5 h. ago Mutations tied to cancer risk found in 17 million Americans, researchers warn

The findings come as doctors work to understand why rates of early cancer are rising in younger adults

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7 h. ago The Guardian view on global aid cuts: a malaria resurgence could be the canary in the coalmine | Editorial

The consequences of Donald Trump’s decision to scrap USAID, and other countries’ decisions to reduce funding, are playing out in deadly fashionMalaria is a pandemic disease that hits the voiceless hardest: most of those who fall ill and die are small children and pregnant women in Africa. It is the leading infectious killer of the continent, responsible for nearly 600,000 deaths a year. Cases are rising and there is an urgent need for more funding, yet western donor countries are instead cutting back on aid. We still hear brave talk about eliminating malaria. But an expert report now warns of a potential resurgence that could add almost a million more deaths to the annual toll by the end of the decade.Most of the money to fight the mosquito-borne disease – 59% – comes through the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Its executive director, Peter Sands, said last week at the World Health Summit in Berlin that of the three killers, the one that kept him awake...

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13 h. ago Urgent warning to Gmail users as 183 MILLION passwords are stolen in data breach

Gmail has been involved in a huge data breach affecting more than 183 million user accounts. Here's how to tell if your email data has been compromised.

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13 h. ago Gmail warning as millions of passwords stolen in huge data breach

Gmail users have been issued an urgent warning to check their accounts and change their passwords as soon as possible following the massive breach

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30 h. ago 'Out of touch' peers warned against blocking workers rights for millions

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak accused opponents of the workers rights' reforms of trying to "side with bad bosses" and warned they were out of step with the public

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62 h. ago Donald Trump sends world's largest warship USS Gerald R Ford into war on drugs

Donald Trump has deployed a true military behemoth in his striking war on drugs - the menacing vessel could cause huge problems for one of his greatest foes

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62 h. ago Trump was planning to send troops to San Francisco. Now he’s not. Here’s why | Joe Eskenazi

The US president’s reversal was as capricious as his original plan. What if local billionaires had urged him to stick with it?This story was published in collaboration with Mission Local.The mayor of San Francisco said on Thursday that Donald Trump had simply called him – no go-betweens or consigliere required – and told him there would no longer be a deployment of federal agents or troops to the city.Joe Eskenazi is an editor and columnist for Mission Local. Io Yeh Gilman and Xueer Lu contributed reporting Continue reading...

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64 h. ago Rachel Reeves set to 'price jobs out of existence' by upping minimum wage for more than a million workers in Budget, struggling business leaders warn

Rachel Reeves looks set to pile more pressure on already struggling businesses by upping the national living wage by an expected 4%'.

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3 d. ago Freeze and frost warnings hit more than 50 million Americans as temperatures drop

Thousands of Americans are killed by extreme cold and icy roads each year

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3 d. ago You're watching TV wrong: Experts warn millions of Brits are putting their television in the wrong place

Many of us simply plonk our TV on the mantlepiece, or in a corner of the living room. But according to researchers at consumer champion Which?, there's actually a 'sweet spot' where your TV should go.

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3 d. ago Trump denies sending supersonic bombers to Venezuela coast. The flight data says otherwise

Reports suggest the military flew a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela on Thursday

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4 d. ago Trump backs down on sending federal troops to San Francisco for immigration crackdown

Protesters flood streets in show of resistance, as president calls off deployment after speaking with city’s mayor and Silicon Valley leadersDonald Trump canceled plans for a deployment of federal troops to San Francisco that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protesters flooding into the streets.The Bay Area region had been on edge after reports emerged on Wednesday that the Trump administration was poised to send more than 100 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agents to the US Coast Guard base in Alameda, a city in the East Bay, as part of a large-scale immigration-enforcement plan. By early Thursday morning, hundreds of protesters had gathered outside the Coast Guard base, holding signs with slogans such as “No ICE or Troops in the Bay!”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump called off sending border agents to San Francisco after mayor’s phone call

The president wrote on Truth Social he was pausing the long-threatened crackdown after a call with the mayor and pressure from top tech CEOs

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4 d. ago Trump won’t send federal troops to San Francisco after ‘friends in the area’ asked him not to: Live updates

California Governor Gavin Newsom had threatened to sue the Trump administration if the president deployed the National Guard to the state

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4 d. ago Trump cancels plans to send federal troops to San Francisco for immigration crackdown

Mayor Daniel Lurie says he spoke with Trump as protesters took to streets in anticipation of a large-scale deploymentSan Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie has said that Donald Trump was cancelling plans for a “federal deployment” to the city as hundreds of protesters took to the streets in anticipation of a major immigration operation.Lurie said he spoke with the president late Wednesday evening, amid reports of that dozens of federal agents were headed to the San Francisco Bay Area. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump told to send National Guard to major US city to combat deadly opioid crisis

Crystal West, 42, lost her 20-year-old son Xi'Risse Kiev West-Owens to a fentanyl overdose in September and is now calling for the National Guard to be sent to Baltimore

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4 d. ago Storm Benjamin batters Britain: Heavy rain and 75mph winds bring misery for commuters as weather warnings and flood alerts covering millions of people come into force

The Met Office has issued four yellow weather warnings for up to two inches of rain and 75mph gusts from the storm - with flooding, power cuts and travel disruption all set to impact the UK today.

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5 d. ago Big? Beautiful? Donald Trump is literally ripping apart the home of US democracy. Is anyone really surprised? | Emma Brockes

Demolition work has begun on part of the White House’s East Wing to make way for the president’s ballroom. Truly, these are post-satirical timesOccasionally, life gives you scenarios that are so on the money it’s impossible to do anything with them. Boris Johnson getting stuck halfway down a zip wire while waving two union flags, for instance; or Liz Truss getting lost while attempting to leave a room – two images that are so embarrassingly on point it is almost difficult to enjoy them. An audience likes to feel it has done a bit of work before arriving at a punch line, which is why, on Monday, when demolition crews moved into the White House to knock down part of the East Wing at the behest of Donald Trump, it felt once again like we were living in post-satirical times.As far as we can tell from the photos, Trump didn’t actually send in a wrecking ball – although his administration did sharply reprimand government employees working in a neighbouring Treasury building for posting vi...

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5 d. ago Massive Ford recall affects 1.4 million ‘older’ vehicles in US as automaker warns of dangerous issue

Ford said it was aware of 12,500 warranty claims tied to camera issues as well as five accidents

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6 d. ago ‘I do have a Nazi streak’: Trump nominee accused of sending vile texts as he goes to Senate for Special Counsel role

One of the Republicans in the group chat said that Paul Ingrassia belonged in the Nazi paramilitary group known as the Ubergruppenführer

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