69 m. ago US supreme court allows Trump administration to freeze teacher

Millions in grants that would promote diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives may be frozen following rulingThe US supreme court is letting the Trump administration temporarily freeze $65m in teacher-training grants that would promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in a 5-4 decision.The decision came down on Friday afternoon, with five of the court’s conservatives – Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh – in the majority. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson all dissented. Continue reading...

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99 m. ago Stephen Robinson backs calls for bigger Premiership amid league reconstruction debate

The St Mirren manager would be all for the top flight expanding in the coming years.

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1 hour ago Tottenham: Ange Postecoglou echoes Antonio Conte with call for vocal support from senior figures

Chairman Daniel Levy, chief financial officer Scott Munn, and technical director Johan Lange rarely speak publicly

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1 hour ago Oklahoma man is accused of gunning down priest outside of a Kansas Catholic church

Community members called the priest’s death ‘heartbreaking’ and a ‘tragedy’

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2 h. ago ALEX BRUMMER: Donald Trump's Liberation Day leaves its scars

The Wall Street Journal compares 'Liberation Day' to Richard Nixon's decision to blow up the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1971. The Economist calls it 'Ruination Day'.

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3 h. ago Beckenham Place Park evacuated as boy, 16, goes missing after swimming in lake

Officers were called just after 3pm on Friday to reports that a boy, 16, got into difficulty in the water

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4 h. ago Federal judge rules return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison

White House has said US courts can’t order return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose wife has been protesting outside courtA federal judge on Friday afternoon ordered the US to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison.The wife of the man, who was flown to a notorious Salvadoran prison had earlier joined dozens of supporters at a rally before a court hearing on Friday, where his lawyers had asked the judge to order the Trump administration to return him to the US. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Violent gang behind Edinburgh gang wars "named" as carnage spreads to Glasgow

The video also calls out the feared Daniels gang from the north of Glasgow.

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4 h. ago Hedge funds hit with steepest margin calls since 2020 Covid crisis

Banks ask clients to stump up additional money as global market sell-off knocks value of holdings

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4 h. ago North Carolina judges back Republican colleague in bid to toss votes and overturn election

Appeals court sides with Jefferson Griffin, who lost supreme court election and wants thousands of ballots thrown outMore than 65,000 people in North Carolina who believed they were eligible to vote could have their ballots thrown out nearly five months after election day, flipping the results of a supreme court election, a state appeals court ruled on Friday.The 2-1 ruling from the North Carolina court of appeals came in response to Republicans’ months-long effort to overturn the results of the state supreme court election in November. The Democrat Allison Riggs, who currently sits on the court, defeated appellate judge Jefferson Griffin, a Republican, by 734 votes. After the election, Griffin filed a protest seeking to get around 60,000 votes thrown out. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Police search for boy, 16, who went missing in lake at south London park

Police were called to Beckenham Place Park in south London just after 3pm today following reports of a person missing in the water.

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5 h. ago Nan searching for her lost dentures finds them in one of the worst imaginable places

Footage shows a large white dog called 007 sporting a set of shiny dentures which had been lost by his owner in Shanghai and she had been left searching through her home for them

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5 h. ago Beckenham Place Park evacuated as boy, 16, goes missing after entering water

Officers were called just after 3pm on Friday to reports that a boy, 16, got into difficulty in the water

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6 h. ago Federal Reserve chair Powell predicts tariffs will spike inflation and slow economic growth

Comes as President Donald Trump calls on Powell to slash interest rates

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6 h. ago Klarna pauses $15bn New York IPO plans in wake of Trump tariffs

Swedish ‘buy now, pay later’ fintech was set to launch its so-called IPO roadshow to investors next week

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7 h. ago Mortifying moment BBC News host is broadcast with no idea he's on camera after string of technical blunders

Journalist Matthew Amroliwala, 63, was involved in the huge mishap, which involved him being placed next to a number of promotional clips being aired on the show.

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8 h. ago John Hunt BBC Grand National commentary team to include first female caller in 73 years

Gina Bryce will become the first woman to describe the action as one of four co-commentators on the BBC 5 Live team for the Grand National

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8 h. ago London's oldest and cheapest spa reopens in world famous East End boxing venue

Reopening the venue on Thursday, the borough’s executive mayor Lutfur Rahman called in the ‘People's Spa’

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8 h. ago Star snubbed by Gatland and Pivac taking game to next level as Wales call tipped

Keiran Williams has been a standout player at regional level

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8 h. ago Ed Sheeran surprises fans with gigs from a London bus and outside King's Cross station

The singer has been busy promoting his new single Azizam

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