2 h. ago Two victims of Manchester synagogue terror attack were shot by police as they hid from killer

A watchdog has launched an investigation into the police shooting as it emerged terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, was on bail for rape

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7 h. ago Police watchdog launches investigation into Manchester synagogue attack after victim killed in crossfire

One member of the public was killed and another was injured after being hit by bullets fired by police

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3 d. ago Eleven Charing Cross police station staff investigated in gross misconduct probe

The IOPC launched an investigation into allegations including excessive use of force, making discriminatory and misogynistic comments.

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4 d. ago Karoline Leavitt claims Michigan church shooter ‘hated people of the Mormon faith’ as Trump decries ‘attack on Christians’

The suspected gunman, Thomas Jacob Sanford, was a former U.S. Marine

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6 d. ago Prison staff 'could face criminal charges for accessing Nottingham stabbings case files'

Prison staff could be facing criminal charges after they allegedly illegally accessed records involving the Nottingham Killings in 2023 that struck two teenagers.

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7 d. ago Police watchdog staff comments on Nottingham stabbings inquiry ‘inhumane’

Emma Webber, Barnaby Webber’s mother, said ‘I don’t trust anyone, I don’t trust the IOPC’.

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7 d. ago Nottingham stabbings police watchdog staff probed over 'politically motivated' comments about inquiry

Police watchdog staff are being investigated over allegations they told officers being probed over failures around the 2023 Nottingham stabbings that the inquiry was 'politically motivated'.

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7 d. ago Police watchdog staff face probe over comments on Nottingham stabbings inquiry

A judge-led public inquiry into the decisions made prior to the attacks was announced in February.

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8 d. ago George Soros foundation hits back at Trump after report that DoJ plans to target group

NYT reports that justice department is pushing attorneys to investigate organization as Trump ramps up attack on rivalsThe Open Society Foundations (OSF), the major philanthropic group funded by George Soros, criticized the Trump administration on Thursday for “politically motivated attacks on civil society” after a report that the justice department had instructed federal prosecutors to come up with plans to investigate the charity.The New York Times reported Thursday that a lawyer in the office of Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, sent a memo to several federal prosecutors in attorney’s offices in California, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and Detroit, offering a range of charges to consider against OSF. Those charges included racketeering, arson, wire fraud and material support for terrorism, the Times reported. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Former FBI director James Comey expected to be indicted on criminal charges, reports say – US politics live

Comey has long been focus of Donald Trump, who sacked him from FBI role in early months of presidencyA gunman, who wrote “ANTI-ICE” on an unused bullet, fired on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas from a nearby rooftop on Wednesday, killing a detainee and badly wounding two others before taking his own life, officials said.President Donald Trump and members of his administration seized on the attack as the latest instance of what they characterized as an escalation of politically motivated violence incited by the left.Donald Trump demanded an investigation of what he called “triple sabotage” of his UN address on Tuesday: a malfunctioning escalator, a faulty teleprompter and an apparent sound problem in the hall. UN officials said the US delegation was responsible for the first two, and the third was less dramatic than Trump claimed.JD Vance, the vice-president, claimed without evidence that a gunman who opened fire at an Ice facility in Dallas, killing one...

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8 d. ago Police watchdog investigating 'any missed opportunities' after teen charged with murdering boy

Mohanad Goobe was stabbed to death in Moss Side

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9 d. ago FBI investigating deadly Dallas ICE shooting as ‘targeted violence’

US Senator Ted Cruz says incident is another ‘politically motivated’ attack

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9 d. ago I was elected mayor of Istanbul, but I write this from jail: Turkish democracy is under grave threat | Ekrem Imamoğlu

If our nation slides deeper into autocracy, the consequences will reverberate far beyond Turkey’s bordersLast year, I was reelected mayor of Istanbul with 51% of the vote. It was the second time I had defeated the government-backed candidate. The first was in 2019 when the mayoral elections were annulled on flimsy pretexts; voters returned to the polls and handed us a victory by an even larger margin.But this year, democracy in Turkey has entered its most perilous phase. The process started in March on the eve of my nomination as the presidential candidate of the CHP, the century-old Republican People’s party. This was when my university degree was abruptly annulled. Why is this relevant? Because, under the Turkish constitution, one must have a university degree to be able to run for president. Soon after, I was accused of corruption and “aiding a terrorist organisation”. For six months, I have been behind bars, arrested on politically motivated corruption charges based on “anonymou...

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1 week ago Kimmel suspension may have motivated ABC station shooter, prosecutors say

Suspect accused of firing into KXTV lobby left notes citing politics and Trump allies, court docs showA man accused of shooting up an ABC affiliate station in Sacramento, California, on Friday may have been motivated by the network’s suspension of talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel, prosecutors say.There’s “circumstantial evidence” that Anibal Hernandez Santana, 64, had “a political motive behind” the shooting, Sacramento county district attorney Thien Ho said. “There are some indications here that the motive behind the shooting of the ABC news station was political in kind,” Ho remarked. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Man who fired a gun into ABC affiliate office had note to 'do the next scary thing,' prosecutors say

Prosecutors say a man suspected of firing a gun into the ABC affiliate’s office in Sacramento, California, last week was politically motivated and had written notes critical of Donald Trump’s administration and had a calendar reminder to himself to “do the next scary thing.”

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1 week ago German police probing 'political motive' after train cables were cut

There was considerable disruption to services in the region, Cologne police added, saying that 'a political motive cannot be excluded at this time'.

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1 week ago Sick truth behind attempt to turn Charlie Kirk's murder into a romantic tragedy of star

Podcaster Megyn Kelly slammed some journalists for denying any political motive in Charlie Kirk's death and instead spinning it as a tragic twist in the gunman's 'beautiful love story'.

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1 week ago Jeremy Corbyn hits back after Zarah Sultana said she was talking to lawyers as launch of their new hard

The fallout centres on a message circulated to supporters on Thursday urging them to pay up to £55 a year to join the party, an email later disowned by Mr Corbyn.

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1 week ago Zarah Sultana consults defamation lawyers after spat with Jeremy Corbyn over party funds

MP says she faced ‘baseless attacks’ over paid membership portal, which Corbyn told supporters not to useZarah Sultana has consulted defamation lawyers after her public spat with Jeremy Corbyn over the launch of a paid membership system for the party they were to co-lead.Sultana said she has been on the receiving end of “politically motivated” attacks amid the row that has engulfed the launch of Your Party. Corbyn had previously urged people not to use the “supposed membership portal”, and said legal advice was being taken over its launch. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Watchdog launches guidance to help tackle discrimination in uniformed services

The guidance aims to help armed forces, police, fire and rescue services improve their collection and analysis of workforce equality data.

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