British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has been in the job for two months, and so far his party isn’t demanding his head. These days, that’s an accomplishment. The governing Labour Party opened its annual conference beside the River Mersey in Liverpool on Sunday, with Burnham pledging to turn the pa...
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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham called for calm in Northern Ireland on Sunday after a contentious parade was given the go-ahead by the High Court in Belfast in a late-night sitting. Thousands of protesters, many wearing balaclavas, gathered to block the marchers from the Oran...
safety
Police evacuated homes Sunday near an air base in England used by the U.S. and arrested several men over suspected explosives offenses. The Gloucestershire Police force said Sunday that residents of “a number of properties” in Whelford, western England, have been taken to a nearb...
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The Palestinian death toll from the nearly three-year Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 74,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. While a ceasefire that took effect last Oct. 10 has halted the heaviest fighting, Israeli strikes have continued in what the military has said are res...
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Pope Leo XIV doubled down on his opposition to euthanasia and medically assisted dying during a visit Sunday to Lourdes , the French Catholic shrine associated with miraculous cures and now also a place of healing for survivors of clergy sexual abuse. Leo denounced the “current t...
business
Episode: 1635 At the Sign of the Barber Pole: of barbers and barber-surgeons. Today, reflections in a barbershop.
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Episode: 1635 At the Sign of the Barber Pole: of barbers and barber-surgeons. Today, reflections in a barbershop.
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Six games back of the AL Central-leading Chicago White Sox in mid-August, the Cleveland Guardians threw everything they had at chasing down their division foes. Lucky them, the AL Central crown comes with a little break before their postseason begins. “We’ll get some rest. This t...
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Three separate shootings involving Houston-area teenagers have left three young people dead — and in each case, a teenage suspect is now facing a murder charge. The cases are unrelated, but the victims’ families are now dealing with similar losses as investigators work to determi...
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According to the Houston Police Department, the crash happened on the northbound lanes of the Gulf Freeway near El Dorado Boulevard.
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Texas must install air conditioning in all of its prisons by the end of 2029 under a federal court ruling that found extreme heat in the state's prison system violates inmates' constitutional rights....
schools
A 17-year-old suspect is charged with murder after a fatal shooting that left a Westbury High School student dead on Friday morning, according to court documents....
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Sam Leavitt hit Jackson Harris twice for touchdowns — once for 57 yards on a Lane Kiffin fourth-and-short special — and No. 10 LSU defeated 23rd-ranked Texas A&M 35-6 on Saturday night. Kiffin started sprinting down the sideline while Leavitt's fourth-down pass was in the air, ha...
