13 h. ago What is Marine Le Pen guilty of in National Rally embezzlement case?

The far-right leader has been banned from running for office for five years after an EU parliament fake jobs scamAfter a nine-week trial, the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was this week found guilty of the embezzlement of European parliamentary funds through a fake jobs scam of an unprecedented scale and duration. She was banned from running for office for five years with immediate effect, which could prevent her making a fourth bid for the French presidency in 2027.She has said she will appeal against the verdict and sentence, which also included a four-year prison term – with two years suspended and two to be served outside jail with an electronic bracelet – and €100,000 (£84,000) fine. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Three dead after Mercedes and bus crash near Heathrow Airport sparking fire

The bus was involved in a head-on collision with a silver Mercedes on a railway bridge.

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20 h. ago Three dead after bus and car crash which left both vehicles on fire

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21 h. ago Three people killed in horror bus and car crash near Heathrow Airport which left both vehicles on fire

Three more people have been rushed to hospital following the collision on Bedfont Road in Feltham, west London

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21 h. ago Three dead after crash between bus and car near Heathrow Airport

Three other people were taken to hospital, the ambulance service said

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21 h. ago Three dead after bus and car catch fire in west London crash

Three dead after bus and car catch fire in west London crash  BBC

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35 h. ago North Dakota senator’s son gets probation added to the prison term he's serving over a deadly crash

North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer’s adult son, who is already serving a lengthy prison term in the death of a sheriff’s deputy during a chase, has been sentenced to additional probation

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35 h. ago Woman, 67, survives car crash...only to escape vehicle and die in horrific freak accident moments later

Shirley Obert, 67, went missing Saturday after a car crash. She appeared to try to get help, but was found dead the following day after a horrific freak accident.

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38 h. ago Donald Trump discusses serving a 'FOURTH term' as he is asked about whether he will stay on beyond his second stint as president

Donald Trump, 78, has claimed that many Americans want him to serve a 'sort of a fourth term'. The remark follows his comment that he was 'not joking' about serving another term.

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44 h. ago Trump says serving in 2028 would be ‘a fourth term’ after touting ‘methods’ to remain in White House: Live

President also says that reciprocal ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs will impact ‘all countries’ as global stocks slide

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48 h. ago Donald Trump says 'I’m not joking' about trying to serve third term in White House

‘There are methods which you could do it,’ Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News from Mar-a-Lago

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58 h. ago Trump reveals he's serious about finding a way to serve a third term

President Donald Trump has seriously floated the possibility of him running for a third term, despite the US Constitution stipulating that presidents are limited to two four-year terms.

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59 h. ago Trump says he’s ‘not joking’ about serving third term as president – and suggests one way he thinks he could do it

President cagey about how he would try and cling to power when asked – but teases one possibility

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59 h. ago Donald Trump says he is 'not joking' about trying to serve third term in White House

The president said 'there are methods'

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3 d. ago Revealed: How Trump could be president until 2037 due to a simple loophole in the Constitution

The path for Trump to serve a third term, and potentially a fourth, is not only possible, it is simple, according to experts.

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4 d. ago I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking | Steven Donziger

Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trialThe stunning $667m verdict against Greenpeace last week is a direct attack on the climate movement, Indigenous peoples and the first amendment.The North Dakota case is so deeply flawed – at its core, the trial was really about crushing dissent – that I believe there is a good chance it will be reversed on appeal and ultimately backfire against the Energy Transfer pipeline company. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago $90 million settlement ends lawsuit over a deadly 2018 New York helicopter crash

Relatives of a man who died when a sightseeing helicopter crashed and sank in New York City's East River have settled a lawsuit for $90 million

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6 d. ago What is known about the deadly air crash between a passenger jet and a US Army helicopter

Congress is holding a hearing Thursday about the January collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter that killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft

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7 d. ago The North Dakota ruling against Greenpeace is a threat to free speech | Sushma Raman and Anthony Romero

Everyday actions like attending a protest, signing a letter of support, or supporting communities at risk should never be considered ‘unlawful’The first amendment guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. It will have little meaning if multibillion-dollar corporations can sue peaceful protesters out of existence for their speech. Yet, that’s exactly what was decided in a small courtroom in Morton county, North Dakota.Energy Transfer – a Dallas-based fossil fuel company that is responsible for the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) – sued two Greenpeace entities in the US (Greenpeace Inc and Greenpeace Fund), and Greenpeace International. Energy Transfer was awarded more than $660m in a highly watched, month-long case. Greenpeace will appeal the verdict.Sushma Raman is the interim executive director of Greenpeace USAAnthony Romero is executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union Continue reading...

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7 d. ago M40 traffic chaos as major motorway closed in both directions after crash leaves two dead

The fatal collision happened just after 10.40pm on Monday night near Oxford, with police shutting off both lanes of the M40 between Junction 9 (Bicester) and Junction 8 (Tiddington)

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