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DoJ agrees to provide Congress documents from the Epstein sex trafficking investigation, says House lawmaker on MondayThe Republican governors of Louisiana and Tennessee will send hundreds of their national guard troops to assist federal law enforcement in DC – to help assist the president’s “crime crackdown”.They join Mississippi, Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina – who have all sent national guard troops to DC. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/aug/19/texas-congressional-maps-democrats-republicans-donald-trump-us-politics-updates-news Author : Shrai Popat (now) and Matthew Pearce (earlier) Publish date : 2025-08-19 13:27:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

UN human rights office spokesperson says risk of starvation in Gaza is a ‘direct result of the Israeli government’s policy’The UN’s human rights office on Tuesday condemned a far-right Israeli minister for taunting a Palestinian prisoner in his cell and sharing the footage online, Reuters reports.National security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir published a video on Friday last week showing him confronting Marwan Barghouti, the most high-profile Palestinian detainee in Israeli custody. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/19/aid-ship-food-gaza-cyprus-israel-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates-news Author : Jane Clinton Publish date : 2025-08-19 10:54:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Sales growth at German-owned discounter is more than double that of the wider marketBusiness live – latest updatesLidl is close to overtaking Morrisons to become the UK’s fifth biggest supermarket chain after a sales rise as shoppers attempted to offset higher household bills with cheap groceries.The German-owned discounter increased sales by 10.7% in the three months to 11 August, according to the latest market share data from analysts at Worldpanel, formerly known as Kantar. This was more than double the pace of the wider market, which rose 4.5%. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/19/lidl-overtake-morrisons-uk-supermarket-sales Author : Sarah Butler Publish date

In today’s newsletter: The Ukrainian president and fellow continental leaders descended on the White House to squeeze support from the US – did they get it?Good morning. Last night, Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the White House flanked by a dream team of hastily assembled European heavyweights. Their aim: to coax Donald Trump out of pro-Russian positions he adopted after his Alaska meeting with Vladimir Putin last Friday.The meeting was a sign of both panic and resolve from Europe. The fact Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and more cleared their diaries at such short notice to fly to Washington is an indication of