Fred Kerley, twice an Olympic 100m medallist, has been arrested for allegedly punching hurdler and former girlfriend Alaysha Johnson in the face, and that means the American sprinter will not compete in the Grand Slam Track event in Miami this weekend. The alleged incident occurred on Thursday at a hotel where Johnson, who is listed…
The White House plans to cut staffing at the Central Intelligence Agency by 1,200 positions while other intelligence agencies including the National Security Agency will also shed thousands of jobs, the Washington Post has reported. A person familiar with the plan confirmed the changes to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The Trump administration…
The cramped conditions of Victorian prisons in England and Wales are limiting the rehabilitation opportunities for thousands of offenders, an official watchdog has said. As the Guardian launches a visual investigation into the state of Victorian prisons in inner cities and towns, the chief inspector of prisons, Charlie Taylor, said 19th century jails could also…
After the success of this year’s biopic A Complete Unknown, a whole new generation has learned about the lyricism, nasal vocal style and often-frustrating nature of Bob Dylan. And this month they will get the chance to discover he is also a painter, as the songwriter exhibits a series of original artworks – created with…
Saturday papers in the UK were dominated by the Reform party’s victory at the polls, in which it gained an MP at Labour’s expense and won a string of local councils. A jubilant Nigel Farage said his hard-right populist party had now supplanted the Conservatives and pledged that Reform-run councils and mayoralties would block asylum…
The Trump administration has agreed not to freeze funds to Maine schools, a win for a state that was targeted by the president over its support of transgender rights. In a settlement disclosed on Friday, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said it would halt all efforts to withhold funds for a child nutrition program…
Over the first two days of May, a total of six Swarthmore College students were interim suspended for the creation of a campus encampment earlier in the week. The students in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, were suspended without due process and were told to evacuate from campus, said Swarthmore’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in a…
Donald Trump is proposing huge cuts to social programmes like health and education while planning substantial spending increases on defense and the Department of Homeland Security, in a White House budget blueprint that starkly illustrates his preoccupation with projecting military strength and deterring migration. Cuts of $163bn on discretionary non-defense spending would also see financial…
The United States has designated a powerful Haitian gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital city as a “transnational terrorist group”. The criminal coalition known as Viv Ansanm (Live Together), and another faction, the Gran Grif gang, which in October took responsibility for a shocking massacre of at least 115…
The Co-op has apologised after hackers accessed and extracted customer data in one of its systems. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the National Crime Agency (NCA) are assisting with the investigation, the company said. A Co-op spokesperson said: “We are continuing to experience sustained malicious attempts by hackers to access our systems. This…
