Grieving families of war heroes face inheritance tax bills of up to £180,000 under Labour, analysis shows. Death in service payments – lump sums given to the families of deceased Armed Forces members – are currently tax-free. But changes announced in Rachel Reeves’s Budget last year mean payments for off-duty deaths in service will be […]
Photo credit: All Elite Wrestling The great thing about pro wrestling is it’s never too late to reinvent someone or change direction. They can’t all be winners, right? Sometimes you have to know when to pivot when something isn’t working and go in a different direction. That isn’t always easy when you’ve invested so much […]
An armed assailant fatally shot two notorious Iranian judges inside the Islamic Republic’s supreme court on Saturday. Judges Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini were known for ordering harsh sentences, including executions, during their decades-long careers. Such judges are known as “judges of death” and “executioners” in Iran. Iran’s judiciary said a “planned assassination” was carried […]
A heartbreaking 911 call was played in court as Tracey Nix stands trial for aggravated manslaughter in the death of her granddaughter. What’s truly shocking is that the little girl is the second grandchild to die while in the grandmother’s care. Less than a year earlier, her 18-month-old grandson drowned in a pond on her […]
The H5N1 bird flu situation in the US seems more fraught than ever this week as the virus continues to spread swiftly in dairy cattle and birds while sporadically jumping to humans. On Monday, officials in Louisiana announced that the person who had developed the country’s first severe H5N1 infection had died of the infection, […]
Nuzzo says it’s very possible that the Louisiana patient’s preexisting health conditions contributed to the severity of their illness, but also points to the case of a teenager in Canada who was hospitalized with bird flu in November. The 13-year-old girl was initially seen at an emergency department in British Columbia for a fever and […]
Upon arrival at the family’s home, the team was shown into the kitchen. A child, who was three, the youngest of four home-schooled siblings, peeked from behind her mother’s legs, looking up shyly. She wore a baggy Minnie Mouse shirt and went to perch between her grandparents on a banquette, watching everyone take their seats […]
An emotional scene unfolded inside the ballroom of Santa Monica’s Hotel Casa del Mar on Saturday afternoon as Film Independent hosted its annual Spirit Awards nominee brunch. The event is typically a casual and cozy beachside affair filled with actors, auteurs, producers, press, executives and other industry insiders in attendance to toast the annual awards show […]
One of the men accused of selling drugs to Liam Payne in Argentina before his death has been arrested. Rolling Stone can confirm that Braian Paiz, a restaurant waiter who previously admitted to doing drugs with the One Direction singer, was detained on Friday, just days after being ordered to preventative jail time. Last week, […]
In the end, the return of net neutrality was short-lived: Today, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down rules introduced by the Biden administration that would have prevented internet service providers from favoring some apps or websites over others. It’s the conclusion of a decades-long fight for a more equitable internet—and a harbinger of […]
