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We booked a Travelodge but were forced to move hotel after 1am
A Guardian reader booked and paid for a Travelodge in London’s King’s Cross six weeks in advance for herself and her husband, who has heart disease and dementia, having confirmed an 11pm arrival time with the hotel. On arrival, staff said the hotel had overbooked because of a football match and their room was no…
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Inside Trump’s push to get RFK Jr to slash vaccines due to ‘autism links’… as president’s scathing assessment of health boss is revealed
The Daily Mail reports on efforts by Donald Trump to press Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to significantly cut the number of recommended vaccines, amid renewed claims of a link between vaccination and autism. The piece reportedly includes a pointed, critical assessment of Kennedy from Trump, suggesting friction between the president and his health…
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Confronting gang members at the heart of Ecuador’s drug battle
The BBC’s Orla Guerin joined Ecuadorian police on patrol as they confront gang members amid a huge surge in drug-related crime sweeping the country. Ecuador has become a key transit hub for cocaine trafficking, with drugs flowing in from neighbouring Colombia and Peru, the world’s two largest cocaine producers, before being smuggled onward by powerful…
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On the front line of Ecuador’s drugs war, police fight gangs, guns and corruption
In the Ecuadorian city of Durán, an elite police unit led by Captain Jean Carlos Bustamante is fighting a losing battle against drug gangs, hampered not only by heavily armed and well-funded criminals but by corruption within the police, state and political system itself. The unit’s efforts illustrate the wider crisis facing Ecuador, once a…
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Rand Paul releases Fauci diary before Senate origins testimony
Senator Rand Paul released a 1,141-page collection of Dr Anthony Fauci’s pandemic-era diary entries in the run-up to Fauci’s testimony before the Senate committee Paul chairs, which is investigating the origins of Covid-19. The timing of the release, coming just before the former public health official’s scheduled appearance on 29 July 2026, sharpened political scrutiny…
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J&J proposes $5.5bn deal to end talc cancer claims
Johnson & Johnson offered up to $5.5bn (£4.14bn) to settle roughly 76,000 US lawsuits alleging its talc-based baby powder and other talcum products caused ovarian cancer, in a bid to close one of the largest and longest-running legal battles facing the New Jersey-based healthcare giant. The company continues to deny that its products caused cancer,…
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Rand Paul releases Anthony Fauci’s pandemic-era diary notes. Here’s what they tell us
Senator Rand Paul released a 1,141-page collection of Dr Anthony Fauci’s pandemic-era diary entries over the weekend, days ahead of Fauci’s scheduled Senate testimony on 29 July 2026. Paul, who chairs a Senate committee investigating COVID-19’s origins, argues the notes show Fauci privately entertained doubts about a natural origin that conflicted with his public reassurances,…
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Rape trial collapses after ‘alleged victim uses AI to prepare her answers in court’
A rape trial has collapsed after it emerged that the alleged victim had used artificial intelligence to help prepare her answers before giving evidence in court. The case was reported by the Daily Mail, though the version of the article available here cuts off before further detail is given on the circumstances, the court involved,…
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Fafara reveals inoperable brain tumour discovered after vertigo collapse
Dez Fafara, frontman of DevilDriver and Coal Chamber, has revealed for the first time that he has a tumour in his head, discovered around two years ago after he suffered a sudden bout of vertigo. Speaking publicly about it for the first time on Suicide Silence guitarist Chris Garza’s podcast, Fafara explained that the vertigo…