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Dramatic photos shared online show the blood-stained assault rifle gunman Shane Tamura used to open fire inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper , killing an officer and four others.

An unidentified gunman pictured with an assault rifle left a police officer and at least six others injured after he opened fire in broad daylight.

Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell appealed to the Supreme Court on Monday to throw out her 2021 federal sex trafficking conviction. 

'Poisoner' dentist James Craig admitted in a note on his iPhone written hours after his wife's brain activity ceased that he'd agreed to put cyanide in her antibiotic capsules and a syringe, trial hears

People with a developmental condition that's surging in the US may be at up to a three-fold greater risk of developing dementia, even when they're under 50 years old.

A British tourist has sparked backlash for his unfiltered take on Bali.

A community fundraiser for a charity battling knife crime across Essex attracted support from a celebrity quiz professional.

He also said there was “nothing to distinguish” between the offenders.

A report said the safety and welfare of children were 'compromised'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Polygon: In the wake of storefronts like Steam and itch.io curbing the sale of adult games, irate fans have started an organized campaign against the payment processors that they believe are responsible for the crackdown. While the movement is still in its early stages, people are mobilizing with an eye toward overwhelming communication lines at companies like Visa and Mastercard in a way that will make the concern impossible to ignore. On social media sites like Reddit and Bluesky, people are urging one another to get into contact with Visa and Mastercard through emails and phone calls. Visa and Mastercard have become the targets of interest because the affected storefronts both say that their decisions around adult games were motivated by the danger of losing the ability to use major payment processors while selling games. These payment processors have their own rules regarding usage, but they are vaguely defined. But losing infrastructure like this could impact audiences well beyond those who care about sex games, spokespeople for Valve and itch.io said. In a now-deleted post on the Steam subreddit with over 17,000 upvotes, commenters say that customer service representatives for both payment processors seem to already be aware of the problem. Sometimes, the representatives will say that they've gotten multiple calls on the subject of adult game censorship, but that they can't really do anything about it. The folks applying pressure know that someone at a call center has limited power in a scenario like this one; typically, agents are equipped to handle standard customer issues like payment fraud or credit card loss. But the point isn't to enact change through a specific phone call: It's to cause enough disruption that the ruckus theoretically starts costing payment processors money. "Emails can be ignored, but a very very long queue making it near impossible for other clients to get in will help a lot as well," reads the top comment on the Reddit thread. In that same thread, people say that they're hanging onto the call even if the operator says that they'll experience multi-hour wait times presumably caused by similar calls gunking up the lines. Beyond the stubbornness factor, the tactic is motivated by the knowledge that most customer service systems will put people who opt for call-backs in a lower priority queue, as anyone who opts in likely doesn't have an emergency going on. "Do both," one commenter suggests. "Get the call back, to gum up the call back queue. Then call in again and wait to gum up the live queue." People are also using email to voice their concerns directly to the executives at both Visa and Mastercard, payment processors that activist group Collective Shout called out by name in their open letter requesting that adult games get pulled. Emails are also getting sent to customer service.

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Nick, 35, looked visibly emotional after standing alongside WWE stars past and present for a 10-bell salute to his father, who died at the age of 71 last week.

His reveal comes as Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge announced five people have been charged in connection with the melee that took place in the city's downtown Friday.

Michael Hutchence's daughter Tiger Lily Hutchence looked like the proud mother as she took her newborn on a family stroll in London on Monday.

Not everyone thinks they are a good idea!

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Amidst its own failure to fix a couple of bugs now under mass exploitation and being abused for espionage, data theft, and ransomware infections, Microsoft said Monday that it spotted a macOS vulnerability some months ago that could allow attackers to steal private data. Redmond reported the bug to Cupertino, which issued a fix back in March.…

Anthropic will implement weekly rate limits for Claude subscribers starting August 28 to address users running its Claude Code AI programming tool continuously around the clock and to prevent account sharing violations. The new restrictions will affect Pro subscribers paying $20 monthly and Max plan subscribers paying $100 and $200 monthly, though Anthropic estimates fewer than 5% of current users will be impacted based on existing usage patterns. Pro users will receive 40 to 80 hours of Sonnet 4 access through Claude Code weekly, while $100 Max subscribers get 140 to 280 hours of Sonnet 4 plus 15 to 35 hours of Opus 4. The $200 Max plan provides 240 to 480 hours of Sonnet 4 and 24 to 40 hours of Opus 4. Claude Code has experienced at least seven outages in the past month due to unprecedented demand.

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John Torode's wife Lisa Faulkner has broken her silence after the MasterChef star was sacked for allegedly using a racist slur.

Odeh Hadalin, a prominent activist who featured in 'No Other Land', has reportedly been shot by Yinon Levi, who is under sanctions by both the EU and the US.

The reboot of Gladiators was a mash hit when it aired last year, and a celebrity spin-off was quickly commissioned, featuring comedians and gym lovers.

Emergency services rushed to Long Lane, Southwark, south London, at around 1pm on Monday after receiving reports of a quadruple stabbing which has since left two men dead.