A 29-year-old woman has been arrested after she allegedly spent four days fraudulently enrolled as a high school student in New Jersey. Hyejeong Shin, from New Brunswick in the state, has been charged with one count of providing a false government document with the intent to verify one’s identity or age, NBC News reports. Police
Month: January 2023
Hannah Lewis was seven when she watched a Nazi death squad execute her mother. Her family was rounded up by Hitler’s troops and forced to march to a labour camp in the Polish village of Adampol in 1943. Hannah’s father, Adam, escaped from the camp to join the partisans, a Jewish resistance movement during the
The NHS is in the worst crisis in its 75 years, say health experts. And you only had to listen to the heart-wrenching stories of the audience during a live Sky News programme on the NHS at Coventry Hospital for the reality of that to be laid bare. There was James, whose wife died after
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has dismissed economic “gloom” in a major speech today as he promised to use “Brexit freedoms” to increase growth and productivity in the UK. Speaking at Bloomberg’s European headquarters in London, he attacked “declinism”, instead saying the country was “poised to play a leading role in Europe and across the world in
Five former police officers have been charged with murder over the death of a black driver who was allegedly beaten up after a traffic stop. Tyre Nichols, 29, died in hospital three days after the confrontation in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, on 7 January. Bodycam footage of the altercation is expected to be released
Boris Johnson has earned nearly £1m in a month to bring his earnings this parliament up to £2.3m. His latest update to the MPs’ register of interests showed the former prime minister received £510,000 as an advance on his upcoming book. Mr Johnson also earned £200,892.86 for a speech to Aditya Birla Management, an Indian
Rishi Sunak has refused to place his full confidence behind Nadhim Zahawi as the Tory party chairman faces an investigation into whether he breached the ministerial code over an HMRC tax settlement. The prime minister, speaking from his grace and favour Buckinghamshire home Chequers during an awayday with his cabinet, said he believes “in due
Home Secretary Suella Braverman is under fire for rowing back on reforms designed to prevent another Windrush scandal, with Labour’s David Lammy saying victims were being “once again spat on”. Ms Braverman has confirmed she will not be implementing all of the accepted recommendations from a review into how the scandal unfolded, including establishing a
Mohe is known as China’s North Pole for a good reason. It is the country’s most northern city and is a very, very cold place. It’s difficult to describe what temperatures this low feel like. On Sunday it hit -53C, a new low for the coldest temperature recorded in the country since modern monitoring began.
The government could spend more than £222,000 of public money on legal advice for Boris Johnson as he faces an investigation into whether he deliberately misled parliament over what he knew about partygate, a senior civil servant has confirmed. The Privileges Committee is looking into the former prime minister after his repeated denials to the
The search for missing British actor Julian Sands in California has been hampered by bad weather, local authorities have said. Efforts to find Sands have been ongoing for two weeks, after he went missing in the Baldy Bowl area of the San Gabriel mountains in southern California on 13 January. However, the high-ground search has
A school board in Virginia has voted to fire its district superintendent after a six-year-old pupil shot a teacher. The Newport News School Board voted five-to-one to relieve George Parker III of his duties – but as part of a separation agreement, he’ll be paid more than $502,000 (£405,063) in severance – two years of
Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will be reinstated after a two-year suspension following the 6 January insurrection. Facebook parent Meta said in a blog post on Wednesday it would be adding “new guardrails” to ensure there are no “repeat offenders” who violate its rules. “In the event that Mr Trump posts further violating content,
Nadhim Zahawi has been sacked as Tory party chairman after an ethics inquiry into the handling of his tax affairs found a “serious breach” of the ministerial code. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had resisted earlier calls from opposition parties to fire Mr Zahawi following reports that he had paid a penalty as part of an
It’s hard to imagine the internet without Google. The tech giant has become so synonymous with searching the web that it has become a verb – we don’t look it up, we “Google it”. Google ended 2022 as it ends every year, as the most visited website in the world. Its estimated share of the
Hope beckons on pupils of A.U.D Primary School in Osun State, Nigeria, when the executives of iRead To Live Initiative tracked the state of the library in the community. In a swift reaction to address the situation, a team of iRead Initiative held strategic meetings with Simonetta Lein, Founder of the WishWall Foundation, USA, to
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