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Makyle Bayley, 22, Eva Darold-Tchikaya, 21, Anthony Hibbert, 24, and Daljang Wol died at scene on SaturdayFour Essex students who were killed when their car crashed into a building in Colchester in the early hours of Saturday morning have been named.Police said Makyle Bayley, 22, Eva Darold-Tchikaya, 21, Anthony Hibbert, 24, and Daljang Wol, 22, were inside the vehicle and died at the scene of the crash. All four were students at University of Essex and three were keen basketball players. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/02/police-name-four-students-killed-in-colchester-car-crash Author : Donna Ferguson Publish date : 2025-02-02 17:40:00 Copyright for syndicated content

Trump’s treasury secretary gives the world’s richest person entry to one of the most sensitive US government databasesElon Musk’s government-slashing crew, the “department of government efficiency”, has been given access to the federal payment system, exposing the sensitive personal data of millions of Americans as well as details of public contractors who compete directly with Musk’s own businesses, an influential US senator has confirmed.Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator from Oregon and the ranking member of the Senate finance committee, posted on Bluesky that sources had confirmed to him that the Treasury’s highly-sensitive database had been opened up to the tech

Federal investigators are still working to piece together the events that led to the crash that killed 67 peopleFamilies of victims of the deadliest US air disaster in nearly 25 years visited the crash site on Sunday amid a swirl of ongoing questions on what caused the mid-air collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter at an airport just outside Washington DC.Dozens of people walked along the banks of the Potomac River near Reagan National airport, close to where an American Airlines jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed into each other on Wednesday, killing all 67

Senate File 125 could limit access to any treatment that ‘causes harm’ to the heart, lungs, brain and other organsIn an effort to restrict abortion access, Wyoming Republicans authored a bill that could choke access to a host of life-saving medical procedures, from chemotherapy to heart surgery.State judge Melissa Owens overturned Wyoming’s abortion bans in November 2024, citing the state’s constitutionally guaranteed right to healthcare. The Republican state senator Cheri Steinmetz and the bill’s eight co-sponsors took issue with the ruling, and sought to draw up a definition of healthcare that excludes abortion. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/wyoming-republicans-anti-abortion-bill Author