74 m. ago Man United v Athletic Bilbao LIVE: Mason Mount stunner sends hosts into Europa League final

Manchester United took a huge step towards the Bilbao final with a 3-0 win last week and need to finish the job at Old Trafford

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1 hour ago Man United v Athletic Bilbao LIVE: Mason Mount fires hosts to brink of Europa League final

Manchester United took a huge step towards the Bilbao final with a 3-0 win last week and need to finish the job at Old Trafford

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1 hour ago New Stephen King film tipped to be his scariest in years as fans go wild over long

Horror fans have been left stunned by an upcoming film which has been dubbed the scariest Stephen King adaptation in decades. 

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2 h. ago DOGE plans to roll out new software to speed up job cuts even as Elon Musk steps back

The software, known as AutoRIF, is an updated version of a decades-old Pentagon program – though it has been used very little in recent years

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2 h. ago Solution to get food and aid to Gaza is ‘steps away’, US state department says – live

Gaza is on the brink of catastrophe after two months of a total blockade by Israel, aid workers say, with many families down to one meal a dayThe winners and losers of Trump’s first tariff war strongly suggest that bankruptcies and farm consolidation could surge during his second term, with major corporations best placed to benefit from his polices at the expense of independent farmers.New analysis by the non-profit research advocacy group Food and Water Watch (FWW), shared exclusively with the Guardian, shows that Trump’s first-term tariffs were particularly devastating for farmers in the Maga rural heartlands. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Man United v Athletic Bilbao LIVE: Hosts bid to seal place in Europa League final with unchanged line

Manchester United took a huge step towards the Bilbao final with a 3-0 win last week and need to finish the job at Old Trafford

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3 h. ago Garmin smart watch with over a week of battery life gets £81 price cut at Amazon

Normally £259.99, this Garmin Vivoactive 5 is down to £179.

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3 h. ago AP PHOTOS: A look at Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff from the US

Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. On Thursday, he ascended to become Pope Leo XIV — the first pope from the U.S.

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4 h. ago Man United v Athletic Bilbao LIVE: Europa League final beckons for hosts as team news confirmed

Manchester United took a huge step towards the Bilbao final with a 3-0 win last week and need to finish the job at Old Trafford

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4 h. ago Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, overcame a taboo against a US pontiff

Robert Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church

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4 h. ago Djo review – Joe Keery mixes genres in an endearing, if uneven, Brooklyn set

Brooklyn Steel, New YorkStranger Things actor’s musical project has now gone from bedroom to the big stage and, while not all of it works, there’s energy to spareBy now, Djo is not a secret. The psychedelic electro-pop project led by Joe Keery, once an IYKYK solo bedroom-production artist, has reached the mainstream, making the festival circuit at Laneway, Coachella and Glastonbury. And Keery, an actor best known for playing foppish, helplessly winsome Steve Harrington on Stranger Things, has stepped out from the shadows of a persona initially meant to disguise his famous name; gone are the Scooby-Doo Shaggy-style wigs and costumes from Djo’s early performances, meant to dissociate any notion of the Upside Down from Keery’s longstanding interest in making music.It worked, though in a manner befitting a preternaturally charming and thoughtful celebrity who seemingly courts good fortune: by accident. Djo, pronounced like his first name, blew up not because he was “the guy from Strange...

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5 h. ago Man United v Athletic Bilbao LIVE: Europa League final beckons for hosts after huge win

Manchester United took a huge step towards the Bilbao final with a 3-0 win last week and need to finish the job at Old Trafford

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5 h. ago Kanye West posts vile new 'Heil Hitler' song with horrifying anti

Disgraced rapper Kanye West has released a sickening new song that features one of Adolf Hitler's speeches in it and deeply offensive lyrics, after claiming he was a Nazi

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5 h. ago 'Fantastic value for money' smart watch drops 63% cheaper in Amazon tech sale

Normally £59.99, this budget smart watch just dropped to £21.98 at Amazon.

Economics

5 h. ago Federal prosecutors open criminal investigation into New York attorney general

Exclusive: Prosecutors impanel federal grand jury in Virginia to hear evidence after Trump official’s referral against Letitia JamesUS politics live – latest updatesFederal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, after the Trump administration alleged last month in a referral that she may have falsified paperwork for properties she owns in Virginia and New York, according to people familiar with the matter.The investigation marks a swift and notable escalation against James, a major political enemy of Donald Trump, who was ordered to pay more than $450m in penalties as a result of a lawsuit brought by James’s office that accused him of inflating his net worth to secure financial benefits. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Archbishop calls for peace in Europe as King leads nation marking VE Day

Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, voiced his concerns about the state of the continent during a service at Westminster Abbey.

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6 h. ago Man United vs Athletic Bilbao LIVE: Europa League final beckons for hosts after huge win

Manchester United took a huge step towards the Bilbao final with a 3-0 win last week

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7 h. ago Awful final photo of autistic boy, 4, tortured to death by dad's girlfriend...as she turns on waterworks in court

The tears of Crystal Stephens, 48, didn't prevent a judge from sentencing her to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the savage murder of little Brandon Steckler Jr.

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7 h. ago ‘Utterly traumatised’: anger at ordeal of UK woman accused of illegal abortion

Calls for law change after ‘cruel and unnecessary investigation’ into Nicola Packer that CPS brought to trialWhen Nicola Packer took a pregnancy test in November 2020, as the country was in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, she did not even believe she was pregnant.Aged 41 at the time, she thought it more likely that she was perimenopausal, but had been feeling under the weather and when her friend – with whom the pregnancy had been conceived – suggested she took a test, she only did so to “prove him wrong”. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Revealed: Autopsy suggests South Carolina botched firing squad execution

Records obtained by the Guardian indicate shooters did not hit Mikal Mahdi according to protocol, which lawyers say caused prolonged sufferingA South Carolina firing squad botched the execution of Mikal Mahdi last month, with shooters missing the target area on the man’s heart, causing him to suffer a prolonged death, according to autopsy records and his attorneys.Mahdi, 42, was shot dead by corrections employees last month in the second firing squad execution this year in South Carolina. The state has aggressively revived capital punishment over the last seven months and brought back the controversial firearm method that has rarely been used in the modern death penalty era. Continue reading...

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