55 m. ago LA protests live updates: Trump admin says LAPD are ‘unable to bring order’ as deployed Marines ready for action

Homeland Security video clips appear to confirm unarmed Predator drones conducting high-altitude surveillance of protests over downtown Los Angeles

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95 m. ago How the ‘F1’ soundtrack came together, with a little help from Lewis Hamilton

The soundtrack for the summer tentpole “F1” needed to sound as massive as the pinnacle of motorsport itself

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1 hour ago Police leaders say they will struggle to fulfil Labour’s promise to recruit 13,000 officers

Projected £1.2bn police funding shortfall expected to grow after spending review outlined fall in Home Office spending powerPolice forces will struggle to fulfil Keir Starmer’s promise to recruit an additional 13,000 officers and the public will “pay the price”, police leaders have warned, after the chancellor outlined a decline in Home Office spending power on Wednesday.The National Police Chiefs’ Council said it would be incredibly difficult to deliver the prime minister’s election pledge within the lifetime of this parliament, with a projected £1.2bn shortfall in police funding expected to grow. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Take a look inside luxury £2.5m Cheshire home with indoor swimming pool and movie room

The gorgeous home has been listed on Rightmove this week

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1 hour ago Woman flashes obscene gesture as baying mob forces accused baby killer out of home

Nicole Blain is set to appear in court next year after she was alleged to have killed her baby daughter by shaking just three weeks after she was born at a flat in Greenock, Inverclyde

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1 hour ago The Guardian view on Labour’s spending review: the chancellor tightened belts and loosened seams | Editorial

The government offers capital investment and fiscal prudence but real-terms department cuts and grand promises could strain political credibilityBrexit’s ghost haunts a Labour spending review intended to lay the foundations for a second term. Its headlines echo the twin themes of the referendum campaign: control immigration, fund the NHS. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said she would end the use of hotels for asylum seekers “in this parliament” saving £1bn a year, while NHS spending will rise by 3% a year. Ms Reeves framed it as a politics of security and compassion. Yet it reads as Brexit’s populist promises, filtered through Westminster orthodoxy.The risk is that this is all slogan and very little solution. The asylum savings are speculative, and the annual increase in NHS budgets is below its historical average. There are also real-terms cuts or essentially flat budgets for key departments such as transport, education and local government. The Home Office faces cuts deeper than a...

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2 h. ago R Kelly files request for release from prison citing murder plot against him

Singer’s lawyer said Aryan Brotherhood and prison officials were plotting to kill him, and asked for home confinement Attorneys for R&B singer R Kelly have filed an urgent request for his release from federal prison, citing a serious threat to his life. The motion asks that the 58-year-old be placed under home detention due to what they describe as an orchestrated plan to have him killed behind bars.In a filing submitted on Tuesday, Kelly’s legal team claims that his safety is at risk. The motion alleges that three officials from the Bureau of Prisons attempted to recruit another inmate to murder the singer. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘Bombshell’ badger cull study review ‘disproves evidence’ used by governments to justify killings

‘Justification for lethal control to date appears to have been based on basic statistical oversight,’ says independent reviewer

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2 h. ago Llanelli homes evacuated as bomb squad rush to scene and man arrested over 'explosives'

Explosives experts rushed to a home in Llanelli, Wales, today

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2 h. ago Rachel Reeves unveils 3% NHS spending boost but cuts other budgets

Home Office and Foreign Office among Whitehall departments facing squeeze in chancellor’s spending review

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2 h. ago Pete Wicks' desperate plea to give 'beloved' dog a home before he dies

Kind-hearted TV star Pete Wicks is urging Mirror readers to adopt Neapolitan Mastiff Theo who may only have months left to live because of a heart condition

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2 h. ago Operation Mincemeat: Fake documents planted on dead body tricked Hitler and won WW2

The daring plot, in which a homeless man's corpse was planted in the sea to fool Hitler into changing tactics, has gone down in history. But until now no-one knew how important was the role of MI5 secretary Hester Leggatt

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2 h. ago Murder investigation launched after boy, 4, found dead in home as woman arrested by police

Despite the effort of Thames Valley Police officers, the child was pronounced dead at the property in Maidenhead

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2 h. ago Spending review a ‘huge blow’ for police and ‘will hamper efforts to recruit 13,000 neighbourhood police officers’

The government’s £2bn spending plans will cover ‘little more’ than basic pay increases for existing staff, police chiefs have warned

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2 h. ago Bomb squad descends on Llanelli street as homes evacuated and roads closed

A 100m cordon has been set up in New Dock Road in Llanelli and residents have been asked to stay away from the area

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2 h. ago Jack Grealish left out of Manchester City’s Club World Cup squad

The England international was not included in the 27-man travelling party published by the Premier League club on Wednesday.

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2 h. ago Jack Grealish and Kyle Walker left out of Man City’s Club World Cup squad

Grealish’s opportunities have been limited at City this season and he could be on his way out of the club this summer

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3 h. ago Spending review in six charts: Where Rachel Reeves cuts and pay boosts will land

Departmental spending will increase by 2.3 per cent each year, with some areas seeing real-terms losses

Economics

3 h. ago Evenepoel blows away field on stage four of Criterium du Dauphiné to take overall lead

Belgian wins time trial 21 seconds ahead of VingegaardPogacar drops to eighth, 38 seconds behindTime-trial specialist Remco Evenepoel laid down a marker in the fourth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné on Wednesday, winning the 17.4km race against the clock in style to move top of the overall classification. The 25-year-old Belgian tasted Olympic gold in the discipline last year and is also the double time-trial world champion. He showed his pedigree by blowing away a field containing Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar.Evenpoel raced home 21 seconds ahead of Dane Vingegaard, with Matteo Jorgenson a further 17 seconds back in third. Pogacar just missed the podium at 49 seconds behind Evenepoel, with Florian Lipowitz fifth and Mathieu van der Poel sixth. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Rioters livestream themselves burning down a HOUSE on TikTok in Balleymena after 'Romanian' teens 'tried to rape girl'

Footage shared on social media shows thugs giggling as they torch a residential home after smashing the windows and breaking in.

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