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A Venezuelan fugitive wanted on charges including sexual assault of a child and stalking has been arrested in Travis County, Texas, after police received a tip about his whereabouts. Fermin Alejandro Calles Garcia, 24, was detained without incident on 5 September during a traffic stop in north-west Travis County, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). Officers from Cedar Park Police Department carried out the stop, while special agents from the DPS Criminal Investigations Division in Austin assisted with the investigation. The department has recorded the arrest as a joint operation involving its agents and Cedar Park officers.…

Western Australia’s outgoing Liberal Party president, Caroline Di Russo, has dismissed the once-powerful faction known as “The Clan” as a historical footnote as she prepares to leave the role next month. Di Russo, who has served the maximum four-year term, said the party’s culture had improved markedly since she took over in October 2022, following the resignation of Richard Wilson. “The culture is much better. The engagement is much better. There’s a lot less in the way of silly games and unproductive carry on,” she said. The Clan was a faction of about two dozen people, including sitting MP Nick…

President Trump has said his proposed 250-foot arch near Arlington National Cemetery will be used as a military complex. In a social media post early on Sunday, Mr Trump said the site would accommodate “large numbers of drones” and snipers on both the roof and plaza areas. He also said it would “have and hold large quantities of sniper ammunition in storage”.

Residents of Barnham in Suffolk are preparing to send a delegation to Piddington in Oxfordshire to explore holding their own independence referendum over plans to accommodate 1,250 asylum seekers at nearby RAF Barnham. The proposed poll would have no legal force, but villagers believe it could draw attention to concerns that the scheme would more than double the population of the community. Piddington held a similar vote last week in response to plans to house migrants at MoD Bicester. Around 90 per cent of those who took part voted in favour of seceding from the United Kingdom. John Bauer, chairman…

The man accused by Carrot Top’s legal team of trying to extort the comedian over a sexually explicit recording has denied threatening to release it, saying the video had already been deleted. Brian Evans was responding to a 3 September court filing in which the comedian’s lawyers allegedly claimed he had threatened to place the recording on the court docket unless a $500,000 settlement was paid. Evans said the USB drive mentioned in the filing no longer contained the recording. “I never threatened – ever – to post any video anywhere in exchange for a settlement,” he said. He added:…

A juvenile was rescued uninjured after becoming trapped inside a collapsed cave near Lake Alan Henry in Garza County, Texas, on Friday night. Lubbock Fire Rescue was called shortly before 9pm on September 18 after receiving a mutual aid request from Garza County. Its Heavy Rescue and Dive teams were sent to the public campsites, where the juvenile was trapped beneath a large boulder blocking the cave’s only exit. Rescuers determined that the safest and most effective route to the cave was from the shoreline. Boats operated by Lubbock Fire Rescue and the Texas Game Wardens were used to move…

Caroline Di Russo, the outgoing president of the Western Australia Liberal Party, has declared that the faction known as The Clan is now “a footnote” in the party’s history as she prepares to leave the role next month. Ms Di Russo, who has served the maximum four-year term, said the party’s culture had improved significantly since she took over in October 2022. “The culture is much better. The engagement is much better. There’s a lot less in the way of silly games and unproductive carry on,” she said. The Clan was a powerful group of about two dozen people, including…

US consumer sentiment has turned “quite negative” amid rising petrol prices, concerns about artificial intelligence and the high cost of living, according to IBM vice-chairman Gary Cohn. Mr Cohn, who served as an adviser during the first Trump administration, made the assessment during an appearance on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.

Huawei is facing a landmark criminal trial in the United States, where prosecutors allege the Chinese technology giant spent two decades stealing trade secrets, deceiving banks and evading sanctions on Iran. The case opened in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on September 9 and is expected to last about three months. Huawei has pleaded not guilty, arguing that the US Government is presenting isolated actions by individual employees as evidence of a company-wide conspiracy. What prosecutors allege against Huawei The charges include racketeering, money laundering, bank and wire fraud, sanctions violations, obstruction and conspiracy to steal trade secrets from…

Alan Ritchson has suggested that a planned season of Reacher centred on a battle against white supremacists was scrapped after someone was re-elected as US president. Ritchson, 43, plays the lead character in the Prime Video series, with each season based on a book by Lee Child. Responding to a fan on Threads, he described the story as his favourite in the series. The fan had written that they were disappointed the show had not adapted the novel in which Reacher “kills his way through a white supremacist militia camp”. Ritchson replied: “My favorite book. Fun fact: I had it…