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Andy GiddingsBBC News, West MidlandsTelford Crisis SupportCharities like Telford Crisis Support have been asking for donations of unwanted school uniformsSchemes offering help to families struggling with the cost of school uniforms have reported a growth in demand this summer.It comes after the average cost of a school uniform was just over £340 for primary school children and around £454 for those in secondary education, government figures indicated earlier this year.The charity Parentkind produced research this month which suggests 30% of parents go without food or heating to afford uniform and 45% rely on credit cards.Erin Aston, from Telford Crisis Support,…

On Friday, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, Chuck Borges, sent an email to agency staff claiming that he had been forcibly removed from his position after filing a whistleblower complaint this week accusing the agency of mishandling sensitive agency data. Minutes after the email went out, it disappeared from employee inboxes, two SSA sources tell WIRED.“I am regretfully and involuntarily leaving my position at the Social Security Administration (SSA),” Borges wrote in the resignation letter to staff obtained by WIRED. “This involuntary resignation is the result of SSA’s actions against me, which make my duties impossible to perform…

Noor NanjiCulture reporterWatch key moments from Cardi B’s testimony in courtCardi B has been in the spotlight this week after taking the witness stand in Los Angeles to tell a court she did not attack a security guard who is suing her for assault.The colourful US rapper is accused of cutting Emani Ellis’s cheek with a 3in (7.5cm) fingernail and spitting on her during an altercation outside an doctor’s office in 2018, leaving the guard “deeply traumatised”.Cardi testified that Ms Ellis invaded her privacy by filming and following her against her will and telling someone on the phone about her…

Kelly: Has there been a turning point? It’s not been a straightforward linear journey. Your journey has been different to most footballers – from Hereford, Hull, then to the Premier League, winning a European trophy and with England. Is there one moment you can pinpoint that you think, actually, that’s where it all changed?Jarrod: Probably when I got rejected from Cardiff before I went to Hereford because I went on trial to Cardiff for about six weeks and at the time I thought ‘Right my local team Hereford’s not got anything for me to have that path.’ I’ve gone to…

August 29, 20253 min readHow Humans Became Upright: Key Changes to Our Pelvis FoundGenetic and anatomical data reveal how the human pelvis acquired its unique shape, enabling our ancestors to walk on two legsBy Katie Kavanagh & Nature magazine Humans have been walking on two legs for millions of years. Nick Veasey/Science SourceAll vertebrate species have a pelvis, but there is only one that uses it for upright, two-legged walking. The evolution of the human pelvis, and our two-legged gait, dates back 5 million years, but the precise evolutionary process that allowed this to happen has remained a mystery.Now, researchers…

A US appeals court found President Donald Trump exceeded his powers by invoking emergency authority to levy sweeping global tariffs, deeming most of them illegal but letting them stand until mid-October. Trump announced he would challenge the ruling at the Supreme Court.

US no-frills pioneer Spirit Airlines filed for fresh chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday, as dwindling cash and mounting losses derailed its turnaround efforts since emerging from a previous Chapter 11 reorganization in March.The carrier, recognizable by its bright yellow jets, has struggled to steady operations since emerging from its first bankruptcy in March. Flights, ticket sales, reservations and operations will continue, the airline said on Friday.Spirit had been attempting to rebrand as a higher cost airline to keep pace with post-pandemic travel trends that have challenged the viability of the ultra-low-cost model.But Spirit’s recovery was further hit by uncertainty…

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.I’ve collected my fair share of multitools and gadgets, but I’ve lost track of how often I’ve needed one — only to realize it’s sitting at home or in the car. Carrying a full toolbox everywhere just isn’t practical.What I do have with me almost all the time, though, is my keychain — and it turns out, it’s the perfect way to keep essential tools within reach.Also: Are Amazon Basics tools worth it? My verdict after testing the top-sellers for weeksMy keychain is the one bit of kit I get asked the…

If you’ve loved a Danish film in the past 20 years, there’s a good chance it was written by Anders Thomas Jensen. The wildly prolific Danish screenwriter has been a co-author with Susanne Bier — on the Oscar-winning In a Better World (2010), as well as Brothers (2004) and After the Wedding (2006), both of which got U.S. remakes) — Nicolaj Arcel (The Promised Land from 2023) and Kristian Levring (2000’s The King is Alive), while still regularly churning out darkly comic gems as a writer-director. He started with 2000’s Flickering Lights, where four inept crooks hole up in the…

Dave WilsonAug 27, 2025, 07:00 AM ETCloseDave Wilson is a college football reporter. He previously worked at The Dallas Morning News, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun.THIBODAUX, La. — In the middle of a sweltering June day in south Louisiana, Archibald “Arch” Manning, son of Cooper, grandson of Archie, nephew of Peyton and Eli, roams the fields of his ancestral homeland, the Manning Passing Academy, where quarterbacks are grown.This is Year 29 of the MPA, and Arch’s dad and uncles have been present for every one, beginning when Cooper had just graduated from Ole Miss, Peyton was a freshman…