heard from him sinceThe last time Joregelis Barrios heard from her brother Jerce, the call had lasted just one minute.Immigration officials had moved Jerce from the detention center in southern California where he had been for six months to another one in Texas. He sounded worried, as if he had been crying. He told his sister he might be transferred somewhere else soon. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Amazon says it’s a ‘myth’ that robots kill jobs. Here’s the reality | Benjamin Y Fong

The company is sending more packages every year – but with fewer fulfillment center workersStefano La Rovere, director of global robotics, mechatronics and sustainable packaging at Amazon, has the unfortunate task of trying to convince the public that Amazon is not in fact automating away human labor with its robotics deployments.“It is a myth that technology and robots take out jobs,” La Rovere told CNBC last year. He said robots assisted workers “by reducing walking distance between assignments, by taking away repetitive motions, or by helping them to lift heavy weights. In turn, our employees can learn new skills.”Benjamin Y Fong is associate director of the Center for Work & Democracy at Arizona State University and keeps a newsletter on labor & logistics at ontheseams.substack.com. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago DWP urged to ‘write off’ Carer’s Allowance overpayments for small or inadvertent breaches of earnings limit

The Carer’s Allowance earnings threshold is £196 per week.

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13 h. ago Incest rape horror as sisters, 36 and 38, are found tied to their beds in squalid 'private prison' house where father 'sexually abused them for a year'

A 68-year-old father accused of drugging his two daughters with drugs and systematically raping them for a year has been arrested by Brazilian police.

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14 h. ago BlackRock to order senior managers back to office five days a week – reports

New-York based asset management company about to issue new guidance, according to FTBusiness live – latest updatesBlackRock, the world’s biggest asset management company, is reportedly preparing to order its senior managers to work from the office five days a week.The New-York based company is expected to tell its staff as early as Thursday that about 1,000 managing directors around the world should work in the office full-time, the Financial Times has reported. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Tottenham face delicate question in bid to avoid freezing up in Arctic Circle

Six years to the day since their last European semi-final success, Spurs face a tricky test in the Arctic Circle

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16 h. ago Crooked HMRC worker who stole £200k taxpayer cash given more time to sell off assets

Joanne Connell, 37, plundered huge sums of money while employed by HMRC.

Economics