Kenosha burns: BLM protesters set light to department of corrections building as looters run riot

Rioters set fire to car dealerships, furniture stores, dump trucks, and a Department of Corrections building while protesters clashed with National Guardsmen as Kenosha, Wisconsin, descended into violent chaos on Monday. The unrest entered its second day as outrage grows over the police shooting on Sunday of an unarmed black man in front of his … Read more

Gavin Williamson says he was visiting relatives in Scarborough in run up to A-level fiasco

Gavin Williamson has hit back at claims he was on holiday as the A-Level results fiasco unfolded in the UK, saying he was only in Scarborough to visit his relatives. The under-fire Education Secretary added that he has also cancelled his family’s holiday to remain in the country and deal with problems caused by algorithms downgrading … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: Forget loo roll… Derren shows we’ve run out of TV

DEBORAH ROSS: Forget loo roll… Derren shows we’ve run out of TV By Deborah Ross for Event magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 22 August 2020 Derren Brown: 20 Years Of Mind Control  Sunday, Channel 4  Rating: Albion  Sunday, BBC Four  Rating: The time has arrived: we are running out … Read more

Boy, 13, fights for life after suffering head injuries in ‘hit and run’

Boy, 13, is fighting for his life after suffering head injuries in a ‘hit and run’ crash with a Mercedes Emergency services were called to Melbury Avenue in Poole at 2.27pm today The crash involved a pedestrian, a 13-year-old boy and a grey Mercedes A-Class The schoolboy is fighting for his life in hospital after … Read more

AI pilot BEATS USAF F16 Top Gun in first ever simulator dogfight competition run by DARPA

An AI pilot has beaten a US Air Force F16 Top Gun in the first ever simulator dogfight competition run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to determine if man can beat machine in the sky. The human pilot, a Weapons School instructor pilot known only by his call-sign ‘Banger’, was annihilated by … Read more

AI pilot BEATS USAF F16 Top Gun in first ever simulator dogfight competition run by DARPA

An AI pilot has beaten a US Air Force F16 Top Gun in the first ever simulator dogfight competition run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to determine if man can beat machine in the sky. The human pilot, a Weapons School instructor pilot known only by his call-sign ‘Banger’, was annihilated by … Read more

Portland protester, 25, is on the run and begging for money after kicking unconscious a truck driver

 Marquise ‘Keese’ Love, 25, is on the run from police and allegedly posting to Snapchat looking for money A Black Lives Matter protester on the run from cops after being ‘positively identified’ as the man who kicked a truck driver in the face in Portland on Sunday is begging for cash. Police are searching for … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: In the long run, it pays to believe in American magic

The US stock markets have staged a stunning recovery in the face of the coronavirus. The obvious questions are: Why? And: is it too good to be true? There are two drivers of the rebound – Big Tech and the Mighty Fed. Central bank the Federal Reserve has been providing trillions of dollars of support … Read more

Government AXE PHE and replace it with new institute run by former jockey Baroness Dido Harding

Public Health England was axed today after a series of failings during the coronavirus crisis – but the woman to be handed the reigns of its replacement is a Tory peer with no scientific background whose husband called for PHE to be abolished. Questions are being raised over the appointment of Baroness Dido Harding as … Read more

Sir Keir Starmer tells government ‘this is no way to run a country’

Gavin Williamson today insisted he intends to stay on as Education Secretary long into the future despite growing calls for him to quit over the A-level results fiasco.  Mr Williamson yesterday announced a screeching U-turn as the Government said grades will now be based on teachers’ assessments rather than a controversial algorithm developed by regulator … Read more