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While officials say proposed revisions will encourage more enrollment, advocates say it will undermine the program The Trump administration has said it plans to overhaul Head Start, tossing out many of the regulations that are the hallmark of the early education program for the nation’s neediest children. Officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the federally fun…

Settlement ends years-long legal battle over collapse of 18-story hotel that was under construction in New Orleans A judge approved a $106m settlement on Thursday that ends a years-long legal battle over the deadly 2019 collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel that was under construction in New Orleans. The 18-story hotel project partially collapsed in October 2019 , killing three people and damaging nearby…

President attacks ‘terrible mistake’ of US attorney, who said in court filing damage stemmed from botched renovation Donald Trump has doubled down on his criticism of Jeanine Pirro after the US attorney for the District of Columbia publicly challenged his claims that vandals had damaged the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. “She said there was no vandalism. There was tremendous…

Expansion of immigration enforcement at US airports puts employees at odds with agents seeking 2,000 daily arrests A dramatic increase in immigration enforcement at US airports has reportedly placed the airline industry at odds with the Trump administration as workers decline to help federal officials arrest their targets – many of whom have pending applications for visas, asylum or green cards. …

Jump in imports narrowed Australia’s goods trade surplus to $1.1bn in June quarter. Follow today’s news live Penny Wong says Australia has ‘more work to do’ forging relationships in the Pacific The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong , is in Fiji today amid a meeting with her counterparts from across the Pacific. We’ve got work more work to do. We’ve announced that we do want to engage with and …

Politicians’ fever dreams of ‘sustainable price increases’ – where values keep rising but by less than wages – could happen Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Reserve Bank has hiked interest rates and the property market is in retreat. So far, so normal. Or is it? Continue reading...

Westminster council has recommended banning ‘vertical drinking’ or ordering at the bar in new draft licensing policy No 10 has vowed to confiscate powers from local councils which try to restrict customers from standing up while drinking in pubs or ordering at the bar. It comes after the Guardian revealed on Thursday that Westminster council in central London recommended not allowing “vertical dr…

Exclusive: Academics say university must take responsibility for ‘grotesque racism’ unleashed and hold independent inquiry The University of Cambridge’s leaders deserve blame for the “grotesque racism unleashed” by Jason Arday’s appointment as professor, according to academics calling for the university to hold an independent inquiry. The Guardian understands that senior dons at Cambridge are cir…

Stella Gollovena, 47, has been charged with four counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm A woman has appeared in court accused of stabbing four men in the back with a pair of scissors in one of London’s busiest tourist districts. Stella Gollovena, 47, is accused of attacking Patrick De Barr, Thomas Harding, Adrian Lovett and Mantas Jankus during the attack in Covent Garden on…

Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers allegedly attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford Two men have been arrested after police were injured as they intervened to protect men believed to be asylum seekers from angry mobs trying to break into their homes. The arrests followed two nights of unrest in Thetford, Norfolk, involving more than 100 people protesting against plans to ho…

Court rules architecture firm not responsible for fatal incident but project managers and engineers found guilty of safety breaches The architecture firm founded by Norman Foster has been cleared over the death of a man killed by a window that fell 90 metres from a newly constructed London penthouse. Foster + Partners (F+P), the practice behind some of the world’s most recognisable buildings such…

Cases have passed 4,000 and health watchdog plans to go door to door to find patients in major response escalation The virus causing a massive outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be mutating, health officials fear, as confirmed cases pass 4,000. Africa’s public health watchdog said the time for incremental action was over as they announced plans to scale up every aspec…

Germany investigating whether foreign state involved as they say ‘ripped’ detonator stopped device going off Europe live – latest updates A catastrophe with multiple casualties was possibly narrowly averted by the discovery of a drone carrying explosives at Leipzig airport, German officials said, as they examined whether a foreign state could be behind the plot. One of the Ukrainian aircraft next…

As Australia prepares for the H5 bird flu to potentially rip through hundreds of species, residents of the Limestone Coast are already seeing the impacts Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast It’s only been three weeks since H5 bird flu was detected on South Australia’s Limestone Coast, and already encounters with sick or dead birds are becoming commonplace. Maureen Christi…

Amid revelations that could damage the Liberals’ state election hopes, the NSW government dropped key documents on three contentious issues Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast During the first week of the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s (Icac) Operation Rosny’s hearings into allegations against people associated with the New South Wales Liberal party, Chris Mi…