43 m. ago Authorities arrest over 100 people on Tennessee roads in support of Trump's deportation plan

More than 100 people have been taken into custody by federal immigration officials in a joint operation with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, leaving many in Nashville’s immigrant community uncertain and worried

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76 m. ago The wounded Ukrainian soldiers asking: ‘Ceasefire, what ceasefire?’

Putin announced the three-day ceasefire to coincide with a May 9 military parade on Moscow's Red Square

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1 hour ago Mum's last words and son's screams secretly recorded by husband who stabbed her to death

Veteran newsreader Dermot Murnaghan is back on our screens presenting true crime series Killer Britain, which explores how ordinary events can lead to 'extraordinary murders'

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1 hour ago How many humans have gorillas killed as man vs beast death match row continues

The question of 'who would win between 100 men vs a gorilla?' has captured the internet in recent weeks – however the number of people gorillas have actually killed will leave you surprised

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3 h. ago What did Karen's killer know? Just 24 hours after the mother

Karen Carter, 65, was in the process of walking away from her 30-year marriage and starting a new life in the south-west France the night before she was murdered.

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4 h. ago Killer executed by firing squad died in ‘excruciating conscious pain’ after bullet missed heart, report says

Mikal Mahdi, 42, was executed by firing squad, the second execution in South Carolina this year using the controversial method

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4 h. ago Southport killer Axel Rudakubana in 'boiling water attack on prison guard'

The alleged incident took place on Thursday.

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4 h. ago ‘Buddhism and Björk help me handle fame’: novelist Ocean Vuong

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous made him a literary superstar. Now the Vietnamese American author is exploring his working-class roots in an ambitious follow‑upThere are three kinds of family, muses the novelist and poet Ocean Vuong. There’s the nuclear family, “which often we talk about as the central tenet of American life”. There’s the chosen family, “the pushback”, the community and friendships built by people who have been rejected by their parents, often because of their sexuality or gender identity. And then there’s the family we talk about much less frequently, but spend most of our waking hours within – our colleagues, or what Vuong describes as “the circumstantial family around labour”.Vuong’s forthcoming second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, encompasses them all. There’s its 19-year‑old hero Hai’s relationship with his mother, a poor Vietnamese immigrant who believes that he has fulfilled her desperate aspirations for him by going to university, when he has actually...

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4 h. ago 'They knew how to kill': British expat's arteries severed in a frenzied attack, rumours of a love triangle

Karen Carter, 65, was in the process of walking away from her 30-year marriage and starting a new life in the south-west France the night before she was murdered.

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5 h. ago Beans are being genetically engineered to grow in the UK – but how do they taste?

Three types of beans have been more than a decade in the making and hit shelves amid booming interest in legumesThe pan of beans on my cooker have taken a long time to prepare. It’s not just because I soaked them overnight and have now simmered them for about an hour: more than 12 years has gone into the creation and production of these beans. After all that, they had better taste delicious.These beans are the creation of Prof Eric Holub, a geneticist and researcher at the University of Warwick, who has spent more than a decade developing three new varieties of beans, engineered to be grown in the UK. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Buck up, Michelle Obama – nothing is more fabulous than an empty nest | Kathy Lette

The former US first lady says she’s in counselling after her daughters left home. She and Barack should run around the house naked. Yodelling. With antlers on their headsYour kids are the greatest love affair of your life, and that love is unconditional Although wait, on second thoughts, there are a few conditions. No child must ever be allowed to take up the bagpipes, drums or descant recorder. Come meal times there are two options – spag bol or adoption. No mother should have to teach a child to drive while simultaneously going through the menopause. And, most important of all, progeny must be out the door by 24.Without a doubt, the two nicest words in the English language are “empty” and “nest”. And yet my kitchen is constantly full of female friends weeping into their wine about how much they will miss their kids when they leave for university, flat shares or gap year travels.Kathy Lette is a comedy writer and novelist. Her latest book is The Revenge Club Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Tragic new details reveal final moments of plane that crashed in upstate New York and killed family of six

Federal investigators have put together a timeline of the events which led up to the deaths of the prominent Massachusetts family.

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7 h. ago 'Cheap' weekly activity 'slows down' brain ageing and may cut dementia risk

Scientists at the Norweigan University of Science and Technology stressed an important message about preventing cognitive decline

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7 h. ago Judge finally sets resentencing hearing for Menendez brothers next week

Their attorneys say the brothers, who have spent 30 years behind bars for murders, killed their parents in self-defense after years of sexual abuse

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8 h. ago Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, released after arrest at immigration detention center

The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has been released from custody after being arrested at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week

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8 h. ago Miami museum opens a new exhibit that examines a century of swimwear and its connection to Florida

Just in time for bathing suit season, the HistoryMiami Museum is opening a new exhibit that examines the relationship between the evolution of swimwear and the growth of South Florida over the past century

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9 h. ago All the DWP bank statement checks for Universal Credit claimants

DWP said some Universal Credit claims need to be 'corrected'

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13 h. ago 'They knew how to kill': British expat's arteries severed in a frenzied attack, rumors of a love triangle

Karen Carter, 65, was in the process of walking away from her 30-year marriage and starting a new life in the south-west France the night before she was murdered.

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13 h. ago Rümeysa Öztürk, detained Tufts student, released from federal custody – US politics live

Turkish national and PhD student was arrested by US agents in March over her pro-Palestinian political speechLarge institutional investors have massively increased their holdings of Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) in recent months according to SEC filings, with many enlarging their positions by hundreds of millions of dollars.The revelations raise further questions about big business’s desire to curry favor with Donald Trump and his administration via the enterprises he has maintained or commenced. TMTG runs the Truth Social social media platform – on which the US president himself posts almost daily – as well as financial services and a film and TV streaming service.Donald Trump’s refusal to divest from his publicly traded company has predictably prompted huge investments from wealthy special interests that could use a favor from the president.Institutional Wall Street investors and even a foreign company with business before the administration have effectively offered a fo...

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13 h. ago Tufts scholar Rumeysa Ozturk released from ICE detention after judge raises ‘serious’ First Amendment and due process questions

PhD student imprisoned in Louisiana detention center testifies in orange prison jumpsuit

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