Exclusive: Health secretary says ‘irresponsible public discourse’ could vilify communities and lead to terrorism The use of inflammatory language over grooming gangs risks vilifying entire communities and could lead to atrocities such as the mosque massacre in New Zealand that killed more than 50 people, the health secretary has warned. Wes Streeting said he had…

David Crompton, 44, was reportedly given ‘IOU’ for prescription medication before fatal incident A man with epilepsy died in a fall after his pharmacy reportedly left him an “IOU” for his prescribed medication when it ran out of an anti-epileptic drug. David Crompton, a 44-year-old man in Leeds, died on 13 December after a fall…

The United States will also extend temporary protections for roughly 600,000 Venezuelan migrants in the United States.

Exclusive: Departures will add to pressure on party leader after Elon Musk said he was ‘not up to the job’ A dozen Reform UK councillors have given notice of their intention to resign en masse in protest at Nigel Farage’s leadership. The resignations could come as early as Friday evening and will add to pressure…

Trump’s absence was felt in the New York courtroom, and on video it wasn’t the outlandish display many might have expected US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump’s felony sentencing Friday morning had many of the trappings of his prior appearances at Manhattan supreme court. Queues of bleary-eyed reporters. Clusters of amped-up court officers….

Donald Trump will still take office as the first US president with a felony conviction.

Committee says it wants urgent update on support for hospitals declaring critical incidents under winter pressure MPs have written to Wes Streeting, the health secretary, asking for his action plan to help the 14 hospitals declaring critical incidents under winter pressure. The health and social care committee wrote to Streeting on Friday asking him to…

It’s widely used because it can slow flames in ways that water can’t. But it also contains heavy metals and other harmful compounds.

He was the sole resident of Budelli, an undeveloped sliver of paradise off the northern coast of Sardinia. He embraced the solitude, until he was evicted.