Fred Grandy was upset by the United States’ reversal in its support for Ukraine, his family said. This week, he was among the 28 people killed in a drone and missile assault.

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We explain the Supreme Court’s ruling on medical treatments for transgender kids.

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Zou Zhenhao, 28, is considered by the police in the British capital to be “one of the most prolific predators” they have encountered. Investigators say there are probably many more victims.

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The Supreme Court decision upholding a Tennessee ban on gender transition care for trans youths means a state-by-state patchwork of policies will remain.

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A reviled crane used during the expansion of the Uffizi Galleries was taken down this week after years of protests.

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The clash of conservative titans had Meyers feeling like a Roman emperor: “I just want someone to feed me grapes while I say, ‘Let them fight.’”

The Mets find themselves in their first really difficult stretch of the season. Injuries are piling up. So are the losses.

At least six people were seriously wounded by an Iranian missile barrage on Israel on Thursday morning. Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center sustained a direct hit, and impacts were also reported in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Holon. Read More

The controversial influencer said one of his construction workers was slashed in the arm by the attacker armed with a blade.

Two survivors urged politicians and those without experience of abuse to allow women to shape the investigation

Campaigners from trade unions, voluntary organisations and the Church of Scotland have announced plans for an anti-poverty march to “demand better” from politicians in Scotland, reports the PA news agency.

The campaign, Scotland Demands Better, will culminate in a march in Edinburgh on 25 October, walking from the Scottish parliament, up the Royal Mile and along George IV Bridge to The Meadows.

Change for the better happens when people stand together and demand it. Scotland desperately needs that change.

Too many of us are being cut off from life’s essentials. Too many are frightened of what the future will bring. Too many of us are feeling tired, angry, isolated, and disillusioned.

Air pollution remains the most important environmental threat to health, with impacts throughout the life course.

It is an area of health where the UK has made substantial progress in the last three decades, with concentrations of many of the main pollutants falling rapidly, but it remains a major cause of chronic ill health as well as premature mortality.

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Investigations are underway into how the flight bound for London’s Gatwick Airport crashed into a medical students hostel last Thursday, killing at least 270 people.

Whoopi Goldberg faces backlash from Iranian-Americans after comparing Black American experiences to life under Iran's theocratic regime during heated exchange on 'The View.'

“The defendant’s crimes should outrage and offend every decent member of our society,” said US Attorney Joseph Nocella, Jr.

Decision follows data showing UK inflation remains stubbornly above target

Israel on Thursday branded Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “the modern Hitler” who “cannot continue to exist” after the latest wave of Iranian missiles struck a hospital, wounding dozens of civilians.

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Barstool Sport founder Dave Portnoy slammed legacy media outlets as CNN staffers fear uncertainty.

Super Bowl champion Joe Theismann expressed optimism the Washington Commanders will, in some way, honor the franchise's legacy as the Redskins and the old logo.

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LSU Tigers reached the NCAA College World Series finals after a 9th-inning comeback against the Arkansas Razorbacks, capitalizing on an outfield error and Jared Jones' walk-off hit.

Some Democratic lawmakers are frustrated with the DNC amid multiple resignations over leadership differences, lamenting there was "more division than unity" in the party.

The Israel-Iran conflict stems from a 2,500-year rivalry, with the US considering strikes on Iran's Fordow facility while maintaining focus on China as its primary competitor.

LGBTQ+ emblem disappears from above Matlock Christian bookshop as manager says they are ‘not happy with the gay rights situation’

The spa town of Matlock in the Peak District is known for the joyful flags adorning its historical high street. The St George’s Cross, the union flag, the Derbyshire county flag and the Pride flag flutter brightly above the town’s many independent businesses.

That was until a row erupted that has divided the town, after the mysterious disappearance of a Pride flag turned out to be the work of the very council that had installed it.

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Some Costco customers are longing for the return of the $1 food court churro, sparking debate about past menu items as the retailer rolls out new offerings.

The civil service, judiciary and media are still dominated by the privately educated 7%. Lasting change is not a pipe dream – but it’s up to us

For the first time in our history, we have a cabinet made up entirely of people who went to state schools. Several, including prime minister Keir Starmer, come from working-class backgrounds; some, such as deputy prime minister Angela Rayner, were raised in conditions of poverty that feel as if they ought to belong to another age.

So far so good. What better signs could one ask for to show that Britain is a meritocracy, social mobility is real and anyone can rise to the top provided they have talent, commitment and determination?

Alastair Campbell is a former journalist turned strategist and spokesperson for the Labour party. He is now a writer, podcaster, consultant strategist and mental health campaigner

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‘Efficiency’ cuts across offices have left teams understaffed, firefighters underpaid and uninsured, and without adequate equipment

Summer temperatures are rising and the US is bracing for another hot, dry and hectic wildfire season. But with the promise of extreme conditions in the months to come, federal fire crews are also growing concerned that a series of changes brought on by the Trump administration have left them underprepared.

Severe cuts to budgets and staff have hamstrung the agencies that manage roughly 640m acres of the nation’s public lands, leaving significant gaps in a workforce that supports wildfire mitigation and suppression. The administration’s crackdown on climate science and the dismantling of departments that provided world-class research and weather forecasting, may also undermine early warning systems, slowing response and strategic planning.

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The Londoner’s trademark sentimental sweetness is balanced by a new unaffected singing style – his fourth album is his most impressive work yet

Loyle Carner raps like he has a lump in his throat and tears in his eyes. Wonder, nostalgia, love, hurt, excitement, hard-won peace: these are the emotions his voice tends to catch on. When combined with his typically blissed-out sonics – feathery breakbeats, dreamy piano figures, delicate synth washes, gently plucked guitars – the results are often very nice. Sometimes a bit too nice. So it is on Feel at Home, the sentimental love song that opens the 30-year-old’s fourth album, Hopefully!

Carner – whose moniker is a spoonerism of his real name, Benjamin Coyle-Larner – never makes music that is boring or basic. As well as the slushy lyrics and comfortingly toasty chords, Feel at Home is buttressed by madly skittering percussion and what sounds like a blurry reproduction of young children’s playground chatter. But much like the outpouring of earnestness and loveliness on the Croydon-raised rapper’s first two albums, Hopefully! may well have you hankering for a shred of dissonance or disruption – especially after 2022’s Mercury-shortlisted Hugo, which gratifyingly offset Carner’s trademark tenderness with a more abrasive sonic palette. Initially, the musician seems to have moved on – or perhaps backwards – from that record.

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False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalised

Rampant climate misinformation is turning the crisis into a catastrophe, according to the authors of a new report.

It found climate action was being obstructed and delayed by false and misleading information stemming from fossil fuel companies, rightwing politicians and some nation states. The report, from the International Panel on the Information Environment (Ipie), systematically reviewed 300 studies.

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Depending on who you ask, between four and six million people showed up – and according to one theory, this could be a turning point

The scale of last weekend’s “No Kings” protests is now becoming clearer, with one estimate suggesting that Saturday was among the biggest ever single-day protests in US history.

Working out exactly where the protest ranks compared to similar recent events has been a project of G Elliott Morris, a data journalist who runs the Substack Strength in Numbers, calculated turnout between four million and six million, which would be 1.2-1.8% of the US population. This could exceed the previous record in recent history, when between 3.3 million and 5.6 million people showed up at the 2017 Women’s March to rally against Trump’s misogynistic rhetoric.

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Located in Ontario, the church provided shelter and aid to Black Americans who participated in the Underground Railroad to escape slavery in the US

On a cold day in January 2024, Rochelle Bush walked up the steps of Salem Chapel, British Methodist Episcopal Church in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Bush, the owner and primary tour guide of Tubman Tours Canada and Salem Chapel’s historian, moved quickly through the church pointing out the history, which spans across generations back to when the building was built centuries ago.

The church’s roots stretch to about 1788 when Black people, many of whom were seeking freedom from slavery in the US, began to settle in the St Catharines area. Along with their hopes, dreams and plans for the future, these settlers, many of whom were followers of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, and Richard Allen, a founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, brought their religions with them.

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Government accused of making ‘secret exchange deal’ with fossil fuel companies to compensate for tax hike

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, told a fossil fuel company the industry would receive a “quid pro quo” in return for higher taxes on its windfall profits, it can be revealed.

In a meeting with the Norwegian state energy company Equinor on 27 August, Reeves suggested that the government’s carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) subsidies were a payoff for oil firms being hit with a higher tax rate.

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The legendary video game designer discusses directing actors in LA from Japan, how Mad Max inspired his career and the unique reason why he wants to go to space

Hideo Kojima – the acclaimed video game director who helmed the stealth-action Metal Gear series for decades before founding his own company to make Death Stranding, a supernatural post-apocalyptic delivery game this publication described as “2019’s most interesting blockbuster” – is still starstruck, or perhaps awestruck. “George [Miller] is my sensei, my God,” he proclaims gleefully.

Kojima is visiting Australia for a sold-out chat with Miller, the creator of the Mad Max film franchise, at the Sydney film festival. The two struck up an unlikely but fierce friendship nearly a decade ago, and Kojima says that, as a teenager, the first two Mad Max films inspired him to become a movie director and thus, eventually, a video game maker. At the panel later, Miller is equally effusive, calling Kojima “almost my brother”; the Australian even lent his appearance to a major character in Kojima’s latest game, Death Stranding 2.

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After the Florida Panthers won their second Stanley Cup in a row with a 5-1 victory over the Oilers, captain Aleksander Barkov took the trophy home and surprised neighbors early morning.

Tehran could target US troops, disrupt oil supplies or carry out cyber attacks or terrorism, warn former Washington officials

Golf legend Annika Sorenstam recalled to Fox News Digital her interactions with Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark during a pro-am in November.

Bondholders’ rescue plan for utility hinges on waivers from regulations and fines, documents show

There are lessons to be learned from the Panthers’ unflinching run to back-to-back Stanley Cups.

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Ministers are facing calls to publish legal advice given to the government on Israel’s war against Iran after reports emerged that the attorney general had warned that any UK involvement beyond defensive support would be illegal.

Richard Hermer, the government’s most senior legal officer, is reported to have raised concerns internally about the legality of joining a bombing campaign against Iran.

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Ahead of her Glastonbury performance, the First Cut Is the Deepest singer will be taking on your queries about her star-studded career

She’s the singer with iconic 60s hits such as The First Cut Is the Deepest and Angel of the Morning, who has been called on as a collaborator by some of the biggest names in British music. And as she gears up for a performance at this year’s Glastonbury festival, PP Arnold will be answering your questions.

Born into a family of gospel singers in Los Angeles, Arnold could have easily never ended up in music: by the age of 17 she was a mother-of-two in an abusive marriage. But she auditioned for Ike and Tina Turner and was hired as an Ikette, fleeing her husband to perform backing vocals on tour and in the studio, with Tina becoming a mentor.

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General manager Brian Cashman said Wednesday he his confident the Yankees "will fight through" their recent struggles.