14 h. ago US supreme court blocks ruling that 16,000 fired federal workers must be rehired

Probationary employees laid off in Trump administration’s purge lose reinstatement in 7-2 ruling over legal standingUS politics live – latest updatesThe US supreme court has handed Donald Trump a reprieve from a judge’s ruling that his administration must rehire 16,000 probationary workers fired in its purge of the federal bureaucracy.A day after ruling in the White House’s favor to allow the continued deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members, the court gave the White House a less clear-cut victory in halting the order by a California court that dismissed workers from six government agencies must be rehired. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago The dark side of tourism in Colombia: How Brit and US holidaymakers have ended up dead while travelling in South American nation... as cops hunt killer who butchered London biologist

Colombia is one of the most popular destinations for adventure-seeking travellers, but the South American nation has seen a series of fatalities involving holidaymakers in recent years.

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22 h. ago Pictured: Grandfather, 105, killed on his mobility scooter after collision with 87

EXCLUSIVE: Syd Powis had been crossing the B2102 in Uckfield, East Sussex when he was struck by a blue Ford Ka driven by an 87-year-old woman.

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26 h. ago Dismembered body of London scientist is found in a suitcase in Colombia

Alessandro Coatti's dismembered body was found in a suitcase dumped in a stream in the Caribbean city of Santa Marta.

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33 h. ago Woman, 81, who died walking through village named as dangerous driver arrested

A pedestrian who died after being struck by a car on Sunday evening has been named by police, following the arrest of a 23-year-old man on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving

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42 h. ago Woman whispers two chilling words to Amazon delivery driver before police swarm in

An Amazon driver potentially saved a woman's life after she whispered two chilling words that led to him to spring into action - with domestic abuse campaigners labelling him a "hero"

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3 d. ago Fatal error: 20 years on, the Met still has questions to answer about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. A new drama investigates the tragedy

The award-winning producer and screenwriter of Philomena’s new show, Suspect, is about the shooting of an innocent young Brazilian electrician on the London Underground in the wake of the 7/7 bombings. Here he asks why the force still can’t admit that it acted incompetently‘Everybody’s human. Mistakes can be made But you are really not prepared to say that any mistake [was made] here, are you?”Michael Mansfield QC put this question to Cressida Dick – then deputy assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police – at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, a young man who, 20 years ago this summer, was shot dead at Stockwell station in south London by Met firearms officers. The inquest took place in 2008, three years after his shooting on the morning of 22 July 2005, which was 15 days after the 7/7 bombings in London and one day after copycat bombers had tried and failed to detonate more explosives on the transport system and then fled. De Menezes was a 27-year-old Bra...

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4 d. ago The Christian right has set the US on the road to Gilead. Without a fight, other nations may follow | Deborah Frances

Organisations that pumped money into overturning Roe v Wade are making inroads in Europe. Women’s rights are truly at riskWith Donald Trump as president, there is now a heavy strain of Christian nationalism driving the US political agenda. From draconian abortion policies to ending birthright citizenship, some of Trump’s first executive orders sound startlingly like something out of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the dystopian novel turned TV show set in Gilead, a fundamentalist, fascist version of the US where women have no rights. But it is urgent we understand that what is happening in the US could happen here. This road to Atwood’s Gilead is charting a course straight through the UK and Europe, and we may well be sleepwalking on to it.In November 2024 I debated with the American conservative lawyer Erin Hawley at the Oxford Union. The motion was “This house regrets the overturning of Roe v Wade”, the US supreme court’s landmark decision that once protected the right to h...

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4 d. ago Mining firm withdraws plan for UK’s first deep coalmine in 30 years

Move ends bid for site near Whitehaven, Cumbria after planning permission was quashed by high courtThe Whitehaven coalmine’s planning application has been withdrawn, bringing an end to a process that could have created the UK’s first deep coalmine in 30 years in Cumbria.Planning permission for the mine was quashed in the high court last year which meant the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government had to reassess the planning application. However, the company has now written to the government withdrawing its planning application. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago New London police officer facing domestic violence charges fired after fourth arrest, mayor says

New London police officer facing domestic violence charges fired after fourth arrest, mayor says  Hartford Courant

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5 d. ago New London Cop Fired Following Fourth Alleged Domestic Violence Arrest: Mayor

New London Cop Fired Following Fourth Alleged Domestic Violence Arrest: Mayor  dailyvoice.com

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5 d. ago New London cop fired after multiple domestic violence arrests, mayor says

New London cop fired after multiple domestic violence arrests, mayor says  The Register Citizen

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6 d. ago Man arrested after German woman alleges rape by driver in India

Suspect offered to give tourist and local friend ride to nearby market but took her to a secluded spot instead, police say

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6 d. ago Vulnerable woman driven to remote location and raped by twisted taxi driver

"The public place their trust in taxi drivers... For your own sexual needs, you shattered those boundaries and caused significant harm to your victim."

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6 d. ago ‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI modelsAuthors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.Novelists Kate Mosse and Tracy Chevalier as well as poet and former Royal Society of Literature chair Daljit Nagra will be among those in attendance outside the company’s King’s Cross office. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago London copper rises; caution ahead of US reciprocal tariffs caps gains

London copper rises; caution ahead of US reciprocal tariffs caps gains  TradingView

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7 d. ago Girl gets £27,000 after suffering serious leg injury on Barry Island ride

The girl received the settlement after her family took Barry Island Pleasure Park to court following the incident on the Crazy Fun House ride in 2022

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8 d. ago Children put at ‘unnecessary risk’ under proposals to overhaul mental health law

Baroness Berridge called for greater safeguards to be put in place for children experiencing mental illness.

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8 d. ago Baller League UK: Fixtures, results, standings, players and teams

Star-studded indoor six-a-side competition continues at the Copper Box Arena in London

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8 d. ago 'Entitled neighbour parks in my driveway for infuriating reason – they won't stop'

A woman has shared her disgust after learning her neighbour using her driveway almost every day when she is out of the house for work - and now she's searching for ways to stop her

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