2 h. ago Jump in US greenhouse gas pollution pushed global emissions higher – report

‘Abrupt shift’ in policy since Trump took office will have major consequences for climate crisis, forecast saysA jump in greenhouse gas pollution in the US helped push global emissions higher in the first half of this year. This could be an omen of what’s to come, with Donald Trump’s pro-fossil fuel agenda set to significantly slow down the emissions cuts required to avoid disastrous climate impacts, a new forecast has found.The “most abrupt shift in energy and climate policy in recent memory” that has occurred since Trump re-entered the White House will have profound consequences for the global climate crisis by slowing the pace of US emissions cuts by as much as half the rate achieved over the past two decades, the Rhodium Group forecast states. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Mum arrested after son, 12, killed in alligator attack near home in New Orleans

Bryan Vasquez, 12, was tragically mauled to death by an alligator in a lagoon in New Orleans, Louisiana. Investigators are now probing how the boy came to be attacked

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39 h. ago Doomsday cult mum Lori Vallow sends chilling prison message to surviving son after kids’ murders

Convicted killer tells son Colby she “loves him no matter what” and quotes Bible verse after being jailed for murdering children Tylee, 16, and JJ, 7.

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42 h. ago Doomsday cult mum Lori Vallow sends son cryptic 'I love you' message after killing family

Lori Vallow Daybell was found guilty of the murders of her children Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, as well as her husband's first wife Tammy Daybell, and was sentenced to life without parole

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43 h. ago Doomsday cult mum killer Lori Vallow sends son cryptic message during crime con

Lori Vallow Daybell, the doomsday zombie cult mum who was found guilty of the murder of her children, Tylee Ryan, 16 and Joshua 'JJ' Vallow, seven, sent her surviving son Colby an eerie message

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45 h. ago Philadelphia mass transit agency gets OK to use project money to avoid bus, trolley and rail cuts

Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration is approving the use of hundreds of millions of dollars in capital project funding for Philadelphia’s public transit agency to help it restore bus, trolley and rail services that it had eliminated to shore up its deficit-riddled finances

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5 d. ago Son kills mum in shower days after taking out £560,000 life insurance policy to get rich

Andre Zachary Rebelo was sentenced to 25 years in prison after he was found guilty of murdering his mother and fraud after taking out three life insurance policies a week before her death

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6 d. ago Mum of man who admitted killing 'loved and cherished' woman says she should have had son sectioned

Lisa Fraser was killed in her home in Pembrokeshire in May, 2022. Matthew Harris was charged with her murder but died in prison without standing trial. He told officers during his arrest that he killed Ms Fraser and was 'guilty as charged'

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7 d. ago ‘My son was everything you are not’, mother tells killer of ex

Elias Morgan shot Lenny Scott outside a gym in Skelmersdale, Lancashire.

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8 d. ago Dad, 62, shredded and killed 'instantly' by boat propeller as son watched on in horror

A sudden gust of wind is thought to have swung the sailboat’s boom into Andrea Bruglia’s head, knocking him out cold and sending him plunging into the sea off Ancona’s Marina Dorica, Italy

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9 d. ago Heartbroken family reveal mother of murdered son who was run over by his jealous fiancée has died

Lisa Watson passed away in November last year - after her son Ryan Watson, 24, was killed by his partner of three years, Alice Wood, 23.

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1 week ago Mum 'threw son, 4, in lake as offering to God' before 'trying to kill siblings'

Ruth R Miller, 40, has been charged with aggravated murder following the death of her four-year-old son Vincen Miller, who drowned in Atwood Lake in Ohio in the US

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1 week ago Terry Wogan's son slams Rachel Reeves after failing to sell radio legend's home

Sir Terry Wogan’s son has blasted chancellor Rachel Reeves for “killing off the housing market” after failing to attract a single viewing on his late dad’s £3.75m mansion

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1 week ago Amazon delivery driver, 21, killed in crash was ‘beloved son, brother and friend’

Amazon delivery driver, 21, killed in crash was ‘beloved son, brother and friend’  This Is Local London

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1 week ago Woman accused of killing her son by throwing him into a lake during test of faith

Authorities said Ruth R. Miller, 40, of Millersburg, Ohio, told investigators she believed she was acting at the direction of God

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1 week ago Dad of young Celtic fan killed after boarding wrong supporters' bus issues warning

James Burns, 48, is urging young people to look out for their pals when under the influence of alcohol after his son John, 22, was killed in a fatal motorway collision on the M6

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2 w. ago Heartbroken parents call for help to find son’s Notting Hill Carnival killer

Takayo Nembhard, 21, was stabbed to death surrounded by several hundred people under the Westway flyover in 2022

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2 w. ago Parents call for help to find son’s Notting Hill Carnival killer

Takayo Nembhard, 21, was stabbed to death surrounded by several hundred people on Monday August 29 2022, under the Westway flyover in west London.

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2 w. ago Prigozhin knew he was ‘doomed’ after failed rebellion, says mother

Violetta Prigozhina, 85, says she warned her son not to defy Putin’s authority before he was killed in a plane crashThe Russian warlord and businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin looked “doomed” after his failed mutiny and told his mother he expected to die in the days before his private plane crash.Prigozhin, the founder of the notorious Wagner mercenary group, died when his business jet went down in the summer of 2023, two months after his fighters briefly seized control of the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and advanced towards Moscow in a short-lived rebellion against Russia’s military leadership. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Mum grins as son who killed dad for taking away phone aged 15 AVOIDS prison

Lincoln Peterson killed his dad after his parents decided to take his electronics as a punishment for his school grades - his mum smiled in court as he was spared jail

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