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Two Spokane County sheriff’s deputies have died after being shot while attempting to rescue a woman who had reported being wounded inside a home in Washington state. Mason Acheson and Parker Perry were ambushed on Tuesday as officers entered the property on Smythe Road. The suspect, 37-year-old Ryan Larsen, had allegedly shot his mother and sister before opening fire on the deputies, police said. Acheson died from his injuries on Friday, Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels announced. He leaves behind his wife and two children. Perry was also critically wounded and remained on life support surrounded by his family before…

Zendesk chief executive Tom Eggemeier has said an experimental AI project with his son exposed the limits of “vibe coding” and changed the way he thinks about developing products and training staff. Eggemeier worked with his son Will, a Boston College senior and basketball player studying history with a business minor, to create Underdog AI. The predictive analytics app is intended to help college athletics programmes identify players in the NCAA transfer portal before wealthier schools recruit them. Will proposed the idea earlier this year after his father had repeatedly told his children that AI would be “bigger than the…

NSW One Nation leader Mike Newman resigned as a senior trade and investment commissioner after receiving a notice outlining 10 allegations of possible misconduct, including bullying, defying directions and bypassing bureaucratic processes. Newman, who was based in Japan in the role, is regarded in polling as a potential challenger to NSW Premier Chris Minns. He said he left the position because he was concerned about the state’s public service and wanted to bring about change. “Knowing what I know and what I believe is a very unprofessionally-run public service, I couldn’t sleep at night,” Newman said. The notice included an…

Russell Brand and David Walliams joked that pretending to be gay could act as a “smokescreen” for seducing women during an episode of Channel 4’s The Russell Brand Show. The exchange took place in the programme’s first episode, broadcast on November 24, 2006, when Walliams joined Brand as a guest. The pair kissed on the lips before Walliams gave the presenter an antique top hat. Matt Lucas, who was also appearing on the show, told them: “You are like the two gayest straight blokes there are.” Walliams replied: “Isn’t it a wonderful smokescreen?” Brand agreed, saying: “It works wonderfully well.”…

A political bloc is calling for a bold agenda, with attention turning to whether Jeffries can deliver the programme it wants. The central issue is whether Jeffries can translate the bloc’s demand for a more ambitious agenda into action.

New Zealand’s Luxon is on course to secure a second term, but is expected to hold a weaker hand in coalition if he returns to office.

Thomas Frank has emerged as the leading candidate to replace Pierre Sage at Crystal Palace, with the manager’s position reportedly under serious threat after the club’s latest Premier League defeat. Palace were beaten 3-1 by Liverpool at Selhurst Park on Sunday, suffering a fourth consecutive league loss. The result left them bottom of the table, having lost seven of their opening 10 matches of the 2026/27 campaign. Fabrizio Romano said Sage was “on the verge of being sacked by Crystal Palace”, with the club’s position at the foot of the Premier League table increasing the pressure on the Frenchman. Thomas…

Police in metro Atlanta are investigating a shooting near Oakland Cemetery and a separate overnight incident at a DeKalb County hotel. Officers were called to the OYO Hotel on Ember Drive, off Candler Road, at about 1am. DeKalb County Police have not released details about what prompted the response or confirmed whether anyone was injured. Several hours earlier, a person was shot near an apartment complex at the junction of Memorial Drive and Wood Street, close to Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. Police said the victim drove to a car park on Gracewood Avenue, about three miles away, after the shooting.…

David Warner has broken an eight-year silence on the sandpaper scandal to support fresh claims made by Australia team-mate Usman Khawaja. Warner’s intervention marks his first public comment on the controversy in eight years, with the former Australia opener backing Khawaja’s position.

Iran has offered to cut the implementation period for a potential peace deal with the United States from seven days to two, describing the proposal as a goodwill gesture despite Washington’s doubts about the prospects of an agreement. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said any deal would have to include the core conditions agreed under the previous Islamabad agreement in June. Those terms included lifting US sanctions, ending the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, unfreezing Iranian assets and securing a ceasefire across all fronts in the Middle East. “If the other side is genuinely even minimally serious, Iran can…