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‘Clinical consensus statement’ also urges heart doctors to advise patients to not eat late at night, and chew slowly Want to reduce your intake of ultra-processed food? If so, cook at home more often, don’t eat late at night and chew your food more slowly. Those are among some of the tips doctors have offered to help people limit the amount of UPF they consume given the acute and growing danger i…

Michael Marx was shot by authorities multiple times and then taken to a hospital after bystander was wounded A man accused of firing a gun at law enforcement officers near the Washington monument this week was walking along the path of JD Vance ’s motorcade before the shooting and made a vulgar remark about the White House after the confrontation, according to a court filing on Wednesday. Michael…

School said its admission process is ‘based on merit’ and it is committed to complying with state and federal laws The US Department of Justice found on Wednesday that the medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles illegally considered race in admissions as the Trump administration ramps up scrutiny of colleges’ processes for selecting students. The finding escalates the Trump ad…

As Labour faces record-breaking losses in Thursday’s local elections, prime minister says rivals are unfit to lead Labour is braced for record-breaking losses in Thursday’s local elections in England, which could be decisive for Keir Starmer’s future as prime minister. In a message to voters on Thursday, Starmer said Reform’s Nigel Farage and the Greens’ Zack Polanski were “not fit to meet this m…

Powerful property and farming firm Grosvenor Group says knock-on effect of Iran war could arrive next year Fertiliser shortages caused by the Iran war have driven up costs for UK farmers by up to 70% and will have a “dramatic” impact on food prices globally next year, according to one of Britain’s most powerful property and farming companies. Mark Preston, executive trustee of the 349-year-old Gr…

Police say they arrested an 18-year-old man after weekend shooting at lake party promoted across social media Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Police announced on Wednesday that an 18-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting that left one woman dead and 22 other people wounded during a night-time party beside an Oklahoma lake. Police in Edmond announced t…

Mining company cannot appeal against liability for 2015 dam collapse in Brazil. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it will be Nick Visser with the main action. A man has been charged by police in New South Wales with an alleged hate speech of…

Shabana Mahmood has announced plan to cut leave to remain from five years to 30 months, to concern of UN’s refugee agency Two Sudanese asylum seekers are challenging a central element of Labour’s plans to strip refugees of basic rights, rejecting the home secretary’s accusation that they are “asylum shoppers”. Shabana Mahmood has announced plans to halve refugees’ leave to remain in the UK, from …

Democrats sharply criticize the US commerce secretary’s testimony, saying he was ‘dishonest’ and should resign The US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, appeared before the House oversight and reform committee on Wednesday to answer questions over his past ties to Jeffrey Epstein . Lutnick agreed in March to sit for a transcribed interview with the committee after the justice department’s releas…

Ship’s doctor, a Briton, among those evacuated from MV Hondius, which is now heading for Canary Islands Explainer: What is hantavirus? Three people with suspected hantavirus, including a British doctor who is a crew member, have been medically evacuated from a cruise ship. The 56-year-old Briton, along with a Dutch colleague aged 41 and a 65-year-old German, were taken from the Dutch-flagged crui…

Demonstrators, angered by Russia’s inclusion at arts festival, shouted ‘Curated by Putin, dead bodies included’ The Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale was forced temporarily to shut its doors on the second day of the preview after the activist group Pussy Riot staged a chaotic protest against the country’s inclusion in the art festival. Wearing pink balaclavas, the protesters ran towards the…

Pontiff responds after US president accuses him of ‘endangering a lot of Catholics’ with stance on Iran war Middle East crisis – live updates People in the US: what do you think of Chicago-born Pope Leo? Pope Leo has said he has never supported nuclear weapons and that those who criticise him need to speak the truth, in response to Donald Trump’s latest tirade accusing him of “endangering a lot o…

Latest proposal, derided by Tehran as a ‘wishlist’, could yet be a way out – but with 5,000 dead, it comes at an awful price Middle East crisis – live updates Another day, another hairpin turn in the world of Donald Trump’s foreign policy. The weekend was all about war, and Trump insisting Iran had not yet “paid a big enough price”. Tuesday was Project Freedom, styled as a grand “humanitarian ges…

President issues fresh ultimatum despite US claims that progress has been made in stalled negotiations with Tehran Middle East crisis – live updates The US president, Donald Trump, has issued a fresh ultimatum, telling Iran to accept a deal to end the war in the Middle East or face a new wave of US bombing “at a much higher level and intensity than it was before”. The social media announcement on…

The software company said in February it would cut 7,000 jobs but, as it touts new technology, workers are still waiting to hear which roles will go Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Staff at WiseTech have been waiting almost three months to be told if they’re among the 2,000 people the logistics software company is to cut due to advances in AI, with workers criticising…