53 m. ago Defense secretary Pete Hegseth says military will stay in Los Angeles for 60 days – live

Troop deployment, which has been heavily criticized, will cost $134m, Pentagon says; Trump doubles down on decision to deploy thousands more troops Trump sends thousands more troops to California in ‘authoritarian’ moveUS officials said the marines were being deployed to protect federal property and personnel, including immigration agents. A convoy of 10 to 15 buses with blacked-out windows and escorted by sheriff’s vehicles, left the base at Twentynine Palms in the desert east of Los Angeles late Monday and headed toward the city, stopping around 1am (9am BST) at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, about 20 miles (35 km) south of downtown Los Angeles.Despite their presence, there has been limited engagement so far between the Guard and protesters while local law enforcement implements crowd control. Continue reading...

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64 m. ago Wales fan suffered broken back bone in stadium fall as TV star rushed to help

The 29-year-old fell from the upper tier of the Stade Roi Baudouin into the lower tier during Monday night's World Cup qualifier

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64 m. ago ‘He changed the rules for all of us who came after’: Lee Child remembers Frederick Forsyth

Forsyth did away with the conventions of thriller-writing and still kept readers enthralled. He reset the whole genre, the author of the Jack Reacher novels writes• Frederick Forsyth, Day of the Jackal author and former MI6 agent, dies aged 86I remember two things about the first full week of January 1972. I passed my driving test on the Monday, and on the Friday I made my weekly trip to the library and borrowed The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. I had no idea I would one day be a writer myself – at that point I was merely an insatiable reader – but in retrospect that Friday marked an important way station on the journey from one to the other.I gobbled up the book and thought it was fantastic – fast, pacy, exciting, suspenseful and laced with detail and intrigue. Then I thought, wait, what? How was this book working? It was a twin-track thriller – an assassin hunts his target while law enforcement hunts the assassin. But the intended victim was Charles de Gaulle, a real per...

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69 m. ago LA protests live: Marines arrive in LA as Trump defends $134m troop deployment over ‘authoritarian’ backlash

Almost 5,000 military personnel have been deployed to Los Angeles, as demonstrations against ICE raids continued into Monday evening

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99 m. ago The Latest: Hegseth suggests National Guard use for homeland defense will expand under Trump

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is fielding sharp questions from members of Congress about his tumultuous start as Pentagon chief, including his sharing of sensitive military details over a Signal chat, in Capitol Hill hearings

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1 hour ago Independent Scotland would cut ties with Israel over Gaza, claims Stephen Flynn

Flynn said and other SNP MPs were "deeply, deeply upset and angry about what’s happened in Gaza".

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1 hour ago Independent Scotland would cut ties with Israel, says SNP Westminster leader

Stephen Flynn said he was ‘deeply upset and angry’ about the situation in Gaza.

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2 h. ago Voices: When it comes to the LA riots, not even the law seems to stop Donald Trump

The US president has no legal authority to nationalise the National Guard if the governor does not want him to do so, writes Bonnie Greer. He is also prohibited from sending the United States military on to American soil. Not that it seems to make much difference

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2 h. ago Influencer reveals how he tried to steal back his own £220,000 supercar after it was stolen and shipped from London to Thailand

Mark McCann, 51, purchased his green Lamborghini Huracan Spider in 2016 as part of a business venture which saw him and his business partner, Mo, rent out the supercar for £800 per day.

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2 h. ago Man Utd set INCREASED Alejandro Garnacho asking price as five clubs eye unwanted star

Manchester United star Alejandro Garnacho has been told to find a new club as the Red Devils attempt to bring in a significant transfer fee for the Argentina international

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2 h. ago The 1% Club fans up in arms as 'simple' word question wipes out 16 celeb contestants

Saturday's instalment of the ITV quiz show, hosted by Lee Mack , was a Soccer Aid special and saw 100 stars attempt to win a whopping £100,000 for UNICEF .

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2 h. ago Kieran Tierney completes Celtic return to become Arsenal's 17th summer departure

Kieran Tierney joined the Gunners from Celtic in the summer of 2019, but now he had completed his return to Glasgow to become the latest departure at the Emirates this summer

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2 h. ago Kieran Tierney has one nagging Celtic issue to overcome as he's tipped to regain hometown hero status

Hoops fans are thrilled to welcome back one of their favourites in a blockbuster signing and Paul Dickov shares his summer hope

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2 h. ago EU to target Nord Stream and Russian oil cap in new sanctions

European Commission presented 18th series of measures against Moscow on Tuesday

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2 h. ago 'Truth' behind Area 51 UFO conspiracies revealed in bombshell US report

Area 51 conspiracy theories and fake UFO sightings were deliberately planted to conceal Cold War-era military projects including stealth fighter jets, a bombshell report has found

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2 h. ago LA protests live: Trump sends Marines to join National Guard and claims Los Angeles ‘would be burning to the ground’ if he didn’t

Almost 5,000 military personnel have been deployed to Los Angeles, as demonstrations against ICE raids continued into Monday evening

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3 h. ago Man reveals how he tried to steal back his own £220,000 supercar after it was stolen and shipped from London to Thailand

Mark McCann, 51, purchased his green Lamborghini Huracan Spider in 2016 as part of a business venture which saw him and his business partner, Mo, rent out the supercar for £800 per day.

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3 h. ago Xabi Alonso's comments about Arsenal target Martin Zubimendi say it all as phone call emerges

Martin Zubimendi is at a crossroads, with both Arsenal and Real Madrid trying desperately to sign the Real Sociedad midfielder, who nearly joined Liverpool last summer, only for the transfer to fall through

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3 h. ago Kieran Tierney issues first Celtic words as homecoming hero reveals his burning Hoops ambition

The Hoops fans' favourite has been officially paraded by the club after returning from Arsenal

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3 h. ago The underwater bomb robot fighting Putin's saboteurs: British defence experts develop sub to blast Russian targets threatening undersea cables and energy pipelines

Video footage shows the robot, which has been adapted by British defence experts from a commercially available remotely operated vehicle (ROV), approaching and blasting a simulated target.

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