Activism / November 15, 2023 How We Ended Cash Bail in Illinois Lessons from a successful struggle. Will Tanzman Ad Policy Lavette Mayes of Chicago lost her home and her business while she was jailed pretrial for more than a year following her first-time arrest in 2015. Unable to make bail, she missed her son’s…
1 hour ago About sharing Ukrainian forces fire a mortar over the Dnipro River toward Russian positions By Ido Vock and Oleh Chernysh BBC News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak has said that Ukrainian forces have gained a foothold on the left or east bank of the Dnipro river. Russia has…
Hundreds of people were forced to leave after the city council declared the building unsafe.
The 29-year-old Nottingham Panthers player died in hospital following a game in Sheffield.
12 minutes ago About sharing By Michael Race & Faisal Islam Business reporter and Economics editor, BBC News UK inflation fell sharply in October to its lowest rate in two years, largely due to lower energy prices. Inflation, which measures the rate at which consumer prices rise, dropped to 4.6% in the year to October,…
57 minutes ago About sharing By Tom Edwards BBC News The parents of a girl killed when a Land Rover crashed through a fence at her school have spoken about the “absolute horror” of that day. Nuria Sajjad, eight, and her mother Smera Chohan had been taking a photograph together at the preparatory school in…
36 minutes ago About sharing Maddy threw up stomach acid, blood, white foam after taking an unapproved version of the drug By Aoife Walsh and Pria Rai BBC News and BBC Three A woman who was illegally sold a weight loss drug on social media told the BBC she ended up in A&E vomiting blood….
26 minutes ago About sharing Brazilian cities including Sao Paulo are among those to be experiencing high temperatures By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Red alerts have been issued for almost 3,000 towns and cities across Brazil, which have been experiencing an unprecedented heatwave. Records have been broken in areas including the city Rio de Janeiro…
1 hour ago About sharing Mr Xi faces a host of problems at home as he arrives in San Francisco By Tessa Wong Asia Digital Reporter, BBC News When Xi Jinping stepped off his plane in San Francisco for the Apec summit, it was in circumstances very different to the last time he landed on…
1 hour ago About sharing By Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney The pūteketeke has been crowned New Zealand’s Bird of the Century after US talk show host John Oliver’s controversial intervention in the poll. Mr Oliver sparked a global frenzy with an “alarmingly aggressive” campaign for the vulnerable crested grebe. Fewer than 3,000 of the…