9 h. ago This free speech group at Columbia is taking on Trump when the university won’t – and winning

The Knight Institute is defending free speech at a school now synonymous with compromising on itWhen he first learned that federal agents had detained Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil in the lobby of his university housing complex, Jameel Jaffer knew he was in for a fight.Jaffer is the director of a Columbia-affiliated institute devoted to the defense of the first amendment, and Khalil, a green card holder, had been a fixture at the pro-Palestinian encampments on campus. Months earlier, Jaffer’s organization had hosted a symposium about the free speech rights of noncitizens. The institute had been established to defend the very constitutional principles the Trump administration was now openly flouting – and that Columbia seemed too scared to defend. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Kerri Rawson’s father gave her a car in high school. Years later, she learned he was the BTK killer – and had stashed his final victim in the trunk

‘Can you imagine finding out your father is one of the most evil people on earth?’ That haunting question opens the trailer of My Father, the BTK Killer, the new Netflix documentary premiering on October 10 – and it’s a question Kerri Rawson has lived with for 20 years. Andrea Cavallier delves into the shocking case as it’s being retold by his own daughter

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13 h. ago What does BTK Killer stand for? Netflix drops chilling true crime

True crime fans can’t miss out on this documentary

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38 h. ago Inside a parents’ group chat about raising kids in violent times

The Guardian’s parenting WhatsApp group discusses the recent spate of school shootings and political violence – and how they explain it to their kids“I have been emotionally at my wit’s end with the violence.”Gabriela Rangel is a glass dispatch coordinator in California City, California, and mother to a five-year-old. Like many parents across the nation, she was horrified to learn about the 27 August shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Inside a US parents’ group chat about raising kids in violent times

The Guardian’s parenting WhatsApp group discusses the recent spate of school shootings and political violence – and how they explain it to their kids“I have been emotionally at my wit’s end with the violence.”Gabriela Rangel is a glass dispatch coordinator in California City, California, and mother to a five-year-old. Like many parents across the nation, she was horrified to learn about the 27 August shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two children were killed and 17 other people were injured. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Pensioner, 68, is 'lucky' to be alive after driver smashed into her stationery car leaving her with horrific facial injuries on eve of her father's funeral

Sheila Chatfield, 68, had been cleaning her car outside her house in Cossall, Nottinghamshire on August 25 when a Mini driver lost control and hurtled into the rear end of her parked vehicle.

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8 d. ago Rashielea Primary School celebrates inspection report success

The Erskine school was commended for its leadership of change, learning, teaching and assessment in a recent assessment from Education Scotland.

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9 d. ago Iowa district hired superintendent despite false Morgan State doctorate claim on his resume

The superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district, who was detained last week by immigration agents, falsely claimed a doctoral degree when applying for the job two years ago but was hired even after the school board learned about the misrepresentation

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1 week ago ‘You’re too black’: Vegas mom sues school district after teenage son was subjected to years

The lawsuit claims a Vegas school district and its employees knowingly allowed a racially hostile learning environment at Adcock Elementary, ignored or mishandled reports, retaliated against the victim, and caused lasting harm

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1 week ago I've claimed thousands in disability benefits since I was 14 because of my OCD. The truth is, it was just a phase... but I'm still enjoying the magic money

Three months ago, I was at a garage inspecting a Ford Fiesta with my father. It was the perfect first car for an 18-year-old like me.

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1 week ago 'Deliveroo rider disguise donned by gunman to shoot girl, 8, and dad'

Jazz Reid allegedly fired a volley of 11 shots, hitting an eight-year-old girl and her father, 34, while they were sat in a car in London, the Old Bailey has heard

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1 week ago British boy receives postcard from complete stranger 4,000 miles away after his message in a bottle lands on tropical beach

Harrison Mizen, eight, learned about the unique communication method at school and put a message in an old glass rum bottle which 'reminded him of pirates'.

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2 w. ago My year from hell: RICHARD HAMMOND breaks his silence on the 'devastating' collapse of his marriage

Richard Hammond looks tired. Distracted. Is he OK? 'Yeah,' he says wearily. 'I'm 55. Things change. That's what happens at this age. Big things change.'

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2 w. ago Tim Allen says Charlie Kirk’s widow’s speech inspired him to forgive driver who killed his dad

Allen’s father died in a car accident when he was 11 years old

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2 w. ago A surge in interest in music has seen St Mary's school numbers return to pre

A surge of interest in learning a musical instrument has led to St Mary’s Music School seeing its roll return to pre-Covid levels.

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2 w. ago Stop sneering at mothers. Most of us have done things you wouldn’t believe | Emma Beddington

Sure, I personally am terminally cautious and aesthetically unadventurous – but I’m the exception“These aren’t your mother’s pantyhose,” I read recently on the New York magazine website, then I scrolled on, because the word “pantyhose” gives me the ick and I’m not planning to layer pink Gucci pop socks over purple tights any time soon. Still, something about it snagged in my brain and I’ve found myself brooding about that expression and how it gets used.That “not your [family member]’s” formula entered the vernacular in a 1988 US car ad, when it was directed at dads: “Not your father’s Oldsmobile”. Now, though, it seems mostly to have defaulted to mothers. It’s a lazy marketing brag or headline, a shorthand for new, directional and disruptive, and I’ve started to hate it. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Pupils at Motherwell school now have exciting new outdoor space to learn and explore

The area at Brannock High School in Newarthill has been transformed.

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3 w. ago HGV driver scrolled porn on his mobile before fatal motorway crash

Neil Platt, 43, crashed into father-of-two Daniel Aitchison's car, killing him instantly

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4 w. ago British motoring enthusiast, 26, is one of two men killed in car crash on Australia's remote Kangaroo Island

Ed Burrows, 26, (pictured) died alongside Craig Doyle, 55, a father and baseball coach from Adelaide, when the car they were passengers in rolled over on Wednesday evening.

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4 w. ago 'I spent a day at my kid's school and made 6 key observations'

A 33-year-old dad has shared what he learnt after volunteering at his child's school for a day - and says it has changed his outlook on the teaching career entirely

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