Three released without charge after fatal arson attack Three people, who were arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack which killed four family members in the Republic of Ireland, have been released, gardaí (Irish police) have said. Philip and Kim English and two of their children - nine-year-old Jayden and 12-year-old Callum - died after their home in Birch Avenue, on the outskirts of Waterford was set on fire earlier this month. A man aged in his 20s and a woman in her 30s were pre
More than 70,000 police officers are to be deployed over fears protesters will defy restrictions on demonstrations.
A federal appeals court ordered California to respond by noon Saturday to the Trump administration's emergency request involving roughly 20,000 mail-in ballots sent to people the Justice Department suspects are noncitizens ahead of the midterm elections. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued the order late Friday after the DOJ filed an emergency request earlier in the day seeking a ruling by Saturday. The Justice Department sought emergency relief from the appeals court after U.
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Guardian - World · 5m ago
Dried foods, bottled water, medicine stocks and backup power banks: it could be the props cupboard on a disaster movie, but instead it is precisely what some UK residents are stockpiling amid official warnings about Russian “state-sponsored terrorism” and the impact of the climate crisis. The government launched a campaign on Thursday advising people to set aside three days’ worth of stores to deal with a whole range of eventualities, and some are already well under way. “I’m adding a few extra
Fox News · 5m ago
Virginia Democrats who previously defended investigations and allegations against Donald Trump are urging restraint now that federal prosecutors have charged one of their own. The shift is evident across the party's top ranks following the indictment of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas. Lieutenant Gov. Ghazala Hashmi, who rejected Republican claims that Trump was being selectively prosecuted after his 2023 classified-documents indictment, is now stressing Lucas' "constitutio
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Every other decade over the past hundred years has produced at least one midterm that made a big difference in Congress and in national politics more broadly. (Image credit: Saul Loeb)
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A wounded soldier is evacuated by a drone, a much-loved TV show is getting the reboot treatment, and a Canadian province votes to remain.
