3 d. ago ONS workers take industrial action after being told they must attend the office for 40% of their hours

Union members voted in favour of continuing with action which includes refusing to work overtime, out of hours and out of grade

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3 d. ago Cory Booker is hit with wild diaper claims after breaking record for longest Senate speech in 68 years

Democratic Senator Cory Booker has officially broken the Senate record in a 25-hour, 5-minute rant against the policies of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.

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3 d. ago Revealed: The school WhatsApp messages that led to six police officers raiding 'reasonable' couple's home before arresting them and holding them in a cell for 11 hours

Friends of a couple arrested over their comments made in a school WhatsApp group have spoken of their 'shock and anger' over the incident.

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6 d. ago Oklahoma City bombing survivors reflect on tragedy 30 years later in new doc

Thirty years ago, 168 people – included 19 children – were killed in the Oklahoma City bombing. A devastated mother who lost her children, a bank teller who was trapped upside down in her office chair for hours, and countless others are sharing their stories in a new docuseries on April 2. Andrea Cavallier takes a look back at the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history

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7 d. ago Moment father who complained about teacher recruitment process in parents' WhatsApp group is arrested for 'harassment', led away by six police officers and interrogated for 11 HOURS

Police questioned a father on suspicion of harassment and malicious communications after he complained about a teacher recruitment process in a parents' WhatsApp group.

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1 week ago Rate of inflation falls to 2.8% amid high street fashion price war

Official figures in prices come just hours before the Chancellor’s Spring Statement

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1 week ago Autistic children bear hidden cost of violent police raids in Brazil’s favelas

Life in poor urban communities can resemble a war zone – but self-help groups are helping neurodiverse kids copeIn January, as about 500 police officers carried out a 15-hour raid in one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela complexes, Rafaela Figueiredo de França was trying to distract her six-year-old daughter, who has been diagnosed with autism.To prevent Maria from panicking amid the seemingly endless barrage of deafening gunfire – so intense that it even brought down the wall of a nearby house – De França shut the windows and turned on two fans. “It’s a way of shielding her from the sounds of war,” said the mother. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Russian missile hits hospital in Ukraine as US holds ceasefire talks with Kremlin officials in Saudi Arabia

Discussions in Riyadh over a 30-day truce came hours after a round of ‘productive’ negotiations between Ukrainian and US officials

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2 w. ago Police officer who escorted Southport victims to morgue was brutally attacked by rioters just hours later

Sergeant Phillip Sinclair had been standing on the frontline trying to contain the disorder when he was hit by a flying brick and left with serious injuries.

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2 w. ago JFK files biggest bombshells from CIA agent's chilling claim to UK's attempts to save him

Some of America's top national security officials had spent hours trying to assess any possible security hazards under extreme deadline pressure for the John F Kennedy assassination files.

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2 w. ago Brush fire, smoky conditions shut down road leading in and out of Florida Keys

Traffic is now flowing in and out of the Florida Keys after a brush fire led officials to briefly close U.S. 1, snarling traffic for hours for those trying to enter or leave the island chain

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2 w. ago It’s official: Britain’s ‘poshest’ town is just one hour from London

It’s official: Britain’s ‘poshest’ town is just one hour from London  Time Out London

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3 w. ago Trump vents fury about his criminal cases in extraordinary speech at DoJ

In hourlong victory lap, president railed against Biden officials and their ‘bullshit’ case while boosting his lawyersUS politics live – latest updatesTaking over the justice department headquarters for what amounted to a political event, Donald Trump railed against the criminal cases he defeated by virtue of returning to the presidency in an extraordinary victory lap the department has perhaps never before seen.The event was billed as a policy address for the administration to tout its focus on combating illegal immigration and drug trafficking, but the majority of the president’s freewheeling remarks focused instead on his personal grievances with the department. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Local government workers consulted on industrial action amid pay dispute

Unison said the latest pay offer amounts to a real-terms pay cut.

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3 w. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman, 40, dies following shooting in Talbot Green, Wales

South Wales Police issued an update in the early hours of Monday morning after officers responded to reports of a shooting in the Green Park Area of Talbot Green

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3 w. ago UK map reveals where thick fog will cause havoc as the Met Office issues a yellow weather warning just hours after Brits basked in the sun on the hottest day of the year

A new map indicates swathes of the northeast will be covered as visibility is predicted to drop to lows of 50 metres.

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4 w. ago Greater Manchester street taped off as man rushed to hospital

Officers remained at the scene for more than 24 hours

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