11 h. ago Jorginho's fiancee Cat Harding makes very rare comments about her and Jude Law's daughter Ada as she gives insight into her 'challenging' blended family

Singer Cat, 34, is engaged to Arsenal star Jorginho and they share a son Jax, four, while she also has a daughter called Ada, nine, with her ex-partner Jude Law.

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52 h. ago Woman grieving for mother who died from misdiagnosed cancer calls for new law

Chloe Hickman wants to make it mandatory for benign test results to receive a second opinion from a specialist.

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5 d. ago Republican senators call for investigation into Signal leak as intelligence chiefs deny breaking law – US politics live

More messages from the group chat were made public on Wednesday, showing top Trump officials discussing the attack on YemenTop aides to Joe Biden “aggressively” warned Democratic donors last summer that if the then president was forced out of the 2024 election over concerns about his age and fitness, the party would inevitably make the “mistake” of running the vice-president, Kamala Harris, against Donald Trump, a new book says.“One donor on the receiving end of an electronic message summed up the sentiments of Biden’s top aides: ‘They were aggressively saying that we would wind up with the vice-president and that would be a mistake.’” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Assisted dying bill is ‘flawed and dangerous’ after changes, says group of Labour MPs

Bill, which passed committee scrutiny on Tuesday, has ‘insufficient protections’ for most vulnerableUK politics live – latest updatesLabour MPs opposed to assisted dying have called the bill “irredeemably flawed and not fit to become law” in a letter to their parliamentary colleagues, saying “significant new risks” emerged during the scrutiny process.The letter from six critics, circulated to all Labour MPs, including two select committee chairs, came as the scrutiny committee finalised changes to the bill, which will now return to the Commons in April for its final stages. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Nicholas Prosper: Urgent calls to change law that allowed school shooting planner to get shotgun

Police and crime commissioner for Bedfordshire John Tizard has written to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper

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1 week ago South Carolina inmate facing execution calls his defense more superficial than a 'Law & Order' show

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to be put to death next month want to stop his execution, saying his defense’s plea for his life at his original trial was totally inadequate

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2 w. ago A judge limits Trump's ability to deport people under the 18th century Alien Enemies Act

President Donald Trump's administration is appealing a judge's early order that it cannot immediately deport a number of Venezuelans migrants under an 18th century law called the Alien Enemies Act

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2 w. ago Labour urged to crack down on ‘discriminatory’ guarantor rules which lock renters out

Exclusive: Leading charities call on Labour to change the law

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3 w. ago Ice accessed car trackers in sanctuary cities that could help in raids, files show

Westchester county has laws limiting cooperation, but Ice has accessed trove of data that holds license plate readersAs Donald Trump’s administration ramps up its crackdown on undocumented immigrants to the US, advocates are increasingly worried immigration agents will turn to surveillance technology to round up those targeted for deportation, even in so-called “sanctuary cities” that limit the ways local law enforcement can cooperate with immigration officials.That’s because US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (Ice) in past years has gained access to troves of data from sanctuary cities that could aid its raids and enforcement actions. Among that information is data from the vast network of license plate readers active across the US, according to documents obtained by the Guardian. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Justice Secretary threatens to change law in call to reconsider court guidance

The Sentencing Council published new guidelines for courts to follow when imposing community and custodial sentences on Wednesday.

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4 w. ago Putin is not Hitler. His actions in Ukraine are horrific enough to need no exaggeration | Simon Jenkins

Keir Starmer has said we face the greatest threat to our national security since the cold war. Such hyperbole helps nobodyIs Vladimir Putin another Adolf Hitler? The western world seems to think so. In which case is Donald Trump another Neville Chamberlain and Ukraine another Czechoslovakia? Is history bunk, or is it a wise old man leaning on the gate as Europe storms into its latest crisis?Godwin’s law holds that the longer a political argument continues, the nearer it gets to Hitler. This reductio ad Hitlerum distorts the issue under discussion and diminishes the exceptional horror of Hitler and the Holocaust. A variant of Godwin’s law goes further. It asserts that having to call Hitler in aid means that you have already lost the argument.Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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