58 h. ago Wildfires have consumed vast chunks of Ukraine. Is Russia deliberately fuelling the flames?

In 2024, nearly a million hectares of Ukraine’s land burned. Heat, mines and shelling contributed, but footage of drones targeting firefighters has raised the question of war crimesNatalia Pryprosta was tending to her pigs when fire swept into the village of Studenok, near the city of Izium in eastern Ukraine. There was no time. She grabbed her papers, pulled her elderly mother into a friend’s car, and tried to get the animals out of the shed. Smoke and the speed of the blaze made it impossible. She didn’t see the animals burning, but learned of their fate later.Smoke smothered Studenok, turning the village as dark as night. Pryprosta’s neighbours fought the flames with shovels, digging in scorched earth to stop the crown fire’s advance. Firefighters arrived, but the blaze was relentless. At one point, it surged around a fire truck, trapping the crew. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Prince Andrew tried to hire 'internet trolls' to 'hassle' his sex accuser Virginia Giuffre, her posthumous memoir reveals

Ms Giuffre's allegations come as police look into claims Andrew passed her date of birth and social security number to his bodyguard in a bid to dig up dirt.

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4 d. ago Disney+ and Hulu cancellations rose after ABC briefly pulled 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'

Disney+ and Hulu subscription cancellations rose during the month that ABC briefly cancelled “Jimmy Kimmel Live

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4 d. ago Hulu saw its rate of cancellations double after Kimmel was pulled from the air: report

Kimmel’s short suspension in September caused a wave of public outcry, which included boycotts of Disney’s streaming services

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4 d. ago Disney+ and Hulu cancellation rates doubled after Kimmel suspension

Subscriptions dropped at an increased rate after backlash from late-night host’s temporary removal, new data showsDisney’s short-lived suspension of Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration may have had a permanent impact on the company’s subscription numbers.According to data released by Antenna, an analytics firm that tracks subscription and viewership data for major streaming services, cancellation rates for Disney+ and Hulu doubled from August to September – from 4 and 5% to 8 and 10%, respectively. So-called churn rates for Disney+ have hovered at 3-4% all year, with Hulu at 4-5%. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago British tennis star candidly reveals cruel 'body image' abuse from internet trolls

EXCLUSIVE: Daily Star speaks candidly with tennis star Jodie Burrage about her injuries, the cruel abuse she faces from trolls and how she deals with the pressure of rising up the ranks

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8 d. ago Bitter Jimmy Kimmel brands Trump 'dumb dumb' and suggests president, 79, needs 'walk

Jimmy Kimmel torched Donald Trump's decision to send the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, in a blistering opening monologue on Wednesday.

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8 d. ago Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Trump’s inner circle knows how dangerous the incessant misinformation from Fox News can be’

Late-night hosts discuss Fox News’s influence on Donald Trump as he defends sending the national guard to US citiesLate-night hosts recapped the many vile leaked messages from a Young Republicans group chat and Donald Trump’s ongoing Fox News-fueled delusions. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'I was kicked out of JoJo Siwa's gig and was brutally trolled over my hoodie'

The 17-year-old fan who got kicked out of JoJo Siwa's recent Glasgow concert revealed she received death threats from trolls over the hoodie she wore to the gig

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1 week ago Love Island star 'horrifically' dubbed as 'Lucy Letby 2.0' after having abortion

Love Island star and VAWG activist Sharon Gaffka shockingly revealed that she received 'horrific' messages from cruel trolls who compared her serial baby killer Lucy Letby

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1 week ago Love Island star Sharon Gaffka reveals cruel trolls compared her to convicted child killer Lucy Letby after she revealed she'd had an abortion

Love Island star Sharon Gaffka has revealed that cruel trolls compared her to Lucy Letby after she had an abortion.

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2 w. ago ‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing

The president and his Maga allies have used the rightwing influencer’s killing to justify attacks on critics, experts sayDonald Trump and Maga allies have capitalized on the killing of rightwing influencer Charlie Kirk to expand attacks on liberal groups, donors, Democrats, and others by tarring many critics as the “enemy within” and “radical left” in a move that legal scholars and historians call authoritarian and anti-democratic.Kirk’s killing by a lone gunman spurred Trump and top allies to quickly launch conspiratorial charges against a bevy of political foes and an investigation of billionaire liberal donor George Soros. They also threatened legal action against TV network ABC after their late-night star Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension over clumsy comments about Kirk ended. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Jimmy Kimmel says he would ‘love’ to have Trump on his show: ‘I’ll ask him’

TV host also says his ‘dream guest’ would be UK street artist Banksy

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2 w. ago Hollywood star says he carries passport all the time over ICE fears

A Hollywood star has revealed that he carries his passport with him at all times over ICE deportation fears.

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2 w. ago Jeff Bridges revives iconic Dude character to tell the country: ‘Let’s get ICE off our streets and in our beverages’

‘ICE?? Let’s get ICE off our streets and into our beverages, man,’ says Bridges as The Dude

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2 w. ago Jeff Bridges revives iconic Dude character to tell the country: ‘Let’s get ICE off our streets’

‘ICE?? Let’s get ICE off our streets and into our beverages, man,’ says Bridges as The Dude

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2 w. ago Jimmy Kimmel trolls Trump after beating him in approval poll: ‘I am more popular than the president’

A new YouGov poll gave Kimmel a 16-point lead in favorability over the president

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2 w. ago Bari Weiss’s ascension to top of CBS News highlights the political winds driving US media rightward

US media giants have bowed before Maga after Trump’s many lawsuits and the Jimmy Kimmel firestormParamount Skydance, the newly merged conglomerate which owns CBS News, has hired the journalist Bari Weiss as the network’s editor-in-chief – and acquired the Free Press, the publication Weiss co-founded in 2021 as a challenger to the establishment media, for a reported $150m.Weiss has made her career as a center-right critic of progressivism, and the Free Press is a contrarian, loosely conservative and ardently Zionist publication that views itself as a speaker of hard truths and protector of free discourse. Tellingly, Weiss will answer directly to Paramount’s chief executive, David Ellison, rather than to the president of CBS News, or the head of CBS. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Jimmy Kimmel more popular than Trump after show suspension, poll finds

Economist and YouGov poll finds president had a 16-point deficit in terms of popularity compared with late-night hostJimmy Kimmel emerged as more popular than Donald Trump after a spat with the president’s administration temporarily left the talkshow host off the air in September, according to a recent poll.The survey, published by the Economist and YouGov, asked 1,656 adults in the US whether they viewed Kimmel and Trump favorably. Kimmel registered a net favorability of +3 after 44% of respondents indicated they viewed him favorably, 41% unfavorably and 15% undecided. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Bruce Springsteen's embarrassing karaoke set as punters didn't realise it was him

Bruce Springsteen - AKA The Boss - told Jimmy Kimmel how he had been put off karaoke for life after an embarrassing incident at a London bar for a cringeing crowd

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