just now   (205+ words) A former police officer is due to go on trial accused of indecently assaulting a woman in a custody suite almost 30 years ago, it has emerged. Nigel Brown, 70, from Mirfield, is charged with three counts of indecent assault on a…...

2+ min ago   (448+ words) By ALYSSA GUZMAN, US NEWS REPORTER 15:49 09 Jan 2026, updated 16:38 09 Jan 2026 The shocking moment a man launched a racist attack on helpless senior citizens has been caught on camera. Derek Carl Kirven, 62, who is black, tried to access a members-only recreational area…...

6+ min ago   (303+ words) The former brother-in-law of Renee Good, the woman fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent after allegedly trying to ram him with her vehicle, said she never should have been in Minnesota and should have stayed out of…...

9+ min ago   (254+ words) COLUMBUS, OH (WOWO) Ohio's recreational marijuana sales topped $836 million in 2025, marking the first full year adult-use cannabis was legal in the state. According to the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Cannabis Control, recreational sales reached more than $1.09 billion as…...

10+ min ago   (121+ words) Wildfires rage out of control in Patagonia as thousands of tourists evacuated AP Raging Patagonia wildfires force evacuation of thousands of tourists - Wildfires have been raging through Patagonia since Monday, 5 January, leading to the evacuation of at least 3,000 tourists. - The…...

12+ min ago   (709+ words) Iranians gather while blocking a street during a protest in Kermanshah, Iran, Jan. 8. (Kamran / Middle East Images / AFP via Getty Images) Protests have expanded rapidly across Iran in recent days, with dozens reportedly having been killed amid a crackdown by…...

12+ min ago   (884+ words) Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey has defended his use of expletives in the aftermath of this week's shooting in which 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was killed, and blasted the ICE agents responsible for her death. The mayor also disputed claims by…...

14+ min ago   (432+ words) My friend Bill Bradbury, who has died of cancer aged 73, was a long-term and prolific writer of letters to the Guardian. They were always leftwing and mostly moral in nature, but leavened by his acerbic wit. As a teacher and…...

15+ min ago   (112+ words) US Military Seizes Another Tanker in Caribbean Sea "Without Incident" In the action, Marines and Navy sailors apprehended the Motor/Tanker Olina vessel at sea "without incident," Southern Command said in a Jan. 9 post on X. The post also included a…...

15+ min ago   (221+ words) A Gaffney, South Carolina, man has been convicted of fatally shooting a man in the head. On June 7, 2021, Zevonta Queon Shands met Michael McAllister Jr. at the intersection of Greenway Street and Woodlawn Drive shortly before 8 p.m. McAllister got into Shands…...