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Palestine Action’s co-founder has won a legal challenge over the group’s ban as a terrorist organisation on two grounds. However, it will remain outlawed for now as the government intends to take the case to the Court of Appeal. Huda Ammori launched the challenge after former home secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the group,…
AL KAWD, Yemen Β βΒ In the cramped examination room of this tiny village clinic, Rania Moussa lay on her side and covered her eyes with a pillow, her slight, childlike-frame belying the fact she is 13 years old. It had been days since she had taken an injection of the powerful antibiotics she needs to manage…
Russian authorities have taken new measures to ensure they can monitor all communications by people inside the country, officially blocking access to the popular, Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp. WhatsApp said in a statement shared Thursday on social media that Russia had “attempted to fully block WhatsApp in an effort to drive people to a state-owned…
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYOFFSTHURSDAYβS RESULTS GIRLSCITY SECTION OPEN DIVISION Quarterfinals #1 Westchester 43, #8 King/Drew 38#5 Venice 55, #4 Granada Hills 42#3 LA Hamilton 70, #6 Cleveland 65#2 Birmingham 75, #7 Palisades 39 DIVISION I First Round#1 El Camino Real 58, #16 RFK Community 39 #9 Garfield 48, #8 Taft 35#5 Arleta 38, #12 Narbonne…
More than 10 years ago, I filmed my kids for a report on the impact of screens on young minds. My eldest daughter was six at the time, her twin sisters nearly three. They didn’t have their own devices – Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube were beyond their imagination. TikTok hadn’t even been invented. Yet now…
Weβve seen animated animals belt out tunes in the βSingβ movies. Weβve learned about βThe Secret Life of Petsβ (twice). And weβve visited them in βZootopiaβ (also on two occasions). Now we get to see them play basketball. βGoat,β produced by Golden State Warriors prodigy Stephen Curry, is yet another underdog story about following your…
The UK and its European allies are scrambling to get serious about their own defences as Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin shape a new world order. You can expect to hear multiple declarations from European leaders, including Sir Keir Starmer, about their respective plans to ramp up spending on defence and security at…
A federal judge on Thursday blocked a Trump administration order slashing $600 million in federal grant funding for HIV programs in California and three other states, finding merit in the statesβ argument that the move was politically motivated by disagreements over unrelated state sanctuary policies. U.S. District Judge Manish Shah, an Obama appointee in Illinois,…
The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sent aΒ warning letterΒ to Apple CEO Tim Cook about Apple News, pointing to reports claiming the news aggregator “systematically boosts left-wing sources and suppresses right-wing sources.” FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson alerted the tech giant’s chief executive that, if the allegations are true, the company could be violating the FTC Act,…
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, ItalyΒ βΒ At 54, curler Rich Ruohonen thought his Olympic dream had passed him by. Which was a pretty good bet since no American his age had ever competed in the Winter Games. Until now. Because when Ruohonen replaced lead Aidan Oldenburg for the start of the eighth end in the Americansβ 8-3 loss to…
