The US judge set to hear a new lawsuit over the Signal fiasco is the same judge whom Donald Trump has argued should be impeached for blocking him from using wartime powers to deport Venezuelan migrants. James Boasberg, a district judge in Washington, was assigned on Wednesday to a lawsuit alleging Trump officials violated federal…

Pizza parties and iPads are being offered to pupils as incentives to improve school attendance, according to a new report which says sanctions alone are less likely to work. While some schools in England are using fines, detentions and letters home to crack down on absence, others prefer a rewards-based approach, with prize draws for…

The government plans to give police in England and Wales powers to change the route or timing of protest marches planned outside places of worship in order to give greater protection against intimidation. The government is to include the powers in an amendment to the crime and policing bill after concerns were raised about protests…

Coalition would repeal Labor’s tax cuts in favour of halving fuel excise, Taylor says The shadow treasurer, Angus Taylor, is speaking with ABC RN to tout the Coalition’s intention to halve the fuel excise for 12 months if elected. He described the move as “temporary, targeted, but immediate relief for some of the hardest working…

Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are set to reprise their X-Men roles in Avengers: Doomsday. Marvel kicked off a live stream today to announce the long list of actors who will star in the first Avengers film in six years. The pair will join the Black Panther actors Letitia Wright, Winston Duke and Tenoch Huerta…

A man who stole 325 Cadbury Creme Eggs from a petrol station has been banned from Cambridgeshire for three months. Deon De Groot, 26, was spotted when he stuffed £220.50 worth of the eggs into a duffel bag at a Tesco Express in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, and left without paying on Saturday. A member of staff…

Democrats call on defense secretary to resign over group chat scandal “Classified information is classified for a reason. Sec. Hegseth was openly sharing classified materials on an insecure channel that potentially endangered service members. And then he lied about it. He should resign,” Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois said on X, just moments after questioning…

Whistleblowers who inform HMRC about tax-dodging will get a cut of any money collected as a result, the government confirmed, as Rachel Reeves announced plans to raise an extra £1bn a year by closing the “tax gap”. At her first budget in October, Reeves vowed to collect £6.5bn a year by cracking down on tax…

NHS chiefs have decided to shut the maternity unit at a major London hospital in response to a dramatic fall in the birth rate in its area in recent years. The Royal Free hospital will lose its unit because the number of women having a baby in Camden, the borough in which it is located,…

Two hikers were rescued from California’s rugged and remote north coast over the weekend after one of them slid more than 100ft (30 metres) down a steep cliff and was clinging to a “near vertical” bluff with hiking poles, authorities said. The Shelter Cove fire department and a US Coast Guard team responded to a…