Gun safety advocates say there is no evidence showing that arming teachers will make schools safer, reports Kelly Rissman
She’s sold 35 million books, tamed literary snobs, and has a major Netflix adaptation in the works. As her 16th novel ‘My Favourite Mistake’ is released, Irish author Marian Keyes tells Jessie Thompson about putting everything from menopause to alcoholism on the page
One driver has reported that she counted 254 drivers who ignored the bus's extended stop sign between September and April.
A Wisconsin woman who at age 12 said she stabbed a sixth-grade classmate nearly to death to please the online horror character Slender Man remains a risk to the public and won't be released yet from a psychiatric hospital, a judge said Thursday.
If I’m not stressed out by these modern dilemmas, then trust me, you needn’t be eitherI don’t like to blow my own trumpet but I’m really good at worrying. If a family member fails to answer my message within 30 seconds, they’re definitely dead. Every name I forget means I’ve got Alzheimer’s disease; every brown envelope is a court summons for a crime I’ve forgotten doing (because of Alzheimer’s disease); every “Do you have time for a quick chat?” is a cataclysm about to detonate, destroying my...
Specialist officer from the Met Police was injured during an exercise in Essex. The officer, who was rushed to hospital, was hurt by a self-inflicted gunshot. The Specialist Firearms Command officer has since been discharged
The attempt to allow Bob Baffert to run a horse in this year’s Kentucky Derby was denied in a ruling on Thursday, possibly ending a last-ditch effort by owner Amr Zedan to get Arkansas Derby winner Muth into Churchill Downs. The court did deny the effort by Churchill Downs to have the suit dismissed, but it is a race against the clock to get any Baffert horses into the May 4 Derby. Baffert is not a party in the suit. Zedan Racing plans to file an appeal, likely on Friday, and ask for expedited...
U.S. allies around the world are wary of the upcoming presidential election. Here’s why experts think those in Asia may have less to worry about.
An all-out conflict, dragging in other regional powers, may be someone’s idea of ‘national security’. As an Israeli citizen, it isn’t mineIsraelis woke up on Sunday morning with a tentative collective sense of relief. For the first time ever, Iran had attacked Israel directly, sending a barrage of more than 300 drones and various missiles intended to rain down on Israel. Instead, Israel and a coalition of its allies intercepted 99% of the threats, according to Israeli authorities – mostly before...
A transgender teacher can use her preferred pronouns while at work, despite a restrictive Florida law, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
The Republican former TV anchor is trying to soften her election-denying image against the Democratic congressman Ruben Gallego in one of the year’s most closely watched racesOn a recent Tuesday morning, at a retirement community on the western edge of Phoenix’s sprawling desert metropolis, Kari Lake beamed at the graying crowd and introduced her guest, the Montana senator Steve Daines, the Republican charged with winning back the party’s Senate majority in Washington.His presence sent the...
CHICAGO -- Bryan De La Cruz did not necessarily agree with the Marlins’ plan for him in the ninth inning of Game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader against the Cubs. So the 27-year-old took matters into his own hands. “I’m not going to say he called it, but he kind of