Day: November 11, 2025

Marion county agrees to apologize over 2023 raid that led to national outcry over press freedom, said newspaper’s editor

A rural county in Kansas has agreed to pay out more than $3m and apologize over a raid by police on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked a national outcry over press freedom, the paper’s editor said on Tuesday.

Eric Meyer, the editor and publisher of the Marion County Record, told the Associated Press he is hoping the size of the payment is large enough to discourage similar actions against news organizations in the future.

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Health secretary Wes Streeting lobbied behind the scenes for emergency funds to pay off 18,000 staff losing their jobs

Rachel Reeves has rebuffed a plea from Wes Streeting for an emergency injection of £1bn into the NHS’s budget to cover the cost of mass redundancies.

The chancellor’s decision is a setback for the health secretary, who had been lobbying behind the scenes in Whitehall for extra money to pay off 18,000 personnel who are losing their jobs.

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• Ex-NFL star accused of firing shots after fight

• Victim says bullet grazed his neck, per warrant

Former NFL star Antonio Brown is returning to Miami to face an attempted murder charge stemming from a May shooting, with his lawyer filing a not guilty plea on his behalf.

Jail records in Essex county, New Jersey, show Brown was released on Tuesday morning for his transfer to Florida. Brown, one of the most popular players in the NFL, had waived extradition to Florida from New Jersey, where he was taken after being arrested in Dubai.

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