98 m. ago A by the numbers look at the current Hispanic population in the United States

More than 68 million people in the United States identify as ethnically Hispanic, making it one the nation’s fastest growing racial or ethnic groups

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1 hour ago US military poised to seize ports and airfields in Venezuela as Trump strikes a fourth 'narco

As the U.S. military builds its presence in the Caribbean amid heightening tensions with Venezuela, there is mounting evidence that troops are preparing for a potential conflict.

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1 hour ago Putin launches devastating attack on Ukraine’s energy network as Denmark warns of repeated provocations at sea

Russia escalates drone and missile attacks as Europe raises its own concerns about alleged Moscow activity in its borders

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2 h. ago Hegseth says four killed in US strike on alleged drug boat off Venezuelan coast

Pentagon chief says strike – fourth by US military in recent weeks – targeted boat with ‘substantial amounts’ of drugsThe US killed four people in a strike against a vessel just off the coast of Venezuela that was allegedly carrying illegal drugs, US defense secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday.The strike came a day after Trump officials notified Congress that the US was entering a “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Judge dismisses lawsuit claiming UN agency enabled Hamas' deadly attack on Israel

A lawsuit that claimed the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees had provided more than $1 billion that enabled Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel was dismissed this week by a federal judge in New York

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2 h. ago Commuters face major disruption at London Waterloo after ‘emergency incident’

Tubes and national rail trains face major delays as emergency services dealing with an incident

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3 h. ago Putin launches devastating attack on Ukrainian energy as Denmark warns of repeated provocations at sea

Russia escalated devastating drone and missile attacks on Ukraine as Europe raised its own concerns about alleged Russian activity in its borders

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3 h. ago Global protests after all Gaza aid flotilla ships captured by Israeli military in ‘calculated act of intimidation’

Over 400 volunteers have been detained in the notorious Ketziot prison in the Negev desert

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4 h. ago New world champion Abass Baraou expects to ‘dominate’ Conor Benn in UK showdown

Benn has been presented with yet another shot at a world title, after IBF welterweight champion Lewis Crocker also offered him a shot

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4 h. ago US military under fire in Virginia, but were Trump and Hegseth shooting blanks?

President and his defence chief took aim at the ‘fat generals’, but some doubted there was much substance to the swagger on showThis week marked an inflection point in Donald Trump’s relentless politicisation of the US armed forces, as he delivered a partisan – if scattershot – campaign speech to the very room of people he is not supposed to: the commanders of the most powerful military in the world.For those declaring a five-alarm authoritarian fire in the US, there was plenty of smoke: the anti-woke rhetoric that has become a commonplace of the political right, the threats to summarily dismiss the generals who disagree with him, the transparent pleasure at deploying the military to perform police actions in major US cities. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing’s Alex Kingston says 'complex health issues’ was reason for joining BBC show

Alex and Johannes are currently rehearsing a more challenging set of steps ready for the samba on Saturday (October 4) night.

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5 h. ago Michelle Mone hits out at Tory hypocrisy as she says she won’t return as Conservative peer

High Court ruled PPE Medpro provided government with 25 million faulty surgical gowns during pandemic

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5 h. ago Knifeman admits stabbing girl, 11, in horror attack in Leicester Square

Romanian national Ioan Pintaru has admitted stabbing Australian girl who was on holiday but denies attempted murder

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5 h. ago US book publishers honor Russian dissident house Freedom Letters

The Association of American Publishers is honoring a Russian publishing house for its fight against censorship

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5 h. ago Ready to hear music in a whole new way? Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen) will take you there

Ready to burst with innovative new features, these new headphones have shot to the top of our wishlist

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6 h. ago Michelle Mone told us ‘business isn’t easy’ during Covid. How are things now, your ladyship? | Marina Hyde

After a company she was linked to was ordered to repay £122m it made from pandemic deals, the baroness has embarked on a masterclass in victimhoodBy their own accounts, there have been two Westminster-adjacent victims of inflammatory language this week. One is the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, hurt to the point of requiring smelling salts by some politically commonplace words spoken by the prime minister. And the other is legally besieged bra baroness Michelle Mone, who has always been performatively sensitive, with chaos as her rising sign.Alas, far from their shared victimhood drawing our two snowflakes closer together, in Michelle, we may have finally found the Tory from whom Nigel would not accept a defection to Reform. Which really means something, considering Britain’s would-be next prime minister currently has precisely zero peers in the House of Lords. Like the PPE she provided during the pandemic, Michelle would be deemed incredibly expensive and absolutely unusable.Marin...

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6 h. ago Asad Rehman’s journey from antiracism campaigner in Burnley to head of Friends of the Earth

Climate crisis is ‘interconnected crisis of inequality’, says Rehman, who began organising at his school in the 1970s Each weekday morning, every child in the south Asian community in Burnley would gather before making the journey to school. It was the 1970s, the National Front were mobilising, and they were the children of south Asian workers invited to Britain a decade earlier to fill labour shortages.Among them was Asad Rehman, who had moved to the Lancashire town with his family from Pakistan at the age of four. “We would all walk together, because it was dangerous to walk alone,” he remembers. “Younger children in the middle, older children around the edge, because we’d be attacked on the way.” Continue reading...

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7 h. ago National Recognition for DLD College London’s Inspiring Charitable Endeavours

National Recognition for DLD College London’s Inspiring Charitable Endeavours  London Post

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7 h. ago Czechs begin voting in election that could return populist to power

Billionaire Andrej Babiš hands out doughnuts on first day of voting as polls predict his ANO party will winCzechs have begun voting in an election likely to oust their centre-right government, with polls favouring the populist billionaire Andrej Babiš to return to power on pledges to raise wages and improve growth while reducing aid for Ukraine.The change would boost Europe’s populist anti-immigration camp and could complicate consensus on climate policies in a country where no sitting government has won a second term since 1996. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago NHS Lanarkshire launches new initiative taking active stance against racism

The health board’s first anti-racism plan aims to provide a safe and non-discriminatory environment for both staff and patients.

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