Author: Henry

A five-year-old died after hitting her head on a playground in Connecticut.  Olivia Videtto was using a play area at her home in Harwinton, near Hartford, when she fell. Police went to her parents’ home on Laurel Road, where she was when she hit her head around 2pm on Sunday. She was life-flighted to the hospital, where she later died from her injuries, WOWT reported. State Police said ‘nothing criminal has been found’ in the case, but her body has been given to the medical examiner’s office. ‘Connecticut State Police extends its heartfelt condolences to the family and the Harwinton community,’ it said…

In late 2015, the landscape of American labor relations experienced a seismic shift. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a groundbreaking ruling that effectively granted millions of contract, temporary, and franchised workers significantly more organizing power than they had possessed in decades. By fundamentally expanding the definition of a “joint employer,” the U.S. government opened up new avenues for unionization and altered the traditional dynamic between corporations, staffing agencies, and independent contractors. The Core of the Decision: Redefining the “Joint Employer” Prior to this landmark ruling, a company was only considered a “joint employer” if it exercised immediate and…

Three Royal Navy personnel have died in a helicopter crash during a training exercise in Devon. Emergency services were called to Sourton Down, near Okehampton, at about 03:45 BST after a Merlin Mk4 crashed. A Royal Navy spokesperson said the deaths happened during a “helicopter training exercise”, adding “the families of the service personnel have been informed and have requested a period of grace before further details are released”. The Princess of Wales, in her role as Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm, said she and William were “holding their families and friends in our hearts”. Head of the navy,…

Hundreds of protesters have gathered outside Southampton police station after footage of Henry Nowak’s arrest sparked widespread backlash. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the bodycam footage of Nowak, 18, in handcuffs after being brutally knifed by Vickrum Digwa last December made him ‘feel sick’.  It showed the teenager desperately telling officers four times, ‘I’ve been stabbed’, to which one policeman replied: ‘I don’t think you have mate’. Henry would succumb to his stab wounds moments later, and the footage – released last night after Digwa, 23, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years – has since sparked fury. …

The Two Faces of Arcadia: A Spy in City Hall and a Mansion Full of Surrogate Babies On paper, Arcadia is a quiet, leafy suburb east of Los Angeles. In reality, this city of 56,000 has spent the past year at the center of two of the most disturbing scandals in California — a mayor secretly working for a foreign power, and a couple accused of running what neighbors now call a “baby factory.” A spy in the mayor’s chair For three months in early 2026, Eileen Wang ran the city as mayor. Federal prosecutors say that for years before…

A man who worked as a child entertaining clown in the 1990s and early 2000s has been sentenced to prison for sexually abusing a little girl. Bobbie Arthur Owen, 64, performed as Boo Boo the clown from 1994 until 2002 in Springfield and Eugene, Oregon, which are about 100 miles south of Portland.  After working as a child entertainer, he moved to Citrus Heights in Sacramento County. There, he began sexually abusing a girl ‘on a regular basis,’ beginning when she was just 11 years old, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office. That girl, who is now an adult woman,…

Suspects in a manhunt could be traced ‘within minutes’ under radical police plans to use artificial intelligence to analyse CCTV footage. The head of a new police AI hub due to open within days has said the technology could transform detective work, speeding up the capture of dangerous criminals from days to potentially minutes. Alex Murray, who is the head of the new £115 million PoliceAI Centre, believes bots could also be used to answer 101 calls from the public, analyse criminal case files to suggest possible leads and reduce bureaucracy to allow officers to get back on the streets. Currently, officers…

Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Maine, has made his first public appearance since reports emerged that he had exchanged sexually explicit messages with several women during the early months of his marriage, while he and his wife were undergoing IVF treatment. The 40-year-old appeared before supporters at a campaign event on Sunday afternoon, dressed casually in a polo shirt, jeans and a trucker hat. In a post accompanying the appearance, he said he was taking his campaign to the front porches of Maine. He is seeking to unseat the long-serving Republican senator Susan Collins, a…

The trove of government documents on Peter Mandelson’s appointment as Britain’s ambassador to Washington contains no record of any steps taken to manage the serious national security concerns raised about him, according to the Guardian — an absence that directly challenges assurances ministers and officials gave to MPs. The newspaper reported that multiple sources briefed on the papers, which run to more than 1,000 pages and are due to be published on Monday, found no written evidence that security mitigations were agreed. One source who had seen the contents put the central problem bluntly, telling the Guardian the obvious question…

At least 55 people have been killed and dozens more injured after an explosion in a rebel-held village in Myanmar. The blast, which occurred in Kaung Tat, a village in Shan State close to the Chinese border, is said to have been caused by the accidental explosion of material stored for mining, according to the insurgent army. The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) – who control the village and are engaged in a bitter conflict with Myanmar’s military junta – said there have been fatalities, but did not confirm how many. Local sources say at least 55 people have died so far,…