13 h. ago Gene Hackman judge blocks public access to police footage of late actor and wife

A judge has ruled that photos and videos from actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa's deaths will not be available to the public

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13 h. ago Gene Hackman judge blocks public access to police footage of late actor's body after tragic death

A judge has ruled that photos and videos from actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa's deaths will not be available to the public following arguments from the star's estate

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50 h. ago Giant collectible Harry Potter Lego set slashed to under £100 in Amazon’s spring sale

Amazon Prime’s Spring Deal Days sale has just reduced a huge Harry Potter Lego set to less than £100, saving you almost 25% on the 1600 piece Malfoy Manor building kit

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68 h. ago Youtubers reported to police after blocking NC500 road with stolen lollipop man's kit

Dean Dodd filmed himself putting on the high-vis uniform before standing in the middle of the A9 for a prank.

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3 d. ago Another federal judge strikes down Trump’s ban on trans people in the military: ‘Plainly discriminates’

Second nationwide injunction blocks administration’s sweeping Pentagon policy backed by ‘no evidence,’ judge says

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4 d. ago LIVE Road shut and GP practice closed as police cordon blocks street

Officers are at the scene

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4 d. ago Another federal judge blocks Trump policy banning transgender troops in the military

A U.S. judge in Washington state has blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s order banning transgender people from serving in the military

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4 d. ago India blocks release of Santosh over concerns about ‘negative portrayal of police’

Director Sandhya Suri says India’s film certification body demanded ‘lengthy and wide-ranging’ cuts

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6 d. ago Grandfather of 14 who blocked police speed camera van so passing motorists couldn't be filmed is ordered to pay compensation

Richard Arnold parked his lorry directly behind the police van, preventing civilian officer Richard Mackenzie from filming speeding drivers on A348 at Ferndown, Dorset on October 29.

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7 d. ago Transgender Americans aim to block Trump's passport policy change

A federal judge will consider whether to block a Trump administration policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers

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8 d. ago Former US attorney for eastern district of Virginia found dead at age 43

Alexandria police find Jessica Aber unresponsive after responding to reports and say investigation under wayThe former US attorney for the eastern district of Virginia was found dead in Alexandria on Saturday, authorities said.In a statement on social media, Alexandria police announced that at about 9.18am on Saturday, police responded to the 900 block of Beverley Drive following reports of an unresponsive woman. Upon arriving at the scene, authorities located a deceased woman who they later identified as 43-year-old Jessica Aber. Continue reading...

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1 week ago What you should do if a car 'blocks you in' and parks outside your house

Advice from the police and the RAC has demystified the annoyance of being 'blocked in'

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2 w. ago Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him | Marina Hyde

Whether the Meta boss and his ex-lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg are truly beyond awful is neither here nor there. I thought he was done with factcheckingI am as shocked as I am confused that Mark Zuckerberg is going all-out to block a memoir by Facebook’s former director of global public policy, Sarah Wynn-Williams. I thought information wanted to be free? I definitely heard that speech should be. We know Meta’s revolting oligarch doesn’t write his self-serving public pronouncements, but he should at least make time in his busy Magafication schedule to read them.Anyway, even if you think the stories in Careless People are untrue – and I don’t, for a single nanosecond – I thought the Meta boss said disinformation wasn’t a thing any more? He recently binned off all his factcheckers to “dramatically reduce the amount of censorship”. Yet here we are reading stories of how Meta this week launched an emergency action in the US to ban Wynn-Williams from promoting or further distributing copies...

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2 w. ago Police launch investigation after 'unacceptable' car meet blocks Manchester Airport tunnels amid roads mayhem

Drivers gathered for an 'illegal' car meet

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2 w. ago LIVE: Police and fire crews block residential street following incident in north Manchester

Emergency services are at the scene in Crumpsall this evening

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2 w. ago My brother was shot dead – and then my nephew. Now I’m trying to make our city a safer place

As mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, Randall Woodfin is trying to tackle a murder epidemic. He’s all too familiar with the pain of losing a loved one to violenceIt was past midnight on 27 May 2012 when Randall Woodfin, an early-career public prosecutor, received a call about his older brother. “Ralph’s been shot,” he was told, abruptly. “You need to come.”He jumped in a car, and raced across the city of Birmingham, Alabama, running every red light along the way. He made it to the police perimeter. It was a block and a half from his grandmother’s old home, at a public-housing project in the city’s south, where the two brothers – eight years apart – had spent much of their childhood. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago YouTuber Alysha Burney dead at 25 after 'being laced' on birthday trip to Mexico

Popular YouTuber Alysha Burney has reportedly died at age 25. Her brother, Charles Burney, confirmed the tragic news via Instagram on Monday.

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3 w. ago Two men charged after armed police attend 'disturbance' at Scots tower block

Firearms officers attended high-rise flats in East Kilbride at around 1.20pm on Sunday.

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3 w. ago Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order

Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred to men’s facilities under Donald Trump’s executive order, despite multiple court rulings blocking the president’s policy, according to civil rights lawyers and accounts from behind bars.Trump’s day-one “gender ideology” order, one of several sweeping attacks on trans rights, said the attorney general “shall ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers” and that no federal funds go to gender-affirming treatment or procedures for people in custody. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Key player' among four arrested as police raid block of flats at dawn

The warrants were carried out in Bolton

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