6 h. ago Bibby Stockholm migrant accused of 'sexually assaulting teenage girl on beach'

Moffat Konofilia, 48, has appeared before magistrates in Weymouth and pleaded not guilty to the offence which is alleged to have happened in December 2023.

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6 h. ago The 'giant ashtray' that greets visitors when they arrive in Cardiff

Central Square's rain gardens are littered with hundreds of cigarette butts

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22 h. ago Supreme Court appears divided over whether states can cut off Planned Parenthood funding

The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over whether states should be able cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, a case that comes amid a wider push from abortion opponents to defund the nation’s leading abortion provider

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24 h. ago I don’t want to die with a freezer full of seeds. It’s time to rethink biodiversity and preservation | Chris Smith

Hurricane Helene proved a hard truth: a freezer of seeds is the literal version of putting all your eggs in one basketAbout a month after Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last fall, Roger Wynn and I met in an Asheville, North Carolina, supermarket parking lot. He’d driven two hours from Little Mountain, South Carolina, where the passing storm had also left its destructive mark.“When the power finally came back on,” Wynn said, “two of my freezers didn’t work.” Wynn was worried not about spoiled food inside, but his seed collection. On that autumn day, in an act of forced downsizing and seed philanthropy, Wynn handed over two boxes filled with seeds. He wanted me, as founder of the non-profit Utopian Seed Project, to share the seeds with farmers across the region. The boxes contained a trove of Appalachian varieties: speckled field peas, white mountain half-runner beans, purple-podded bush beans and lots of butterbeans. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Teens accused of starting massive South Carolina wildfire by tossing their cigarette butts along a hiking trail

The Table Rock fire forced widespread evacuations and a massive ground and aerial response

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27 h. ago Boy’s actions ‘appalling’ but he is ‘not a murderer’, trial jury told

A teenage boy accused of attacking an 80-year-old man as he walked his dog did not intend to kill him, his barrister has told a murder trial jury.

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36 h. ago US senator Cory Booker delivers longest speech in Senate history

Cory Booker, the Democratic senator from New Jersey, spoke on the Senate floor for more than 25 hours, the longest speech ever given in Senate history. Starting his speech on Monday evening in Washington, vowing to remain on the Senate floor as long as he was 'physically able', Booker spoke in protest at what he called the 'grave and urgent' danger that Donald Trump's presidential administration poses to democracy and the American people. In 1957, Strom Thurmond, a Republican from South Carolina, gave an anti-civil rights speech that lasted 24 hours and 18 minutesSenate Republicans consider joining Democrats to oppose Trump over tariffs Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Planned Parenthood faces Medicaid funding challenge at Supreme Court

Supreme Court will hear arguments in a South Carolina case over whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood

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48 h. ago Teenager accused of man’s park murder launched ‘intense’ attack, court told

Prosecution counsel Harpreet Sandhu used his closing speech at Leicester Crown Court to accuse the 15-year-old of leaving Bhim Kohli for dead.

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49 h. ago Ex Bloomberg executive, wife and child found dead at their SC home

Police have yet to release a cause of death but said there seems to be no “threat to the public”

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51 h. ago Supreme Court weighs whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a South Carolina case over whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood

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68 h. ago Virginia Giuffre's heartbreaking final wish as Prince Andrew abuse accuser is '4 days from death'

Prince Andrew's teenage sex abuse accuser, Virginia Giuffre, says that she just wants to see her children again for one last time after telling how she just has days to live

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5 d. ago What happens next in Adolescence: Lawyer reveals how he would defend Jamie Miller from the horrifying allegations in the Netflix show

A criminal defence lawyer has revealed what could have happened to Jamie in a fifth episode, had the teen appeared in court accused of murdering a female schoolfriend.

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5 d. ago Impractical Jokers' Joe Gatto accused of inappropriate behavior by two teenage girls who claim he asked them to kiss

Two girls have have shared their alleged experience with Gatto, 48, in a TikTok video which featured alleged messages from him asking for nudes and inviting them to his hotel.

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5 d. ago South Carolina wildfire keeps growing as firefighters protect homes

A large wildfire in the South Carolina mountains has doubled in size on each of the last three days

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6 d. ago South Carolina inmate chooses to die by firing squad like the last condemned inmate before him

A second South Carolina inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets

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6 d. ago ‘We live in both worlds’: how teachers of Gullah Geechee herbal medicine are cultivating tradition

Classes on ‘hoodoo’ connect new generations eager to explore their roots with elders in the South Carolina communityWith their eyes downcast in reflection, dozens of people dressed in white crossed a bridge to pay respect to their ancestors last October. They carried flowers, herbs and photos of their loved ones to lay at the foot of an altar on a tiny strip of land in the middle of a pond. For the last few years, this ritual at the start of the annual Gullah Geechee herbal gathering on Johns Island, South Carolina, has served as a link between the living and the dead. “It gives them a sacred space to connect with the land,” the gathering’s founder, Khetnu Nefer, said about the attendees, and to “connect with our communal ancestors”.Held on Nefer’s family’s land, a stretch of 10 acres (four hectares) of flat grass surrounded by woods, the gathering educates attendees on the herbal traditions of the descendants of west Africans enslaved on the Sea Islands along the south-east US. Ove...

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6 d. ago First rain and then fire chase people from their homes in North and South Carolina

At least a half-dozen large wildfires continue to burn in the Blue Ridge Mountains of South Carolina and North Carolina

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6 d. ago Wildfires rage on in North and South Carolina as more firefighters arrive

Hundreds of people asked to leave their homes amid states of emergency and out-of-state responders battling blazesWildfires continued to rage in North and South Carolina on Thursday, leading to states of emergency and evacuations as firefighters deployed from other parts of the US to help bring the blazes under control.In North Carolina, progress was being made in containing two of the largest wildfires burning in the mountains, but officials warned that fire danger remained from dry and windy conditions. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago 'I stabbed him to protect myself' Murder accused teen gives evidence

Corey Gauci, 19, is accused of the murder of dad-of-seven Colin Richards in Ely, Cardiff

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