58 m. ago Neighbor accused of killing ‘King of the Hill’ voice actor Jonathan Joss ‘maintains his innocence’ lawyer says

The lawyer of the neighbor accused of killing Jonathan Joss said on Friday, “We urge the public to withhold judgment”.

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1 hour ago Yoga classes resume at San Diego beach as court says they are ‘protected speech’

Instructors Steven Hubbard and Amy Baack had sued after a city ordinance restricted such activities on the beachYoga classes are back on at San Diego beaches this week after a federal appeals court ruled that a city ordinance restricting such activities was unconstitutional and that teaching yoga was “protected speech”.The three-judge panel of the US ninth circuit court of appeals on Wednesday overruled a San Diego judge and decided in favor of two instructors who had sued over a law that San Diego passed in 2024 banning yoga classes of four or more people at shoreline parks and beaches. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Man accused of killing ‘King of the Hill’ voice actor Jonathan Joss ‘maintains his innocence’ lawyer says

The lawyer of the man accused of killing Jonathan Joss said on Friday, “We urge the public to withhold judgment”

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3 h. ago US supreme court rules Doge can access social security data during legal challenge

Key player in Trump’s drive to slash federal workforce keeps access to sensitive records including family court and mental health recordsThe US supreme court on Friday permitted the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), a key player in Donald Trump’s drive to slash the federal workforce, broad access to the personal information of millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.At the request of the justice department, the justices put on hold Maryland-based US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information” in data such as medical and financial records while litigation proceeds in a lower court. Hollander found that allowing Doge unfettered access likely would violate a federal privacy law. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump to build 'beautiful' and 'magnificent' ballroom as he revamps White House

President Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that he would proceed with building a ballroom on the White House grounds.

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5 h. ago Sleepy Diddy struggles to stay awake as witness testifies about freak

Diddy, 55, has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers concede he could be violent, but he denies using threats or his music industry clout to commit abuse.

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7 h. ago Battling Bob MacIntyre still afloat in Canada ahead of sink or swim US Open test

Scottish star scraps in Friday round in his Canada effort

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7 h. ago Arlene Phillips shares reaction to Strictly fans who mistake her for much younger judge

Dame Arlene Phillips says fans are always mixing her up with her friend on Strictly Come Dancing, who is 18 years her junior, years on from her controversial axe from the BBC show

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7 h. ago Shed lovers clearing out tools to turn backyard outbuildings into wellness retreats

Sheds are no longer just a dumping ground for tools and gardening equipment. Instead, plenty of Brits are turning their back garden buildings into spectacular wellness retreats

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7 h. ago Celebrities warned not to mimic offensive foreign accents when recording audio books

EXCLUSIVE: TV and radio presenter Jeremy Vine discovered that it’s a no-no to try and impersonate almost anyone outside the British Isles when he came to record his book

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8 h. ago Japanese rover smashes into moon in fresh disaster for embattled space company

Japanese company ispace has declared a second failure in a bid for its lunar lander to touchdown on the moon after communication was lost less than two minutes before the scheduled grounding

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8 h. ago US fiscal policy is going off the rails — and nobody seems to want to fix it

Democrats and Republicans alike have presided over an unsustainable growth in the debt and deficit

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8 h. ago A banana a day to keep the tariffs away? Howard Lutnick mocked during congressional hearing over plan to make more products in America

‘We cannot build bananas in America,’ commerce secretary reminded in surreal exchange at House hearing on Donald Trump’s tariff policy

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8 h. ago Playing 'snog, marry, avoid' with colleagues at work could be sexual harassment and may breach the Equality Act, judge rules

The risqué quiz involves naming three people and then asking a person to pick which one you would like to kiss, which one you would get married to and which one you would steer clear of altogether.

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9 h. ago US Open chiefs deliver verdict on changing controversial driver test policy after Rory McIlroy furore

Oakmont procedures look set to the same as Quail Hollow despite angst

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9 h. ago Trump’s new travel ban is a gratuitously cruel sequel | Moustafa Bayoumi

The policy is alienating, counterproductive and racist – and it isn’t the flex that Trump thinks it isTrump’s new travel ban: the countries chosen and how it differs from the last oneI’m not much for horror movies, but I have just read that the film Black Phone 2 “will creep into cinemas” in October and that, compared to the original, it’s supposed to be a “more violent, scarier, more graphic” film. I’ll pass on the movie, but that description seems pretty apt to what living under this Trump administration feels like: a gratuitously more violent sequel to a ghoulish original.Consider the Muslim ban. Back in late 2015, candidate Donald Trump called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”. He signed the first version of the Muslim ban on 27 January 2017, and protests erupted at airports across the nation at the revival of a national policy, similar to the Chinese Exclusion Act, that b...

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9 h. ago Inside Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright's £1,300 a night luxurious Spanish holiday resort hidden away in the countryside with baby daughter Palma

With everything you could need within its grounds, it's no wonder Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright chose this hotel in the Spanish countryside for their first holiday with baby daughter Palma.

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9 h. ago The big changes that can already be seen in Cardiff Bay as work gets underway on a new arena

Cardiff Bay will look completely different when the redevelopment Atlantic Wharf is complete, but some changes can already be seen as ground works get underway

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10 h. ago Lewis Hamilton admits he's close to demanding Ferrari change as F1 woes continue

Lewis Hamilton endured another difficult race at the Spanish Grand Prix last weekend despite a better qualifying effort, as his difficulties since joining Ferrari continue

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10 h. ago In 1973, I reported freely on Israel at war. Now its censorship has made that impossible | Martin Bell

Today foreign journalists stand on the ‘hill of shame’ overlooking Gaza, reliant on Palestinians for newsWatching the TV coverage of the conflict in Gaza with increasing dismay this week, my mind went back to the banks of the Suez canal in October 1973. I was filming the surrender of the entire Egyptian third army with a team from the BBC, without significant censorship or hindrance. The Israeli commander, Gen Avraham Adan, paused in whatever he was doing to give us an update.Crossing the canal on the Israeli pontoon bridge in a bright yellow Hertz car (not a wise choice of colour) we were even helped when we had to repair a tyre that had been punctured by the shrapnel that littered the battlefield.Martin Bell is a Unicef UK ambassador. He is a former broadcast war reporter, and was the independent MP for Tatton from 1997 to 2001Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publica...

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