49 h. ago Bungling police spark military base alert as they wrongly issue warnings of 'Lee Rigby

Thousands of Army troops and their families were alerted to a 'Lee Rigby-style' threat at their base after an administrative error by police.

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5 d. ago Police administrator jailed after leaking confidential information to drug dealer boyfriend

The court heard how she accessed the police computer system to satisfy a "morbid curiosity" about cases in the news

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5 d. ago Disgraced police worker who leaked confidential information to her drug

Lucy Langmead, 44, started a relationship with 37-year-old Daniel Cozens in 2020 while working for South Wales Police, and began providing him with police intelligence.

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5 d. ago Police administrator jailed for leaking information to drug dealer boyfriend

Lucy Langmead, 44, and Daniel Cozens, 37, were sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday after admitted various charges.

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5 d. ago Police worker accessed sensitive data on force computers to pass to drug dealer boyfriend

Lucy Langmead, 44, was employeed as an administrator by South Wales Police when she accessed the police national computer and passed on confidential information to her boyfriend Daniel Cozens, 37

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6 d. ago List of 'sanctuary jurisdictions' removed from US government website

A list of more than 500 “sanctuary jurisdictions” no longer appears in the Department of Homeland Security’s website after receiving criticism for including localities that have actively supported the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies

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2 w. ago Trump vowed to help US farmers. These four say his policies are ‘wreaking havoc’

Farm country voted for Trump in 2024, but many of his actions – from tariffs to federal cuts – are hurting growersDonald Trump may have won the votes of the US’s most farming-dependent counties by an average of 78% in the 2024 election. But the moves made by his administration in the past few months – imposing steep tariffs, immigration policies that target the migrant labor farmers rely on, and canceling a wide range of USDA programs – have left many farmers reeling.“The policies of the Trump administration are wreaking havoc on family farmers. It’s been terrible,” said John Bartman, a row crop farmer in Illinois. Bartman is owed thousands of dollars for sustainable practices he implemented on his row crop operation as part of the USDA’s Climate-Smart program. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gemma Collins's drug dealer ex boyfriend who TOWIE star says beat her 'within an inch' of her life is cleared of assaulting another woman

Alex Moss, 44, was due to stand trial after denying charges of assault causing actual bodily harm and assault by beating of Melanie Westbury when she was his partner last December.

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2 w. ago Trump administration seeks to end protections for immigrant children in federal custody

The Trump administration is seeking to end an immigration policy cornerstone that since the 1990s has offered protections to child migrants in federal custody, a move that will be challenged by advocates

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2 w. ago Pentagon leaker begs Trump for pardon in jailhouse interview, calls himself a ‘patriot’

‘My case was specifically politicized by the Biden administration,’ Jack Teixeira said, adding: ‘I think that I was used as a sacrificial lamb, and I was crucified to be made of as an example’

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2 w. ago A huge Democratic victory in Omaha offers a lesson for the party | Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Nebraska city swung by 43 points to elect John Ewing Jr. Democrats should pay close attention to the model he embracedFor the last several months, the Trump administration’s reckless use of executive power, trade policy, gutting federal agencies, and defying court orders has gone largely unchecked. National Democrats have limited means of opposition – so the best hope for accountability will be electoral accountability.This may help explain why last Tuesday’s election results in America’s 41st biggest city generated such outsized excitement from progressives. John Ewing Jr, a longtime county treasurer, was elected the first Black mayor of Omaha, defeating the incumbent Jean Stothert, who was seeking a fourth term after holding that office since 2013. More than that, Ewing won big, by nearly 13 points, marking a huge shift after Stothert won her last race by 30.Katrina vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of the Nation, she is a member of the Council on Foreign Relat...

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2 w. ago Trump alleges 'genocide' in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff

Topping the agenda at President Donald Trump's meeting with South Africa's president at the White House this week is the extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy welcoming white Afrikaner farmers who the Trump administration claims are persecuted

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2 w. ago As key Israel allies threaten action over Gaza catastrophe, Washington is largely unmoved

As Palestinians are told to evacuate before ‘unprecedented attack’, the White House continues to publicly back IsraelAs Israel orders Palestinians to evacuate Khan Younis in advance of what it calls an “unprecedented attack” on Gaza, much of Washington remains largely unmoved, even as Canada and European countries threaten “concrete actions” if Israel does not scale back its offensive.Despite reports of growing pressure from the Trump administration to increase aid into Gaza, where widespread famine looms, the White House continues to publicly back Israel. National security council spokesperson James Hewitt told the Guardian in an email: “Hamas has rejected repeated ceasefire proposals, and therefore bears sole responsibility for this conflict,” maintaining the policy stance inherited from the previous Biden administration despite mounting evidence of humanitarian catastrophe. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump officials reportedly reach $5m settlement in January 6 wrongful death suit

Family sought $30m in damages after Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot by police during 2021 US Capitol breachThe Trump administration has reportedly reached an agreement to pay nearly $5m to the family of the woman who was fatally shot by police while participating in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol carried out by the president’s supporters.Citing multiple sources, the Washington Post reported on Monday that the Trump administration had agreed to pay the family of Ashli Babbitt to settle the wrongful death lawsuit they filed after the attack. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump news at a glance: Gulf deals in the spotlight as experts warn receipt of overseas gifts ‘unprecedented’

Experts warn the message being sent by the White House is that American foreign policy is for sale. Key US politics stories from Saturday 17 May at a glanceWith Donald Trump’s headline-making tour of the Gulf region now over, focus has now fallen on the deals made during the trip – for US companies, and for the president himself.Former White House lawyers, diplomatic protocol officers and foreign affairs experts have told the Guardian Donald Trump’s receipt of overseas gifts and targeted investments are “unprecedented” as the White House remakes US foreign policy under a pay-for-access code that eclipses past administrations. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Very disturbing’: Trump receipt of overseas gifts unprecedented, experts warn

White House remakes foreign policy under pay-for-access code that critics say could violate US constitutionFormer White House lawyers, diplomatic protocol officers and foreign affairs experts have told the Guardian that Donald Trump’s receipt of overseas gifts and targeted investments are “unprecedented”, as the White House remakes US foreign policy under a pay-for-access code that eclipses past administrations with characteristic Trumpian excess.The openness to foreign largesse was on full display this week as the US president was feted in the Gulf states during his first major diplomatic trip abroad this term, inking deals he claimed were worth trillions of dollars and pumping local leaders for investments as he says he remakes US foreign policy to prioritise “America first” – putting aside concerns of human rights or international law for the bottom line of American businesses and taxpayers. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Republicans say they want more American babies – but which kind?

Trump administration policies on immigration, families, and children have been pockmarked by all kinds of contradictionsSome of the children were too young to stand on their own. Instead, they sat on their parents’ knees or in their parents’ arms, waving American flags. Many of them seemed confused about what, exactly, was even happening.But these kids were in the midst of making history: their families were among the first to take advantage of Donald Trump’s February executive order granting white South Africans refugee status in the United States, on the grounds that Afrikaner landowners – who make up just 7% of South Africa’s population yet, decades after the end of apartheid, control about half of its land – are facing persecution. While the doors to the US refugee program have been slammed shut to virtually everyone else, these Afrikaners showed up in the US earlier this week, their refugee status promising a path to US citizenship. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago US lost business travelers in April as economic anxiety and border detentions cooled demand

Business travel to the U.S. fell 9% in April as companies and workers grappled with economic uncertainty and anger over the Trump administration’s tariffs and border policies

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3 w. ago Potential US semiconductor manufacturing boom complicated by Trump's economic policies

Before ‘America First’ became the Trump administration’s mandate for foreign policy and trade, one sector was already working to bring business back to the United States: the semiconductor industry

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3 w. ago What Trump’s ‘palace in the sky’ gift from Qatar reveals | Moira Donegan

This kind of behavior from the Trump administration has gone on for so long that it is hard to rouse the media to cover itIt certainly looks as if policy is for sale in the Trump administration. After all, the president’s primary domestic policy deputy, Elon Musk, gained his position in the administration more or less by purchasing it: he is the richest man in the world, and the primary funder of Trump’s last presidential campaign, and it is seemingly by this virtue – does he have any others? – that Musk has been granted the authority to dismantle large swaths of the federal bureaucracy.This is something of a pattern for Donald Trump. In his first term, it became de rigueur for foreign dignitaries to stay at Trump’s hotel on trips to Washington, a practice long perceived to be a way of currying favor with the president by spending money at his businesses. Trump funneled money to his hotel business from domestic sources, too: when Secret Service agents were required to stay at Trump’...

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