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Pictured: Three sisters left with catastrophic injuries after crash on Irish motorway that killed five teenage boys ‘who boasted about joyriding days before smash’
Five teenage boys died and three sisters were left with catastrophic injuries after a crash on an Irish motorway, with reports suggesting the boys had boasted about joyriding in videos filmed days before the collision. The case has drawn attention partly because of footage reportedly showing the group bragging about reckless driving and “terrorising communities”…
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Downed air traffic control, ChatGPT for teens, Earl Spencer’s Diana book and Liverpool’s new era
A disruption at the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center earlier in August led the US Federal Aviation Administration to impose ground stops across parts of the Midwest after an equipment outage affected the centre’s operations. The incident caused widespread flight disruption, underlining the dependence of a large regional airspace on resilient communications and surveillance…
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Former Fauci associate David Morens pleads guilty to conspiracy
David Morens, former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and once an associate to Anthony Fauci, pleaded guilty on Thursday to a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. in relation to efforts to evade Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The Justice Department announced the guilty plea Tuesday. In April, the…
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Narcos expert who placed US sanctions on notorious Kinahan trio reveals KEY strategy the State must implement immediately to stop Cartel rivals’ plans to fill inevitable vacuum
A US expert who helped design the sanctions programme that targeted Ireland’s notorious Kinahan cartel has warned that the state must act swiftly to prevent rival gangs from stepping into the vacuum left behind. The intervention highlights ongoing concerns that dismantling one criminal network, however successful, does not eliminate the underlying drug trade, and that…
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Kai Trump recalls ‘a lot of crying’ with mom Vanessa before college amid breast cancer battle
Kai Trump, the 19-year-old granddaughter of President Donald Trump, has spoken about the emotional final days spent with her mother, Vanessa Trump, before leaving home to begin her freshman year at the University of Miami. The disclosure comes as Vanessa continues to battle breast cancer, a diagnosis she revealed publicly in May, adding an extra…
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Cancer risk may be higher for people with one particular type of job
A new Harvard study has found that flight attendants and pilots face the highest risk of radiation-related cancer deaths among more than 500 occupations analysed in the United States. The research highlights that people working at high altitudes for extended periods are exposed to greater levels of cosmic radiation than those in most other jobs,…
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Justice Department watchdog launches review of DEA’s controversial fentanyl tactic
The independent watchdog for the Department of Justice (DOJ) shared notice of a review into the Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) investigative tactics used to get the synthetic opioid, fentanyl, off the streets. Agents both past and present have detailed methods that allow drug traffickers to move thousands of pills without being arrested to rack up…
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Bill Rasmussen, founder of sports network ESPN, dies aged 93
Bill Rasmussen, the American businessman who conceived the idea of a television network devoted entirely to sport, has died at the age of 93. He passed away on Tuesday from complications of Parkinson’s disease, ESPN confirmed, closing the story of the man whose vision led to the launch of ESPN in 1979 as the world’s…
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Scotland in the grip of a ‘cancer timebomb’ as cases rocket in a decade
Official figures show Scotland recorded 37,657 new cancer cases in 2024, a 15 per cent rise on a decade earlier, prompting warnings of a “cancer timebomb” and renewed calls for wider screening and action to tackle rising rates. The sharpest increase was in prostate cancer among men, up 50 per cent over ten years and…