48 m. ago Man gets 10 years for trying to carjack car with 2 members of Justice Sotomayor's security detail

A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for trying to carjack a car occupied by two U.S. Marshals Service deputies who were members of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s security detail

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65 m. ago European markets suffer losses after Trump ‘recommends’ 50% tariff on EU, and threatens Apple with 25% tariff – business live

US president Donald Trump reignites trade war with threat to impose high tariffs on European goods, and Apple iPhones made overseasTrump says he is hitting EU with 50% tariff as trade talks are ‘going nowhere’As well as cutting UK energy costs (see earlier), Donald Trump can also take credit for growing the German economy!New GDP data this morning shows that Germany’s GDP rose by 0.4% in January-March, twice as fast as the first estimate of 0.2% growth in the quarter.“The reason for the slightly higher growth compared to the initial estimate was the surprisingly positive economic development in March.”“In particular, production in the manufacturing sector and exports performed better than initially expected.The German economy had its best quarterly performance since the third quarter of 2022, and the reason for it seems to be Donald Trump. As a result of the announced tariffs and in anticipation of ‘Liberation Day,’ German industrial production and exports surged in March.Net export...

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85 m. ago Mosquitoes are bringing West Nile virus to major US metros. Here’s how to fend them off

Climate change is making conditions ripe for the spread of mosquito-borne illness

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88 m. ago The Guardian view on billionaire Britain: tax wealth fairly or face democratic unravelling | Editorial

Without bold reform which makes the rich pull their weight, rising inequality risks eroding public trust and fracturing social stabilityBritain for the last decade has experienced a bleak paradox: rising child poverty alongside a dramatic increase in billionaire wealth. This inequality has been tolerated partly because greed has been rehabilitated as virtue. The Billionaire Britain report, published this week by the Equality Trust, reveals what many instinctively feel but few in parliament will admit: the UK economy has become a machine for the upward redistribution of wealth.Using Sunday Times Rich List data, the report found that the 50 wealthiest UK families now own more than the poorest half of the population combined. Their opulence is no accident. It’s largely built on the labour and consumption of those 34 million other Britons. The gains of society are being hoarded by those least in need. There’s a lexicon that sells it all as “entrepreneurial spirit” and bus...

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89 m. ago Up to 43,000 criminals a year set to avoid jail under Labour's soft

A new sentencing review already been accepted 'in principle' by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood could see tens of thousands of offenders avoid jail each year, official data shows.

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1 hour ago England v West Indies: second women’s T20 international – live

Updates from the second match of the series, at HoveDunkley launches new era | Sign up for the Spin | Email RobEngland are unchanged. West Indies bring in Stafanie Taylor and Shemaine Campbelle for Realeanna Grimmond and Janillea Glasgow.England Wyatt-Hodge, Dunkley, Sciver-Brunt (c), Knight, Jones (wk), Capsey, Arlott, Wong, Dean, Smith, Bell. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Louisiana jail sees a murder suspect scale the fence and escape

Tra’Von Johnson, 19, was arrested for a 2022 home invasion that left a father dead and his child injured

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2 h. ago New Orleans' jail system was troubled decades before 10 inmates made an audacious escape

The recent jailbreak in New Orleans followed decades of dysfunction in the city's jail system and recent warnings that conditions were ripe for catastrophe

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2 h. ago Harry Potter star rushed to hospital for emergency surgery after experiencing breathing difficulties

Bulgarian actor Stanislav Yanevski starred as Viktor Krum in ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’

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2 h. ago Humiliated Lorraine's absences have 'become a joke': Insiders reveal savage story of ITV bloodbath to KATIE HIND, truth about 'awful' show and why final blow was so 'mortifying for Lorraine'

ITV bosses - after telling staff of an impending bloodbath of cuts - called on just one of those present for an individual meeting. That person, of course, was Lorraine Kelly.

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2 h. ago Probation staff shortages threaten to derail plans to safely release prisoners early, ministers warned

Exclusive: ‘Vital window’ to boost probation workforce before prison reforms put huge pressure on service already in chaos, says union chief

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2 h. ago Man 'driven by profit' spared jail over Rottweiler puppies kept in tiny bathroom

'Mr Lynch was clearly not a fit person to be owning animals'

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2 h. ago Private security at ICE jail in Texas accused of choking a handcuffed detainee

Criminal complaint states officer put enough force on detainee’s throat that he ‘tucked his chin down to his chest because he was gasping for air’

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2 h. ago Trump’s prison officials visited Alcatraz this week to assess reopening it, superintendent confirms

How feasible the president’s plan to revive the historic maximum security penitentiary might be is a matter of some debate among experts

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3 h. ago How I look this good at 74... JANE SEYMOUR reveals powder she has for breakfast, her slimming secrets and beauty trick she'd NEVER do that doctors say have knocked 15 years off her biological age

Jane Seymour - who at 74, was born in the postwar rationing era - has had neither the need nor desire to experiment with anything remotely resembling a dieting 'trend'.

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3 h. ago ‘Revelatory, magnetic, unknown’: how Frank Dillane became a star at Cannes

With a breakout performance in Urchin, the actor has emerged from cult TV fame to the cusp of major stardom – a new ‘post-alpha male’ lead to join the ranks of Paul Mescal and Josh O’ConnorFew actors make an instant impact on their first major film festival appearance, but Frank Dillane, star of fellow actor Harris Dickinson’s directing debut Urchin, is one of them. Critics are near-unanimous in their praise, with Variety calling his performance “revelatory”, and IndieWire describing it as “magnetic”. Influential film industry publication Deadline said that Dillane “arrived in Cannes a virtual unknown, but Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut has made him a star”.In Urchin, Dillane plays Mike, a man living on the streets who ends up in jail after committing an assault and then struggles to go straight after his release. Despite being given a place in a hostel and helped into employment, Mike is tempted to fall back into his old ways. With a script written by Dickinson, Dillane commi...

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3 h. ago UK weather: Exact date maps turn orange in European heat plume revealed

New weather maps show several major cities will experience scorching conditions in the last weekend of the month, with some areas sizzling in temperatures as high as 24C

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4 h. ago Sónar festival hit with artist boycott over alleged links to Israel

More than 70 artists including Kode9 and Lolo & Sosaku have signed a letter in opposition to the owner of the event’s business interests in the West BankSónar, one of Europe’s leading electronic music festivals, is under threat after dozens of musicians and DJs announced a boycott over the event’s parent company KKR’s alleged links to Israel.More than 70 artists signed an open letter to the festival, which is due to take place in Barcelona from 12-14 June, stating that “we oppose any affiliation between the cultural sector and entities complicit in war crimes”. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Multimillionaire's son avoiding prison for his involvement in sale of stolen £4.8 million Golden Toilet is 'laughable', art theft expert Christopher A. Marinello tells new Mail podcast

Fred Doe, 37, was convicted following a trial in March of attempting to broker the sale of around 10 kilos of the stolen gold on behalf of burglar and family friend James Sheen, 40.

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4 h. ago Inside Fred West's chilling past life in Glasgow and the three Scottish victims he killed

Fred and Rose West are known to have killed at least 12 women but it's highly speculated that the evil pair are behind even more deaths with suspicions that Fred could be responsible for the disappearance of four Glasgow girls who went missing while he lived in the area in the 1960s.

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