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Conservative peer and donor Lord Ranger has been reprimanded by the House of Lords authorities for bullying and harassing a journalist on social media.The peer got into a war of words with journalist and women's rights campaigner Poonam Joshi after a Diwali event he had organised in the Lords.Ms Joshi criticised the attendance at the event of a representative of controversial Indian guru Nithyananda.

On both the right and left of the Labour party, one article of faith has always seemed to be set in stone: the idea that you can pursue progressive dreams using no end of skulduggery and nastiness, and never worry about the contradictions.Whether they have been Blairites, Brownites, disciples of Jeremy Corbyn or servants of Keir Starmer, a certain kind of Labour high-up has always thrived on a loathing and mistrust of their internal enemies, and a drive to seize control of the party machine.

The Home Office has backed down on plans for asylum seekers to sleep four to a small room in a central London hotel after protests by 40 refugees last week.The rooms in the hotel in Pimlico, Westminster are small and asylum seekers had previously been sharing two to a room.The Home Office said it wanted to increase the number of asylum seekers sharing one room to save money.

The UK security minister, Tom Tugendhat, has said China has closed its reported police service stations at sites across Britain, and that an investigation did not reveal any illegal activity by the Chinese state at these sites.Britain has previously said reports of undeclared police stations in the country were extremely concerning and that any intimidation on British soil of foreign nationals by China or other states was unacceptable.

Ed Day says he proudly remembers his days as a New York City police commander, fighting crime and helping to restore the city's luster.But as the executive of suburban Rockland County, Mr. Day now views the city differently.The city I knew, the city I worked in, the city we cleaned up back in the '90s, it's not there anymore, said Mr. Day, a Republican whose county is just north of the five boroughs.

Nine women accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault in a Nevada lawsuit on Wednesday, less than two months after the state changed its statute of limitations for civil cases involving that crime.The women said in the lawsuit that the assaults took place in Nevada between 1979 and 1992, some in Mr. Cosby's hotel suite in Las Vegas.

Jack McNally, who as a police detective in 1964 made the first arrest in the most audacious jewel theft in New York City history, and who then became a private investigator for famous defense lawyers like F. Lee Bailey and worked on behalf of clients like O.J. Simpson, died on May 28.He was 89.His death was announced on the website of the Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home on Staten Island, which handled the funeral arrangements.

Good morning.It's Wednesday.We'll look at the abrupt departure of the police commissioner.We'll also find out why a judge for the first time appeared open to a federal takeover of the Rikers Island jails.Image Credit...Stephanie Keith for The New York Times The email from Keechant Sewell, the commissioner of the New York Police Department, to her fellow officers was dramatic because it was unexpected: I have made the decision to step down from my position, she wrote.

Footballer Ian Wright, fashion editor Dame Anna Wintour and author Ian McEwan are among the famous people recognised in the King's first birthday honours list.Television presenter Davina McCall, veteran broadcaster Ken Bruce and Line Of Duty actress Vicky McClure have been appointed MBEs.Former England and Arsenal footballer-turned-pundit Wright was made an OBE.

The long-awaited investigation by MPs on the privileges committee into whether Boris Johnson lied to parliament over the Partygate scandal has finally been published.The findings come more than a year after the inquiry was first commissioned by the former prime minister, in a move which failed to prevent his unceremonious ousting from Downing Street less than three months later, swiftly followed by that of his immediate successor.

A war of words breaking out between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak leads the nation's Tuesday papers.The Independent and Metro report Mr Johnson has denied he asked the PM to bend honours rules, with the latter dubbing the verbal spat between the pair all out war.Staying with the former prime minister, The Times says the privileges committee is set to find that Mr Johnson deliberately misled parliament over the Downing Street parties scandal.

At the London Tech Week event Rishi Sunak is now taking questions from journalists.Asked about Boris Johnson, he says Johnson asked him to do something that he was not prepared to do, because he didn't think it was right.He says Johnson wanted him to either over-ruled the House of Lords Appointments Committee, or to make promises (to the MPs offered peerages by Johnson, who wanted to delay their resignations until later, so as not to cause byelections).

Boris Johnson has called time on his political career by lambasting a committee of MPs whom he claims were biased and determined to see him go.Mr Johnson, 58, announced he was stepping down as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip and compared the Privileges Committee probe into whether he lied to Parliament over partygate to a kangaroo court.

Top U.S. originator United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM) is the target of two lawsuits filed by former underwriters alleging retaliation, a hostile workplace environment, gender/sexual harassment and failure to pay minimum wages and overtime.The company declined to comment on the accusations.According to the lawsuits filed in a U.S. district court in Michigan, the alleged events occurred amid the mortgage lender's return-to-work policy during the Covid-19 pandemic.

After months of impassioned protest by Olympic wrestlers that drew national attention in India, the police on Thursday filed charges of sexual harassment and intimidation against a powerful ruling-party politician and former chief of India's wrestling federation.The wrestlers have accused the politician, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, of harassing at least seven young women, including a minor, over the course of a decade, starting in 2012.

Throngs of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan have been arrested.Media columnists considered sympathetic to him have been intimidated.Key allies have resigned from his party, saying they had been threatened with criminal charges and arrests.As political tensions between Mr. Khan and the Pakistani government have flared in recent weeks and sparked violent nationwide protests, the country's powerful military has responded by launching a chilling campaign against Mr. Khan's supporters that aims to hollow out his political party ahead of general elections this fall.

Israeli military prosecutors will not pursue criminal charges against soldiers who detained and gagged a 78-year-old Palestinian American man and then left him unconscious in a building site shortly before he was pronounced dead.The Israeli Army announced on Tuesday that soldiers involved in the detention of the man, Omar Assad, 78, during an early-morning operation in January 2022 in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, would only face internal disciplinary measures.

The leader of Israel's political opposition, Yair Lapid, testified on Monday in the long-running corruption trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recounting how Mr. Netanyahu had lobbied him nearly a decade ago to back tax breaks favoring an influential Israeli film producer.The claim is a small part of a yearslong prosecution in which Mr. Netanyahu is accused of granting political favors to several businessmen and media moguls in exchange for expensive gifts and positive news coverage, charges that he denies.

The United States suspended all food aid to Ethiopia on Thursday, citing widespread and coordinated theft of the contributions in a country where at least 20 million people need donated food.The United States is by far the largest aid donor to Ethiopia, with 120 million people, Africa's second most populous country, so the impact of the suspension is likely to hit hard and fast.

Police will be able to stop so-called slow-walk protests after a last-ditch bid to block a toughening of the law failed.The government bypassed normal parliamentary scrutiny to change the legal meaning of serious disruption, making it easier for police to impose conditions on demonstrations that cause more than minor hindrance or delay and make arrests.

Boris Johnson's departure from life as an MP ahead of the publication of the Partygate report plays out across Saturday's front pages, which are filled with a mixture of acrimony, triumph and predictions of further Tory bloodletting.The Guardian focuses on the reason for his decision to resign as MP, noting that the privileges committee found he misled parliament and recommended a lengthy suspension from the House of Commons.

Nadine Dorries, Stanley Johnson and Alok Sharma have been dropped from Boris Johnson's resignation honours list, it has emerged.The two MPs have been dropped from the former prime minister's list, which could be published as soon as Friday, to avoid potentially damaging by-elections.And Mr Johnson's father Stanley - who was expected to be handed a knighthood - has been dropped from the list because it would have looked terrible, a source claimed.

A fresh battle over unredacted Covid documents is looming, as the public inquiry's most senior lawyer voiced fears about a tussle with the government over messages sent on the Google Spaces platform.Hugo Keith KC said the same issue threatened to arise as with WhatsApps, which the Cabinet Office is refusing to hand over in full.

The head of the Covid inquiry has fired back at Rishi Sunak government over its decision to take legal action to block Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages insisting that only she has the power to decide what is relevant.Baroness Hallett, chair of the inquiry, responded for the first time to the government's High Court challenge against her demand for the former PM's unredacted messages and notebooks.

UBS said Monday that it has completed its takeover of embattled rival Credit Suisse, nearly three months after the Swiss government hastily arranged a rescue deal to combine the country's two largest banks in a bid to safeguard Switzerland's reputation as a global financial center and choke off market turmoil.

The Biden administration is weighing in on the controversy over Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, saying his recent performances in Germany were antisemitic, an assessment shared by many in Israel and the pro-Israel community.The State Department said Tuesday that Waters has a long track record of using antisemitic tropes" and a concert he gave late last month in Germany contained imagery that is deeply offensive to Jewish people and minimized the Holocaust.

Politics has moved on from the drama of the Boris Johnson era, according to a Cabinet minister who played down speculation about the former prime minister making a swift return to Westminster.Energy Secretary Grant Shapps, who served in Mr Johnson's cabinet, said he does not think the former Tory leader is in the mindset to fight the next general election.

Even as prosecutors publicly unveiled a deep and detailed array of evidence against former President Donald J. Trump in the documents investigation on Friday, they suffered a potential setback with the surprise assignment of the case to Judge Aileen M. Cannon.Judge Cannon, 42, a Trump appointee, shocked legal experts across ideological lines last year by intervening in the investigation and issuing rulings favorable to Mr. Trump, only to be rebuked by a conservative appeals court.

House Republicans late Wednesday canceled plans to begin contempt of Congress proceedings against Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director, after the agency agreed to make available to all members of the Oversight Committee a document containing a years-old unsubstantiated allegation of bribery against President Biden.

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The Burbank Unified School District Board placed its superintendent on administrative leave with no explanation after a closed-session meeting to evaluate his performance, officials announced Thursday.But school board officials have released few details about why Matt Hill, who took the superintendent job in 2015, was suddenly removed from his post.

It was late evening and I was sitting at my desk, neurotically rechecking details in an L.A. Times story I wrote with colleagues Gary Cohn and Bob Welkos breaking the news that Arnold Schwarzenegger groped and harassed women over the course of decades.The story would be in print the next day, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003, just five days before the election to recall the unpopular Democratic Gov. Gray Davis.

As Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida begins to aggressively attack former President Donald J. Trump, his campaign has spread three images of the former president embracing Dr. Anthony S. Fauci that forensic experts say are almost certainly realistic-looking deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence.

Last September, a process server arrived at the home of Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, as part of a lawsuit filed by groups trying to help women get abortions out of state.Mr. Paxton's wife, State Senator Angela Paxton, greeted him at the door and told him her husband was on the phone.Later, Ms. Paxton was seen out in the driveway, firing up a pickup truck and swinging open a rear passenger door.

First, the Temecula Valley Unified School District board president called Harvey Milk a "pedophile" while attempting to ban from the district's curriculum a book that mentioned the gay activist and onetime San Francisco supervisor.Joseph Komrosky's efforts were successful, and the material was removed from the district's social studies curriculum last month.

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The Zilker Metropolitan Park Vision Plan continues to generate controversy.This week, accusations about the motivations of two of the plan's supporters came before the Ethics Review Commission.In April, Austinite Teri Adams filed two complaints with the Ethics Review Commission.

The mid-week front pages cover claims Russia bombed a dam in Ukraine and the Duke of Sussex's court appearance in his legal battle against the Mirror Group.The Guardian, Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the i all lead with accusations against the Kremlin of destroying the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro river, causing flooding and the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians.

The case of Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who disappeared from a Portuguese holiday resort 16 years ago, unexpectedly lurched back into life this month when investigators launched a major search operation at a reservoir in the Algarve.The initiative was instigated by German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who said officials were acting on certain tips from Christian Brueckner, an incarcerated sex offender who lived in the area between 2000 and 2017.

The actor Cuba Gooding Jr., who had been accused by a score of women of groping or forcibly kissing them, pleaded guilty last year to a single charge of kissing a woman without her consent.On Tuesday, he will face trial in a civil lawsuit that accuses him of rape, and it is expected to include testimony from three women who will say that he abused them between 2009 and 2019.

Humza Yousaf has accused Scottish Labour of hubris, claiming they believe they have already won the next general election.Scotland's First Minister kicked off a summer of campaigning in his Glasgow Pollok constituency on Saturday, saying the SNP would not lose seats at the next election expected next year.

RUSSIAN INFLUENCE Dogged by accusations of proximity to the Kremlin, Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party had hoped to clear its name by setting up a parliamentary inquiry to investigate foreign interference in French politics.But a draft report on the committee's findings, which was leaked to the press this week, shows the move backfired spectacularly, finding instead that Le Pen's policy stances sometimes echo the official language of Putin's regime.

Chicago gang member Alvin Vaughn was arrested in 2017 on relatively minor federal charges of being a felon in possession of weapons at a suburban gun range, but it was immediately clear that something bigger was brewing.The criminal complaint against him stated investigators were conducting an ongoing investigation into a violent street gang named Goonie Boss, of which Vaughn was a known member.

Jump to content Sign up to our newslettersSubscribe News Sports Voices Culture Lifestyle Travel Premium NewsWorldEurope Maryam Zakir-Hussain Saturday 03 June 2023 08:48 Close Police were scouring the remote Barragem do Arade reservoir in the Algarve, Portugal last week, around 35 miles from where the then-three-year-old went missing in 2007 while on a family holiday in Praia da Luz A forensics expert has warned that traditional evidence will be difficult to find after 16 years have passed since Madeleine McCann's disappearance.

"According to the letter, responding employees' view of the honesty and integrity of senior leaders fell from 87% approval in 2020 to 53% approval in 2021, bringing the FTC from best to worst among all surveyed federal agencies."The Chairman of the House of Representatives' Committee on Oversight and Accountability, James Comer (R-KY), announced an investigation this week into accusations raised by former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Christine Wilson in her resignation against the conduct of FTC Chair Lina Khan.

Boris Johnson has told the Covid-19 Inquiry that he is willing to hand over all unredacted WhatsApp messages including 2020 material from a previous phone discarded for security reasons.The former prime minister is under fire once again after it emerged on Thursday that he had only handed over Covid-related messages from May 2021 or later to Cabinet Office officials.

Former newsreader Donna Traynor has thanked those who supported her as a discrimination case brought against the BBC has been settled.The industrial tribunal was resolved without any admission of liability in Belfast on Friday.Speaking at the conclusion of proceedings, BBC Northern Ireland director Adam Smyth said he wished Ms Traynor well in the future but would not comment on any financial settlement.

Jump to content Sign up to our newslettersSubscribe News Sports Voices Culture Lifestyle Travel Premium Close Phillip Schofield claims he 'understands how Caroline Flack felt' after This Morning departure Phillip Schofield has credited his daughters with saving his life amid the fallout surrounding his unwise but not illegal affair with a younger colleague on This Morning.

The case of Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who disappeared from a Portuguese holiday resort 16 years ago, unexpectedly lurched back into life this month when investigators launched a major search operation at a reservoir in the Algarve.The initiative was instigated by German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who said officials were acting on certain tips from Christian Brueckner, an incarcerated sex offender who lived in the area between 2000 and 2017.

Phillip Schofield has said he is sorry for lying to his best friend Holly Willoughby, but owes his greatest apology to his former lover and colleague.The 61-year-old presenter told The Sun the fallout from his secret affair had brought the greatest misery to the man's totally innocent life.Schofield resigned from ITV last week and was dropped by his talent agency YMU after admitting to the unwise but not illegal relationship.

The case of Madeleine McCann, the British toddler who disappeared from a Portuguese holiday resort 16 years ago, unexpectedly lurched back into life this month when investigators launched a major search operation at a reservoir in the Algarve.The initiative was instigated by German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, who said officials were acting on certain tips from Christian Brueckner, an incarcerated sex offender who lived in the area between 2000 and 2017.