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Jackson, set to replace Graham Platner, is prominent workers’ rights advocate and a leading progressive voice As cinemagoers flock to The Odyssey , Democrats in Maine are hoping that their long and perilous quest for a political hero ends in Troy. They are set to nominate lumberjack Troy Jackson this weekend as their candidate to challenge Susan Collins, a veteran Republican in the US Senate, aft…

Robot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American population A humanoid robot is being introduced as part of a pilot program, along with an AI teaching assistant, at Salamanca high school in Salamanca, New York, located on the Allegany territory of the Seneca nation. Teachers have criticized the program, deeming it “inappropriate” and claiming i…

Jewellery made from BC Iran worn at Odyssey photocall throws spotlight on the trade of rare archeological finds The Odyssey has stormed cinemas, but while its take on the Homeric epic has created ripples among western classicists, it is an actor’s earrings that have made waves further afield. Zendaya, who portrays the goddess Athena in the movie, provoked outrage when she appeared at a London pho…

Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation Red Scare? The democratic socialist mayor of New York City spent this week talking about red tape. On Tuesday, Zohran Mamdani – the politician at the center of a revived rightwing panic about socialists and purported communists winning elections across America - posted a video on X of himsel…

After a Kyiv visit, rightwing firebrand now supports Ukraine – but perhaps it’s just because Trump favors a winner Laura Loomer, the online Maga provocateur, has never worked in the White House or anywhere else in the government, but her sudden conversion to the Ukrainian cause this week is significant because her social media posts often have real policy implications in the second Trump administ…

Dharmendra Pradhan steps down after demonstrations over exam leak scandal in major victory for youth political movement India’s education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, has resigned after a week of mass demonstrations, handing a major victory to a new youth movement that has posed an unprecedented challenge to Narendra Modi’s government. In a statement on Saturday afternoon, Pradhan said he had su…

Comment follows news Axel Rudakubana had been transferred from prison to psychiatric hospital The lawyer for the families of Axel Rudakubana’s victims has said the Southport killer is “trying to retraumatise the families from his cell” after it emerged he had been transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital . Rudakubana, now 19, was given a life sentence for the murders of Alice da Silva Ag…

Lucy Harrison, 23, was shot in 2025 with her father’s gun. He was never arrested and a grand jury chose not to indict him Lucy Harrison felt that 2024 was her best year yet. The 23-year-old had graduated from university with first class honours, landed her dream job and bought her first house with her boyfriend. She was a “big girl adult” now, Lucy would say. She shed tears of joy seeing her idol…

No press briefing has been held for months, as the defence department belatedly or inaccurately releases figures The Pentagon is taking a “shameful approach” to releasing information about US casualties in the Iran war, Leon Panetta , a former defence secretary and CIA director, has told the Guardian. The defence department has not held a press briefing for two-and-a-half months. Officials have f…

Major incident declared over blaze which started 11 days ago as wind strengthens A major incident has been declared over a wildfire that has been raging in the Cairngorms national park for more than a week, police have said, with a whole village having been evacuated. Officers from Police Scotland said there had been a significant change in weather conditions, with strengthening winds making a fi…

Officials said they were not satisfied Therese Abdallah was a ‘genuine visitor’ and believed she would not leave after visit to son in London A Palestinian Jerusalemite who lives in London has been left devastated after a planned trip by his parents had to be cancelled when the Home Office ruled his mother was not a “genuine visitor”. Karim Abdallah, who has lived in the UK since 2019, was lookin…

US president responds to question about NBA’s ‘best ever’ James backed three candidates who ran against Trump In a bizarre response to being asked to weigh in on the basketball careers of ⁠Michael Jordan and LeBron James, the US president Donald Trump said that James might be “a racist”. In Friday’s ⁠White House press ⁠conference, ​the Fox News reporter Peter Doocy mentioned that James intends to…

‘I can’t tolerate this life,’ said the 24-year-old in his last voice message to his relatives. Attacked by the military, a rebel army and criminal gangs, Siraz Ullah risked all for a better future The fear was audible as he spoke, recording a message to his family, asking for their prayers. After pressing send, 24-year-old Siraz Ullah boarded a boat he hoped could deliver him from the violence an…

Campaigners urge government to introduce right of access to water, particularly as heatwaves become more common Almost three-quarters of riverbanks in England have no public access, according to data released by the Right to Roam campaign. Across the country, the public cannot use riverbanks or gain access to the rivers themselves in most of the river catchments from the west of Cornwall up to th…

Officials in Spain warn winds could worsen fires on Saturday Tell us: have you been affected by wildfires in Europe? French authorities evacuated thousands of people from ⁠suburbs near Bordeaux on Saturday as wildfires in areas around the ⁠city showed no ⁠signs ​of abating, the Reuters news agency reports Sophie Brocas, who heads the local administration of La Nouvelle-Aquitaine ⁠et de la Gironde…