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Hearing part of Republican effort to use voters’ worries about immigration and crime for their political benefit

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87 m. ago Nursing home 'horrors' as 75 pensioners found drugged with feet tied together

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93 m. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder of Annie McCarrick released

A search of a house in Clondalkin in west Dublin is to continue over the weekend.

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1 hour ago Hundreds of London blocks still with serious fire safety defects eight years after Grenfell, LFB warns

The London Fire Brigade has revealed that more than 1,400 buildings still require simultaneous evacuation plans

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1 hour ago Football Daily | ‘Suited and booted’? Club World Cup lands in a furnace of political tension

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!After years of existing only as a fever dream inside the shiny, spacious cranium of Fifa’s greatest showman, Gianni Infantino, the first edition of an expanded, summertime Club World Cup that nobody asked for is finally here. Infantino’s most ambitious vanity project to date is about to collide with reality, and as students of the Swiss school of football farce, we’re excited. It’s not so much a question of what will go wrong over the next 30 sun-baked days in an increasingly dystopian USA USA USA, but what might actually go right. Saturday’s opener pitches Egyptian giants Al-Ahly (who qualified by winning the 2021 African Big Cup) against MLS middleweights Inter Miami (who qualified by having Lionel Messi in their team) at the 65,000-capacity Hard Rock Stadium. Fifa has denied reports that fewer than 20,000 tickets have been sold for the game in Miami, but the tournament’s dynamic pricing model is trending in one direction: from $3...

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1 hour ago Second judge rejects parts of Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote in elections

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2 h. ago Inside the retro and unique Scottish house on sale for offers over £900,000

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2 h. ago Federal workers are still required to fill out DOGE ‘five things’ email despite Musk being long gone

The White House and other government agencies defend the practice despite some employees questioning their utility

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2 h. ago Woman gored in the leg by a rampaging cow on beach at holiday hotspot beach

On a beautiful beach on the French islands of Corsica in the middle of the Mediterranean, a 28-year-old woman was gored by a cow sparking a hefty response from emergency services

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2 h. ago Woman gored in the leg by a rampaging cow on beach at holiday hotspot

On a beautiful beach on the French islands of Corsica in the middle of the Mediterranean, a 28-year-old woman was gored by a cow sparking a hefty response from emergency services

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2 h. ago Survivors of Fornethy 'House of Horrors' plead for redress as debate taken to Holyrood

"Abuse is still abuse, and what happened at that awful place has had a profound effect on myself and other victims."

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2 h. ago South Lanarkshire school highly commended for tartan design challenge

Keep Scotland Beautiful is celebrating the incredible impact of Eco-Schools over the past three decades.

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2 h. ago Eamonn Holmes lifts the lid on working with 'horrible' and 'false' former co

The GB News anchor sat down with actor Ray Winstone for a frank conversation about fame

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3 h. ago Adverts for assisted dying could appear on TikTok or during daytime TV, Commons warned

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is undergoing a second day of report stage in the House of Commons, with various amendments likely to be voted on.

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3 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Pete Wicks 'refuses' to fulfil specific dream for women

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3 h. ago Man United dream starting XI after £170.5m summer transfer deals

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4 h. ago Putney home in Muppets creator Jim Henson's former studio for sale for £1.25m

Jim Henson created some of the most beloved characters on screen, including Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy

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4 h. ago Welsh city has beautiful secret beach only accessed by three scenic trails

Pwll Du Bay is a stunning secret beach located on Wales's Gower peninsula, and is only accessible on foot - but it's well worth the walk

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