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A wife under police investigation after assisting the suicide of her husband at Dignitas in Switzerland said she has “no regrets” as he had a “beautiful death”. Louise Shackleton, whose husband Anthony was suffering from Motor Neurone Disease said: “It took four people to get him on the plane and he turned and looked at me and said ‘they can’t stop us now can they love?" Louise, from North Yorkshire, has spoken publicly for the first time since her husband's death in December, as parliament prepares to vote again on legislation to introduce assisted dying in England and Wales. “We...

The NHS will be pursued if it does not follow new guidance on single-sex spaces, the chairwoman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has said. Along with other public bodies, the NHS will be receiving guidelines after the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law. "We've been speaking to the health service for an inordinately long time - we will now be asking them when they will be updating their advice," Baroness Kishwer Falkner said. Currently the NHS guidance says trans people should be accommodated according to the way they...

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~ ~ Remembering Our Troops!! ~ Prepare For Everything!! The ability to respond to a mass casualty event is a core mission of the 31st MEU that requires rapid response to effectively recover and triage military or civilian casualties by supplementing the medical resources at the scene. The America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), compromising amphibious assault carrier USS America (LHA 6), amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego (LPD 22), and amphibious dock landing ship USS Rushmore (LSD 47) along with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), are underway conducting routine integrated operations in...

The UK Supreme Court has issued a landmark judgment on how a woman should be defined in law. The long-running legal challenge centres around how sex-based rights are applied through the UK-wide Equality Act 2010. The judges were asked to rule on what that legislation means by "sex" - whether biological sex or "certificated" sex as legally defined by the 2004 Gender Recognition Act. They unanimously decided the definition of a "woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 refers to "a biological woman and biological sex".

All prisoners held in the terrorism prison unit where Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi attacked guards have been moved, the BBC has been told. There were seven prisoners in the HMP Frankland separation centre at the time of Abedi's attack on Saturday, including the extremist preacher Anjem Choudary. The centre has now been emptied and is the subject of an ongoing counter-terrorism investigation into the attack, which saw Abedi throw hot oil at officers and stab them with improvised blades. Abedi himself has been moved to London's high-security Belmarsh prison, while the other six prisoners in have been moved to...

Summary - The UK Supreme Court rules that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex - Judges say the "concept of sex is binary" while cautioning that the landmark ruling should not be seen as victory of one side over another - Transgender people still have legal protection from discrimination, the court adds - Today's decision comes after a long-running legal battle between the Scottish government and a women's group - The Scottish government had argued that transgender people with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) are entitled to sex-based protections, while For Women Scotland argued they...

Sudan's paramilitaries have declared the formation of a rival government to the country's armed forces, two years into a war that has become the world's largest humanitarian crisis. The leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan "Hemedti" Dagalo, said the group was "building the only realistic future for Sudan". The announcement came as London hosted an high-level conference to mark the second anniversary of the conflict, where the UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy called for "a pathway to peace". Fighting raged on, with the army saying it had bombed RSF positions outside the city of el-Fasher, forcing hundreds...

WSU PhD student arrested and suspended from teaching classes Pullman police arrested WSU PhD student Patrick Mahoney and charged him with 4th degree assault late in the evening of Feb. 28. Mahoney was held at the police department before being released with a set court date. The alleged assault occurred just outside of campus, near Valhalla Bar and Grill. The victim of the assault, Jay Sani, is said to be an engineering student at WSU. According to a statement on Facebook, Sani was wearing a red Make America Great Again hat, which Mahoney ripped off before throwing it into the...

California Democrat Rep. Laura Friedman has admitted House Democrats are coordinating every single week with far-left state attorneys general to weaponize the justice system against President Trump and his America First agenda. Speaking to voters, Friedman bragged that House Democrats have established a so-called “litigation working group,” aka “shadow government,” comprised of approximately 75 sitting members of Congress who gather behind closed doors every week to craft legal strategies in conjunction with state AGs — the same AGs who have brought politically motivated lawsuits and investigations against Trump, his businesses, his allies, and his policies. “Every single week, we have...

The U.S. Coast Guard’s Homeport portal, a critical online platform for maritime operations since 2005, was permanently taken offline on April 12, 2025, leaving the maritime industry scrambling to adapt to alternative credentialing and verification processes. The shutdown follows a unplanned period of restricted access that began on March 4, 2025, causing significant disruptions across the maritime sector and preventing employers from verifying crew credentials. gCaptain is told the HOMEPORT system’s inaccessibility has already resulted in job losses for mariners who cannot verify their credentials through the previously available online tools.... .... In response to the shutdown, the National Maritime...

Biden will make his first remarks since leaving the White House during the Chicago speech

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Monday backed a stock trading ban for sitting members of Congress, after ripping Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for reportedly profiting off market fluctuations during President Trump’s tariff roller-coaster. The New York Times reported Monday that Greene disclosed thousands of dollars worth of stock trades on April 8 and April 9, worth between $21,000 to $315,000. The outlet also said the Georgia Republican let go of Treasury bills valued from $50,000 to $100,000. MSNBC’s Jen Psaki asked Jeffries about the report during an interview Monday night, noting the trades were made “two days...

After a significant bond reduction Monday morning, the 17-year-old accused of stabbing Frisco, Texas track star Austin Metcalf to death has been released from jail. Karmelo Anthony, 17, faces first-degree murder charges in Metcalf's death. His bond was dropped from $1 million to $250,000 Monday morning, FOX Dallas Ft. Worth reported. Anthony's bond conditions include house arrest and an ankle monitor, and he will only be able to leave his home with the judge's permission.

Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet announced Friday he is running for governor of Colorado, saying the best solutions to the state’s challenges “will not come from the broken politics practiced in Washington.” “They will come from us, and that’s why I’m running for governor,” Bennet says in his campaign launch video. “It’s here we can make health care, housing and child care more affordable. It’s here we can best fight [President Donald] Trump’s corruption while building a better future for our kids and our grandkids.” With his entry into the race, Bennet joins state Attorney General Phil Weiser in the primary...

Former House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee for Senate in Michigan last year, is making another run. “As your next senator, I won’t just represent Michigan, I’ll fight for it,” Rogers said in a campaign announcement video, touting his support for President Donald Trump’s policy agenda. “Alongside President Trump, I’ll work to bring good, high-paying manufacturing jobs back to Michigan, and I guarantee we’ll protect Social Security for our seniors,” Rogers said. He quickly locked up endorsements from Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Tim Scott of South Carolina.

Dear Members of the Harvard Community, For three-quarters of a century, the federal government has awarded grants and contracts to Harvard and other universities to help pay for work that...

President Trump railed against CBS on Sunday night, saying the network should lose its broadcast license after “60 Minutes” aired segments on Ukraine and Greenland that the president said cast him in a negative light. “Almost every week, 60 Minutes … mentions the name ‘TRUMP’ in a derogatory and defamatory way, but this Weekend’s ‘BROADCAST’ tops them all,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post after watching Sunday’s “60 Minutes” broadcast. “They did not one, but TWO, major stories on ‘TRUMP,’ one having to do with Ukraine, which I say is a War that would never have happened if the...

The government has suspended kitchen use in prison separation centres that are used to house a small number of the UK's most dangerous and extremist inmates, it is understood. It comes after the Manchester Arena bomber Hashem Abedi attacked three prison officers on Saturday in HMP Frankland. Two male officers remain in hospital with serious injuries. A female officer was discharged from hospital on Saturday. Abedi threw hot oil at the officers and stabbed them with blades fashioned from cooking trays, the prison officers' association (POA) has said. Abedi had access to the kitchen in Frankland's separation centre, one of...

Ex-commander of the 58th Army The RF Armed Forces decided to send General Popov to the SMO zone at his request. This was stated by his lawyer, reports TC Readovka. In what position the general will return to the SMO zone has not yet been announced. His arrest and the investigation caused a great resonance, many servicemen expressed their support for him. Recall that in March, Popov addressed an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking him to "return him to service." Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Putin had read the letter. As reported by EADaily, combat General...

Republican lawmakers say there’s a good chance that President Trump’s trade war will boomerang on Republicans politically in 2026, as rising prices and shrinking growth could offset other accomplishments by the GOP. Republican senators are pointing to the 1932 and 1982 elections as historical examples of when trade wars and resulting price inflation hurt their party at the ballot box, and they are worried that history could repeat itself. Many Republican lawmakers view tariffs as a tax hike on American consumers, and some note that the last two times Congress enacted tax hikes on the scale of Trump’s recent tariffs,...