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New York Times’s Douthat moving to CBS News’s ‘60 Minutes’
I wasn’t able to retrieve the actual article content — the page returned an access-denied placeholder instead of the story, and I don’t have web search access permitted in this session to find the details elsewhere. I don’t want to fabricate specifics (dates, quotes, role details) for a summary, so I can’t responsibly complete this…
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Andy Burnham launches cross-party talks on social care – as Reform warn his ‘death tax’ plan could cost his own constituents £50,000 each
Prime Minister Andy Burnham is launching cross-party talks on reforming social care funding, inviting Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey to discuss the issue, while pointedly excluding Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. The move comes as Badenoch has already warned that the estimated £18 billion cost of reform should be…
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Burnham turns to Tories and Lib Dems for help on social care: ‘Help me fix this’
Andy Burnham has invited Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey to a Downing Street summit to seek cross-party agreement on fixing England’s social care system, framing it as a test of “problem-solving, not point-scoring” politics. The prime minister argues that decades of governments avoiding the issue have left carers struggling,…
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Kick It Out wants tougher sanctions as discrimination hits new high
Kick It Out, English football’s anti-discrimination body, has called for tougher sanctions after recording a record 1,255 discrimination incidents across all levels of the game in the 2025-26 season, up from 960 the previous season. Chief executive Samuel Okafor said racism remains “deeply ingrained” in football as a “reflection of wider society”, and expects harsher…
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Ed Miliband to visit France and Spain as both countries experience devastating wildfires
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband will make his first European trip since taking the role, visiting France and Spain on Wednesday as both countries battle devastating wildfires. The visit aims to show UK solidarity while pressing the case that the fires underscore the wider climate emergency requiring coordinated international action, alongside a broader push to strengthen…
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Judge orders release of Houston ICE shooting witness
A federal judge has ordered US immigration authorities to release Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego, a key witness to the fatal shooting of Houston homebuilder Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by an ICE officer. The ruling matters because Rojas Pliego and the other passengers are the only known witnesses to the incident, and their accounts dispute the government’s…
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AI company employees petition US government for regulation
More than 1,100 employees at leading artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, have signed a petition calling on the US government to help slow the pace of AI development. The letter, reported by Bloomberg, urges Washington to back an international effort to build the technical and governance tools needed to “deliberately pace”…
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Live results: Rhoden fights to hang on to South Dakota governor’s mansion in GOP primary runoff
South Dakota Republicans are voting in a runoff to choose their gubernatorial nominee between incumbent Governor Larry Rhoden and businessman Toby Doeden. The contest matters because the Republican nominee is expected to be strongly favoured in the November election in a state that has not elected a Democratic governor since the 1970s. Rhoden became governor…
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List of ‘best’ states released by US News. These 5 rank as the very worst
U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 “Best States” ranking placed five states at the bottom overall, assessing how well states perform for residents across public services, the economy and quality-of-life measures. – West Virginia ranked 46th. – Alaska ranked 47th. – Mississippi ranked 48th. – New Mexico ranked 49th. – Louisiana ranked 50th, last among…