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Boston city workers have won their bid to suspend Mayor Michelle Wu’s vaccination mandate policy. A Massachusetts Appeals Court judge issued an injunction prohibiting the city from enforcing its Dec. 20, 2021, vaccine mandate policy for Boston union police and firefighters. The ruling overturned a lower court’s earlier ruling that kept the mandate in place. The injunction is in effect indefinitely. In an 18-page opinion, Judge Sabita Singh concluded that an injunction against the vaccine mandate posed a low risk to the public while denying one would risk the loss of essential public employees. “Given the limited harm to the city and the public…

Twenty-four hours before Boris Johnson scrapped most of England’s Covid rules last July, the Scottish First Minister tweeted: ‘To talk of tomorrow as “freedom day” (England only remember) is not sensible IMO [in my opinion] given current situation.’ That snide reference to ‘England only’ speaks volumes about Sturgeon’s approach to the pandemic. Almost as important as her own lockdown measures has been her relentless efforts to define Scottish policy against Westminster’s, and her own decisions against those taken by Boris Johnson. Nothing suits her better than when she’s crowing on about how superior her own judgment has been. But now we know it wasn’t.…

Jürgen Klopp had seen enough. With almost an hour played at San Siro, Internazionale cutting his team to ribbons and the home crowd buoyant, the Liverpool manager retreated to his bench in dim spirits. There were a few seconds of discussion with his coaches. Training tops were peeled off, tactical instructions issued, last-minute warm-ups executed. And then, the flourish: a triple substitution in the 59th minute. Off came Sadio Mané, Fabinho and Harvey Elliott. Diogo Jota had already gone off injured at half‑time. It was Klopp’s inimitable way of telling his players that he wasn’t angry, just disappointed. Jordan Henderson bounded…

Downing Street has demanded police keep secret hundreds of pictures handed to an official probe into the Partygate scandal, a leaked document revealed today. Information shared with civil servants suggests that Scotland Yard will not identify by name anyone handed a fixed penalty notice (FPN) fine by the investigation into a string of events in No10 during lockdown. But the message, seen by ITV News, suggests the Cabinet Office has asked the Metropolitan Police to also commit to not publishing any images handed to detectives if they would lead to people being identified. The force has previously indicated that it has been given around…

The Welsh Government was accused of wasting taxpayers’ money today after unveiling a £20million basic income scheme that will offer hundreds of teenagers £1,600 a month without the need to work. In what is one of the most generous schemes of its type in the world, 18-year-olds leaving the care system will be eligible for the payments for two years, amounting to a salary of £19,200 before tax. It is estimated that up to 500 will be able to apply to the programme, where the money is put in their bank accounts with no demands on what they do to…

A White House spokesperson on Monday declined to comment on Special counsel John Durham’s allegations that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) spied on former President Donald Trump’s residences and the White House when he was in office in order to bring a “narrative” to federal government agencies linking him to Russia. Deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked three times at a press briefing by Fox News correspondent Jacqui Heinrich to answer questions regarding the allegations. But each time, the White House spokesperson referred her to the Department of Justice. “Does the President have any concerns about a candidate for president using computer experts to infiltrate computer systems of…

The Metropolitan police have launched an investigation into cash-for-honours allegations linked to the Prince of Wales’s charity the Prince’s Foundation. Scotland Yard said in a statement: “The Metropolitan police service has launched an investigation into allegations of offences under the Honours (Prevention of Abuses) Act 1925. “The decision follows an assessment of a September 2021 letter. This related to media reporting alleging offers of help were made to secure honours and citizenship for a Saudi national. “The Special Enquiry Team has conducted the assessment process which has included contacting those believed to hold relevant information. “Officers liaised with the Prince’s Foundation about…

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has agreed to a $90 million settlement over a decade-old lawsuit which accused the social media platform of tracking users’ internet activity through browser plug-ins, even after they logged out of their accounts. A judge must now approve the settlement between Meta and the plaintiffs which was filed on Monday night with the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. Under the terms of the proposed settlement, the social media company must also delete all data collected without users’ knowledge. Meta must also pay $90 million to users who filed a claim. The lawsuit, filed in 2012, stems from a 2010 update by…

Matt Hancock broke the law by appointing two insiders to senior posts in the government’s Covid response without proper competition, the High Court ruled today. Two judges ruled that former health secretary Matt Hancock did not comply with the public sector equality duty when appointing Conservative peer Baroness Dido Harding and Mike Coupe, a former Sainsbury’s colleague of Baroness Harding, to posts in 2020. The duty prevents ministers from favouring friends, relatives or associates while making appointments because of the harm this can cause to less well connected candidates, including ethnic minority and disabled people. Judges concluded that Mr Hancock had breached…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been accused of bringing ‘martial law’ to Canada as he invoked the rarely-used Emergencies Act on Monday to bolster police presence across the country to crack down on Freedom Convoy protesters. Under the Emergencies Act, the government introduced measures intended to cut off protesters’ funding and took steps to reinforce provincial and local law enforcement with federal police. Fox News host Tucker Carlson was among commentators saying Trudeau had gone too far Monday, during a slot with on-screen graphics saying: ‘Trudeau’s new move sounds like martial law.’ ‘Canada became a dictatorship today. It actually did,’  Carlson said on his…