12 h. ago The Latest: US says foreign students seeking visas must unlock social media accounts

The U.S. State Department says it is restarting the process for foreigners to apply for student visas but says all applicants must have their social media accounts set to ‘public’ to allow review by officials

Economics

15 h. ago US resumes visas for foreign students but demands access to social media accounts

The U.S. State Department says it’s restarting the suspended process for foreigners applying for student visas but says all applicants will now be required to unlock their social media accounts for review

Economics

26 h. ago Kate Garraway suffers further financial setback as she's locked out of bank accounts

Kate Garraway suffered another financial setback this week after she was locked out of her bank accounts after she issued a desperate plea on social media

Economics

55 h. ago ‘I didn’t sleep for 45 days’: the people who raffle off their homes

It’s an eccentric and work-intensive way to sell your house, but people are now raffling off even the most modest properties. Is it a good idea?When Natalie Rowcroft decided to raffle off her house in Salford, everybody – including her husband, Bradley Rowcroft – thought she “had lost the plot”. It was July 2020; people were doing stranger things with their first pandemic summer. But given that she had read a newspaper article about a couple who’d raffled their house in the morning, and had put her own up for sale by the evening, the scepticism was well-founded. “At first, I wanted nothing to do with it,” says Bradley, a 38-year-old carpenter. It didn’t help that she had also chucked the family car in the draw for good measure.Still, Natalie, 38, a teaching assistant, persevered. She printed out leaflets and put them up all over Salford and Manchester, set up social media accounts to promote the draw and bought a big poster to hang in the couple’s driveway. Continue reading...

Politics

4 d. ago David Beckham shares rare insight into relationship with mum after knighthood

Sir David Beckham's mum remains very private on social media, with most of her accounts private - but since his knighthood a very sweet post she dedicated to him has emerged

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6 d. ago McFly's Tom Fletcher deletes insensitive post after India plane crash with urgent apology

Tom Fletcher - one quarter of McFly - has issued an apology after he made an insensitive post about planes on his social media account following the devastating Air India crash

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2 w. ago Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing social media ban for kids while lawsuit continues

A federal judge has barred state officials from enforcing a Florida law that would ban social media accounts for young children, while a legal challenge against the law plays out

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2 w. ago Stalker shoots dead beauty influencer TikTok star hours after she posted final video cutting her 17th birthday cake

Sana Yousaf, who turned 17 last week and had more than a million followers across her social media accounts, was killed at her home in the capital Islamabad on Monday.

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2 w. ago Jilted man put tracker on ex's car and made her life a misery

The victim said Ian Andrew's stalking was relentless. He made phone calls, sent texts and created fake social media accounts. He left flowers cut from strangers' gardens on her car and sent gifts

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2 w. ago Federal officials to vet social media accounts of visa applicants heading to Harvard

Federal officials are set to start reviewing the social media accounts of visa applicants who plan to attend, work at or visit Harvard University for any signs of antisemitism

Politics

2 w. ago Trump’s lawlessness is emboldening El Salvador’s brutal regime | Noah Bullock and Amrit Singh

The detention of a leading human rights lawyer is part of a wave of repression sweeping the country under Nayib BukeleThe Trump administration’s agreement with President Nayib Bukele to detain US migrants deported to El Salvador without due process seems to have emboldened Bukele’s autocratic regime. Last week, in a troubling sign of escalating repression, Salvadorian police detained Ruth López Alfaro, a prominent Salvadorian human rights lawyer at Cristosal, an organization fighting for human rights in Central America.Last year, the BBC recognized Ms López Alfaro as one of the 100 most inspiring and influential women in the world, describing her as “an outspoken critic of the country’s government and institutions” who “conducted a broad social media campaign to promote political transparency and public accountability overseen by the citizens themselves”. This year, on 18 May, Salvadorian security forces detained her at her residence on embezzlement charges and held her incommunicad...

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3 w. ago 1.2b social media users' data stolen in historic breach: Check your bank account NOW

A cybercriminal going by the alias 'ByteBreaker' has claimed that they've scraped 1.2 billion records from a social media giant's platform and is now selling the data on the dark web.

Economics

3 w. ago There is no excuse for the killing of two Israeli embassy workers | Kenneth Roth

Critics of Israel’s atrocious conduct in Gaza should be clear that their focus is the authors of that violence – not Israeli civiliansIsrael’s campaign of bombing and starving Palestinian civilians in Gaza is inexcusable. It reflects a massive war crime, as the international criminal court has already charged, and arguably genocide. But it in no sense justifies the murder of two young Israeli embassy workers in Washington by a man who then chanted: “Free, free Palestine”. Nothing justifies violence against civilians.The killing of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim occurred on Wednesday evening outside the Capital Jewish Museum, where the American Jewish Committee was hosting a reception for young diplomats. The suspect, identified as Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, was detained shortly after the shooting. His social media accounts indicated that he had been involved in pro-Palestinian activism.Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch (1993-2022), is a visiting prof...

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4 w. ago Bonnie Blue 'arrest' debunked from witness clue to glaring 'police car' error

Adult entertainer Bonnie Blue sparked a social media backlash when her Instagram account posted a short clip of her being patted down by police officers - but was it what is seemed?

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4 w. ago Harry Styles fan 'screams house down' after opening what he sent her in DMs

As It Was singer – Harry Styles – made one lucky fan's day by taking a photo of them on their holiday before sending the snap on their social media account soon after

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4 w. ago US and Italy launch new effort to find remains of soldiers who went missing during WWII

In a post on social media, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said that the new pact ‘reflects values shared’ between the two nations

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4 w. ago Palm Springs bombing suspect’s YouTube showed tests of homemade explosives, report says

Investigators studying social media accounts associated with ‘pro-mortalist’ Guy Edward Bartkus after deadly blast at California fertility clinic

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