Author: Liam Porter

US supreme court allows Trump officials to deport migrants to countries other than their ownThe US supreme court on Monday paved the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries they are not from, including to conflict-ridden places such as South Sudan.In a brief, unsigned order, the court’s conservative supermajority paused the ruling by a Boston-based federal judge who said immigrants deserved a “meaningful opportunity” to bring claims that they would face the risk of torture, persecution or even death if removed to certain countries that have agreed to take people deported from the US.As a result…

Looking at my bookshelf, I’m stricken with guilt: the collected Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle have been sitting untouched for years. Unfortunately, I never got past the fantastic television adaptation starring Benedict Cumberbatch to read the source material. But happily for Holmes, the British detective has a following the world over.In fact, stories about the ingenious sleuth and his brilliant nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, so appealed to mathematician John von Neumann and economist Oskar Morgenstern that they played a role in the creation of game theory in the early 20th century. This mathematical discipline explores the strategies for…

Henry Zeffman & Iain Watson & Chris MasonBBC NewsPA MediaAll of a sudden, this is a grave crisis for Sir Keir Starmer, perhaps the gravest of his year in Downing Street so far.Politically, it looks very hard for the government to proceed with its flagship welfare policies.Economically, it is very hard to see how the government cannot proceed.Labour whips, we are told, have been jumping up and down for weeks trying to warn their colleagues in 10 and 11 Downing Street that the rebellion over the welfare reforms (or, depending on which wing of the Labour Party you are speaking…

As the temperature climbed towards 30C the peril of turning off a system that could leave people with their heating stuck on full must have looked like an avoidable disaster.On Thursday ministers confirmed the “widespread switch-off” of the Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS), which controls an old type of electricity meter, “will not happen” on 30 June.Instead the technology will be phased out more slowly. The first stage will involve a maximum of 600 households over a three-week period, and during this time the response times of suppliers to vulnerable consumers will be monitored closely.But campaign groups say they are waiting…

Prime Day deals are already surfacing on Amazon ahead of the July 8-11 shopping event, and unsurprisingly, a discount on Audible is among them. We’ve seen similar offers pop up in the past, but considering Audible is one of the top audiobook streaming services out there, it’s worth highlighting again. New Audible subscribers can get three months of access to the Premium Plus plan for $3. That’s a total of $42 off for the whole three-month period.This is one of the best streaming deals around right now. The offer runs through July 31, which is actually a few weeks after…

Charlie JonesBBC News, EssexBBCEllie Goldstein plays Nancy, a history enthusiast and lacrosse goalie, in the new series of Malory Towers on CBBCA woman who made history as the first model with Down’s syndrome to feature on the front cover of Vogue said she was honoured to be making her acting debut.Ellie Goldstein, from Essex, plays Nancy in the new series of Malory Towers on CBBC.Doctors said the 23-year old would never be able to walk or talk when she was born.”I am so honoured to have been a part of this fantastic series. I’m beyond excited to see my episodes…

Hearing loss can make life difficult and lead to social isolation. But with extremely loud devices in our pockets, and earbuds in near-constant use, we are at more risk than ever. How can you take care of your ears to avoid problems?Looking after your ears is for life, not just old age“People tend to think it’s a bit of fun if someone mishears,” says Kevin Munro, a professor of audiology and director of the Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness at the University of Manchester. From a young age it became apparent that Munro could not hear in his right…

On a Wednesday morning earlier this month, Jane*, the coordinator for a mobile clinic at a temporary housing campus in Downey, just southeast of Los Angeles, was weaving through the line of patients, helping them fill out routine forms.Everything was normal, she recalled, until she glimpsed, from the corner of her eye, the facility’s security guard whisk away the cone that had been propping open the gate for the clinic, letting it swing shut. What had welcomed care now suddenly threatened capture.Outside, a convoy of unmarked white SUVs rolled toward the entrance. Spotting the armed, masked men and out-of-state plates,…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature36th over: England 150-0 (Crawley 51, Duckett 86) Target 371 A single to Duckett, then Crawley clips off the pads to mid-on, they run one, and that’s his fifty, a really well-controlled innings – given the match-state but also given the pressure he’s under to make a score. Duckett then drives to extra, where the ball takes a skip, thereby defeating Krishna’s drive – you can imagine Siraj’s mirth – as the rain intensifies. It looks pretty grimy out there, and you’d imagine India quite fancy getting off –…

The sentence sees most opposition leaders behind bars as the ruling Georgian Dream squeezes critics and rivals.A Georgian court has sentenced an opposition leader to seven months in prison, as a crackdown by the governing party on its rivals continues. The Tbilisi court imposed the sentence on Giorgi Vashadze, a leader of the Strategy Builder party, on Tuesday for failing to cooperate with a commission investigating abuse of power by a former government. The jailing means that nearly all of the country’s major pro-European opposition figures have now been imprisoned. The crackdown has increased accusations against the ruling Georgian Dream…