15 h. ago The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’

After IceBlock’s launch in April, Kristi Noem attacked developer Joshua Aaron and his wife was fired from the DoJ. The attention has only led to more raids being reportedFor many undocumented immigrants living in the US, the constant threat of Ice raids has turned their homes into prisons. Leaving the house to go to work, school, buy groceries or the doctor’s office all carry unthinkable risks.It’s a problem that Joshua Aaron wanted to tackle. A former indie musician (he played bass in 2000s buzz band The Rosenbergs and later fronted his own group Stealing Heather) turned app entrepreneur, he set about making an app that could spot Ice and alert people, the same way drivers let other drivers know about traffic stops on Waze. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Glasgow fireworks: The 3 Glasgow areas where fireworks will be banned as city introduces control zones

The new rules mean it will be illegal for people to set off fireworks during the timeframe.

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23 h. ago Millions of people over State Pension age set to pay tax in retirement this year

HMRC estimates 8.7 million pensioners will pay tax for the 2025/26 financial year.

Economics

24 h. ago State Pension age set to rise next year for people with specific birthdates

The State Pension age will increase from 66 to 67 between 2026 and 2028.

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41 h. ago Met Office issues urgent '30 and 4' alert for everyone living in UK to follow

The Met Office is encouraging people to follow the guidelines as temperatures are set to soar to 34C

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3 d. ago DWP State Pensioner's told benefit should cover cost of one key item

'It's valued and realistic' according to Pensions UK, the organisation which helps set living standards for older people

Economics

3 d. ago Meet the luxury travel ‘fixer’ whose calls with demanding mega

Olivia Ferney has fast become one of the world's most sought-after luxury travel organizers, with Instagram videos of her staying cool in the face of absurd requests from ultra-high-net-worth clients earning her nearly 300,000 followers. She revealed her clients wildest demands to US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill

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4 d. ago Four ways to sidestep tax on savings that'll hit a record 2.6m

Four times as many will pay tax on their hard-earned savings this year compared with 2021-22.

Economics

5 d. ago Surrounded show takes Jubilee Media mainstream – but has it ‘succumbed to hateful vitriol’?

After Mehdi Hasan’s debate with far-right opponents went viral, some worry about the embrace of rage-fuelled contentMehdi Hasan knew he had gone viral. The broadcaster and author saw the views ticking up on YouTube; his phone was pinging incessantly. But the realisation that things had become, well, really quite surreal came when an older gentleman approached him at an event in Washington and, in Urdu, said: “I watched you with the 20 crazies.”The man was referring to the British-American commentator’s appearance on Surrounded, a gladiatorial one-v-many debate web series, hosted on YouTube by Jubilee Media. During the debate – billed as “1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives” – Hasan was asked about his “ethnic background”, by a man who the Guardian unmasked as the organiser of two violent far-right protests. Another debater laughed maniacally to applause while agreeing he was a fascist. He was later sacked and condemned – and then raised $30,000 (£22,300) from supporters on a...

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5 d. ago Warning issued as Britain's 'most dangerous spider' with 'unbearable' bites invades homes across the UK

False Widow spiders are set to appear in greater numbers as spider mating season is set to begin later on in August, prompting experts to urge people to keep windows closed both day and night.

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6 d. ago People who get ‘Obamacare’ health insurance are set to see premiums jump by 18%, study finds

The hike is due to rising healthcare costs, inflation, uncertainty over federal policy changes and, potentially, President Donald Trump’s tariffs, according to the analysis

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6 d. ago Surge in household costs puts Reeves’s economic growth plan at risk

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer has pledged that plans to be set out in the budget in the autumn will make ‘sure people feel better off’

Economics

6 d. ago Martin Lewis tells Lloyds, NatWest and Nationwide customers to 'act now'

The MoneySavingExpert has issued a warning to savers who bank with Lloyds, NatWest and Nationwide, stating now is a good time to lock in the best rates before it's too late

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6 d. ago Wealthier areas set to pay more council tax under new plans: Will you be affected?

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is mulling an overhaul of the council tax system to allocate more money to deprived areas.

Economics

6 d. ago Pensioner with cancer gets criminal conviction over £27 of unpaid tax on dead husband's car

The grieving widow mistakenly didn’t pay the tax as she also battled cancer

Economics

6 d. ago Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali 'forced out tenants from east London townhouse and raised rent by £700'

Rushanara Ali, 50, is said to have increased the rent on the four-bedroom property near the Olympic Village from £3,300 to £4,000 a month

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7 d. ago Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali 'kicked out tenants from east London townhouse and raised rent by £700'

Rushanara Ali, 50, is said to have increased the rent on the four-bedroom property near the Olympic Village from £3,300 to £4,000

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7 d. ago Great Eastern Hotel by Ruchir Joshi review – a panoramic view of India in flux

The political and emotional journey of a young communist revolutionary is brought sensuously to life, in a magnificent epic that took 25 years to writeThe observation by architect Louis Kahn that you “can only really see a building once the building becomes a ruin” runs through this book like the Hooghly river through India’s former capital. There’s no better Indian ruin than Kolkata, a city that still clings to the centrality of its role in the 19th-century intellectual renaissance that buttressed the case for Indian self-rule. The adage back then was that “what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow”.Great Eastern Hotel, the second novel from the author of The Last Jet-Engine Laugh, is 920 pages and well over 300,000 words long. The staff of your local Waterstones will kindly describe it as “an undertaking”. It is set in and around the still-standing, now eye-wateringly expensive Great Eastern Hotel, which is, as the book points out, a model for the city itself: a place t...

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7 d. ago Grieving widow battling cancer convicted over £27 of unpaid tax on dead husband's car

The grieving widow mistakenly didn’t pay the tax as she also battled cancer

Economics

7 d. ago Millions of households will be hit with council tax hikes to pay for Angela Rayner's Government funding reforms

Households in wealthy areas could be hit with huge council tax rises under Angela Rayner's plans to divert more funding to deprived regions, experts warned last night.

Economics