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1. Kenya approves US quarantine facility for exposed Americans amid outbreak

   The 50-bed unit facility is slated to become operational on Friday

2. Birmingham City Council fines itself £470,000 for breaking Clean Air Zone rules

   The majority of the vehicles that were hit with the daily charges were from the waste department, despite a bin strike in the city since January 2025

3. Manhunt in Hawaii after three people are found dead within 48 hours

   One of the victims was found partially submerged in a cement pond

4. Teenage boy is 11th person to die in open water during record-breaking UK heatwave

   Police and fire crews were called to Galley Hill Road on Wednesday afternoon

5. Kristi Noem’s replacement at DHS is still using controversial jet that helped end her tenure and is ‘barely in the building,’ report says

   ‘Mullin seems to think DHS requires less work than a senator, and it shows’

6. Mr Milburn’s historic NEET review deserves cross-party support

   Editorial: With his interim report about the crisis in youth employment, the former Labour minister has shown that poverty, economic exclusion, mental illness and hopelessness are the giant social evils of our time. But, as he points out, there is also hope

7. Simpsons to spoof Black Mirror as three new episodes come to Disney+

   The new episodes also include ‘Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition' and a film noir parody

8. French Open men’s and women’s seed list and tracker

   Jannik Sinner has fallen short in his bid to complete the career grand slam while Coco Gauff is aiming to defend her title

9. NBA star sends cease-and-desist letter to company that made parody board game mocking his flopping

   The board game is based on the family classic Operation, but rather than removing bones from a patient, players have to remove basketballs from an image bearing the likeness of the NBA star without touching him and causing a foul

10. Mother guilty of killing toddler son after feeding him drugs before he could be taken into care

    Emma Barnett has been found guilty of murder and is set to be sentenced next week