A crunch deal to raise the US debt ceiling has been voted through by the House of Representatives. The agreement – which aims to avert a potentially catastrophic scenario where the US defaults on its national debts – passed through the Republican-majority House by 314-117 votes. The proposal will now move to the Senate. The
Month: May 2023
US TV star Danny Masterson has been found guilty of two counts of rape. The actor, 47, faced accusations by three women that he raped them at his home in Hollywood Hills between 2001 and 2003. At the time, Masterson was at the height of his fame – starring alongside Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis
NASA has held its first public meeting on UFOs, a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings. The space agency televised the four-hour-long hearing on Wednesday, featuring an independent panel of experts at NASA headquarters in Washington, with the public taking part remotely. The team included 16 scientists and other experts selected by NASA
A drug commonly prescribed to pregnant women with an inheritable blood clotting condition and a history of recurrent miscarriage does not help to reduce their miscarriage risk, new research has found. Researchers are advising doctors to stop offering the blood thinner Low Molecular Weight Heparin (heparin) to patients with inherited thrombophilia. The condition results in
ITV has asked a barrister to carry out an external review of Phillip Schofield’s departure from This Morning. The development was announced by the broadcaster’s chief executive, Dame Carolyn McCall, in a letter to Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, Dame Caroline Dinenage, and the Ofcom chief executive,
Sky News analysis of the latest census data shows the jobs we now work in, revealing a shift to data and computer programming. The youngest workers were in retail and hospitality while farmers and elected officials had the most workers aged 60 and over. Some 27.8 million people aged 16 and over in England and
ITV has instructed a barrister to carry out an external review of the facts following Phillip Schofield’s statement and departure from This Morning, chief executive Dame Carolyn McCall has said. In a letter seen by the PA news agency, ITV’s Dame McCall said: “You will have seen the significant media coverage concerning Phillip Schofield. “As
All of Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and notebooks that have been requested by the COVID inquiry have been handed to the Cabinet Office in “full and in unredacted form”, his spokesman has said. The spokesman said the former prime minister wanted the Cabinet Office to “urgently” disclose the material to the inquiry. A statement from
New anti-LGBTQ+ laws have been passed in Uganda, expanding on rules which already criminalised same-sex acts and carried a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. The new anti-homosexuality law now makes “aggravated homosexuality” – which is defined as sexual relations involving people infected with HIV, as well as with those under 18, and other categories of
A 73-year-old woman who took part in two killings on the orders of cult leader Charles Manson in 1969 should be released from prison on parole, a Californian appeals court has ruled. Leslie Van Houten is serving a life sentence for helping Manson and other followers kill Leno LaBianca, a grocer in Los Angeles, and
CBI members are to begin voting today on the future of the business lobby group, following a series of scandals. The organisation was plunged into disarray after claims of serious sexual assault were made by CBI employees against colleagues. Today it will launch what it describes as an “ambitious ‘programme of change'”, with adjustments to
The government will ask people to put fewer items into recycling bins as it plans to cut back on contamination from improperly prepared or non-recyclable objects, according to reports. It is part of a plan to tackle “wishcycling” – where people put items they hope are recyclable into the relevant container, but their good intention
A federal judge will hear an appeal from a conservative think tank to unseal Prince Harry’s US immigration records following revelations in his book that he took drugs. Nile Gardner, of the Heritage Foundation, tweeted on Tuesday a hearing on his organisation’s suit will be heard on 6 June. He wrote that the “Prince Harry
A shipment of British goods – including signed Beano comics – are to be sent to Australia and New Zealand to mark the start of two new post-Brexit trade deals. The agreements between the UK and Australia, and the UK and New Zealand, came into force at midnight. Business and Trade Secretary, Kemi Badenoch, described
We are standing on the huge deck of the Geo Barents rescue ship, where hundreds of people are waiting to start a new life. The boat docked in Bari at breakfast time, pulling into the port accompanied by a police boat on one side and a coastguard vessel on the other. And about an hour
Rail passengers are set to suffer fresh travel disruption over the next few days due to more strikes in long-running disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. Train companies are warning that services will be “severely reduced” because of industrial action by drivers and other workers. Members of the drivers’ union Aslef will walk out on
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