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The Florida Department of Education on Thursday sanctioned eight Florida school districts for defying the state’s ban on school mask mandates. School districts in Brevard, Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Leon, Miami-Dade, Orange and Palm Beach counties now face financial penalties. Commissioner Richard Corcoran reported to the board that none of the eight counties had provided any information proving that they were in compliance with state law before Thursday’s meeting. “They can’t pick and choose which parts of the law they want to follow,” Corcoran said as he was handing out the penalties to the school districts.  He also gave the districts 48 hours…

At least this time Belgium can say that they provoked a genuinely brilliant response from France. The last meeting between these countries begat rancour, with Belgium grumbling about the negativity of Didier Deschamps’s team after losing 1-0 in the 2018 World Cup semi-final. This time France were forced to attack after Yannick Carrasco and Romelu Lukaku fired Belgium into a 2-0 lead. And oh, how they attacked. Theo Hernandez’s ferocious winning goal crowned a momentous fightback to set up a duel with Spain in Sunday’s Nations League final. It was a thrilling, topsy-turvy contest in which France looked sketchy in the first half but played with…

Parents have served a ‘cease and desist’ legal notice on a school threatening to sue and potentially pursue GBH charges – if children are given Covid jabs without parental consent. The 17 parents of children in years seven, eight and nine at Tretherras School, in Newquay, Cornwall, have signed the letter. This autumn all children aged 12 to 15 years are being offered the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, and government guidance says parents are ‘asked for consent’. But if it is refused and the child is deemed ‘competent’ then ‘the parent cannot overrule the decision’ and the child can…

Nicola Sturgeon’s plan to hold an independence referendum without consent from Westminster could be ‘torpedoed’ by a Supreme Court ruling in London yesterday. Scotland’s first minister was dealt the humiliating blow when the United Kingdom’s highest court ruled that her government had overstepped its powers. Experts described the judgment as ‘unprecedented’, amid a scathing attack by the judges – including the court’s Scottish president Lord Reed – on the ‘deliberate’ attempt to bypass UK Parliamentary sovereignty. Five senior judges, including Reed, unanimously found that two Bills passed in March by MSPs were incompatible with the 1998 Scotland Act, which is the basis…

House prices registered the strongest monthly rise for 14 years in September, pushing the average cost of a home to a record high and reversing a three-month decline in annual growth. Halifax, one of the country’s biggest mortgage lenders, said last month the average cost of a home rose by 1.7%, or £4,425, to £267,587. The previous peak was £263,162 recorded in August. “The average house price is now as expensive as it ever has been,” said Russell Galley, the managing director of Halifax. The annual rate of house price inflation rose to 7.4% from 7.2% in August, reversing a…

Nicola Sturgeon’s plan to hold an independence referendum without consent from Westminster could be ‘torpedoed’ by a Supreme Court ruling in London yesterday. Scotland’s first minister was dealt the humiliating blow when the United Kingdom’s highest court ruled that her government had overstepped its powers. Experts described the judgment as ‘unprecedented’, amid a scathing attack by the judges – including the court’s Scottish president Lord Reed – on the ‘deliberate’ attempt to bypass UK Parliamentary sovereignty. Five senior judges, including Reed, unanimously found that two Bills passed in March by MSPs were incompatible with the 1998 Scotland Act, which is the basis…

Washington state health officials confirmed a Seattle woman died Sept. 7 after getting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against COVID-19 in August. It is purported to be the first fatality in the state from a rare blood clot condition induced by the vaccine. On Oct. 5, the Washington state Department of Health issued a statement, saying it is “aware” of the woman’s passing, but did not identify her by name. “Sadly, this is the first such death in Washington state. We send our deepest condolences to her family and loved ones.” In the statement, secretary of health, Umair Shah, added that losing a loved one at…

A Saudi Arabian-led consortium is close to finally taking over Newcastle United and ending Mike Ashley’s 14-year ownership of the club, with a deal expected to be approved imminently. Some sources have suggested the £300m takeover could even be completed within the next 24 hours – although others are more cautious – with Amanda Staveley, the British businesswoman, likely to be the face of the deal on an interim basis before being moved aside. The development follows the news that Saudi Arabia has lifted its four‑year ban on sports channel network beIN Sports to allow Premier League, Uefa and Fifa matches to be…

Michael Gove will instruct his Levelling Up department to boost homebuilding in the north of England, after widespread concerns that previous proposals could see development targeted overwhelmingly in the south. Gove, the new levelling up secretary, has been given the task of overhauling controversial plans set out in a white paper last year, which have widely been seen as tipping the balance of power in favour of developers and away from local objectors. The prime minister is determined to press ahead with boosting housing development on brownfield sites, including in the south. But it is understood Gove will significantly water down…

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its affiliates on Oct. 3 began publishing stories about the Pandora Papers—a trove of 2.94 terabytes of data made up of about 11.9 million records, reportedly exposing the finances of the world’s wealthy elite. The Pandora Papers follow the ICIJ’s 2016 Panama Papers and 2017 Paradise Papers investigations. The earlier reports were largely based on leaked data from single firms—the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca in the first instance and the offshore service provider Appleby in the second case. But this time, the data undergirding the Pandora Papers reportedly comes from 14 major financial service providers across…