Former Louisiana mayor sentenced to 90 days over rape of 16-year-old boy
Misty Roberts, 44, who faced up to 17 years in prison, convicted of two felonies including statutory rape Misty Roberts, a former mayor in Louisiana, ...
Farage suddenly returns to political stage – but dodges questions about £5m gift
Reform UK leader has been unusually quiet in recent weeks – at great cost to the party during a crucial byelectionFake images of Nigel Farage have bee...
FBI searches southern California facility where chemical incident spurred evacuation
Chemical tank overheated in May and forced evacuation of 50,000 nearby residents due to danger of explosionThe FBI is searching a southern California ...
Keir Starmer aides ‘war gaming’ over leadership contest with Andy Burnham
Prime minister is ‘hellbent’ on fighting any contest - including sacking ministers who support BurnhamUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer’s ...
Patients in A&E with non-urgent ailments may be told to come back later under NHS plans
NHS bosses urge all hospitals to use ‘digital triage’ process to combat overcrowding in emergency servicesPatients who turn up at A&E with non-urgent ...
‘Pleasure and invigoration’: Diana Evans wins UK’s Jhalak prose prize
Awards for prose, children’s writing and poetry, for writers of colour in UK and Ireland, come with £1,000Diana Evans has won this year’s Jhalak prose...
Mike Ashley’s Frasers makes €1.98bn takeover offer for Hugo Boss
Fashion and sportswear group, which owns 26% of the German luxury brand, is now seeking full controlMike Ashley’s retail group, Frasers, has launched ...
Laurence Olivier honoured with blue plaque unveiled by Ian McKellen
Ceremony takes place at actor’s former home in Pimlico, central London, where he lived from the age of five to 12Laurence Olivier has joined David Gar...
Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
The actor and director who have long been snubbed will finally take home Oscars at November’s Governors awardsGlenn Close and Ridley Scott are among t...
House panel to seek testimony from Alan Dershowitz about Jeffrey Epstein
Republican who chairs House panel says he based decision on testimony from Epstein’s longtime assistant Lesley GroffRepresentative James Comer, the R...
UK minister defends changes to student loans as pressure grows for reforms
Treasury minister Lucy Rigby says the government has the right to alter terms of existing agreementsMinisters have rejected accusations that recent ch...
US measles cases pass 2,000 as outbreak nears worst in decades
Outbreak driven by falling vaccination and misinformation as federal public health cuts hamper state responseThe US has recorded more than 2,000 confi...
Trump, ever the unreliable narrator, is unable to force reality to match his preferred story
A cycle of threat, detente and deadlock repeats itself wearisomely as the president’s war in Iran drags onUS politics live – latest updatesAs the stor...
Trump signs $70bn immigration act ensuring ICE funding through 2029
Package allocates $38bn to ICE, $26bn to Customs and Border Protection and $5bn more to the DHSSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailDonald...
MSG Sports criticizes NYPD and Mamdani over Knicks Game 4 security
James Dolan’s company slams mayor and police commissioner as ‘party poopers’ over large restricted zoneThe owner of the New York Knicks basketball tea...
Hegseth warns Cuba against acquiring weapons in visit to Guantánamo Bay
US defense secretary continues ramp-up of pressure against country including sanctions and devastating oil blockadePete Hegseth has warned Cuba agains...
Florida lawsuit alleges wrongful arrest after police AI facial recognition error
Robert Dillon was arrested at home in Florida despite living 300 miles away, and charges were later droppedSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter...
Rainfall and landslides last year in Indonesia killed 7% of world’s rarest great apes – study
Critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan population falls after extreme weather – fuelled by climate crisis – in North SumatraExtreme rainfall and lan...
David Harbour on Lily Allen’s West End Girl album: ‘It wasn’t my experience’
Stranger Things actor makes first public comments about his ex’s revealing hit album which tracks the dissolution of a relationshipDavid Harbour has s...
UFC champion says he has been banned from White House fight over criticisms of Trump
Sean Strickland claims he was not cleared to attend the UFC event because he ‘made fun of Israel and Epstein’The only current US UFC champion says he ...
Toby Carvery to pay for orchard planting after causing outrage by felling 500-year-old oak
Restaurant chain took chainsaw to ancient oak tree in Enfield without permissionThe restaurant chain Toby Carvery has settled a legal dispute after ta...
One Nation’s ‘incredibly sloppy’ financial reports reveal more than $1m in missing or worthless assets
Exclusive: Financial returns, obtained by the Guardian, are ‘very poor and unprofessional’ and call into question party’s fitness to govern, expert sa...
Labor scraps plan to make spy agency’s 9/11-era questioning powers permanent
But Australian government will expand offences covered by rules to include promotion of communal violence and attacks on defence systemGet our breakin...
Breast cancer and endometriosis drug Zoladex is being pulled from Australia. How will women be affected?
The vital medicine, made by AstraZeneca, will not be available from November, possibly leaving thousands of women without treatmentGet our breaking ne...
Letter from Kyiv: The messed-up day-to-day of living under Putin’s cruel air war
People have absorbed violence and terror into their lives. Somehow, they keep going – quietly rescuing, evacuating, replacing, mending, adapting … and...
‘Palestinian lives are disposable – even a baby’: new footage shows shooting of seven-month-old
Video appears to contradict Israeli military’s account of the killing of an infant while he was held in his mother’s armsNew footage appears to contra...
First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
Oscar winner Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong to star in film focused on fallout from whistleblower Frances HaugenThe first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s ...
Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
Star, 59, of 2000 blockbuster X-Men seeks to raise awareness of condition as he undergoes chemotherapyThe actor and former professional wrestler Tyler...
Navy admiral fired by Hegseth advances in South Carolina Democratic House primary
Nancy Lacore, ousted by Pete Hegseth last year, heads to a run-off in race for Nancy Mace’s seatUS politics live – latest updatesA three-star navy rea...
Two men jailed for putting lives at risk during small boat journeys to UK
Mohammad Tajik and Alnour Ali, who piloted boats on Channel crossings, are first to be sentenced under new lawTwo men have been jailed under the new o...
