Steve Rimmer

The UK government is set to introduce primary legislation requiring major technology companies to embed default protections on smartphones and tablets that prevent under-18s from taking, viewing or sharing nude images. Critics argue this would mean surveilance for everyone.

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In the wake of disruptive anti-migrant demonstrations that brought parts of Dover and Portsmouth to a standstill, the UK Home Secretary has directed police forces to deploy their full range of powers, including newly available mask bans and facial recognition technology, to counter what she described as tactics designed to intimidate communities. The intervention, following a high-level meeting with senior officers on 10 September 2026, signals a sharper official response to a new style of protest marked by balaclava-clad activists and coordinated road blockades.

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In a dramatic and closely fought vote on 11 September 2026, the House of Commons rejected legislation that would have legalised assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales. MPs voted 286 to 270 against the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at its second reading, a majority of just 16 that ended the latest parliamentary effort to change the law.

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Twenty-five years after the attacks of 11 September 2001, one of the quieter details of the recovery effort at Ground Zero continues to surface each anniversary. More than 300 search-and-rescue dogs from across the United States and beyond worked the unstable piles of twisted steel and concrete alongside human responders. Trained primarily to locate living people, many of these animals began showing clear signs of distress when days of searching yielded almost no live finds.

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Twenty-five years after four hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people, solemn ceremonies unfolded on both sides of the Atlantic. In New York, the names of the dead were read aloud at the memorial pools on the footprints of the twin towers as former presidents gathered and moments of silence marked the precise times of impact.

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A longtime forensic scientist with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, was sentenced on 8 September 2026 to 10 years in prison for systematically manipulating DNA data over more than a decade, casting doubt on the integrity of hundreds of criminal investigations.

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A group of nearly 60 Democratic lawmakers, led by Representative Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, has called on the Department of Justice and FBI to launch federal investigations into a series of hanging deaths of Black Americans, describing them as a “national crisis” with echoes of historical racial terror.

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A detailed technical investigation has raised fresh alarms over the data-collection practices of popular smart televisions, claiming that certain LG models scan home networks for connected devices, track viewing habits across every input, and can capture and store microphone audio even when the screen is dark or the set appears offline. 

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Elon Musk has issued one of his starkest warnings yet about the future of artificial intelligence, arguing that the contest between the United States and China may ultimately be decided not by superior algorithms or advanced semiconductors, but by something far more basic: electricity.

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In the tightly managed world of modern dairy farming, every cow must give birth to keep producing milk. Roughly half the calves born are male. Unable to lactate and often poorly suited to traditional beef production due to selective breeding for milk yield, these bull calves have long been treated as low-value by-products. 

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