34 m. ago Trump orders funding cut for public broadcasters NPR and PBS in fresh attack on media – US politics live

President accuses radio and TV channel of bias and pulls taxpayer fundingFormer national security adviser John Bolton has called on defense secretary Pete Hegseth to step down, citing concerns for his personal safety.Speaking on CNN, Bolton – who also served as US ambassador to the United Nations under President George W Bush – was asked whether Hegseth should remain in his position. Continue reading...

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36 m. ago Russell Brand appears in court accused of rape at Labour Party conference and sexual assaults in toilets

Brand granted bail as he appears at court to face claims he raped two women and tried to drag another into a male toilet

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39 m. ago Charity launches new project to support Dumfries and Galloway’s neurodivergent school leavers

Better Lives Partnership has secured funding to deliver an outreach and transitions programme to schools right across the region.

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42 m. ago Schoolgirl found in River Thames ‘likely to have died from effect of cold water’

Kaliyah Coa, 11, was reported missing on March 31 after playing near Barge House Causeway in Woolwich on a school inset day.

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44 m. ago Lad, 18, bags Reform UK council seat just nine months after leaving school

Kieran Mishchuk only left Borden Grammar School last summer, but his political career has already proven successful after being elected to Swale Council in Kent

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60 m. ago Man denies murdering Daniel Anjorin, 14, during 'sword rampage' in east London

Marcus Arduini Monzo is accused of running up behind Daniel Anjorin as he walked to school and slashing him in the chest and neck

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67 m. ago Has Marvel shot itself in the foot by bringing superfreak Sentry into Thunderbolts*?

The inconveniently irrational god-being makes Rocket Raccoon look positively humdrum. Would it be wise to let him monopolise the multiverse?Is there ever a right time to introduce into your superhero universe a psychologically unstable god-being with the potential to sneeze a continent off the map? It is probably not when – 17 years in – you are being accused of having lost half your audience to superhero fatigue. But that’s exactly what Marvel is doing this weekend as Thunderbolts* brings us Sentry, quite possibly the freakiest superhero to ever grace the comic book publisher’s hallowed pages. You thought Rocket Raccoon was weird and unhinged? Reckon Moon Knight is a bit of a handful? This guy makes them look like well-adjusted professionals with decent pensions.Sentry first appeared in 2000 in The Sentry miniseries which offered a sort of meta-commentary on superhero mythology; the character was initially presented as a forgotten Silver Age icon, retconned into Marvel history via ...

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85 m. ago Russell Brand accused of rape at Labour Party conference and sexual assaults in toilets

Brand granted bail as he appears at court to face claims he raped two women and tried to drag another into a male toilet

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91 m. ago ‘He lived his whole life in that fire’: the tragic story of ‘lost’ singer Jackson C Frank

A school fire, a shooting and mental health issues plagued a man whose legacy is remembered in a new documentaryThirty years ago, when the music writer Jim Abbott tried to track down the “lost” folk singer Jackson C Frank, he had no idea what he’d find. All he had to guide him was a tip from an old associate of Frank’s to go to a housing facility in Queens, New York, where he was told he was living. When he finally arrived there, the man he saw bore no relation to the Frank he was expecting. “All I had to go on was his album cover from 1965 when he was much younger and looked pretty dashing,” Abbott said. “This was the 90s when he was much heavier and was hobbling around looking really grouchy.”The place Frank was living in “was populated by drug addicts and hookers and, for some reason, had this gigantic sand pit in the middle of the lobby that you had to walk around. It’s very hard to weird me out,” Abbott said. “This did.” Continue reading...

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92 m. ago Andrea Jenkyns storms out of interview over ‘divisive questioning’ after blistering victory speech

Reform MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns stormed out of an interview with Sky News after accusing the reporter of ‘divisive questioning’.

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97 m. ago ‘A natural storyteller’: Jane Gardam remembered by Tessa Hadley

The author of Late in the Day pays tribute to the exuberantly inventive Yorkshire-born novelist who has died aged 96Jane Gardam, who has died aged 96, was such an exuberant, inventive writer. It’s the sheer energy of the voice you notice first, picking up one of her books from the shelf; she had the easy authority of a natural storyteller. Her first book, A Long Way from Verona, was written for children and published in 1971, when she was in her early 40s. “I ought to tell you at the beginning,” announces Jessica Vye in the first sentence, “that I am not quite normal, having had a violent experience at the age of nine.” In the book, clever bookish girls, at a private school in wartime, are hungry for adventures and also for tea with cress sandwiches and chocolate eclairs; they belong to that class beloved of British fiction in the old days, educated people fallen on hard times. Jessica’s father has left his job as a schoolmaster to follow his vocation as a poor curate. The Summer Af...

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1 hour ago Russell Brand arrives at court to face rape and sexual assault charges

Russell Brand has been accused by several women of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse.

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1 hour ago Pompeii family's desperate fight for survival: Archaeologists discover a bed wedged against the door of a house

Experts from Pompeii Archaeological Park have excavated a home dubbed the 'House of Elle and Frisso' along Via del Vesuvio.

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1 hour ago Livingston MP encouraging schools to take opportunity to visit UK Parliament

Gregor Poynton has written to local schools, sharing details of the scheme and encouraging them to explore how they can get involved.

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2 h. ago More than 7,000 West Lothian school children given help with clothing grants

The school clothing grants administered by the council are one of a range of services to help families struggling in the cost of living crisis.

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2 h. ago ‘It could have been any of us’: Second Prince Andrew accuser pays tribute to Virginia Giuffre after suicide

Johanna Sjoberg claimed she was groped by the Duke of York two decades ago after being introduced by Jeffrey Epstein

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2 h. ago Schoolboy, 14, charged with attempted murder after double stabbing

Two teenagers remain in hospital with stab wounds

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2 h. ago Bill Belichick’s relationship with Jordon Hudson is one narrative he can’t control

The coach has gone from the football field to the gossip pages with his May to December relationship. It’s an extraordinary turnaround in his careerFootball has never known a control freak like Bill Belichick, the Nixonian figure who ran the New England Patriots as if their facility was a CIA black site. But four months into Belichick’s new coaching tenure, at the University of North Carolina, there is a stunning lack of clarity about who’s actually in charge.Belichick was not the obvious choice to revitalize the Tar Heels. Not only does he lack any college coaching experience, he is dour, cold and gruff – traits you imagine might turn off a high school prospect who could choose to play for Deion Sanders, Lane Kiffin or another charismatic sideline general instead. Belichick is also 73 and deeply set in his ways, part of the reason why the Patriots fired him in 2023 after 24 years of service. No other NFL team has hired him since: the Atlanta Falcons considered Belichick for their h...

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2 h. ago Pensioner suing over cruise ship fall accused of wearing ‘inappropriate shoes’

The company owned by travel giant TUI blames Marian Reinelt for wearing ‘inappropriately high-heeled shoes’

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2 h. ago Russell Brand arrives at London court as he's accused of ‘dragging’ woman to male restroom, sexually assaulting another: court docs

Russell Brand arrives at London court as he's accused of ‘dragging’ woman to male restroom, sexually assaulting another: court docs  New York Post

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