72 m. ago Democrats are wrong to think the shutdown gives them leverage

The move will deprive the Fed of key statistics and further dent America’s global economic leadership

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2 h. ago 50 Cent trolls Diddy again with 'letter to judge' just one day before sentencing

The 50-year-old rapper, born Curtis James Jackson III, has been in a longtime feud with Diddy and penned a 'letter to the judge' overseeing his self-proclaimed foe's case.

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2 h. ago 'We went to most beautiful McDonald's in the world and were blown away by what we saw'

McDonald's is often regarded as the most well-known fast food chain worldwide, and when a travel duo shared a stunning international location they discovered, it sparked mixed reactions among people

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3 h. ago Taylor Swift compares herself to Elizabeth Taylor in new song as she berates her exes for not being able to handle fame

The Pennsylvania-born songstress dedicates an entire track of her new album, The Life Of A Showgirl, to the Hollywood starlet - and the lyrics are bursting with hidden meaning.

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3 h. ago Trauma surgeon father of Manchester synagogue terrorist condemns his son's 'heinous act' as he tells of family's 'deep shock and sorrow' at the targeting of 'peaceful, innocent civilians'

In a family statement today, relatives of the 35-year-old Syrian-born terrorist said they wanted to 'distance themselves' from Thursday's atrocity.

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5 h. ago Lando Norris: Max Verstappen so hard to beat as he was ‘born into an F1 seat’

Norris says Verstappen still operates at 99 per cent on ‘a bad day’.

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5 h. ago Renewed search for British toddler who vanished 55 years ago ends without police finding her remains

Cheryl Grimmer, a British-born toddler, vanished from an NSW beach more than half a century ago

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6 h. ago Strictly's Ellie Goldstein's mum shares how they told her she had Down's syndrome

Ellie Goldstein has been defying the odds ever since she was born - here's what she overcame before landing her dream of starring on Strictly Come Dancing

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7 h. ago Manchester synagogue terrorist's family condemn his 'heinous act' as they tell of their 'deep shock and sorrow' at the targeting of 'peaceful, innocent civilians'

In a statement today, relatives of the 35-year-old Syrian-born terrorist said they wanted to 'distance themselves' from Thursday's atrocity.

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7 h. ago Mum forced to pay £1,500 when son's holiday backflip goes wrong

Rhiannon Dunn, 32, headed to Antalya in Turkey with seven-year-old Carlson Turner on September 1 after buying the trip for his birthday.

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9 h. ago Dania: Listless review – Intimate underground pop inspired by hospital night shifts

(Somewhere Press)Reflecting her nocturnal work as an emergency doctor, the Baghdad-born musician’s latest blends trip-hop, shoegaze and ambient into sometimes eerie, sometimes blissful tracksAs well as making atmospheric electronic compositions, the Baghdad-born, Barcelona-based musician Dania also works night shifts as an emergency doctor. These nocturnal hours are the influence behind her new album Listless: all seven tracks were composed and recorded after midnight, while the artwork features the spindly flower of the Japanese snake gourd, a plant that only blooms after dark. But there is little trace of the chaos of her late-night schedule here: instead, the record embodies a quiet calm that is sometimes blissful, sometimes eerie.Meeting somewhere between trip-hop, shoegaze and ambient, with a touch of pop, the textured tracks slink along dreamily, propelled by washes of synths and, for the first time, drums. A new addition to Dania’s usual setup, they lend a gentle downtempo ki...

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10 h. ago ‘We need anger to fight for our lives’: Mexican musician Silvana Estrada on grief, violence and the indignity of ‘el ghosting’

Estrada’s lovelorn debut album won her a Latin Grammy, but for its follow-up she wanted to leave sadness behind. Then, the very different losses of two friends brought out a newfound sense of furySilvana Estrada spent 25 years “not knowing how to get angry”, she says. “That cost me so much energy and dignity.” Sadness, though, she had always understood: “I live with her very close to me.” Now 28, the Mexican singer-songwriter grew up outside Veracruz, a city on the Gulf of Mexico, “witnessing violence from so many angles”: rampant femicide, narcoculture, environmental attacks on the coffee plantations and rivers of her home. As a lonely teenager, she discovered Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald. They helped guide the darkness she felt and introduced her to vocal improvisation. Estrada, born to a family of luthiers, started making her own music, played on a four-string Venezuelan cuatro and inspired by Mexican son jarocho (folk music). The title of her acclaimed 2022 deb...

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13 h. ago Bossing it! The makers of Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere on turning Jeremy Allen White into the rock icon

Springsteen’s 1982 lo-fi album Nebraska was recorded when the singer was battling with depression – but about to become a superstar. Now that pivotal period has been brought to the screen – with The Boss’s approvalTwo years ago, film director Scott Cooper and writer Warren Zanes were summoned to Bruce Springsteen’s house in New Jersey. In a sense, the meeting was a surprise: as Cooper notes, Springsteen was known for “saying no to every overture about making a film of his life since 1986”. But something about the screenplay Cooper had written had clearly piqued his interest. It was based on Zanes’ book Deliver Me from Nowhere, not a traditional career-spanning biography, but a forensically researched history of Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska, which Zanes calls “the greatest left-turn performed by someone who is operating at the top of the charts in musical history”.Released between Springsteen’s first US No 1 album, 1980’s The River, and the world-conquering Born in the USA in 19...

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23 h. ago Omi review: This AI personal assistant made me completely self

Wearable ChatGPT? What could possibly go wrong...

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25 h. ago All Creatures Great and Small season 6 episode 2 cast: Who are the guest stars in Old Dog New Tricks?

All Creatures Great and Small episode two sees James Herriot finding himself on the wrong side of Richard Alderson.

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25 h. ago LIZ JONES: Apple Martin's only talent is being born. And having worked with stars I know exactly what's fuelling this lazy nepo baby trend

You would think, if enough decades go past and millions are earned, that a famous, beautiful woman will gracefully retire from view, allowing new talent to emerge and freeing up opportunities.

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26 h. ago Taxpayers fork out £50k as US flags were wrong shade of red for Donald Trump visit

The expensive gaffe meant that the Government's official flag supplier had to reprint hundreds of American flags before US President Donald Trump visited

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26 h. ago Keith Urban, 57, shockingly points to Maggie Baugh, 25, while singing 'I was born to love you'... months before Nicole Kidman split

This comes days after Kidman, 58, filed for divorce to end their 19-year marriage, and insiders in Nicole's camp believe Keith has already moved on with a 'younger woman in music industry.'

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27 h. ago Praying mantises spotted in mainland England ‘may have blown over from Europe’

Breeding populations of praying mantis exist on the Isle of Wight and in the Channel Islands, but not in mainland England

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27 h. ago I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally audiobook review – the life of a hospitality legend

Richard E Grant narrates the restaurateur’s candid memoir about his life’s highs, lows and biggest regrets – including barring James CordenThe memoir from Keith McNally, the British-born restaurateur behind celebrated New York establishments including The Odeon and Balthazar, begins bleakly with its author attempting suicide at his summer house in Martha’s Vineyard in 2018. We then rewind to 20 months earlier when, on a Saturday morning, he took his youngest children to the National Gallery in London. While looking at a painting of Jesus being betrayed by Judas, “I sensed my body beginning to show signs of betraying me: a strange metallic tingling started to pinch my fingertips.” McNally was experiencing the beginnings of a stroke that would leave him with impaired speech and paralysis on one side of his body.I Regret Almost Everything sees McNally, now 74, reflecting on his health along with his long career, moving from bellboy at the Hilton hotel in London to teen actor – aged 16,...

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