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Utah judge sets timeline for trial of Tyler Robinson, accused of fatally shooting the far-right activist in September 2025 Tyler Robinson, the 23-year-old man accused of killing the far-right pundit and activist Charlie Kirk, will stand trial for murder in early July 2028, a Utah district judge ruled on Monday. Judge Tony Graf said the trial will remain in Provo, Utah, and jury selection would be…

Massachusetts judge rejects bid by Clancy’s attorneys to have the case against her dismissed A Massachusetts judge cleared the way on Monday for Lindsay Clancy to be tried again on ⁠murder charges for killing her three young children at her home in 2023, saying a retrial would not unconstitutionally subject her to a ⁠double prosecution for the same ⁠crime. Judge William ​Sullivan in Plymouth reje…

Former builder got his big break after restoring the home of a producer who was working on a precursor to the show Tommy Walsh, the building and DIY expert who appeared on television shows including Ground Force, has died aged 69 after a long illness. Walsh started his career as a professional builder before rising to fame alongside Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock on the popular BBC garden ma…

Jensen Huang’s close relationship with president means Nvidia CEO’s affair with woman alleged to be working for Beijing is a big deal A hand on the back, a kiss on the cheek; the footage of Alice Huang’s interaction with Jensen Huang in a Taipei venue last year does not seem particularly remarkable at first glance. But the Nvidia chief executive’s revelation on Sunday that he had an affair with M…

Caucus had 100 members in the last Congress, and six of the nine candidates it endorsed won, flipping seats House progressives, long dismissed as the Democratic party’s leftwing outliers, are heading into the next Congress in larger numbers than ever and vowing to push the new Democratic majority to the left. The Congressional Progressive caucus said on Sunday it will welcome more than 25 new mem…

Prosecutors dropped cases because survivors ‘didn’t act how a rape victim should’, Australian Institute of Criminology review of 19,000 sexual assault cases finds Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Queensland police put sexual assault investigations “on the backburner” because detectives were overworked and under pressure to prioritise cases linked to political issues su…

‘Not particularly complex’ defrosting hack has been attributed to Iran, with presumption it is linked to others across Europe Iranian hackers like to send a message. In 2023 a state-backed group interrupted TV streaming services in the United Arab Emirates to broadcast a deepfake report on the war in Gaza. In the same year, hackers affiliated with Iran displayed the slogan “down with Israel” on t…

TV producer, who was in relationship with ex-comedian that reportedly ended in 2014, accuses him of ‘violence, coercive control and abuse’ Russell Brand sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for rape and sexual assault Jemima Goldsmith has said Russell Brand physically assaulted her and she accused him of “violence, coercive control and abuse”. The 52-year-old TV producer said she has always …

Particles from fireworks and bonfires likely to have contributed to levels well above WHO’s daily guideline Air pollution soared to “very high” levels across urban parts of England on Monday as still, foggy weather kept emissions trapped after a weekend of fireworks and bonfires. Government monitoring showed 11 sites, mainly in London and Greater Manchester, reached the highest band on its 10-poi…

Women say move will be ‘massively detrimental’ to services for vulnerable children, and hit their own pensions The 33 women waving banners outside a nursery in the South Yorkshire village of Grimethorpe have never been on strike before. Passing cars beep their horns in support of the workers, who have taken action at six nurseries run by Barnsley council after its Reform UK leadership agreed to t…

High winds and heavy train triggered collapse of sand bank overlooking camp for displaced families Witnesses have described the frantic struggle to save three members of a family buried by a landslide triggered by high winds and heavy rain in Gaza. A sand bank overlooking a camp for displaced families south of Deir al-Balah collapsed on Sunday, killing five people and crushing at least three tent…

Simon Stiell makes opening address at summit in Turkey, where talks are under way about speeding up shift to electrification A global fossil fuel price crisis is “spreading inflation like a cancer” around the planet, the UN’s chief climate negotiator, Simon Stiell, told the opening plenary of critical UN climate talks in Turkey. Stiell joined Cop31 hosts Turkey and Australia, which is leading the…

French foreign minister vows European sanctions against Tehran over ‘unprecedented’ hacks last month Europe live – latest updates France has said Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were behind “unprecedented” cyber-attacks on supermarket fridges in the country last month, vowing European sanctions against Tehran. “I can confirm that this attack was carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of…

Exclusive: MP Chris Ward believes ditching pledges and forming closer ties with EU would protect it from global threats One of the architects of Keir Stamer’s Brexit red lines has called for Andy Burnham to abandon them at the next election, saying a new relationship with the EU would protect the UK from global threats. The call is the latest voice from a prominent figure in Starmer’s administrat…

Five-times Olympic champion says he is neither leftwing nor rightwing, but would seek to ‘bring people together’ The French judo star and five-times Olympic gold medallist Teddy Riner has announced plans to run in next year’s presidential election, describing himself as someone neither leftwing nor rightwing but who would seek to “bring people together”. With more than five months before the Apri…