7 h. ago Trump’s prison officials visited Alcatraz this week to assess reopening it, superintendent confirms

How feasible the president’s plan to revive the historic maximum security penitentiary might be is a matter of some debate among experts

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12 h. ago Kate Middleton's surprise reaction after awkward blunder in challenge with William

The Prince and Princess of Wales visited the new HMS Glasow for its official naming ceremony and also took part in a challenge with apprentices - but it didn't quite go to plan for Kate

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32 h. ago Germany boosts Nato’s eastern flank with new Baltic brigade amid threat from Russia – Europe live

Friedrich Merz visits Lithuania to mark the official formation of Germany’s first permanent overseas military unit since the second world warPortugal wants European energy regulators’ agency ACER to lead an independent investigation into the causes of the huge power outage that brought most of Spain and Portugal to a standstill last month, its acting energy minister told Reuters.Maria da Graça Carvalho said prime minister Luís Montenegro wants an independent investigation led by the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators to complement the technical report being prepared by the European network of transmission system operators ENTSO-E. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Israeli troops fire ‘warning shots’ at 25 diplomats visiting occupied West Bank

Shots force delegation representing 31 countries, including Italy, Canada, Egypt and UK, to run for coverMiddle East crisis – live updatesIsraeli troops have fired “warning shots” at a group of 25 diplomats who were visiting Jenin, in the Israel-occupied West Bank, on an official mission organised by the Palestinian Authority to observe the humanitarian situation there.The Israeli military said the visit had been approved, but the delegation “deviated from the approved route” and Israeli soldiers fired warning shots to distance them from the area. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump news at a glance: thinktank finds legal immigrants stripped of protections and sent to El Salvador prison

Report comes as supreme court allows US president to revoke protected status for Venezuelans. Key US politics stories from 19 May 2025At least 50 Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador had entered the US legally, according to a review by the Cato Institute.Published by the libertarian thinktank on Monday, the report analyzed the available immigration data for only a portion of the men who were deported to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), and focuses on the cases where records could be found. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago At least 50 migrants sent to El Salvador prison entered US legally, report finds

Cato analysis goes against Trump administration’s claim that only undocumented people were deported to CecotUS politics live – latest updatesAt least 50 Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador had entered the United States legally, according to a review by the Cato Institute.The report, published by the libertarian thinktank on Monday, analyzed the available immigration data for only a portion of the men who were deported to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), and focuses on the cases where records could be found. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Senate Democratic leader introduces bill that would ban Trump’s Qatar

In attempt to stop Donald Trump accepting $400m plane from Qatar, Chuck Schumer launches legislation that would ban US from using foreign aircraft as president’s official planeJD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flurry of US-led diplomatic efforts to make progress on a ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Associated Press reports. Vance gave the first American pope a letter from Donald Trump and the first lady inviting him. The Chicago-born pope took the letter and put it on his desk and was heard saying “at some point”, in the video footage of the meeting provided by Vatican Media. Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, also gave the Augustinian pope a copy of two of St Augustine’s most seminal works, The City of God and On Christian Doctrine, the vice-president’s office said. Another gift: A Chicago Bears T-shirt with Leo’s name on it. “As you can probably imagine, people in the ...

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4 d. ago Tiger King Joe Exotic pleads for Trump pardon after husband deported

Exotic, who is serving 21 years for murder-for-hire plot, urges president: ‘Just let me go to Mexico’Joe Exotic – star of the 2020 Netflix true crime documentary Tiger King – is publicly pleading for Donald Trump to pardon him from federal prison after his husband was deported to Mexico.“It’s really past time to have one of your people watch Tiger King Season 2, where they all admitted to perjury and a plot to kill me on world television and let me out,” Exotic, whose name is Joseph Allen Maldonado, wrote late on Sunday on social media to the president whom he has politically supported. “I know that you are not fond of my lifestyle, but I supported you just allow me go to Mexico with my husband.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Shake it off! Pope Leo XIV grasps the hand of JD Vance at his inauguration mass after openly criticising the US VP... (who was the last pope's final official visitor!)

The US Pontiff, 69, warmly took hold of Vance's hand as he received a series of world leaders at St Peter's Square.

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6 d. ago Police found 20 dogs alive when they raided rescue centre and found 37 animals dead as man faces cruelty charge

Officers from Essex Police, who were accompanied by RSPCA inspectors and council officials, found the dogs after visiting a property in Crays Hill, Billericay, on Tuesday.

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7 d. ago Latin American leaders spend millions to influence Trump’s White House

El Salvador’s Bukele has scored an Oval Office Trump meeting, nuclear deal and US prison supportUS government records reveal Latin American leaders have spent millions hiring Washington’s top lobbyists to push for a laundry list of requests – from free-trade deals, security assistance and energy investments – heard by the Trump administration, according to an analysis by the Guardian and The Quincy Institute.Since the lead-up to Donald Trump’s election as president in November 2024, Department of Justice records show that at least 10 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have registered their top officials and envoys as foreign principals under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (Fara). Fara aims to promote transparency by requiring those working as foreign agents to disclose their activities and compensation. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago UK drones to target people smugglers, Keir Starmer announces on historic trip

Keir Starmer will become the first Prime Minister to make an official visit to Albania, where he will announce a task force targeting people smugglers will be beefed up

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1 week ago Unlocked: hidden Alcatraz chambers so hideous inmates MAIMED themselves... and the haunting horrors researchers still can't explain

As Trump considers opening 'The Rock' as a fully operational prison once again, a deeper look at its haunting history suggests it may be better to lock up Alcatraz and throw away the key.

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2 w. ago Crack down on scourge of overtourism with ‘mystery shoppers’, urges industry chief

Exclusive: Jet2 CEO Steve Heapy advises government officials to make ‘mystery shopper’ visits to Airbnb rentals

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2 w. ago One of Alcatraz’s last living inmates speaks out on Trump’s plan to reopen prison

Charlie Hopkins believes president is not serious about reviving storied San Francisco jail

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2 w. ago 'El Chapo' and 'El Mayo' could end up in Alcatraz 2.0 with three of the biggest narcos

Donald Trump wants to reopen the infamous prison of Alcatraz to deal with that he regards as the meanest and nastiest members of organised crime in the US, but who could this mean?

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2 w. ago Not just Alcatraz: the notorious US prisons Trump is already reopening

Amid outrage over ‘far-fetched’ plans to revive Alcatraz, Trump is pushing to expand Ice detention to other closed lockups marked by scandalsDonald Trump’s proposal to reopen Alcatraz, the infamous prison shuttered more than 60 years ago, sparked global headlines over the weekend. But it isn’t the only notorious closed-down jail or prison the administration has sought to repurpose for mass detentions.The US government has in recent months pushed to reopen at least five other shuttered detention facilities and prisons, some closed amid concerns over safety and mistreatment of detainees. While California lawmakers swiftly dismissed the Alcatraz announcement as “not serious” and a distraction, the Trump administration’s efforts to reopen other scandal-plagued facilities are well under way or already complete, in partnership with for-profit prison corporations. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Everything you need to know about Trump’s bizarre plan to reopen Alcatraz

Trump has directed officials to reopen a ‘substantially enlarged and rebuilt’ prison on Alcatraz Island - but is it really viable?

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2 w. ago A hard cell? Alcatraz tourists dismiss Trump’s ‘insane’ plan to revive it as prison

Visitors to one of San Francisco’s most popular tourist destinations point to cost, feasibility and its legacy of Indigenous incarcerationIn the choppy waters of the San Francisco Bay, on a windswept rock, lies a crumbling former federal prison that’s now at the center of Donald Trump’s latest real estate proposal: “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” he announced on Truth Social over the weekend, to “serve as a symbol of Law, Order and JUSTICE.”On Monday, the day after Trump’s declaration, throngs of tourists queued up for the ferry at Fisherman’s Wharf to visit the island. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago A hard cell? Alcatraz tourists dismiss Trump’s ‘insane’ plan to revive it as a prison

Visitors to one of San Francisco’s most popular tourist destinations point to cost, feasibility and its legacy of Indigenous incarcerationIn the choppy waters of the San Francisco Bay, on a windswept rock, lies a crumbling former federal prison that’s now at the center of Donald Trump’s latest real estate proposal: “REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!” he announced on Truth Social over the weekend, to “serve as a symbol of Law, Order and JUSTICE”.On Monday, the day after Trump’s declaration, throngs of tourists visited the island, after having queued up for the ferry at Fisherman’s Wharf. Continue reading...

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