12 h. ago North Carolina judges back Republican colleague in bid to toss votes and overturn election

Appeals court sides with Jefferson Griffin, who lost supreme court election and wants thousands of ballots thrown outMore than 65,000 people in North Carolina who believed they were eligible to vote could have their ballots thrown out nearly five months after election day, flipping the results of a supreme court election, a state appeals court ruled on Friday.The 2-1 ruling from the North Carolina court of appeals came in response to Republicans’ months-long effort to overturn the results of the state supreme court election in November. The Democrat Allison Riggs, who currently sits on the court, defeated appellate judge Jefferson Griffin, a Republican, by 734 votes. After the election, Griffin filed a protest seeking to get around 60,000 votes thrown out. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago RFK Jr says 20% of Doge’s health agency job cuts were mistakes

Health secretary says roles will need to be reinstated amid Trump administration’s push to slash federal workforceUS politics live – latest updatesAround a fifth of the 10,000 jobs cut from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) were done in error and will need to be corrected, the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has admitted.Mass layoffs from the health department began this week amid a push by Donald Trump’s administration to shrink the size of the federal government workforce. Union representatives were told around 10,000 people were to lose their jobs ahead of further reductions that could see the department’s 82,000-strong workforce slashed by nearly a quarter. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago DWP estimates 370,000 people could lose PIP claim under major changes

The DWP has published its latest PIP impact assessment, which includes the UK Government's controversial eligibility rule changes to the daily living component of the benefit

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19 h. ago ‘Everyone is affected’: UK town with Jaguar Land Rover plant reacts to Trump’s tariffs

In Solihull, where the factory employs 9,000 workers, there are fears for an ailing industry and wider communityFrom mountainsides to deserts, or even just to get around town, Land Rovers are used the world over. For a time however, many of the sturdy vehicles’ distinctive oval plates were branded with the name of a West Midlands town.“It’s an icon for Solihull and it was synonymous with Britain,” said Robert Mills, 70. The town is home to the 121-hectare (300-acre) Jaguar Land Rover car plant, which employs more than 9,000 people and is one of the last bastions of the UK’s waning automotive industry. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago New DWP plans to help older people claim income boost worth over £4,200

An estimated 760,000 people over 66 are entitled to Pension Credit, but not claiming it.

Economics

21 h. ago DWP launches new ‘trailblazer’ programme to tackle inactivity and boost employment

The first of nine ‘trailblazers’ aims to get 3,000 people into work by the end of this year.

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23 h. ago DWP estimates 370,000 people on PIP could lose entitlement and payments under new reforms

The DWP's impact assessment estimates 400,000 people will no longer be eligible for PIP by the 2029/30 financial year.

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30 h. ago Woman, 63, survives 91 HOURS trapped under rubble after devastating 7.7 earthquake

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday, killing more than 3,000 people and injuring nearly 5,000, with a 63-year-old woman being rescued after 91 hours under rubble

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32 h. ago Djokovic, Gauff and other players ask the Grand Slam tournaments for more money and more say

Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff are among 20 leading tennis players who have signed a letter sent to the heads of the four Grand Slam tournaments seeking more prize money and a greater say in how events are run

Sport

37 h. ago The Guardian view on Israel’s killing of paramedics: a new atrocity in an unending conflict | Editorial

Impunity over Palestinian deaths in Gaza will lead to further cases like this massacre of rescue and healthcare workersAfter 18 months of slaughter, it is still possible to be shocked by events in Gaza. More than 50,000 people have been killed, according to Palestinian health authorities. More are starving because Israel has cut off aid. The offensive is intensifying again – with 100 children killed or maimed each day since Israel resumed heavy strikes last month, the UN reports.Even so, Israel’s killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers is particularly chilling. Though they died on 23 March, it took days for Israel to grant access to the site, the UN said. Another man was last seen in Israeli custody. Two grounds for seeing this not only as tragic but as a war crime stand out. The first is that the UN says the men were shot “one by one”, and a forensic expert said that preliminary evidence “suggests they were executed, not from a distant range”, given the “specific an...

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37 h. ago Scientists warn major US volcano is 'moving closer to an eruption' after earthquake activity increases

A massive US volcano looks like it will erupt in 'weeks to months,' scientists warn. It sits just 80 miles from a major city home to nearly 300,000 people.

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39 h. ago Three people ordered to pay £100,000 as Natural Resources Wales crackdown on illegal tree felling

Natural Resources Wales have prosecuted three individuals as part of a crackdown on illegal tree felling

Economics

40 h. ago NHS Lanarkshire Vaccination Team urging people offered Spring COVID vaccine to stay protected

Last summer in Scotland, there were more than 10,000 reported cases of COVID and over 4000 people hospitalised.

Sport

40 h. ago River City: The famous names who have signed open letter to save BBC jobs

Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon is among more than 100 well-known names that have signed an open letter over the demise of River City

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41 h. ago Famous names sign letter urging Culture Secretary to save River City jobs

The letter warned of a risk that Scottish entertainment workers will have to leave the country to find work.

Society

42 h. ago 120,000 people have filled national insurance gaps to help boost state pension

People have just days left to take action to fill gaps going back as far as April 2006.

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63 h. ago 'Best' place in UK to visit is beautiful market town that's 'never crowded'

Wells in Somerset has been named the UK's best inland town by Which? and is known as 'England's smallest city' despite having a population of just 12,000 people

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64 h. ago 2 killed as Sudan's paramilitary intensifies attacks on displacement camp in North Darfur

At least two people were killed and others were injured in renewed attacks by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on a camp in North Darfur that is sheltering around 450,000 people displaced by the war in the country

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69 h. ago Extra 400,000 people to be signed off as unfit for work under Labour’s welfare reforms, government admits

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has insisted the changes are needed to fix the ‘broken’ system left by the last Conservative government

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2 d. ago New Motability Scheme update for people on PIP, ADP and other disability benefits

Around 815,000 people across the UK are now leasing a vehicle or equipment through the Motability Scheme.

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