14 h. ago ‘I think the Olympics will be easier!’: Ice dancers Bekker and Hernandez on pitch

Young ice dance duo Phebe Bekker and James Hernandez are preparing for their first-ever Olympic Games in Milano-Cortina next month

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17 h. ago ‘Gestapo tactics’: Bruce Springsteen condemns Trump team’s ICE crackdown

New Jersey musician said during concert in home state that US core values ‘have never been as endangered’ as nowBruce Springsteen used a Saturday concert to decry what he called the “Gestapo tactics” of the Trump administration’s surge of immigration officers and said the country’s founding values “have never been as endangered as they are right now”.While performing in his home state of New Jersey, Springsteen dedicated his 1978 song The Promised Land to Renee Good, the 37-year-old woman who was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Minnesota. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Why can’t women enjoy Heated Rivalry without being treated with contempt? | Zoe Williams

The TV hit has cracked open a rich seam of misogyny: romance is written off as a weird thing that women like, and the audience is dismissed as ‘wine moms’I’ve never heard anything more sexist in my life than the (mounting) reasons why women supposedly love the hit TV drama Heated Rivalry. Quick recap: if you’re a woman, or even if you’re not and don’t yet love it: Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) and Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) are two professional ice hockey players on rival teams. It matters that they’re hockey players, beyond the athletic perfection of their “insanely oiled, slick bodies” (as my friend, Eve, who’s 21, put it). And it matters that Rozanov is Russian, because the obstacles are real: he cannot be gay – think about the sponsorship, think about the fans, think about the oppressive patriarchal regime. Think about it for two seconds and this can not happen; and it achingly doesn’t, and almost does, and does, then doesn’t happen, over years.Heated Rivalry dropped in C...

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28 h. ago What to Stream: 'The Smashing Machine,' Louis Tomlinson, 'The Beauty' and Bruce Springsteen biopic

Dwayne Johnson transforming into MMA pioneer Mark Kerr for “The Smashing Machine” and Louis Tomlinson releasing his third solo album are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

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42 h. ago UK parties unite to condemn Trump’s tariffs threat over Greenland

United political front reflects potential danger to British exports and fragile economic growth

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44 h. ago 'I visited a hidden food gem just down the M62 that blew Bruce Springsteen away'

The quaint village restaurant received rave reviews from Bruce Springsteen and Stephen Graham

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46 h. ago Greenland protesters condemn ‘circus’ of Trump tariff threats

Greenlanders condemned the "circus" of Donald Trump's threat of new tariffs on European allies until they agree to sell the territory to the US.

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55 h. ago Donald Trump backlash as EU leaders angry at president's Greenland tariff plans

Sir Keir Starmer and European leaders united in condemnation of Donald Trump's plan to apply tariffs on several NATO allies until a deal is reached for the US to acquire Greenland from Denmark

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60 h. ago Keir Starmer brands Donald Trump 'completely wrong' to threaten UK and allies with tariffs over opposition to US plan to takeover Greenland

The PM condemned Donald Trump tonight after the President vowed to implement increasing tariffs on the UK and European allies until the US is allowed to purchase Greenland from Denmark.

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60 h. ago Starmer condemns Trump’s threat of UK tariffs over Greenland

The prime minister said he would be ‘pursuing’ the matter ‘directly’ with the US

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62 h. ago Keir Starmer condemns Donald Trump after President vows to hit Britain with increasing tariffs over Greenland until deal is reached for US to buy territory

The tariff will start at ten per cent and come into effect on February 1, rising to 25 per cent on June 1.

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3 d. ago Royal Mail workers in London condemn war against Venezuela and express solidarity with US workers against Trump

Royal Mail workers in London condemn war against Venezuela and express solidarity with US workers against Trump  World Socialist Web Site

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3 d. ago Trump team discussing ‘recalibrating’ its immigration agenda after disastrous ICE blowback: report

President reportedly does not like how the public perceives his mass immigration agenda but wants to continue mass deportations

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5 d. ago 'I beg you President Trump, please don't let him be executed': Desperate relatives of condemned Iranian shopkeeper plead for US to intervene as he faces execution

Erfan Soltani, believed to be the first anti-regime protester in the latest Iranian uprising to be given the death sentence, is expected to be hanged today.

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6 d. ago UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’

Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rightsSeveral faculty groups have denounced the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain information about Jewish professors, staff and students at the University of Pennsylvania – including personal emails, phone numbers and home addresses – as government abuse with “ominous historical overtones”.The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the government’s demand as “a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ‘lists of Jews’ conjures a terrifying history”, according to a press release put out by the groups’ lawyers. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Moment US bobsled team suffers ‘absolute disaster’ as three out of four

THE US men's bobsled team suffered a domino-style disaster in their Winter Olympics preparations this weekend. The four-man team avoided serious injury when a scary crash occurred at the start of their run at a World Cup event. Three of the four Americans took a tumble on the ice and were unable to get into...

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7 d. ago US bond markets should be in revolt. Fed independence matters

It is a perilous time to mess with the principle that rate-setters under an independent system should be free of political pressureEx-Fed chairs condemn Trump’s bid to weaken central bank’s independenceTrump’s attempts to influence Fed risk ‘70’s-style inflation and global backlash’Well said, Jerome Powell. The chair of the US Federal Reserve responded to news of a subpoena from the US Department of Justice with a statement that was extraordinary, necessary and stark.A criminal investigation into the Fed, and him personally, over the renovation of the central bank’s headquarters is an attempt to bully officials into setting policy according to the president’s whims, said Powell: “This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions, or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago US bond markets should be in revolt. Fed independence matters | Nils Pratley

It is a perilous time to mess with the principle that rate-setters under an independent system should be free of political pressureEx-Fed chairs condemn Trump’s bid to weaken central bank’s independenceTrump’s attempts to influence Fed risk 1970s-style inflation and global backlash’Well said, Jerome Powell. The chair of the US Federal Reserve responded to news of a subpoena from the US Department of Justice with a statement that was extraordinary, necessary and stark.A criminal investigation into the Fed, and him personally, over the renovation of the central bank’s headquarters is an attempt to bully officials into setting policy according to the president’s whims, said Powell. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Bruce Springsteen's iconic hit Born in the USA 'is censored by UK radio station for controversial lyric'

The 1984 song, which is considered to critique racism during the Vietman war, contains the phrase 'yellow man', considered a derogatory term for an Asian person.

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1 week ago High Noon review – Billy Crudup brings classic Hollywood western back with a bang

Harold Pinter theatre, LondonCrudup and Denise Gough lead a tense adaptation that turns the film into a debate play whose McCarthy-era roots resonate powerfully todayHow do you turn a classic Hollywood western into West End musical fare? Add songs, many of Bruce Springsteen’s in this case, along with a few rounds of line dancing and a sizzling star in Billy Crudup. Still, it’s an odd experience initially as Thea Sharrock’s production switches from one brief filmic scene to the next, and the endeavour seems as wooden as the clapboard saloon-bar slats that comprise the handsome set.As a piece of theatre, it finds its flow. As a debate play, though, it gathers a locomotive energy as it travels towards the showdown between Frank Miller (James Doherty), who is returning to this “dirty little village in the middle of nowhere”, and the marshal Will Kane (Crudup) who put him behind bars. That is mostly because of the uncanny and urgent relevance of this 1952 film about a community working o...

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