63 h. ago NYC, San Francisco and other US cities capping LGBT+ Pride month with a mix of party and protest

Monthlong celebration reaches rainbow-laden crescendo as major cities around the world host parades and marches

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63 h. ago NYC, San Francisco and other US cities capping LGBTQ+ Pride month with a mix of party and protest

The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride is reaching its rainbow-laden crescendo as New York and other major cities around the world host major parades and marches

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3 d. ago Nick Frost's crippling food 'addiction' which threatened to 'kill him' as he hit 35 stone

Nick Frost - who will play Hagrid in the new Harry Potter TV series - spoke about when he was at his heaviest after he gave up booze and drugs in 2018

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3 d. ago San Francisco 49ers' Deommodore Lenoir arrested in Los Angeles

San Francisco 49ers player Deommodore Lenoir has been arrested on a charge of obstructing law enforcement

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4 d. ago San Francisco bookstores pull ‘Harry Potter’ books in protest of J.K. Rowling’s anti

Bookstores announced the move in response to the launch of the J.K. Rowling Women’s Fund

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4 d. ago What do you get if you combine Dickens, Bond and Harry Potter? The best Children's books out now

Sally Morris reviews the best Children's Books out now.

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5 d. ago JK Rowling shares barbed critique of Harry Potter star Emma Thompson's view on sex workers in sarcastic online post

JK Rowling has shared a barbed critique of Emma Thompson 's view on sex workers in a sarcastic online post.

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5 d. ago Zohran Mamdani told director mom Mira Nair to pass on Harry Potter movie

The Indian-American filmmaker had the opportunity to direct the fourth Harry Potter movie

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5 d. ago As the United Nations turns 80, some key moments in its history

There have been many memorable moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations at its headquarters in New York and at its far-flung global operations

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6 d. ago The Chase's Darragh Ennis shares Harry Potter quiz 'only mega

The Chase star Darragh Ennis regularly shares his own quizzes online, and one recent one was designed to challenge Harry Potter fans with some fiendishly difficult questions

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6 d. ago Anthropic did not breach copyright when training AI on books without permission, court rules

Judge says firm made ‘fair use’ of literature but that storage of pirated books in central library constituted infringementA US judge has ruled that a tech company’s use of books to train its artificial intelligence system – without permission of the authors – did not breach copyright law.A federal judge in San Francisco said Anthropic made “fair use” of books by writers Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson to train its Claude large language model. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago A Court of Thorns and Roses set for major franchise development amid TV series rumours

The #Booktok favourite author of hit series ACOTAR, Throne of Glass and Crescent City has just signed this historic merch deal, suggesting the full franchise treatment of Harry Potter

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6 d. ago Harry Potter film ranked as worst but fans definitely don't agree

The Harry Potter movies have finally been ranked from best to worst

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6 d. ago Michael Cera reveals why he turned down J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts

Michael Cera been carefully curating his career since he made a name for himself in hits such as 2007's Juno and Super Bad.

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6 d. ago Michael Cera says he turned down Fantastic Beasts role over fears he’d get ‘too famous’

The Harry Potter spin-off films famously starred Eddie Redmayne as magizoologist Newt Scamander

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7 d. ago Anthropic wins ruling on AI training in copyright lawsuit but must face trial on pirated books

In a test case for the artificial intelligence industry, a federal judge has ruled that AI company Anthropic didn’t break the law by training its chatbot Claude on millions of copyrighted books

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7 d. ago 4 members of a California family among the 8 dead in a boat capsize on Lake Tahoe during a storm

Four members of a family from Northern California were among eight people killed over the weekend when a boat capsized on Lake Tahoe in California during a fierce thunderstorm

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7 d. ago Pedro Pascal defends calling JK Rowling a 'heinous loser' and says 'bullies make me f****** sick' in latest broadside at Harry Potter creator

The Game Of Thrones and Gladiator II actor has doubled down on his criticisms of the British author over her gender-critical opinions in a new interview.

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7 d. ago 'Like being savaged by a dead sheep': JK Rowling brutally mocks Lib Dem MP who claims she's 'desperate for attention and relevance' with her trans stance

The Harry Potter author mocked Ben Maguire, his party's shadow attorney general, over his comments in the House of Commons last night.

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7 d. ago India Willoughby and JK Rowling's Twitter war – the complete timeline

The Harry Potter writer has had an ongoing war online over trans issues

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