13 h. ago Lawsuit claims Musk failed to make promised payments over 2024 petition signatures

A federal lawsuit accuses billionaire Elon Musk and the political action committee he started of failing to pay a suburban Philadelphia man more than $20,000 for getting people to sign a petition in favor of free speech and gun rights

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29 h. ago UFC youth sensation Raul Rosas Jr claimed fifth victory before buying his mum a house

Record-breaking Raul Rosas Jr , who was signed at just 17, claimed his fifth victory in the octagon and then bought his mum a new home to celebrate Mother's Day

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3 d. ago 'Don't you have friends to go with?': the stigma and joy of a table for one | Emma Gannon

Solo dining is a sign of unhappiness, a new report claims. I’ll tell you why I think that’s nonsense – but please don’t pull up a chairI once told a colleague that I was going to Amsterdam on a solo trip to wine and dine alone. “Do you not have any friends to go with?” she replied. She was joking, but I think she also meant it. Her comment was tinged with pity. Why would you choose to eat a three-course meal with a good view or order room service in a nice hotel on your own? What’s the point? Wouldn’t you want to share that with someone?Eating alone often gets a bad rap. It’s getting an even worse rap now that the World Happiness Report moved Americans down the ranking in part because they are, apparently, eating alone too much. The picture doesn’t look good: too many people have no one to eat with, they lack community, and are clearly rather isolated and lonely. Community is incredibly important – especially now, when the world feels increasingly unstable and unpredictable. We all ...

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3 d. ago Donors quit Prince Harry’s charity when he left UK, says Sentebale chair

Sophie Chandauka claims there is ‘significant correlation’ with drop in funders and prince’s move to the USDonors abandoned the charity Prince Harry founded in memory of his late mother when he left the UK, the chair of Sentebale has said amid a bitter media row.There was a “significant correlation” between a drop in funders and the Duke of Sussex’s departure to the US following controversy caused by his rift with the royal family, Sophie Chandauka told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips programme. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Harry Kane's Liverpool transfer message from Alan Shearer speaks volumes about character

Liverpool have been urged to sign a new striker in the summer transfer window, with Alan Shearer claiming that Harry Kane would be the ideal signing

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6 d. ago Ferrari’s motivation for signing Lewis Hamilton clear as Charles Leclerc claim says a lot

Lewis Hamilton is barely two races into his career as a Ferrari driver, but his potential contributions to the team at this stage of his career have come into question

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6 d. ago Arsenal eye Alexander Isak alternative amid striker 'already signed' claims

Arsenal will look to bring in a prolific frontman this summer and, despite links with Alexander Isak, the club have had to consider other targets with Frankfurt's Hugo Ekitike now on their radar

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6 d. ago Israeli politicians sign letter urging Australian MPs to dump two

Letter from Knesset members addressed to Queensland LNP backbencher Andrew Wallace was distributed at event he hosted, attended by several Coalition MPs and senatorsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA handful of Israeli politicians, including one within Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, have urged Coalition MPs to dump Australia’s longstanding two-state policy on Israel and Palestine ahead of the upcoming federal election.They claim that maintaining the policy would reward Hamas and destroy Israel.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump news today: Press secretary claims Signal texts were not war plans and calls journalist ‘anti

President insists National Security Adviser Mike Waltz not at fault as White House attacks Atlantic editor added to group chat on Yemen airstrikes by mistake as ‘Trump-hater’

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6 d. ago Donald Trump 'will launch vitriolic attacks on press with even more force' after war texts leak

Donald Trump will likely be preparing a savage attack on The Atlantic and editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, after the embarrassment of having Signal war texts leaked, it's been claimed

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6 d. ago Latest Signal leak revelations expose US officials’ lies about what was shared

Trump officials had claimed nothing classified or risking harm to members of the military was shared in the chatSignal leak live – latest updatesThe disclosure by the Atlantic of further devastating messages from the Signal chat group used by the Trump administration’s most senior security officials has nailed the lie that nothing that threatened the safety of US servicemen and women was shared on the group.After the vague and evasive assertions by Trump officials at Monday’s Senate intelligence committee hearing, from the White House, and from the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, that no war plans or classified material was shared, readers can make up their own minds. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Brutal world of British Scientology: Former devotee claims he was made to sign a billion

Alex Ross-Barnes, 29, told MailOnline of his time with the organisation founded by sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard and which has two bases in London and a UK HQ in West Sussex.

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7 d. ago Mike Waltz claims ‘full responsibility’ for Signal chat group leaked to journalist

Trump adviser says he can’t explain how Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s number was included in the group chatDonald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Waltz, said on Tuesday he takes “full responsibility” for the group chat of senior administration officials that inadvertently included a journalist and leaked highly sensitive information about planned airstrikes in Yemen.Waltz’s comments came one day after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of the Atlantic, revealed that he was added to a group on Signal, a private messaging app, that included vice-president JD Vance, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, secretary of state Marco Rubio and other high-profile figures discussing “operational details” of planned attacks on the Houthis in Yemen. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump adviser Waltz claims ‘full responsibility’ for adding journalist to Signal group but can’t explain how it happened – live

Mike Waltz insists he’s never texted Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, who was added to chat to discuss Yemen strikesDemocrats demand answers over ‘careless’ Signal blunderTrump dismisses Signal failure as ‘the only glitch in two months’Elon Musk appears to be laying the groundwork to privatize some space and satellite operations now under the authority of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), or steer lucrative contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies, former agency employees say.They’re sounding the alarm as at least four other federal agencies have reportedly begun pushing new contracts toward Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company. Musk, the world’s richest man, has been tasked by Donald Trump with drastically slashing the federal government workforce and costs. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Why the Signal chat leak might have exposed a big legal problem for Trump administration

Lawmakers and legal experts claim the Yemen Signal group chat ‘blatantly violated security regulations designed to prevent exactly this kind of leak’

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1 week ago Justin Baldoni's lawyer accuses Ryan Reynolds of 'exploitation' as he fires back at request to dismiss case

Ryan Reynolds is under fire for attempting to distance himself from the $400 million defamation lawsuit that Justin Baldoni's attorney claims he played a significant role in shaping. 

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2 w. ago Atletico Madrid provide official response to Julian Alvarez to Liverpool transfer rumours

Atletico Madrid have dismissed claims that Liverpool have already made an approach to sign former Manchester City forward Julian Alvarez in the upcoming transfer window

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2 w. ago Trump makes unsupported claim Biden pardons are ‘void’ as he used autopen

President claims without evidence that January 6 panel members’ pre-emptive clemency was not signed personallyDonald Trump claimed on Monday, without offering evidence, that pardons signed by Joe Biden were “void, vacant and of no further force and effect” because they were signed with an autopen.The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an autopen as “a device that mechanically reproduces a person’s signature”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago How many people get benefits now and how does the total compare with 20 years ago?

The number of people claiming disability benefits for mental health problems has increased significantly since the pandemic

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2 w. ago Jamie Carragher makes worrying Mo Salah claim and tells Liverpool to sign two players

Mohamed Salah had a very quiet game as Liverpool lost the Carabao Cup final 2-1 to Newcastle on Sunday - but Jamie Carragher felt the problem lies elsewhere for his old side

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