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The United States has recorded its highest daily number of COVID-19 cases in almost three months, with infection numbers soaring across the Midwest.  On Friday, 69, 156 Americans tested positive to the virus - the most in a single day since July.  The number marked a shocking ten percent increase from the day before, where just under 63,000 Americans tested positive.  Cases are up 29 percent in the past 14 days, however the total number of deaths continues to trend downward nationally.  The average number of Americans dying per day from COVID-19 has been averaging around 740 in the past two weeks, down from a peak of 2,000 deaths per day back in April. On Friday, the US surpassed 8 million infections, and 218,000 deaths.  Across the US, COVID-19 cases are up 29 percent in the past 14 days, however the total number of deaths continues to trend downward nationally. Despite COVID cases consistently rising since September, the number of deaths has not surged as might have been expected. Th

Police are set to be given access to the contact details of people who are self-isolating in a move critics last night described as 'chilling'.  The Department of Health and Social Care said forces will have access on a 'case-by-case' basis and they have now updated their online guidance about how data will be handled.  The move is said to have alarmed senior health figures, including Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, who fear it will stop people coming forward to get tested.  Critics have also said the move needs to be debated in Parliament, with Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, saying: 'Treating test and trace like an inquisition is a certain way to deter people from getting tests and giving contact information.  'The Government's over-reliance on policing during the pandemic is as counter-productive as it is chilling.'  Police are set to be given access to the contact details of people who are self-isolating in a move critics last night

Priti Patel has promised the victim of a gang rapist that deporting her attacker is a ‘top priority’. During a meeting last week, she reassured the woman that the Home Office was doing everything in its power to remove Yaqub Ahmed from the UK. Ahmed, 32, was told a decade ago that he was liable for deportation but since then has, with the help of taxpayer-funded lawyers, run rings around officials, foiling repeated attempts to kick him out. Foiled: Yaqub Ahmed, circled, is taken off the 2018 flight at Heathrow by security guards after fellow passengers, who were unaware of his appalling crime, objected to his deportation Two years ago, his deportation to his native Somalia, via Turkey, was dramatically halted when airline passengers staged a mutiny. Unaware of his appalling crime, passengers on a Turkish Airlines jet about to fly him out of the UK demanded security guards remove him from the aircraft at Heathrow after he began screaming. Since then he has continued to frustrate governm

Joe Biden's campaign manager has warned supporters against complacency, adding President Trump 'can still win this race' and that recent national polls showing the candidate leading by double digits are 'inflated.' In a memo obtained by Washington Post and Fox News, Campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon told supporters they shouldn't count Trump out of the race just yet. 'We cannot become complacent because the very searing truth is that Donald Trump can still win this race,' Dillon wrote. 'And every indication we have shows that this thing is going to come down to the wire.' She added the contentious race between Biden and Trump was 'neck and neck' - despite recent polling numbers that favored Biden. Campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon warned supporters to not 'become complacent' ahead of the November election, per a memo Dillon added that the election race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump was 'neck and neck'

The European Union treated trade talks more like 'performance art' than serious negotiations, Government sources say. In a blistering attack, insiders accused EU negotiators led by Michel Barnier of using the meetings to 'shore up their domestic position' – with particular criticism levelled at French President Emmanuel Macron. 'There are signs that EU leaders, worried about the prospect of populist politicians such as Marine Le Pen, have decided that they would put domestic politics ahead of agreeing a free-trade agreement with the UK,' said one source close to the talks. In a blistering attack, insiders accused EU negotiators of using the meetings to 'shore up their domestic position' with particular criticism levelled at French President Emmanuel Macron Brussels was last night warned that it could be frozen out for years if it refuses to alter its approach. 'It may be several years before we can meaningfully return to the negotiating table,' a

Robert Donnelly was mixing with some very dangerous criminals when he disappeared from Sydney's eastern suburbs in May 1972 Viv Donnelly was watching the fights at Souths Leagues Club in Sydney's inner-city Redfern the night he heard his big brother Robert had been murdered. 'A bloke I knew came up to me and tapped me on the shoulder,' Mr Donnelly recalled. 'He said, "Viv, I've got some bad news for you - Robert's been knocked".' That was in May 1972 and it would be almost 50 years before a coroner tried to determine what happened to Robert Donnelly, whose body has never been found.  Robert, a small-time thief who was mixing with some of Sydney's worst organised criminals before his disappearance, was not formally reported as missing until 2012.  And it was not until last month that Deputy State Coroner Carmel Forbes declared he was dead, still unable to determine exactly who killed him or why.  A brief inquest heard Robert had been running

Priti Patel has forked out tens of thousands of pounds to get into one of the world's most exclusive sporting clubs – the MCC. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the Home Secretary has paid £45,000 to become a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. She has taken advantage of an offer to jump its notoriously long waiting list and take up life membership. People usually wait over 20 years for the right to walk into the Lord's pavilion and watch Test cricket. Priti Patel has forked out tens of thousands of pounds to get into one of the world's most exclusive sporting clubs – the MCC. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the Home Secretary has paid £45,000 to become a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club. (She is seen above at Lord's cricket ground in 2018) Ms Patel has taken advantage of an offer to jump its notoriously long waiting list and take up life membership. People usually wait over 20 years for the right to walk into the Lord's pavilion and watch Test cricket B

It was meant as a woke joke about fruit and veg – but has brought police a virtual hail of rotten tomatoes. 'A tomato walks into a bar, but leaves red-faced because it doesn't want to identify as fruit or veg' is the subject of a serious cartoon being used to fight discrimination. Unfortunately, few of those who've watched the 80-second video appear to have seen the funny side – with more than 1,400 giving it a pasting. The clip, posted on Twitter by Devon and Cornwall Police as part of a hate crime awareness campaign, portrays the ordeal of a 'non-binary' tomato during a night out at the Salad Bar. It is shown being mocked by a broccoli bouncer at the door because there is no fruit or veg 'gender' marked on its ID card Once inside, it can't choose between toilets marked 'Fruit' and 'Veg'. Few of those who've watched the 80-second video appear to have seen the funny side – with more than 1,400 giving it a pasting The clip, poste

Thousands of protesters marched in Washington, DC, and elsewhere in the United States on Saturday to protest Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee and to call for his defeat in the November 3 election while a smaller group of counter-demonstrators held a rally in support of his nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett. A mostly young, diverse crowd of masked women rallied on Saturday in the nation's capital, exhorting voters to oppose Trump and his fellow Republican candidates in the upcoming elections.  The rallies, which organizers said were taking place in all 50 states, were inspired by the first Women's March in Washington, a huge anti-Trump rally held a day after his 2017 inauguration. With the US Capitol in the background, demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women's March in Washington on Saturday Thousands gathered in the nation's capital to protest President Trump's Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett A smaller counter-demo