4 h. ago Officers ask for public's help rounding up suspects in Mississippi mass shooting

Law enforcement officers and community leaders are asking for the public's help in identifying people wanted for questioning about a mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi, that left six people dead

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14 h. ago China punishes officials over fireworks publicity stunt in ecologically fragile Tibet plateau

Fireworks affected about 30 hectares of grassland, leaving behind plastic debris and firework remnants that were ‘not thoroughly cleaned’

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3 d. ago FBI seeks help to identify suspects in mass shooting that left 6 dead in the Mississippi Delta

FBI agents are asking for public help to identify four people seen near a mass shooting in Leland, Mississippi

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3 d. ago Health chiefs warn 'world's deadliest infection' tuberculosis is surging and symptoms are easy

Health officials have urged the public to be alert to the signs of tuberculosis (TB) after new figures revealed cases of 'the world's deadliest infectious disease' are continuing to rise across England.

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4 d. ago Inside Royal Family's secret escape tunnel that left palace 'livid' after it was exposed

After a secret tunnel, once used by the Royal Family, beneath London became public knowledge, palace officials were reportedly left totally 'livid' at the breach

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5 d. ago Six people dead with multiple injured in three shootings at Mississippi homecoming weekends

Four people were killed in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in Heidelberg, amid a third attack in Rolling ForkSix people were killed and 18 others injured in three separate shootings at high school football homecoming celebrations in Mississippi, according to a number of local officials on Saturday.The most fatal incident took place around midnight on Friday in Leland, where four people died, John Lee, the mayor of the small city in Washington county, western Mississippi, said on Saturday morning. At least 16 were wounded in that incident, with four in critical condition airlifted to the state capital of Jackson and 12 others treated at local hospitals. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Six people dead in shootings during two separate Mississippi homecoming gatherings

Sixteen people were injured in attack in Leland, while another two were killed in shooting in HeidelbergFour people have been killed and 16 others injured in a shooting in western Mississippi during a high school football homecoming celebration, according to local officials early on Saturday.The incident took place around midnight on Friday, John Lee, the mayor of Leland, a small city in Washington county, said to the Guardian in a telephone interview on Saturday morning. At least 12 of the wounded were being treated at nearby hospitals. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Four people dead in shooting during Mississippi homecoming celebration

Sixteen people were also injured in attack that occurred after high school football game in small city of Leland Four people have been killed and 16 others injured in a shooting in western Mississippi during a high school football homecoming celebration, according to local officials early on Saturday.The incident took place around midnight on Friday, John Lee, the mayor of Leland, a small city in Washington county, said to the Guardian in a telephone interview on Saturday morning. At least 12 of the wounded were being treated at nearby hospitals. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Four killed in Mississippi horror mass shooting before school match as gunman on loose

The shooting happened at around midnight on Saturday, when people were in town ahead of the Leland High School's homecoming game, said the town's mayor, John Lee

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6 d. ago Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the GuardianBoris Johnson breached rules designed to stop the abuse of contacts and access made in public office, an ethics watchdog has found.Last month the Guardian published revelations about Johnson’s conduct since leaving office. The Boris Files, a trove of documents from the former prime minister’s private office seen by the Guardian, suggested he repeatedly broke rules forbidding him from exploiting for private gain contacts made in office. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Police Ombudsman not to be prosecuted over alleged misconduct in public office

Police also investigated Marie Anderson for the potential offence of perverting the course of justice relating to an incident in 2023.

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8 d. ago Islamist terror suspects 'bought assault rifles, handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in plot to kill Jews in Manchester in attack likened to Paris 2015 massacre'

Walid Saadaoui, Bilel Saadaoui (pictured) and Amar Hussein are appearing at Preston Crown Court charged with terror offences

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1 week ago Mysterious drone flights in NATO airspace have caused alarm across Europe. Here's what we know

Mysterious drone flights over the airspace of European Union member countries in recent weeks have alarmed the public and elected officials

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1 week ago Met Office urges public to prepare emergency kit as Storm Amy wipes out power

The British public have been urged to prepare an emergency kit, with over 20,000 people currently without power as Storm Amy batters the UK - here's what you need to know

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2 w. ago Edinburgh police charge four youths after alleged 'attack' on teenage girl on city street

Officers say they would like to reassure the public that violence ‘will not be tolerated’

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2 w. ago Campaigner says Hillsborough Law must not be ‘watered down’ as she thanks PM

Margaret Aspinall, who lost her son James in the disaster, has been a key campaigner for what is now the Public Office (Accountability) Bill.

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2 w. ago Mystery as giant 'hairy' object smashes into farm after falling from sky

Public officials are left scratching their heads as they try to figure out what exactly this mysterious object is that landed from the sky and where on earth it came from

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2 w. ago Prison cashier sobs in dock as she is jailed for affair with inmate who boasted about their fling before fellow convict reported them

Yolanda Briggs (pictured), 52, from Boston, Lincolnshire, pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office and was given an eight-month sentence at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday.

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2 w. ago Ice officer ‘relieved of duties’ after video shows him manhandling woman at New York immigration court

Monica Moreta-Galarza was pleading with officer to release her detained husband when he pushed her to the groundA federal officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) has been “relieved of his duties” after a video showing him pushing a woman to the floor at an immigration court in New York City spread quickly on social media.Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, said that the officer’s actions were “unacceptable and beneath the men and women of Ice”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump has called the US postal service ‘a joke’. But don’t expect Amazon to replace it | Niamh Rowe

Amid financial struggles and presidential criticism, USPS is facing challenges. But it plays an essential role in US lifeIn towns where Washington DC is an abstraction, the post office is the front desk of American democracy – sometimes the only public space at all. Here, postmasters are “the human side of government”, as the senator Jennings Randolph put it in 1976. “When such offices are closed,” he warned, “the American flag really comes down.”Championed by Benjamin Franklin in 1775, the roots of the US postal service – whose mandate is to “bind the nation together” – are older than the republic itself. The constitution calls for “post offices and post roads”. The USPS is still legally obligated to provide a “basic and fundamental” service to all Americans. In Scottsbluff, Nebraska, a rural carrier drives more than 700 miles a year to serve just two households.Niamh Rowe is a New York-based writer and podcast producer Continue reading...

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