Live updates from Scripps National Spelling Bee finals: time, TV
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Prevent ‘could be breaching UK equality laws’ over treatment of autistic people | Prevent strategy
The treatment of autistic people who are referred to the government’s deradicalisation scheme could be in breach of equality laws, a human rights charity has claimed. The home secretary has been warned that Prevent and Channel, the multi-agency follow-on programme, which seek to identify people at risk of extremism, are overreporting neurodivergent people. In a…
Charity accuses Israeli-backed Gaza food group of unauthorised use of logo | Israel-Gaza war
A US charity has accused the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the controversial Israeli-backed group that began distributing food in Gaza this week, of sending out photographs of deliveries containing its logo without permission. Images distributed by GHF this week showed shipments bearing a label from Rahma Worldwide, which is based in Michigan, as part of…
Lane Kiffin’s College Football Playoff plan sounds tempting
Kirby Smart on college football’s future Kirby Smart urges leaders to prioritize the game’s future over personal or conference agendas in playoff talks. MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. – The man with the tan came with a plan. Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin, his skin so bronzed he looked as if he just came off the sunny beach…
British woman in France wins back pre-Brexit right to vote in EU elections | Brexit
A French court has ordered electoral officials to restore a British woman’s pre-Brexit right to vote in European elections, triggering calls for a renewed push for a bilateral treaty on electoral enfranchisement in each other’s countries. Alice Bouilliez, a former British civil servant who has lived in France for 38 years, said she was “extremely…
Are ‘perversely sexy’ flip-flops the final frontier of the ugly shoe trend? | Newsletters
They are typically worn around public swimming pools in the hope of avoiding a verruca. Or slipped on post-pedicure. Now, flip-flops are moving beyond communal showers and nail salons. Along with rattling ice cubes in glasses of rosé, this summer’s soundtrack is gearing up to be peppered with the distinctive noise of flip-flops slapping pavements….