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Voters contend with ‘grotesque’ leaflets and ‘dodgy’ data in English elections | Local elections 2026
Election leaflets are providing “grotesque” information about how to vote tactically in the May elections, using national polling data, “dodgy” bar charts and doorstep surveys to support claims about parties’ chances of winning. Leaflets distributed by local politicians across England are claiming that either only their party can win, or another party “can’t win here”…
Trump Evacuated After Shooting at Press Dinner, Gunman Detained
US authorities are charging a gunman in a shooting at the hotel that hosted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, an incident that forced President Donald Trump to be rushed from the stage and the event to be postponed. Bloomberg News White House Correspondent Jeff Mason and State Department Reporter Eric Martin join David…
Syria puts first Assad-era official on trial in Damascus | Syria’s War News
Atef Najib, former head of political security in the Deraa province, is charged with ‘crimes against the Syrian people’. Published On 26 Apr 202626 Apr 2026 Syria has begun its first public trial of officials who served under longtime leader Bashar al-Assad, 15 years after the start of the civil war. Trial proceedings opened in…
Why aircraft carriers are the best (and worst) place for laser weapons
High-energy laser weapons are a natural fit for large, power-rich aircraft carriers—with limits. When U.S. Navy leaders declared that “the dream of a laser on every ship can become a real one” earlier this year, they apparently had one particular ship in mind.
Suspected gunman at White House press dinner named | White House correspondents’ dinner shooting
Law enforcement agencies have identified Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, southern California, a suburb of Los Angeles, as the suspected gunman arrested at the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night. Allen, 31, has no record of criminal charges or a civil court history in Los Angeles county, according to a records…
Blood vessels found in T. rex bones are rewriting dinosaur science
Despite decades of effort, scientists have never recovered dinosaur DNA. Most paleontology research today still focuses on searching for traces of original organic material in fossils, but DNA has not survived the passage of time. Much of what we understand about dinosaurs comes from fossilized bones and teeth. These durable remains preserve well, but they…
Nikola Jokić boils over after McDaniels’s mocking layup in Nuggets’ loss to Timberwolves | NBA
Nikola Jokić and Julius Randle were ejected after Jaden McDaniels made a meaningless – and provocative – layup at the end of the Minnesota Timberwolves’ playoff victory over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday night. With Minnesota already all but guaranteed victory in a game that ended 112-96, McDaniels chose to make the layup with 2.1…
NBC News, MS NOW Tamp Down White House Correspondents Dinner Parties
WASHINGTON — Mentalist Oz Pearlman was supposed to dazzle an audience of hundreds on Saturday night here with mind tricks in a well-lit hotel ballroom. Instead he found himself doing his act for a small handful of media executives in a darkened underground event space close to midnight. MS NOW had planned to host a…
Keir Starmer vows to lead Labour into next general election after bruising week | Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer has said he will lead Labour into the next general election as his Downing Street allies denied claims of any wrongdoing over the appointment and vetting of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the prime minister, told Sky News’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday show that “no wrongdoing by…