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The Army-Navy game is a welcome tribute to a simpler time in college football
Jeff Monken was asked before his first training camp 10 years ago at Army to list the biggest challenges facing his football program. His list had one item.
“Us,” Monken said.
Monken, then 47, had been hired away from Georgia Southern to take over a team in the pits. The …
Chess: Gawain Jones wins London Classic amid recovery from tragedy
Gawain Jones, the British and English champion, who turns 37 on Wednesday, completed a remarkable year of recovery from tragedy when he won the £25,000 first prize in the XTX Markets London Classic, played at the Emirates Stadium.
Last year Jones’s wife, Sue Maroroa Jones, died following complications after the …
Asylum seekers to be housed in disused care homes and student digs
Asylum seekers will be housed in disused care homes and student digs under a Home Office plan to find 800 new accommodation sites and cut a bill that has risen to £8m a day.
Home Office sources have confirmed to the Guardian that the fundamental changes to asylum accommodation are …
Wednesday briefing: Everything you wanted to know about the spending review (but were afraid to ask)
Good morning. There are certain phrases in news stories about government, aren’t there, where your eyes glaze over like you’ve just wound down the window and asked someone for directions. Autumn statement; early day motion; fiscal rules; white paper; ping pong, weirdly. They’re definitely all very important, but it would …
England’s new towns must be walkable and green, say campaigners
Labour should build 12 new towns in England that are not car-dependent or built on flood plains, a former government adviser has said in a report.
A detailed plan for a dozen new towns, proposed by thinktanks Britain Remade and Create Streets, would mean 550,000 well-designed and appropriately located homes. …
North Korea decries ‘dictatorship’ in South in wake of martial law attempt
South Korea
, with state media describing, without any apparent hint of irony, how its president had unleashed a “dictatorship on the people”.The commentary, released on Wednesday by North Korea’s state-run KCNA news agency, was …
‘Do we go back or not?’: Syrians in Germany weigh up returning after fall of Assad regime
Reem Alali is still reeling from the news that the brutal regime she fled eight years ago has collapsed, leaving her and her family with feelings bordering excitement and trepidation. Moreover, there is a sense that important decisions have to be made – but perhaps not just yet, and only …
Richard Branson and Island Records boss urged to fund UK Black music exhibition
The Virgin Records founder Richard Branson and the Island Records owner Chris Blackwell should financially support a permanent exhibition dedicated to Black British musical history, according to backers of a petition.
The petition, which has been signed by artists and musicians including George the Poet, Jazzie B and Sonia Boyce, …
Why settler intimidation of West Bank farmers is about far more than the olive harvest
The olive trees cover the dry, rocky slopes around Deir Istiya, spreading deep into the valley to its west, lining the main roads, filling the gardens, and shading its graveyards.
But many farmers in the historical Palestinian town, deep in the occupied West Bank, say that this year they have …
‘It’s beyond human scale’: AFP defends use of artificial intelligence to search seized phones and emails
The Australian federal police says it had “no choice” but to lean into using artificial intelligence and is increasingly using the technology to search seized phones and other devices, given the vast amount of data examined in investigations.
The AFP’s manager for technology strategy and data, Benjamin Lamont, said investigations …