Police have shot and killed a 40-year-old man in Adelaide after they said he confronted officers with a knife during a mental health episode. South Australian police shot the man at his home in the suburb of Craigburn Farm in the early hours of Tuesday morning after they said they were called to reports he…
Aubrey Plaza has released a statement after the death of her husband, Jeff Baena, who was found at his Los Angeles home on Friday after taking his own life. “This is an unimaginable tragedy,” the actor and Baena’s family said in a joint statement shared with media on Monday. “We are deeply grateful to everyone…
The United States has sent 11 Yemeni detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention center to Oman, the Pentagon said on Monday, in a major resettlement that nearly halves the detention facility’s remaining number of prisoners. The released men include Tawfiq al-Bihani, who had been cleared for transfer since 2010; Khalid Qassim, a long-term hunger striker…
Brazil’s air force has extracted the data from two black box recorders belonging to a crashed Azerbaijan Airlines plane that Baku claims was downed by Russia on Christmas Day, killing 38 of the 67 people on board. The Brazilian-made Embraer 190 crash-landed in Kazakhstan after being diverted from a scheduled landing in the Chechen capital,…
The Department of Defense reached a historic settlement with more than 30,000 LGBTQ+ veterans who were discharged under the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed LGBTQ+ members to serve only if they concealed their sexuality. As a part of the settlement, those discharged under DADT or similarly discriminatory policies will be able…
A San Francisco Bay Area police department under federal investigation for racist and sexist texts has agreed to hire a consultant to update its policies, procedures and training on various topics, the US Department of Justice has announced. According to the agreement made public on Friday, the Antioch police department and the city of Antioch…
Professionals who work with children will face criminal sanctions if they fail to report claims of child sexual abuse under a law to be introduced this year, Yvette Cooper has told MPs. The home secretary has promised to implement a key demand from Prof Alexis Jay’s child sexual abuse inquiry after Keir Starmer turned down…
Households in south-east London have been told to boil their water after E coli was found in the supply. People in properties in Brockley have been advised to boil any water they use until the results of tests conducted during visits by Thames Water are returned. The boil water notice, seen by the Guardian, says:…
A six-month-old girl has died after a collision in a multistorey car park in a popular Welsh seaside town. Sophia Kelemen, from Leigh in Greater Manchester, was injured in the collision on the ground floor of the car park in Tenby, south-west Wales, on 2 January. Sophia was taken to hospital but Dyfed-Powys police said…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Congress to certify Trump’s election victory four years after Capitol insurrection Good morning, US politics blog readers. It is January 6, the legally designated day when the Senate and House of Representatives convene in a joint session to certify the results…
