11 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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14 m. ago Pete Hegseth’s plane forced to make emergency landing in the UK after crack in the windshield

Everyone on the plane was safe following the “unscheduled landing”

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18 m. ago Supreme Court could deliver ‘catastrophic’ decision on Voting Rights Act and blow up protections from racial discrimination

The court’s conservative majority could gut the landmark civil rights law — and open the door for Republicans to erase Democratic districts in the redistricting war

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19 m. ago Federal judge temporarily blocks mass layoffs as Trump official estimates 10,000 could be affected – live

Judge Susan Illston says administration has ‘taken advantage of lapse in government functioning’; Russell Vought says his office wants to be ‘very aggressive in shuttering bureaucracy’Full report: judge temporarily blocks firings by Trump administration during shutdownThe far-right US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is further distancing herself from her fellow Republicans and accusing men in her party of being “weak”.In an interview with the Washington Post, Greene expressed her frustrations with Republicans, signaling her further deviation from the political strategies of her party, as the government shutdown beginning 1 October was slated to enter its third week. Continue reading...

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22 m. ago Government defeated as Lords demand tougher crackdown on benefit fraud

Peers supported by 200 votes to 194, majority six, a Conservative amendment to the Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Bill.

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47 m. ago 'I watched Katie Price name alleged celeb rapist – she looked ill and stressed'

A Katie Price fan who allegedly attended one of the reality TV star's live shows has claimed that she "looked tiny, almost like a little doll" and as though she was "under a lot of stress"

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54 m. ago Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay battle nears resolution in Delaware Supreme Court

The outcome could have substantial consequences for Delaware, its corporate law and its Court of Chancery

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68 m. ago Grand jury meeting to decide on charges for John Bolton over alleged mishandling of classified docs: report

John Bolton is an outspoken critic of Trump after serving as his national security adviser

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71 m. ago The View applauds Fox News and Newsmax for refusing to sign Hegseth’s media restrictions: ‘Freedom of the press is an American issue’

‘That's not journalism,’ Fox News analyst Jack Keane said on Tuesday night. ‘Journalism is going out and finding the story and getting all the facts to support it.’

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76 m. ago Federal judge says she’s ‘inclined’ to block mass layoffs as Trump official estimates 10,000 could be affected – live

Judge Susan Illston says administration has ‘taken advantage of lapse in government functioning’; Russell Vought says his office wants to be ‘very aggressive in shuttering bureaucracy’The far-right US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is further distancing herself from her fellow Republicans and accusing men in her party of being “weak”.In an interview with the Washington Post, Greene expressed her frustrations with Republicans, signaling her further deviation from the political strategies of her party, as the government shutdown beginning 1 October was slated to enter its third week. Continue reading...

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95 m. ago Revealed: '£760m' equal pay claim that sunk Birmingham City Council was 'false' and 'overstated,' angry critics say

The 'false' figure was 'a figment of someone's imagination' and forced the authority to declare it was broke needlessly, local politicians, union leaders and academics said.

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97 m. ago Princess Andre’s ITV series renewed for two more seasons airing in 2026

The Princess Diaries saw the 18-year-old daughter of reality TV stars Katie Price and Peter Andre juggling life as an influencer.

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2 h. ago Future of Katie Price's daughter Princess Andre's ITV reality show revealed

The Princess Diaries starring Katie Price and Peter Andre's daughter Princess Andre will return for two more series in 2026, it has been confirmed by ITV bosses

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2 h. ago WeRateDogs breaks from wholesome content to tear into border agents after pet is shot dead: ‘’Do not open your doors’

The viral account WeRateDogs has millions of followers across Instagram and Facebook

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2 h. ago ‘War can knock on everyone’s door’, warns Ukrainian soldier after training in UK

The training programme is called Operation Interflex.

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2 h. ago Trump’s meds ‘could be slowing him down’ and may not be doing him any good, MAHA adviser warns

A vaccine-skeptic doctor says the president should come off statins and aspirin – sparking an angry response from the White House

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2 h. ago US supreme court appears poised to weaken key pillar of Voting Rights Act

Dispute over Louisiana district returned to justices after long legal saga – and could have far-reaching implicationsA 160-year-old campaign against civil rights heads to the supreme courtUS politics live – latest updatesThe conservative majority on the US supreme court appeared poised to weaken a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act after a lengthy oral argument on Wednesday.“This court’s cases in a variety of contexts have said that race-based remedies are permissible for a period of time. Sometimes for a long period of time, decades in some cases, but they should not be indefinite and should have an endpoint. What exactly do you think that endpoint should be?” asked Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a key swing vote in the case, to Janai Nelson, a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, who was defending the maps. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Arizona says it will sue Mike Johnson if he does not swear in new rep – and likely trigger release of the Epstein files

Democratic congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva still waiting to take her oath of office almost a month after winning her special election, as her state AG threatens legal action

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3 h. ago PPE Medpro fails to meet deadline to repay Government almost £122m after ruling

Mrs Justice Cockerill previously ruled that PPE Medpro had breached a contract for millions of surgical gowns during the coronavirus pandemic.

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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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