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‘One deputy sheriff lost a daughter in that school,’ says Texas governor Greg Abbott
Chancellor to announce measures to ease cost of living crisis on Thursday
Probe into murders of Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes find concerns raises by relatives ‘too often disregarded’ and says ‘fundamental change’ to child protection needed to prevent future tragedies
Twitter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators’ allegations that the social platform failed to protect the privacy of users’ data over a six-year span
Cuban state news media say that a single vessel carrying 842 Haitians who apparently were trying to reach the United States has landed instead in central Cuba
Attack killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde
A trial has begun for a former Virginia Tech football player accused of fatally beating a Tinder match he originally believed was a woman
A former Democratic leader in the Illinois House has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for his role in a bribery scheme
Boy was seen earlier with guns, witness said
Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announce a fresh package of measures a day after Sue Gray’s damning report.
As much as 99,000 hectares of land in England will be focused on supporting nature under the schemes.
The three banked mural walls in the pedestrian concourse of Birmingham’s Hockley flyover underpass feature geometric shapes and abstract patterns.
Passenger numbers at UK airports last year were 78% below pre-pandemic levels.
YouGov carried out the research of people on behalf of Cancer Research UK.
Outsourcing appeared to be the MoD’s default position, with little consideration to providing services in house, MPs said.
Ucas report finds international students are more likely to go to higher-tariff universities in the UK.
Steven Gallagher, from Ayrshire, is recovering after having the operation in Leeds.
Judges for the awards include businesswoman Deborah Meaden, footballer Ellen White and comedian Bob Mortimer.
The new Digital Matters platform is aimed at pupils in Years 5 and 6.
The majority of the business courses inspected have dropout rates of 40%.
Campaigners said new proposals could turns victims away from therapy services.
The route passes through Canterbury, Whitstable, Folkestone and Dover.
The operation was undertaken by all 43 forces in England and Wales, as well as the British Transport Police.
Susanne Rice brought a claim for discrimination against a web development agency in Belfast.
The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel said the teams should be made up of police, social workers and health staff.
Negotiations for peace deal cannot resume until Russia pulls out troops, president says
‘We plead with Sajid, as a father, to prevent the need for us to fight during our darkest moments’, say parents
The Spaniard’s fine form deserted him early on but he showed remarkable poise and fight to earn a comeback win
Boeing's astronaut taxi has returned to Earth from the International Space Station, completing a repeat test flight with a mannequin on board
Could Facebook have known about ominous direct-message threats made by a gunman who Texas authorities say massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school
Nicolo Zaniolo scored the only goal of the game in Tirana.
A man accused of randomly murdering a fellow passenger on a New York City subway train has made his first court appearance
Some of those targeted said they had been made aware of ‘Russian disinformation based on illegal hacking’
Health officials warn that gun violence remains a ‘serious public health threat that must be addressed’
Misinformation and conspiracy theories about Tuesday's deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, began to spread online only hours after the carnage
The winning numbers were 30, 31, 37, 45, 49, 56.
‘Very rarely will you see Jada and I even touch’
A jury in Portland, Oregon, has convicted a self-published romance novelist — who once wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband" — of fatally shooting her husband four years ago
Less than a day after a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas, a Wednesday Senate hearing for President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reflected the deep political divisions over guns
‘I’m not numbed by it. I will never be numbed by it’
Actor honoured her son’s birthday in an Instagram post
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree Tuesday that creates stricter rules against environmental crimes in the Amazon rainforest, such as fraud in timber licensing
The likely culprits are lead-based fishing weights
In between mass shootings killed and wounded people attending school, grocery shopping and simply living their lives, the nation marked a milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19
The 21-year-old has scored 19 goals to help Nottingham Forest reach the Sky Bet Championship play-off final.
The House’s top law enforcement official says members of Congress should be barred from carrying firearms anywhere in the Capitol or its surrounding office buildings and grounds
Ron Johnson asked about gun control the day after 19 students and two teachers were killed in Texas massacre
The Chancellor is to set out new measures in a bid to tackle the cost-of-living crisis on Thursday.
South African centre has been in imperious form for his club.
Texas has some of most lenient gun laws in country