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The conservative-heavy court had largely given Trump everything he desired – until now, when two of his three nominees turned his back on him After an agonising year in which the US supreme court has stood aside and watched while Donald Trump has run roughshod over the constitutional separation of powers, the highest judicial panel has finally stirred itself to set boundaries on the president’s i…

Church suspends Stephen Conway as police investigate claim man was sexually assaulted between 2018 and 2025 The bishop of Lincoln has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault. Lincolnshire police confirmed that a 68-year-old man was arrested as part of an “ongoing investigation following an allegation that a man was sexually assaulted between 2018 and 2025”. Continue reading...

City minister Lucy Rigby acts after woman faced repossession of house burned down by controlling husband A woman who was nearly killed by her abusive husband has been invited to advise the government on measures to support victims of financial abuse after the Guardian highlighted her story last weekend. Francesca Onody was left homeless and penniless when her husband doused their cottage with pet…

Exclusive: Project Giving Back, set up in 2022 to help charities exhibit show gardens, says this year will be its last Chelsea flower show is looking for new charity sponsors after the mystery philanthropic couple who have spent more than £23m on show gardens end their support. Project Giving Back was set up by two anonymous donors in 2022, and since then it has paid for 63 gardens at the most pr…

Images include Mountbatten-Windsor with Virginia Giuffre, Jeffrey Epstein and an unknown female lying on a floor Allegations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s links to Jeffrey Epstein have unfolded over several years – and in several pictures. Here is how they have dripped into the public’s consciousness and kept the pressure on the royal family. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy says treating these objects as collectors’ items ‘should be looked at in horror’ An antiques auction selling chains linked to the enslavement of African people in Zanzibar has been accused of “profiting from slavery”. Neck irons dated to the Omani-Arab dominated trade in enslaved people in east Africa , which ended after African resistance and British pressu…

Even as weather extremes worsen, the voices calling for the rolling back of environmental rules have grown louder and more influential In the timeless week between Christmas and the new year, two Spanish men in their early 50s – friends since childhood, popular around town – went to a restaurant and did not come home. Francisco Zea Bravo, a maths teacher active in a book club and rock band, and A…

Iranian foreign minister says draft could be ready for internal review in coming days while US president says ‘they better negotiate a fair deal’ Iran’s foreign minister has said he expects to have a draft counterproposal ready within days after nuclear talks with the US this week, while Donald Trump said he was considering limited military strikes. Two US officials told Reuters that US military …

A 32-year-old has been charged with serious vilification or hate crime and other offences but police say it is not being considered a terrorist incident Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Police have charged a man after a car was used to ram the gates of a synagogue in Brisbane. Officers say the man was driving a Toyota Hilux utility when he knocked down the gates of the…

After meeting with unspecified tech leaders, senator calls for urgent policy action as companies race to build ever more powerful systems Bernie Sanders has warned that Congress and the American public have “not a clue” about the scale and speed of the coming AI revolution, pressing for urgent policy action to “slow this thing down” as tech companies race to build ever-more powerful systems. Spea…

Move brings total number of people killed in US strikes on suspected boats since September to at least 148 The US military launched a strike on an alleged drug smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific on Friday, killing three men in its second strike this week. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-traff…

Shooting death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, in Texas was not publicly disclosed by Department of Homeland Security Newly released records show a US citizen was shot and killed in Texas by a federal immigration agent last year during a late-night traffic encounter that was not publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security. The death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, would mark the earliest of a…

Aid workers say the camp where 34 women and children are being held are ‘dire’ and present more risk than if they were repatriated Conditions in the north-eastern Syrian camp to where 34 Australians have been forcibly returned are deteriorating dramatically, with reports of near-nightly raids, and increasingly violent beatings, amid worsening uncertainty over their futures. The 11 women and 23 Au…

President calls decision a ‘disgrace to the nation’ while praising three justices who dissented US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump on Friday railed against the supreme court justices who blocked his use of tariffs, calling the decision a “disgrace to the nation”, and later signed documents imposing a 10% tariff on all countries. “It’s my opinion that the court has been swayed by forei…

Senior Hezbollah leader Hussein Yaghi reportedly killed in the attacks in the eastern Bekaa valley At least 10 people have been killed and 24 wounded – including three children – in Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa valley, the Lebanese health ministry has said. Israel said it had hit “command centres” of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in Bekaa valley. Two security sources told Re…