3 h. ago Sean Combs: The Reckoning review – you can see why the musician is fighting to ban this horrific documentary

Netflix’s series feels like the point of no return for the rapper and mogul. It’s so thorough in its harrowing detail that it will surely block any chance he ever had of a return to stardomIf its subject gets his way, the new documentary series Sean Combs: The Reckoning might not be available on Netflix for long. On Monday, lawyers on behalf of Combs sent a cease and desist letter to the streamer, demanding that the series be withdrawn based on the inclusion of footage that they claim violates copyright, and involves discussions of “legal strategy that were not intended for public viewing”.After watching the series, you can see why Combs might be rattled. This is a man whose fall from grace last year was sudden and comprehensive, and yet Sean Combs: The Reckoning feels like the moment of no return for him. It does such a thorough job of laying out and backing up so many horrific allegations that his way back to stardom is surely blocked for ever. Continue reading...

Culture

6 h. ago Olivia Nuzzi’s scorned ex claims she and RFK Jr planned to ‘consummate their relationship’ after Trump rally

Ryan Lizza claimed that he confronted RFK Jr over Nuzzi and Kennedy’s affair, but felt that the future Secretary of Health and Human Services was ‘disturbingly unrattled’

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15 h. ago Olivia Nuzzi’s first job since alleged RFK Jr affair may already be under threat: report

Insider sources at Vanity Fair claimed that the scandal-prone reporter could be let go once again after allegations that she secretly aided Kennedy’s campaign

Society

4 d. ago French civil servant 'drugged 200 women during job interviews'

Over 240 women were allegedly given spiked teas and coffees during job interviews by one French civil servant, who police say kept a spreadsheet of the apparent details

Events

7 d. ago What can we learn from RFK's 'erotic poetry'? That Americans need to get better at enjoying a scandal | Marina Hyde

The US health secretary’s ‘digital affair’ with Olivia Nuzzi doesn’t need sombre analysis. Take it from this Brit: sometimes laughter is the only optionLiterally nothing on this earth takes itself as seriously as American journalism. There are rogue-state dictators it’s more permissible to laugh at than the endlessly hilarious pretensions of newsmen and newswomen in the United States. The crucial difference between the British press and US press is that at least we in the British press know we’re in the gutter. The Americans have always imagined – and so loudly – that they are involved in some kind of higher calling. Guys, I love you and stuff, but get over it, because you’re missing one of the great jokes of the century. Yourselves.I don’t deny that everything’s bigger in America. Our former health secretary had a knee-trembler up against his office door in the pandemic; their current one apparently wrote felching poetry, is it – felching poetry? – to a superstar journalist who was...

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7 d. ago Woman whose 'emotional relationship' with RFK Jr was exposed by fiancé 'had relationships with a string of powerful men as she rose to the top of journalism'

Olivia Nuzzi, 32, a former journalist with New York Magazine, is said to have had a scandalous 'online relationship' with Mr Kennedy, 71, which involved them writing explicit poetry.

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8 d. ago RFK Jr's erotic 'poem' allegedly sent to lover revealed by jilted ex: 'You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you'

Ryan Lizza claims RFK JR told Olivia Nuzzi, 32: ‘I mean to subdue and tame you’ during an alleged affair

Politics

8 d. ago RFK Jr sent erotic poetry to journalist Olivia Nuzzi during affair, ex Ryan Lizza claims

Olivia Nuzzi’s ex-boyfriend Ryan Lizza made a series of bombshell claims in posts on his website

Politics

9 d. ago RFK Jr's cringeworthy love message to journalist during their 'digital affair' as more explosive details are revealed by scorned ex

Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services allegedly penned a 'poem' to Nuzzi with explicit demands of her, according to her former fiancé Ryan Lizza.

Events

1 week ago Vanity Fair reportedly ‘looking at all the facts’ on Olivia Nuzzi following claims made in fiery article by her former fiancé

The explosive allegations came weeks before Nuzzi’s forthcoming book is set to be released

Politics

1 week ago The infidelity saga of RFK Jr, Nuzzi and her ex is unspooling in real time: ‘It’s like they’ve opened all their trench coats’

The rollout of reporter Olivia Nuzzi’s memoir has led to Ryan Lizza airing out her alleged affairs – and is fueling a dangerous stereotype about journalistsThis week, Olivia Nuzzi – the US star political reporter known for her cozy access to top Republican figures – dropped an excerpt of her memoir, American Canto. In it, she detailed what she describes as an emotional affair with Robert F Kennedy Jr, who she calls “the politician”.Not to be outdone, Nuzzi’s ex-fiance and former Politico correspondent Ryan Lizza self-published an essay dishing on the day he found out Nuzzi was cheating on him, he claims – not with RFK Jr, as one might have expected, but with another former presidential candidate, Mark Sanford. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The infidelity saga of RFK Jr, Nuzzi and her ex is unspooling: ‘It’s like they’ve opened all their trench coats’

The rollout of reporter Olivia Nuzzi’s memoir has led to Ryan Lizza airing out her alleged affairs – and is fueling a dangerous stereotype about journalistsThis week, Olivia Nuzzi – the US star political reporter known for her cozy access to top Republican figures – dropped an excerpt of her memoir, American Canto. In it, she detailed what she describes as an emotional affair with Robert F Kennedy Jr, who she calls “the politician”.Not to be outdone, Nuzzi’s ex-fiance and former Politico correspondent Ryan Lizza self-published an essay dishing on the day he found out Nuzzi was cheating on him, he claims – not with RFK Jr, as one might have expected, but with another former presidential candidate, Mark Sanford. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago United flight forced to make emergency landing in St Louis after passenger made bomb threat, report says

Passenger arrested after plane diverted to Lambert St. Louis International Airport

Events

2 w. ago RFK Jr. used psychedelics and wanted Olivia Nuzzi to have his baby, her new book on their ‘digital affair’ reveals

‘They spoke often and were intimate enough for her to see him flossing his teeth, his dopp kit overflowing with prescriptions,’ Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir reveals.

Politics

3 w. ago John Torode says 'I don't need to convince anyone I'm a great person' as he addresses MasterChef sacking amid BBC director

He was axed from his BBC MasterChef job in July for allegedly using 'extremely offensive racist language in 2018', something he claims he has 'no recollection' of.

Politics

3 w. ago David Lammy mocked for 'ordering civil servants' at the Ministry of Justice to call him 'Deputy Prime Minister'

Mr Lammy, whose other main job is Justice Secretary, allegedly orders Ministry of Justice (MoJ) staff to use his 'DPM' title first. Sources close to Mr Lammy denied the claim.

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3 w. ago Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around usAs world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.Despite 30 years of UN climate summits, about half of the carbon dioxide accumulated in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution has been emitted since 1990. Incidentally, 1990 was the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the global authority on climate change science – released its First Assessment Report confirming the threat of human-caused global warming. As scientists all over the world prepare the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report, we do so knowing that our work is still being overshadowed by politics. Despite all the well-intentioned half-measures, the truth is that the world is still disastrously off track to limit dangerous climate...

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