63 minutes ago Strictly's Sarah Hadland admits she had huge misconception about Miranda Hart

Sarah Hadland and her former Miranda co-star, the show's creator Miranda Hart, are firm friends nowadays but the Strictly contestant wasn't always so convinced about her future pal

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67 minutes ago Lizzo and Usher to campaign with Harris, as Trump prepares to work at McDonalds: Live

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both held rallies in Michigan on Friday night as former president Barack Obama campaigned for the vice president in Arizona

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75 minutes ago Shawn Mendes dedicates song to Liam Payne at Brooklyn concert: 'He was a beautiful soul'

Shawn Mendes paid tribute to Liam Payne Friday night during his concert in New York City. The One Direction member died October 16 after a fall from a hotel balcony at age 31.

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1 hour ago Liam Payne's final words to his close pal and teacher before tragic death

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne texted his close friend and former teacher that he was having a 'chilled-out morning' just hours before his shocking death

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1 hour ago Two people arrested on suspicion of child neglect after death of baby boy

Police said officers attended a call in Clynderwen, Pembrokeshire, from the Wales Ambulance Service Trust concerning the welfare of a baby on Friday.

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2 hours ago The podcast Kill List doesn’t reflect badly on the internet – it reflects badly on us | John Naughton

A gripping audio series about a killer-for-hire scam on the dark web is a reminder of how technology holds up a mirror to human natureThis column comes to you as a break from listening to a riveting podcast series called Kill List. It’s about a secret website that journalist and author Carl Miller discovered on the dark web, the slimy underbelly of the internet. The site essentially runs what one might call an “assassination market” or a murder-for-hire service. Customers identify and profile someone whom they wish to have killed and pay (in bitcoin, natch) for the service they require. Hence the title of the podcast series.The story starts in 2020 in the early days of the pandemic lockdown when a gifted IT expert and hacker, Chris Monteiro, was browsing the site and found a security vu...

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2 hours ago Macron’s business policies made him ‘president of the rich’. Rachel Reeves, beware | Phillip Inman

The chancellor rightly wants to stimulate the economy by boosting growth. But she would be unwise to do it at the expense of the poorestThere is a danger that Labour will suffer the Macron effect when the budget is unveiled at the end of the month. Emmanuel Macron, who was first elected president of France in 2017, put business investment and building a culture of entrepreneurialism at the top of his to-do list – only to be condemned later as a friend of the rich.Rachel Reeves speaks a similar language when she says economic growth is her priority and that business people should be offered more support than even the Tories were prepared to countenance. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago Calls for 'full inquiry' into Piccadilly Gardens tram and bus crash which left four injured

Four people were injured in the smash on Mosley Street on Friday afternoon

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3 hours ago Body of woman found on Scots beach as police probe 'unexplained' death

The wman's body was discovered at Donmouth Beach in Aberdeen in the early hours of the morning.

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3 hours ago The Satanic Temple is taking on the Christian right. It may be effective – it’s definitely fun | Arwa Mahdawi

Recognized as a religion by the IRS, the group uses the religious right’s tactics, and their victories, against themThe devil works hard, but the Republican party works harder. Not a day seems to go by without anti-abortion zealots on the right advancing some cunning new plan to strip women of their bodily autonomy. As well as shutting down abortion clinics, Republican states are trying to essentially outlaw abortion pills: on Friday, Missouri, Kansas and Idaho renewed a legal push to drastically reduce access to mifepristone. Continue reading...

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