Violent criminals could be released early and a chemical castration pilot expanded after review. The Independent Sentencing Review also recommends that more offenders are managed in the community instead of serving custodial sentences. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to respond to the review on behalf of the government in the House of Commons on Thursday.

Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, were gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday night. They were attending an American Jewish Committee’s ACCESS Young Diplomats Reception. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) refused to condemn the killings. Omar is a vocal critic of Israel. She was kicked out of the Foreign Affairs Committee in February 2023.

This Sunday's Million Paws Walk will be the RSPCA's last. Many charitable events are struggling to stay afloat due to COVID disruptions, rising costs and falling returns. The proportion of Australians donating to charities has steadily declined since 2011. There are still fewer people formally volunteering today than at the peak in 2018.

Malaysia is the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The meeting in Malaysia on Monday will be followed by a summit on Tuesday with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council. The GCC already has strong links with the U.S. and wants to be close to China too. ASEAN countries have been hit …

The U.S. Department of Justice is running a criminal investigation into UnitedHealth over its Medicare Advantage business. It's looking into whether the company manipulated patient records to make people look sicker than they were and collect more money from Medicare. In May, an investigation by The Guardian claimed that UnitedHealth paid bonuses to nursing homes as an incentive not to …

The House of Representatives passed a bill to extend expensive tax cuts and create new ones without significantly slashing spending. The bill has unnerved investors, deepening worries that the country's debt is becoming unmanageable. The 30-year Treasury yield on Wednesday rose as high as 5.15 percent in early trading, its highest since October 2023, before easing back later in the …

Millis and Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts have recalled cucumbers from Bedner Growers Inc. for possible salmonella contamination. The cucumbers were distributed from April 29 to May 19 and have infected more than 24 people in 15 states so far. The schools in Millis disposed of cucumbers.

More than 1 billion birds die each year in the U.S. from bird collisions with sheet glass. Bird populations across North America have declined more than 29% from their 1970 levels. Some buildings with a great deal of glass surface area kill surprisingly few birds, while other small sets of windows are disproportionately deadly.

It's Department of Agriculture Day. Food for Progress helps poor people overseas. Farm to School helps the poor people in this country grow and consume healthy food. The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture has cancelled the Patrick Leahy Farm To School grant, which funded programs like Midtown Partners’ Farm to Community Initiative in Mississippi.

Sens. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., and Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., introduced the Mexico Security Assistance Accountability Act. It would require the State Department to develop a strategy to dismantle the Mexican drug cartels. The bill would also establish mission goals to effectively dismantle cartels and increase the capabilities of Mexico’s law enforcement.

Cryptocurrency is one of the most startling, potentially disruptive, potentially revolutionary economic events of the last 25 years. Yaya Fanusie explains to TGS how it works in this clip from an episode that went out to full subscribers earlier this week.

Trump fired 19 inspectors general across 18 federal agencies in his first week in office. Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee says the potential savings they identified before being fired exceeds what Elon Musk claims he has saved with his Department of Government Efficiency. Musk's promised savings have ticked up slightly to an estimated $170 billion.