Michael Buchanan Social affairs correspondent, BBC News Getty Images Government plans to speed up employment support for people affected by the changes to welfare benefits will be “undeliverable”, the BBC has been told. As part of the U-turn on welfare reforms, ministers are expected to fast-track a £1bn support plan to get people into work,...
Watch: ‘To lose her is tragic’ – Minnesotans pay respects to Melissa Hortman A man who is accused of killing a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband, and injuring another state lawmaker and his wife, allegedly attempted to kill two other state lawmakers, Minnesota officials said on Monday. Vance Luther Boelter, 57, who is charged...
There isn’t a lot of information yet, but here’s what I have. Sources have told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS’ Tom Hauser that two Minnesota Lawmakers have been shot. Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police...
Russia has launched a “massive” drone attack on the capital, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said, while a maternity ward in Odesa has also been targeted. The Odesa drone attack hit medical facilities and homes, killing a 59-year-old man and injuring four, Governer Oleg Kiper said, according to Agence France-Presse. In the capital, emergency services...
Barbara Plett Usher BBC correspondent Dearbail Jordan BBC correspondent Getty Images Six Palestinians have been killed and several others wounded by Israeli gunfire in the latest deadly incident close to an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency says. People had gathered to collect food supplies on Saturday morning when the...
The death toll after deadly floods hit the Nigerian town of Mokwa on Thursday has risen to more than 200, officials say. There are still 500 people missing in the town in north-central Niger State, as a search mission continues. The deputy chairman of Mokwa Local Government, Musa Kimboku, told the BBC that rescue efforts...
Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent EPA Rubble pictured in a separate area of central Gaza on Sunday At least 24 Palestinians have been killed in two separate Israeli air strikes overnight, including a strike on a school sheltering displaced families in central Gaza, according to medics and civil defence officials. The strike targeted Fahmi Al-Jargawi School...
At least eight people have been killed and more than 30 injured across Ukraine in overnight Russian drone and missile attacks, regional officials have said. Four deaths were reported in Ukraine’s western Khmelnytskyi region. Three more deaths were reported in the Kyiv region, and one in the southern city of Mykolaiv. It comes a day...
North Korea has detained three shipyard officials over an accident during the launch of a new warship on Wednesday, state media has reported. Parts of the 5,000-ton destroyer’s bottom were crushed during the launch ceremony, tipping the vessel off balance. An investigation into the incident, which North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un described as a...
Max Matza & Nadine Yousif BBC News Watch: Jeanine Pirro lays out charges against DC shooting suspect The suspect accused of gunning down two Israeli embassy staff members outside a Jewish museum in Washington DC has been charged with first-degree murder, as well as murder of foreign officials and related firearm charges. Wednesday night’s attack...
During the COVID pandemic, public health officials were obsessed with presenting a united front and a grossly oversimplified message regarding anything pandemic-related. Is masking up a good or bad idea? There was little to no data that it was a good idea, but once the idea was pushed out there, everybody fell in line. That...
Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut urged a federal judge to consider holding the officials in contempt of court. Democratic U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut on Tuesday urged a federal judge to consider holding U.S. officials in contempt of court following the Trump administration’s alleged deportation of multiple immigrants from Southeast Asia to South Sudan,...
The US has accepted a plane from Qatar, a gift that sparked criticism including from some of President Trump’s biggest supporters. “The secretary of defense has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar in accordance with all federal rules and regulations,” Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on Wednesday. The plane will need...
Authorities in New York are investigating the site where a Mexican sailing ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge for clues about how the fatal collision occurred. Two people on board were killed and at least 19 others were injured when the Mexican Navy training ship crashed into the bridge on Saturday night. Police said early investigations...
Could the Trump administration’s battle with Harvard put its officers in danger of criminal prosecution? With the exception of a foreign researcher who smuggled materials into the country, that seems unlikely to most. The investigations of Harvard’s policies and practices have thus far involved grants and other federal subsidies, along with potential civil liability for...