A comedian whose skit for White House reporters was canceled for fear of upsetting Donald Trump skewered the journalists who dropped her in a biting late-night talk show routine mocking their perceived subservience to the president. “I thought when people take away your rights, erase your history and deport your friends, you’re supposed to call…
Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against the man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel on 4 December, the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, said on Tuesday. Bondi said she ordered prosecutors to seek execution for Luigi Mangione, 26, because – as she put it – he carried…
Two almost lifesize sculptures of a man and woman, who was believed to have been a priestess, have been found during the excavations of a huge tomb in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The detailed funerary relics adorned the tomb containing several burial niches built into a wide wall in the necropolis of Porta…
Louisiana voters soundly rejected four constitutional amendments championed by the Republican governor, Jeff Landry, related to crime, courts and finances. Voters said no to each amendment by margins exceeding 60%, according to preliminary results the secretary of state’s office released after voting concluded on Saturday evening. Landry and his allies had crisscrossed the state in…
A man has been shot dead by police responding to reports of a person carrying a firearm at Milton Keynes railway station, Thames Valley police said. The force said: “Officers from Thames Valley police and British Transport police were called to reports of a man carrying a firearm at Milton Keynes railway station, Elder Gate,…
Hooters, the US-based restaurant chain known for chicken wings and skimpy waitstaff outfits, has filed for bankruptcy protection. HOA Restaurant Group filed the motion for chapter 11 protection Monday in the north Texas bankruptcy court in Dallas. The company – whose outlets are often derisively called “breastaurants” and are known for their so-called “Hooters girls”…
A 17-year-old boy from the West Bank who was held without charge for six months in an Israeli prison died after he collapsed in unclear circumstances, Palestinian officials have said. According to his family, Walid Ahmad was “a healthy high schooler” at the time of his arrest last September for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli…
The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has denied that the issue of free speech has featured in tariff negotiations with the US after reports a deal could be jeopardised by the outcome of a criminal case in Dorset. The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), an office within the US Department of State, has…
Australian police officers have been given the green light to testify in the US trial of a man accused of links to the deadly Wieambilla shootings in rural Queensland. The Queensland officers will be allowed to testify in an Arizona court but will have to stick to “neutral factual” accounts of the incident. A US…
The Football Association has stepped up its lobbying of the government to make forced entry into football stadiums, so-called “tailgating”, a criminal offence before the United Kingdom and Ireland host the 2028 men’s European Championship. The policing minister Dame Diana Johnson was a guest of the FA at Wembley for last month’s Carabao Cup final,…
