The former mayor of a Louisiana city has been convicted of raping a 16-year-old boy during a party at her home while she was in office. Misty Roberts, 43, faces up to 10 years in prison and seven years in prison after a jury in the municipality of DeRidder on Tuesday found her guilty of…
South East Water will be fined £22m for repeated supply failures, watchdog Ofwat has said. This fine is related to the interruption of water company supply in Kent and Sussex between 2020 and 2023, affecting more than 286,000 people. The outage is also being investigated in the last four months. Ofwat said the fine “reflected the…
I’ve been to this place, and I don’t mean some kind of memorial after a mass shooting, but Nashville specifically. I lived there for a few years covering the South, and it’s not a big city. Its dominant industries of music and publishing can make it feel even smaller, like everyone knows everyone. Therefore, it…
Half of Americans support abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. a new poll found, as opposition to Donald Trump’s aggressive federal immigration crackdown continues to grow. YouGov analysis found that exactly 50% of respondents “strongly or somewhat” want to see the agency abolished, an increase of 5% from a survey conducted in…
Today so far US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that a US submarine sank an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka, marking the first US attack on Iranian forces outside of the Middle East. More than 80 people were killed. In a press briefing at the Pentagon, Hegseth declared that “America is winning”…
Interim summary Thank you for following along with our live coverage so far today. The fighting continued in Lebanon, with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Israel Katz, the Israeli defence minister, approving a military ground incursion into the southern part of the country and the Israeli military issuing new evacuation orders for dozens…
The increase in gas prices in the last 48 hours is without precedent. Even in the chaotic early weeks of the Ukraine war in 2022, the price of gas never doubled. But that is exactly what has happened to wholesale methane prices in the UK. And since gas prices are arguably the most important price…
