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The city's police department warns the public to stay away from the Minneapolis convention centerMultiple people, including two police officers, were injured in a shooting in downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday afternoon, officials said.The Minneapolis police department warned the public to stay away from the area. Continue reading...

Black called on to comply with subpoenas and appear as required to clarify connections to convicted sex offenderMore than a dozen survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse have called on the billionaire Leon Black to appear before the House oversight committee in order to clarify his connections to the late disgraced financier and convicted sex offender.In a letter released on Wednesday, the survivors urged Black to comply with congressional subpoenas ahead of Thursday's deposition before the House oversight committee. Continue reading...

Mississippi-born Wilson, who worked across folk, pop, R&B and country, was once dubbed America's best singerCassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer has died. She was 70.Dubbed America's best singer by Time magazine in 2001, Wilson was best known for her genre-bending voice, which expanded the boundaries of traditional blues-based jazz and worked effortlessly across folk, pop, R&B, country and beyond. At the heart of all her work was her idiosyncratic contralto, a soulful sound distinctly tied to her roots. Continue reading...

PM will aim to centre talks with French president on key foreign policy issues such as Iran, smuggling gangs and EU relationsAndy Burnham will begin the process of courting European leaders when he welcomes Emmanuel Macron as the first foreign head of state to visit him in Downing Street.The prime minister will meet the French president at No 10 on Thursday as he looks to make inroads on a number of foreign policy objectives, including curbing irregular migration and sealing a new deal with the EU. Continue reading...

Tech company submits to controversial Trump order to rename body of water amid US trade spat with CanadaApple has renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America" for US users of its Maps app, after an executive order from Donald Trump to change the name of the Great Lake amid his trade spat with Canada.The Apple Maps app now displays the controversial new name for the lake, which sits between New York state and the Canadian province of Ontario, for users in the US. Apple users outside the country will still see the Lake Ontario name. Continue reading...

Experts have expressed deep concerns that the practice runs afoul of the fourth amendment's right to privacyFederal prosecutors have declined to say whether they secretly obtained phone records for the journalist Don Lemon using an unusual administrative summons, his lawyers said in a Monday court filing, highlighting concern about a controversial legal authority the government has claimed to gather information as it charged Lemon and dozens of others with civil rights crimes in connection to a January protest at a church in Saint Paul, Minnesota.In January, officials served Verizon with an administrative summons for a log of Lemon's phone records between 19 December and 20 January. The subpoena did not come from a grand jury, as is typical in criminal investigation, and also was not a court-approved search warrant. Instead, it was a unilateral request from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which said it was requesting the information under 19 USC 1509 - an obscure law that gives the department power to investigate records related to customs issues. Experts say the government is abusing that authority to gather records on journalists, activists, unions, non-profits and online critics, and have expressed deep concerns that the practice runs afoul of the fourth amendment's right to privacy. Continue reading...

President praises late queen and King Charles but says duke and duchess treated royal family with great disrespect'Donald Trump has weighed in on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's move back to Britain, declaring: I'm happy about it."I was not a fan," the US president told reporters during a question-and-answer session after a press conference with travel executives on Wednesday. I had a very good relationship with the queen, really good. I got to know her very well. A really good relationship with King Charles - I knew him as Prince Charles and King Charles. I've known him for a long time." Continue reading...

Yorgen Fenech cleared on both charges he faced over 2017 killing of journalist that prompted global outrageOne of Malta's richest men has been found not guilty of involvement in the murder of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.The verdict, which is expected to be appealed against by the prosecution, will come as a blow not only to the victim's family, but to the politicians and campaigners who regard the case as a landmark action in the fight to protect press freedom in Europe. Continue reading...

Fair to say the current sell-off is international, but the PM has said little yet to make investors rethink the UK's statusIt's too soon to say the bond markets have turned on Andy Burnham. Tuesday's spike in gilt yields, taking the UK's 30-year borrowing costs to their highest level since 1998, was part of an international sell-off of government debt.The main contributors are well known. The Iran war, by increasing the cost of energy, has overturned the comforting start-of-the-year thesis of falling global inflation and interest rates. A plunging Japanese yen has kicked away another assumed source of financial stability. The US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, hasn't calmed nerves with his solo, and so far futile, attempt to bring down US yields. Meanwhile, the early stage of the AI revolution is an exercise in issuing squillions of debt before long-term returns on capital can possibly be assessed meaningfully. Continue reading...

London mayor's office says he is victim of a scam' after conviction under fast-track system where magistrates can decide outcomes in seconds

The government's tougher stance towards the Kremlin is drawing attacks from both the far right and far leftEven before the German government laid the blame this week on Russia for an attempted drone attack at Leipzig airport, the topic of German ties to Moscow was high on the political agenda.But the timing of the unsurprising yet explosive Leipzig announcement - days before a key regional vote - has exposed the extent to which German politics is polarised on the issue. Continue reading...

Guardian City editor Anna Isaac among those who had credentials to cover event declinedReform UK has banned at least three journalists from its annual conference who have reported critically on the party and Nigel Farage.The Guardian's City editor, Anna Isaac, the investigative reporter Peter Geoghegan and the broadcaster and biographer Michael Crick were told this week that their credentials to cover the event, which begins on Thursday, had been declined. Continue reading...

Various laws and 250 years of tradition prevent the likeness of living people from appearing on currency. Donald Trump and Scott Bessent don't want you to worry about that

EU's policy chief says drone incident at German airport had the hallmarks of state-sponsored terrorism'German police have opened a investigation into yesterday's attempt to disrupt the operation of a power substation near Brandenburg.In a statement, Brandenburg police said they were leading a probe on suspicion of attempting to disrupt public services, causing an explosion and damaging critical infrastructure as well as forming a terrorist organisation Continue reading...

Two men and two women have been charged with murder after body of newborn girl found with 33 stab woundsA newborn baby girl died from multiple stab wounds before she was found on top of a washing machine in an outhouse in Sheffield, a court has heard.Two men and two women appeared in court on Wednesday charged with the murder of the newborn, named only as Baby S. She was found with 33 wounds from 15 separate stabbings when police were called to a property in the Wincobank area of the city on Sunday. Continue reading...

Burnham faced questions from Kemi Badenoch and other MPs amid speculation over budgetIn the news release to mark the first anniversary of his election as the Green party's leader, Zack Polanski highlighted what he described as 10 achievements during his first year in charge. For the record, this is how he sees his record.-Won the Greens' first ever parliamentary byelection in Gorton and Denton-More than tripled the party membership from 68,500 to over 230,000Zack Polanski in Holborn and St Pancras sounds like a done deal from the hints the party is dropping over the past 24 hours. Needs the formality of local party sign-off.Our budget for day-to-day spending next year will be lower in real terms than this year. Our capital budget will fall in real terms every year until the end of the decade. Continue reading...

Reform UK leader dismisses criticism of his failure to register 5m gift as a sign of a complainants' society'Nigel Farage has compared his situation to that of Donald Trump being pursued by investigators for years, saying both of them are outsiders" up against the system", as he admitted having become tetchy and aggrieved this summer.The Reform UK leader has been under huge scrutiny over his finances after failing to declare a 5m gift from the Thailand-based donor Christopher Harborne and further financial support from a friend, the fraudster George Cottrell, before the last election. Continue reading...

Blast also injures 68 guests at the wedding in southern Iran, prompting fears of escalation in hostilities

New law requires cosmetology classes to give instruction on all hair types from the kinkiest to the straightestAs of 1 September, a new law in New York state requires hairdressers studying cosmetology to be trained to work with all hair types.This is about equal access to service," assembly member Michaelle Solages, who sponsored the law, said in a statement earlier this year. No New Yorker should ever walk into a salon and be turned away or receive substandard care because of their hair texture. Now, with the adoption of this legislation, they won't have to." Continue reading...

In first PMQs clash with Kemi Badenoch, prime minister rejects comparison to Liz Truss's government

As a major new biography of the former prime minister goes on sale, he talks about meeting the Queen, Trump's aims, and why his big vision will never fade

The company says it prioritizes safety, but suits allege its ChatGPT bot induced shooter to carry out attack in CanadaOpenAI faces 30 new lawsuits filed on behalf of victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting.The suits, filed on Wednesday, allege the company's ChatGPT chatbot induced the shooter to carry out the attack in rural Canada in February, in which eight people were killed and dozens more wounded - most of them children. Continue reading...

Rapper's supporters reflect on astonishing' events leading to Duane Davis being found guilty over 1996 fatal shootingA criminal conviction this week in the murder of Tupac Shakur, the first since the rapper was gunned down in 1996, sent shockwaves through his sea of fans who have waited three decades for answers.Duane Keffe D" Davis, a former California gang leader, was found guilty of murder on Monday for the role he played in orchestrating the fatal shooting of Shakur. Continue reading...

Hundreds of unseen images of the star feature at the Venice film festival, alongside virtual worlds exploring wildfires, wolves and the birth of starsDavid Bowie shares the bill with starmen, firefighters and Walt Disney wolves at the 10th anniversary edition of Venice Immersive, the film festival's pioneering showcase for new forms of storytelling. David Bowie: Unseen Unheard - a 3D documentary featuring hundreds of previously unseen images - is among 69 XR (extended reality) pieces playing at the event's regular base on Lazzaretto Vecchio, a repurposed small island off the Venice Lido.Venice Immersive's 10th birthday marks a milestone for an event which aims to provide a bridge between emergent technology and traditional narrative cinema. But the programme's organisers are at pains to emphasise the ongoing scope of a project that has in recent years prompted similar sections at the Cannes, Geneva and Toronto film festivals. This is not a retrospective," declares the official festival blurb that welcomes guests to the island. It almost sounds like a warning. Continue reading...

A man shot dead in Merrylands West was not known to police, in a case with similarities to Monday's killing in Campbelltown

Ukrainian president says aviation industry needs to take account of growing number of Ukrainian attack drones in Russia

Bangladeshi complainants allege Rampal power station's pollution and climate risks threaten the Sunderbans, a world heritage siteBarclays Bank is facing a formal complaint over its financial links to a coal-fired power station near the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest and home to millions of people in Bangladesh and India.Three complainants from the region have submitted a case to the UK government's Office for Responsible Business Conduct, alleging that the British bank breached international guidelines by underwriting companies involved in the emission-heavy Maitree super thermal power project, also known as the Rampal power plant. Continue reading...

Relatives of Benjamin Halona remember his career as wildlife firefighter and his zeal for selling tamalesRelatives of a New Mexico man who was fatally mauled by a bear inside his home recently say they are choosing to remember his firefighting career and zeal for peddling tamales rather than his rare, brutal manner of death.As Benjamin Halona's sister, Gloria Halona, and her daughter, Samantha Vandever, put it, that is the least he deserved after the quiet dignity that he showed becoming a widower in February and subsequently grappling with health problems that required him to use a walker and a wheelchair to move around. Continue reading...

Changes include fewer seats in parliament and new rules on presidential candidates ahead of December electionsGuinea-Bissau voters have approved a new constitution significantly expanding presidential powers ahead of elections due in December.According to provisional results, 70% of voters approved sweeping changes in the tiny west African state's first constitutional amendment since revisions that ended the one-party socialist state more than three decades ago. Continue reading...

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Hadley is giving evidence in trial of former 2GB rival Jones, 85, who has pleaded not guilty to 22 indecent assault and sexual touching charges

Ian Tyler, who was already in role on interim basis, selected and pledges to lead the board's evolution'BP has appointed a new chair after a months-long search following the controversial ousting of Albert Manifold, seeking to draw a line under the boardroom turmoil at the oil and gas company.Ian Tyler, who has served as the interim chair and sat on the BP board as a non-executive director since April 2025, is assuming the role on a permanent basis immediately. Continue reading...

Consumer watchdog Which? set up and accepted payment for fake listing for 1 bed apartment in heart of London'Successive politicians have clawed their way past colleagues over the years to call the residence home. Yet in an offer that probably seemed too good to be true, the property site Booking.com has been accused of systemic security failures" after it was able to set up and accept payment for a fake listing for 10 Downing Street.A property listed as a 1 bedroom apartment in the heart of London" - with the exact address and a picture of the prime minister's home - was listed on 18 June by researchers from the consumer watchdog Which?. Continue reading...

Arthur Downing, author of Power and the People: A History of British Energy, says all-encompassing rapid transition will need a mutualised systemHave you ever wondered why it is that most houses in the UK are reliant on gas boilers? Not what's stopping more people from replacing them with heat pumps, but instead why and how the gas boiler became so ubiquitous in the first place?Arthur Downing, the author of the new book Power and the People: A History of British Energy, can tell you exactly why. We only have boilers in our houses because of a state-owned enterprise that went into everybody's home and installed natural gas-suitable appliances at no direct cost," he says. The nationalised gas industry of the 1940s to the 1980s, which oversaw this huge project, was for three decades one of the most dynamic, innovative, efficient industries in Britain", Downing says. Yet few of us would use these terms to describe it as such now. Continue reading...

Study reveals that pesticide poisoning kills 11,000 people each year, with India accounting for nearly 60% of fatalitiesAlmost half of the world's farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, a study has found.Using publicly available data from 2006-2023, the study, which was commissioned by Pesticide Action Network, found there to be an estimated 402-433m cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm workers every year. Continue reading...

Sergei Loznitsa likens removal of 2m grant to a punishment in kindergarten' on eve of Venice film festivalOne of Ukraine's most acclaimed film-makers has criticised the European Commission's decision to cut off funds to the Venice Biennale over the opening of Russia's pavilion, likening it to a punishment in kindergarten".The Biennale drew heavy criticism this spring when it allowed Russia to use its pavilion for the first time since 2022, despite the ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

Exclusive: sanctions against ministers and settler groups are smoke and mirrors cop-out' says Omar BarghoutiBritain's legal and ethical obligation to stop a genocide in Gaza requires it to take bigger steps than halting trade with illegal Israeli settlements or imposing further sanctions, Omar Barghouti, the co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement has said.He described sanctions against individual settler groups or extremist ministers as a smoke and mirrors cop-out and distraction" from the UK's legal obligation under international law to end all support for Israel, including arms exports, trade deals and academic relations that may directly or indirectly enable Israel's illegal occupation" of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Continue reading...

Police say the sheep were stolen from a property 830km west of Brisbane between February and May

Speed limit dropped from 60km/h for around 70% of general roads in the hope of making narrow streets of crowded cities saferDrivers on residential roads in Japan have been forced to take their foot off the accelerator, after the speed limit was slashed from 60km/h (37mph) to 30km/h in an attempt to reduce deaths and injuries among pedestrians on narrow urban streets.The new limit, which went into effect on Tuesday, applies to residential roads with no centre line or maximum speed signs, media reports said. Continue reading...

Lehrmann is accused of raping a woman in 2021 and will stand trial in Toowoomba in November. He intends to contest the charges

John Sellers, 34, who moved with his family to Sweden aged 10, has been ejected despite his recent marriage to a SwedeA 34-year-old British man who has lived in Sweden since he was 10 has been deported in the latest of a series of Brexit-induced catastrophes for UK citizens in the country.John Sellers was told to leave despite living in Sweden for 24 years, having been educated in the country and newly married to his Swedish partner, Caroline. Continue reading...

Wong, 29, is accused of urging foreign powers to impose sanctions, blockades and other hostile measures against ChinaJoshua Wong, one of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy activists, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to seek foreign sanctions against Hong Kong and China, a national security charge that carries a maximum life sentence.Prosecutors have accused Wong, 29, of working with the exiled Hong Kong activist Nathan Law to urge foreign powers to impose sanctions, blockades or other hostile measures against China. Continue reading...

Decision marks a significant turning point in a case that sparked a national debate in ItalyA British-Australian couple will be allowed to spend more time with their three children after the youngsters were removed from the family's off-grid woodland home in central Italy last year, their lawyer said on Tuesday.The juvenile court of L'Aquila in Italy has approved a staged process under the supervision of social services that could ultimately allow the children to leave the residential care facility where they have been living since November. Continue reading...

Several missing Australians have been found since Tuesday morning, bringing the total citizens unaccounted for to 38

Government says dangerous behaviour' is part of effort by Moscow to cause damage with hybrid attacksThe German government has blamed Russia for the drone attack on Leipzig airport last month, calling it dangerous behaviour" and part of a systematic and concerted effort by Moscow to cause great damage" through a large number of hybrid attacks.The interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, and the foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, ended weeks of speculation and the government's hesitancy to blame Russia, saying in a brisk 10-minute briefing in Berlin that all indications were the Russian state had provided the knowhow and equipment for the planned attack and low-level agents" were recruited to carry it out. Continue reading...

Other families have been unlawfully compelled to be case managed without consent, watchdog finds

Resolution Foundation argues that UK's internationally low tax wedge' must rise to pay for defence ambitionsThe chancellor, John Healey, must be prepared to raise taxes for middle earners if he wants to fund significantly higher defence spending, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has said.Healey resigned from Keir Starmer's government in June, protesting against what he argued was the then prime minister's failure to adequately fund defence. Continue reading...