87 m. ago Is Europe misunderstanding Trump on Ukraine? | Stephen Wertheim

The new administration appears to be taking a position that Ukrainian and European leaders aren’t hearing – or are trying to alterA high-stakes transatlantic miscommunication is unfolding, with the potential to produce far worse consequences than the Oval Office contretemps between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.In the past month, the Trump administration has delivered several strong and sometimes conflicting messages to America’s allies and partners in Europe. Discerning the signal in the noise isn’t easy, but amid the zigs, zags and bombast, the new administration appears to be taking a position that Ukrainian and European leaders aren’t hearing – or are trying to alter.Stephen Wertheim is a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump administration briefing: Israeli hostage to visit White House; Russia admires US foreign policy

Eli Sharabi expected to meet Donald Trump on Tuesday; Kremlin says US views now ‘largely’ coincide with Moscow’s own foreign policy vision – key US politics stories from Sunday at a glanceThe freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi has been invited to meet Donald Trump on Tuesday in Washington, his brother Sharon has said.When Sharabi and two other hostages, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami, were released on 8 February after nearly 500 days in captivity, their physical condition outraged Israelis, which Trump echoed. Sharabi has since told Israeli media of the severe hunger and violence he endured in captivity. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago The doctors detained in Gaza: ‘He was dragged from the operating theatre’ – podcast

Doctors in Gaza say they have been targeted for doing their jobs, detained and even tortured. Annie Kelly reports Since the war in Gaza began more than a year ago, the health system has crumbled. Hospitals have been attacked, medical supply lines disrupted and many doctors have been killed in the Israeli bombardment. Other physicians have been detained.Dr Khaled Serr is a surgeon at Nasser hospital in Gaza. He says he was arrested after his hospital was attacked by the Israeli military. Like other doctors in Gaza, he says he thinks he was held because of his job. He tells Hannah Moore he was beaten, humiliated and endured terrible conditions before he was released without charge. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Was J. M. Barrie inspired to write Peter Pan after meeting a sick child?

In part. Margaret Henley was the daughter of J. M. Barrie's friend, the poet William Ernest Henley, and his wife Anna. Barrie always had an affinity for children, and Margaret called him her 'fwendy'.

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9 h. ago Kelly Ripa, 54, shows off her VERY muscular arms when in a sleeveless gown at the Oscars

The mother-of-three showed off her gym-honed physique, just hours after getting in a virtual workout with trainer Anna Kaiser. Kelly's dazzling dress boasted a wrapped design.

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9 h. ago 17 words from Barry Ferguson show how Rangers boss REALLY feels as tune change says it all about first week in job

It was 'my, my' from the interim boss early on – now it's 'they' and 'them'

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9 h. ago Taylor Swift fans mock Joe Alwyn's career at Oscars red carpet over his new 'job'

Joe Alwyn was in attendance at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday, representing his latest film project The Brutalist, which has been nominated for 10 Oscars - but that didn't impress fans of his ex, Taylor Swift.

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11 h. ago Oscars boss reveals why Amelia Dimoldenberg secured huge presenting job

Chicken Shop Date star Amelia Dimoldenberg is back on red carpet presenting duties for the Oscars this year and show bosses have now revealed why she landed the role

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12 h. ago US tariffs on Canada and Mexico coming Tuesday but may not be 25%, commerce chief says

‘That is a fluid situation,’ Howard Lutnick says in first indication that administration may not impose full tariffsDonald Trump’s commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, said on Sunday that US tariffs on Canada and Mexico will go into effect on Tuesday, but the president would determine whether to stick with the planned 25% level.“That is a fluid situation,” Lutnick told the Fox News program Sunday Morning Futures. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Rylan Clark bags 'dream' Doctor Who job for 'Eurovision in space' storyline

Rylan Clark has turned his hand to many things and now the singer turned presenter is set to make his Doctor Who debut which he says has been a dream role for him

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15 h. ago The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic product

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19 h. ago The military spouses building businesses in the desert: ‘learning to stand on your own two feet’

In Twentynine Palms, California, these business owners have gained more than a job – they’ve built a sense of identityThe California desert, for 28-year-old Madie Chapman, was a shock to the system.Chapman became a desert resident last summer, when her husband, a field radio operator, was stationed at the Twentynine Palms combat center, the largest US Marine Corps training base in the world. Within just a few months of receiving orders, the couple moved with their three young children to the secluded outpost near Joshua Tree national park, joining the thousands of other active-duty service members and their families who live there. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Anna was overwhelmed by the administrative burden of her job. Self

Over time, she was able to more readily accept the impact of ADHD on her life without labelling this as a character flawThe modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their workA central tension in psychotherapy is the interplay between acceptance and change. People usually seek therapy because they wish to alter some aspect of their lives. Yet, at its core, therapeutic change often begins with reaching an acceptance that suffering, distress and imperfections are an inherent part of the human experience.While this tension is at the heart of all therapies, there are two forms of therapy that explicitly target this interplay. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago It’s two years since the kids left. Here’s what I’ve learned – and what has surprised me | Emma Beddington

There’s more leisure, less laundry and no more Nando’s on the sofa. But I’m still struggling to get to grips with this tidy, idle new lifeI come into the kitchen to find my husband staring into space, which is normally my job. Then he points. “It’s time to accept we aren’t bread-bin people,” he says.I believe, instinctively, ancestrally, in bread bins; I come from bread-bin stock. But since we acquired ours five years ago, it has been used probably five times. On one of these occasions, a loaf was left in there for so long that the buildup of mould caused the lid to warp. I assumed the problem was living with teenagers with no object permanence, who, even if they saw the bread go in, forgot it existed once it was no longer visible. However, after two years of an empty nest, bread still lives on top of the bin. It turns out that even I am not a bread-bin person.I am actually very tidy – indeed, unpleasantly uptight about tidiness. It was the eternal churn of family mess that made me ...

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20 h. ago Young adults increasingly struggling offline turn to ASMR videos, report finds

Visceral videos of people playing with slime or braiding hair soothe those who feel overwhelmed by in-person contactYounger adults are increasingly overwhelmed by in-person interaction and soothing themselves instead with sensory online content, according to a new report on the wildly popular online content known as ASMR.ASMR – autonomous sensory meridian response – describes a particular sensory phenomenon that is triggered by specific sights or sounds, which usually begins with a tingling sensation across the scalp and results in feelings of deep calm and relaxation.47% of those aged 25-34 say they feel overwhelmed in noisy or busy places such as a shopping centre or a train station, compared with 35% of those aged 55-64.39% of those aged 18-24 feel the need to shut out noise, for example using noise-cancelling headphones in public, compared with only 21% of those age 45-54.Younger age groups were also more likely to prefer chatting to people online rather than face-to-face and to...

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20 h. ago US Postal Service faces murky future as Trump mulls dismantling institution

Resistance to any proposals remains speculative until administration lays out its plan for the federal agencyAfter the postmaster general, Louis Dejoy, a former Trump fundraiser and logistics executive appointed during the president’s first term, announced last month that he was stepping down, defenders of the US Postal Service (USPS) concerned that the 249-year-old institution could soon experience the slice and slash of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” scimitar have expressed alarm.Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to dissolve USPS’s bipartisan board of governors and place the agency under the control of the commerce department secretary, Howard Lutnick, the Washington Post recently reported. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago All or Nothing review: Michael Wolff details Trump’s bilious re

The president’s least favorite biographer again exposes the grotesque pettiness of Trump as he willed his way back to powerDon’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting.Michael Wolff has earned the ire of Donald Trump – again. The new Trump book by the author of three other bestsellers “is a total FAKE JOB, just like the other JUNK he wrote”, the 47th president posted after the first revelations from Wolff’s work broke. “I assume he was able to speak to a small number of people, but not meaningfully.”Once again, Wolff has poured a samovar of scalding tea on Trump’s lap. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Bukavu hospital patients tell of being shot in chaos of Congolese withdrawal

Widespread shooting and looting preceded arrival of M23 rebels, overwhelming city’s poorly resourced facilitiesPatients at hospitals in the second-largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have described how they sustained serious injuries during the chaotic withdrawal of the Congolese army and its allies in the days before Rwanda-backed M23 rebels marched in.Widespread shooting and looting preceded the arrival of the rebels in Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, on 14 February, overwhelming the city’s poorly resourced hospitals. Continue reading...

Science

26 h. ago Rafa Benitez eyeing Premier League job as surprise switch collapses

Rafa Benitez had the chance to go and coach in Brazil but the distance saw him turn it down with the ex-Liverpool boss still hopeful of landing another Premier League job

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26 h. ago BBC EastEnders' Cindy Williams star Mimi Keene terrified over filming with Hollywood icon

Starring in Towards Zero alongside Anjelica Huston, former EastEnders star Mimi Keene was overwhelmed with stage fright when filming with the Hollywood legend.

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