17 h. ago 'I was given three months to live after ignoring two warning signs'

Pete Dickson is now 'out of options'

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34 h. ago Retired Scots postman defies doctors after being told he has '18 months to live'

"It went over my head. I wasn't listening, but Pamela was. When we got back, she asked if I even knew what had been said."

Society

39 h. ago House passes Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ tax and spending bill after months of wrangling – US politics live

Sweeping legislation will now be sent to the SenateThe Kremlin said on Thursday that a report in the Wall Street Journal which said US president Donald Trump had told European leaders that President Vladimir Putin did not want to end the war in Ukraine contrasted with its own knowledge.The Journal said Trump had briefed European leaders after talking to Putin by phone on Monday and said Putin wanted to keep fighting in Ukraine because he thought he was winning.With a narrow 220-212 majority, House Speaker Mike Johnson could not afford to lose more than a handful of votes from his side.Republicans on the party’s right flank had pushed for deeper spending cuts to lessen the budget impact, but they met resistance from centrists who worried they would fall too heavily on the 71 million low-income Americans enrolled in the Medicaid health program. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago Neighbours' Ian Smith gives 'miracle' cancer update after being told he had months to live

The star, who is known for playing Harold Bishop in the soap, has given an update on his health after being told he had just months to live after being diagnosed with cancer

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65 h. ago Kyiv’s League of the Mighty: how amputee football supports Ukraine’s survivors

Veterans are using sport as a form of rehabilitation from severe injuries and, as one organiser explains: ‘It’s about emotional gain, helping them rediscover this will to live’A little more than four months ago, Konstantyn Moskal arrived at a new position close to Ukraine’s frontline. He had been serving in the army for six years and, as a native of the almost entirely occupied Luhansk region, knew the price of war better than most. It was soon to take a horrifying toll from him. Moskal stepped on a landmine shortly after the rotation and life changed irrevocably. The evacuation procedure went smoothly, in the circumstances, but his lower left leg could not be saved. It was hard not to think dark thoughts after two operations; tougher still given a prosthetic was nowhere on the horizon.Now it is mid-May. Wearing the red, yellow-trimmed shirt of FK Khrestonostsi, Moskal puffs out his cheeks before sitting in the dugout. He props his crutch against the neighbouring seat. The second ha...

Sport

3 d. ago 'Millions of bees' leave residents 'trapped in homes' like 'something from a horror film'

Worcester residents are having to live with large swarms of bees for up to six months out the year as one homeowner described is as like something out of a horror film

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4 d. ago Dilbert creator reveals he has same aggressive cancer as Biden and only has months to live

Cartoonist Scott Adams said cancer has also spread to his bones

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8 d. ago 'I'm dying of a terminal illness but could be made homeless because of petty red tape'

Dad-of-three John Ricca is living with Motor Neurone Disease, but his family have been battling bureaucracy and red tape everywhere they turn as they try to get him a house to live out his final months

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8 d. ago Doctors told woman she had bruised rib but now she's only got one year to live

Sarah Mayers was told by doctors she has a year to live after they discovered she has incurable sarcoma, months after she was reassured she only had a bruised rib

Society

9 d. ago The assisted dying lobby isn’t being honest with you – disabled people are at risk from this bill | Lucy Webster

Proponents say the measures being debated in parliament will apply only to people who are on their deathbeds. That isn’t trueYou’ve been deceived by the campaign for assisted dying. It has told you who the proposed law is for: people on their metaphorical deathbeds, no hope in sight, desperate to spare themselves and their loved ones the experience of an agonising death. And no wonder – these cases obviously merit sympathy and concern. These are the people campaigners want to talk about; this is the narrative that pushes people into unquestioning support for their cause.But what of the people the law would include who they don’t want you to consider? Proponents keep saying that the bill is tightly drawn to exclude disabled people, because it limits eligibility to those with only six months to live. But this is patently false. The line between disability and illness – a line this bill relies on – is not a sharp distinction. It is blurry, ever-moving and dependent on social factors fa...

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9 d. ago At least five more MPs have decided to vote against UK assisted dying bill

With two others moving to vote in favour, and a previous majority of 55, the bill seems likely to pass next stageAt least five MPs who previously abstained on the assisted dying bill have decided to vote against it at its next stage in the commons, the Guardian understands.The shift by a number of previously absent or undecided MPs towards voting against it has led to some concern among proponents of Kim Leadbeater’s bill, which would allow an assisted death for those with a terminal illness with less than six months to live. Continue reading...

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1 week ago SNL star Sarah Sherman responds to White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood calling the show's parody 'mean and unfunny'

Almost exactly a month after Saturday Night Live ran a sketch called The White Potus, which poked fun at The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood 's teeth, Sarah Sherman is responding.

Events

1 week ago Menendez brothers resentencing hearing set to get underway after months of delays: Live

Erik and Lyle Menendez were sentenced in 1996 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing their parents

Politics

1 week ago Mum who was told she'd never have kids defied doctors to have son

Charlie Ainsworth, 37, known as Charlie by her family and friends, has battled a series of health problems for most of her life, but was determined to have a child.

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1 week ago Mum told she'd never have kids defied doctors but now has just days to live

Charlene Ainsworth, 37, is now receiving end-of-life care as cancer has ravaged her body, seven years after she defied doctors' recommendations to have her beloved son

Society

1 week ago ‘LSD? Been there, done that’: the Grateful Dead’s 60 years of drugs, epic noodling and obsessive fans

Forget Swifties. The Grateful Dead have the world’s most devoted following. As he heads for Britain, founder Bobby Weir talks Vegas spectaculars, bootleggers and life after Jerry Garcia‘We didn’t want to be the cops,” says Bobby Weir, guitarist and founder member of the Grateful Dead, laughing as he describes his band’s legendarily lax attitude to people taping their concerts. Bootleggers were given their own area at gigs on the proviso their tapes were traded, not sold – an illustration of the band’s generosity of spirit. “It was an easy decision to make,” Weir says.Decisions like those have ensured that, decades before today’s obsessional Swifties and K-pop stans, the Dead have cultivated one of music’s most passionate fandoms. They are surely the world’s best-documented band. This year, they’re marking their 60th anniversary with a 60-CD box set, just one of many gargantuan packages over the years. Their 2024 Friend of the Devils box set only covered a single month of live music ...

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1 week ago I fled California and now live on $1,100 a month in quaint European city... it's the best decision I've made

Colby Grey, 24, grew up in rural San Luis Obispo, California, where international travel was so rare that 'not many people in my town had passports.' Now he's settled in Europe - and couldn't be happier.

Politics

2 w. ago Disability benefit cuts impossible to support, 42 Labour MPs tell Starmer

Exclusive: backbenchers sign letter calling for change in direction on plans expected to be put to vote next month UK politics live – latest updatesMore than 40 Labour MPs have warned the prime minister that planned disability cuts are “impossible to support” and have called for a pause and change in direction.The letter from parliamentarians spanning the new intake and veterans, and from the left and right of the party, sets Keir Starmer up for the biggest rebellion of his premiership when the House of Commons votes on the measures next month. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago John Oliver shares blunt verdict on UK version of Saturday Night Live

Sky announced it was creating a British version of ‘Saturday Night Live’ last month

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2 w. ago ‘It’s a cult’: John Oliver gives a blunt answer on if a ‘Saturday Night Live’ show would work in the UK

Sky announced it was creating a British version of ‘Saturday Night Live’ last month

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