7 hours ago More Americans believe health care is the government’s responsibility. MAGA is looking to end federal programs

Newfound belief in government health care comes as some Republicans are getting ready to push for cutting government spending on health care programs such as Obamacare and Medicaid

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8 hours ago Jamie Oliver's 'super easy' turkey stew recipe for Christmas leftovers

If you're sick of turkey curry, then this delicious stew could be the answer to your prayers - and you'll also be making the most of any leftover stuffing you have

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8 hours ago Gavin and Stacey fans livid as they spot huge 'blunder' in final episode

Gavin and Stacey officially bowed out after a thrilling final episode, but some eagle-eyed viewers were less than thrilled when they spotted a bizarre plot hole in the story

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3 hours ago Biden administration pledges additional military aid to Ukraine amid Russia war

Security assistance package in works as North Korean troops are deployed in Kursk after Putin-Kim agreementThe Biden administration is pledging to approve fresh military aid to Ukraine in the coming days, including crucial air defense systems, as North Korean forces face mounting casualties in their first major deployment to a European conflict.John Kirby, the US national security communications adviser, told reporters on Friday that in just the last week North Korean troops had suffered more than 1,000 casualties in what he referred to as failed “human wave” assaults near the Kursk border-region, which confirms similar figures reported by South Korea. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago ‘Forgotten city’ of Newport takes centre stage in Celtic noir series Ar y Ffin

Twisty crime drama set in ‘unfailingly friendly’ border city that is finally emerging from Cardiff’s shadowThe Welsh capital is often used as a setting for film and television drama, as are the country’s mountains, forests and coastlines, but a city sometimes seen as Cardiff’s poorer relative is starring in a new Welsh-language Celtic noir drama.Newport, with its muddy river and post-industrial landscape, is the backdrop for Ar y Ffin (meaning on the edge or on the border), a twisty tale of a magistrate who uncovers a web of criminality, putting her and her family at risk. Continue reading...

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12 hours ago Teacher creates ingenious exam question to find cheaters and catches 14 students

A teacher who became fed up with students using their mobile phones to find answers and cheat on university exams came up with a devious way to catch them out - and failed the pupils who fell for it

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12 hours ago Noah Lyles answers Usain Bolt question as Olympic champion makes clear statement

US star Noah Lyles is getting closer and closer to sprint GOAT Usain Bolt's best times on the track, but insists he cannot call himself the 'fastest man on earth' just yet

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4 hours ago BREAKING: Milton Keynes murder: Victim of Christmas Day knife attack, 24, named

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9 hours ago 'Wrexham fans paid my wages and I met Ryan Reynolds before he changed everything'

Former Wrexham goalkeeper Marius Rovde shares his story of playing for the club when it was at rock bottom

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28 hours ago Family dispute leaves 3 shot and 1 stabbed at Phoenix airport Christmas night

Police responded to the incident near a restaurant in Terminal 4 of the Phoenix Sky Harbor International airport Wednesday night

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36 hours ago Gavin and Stacey fans divided over finale as they react to twists and shock split

The feature length festive episode of the show has divided fans who either loved the last ever episode or decided it was too predictable after a five year wait for answers

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5 hours ago One owl rescued by a Minnesota woman is euthanized; efforts to save the other continue

One of the two owls rescued by a Minnesota woman in a story that went viral this week has died, but the other is still getting medical care

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11 hours ago ‘Let’s see who will be leaving’: Georgia’s presidential standoff nears crunch point

Georgian Dream government threatens pro-west president with jail if she refuses to leave office on SundayAll eyes in Georgia are fixed on the elegant 19th-century Orbeliani Palace in Tbilisi, where a defining moment looms. Who will occupy its halls on 29 December?On Sunday, Georgia’s pro-western president, Salome Zourabichvili, is supposed to hand over the keys to her successor, Mikheil Kavelashvili, a former football player turned far-right politician who is backed by the ruling and increasingly authoritarian Georgian Dream (GD) party. Continue reading...

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28 hours ago Family dispute leaves 3 shot and 1 stabbed at Phoenix airport on Christmas night

Police responded to the incident near a restaurant in Terminal 4 of the Phoenix Sky Harbor International airport Wednesday night

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7 hours ago Keir Starmer's heartbreak as brother Nick dies from cancer as PM says 'we'll miss him'

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12 hours ago Meet the Party Jean – the answer to your New Year’s Eve prayers | Jess Cartner

If you can’t be bothered with an LBD, opt for a classic that’s casual but shouts party pizzazzThere is a moment about halfway through Christmas dinner when the cracker hats have slipped askew, shoes been kicked off under the table and belts un-notched, that marks the official end of the season of Making An Effort. A frenzied month of putting on mascara in the work loos and shivering on the way home because you are wearing your fancy coat instead of your warm one is over, up in flames along with the Christmas pudding brandy. Time to breathe out, shift into a lower gear, adjust to the sacred interlude of cheese and telly, half-eaten chocolate reindeers and gap-toothed jigsaws that is Twixmas.So it can feel a little tricky, a few days later, to go full jazz-hands for New Year’s Eve. But that’s what we are doing. Continue reading...

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10 hours ago 'The trouble hadn't begun with sex... he'd begun to doubt if he really liked his wife': Read acclaimed author TESSA HADLEY'S new short story Treasure only here

Millie, aged six, was on her way to school; she sat strapped into her booster seat in the back of her father's car. Improbably, beyond the car windows, it was snowing - a sleety, mushy kind of snow...

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14 hours ago Rangers have no answers after week of asking the questions as this time mistakes are all theirs

Ibrox club were quick to pounce on SFA officials but it was Butland Sterling at fault in St Mirren collapse

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11 hours ago The masked Rangers sin that was the REAL problem as Jack Butland not the only one to have St Mirren 'shocker'

Jack Butland took his fair share of the flak but another Rangers player has sins to answer for

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15 hours ago Florida condo owners look at higher costs as new regulations take effect in the new year

Florida condominium owners are looking at higher costs from condo associations in the new year

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18 hours ago China probes personal disputes after mass killings. Many fear further infringement on freedoms

China’s leader Xi Jinping wants the recent spree of mass killings that shocked the country not to happen again

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16 hours ago Prince William’s 'secret meeting' with Kate Middleton long before they started dating

The Prince and Princess of Wales' love story famously started at St Andrews University in Scotland - but could they have met by chance several years earlier?

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28 hours ago More migrants are caught trying to cross the Channel today after 451 made it across on Christmas Day

This morning Border Force vessels intercepted more small boats trying to cross the English Channel and brought the occupants to Dover's immigration centre.

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29 hours ago Romanian people trafficker caught bringing four Vietnamese into UK in back of his lorry cab using false plates is jailed

A people smuggler who was discovered by Dover Border Police attempting to smuggle four Asian migrants into the UK has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.

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18 hours ago Inside story of how it all went wrong at Cadbury's: It has skimmed, trimmed and many say ruined the taste of its chocolate, reveals JANE FRYER. And that's not the worst by a long shot...

John Cadbury - patriarch of Britain's most famous confectionery company and a doggedly good and relentlessly philanthropic example to us all - must be spinning in his grave in the village of Bournville.

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29 hours ago Boxing Day chaos at Dover as ferry passengers face heavy traffic and 90

Boxing Day travelers are facing chaos at the border at Dover, suffering delays of up to 90 minutes caused by heavy traffic. 

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20 hours ago Coronation Street's Rob Donovan return sparks 'big story' with 'twists and turns'

Coronation Street will air the return of killer Rob Donovan in the new year, and now soap boss Kate Brooks has teased 'twists and turns' ahead in a 'big storyline'

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31 hours ago Family tensions can run high over Christmas. Here’s how to make things a little easier | Becca Bland

Approaching disagreements with respect and curiosity can deepen our connections with even difficult relativesBecca Bland is a journalist and researcher with a specialism in family estrangement and social policyThe Christmas period has always tested our ability to spend time with those to whom we may be biologically related, but struggle to relate to philosophically. Divisive world events such as the US election can make matters much worse, and family relationships are increasingly becoming casualties of stark political differences. As a researcher around family estrangement, I know how challenging it can be to keep the goodwill flowing.Take Alexis, for example, who is originally from a rural town in California. He is planning to attend a large Christmas gathering with more than 20 relatives, the majority of whom voted Republican and are strong Donald Trump supporters. As an openly gay man, he struggles with some of the political talk that “the other side” brings to the table during ...

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20 hours ago Official says NIO should have offered Rosemary Nelson protection ‘in hindsight’

Mrs Nelson was killed by a loyalist car bomb outside her home in Lurgan, Co Armagh in March 1999.

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32 hours ago Jason Cundy in savage Celtic and Rangers swipe as shock jock claims rivals would make same EPL impact as BARNSLEY

The pundit has once again put the boot into the standard north of the border, this time belittling Glasgow's big two

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21 hours ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Is this the secret behind Jerry Hall's youthful glow at the age of 68?

The Texan model posed with her two daughters with Sir Mick Jagger - Georgia May, 32, and Elizabeth, 40, all in identical face masks in front of a Christmas tree.

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39 hours ago Squid Game season two review – TV that will make you uncomfortably bloodthirsty indeed

When we get into the actual games, the smash-kit K-drama finds its feet. But it spends far too many episodes dragging its heels extremely painfully. Series three must do betterOne of Hollywood’s many bad habits is the bloat caused by splitting a story in half in a bid to double the profits (cough, cough, Dune and Wicked). Squid Game was always a perfect one-series story. Gambling addict Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) became Player 456, a desperate man who attempts to pay off his debts by taking part in a twisted underground fight-to-the-death competition. He beats the odds by surviving every one of its potentially fatal playground games. When it first appeared, it was horrifying, it was thrilling, and its satirical edge – which examined capitalism and class in South Korea – was clever and acidic. The world took to it in vast numbers.That it became one of Netflix’s most successful, and therefore most profitable, series of all time placed it in a creative bind. Inevitably, it was renewed...

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22 hours ago CBeebies Bedtime Stories to rake in 'more adult' viewers after James Norton's cheeky comment

Adults rushed to praise James Norton after the Happy Valley actor took on a new role for CBeebies Bedtime story on Thursday, 26 December

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40 hours ago Dozens of prisoners killed during jailbreak as Christmas Day riots grip Mozambique

Civil unrest over disputed presidential election result continues

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22 hours ago Philippe Clement's Rangers 'consistency' claim blown apart as form guide tells a very different story

The Belgian's assessment of the last two months is at odds with actual results in all competitions across 12 games

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23 hours ago CBeebies Bedtime Stories viewers all react with cheeky comment after James Norton's Christmas special

Happy Valley star James Norton had grown ups in love with his appearance on CBeebies Bedtime Story, with one joking that "more adults" would be tuning in to watch the show.

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26 hours ago Stuart Kettlewell blasts Celtic penalty and claims referee treated Motherwell like 'school children'

Well boss Kettlewell wasn't a happy man with ref Ross Hardie after two disputed decisions at both ends of the park

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28 hours ago Trump’s ‘border czar’ says migrant families will be put in detention centers once again

Tom Homan says the administration will construct ‘family facilities’ for mass deportation plans, including removing citizen children with undocumented parents

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29 hours ago Family detentions to return in migration crackdown, says Trump ‘border czar’

Tom Homan also said that undocumented parents of US-born children will be deported, with or without their kidsUS immigration authorities will resume the controversial policy of putting families with children in detention centres as part of a drive to deport undocumented immigrants, the incoming Trump administration’s “border czar”, Tom Homan, has said.Homan, regarded as the “architect” of the widely vilified family separation policy applied to undocumented immigrants in the first Trump administration, also said officials would not hesitate to deport parents whose children were American citizens because they had been born in the US. Continue reading...

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30 hours ago Democrats and Republicans have a common enemy: pornographic ‘deepfakes’

Ted Cruz and AOC are unlikely allies forcing Big Tech to take down nonconsenual images, but Elon Musk’s antics derailed their efforts, Alex Woodward reports

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