22 m. ago Trump’s job approval remains negative as Americans show overwhelming vaccine support, new poll shows

Trump’s policies on inflation, cost-of-living, and trade are his least popular ones with Americans

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1 hour ago Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe ethnically diverse orchestra played with vigour and spirit in a varied programme that included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shostakovich and Valerie ColemanThis concert was to have been conducted by Simon Rattle – a mark of the esteem in which leading artists hold Chineke! Orchestra, the trailblazing British ensemble made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse musicians. In the event, Charleston-born Jonathon Heyward put his own indelible stamp on a varied yet satisfying program.Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s La Bamboula, a kaleidoscopic dance with roots in the West Indies, played to Chineke!’s strengths. The performed it with vigour and spirit, while Heyward kept its likable blend of late-Victorian tunefulness and proto-Hollywood glitz gossamer-light. You could see why Henry Wood programmed it at the Proms 16 times, making its subsequent 91-year absence inexplicable. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago White House's review of Smithsonian content could reach into classrooms nationwide

Some history teachers are concerned about what may come of a White House review of the Smithsonian's public-facing content

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1 hour ago Andre Onana's stance on Man Utd exit emerges amid talks over Trabzonspor loan

Andre Onana’s future remains up in the air at Manchester United but the former Inter Milan man is rapidly running out of time to secure a move away from Old Trafford this summer

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2 h. ago California Schemin’ review – James McAvoy’s directorial debut is an unlikely rap tale

Toronto film festival: the actor makes for a hit-and-miss first time film-maker with the undeniably involving true story of Scottish rappers who pretended to be AmericanAt the start of the century, a struggling Scottish rap duo decided to overhaul their image in extreme fashion: they began posing as two Americans from California, and managed to secure themselves a record deal with a label in London. Eventually the hoax was revealed, and one of them released a memoir about the charade. That wild story has now been adapted into a film, California Schemin’, which marks the alternately confident and unsteady directorial debut of actor James McAvoy.McAvoy is a son of Scotland himself, and perhaps feels some kinship with rappers Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, who found the cultural tastemakers of the south to be indifferent or even hostile to Scottish artists. Though McAvoy has fared just fine as an actor, Bain and Boyd – who would come to be known as Silibil N’ Brains – had a much tougher go...

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3 h. ago Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – whodunnit threequel is murderously good fun

Toronto film festival: after Glass Onion underwhelmed, Rian Johnson’s self-aware, star-packed Benoit Blanc series makes a barnstorming return to formIf Glass Onion wasn’t quite the deserving follow-up to Knives Out that many of us had hoped it would be (it was more focused on the bigger rather than better), it was at the very least a deserved victory lap. Writer-director Rian Johnson’s 2019 whodunnit brought us back to the starry, slippery fun of the 70s and 80s, when films like this would be a dime a dozen and it was a surprise hit, making almost eight times its budget at the global box office. While Kenneth Branagh had seen commercial success already with his Poirot revival two years prior, his retreads felt too musty, and the actor-director too miscast, for the genre to truly feel like it was entering an exciting new period.Johnson’s threequel, Wake Up Dead Man, is the second as part of his Netflix deal (one that cost an estimated $450m) and arrives as the whodunnit genre has fou...

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4 h. ago Rasmus Hojlund can seal permanent Man United exit thanks to Champions League 'clause'

Manchester United striker Rasmus Hojlund joined Napoli on loan for the remainder of the season on transfer deadline day

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4 h. ago Lewis Capaldi review – an emotional return to the spotlight for pop’s most heart

Utilita Arena, SheffieldThe singer announces he is thrilled to begin his first tour since taking time off for his mental health, but is visibly nervous and at one moment breaks into tearsLewis Capaldi is a pop star known for his patter. But tonight, he warns the crowd he is feeling too overwhelmed to perform his usual funnyman routine. “I probably won’t say lots this evening because I don’t know what to say,” he says. “I’m just genuinely thrilled that this is still a possibility for me.”The 28-year-old being lost for words tonight is understandable. In 2023, Capaldi announced he was taking a hiatus from touring, after sharing his struggles with his mental health and his diagnosis in 2022 of Tourette syndrome. Having disappeared from the spotlight for the better part of two years, he made a triumphant return at Glastonbury earlier this summer for an unannounced and emotional set on the Pyramid stage. Tonight’s Sheffield show, however, marks the Scottish singer’s first headline perfor...

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7 h. ago Keep your cool! Ministers urge Brits to remain calm when their phones buzz at 3pm TODAY during latest test of national emergency alert system

Secretary of State Pat McFadden said he knows Brits will 'keep their cool' when their phones make a siren-like noise for 10 seconds, vibrate and show a message.

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8 h. ago 'I tried the new Laura Mercier setting spray to see if it makes makeup last longer'

The setting spray has been hailed 'the absolute best' by Space NK shoppers so our beauty writer put it through its paces

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9 h. ago Mystery of boy's torso found in Thames after 'voodoo ritual' remains decades later

More than two decades since little Adam's torso was discovered in the river Thames, police are no closer to finding the boy's killer after he was slaughtered in a horrific "voodoo ritual"

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9 h. ago Review: 70mai 4K T800 dash cam offers a premium triple channel experience

It's pricey, and you'll need to spend extra on the 4G kit, but the T800 has you and your car covered in crystal clear quality

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9 h. ago I drove the electric car that looks identical to a Porsche Taycan but is half the price

The BYD Seal is an electric saloon that looks very much like a Porsche Taycan, but is much cheaper and has a similar range to the BMW i4 M50. It's a great car, but is it enough to take on the Germans?

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10 h. ago Coca leaves remain a source of work, faith and identity in Bolivia

In Bolivia’s Yungas region, farmers like Tomas Zavala perform rituals to honor Mother Earth before harvesting coca leaves

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10 h. ago I drove the electric car that looks just like a Porsche – but costs £40k less

The BYD Seal is a Chinese electric car that looks exactly like a Porsche Taycan - but costs £40,000 less. Here's what happened when I took it for a spin

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10 h. ago The Duck & Rice, London SW11: ‘Filling, but largely unmemorable’ – restaurant review

The Duck & Rice, London SW11: ‘Filling, but largely unmemorable’ – restaurant review  The Guardian

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14 h. ago Winter of the Crow review – Lesley Manville commands cold war thriller

Toronto film festival: the Oscar nominee makes for a compelling heroine in a solid and intermittently suspenseful tale of a professor stuck in a nightmareThe specific brilliance of Lesley Manville had been on display for those who knew where to look long before her first Oscar nomination. She’d been part of the enviable Mike Leigh troupe (her first nomination should have been for Another Year) and a permanent small-screen fixture, even if the size of her roles hadn’t correlated to the size of her talent. But after Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson’s singular magnum opus, Manville has enjoyed a spectacular boom, a long-deserved reward for her and an even bigger one for those of us watching.The role came as she was entering her 60s, a period that can often leave female actors with grimly limited options, but she’s bucked the trend, not just through the sheer amount of work she’s found but also the unusual variety. She’s avoided the post-Book Club subgenre of mostly patronising come...

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17 h. ago From sleeping in a car park to driving a £130,000 Porsche: Cocaine and sex MP David Warburton found dead in his flat had turned his life around, say friends

David Warbuton, ex-Tory MP for Somerton and Frome, admitted using cocaine and was plagued by sex allegations - but his sudden death aged 59 shocked loved ones who said his life had changed.

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18 h. ago Human remains found in Arkansas field five decades ago finally identified, say cops

Advanced DNA testing led to the identification of Charles Howard Wallace, who was last seen by his family in 1974, in Memphis Tennessee

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20 h. ago Marcus Rashford puzzle persists for England as Man Utd outcast now 'lost' in Barcelona

Marcus Rashford remains one of the most puzzling conundrums in football but has found a friend in Thomas Tuchel despite running out of them at Manchester United and now Barcelona according to reports

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