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Timothy Busfield made a first appearance in New Mexico court Wednesday as prosecutors detailed a new sexual abuse accusation against the Emmy-winning actor. Busfield, 68, has been charged with two felony counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor and a single count of child abuse for allegedly inappropriately touching two child actors while he…
Ministers have confirmed those already awaiting trial may lose their right to have their case heard by a jury – in a major escalation in the battle over the future of the justice system.Β Weeks after Justice Secretary David Lammy declared the measures would not be retrospective, the courts minister Sarah Sackman has doubled down…
A coalition of nearly 30 advocacy groups is calling on Google and Apple to remove access to social media platform X and its AI app, Grok, from their app stores after Grok allowed users to generate sexualized images of minors and women.Β The organizations, which focus on child safety, women’s rights and privacy, expressed their…
He played 12 seasons in the NFC North before he was traded to the Rams, so quarterback Matthew Stafford is no stranger to cold-weather games. On Sunday night, when the Rams play the Chicago Bears in an NFC divisional-round at Soldier Field, game-time temperatures could include a wind-chill below zero degrees. Stafford, citing historic NFL…
When South East Water (SEW) is in the news, the headlines do not generally make for comfortable reading. While the water and sewerage industry and its regulators have little to cheer about, this water-only supplier is now facing calls to be nationalised – such is the strength of feeling over performance as it grapples with…
As a child, John FortΓ© was a violin prodigy from a bad part of Brooklyn who earned a scholarship to an exclusive private high school in the Northeast. His life took him from working as an A&R executive at an indie label to out-of-nowhere commercial success with the Fugees and then to disappointment as a…
It’s one of the oldest and corniest of all political jokes. And there were groans as well as laughs when Kama Sutra Keir taunted Kemi Badenoch with it in the Commons. Mocking the Tories for changing prime ministers and other top posts, the PM declared in an attempt at raunchy humour: “They had more positions…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ State and local officials are once again on the defensive after President Trump renewed threats Wednesday to strike federal dollars from βsanctuaryβ jurisdictions such as California and Los Angeles, which have long opposed cooperation with immigration enforcement agencies. The ultimatum, laid out in an early morning Truth Social post, echoed sweeping statements the president made…
A new lawsuit filed against OpenAI alleges that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence app encouraged a 40-year-old Colorado man to commit suicide. The complaint filed in California state court by Stephanie Gray, the mother of Austin Gordon, accuses OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of building a defective and dangerous product that led to Gordon’s death. Gordon,…
None of Jordan Addisonβs three known brushes with the law have resulted in catastrophe. Late-night incidents havenβt escalated the way they often do. Yet the news that the Minnesota Vikings and former USC receiver was arrested in Tampa, Fla., on trespassing charges Monday at 3:46 a.m. triggered a here-we-go-again reaction on social media while the…
