78 m. ago Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce Trump agenda

Organizers call for 11 million people to march and rally in this weekend’s effort to ‘protect democracy’Protesters poured into the streets of cities and towns across the United States again on Saturday, in the second wave of protests this month, as organizers seek to turn discontent with Donald Trump’s presidency into a mass movement that will eventually translate into action at the ballot box.By early afternoon, large protests were under way in Washington, New York and Chicago, with images of crowds cascading across social networks showing additional demonstrations in Rhode Island, Maryland, Wisconsin, Tennessee, South Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, California and Pennsylvania, among others. Americans abroad also signaled their opposition to the Trump agenda in Dublin, Ireland, and other cities. Continue reading...

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90 m. ago Neil Critchley future complications when putting Hearts blame game defeat in context as Aberdeen dare to dream

Jambos battled well after numerical handicap - but it’s Dons who reach the final

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99 m. ago Brits drivers still get turned on by dreaming about their old cars

EXCLUSIVE: Many Brits still still think fondly of their old cars, with researchers finding they were 'not just vehicles but places where we create lasting memories'

Transport

1 hour ago ITV Britain's Got Talent 'fix' claims as Simon Cowell breaks silence

Max Fox in the audience on Saturday night's show is seen standing up and calling out to Simon, prompting accusations the whole thing was a set-up

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2 h. ago Armed cops lock down Edinburgh street as locals 'scared to leave homes'

Police were called to Firrhill Drive in the Oxgangs area at around 2pm on Saturday.

Events

2 h. ago Putin's Easter truce 'already broken' as 'Russian assault operations continue'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russian assault operations have continued despite Vladimir Putin's calls for an Easter truce

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2 h. ago Oliver Glasner calls for consistency as Bournemouth's Scott escapes red card

Bournemouth escaped punishment for an incident similar to that which saw Palace go down to ten men

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2 h. ago Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa power Brentford to decisive win over Brighton after Joao Pedro dismissed

Brighton’s European dream seems further away than ever

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3 h. ago Popular Welsh restaurant hit by 'devastating' fire as smoke seen billowing from building

Emergency services were called to the scene on Good Friday

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3 h. ago Toddler rushed to hospital after being 'attacked by pitbull at birthday party' as police seize animal

Police were called to the home in Teeside this afternoon where a young child suffered head and arm injuries in a horrifying dog attack.

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3 h. ago Matt Hancock's TV dreams could be dashed as firm has just £1 in account

The ex-MP launched TV firm Greenhazel Ltd in 2023 in a bid to make it big on our screens - but less than two years later, papers filed to Companies House show the firm has just £1 in its accounts

Economics

3 h. ago Bill Clinton urges Americans to put aside ‘resentments’ 30 years after Oklahoma City bombing

Former president spoke at commemoration for the 168 people who died in the 1995 attack by far-right extremistBill Clinton called on Americans to put aside “whose resentments matter most” and issued a defense of government employees as he returned to Oklahoma City on Saturday for a remembrance service for the 30th anniversary of the deadliest homegrown terrorist attack in US history.“If our lives are going to be dominated by efforts to dominate people we disagree with, we’re going to put the 250-year-old march toward a more perfect union at risk,” he said. “None of us would ever get much done. Believe me, we’ve all got something to be mad about.” Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Mbuemo and Wissa power Brentford to decisive win after Pedro dismissed

Brighton’s European dream seems further away than ever

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4 h. ago 10 years after Freddie Gray's death, calls for police reform and racial equity persist in Baltimore

Ten years ago Saturday, Freddie Gray died from spinal injuries sustained during transport in a Baltimore police van and the city was thrust into a national debate over police brutality against Black Americans

Events

4 h. ago Plush BMW torched outside Scots home as cops probe 'deliberate' blaze

Emergency services were called to Houston Road in Langbank after the alarm was raised at around 2.20am on Friday, April 18.

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4 h. ago ‘I love my country but nobody is safe’: the plight of Cameroon’s exiles, trapped in Nigeria

English-speaking minority refugees caught up in clashes between the military and separatists are stranded in neighbouring countryAmid the sound of children excitedly practising a drama for a forthcoming performance, a yam seller calls to passers by with discounts for their wares. Outside a closed graphic design shop overlooking them from a small hill, Solange Ndonga Tibesa tells the story of being uprooted from her homeland in north-west Cameroon.In June 2019 she and other travellers were abducted with her three-month-old baby by secessionists, who accused them of supporting the military. Their captors repeatedly hit them with butts of their guns, keeping them in a forest without food or water. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Seething Neil Critchley lets rip at John Beaton as Hearts boss vents fury at referee over 'questionable decisions'

The Jambos gaffer accused the whistler of showing him no respect and reckons he got BOTH red card calls wrong

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5 h. ago TikTok trend for ‘Dubai chocolate’ causes international shortage of pistachios

High-end bar with Middle East-style nut filling is rationed in shops as price of raw kernels surgesProduct promotion on TikTok is now powerful enough to influence the vast agricultural economies of the US and Iran – at least when it comes to the consumption of high-end confectionery.A chocolate bar stuffed with a creamy green pistachio filling has become incredibly popular after a series of video clips shared on the social media site. The first bit of footage praising the taste of the expensive so-called “Dubai chocolate” was posted at the end of 2023 and has now been viewed more than 120m times, to say nothing of the many follow-up videos. Continue reading...

Technology

5 h. ago Even if you’re not a person of faith, there are reasons to see Antoni Gaudí as a saint | Rowan Moore

The Catholic church has taken the first steps to canonise the architect of Barcelona’s extraordinary Sagrada FamíliaI don’t understand the processes by which people become saints, but the case for the canonisation of the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, now progressing with the blessing of the pope, seems strong. He was devout – he tried to go without food for 40 days in emulation of Jesus Christ, until a bishop friend talked him out of likely death. The unprecedented phantasmagoria that he designed in stone, iron and ceramic could be called miracles. He even suffered a form of martyrdom, being hit by a tram while apparently deep in thought about his most famous work, the church of Sagrada Família. It’s not quite the same as a burning at the stake or a fusillade of arrows or the other grisly ends of ancient saints, but has its own significance. Gaudí’s mission was to find spiritual meaning in a world transformed by industry and machines, of which the fatal tram might be conside...

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5 h. ago You are descending into populist frustration. Thank you for continuing to hold | John Naughton

Neverending calls to automated customer service lines aren’t just frustrating – new research suggests they may be quietly radicalising as wellQuestion: what are the eight most annoying words in the English language? Answer: “Your call is important to us please hold.” But when you have turned into a gibbering wreck after 10 minutes of your valuable time have ticked away – intermittently punctuated by assurances that, while your tormentor is “experiencing high call volumes at the moment”, nevertheless your call is still important to him/her/it – you can take comfort in the thought that you are not alone. In fact, you belong to the majority of sentient beings in an industrial society like ours.Thanks to a useful piece of market research, we now have an idea of the numbers of victims of this industrial practice – at least in the UK. A survey commissioned by the New Britain Project thinktank found that the average Briton spends between 28 and 41 minutes every week coping with inefficient...

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