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DNA analysis identifies members of Oregon family missing since 1958
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DNA analysis identifies members of Oregon family missing since 1958

Authorities identified Kenneth and Barbara Martin and their daughter Barbie from remains in car in Columbia RiverDNA analysis has identified the remains found in a car in the Columbia River as those of an Oregon family that went missing in 1958 while on a trip to find Christmas greenery, authorities...

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Zohran Mamdani still making money from fleeting rap career, filings show
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Zohran Mamdani still making money from fleeting rap career, filings show

New York mayor, ‘C-list rapper’ who went by Mr Cardamon and Young Cardamon, collected $1,643 in royalties last yearThe New York mayor Zohran Mamdani is still making money from his short-lived career as a multilingual rapper, tax filings show.But the 34-year-old Democrat’s meteoric rise as a celebrit...

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V&A faces calls to become living wage employer on eve of Stratford opening
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V&A faces calls to become living wage employer on eve of Stratford opening

Campaigners organise open letter to director demanding ‘fair day’s wage’ for all workers at V&A museumsA row over pay has broken out at the V&A before the opening of its newest site , with thousands of people calling for it to become a living wage employer.On Saturday, V&A East will open...

Diane Taylor
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Co-founder Reed Hastings to step down from Netflix board
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Co-founder Reed Hastings to step down from Netflix board

Chair’s decision to not seek re-election in June ‘not as a result of any disagreement’, company says in SEC filingReed Hastings, the Netflix chair, is leaving the streaming service he co-founded 29 years ago as the company regains its footing after it lost its $72bn deal for Warner Bros Discovery.In...

Dara Kerr and agency
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Trump nominates Dr Erica Schwartz, ex-deputy surgeon general, as CDC director
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Trump nominates Dr Erica Schwartz, ex-deputy surgeon general, as CDC director

Schwartz was deputy surgeon general under Trump’s first administration and is a rear admiral in the US Coast GuardDonald Trump has selected Erica Schwartz to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bringing to an end a months-long search for a permanent head of the troubled public...

Marina Dunbar
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RFK Jr accused of ‘dangerous conspiracy theories’ at heated budget hearing
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RFK Jr accused of ‘dangerous conspiracy theories’ at heated budget hearing

Trump ally grilled by lawmakers over ‘terrible decisions’ on vaccines, public health and funding cuts to key programsUS politics – latest updatesVaccines and public health dominated a frequently contentious hearing with Robert F Kennedy Jr on Thursday before the US House ways and means committee.Ken...

Melody Schreiber
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Man charged over 2002 Jam Master Jay killing to plead guilty, documents show
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Man charged over 2002 Jam Master Jay killing to plead guilty, documents show

Jay Bryant negotiating plea deal in New York death of Run-DMC star, over which one conviction has been overturnedOne of the three men charged in the killing of Jam Master Jay plans to plead guilty, court records show, in what would be the first admission anyone has made in court to any role in the R...

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Counter-terror police investigate arson attacks on Iranian and Jewish targets
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Counter-terror police investigate arson attacks on Iranian and Jewish targets

Met police look into incident near office of Iran International after attempted firebombing of a synagogueCounter-terrorism investigators are examining three separate arson attacks in London against an Iranian dissident and Jewish targets amid fears the Iranian state may be behind them.The latest at...

Matthew Weaver and Vikram Dodd
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Top Gun 3 officially confirmed with Tom Cruise returning
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Top Gun 3 officially confirmed with Tom Cruise returning

Paramount confirmed the actor will play flying ace Maverick again in one of first major films in new eraTom Cruise is heading to the skies once again with the confirmation of Top Gun 3.While a sequel had been reportedly in the works since 2024, this week saw an official announcement from Paramount d...

Benjamin Lee
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Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand ‘shameful’ Palantir NHS contract be scrapped
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Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand ‘shameful’ Palantir NHS contract be scrapped

Spy-tech company and founder Peter Thiel should ‘have their hands ripped off our NHS’, say MPs MPs have queued up to demand the government scraps its £330m NHS contract with the spy-tech company Palantir, calling it “dreadful” and “shameful” in a debate on Thursday, after which the government said i...

Robert Booth UK technology editor
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Orbán’s defeat threatens to halt Hungarian support of populist right
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Orbán’s defeat threatens to halt Hungarian support of populist right

Individuals such as Matt Goodwin and Lord Frost benefited from largesse of self-styled ‘illiberal democracy’UK politics live – latest updatesThe last 16 years of Viktor Orbán’s rule have been kind to a number of British political figures – from the Tory peer David Frost to Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin a...

Ben Quinn Political correspondent
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Condé Nast will close its women’s health magazine, Self, after 47 years
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Condé Nast will close its women’s health magazine, Self, after 47 years

The magazine company is also shuttering some editions of Allure, Glamour and Wired deemed to be unprofitableCondé Nast is planning to shutter Self, its women’s health magazine, after 47 years.In a memo published on the magazine giant’s website on Thursday, the media company’s CEO, Roger Lynch, expla...

Maya Yang
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London primary schools see 3.5% drop in children entering reception
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London primary schools see 3.5% drop in children entering reception

Capital’s schools hardest hit in England and Wales by rising housing costs and falling birthrate, with further falls predicted in coming yearsSchools in London continue to be hardest hit by housing costs and the falling birthrate. Further closures and mergers of primary schools are expected after a...

Richard Adams Education editor
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Trump officials urge other countries to join new ‘trade over aid’ push
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Trump officials urge other countries to join new ‘trade over aid’ push

US calls free-market capitalism ‘surest path to prosperity’ and seeks to forgo direct aid to developing countriesMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe Trump administration has moved to formally enlist foreign governments in a sweeping reorientation of global development policy, directing American dip...

Joseph Gedeon in Washington
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