78 m. ago Pressure points ahead could bring a quicker end to the shutdown

The first week is the easy one

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80 m. ago Daniel Craig ‘incredibly proud’ to open BFI London Film Festival with Knives Out

Craig reprises his role as the famed private detective, Benoit Blanc, in the third instalment of the Knives Out series, titled, Wake Up, Dead Man.

Culture

4 h. ago Republican leader Mike Johnson channels Captain America to rip ‘Shutdown’ Schumer as tied to ‘Marxist’ Mamdani

The House Speaker accuses Schumer of appeasement to the left flank of the party after seeing the rise of socialist-leaning mayoral candidate in his hometown mayor’s race

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5 h. ago ‘I could do this all day’: Mike Johnson channels Captain America to rip ‘Shutdown’ Schumer as cowering to ‘Marxist’ Mamdani

The House Speaker accuses Schumer of appeasement to the left flank of the party after seeing the rise of socialist-leaning mayoral candidate in his hometown mayor’s race

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5 h. ago Trump calls for Illinois governor and Chicago mayor to be tossed in jail for not giving in to his takeover plans

JB Pritzker and Brandon Johnson both said they would not step down or stop fighting Trump’s efforts to send federal law enforcement to Chicago

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5 h. ago ‘I could do this all day’: Mike Johnson claims shutdown comes down to Schumer cowering over ‘Marxist’ Mamdani’s grip on NYC

Johnson accuses Schumer of cowering to his left flank in New York ahead of the city’s mayoral election

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5 h. ago Mike Johnson’s choice to replace Bad Bunny at Super Bowl LX halftime reveals the depths of his Trump sycophancy

Johnson described Bad Bunny should be replaced by a singer who would be a ‘role model’ for children and suggested someone whose songs are often played at Trump’s rallies

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6 h. ago Trump calls for jailing of Chicago mayor and Illinois governor as national guard arrives in city

President accused Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker of failing to protect Ice officers as troops deploy to ChicagoDonald Trump on Wednesday called for the imprisonment of Brandon Johnson, Chicago’s mayor, and JB Pritzker, the Illinois governor, accusing them of failing to protect US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers.“Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday morning. “Governor Pritzker also!” Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Johnson & Johnson told to pay nearly $1bn in landmark talc lawsuit

Johnson & Johnson was found liable for the death of Mae Moore in their latest legal battle

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7 h. ago Rian Johnson on Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man and why murder mysteries shouldn't be 'cosy'

Director Rian Johnson and producer Ram Bergman give the inside track on Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man ahead of its premiere at the Opening Night Gala at London Film Festival

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7 h. ago Trump says Chicago mayor ‘should be in jail’ for not protecting Ice officers after Texas national troops arrive in Illinois – live

Trump posts on social media that Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois governor JB Pritzker ‘should be in jail’ A series of “violent” texts sent by a Democrat seeking to become Virginia’s attorney general has shaken up the state’s governor’s race, with Republican candidate Winsome Earle-Sears seizing on the controversy to try to reverse her opponent’s double-digit polling lead.Earle-Sears has released new campaign advertisements condemning Democratic former congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, her opponenent in the governor’s race, for continuing to support Jay Jones, whose private texts three years ago speculated about a senior state Republican getting “two bullets to the head” and “breeding little fascists”. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Johnson & Johnson told to pay $966 million in talcum powder cancer case

Johnson & Johnson was found liable for the death of Mae Moore in their latest legal battle

Economics

11 h. ago Mike Johnson has his say on who he wants to replace Bad Bunny with at Super Bowl LX

Johnson described Bad Bunny should be replaced by a singer who would be a ‘role model’ for children and suggested someone whose songs are often played at Trump’s rallies

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12 h. ago Phillipson accuses Powell of ‘energising our opponents’ as voting begins

Ballots opened on Wednesday for members and affiliates in the Labour deputy leadership race.

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25 h. ago Country singer Cody Johnson cancels tour after suffering health issue

The ‘Come Jesus Come’ star said he made the announcement with a ‘very heavy heart’

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32 h. ago Less of your sauce: savoury recipe ideas for surplus apples | Kitchen Aide

Bake them, spice them, make them into vinegar our panel has a bunch of juicy ideas for your windfall of applesI always use surplus apples in cakes and desserts, but what are my savoury options? Emily, by email“We use heaps of apples, because we’re in the beating heart of apple country,” says Merlin Labron-Johnson, chef/owner of Osip and The Old Pharmacy, both in Bruton, Somerset. “People can’t give them away, so we’re constantly doing different things with them.” One keeper is apple ketchup, which, happily, just so happens to be a breeze to make. “You don’t even need to peel or core the apples,” Labron-Johnson says. “Bake them whole – we do this in hay, but obviously people don’t necessarily have that to hand – and you get this really savoury, nutty flavour.” Blend the cooked apples, then pass through a sieve and add some sugar and vinegar. That’s good dolloped on the side of sausages, and it keeps and freezes well, too.Mark Diacono, author of Abundance, says Emily should consider g...

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34 h. ago Lynne Ramsay’s passion, Jim Jarmusch’s star turn and knives come out again: Peter Bradshaw’s London film festival picks

Among this year’s must-sees Jennifer Lawrence brings gothic steam, Daniel Craig takes a new case and a constellation of luminaries get cosmicRian Johnson’s whodunnit Knives Out franchise with Daniel Craig as the eccentric Southern detective Benoit Blanc put some fizz into the London film festival a couple of years ago when the second film in the series was included. Now the threequel is the festival’s opening gala: Josh O’Connor is the principled young priest who finds himself in the frame when his fierce clerical superior is whacked – and Benoit has to find out the truth. Continue reading...

Culture

35 h. ago I preached levelling up as the key to Tory success – but Boris Johnson didn’t do it. Now look at us | Justine Greening

Social mobility and equality of opportunity is crucial to Britain’s success. The party that embraces those things will prosperJustine Greening is a former Conservative ministerAs the existentially challenged Conservative party meets in Manchester for its annual party conference, it has much to ponder on where it goes next. It’s not even clear if there is a road forward at all. These are tough times for a party that now has little, if anything, new or unique to say to voters.It could have been so different if it had made tangible progress on an agenda that matters to people across the country: Levelling up. Yet Boris Johnson’s government hadn’t got the first clue on how to turn his zeitgeisty rhetoric on levelling up into policy reality. For the two years after the 2019 election, it debated what the term even meant.Justine Greening is a former Conservative minister and was MP for Putney from 2005 to 2019 Continue reading...

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39 h. ago Has Kemi Badenoch sounded the death knell for one nation Conservatism?

The Tory leader’s shift to the right has left its centrist wing wondering if its tradition still has a futureIn one popular reading of the history of Tory successes, the party’s last three election-winning prime ministers – John Major, David Cameron and Boris Johnson – all swept into Downing Street on unifying one-nation platforms.But for many people this year’s Tory conference, marked by its hardening rhetoric on asylum seekers and growing overtures to Nigel Farage’s brand of politics, feels a far cry from those broad principles. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson posts video as Batman beating up men and women in sombreros to celebrate Chicago ICE raid

Benny Johnson’s AI-altered Dark Knight is seen delivering a right cross directly to the face of a woman, whose hat comes flying off as she staggers to the ground, all while a “BONK!” graphic comes flying towards the screen.

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