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Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson identified on Monday that President Donald Trump has quietly shifted his messaging approach to appeal to his MAGA base amid the ongoing Iran war, moving from antiwar to pro-war rhetoric while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized media coverage of military strikes.

Christian Berçaïts, the 62-year-old mayor of Viodos-Abense-de-Bas in southwestern France, was found dead with a gunshot wound on Monday morning after losing the municipal election to Hervé Moutrous with 44.5% of the vote versus 55.5% the day before.

Fairview School in Calgary, Canada, has designated 'No Food' zones in its cafeteria and lunch room during lunch hours for the month of Ramadan from February 17 to March 18, 2024, affecting 911 students in grades 4-9, sparking online backlash and criticism.

A woman was raped in Castle Park, Bristol at around 10am on Sunday, leading to the arrest of a man in his 30s who remains in police custody while Avon and Somerset Police appeal for witnesses who were in the park between 9:30am and 10:30am.

Federal judge Brian E Murphy ruled on Monday that Robert F Kennedy Jr's appointment of 13 controversial vaccine advisers in June likely violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act, invalidating all votes taken by the committee over the past year including decisions to ban thimerosal from flu vaccines, end the MMR-chickenpox combination vaccine recommendation, and end the universal birth dose recommendation for hepatitis B vaccine.

Back Market is currently offering a professionally refurbished Nintendo Switch console for £149 with 32GB storage, blue and red Joy-Con controllers, power adapter, and HDMI cable, which is £85 cheaper than Amazon's sale price of £234.89 and £110 cheaper than Argos and Nintendo Store's £259.99 price.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a 2:1 decision reversing Judge Brian E. Murphy's block on deporting illegal migrants to 'Safe Third Countries' in Africa, Asia, and South America, enabling ICE to continue deporting over 300 migrants under Trump's program.

President Donald Trump on Monday asked Vice President JD Vance and FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson to have their new federal fraud task force investigate Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), accusing her of marrying her brother to skirt immigration law and linking her to alleged $19 billion social services fraud in the Somali community in Minneapolis.

Meningitis Now charity is launching a 'No Plan B for men B' campaign calling for NHS-funded meningitis B vaccinations for teenagers and young people born before 2015, who currently must pay around £220 privately, following two meningitis deaths in Kent including a University of Kent student.

A leaked 18-month national review funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, involving over 1,000 interviews with 168 patients and doctors across nine wards in six NHS hospital trusts, reveals dementia patients are routinely restrained with raised bedside bars, physically restrained, sedated with antipsychotic drugs, and prevented from leaving their beds for weeks in a 'culture of containment' that treats them like prisoners.

Fun Yung Li allegedly stole 2,323 Bitcoin worth £160-180 million from her husband Ping Fai Yuen by installing secret CCTV cameras in their Brighton home to capture his security passwords and seed phrase, leading to a High Court case where Mr Justice Cotter said Yuen demonstrated a 'very high probability of success' in recovering the cryptocurrency.

Robert Wilson, the 61-year-old former Conservative MP and chairman of the Consumer Council for Water, claimed first-class train tickets using a 16-25 railcard discount on two journeys in March and November 2023, making the first-class seats cheaper than standard tickets, which the CCW allows only if first-class is cheaper than standard fares.

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch condemned a Guardian opinion piece by Jonathan Liew that described the opening of a Gail's bakery 20 metres from Palestinian-owned Cafe Metro in Archway, north London as 'heavy-handed aggression' and symbolic of the Gaza war, calling it 'disgusting', 'appalling', and antisemitic.

Sarah Schofield, a 37-year-old mother from Toxteth, Liverpool, stole £14,194.79 from her father David Schofield and grandmother between 2017 and 2020 by raiding their bank accounts and fraudulently obtaining loans in her father's name to fund her gambling addiction, but received a suspended two-year prison sentence at Liverpool Crown Court on March 16, 2026, due to her children's needs.

The Kennedy Center board of trustees unanimously voted on Monday, March 16, 2026, to close the arts institution for two years for a $257 million renovation project initiated by Donald Trump, which includes renaming it 'The Donald J Trump and the John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts' and will follow an Independence Day celebration in July 2026.

Carluke Rotary Club held its 43rd annual sportsman's dinner charity event at the Radstone Hotel in Larkhall, featuring guest speakers, a three-course dinner, and fundraising auctions for local, national, and international charities.

Former FBI agents warned on Monday that FBI Director Kash Patel's leadership missteps, including focusing on Epstein files and immigration instead of terrorism threats, have contributed to four separate terror-related incidents since the Iran war began four weeks ago and could lead to bigger problems ahead.

Kerry Needham, mother of Ben Needham who disappeared from Kos, Greece on July 24, 1991 at age 21 months, is awaiting DNA test results from Interpol on a man in the US who was allegedly illegally adopted in 1993 and bears an uncanny resemblance to Ben's age progression images.

New Lanark World Heritage Site in Scotland is hosting a family-friendly Easter Festival on April 4-5, 2024, featuring scavenger hunts, silent discos, egg rolling, Easter Bunny visits, duck races, and crafts, with tickets priced at £29.80 for two adults and two children.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes announced on Monday, March 16, 2026, while guest-hosting for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that he was 'no longer MAGA' due to Trump's war in Iran and concerns about Israeli influence, despite planning to travel to Mar-a-Lago on Friday to ask President Donald Trump for a pardon for himself and seven other Oath Keepers.