45 m. ago Maryland man charged with threatening Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her family

A Maryland man has been arrested on charges that he made threatening calls to the Georgia offices of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

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75 m. ago Long Island man critically injured after entering MRI room without permission and being sucked into machine, cops say

MRI magnets are strong enough to toss a wheelchair across a room

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1 hour ago House votes on trio of cryptocurrency bills aimed at legitimizing the industry

The House is voting on a trio of bills intended to boost the legitimacy of the cryptocurrency industry with new regulations

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1 hour ago Trump is checked for swelling in legs and was diagnosed with a common condition in older adults

The White House says President Donald Trump had a recent medical checkup after he noticed “mild swelling” in his legs

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2 h. ago Trump comes clean after questions raised about his swollen ankles and bruised hand

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt acknowledged Trump’s mysterious hand bruise and swollen legs on Thursday.

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3 h. ago Save £20 on ‘super comfortable’ Crocs sandals that are ‘lightweight and easy to clean’

Amazon has slashed the price of Crocs’ wedge sandals by almost £20, taking them from £56 to under £37 as shoppers praise how comfortable and lightweight they are to wear

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3 h. ago New book sheds light on Lincoln’s misunderstood killer: ‘he’s not that person at all’

In Midnight on the Potomac, author Scott Ellsworth looks back at the tumultuous last year of the US civil warScott Ellsworth’s new book, Midnight on the Potomac, is about the last year of the American civil war and “the crime of the century”: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by the actor John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington on 14 April 1865.Asked how the book came to follow The Ground Breaking, his acclaimed history of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, Ellsworth said his thoughts focused on two areas: historical parallels to the modern-day US, and the true crime genre. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago ‘UK’s most powerful supercomputer’ launches in £1 billion AI drive

The machine is expected to process in one second ‘what it would take the entire global population 80 years to achieve’

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3 h. ago UK’s most powerful supercomputer comes online in major AI drive

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle flicked the switch on the Isambard-AI machine in Bristol on Thursday.

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3 h. ago An Idaho judge has lifted a sweeping gag order in Bryan Kohberger's quadruple murder case

An Idaho judge has lifted a sweeping gag order in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case

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4 h. ago Ellis Genge primed to summon spirit of 2022 as he runs into Australia again

Loosehead prop helped save Eddie Jones’s job in Brisbane three years ago and can make a similar impact for the LionsYou can chart Ellis Genge’s Test career by his tours of Australia. In 2016 he and Kyle Sinckler were Eddie Jones’s “rough diamonds”, picked to get a taste of an international tour but nowhere near Test selection. Six years on and in England’s second Test against the Wallabies in Brisbane, Genge kickstarted a victory that saved Jones’s job with a thunderous carry into Michael Hooper. Three years later, back in the same city, Genge makes his British & Irish Lions Test bow against Australia.After naming Genge in Saturday’s side, the head coach, Andy Farrell, encouraged the 30-year-old loosehead prop to take a moment to reflect on how far he has come. It does not come easily to Genge but his growing influence on the international sides he represents is obvious. He confesses that nine years ago he and Sinckler “tried to get out of the way as much as we could” and “were ...

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4 h. ago Photos of US State Department workers getting hugs and applause as they're fired

Carrying boxes past signs of thanks for their service, fired State Department workers were hugged and applauded as they left their headquarters for the last time. More than 1,300 State Department employees fired in July, some focusing on intelligence activities, U.S. energy interests abroad, strategic competition with China and visa fraud. The lay offs are in line with a dramatic reorganization plan from the Trump administration.

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4 h. ago England star gives Jac Morgan a new nickname as unlikely friendship emerges

England man Ellis Genge has picked out Jac Morgan for praise

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4 h. ago Connie Francis was a trailblazing pop star haunted by tragedy

The late star, who broke through with Who’s Sorry Now, paved the way for solo female singers in the highs of the 50s and 60s but her life was hit by devastating lowsConnie Francis, 1960s US pop star known for Pretty Little Baby, dies at 87There may be more widely revered singers, but the statistics don’t lie – worldwide, the Italian-American Connie Francis was the best-selling female vocalist of the 50s and 60s.Her breakthrough hit, 1958’s Who’s Sorry Now, was written as far back as 1923 and had been a hit for Johnnie Ray just a couple of years earlier, with a swinging, uptempo arrangement. But what made the 19-year-old Francis’s version click was the way in which she took pleasure in her ex’s misery, coolly and coyly cooing over the slow-rocking backing while picking his failed love life apart; for a finale, she ended the song with impressive, high-kicking spite. In contrast, her second UK No 1 was the daffy Stupid Cupid, written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, and loaded wit...

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4 h. ago Connie Francis was a trailblazing pop star haunted by tragedy | Bob Stanley

The late star, who broke through with Who’s Sorry Now, paved the way for solo female singers in the highs of the 50s and 60s but her life was hit by devastating lowsConnie Francis, 1960s US pop star known for Pretty Little Baby, dies at 87There may be more widely revered singers, but the statistics don’t lie – worldwide, the Italian-American Connie Francis was the best-selling female vocalist of the 50s and 60s.Her breakthrough hit, 1958’s Who’s Sorry Now, was written as far back as 1923 and had been a hit for Johnnie Ray just a couple of years earlier, with a swinging, uptempo arrangement. But what made the 19-year-old Francis’s version click was the way in which she took pleasure in her ex’s misery, coolly and coyly cooing over the slow-rocking backing while picking his failed love life apart; for a finale, she ended the song with impressive, high-kicking spite. In contrast, her second UK No 1 was the daffy Stupid Cupid, written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, and loaded wit...

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4 h. ago GAP launches 'biggest ever' kids summer sale with clothing reduced to as little as £3

GAP's children's wear is praised for its softness and superior quality, designed to be cherished and passed down.

Economics

6 h. ago The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – the psychiatrist who abused female patients

This harrowing account of a British doctor and his shocking experiments on young women includes a testimony from the actor Celia Imrie, who was one of his patientsIn a hospital in Waterloo, London, in the mid-1960s was a psychiatric ward full of sleeping women. Suffering from disorders ranging from post-partum depression to chronic anxiety to anorexia, the residents of the “sleep room” were sedated and woken only to be washed, fed or subjected to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). All were under the supervision of psychiatrist William Sargant, who at the time was hailed as a pioneer. Sargant claimed that a combination of enforced narcosis and ECT could fix disturbed minds. Failing that, the treatment would be surgical lobotomy.The Sleep Room is author Jon Stock’s gripping account of a scandal in which female patients were denied dignity and agency by a man who wielded absolute power over their bodies. The book is ably narrated by actors Richard Armitage, Antonia Beamish and Celia Imri...

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6 h. ago Chloe Chua: Mozart Violin Concertos album review – teenage prodigy’s interpretations are balanced and mature

Chua/He/Singapore Symphony Orchestra/Graf(Pentatone)The Singaporean violinist plays Mozart with a clean focused tone, an elegant turn of phrase and a quiet wit. As Chloe Chua points out in her notes, Mozart’s Violin Concertos were written by a teenager – so why shouldn’t a teenage violinist do them justice? Chua – joint winner of the junior Menuhin Competition in 2018, aged 11 – was 15 and 16 when she made these recordings. The framework is conventional – there are no great surprises in the tempos, and she is backed by the modern instruments of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, who give an energised but refined performance conducted by Hans Graf. So far, so traditional. And yet Chua consistently holds the attention with interpretations that are notably mature: balanced, considered and never trying too hard. The faster movements having a gentle momentum, the slow ones plenty of space; everything Chua plays has a clean, focused tone, an unfailingly elegant turn of phrase and a quiet w...

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7 h. ago Best 'new in' buys from Marks & Spencer: You can browse the best fresh pieces online again

After a long time out of action, the 'new in' section of the website is now back, which means we've had a chance to hunt for all those pieces we've been missing over the past few months.

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7 h. ago Rebekah Vardy flaunts her washboard abs in a skimpy bikini on Portugal trip with footballer husband Jamie

The WAG, 43, has shared a host of snaps from her getaway with her partner, where they've been joined by his footballing pals Harry Maguire and James Maddison .

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