39 m. ago Trump officials tour Alcatraz in bid to reopen prison amid outcry from California leaders

Doug Burgum, interior secretary, and Pam Bondi, attorney general, visited island jail as Nancy Pelosi calls idea ‘lunacy’A delegation of US officials toured Alcatraz on Thursday as part of Donald Trump’s pledge to reopen the shuttered federal prison and tourist attraction in the San Francisco Bay, amid an outcry from California leaders who have called the plan “lunacy”.Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, who visited the island prison with attorney general Pam Bondi, said the federal government was beginning “the work to renovate and reopen the site to house the most dangerous criminals and illegals”. Continue reading...

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39 m. ago Trump: Moscow’s Man in the White House? review – a lazy, galling failure of a documentary

This Dispatches episode about Putin and Trump is a weird rundown of everything we’ve known for a decade – like reading a Twitter thread in 2018. What’s so frustrating is that this really matters right nowIt’s never a particularly encouraging sign when the title of a documentary ends with a question mark. It might just be a tiny scrap of punctuation, and yet it can single-handedly undermine an entire thesis.Take the latest episode of Dispatches. A film called Trump: Moscow’s Man in the White House would hit like a juggernaut. That film would be an authoritative, definitive hammer blow, confirming beyond doubt what many have suspected for years: that Donald Trump is either working with or an unwitting puppet of Putin’s Russia. This film would represent a clean punch landed. It would reverberate around the world.Dispatches: Trump: Moscow’s Man in the White House? is on Channel 4 Continue reading...

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46 m. ago Tadej Pogacar dedicates Tour de France win to teenage Italian cyclist who died in crash

Authorities are investigating the circumstances of the crash which killed 19-year-old Samuele Privitera

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95 m. ago Oleksandr Usyk opens up on journey to undisputed heavyweight champion

Oleksandr Usyk will attempt to become the holder of all four heavyweight belts for the second time when he takes on Daniel Dubois this weekend

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1 hour ago Give him some brains – Oleksandr Usyk questions Daniel Dubois’ pre

The Briton screamed his own name and ‘the new’ in the face of an ice-cool Usyk outside Wembley on Tuesday.

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1 hour ago Oleksandr Usyk makes same sacrifice as Tyson Fury ahead of Daniel Dubois fight

Oleksandr Usyk has been locked away in his training camp in Spain ahead of his rematch with Daniel Dubois at Wembley this weekend

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1 hour ago Top human rights group leaves El Salvador after threats made by country’s president

Cristosal says decision to leave country and relocate employees comes after organisation was targeted by Nayib BukeleEl Salvador’s top human rights organisation, Cristosal, announced on Thursday it is leaving the country because of mounting harassment and legal threats by the government of President Nayib Bukele.The organisation has been one of the most visible critics of Bukele, documenting abuses in the strongman’s war on the country’s gangs and the detention of hundreds of Venezuelan deportees in an agreement with the US president Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Top rights group leaves El Salvador after threats from its government

Cristosal says decision to relocate employees was because of organisation being targeted by President Nayib BukeleEl Salvador’s top human rights organisation, Cristosal, announced on Thursday it is leaving the country because of mounting harassment and legal threats by the government of President Nayib Bukele.The organisation has been one of the most visible critics of Bukele, documenting abuses in the strongman’s war on the country’s gangs and the detention of hundreds of Venezuelan deportees in an agreement with the US president Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Oasis fans sent into frenzy after intimate snaps shared of Gallagher brothers at Heaton Park

The reunion has been dubbed "perfect" by Oasis fans

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2 h. ago Secret drink fuelling Liam Gallagher’s voice on Oasis tour after rocker quits booze

Liam Gallagher's iconic singing voice is in fine form according to fans attending the band's gigs - and now it's been reported Liam's secret to maintaining his voice is a strange cocktail

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3 h. ago Tadej Pogacar storms back into yellow jersey with stunning stage 12 victory

The defending champion proved he was a class above the rest with a dominant 12km solo win on the Hautacam climb

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4 h. ago Odyssey fans baffled by resale movie tickets going for $400 a year before film’s highly anticipated release

IMAX tickets for Christopher Nolan’s next epic have already sold out a year in advance of its 2026 release

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4 h. ago Microsoft wants to use human poop to lower its vast carbon footprint

Microsoft announced a deal to purchase 4.9 million metric tons of durable carbon dioxide removal from Vaulted Deep, a company that injects ‘bioslurry’ underground

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4 h. ago Ellis Genge primed to summon spirit of 2022 as he runs into Australia again

Loosehead prop helped save Eddie Jones’s job in Brisbane three years ago and can make a similar impact for the LionsYou can chart Ellis Genge’s Test career by his tours of Australia. In 2016 he and Kyle Sinckler were Eddie Jones’s “rough diamonds”, picked to get a taste of an international tour but nowhere near Test selection. Six years on and in England’s second Test against the Wallabies in Brisbane, Genge kickstarted a victory that saved Jones’s job with a thunderous carry into Michael Hooper. Three years later, back in the same city, Genge makes his British & Irish Lions Test bow against Australia.After naming Genge in Saturday’s side, the head coach, Andy Farrell, encouraged the 30-year-old loosehead prop to take a moment to reflect on how far he has come. It does not come easily to Genge but his growing influence on the international sides he represents is obvious. He confesses that nine years ago he and Sinckler “tried to get out of the way as much as we could” and “were ...

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4 h. ago Daniel Dubois shrugs off Canelo Álvarez’s $500,000 bet against him

Mexican is convinced Oleksandr Usyk will beat Dubois‘It don’t mean nothing. He’s going to lose his money’Daniel Dubois has warned Canelo Álvarez that he will lose $500,000 on Saturday night after the Mexican superstar placed a sizeable bet against him. Álvarez, the richest and most celebrated fighter in contemporary boxing, is convinced that Oleksandr Usyk will beat Dubois at Wembley Stadium for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world.“It don’t mean nothing me,” Dubois said at Thursday’s press conference when he was asked about Álvarez’s expensive prediction. “It don’t mean shit to me. He’s going to lose his money. From now on I’m just focused.” Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Steve Miller Band cancels tour, saying extreme weather is a safety concern

The Steve Miller Band has canceled its U.S. tour, citing extreme weather as a safety concern for fans and crew

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5 h. ago How Daniel Dubois will pull off the biggest win of a monumental sporting weekend

The 27-year-old British heavyweight needs to avenge a defeat to Oleksandr Usyk but is in the prime of his heavyweight career ahead of the Wembley showdown

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5 h. ago Coldplay concert turns awkward as mortified couple 'called out' by Chris Martin in kiss cam

Coldplay are on their the Music of the Spheres world tour at the moment and footage from a 'kiss cam' at a recent gig prompted reaction from singer Chris Martin

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5 h. ago Love Island Yasmin's secret twin sister begs ITV to enter villa as a bombshell

Love Island star Yasmin Pettet has a twin sister which left the nation totally baffled, and now she's issued a message to ITV bosses claiming she wants to cause havoc as a bombshell

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5 h. ago Tadej Pogacar dedicates Tour de France win to teenaged Italian cyclist who died in crash

Authorities are investigating the circumstances of the crash which killed 19-year-old Samuele Privitera

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