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Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s love triangle saga takes dark turn as her bodyguard ex is arrested over gun plot
Matthew Ammel, the former partner and bodyguard of ex-Senator Kyrsten Sinema, has been arrested again after prosecutors accused him of breaching his release conditions and preparing to obtain weapons. The case has raised concerns among prosecutors about possible threats to Sinema and public officials, though Sinema has declined…
Michigan woman charged after teenager suffers severe burns in brawl
A 31-year-old Michigan woman, Shanell Lakeisha Cohen, was arrested after pouring boiling water on a 15-year-old girl during a brawl that erupted in Pontiac on Sunday evening. When police arrived to find approximately 50-100 people fighting in a car park, Cohen reportedly went into her home, retrieved a…
Batomon Showdown adds monster collecting to the auto battler formula
Batomon Showdown is a new auto battler that combines team building, resource management and tactical positioning with monster collecting. The article’s author says its familiar but distinctive gameplay has made it hard to stop playing, and argues that its variety of creature abilities gives the genre an appealing…
Sling ends short-term channel access passes after legal challenge
Sling TV is ending Sling Pass, a feature that let customers buy short-term access to cable channels without signing up for a full month. Its removal closes a brief attempt to offer more flexible access to services such as ESPN and CNN. The passes, announced last year, came…
Google releases Swift client libraries for its cloud services
Google has released Google Cloud API Client Libraries for Swift, marking a significant milestone for a programming language long perceived as Apple's client-side tool. This indicates that Swift, after years of struggled attempts to establish itself on the server side, is finally gaining traction as a viable backend…
Two Iranian nationals are charged over suspected terror plot targeting the Jewish community in Manchester
Two Iranian nationals have been charged with preparation of terrorist acts following investigations into an alleged plot targeting Manchester's Jewish community before Yom Kippur. Salam Ahmadyan, 36, and Rahman Salehi, 34, were arrested on 20 September, with counter-terrorism police alleging they had contact with an overseas third party,…
Manchester City whistleblower Rui Pinto to leave Portugal over safety fears
Rui Pinto, founder of Football Leaks and whistleblower in the Manchester City investigation, has announced he is leaving Portugal after his witness protection status was terminated. The Portuguese authorities removed his protection two days after the Premier League found Manchester City guilty of 115 charges, which was an…
Manchester City warned; Celebrity Traitors opens to acclaim
The FA warns Manchester City over integrity findings. Celebrity Traitors opens with 21 celebrities, a new heart valve is approved and violence erupts in France over education.
Elderly suspect cleared in 1993 Welsh farming couple’s murders
An 87-year-old man arrested in December 2025 in connection with the 1993 murders of farming couple Harry and Megan Tooze has been cleared after ten months of investigation. The arrest was made as part of Operation Vega, a forensic review launched in 2023, but police have advised the…
Amazon pledges $1bn to support communities hosting datacentres
Amazon has announced a $1 billion investment over five years to support communities hosting its datacenters and address growing public opposition to their development. The company frames this as geopolitically critical, arguing that datacenters are essential to US competitiveness and comparing their development to the 1950s highway system.…
Apple tightens macOS safeguards as AI agents seek access to sensitive data
Apple says it will add safeguards to macOS Full Disk Access, responding to concerns that AI agents may expose sensitive data without users fully understanding the risks. The change matters because this permission can let an app see files, email, messages and browsing history, including information about people…
Tories warn UK grooming gangs inquiry must include Scotland as SNP fails to act
Scottish Conservative MP Harriet Cross has urged the Home Secretary to extend the UK’s statutory inquiry into grooming gangs to include Scotland. She argues that excluding Scotland, where victims have been reported in every council area, would leave the inquiry with an incomplete account of group-based child sexual…
AI could expose how Georgia voters cast their ballot, researchers warn
A Princeton researcher has demonstrated that artificial intelligence can expose how Georgia voters actually cast their ballots by combining publicly available election records with an AI language model subscription costing just $20. This represents a significant breach of ballot secrecy, a fundamental democratic safeguard that protects voters from…
Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed
Researchers have reported several recent scientific findings, including a possible dark matter signal and quantum entanglement between Z bosons at the Large Hadron Collider. The results add to ongoing research into fundamental physics, but the dark matter observation is only a hint and does not establish a discovery.…
Still making your mind up about university? Now you can study Eurovision!
The University of Aberdeen is offering a ten-week online postgraduate course examining Eurovision’s history and its cultural and political significance. The course reflects growing academic interest in the contest, which its lecturer says can illuminate changing identities and social trends across Europe. Starting in January, the standalone course…
Master of horror Stephen King digs deep to ease small Scottish football club’s cash nightmare
Stephen King has donated an undisclosed sum to Buckie Thistle, a small Highland League football club facing serious financial difficulties. The author’s support reflects a long-standing connection: he featured the club in his 2020 book *If It Bleeds*. The Banffshire club is reportedly losing £20,000 a month and…
Woman falsely convinced her ex-partner she had given birth to two children and sold them for £500 in revenge for him abusing her and her son, court hears
A High Court judge has concluded that a woman most likely deceived her former partner into believing she had given birth to two children, then told him she had sold them. The judge said the apparent campaign lasted about three years and was cruel, leaving the man and…
Vance leaves 2028 bid open, says Cruz is clearly running
JD Vance avoided saying whether he will run for president in 2028, but said it was “really obvious” that Texas Senator Ted Cruz is running. Vance said his current focus is helping Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, while leaving open the possibility that events over the next…
Gregor Fisher launches YouTube cookery channel after recipe videos take off
Actor Gregor Fisher, best known for playing Rab C Nesbitt, has launched a YouTube cookery channel after finding a large audience for his online recipes. The move lets him share longer cooking lessons and develop a new role as a home cook. Encouraged by his daughter Cissie, Fisher…
Shivon Zilis says relationship with Elon Musk has ended
Shivon Zilis said she and Elon Musk had ended their relationship after an account tracking social media follows reported that Musk had unfollowed her on X. Her post described a sudden breakup and expressed deep affection for Musk, drawing attention to their personal relationship and the public scrutiny…