30 m. ago Kristen Bell misses Today show interview amid Dax Shepard controversy

Bell received backlash on social media for her anniversary tribute to her husband last week

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33 m. ago People filmed leaving devices of 'hideous cruelty' in Welsh forest

Police have launched an investigation after undercover footage emerged

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2 h. ago ‘The police weren’t interested’: what’s driving the rise in private prosecutions?

As the police and courts continue to struggle with the legacy of austerity, many people are seeking alternative routes to justice – but it could be making matters worseIn the summer of 2018, the private investigator Simon Davison got a call from a woman who said her ex-boyfriend had stolen £10,000 from her. Carol (not her real name), a traffic manager at a local council, was not a typical client for Davison. As the director of investigations at AnotherDay, a crisis consultancy in London, Davison usually works for wary companies and wealthy individuals. A former police detective, Davison has recovered stolen cryptocurrency, uncovered secret properties owned by bankrupt business people and tracked down fraudsters to Cyprus.Davison’s speciality is private prosecutions, a little-known area of law that allows victims to pay for justice. These cases are heard in the same courts used by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the public prosecutor for England and Wales, and they can carry the...

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7 h. ago Wyoming Capitol bomb investigators focus on men seen in security video

Investigators in Wyoming are trying to identify two men they believe left a homemade bomb in front of the state Capitol

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8 h. ago Fide to investigate Kramnik over attacks on Naroditsky as chess reels from player’s death

Chess world mourns 29-year-old streaming pioneerKramnik criticized for reckless cheating accusationsFide CEO’s statement prompts calls for resignationThe International Chess Federation (Fide) said on Wednesday it is examining former world champion Vladimir Kramnik’s public attacks on Daniel Naroditsky, the American grandmaster whose sudden death at 29 has stunned the chess world and laid bare fissures in the sport’s digital age.Naroditsky, among the most visible faces of chess’s pandemic-era renaissance, was one of the most popular players and teachers of his generation, a Stanford-educated prodigy who won the Under-12 world championship, became a grandmaster at 18 and went on to amass more than 800,000 followers across Twitch and YouTube. Known by his nickname Danya, the California-born Naroditsky’s mix of patience, humor, generosity and gift for communication made him a standard-bearer of chess’s online boom, helping to bring vast new audiences to a centuries-old pastime. Continue...

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8 h. ago US sanctions major Russian oil companies and calls for Moscow to accept immediate Ukraine ceasefire – live

Trump says he canceled meeting with Putin because ‘we have good conversations but then they don’t go anywhere’US imposes sanctions on Russian oil over Putin’s ‘refusal’ to end war in UkraineMike Johnson said that he hasn’t spoken with the president about a New York Times report that he is seeking $230m from his own justice department in damages over past federal investigations.“I know that he believes he’s owed that reimbursement. What I heard yesterday was, if he receives it, he was going to consider giving it to charity,” he said. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Kristen Bell misses Today show appearance after Dax Shepard Instagram post controversy

Bell received backlash on social media for her anniversary tribute to her husband last week

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9 h. ago Trump ally who wants Jack Smith in jail says grand jury will investigate Mar

Florida judge schedules grand jury for January — and Mike Davis says prosecutors are after president’s enemies

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9 h. ago University of Virginia strikes deal to pause Trump administration investigations

The U.S. Justice Department has announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause civil rights investigations

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10 h. ago Kiss star Ace Frehley’s death being investigated as toxicology report awaited

The guitarist died last week at the age of 74

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10 h. ago Wetherspoons 'disappointed' after vandals attack new £2.75million pub just 24 hours after opening

A brand-new Wetherspoon pub in Basildon was vandalised just hours after it opened, sparking a police investigation - with MP Richard Holden slamming the 'pathetic morons' responsible

Economics

11 h. ago Top Democrat on House oversight panel demands Pam Bondi release Epstein files

Robert Garcia cited revelations from Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir in letter to the attorney generalThe top Democrat on a congressional committee investigating the government’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s case demanded on Wednesday that Pam Bondi, the attorney general, turn over files related to the alleged sex trafficker, citing revelations from the posthumous memoir of a prominent abuse survivor.Virginia Giuffre’s memoir Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, published this week, details how Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell groomed and manipulated her. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Virginia Giuffre's brother calls for police to reopen investigation into Prince Andrew

Sky Roberts and Virginia Giuffre's sister-in-law Amanda Roberts claimed she had been 'gaslit' by the police and authorities in both the UK and US before her death

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12 h. ago KISS star Ace Frehley's death 'being investigated' with toxicology report ordered

Music legend Ace Frehley died last week aged 74 and now a toxicology report is set to determine the KISS guitarist's cause of death

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12 h. ago Scots funeral firm delivered wrong body to cremation as undertakers probed over embarrassing blunders

FUNERAL firms have been investigated over a series of blunders including the wrong body being delivered to a cremation. A coffin was also buried in the wrong grave while another was so heavy it could not be lowered into a lair. In a further distressing case, visitors to a crematorium witnessed ongoing cremations, while a...

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12 h. ago Gran chokes to death in restaurant in Spain in front of husband

She and her husband were visiting Peñíscola, a Spanish coastal town where they have a holiday home, when she choked to death at a restaurant.

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13 h. ago Horror as Brit gran chokes to death on steak in Spanish restaurant while on holiday

Ceri Ball, 74, from Newport, died on Friday, October 17, after choking on a piece of steak while on holiday in Spain with her husband, Glyn, 77, who was left "lost"

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13 h. ago Children groomed and failed by police: Reports reveal rape and exploitation of vulnerable London girls

EXCLUSIVE: Vulnerable young girls from across the capital have been found with adult men days after going missing and despite alleging rape saw inadequate police action, investigations show

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13 h. ago Wealthy landowner, 71, 'thought he knew better and ignored instruction manual' of quad bike that killed gardener on £2.5m estate, court hears

Defence company boss husband Nicholas Prest, 71, and his wife, former English National Ballet dancer Anthea, 70, are accused of failing to give adequate safety gear or training to their staff.

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13 h. ago KISS rocker Ace Frehley's death 'being investigated with toxicology report underway'

The rock icon died last week after being on life support following a fall in a studio , leaving the world of music in mourning.

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