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Scientists have identified a lunar impact crater more than twice the width of the Roman Colosseum, created by an asteroid or comet fragment that struck the Moon in 2024 without being detected at the time. The steep-sided crater measures about 222 metres across and reaches up to 43 metres deep, making it the largest known impact crater formed in recent times anywhere in the Solar System. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the feature on the Moon’s near side in May 2024, shortly after the impact occurred. However, the discovery was not recognised in the spacecraft’s wide-angle imagery until August 2025,…

Old tweets by Portland councilman Mitch Green have resurfaced, including posts calling for the abolition of policing, urging the political left to riot and suggesting that far-right commentator Nick Fuentes should be struck with a framing hammer. Green, who represents District 4 and was elected to the city council in 2024, is seeking re-election on an anti-war, Democratic Socialist platform. The posts were made before he deleted his Twitter account, now known as X. In a post dated December 2020, Green wrote: “When I say ‘defund the police,’ what I really mean is abolish policing.” He added: “For me it’s…

Virginia’s attorney general has warned Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin that a federal voter fraud investigation may have breached several state laws, demanding that the operation stop immediately. Jay Jones, a Democrat, said agents searching for evidence of non-citizens among registered voters may have unlawfully accessed protected information through Virginia’s voter registration system. The investigation, internally known as the Unlawful Voter Initiative, has involved hundreds of Homeland Security agents working for weeks to examine voter records, despite no evidence of widespread fraud being identified in the material. Virginia’s voter information portal requires users to confirm that the information they are…

Kenneth Petty has submitted an alleged 1994 letter from the woman who accused him of rape, arguing that it contradicts her account of the incident and supports his attempt to have her civil case dismissed. Jennifer Hough’s lawyer denies that her client wrote the letter, which was addressed to the district attorney and reportedly asked for the rape charge to be dropped. The document describes her allegations as “half false”. In the letter, the writer said: “On the day that I said I was rape it is half true and half false. The marks on my neck was not from…

Tottenham have been handed a timely boost before their meeting with Aston Villa, with Sandro Tonali and Dejan Kulusevski both returning to first-team training. Tonali missed the recent match against Liverpool after suffering a knock, but his return to the main group puts him in contention to feature against Villa. The midfielder has started every game for Roberto De Zerbi since joining Tottenham from Newcastle and has become an influential part of the side. Tottenham injury boost ahead of Aston Villa clash Kulusevski has also resumed training after a spell on the sidelines. However, Tottenham are expected to manage his…

The defence continued presenting its case on Thursday in the murder trial of Vickie Williams, calling the director of mental-health services at the Lake County Detention Centre to give evidence about her condition after her arrest. Williams is accused of killing Darryl and Sharon Getman inside their home at the Waterman Village retirement community in Mount Dora, Florida, on New Year’s Eve in 2022. The defence has argued that Williams was suffering from schizophrenia and psychosis and should be found not guilty by reason of insanity. Prosecutors accept that she has a history of mental illness but contend that she…

Bryce Dessner has described switching off a mobile phone before a concert as a political act, arguing that the experience of listening to live music offers a rare chance to step away from distraction and be fully present. The guitarist and songwriter with US indie band The National was speaking ahead of the first Australian performances of his cello concerto Trembling Earth with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. “The experience of coming into the concert hall – to get off your phone, and just be in the room with music, and to feel those things – in a way is a…

President Donald Trump has directed the US Justice Department not to appeal a ruling that struck down major restrictions on short-barrelled rifles, short-barrelled shotguns and silencers, according to sources familiar with the decision. The move would allow some Americans to possess or sell the firearms with less federal oversight. The weapons have been among the most heavily regulated in the US for more than 90 years because they are considered particularly dangerous and easy to conceal. The ruling was issued in August by James Wesley Hendrix, a Trump-appointed judge in the Northern District of Texas. It followed legal challenges brought…

Princess Diana’s HRH title was offered back to her on the day of her funeral, according to a memoir by her brother, Earl Spencer. Charles Spencer writes that Queen Elizabeth II proposed restoring the style after Diana lost it following her divorce from the then Prince Charles in August 1996. Diana was instead known as Diana, Princess of Wales. The offer was relayed to Earl Spencer by Robert Fellowes, the Queen’s private secretary and his brother-in-law, as they travelled by Royal Train to Diana’s private burial at Althorp, the Spencer family estate in Northamptonshire. Writing in Swan Song: Diana, My…

Attorney General Todd Blanche has intensified concerns over the Justice Department’s political neutrality by appearing at Republican campaign events and using partisan language about the coming midterm elections. Blanche spoke at a rally for Michael Whatley, the Republican Senate candidate in North Carolina, on Wednesday. He also addressed the Republican Party’s midterm convention last week and appeared at a rally-style event on Long Island, where he praised Bruce Blakeman, the party’s candidate for governor of New York. At the North Carolina event, Blanche linked falling crime rates to the Trump administration, describing them as “President Trump and Vice President Vance…