9 d. ago Millionaires' row at war in 'bitter' battle over country lane: Pensioner, 84, claims she was 'attacked by her crippled neighbour' and 'threatened with a shotgun' in nine

Wealthy pensioners living on a leafy 'millionaires' row' in Hampshire are locked in a nine-year feud featuring allegations of assault, harassment and even gunfire across a quiet country lane.

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1 week ago The IMF boss is right to say ‘buckle up’ – the global economy is facing multiple menaces

Trump’s latest tariff tantrum and rising fears of an AI bubble have very quickly borne out Kristina Georgieva’s claim that ‘uncertainty is the new normal’Trump threatens 100% tariffs as Beijing restricts rare-earth exportsLittle more than 48 hours passed last week between IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva’s warning that “uncertainty is the new normal” and Donald Trump’s latest tariff onslaught – this time aimed at China.Markets plunged on Friday after Trump threatened to levy punitive additional tariffs of 100% on Chinese goods in retaliation for Beijing’s blocks on exports of rare earth minerals. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing

The president and his Maga allies have used the rightwing influencer’s killing to justify attacks on critics, experts sayDonald Trump and Maga allies have capitalized on the killing of rightwing influencer Charlie Kirk to expand attacks on liberal groups, donors, Democrats, and others by tarring many critics as the “enemy within” and “radical left” in a move that legal scholars and historians call authoritarian and anti-democratic.Kirk’s killing by a lone gunman spurred Trump and top allies to quickly launch conspiratorial charges against a bevy of political foes and an investigation of billionaire liberal donor George Soros. They also threatened legal action against TV network ABC after their late-night star Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension over clumsy comments about Kirk ended. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago MAGA influencer Nick Sortor threatens to sue Portland PD after claiming he was arrested for being ‘conservative’

Sortor, who has described Portland as a ‘third world hellhole’, has demanded that the police department apologizes for arresting him

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2 w. ago Doctor who sparked outrage by linking Covid jabs to King Charles and Princess Kate's cancer threatens to sue Health Secretary for accusing him of spreading 'poisonous lies'

Dr Aseem Malhotra made the incendiary comments on the main stage of Reform's conference in Birmingham earlier this month.

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2 w. ago Woman, 68, sues US Marshals after false arrest at gunpoint, saying she’s been forced to move out of state over ‘paranoia’

Officers never checked woman’s identity and threatened to ‘hit’ her if she kept asking questions, lawsuit claims

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2 w. ago Eric Clapton is locked in bitter planning row with millionaire neighbours after claiming their plans for £2.3m Surrey Hills home will threaten his 'sanctuary'

Music legend Clapton, 80, has written to his local council insisting his neighbour's plans would constitute a 'significant and unacceptable invasion' of his privacy.

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2 w. ago White House doesn’t see the funny side as it responds to SNL season premiere which ripped Trump over wars, late

The White House has responded to the first episode of Saturday Night Live season 51, which mocked Donald Trump and FCC chair Brendan Carr on their recent war with late night shows.

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3 w. ago Jamie Redknapp issues apology live on Sky Sports to Lord Sugar after Apprentice star threatened to sue following claim he left Tottenham in 'a mess'

Redknapp, a former England international, claimed during coverage of his former club Tottenham 's trip to West Ham last month that Sugar left the north London club 'in a mess'.

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3 w. ago FCC Chair Brendan Carr to testify before Senate panel after Jimmy Kimmel suspension backlash: reports

Carr will reportedly testify before the Senate Commerce Committee in November

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3 w. ago FCC chair claims he never threatened TV networks over Jimmy Kimmel

Brendan Carr earlier said ‘we can do this the easy way or the hard way’ as he urged networks to take action on KimmelBrendan Carr, the tough-talking, pro-Trump chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), claimed on Tuesday that Democrats and the media had “misrepresented” critical comments he made about Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talkshow.Television conglomerates including Nexstar and Sinclair opted to pull the show for “business” reasons, Carr argued, not because of anything he said. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Kimmel controversy highlights ‘wildly dangerous’ consolidation of TV broadcasting

Rush to ‘preempt’ Kimmel’s talkshow after FCC chair’s threats comes as broadcasters seek merger approvalsIf the controversy behind Jimmy Kimmel’s show is a series of dominoes that fell one after the other, from the late-night host making his comments on Charlie Kirk’s killing to ABC halting production of his show, the first domino arguably fell this summer.Months before Kimmel was briefly pulled off the air, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) quietly announced it was seeking to make a huge change to broadcasting rules. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Penny Lancaster SLAMS Gregg Wallace and reveals terrifying Masterchef clash that left her ‘shaking and in tears’

PENNY Lancaster savages Gregg Wallace in her new autobiography - claiming he was threatening towards her, harassed her and left her in floods of tears on MasterChef. The Loose Women star, who competed on the BBC cooking show in 2021, gave evidence against the disgraced host which saw him sacked earlier this year. In her...

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last month South Park returns to brutally mock Trump's FCC chair for targeting Jimmy Kimmel

Brendan Carr has faced immense backlash from liberals and conservative free speech champions for his rebuke of Jimmy Kimmel which led his late night talk show to be pulled off air for a week.

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last month South Park takes aim at FCC chair Brendan Carr in first episode since death of Charlie Kirk

President Donald Trump is depicted attempting to abort his child with Satan in the near-the-knuckle new episode

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