67 minutes ago I watched Trump’s audience leave a rally early while he ranted about migrants. The spectacle is over

Even Trump's most loyal followers are getting bored of the outrage, John Bowden reports from Greenville

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92 minutes ago Netflix Monsters star speaks out in support of Menendez brother after harrowing portrayal

Koch plays Erik Menendez in the streaming channel’s hit drama Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, which covers the true story of the brothers who murdered their parents at their home in Beverly Hills back in 1989 before trying to pin it on the mafia.

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1 hour ago A kidnapped woman punched her way out of a cinderblock cell. Police say she may have saved countless others

Negasi Zuberi has been convicted with kidnapping and raping two women including holding one of his victims hostage in a soundproof cinderblock cell. Bevan Hurley and James Liddell report

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1 hour ago ‘I can do the same job as a man’: Ukraine’s first frontline female commander on war, grief – and her hope for the future

Yulia Mykytenko leads a platoon of men in a reconnaissance and attack unit – and has already lost her husband, father and many friends in the devastating war. In her memoir, she writes that she was always destined for combatThe sound of birdsong is so loud outside Yulia Mykytenko’s current home, an abandoned house somewhere in the Donbas region of Ukraine, that I can hear it through my laptop. We’re speaking on Zoom, Mykytenko visible briefly – young, wearing black, her dark bobbed hair with blue-dyed streaks in it – before she turns the camera off because her signal isn’t great. She has some outside space and, she says with a laugh, a local sheep sometimes comes to visit her dog. Mykytenko, a lieutenant in the Ukrainian army, also feeds the street cats, pets abandoned by residents who ...

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2 hours ago Practical Magic: Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock’s enduring song of sisterhood

Witchy, cozy, and murderously mischievous, this 1998 film about a clan of women beset by an ancient curse feels like a warm hug. Its resurgence is long overdueGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe formulaic 90s romcom shouldn’t – in theory – involve accidental murder or exorcising evil spirits. Yet Griffin Dunne’s Practical Magic proves that the feminine urge to murder your evil ex-boyfriend (twice) is funny, sexy, even mischievous.Picture Nicole Kidman with copper hair and curtain bangs, hurtling through an expanse of American highways to a soundtrack featuring Stevie Nicks and Joni Mitchell. Or Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest as wickedly witchy aunts poised around a kitchen bench, chanting a spell (“Adder’s fork and blindworm’s sting, Barbados lime is just the thing!”) as ...

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3 hours ago Florida woman accused of using Roblox to instruct child, 10, to kill 2

Tara Sykes allegedly also told the child to drown and scold the infant with boiling water, and to slit the throats of the adults they were living with

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3 hours ago Mum branded 'unfair' for giving baby name that sounds like 'flatulence medicine'

People were left scratching their heads after seeing what someone decided to name their little one, with some saying that it was really 'unfair' and baffling for the kid

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4 hours ago Personal experience inspires Aberdeen couple to Launch Home Care Service

Driven by their personal journey as parents of children with complex medical needs, Innocent and Josephine Iba have launched Blossom Home Care in Aberdeen, offering a unique, compassionate, and tailored home care service designed to support adults in living independently at home.

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4 hours ago Anna Kendrick: 'We've all been alone with somebody and wondered – how bad is this situation about to get?'

The acclaimed actor talks about making her directing debut, being a cry-baby on set and how she is turning the serial killer movie on its head

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