82 m. ago The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far

Don’t say you weren’t warned: Trump’s new national security strategy seeks to destroy liberal democracy as we know itOn the same day that Donald Trump received his made-to-order “peace prize” from his newest pal, Fifa president “Johnny” Infantino, his administration published an equally gaudy national security strategy. The relatively short document oozes Trump and Trumpism. It starts out with the typically modest claim that the president has brought “our nation – and the world – back from the brink of catastrophe and disaster”.Even if the strategy mostly formalises the ongoing actions and statements of Trump and his administration, it should be heeded as a warning for the world, and Europe in particular.Cas Mudde is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia, and author of The Far Right Today Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Trump addresses affordability crisis and attacks immigrants in meandering, bigotry

In Pennsylvania, US president attacks Ilhan Omar and Jasmine Crockett and makes multiple false claims, including that ‘prices are way down’A federal judge in New York has granted the justice department’s request to unseal grand jury documents in the sex-trafficking case against Ghislaine Maxwell – the companion and accomplice of the late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes after the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Donald Trump signed last month.The legislation requires the Department of Justice to release the full tranche of records related to disgraced financier, in a searchable format by 19 December. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Prince Harry's 'glosse posse' pal Viscount Erleigh, 39, follows in the Duke's footsteps as he finds love with US star Mary Holland Nader, 27, who stars in a reality show to rival the Kardashians

Julian Rufus Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, 39, heir to the Marquess of Reading and long considered one of Britain's most eligible aristocrats, has captured the heart of a US reality TV star.

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6 h. ago Outraged Russell Crowe torches Gladiator sequel starring Paul Mescal over lack of 'moral core'

Russell Crowe launched an astonishing attack on the 2024 Gladiator sequel this week, 25 years after winning an Oscar for his role in the first film.

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7 h. ago Gwyneth Paltrow tells Jacob Elordi her daughter Apple, 21, 'is in love with' him... and gets a cheeky reply

She shares two children with her ex-husband Chris Martin of Coldplay fame - a 21-year-old daughter called Apple and a 19-year-old son called Moses.

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8 h. ago Jacob Elordi criticizes Euphoria for not being ‘relatable’ ahead of HBO show’s return

Season three will air in spring 2026

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9 h. ago BBC viewers in tears just minutes into emotional Southport tragedy doc

A documentary following the families of the three girls who died in the Southport attack aired on Tuesday

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9 h. ago 'Depraved' rapist locked woman in house before launching 'sickening' attack

Kenneth Crane also threatened his victim with a knife and strangled her

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9 h. ago JD Vance hits back over wild claim he was caught yelling at wife Usha in restaurant

Nasty whispering about the Vance marriage first began in October,  following a tight hug the VP gave to Charlie Kirk's wife at a memorial event for her husband.

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10 h. ago Nnena Kalu’s embodied, sensuous art makes her a worthy Turner prize winner

The closer you get to Kalu’s endless sinewy trails of old VHS tape, the harder it is to know where their forms stop and the space around them beginsNnena Kalu becomes first artist with a learning disability to win Turner prizeNnena Kalu’s forms come at you with their almost alien unknowable presence. They bulge and bifurcate and multiply. The viewer gets caught up in all the roaring, spilling, snaggling details, and you begin to wonder about your own boundaries, the body’s beginnings and its endings. The closer you get to Kalu’s endless sinewy trails of old VHS tape, their spews of filigree plastic webbing, their bound-up, sometimes cable-tied suturings, the harder it is to know where their forms stop and the space around them begins. Their containment is precarious. So full of life and energy, you think they might burst.Kalu’s art is so embodied, so sensuous, so much a trace of her constant, physical engagement, so much a negotiation between the body that made it and the bodies she...

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10 h. ago Donald Trump's unhinged latest: Sadiq Khan attack, 'ended wars' not ended and Hegseth's AI army

All Americans want Trump to do is make their shopping cheaper. And all he wants to do is stop wars that aren't actually stopping, shout at Marjorie Taylor Greene and Sadiq Khan and give AI to soldiers

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11 h. ago Intensive care nurse accused of killing boy, seven, after routine operation at private children's hospital weeps as she admits being 'partly responsible' for his death

James Dwerryhouse, seven, suffered severe brain damage at the hospital when a blood saturation monitor was shut down at Portland Hospital for nearly three hours on August 26, 2016.

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11 h. ago Royals must pay to see darts at Ally Pally, says the sport's supremo

The Royal Family are no strangers to major sporting events – but darts supremo Barry Hearn admitted that he and other well-earning Premier League footballers must pay their way

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11 h. ago Trump heads to Pennsylvania for affordability rally after attacking ‘weak’ European allies: Live

President Donald Trump graded his economy ‘A plus-plus-plus-plus-plus’ as concerns over cost of living grow

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11 h. ago Sadiq Khan hits back at Donald Trump after US president calls him 'disgusting mayor'

‘He’s doing a terrible job’: Donald Trump launches fresh verbal attack on London Mayor Sadiq Khan

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11 h. ago Chelsea XI vs Atalanta: Starting lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Champions League today

Cole Palmer misses Italy trip but Moises Caicedo and Reece James start

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11 h. ago Murder investigation launched after boy, 15, stabbed to death in north London

The boy was tragically killed in Islington on Tuesday afternoon

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11 h. ago Grinning Iraqi asylum seeker who gave woman, 20, the thumbs up before launching sex attack on her on train is jailed

Hawre Mohamed, 27, groped and kissed the 20-year-old on September 22 after spotting her at a station in Crawley.

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11 h. ago Boy, 15, stabbed to death in horror broad daylight attack on London street

A 15-year-old boy has tragically died in a stabbing in north London, prompting the Met to launch a murder probe

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12 h. ago Trump says European leaders are ‘weak’ and countries are ‘decaying’ in extraordinary attack on US allies

US president launches tirade against European nations over migration and the war in Ukraine

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