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Deletion of the bureau's website content is just the most recent part of a larger plan to 'undermine an agency that's helped people'The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau deleted at least 2,200 webpages from its website last month, a move advocates say is part of the Trump administration's latest effort to dismantle the federal consumer finance...
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Justices uphold FCC authority to impose in-house penalties, rejecting AT&T and Verizon jury trial claimsSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter emailThe US supreme court backed the Federal Communications Commission's system for levying fines, ruling on Thursday against wireless carriers AT&T and Verizon in their challenge to the agency...
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US president alleges there is 'big cheating' in elections for governor and Los Angeles mayor as results are pendingDonald Trump has alleged without evidence that Democrats are cheating in California's primaries and claimed in a late-night social media post that the US attorney's office in Los Angeles was investigating.As counting continues in the...
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Snow arrives in time for the start of ski season, but climate change and El Niño mean it may not stick around for long, experts sayGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThere was optimism across Australian alpine resorts this week as their social media channels filled with footage of snow flurries that arrived just in time for...
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Nauran government says its citizens are 'friendly' after MP spoke of serious threats allegedly made against former Australian detaineesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Nauruan government has issued a rare statement insisting it is a "friendly” and "welcoming” country after a whistleblower alleged "serious threats...
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Ahmed al-Ahmed, lauded for disarming a Bondi Beach attacker, now faces assault charges. Police allege he assaulted his father in March. Al-Ahmed denies the claims, calling them 'fake information.' He was hailed a hero after the deadly shooting, receiving widespread praise and meeting the Prime Minister. The Bondi attack remains Australia's...
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The New York Times has been investigation the number of boat strikes and the death toll in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific carried out by the Trump administration. Eric Schmitt, a national security correspondent for The Times, explains what those numbers mean.
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Criticism comes from across political spectrum after blow to Friedrich Merz's governmentGermany's unprecedented failure to win one of the rotating seats on the UN security council has prompted an intense round of soul searching in Berlin, and raised questions about its claims to international leadership under Friedrich Merz.The council vote on...
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Pulp Fiction director writes in Sight and Sound that 'since the pandemic … it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I don't pick to death'Quentin Tarantino has criticised contemporary Hollywood, calling it "a flavourless sausage factory”.Writing in Sight and Sound magazine, Tarantino said that "since the pandemic … it seems...
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Plan departs from policy of bringing CDC staff back to US for treatment and offering support to all health workersFormer top US officials and other experts are urging the Trump administration to abandon plans for an Ebola quarantine and treatment centre in Kenya, as the union for workers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
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Veteran broadcaster makes 'one of hardest decisions of my entire life' weeks after revealing spread of cancer to spineThe veteran broadcaster Bob Harris has announced he is stepping down from BBC Radio 2 after 30 years so he can focus on "getting well again”, six weeks after revealing his prostate cancer had spread into his upper spine.The...
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New four-part documentary reignites criticism of Operation Peyzac, in which officers posed as music industry figures to gather intelligenceIt was the undercover police operation that led to 37 people being jailed after officers set up a fake recording studio and record shop on a north London housing estate.Now, a four-part television documentary...
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Founder of Greensill Capital says there was no finding he acted dishonestly after his company collapsed owing £1.6bnThe disgraced former financier Lex Greensill has been banned from running a UK company for nine years after he was judged to be unfit because of the 2021 collapse of his £1.6bn supply chain invoicing firm.The government's Insolvency...
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Polish, Spanish and French populists focus on clips of teenager's dying moments and accuse UK of descending 'into depths of the earth'UK politics live – latest updatesPolish far-right politicians have claimed that the murder of Henry Nowak symbolises "Britain's descent into the depths of the earth” as populists from France, Spain and Japan...
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China is intensifying its crackdown on any public remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square events. Families of victims are being barred from visiting graves, and authorities are actively erasing the incident from public memory. This suppression escalates as Hong Kong also bans commemorations, while global reactions highlight ongoing censorship.
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Exclusive: Analysis shows resort has yet to recoup Disney's investment despite record revenue and 16m annual visitorsDisney has still not recouped $4.2bn of its investment in Disneyland Paris after more than 30 years, even though the resort is now its best-performing international outpost, according to an analysis of recent filings.The sprawling...
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Polish, Spanish and French populists focus on clips of teenager's dying moments and accuse UK of descending 'into depths of the earth'UK politics live – latest updatesPolish far-right politicians have claimed that the murder of Henry Nowak symbolises "Britain's descent into the depths of the earth” as populists from France, Spain and Japan...
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Chinese intelligence operatives are reportedly using fake job offers on professional platforms to ensnare government and military personnel. The Five Eyes alliance warns these tactics aim to extract sensitive information, with targets pressured to provide confidential details for financial rewards. Western nations urge vigilance against these...
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President says 'four bad Republicans' joined Democrats to pass 'meaningless' resolution to block him from continuing war against IranSign up for the Breaking News US emailDonald Trump's former national security adviser-turned-foe John Bolton is expected to plead guilty over mishandling classified documents, multiple outlets are reporting.According...
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Police allege the 44-year-old lauded for disarming one of the gunmen in December's attack put his father in a headlockGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Sydney man who disarmed one of the Bondi terror attackers has been charged with assaulting his father.Ahmed al-Ahmed, 44, is accused of allegedly putting his father in a...
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Violence flares before protests on Thursday over president's decision to remain in office after his term expiredFierce clashes have taken place between government troops and militias allied with the opposition in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, damaging property and forcing some civilians to flee.In the runup to the fighting, which started on...
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PM says Britons are 'reasonable, tolerant people' and backs MP's legal action against Grok firm over fake sexualised imagesUK politics live – latest updatesElon Musk is "interfering in our politics” and attempting to create division, Keir Starmer has said in a significant toughening of government language about the X owner.It comes after weeks...
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Israel said it will continue to strike Lebanon for the time being and won't be withdrawing from the south of that country, after Lebanon and Israel agreed to a ceasefire contingent on Hezbollah halting attacks. Hezbollah's chief rejected the ceasefire, saying the Israel attacks need to stop.
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Foreign affairs minister says her position is to 'always believe women' when sexual assault allegations are madeGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, says she believes the Australian women who have alleged they were sexually assaulted and beaten by Israeli soldiers after being detained...
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Daniel Frost admits throwing bins at police and Matt Styler pleads not guilty to assaulting officerA man has admitted throwing bins at officers and arming himself with a makeshift knuckle duster during the disorder in Southampton after the sentencing of a man for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak.Daniel Frost, 44, from Southampton, admitted...
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The country's defence minister said the IDF will not withdraw from southern Lebanon and will not allow the 'return of the population'Israel and Lebanon agree to renew ceasefire as Trump seeks to overcome barriers to Iran dealThe commander of the Quds Force, the foreign arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), said Hezbollah is demanding...
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Allegations made in Melbourne magistrates court on Thursday as Zeinab Ahmad, 31, applied for bail, a month after she was charged with slavery offencesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA woman accused of marrying Islamic State fighters allegedly lived with a teenage slave who was repeatedly assaulted and raped by the woman's...
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Two people were arrested after the deaths of four migrant farmworkers who were burned alive in a car in southern Italy. The lone survivor of the blaze told Italian media that one of the men who died had been "asking for contract work instead of uncontracted work.”
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