45 h. ago Ezra Klein on Trump, Vance and free speech: ‘It feels like we are in one of the darkest imaginable timelines’

The influential US commentator has written a book about how politics can change people’s lives for the better. But first, there are more pressing challenges to address ...Ezra Klein, the New York Times podcast host and progressive media’s undisputed nerd king, starts his new book with something of a palate cleanser for our troubled times. For a few paragraphs, he and his co-author, the Atlantic journalist Derek Thompson, whisk us out of the grim reality of contemporary politics to a world of Abundance (the word they picked as their title).“You open your eyes at dawn and turn in the cool bedsheets,” they purr, before conjuring a near-future utopia where the cost of living crisis is a distant memory. “You live in a cocoon of energy so clean it barely leaves a carbon trace and so cheap you can scarcely find it on your monthly bill.” The fridge is full of fresh fruit and vegetables from skyscraper farms that sit amid rewilded landscapes. This is what we can look forward to, they say, if...

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58 h. ago Melania talks ‘power of love’ at women’s awards event as her husband continues to push his mass deportations

‘Throughout my life, I have harnessed the power of love as a source of strength during challenging times,’ the first lady said at the International Women of Courage Award ceremony

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58 h. ago Melania Trump stuns in leopard print as she reveals how 'love' has given her strength in 'challenging times'

Melania Trump revealed on Tuesday that 'love' has helped her during challenging times in her life. 

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58 h. ago Melania Trump says courage is 'based in love' as she honors women from around the world for bravery

Melania Trump has recognized eight women with the 2025 International Women of Courage Award

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3 d. ago Stacey Solomon talks 'separate rooms and what splits her and Joe Swash apart' in marriage

Stacey Solomon and Joe Swash candidly shared how they navigate through challenging times in their marriage, ahead of the release of their fly-on-the-wall BBC documentary

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4 d. ago NHS challenges companies to give staff time off for lifesaving cancer checks

Outgoing NHS boss Amanda Pritchard said that ‘simple steps can save lives’.

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4 d. ago Queen's Park 0, Livingston 5: How the SPFL Trust Trophy final players rated

Livingston won the Challenge Cup for the second time in 10 years as they lifted the first trophy of the season

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8 d. ago Best Betting Sites UK: Top Online Bookmakers Ranked and Reviewed

Our betting tipster, racing journalist and five-time winner of the National Press Challenge Sam Turner reviews the best betting sites in the UK

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8 d. ago Miriam Margolyes says Melania Trump in the UK would be ‘a fate worse than death’

Exclusive: Margolyes contrasted Queen Camilla to the First Lady of the United States

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8 d. ago GTA 6 rivals reveal release date concerns and consider delays to escape 'blast zone'

We already knew rivals were waiting for Rockstar Games to reveal GTA 6's release date, but now some of them are explaining the challenges of launching next to the biggest game of all time

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8 d. ago GTA 6 rivals share release date fears as they try to avoid 'blast zone'

We already knew rivals were waiting for Rockstar Games to reveal GTA 6's release date, but now some of them are explaining the challenges of launching next to the biggest game of all time

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8 d. ago Elon Musk issues ominous message to Rep. Maxine Waters after Melania Trump threat

‘At some point, the many crimes of Maxine Waters will catch up to her’, Musk wrote on X Tuesday

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9 d. ago Melania Trump's stunning Christian Dior wedding dress 'for sale on eBay'

Melania Trump's stunning designer wedding dress appears to be for sale on eBay for a shocking price.

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9 d. ago Melania Trump’s wedding dress is ‘up for auction’ 20 years later — but it doesn’t look the same

The First Lady of the United States wore the dress designed by John Galliano to marry Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Florida

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9 d. ago Thomas Tuchel didn’t want to take ‘risk’ as Jude Bellingham ‘lucky’ to avoid red card

Having already been booked in the first half, Bellingham looked fortunate to escape a second yellow for a mis-timed challenge

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1 week ago Thomas Tuchel explains why Jude Bellingham was ‘lucky’ against Latvia

Having already been booked in the first half, Bellingham looked fortunate to escape a second yellow for a mis-timed challenge

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1 week ago Thomas Tuchel says Jude Bellingham ‘lucky’ not to see red as England beat Latvia

Having already been booked in the first half, Bellingham looked fortunate to escape a second yellow for a mis-timed challenge on Raivis Jurkovskis.

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1 week ago Looming tariff dispute between US and EU ‘extremely concerning’ – bank governor

Gabriel Makhlouf, governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, said that forecasting in a time of ‘extreme uncertainty’ is challenging.

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2 w. ago Barron turns 19! Trump’s youngest son celebrates birthday as friends describe him as an ‘old soul’ with ‘old world manners’

‘He isn’t as aggressive as many of his age when they are in their own social circles,’ a Palm Beach source tells People magazine

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2 w. ago Trump is trying to crush the arts – and he’s starting with the Kennedy Center | Charlotte Higgins

Artists might cancel shows, donors withdraw and audiences flee. It all plays into the hands of his authoritarian projectIn Washington, Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center – the US’s imposing national centre for the performing arts – presents a bizarre, unnerving and, at times, bleakly comical spectacle. Last month, he announced himself its new chair, replaced 13 board members, and inserted a new interim president, foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell. On Monday this week, the president’s motorcade disgorged him at the building – which contains an opera house, theatre, concert hall and a plethora of smaller venues off its towering, chandelier-hung foyers. By this point, his and Melania Trump’s portraits, alongside those of vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha, had been screwed to the wall beside the concert hall stage door.Trump and his new trustees – who include Usha Vance and Fox presenter Laura Ingraham – then discussed changes to the Kennedy Center Honors, founde...

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