Much of America stayed at home to watch the big debate. “The home schooling’s keeping them in,” explained Mike McCloskey, owner of the Railroad Street Bar & Grill in Linfield, Pennsylvania. “Teaching kids in the morning is even harder after a hard night.” It didn’t prevent a sprinkling of the politically-attuned gathering in this self-styled […]

PRITI Patel has looked at shipping thousands of UK asylum seekers to an island in the Atlantic – 4,000 mile away from Britain. The Home Secretary asked officials to explore building an asylum processing centre on Ascension Island – a British overseas territory. Officials were also asked to look at shipping the asylum seekers off […]

Eric Garner’s mother and sister won their bid to force a judicial inquiry into claims that Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials violated and neglected their duties to fully investigate Garner’s fatal 2014 arrest, a judge ruled. Garner’s family and others brought the case in June 2019 — a week after ex-cop Daniel Pantaleo […]

Liverpool is ‘days away’ from circuit-breaker two-week local lockdown as cases continue to soar says city’s mayor as he backs calls for total alcohol sales ban after 9pm Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson says ‘only matter of time’ before city lockdown Two-week circuit-breaker will ‘restore some normality’ before Christmas, he says Mayor also backed calls […]

Four of our iconic red post boxes have been painted black to honour BAME Britons including Sir Lenny Henry and nursing pioneer Mary Seacole Postboxes in London, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast have been painted black They have been transformed as part of Black History Month in October Each box names a significant figure in the […]

Summary President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden are facing off in Cleveland Ohio for the first of the presidential debates. The 90-minute showdown will be conducted under strict coronavirus guidelines, with no handshakes, social distancing, and COVID tests for all attendees. Coronavirus, the US economy, and race and violence are some of […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The Irish army has sent a bomb disposal team to Moneymore housing estate. The estate scare in Drogheda, county Louth has seen a number of homes evacuated. Local police have cordoned off […]

Squeezed by limits on attendance at its theme parks and other restrictions due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it planned to lay off 28,000 workers in its parks division in California and Florida. Two-thirds of the planned layoffs involve part-time workers but they ranged from salaried employees to nonunion […]

Now GPs delay flu jabs for Brits aged 50 to 64 amid shortage of 30million vaccines needed for winter as Boots and Lloyds halt appointments GP surgeries say they are prioritising most at-risk groups amid supply issues Government promised biggest flu jab drive ever to reach 30million people Royal College of GPs said having to […]

A former kindergarten teacher has been sentenced to death by a Chinese court for purposely poisoning 25 children, killing one of them. The Jiaozuo Intermediate People's Court in Henan province issued its ruling on Monday, calling Wang Yun's actions "despicable" and "vicious," noting "she should be punished severely in accordance with the law." The fatal […]