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NHS Fife says there is insufficient evidence against Sandie Peggie as her tribunal case against the trust resumesA nurse who objected to sharing a female changing room with a transgender woman doctor has been cleared of gross misconduct allegations.Sandie Peggie, who has worked as a nurse for the health board for more than 30 years, is claiming she was subject to unlawful harassment under the Equality Act when she was expected to share a changing room with a trans woman, Dr Beth Upton. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/16/nurse-sandie-peggie-cleared-of-misconduct-in-trans-doctor-changing-room-row-in-scotland Author : Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent Publish date : 2025-07-16 18:19:00

President tries to downplay issue amid growing outrage from conservativesTrump says people interested in Epstein inquiry are ‘bad people’As Democrats reckon with a deep inter-party divide that threatens their ability to repair the party’s image and win back voters, Ken Martin said he was not focused on “internal bullshit” because “most people could care less about the internal drama and soap opera of the Democratic party”.Martin, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, told the Guardian that he knows Democrats have to earn back trust from communities across the country before the midterms. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jul/16/donald-trump-epstein-files-jd-vance-us-politics-live-news-updates Author

US president says first deliveries of Patriot missile systems via Germany are ‘already being shipped’Separately, the European Commission has just confirmed that EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič will travel to Washington DC today for talks with US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick and US trade representative Jamieson Greer.The meetings come as part of the EU’s push to get an agreement with the US on tariffs before 1 August. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jul/16/donald-trump-backtracks-ukraine-target-moscow-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskyy-latest-europe-live-news-updates Author : Jakub Krupa Publish date : 2025-07-16 13:16:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

US president’s attempt to help his rightwing ally avoid jail has sparked wave of anger and given boost to rival LulaSilvana Marques was one of thousands of Brazilians who flocked to São Paulo’s most famous art museum one afternoon last week. But the 51-year-old teacher wasn’t there to marvel over fog-filled London landscapes at Masp’s new Monet retrospective. She had come to join a protest heaping scorn on Donald Trump.Beneath the museum’s brutalist hulk, Marques spotted a cardboard effigy of the US president and took a picture with her phone before the Trump dummy was set on fire. “Laranjão safado,”