Chair of prisons and detention watchdog concerned about intimidating effect as wide-ranging and damning review published
Staff at an immigration detention centre wore England flags pinned to their uniforms while guarding migrants, a report from the prisons and detention watchdog has revealed.
Their use by staff at one of the Home Office’s short-term holding facilities to detain migrants is revealed in the Independent Monitoring Boards’ national annual report, published on Wednesday, which is based on 127 annual reports about different prisons, young offender institutions and immigration detention centres.
Continue reading...With a World Cup winner at the helm in Fabio Cannavaro, the White Wolves make their tournament debut
This article is part of the Guardian’s 2026 World Cup Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 48 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from three countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 11 June.
Continue reading...The ex-reality TV star, who lost his home in the Pacific Palisades fire, cast himself as the antidote to the city’s woes
Spencer Pratt, an ex-reality TV star, cast himself as the antidote to Los Angeles’s woes as he campaigned to be the city’s next mayor.
He curried favor with swaths of disillusioned voters who related to his diatribes against city leadership. His fervent social media posts, including re-shares of AI-generated campaign ads showing LA in an apocalyptic light, garnered national attention.
Continue reading...Polls open in Maine, North Dakota, Nevada, and South Carolina; voters appear to stand by Democratic challenger Graham Platner despite string of controversies
As voters went to the polls on Tuesday in Maine’s Democratic primary, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive congresswoman from New York, was asked by CNN about recent allegations that Senate candidate Graham Platner had mistreated former romantic partners and sent sexual messages to other women after his marriage.
“When it comes to the substance of this reporting, obviously there’s a lot in that behavior that’s really challenging; it’s hard to stomach”, Ocasio-Cortez said.
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