About 40% of £10bn from Affordable Homes Programme will now go on types of housing such as sheltered and shared ownership Andy Burnham has backtracked on his proposal to rip up the government’s housing plans and boost social home building. Ministers laid out plans on Monday to spend an initial £10bn from the 10-year Affordable Homes Programme on a mix of subsidised housing types in England, in line with the Starmer government’s policy. Continue reading...
Retailer removes kid’s clown costume after people said it resembled a racist caricature used in minstrel shows Target, the US retail corporation, said it pulled a controversial Halloween costume off its shelves after criticism across social media that it resembled a racist caricature . The ad image for the costume, sold as the “Kids’ Glows Under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume,” depicted a Black child in a bright orange and black top with solid black gloves and a mask with a wide, toot
Labor Day weekend brings clothing deals on fall staples like denim jackets , raincoats , lightweight layers and hiking gear . We rounded up the categories worth shopping now, including deals from Carhartt, Eddie Bauer, Lands' End and Columbia. Since a sale doesn't always mean it's the best time to buy, we’ve also highlighted the items best saved for Black Friday deals. Labor Day brings plenty of savings, but some categories are better buys than others. Here’s what’s worth shopping now instead of
Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., talks with people during a campaign event at the Green Boundary Club on August 24, 2026 in Aiken, South Carolina. Graham faces Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) tomorrow in a runoff in the South Carolina Republican Senate primary midterm election.
A drug bust involving an alleged cocaine ring at Penn State has drawn attention to drug use on college campuses, but research shows the big risk to students is alcohol.
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The Supreme Court on Monday handed the Trump administration a victory, allowing it to enforce President Donald Trump’s "election integrity" executive order restricting mail-in voting ahead of the November midterms. The high court lifted an injunction that had blocked the order in 23 states that challenged it after the administration appealed in July; Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. The U.S. Postal Service and Justice Department said they would immediate
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The WNBA has apparently decided Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White aren't eligible to play in the league. Now it needs to say, on the record, how it reached that decision. WNBA SILENT AFTER CAITLIN CLARK SAYS LEAGUES SHOULD DETERMINE WHO SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN WOMEN'S SPORTS Front Office Sports reported Monday that unnamed league sources said Freedom and White, two former NBA players who have declared for the 2027 WNBA Draft, are ineligible. The sources also called their declarations "simply pub
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Vote by Mail ballots are inspected at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on Nov. 4, 2025 in City of Industry, Calif.
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In Trump administration’s plan, California, Arizona and Nevada face about a 20% cut to water supply over two years Nevada filed a federal lawsuit on Monday challenging the Trump administration’s new plan for the imperiled Colorado River, launching what could become the first of many court battles over the waterway that supplies 40 million people, dozens of tribes and 5.5m acres of farm land across the American west. The federal plan, issued Friday, cut roughly 20% from the water supplied to lowe
