4 d. ago From Kanye West to Alex Jones: The internet is losing its mind over Trump and Musk’s very public feud

Celebrities, politicians, social media influencers and more took to social media to provide commentary on the public feud

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5 d. ago Kanye West to Alex Jones: The internet is losing its mind over Trump and Musk’s very public feud

Celebrities, politicians, social media influencers and more took to social media to provide commentary on the public feud

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5 d. ago AP PHOTOS: Famed church murals featuring social commentary revived by conservationists

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsburgh.

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5 d. ago Inside a historic church painted with murals that reflect searing social commentary

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsburgh

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1 week ago John Early: The Album Tour review – a rich slice of larky self

Soho theatre, LondonChatty waiters, visiting the loo in company and overinvesting in sexual role-play are uproariously discussed alongside covers of Madonna, Britney and Dolly PartonFor fans of a certain brand of comedy – the comedy that exposes self-fashioning in the age of social media as ridiculous performance – this flying UK visit by John Early has been keenly anticipated. The outre star of millennial self-satire Search Party and sidekick to the brilliant Kate Berlant, Early has spent his career perfectly situated where generational social commentary meets flamboyant silliness. At his best tonight, he richly delivers on the expectation. And even if his best doesn’t sustain from start to finish, in the first half, when the Tennessee man addresses himself to frightened, vacuous, deracinated American modernity, he’s riveting.What’s interesting about Early’s approach is that – unlike Berlant, Leo Reich, and others – he doesn’t hide behind a character, or a grotesque version of hims...

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1 week ago Foundations donate $1.5M to help restore historic Black church in Memphis gutted by arson

Several foundations have donated $1.5 million to help rebuild after arson gutted a historic Black church that played an important role in the civil rights movement

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2 w. ago Lochwinnoch Community Development Trust acquires historic parish church

It has been taken on from the Church of Scotland with big plans for the future.

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2 w. ago Fire at historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say

Investigators in Tennessee say a fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis was intentionally set

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3 w. ago Pope Leo XIV to hold inaugural mass at St Peter’s Square in front of 250,000

World leaders to attend papal mass in Rome as first US pontiff receives fisher’s ring and wool palliumAn estimated 250,000 pilgrims and a host of world leaders and royals, including the US vice-president, JD Vance, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy; Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, and Britain’s Prince Edward, are expected to attend St Peter’s Square for the inaugural mass of Pope Leo XIV.The service, which begins on Sunday at 10am local time, marks the official start of the papacy of the first US pontiff in the history of the Roman Catholic church. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Pope Leo’s grandfather was immigrant from Sicily, genealogists reveal

Robert Prevost’s maternal grandparents came to US from Caribbean and at one point identified as BlackEvidence that the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV’s bloodlines reflect the US’s legacy of immigration – and complicated relationship with race – has continued to emerge since he recently became the first American ever elected to lead the Roman Catholic church.The family history service Ancestry recently announced that a team helmed by senior genealogist Kyle Betit had determined Leo’s paternal grandfather, John R Prevost, immigrated to the US from north-eastern Sicily. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Prince William and King Charles appear at rare joint engagement in united front after Prince Harry's bombshell interview

The Prince of Wales, 42, stood in solidarity with his father, 76, during a rare joint appearance at the historic church - just weeks after Harry revealed his fragmented relationship with the king.

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3 w. ago New mural of ‘iconic’ activist Mary Barbour unveiled in Govan

The image was painted by internationally-acclaimed muralist Jeks, who said he hoped it would inspire people to ‘stand up and fight for what’s right’.

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3 w. ago Queen Camilla visits Westminster Abbey to unveil a foundation stone in tribute to King Charles

Queen Camilla, 77, travelled to Westminster Abbey in central London on Wednesday to view The King Charles III Sacristy, which is currently being built next to the historic church.

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