34 h. ago Family of Scots dad who died in hotel in Colombia fear his body ‘has already been buried’

THE family of a Scottish dad who died in Columbia have been left outraged after he was buried in South America without their permission. Ross Macquarrie, 38, was tragically found dead by hotel staff in Bogotá on November 11. His family have been tirelessly fighting to have his body returned from the Columbian capital. But...

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38 h. ago Elon Musk faces lawsuit from mother of his child over 'humiliating' Grok deepfake images

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of Elon Musk's son, has filed a lawsuit against his AI company, claiming the company's Grok chatbot allowed users to generate sexually exploitive deepfake images of her

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38 h. ago Man banned from every pub in Wales after violent assault on bar staff

Julio Waters and his father Wayne attacked a member of staff at the Ambassador Hotel in Neath. Waters was sentenced to 27 months in prison and given a two-year ban from all licensed premises in Wales

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41 h. ago Mother of Elon Musk's child suing AI company over sexual Grok deepfake images

Ashley St. Clair, 27, says the images have caused her humiliation and emotional distress - she has filed a lawsuit against the AI compamny owned by the father of her child

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50 h. ago Woman thrown out of hotel after staff thought she was a man files lawsuit and claims they smeared her in ‘panicked’ response

Ansley Baker says she was accused of ‘obscene behavior’ in a bathroom stall following the incident at the Liberty Hotel in Boston

Society

51 h. ago People in Minneapolis and St Paul: what is life like in the Twin Cities right now?

We want to hear from people in Minnesota about the surge of thousands of federal immigration agents in the areaThousands of federal immigration agents have been sent into Minneapolis in recent days, with protests taking place in Minnesota and across the country in response to last week’s shooting of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer.The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing federal immigration authorities in Minnesota of racial profiling and unlawful arrests. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago Russian court considers central bank's $232B lawsuit against Euroclear over seized assets

A court in Moscow has started considering a lawsuit filed by Russia’s Central Bank against Euroclear, the Brussels-based clearing house that holds the bulk of Moscow’s frozen assets in Europe

Economics

58 h. ago I never thought I’d see an asylum hotel on fire, or worry about my staff’s safety. The past five years changed that | Enver Solomon

As head of an immigration charity, I’ve seen firsthand how hostility and toxicity have reached unprecedented levelsEnver Solomon is the outgoing chief executive of the Refugee CouncilIt is difficult to think of another area of government policy that has weathered as much legislative hyperactivity as asylum and migration. I have been chief executive of the Refugee Council since 2020, and I am struck by the fact that there have been four bills that have become law since I started. A fifth one in as many years is expected soon as Home Office officials beaver away under the orders of the home secretary to quickly turn the proposed asylum reforms, published in November, into legislation.As I prepare to leave the organisation this month, I have been reflecting on how the asylum and migration landscape has changed. It’s clear the rhetoric and intent behind all these new laws has been the same: to deter so-called asylum shopping, to disrupt the people-smuggling gangs, to ramp up removals of...

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3 d. ago US appeals court reverses decision that freed Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention

Ruling delivers victory to Trump administration in its efforts to deport the pro-Palestinian activistA federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that ordered the release of the former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from immigration detention, delivering Donald Trump’s administration a victory in its efforts to deport the pro-Palestinian activist.A 2-1 panel of the Philadelphia-based third US circuit court of appeals ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit Khalil filed challenging his detention after finding that federal immigration law stripped the lower court of jurisdiction over his claims. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Man charged with possession of firearm and knife after 'attack' on hotel staff in Manchester

The man is due to appear in court next month

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3 d. ago Andy Warhol would have hated safe spaces. So why keep dragging dead artists into today’s culture wars?

Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creationsOne rainy afternoon last winter, sitting under a blanket with a cup of tea, I found myself Googling paintings by Chaïm Soutine. It’s a pastime I’ve indulged ever since visiting an exhibition of his portraits of hotel staff on the French Riviera during the 1920s – paintings that combine such a mixture of tenderness and debasement that it’s as if his brush is kissing and beating his subjects at the same time.I flicked through images of hopelessly innocent cooks and bellboys, with complexions the colour of raw sausage and ears that look as if they have been brutally yanked. And as I did, I came across a review of the very show where I had first encountered Soutine’s works. Ah, I thought, looking forward to luxuriating in literature about his particular genius for kindly sadism. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘A nasty little song, really rather evil’: how Every Breath You Take tore Sting and the Police apart

Sting and his former bandmates go to the high court over a royalties dispute this week – the latest chapter in the song’s remarkably fractious storyThis week’s high court hearings between Sting and his former bandmates in the Police, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, are the latest chapter in the life of a song whose negative energy seems to have seeped out into real life.Every Breath You Take is the subject of a lawsuit filed by Copeland and Summers against Sting, alleging that he owes them royalties linked to their contributions to the hugely popular song, particularly from streaming earnings, estimated at $2m (£1.5m) in total. Sting’s legal team have countered that previous agreements between him and his bandmates regarding their royalties from the song do not include streaming revenue – and argued in pre-trial documents that the pair may have been “substantially overpaid”. In the hearing’s opening day, it was revealed that since the lawsuit was filed, Sting has paid them $870,0...

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4 d. ago The Flower Bearers by Rachel Eliza Griffiths review – a powerful portrait of loss and violence

The death of a friend and the attempted murder of her husband Salman Rushdie loom large in the poet’s moving memoirThe night before her wedding to Salman Rushdie in 2021, the American poet and novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths was fretting about her best friend. Kamilah Aisha Moon was due to read a poem at the ceremony, but no one had heard from her. Her phone was going straight to voicemail and staff at her hotel said she hadn’t checked in. “We’ll find her. She wouldn’t miss your wedding,” Griffiths’s sister, Melissa, assured her. But the next afternoon, in the middle of her wedding reception, Griffiths learned that Moon had died alone at home in Atlanta of unknown causes. On hearing the news she collapsed, hit her head on a table and blacked out. Paramedics pried open her eyes to shine a torch on them: “A particle of light that is so distant from the world I once knew.”For Griffiths, 47, the death of her best friend and “chosen sister” was one in a series of upheavals stre...

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5 d. ago BBC files to dismiss Trump's $10bn lawsuit over Panorama 'fight like hell' clip

The BBC will file a motion to dismiss Trump’s $10billion defamation lawsuit

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5 d. ago BBC fights to have Trump's $10bn lawsuit over doctored Panorama clip thrown out

The BBC will file a motion to dismiss Trump’s $10billion defamation lawsuit

Politics

5 d. ago BBC says it will file motion to dismiss $10 billion Trump lawsuit over January 6 speech edit

US President Donald Trump is seeking up to $10 billion for the editing of a speech that he says changed the meaning of what he told supporters on January 6, 2021

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5 d. ago BBC to file motion to dismiss Donald Trump $10 billion lawsuit over Panorama edit

The BBC will file motion to dismiss Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit after "error of judgement" Panorama edit according to court documents which could mean the case may not continue

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5 d. ago BBC attempts to have Trump’s £7.5bn lawsuit dismissed before it reaches trial after broadcaster doctored Panorama speech

THE BBC is trying to have Trump's defamation lawsuit dismissed before it reaches trial. The US president demanded a whopping $10billion (£7.5bn) in damages in a libel lawsuit after the corporation doctored one of his speeches. The BBC has filed a motion to stay discovery in the president's defamation lawsuit over a misleading Panorama programme, court...

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5 d. ago BBC to file motion to dismiss Trump lawsuit over Panorama edit – court documents

The US president is seeking up to 10 billion dollars (£7.5 billion) in damages.

Politics

5 d. ago Trump administration sued by Minnesota and Illinois after Renee Good killing

The state and cities filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday, along with a request for a temporary restraining order to halt the enforcement action or limit the ICE operation

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