24 h. ago Teacher accused of sex with student exchanged 25,000 texts with victim, police say

Allison Havemann-Niedrach, 44, was ‘obsessed’ with the teen, and would sit with him for lunch on a daily basis at school, according to prosecutors

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3 d. ago The Five author Hallie Rubenhold: ‘I really hate true crime’

The award-winning writer turned the Jack the Ripper case on its head. Now she is giving Dr Crippen the same treatment – and questioning how we tell stories about murderous menIt was called “the crime of the century” and “the north London cellar murder”, and more than 100 years after it happened, the name of the murderer is still widely known. Dr Crippen has been the subject of multiple books, movies and TV shows and had a waxwork made of him at Madame Tussauds. But the story of his crimes, writes Hallie Rubenhold in Story of a Murder, remains one “predominantly about women but told almost exclusively by men”. As such, Crippen’s victim is long forgotten. Her name was Belle Elmore, and in Rubenhold’s book she is brought back to life.Rubenhold and I are in a cafe in Muswell Hill, north London, a 10 minute walk from where Elmore is buried, and where the 53-year-old author lives with her barrister husband, Frank. Writing Story of a Murder was nerve-racking, says Rubenhold, partly because...

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3 d. ago Team of barristers lined up by Rachel Reeves to fight High Court case against her school fees tax... are all privately educated themselves

The Chancellor who has previously called private school parents 'snobs' is spending taxpayers' money fighting the legal challenge to her 20% VAT on school fees tax.

Economics

5 d. ago Attack on Muslim woman outside Ohio apartment building should be probed as hate crime, says pressure group

Somali woman was attacked by four suspects outside apartment building in Columbus, Ohio, says Council on American-Islamic Relations

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5 d. ago Furious Turkish student in hijab filmed being detained by ICE as she went to break Ramadan fast

Rumeysa Ozturk, who is currently studying at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was swarmed by a group of individuals near her off-campus home on Tuesday.

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7 d. ago Amanda Knox moans 'incredible fling' with Italian lover was 'cut short' by Meredith Kercher murder

In a new interview, the American gushed about her relationship with Raffaele Sollecito, who she was seeing at the time the couple were accused of killing the British exchange student

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7 d. ago Brooklyn middle school dean accused of strangling student who refused to change into his uniform

Elvin Ventura, 53, allegedly wrapped his arms around the boy’s neck and applied pressure

Politics

8 d. ago Masked man vandalizes London synagogue, kosher restaurant in suspected hate crime

Masked man vandalizes London synagogue, kosher restaurant in suspected hate crime  Ynetnews

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9 d. ago Student, 12, accused of hate crime after school fight where two students ‘had hijabs ripped off’

Twin teenage girls were physically assaulted by two students at their middle school in March in an attack what authorities say was ‘motivated by religion and/or ethnicity’

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1 week ago A Where’s Wally tattoo, Hitler moustache and Palestine flag sticker recorded as hate incidents by police

Critics say guidance on the recording of non crime hate incidents is ‘flawed’ with police without the resources ‘to monitor playground disputes or pub conversations’

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1 week ago Concerns over Hinduphobia in London discussed at City Hall summit

Hatred towards Hindus in the capital is said to be ‘under-reported and often overlooked’ compared with other hate crimes

Politics

2 w. ago Teacher accused of 'sexual encounter' with teen student tells cops 'I'm good looking'

Married teacher and footie coach Christina Formella is accused of having sexual contact with a boy she was tutoring, but told cops she was just 'good looking' and 'cared for the boy too much'

Society

2 w. ago A graduate’s arrest and Trump’s ‘pincer attack’ on higher education

The administration is cutting funds and threatening what it sees as liberal bastions, such as Columbia University, where it detained Mahmoud Khalil for his pro-Palestinian activismIf Donald Trump thought few Americans would care about the deportation of an Arab student protest leader accused of supporting terrorism and antisemitism at an elite university then he was wrong on several counts.Trump accused the student, Mahmoud Khalil, of being “pro-Hamas” and hailed his detention by immigration officers, in front of his pregnant American wife as she waved her husband‘s permanent residence card, as the “first arrest of many to come”. Continue reading...

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2 w. 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

2 w. ago Police want to speak to this man following a 'hate crime' in Exchange Square

Police were called to reports of an assault on a man in the city centre

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2 w. ago Expelled! review – turning the tables on the private school class hierarchy

Nintendo Switch, iPhone/iPad, Mac, PC (version played); InkleInkle’s latest game revels in lying, stealing and blackmail as you resort to any means necessary to avoid expulsion from a posh schoolAs with seemingly everything in the UK, it all comes back to the class system. Verity Amersham, a scholarship student at Miss Mulligatawney’s School for Promising Girls, is accused of pushing the hockey captain out of a window, and the school’s fearsome headmistress is determined to expel her despite the flimsiest evidence. When Verity protests her innocence, Miss Mulligatawney remains unpersuaded, spelling out her reasoning in plain terms: as a northerner with working-class parents, Verity simply isn’t the “right sort”.The injustice of it all is a potent driver, ensuring I set about my goal of preventing Verity’s expulsion with determined zeal, much like Matilda defying the hateful Miss Trunchbull. As in developer Inkle’s 2021 game Overboard!, you’re given a time limit to work within and a ...

Politics

3 w. ago Trump warns that ICE arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia University will be ‘first of many’

Student leader accused immigration officials of conducting ‘open repression of student activism and political speech’

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3 w. ago 'Beauty expert' teacher accused of sex with student at school where it's happened before

Dulce Flores, 33, has been put on a leave of absence from her role at Riverbank High School after being arrested and charged with having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student

Society

3 w. ago Police 'acted reasonably' by launching hate crime investigation into journalist Allison Pearson, review finds

A probe into the actions of Essex Police has found that they 'acted reasonably' when they launched a hate crime investigation into a social media post by journalist Allison Pearson.

Events

4 w. ago ‘The basis of eugenics’: Elon Musk and the menacing return of the R

The slur is rooted in the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities. Its resurgence threatens the fragile progress we’ve madeI got into my one and only physical fight when I was in seventh grade. It was right after school let out, the other boy was called Nathan, and moments before I launched at him, he knocked the books out of my brother Casey’s hands and called him “retarded”. More than 20 years after that scuffle, I still wonder how often Casey, a now 35-year-old autistic man, is called that word. Given the current political landscape, I’m certain he’s going to start hearing it more often.The R-word is in a new era of prominence in rightwing, chronically online circles – especially on 4chan and X. A favorite of those who currently hold power or stand to gain power under Donald Trump’s second administration, the slur is being used with gleeful relish to belittle and mock ideological enemies. Continue reading...

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