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Non-profit pays $1.3m for legal services to law firm owned by Republican official | Republicans

RNC committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon takes $120,000 salary from non-profit Center for American Liberty The San Francisco lawyer Harmeet Dhillon is a fixture on Fox News who has garnered support from the likes of Matt Gaetz, Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham; she also helms a non-profit that appears to have directed more than $1m into her

Prisoner escaped US jail by scaling wall and climbing over razor wire | Pennsylvania

Breakout in Pennsylvania wasnt detected by guards for an hour, officials say, as Danelo Cavalcante eludes manhunt for seventh day A murderer made a brazen escape from a jail in the Philadelphia suburbs by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof. The breakout was not detected by guards for an

Tim Butcher's top 10 books about Congo | Books

Tim Butcher's first book, Blood River - A Journey To Africa's Broken Heart, has just been selected as a Richard & Judy Book Club choice. It uses his expedition across the Congo to tell the region's turbulent history. He has worked for The Daily Telegraph since 1991 specialising in reporting on awkward places at awkward

Baewatch: a ludicrous new reality show with no sand in sight

With its peculiar brand of curtain-twitching nosiness, theres something fundamentally British about this silly Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents successor Ah, Baywatch. Pam running through the sand in her red cossie. Half-dramatic, half-hammy scenes of thwarted shark attacks. David Hasselhoff. If you had taken a quick glance at the TV guide this week, you may

Banksy Slave Labour mural row re-erupts over new sale in London | Banksy

A fresh row has erupted over a Banksy mural that was withdrawn at the last minute from a controversial auction after it was put up for sale again. Slave Labour, a spray-painted artwork depicting a child making union flag bunting and seen as a critical social commentary on last year's diamond jubilee, disappeared from the