Far-right Infowars owner faced defamation trial for repeatedly saying the school shooting was a hoax The jury in Alex Jones’s defamation trial on Thursday ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist to pay $4.1m in damages over his repeated claims that the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax. Jurors in […]
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Unidentified aircraft, probably drones, flew over island close to China’s shores on Wednesday night, says Taipei, ahead of Beijing’s expected live-fire drills around Taiwan China to begin series of live-fire drills off Taiwan coast China can’t stop world leaders visiting Taiwan: Nancy Pelosi China-Taiwan relations: what’s behind the tensions? The […]
Parents of 12-year-old say they should be allowed to choose where their son takes ‘his last moments’ The parents of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee have pledged to “fight” to get him moved to a hospice, insisting they should be allowed to choose where he takes “his last moments”. After the rejection […]
Abandoned policy ‘misinterpreted … by the media’, Tory leadership frontrunner tells party members at hustings in Cardiff Liz Truss has said an £8.8bn black hole in her savings budget caused by her abandoning a policy to cut public sector wages was not part of her “central costings” for funding a […]
Scunthorpe neighbourhood rallies to replace £1,000 of chocolate liquified in July’s heatwave An online appeal has raised funds for the owners of a corner shop whose entire stock of chocolate worth nearly £1,000 melted after its air conditioning failed to cope during the recent heatwave. More than £630 has been […]
Stunning revelation contradicts claims Jones had nothing on his phone pertaining to deadly 2012 shooting he long called a hoax Attorneys for Alex Jones “messed up” and sent to his legal adversaries “every text message” Jones had written in the past two years – contradicting claims Jones had nothing on […]
Trip by house speaker, who is due to make an address with Tsai in Taipei today, described as ‘extremely egregious’ by China’s vice foreign minister 30-second explainer: what’s behind the China-Taiwan tensions? Another area of tension lies between the US and Russia, which Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has ratcheted up […]
Announcement made hours after attempt to postpone withdrawal of life support was rejected by UK supreme court ‘with a heavy heart’ The mother of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee has said his life support treatment will be removed at 11am on Wednesday, hours after a last-minute attempt to postpone the hospital taking […]
Archbishop indicates he will not seek to punish churches that allow same-sex marriage in balancing act Anglican church still tying itself in knots over same-sex marriage Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the global Anglican church, has sought to mollify conservative bishops around the world by “affirming […]
Peter Fahey critical of proposal to widen definition of ‘extremism’ and include people who ‘vilfy’ Britain Rishi Sunak’s proposals to strengthen the government’s anti-terrorism programme risk “straying into thought crimes” and are potentially damaging to national security, a former senior police chief has said. The former chancellor announced measures to […]