Electoral college votes Electoral college votes First results expected after 18.00 EST (15.00 PST or 23.00 GMT) How does the US election work? The winner of the election is determined through a system called the electoral college. What is the electoral college and how does it work? Each of the 50 states, plus Washington DC,…
The prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda has expressed “deep shock and sadness” after the suspected homicide of one of the country’s most prominent MPs. Asot Michael, 54, was found unresponsive with what appeared to be “multiple puncture wounds about his body” at his home just after 8am, according to police on the Caribbean island….
An XL bully dog has been put down after fatally attacking a 10-year-old girl in North Yorkshire last week. Savannah Bentham, from the Malton area, was fatally attacked by her family’s pet dog at home on Friday. On Tuesday, the dog was identified as an XL bully and was euthanised by a vet, North Yorkshire…
Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan has hit back at “disgusting” online trolls who he claimed use his relationship with his son as “ammunition” against him. The 32-year-old Irish actor, who is dating US singer-songwriter Sabrina Carpenter, has a two-year-old son, Brando, with his former partner. Speaking on the Louis Theroux podcast, he spoke extensively about the…
Thousands of children as young as two in England are being treated for health complications linked to severe obesity as leading experts warned of an “escalating public health crisis”. NHS data shows that one in 10 children joining primary school have obesity: 9.6% of reception-age children in 2023-24, up from 9.2% in 2022-23. Among year…
A secondary school in the Netherlands is blocking parental access to children’s grades for a term in an attempt to reduce the pressure on pupils to perform. Like many countries, the Netherlands has a system under which students need a certain grade average to progress to the next year, but Jordan – Montessori Lyceum Utrecht…
Nine’s 2GB radio host Ben Fordham has pulled out of a Liberal party fundraiser in Kirribilli, saying he did not realise the event was raising money for the political party when he accepted the invitation to speak. “Kirribilli Branch is honoured to be joined by Ben Fordham, Sydney’s No.1 radio presenter,” the invitation said. “Ben…
Primark may invest more outside the UK as the high street will carry the “weight of tax rises” announced in last week’s budget, according to the chief executive of the cut-price fashion chain’s parent company. George Weston, the chief executive of Associated British Foods (ABF), which owns Primark as well as food and sugar brands,…
As every southerner knows, people from the north of England will not eat chips without gravy, insist on talking to every stranger they meet and often sport a flat cap when walking the whippet. But do they also swear more? In an employment tribunal judgment that raises further questions about regional stereotypes, a judge has…
A jumping castle at the centre of a primary school tragedy that killed six children was lifted, spun around in circles and tossed 75 metres by a “mini-tornado”, a Tasmanian court has been told. Rosemary Gamble, operator of Taz-Zorb, which set up inflatable equipment at Hillcrest primary school on 16 December 2021, is facing a…
