Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said failure to reopen schools next month is not an option - as the UK's Chief Medical Officers tell parents their children face an 'exceptionally small risk' from Covid-19 in the classroom. The highly unusual 'consensus statement' from the country's most senior experts removes the …...Read More

Taxpayers could be hit by a huge fraud time-bomb from Rishi Sunak's £35billion bounce back loans, an investigation by The Mail on Sunday has found. More than 1.15million businesses have borrowed up to £50,000 each under the flagship scheme to get back on their feet. But The Mail on Sunday …...Read More

Police fear a serial killer that targets elderly couples could still be on the loose after two suspected murder-suicides from the 1990s were re-examined. In both cases police believed that the wives had been murdered by their husbands, but after they were re-examined using modern techniques officers now think they …...Read More

A driver for UPS was arrested on Thursday in connection with a series of shootings along a highway in southwest Oregon that injured one person and unnerved motorists, officials said. The Oregon State Police identified the gunman as Kenneth Ayers, 49, of Roseburg, Ore., a city about 70 miles south …...Read More

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — It is not unheard-of for Iowa to experience a tornado or a freak thunderstorm. It is also not unheard-of for my mother to exaggerate a story. But as I flew into my hometown, Cedar Rapids, I could see streams of smoke billowing from farms and backyards, …...Read More

SAN FRANCISCO — TikTok plans to sue the United States government, the company confirmed on Saturday, arguing that President Trump’s moves to block the app had deprived it of due process and claiming it had been unfairly and incorrectly treated as a security threat. The lawsuit, which the company plans …...Read More

Sister Elaine Roulet, a Roman Catholic nun who helped female inmates bond with their children and created innovative programs for mothers both in prison and after release, died on Aug. 13 at the Stella Maris Convent in the Rockaway Park section of Queens. She was 89. The cause was heart …...Read More

Miss Symonds shared sweet photographs of their remote walks to her social media after they returned home PM, 56, travelled to Scotland with 32-year-old fiancée, baby Wilfred and dog Dilyn last weekend Advertisement Photographs of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's staycation in the Scottish Highlands have emerged showing the loved-up politician …...Read More

VACAVILLE, Calif. — They charge into fire zones with 60-pound packs and three-foot chain saws, felling trees and hacking through brush to make wide paths of dirt around anything worth protecting. Bright orange uniforms set them apart from other firefighters — and identify them as inmates of California’s state prisons. …...Read More

But once they have entered the safe zone, delegates in town said they are here to experience a little slice of life as it used to be. “I’ve been looking forward to this for months,” said Henry Barbour of Yazoo City, Miss., whose uncle is the former Mississippi Governor Haley …...Read More