Deep in the jungle region of Chapare, Bolivia’s coca country, the former president and socialist icon Evo Morales is holed up in a compound surrounded by supporters armed with sticks and homemade shields. “It was like I was in a movie set, but like a low-budget movie set of a Bolivian Game of Thrones. It…
The jurors have not entered the court room yet. While we wait for today’s proceedings to kick off, here’s a report from our justice and courts reporter, Nino Bucci, on what the trial heard yesterday: Share What we learned yesterday While we wait for today’s proceedings to begin, here’s a recap of what the jury…
The government will allow foreign states to own stakes of up to 15% in British newspapers in a move that could finally end two years of uncertainty over the ownership of the Telegraph titles. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is to announce the limit on Thursday through the introduction of a new statutory…
The Georgetown academic Badar Khan Suri was released from Ice detention hours after a Virginia federal judge’s order on Wednesday. Khan Suri was among several individuals legally studying in the US who have been targeted by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestinian activism. He has spent two months in detention. US district judge Patricia Giles…
Republicans in US Congress are trying to bar states from being able to introduce or enforce laws that would create guardrails for artificial intelligence or automated decision-making systems for 10 years. A provision in the proposed budgetary bill now before the House of Representatives would prohibit any state or local governing body from pursuing “any…
People on weight loss drugs regain all the weight they have lost within a year of stopping the medication, analysis has shown. Analysis of 11 studies of older and newer GLP-1 weight loss drugs by the University of Oxford found that patients typically lost 8kg on weight loss jabs but returned to their original weight…
The former special counsel prosecutor Jay Bratt asserted his fifth amendment right not to answer questions during a Wednesday deposition before a Republican-led House committee looking for evidence of politicization in the prosecutions of Donald Trump, a spokesman said. Bratt, who led the federal criminal case over Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents as…
Ministers are turning to an arcane parliamentary procedure to block an amendment to the data bill that would require artificial intelligence companies to disclose their use of copyright-protected content. The government is planning to strip the transparency amendment, which was backed by peers in the bill’s reading in the House of Lords last week, out…
Three new prisons will be built, starting this year, as part of a “record prison expansion”, the justice secretary has announced, as the government grapples with near-full jails. Shabana Mahmood also announced a shake-up of prison recall measures, which will mean prisoners serving between one and four years’ jail time can be returned to prison…
Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed that she had plastic surgery at the age of 25 because of a comment made to her on the set of a movie. In a 60 Minutes interview, the Oscar-winning actor said that a cinematographer wouldn’t film her one day because, he said, “her eyes are baggy”. The film was…
