11 m. ago MTG ditches Fox News for CNN as MAGA firebrand joins Wolf Blitzer to rip her party over health care shutdown standoff

The Republican congresswoman says Trump is not to blame for the shutdown but faults leaders like House Speaker Mike Johnson in rare CNN visit where she also took on Ted Cruz and talked Epstein files

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28 m. ago 8 home makeover hacks for those that are totally useless at DIY (no drills or sawing required)

If you are anything like me, DIY isn't your forte. I often find myself staring blankly at a toolbox or flat-pack box in utter terror, convinced I will somehow make things worse with a hammer and nails.

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30 m. ago Ratcliffe’s words will not save Amorim if he fails to remedy Manchester United’s flaws | Jamie Jackson

For all the co-owner’s promises of three-year spells, the head coach will not survive this season without real signs of a revivalThe word from Manchester United insiders is that Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s headline-hogging declaration that three years is an apt timescale to judge Ruben Amorim is merely Sir Jim being Sir Jim, the self-made billionaire showing his anti-PR, maverick streak.While the debate rages on TV, radio, social media, and in drinking parlours about the sagacity of his words, what Ratclifffe did not say or allude to intrigues as much. Continue reading...

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32 m. ago Beautiful city that visitors treat 'like a theme park' hikes up tourism tax by 900%

Tourist taxes are being massively hiked up in a new bid to combat the effects of overtourism as locals have had it with the crowds of visitors coming for photos

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42 m. ago Jamie Carragher tells Arsenal and Liverpool one thing that can prove pivotal in title race

Arsenal are top of the Premier League after a strong start to the season, with Mikel Arteta's side looking like genuine title contenders after a number of impressive displays

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64 m. ago Canine casino! Dogs' obsessions with their favourite toys are comparable to gambling addictions in humans, study finds

Pet dogs get addicted to toys just like we get hooked on gambling and internet gaming. report scientists in Germany and Austria.

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68 m. ago The Vivienne honoured posthumously at Attitude Awards as sister breaks down in tears

The UK's first RuPaul's Drag Race winner The Vivienne - whose real name was James Lee Williams - tragically died aged just 32 in January this year

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69 m. ago The city once named Scotland's 'most dismal place' and it's not Edinburgh or Glasgow

"It has been left behind by the likes of Dundee..."

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82 m. ago Strictly Come Dancing pro names 'one to watch' and real 'dark horse' after George Clarke change

The YouTube star is among the 15 celebrities, now 14 following the first elimination of the series, taking part in the BBC One show

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85 m. ago House speaker Mike Johnson accuses Democrats of ‘political theater’ as shutdown enters day nine – US politics live

Move comes as Donald Trump calls for imprisonment of Brandon Johnson, Chicago’s mayor, and JB Pritzker, the Illinois governorThe president has spent much of Thursday morning thanking his allies on Truth social for praising his diplomatic efforts in Gaza. “I would like to thank Republican Congressman Brian Mast, of Florida, for his brilliant words and analysis on the return of the Hostages, and Peace in the Middle East, this morning on Fox & Friends. Thank you Brian!!!,” Trump wrote in a post. Continue reading...

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90 m. ago The Breakfast Club and The Dark Knight star dies after 'fighting like a warrior'

A beloved Hollywood actor, who has previously starred in The Breakfast Club, The Dark Knight and Risky Business alongside Tom Cruise, has sadly died as his heartbroken wife pays tribute

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95 m. ago Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full truth

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be countedAmong the autopsy reports that made my heart skip a beat was Hannah Rose Moody.One morning last May, the 31-year-old set out on a favourite desert hike near her home in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was already 91F (33C) when she set off. On Instagram, she told her 50,000 followers: “Conquering this trail as a last hurrah before summer hits ☀️ I have like 5 gallons of water with me don’t worry .” Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Mum baffled after Shein jeans arrive with 'crazy' feature she wasn't expecting

A mum’s denim purchase from Shein didn’t go as planned, catching her off guard with an unexpected feature. But she burst into laughter the moment she tried them on

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1 hour ago ‘It feels like a dream’: protests come to end as Israelis sing in ‘hostages square’

After 733 days, news of agreement greeted with celebration in Tel Aviv and stickers saying: ‘They’re coming home’For 733 days, Israelis have come to Hostage Square in Tel Aviv with a yellow piece of tape on their shirts bearing the number of days since 251 hostages had been taken captive by Hamas-led militants. On Thursday, the yellow stickers remained but the tally was gone. In its place was a simple phrase: “They’re coming home.”For two years, protesters had occupied the square, which faces the Israeli military headquarters, with an encampment and held rallies demanding the hostages be returned from Gaza. The area – soon nicknamed Hostage Square – was filled with art installations, pictures of the hostages and an electronic screen counting the days and seconds that hostages had been in captivity. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Salt Bae's losing money? Maybe London is finally getting its own back

It looks like the joke’s finally worn thin. Thank goodness, says a weary David Ellis

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2 h. ago Dad's beautiful tribute to daughter as he undertakes challenge hours after her funeral

'I burst into tears. It all hit me like a brick wall'

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2 h. ago Tesco customer 'outsmarts' supermarket as they halve price of their food shop

There is nothing like a good and unexpected saving, and one man could not believe his eyes recently when he saw how much was discounted off his big Tesco food shop

Economics

2 h. ago Man 'outsmarts' Tesco as he shares how he managed to halve cost of his food shop

There is nothing like a decent unexpected saving, and one man could not believe his eyes recently when he saw how much was discounted off his big Tesco food shop

Economics

2 h. ago The Hermes Experiment: Tree album review – vivid voices and bold textures from inventive ensemble

(Delphian)An exhilarating album of new and reimagined works by Errollyn Wallen, Laura Moody and others reaffirms this group’s reputation for fearless musical curiosityThe third album from the Hermes Experiment again shows what a liberating force in contemporary music this ensemble have become. Beautifully thought through and rewardingly eclectic, Tree begins in a melancholy but open style with Islands by Marianne Schofield, the ensemble’s bassist, and ends with the title track by Errollyn Wallen, unfolding over a steady bass like something by Purcell.Clarinettist Oliver Pashley and singer Héloïse Werner contribute their own songs while harpist Anne Denholm-Blair provides a subtly textured arrangement of Nicola LeFanu’s wistful song The Bourne. Schofield is also behind a gorgeous version of Les Rossignols by Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, initially halting and ethereal, then coalescing into something approaching its 17th-century original. Abel Selaocoe’s Buhle Bendalo is full of bea...

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2 h. ago Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the votersThe people of Arizona’s seventh congressional district – a vast territory extending across the state’s south, along the Mexican border – have been denied representation in Congress for weeks. That’s because Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, has refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva, their representative-elect, who won a special election to fill the seat vacated by her father, the late Raúl Grijalva, in a landslide late last month. Grijalva, a Democrat, has been largely ignored by the speaker. Unlike sworn representatives, she has to go around the Capitol with an escort. There’s an office with her name on the door, but she hasn’t been allowed inside, and has worked instead out of a conference room on another floor.It is an unprecedented abuse of procedural power on the part of the speaker, one that has had the effect of silencing a political opponent and denying ...

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