22 h. ago Gang leaders, reality TV fraudsters and white collar criminals: What’s behind Trump’s pardoning spree?

ANALYSIS: Trump handed out a flurry of pardons this week to supporters and donors; some were real head-scratchers, Richard Hall writes.

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5 d. ago ‘The giant penis took shape easily, as I passed through a village called Three Cocks’: meet the artist athletes drawing with GPS

From the phallus on a Welsh hillside, to a huge portrait of Chappell Roan, these Strava runners, riders and skaters have been busy In 2013, I was in the worst shape of my life. Though I functioned well day to day, I was a heavy binge drinker and smoker. Unfit, obese and unhappy, on impulse I signed up to a white-collar boxing fight. I trained six days a week for three months, shifting three stone by fight night. Winning that fight was great, though turning my life around had been my main goal. After that, I started challenging myself regularly while raising money for mental health charities.My first 24-hour challenge involved ascending Pen y Fan – the highest peak in south Wales – 10 times in a row during the dead of winter. It was horrific, but it raised lots of money, so next time I wanted something even bigger. Having seen examples of Strava art online, I thought that might be a good way to get people’s attention. I decided on a big run in the Bannau Brycheiniog (formerly the Bre...

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9 d. ago Haitian gang leader 'Barbecue' makes Trump comparison claiming 'we have something in common'

Jimmy "Barbecue" Cherizier has oddly claimed that he and US President Donald Trump have a lot in common and are more alike than you would want to think . . . apparently

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9 d. ago Police welcome payback time for drug gang leader as judge hits him for thousands

'It would be wrong for any of them to benefit from their ill-gotten gains'

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1 week ago ‘Graphic’ biker film with Alexander Skarsgård receives seven

Pillion sees Harry Potter star Harry Melling enter a gay romance with the leader of a biker gang

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2 w. ago How Britain's wokest prison has been taken over by paedophiles who prey on white collar criminals in reign of terror

An investigation into HMP Five Wells dubbed 'HMP Woke' has revealed that the state-of-the-art jail has been overrun by rapists and child abusers.

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2 w. ago Moment armed police chainsaw their way through cocky gang leader's front door after he flooded the streets with £2m of drugs in just three months

Officers arrested Asrar Rafiq, 35, after they cracked the secretive EncroChat messaging service used by organised criminals.

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2 w. ago A timeline of allegations and charges against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Most recent lawsuits include accusations of drugging and raping as recently as 2022, and Jay-Z added as accusedSean “Diddy” Combs is on trial in New York on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. The 17-page indictment against Combs – which reads like a charging document filed against a mafia leader or the head of a drug gang – alleges that Combs engaged in a two-decade pattern of abusive behavior against women and others, with the help of people in his entourage and employees from his network of businesses.Combs and his lawyers say he is innocent and any group sex was consensual. They say there was no effort to coerce people, and nothing that happened amounted to a criminal racket. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Tim Walz says Kamala Harris picked him as running mate ‘to talk to white guys’

Former Democratic vice presidential nominee says his role was to provide ‘permission’ for blue collar white males to overcome their reservations and vote for Harris

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