1 hour ago Texas adds transgender bathroom bill to agenda for special legislative session to deal with deadly flooding

The bill would make transgender people use bathrooms that align with their sex assigned at birth in public places such as schools

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2 h. ago Former defence secretary makes ‘no apology’ for Afghan injunction

Thousands of people are being relocated to the UK as part of a secret £850 million scheme set up in the wake of the breach.

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2 h. ago Seth Rogen, Cristin Milioti, Noah Wyle and more react to Emmy nominations

Seth Rogen, Stephen Graham, Noah Wyle and more reacted to their Emmy nominations, which were announced Tuesday morning

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2 h. ago MoD official responsible for catastrophic Afghan data breach that cost billions still works for government

Email blunder potentially put up to 100,000 people at risk and triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

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3 h. ago People in Florida neighborhood stop dinner, grab tools to rescue 4 people in plane crash

Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree

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3 h. ago 'My child won't be able to go to school if they take away her vital EHCP'

Parents and children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) met with MPs today to share their views of how cuts to EHCPs could hugely disrupt their schooling

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3 h. ago ‘Urgent’ need for digital reform of banking payments, says Bank of England boss

Governor Andrew Bailey said he remained sceptical over the need for a digital pound, stressing that innovation in payments should be a priority.

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3 h. ago Texas death toll reaches 134 as new flash flood watch issued

Authorities admit ‘we don’t know how many we lost’ as local officials receive death threatsAt least 134 people have now been confirmed to have died during the Texas Hill Country flooding on 4 July, according to an ABC News report.Crews are continuing to search for the 101 people still missing. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Heavy rain kills two in New Jersey as subway and roads flooded in New York

Flash flood warnings were issued for parts of New York and Pennsylvania and an emergency was declared in New JerseyAt least two people were killed Monday evening in New Jersey amid heavy rain and flooding in that state and New York, according to authorities.The pair died in the city of Plainfield when the car they were in was swept into Cedar Brook during flash flooding, local officials announced on Facebook. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago UK’s cavalier attitude leaves Afghans facing yet more fear and uncertainty

Leaked details of those who worked with British lets down Afghans who made mistake of believing the basic principles Britain claims for itselfThis week’s revelations about the UK’s dangerously cavalier treatment of Afghans who worked with British forces are shocking but not surprising.The carelessness with which Britain went to war in Afghanistan was matched by the carelessness with which it left the country and its people to Taliban rule two decades later. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Fences erected at Oasis’s Manchester gig site as ticketless fans urged not to go

The band have three more shows to play in Heaton Park as part of their reunion tour.

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5 h. ago Victims are identified in deadly Massachusetts fire that killed nine residents

At least 30 people, including five firefighters, were injured in Sunday night’s deadly blaze

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5 h. ago Tim Davie condemns ‘serious racist term’ used by John Torode

The director-general said it offers an opportunity for the BBC to have a ‘reset where we make sure that people are living up to the values we expect’.

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5 h. ago Big Brother winner Ali Bromley says 'someone tried to punish me severely' over Palestine shirt

Ali Bromley took to social media on Tuesday to claim her watermelon t-shirt wearing scene on Big Brother saw people unrelated to the show try to 'punish me severely'

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5 h. ago UK council to fine people £100 if they're caught swearing in public spaces

Thanet District Council has launched a fresh bid to introduce a public space protection order (PSPO) after it was scrapped last year following a threat of legal action

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5 h. ago Innocent 'Beast of Birkenhead' Peter Sullivan now in line for £1.3m payout but lawyers say miscarriage of justice changes 'don't go nearly far enough'

The current cap on compensation payments for people wrongly jailed for 10 years or more will rise by £300,000 to £1.3million, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood confirmed.

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5 h. ago Former MLB pitcher Dan Serafini is convicted of murder in the 2021 shootings of his wife's parents

Retired MLB pitcher Daniel Serafini has been convicted of murder and attempted murder in the shootings of his wife’s parents during a burglary at their home four years ago near Lake Tahoe in California

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5 h. ago The Guardian view on the children of Gaza: when 17,000 die, it’s more than a mistake | Editorial

Israel’s military blamed the deaths of six Palestinian children on Sunday on a technical error. But a staggering toll continues to mountOn Sunday, an Israeli strike killed six Palestinian children – and four adults – as they queued for water in a refugee camp. The deaths of children may be the most terrible part of any war. It is not only the suffering of the innocent and powerless, and the unimaginable pain of surviving parents – as dreadful as those are – but the knowledge of lives ended when they had barely begun, of futures that should have stretched long into the distance severed in an instant.As shocking as Sunday’s deaths were, they are commonplace in Gaza: a classroom-worth of children have been killed each day since the war began. What marked them out was that so many deaths happened at once and publicly; and that Israel’s military felt obliged to acknowledge its responsibility – though without any great contrition. It claimed that a “technical error with the munition” caus...

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6 h. ago Afghans have been betrayed yet again by this shocking UK data leak – and many don’t even know if they’re affected | Diane Taylor

This isn’t the first time Afghans brave enough to work against the Taliban have been let down by Britain, but it might be the most shamefulThe headline figures are eye-watering. Up to 100,000 Afghans could have been placed at risk after a British soldier, according to the Times, sent the names of 33,000 people who supported British forces to a contact he hoped would help verify their applications for sanctuary in this country. The story behind these numbers is one of real people who had already been living in fear for years, and who have been treated abhorrently by the British state.As soon as it became clear that the information could fall into the Taliban’s hands and lead to these people and those close to them being targeted, the highly secret Operation Rubific was launched. This debacle occurred under the previous Conservative government, which obtained a superinjunction preventing several media organisations that were aware of the leak from reporting on it.Diane Taylor writes o...

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6 h. ago Family of Brit teen who died after taking drugs in Ibiza warn 'you're not invincible'

'Happy-go-lucky' Ryan Long was on his first lads' holiday in Ibiza when his parents believe he took ecstasy before collapsing in a club and passing away after five days in intensive care

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