18 minutes ago Former porn store worker hits back at ‘bizarre’ allegations by North Carolina lieutenant governor

Mark Robinson is running against Democratic Josh Stein in the campaign to succeed Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper

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33 minutes ago Boy killed in Newcastle house explosion ‘named’ after second body found

Six people, five adults and a child, were taken to hospital following the incident and a man in his 30s remains in a critical but stable condition.

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40 minutes ago Audi driver, 21, jailed for crash with police car after driving the wrong way on the M65

Zafar’s Audi went the wrong way on the roundabout leaving the motorway and collided head on with a liveried police car

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58 minutes ago ‘It’s a form of advertising’: how the humble lip balm became a status symbol

In this week’s newsletter: Lip products are trending, now carrying the kind of cultural cachet once reserved for It-bags. So what’s behind the rise of ‘IYKYK’ beauty?• Don’t get Fashion Statement delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereSome people claim that you’re never more than six feet away from a rat. I’d argue that, in 2024, you’re never more than stretching distance from a lip product. From sticks to balms and glosses, lip products have never been more omnipresent. They’re trending on and off social media, proudly accumulated and displayed on bathroom shelves and nightstands, tossed on to dining tables or nonchalantly applied in selfies. There are scrubs, butters, masks, tints and stains, each promising to make lips smoother, softer, plumper, better.It’s a long way from the £1 grubb...

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78 minutes ago NFL owner says Trump was like ‘having a drunk fraternity brother’ become president

Robert Kraft reflected on earlier friendship with Republican presidential nominee – but told Charlamagne tha God he has not spoken to him since the Capitol riot

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83 minutes ago Footage shows moment punches are thrown in clash between bouncers and clubgoer

The confrontation in Cardiff city centre has sparked a police probe

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85 minutes ago Moment thief on electric bike is stopped by passers by seconds after stealing woman's mobile

CCTV footage shows a crowd of people rushing forward to slow down one of the suspected thieves who was going up Ludgate Hill towards St Paul's in London.

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94 minutes ago Former porn shop worker wants defamation lawsuit by North Carolina lieutenant governor dismissed

A former porn shop worker who was accused by North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of defamation has asked a court to throw out the lawsuit against him

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1 hour ago Hotel manager said Liam Payne was ‘breaking everything in the room’ in 911 call

Payne died after falling from the third-floor balcony of the CasaSur Hotel in the Palermo area of Buenos Aires.

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2 hours ago Police insisted second Salisbury novichok attack was drug overdose, inquiry told

Inspector dismissed emergency services’ concerns that incident was similar to Skripal poisonings, KC saysPolice officers urged paramedics and firefighters to treat the second novichok incident in 2018 as a drug overdose despite warnings from the ambulance and fire services that it had similarities to the first poisoning four months earlier in Salisbury, a public inquiry has heard.The UK government believes the novichok was brought into Britain by agents tasked by Vladimir Putin to target the former spy Sergei Skripal, who had been settled in Salisbury after a spy exchange, the inquiry heard earlier this week. Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were poisoned on 4 March 2018 and both survived. Continue reading...

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