A Budapest Pride march is expected to go ahead on Saturday, defying Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s legal threats against LGBTQ rights activists. The march organisers hope for a record attendance this year, despite mounting pressure from nationalist conservative politicians and police to stop any display of pro-LGBTQ material. Police have issued a ban, in...
Who could have guessed that Hunter Biden’s gravy train would evaporate once his father left office? Not me. He was such an important modern artist that buyers were knocking down his door to lay down tens of thousands of dollars for one of his much-coveted paintings. You would think that, given his substantial income stream,...
Georgina Barnes BBC News, South West BBC The government announced on Tuesday that the creation of new mayor roles would be discontinued The Mayor for Plymouth (MfP) campaign says it will take the government to high court over an announcement there will no be a directly-elected mayor for the city. The government announced on Tuesday...
Jake Horton & Lucy Gilder BBC Verify BBC Since US President Donald Trump ordered strikes on several nuclear facilities in Iran over the weekend, Democrats as well as lawmakers from his own party have questioned his legal authority to do so. Republican Congressman Thomas Massie said on X that the strikes were “not Constitutional”, and...
Liv McMahon Technology reporter Getty Images The BBC is threatening to take legal action against an artificial intelligence (AI) firm whose chatbot the corporation says is reproducing BBC content “verbatim” without its permission. The BBC has written to Perplexity, which is based in the US, demanding it immediately stops using BBC content, deletes any it...
Emma Saunders Culture reporter Getty Images Taylor Swift has been described in legal documents as one of Blake Lively’s “dragons” Messages between Blake Lively and Taylor Swift can be handed over to Justin Baldoni as part of his ongoing high-profile legal battle with the actress, a judge has decided. Communications between Lively and her friend...
A teenager who was tricked into going to boarding school in Africa has won a significant legal victory against his own parents. The 14-year-old boy, who cannot be identified, was taken from London to Ghana in March 2024 after being told a relative was ill. In fact, his parents wanted to get him out of...
Getty Images WhatsApp has told the BBC it is planning to support Apple in its legal action against the UK Home Office over user data privacy. The messaging app’s boss, Will Cathcart, said the case “could set a dangerous precedent” by “emboldening other nations” to seek to break encryption, which is how tech firms keep...
Democrats must feel cursed. Harry Enten of CNN did a deep dive into how legal immigrants view Democrats, Republicans, and illegal immigrants, and the news is very bad for the Democrats. When asked, legal immigrant voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on the issue of immigration–by a wide margin. More than that, in just...
Mallory Moench & Imran Rahman-Jones BBC News Getty Images Determined to avoid baggage fees for his holiday to Pisa, Benjamin Till trawled several different shops armed with a tape measure in search of the right suitcase. Eventually, he found a case within the dimensions EasyJet allows for a free underseat bag – or so he...
The new interim chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has told the BBC she will do “whatever it takes” to reform the embattled legal appeals body. Dame Vera Baird KC said the CCRC seemed “incapable of learning from their mistakes” and she wanted to “root out” the culture causing them. She has has...
Rebekah Wilson BBC News NI PA Media Four crew and 25 passengers were killed when the helicopter crashed in June 1994 Families of those killed in an RAF Chinook helicopter crash in 1994 have said they are launching legal action against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for not ordering a public inquiry. Four crew and...
President Donald Trump’s administration can temporarily revoke the legal status of over 500,000 migrants living in the US, the US Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The ruling put on hold a previous federal judge’s order stopping the administration from ending the “parole” immigration programme, established by former President Joe Biden. The programme protected immigrants fleeing...
Nitrous oxide – known colloquially as “laughing gas” – has many uses, from a painkiller during dental procedures to a whipping agent for canned whipped cream. While its euphoric side effects have long been known, the rise of vaping has helped create a perfect delivery vehicle for the gas – and a perfect recipe for...
Kate Whannel Political reporter Reuters Diego Garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, was separated from Mauritius along with the rest of the Chagos Islands in 1965 and now houses a US military base The government has temporarily been banned from concluding talks on the Chagos Islands deal by a last-minute injunction by a High...