58 h. ago Department of Justice uses federal shutdown to stonewall legal fight over domestic violence survivor funding

Survivors last month condemned Trump’s remarks dismissing intimate partner violence as a “little fight with the wife,” warning that the president’s dismissive statements send a dangerous message that normalizes abuse

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3 d. ago I've styled hundreds of women over 60. Here are the secrets I've learned for looking chic in autumn

Despite packing away my summer clothes around this time every year, I'm still always taken by surprise by how sudden the switch from floaty dress weather to chunky knit weather feels.

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7 d. ago Trump says he expects charges for other adversaries after Comey indictment

President says ‘I think there’ll be others’ as justice department condemned for enacting retribution campaign Donald Trump said on Friday that he expected more people whom he considers his political enemies to face criminal charges, a day after the justice department indicted former FBI director James Comey and faced a torrent of criticism for enacting the president’s campaign of retribution.“It’s not a list, but I think there’ll be others,” Trump said as he departed the White House to travel to the Ryder Cup golf tournament. “I mean, they’re corrupt. They were corrupt radical left Democrats.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Farage endangering women by failing to condemn paracetamol claims, says Bridget Phillipson

Labour deputy leader candidate criticises ‘scaremongering’ on autism and says party must be firmer in tackling ReformUK politics live – latest updatesNigel Farage is “endangering women’s health” by failing to condemn Donald Trump’s claims that using paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism, Bridget Phillipson has said.The education secretary and minister for women said she had used the painkiller throughout her second pregnancy, and she warned that Reform’s connections with medical conspiracy theories including anti-vaccine rhetoric made the party a danger to public health. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Pregnant Love Island star Claudia Fogarty asks fans ‘please tell me this is normal’ as she prepares for birth

PREGNANT Love Island star Claudia Fogarty is seven weeks away from welcoming her baby daughter, with her asking her fans for reassurance in a new post. Taking to Instagram on Thursday, Claudia asked her fans "please tell me this is normal" as she prepares for the birth of her bundle of joy. In May this...

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8 d. ago Starmer says Trump's claim that London wants Sharia law is 'ridiculous' after condemnation by Khan

President Trump called mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan ‘a terrible mayor’ in a speech to the United Nations earlier this week

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9 d. ago Dr. Oz tells pregnant women to take Tylenol a day after Trump implores them not to

Donald Trump linking acetaminophen use in pregnant women to rising childhood autism rates has prompted members of his health team to walk back his recommendations soon after the rollout. 

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9 d. ago Nigel Farage declines to rule out link between autism and paracetamol use

Reform UK leader’s comments come after Trump warns women to avoid painkiller during pregnancy

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9 d. ago Farage refuses to criticise Trump over paracetamol despite health experts dismissing autism claims

Reform UK leader says he has ‘no idea’ if US president is right to tell women to avoid drug during pregnancyUK politics live – latest updatesNigel Farage has refused to criticise Donald Trump’s claims that paracetamol, sold in the US as Tylenol, could cause autism, insisting “science is never settled” and he would never “side with” medical experts.The Reform UK leader said he had “no idea” if the US president was right to tell pregnant women to avoid taking acetaminophen, also known as Tylenol and paracetamol, and suggesting that those who could not “tough it out” should limit their intake. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Nigel Farage blasted for refusing to condemn Donald Trump's baseless autism and paracetamol claims

The Reform UK leader claimed that "science is never settled" as he declined to side with medical experts who warned it was dangerous to make the link.

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9 d. ago Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley

There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babiesKate Womersley is a doctor and academic specialising in psychiatryOn Monday, Donald Trump, flanked by Robert F Kennedy Jr and the former talkshow host and head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Dr Mehmet Oz, announced that women should avoid paracetamol (known as acetaminophen or by the brand name Tylenol in the US) throughout pregnancy because of a spurious link with childhood autism.This political theatre highlights a longstanding and harmful problem: pregnant women, and their babies, are routinely let down by partial, poor-quality and missing medical evidence. Pregnant women deserve better than irresponsible headlines raising fear based on shaky research that has failed to convince the scientific community.Kate Womersley is a doctor and academic specialising in psychiatry Continue reading...

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1 week ago Ignore Trump claims on paracetamol and autism, Streeting tells pregnant women

‘Don’t pay any attention whatsoever’ to US president’s advice on medication, health secretary urges Britons

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1 week ago 'Fearmongering': Donald Trump condemned for telling pregnant women to avoid using paracetamol

The US president claimed there had been a ‘meteoric rise’ in cases of autism and suggested that Tylenol - which is called paracetamol in the UK - is a potential cause

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1 week ago UK experts slam paracetamol ‘fearmongering’ from Donald Trump officials

Donald Trump claimed 'I think we found an answer to autism' as scientists fear that families with autistic kids could end up being blamed for causing the condition themselves

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1 week ago Russia’s ‘reckless’ aggression over Estonian airspace condemned by leaders at UN Security Council

The broad condemnation comes as Putin offers Trump a nuclear deal in a bid to limit the arsenals of both countries

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1 week ago UK experts condemn paracetamol ‘fearmongering’ expected from Trump officials

US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr is reportedly expected to say Tylenol is a potential cause of autism.

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1 week ago Paracetamol may trigger autism and pregnant women should avoid taking it, US will warn today

The over the counter painkiller has been cited as a cause for the neurodevelopment disorder in numerous studies-but experts have urged for calm.

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2 w. ago Stephen Colbert condemns Jimmy Kimmel suspension as Jon Stewart airs Trump ‘approved’ Daily Show – live

Late-night hosts condemn Disney executives for caving to threats from FCC chair Brendan CarrLate-night show hosts decry suspension of Kimmel’s showTrump suggests punishing TV networks for ‘negative’ coverageProfile: The Trump-backed FCC chair at heart of Jimmy Kimmel stormIn reaction to the news that Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show has been indefinitely suspended, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) said that “Trump’s FCC identified speech it did not like and threatened ABC with extreme reprisals. This is state censorship.”On X, the president of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, Tino Gagliardi, issued a statement in response to ABC taking Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which employs musicians from the American Federation of Musicians Local 47 in Los Angeles, off the air. In it he said:This is not complicated: Trump’s FCC identified speech it did not like and theatened ABC with extreme reprisals. This is state censorship. It’s now happening in the Unite...

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2 w. ago ‘The dungeon’ at Louisiana’s notorious prison reopens as Ice detention center

Critics condemn reopening of ‘Camp J’ unit at Angola in service of Trump’s nationwide immigration crackdown, noting its history of brutality and violenceThere were no hurricanes in the Gulf, as can be typical for Louisiana in late July – but Governor Jeff Landry quietly declared a state of emergency. The Louisiana state penitentiary at Angola – the largest maximum security prison in the country – was out of bed space for “violent offenders” who would be “transferred to its facilities”, he warned in an executive order.The emergency declaration allowed for the rapid refurbishing of a notorious, shuttered housing unit at Angola formerly known as Camp J – commonly referred to by prisoners as “the dungeon” because it was once used to house men in extended solitary confinement, sometimes for years on end. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump security shambles shames Britain around the world: Foreign media condemn UK cops' failure to stop images of president and Epstein being beamed onto Windsor

News outlets from around the world have shamed the UK for failing to stop protesters from projecting images of Donald Trump with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein onto Windsor Castle.

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