3 h. ago Trump defense official led thinktank that spread lies about Tren de Aragua

Under Joseph Humire, the thinktank tracked alleged crimes by the Venezuelan gang in the US. A non-profit found multiple false entriesA senior official appointed to the defense department led a thinktank that promoted fake news about the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang, according to InSight Crime, a non-profit analyzing organized crime.Joseph Humire was appointed this summer to be the head of policy focusing on the western hemisphere within the office of the under secretary of defense for policy. He was previously the executive director of a conservative thinktank focused on global security. Humire’s appointment comes as the Trump administration is ramping up its aggressive strategy against organized crime in Latin America and the Venezuelan government, which it accuses of working with TdA. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago New guidance for UK police on releasing suspects’ ethnicity and migration status

Disclosure of migration status, and ethnicity, could help keep peace ‘where there are high levels of disinformation’Police forces should consider disclosing the ethnicity and migration status of suspects when they are charged in high-profile and sensitive investigations, according to new official guidance.After a row over claims that police “covered up” the backgrounds of two men charged in connection with the alleged rape of a child, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the College of Policing have backed plans to release details of nationality when there is a “policing purpose” for doing so. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Police told to release ethnicity of suspects in high profile cases after string of secrecy rows

Forces will disclose the ethnicity and nationality of a suspect when it could reduce the risk of disorder, there are high levels of false information about an incident or there is significant public interest.

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25 h. ago Teachers have the right to ask pupils to call them Mx, instead of Mr, Miss, Mrs, says Bridget Phillipson

The Education Secretary said teachers can 'request' that children call them by the gender-neutral honorific instead of traditional titles.

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31 h. ago Pentagon is already calling National Guard in other states looking for units that could help in DC

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says reinforcements, including ‘specialized units,’ could be called up if needed

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69 h. ago Phillipson vows to tackle ‘thorny’ challenge facing white working

The Education Secretary has called it is a ‘national disgrace’ that so many young people do not get what they need to progress after leaving school.

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5 d. ago Glasgow comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli accused of indecent assault at BBC Scotland studio as trial date set

Scottish comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli has been charged in connection with historic sex offences.

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5 d. ago Notorious crime clan gran Big Mags Haney accused of "grassing" in new podcast

New BBC podcast 'The Ballad of Big Mags' hears former detective make "snitch" claims. The six part series tells how the vigilante turned heroin dealer and was jailed after Daily Record sting operation

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8 d. ago Home Secretary calls for more transparency from police over suspects

Yvette Cooper said guidance was already being reviewed about how the police release information about people arrested over crimes.

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8 d. ago Home Secretary calls for more information to be released about suspects accused of serious crime

Her comments come after Reform UK leader Nigel Farage called for police forces to release the immigration status of people who are charged with crimes

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9 d. ago Police should release immigration information about charged suspects – Farage

It comes amid claims of a ‘cover-up’ of details about an alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton.

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3 w. ago Trump officials tour Alcatraz in bid to reopen prison amid outcry from California leaders

Doug Burgum, interior secretary, and Pam Bondi, attorney general, visited island jail as Nancy Pelosi calls idea ‘lunacy’A delegation of US officials toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of Donald Trump’s pledge to reopen the shuttered federal prison and tourist attraction in the San Francisco Bay, amid an outcry from California leaders who have called the plan “lunacy”.Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, who visited the island prison with attorney general Pam Bondi, said the federal government was beginning “the work to renovate and reopen the site to house the most dangerous criminals and illegals”. Continue reading...

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last month 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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last month 'Granny Ripper' accused of eating victims' organs and making stew from heads

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Tamara Mitrofanovna Samsonova, 74, from Russia, was jailed in 2017

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