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Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey Graham, sworn in to end late Republican senator’s term
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Darline Graham, sister of Lindsey Graham, sworn in to end late Republican senator’s term

Younger sister Graham was appointed by Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s governorDarline Graham Nordone: Lindsey Graham’s sister and interim US senatorDarline Graham, the sister of the late Republican senator Lindsey Graham, will be sworn in as his replacement on Tuesday to finish out the remainder of his term.Graham was appointed by Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s governor. Continue reading...

Derision at US chain Chipotle’s plan to sell its Mexican food in Mexico
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Derision at US chain Chipotle’s plan to sell its Mexican food in Mexico

One social media user described the opening of its first outlet in Monterrey as ‘like the dog teaching a duck to fly’A US chain’s plan to sell its version of Mexican food to Mexicans with a first branch south of the border has prompted bemusement, skepticism and anger among local people.Chipotle Mexican Grill, known for its customisable burritos, tacos and bowls, has more than 4,000 locations worl...

MPs say death threats a daily reality in ‘increasing climate of abuse’
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MPs say death threats a daily reality in ‘increasing climate of abuse’

As Ann Widdecombe’s death raises concerns over security, politicians reveal extent of problemJess Phillips has received so many death threats she has to remind herself not to be blase. One night she received more than 600 rape threats. In 2019, a man forced his way into her office. The same year a white supremacist sent her a picture of Jo Cox, her friend and fellow Labour MP who was murdered in 2...

‘They’re local lads’: artist puts mural of Bellingham and Rogers on chip shop
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‘They’re local lads’: artist puts mural of Bellingham and Rogers on chip shop

The mural in a Birmingham suburb is so popular that the shop’s owner is opening two hours early to meet demandOn a busy junction in Quinton, a suburb of Birmingham, England football stars Jude Bellingham and Morgan Rogers are peering out from the side of a fish and chip shop, tucking into the local delicacy: orange chips.The huge lifelike image was pasted on the wall on Friday afternoon by a local...

ICE identifies Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero as man agents fatally shot in Maine

ICE identifies Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero as man agents fatally shot in Maine

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An immigration officer shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man afte reportedly ramming into his carThe man killed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Maine on Monday has been identified as Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, an ICE spokesperson said in a statement .An immigration agent shot and killed the 26-year-old Colombian man on Monday morning in Biddeford, Maine, after re...

MPs vote on Hillsborough amendment as Starmer and Burnham address Commons – as it happened

MPs vote on Hillsborough amendment as Starmer and Burnham address Commons – as it happened

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Outgoing prime minister opens third reading debate on the Hillsborough law billIn response to a question from Alec Shelbrooke (Con), Campbell said he was “totally unaware” not just of the wording of the Tory opposition day motion planned for tomorrow (see 1.04pm), but of the topic that it was going to cover. In a bid to convince MPs that this was not a lie, he said that he was standing at the desp...

MPs vote on Hillsborough amendment as Starmer and Burnham address Commons – UK politics live

MPs vote on Hillsborough amendment as Starmer and Burnham address Commons – UK politics live

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Outgoing prime minister opens third reading debate on the Hillsborough law billIn response to a question from Alec Shelbrooke (Con), Campbell said he was “totally unaware” not just of the wording of the Tory opposition day motion planned for tomorrow (see 1.04pm), but of the topic that it was going to cover. In a bid to convince MPs that this was not a lie, he said that he was standing at the desp...

Top House Democrats vow to oppose bid to cut US military aid to Israel

Top House Democrats vow to oppose bid to cut US military aid to Israel

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House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, calls amendment ‘overly broad’ as party grapples with backlash over IsraelUS politics live – latest updatesTop House Democrats on Tuesday said they will oppose an effort to cut funding from Israel’s military, amid a rebellion from voters over US support for the Middle Eastern ally that has roiled recent primary elections.The party has been debating how to vo...

Britons urged to take ‘small steps’ to prepare for potential national crises

Britons urged to take ‘small steps’ to prepare for potential national crises

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Government to launch campaign to help people cope with events such as weather emergencies or cyber-attacksThe British public should begin taking “small but important steps” to secure and protect water, power supplies and basic phone signal in case of further severe weather emergencies, national crises or cyber-attacks, Downing Street has said.Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the prime minister...

Tom Cruise among names set to take part in World Cup closing ceremony

Tom Cruise among names set to take part in World Cup closing ceremony

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Mission: Impossible star to appear in a pre-game show that will also feature Robbie Williams and Jennifer HudsonA wide array of performers, from actor Tom Cruise to streamer IShowSpeed, will help close out the World Cup, Fifa announced Tuesday.Soccer’s governing body released the lineup for the closing ceremony, which will take place 90 minutes before Sunday’s final. The show is meant to “celebrat...

Pilot known for ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ river plane landing reveals Alzheimer’s diagnosis

Pilot known for ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ river plane landing reveals Alzheimer’s diagnosis

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Chesley Sullenberger, 75, safely landed a US Airways flight carrying 155 people in New York’s Hudson river in 2009Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger – the pilot known for the “Miracle on the Hudson” after safely landing a US Airways flight in New York City’s Hudson river during a 2009 emergency – announced on Tuesday that he was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.“For now, this means a name may...

Dua Lipa calls Albanian protests against Jared Kushner-backed resort ‘inspiring’

Dua Lipa calls Albanian protests against Jared Kushner-backed resort ‘inspiring’

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Pop star, whose parents are Kosovan Albanian, expresses admiration for demonstrations, which are entering their sixth weekAlbania’s “flamingo revolution” has won its most prominent supporter yet after the pop star Dua Lipa expressed admiration for the protest movement against a Trump family-backed resort in the Balkan state.As demonstrations against the €1.6bn (£0.85bn) real estate project entered...

Pilot killed fighting Colorado wildfire identified as Nicholas Dale

Pilot killed fighting Colorado wildfire identified as Nicholas Dale

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The British Columbia pilot was the only person aboard the helicopter, which crashed during aerial firefightingThe pilot who died when his helicopter crashed while fighting a Colorado wildfire has been named as Nicholas Dale of Sooke, British Columbia.Dale, 56, died when his helicopter crashed into the Silver Jack reservoir on Monday while fighting what authorities have named the Gold Mountain fire...

Nine of ten bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered

Nine of ten bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered

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Author Wendy Jones highlighted the trend in an Instagram post: ‘What is going on here?’Nine of the 10 bestselling fiction paperbacks in the UK this week have one thing in common: a woman is murdered.The novels, which appear on this week’s Sunday Times bestseller list, include The Secret of Secrets, The Divorce, The Names, The Family Friend, The Widow, The Impossible Fortune, The Hallmarked Man, My...

ICE pauses vehicle stops after deadly shootings in Texas and Maine

ICE pauses vehicle stops after deadly shootings in Texas and Maine

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The deaths of Joan Sebastian Guerrero and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo have prompted calls for independent investigationsFederal immigration officials have been instructed to stop pulling over vehicles until further notice, according to a homeland security source, following two recent deadly shootings in Texas and Maine during which officials shot and killed immigrants in vehicles.Other news outlets, in...

Andrew Lloyd Webber says Broadway in ‘dire danger’ as Cats musical announces early closing

Andrew Lloyd Webber says Broadway in ‘dire danger’ as Cats musical announces early closing

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The legendary composer warned theaters could soon meet the same fate as Hollywood’s ‘empty soundstages’Andrew Lloyd Webber has spoken out about the precarious state of Broadway in the wake of the early closing of his revival Cats: The Jellicle Ball.“Broadway is more than a street or a collection of buildings. It is an idea—and one of the greatest cultural ideas America has given us,” the composer ...

MPs vote on Hillsborough amendment as Starmer and Burnham address Commons

MPs vote on Hillsborough amendment as Starmer and Burnham address Commons

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Outgoing prime minister opens third reading debate on the Hillsborough law billIn response to a question from Alec Shelbrooke (Con), Campbell said he was “totally unaware” not just of the wording of the Tory opposition day motion planned for tomorrow (see 1.04pm), but of the topic that it was going to cover. In a bid to convince MPs that this was not a lie, he said that he was standing at the desp...

Ann Widdecombe killing: police investigating possible leftwing motivation

Ann Widdecombe killing: police investigating possible leftwing motivation

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Detectives examining whether hatred of Widdecombe’s strong views or of Reform party were factors in killing described as a ‘targeted attack’The police investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe is examining whether a leftwing or single-issue cause may lie behind her killing, the Guardian has learned.Among issues detectives are investigating are whether a hatred of Widdecombe’s strong views, su...

Trump withdraws Hormuz tolls threat but says US will continue to blockade Iran

Trump withdraws Hormuz tolls threat but says US will continue to blockade Iran

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US hits targets in port cities of Bushehr and Bandar Abbas while Iran targets Bahrain and Jordan in retaliation Middle East crisis live – latest updatesDonald Trump has backed down from a threat that ships would have to pay a 20% fee to the US for “security” in the strait of Hormuz, replacing it with what he described as investment and trade deals with Gulf Arab states as US and Iranian airstrikes...

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

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Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one yearThousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned.Universities’ finances are so precarious that redundancies are also occurring in business studies, law a...

Supreme court justices testify to House on budget request to increase security

Supreme court justices testify to House on budget request to increase security

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Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett appear before House lawmakers to request more security for the judiciarySupreme court justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett are testifying Tuesday in front of House lawmakers to discuss the court’s budget request, particularly the need for increased security for the judiciary.The justices appearing before lawmakers confirmed that each justice was ass...

Buffett omits gift to Bill Gates' foundation after Microsoft cofounder's Epstein ties disclosed

Buffett omits gift to Bill Gates' foundation after Microsoft cofounder's Epstein ties disclosed

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Gates has denied any ties to Epstein’s crimes and has not been accused of any wrongdoingBillionaire Warren Buffett omitted Bill Gates′ foundation from his annual donations this year after disclosures of the Microsoft co-founder’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Buffett will donate about $6bn to four foundations connected to his own family, but did not mention Gates in his announcem...

Yellowstone tourist tossed 8ft in air by bison says attack could have been worse

Yellowstone tourist tossed 8ft in air by bison says attack could have been worse

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Carl McDaniel, 65, says run-in ‘was not as catastrophic as it could’ve been’ in first remarks since attack that injured himA grandfather flipped 8ft in the air by a bull bison at Yellowstone national park recently has spoken out for the first time about the encounter that broke his femur in four places, saying he believes the animal spared his life by choosing not to gore him.The entire incident, ...

Fake football shirts worth £5.5m seized in one of UK’s biggest counterfeiting raids

Fake football shirts worth £5.5m seized in one of UK’s biggest counterfeiting raids

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More than 158,000 items of fake kit seized featuring World Cup semi-finalists England, France and SpainMore than 158,000 fake football strips have been seized in an operation targeting World Cup counterfeit kit and blocking criminals from trying to “cash in on fan demand”.Edinburgh’s trading standards team confiscated 9 tonnes of Scotland, England and other nations’ fake kits, worth an estimated £...

EU rejects Trump administration claims that ICC threatens US sovereignty

EU rejects Trump administration claims that ICC threatens US sovereignty

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US government says it wants to ‘systematically disable’ The Hague-based international criminal courtA spokesperson for the EU has pushed back against the Trump administration’s assertion that the international criminal court poses a threat to US sovereignty, a day after the US government said it would work to “systematically disable” a global tribunal that seeks to prosecute some of the world’s gr...

Keir Starmer becomes first UK PM to receive France’s Légion d’honneur

Keir Starmer becomes first UK PM to receive France’s Légion d’honneur

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Exclusive: Emmanuel Macron honours outgoing prime minister for leadership role in supporting UkraineKeir Starmer has become the first UK prime minister to be presented with the Légion d’honneur by a French president, in recognition of his work with France on the security of Europe.Emmanuel Macron awarded the historic honour to Starmer for his leadership in setting up the coalition of the willing –...

Ann Widdecombe was killed in ‘targeted attack’, police say – UK politics live

Ann Widdecombe was killed in ‘targeted attack’, police say – UK politics live

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Counter-terrorism police say that they are still working to establish the motive for the killing of the former government ministerIn response to a question from Alec Shelbrooke (Con), Campbell said he was “totally unaware” not just of the wording of the Tory opposition day motion planned for tomorrow (see 1.04pm), but of the topic that it was going to cover. In a bid to convince MPs that this was ...

Tuberculosis outbreak at Colorado ICE jail sickens at least 12 detainees

Tuberculosis outbreak at Colorado ICE jail sickens at least 12 detainees

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The reported infections are the latest in a series of health concerns at the federal immigration jail in AuroraAt least 12 people detained at a federal immigration jail in Colorado have contracted tuberculosis in recent days, according to testimony from inside the facility where dozens of others have reportedly been placed in quarantine.Those affected by the outbreak are also being made to endure ...

Trump drops threat of strait of Hormuz tolls, saying Gulf states agreed ‘massive’ US investment instead – Middle East crisis live

Trump drops threat of strait of Hormuz tolls, saying Gulf states agreed ‘massive’ US investment instead – Middle East crisis live

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US president claims shipping route is open for all except Iranian ships after another night of strikes on IranUS launches third night of strikes on Iran as Trump announces Hormuz blockadeResurgent oil and fuel prices could cement a fourth interest rate rise in Australia this year if Donald Trump’s renewed conflict with Iran is not resolved within a week, economists warn.US missile strikes on Iran ...