62 h. ago Do Dogs Get Sunburn? Here's how to keep your adorable dog safe over the hot summer months

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2 d. ago Hide the pain: how a war reporter keeps going when their own family are victims

At least 225 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since 2023. One was the son of Wael al-Dahdouh, who also lost his wife, two other children and a grandchild. Here, he talks about regaining his sense of purpose amid the desolationPurpose was never something Wael al-Dahdouh struggled with. Even when struck by personal tragedies, the Palestinian journalist would take his place in front of Al Jazeera’s cameras to report the news from Gaza.He returned to work almost immediately after his wife, two of his children and his toddler grandson were killed by an Israeli airstrike in October 2023. He showed the same determination seven weeks later when he was himself injured, and his friend and colleague Samer Abu Daqqa killed, as they reported on the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a school. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago US supreme court rules Doge can access social security data during legal challenge

Key player in Trump’s drive to slash federal workforce keeps access to sensitive records including family court and mental health recordsThe US supreme court on Friday permitted the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), a key player in Donald Trump’s drive to slash the federal workforce, broad access to the personal information of millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.At the request of the justice department, the justices put on hold Maryland-based US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information” in data such as medical and financial records while litigation proceeds in a lower court. Hollander found that allowing Doge unfettered access likely would violate a federal privacy law. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Royal's 'sickening' jab at Paul Hollywood, Dame who says she cured her cancer in a VERY unorthodox way and the rocker who hates any mention of his age revealed: RICHARD EDEN'S DIARY

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1 week ago National Lottery's new £1m winners are 'keeping it in the family'

Terry and Caroline Gillings have set up their four daughters in their own homes after scooping the jackpot and are planning a holiday to South America and charity funding

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2 w. ago Voices: Dear Vix: Are these worrying symptoms a sign of dementia?

The Independent’s agony aunt Victoria Richards is on holiday. This week, agony uncle Tom is standing in with a special edition for Dementia Awareness Week. Keep emailing dearvix@independent.co.uk for advice on love, work, family and relationships and she’ll be back on 5 June

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2 w. ago Parents spend almost £5k keeping 'bored' children entertained

A poll of 2,000 mums and dads with kids aged 17 and under found they'll spend an eye-watering amount of money taking them to theme parks and museums, or going to sports clubs

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2 w. ago Brooklyn Beckham's telling warning to little sister Harper before fiery family feud broke out

Brooklyn Beckham, who is currently distancing himself from the rest of the Beckham clan amid reports of a family feud, told his 13-year-old sister Harper Seven to keep "her head down and not listen to anyone".

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4 w. ago From the sacred to the profane: the Wagners, Bayreuth and Parsifal

Wagner’s final opera comes to Glyndebourne this week. Why will the composer and his wife be turning in their graves? Michael Downes looks at the family’s attempts to keep Parsifal in BayreuthWhen Glyndebourne opened its doors for the first time in 1934, the work on the programme was Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. Mozart was the only music performed throughout Glyndebourne’s first four seasons, and he is still the composer with whom Britain’s first and best-known “country house” opera festival is most associated.It was on a very different composer, however, that the gaze of the festival’s founder, John Christie, was initially trained. Christie was a Germanophile and obsessed with the work of Richard Wagner. “He was always hankering to do Parsifal at Glyndebourne as an Easter festival,” recalled his son, Sir George, who ran the Sussex festival after John’s death, until his own son, Gus, took over in turn at the start of the millennium. “He was only shut up by my mother.” Continue readin...

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