2 h. ago Straight woman’s ‘reverse discrimination’ case could upend decades of equality safeguards

Ohio woman who lost out on promotion to a gay woman is asking the Supreme Court to allow her to file a workplace discrimination lawsuit against her employer

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3 h. ago Supreme Court seems likely to rule for Ohio woman claiming job bias because she's straight

The Supreme Court seems likely to side with an Ohio woman who claims she suffered sex discrimination in her employment because she is straight

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11 h. ago Trump administration sued over crackdown on school diversity programs

Teachers union says the crackdown violates the First and Fifth Amendments

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13 h. ago Second woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann only realised after watching Dr Phil

American woman Eugenea Collins is now the second woman to claim to be the most famous missing infant in the world, joining Polish woman Julia Wandelt who was arrested on stalking charges

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14 h. ago Elizabeth Struhs death: father jailed for 14.5 years as sect faces sentencing for eight

Jason Struhs is the first of 14 members of Toowoomba religious group the Saints to be sentenced for Elizabeth’s 2022 death by withholding insulinFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe father of eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs has been sentenced to 14-and-a-half years in prison, with a minimum of 80% to be spent behind bars, for the death of his eight-year-old type 1 diabetic daughter by denying her life-saving insulin.Jason Struhs was the first of 14 members of Toowoomba-based religious sect the Saints to learn his fate at a sentencing hearing in the Queensland supreme court on Wednesday, after they were found guilty of manslaughter over Elizabeth’s January 2022 death by diabetic ketoacidosis.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Argentina's Milei skirts Congress to seat a divisive judge in the Supreme Court

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has temporarily appointed two Supreme Court judges by decree, bypassing Congress during its summer recess to push through a controversial candidate in a move criticized as an overreach of executive power

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20 h. ago Teachers union sues over Trump administration's deadline to end school diversity programs

A new federal lawsuit in Maryland is challenging a Trump administration memo giving the nation’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate “race-based” practices of any kind or risk losing their federal money

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25 h. ago He's had three 'last meals' on Oklahoma's death row. The Supreme Court has now tossed his conviction

A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has won a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed his murder conviction

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25 h. ago American woman claims she's Madeleine McCann...and has DNA 'proof'

Eugenea Collins, 22, launched a social media campaign claiming she is the famous British child who went missing in 2007 while on vacation with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal.

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26 h. ago Supreme Court rules against drivers in a case advocates say could make civil

The Supreme Court has found that people who score early court wins in civil rights cases won’t necessarily be able to recover their legal fees

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28 h. ago Kind woman allowed stranger to use her toilet – what happened next was abysmal

A young woman, claiming to be pregnant, asked Maria Isabel Lopes whether she could use her bathroom then left the door open as she sat on the toilet to divert the homeowner into another room

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28 h. ago Supreme Court saves Oklahoma man Richard Glossip from death row, orders new trial

Oklahoma man has been on death for 26 years and faced three separate ‘last meals’

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29 h. ago Supreme Court throws out Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip's murder conviction and death sentence

The Supreme Court has thrown out the murder conviction and death penalty for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who has steadfastly maintained his innocence and averted multiple attempts by the state to execute him

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31 h. ago Bigfoot 'spotted in UK city' but biggest mystery is what footie team he supports

EXCLUSIVE: After a woman from Salford claimed to see the mythical beast in a park, it was left to the powers of AI to help decide where Bigfoot's footballing allegiances lay

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41 h. ago Beatings, torture and electric shocks: freed scam compound workers allege horrific abuse

Lured by the promise of well-paying jobs in Southeast Asia, thousands instead allegedly end up enslaved in jail-like compounds and forced to carry out online scams“The Chinese would shock me with electric probes almost daily. I endured this continuously for nine months,” claims Seye, a 27-year-old woman who is one of hundreds of alleged trafficking victims who streamed across the Thai-Myanmar border this month.Seye was among 260 people, more than half of them Ethiopian, who were transferred across the border to Thailand this February by a rebel group. Several among the group agreed to be interviewed on the condition they use only their first name. Continue reading...

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41 h. ago Woman was passed over for promotion because she was not gay, Supreme Court case claims

The US Supreme Court is set to weigh in on the case of a straight white woman from Ohio who claims she was passed up on a promotion for not being gay.

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49 h. ago Clarence Thomas wants to ‘explicitly overturn’ protections against protest

Supreme Court rejects anti-abortion group challenge to buffer zones, which Thomas called an ‘abdication’ of their duty

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52 h. ago Woman in stitches after claiming M&S lampshade makes her room look like popular TV presenter

A woman has shared how her new pendant lampshade she'd bought for her bedroom had an unexpected similarity to a famous face with its distinctive detail - and people are in stitches

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52 h. ago Mum left in hysterics after noticing new lampshade 'looks like' popular TV presenter

A woman was left in hysterics after claiming the lampshade she bought for her bedroom looked like someone very familiar - a TV presenter she watches all the time

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53 h. ago Salford teen claimed he came 'for a sleep' after being found inside vulnerable woman's home

Isaac Loremikan also gave a false name to police

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