4 h. ago Shein opens investigation after shirt listing displayed image resembling Luigi Mangione

Company removed image on website that appeared to show Mangione in a white shirt reportedly priced just under $10The clothing company Shein said it has opened an internal investigation after its website briefly displayed a shirt listing featuring an image resembling Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, in New York last year.The image appeared to show Mangione in a short-sleeved white shirt, and the top was reportedly priced at just under $10. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Luigi Mangione appeared to model a Shein shirt — and it sold out in a flash. Now fast

Luigi Mangione, who is awaiting trial for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, appeared to model a Shein white short-sleeved shirt with floral detail

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7 h. ago James Patterson's new initiative gives emerging authors up to $50,000 to finish their books

James Patterson has launched an initiative to support emerging authors

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34 h. ago Davina McCall: If you don’t let your kids have catastrophes, how are they going to learn?

TV presenter and bestselling author Davina McCall talks about the highs and lows of parenting, and what inspired her to write her new book Birthing.

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5 d. ago Killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO has inspired followers, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors say the man who allegedly killed the UnitedHealthcare chief executive last December has inspired followers, such as the man who killed four people at a the National Football League headquarters last month

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9 d. ago Teen tortured for weeks as eyes gouged out and scalp removed in UK's worst murder

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: James Patterson Smith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates, who he tortured for weeks in one of the UK's most shocking crimes

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2 w. ago ‘Take that risk’: the New Zealand teen author named one of Time magazine’s girls of the year

Rutendo Shadaya, who wrote a series of children’s fantasy books featuring strong female leads, has been recognised along with nine other girlsWhen New Zealand teenager Rutendo Shadaya was nine years old, she wanted to create the perfect birthday present for her best friend – an act of kindness that has helped land her on the front of Time magazine.“I was very good with gift giving, and I knew she liked reading so I was like ‘Why don’t I write a book for her?’” Shadaya tells the Guardian. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Food Network chef says Mario Batali made sexist comments about her body in cookbook foreword

The Food Network host asked Batali to write the foreword in her 2005 book, ‘Everyday Italian’

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2 w. ago Man charged with stalking UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s family after shooting

The alleged voicemails and texts following Brian Thompson’s murder were described by officials as ‘more than callous and cold-hearted harassment’

Society

3 w. ago New York man charged with cyberstalking a family member of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO

A New York man has been charged with cyberstalking a family member of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly leaving threatening voicemails that expressed glee about the killing within hours of the fatal shooting

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3 w. ago The midlife crisis for blokes is dead as men are finding a new lease of life in their older age

The myth of the midlife crisis is supposedly over for men, as they travel the world, make sourdough bread, write a book and hit the gym when the hit later life

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3 w. ago Palestinians don’t need a state. We need justice | Ahmed Moor

In the midst of a genocide, the Palestinians are best served by abandoning any effort to attain self-rule in the Occupied TerritoriesThere are few things the pro-Israel side gets right. But on one point – the Palestinians’ rejection of two states – they’ve been more-or-less correct. For me, and many others, the fundamental injustice of the establishment of the state of Israel – which occurred through massive, deliberate and purposeful ethnic cleansing designed to create a Jewish majority in historic Palestine – meant that Israel never really attained moral legitimacy among Palestinians. As Robert Malley and Hussein Agha write in their new book, Tomorrow Is Yesterday: “deep down, most Palestinians, though ready to accept Israel’s existence, have not accepted its historical legitimacy”, a statement whose veracity I can attest to.I remember being a 15-year-old in Palestine. I remember being held up at checkpoints in the West Bank, and being unable to visit Jerusalem or Israel because o...

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4 w. ago James Patterson and Vicky Ward to write book on UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing

James Patterson and Vicky Ward are collaborating on a new book about the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

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