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Seven men have been arrested after four men were stabbed amid reports of a 'machete-wielding gang' running through Bromley High Street today. Emergency services attended the scene at around 2.15pm and found four men who had been stabbed. All four were rushed to hospital by the London Ambulance Service, with three being treated for non-life-threatening injuries. One remains in critical condition. The high street is currently closed both ways, from Ringers Road to Ethelbert Road, with a police cordon in place. The seven men arrested remain in custody. Police said there is not currently believed to be any wider threat...

A federal appeals court on Thursday compared the Trump administration's sweeping immigration detention policy to some of the darkest chapters in United States history, including the World War II internment of Japanese Americans, as it ruled that longtime undocumented immigrants are entitled to bond hearings while fighting deportation. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit rejected the administration's argument that millions of immigrants who entered the country unlawfully could be held in mandatory detention without access to bond hearings. The ruling adds to a growing split among federal appeals courts that could ultimately force...

Stocks dropped Thursday after U.S. oil prices topped $100 a barrel, amid growing fears of higher inflation from a prolonged war in the Middle East. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 315 points, or 0.6%. The S&P 500 fell 0.5%, while the Nasdaq Composite slid 0.5% too. Higher oil prices continued to weigh on sentiment, as the war between the U.S. and Iran stretched into a seventh month. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures for October jumped above $100 per barrel. Futures for the international benchmark Brent crude for November delivery spiked above $105 a barrel. The jump in oil prices...

The U.S. Supreme Court again rejected Missouri congressional maps backed by President Donald Trump on Thursday, a loss for Republicans trying to maintain control of the House in the pivotal midterm elections. The decision appears to clear the way for the state to use a map passed in 2022, as the state's highest court ordered. It's part of a pitched legal battle that has created confusion for voters and others shortly before ballots begin going out for the November elections. The Trump administration had urged the court to keep the president's preferred maps, which were aimed at gaining one additional...

President Trump will send $500 rebate checks to thousands of Americans who bought health insurance on Affordable Care Act exchanges, claiming they were overcharged. “Our administration is doing the right thing and giving the money back to the people who were wrongly ripped off. Nearly 1 million hardworking Americans in 30 states will soon be getting refunds of $500 each, with a check sent to their home address,” the president said in a video announcement posted on White House social media accounts Thursday morning promoting his ‘Great Healthcare Plan.” Trump said the payments would be dispatched “in just a few...

The U.S. Navy has lost an advanced uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV), and it is now in Iranian hands. Here’s what we know about the Dive-LD drone and its apparent seizure, and its implications. Authorities in Iran said earlier today that they had retrieved a U.S. Dive-LD uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) largely intact near the Strait of Hormuz. The regime in Tehran subsequently released pictures and video clips of the UUV being lifted out of the water, seen at various points below. This looks to be the first known instance of an operational deployment of the Dive-LD. This is still a...

The attention of Ford’s future product plans was largely focused on the Bronco Basecamp this week, though it’ll be beaten as the Blue Oval brand’s first import from China by the Transit City, with the electric van due in showrooms later this year. Arriving from November and priced from $50,000 drive-away, the Transit City is Ford’s first vehicle to be sold in Australia that’s manufactured by joint venture partner JMC in China. Smaller than the Toyota HiAce-rivalling Transit Custom, the Transit City will be electric-only, powered by a 110kW front-mounted motor, rather than its slightly larger sibling which offers turbo-diesel,...

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer officially filed a Hail Mary bid Thursday asking a judge to find his killer client not guilty by reason of insanity – despite her high-profile case ending with a hung jury. Defense lawyer Kevin Reddington argued in new court papers that prosecutors at her widely watched five-week trial failed to prove that the 36-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother knew what she was doing was wrong and could follow the law when she strangled her three kids on Jan. 24, 2023. “No rational jury could find beyond a reasonable doubt that she had no mental disease or defect when...

Hunter Biden’s LAPTOP memecoin launched Wednesday morning, and the first hours of trading followed the script a lot of people expected. However, the sheer size of the move still managed to surprise the crypto market. The token named after the laptop that defined years of political attacks on Biden initially spiked to a fully diluted valuation above $100 billion that looked absurd even by memecoin standards, then shed nearly all of that paper value before lunch. The memecoin launch itself was only announced a few days ago, but after months of podcast appearances and a stretch of crypto-friendly posts on...

AI isn’t a mind — it’s a tool. What most people call “AI” today is actually a Large Language Model (LLM). It isn’t sentient, conscious, or capable of wanting anything. An LLM is a program trained on enormous amounts of text so it can predict what words should come next in a sentence. That’s why it can answer questions in a way that sounds human — it’s imitating patterns in language, not thinking or understanding. The amount of human knowledge stored in text, audio, video, databases, and other formats is massive and growing rapidly. If some of that data is...

The Albany County Sheriff’s Office says Laurie Moore, 47, is accused of conducting more than 4,000 unauthorized searches involving five people known to her. That includes tracking a former girlfriend’s vehicle around 3,000 times and running four additional plates hundreds of times each.

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The International Atomic Energy Agency tells the Bloomberg news outlet that it has observed construction activity at Pickaxe Mountain in Iran, which Western intelligence has flagged as a likely site meant to store nuclear material. “There are some indications that there is movement around this construction site,” says IAEA director general Rafael Grossi. “We don’t have any concrete information as to activities that may be taking place there.” The UN nuclear watchdog has not sent inspectors inside the underground complex, which is at Natanz, but is relying on remote imagery, Grossi tells the outlet. “They said at the time, ‘We...

The Supreme Court Thursday rejected a bid to implement a new congressional map in Missouri that would have likely given Republicans an extra seat in the House of Representatives.In an order with no noted dissents the high court imposed a stay on the map while a lawsuit brought by opponents of the redistricting gambit makes its way through the legal system.For now, Missouri must use the map implemented following the 2020 census, which has returned a House delegation of six Republicans and two Democrats. The new map would have carved up parts of Kansas City to weaken the Democrats’ grip...

Prosecutors alleged the former three-star general lied about his contacts with a Russian diplomat. Retired General Michael Flynn, whose life was turned upside down by the Russia collusion investigation, told Just the News he would never have accepted his 2018 plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller had he known the full FBI evidence in his case. “Had I seen that evidence that you have broken, no way in the world,” Flynn told the Just the News, No Noise television show on Wednesday night hours after President Donald Trump’s administration declassified the fully unredacted versions of the FBI’s 2017 handwritten...

The pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that crashed in Miami, killing five people, were issued multiple warnings for flying “too low” to the ground — and acknowledged they were going “too fast” before they overshot the runway, officials said. The National Transit Safety Board (NTSB) released transcripts from the Boeing 767’s cockpit voice recorder Wednesday that revealed one of the two pilots made a remark about the plane’s high rate of speed about 100 seconds before they hit the ground. “The other pilot made additional comments regarding the aircraft’s excessive speed throughout the remainder of the recording. There was...

President Trump on Wednesday told the crowd at the Republican National Committee’s first midterm convention in Dallas not to boo the absent Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), telling them that “John is working hard.” Trump mentioned Thune’s name after he said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) “will go down as the greatest Speaker of the House in the history of our country.” He then added that Thune was “here” before asking where he was, prompting boos from the audience.The president added that Senate Republicans will in general have “great, great success.” Thune and Trump have been at odds with each...

The declaration of a mistrial in the filicide case of Lindsay Clancy coincides, for me uncomfortably, with a new UK reissue of my 2003 breakout novel We Need to Talk About Kevin. The book concerns a mother whose son becomes a high-school mass murderer. She agonises over whether something has always been wrong with him or something is wrong with him because something is wrong with her. Prior to publication, I’d imagined that the commercial hook would be the frequency with which self-pitying adolescents were taking their misery out on their classmates and teachers, since when I wrote the novel...

Radical activists and organizers from across the U.S. and around the world descended on Chicago over Labor Day weekend to attend the Socialism 2026 Conference. The four-day summit was touted as a “place for both seasoned radicals and new activists to sharpen analysis, hone strategy, and build community.” Its more than 100 workshops included a Marxism Education Series, along with sessions bearing titles such as “Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew” and “Trans Care in the Age of Health Fascism.” But the conference’s central purpose was unmistakable: to chart the socialist movement’s next steps in its...

Happiness comes from a combination of internal and external factors. We can influence it somewhat by approaching situations positively or choosing to spend time with people we love, doing activities we enjoy. However, other things out of our control, like the cost-of-living crisis or ongoing economic uncertainty, can also take a toll, with only 44% of Americans saying they are “very satisfied” with their lives. Even though people across the U.S. are facing difficult times, the state in which you live may have an impact on how happy you are. To determine where Americans exhibit the best combination of good...