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Reporting season shows how consumers are responding to cost of living pressures and how retailers are responding Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australians are buying less pizza but more weight-loss drugs . They love “dupes” but don’t enjoy writing letters. Here are five key takeaways from the August reporting season that show what consumers are buying as cost of liv…

Bill Lee says he favors proposal to rename Nashville’s international airport after legendary country singer Bill Lee, the Tennessee governor, on Friday said he favored a proposal to rename Nashville’s international airport after legendary country singer Dolly Parton , who died three days earlier at age 80. In a statement , Lee said he and the managers of the airport in Tennessee’s capital city – …

Jose Carlos Hoyoz-Munoz was arrested after a family altercation and restrained for ‘combative’ behavior A cadre of Los Angeles police officers beat and restrained a handcuffed man in July, minutes before he was found dead in a jail cell, according to newly released body-cam footage . On 15 July, Jose Carlos Hoyoz-Munoz, 58, was found unconscious in his cell at the Van Nuys regional jail. At the t…

Tulshi Patel says mother Hemangini Jitendra Patel and aunt Hema Sunil Amin were last seen at Friendship Bridge on Nepal-China border • Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updates The daughter of a woman missing in Nepal has told how she traced her mother’s location through a TikTok video posted hours before the devastating flash flood hit. The catastrophic flash floods that hit Nepal and Tibet on We…

Ex-Breitbart editor has vocally supported immediate deportations for anyone who can’t prove US residency Far-right British media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the US after being detained on Thursday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Orleans in connection with what the agency said was expired authorization to be in the country and a deportation order. Yiann…

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon in April received the US’s highest space honor on Friday. Donald Trump presented the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to the three Americans and one Canadian whose lunar flyby for the US space agency Nasa set a new distance record for h…

Shadow minister for housing, communities and local government to resign with immediate effect James Cleverly has resigned from the shadow cabinet to run for mayor of London. The Tory heavyweight, who was once home and foreign secretary and is shadow minister for housing, communities and local government, told the Sunday Times he will resign with immediate effect. Continue reading...

Ex-House intel committee chair, now running against Abdul El-Sayed, instead saw photo of Osama bin Laden’s body In a recent fundraising email, the Republican candidate for Michigan ’s open US Senate seat, former congressman Mike Rogers, appeared to mislead supporters about his past by suggesting that he had played an active role in the killing of Osama bin Laden , the leader of al-Qaida who was s…

Family members pin photos of Nepal’s missing to hospital wall as people try not to give up hope on loved ones Nepal-Tibet flash flood – latest updates Posters of missing people line the wall of the hospital, the glue still fresh beneath. A schoolgirl smiling in her uniform; a beaming, chubby-cheeked baby; a couple smiling on their wedding day; a young man, hands on hips, atop a mountain peak; a y…

Bureau will still dismiss those engaged with sex workers within past 10 years, three or more times overall, or while in public safety capacity The FBI is dropping a categorical hiring ban on applicants who have had sexual encounters with sex workers and will instead consider in a more holistic manner at least some candidates who have engaged in the practice in the past, according to people famili…

Three vessels and a helicopter deployed to monitor four ships travelling through the North Sea to the Channel The Royal Navy spent three days tracking Russian vessels as they passed through UK waters, it has emerged. The “intense” 72-hour operation took place last week, with radars used to monitor four ships that made their way from the North Sea through to the Channel. Continue reading...

Bridget Phillipson says government would not have to consider releasing prisoners early if Tories had created more capacity Cells to hold newly arrested people could run out without the early prison release scheme, a government minister has said. Bridget Phillipson defended the plan to address the prison capacity crisis in England and Wales by releasing thousands of prisoners early, which has bee…

Nominated in three previous years, the rambunctious standup – one half of The Delightful Sausage – wins the prize for his show Rewilding while Marty Gleeson is named best newcomer The annual Edinburgh comedy award has been won by the standup Chris Cantrill, two years after his comedy partner Amy Gledhill – in the raucous northern double act The Delightful Sausage – won the same prize. Cantrill, 4…

Former Duchess of York moved to Swiss chalet during fallout over her friendship with convicted child sex offender Sarah Ferguson is set to return to the UK after relocating to a Swiss chalet amid the fallout over her and ex-husband Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s friendship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to reports. The scandal over the pair’s relationship with Epstein …

Attack on business apparently storing ‘explosive objects’ sparks huge fire, damaging residential buildings At least 37 people have been killed after a Russian drone struck a warehouse near Kyiv’s western suburbs which appears to have been storing “explosive objects”. The attack damaged at least 50 residential buildings, including a care home for elderly and disabled people, and sparked a huge fir…