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One person was killed and multiple people injured, including two children, in a shooting in Washington DC on Wednesday evening.Police have issued a public alert for the car believed to be carrying the gunman that fled the scene.Details remain sparse but officials confirmed that a man was pronounced dead at the scene and that five others, including a nine-year-old and a 12-year-old, were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.Officials have confirmed that the shooting took place around 6.10pm in the city’s north-east, and that there are possibly two shooters at large. During a press briefing, they said the investigation…

For the third day in a row, a New York appeals court on Wednesday rejected a last-ditch effort by Donald Trump’s lawyers to delay the hush-money trial.The case will be heard on Monday in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president.Trump’s lawyers argued during a brief emergency hearing in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon that the trial should be postponed indefinitely while they work to oust presiding judge Juan Merchan and question several of his ruling.Judge Ellen Geismer’s ruling is another loss for Trump, who has repeatedly tried to delay the trial. The decision means that the first of…

Republicans in Arizona halted an effort by Democrats on Wednesday to repeal an 1864 law banning almost all abortions, which the state supreme court this week ruled could go into effect.The move came after Republican lawmakers in the state had denounced the court’s decision, including some who previously expressed support for the law. Donald Trump and other high-profile Republicans, such as the Senate candidate Kari Lake, had also declared their opposition to the ruling with Lake urging lawmakers to “come up with an immediate commonsense solution that Arizonans can support”.The Arizona supreme court ruled on Tuesday that the 1864 law…

Augusta National president Fred Ridley has all but ruled out the possibility of LIV golfers working their way into the Masters through their own rankings, while pointing to the Saudi-backed tour’s “shutdown” as a possibility. questionable.Golfers who compete on the LIV Tour and win the Masters are still eligible to play in the first major of the year. One of the LIV members, Joaquín Niemann, received a special invitation to participate in this Masters. Others have had their roads to Augusta blocked after plummeting in the world rankings. LIV withdrew its application to join the system this year after failing…

Three sons and at least two grandchildren of the Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the exiled political chief of the militant group has said from his base in the Qatari capital of Doha.Haniyeh told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that his children Hazem, Amir and Mohammed and several of their children were visiting relatives for Eid at the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza when their car was targeted in an Israeli airstrike. Sixty of his relatives had been killed in the six-month-old war, he said, including 14 who died after…

Tyson Fury declares before his showdown with Oleksandr Usyk that this is “my time, my destiny, my era and my generation.”WBC boxing champion Fury will face Ukraine’s WBA, IBF and WBO boxing champion Usyk in Saudi Arabia on May 18 in the first undisputed world heavyweight match of this century.Regarding his opponent, the former lightweight champion who debuted in 2019, Fury said at a press conference on Wednesday: “This is not a personal feud, this is business for both fighters. Although there are many things , but I don’t hate him, and he doesn’t hate me.”I respect him as a…

Recently I was at a bean conference (it was called BeanCon) in Mexico, where I picked up some tips for cooking better beans (that I’ll share in due course) plus some other useful bits and bobs over my travels: a traditional Talavera platter, some granite dominoes, a colour-changing T-shirt emblazoned with an axolotl and confirmation that fish tacos are always a sure bet.There I was, in a Cancún taqueria, with two friends from opposite ends of the earth, perusing a menu of prolific taco fillings (nopales, huitlacoche) when the best-travelled among us suggested we go all in on fish. The…

SJohn’s Playground, Antigua. At 11.46am on April 18, 1994, the 30th anniversary next week, Brian Lara pulled a short ball from Chris Lewis to the leg-side boundary, Cricket History is written. Garfield Sobers’s record of 365 Test runs stood for 36 years and seemed an insurmountable “north wall” of batting skill. It wasn’t until 24-year-old Lara surpassed this record in just her 16th Test.The scenes and stories that followed have become indelible: the jubilant crowd streaming onto the pitch, Sir Gary strolling through them to anoint the new West Indies batting record holder and crown prince, Laura kneeling in biscuit…

A British man with Parkinson’s disease and his wife living in France say they have been left stranded on the continent because of “insulting” post-Brexit immigration rules.They worked and paid taxes for decades in the UK but say they have had the “door slammed in our faces” and have been told they must pay £11,000 if they want to return.Stephen Kaye, 60, an IT specialist, spent his entire working career paying tax in the UK, and his French wife, Carmen Delaunay, 64, made substantial contributions working as an analyst and client retention specialist for multinationals, most recently Deloitte, over 25…

World Athletics broke with 128 years of Olympic tradition and announced it would become the first international sport to offer bonuses to athletes who win gold medals at the Olympics, potentially clashing with the International Olympic Committee.Starting in Paris this summer, track and field athletes who win a gold medal in each of the 48 events will also receive a $50,000 bonus. World Athletics has also pledged cash prizes to silver and bronze medalists from the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.The decision is particularly striking given that the IOC has never offered bonuses to those who compete in the Olympics…