77 m. ago ‘An ode to Altadena’: LA arts community bands together to support fire

The eclectic neighborhood was devastated by the wildfire last month; galleries and artists are now working to protect its legacyA charred baby Slinky, a handful of book ash, blackened cowrie shells from a necklace made in Ghana. These are some of the remnants of precious things the artist Kenturah Davis has salvaged from what is left of her Altadena home.Nearby, there is virtually nothing left of her parents’ home of 40 years. Gone are her mother’s intricately stitched quilts and a trove of paintings and sketches Davis’s father made of Hollywood backlots during his decades of working on television and movie sets. Continue reading...

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80 m. ago Royal aide at centre of Meghan Markle 'bullying' allegations finally breaks his silence

Mr Knauf appeared in a new documentary for 60 Minutes Australia, Where There's A Will.

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1 hour ago Royal aide reveals how there was nearly a major mishap with Princess Charlotte's birth announcement

Jason Knauf, who was dubbed one of William's 'close confidants', revealed he was one of the very first people to know the details of Charlotte's birth on May 2, 2015.

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3 h. ago Prince William's estrangement from Prince Harry has been 'hard and sad' for everyone involved, royal aide reveals

Former royal aide Jason Knauf revealed the estrangement between Prince Harry and Prince William has been 'hard and sad' in new documentary for 60 Minutes Australia.

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3 h. ago William was at his ‘lowest’ after Kate’s cancer diagnosis – former royal aide

Jason Knauf was chief executive of William and Kate’s Royal Foundation, stepping down at the end of 2021.

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4 h. ago Police officer and suspect who took hostages at Pennsylvania hospital killed in shootout

A doctor, a nurse and a custodian at UPMC Memorial, and two other officers were shot and wounded in attackA man armed with a pistol and carrying zip ties entered a Pennsylvania hospital’s intensive care unit Saturday and took staff members hostage before he was killed by police in a shootout that also left an officer dead, authorities said.Three workers at UPMC Memorial hospital, including a doctor, a nurse and a custodian, and two other officers were shot and wounded in the attack, York county district attorney Tim Barker said. A fourth staffer was injured in a fall.Guardian staff contributed reporting Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Former royal aide hints at what Kate Middleton REALLY thinks about Prince William's beard

Prince William, 42, first debuted his rugged stubble in August last year when he appeared in a clip alongside Kate congratulating Team GB on their successes in the Paris Olympics.

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4 h. ago Man promises to split £400k lottery jackpot with thieves who used his credit card to buy ticket

A man whose credit card was used by thieves to buy a lottery ticket has said he will split the £400k jackpot with them - as authorities are set to seize the prize money

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4 h. ago Stephen Fry warns of ‘cult of power’ sweeping across the world

Stephen Fry has warned of a growing global shift toward authoritarianism, calling it a “darkening shadow” over the world.

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5 h. ago ‘Royal authority’: Jeffrey Toobin explores the US presidential pardon in his new book

In The Pardon, the bestselling legal author holds a master class on the controversial presidential power, focusing on Ford’s pardon of Nixon“When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” Jeffrey Toobin writes in his new book, The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy. “No other provision of the constitution replicates royal authority with such precision.”The constitution expressly confers upon the president the “Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment”.The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy is published in the US by Simon & Schuster Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Emperor Naruhito of Japan marks his 65th birthday with a call to young people not to forget about World War Two

The royal was accompanied by his wife, Empress Masako, 61, and their daughter Princess Aiko, 23, as he waved from the ledge of the Imperial Palace at cheering well-wishers.

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5 h. ago French authorities detained 4 people after a deadly stabbing linked to Islamic extremism

French anti-terrorism authorities say four people are in custody after a deadly stabbing in eastern France that authorities linked to Islamic radicalism

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6 h. ago Former royal aide recalls Prince William's heartbreaking reaction during phone call following news that Kate had cancer

Jason Knauf has shared insights from the royal family as part of a new documentary for 60 Minutes Australia.

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6 h. ago Alex Salmond's 'revelatory' memoirs to be completed by former aide and ready to publish this year

Alba Party general secretary Chris McEleny intends to finish the book that he and the former first minister were working on.

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6 h. ago Ukraine war live: Russia launches largest drone attack on eve of third anniversary of invasion

Drones intercepted in at least 13 regions including Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv and Odesa, according to Ukrainian authoritiesVolodymyr Zelenskyy is urging for peace in the region following the large-scale Russian attack. In a post on X, the Ukrainian president wrote:Every day, our people stand against aerial terror. On the eve of the third anniversary of the full-scale war, Russia launched 267 attack drones against Ukraine — the largest attack since Iranian drones began striking Ukrainian cities and villages. In total, nearly 1,150 attack drones, more than 1,400 guided aerial bombs and 35 missiles of various types were launched this week. I thank everyone who repels such attacks on a daily basis—our aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups of the air force and defence forces. I also thank those on the ground who save lives and respond to the aftermath of shelling—the state emergency service, medics, and the nationa...

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6 h. ago Captain America: Brave New World makes Marvel history in the worst way

New film has hit an unfortunate milestone for the comic book franchise

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6 h. ago Nostradamus's eerie prediction about the future of Pope Francis is unearthed after Vatican revealed he was in a 'critical' condition

Michel de Nostredame, the 16th-century astrologer known as Nostradamus, supposedly predicted the fate of the pope in an unearthed quote from his book 'Les Propheties'

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8 h. ago Trump’s bullshit blitz has Europe on its knees | Stewart Lee

For the US president’s cheerleaders, the whitewashing of the deaths of ten of thousands of Ukrainians is a small price to pay for sticking it to the wokeratiWas it really only a month ago that the pole-dancer patron, fridge explorer, Brexit get-doer, model bus maker, sofa-strainer, wall-spaffer, current Daily Mail columnist and former British prime minister Boris Johnson eulogised the inauguration of Donald Trump in the Mail, recounting how, as the “invisible pulse of power surged” from the battered bible into the hand of Trump: “I saw the moment the world’s wokerati had worked so hard to prevent.”I hope Johnson is pleased with the way things have worked out. Because now the foolish wokerati have been schooled beyond Johnson’s wettest dreams. It’s the Trump-Putin-bin Salman party! An adjudicated sex offender and convicted fraudster, and a man who sanctioned a chemical warfare hit, killing a British citizen on British soil, have met at the luxury Saudia Arabian hotel of another man, ...

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9 h. ago Literary gold or betrayal of trust? Joan Didion journal opens ethical minefield

Soon we can all read the late author’s private notes about her therapy. But should we?In 1998, the late journalist Joan Didion wrote a scathing essay about the posthumous publication of True at First Light, a travel journal and fictional memoir by Ernest Hemingway, 38 years after the author killed himself. “This is a man to whom words mattered. He worked at them, he understood them, he got inside them,” Didion wrote. “His wish to be survived by only the words he determined fit for publication would have seemed clear enough.”Just over a year later, in December 1999, Didion began writing her own journal about her sessions with a psychiatrist. She addressed these notes – detailing her struggles with alcoholism, anxiety, guilt and depression, a sometimes fraught relationship with her adopted daughter Quintana and reflections on her childhood and legacy – to her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Wife of man who died 'worst imaginable' death says she's still trolled 16 years on

Avid explorer John Edward Jones, 26, died in Utah on November 24 2009 after becoming trapped for more than 24 hours in a hydrothermal cave, dubbed the 'Nutty Putty cave'.

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