The pilot for the voluntary chemical castration of sex offenders will be extended to 20 prisons in England, the justice secretary has said. Shabana Mahmood said she would expand a small pilot in south-west England to two regions, after an independent sentencing review recommended it continue. Mahmood is also exploring a national rollout of voluntary chemical castration for sex offenders, and whether it could be made mandatory. No timeline for this decision has been set. Forensic psychiatry Prof Don Grubin said he did not think the government would "get the mandatory element of it off the ground" as to "simply make somebody take [the treatment] would be very unethical and...most doctors I know would be resistant to it".

A screenshot of a CNN broadcast saying that underground tunnels were found in the home of hip-hop star Sean "Diddy" Combs, which was raided by law enforcement this week following a sex trafficking lawsuit, is fabricated.

A private jet crashed into military housing in San Diego during foggy weather early Thursday, igniting cars parked along a suburban neighbourhood block and killing multiple people on board the plane, authorities said. The plane could hold eight to 10 people but it’s not yet known how many were on the aircraft, Assistant San Diego Fire Chief Dan Eddy said at a news conference. Authorities will be investigating whether the plane hit a power line, he said. The aircraft crashed just before 4 a.m. into the U.S. military’s largest housing neighborhood. It appeared to strike at least one home that had a charred and collapsed roof and smash through half a dozen vehicles. About 10 homes suffered damage.

The Department of Homeland Security denies that it will produce a television show dubbed the ‘Migrant Hunger Games’

Congressman becomes third to die in office this year and sixth in just over a year

A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents

A federal judge on Wednesday scolded federal prosecutors and announced he will dismiss trespassing charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka related to a standoff at a migrant detention center. Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced earlier this week she would drop charges against Baraka (but at the same time announced new charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver stemming from a scuffle during Baraka’s arrest). Federal magistrate judge Andre Espinosa reprimanded the federal prosecutors for more than five minutes, calling the retraction of the charges “embarrassing.” “The hasty arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, followed swiftly by the dismissal of these trespassing charges a mere 13 days later, suggests a worrying misstep by your office,” Espinosa said. “An arrest, particularly of a public figure, is not a preliminary investigative tool. It is a severe action, carrying significant reputational and personal consequences, and it should only be undertaken after a thorough, dispassionate evaluation of credible evidence.” The judge directed his comments to Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Demanovich — the judge said Demanovich had acted appropriately throughout the case, but as the representative of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he was responsible for hearing the message.

Art-music master Brian Eno is the composer of what might be one of the most-heard pieces of music in history, even if much of the world doesn’t necessarily process it as a piece of music. Eno made the famous Windows ’95 chime — the seven-second sound that would play whenever you’d start up a PC. Earlier this year, Eno’s chime went into the Library Of Congress’ National Recording Registry. Now, Eno is using his famous Microsoft association to call on the company to end its partnership with Israel, and he’s also promising to donate the fees from his Windows ’95 chime fee to victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This morning, Brian Eno posted “Not In My Name,” an open letter to Microsoft, on Instagram.

Overall, the Fort Worth-Dallas area ranks third in the nation for the highest number of people — more than 1.3 million individuals —- experiencing hunger in 25 counties. About 60% of those people live in Tarrant and Dallas counties.

The Trump administration has deported at least two immigrants to war-torn South Sudan in defiance of a federal court order, according to attorneys for the immigrants. The two men are originally from Myanmar and Vietnam and were being held in U.S. immigration custody. Their lawyers say they learned of the deportation plan after receiving an abrupt notice Monday evening. By Tuesday morning, the men were already on a plane along with as many as 10 other deportees, the lawyers said. The lawyers revealed these details in an emergency motion to a federal judge in Boston who has already forbidden the Trump administration from sending foreign nationals to so-called “third-party countries,” rather than their country of origin, without providing “meaningful” notice and a chance to raise concern about torture.

The previously unknown microbe, named Niallia tiangongensis after the space station where it was discovered, has proven especially resilient, surviving in the harsh conditions of microgravity. Tiangong’s Shenzhou-15 astronauts swabbed a cabin on the space station in May 2023 as part of a survey by the China Space Station Habitation Area Microbiome Program. Follow-up studies of the swabs traced the newly discovered microbe to a strain that appears similar to Niallia circulans—a rod-shaped, spore-forming bacterium originally isolated from soil. It’s not clear whether the strain evolved on the space station or had already evolved on Earth before hitching a ride to low Earth orbit.

The award-winning cartoonist admitted in a YouTube livestream on Monday that his prostate cancer has spread to his bones, just like former president Joe Biden’s diagnosis.

Leon County prosecutors say there is an open criminal investigation relating to information a lawmaker provided concerning the Hope Florida Foundation. In response to a request by the Herald/Times for Hope Florida Foundation-related records that prosecutors received from state Rep. Alex Andrade, the records custodian for State Attorney Jack Campbell said the information couldn’t be released because it was “part of an open, on-going investigation.” The response is the first confirmation of any law enforcement investigation related to the foundation, which was set up to support the Hope Florida program championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife, first lady Casey DeSantis. Earlier this year, House Republicans alleged that the DeSantis administration illegally diverted $10 million from a settlement with a Medicaid contractor to a political committee controlled by the governor’s then-chief of staff.

Federal immigration agents were reported at a major strawberry packing facility in Ventura County late Thursday morning, sparking fear among workers and prompting at least one to leave early. That fear, however, never culminated in a full-scale raid thanks to informed staff who knew their legal ground and asserted their right to deny entry without a warrant. According to Ezequiel Ochoa, a gatekeeper at the site, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived at the entrance but left shortly afterward when they were asked to present a warrant and failed to do so. “We know not to open the gate unless a valid warrant is presented,” Ochoa said.

A Frisco ISD official said Saturday night they were seeking charges against a man who said he “broke into” a high school stadium to capture video related to the fatal stabbing at a track meet earlier this month. In the video shared on X, Jake Lang, a U.S. Senate hopeful from Florida and founder of Protect White Americans, points to a dark streak on the ground near the bleachers of Frisco’s David Kuykendall Stadium and alleges it’s the blood of Austin Metcalf. Metcalf, 17, was killed at the stadium on April 2 during the District 11-5A track meet. “I gotta get out of here before the police come,” Lang says in the video. “I just hopped the fence to get in here.” He also wrote in the post containing the video that he “just broke into Kuykendall Stadium.” Lang, who was accused of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, was pardoned earlier this year by President Donald Trump while awaiting prosecution. He is running to fill the Florida Senate seat vacated by Marco Rubio after he was appointed U.S. Secretary of State.

An Illinois man who was pardoned by President Donald Trump for assaulting a press photographer and police is standing trial for allegedly killing a woman while driving the wrong way down a highway.

Brent John Holdridge, 59, of Arcata, was subsequently arrested and transported to the Humboldt County Correctional Facility where he was booked for burglary, grand theft and possession of stolen property.

Centerville's Zachary Alam, pardoned for his Capitol riot role, is the latest to have legal trouble after receiving a pardon from President Trump in January.

The union, which represents about 160,000 federal employees, argued the order violates federal workers' labor rights and the Constitution.

Ruth López held without access to lawyers at secret location accused of ‘embezzlement’ a decade ago