Bethany Antonia wore a T-shirt with the slogan ‘Protect the Dolls’ in rehearsals, but the words were edited out on Saturday’s show The BBC has defended its decision to edit out a transgender rights slogan from a T-shirt worn by a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing, stating it was standard practice to avoid “overt branding or slogans”. The actor Bethany Antonia was filmed wearing the T-shirt, which bore the slogan “Protect the Dolls”, during rehearsals ahead of her live performance on Saturday night. Continue reading...

Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.

Their work helped shape how central banks set interest rates and communicate policy.

Two Americans have won the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on how to smooth boom-and-bust cycles to limit unemployment and inflation.

China's ‌market regulator ​has ​unconditionally ⁠approved ​Geely's ​acquisition of ​Ford ​Motor's Spanish subsidiary ‌Ford ⁠España, ​it ​said ⁠on ​Monday.

The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery this week for a nodular lesion in his lung, with the recovery time expected to be a week.

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Hedge funds are stepping up purchases of legal claims tied to the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, after political opposition to the deals lost steam.

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Democrats in Congress are asking the FBI director to cancel the reported trip.

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.

The airport in Saudi Arabia's capital has been attacked again, according to two regional officials. They say the Riyadh airport has been evacuated and air traffic has stopped.

The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, judge and former UN rights chief Navi Pillay, on Saturday called sanctions announced bythe US on the International Criminal Court (ICC) "unheard of, unacce...

Law enforcers in plain clothes read Huang Mingmin's (2nd from left) his legal rights as a crime suspect under the Philippine laws during his arrest on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (Photo from

Law enforcers in plain clothes read Huang Mingmin's (2nd from left) his legal rights as a crime suspect under the Philippine laws during his arrest on Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (Photo from

Scant data about serious adverse effects makes it harder to answer scientific and legal questions about how often the drugs might cause serious harm like blindness or pancreatitis.

The cyberattacks that shook the South Korean financial sector earlier this month were launched by a Chinese hacker using the ARTEX AI penetration testing suite and Claude agents.

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Nature - Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on optogenetics, which has revolutionized neuroscience.

A fast radio burst that traveled across 10 billion light years reached Earth in 2024, doubling the distance record for these unexplained and energetic signals from space.

New winner is Nguyen Nam Nhat of Vietnam for video of a roundworm and single-celled Dileptus.

A strong 7.7 magnitude ​earthquake struck near the southern coast of ‌Panama on Friday at a 10 km depth, according to the US Geological Survey, yet no damage ​was initially reported and the Panama ​Canal Authority said the waterway was operating ⁠normally.

A global treaty signed by 197 countries — including Russia — requires reporting any death that could be a sign of an outbreak to come.

EV-maker Tesla has started calling ​its "Full Self-Driving" feature "Tesla Assisted Driving" on its European websites, dropping a name ‌regulators have said was misleading, as CEO Elon Musk pushes for EU-wide approval for the software.

Reducing glare and allowing modern light technologies will be two goals.

The records provide the clearest explanation yet for why Missouri escaped the wave of lawsuits the DOJ has filed against 30 states that rejected its demands for private voter files.

Castelion—a next-generation defense tech company—is building a facility in Rio Rancho Estates that documents show could pose a major fire and chemical hazard to neighboring communities.

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The former UN human rights commissioner was recognized for her efforts to promote peace and international law