69 m. ago Youth Demand: 'The anger is already there and we're bringing it to the surface'

Political activist group Youth Demand has been dubbed 'Just Stop Oil 2.0' and have vowed to 'shut down London' this April with 'swarming' tactics, as they are unafraid of fines or even prison

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69 m. ago Sad real reason Star Wars legend quit fame to live on farm after iconic role

Hayden Christensen shot to worldwide fame as Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels, but the actor decided to pack it all in and live on a farm for four years

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83 m. ago Graham Linehan hails Supreme Court transgender ruling... and reveals his hopes for comedy comeback

EXCLUSIVE: Father Ted writer Graham Linehan, 56, hailed the Supreme Court decision that trans women are not women but said the war on woke has only just begun.

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1 hour ago Coronation Street icon Sue Cleaver's new TV role on rival channel 'exposed'

Sue Cleaver has already filmed her final scenes on the cobbles after 25 years as Eileen Grimshaw but what is the actress going to do next after quitting the ITV soap?

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1 hour ago ‘Immediate red flags’: questions raised over ‘expert’ much quoted in UK press

News outlets pull articles featuring ‘psychologist and sex adviser’ Barbara Santini amid doubts over her credentialsOver the past couple of years, the Oxford-educated psychologist Barbara Santini has been widely quoted as an expert. She has contributed thoughts on everything from the psychological impact of the Covid pandemic to the importance of vitamin D and how playing darts can improve your health.However, her pronouncements have begun to disappear from articles after concerns that Santini may not be all that she appears. Major news outlets have removed entire articles featuring Santini, or comments made by her, after a series of questions were raised over her qualifications – and even whether her entire identity could be an elaborate hoax. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativityLast month, the New York Public Library opened the doors on one of its most thrilling acquisitions of recent times: the archive of Joan Didion and her husband and collaborator John Gregory Dunne. After two years of preparation, both scholars and anyone with a library card can arrange a visit to pore over the material contained in a total of 336 boxes of correspondence, photographs and screenplays from the couple’s joint projects, which included the 1976 version of A Star Is Born and the film that in 1971 provided Al Pacino with his first leading role, The Panic in Needle Park.Alongside material evidence of two long writing careers, there is much that is deeply personal: paperwork recording the naming of orchids in honour of Didion, Dunne and their adopted daughter Quintana, the couple’s only child;...

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2 h. ago Doctors find 'giant human parasite' living inside man's bladder after cooking mistake

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: A 35-year-old man in India was found to have a foot-long worm living inside him, and it was still alive and wriggling when doctors removed it

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2 h. ago Today's rugby news as WRU face anger and star seeks Shaun Edwards advice after stunning announcement

The latest rugby news stories from Wales and beyond

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2 h. ago Alexander Zverev heckled again at Munich Open over domestic abuse allegations

Zverev asked the chair umpire to eject the heckler and the tournament confirmed the fan was removed

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3 h. ago Supreme Court BLOCKS migrant deportations as Trump pushes presidential powers to the brink

The court directed the Trump administration not to remove the Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center 'until further order of this court.'

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3 h. ago Trump has found in El Salvador a model for the repressive state he wants to build – and he’s just getting started | Jordana Timerman

Nayib Bukele has shown how brutal control can be sustained not just through force, but by raising the cost of speaking outThe Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) maximum security prison in El Salvador is the crown jewel of President Nayib Bukele’s efforts to quash not only criminal gangs, but also criticism and political opposition to his government. The “mega-prison” is also one of the more visible destinations in the emerging map of American deportations – a sprawling archipelago that includes conservative US districts, the Guantánamo military base and Central American waypoints connected by a tangle of military and charter flights.That the two states have connected their penal architecture is no coincidence. Donald Trump’s aggressive policies towards foreigners build on Bukele’s infamous iron fist crackdown against criminal gangs: it’s a political toolkit that leverages anti-establishment anger to justify an authoritarian slide. In deploying strongman tactics to address social c...

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3 h. ago US supreme court orders temporary halt to deportations of Venezuelan men

The order is the latest example of how the courts are challenging the Trump administration’s overhaul of the immigration systemThe US supreme court has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportation of Venezuelan men in immigration custody, after their lawyers said they were at imminent risk of removal without the judicial review previously mandated by the justices.“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,” the justices said early on Saturday. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago FSU shooting: Mom speaks out after suspected shooter son is identified as ‘white supremacist’

Phoenix Ikner was removed from a school political club over ‘far-right rhetoric’ he shared, his classmates claim

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11 h. ago FSU shooting: Victim named after suspected shooter is identified as a ‘white supremacist’

Phoenix Ikner was removed from a school political club over ‘far-right rhetoric’ he shared, his classmates claim

Events

13 h. ago What a boob: Texas school district bans Virginia state flag and seal over naked breast

Students in Lamar can no longer learn about the state of Virginia on their online research database due to the banVirginia’s state flag and seal, depicting the Roman goddess Virtus standing over a slain tyrant, her drooping toga exposing her left breast, has been banned from younger students in a Texas school district.The district, Lamar consolidated independent school district, near Houston, took action against the image late last year when it removed a section about Virginia from its online learning platform used by third through fifth graders, typically encompassing ages eight to 11, sparking a row, Axios reported on Thursday. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Trump ally pushes DoJ unit to shift civil rights focus, new messages show

Internal mission statements from Harmeet Dhillon pivots division’s priorities away from marginalized groups’ rightsThe justice department’s civil rights division is shifting its focus away from its longstanding work protecting the rights of marginalized groups and will instead pivot towards Donald Trump’s priorities including hunting for noncitizen voters and protecting white people from discrimination, according to new internal mission statements seen by the Guardian.The new priorities were sent to several sections of the civil rights division this week by Harmeet Dhillon, a Trump ally who was confirmed a little more than two weeks ago to lead the division. Several of them only give glancing mention to the statutes and kinds of discrimination that have long been the focus of the division, which dates back to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Several of the mission statements point to Trump’s executive orders as priorities for the section. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago FSU shooting latest: Victim named after suspected shooter is identified as a ‘white supremacist’

Phoenix Ikner was removed from a school political club over ‘far-right rhetoric’ he shared, his classmates claim

Events

17 h. ago Fishers celebrate Trump's seafood order while conservation groups fear overfishing

President Donald Trump’s executive order to boost the U.S. commercial fishing industry drew praise from commercial fishing groups and condemnation from environmental organizations

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18 h. ago Mickey Rourke 'had visit from undercover agents' over Donald Trump comments

While actor Mickey Rourke may have been removed from the Celebrity Big Brother house due to his behaviour, fans were stunned when he recounted a run-in with the US President

Politics

19 h. ago Moment passenger is removed from plane after biting flight attendant

The unidentified man reportedly clashed with a flight attendant shortly after boarding a flight yesterday.

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