Alamy Sir Brian Leveson is the Investigatory Powers Commissioner, responsible for overseeing MI5’s activities The watchdog charged with holding MI5 to account rewrote a report into the handling of a violent neo-Nazi agent after the Security Service gave it false information, the BBC can reveal. An early draft of the report by the Investigatory Powers...
Buried in the House’s budget reconciliation bill — now pending in the Senate — is a legislative provision that takes aim at the federal judiciary. Section 70302, titled “Restriction on Enforcement,” would undermine federal judges’ authority to enforce court orders by limiting their ability to hold government officials in contempt, a key tool for compelling...
The US Supreme Court has blocked a lawsuit brought by Mexico that sought to hold American gunmakers accountable for playing a role in country’s struggle with drug cartels. The court voted 9-0 to reject the suit, in the process upholding a 2005 law that shields gun manufacturers from liability if weapons they produce are misused....
Mauritian Kim Le Court beats Kristen Faulkner in a sprint finish to win the first stage of the 2025 Tour of Britain Women. The two riders worked well together along the Redcar coastline, holding off the chasing group with an advantage of up to 30 seconds. READ MORE: Watch Tour of Britain on BBC iPlayer...
Four men have appeared in court charged with murdering a man who died in a garden in Devon. The 24-year-old man died from a stab wound in the garden of a property at Ashfield Close, Exmouth, on Saturday. Police were called at about 00:45 BST to reports of an assault. The man died at the...
Four men have appeared in court charged with murder after the death of a 24-year-old man in Exmouth. The man was pronounced dead from a stab wound on Saturday after reports of an assault in the garden of a property in Ashfield Close, Exmouth. Zac Davies, 23, of Hawthorn Grove, Exmouth, Dylan Chadwick, 23, of...
Nine people have appeared in Plymouth Crown Court in connection with the murder of a 38-year-old man from Plymouth. Danny Cahalane was taken to hospital on 21 February following a serious assault involving acid on Lipson Road. He died in hospital three months later on 3 May. All nine defendants have been charged with involvement...
Lucy Clarke-Billings BBC News London Fire Brigade Damage caused by a fire at an industrial unit in Leyton Arsonists were “livestreamed” as they set fire to a business supplying Starlink satellite equipment to Ukraine after being recruited by agents for the Russian mercenary group Wagner, a court has heard. Around £1m of damage was caused...
The man accused of stabbing a 14-year-boy to death in east London had “a clear intention to kill,” a jury has heard. Marcus Monzo, 37, denies murdering Daniel Anjorin as the schoolboy left his home and walked to school in Hainault at 07:00 BST on 30 April last year. The defendant is also accused of hurting five...
PA Media MI5 told the court everyone from director general Ken McCallum downwards acknowledged the seriousness of the false evidence MI5 lied “deliberately and repeatedly” as it tried to defend its handling of a neo-Nazi agent who abused women, the BBC has told a panel of High Court judges. The corporation argued the threshold for...
Six people have appeared in court charged with murder after a man was killed in an alleged acid attack at his Plymouth home. Danny Cahalane, 38, was taken to hospital on 21 February following a serious assault involving acid on Lipson Road. He died in hospital three months later on 3 May. Five men, all...
Zac Sherratt BBC News, South East Danz Photography Phineas Float, Jon Collyer and Lisa Stocker (left to right) are accused of drug offences in Bali The trial of three British nationals detained in Indonesia on drug smuggling charges has begun. Jon Collyer, 38, and Lisa Stocker, 39, were arrested at Bali’s international airport in February...
The provision will make it so only the well-to-do would be in a good position to launch legal challenges against Trump. A single paragraph buried deep in a spending bill that passed the GOP-controlled House of Representatives earlier this month is causing growing concern among democracy watchdogs who warn the provision will make it so...
The coalition behind the lawsuit challenging Trump welcomed the ruling and slammed the assault on the federal workforce. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday night kept in place a block on President Donald Trump’s efforts for massive firings and agency restructuring across the federal government, saying a far-reaching executive order signed in February...
A former employee of Sean “Diddy” Combs, testifying anonymously as “Mia”, took the stand in his sex tracking trial in New York. During her testimony, she said the rap mogul called her after singer Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit against him in 2023, accusing him of physical and sexual abuse. “Mia” also alleged that during...