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• 2 Texas toddlers died after being left in car overnight, sheriff says - CNN

  09-06-2017 23:44 via cnn.com
  
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  (CNN) Two young sisters died after after their mother intentionally left them in a car for more than 15 hours, Texas authorities said Friday. The girls' mother, Amanda Hawkins, 19, was charged with two counts of abandoning or endangering a child, Kerr ...and more »
  
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• London Bridge terrorists tried to hire 7.5 tonne lorry before attack

  09-06-2017 23:11
  The London Bridge terrorists tried to hire a 7.5 tonne lorry online on the morning of their attack, police have revealed.The gang crashed the vehicle into railings and then ran through Borough Market, randomly stabbing more terrified victims at bars and restaurants, before armed officers arrived and shot them dead.Soon after, police opened the van and discovered thirteen Molotov cocktails - firebombs made from wine bottles, filled with lighter fuel, perhaps intended for another wave of attacks.
  
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• What you need to know about the DUP - the party supporting Theresa May's new minority government

  09-06-2017 22:36
  
  It is the fifth largest party in the Commons with 10 seats.
  
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• Donald Trump has FINALLY spoken out about the Election 2017 - May WON'T want to hear it

  09-06-2017 22:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has called the results of the British election - which left Prime Minister Theresa May struggling to hold on to power - "surprising."
  
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• UK general election 2017: Labour wins Kensington, last seat in general election – live

  09-06-2017 22:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour takes traditional Tory stronghold by 20 votes as May says Philip Hammond, Boris Johnson, Amber Rudd, David Davis and Michael Fallon will all stay in positions
  • Election results tracker: seat by seat guide
  • What is a hung parliament and what happens now?
  • Owen Jones: Corbyn would make a fine prime minister
  • Lunchtime summary• Support the Guardian’s journalism by becoming a monthly supporter or making a one-off contribution 9.15pm BSTThe winner was declare
  
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• War veteran, 96 killed sick wife to fulfil promise

  09-06-2017 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A WAR veteran of 96 strangled his sick wife with a dressing gown cord after she begged him to kill her, a court heard today.
  
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• London Bridge - Medical miracle as all 48 people injured in terror attack have survived

  09-06-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MEDICAL teams who treated casualties from the London Bridge terror attacks have been praised after it was confirmed that every victim who made it to hospital has survived their injuries.
  
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• Usain Bolt ready to go supersonic one last time for his Jamaica farewell

  09-06-2017 22:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sprint king is as big as Bob Marley in his home nation where he will take centre stage at a typically star-studded final track appearance thereThe long, lank boy in lane three is rigid with nerves. Understandably, given he is 15 years old and racing in the World Junior Championships 200m final against athletes three years his senior. Technically he is a mess too. When he runs his neck is cocked back and tilted rightwards, as if he has slept awkwardly and missed an osteopath’s appointment.
  
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• Rafael Nadal overwhelms Dominic Thiem to reach French Open final

  09-06-2017 21:52 via theguardian.com
  
  • Spaniard moves closer to 10th Roland Garros title with 6-3, 6-4, 6-0 win
  • Rafael Nadal proves an obstacle too far for Dominic ThiemIt wasn’t perfect but as Rafael Nadal trounced Dominic Thiem on Friday night to reach his 10th French Open final, there was definitely an element of master against pupil as the man who would be clay-court king was crushed for the loss of seven games by the man who has worn the crown for more than a decade. Thiem had given notice that he might be re
  
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• Russell Square placed on lockdown - Gang of men on mopeds STAB man 'with machete'

  09-06-2017 21:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  POLICE have descended on Russell Square in London this evening after a man in his 20s was stabbed by a gang on mopeds.
  
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• First Sikh woman and turban-wearing Sikh man elected to Parliament

  09-06-2017 21:45
  
  Preet Kaur Gill and Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi were elected for the Labour Party in Birmingham Edgbaston and Slough.
  
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• 27 years for family in £45m VAT scam

  09-06-2017 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A FAMILY of fraudsters who lived in £45m VAT scam like kings funded by £45million stolen from the taxman were jailed for a total of 27 years today.
  
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• Bangladesh humble New Zealand to keep Champions Trophy hopes alive

  09-06-2017 21:21 via theguardian.com
  
  • New Zealand 265-8, Bangladesh 268-5
  • Bangladesh will make the semi-finals if Australia lose to England at EdgbastonBangladesh will be the side in Group A keeping an anxious eye on proceedings at Edgbaston on Saturday. Their spectacular defeat of New Zealand by five wickets means they will play in the semi-final in Birmingham on 15 June if England beat Australia or – and let no one wish for this – the rain ruins that game, bringing about another no result.The architects o
  
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• Three men admit converting nuclear bunker into huge cannabis factory

  09-06-2017 21:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Acting on a tipoff, Wiltshire police discovered an underground site capable of producing £2m worth of the drug each year
  Three men have admitted their part in running a large-scale cannabis factory from an underground nuclear bunker. Martin Fillery, 45, Plamen Nguyen, 27, and Ross Winter, 30, admitted conspiracy to produce class B drugs and abstracting electricity. Wiltshire police discovered more than 4,000 cannabis plants, capable of producing £2m worth of drugs a year, during a mi
  
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• Can the Tories work with the DUP?

  09-06-2017 21:10
  
  The Conservatives are looking to the DUP to support their minority government, but what are the differences between the two parties?
  
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• The Guardian view on the 2017 election result: a call for a different Britain | Editorial

  09-06-2017 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  The election has confounded Theresa May and many others. It is a vote against austerity and for a less abrasive Brexit, and it marks the revival of the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn• Support our journalism by becoming a Guardian supporter or making a contribution. You can see this in action hereTheresa May was not the only person who seriously misread the public mood during the 2017 general election. But she is the one whose misreading has had by far the most devastating consequences at
  
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• Harry Kane to captain England against Scotland in World Cup qualifier

  09-06-2017 20:50 via theguardian.com
  
  • Tottenham striker takes over from Wayne Rooney
  • Gareth Southgate: ‘It’s a great honour for any player’Harry Kane has been named as England captain for Saturday’s World Cup qualifier with Scotland at Hampden Park.The England manager Gareth Southgate hopes handing Kane the armband will boost his confidence and kickstart his international career. Continue reading...
  
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• London Bridge terrorist tried to hire 7-ton truck to cause greater carnage

  09-06-2017 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE three London Bridge terrorists plotted to cause even greater carnage by mowing down victims in a seven ton lorry and firebomb busy pubs and restaurants with Molotov cocktails lit by blow torch, police revealed yesterday.
  
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• Grandmother, 106, left devastated after being DENIED a vote over electoral mix up

  09-06-2017 20:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A PLUCKY 106-year-old who witnessed women being given the vote in 1918 was turned away from a polling station yesterday.
  
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• Tories say Theresa May must sack 'monsters who sunk our party'

  09-06-2017 20:18
  
  Theresa May’s joint chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill leave the Conservative party headquarters in London.Cabinet ministers and a string of Conservative MPs are demanding that Theresa May sacks one or both of her closest advisers if she wants them to support her minority government, propped up by the Democratic Unionist party.Several politicians told the Guardian that Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy, who act as the prime minister’s joint chiefs of staff in Downing Street, must
  
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• County cricket: Surrey v Essex, Somerset v Yorkshire and more – as it happened

  09-06-2017 20:17 via theguardian.com
  
  All the action from another exciting day of Championship action, as Mark Stoneman scored a brilliant century for Surrey against Essex 7.17pm BSTRight, folks, time for me to wrap up! Have seen a brilliant innings today, which is always nice. Wickets tumbling all over the place and they are still playing at Northampton! I can’t stay in a tent in Guildford forever, though. Here are out scores:Division One: 6.59pm BSTRemarkably, there is still one game going on... A whopping 10 overs remain at
  
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• Seventies home on Glasgow's Southside is a blast from the past

  09-06-2017 20:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  IT could not be more Seventies if you came home to find Abba grooving to Waterloo in the front room.
  
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• UK's youngest double killers are finally unmasked

  09-06-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A TEENAGE schoolgirl devoured by a hatred and jealousy of her mother and younger sister brutally encouraged her psychopath teen boyfriend to slaughter them in their beds, it can now be revealed.
  
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• Trump seeks to reopen cases of hundreds reprieved from deportation

  09-06-2017 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Administration asks court to reopen cases of 1,329 undocumented immigrants who saw reprieve under Obama in evidence of White House crackdownThe Trump administration has moved to reopen the cases of hundreds of undocumented people who were reprieved from deportation under Barack Obama, according to government data, court documents and interviews with immigration lawyers.Related: Inside Trump's secretive immigration court: far from scrutiny and legal aidContinue reading...
  
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• Cheers and jeers: party leaders on election results day – in pictures

  09-06-2017 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  A glum Theresa May meets the Queen, Jeremy Corbyn is all smiles after a Labour youthquake, and Tim Farron mocks ‘coalition of chaos’ as news of a hung parliament rattles BritainGeneral election 2017 – live updates
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• Election results 2017: How will this minority government actually work?

  09-06-2017 19:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theresa May is determined to continue as prime minister, in a government relying on the help of the DUP.
  
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• Lynton Crosby isn't a genius – and five other lessons the election taught us | Hannah Jane Parkinson

  09-06-2017 19:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Immutable truths about British political culture have been breezily overturned by the electorate, confusing pundits and politicians alike. What next?General election 2017: Theresa May keeps top five ministers in their jobs – liveWell then. Nobody knows anything any more, do they? Michael Gove was mocked for saying that everyone was sick of experts (or thereabouts), and I’ve always been sympathetic to that mocking, but it is starting to seem as though – in political predictions
  
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• DUP-Conservative pact lacks democratic legitimacy | Letters

  09-06-2017 19:49
  
  The outcome of this astonishing general election is particularly striking in Northern Ireland, where the unionist-nationalist divide has been reinforced.It is already clear that the DUP will play a crucial role in the new parliament, supporting a minority Tory government and pushing for a hard Brexit.Sinn Féin even before the election were talking about the need to protect the soft border and minimise the impact of Brexit on the province.
  
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• Result that gives hope to the millions, not the millionaires | Letters

  09-06-2017 19:48
  
  Jeremy Corbyn can look forward to fighting a second general election in the autumn, says James Roberts.Theresa May asked for a landslide.The Tories have lost their parliamentary majority in an election she first promised not to call, but U-turned because she thought Jeremy Corbyn was “unelectable”.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn plans alternative Queen's speech challenging May

  09-06-2017 19:42
  
  Jeremy Corbyn leaves Labour party headquarters on Friday morning. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
  
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• Ruth Davidson calls for 'open Brexit' after successful Scotland campaign

  09-06-2017 19:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SCOTS Tory leader Ruth Davidson put herself on collision course with Eurosceptics today as she called for an “open Brexit” in the wake of its election setback south of the Border.
  
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• Martin Rowson on Theresa May's new government – cartoon

  09-06-2017 19:36 via theguardian.com
  
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• British father and baby die in road crash in Brittany

  09-06-2017 19:33 via theguardian.com
  
  The mother is in hospital after the family’s car was hit by a cattle truck near Quimper in northern FranceA British father and a 10-month-old baby are reported to have died after a road accident in northern France.
  The car they were in was hit by an empty cattle truck in a rural area of Brittany, said the French news website the Local. The child’s mother is being treated in hospital. Continue reading...
  
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• Theresa May: I wanted different result, but now I'll lead

  09-06-2017 19:25
  
  Theresa May has admitted she "wanted a different result" in the General Election but insists the Conservatives are the "only party" in a position to form a government and lead Brexit talks.Speaking inside Downing Street, she said she would reflect on what she now needed to do to take the party forward after seeing a working majority of 17 wiped out.Facing down calls to stand down by Labour, the Lib Dems and even some of her own MPs, a defiant Mrs May has decided to cling on to power by forming a
  
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• 'The Tories shored up by the DUP is a grim thought': Guardian readers on the Conservative/DUP union

  09-06-2017 19:24 via theguardian.com
  
  The Conservative party has made a deal with the Democratic Unionist party so it can form a government. We asked people in Northern Ireland about how they felt about the agreement Continue reading...
  
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• Election results 2017: How do you get over losing your job as an MP?

  09-06-2017 19:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How long does it take to get over the shock of losing your job as an MP? A year, two days?
  
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• The DUP was in trouble. Now it’ll believe God’s on its side | Malachi O’Doherty

  09-06-2017 19:21 via theguardian.com
  
  Two days ago the party whose supporters read the Bible as history seemed irrelevant, humbled by its opponents. But May’s lifeline has given it new hopeThe adoption of the DUP as the saviour of the Conservative party is perhaps a reaffirmation for Ulster’s political evangelicals that God is on its side.For it has been rescued from political irrelevance by something that is as surprising as virtually any miracle could have been, short of its founder, Ian Paisley, rising from his grave.
  
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• Theresa May's 'new' Cabinet: Who are they?

  09-06-2017 19:12
  The most high-profile Cabinet ministers in Theresa May's administration are keeping their jobs, Downing Street has said.Tensions with the Prime Minister's team were heightened further when he hinted the Tories would ditch their triple tax lock in the 2017 manifesto, before it had been finalised by Number 10.The reported row fuelled speculation Mr Hammond was being lined up for the exit door if Mrs May won a sizeable majority, which the Chancellor had dismissed as media "tittle-tattle".
  
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• Under-strain NHS fails to ensure cancer patients seen quickly enough

  09-06-2017 19:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Hospitals miss two-week target for seeing specialist for only second time since records began, as delays in treatment riseGrowing numbers of hospitals are forcing cancer patients to wait longer than they should for vital NHS treatment, official figures show.In April the NHS failed to meet three key targets that set out the maximum length of time patients should wait before receiving treatment.Continue reading...
  
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• Theresa May won’t survive long. Tory modernisers are already plotting | Gaby Hinsliff

  09-06-2017 19:10 via theguardian.com
  
  The prime minister’s disaster is self-inflicted – and hubris, lack of vision and a bullying inner circle all played a part in itIt’s hard to think of a fall more vertiginous, a hubris more complete, than that of Theresa May. Even Boris Johnson’s self-immolation during last year’s Conservative leadership contest had a certain predictability. It was hardly the first time he’d shot himself in the foot. But with May, it’s different. She takes risks rarely, a
  
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• 'Dreadful night' when Theresa May's strong and stable fantasy evaporated

  09-06-2017 19:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Calls for her resignation began with George Osborne, and Corbyn and Farron soon followed, while the DUP relished role of rescuing Tories
  For the third time in just over two years, British voters found themselves waking up on Friday to a dramatic poll result that few of them had confidently predicted.The strong and stable – and sizeable – Tory majority on which Theresa May had gambled her premiership, as well as the country’s negotiating position on Brexit, had been revealed as
  
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• 'Dreadful night' when Theresa May's strong and stable fantasy evaporated

  09-06-2017 19:08
  
  The strong and stable – and sizeable – Tory majority on which Theresa May had gambled her premiership, as well as the country’s negotiating position on Brexit, had been revealed as an almost laughable fantasy.Instead of the 50, or 80, or 100+ seat lead that the majority of the polls, right up until election day, had predicted, the Conservatives had failed to scrape their way to a workable majority.For both the bleary-eyed political obsessives who, stunned by the 10pm exit polls
  
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• Steve Smith calls England ‘predictable’ before Champions Trophy showdown

  09-06-2017 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  • Smith wary of ‘dangerous batters’ Australia will face at Edgbaston
  • Eoin Morgan: ‘If you never play an Ashes Test this is the closest you will get’Eoin Morgan has described facing Australia in a one-day tournament as being as close as he will come to experiencing the heat of an Ashes series. But as his players prepared for a free shot at sending their rivals home from the Champions Trophy on Saturday, the England captain received a flavour of its intensity wh
  
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• Some wise advice to politicians from 11-year-olds | Letters

  09-06-2017 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Headteacher Elisabeth Broers says her primary schoolchildren could teach MPs much about grown-up solutions to Britain’s problemsI am the headteacher of a school with 360 children aged between seven and 11. This morning I woke to hear someone on the radio saying: “The public have spoken but what do they mean?” The children in my school understand, so surely politicians can. The public don’t want extremism. They don’t want it on the streets of Manchester or
  
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• Olympic officials would resist DUP demand for Team GB to be Team UK

  09-06-2017 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  • Unionist party called for Olympic team’s rebranding in election manifesto
  • BOA says change could hamper fund-raising and jeopardise sending teamBritish Olympic officials would strongly resist any demands by the Democratic Unionist Party to force them to change the name Team GB to Team UK in the wake of the general election result, claiming it could prevent them sending a team to Tokyo 2020.The DUP, Northern Ireland’s largest unionist political party, called for the rebra
  
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• Giving up, Nicola? Sturgeon signalls she could shelve plans for independence referendum

  09-06-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  NICOLA Sturgeon today signalled she could shelve plans for another independence referendum following a disastrous election performance for the SNP.
  
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• Crusaders v Lions: five things to watch out for in third tour match | Gerard Meagher

  09-06-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Accurate kicking will be vital in Christchurch, the scrum will give clues as to the All Blacks’ strength, the Lions need to get angry and moreWarren Gatland has denied this is a shadow Test side though it would seem his selections in three key positions – Nos 8, 9 and 10 – are likely to face the All Blacks. It is the first sight of Conor Murray and expect the Ireland scrum-half to box-kick to his heart’s content. Owen Farrell is likely to put boot to ball regularly too an
  
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• Hundreds gather for funeral of 'precious' teen killed in the Manchester Arena attack

  09-06-2017 18:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A “PRECIOUS and joyous” teenager who was murdered in the Manchester Arena terror attack was today laid to rest.
  
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• May to 'reflect' on election result

  09-06-2017 18:55
  
  Theresa May insists that she will 'form a government in the national interest'.
  
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• Family pays tribute to French tourist killed in London Bridge attack

  09-06-2017 18:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Xavier Thomas, 45, named as eighth victim of the attack, was visiting London with his partner, who was seriously injuredThe family of a French tourist killed in the London Bridge attack have paid tribute to “a true ray of sunshine”, after his body was recovered from the river Thames on Wednesday.Xavier Thomas, 45, was apparently knocked from London Bridge into the river as the attackers drove into pedestrians at the start of their rampagebefore attacking people with knives in Borough
  
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