The shooting occurred along Interstate 75 in a rural area south of Lexington, near the city of London authorities saidKentucky police reported an “active shooter situation” on Saturday evening near Interstate 75 in London, Kentucky, south of Lexington, where “numerous persons” had been shot in traffic.The incident began just before 6pm local time about...

Treasurer says LGBTQ+ community ‘have been heard and they will count in the 2025 census’. Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSpeers finishes up by asking Chalmers about the ongoing census questions palaver.He says there will be a new question covering both sexual orientation and gender for the first...

Employees have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, according to new trade union researchWorkers across Britain have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, with more than a million people going without a single day of paid time off, according to new research.With unions gathering in Brighton this weekend for the first TUC conference under a Labour administration...

Julie Collins describes avian flu situation as ‘dynamic’ as she highlights concerns about the impact to wildlife and agricultureGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastChalmers says they’ll have more to say on aged care reforms “quite soon”. He says they want to provide “better services for more people in a more sustainable way without...

US secretary of state will be most senior US official to have travelled to London since Labour’s election victoryThe US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, will head to London next week to discuss the Middle East and Ukraine, the state department announced on Saturday, in advance of a US visit by prime minister Keir Starmer.Blinken’s visit to London...

Bates and Suzanne Sercombe invited to Necker Island after publicly soliciting a holiday from Virgin tycoonThe Post Office campaigner Alan Bates has married his partner, Suzanne Sercombe, on Richard Branson’s Necker Island in a ceremony officiated by the Virgin tycoon.The wedding took place last month on the entrepreneur’s private island in the British...