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Advertisements for non-existent jobs aim to draw in people with access to classified or sensitive information Chinese spies are targeting UK government and military staff on job websites including LinkedIn to try to get access to classified or sensitive information, MI5 has warned. A bulletin has...

Senior police figures are pushing back against politicians they accuse of stoking tensions over Henry Novak’s murder Policing could be driven back to the 1960s by false claims officers are biased against white people, the leader of Britain’s black officers has said. Ch Insp Andy George, president...

Fears that push for ballroom spending could jeopardize $70bn funding for immigration enforcement Senate Republicans on Wednesday formally dropped their attempt to spend $1bn on security improvements for Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, as it became clear the president’s demand for the money c...

Order strips job protections from workers earning up to about $200,000 a year and deemed to be ‘influencing’ policy Donald Trump has signed an executive order making it easier to fire thousands of the best-paid workers in the US government aspart of a broader drive by his administration to overha...

Commonwealth Bank economists expect 5% drag on home prices from tax changes, compared with Treasury forecast of 2%. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight st...

German director says he recognises actor should have been better protected during filming of Wrong Move German director Wim Wenders has withdrawn from circulation his 1975 film Wrong Move, because of a scene featuring a child actor topless who was 13 years old at the time of filming. “Streaming, ...

While many US city councils have passed moratoriums, Monterey Park is first where residents have voted on a ban Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Residents in Monterey Park, California , became the first in the US to vote on a permanent ban on datacenters on Tuesday, and early res...

Consumer advocates decry Democrat Jared Polis for ‘choosing to side with dominant corporations’ over workers Colorado’s governor vetoed a bill on Tuesday that would have banned companies from using surveillance pricing to set workers’ wages and prices for consumer goods. The measure would have be...

Special, secretive operation will ship 11th-century artwork across Channel without jolts, bumps or shakes As the Bayeux tapestry wends its way across the Channel in a top secret operation there will be no jolts, no bumps, no shakes or vibrations – unlike the voyage of William the Conqueror whose ...

File detailing security mitigations is among those withheld at the request of the Metropolitan police Ministers have faced renewed cross-party pressure in parliament over documents missing from a 1,500-page release of papers about Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to Washington. Despite...

Keir Starmer says Younger led an ‘exemplary life’, while foreign secretary says country owes him ‘an enormous debt of gratitude’ Alex Younger, the former head of MI6, has died at the age of 62 after being treated for cancer. Younger led the Secret Intelligence Service, the agency also known as MI...

Ben Black’s lawyers deny relationship with disgraced financier, but DoJ records reveal years of interactions Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Ben Black, the head of a little-known government investment agency funded by billions of dollars from US taxpayers, had personal and busin...

Analysis of evidence and interviews with experts suggests focus by rightwing critics on race misses reality of police failures As the row over the police handling of the stabbing of Henry Nowak by Vickrum Digwa continues, critics on the right have suggested that a preoccupation with anti-racism p...

North Carolina judge said Levi Mendez-Maldonado failed to show up in court – even after being told he had died in 2024 An immigration judge in Charlotte, North Carolina , recently ordered the deportation of a young man who was killed in 2024, citing his failure to appear in court. Judge Amy Lee o...

Jess Asato was portrayed by AI tool as wearing a bikini after she criticised the creation of such non-consensual pictures A Labour MP has taken legal action against Elon Musk’s AI company after saying its Grok tool helped a user produce fake sexualised pictures of her, part of a wave of such imag...

Review comes after Combs was sentenced last year in New York to 50 months in prison on charges related to transporting women for prostitution Authorities in Los Angeles are reviewing additional sexual assault allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is serving a federal prison sentence. In a s...

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the virus ‘had a big head start’ but that the response was catching up The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could have begun as early as January, the head of the World Health Organization said, giving the virus “a big head start”. Dr Tedros Ad...

Clear-up has begun but psychological impact likely to last much longer as community recovers from violent protests The clean up was quick. The day after an anti-police demonstration turned violent in the Portswood area of Southampton, workers cleared up broken glass and fixed fences that had been...

Giving news websites the power to block their content from being used in AI summaries will have global ramifications The UK’s competition watchdog has ordered Google to change how it uses publishers’ content in its AI-powered search results , in a move that will have global ramifications. The Com...

Actor sentenced to probation for incident in which he attacked three men and yelled homophobic slurs, according to witnesses Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Shia LaBeouf on Wednesday pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery charges filed against the actor after his arrest over alle...

TfL says 60% of drivers worked on first day of stoppage as RMT confirms second day of action will go ahead A London Underground drivers’ strike will bring another day of transport disruption to the capital on Thursday, after the RMT union confirmed its action would go ahead. Transport for London ...

New crisis at former vocational charity involves alleged withholding of data and breaching redundancy laws City & Guilds is facing potential legal and industrial action over claims it has been “dishonest” over plans to shed about 400 UK staff. Officials at the Unite union allege the owner of ...

Badenoch differentiated herself from Nigel Farage in response to Henry Nowak’s murder and supporters say her ratings are rising Kemi Badenoch has a hard-earned reputation for combativeness, especially on culture war issues, but at prime minister’s questions, with the murder of the teenager Henry ...

Airstrikes in south of country kill nine people and wound another 150, most of them medical staff Middle East crisis – live updates Three hospitals in southern Lebanon have been attacked by Israel in under a week, wounding more than 150 people and killing nine, according to Lebanon’s ministry of ...

Hearing in New York state case over shooting of healthcare executive sealed at short notice ‘at request of the defense’ Luigi Mangione ’s New York state case in the killing of the healthcare executive Brian Thompson descended into secrecy on Wednesday when Judge Gregory Carro held sealed proceedi...

Christi Hill and male police officer misidentified in Vickrum Digwa case on AI platforms including Grok UK politics live – latest updates A former police officer has been forced to flee to a safe space after she was falsely accused online of being involved in the Henry Nowak murder . Christi Hill...

Non-binding agreement to start building vehicles in 2027 would safeguard jobs at UK’s largest car factory Nissan has agreed to look at building cars in northern England for Chinese manufacturer Chery, in a move that would secure jobs at the UK’s largest car factory. The Japanese carmaker on Wedne...

Premier Chris Minns says changes would balance road safety and a more practical approach for medicinal cannabis users Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Motorists who use medicinal cannabis may soon be able to drive on New South Wales roads without fear of a severe penal...

There’s a three-week wait on test results in Yuendumu, near Alice Springs, and locals say NT Health has dropped the ball on telling locals what to do if they test positive Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A remote Aboriginal community at the centre of the Northern Terr...

Obstetricians and gynaecologists say anti sex-selective abortions bill ‘predicated on misinformation’ and ‘underlying aim is to restrict access to abortion’ Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The man who wants to ban “sex-selective abortions” is the first person who will...

Bank apologises after IT update caused problems with Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland apps Lloyds Banking Group has apologised after thousands of its customers were unable to make payments or send money due to another IT glitch. According to Downdetector, a website that lets people track real...

Democrats say appointment of Bill Pulte could doom bipartisan agreement to renew section 702 of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Donald Trump’s appointment of a close political ally with no intelligence experience to lead the nation’s spy age...

​The first heatwaves of the season reveal how ​ill-prepared governments across the continent are to protect people from increasingly dangerous temperatures • Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Meteorological summer has begun, ushered in with scorching heat that struck ...

Fewer than one in 10 SEW customers satisfied with firm’s handling of supply crisis, which left tens of thousands without water South East Water failed to adequately communicate with customers during outages last winter that left tens of thousands of people without water, a report has concluded. F...

DfE plans to withdraw funding for assistive software, saying it is now rarely needed due to ‘widely available free tools’ Disability campaigners have called on the government to halt plans to cut funding for specialist tech support for tens of thousands of disabled students in England. Almost 10,...

Chancellor hails deal saying it will create tens of thousands of jobs in the construction, hospitality, creative and technology sectors Business live – latest update British taxpayers will provide £1.3bn in funding to help Hollywood studio giant Universal build its first theme park in Europe . Co...

Veteran journalist says executives pushed unverified claims and gave politicians a say in interviews The longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, who was fired by CBS News on Tuesday after clashing with the network’s new management, issued a public statement accusing the network’s new exec...

Prosecutors seek to try 17-year-old as adult after animals injured at major barrel racing event A teenage girl who allegedly stabbed three show horses at a weekend rodeo in Las Vegas , Nevada, is a “crazy, obsessed stalker” who waited in a darkened barn to commit the attacks, the owner of one of ...

New Gallup poll finds support for same-sex marriage and relationships in the US has stopped rising after two decades Acceptance of same-sex marriage and relationships in the US has flattened after more than two decades of steadily increasing support, with an ongoing decline among Republicans, acc...

Stephen McCullagh planned ‘cold-blooded and calculated’ killing of Natalie McNally in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, in great detail A YouTuber who set up a false alibi by livestreaming a video-gaming session online has been sentenced to 31 years in prison for the “cold-blooded and calculated” murder ...

New issue of the American Journal of Public Health focuses on parallels between marketing for cigarettes and UPFs The new issue of the American Journal of Public Health focuses on ultra-processed foods, and reveals that big tobacco companies used strategies that helped them sell cigarettes to sel...

Petrol station attack throws spotlight on widespread exploitation of foreign farm labourers The exploitation of farm workers in Italy has come under the spotlight again after four men – three Afghans and one from Pakistan – were allegedly burned alive in a car at a petrol station in Calabria. The...

Mixed picture emerges from races across the US, as Trump’s pick fails in Iowa. Plus: Jill Biden speaks about her husband’s decision to drop out of the 2024 election Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. It has been a night of drama as crucial election results hav...

While the technology is set to play a growing role in modern warfare, there remains an unresolved ethical challenge Should the AI-powered drones of the future have a licence to kill? The question is becoming ever more pressing as governments and the defence industry acknowledge that drone systems...

With corrupt police on the streets and shopkeepers forced to pay gangs, president has vowed to tackle crime that now affects all parts of society It was about 11pm and Luis* was about to get into an Uber to go home when the police car pulled up. One of the officers produced two plastic bags with ...

US president says he would ‘like to meet’ Mojtaba Khamenei, who US officials have previously said was injured in attacks, and says Iran has said it will not have a nuclear weapon Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s continuing coverage of the crisis in the Middle East. Donald Trump has claimed Ira...

Exclusive: Research showing Andy Burnham holding slim lead finds honesty in politicians and immigration also rank as important Voters in Makerfield rank the cost of living, declining high streets and public services as among the most important issues locally, with many also disillusioned by the p...

Home Office barred Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker on grounds their visit was ‘not conducive to the public good’ Two leftwing US political commentators who were banned from entering the UK will still speak at the Oxford Union via livestream. The Home Office told Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker their presen...

Clifton George convicted of fatally stabbing charity worker Annabel Rook after she tried to end relationship A man who fatally stabbed his partner and then set off a gas explosion at their north-east London home last summer has been found guilty of her murder. Clifton George, 45, had denied murde...

Proposal for 10-12.5% levies, to also include EU, Taiwan, Canada and Australia, would allow US president to skirt court-imposed limits Donald Trump has threatened tariffs of between 10% and 12.5% on 60 countries including the UK, EU and Australia over alleged forced labour failures, in the latest...