33 m. ago 10 songs to celebrate the life and legacy of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson

The musical world has lost a giant

Culture

37 m. ago Regional airline closes up shop and plans ‘to sell everything’ as flyers are left grounded

Silver had several of its planes repossessed earlier this year, cutting its fleet in half before its eventual closure

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78 m. ago Rachel Reeves has given the Starmer administration a new narrative: Investment, growth and expansion

Editorial: Alongside the Brexit reset, new trade deals and planning reforms, the chancellor’s spending review should result in a stronger economy with a better long-term growth rate. But it will take time

Politics

88 m. ago 'Bombshell' council tax rise warning over Rachel Reeves' police funding plans

Chancellor accused of ‘relying on a hidden council tax bombshell to fund a half-hearted rise in police funding’ as she outlines Spending Review

Events

97 m. ago Trump’s EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits

More than 200 health experts say regulatory proposals will lead to biggest increase in pollution in decadesUS power plants will be allowed to pollute nearby communities and the wider world with more unhealthy air toxins and an unlimited amount of planet-heating gases under new regulatory rollbacks proposed by Donald Trump’s administration, experts warned.The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a plan on Wednesday that would repeal a landmark climate rule that aims to mostly eliminate greenhouse gases from power plants by the 2030s and would, separately, weaken another regulation that restricts power plants’ release of hazardous air pollutants such as mercury. Continue reading...

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98 m. ago Ohio acid spill LIVE as toxic cloud grounds flights and sparks mass evacuations

A leak of nitric acid at a plant known for making explosives sparked a mass evacuation today as flights were grounded within 4,000 square miles

Events

1 hour ago Trump plans to attend 'Les Misérables' at the Kennedy Center after taking over the institution

President Donald Trump is taking his seat in the president's box for opening night of the award-winning musical “Les Misérables” at the Kennedy Center

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2 h. ago R Kelly files request for release from prison citing murder plot against him

Singer’s lawyer said Aryan Brotherhood and prison officials were plotting to kill him, and asked for home confinement Attorneys for R&B singer R Kelly have filed an urgent request for his release from federal prison, citing a serious threat to his life. The motion asks that the 58-year-old be placed under home detention due to what they describe as an orchestrated plan to have him killed behind bars.In a filing submitted on Tuesday, Kelly’s legal team claims that his safety is at risk. The motion alleges that three officials from the Bureau of Prisons attempted to recruit another inmate to murder the singer. Continue reading...

Events

2 h. ago Operation Mincemeat: Fake documents planted on dead body tricked Hitler and won WW2

The daring plot, in which a homeless man's corpse was planted in the sea to fool Hitler into changing tactics, has gone down in history. But until now no-one knew how important was the role of MI5 secretary Hester Leggatt

Events

2 h. ago Spending review a ‘huge blow’ for police and ‘will hamper efforts to recruit 13,000 neighbourhood police officers’

The government’s £2bn spending plans will cover ‘little more’ than basic pay increases for existing staff, police chiefs have warned

Events

3 h. ago Raducanu and Boulter laugh off Queen’s doubles defeat with singles to come

British pair lose 6-2, 7-5 to Routliffe and KichenokSonay Kartal beaten 6-1, 6-3 by Amanda AnisimovaWith a place in the semi-finals on her debut at Queen’s hanging in the balance, Emma Raducanu flitted towards the net in an attempt to pluck a floating ball out of the air. She has effortlessly dispatched similar balls thousands of times, but on game point while a set down, her forehand drive volley landed closer to the back fence than the court.Normally, she would react with frustration to such an easy miss on an important point. This, however, was only doubles. As she turned away and comically planted her palm on her face, she could not hide her smile. Katie Boulter, her doubles partner, laughed out loud. Continue reading...

Politics

3 h. ago Bayesian yacht that sank off Sicily killing 7 to be raised in late June under updated recovery plan

A salvage company plans to lift the luxury yacht Bayesian in late June from the Sicilian seabed where it sank last summer, killing seven people

Events

3 h. ago UK yet to commit to Nato plan for rise in defence spending to 3.5% of GDP

Nato chief Mark Rutte wants members to agree to plan at summit later this month but UK remains cautiousBritain has still not committed to agreeing an increase in defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by the mid-2030s at the Nato summit later this month in line with a proposal from the alliance secretary general, Mark Rutte, defence sources said.Though Rutte visited Downing St on Monday and the Nato chief expressed confidence in a speech in London afterwards that countries would sign up, senior insiders complained that Britain was still dragging its heels over the issue. Continue reading...

Politics

3 h. ago Manchester City: Jack Grealish left out of Club World Cup squad as winger eyes Etihad escape

Four new Man City signings secured a spot on the plane to the United States

Politics

3 h. ago Reeves unveils record spending plans but experts warn of tax rises ahead

Chancellor announces £39bn boost for social housing, £29bn for NHS and £11bn for defence – and promises to close all asylum hotels as she takes a swipe at Farage and dismisses Tory warnings of a ‘cruel summer’ of tax rise

Events

4 h. ago Greenland and Iceland saw record heat in May. What does that mean for the planet?

A new analysis says human-caused climate change had a key role in the record-breaking heat wave in Iceland and Greenland in May

Politics

4 h. ago Council tax 'bombshell' warning over Chancellor's police funding plans

The government was accused of ‘relying on a hidden council tax bombshell to fund a half-hearted rise in police funding’

Events

4 h. ago Funds to tackle Europe’s forest fires poorly targeted, says EU watchdog

Report raises concerns that money allocated to combat fires not reaching areas where it could make biggest differenceEuropean funds to prevent forest fires have been poorly targeted and sometimes distributed in a hurry, according to a report from the EU’s spending watchdog.The number of forest fires in EU countries has increased dramatically over the last two decades as the climate crisis fuels ever bigger conflagrations. An area twice the size of Luxembourg has been consumed by flames in an average recent year, killing people, destroying homes and wildlife and sending megatonnes of planet-heating emissions into the air. Continue reading...

Events

4 h. ago RFK Jr reveals his plan for vaccine committee after he fired entire panel sparking ‘anti

‘None of these individuals will be ideological anti-vaxxers,’ health secretary says of new appointees to CDC vaccine advisory committee

Events

4 h. ago Ofsted delays setting out final plan for school inspections until September

Unions have criticised the watchdog’s new proposed timetable for publishing its reforms as ‘ridiculous’ and ‘bordering on reckless’.

Politics