58 m. ago Trump environmental rollbacks would boost pollution and endanger lives, former EPA heads say

Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders say rollbacks proposed by the Trump administration endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency’s mission to protect the environment and human health

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71 m. ago California Democrat believes Trump and his allies are creating a ‘civil war’

Waters said Trump’s recent changes to the government are an attempt to consolidate power and rile up Democrats

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74 m. ago Donald Trump's 'fixer' is 'kept waiting for eight hours' for Kremlin meeting before swift departure

Mr Trump's chief negotiator Steve Witkoff spent two thirds of his just 12 hours in the Russian capital waiting before he could deliver the US President's proposals for a 30-day ceasefire.

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85 m. ago Judge formally sentences Adnan Syed to time served in Serial murder case

Syed, convicted of 1999 murder and jailed for life, maintains innocence in long-running case of legal twists and turnsA Maryland judge has formally sentenced Adnan Syed to the time he has already served in prison, appearing to finally bring to a close a long-running case with numerous legal twists and turns that received worldwide attention from the true-crime podcast Serial.Judge Jennifer Schiffer had already decided that Syed would remain free in a recent written ruling, even though his conviction in the murder of his ex-girlfriend in 1999 when they were in high school still stands. Continue reading...

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99 m. ago 6 VIP pundits deliver Celtic vs Rangers verdict as lack of Premiership title jeopardy makes Hoops hero SAD

The Light Blues make the short trip across Glasgow on Sunday to face the Hoops in what is set to be another blockbuster occasion

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1 hour ago Blockers, checkers, bats and chainsaws: don’t talk like Musk, Starmer is warned

PM has been urged to ‘get a grip’ on messaging after railing against the ‘flabby’ state and the civil service’s ‘tepid bath’Keir Starmer has been warned against adopting the language of Elon Musk after railing against “blockers and checkers” and the “flabby” civil service this week.Gus O’Donnell, the former cabinet secretary, was one of those urging the prime minister to “get a grip” on his messaging, telling the Institute for Government podcast: “My God, he has mishandled the communications on this terribly.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Donald Trump's fixer forced to wait eight hours to see Putin in humiliating 'power play'

Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in Moscow to discuss the proposed 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine - but was reportedly made to wait eight hours first

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2 h. ago Canada ‘will never be part of the US’, says new PM Mark Carney amid trade war

Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor sworn in and expected to call election soonMark Carney has said Canada will never be part of the US, after being sworn in as the country’s 24th prime minister in a sudden rise to power.“We will never, in any shape or form, be part of the US,” the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England told a crowd outside Rideau Hall in Ottawa, rejecting Donald Trump’s annexation threats. “We are very fundamentally a different country.” Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Judge formally sentences Adnan Syed to time served in 'Serial' podcast case

A Maryland judge has formally sentenced Adnan Syed to the time he’s already served in prison

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2 h. ago Woman who started fire at block of flats was ‘failed by the state’ after years of abuse

"You were not provided any support, you were placed in an area away from your family and you were advised not to have therapy for the difficulties from the abuse"

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3 h. ago Inothewayurthinkin claims Gold Cup to deny Galopin Des Champs treble

Hot favourite suffers shock defeat to late entryWinner could be put forward for Grand NationalAs one tilt at racing immortality came up short, another even more elusive achievement suddenly came into sharp focus as ­Inothewayurthinkin, in the famous green and gold colours of JP McManus, powered away from Galopin Des Champs, the defending two-time champion, to win the ­Cheltenham Gold Cup by six lengths.There are still just four horses with three Gold Cup victories to their name, and there is still just one – Golden Miller, who features on both lists – who has won the Gold Cup and the Grand National in the same season, 91 years ago in 1934. Within a month, though, there could be two, if McManus and Gavin Cromwell, Inothewayurthinkin’s trainer, decide that the seven-year-old has come out of Friday’s race well enough to take his place in the 34-strong field at Aintree on 5 April. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Media denied entry to tribunal thought to be about Apple and Government data row

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal sat in private for an all-day hearing.

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3 h. ago Primordial surf: ‘microlightning’ in mist may have sparked life on Earth, study finds

Tiny lightning streaks in fine spray can power chemical reactions that generate molecules for life, scientists sayCharles Darwin thought it started in a warm pond. Others point to comets that ploughed into Earth. And some suspect a bolt from the blue, a lightning strike into the ocean.How life started on Earth may forever be a mystery, but new research proposes a radical idea: that crashing waves and waterfalls may have kicked off the process by throwing up mists of water. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Voices: Tariffs, Trump, and trade: Independent readers give their verdict

Brexit has given the UK the freedom to negotiate its own trade deals, but as Trump’s tariffs hit British exports, the question remains: is Britain stronger alone or weaker without the EU’s collective bargaining power?

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4 h. ago Father of Norwegian socialite student calls on Yemeni billionaire's on

Martine Vik Magnussen, 23, was found strangled to death underneath a block of Great Portland Street flats in London in March 2008 after a night out celebrating the end of her University exams.

Society

4 h. ago Moment block of flats goes up in flames and dozens forced to flee for their lives after 'dangerous' arsonist living there set fire to sofa

Emergency services were called to Eccleston House in Bristol in the early hours of October 20 2022 after flames were seen licking the outside of the building from the street.

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4 h. ago Judge won't block destruction of old USAID classified documents as the building is cleaned out

A federal judge is refusing to block the destruction of classified documents as part of the building cleanout at the U.S. Agency for International Development

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4 h. ago Why is Donald Trump crashing the US economy? Because he’s high on his own supply of fake news | Jonathan Freedland

Addicted to Fox News and outlets even more extreme, the president finds support and justification for actions disastrous to Americans and the worldNot content with shattering the post-1945 international order, which delivered prosperity and power to his country for eight long decades, Donald Trump is seemingly set on destroying the US economy. And he’s doing it because he, and the American right, have lost their ability to grasp reality.Start with the economic vandalism, unfolding in real time and mesmerising to watch. For weeks, you could see the US stock market falling and falling until on Thursday the S&P index passed an unwanted milestone: it stood more than 10% down from the peak it had reached less than a month earlier, a fall that meets the Wall Street definition of a “correction”. In other words, even if the market eventually rallies, this is no blip. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago ‘The odd drunken detective has been sighted at gigs’: how Sea Power won legions of gamer fans

As they get ready to tour its mournful music, the band reflect on Disco Elysium, the video game whose soundtrack won them a Bafta – and plenty of new followersWhen Jan Scott Wilkinson, frontman of the band formerly known as British Sea Power, was first asked to work on a video game soundtrack, he was sceptical. “We didn’t know much about the game, but our manager Dave seemed to think there was something interesting about this Robert guy who had been pleasantly hounding him,” he says. That was Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz, part of a team who had just started work on an esoteric video game about an alcoholic cop trying to solve a murder in an impoverished region of a war-torn country. The game was Disco Elysium, now regarded as one of the all-time great cerebral role-playing games: released in 2019, it sat atop PC Gamer’s top 100 list for four years in a row.Kurvitz is a Sea Power superfan. Pick a random scene from the game and there’ll be something – a bit of dialogue, a location...

Sport

4 h. ago Plan for residential use of Merthyr Tydfil's Theatre Royal unlikely

The future of the building was discussed at a recent Merthyr Tydfil council scrutiny committee

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