US justice department accuses Yale medical school of illegally using race in admissions
A 2023 supreme court decision banned the use of affirmative action in college admissionsThe justice department on Thursday accused Yale University of ...
NSPCC reports sharp rise in children being blackmailed over sexual images in UK
Charity says calls to its Childline service about online sexual abuse and exploitation have risen 36% in a yearChildren reported a rise in online blac...
Renowned feminist artist and film-maker Valie Export dies aged 85
Export’s performances scandalised Austria in the 1960s, but are now recognised for exposing the objectification of the female bodyValie Export, the Au...
CIA director has met officials in Havana for talks, Cuba claims
Visit comes after US-Cuba relations deteriorated significantly, with Washington imposing a fuel blockade on the island in JanuaryCIA director John Rat...
Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father
Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil’s leading rightwing presidential hopeful, caught on tape asking banker for millionsFlávio Bolsonaro, Brazil’s leading rightwi...
Eurovision 2026: Delta Goodrem sends Australia to the grand final with note-perfect performance
There was wind, there was fire, there was Goodrem’s remarkable upper-range – resulting in a refreshingly self-assured offering from Australia‘Sung by ...
Supreme court allows abortion pill mifepristone to continue to be available by mail
Louisiana had sued the FDA in a bid to curtail the regulatory agency’s rules on prescribing mifepristone remotelySign up for the Breaking News US news...
UK ministers accused of weakening legal protections for torture victims seeking asylum
Council of Europe members plan to change interpretation of rights laws to make it easier to deport peopleKeir Starmer’s government has been accused of...
River Thames in London gets first official bathing spot on Friday
Thames at Ham designated as one of 13 new swimming areas across England to be monitored for water qualityThe first designated bathing water area on th...
Photo of US-China delegation criticized over absence of women: ‘masculine, militarized and exclusionary’
‘Backward’ photo panned for display of patriarchy, signaling that ‘women’s voices don’t matter in shaping global order’By the time Donald Trump and Xi...
Louisiana senate passes bill to eliminate one of two majority-Black congressional districts
If state’s house passes bill, redrawn map could could give state Republicans a 5-1 congressional majoritySign up for the Breaking News US newsletter e...
Is Andy Burnham about to return to Westminster? - podcast
Andy Burnham has announced he will attempt to return to Westminster after the Labour MP Josh Simons said he will vacate his Makerfield seat in order f...
Australia news live: Delta Goodrem hits the stage in Eurovision semi; Angus Taylor accused of ‘dog whistle’ budget reply
Australian pop star performs song Eclipse in second semi-final before Sunday’s final. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or...
Top California Democratic strategist pleads guilty to $225,000 fraud charges
Dana Williamson, who has ties to Gavin Newsom, conspired to steal gubernatorial hopeful Xavier Becerra’s campaign fundsSign up for the Breaking News U...
Three more people sick in California amid ‘unprecedented outbreak’ due to toxic mushrooms
Since November, state has seen 47 cases of people accidentally ingesting poisonous wild mushroomsHealth authorities in California’s Napa county report...
‘God gave us this city’: Israeli nationalists join Jerusalem Day protest to mark city’s capture
State-sponsored march through Muslim quarter of Old City saw protesters waving flags and chanting ‘Death to Arabs’ on anniversary of city’s annexation...
Judge orders Trump administration to return Colombian woman deported to DRC back to the US
Judge called Adriana Maria Quiroz Zapata’s deportation to the Democratic Republic of Congo ‘likely illegal’A federal judge has ordered the Trump admin...
US reportedly dropped fraud charges against Indian billionaire after he hired Trump’s lawyer
Gautam Adani, richest man in Asia, was accused of conspiring to pay $250m in bribes to Indian government officialsThe US Department of Justice is drop...
American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘blistering’ debut poetry collection
The £20,000 award for writers aged 39 or under goes to Joy Is My Middle Name, a collection about navigating race, addiction and womanhoodA debut poetr...
US House leaders announce bipartisan effort to combat sexual misconduct in Congress
Announcement of taskforce comes after resignations of two congressmen amid sexual misconduct allegationsUS politics live – latest updatesHouse speaker...
Closing arguments begin in high-stakes Musk v OpenAI courtroom showdown
Jury set to deliberate and return a verdict on whether they believe AI firm and Altman are liable in caseClosing arguments began on Thursday in Elon M...
Watchdog groups urge Senate to investigate Samuel Alito over oil stock conflicts
Groups say supreme court justice, who owns oil stocks, may be violating ethics codes by participating in certain casesSupreme court justice Samuel Ali...
Judge bans reporting on trial of six men accused of sexually assaulting teenage girls in Bristol
Details of case in which group deny abusing girls for several years restricted amid dispute with media over transparencySix men have gone on trial at ...
Mental health ‘system is broken’, says mother of Nottingham triple-killer
Celeste Calocane gives evidence for first time at inquiry into Valdo Calocane’s 2023 attacksThe mother of the man who killed three people in an attack...
Oklahoma’s Richard Glossip freed on bond after 30 years on death row
A judge set a $500,000 bond in the 1997 murder case headed for retrial after a supreme court decisionSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email...
One dead and two more ill after meningitis outbreak in Berkshire
Cases follow a recent outbreak in Kent that killed two and left more than a dozen others in hospital in MarchOne person has died and two more are bein...
Israel says it will sue New York Times over article on sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners
Media law experts cast doubt on viability of a defamation lawsuit promised by Netanyahu over Nicholas Kristof essayIsrael’s prime minister, Benjamin N...
Police identify three women who died off Brighton beach
An investigation into how the women came to be in the water is ongoing, but there is no evidence to suggest criminalityPolice believe they have identi...
Will Starmer go – and if so, how? Four scenarios in the battle for No 10
A return to Westminster for Andy Burnham is far from guaranteed, while Starmer could fight a leadership challenge and winWhile Keir Starmer’s authorit...
US southern states rush to redraw electoral maps to dilute Black voting power
Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and more are pushing to eliminate Democratic districts after supreme court rulingUS southern states are rushing to redra...
