50 m. ago ‘Aggressive’ hackers of UK retailers are now targeting US stores, says Google

Alphabet warns of ‘Scattered Spider’, network of hackers reportedly behind cyberattack against UK retail giant M&SAlphabet’s Google warned on Wednesday that hackers responsible for paralyzing disruptions of UK retailers are turning their attention to similar companies in the United States.“US retailers should take note. These actors are aggressive, creative, and particularly effective at circumventing mature security programs,” John Hultquist, an analyst at Google’s cybersecurity arm, said in an email sent on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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75 m. ago People who stop weight loss drugs return to original weight within year, analysis finds

Research raises questions about long-term treatment of and support for people using weight loss drugsPeople on weight loss drugs regain all the weight they have lost within a year of stopping the medication, analysis has shown.Analysis of 11 studies of older and newer GLP-1 weight loss drugs by the University of Oxford found that patients typically lost 8kg on weight loss jabs but returned to their original weight within 10 months of stopping them. Continue reading...

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95 m. ago Mel B reveals she was ‘fired’ from America’s Got Talent ahead of special anniversary return

Former Spice Girl served as a judge on the popular talent competition from 2013 to 2018

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1 hour ago James Argent breaks his silence after being given suspended jail sentence for pushing ex Nicoline Arthursson down steps in Spain

Fans have questioned whether James's behaviour was sparked by a return to his wild drug and alcohol abusing days, which saw the reality favourite spend several stints in rehab.

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1 hour ago USAID looking for lawyers to target employees who spoke to media

The majority of the staff at USAID will be fired by beginning of September, according to Trump administration

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1 hour ago More than 1,000 Starbucks baristas go on strike to protest new dress code

More than 1,000 Starbucks baristas at 75 U.S. stores have gone on strike since Sunday, protesting the coffee giant’s new dress code

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1 hour ago Dean Huijsen: Real Madrid reported to be closing in on Chelsea and Liverpool transfer target

The defender could return to Spain for the first time since his academy days despite fielding heavy interest from Premier League sides

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2 h. ago New emergency measures as UK prisons on verge of collapse with jail places set to run out in November

Three new prisons will be built and new recall measures will be introduced in a bid to manage the jail population

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2 h. ago Hotline between military and air traffic controllers in Washington hasn't worked for over 3 years

Sen. Ted Cruz asked whether a hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D

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2 h. ago ‘We need to do something’: the company releasing Palestinian films no one else will

As many films struggle to find distribution, Watermelon Pictures has stepped in to help tell stories from Palestine and other marginalized communitiesIn March, The Encampments, a documentary on the pro-Palestinian protest movement on US college campuses, opened at the Angelika Film Center in New York. The nonfiction theatrical marketplace has never been breezy in the US, but this is a particularly difficult time for documentaries, let alone films about hot-button issues considered politically sensitive or, under the new administration, outright dangerous; one of the Encampments’ primary subjects, the Columbia University student-activist Mahmoud Khalil, remains in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) without charge for any crime. Large-scale distributors, including all of the major streaming services, are increasingly wary of anything deemed controversial, leaving such films as Union, on the Amazon Labor Union, or the Oscar-winning Palestinian-Israeli documentary No...

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2 h. ago Judge orders release of Indian academic held by Ice over pro

Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri had visa revoked and was arrested by immigration officials in MarchA Virginia federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Georgetown academic Badar Khan Suri from Ice detention during a hearing on Wednesday.Khan Suri was among several individuals legally studying in the US who have been targeted by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestinian activism. He has spent two months in detention. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Judge says Georgetown student can be released from immigration detention as case proceeds

A federal judge has ordered that a Georgetown scholar from India be released from immigration detention after he was detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students

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3 h. ago What's happened at the Cannes Film Festival so far — and what's still to come

This year’s Cannes Film Festival has barely started and already has been an attention-grabbing affair, from new rules for its red carpets, nerves about potential U.S. tariffs and the return of Tom Cruise

Culture

3 h. ago Judge orders release of Indian academic detained by Ice over pro

Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri had visa revoked and was arrested by immigration officials in MarchA Virginia federal judge has ordered the immediate release of Georgetown academic Badar Khan Suri from Ice detention during a hearing on Wednesday.Khan Suri was among several individuals legally studying in the US that have been targeted by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestinian activism. He has spent two months in detention. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Jack Butland set for Rangers return against Dundee United as Barry Ferguson to end keeper's exile

His last start was in the defeat to Hibs last month but Butland is set to return to the side

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3 h. ago Kristi Noem says Afghans can return safely under Taliban rule. Experts say that’s ‘patently obscene’

The administration is ending temporary legal status for thousands of Afghans, which advocates fear is a ‘death sentence’

Politics

4 h. ago What Trump’s ‘palace in the sky’ gift from Qatar reveals | Moira Donegan

This kind of behavior from the Trump administration has gone on for so long that it is hard to rouse the media to cover itIt certainly looks as if policy is for sale in the Trump administration. After all, the president’s primary domestic policy deputy, Elon Musk, gained his position in the administration more or less by purchasing it: he is the richest man in the world, and the primary funder of Trump’s last presidential campaign, and it is seemingly by this virtue – does he have any others? – that Musk has been granted the authority to dismantle large swaths of the federal bureaucracy.This is something of a pattern for Donald Trump. In his first term, it became de rigueur for foreign dignitaries to stay at Trump’s hotel on trips to Washington, a practice long perceived to be a way of currying favor with the president by spending money at his businesses. Trump funneled money to his hotel business from domestic sources, too: when Secret Service agents were required to stay at Trump’...

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4 h. ago Sound of Falling review – intergenerational angst haunts a German farmhouse

Cannes film festival Told in four different timeframes in the same rural family home, this story of national guilt and yearning is powerfully unsettlingHere is a mysterious and uncanny prose-poem of guilt, shame and yearning in 20th-century Germany, and the 21st; a drama of intergenerational trauma and genetic memories, visions and experiences suppressed and handed on to descendants and grandchildren in whom they can return as neurotic symptoms of the repressed.There are visual rhymes and unexplained cosmic echoes, and the film speaks of militarism and resentment, guilt and horror, with dark hints of abuse and sterilisation, the female slavery of domestic servitude and the pastoral world of rural Germany in which the city’s political currents are only dimly perceived. And it gestures at the terrible pathos of the old GDR, which laboured and sacrificed for 40 years after the war in Soviet vassalage finally to discover it was for nothing. The film’s original German title is In Die Son...

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4 h. ago 'Gripping' crime drama with two huge stars available to stream on ITV now

River, a binge-worthy six-part series, has been dubbed by the broadcasting giant as "gripping" and is available to download now

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5 h. ago UK prisons on verge of collapse as jail places set to run out in November, says Justice Secretary

Three new prisons will be built and new recall measures will be introduced in a bid to manage the jail population

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