Uvalde families sue Meta, video game creator and gunmaker
The lawsuits allege the companies preyed upon "vulnerable" young men like the 18-year-old Uvalde gunman.
Race to rescue villagers trapped after Papua New Guinea landslide
Emergency crews are racing to rescue scores of people feared trapped after a landslide in Papua New Guinea.
Trump ‘unified reich’ video reportedly traced to Turkish designer’s template
CNN reports video published on Truth Social and removed hours later was made from template and placeholder text not changed
A video posted on social media by Donald Trump referencing a “unified reich” has been traced to a template made by a Turkish designer more than a year ago, according to a report from CNN.
Critics, including Joe Biden, condemned Trump over a video posted to his Truth Social account on Monday featuring a hypothetical headline from his second presidential term reading “industrial strength significantly increased … driven by the creation of a unified reich”.
Continue reading...Jodi Picoult: ‘It’s not a badge of honour to be banned’
The author discusses free speech, her latest novel and Shakespeare theories at the Hay Festival.
RFK Jr attacks Trump and Biden as he makes 2024 pitch to Libertarian voters
Independent candidate pledges to pardon Snowden and drop Assange charges, and says Trump ‘caved’ over pandemic response
Robert Kennedy Jr, a longshot independent candidate for US president, has sought to woo Libertarian party voters by casting rivals Donald Trump and Joe Biden as enemies of individual freedom.
Kennedy, 70, brought Libertarians to their feet by promising to pardon government whistleblower Edward Snowden, currently exiled in Russia, and drop espionage charges against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder battling US attempts to extradite him from Britain.
Continue reading...Singer Sean Kingston and his mother charged for over $1m fraud
Two were arrested on Thursday after Swat team raided rapper’s rented mansion in suburban Fort Lauderdale
Rapper and singer Sean Kingston and his mother committed more than a million dollars in fraud in recent months, stealing money, jewelry, a Cadillac Escalade and furniture, documents released Friday allege.
Kingston, 34, and his 61-year-old mother, Janice Turner, have been charged with conducting an organized scheme to defraud, grand theft, identity theft and related crimes, according to arrest warrants released by the Broward county, Florida, sheriff’s office.
Continue reading...How film stars faded – and pop stars took over
While fans can't get enough of pop stars at stadium tours, things do not look so rosy for movie stars.
‘They couldn’t care less’: fears for dogs’ welfare as Greyhound Racing NSW axes one of two adoption centres
Staff raise concerns as Wyee rehoming centre abruptly closed after steep drop in gambling revenue for governing body
Current and former staff have raised serious concerns about animal welfare and the culture at the agency that governs greyhound racing in New South Wales after it abruptly shut down one of just two adoption centres for ex-racing dogs this week.
Workers at the Greyhound Adoption Program (GAP) in Wyee were fired on Monday, the same day the Greyhound Racing New South Wales (GRNSW) chief executive, Rob Macaulay, announced the agency would cut 30% from its budget in the next financial year after a 22.5% fall in gambling revenue.
Continue reading...Kenya police to arrive in Haiti in ‘three weeks’
The BBC sat down with Kenya's president during his three-day trip to Washington DC to talk about Haiti and other crises.
The politician, the astrologer and a murder which changed the law
The trial of a former minister who killed his wife has gripped millions and ushered in a new law.
An Indian tale of love and sisterhood unfolds at Cannes
The first Indian entry in the Cannes Film Festival competition section in 30 years gets rave reviews.
Rain, running and red: Photos of the week
A selection of photos from around the world taken this week.
Uvalde families sue Instagram and Call of Duty maker over deadly school attack
‘Unholy trinity’ of Instagram, Activision and Daniel Defense accused of ‘working to convert alienated boys into mass shooters’
Families of children who were killed in the 2022 Uvalde mass shooting have filed wrongful death lawsuits accusing Instagram, game maker Activision and weapons manufacturer Daniel Defense of enabling the massacre.
The suits were filed on the second anniversary of the school shooting, in which 19 children and two teachers were killed, and accuse the “unholy trinity” of Instagram, Call of Duty, and Daniel Defense of “working together to convert alienated teenage boys into mass shooters”.
Continue reading...Veteran sketch artists never seen a trial like Trump’s
The sketch artists at Trump's trial have covered decades of high-profile cases. The former president's was unlike all others.
Alec Baldwin request to drop Rust manslaughter case denied
The actor was charged earlier this year over the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a film set in 2021.
‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation
Officers threatened to kill the dog of Thomas Perez Jr as they pressured him to falsely confess to killing his father, who was alive
A California city has agreed to pay $900,000 to a man who was subjected to a 17-hour police interrogation in which officers pressured him to falsely confess to murdering his father, who was alive.
During the 2018 interrogation of Thomas Perez Jr by police in Fontana, a city east of Los Angeles, officers suggested they would have Perez’s dog euthanized as a result of his actions, according to a complaint and footage of the encounter. A judge said the questioning appeared to be “unconstitutional psychological torture”, and the city agreed to settle Perez’s lawsuit for $898,000, his lawyer announced this week.
Continue reading...US teen arrested for melee at UCLA Gaza protest
The arrest of 18-year-old Edan On marks the first arrest of a counter-protester linked to the chaos.
Lloyd Austin to undergo new hospital treatment for bladder problem
Duties of US defense secretary, 70, whose cancer treatment in December was initially undisclosed, will be carried out by deputy
The US defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, is to undergo hospital treatment for a bladder issue for the second time in just over three months, the Pentagon has announced.
A Pentagon spokesperson, Maj Gen Pat Ryder, said the 70-year-old Austin would enter Walter Reed military medical center on Friday evening to undergo what he called “a scheduled, elective, and minimally invasive follow-up non-surgical procedure” to treat his previously disclosed bladder condition.
Continue reading...Royal Mail owner warns Czech billionaire’s offer could create risk around finances
IDS says a change in ownership may lead to ‘material uncertainty’ over the company’s future
Royal Mail’s owner has warned that a potential £3.5bn bid by the Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský could create risk around the company’s finances.
The warning came as the industry regulator Ofcom announced that it had opened an investigation into the parent group, International Distributions Services (IDS), for failing to meet its annual delivery targets for the second year in a row. Last year, Ofcom fined the company £5.6m for failing to meet its first-class and second-class delivery targets in 2022-23.
Continue reading...Child dies after falling from block of flats in south-east London
Child fell from upper floor of flat on Hotspur Street in Kennington on Friday afternoon and died at the scene, police said
A child has died after falling from a block of flats in south-east London. The child fell from the upper floor of a flat on Hotspur Street in Kennington on Friday afternoon and died at the scene, the Metropolitan police said.
Police were called to the address at 4.23pm, and said that so far there was “nothing to indicate that the incident is suspicious”.
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