Een 81-jarige vrouw uit Ridderkerk is slachtoffer geworden van een babbeltruc waarbij een nep-rechercheur haar sieraden buitmaakt. De vrouw krijgt eerst iemand aan de telefoon die zich voordoet als rechercheur. Later verschijnt een jonge man bij haar woning om de sieraden op te halen. De politie heeft hem op beeld en zoekt mensen die hem herkennen.

Een 29-jarige Rotterdammer is in zijn eigen woning aan de Carnissedreef in Rotterdam-Zuid mishandeld door een man die hij zelf binnenlaat. De verdachte slaat, schopt en bedreigt hem en filmt een deel van wat er gebeurt. Daarna vlucht hij in een witte bestelbus. De politie zoekt de man en heeft beelden van hem.

Network was listed as primary TV pool covering Thursday’s presidential activities but then was abruptly removed

For a second time in a week, the White House has unilaterally removed CNN from its assignment as the primary television pool representative covering Donald Trump.

CNN was excluded on Saturday from pool duty aboard Air Force One, despite a district judge’s ruling – two days earlier – overturning the White House’s ban on the network and two other media organizations.

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Success under the Abu Dhabi regime made supporters feel proud, but they can only really get those feelings back under new custodians

Amid the hundreds of thousands of words written and spoken about Manchester City being found guilty of serious breaches of Premier League rules, maybe Roberto Mancini’s were the most poignant when he announced it was “not my concern”. Why would it be? He made millions from one of the “sham contracts” and enjoyed his success but his ties to the club started and ended there. Since he has gone there will have been little looking at what was left behind.

The Italian is a microcosm of the modern club, appointed for his expertise and well remunerated for it. Mancini was deemed the best person City could hire and the club, powered by an attitude of win at all costs, accommodated him at great expense in a manner that a damning independent commission verdict concluded circumnavigated the rules.

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Witnesses in the chamber said Christa Pike was still breathing despite receiving injections intended to kill her

When the prison warden asked Christa Pike if she had any last words, she said she was going to leave this world “with love” for those on her side and also the ones angry with her.

What followed was the second botched execution in Tennessee this year, after two doses of the lethal injection failed to produce the desired effect.

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Het is tijd dat de Zweedse regering excuses aanbiedt voor hoe in het verleden is omgegaan met de Sami-bevolking en hoe dat doorwerkt in het heden. Dat stelt een waarheidscommissie na jarenlange gesprekken in een rapport aan de regering.

MI5 has warned that more than 100 UK-linked academics contributed to research projects allegedly funded to improve China's spying capabilities. The Security Service issued an unusually public espionage alert this week naming the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI), also translated as the China Academy of General Technology (CAGT). MI5 says the organization has "very strong ties" to China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), the country's civilian intelligence agency. According to MI5, CGTRI's "primary purpose" is to fund academic research that directly improves the MSS's technical espionage capabilities. More than 100 UK-linked academics have contributed to CGTRI-funded projects involving AI, cybersecurity, covert communications, and steganography, the agency said. Some may not have known who was ultimately financing the work. "This activity supports MSS espionage, which poses a threat to UK national security," MI5 said. MI5 isn't accusing all of the academics involved of knowingly helping Chinese intelligence. Its alert acknowledges that many institutions and individuals likely dealt with CGTRI "in good faith" because of what it describes as the organization's "obfuscated links" to the MSS. MI5 "strongly advised" UK universities to review immediately any current or planned collaboration with CGTRI and ensure that the MSS derives no further benefit from British research. Academics working with Chinese institutions are also being told to establish who is ultimately funding the research and make sure CGTRI isn't involved. Researchers may also want to brush up on the National Security Act 2023. MI5 specifically highlighted two offenses: assisting a foreign intelligence service under section 3 and obtaining a material benefit from one under section 17. Under section 3, a person can commit an offense if their conduct is likely to materially assist a foreign intelligence service with UK-related activities and they know, or "ought reasonably to know," that it is likely to do so. Section 17 separately covers accepting or retaining a material benefit when the recipient knows, or ought reasonably to know, that it came from a foreign intelligence service. Legitimate payment for lawful goods or services is excluded. Having publicly identified CGTRI's alleged links to Chinese intelligence, MI5 warned that any institution or researcher continuing to conduct work funded by the organization should seek independent legal advice. In other words, MI5 has put universities on notice: not knowing who was really behind the research money may have been understandable yesterday, but it is a considerably trickier argument today. ®

Winterbanden kennen we, winterbenzine klinkt een stuk geheimzinniger. Toch wordt ook de samenstelling van benzine aangepast aan het seizoen. In de koudere maanden verdampt de brandstof gemakkelijker, zodat je motor beter kan starten. Daar hoef je zelf geen andere pomp voor te kiezen.

Waarom krijgt benzine een wintervariant?

Het belangrijkste verschil is de vluchtigheid: hoe gemakkelijk benzine verdampt. Bij lage temperaturen helpt een vluchtiger mengsel de motor om soepel aan te slaan en te draaien. Daarom bevat winterbenzine meer gemakkelijk verdampende bestanddelen, zoals butaan.

In de zomer is te veel vluchtigheid juist onhandig. Benzine kan bij warmte al in het brandstofsysteem verdampen, met een sputterende motor als mogelijk gevolg. Ook moeten benzinedampen worden beperkt. De samenstelling is dus een compromis dat meebeweegt met het weer.

Winterbenzine verdampt gemakkelijker. Dat helpt de motor bij een koude start.

Begint dat precies op 1 oktober?

Vanaf 1 oktober mag in Nederland benzine met een hogere dampspanning worden verkocht. De zomereis geldt van 1 mei tot en met 30 september: in die periode is de maximale dampspanning 60 kilopascal. Dampspanning is een maat voor hoe gemakkelijk een brandstof verdampt.

Maar om middernacht worden niet overal de ondergrondse tanks leeggehaald. Leveranciers kunnen de samenstelling geleidelijk aanpassen, zolang de verkochte benzine aan de geldende eisen voldoet. Benzine die aan de zomereisen voldoet, hoeft op 1 oktober dus niet plotseling uit de voorraad te verdwijnen.

“Vanaf oktober verandert de benzine” is daarom nauwkeuriger dan “vanaf morgen zit er gegarandeerd winterbenzine in je tank”. De kalender vertelt niet precies welk mengsel je bij jouw tankstation meekrijgt.

Merk je verschil tijdens het rijden?

Normaal gesproken nauwelijks. Je hoeft je auto niet anders in te stellen en de seizoensvariant komt gewoon uit dezelfde pomp. Het is geen extra keuze naast E5 of E10.

De andere samenstelling kan wel betekenen dat winterbenzine iets minder energie per liter bevat. Je kunt daardoor een fractie minder ver komen op een tank. Hoe groot dat verschil voor jouw auto is, kun je niet simpelweg uit de datum afleiden.

De seizoenswisseling wordt voor je geregeld; je hoeft er geen andere pomp voor te kiezen.

Moet je nu anders tanken?

Voor de gewone tankbeurt hoef je niets bijzonders te doen. Speciaal nog snel zomerbenzine proberen te bemachtigen heeft geen aangetoond voordeel: je weet immers niet precies welke samenstelling je krijgt.

Winterbenzine klinkt als een nieuw product waarvoor je een bewuste keuze moet maken. In werkelijkheid is het een aanpassing achter de schermen, bedoeld om dezelfde motor ook bij lagere temperaturen goed te laten draaien.

In het kort

• Het verschil: winterbenzine verdampt gemakkelijker.
• Het doel: goed starten en draaien bij kou.
• De datum: vanaf 1 oktober mag de benzine vluchtiger zijn.
• Jouw actie: geen aparte seizoensbrandstof kiezen.

Meer weten?

• Shell: wat is winterbenzine?
• ILT: de eisen aan brandstoffen en dampspanning
• TopGear: heeft speciaal zomerbenzine tanken zin?

Student journalists, their advisors, and legal advocates say colleagues and administrators are attempting to undermine student reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, and other issues that public institutions would rather not have their reputations connected to.

Public records obtained by 404 Media show administrators taking meetings with parents and alumni when they take issue with student reporting and asking advisors to compromise their professional ethics. They also show escalating tensions between student newsroom staff and administrators, prompting more legal aid requests to advocacy groups. 

This comes as student journalists at The Cornell Daily Sun earned recognition for breaking the “Cornell Seven” story regarding the lawsuit filed in New York’s trial court last month by a Jane Doe accusing current and former Cornell University students of drugging and sexual abuse. The student journalists told The Cut this week that a vague university and campus police statement from nearly two years ago prompted more questions than answers. Such is the basis for most accountability journalism on college campuses. 

The cases we reviewed involved the phase of the reporting process that comes later, where a factual dispute the newsroom has defended or a complaint where the person doesn’t bother to explain what is allegedly wrong with the students’ reporting. 

In Colorado, a high school social studies teacher emailed the student publication’s advisor at the time, accusing a student’s opinion piece called “Why is Gaza Important?”of being “published with factually inaccurate and racist information,” but then said in the same email, “I’m not going to start listing the inaccuracies along with the omissions.”

In California, a high school principal told a student journalism advisor to redact the name of an individual threatening to sue the district for defamation after student journalists published an Instagram carousel to their school’s newspaper account about the number of times their county turned up in the Epstein files. In this case, which has already been widely reported on, the administrator told the journalism advisor to redact the name of the woman who was threatening suit without determining whether the reporter made a factual mistake (the students did not). 

“I can’t remove the name without your help,” the principal told the advisor via email, after the advisor said the students would first seek legal guidance from the Student Press Law Center before taking any actions.

Soon after the op-ed was published, the student newspaper’s advisor was reassigned to another role within the district. The advisor from the California school district stepped down from her role during the last school year; she now consults schools and nonprofits on best practices for their student media programs. Mike Hiestand, who is a lawyer with the Student Press Law Center, has spent decades advising student newsrooms. He says it’s common for administrators to target advisors, adding that it’s one of the more effective censorship methods available to them. 

“School officials, they see employees as kind of an easy target over whom they have some authority, and they know that in many places, that relationship between the students and their advisor is a tight one,” Hiestand told 404 Media. “Unfortunately, some school officials take advantage of that bond and definitely go after advisors.” 

In 2025, the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) claimed that the nonprofit had responded to nearly 1,000 hotline inquiries from student newsrooms in 46 states and Washington D.C. The most common inquiries involved censorship, libel and copyright. Overall, SPLC says calls are down, but hotline inquiries about censorship specifically are up 17 percent from the year prior. 

“One of the biggest things we’ve certainly found with censors over the years is they want to be called everything but a censor,” he added. “What they’re doing is everything but censorship.” 

This tracks with what 404 Media is observing through public records requests into school, library and university censorship. The same state laws that have been used to restrict how topics like race, gender, and systemic inequality can be accessed and taught have also put student journalists covering those beats in a bind. 

Records from Pensacola State College obtained by 404 Media show that last spring, an administrator tried to block funding for a journalism professor to print students’ class assignments for their portfolios because at least one of the stories involved reporting on the LGBTQ+ community. The campus later relented and agreed to release funding for students’ portfolios. In an email to the advisor, an administrator involved in the situation wrote that “the proper role of administration is to facilitate rather than impede the completion of legitimate classroom projects.” 

“When you have a principal coming in who doesn’t have a lick of journalism experience claiming that they’re there to guide young journalists, that’s where I have problems,” Hiestand said. “Every principal and every superintendent in the country seems to think that they are qualified editors.” 

Similar verbiage has appeared in other public records requests involving student journalists, like in the case of a Maryland school district memo about principals reading and approving every story before publication. In the memo, the chief of schools wrote that “[a]s responsible adults and educational leaders, we have the duty to guide the work of our students as they are developing their skills in a school setting during a school-directed activity.” But internal correspondence obtained by 404 Media suggests that the memo was “really to be sure an administrator could initial any printed posters, review school apparel, and scan over the yearbook to be sure that there is no violation” of the student handbook. 

Marie McMullan, program manager and counsel for the Student Press Legal Hotline with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, says so far, 2026 has been a very consequential year for students leading their school publications. 

“Student journalists are a very bright group,” McMullan told 404 Media. “They are great at sounding the alarm and bringing advocates out of the really blatant examples. But I always just worry about making sure that student journalists know their rights so that they can assert them in cases where there are subtler forms of censorship.”

At Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), student reporters with The Alestle, the university’s student newspaper, claim that the institution’s marketing and communications department had become more insistent on attending interviews conducted by student reporters in recent months. The department took issue with editor-in-chief Dylan Hembrough’s framing of the dispute, calling several of the claims “inaccurate.” In an interview with 404 Media, Hembrough said the paper investigated and determined there was nothing inaccurate about the story. When Hembrough did not retract the story, the executive director of marketing and communications at SIUE sent an open letter to the entire campus—a mailing list of more than 14,000 people, including faculty and staff—taking issue with that story, along with other stories throughout the years as well. 

“The Alestle appears willing to substitute alarming headlines for verified facts, to rely on posturing rather than careful reporting and to treat corrections as an inconvenience rather than a professional obligation,” the open letter reads. With the letter was a link to a 27-page document of corrections the department expected student leadership to act on.

“I have been on the other side of panicking over things like this,” Hembrough told 404 Media. “Something that has helped me get through that, or at least stave it off, is the idea that the truth is more important than whatever I feel about it. Embarrassment or humiliation should have no bearing on how or even whether a publication makes a correction.” 

Then in September, Hembrough learned via email that he was being investigated by the campus police for harassment against the department. When Hembrough’s journalism advisor asked the officer to clarify on what grounds, the officer said the report was based on a line in an email, which read: “Marketing and communications’ insistence on interfering with our newsgathering process is dangerous and detrimental to both press freedom and freedom of speech.” Hembrough shared his email with 404 Media, which reads as an editor defending another student reporter’s right to conduct an interview without the department exercising prior restraint over the publication. In her statement to campus police, she reportedly told the officer that “other members of my office have approached me stating Alestle reporters have been by my office uninvited,” and that she didn’t have a lock on her door. 

“Due to the media between Marketing and Communications and the Alestle I am worried a ‘January 6th’ type of crowd may be outside my office,” the complainant told the officer, according to the campus police report. The officer advised her to contact facilities management about getting a lock for her office door and concluded that the facts of the case don’t “meet the statutory threshold for Harassment by Electronic Communications.” 

The public records reviewed by 404 Media from SIUE support the claims The Alestle’s journalists make throughout their reporting on the department. SIUE did not respond to 404 Media’s request for comment.

The situation at SIUE serves as an example of a dispute about institutional reputation that’s escalated to involve campus law enforcement, but law enforcement nonetheless. McMullan says this escalation has an undeniable chilling effect on free speech, noting that policies and laws that public institutions use to silence young reporters still need to abide by the First Amendment. But overall, she’s impressed with how students at SIUE and other campuses are meeting the moment, even when the adults in the room aren’t.

“Whether it’s in a court of public opinion or a court of law, students are not accepting censorship,” she said. “They’re pushing back against it.”