Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters
Shabana Mahmood will press on with hardline immigration policies despite calls for a reversal from unions and left-leaning Labour MPs after the Green party’s byelection victory.
Senior Labour sources insisted that the home secretary would continue to roll out changes to asylum policy, dismissing as “plain wrong” claims that it would further alienate Muslim voters.
Continue reading...Law demanding IDs must match ‘sex at birth’ invalidated the driver’s licenses of about 1,700 trans people in the state
Two transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law that invalidated their driver’s licenses and about 1,700 others for reflecting people’s gender identities and not their sex assigned at birth, arguing that the measure is “dehumanizing”.
The men filed their case Thursday, the same day the law took effect, and argue that it violates rights to privacy, personal autonomy and due legal process guaranteed by the Kansas state constitution. The men also are challenging the law’s tough, new enforcement provisions for the state’s three-year-old policy of barring transgender people from using public restrooms or other single-sex facilities associated with their gender identities.
Continue reading...Brown, 62, third member of hit HBO series to die since December, was trying to jumpstart car at home at time of blaze
The Wire actor Bobby J Brown died recently in a barn fire at his Maryland home, making him the third cast member of the acclaimed HBO show to pass away since December.
According to authorities and a statement on social media from his daughter, Reina, the 62-year-old Brown had gone into a barn at his residence in the St Mary’s county community of Chaptico at about 10pm on 24 February to try to jumpstart a car. It evidently ignited during the attempt, and Brown asked his wife for a fire extinguisher.
Continue reading...At the end of the season, how costly might this untimely slip prove for Aston Villa? Judging by the way Unai Emery fumed on the touchline, this defeat by their near neighbours Wolves will hurt for a while yet and, significantly, it could have major implications on their hopes of returning to the Champions League.
Wolves understandably savoured every moment of only their second Premier League win of the season, every outfield player joining the celebrations as João Gomes fired in his first goal in a year just after the hour, and then again joyously when Rodrigo Gomes made it 2-0 in the 98th minute. The win meant Wolves at least can say they have beaten Derby’s record Premier League low points tally of 11 from 2007-08.
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Peru has increased its squid catch limit. The article says “giant squid,” but they can’t possibly mean that.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
The next wave of smartphones and PCs will have less memory and fewer capabilities, yet are likely to cost consumers 14 percent more as AI ambitions eat all available memory supplies, according to researchers at IDC.…
MANDAN (ANP/AFP) - Een Amerikaanse rechtbank heeft een boete voor Greenpeace gehalveerd naar 345 miljoen dollar (292 miljoen euro). De milieuorganisatie kreeg vorig jaar een megaboete voor betrokkenheid bij protesten tegen de aanleg van een oliepijpleiding in de staat North Dakota.
Het betrokken bedrijf Energy Transfer beschuldigde Greenpeace van laster en een gewelddadige campagne. Een rechtbank gaf de Amerikaanse en internationale takken van Greenpeace in juli vorig jaar opdracht tot de betaling van meer dan 660 miljoen dollar aan schadevergoeding. Een rechter heeft het bedrag nu flink verlaagd, omdat sommige schadeposten dubbel waren meegeteld.
Greenpeace heeft gezegd dat de organisatie in beroep wil gaan en heeft meermaals benadrukt dat zij geen honderden miljoenen dollars kan betalen. Energy Transfer is tegen de halvering van de toegekende schadevergoeding. De topman van het bedrijf zei eerder dat het "afgeven van een boodschap" het belangrijkste doel was van de rechtszaak.
