24 m. ago Trump reveals plot to take back Bagram Air Base in chilling warning about China's nuclear power

Speaking alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the president warned the base is an 'hour away' from China's nuclear weapons facilities.

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25 m. ago Man and two children burn alive inside a Tesla after it crashed and burst into flames with rescuers unable to work the car's door handles

Emergency services were unable to open the door as the retractable door handles stop working when power is off and manual opening is only accessible from the inside.

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29 m. ago Drill, baby, drill! Donald Trump piles pressure on Keir Starmer to U

The US President took a swipe at the Prime Minister's Net Zero goals as he suggested ramping up the production of fossil fuels would cut Brits' energy bills.

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31 m. ago Trump claims Jimmy Kimmel suspension not a free speech issue as Democrats call for FCC chair to quit over ‘abuse of power’ – live

US president says comedian ‘fired for lack of talent’; Democratic House leadership say Trump’s media official Brendan Carr should resign Full report: Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspended over Charlie Kirk comments after US government pressure‘Censoring you in real time’: Kimmel suspension sparks shock and fears for free speechIn 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 st...

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46 m. ago Is Lakeland’s Dry:Soon heated clothes airer a laundry hero or a load of hot air?

The tent-like capsule is the ideal option for the clothes you can’t tumble dry

Society

48 m. ago West Lothian company celebrates reaching construction waste milestone

Livingston-based Brewster Brothers, which recycles construction waste into high-quality aggregate products, extracts the valuable materials from construction, demolition and excavation waste via its state-of-the-art recycling plant, using a wet-processing system.

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50 m. ago Keely Hodgkinson dismisses boredom to start World Championships in style

The Olympic 800m champion cruised through her first-round race in Tokyo after an interminable wait to get going at the 2025 World Athletics Championships

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61 m. ago Max George appears in hospital snaps as fans send love after two heart operations

The Wanted star has been flooded with messages after he revealed he had to pay the hospital a visit

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98 m. ago Top Democrats call for FCC chair to resign, claiming Jimmy Kimmel suspension is ‘corrupt abuse of power’ – US politics live

Democratic House leadership say Trump’s media official Brendan Carr should go, adding that cancellation of show is ‘an act of cowardice’Full report: Jimmy Kimmel Live! suspended over Charlie Kirk comments after US government pressure‘Censoring you in real time’: Kimmel suspension sparks shock and fears for free speechIn 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 sta...

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1 hour ago Trump has forgotten his oath of office. History will not remember him kindly | Corey Brettschneider

When faced with a crisis, presidents can inflame divisions or unify the nation. Trump is taking the path of Johnson and not LincolnOver the course of American history, presidents have not been judged by whether violence occurred on their watch but by how they responded to it. Each crisis poses the same test: will the person who holds the office use it to steady the republic, or to further polarize it?The oath of office exists for precisely this moment. It binds the president to something larger than self-interest and party, the constitution and the rule of law. In the wake of rightwing political activist Charlie Kirk’s death, Donald Trump has forsaken this oath, instead choosing to wield his immense power to further divide an already polarized nation, not unite it. History will not soon forget this grave act of political opportunism.Corey Brettschneider is a professor of political science at Brown University. He co-hosts the podcast The Oath and the Office, and is the author of The ...

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1 hour ago The Young Man by Annie Ernaux audiobook review – anatomy of an affair

The Nobel winner explores the dynamics of her relationship with a student 30 years her junior in an intimate, taboo-breaking memoirIn Annie Ernaux’s autobiographical story, translated by Alison L Strayer, the author recalls a past affair with a student who was 30 years her junior. “Often I have made love to force myself to write I hoped that orgasm, the most violent end to waiting that can be, would make me feel certain that there is no greater pleasure than writing a book.” In other words, she is keen to break her writer’s block. But, to both their surprise, the affair becomes “a relationship that we longed to take to the limit, without really knowing what that meant”.The Young Man is Ernaux’s shortest memoir yet, clocking just over half an hour in audio. But brevity doesn’t impede her ability to get to the heart of the intimate dynamics or external pressures of a situation that many others view as taboo. The couple get disapproving looks in restaurants, which, rather than leaving ...

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1 hour ago Charli XCX and George Daniel pack on the PDA as they hit the beach with his shirtless The 1975 bandmate Matty Healy and rocker's fiancée Gabbriette Bechtel ahead of their Sicilian wedding

Charli XCX and The 1975 drummer husband George Daniel packed on the PDA as they kissed in the ocean ahead of their gorgeous Italian wedding last week. 

Society

2 h. ago Unclaimed benefits reach new high with households missing out on £24 billion

An average of £3,428 per household is being ‘left on the table,’ experts warn

Economics

2 h. ago World Athletics Championships: Relieved Keely Hodgkinson cruises into 800m semi

Hodgkinson's training partner, Georgia Hunter Bell, also won her heat

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2 h. ago Intersex people in Europe face ‘alarming’ rise in violence, EU finds

Increase in violence since 2019 is linked to online campaigns seeking to sow disinformation and fuel hatredEuropeans who do not fit the typical definition of male or female are grappling with an “alarming” rise in violence, the EU’s leading rights agency has said, as concerted campaigns seek to sow disinformation and fuel hatred towards them.The findings from the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights, published on Tuesday, were based on responses from 1,920 people in 30 countries across Europe. All of them identified as intersex, an umbrella term referring to those with innate variations of sex characteristics and which includes people who identify as trans, non-binary and gender diverse. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Kamala Harris would've picked Pete Buttigieg as her running mate if he weren't gay

Buttigieg, who is gay, 'would have been an ideal partner - if I were a straight white man,' Harris wrote in a portion of her book.

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3 h. ago Northrop Grumman cargo ship reaches the International Space Station a day late after engine issue

A supply ship has arrived at the International Space Station after a day's delay due to a premature engine shutdown

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3 h. ago Perfect panna cotta and parmesan salad: everything I’m cooking before my Sicilian getaway

In this week’s Feast newsletter: Before I head to Italy for a last hit of summer sunshine, I’m getting into the mood with bucatini by a master and a Sicilian spread that is a true autumn feastSign up here for our weekly food newsletter, FeastAs you read this, I will likely be in the throes of packing my suitcase for a much-needed escape to Italy (Sicily, to be precise). A hit of vitamin D before the summer wardrobe is put away for another year, and I am ready to fully embrace autumn and winter hermit mode. I’ve always felt that September is the perfect time to escape to the Mediterranean for a last-minute injection of sun and, in this instance, to indulge in pasta, gelato and a healthy side of aperitivo. I cannot wait.Because I have to cook a million meals before I go, I have prepared the family Rachel Roddy’s chicken thighs with cherry tomatoes and a green bean, lettuce and parmesan salad for a meal I know they all will devour. I’ve also made Felicity Cloake’s raspberry panna cotta...

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3 h. ago George Soros' philanthropy reaches for new ideas as it grapples with the limits of its power

The family philanthropy of hedge fund billionaire George Soros has consistently been one of the largest funders of human rights organizations around the world

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3 h. ago Netflix's Black Rabbit cast in full from Ozark legend to The Mandalorian star

The limited series is set against the backdrop of the high-pressure nightlife scene

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