2 h. ago Trump repeats false claims about DC crime and praises order allowing city police to work closer with Ice agents – live updates

Trump says, without evidence, that law enforcement officials who have created ‘fake’ crime statistics, are ‘under investigation’Melania Trump has demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and has threatened to sue if he does not.Biden, the son of the former president Joe Biden, alleged in an interview this month that Epstein introduced the first lady to Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Travellers with around 30 caravans pitch up in leafy Surrey park

Police are 'monitoring the situation closely' at Guildford's Stoke Park in Surrey where the makeshift caravan site has been created.

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4 h. ago Police probe 'deliberate' wildfire at London park after five blazes tear through grassland in just three days

Exclusive: Police investigate huge blaze on grasslands after five fires in three days on Wanstead flats during heatwave

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4 h. ago Hit horror Weapons doesn’t have a deeper meaning but that’s OK | Jesse Hassenger

A frenzied search for answers in the wake of the box office smash has some assuming there’s a weightier allegory but its power is in something simpler and more primalMajor spoilers aheadFor years now, horror fans and critics have grown increasingly and understandably impatient with the tendency of genre films to orient their scares toward a clearly conveyed central metaphor.The real monster in these movies is parenthood, personal trauma or that old horror-movie standby, grief. Writer-director Zach Cregger is no stranger to this line of thinking; his 2022 horror movie Barbarian is very much a spooky-creature-in-the-basement movie for the #MeToo era. Now Cregger has returned with a movie that may well stymie anyone who has been trained by the last decade to search for an easy-to-track allegory within their viscerally depicted fears. His new movie Weapons has received mostly rave reviews and positive audience response. But at least a few critics and fans are pivoting from complaining a...

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6 h. ago The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox on Disney+ review: twists itself in knots

Amanda Knox and Monica Lewinsky have collaborated on this convoluted eight-part miniseries that takes creative swings and misses

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7 h. ago LA28 to break longstanding tradition with corporate venue names at Games

LA28 to allow corporate names on competition venuesComcast, Honda first naming partners in Games historyMove marks break from Olympics’ clean venue traditionFor the first time in Olympic and Paralympic history, competition venues will carry corporate names, breaking from the longstanding “clean venue” tradition.That policy, also enforced at other mega-events like the Fifa World Cup, requires stadiums and arenas to strip or cover all non-official sponsor branding, including naming rights signage. The aim is to protect the exclusivity of global partners who pay millions for official status. In past events, Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium became “Arsenal Stadium” for Uefa matches, and New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium will be known as “New York New Jersey Stadium” during the 2026 World Cup. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago MAGA lawmaker Anna Paulina Luna claims Congress has seen proof of ‘interdimensional beings’

‘Based on the photos that I’ve seen, I’m very confident that there’s things out there that have not been created by mankind,’ Florida congresswoman says

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8 h. ago When Debbie Harry met Alice Cooper’s pet snake, Julius Squeezer

Exclusive: Photographer Martyn Goddard recalls the week he spent with Blondie, as a new exhibition of his work with the band opens in London

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8 h. ago Bella Hadid's new lychee perfume launches exclusively at Selfridges

The scent blends together lychees, wood and even a touch of birch smoke

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8 h. ago ‘Alarmingly high’ levels of forever chemicals found at airports in England, investigation reveals

Exclusive: 17 sites recorded elevated levels, in some cases thousands of times higher than proposed safe limits, as experts warn of potential risk to drinking water“Alarmingly high” levels of toxic forever chemicals have been detected at English airports – in some cases thousands of times higher than proposed EU safe levels – with experts raising concerns over the potential impact on drinking water sources.Seventeen airports recorded elevated levels of Pfas in the ground and surface water sample on their sites, according to unpublished Environment Agency documents, obtained exclusively by the Ends Report and the Guardian via an environmental information request. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Viral TikToker lands major role with Sean Bean after Keira Knightley impressions

One TikTok creator has been busy building up his comedy and acting CV, and has now been cast in a major new historical epic

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8 h. ago Is Taylor Swift the modern day William Shakespeare? Pop star makes multiple references to iconic playwright on new album

Taylor Swift has made a number of references to iconic playwright William Shakespeare on her upcoming album, The Life Of A Showgirl.

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9 h. ago Karol G to headline halftime show during YouTube’s first exclusive NFL broadcast, live from Brazil

Bringing football fans, Brazil and Karol G together for a one-night experience

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9 h. ago Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works II album review – Mallarmé miniatures shine brightly

Barron/Duhamel/OBC Barcelona/Morlot(L’Auditori)Ludovic Morlot creates a shimmering web around soprano Fleur Barron’s lucid vocals in Trois Poèmes, on an album that also showcases Shéhérazade and Don QuichotteThe first disc of Ludovic Morlot’s Ravel survey with the Barcelona orchestra of which he’s been music director since 2022 appeared last year. That included two of Ravel’s best known scores: the suite Le Tombeau de Couperin and the ballet Mother Goose. At the heart of this latest instalment are Ravel’s three orchestral song cycles: the mezzo soprano Fleur Barron sings Shéhérazade, the 1904 settings of poems by Tristan Klingsor, and the 1913 Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, while between them the baritone Alexandre Duhamel is the soloist in the charming product of Ravel’s old age, which was originally intended as a film score, Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, from 1933.For all the oriental beauty of Shéhérazade, delivered with suitably seductive warmth by Barron, it is the Mallarmé min...

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9 h. ago Several people treated following chemical spill at Guy’s Hospital

The incident happened when chemicals were mixed inside a plant room, creating chlorine gas.

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9 h. ago Taylor Swift 'risks alienating millions of fans' with sexed up album and new look

EXCLUSIVE: Body language expert Judi James has shared her thoughts on Taylor Swift's sexed up new album artwork and worries that it may alienate her huge fanbase

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9 h. ago Terrifying moment Boeing 747 wing smashes into runway while landing during typhoon in Taiwan

This is the shocking moment a Boeing 747 freighter's wing struck the runway during landing in Taipei, creating sparks that lit up the tarmac as the plane made contact.

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10 h. ago Fruit purees to add class to homemade summer cocktails | Hannah Crosbie on drinks

A good cocktail takes skill, and one of those skills is preparing the right ingredients There are many reasons I’ve never had a bar cart. For one thing, there’s something sublimely Abigail’s Party about having an area solely dedicated to drinking. Plus a bar cart says: “I have my life together! Friends regularly visit my house and enjoy doing so!” (Both things I’m unable to verify.)My new home, however, comes complete with a drinks trolley, yet I’m scared to touch it. Why? Mainly because I just don’t think I’m capable of producing something I’ll actually like. Besides chucking some cold gin in a coupe and dropping in a poorly cut toenail of lemon, my mixologist skills begin and end at lumping a few liquids in a jug and calling it a “lazy girl cocktail” – although “cocktail” feels a rather grandiose term for creating what is, essentially, a domestic version of a Wetherspoon’s pitcher. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago UK’s largest children’s brain injury unit cut frontline staff over ‘financial crisis’ before child deaths

Exclusive: The Children's Trust, a flagship unit in Surrey, was criticised over staffing levels after three children died while in its care

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11 h. ago Ibiza Final Boss unrecognisable in throwback snap before getting the iconic look

EXCLUSIVE: Baby-faced Jack, 26, is seen in a pub with pals without his iconic haircut, shades and facial hair that made him an internet sensation after he was seen dancing in Ibiza

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