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1. Man stole 2,400 Snickers bars from a Sam’s Club days before Halloween, police say

   Police are hunting Clifton L. Davis, 50, of St. Louis County, Missouri

2. Best betting sites 2026: Top new online bookmakers

3. Britain should be proud of historic Artemis II Moon launch involvement, Tim Peake says

   A spacecraft is due to launch on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida which would see astronauts fly around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years

4. Massive golden toilet statue mocks Trump’s White House renovations

5. UK-France £650m Channel deal talks stall over small-boat crossings

   The French intercept 33 per cent of crossings, with Home Office figures showing rates have fallen to intercepting just 2,064 of 6,233 crossings

6. A Chick-fil-A restaurant is rewarding customers with freebie when they go phone-free at the table

   Customers are offered to place their phone in a white box, also known as a cell phone coop, when dining at the restaurant

7. Celine Dion announces first concerts since stiff-person syndrome diagnosis with Paris residency

   Celine Dion will return to the stage this fall with her first series of concerts since revealing her diagnosis with stiff-person syndrome, announcing a five-week limited engagement in Paris

8. ‘Utterly devastated’: Family of girl, 16, who was fatally stabbed in Leeds pay emotional tribute

   Chloe Watson Dransfield died in hospital after being found unconscious in the Austhorpe area of the city

9. Man who drove pickup truck into Michigan synagogue was inspired by Hezbollah: FBI

   The FBI says a man who crashed his pickup truck into a Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was carrying out an attack inspired by Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah

10. Ohio moves closer to banning most public drag shows

    Drag bills across the country have faced legal challenges on free expression grounds