Haas Team Principal Ayao Komatsu claims that an announcement about the team's 2027 driver line-up will come "within the next couple of weeks", but that no decision has been made yet regarding Esteban Ocon's future.

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Jamie Chadwick recently became the first woman in more than a decade to test drive a Williams F1 car.

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Last month Fort Worth, Texas police arrested political activist EJ Carrion a week after he cursed at a city council meeting. In his driveway, they told him the charge was “disrupting some kind of procession,” according to body cam footage of the arrest obtained by 404 Media.

Carrion was one of hundreds of Tarrant County residents who’d turned up for a Commissioner's Court meeting on August 4 to speak out against a plan to close a third of the area’s polling places. “You said you were all about cooling the temperature and yet you vote for this extremist bullshit. All of you are bullshit,” Carrion said during the meeting on August 4 before walking out the door.

A week later, Fort Worth Police pulled Carrion over in his driveway and arrested him.

“Why am I getting arrested?” Carrion asked?“So you have a warrant for disorderly conduct, disrupting a meeting. It’s from Tarrant County. I don’t have the details on it [...] it’s a misdemeanor warrant. We’ll take you to Tarrant County and you’ll see the judge and that’s it,” one of the officers said.

“Wait [...] see the judge?” Carrion said. “Guys [...] are you guys serious right now?”

“All it says for us is that you did have a warrant for your arrest from Tarrant County for a disorderly conduct for disrupting some type of procession. I’m not sure what the details are,” the police said.

“Because I disrupted a meeting [...] so because someone doesn’t like me, you’re arresting me? That’s what it sounds like,” Carrion said. “Because of fucking Tim O’Hare, it’s unbelievable.”

“Because of who?”

“Judge Tim O’Hare [...] he’s the biggest pussy,” Carrion said.

Judge Tim O’Hare is a county judge who presides over the Tarrant County Commission — one of the area’s ruling legislative bodies. Back in the August 4 meeting, O’Hare demanded police remove Carrion from the building. But Carrion was already leaving. “I’m walking out, small man,” Carrion said as he left.

As he was being arrested a week later, Carrion called a friend to tell him what was going on. “So, the judge put a warrant on you for getting kicked out of commissioner’s court?” The friend asked.“That’s what it sounds like,” Carrion said, his hands in cuffs while he sat in the back of a police car.

This is not the first time O’Hare has had people arrested for their behavior during public meetings. In 2025, O’Hare had two different people charged with Class A misdemeanors for clapping in support of someone’s speech during the public comment period of the meeting. On Monday, four women filed a federal lawsuit against O’Hare, claiming his tenure on the court has “created a culture of fear and chilled protected speech, cutting to the heart of the Constitution’s free speech and due process guarantees.” 

The Commission did, eventually, vote to reduce the number of polling places in the county. 

Verslaggevers van nieuwsmedia CNN, Politico en MS NOW (voorheen MSNBC) zijn geweerd uit het Witte Huis, ondanks een uitspraak van de rechter enkele uren eerder dat de verbanning…

De geschiedschrijving over vorstenhuizen gaat vaak over staatsvorming. Jasper van der Steen besloot het anders aan te pakken. Hij keek naar de Nassaus als een familiebedrijf.

De film Verstoten vaders is offline gehaald, nadat bekend is geworden dat hoofdrolspeler Armand S. wordt vervolgd voor intieme terreur. Het OM beschrijft een patroon van stalking en dwingende controle over een „heel lange periode”.

New York mayor has been a vocal critic of the Israeli PM who is addressing the UN later today

The Russian foreign minister Sergei ⁠Lavrov has been spotted speaking to officials on the sidelines of the general assembly. He has already spoken to the US secretary of state Marco Rubio and is scheduled to address the general assembly on Saturday. Meanwhile his country has continued bombing Ukraine, where at least seven people were killed and a further 12 people injured in a Russian strike on a farm in the north-eastern region of Kharkiv. My colleague Jakub Krupa has the latest over on our Europe live blog here.

To follow Donald Trump’s movements today, including his talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, my colleague Chris Hippensteel has the latest over on our US politics live blog here:

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A fossil gas boom that lifted millions out of poverty has collapsed and inflation is rising – but not everyone believes selling gold and soya is the answer

Once hailed as the “energy heart of South America”, Bolivia’s economy was buoyed up by a fossil gas boom from 2006 to 2014. At its height, then-president Evo Morales commissioned a gleaming presidential skyscraper and installed the world’s longest urban cable car network in La Paz, the seat of government.

Flush with cash, the country grew its GDP, expanded social programmes and halved poverty rates. But then commodity prices plummeted and gas reserves started to dry up, bringing Bolivia’s “economic miracle” crashing down. Inflation – once the region’s lowest – has soared.

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Weet u wat op zich handig is als er ernstige incidenten plaatsvinden met asielzoekers? Dat we het weten. Geeft de burger niet per se moed maar meten is niet voor niets weten en weten is in ieder geval iets weten. Maar nu weten we dus al een jaar lang niet hoe het zit met die ernstigste incidenten, waarbij u moet denken aan steekincidenten, mishandelingsincidenten en verkrachtingsincidenten. De vorige keer dat daar gedoe mee was kostte dat staatssecretaris Harbers nog zijn baantje, al ging dat om verdoezeling. Je zou evengoed verwachten dat Asielminister Van den Brink hier een beetje zijn best op doet: "Het ministerie zegt wel degelijk de intentie te hebben om transparant te blijven. 'Momenteel wordt gewerkt aan een inhaalslag om de nog openstaande meldingen te verwerken en de overzichten alsnog te publiceren', aldus een woordvoerder van de minister. Mag allemaal even duren daar. Misschien gewoon eens ergens een bureaulaatje opentrekken of zo?

De gedeeltelijke afsluiting van de Suurhoffbrug kan ook internationaal gevolgen hebben, zegt haveneconoom Bart Kuipers. De brug vormt een belangrijke verbinding vanuit de haven naar het achterland. "Dit is een pijnlijke blokkade van een strategische handelsroute. Dat maakt me echt boos", zegt hij.

Sergiy Galyonkin has added a photo to the pool:

A stone fox with a red bib and traces of gold leaf at a shrine in Aomori, Japan.