79 m. ago Takeaways from AP's interview with the only protester still locked up after Trump’s campus crackdown

A Palestinian activist arrested by the Trump administration in March says she feels helpless as she remains jailed while her family in Gaza suffers amid ongoing conflict

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2 h. ago Police slap Greater Manchester town centre with fifth 48 hour dispersal order in three weeks

Police have been regularly using the tactic as they try to crack down of a spate of anti-social behaviour

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2 h. ago Ospreys let another South Africa lead slip after scoreless second

Mark Jones' side ran out of steam in Cape Town, going down 26-10 at DHL Stadium

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2 h. ago Noem visits Chicago area ICE facility as agents detain multiple protesters outside

Federal agents have detained several people near an immigration facility outside Chicago

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2 h. 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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2 h. ago White House accuses Democrats of ‘intentional sabotage’ as Trump firings loom on Day 3 of government shutdown: Live updates

Federal government shutdown enters day three as Trump puts government employees and projects in jeopardy

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4 h. ago Florida receives $608 million reimbursement for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ costs

Federal officials have reimbursed Florida $608 million for an immigration detention center in the Everglades

Economics

5 h. ago Trump’s ‘Project 2025’ firings loom as Senate leader Thune says Dems ‘playing with fire’ on Day 3 of government shutdown: Live updates

Federal government shutdown enters day three as Trump puts government employees and projects in jeopardy

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5 h. ago Man fined for parking millimetres over line as he collected wife's medication

Nick Palit, from Penarth, said he couldn't believe it when he returned to his car in the town and he had a parking ticket

Science

6 h. ago Rick Stein confirms restaurant closure after axing coffee shop as celebrity chef's business empire faces mounting losses

The Marlborough High Street branch will serve its last meals on Sunday, October 5, after the group confirmed the site was no longer viable. The closure ends almost a decade in the town.

Economics

6 h. ago Engineer’s dignity would have been violated in trans toilet incident, boss says

Maria Kelly is taking legal action against her employer Leonardo UK.

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6 h. ago Man is accidentally paid 330 times his monthly salary and quits

In May 2022, his employer accidentally deposited 165 million pesos, worth about £127,000, into his account.

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6 h. ago Larkhall councillor calls on politicians to unite and help create banking hub in the town

Conservative councillor Richard Nelson has written to Bank of Scotland bosses to state his opposition over the impending closure of the Larkhall branch early next year.

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6 h. ago Journalist Mario Guevara deported to El Salvador after 100 days in Ice custody

Removal comes after Emmy-winning Salvadorian reporter was arrested while covering ‘No Kings Day’ protestJournalist Mario Guevara’s imprisonment by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) ended with deportation to El Salvador on Friday, his family announced on social media.Guevara has been a media mainstay in the Atlanta area for about 20 years, after fleeing El Salvador to escape leftwing militias in 2004. Though he has a work permit and two of his children are American citizens, he has operated under the “administrative closure” of deportation orders for much of that time. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Restored seaside townhouse in 'Scotland's artists town' hits the market

"Rich in history yet perfectly suited to modern living"

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7 h. ago Michelle Mone says she has ‘no wish to return to the Lords’ as a Tory peer

Several high-profile politicians have called for Lady Mone to relinquish her peerage.

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7 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...

Events

7 h. ago New archbishop warns against hostile or threatening language on immigration

Dame Sarah Mullally said all senior leaders, whether in politics or faith, have a responsibility to ‘think about the language we use’.

Events

7 h. ago Government shutdown live updates: Day 3 of federal pause puts Trump layoffs in spotlight as Senate to reconvene

Federal government shutdown enters day three as Trump puts government employees and projects in jeopardy

Politics

8 h. ago Engineer's dignity 'could have been violated' in trans toilet incident, boss says

Maria Kelly, people and capability lead for aerospace defence company Leonardo UK, is taking legal action against her employer.

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