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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/35c3/live/211eb700-be9d-11f1-ad04-23a70b53c1a5.jpg”] Reuters Rivera served in Congress from 2011 to 2013 A former US congressman has been sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison for money laundering and working as an undeclared foreign agent. David Rivera, 61, who was elected as a Florida Republican, was found guilty in May after a seven-week trial…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/fab2/live/e805b6e0-be91-11f1-9f15-2f9dbc671f7d.jpg”] NPS Photo/Janice Wei Hawaii’s famous Hōlei Sea Arch, a 90-foot-tall (27.4m) lava rock structure that formed about 550 years ago, has collapsed into the Pacific Ocean. The collapse’s exact time is not known. The arch was still projecting into the water from the coast of Volcanoes National Park on 23 September, but…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6ac0/live/1bb83720-6ef0-11f1-a7a9-933904bed770.jpg”] BBC/Federica Bedendo The Lake District National Park Authority has voted to make it more difficult to set up temporary campsites A national park authority has voted to bring in powers to make it more difficult to set up temporary campsites. They can be set up simply across the country, in some cases…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_sport/1200/cpsprodpb/c09c/live/ec8c2630-be8d-11f1-888b-4d28ea12c7e2.jpg”] Man City whistleblower to lose witness protection To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Who is Rui Pinto? ByTimothy Abraham BBC Sport journalist Published 7 hours ago The Portuguese computer hacker who released documents which helped trigger the Premier…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6b22/live/55676b60-be9d-11f1-ad04-23a70b53c1a5.jpg”] Tennessee Department of Corrections Warning: This article contains details that readers may find distressing Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike was unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator on Thursday night, after authorities failed to execute her by lethal injection, her lawyers say in court filings. Pike, 50, was injected with two lethal…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/061e/live/ef36beb0-be8b-11f1-888b-4d28ea12c7e2.jpg”] Getty Images A fire blazes in the street as protesting students carry out a blockade in Brest Riot police have clashed with protesters as thousands of students demonstrating over education standards disrupted more than 700 schools in France. Fires have burned in the streets as high school pupils and others objected to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/b148/live/76dbbc50-be71-11f1-babe-4199b0e7ccea.png”] Getty Images An independent review of Travelodge made 38 recommendations (stock image) A charity working with a hotel chain to tackle violence against women and girls following an independent review is calling for industry-wide standards. Travelodge is consulting with personal safety charity Suzy Lamplugh Trust (SLT) after a review of the chain…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/3d36/live/09d5ba60-be7c-11f1-a64c-550be9e3c66b.jpg”] Hochul: ‘What we learned yesterday raised… troubling questions’ New York Governor Kathy Hochul has said the woman at the centre of the Cornell University rape case was “failed” at “every turn”. The woman, known as Jane Doe in legal documents, alleges she was drugged and raped by several men at a fraternity…