37 h. ago ‘Don’t you besmirch Super Mario Bros!’: how video game adaptations became prestige TV

From The Last of Us to Fallout, the days of ropey dramas stemming from consoles is over. Television insiders open up about why high-end shows and gaming now go hand-in-handTwo teenagers plan how to dispatch their latest undead enemy: a kill-shot to the head, or a knife in the side of the neck? One of them throws a glass bottle, distracting their prey. Then she goes in for the kill with all the breezy confidence of a kid playing a video game on easy.It’s a rare moment of playfulness in the second-season opener of The Last of Us, a show that generally takes its storytelling deadly seriously. While the wildly lucrative Minecraft movie strip-mines its IP for laughs, this celebrated HBO series, adapted from the PlayStation titles of the same name, is as focused on taut character drama as the thrills and spills of the zombie genre. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Teenager, 17, shot dead parents as part of Trump assassination plot, says FBI

Nikita Casap, 17, detailed intentions in a three-page anti-Semitic manifesto praising Adolf Hitler

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66 h. ago Teen 'murdered parents to finance Trump assassination plan' to 'save the white race'

Nikita Casap, 17, from Wisconsin allegedly killed his mum and stepdad - with their bullet-strewn bodies found covered up a state of decomposition two weeks later

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3 d. ago Teen 'killed parents to raise funds for Trump assassination'

Nikita Casap, 17, allegedly killed his mother and stepfather in February as part of an elaborate plan to assassinate President Donald Trump and overthrow the government

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3 d. ago Intellectually disabled teen shot by Idaho police dies after being removed from life support

Relatives say an autistic and nonverbal teenage boy who was shot by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while holding a knife has died

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4 d. ago Trump replaces White House Obama portrait with 'fight, fight, fight' assassination attempt painting of himself

The White House moved a portrait of President Barack Obama and installed a painting of President Donald Trump shouting 'fight, fight, fight' after being nearly assassinated in its place.

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4 d. ago White House replaces Obama portrait with painting of Trump’s Butler assassination attempt

Donald Trump's White House has announced it has installed a new painting in the government building, depicting the US president raising his fist in the air following an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania last year.

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4 d. ago Trump moves Obama’s White House portrait to display painting of his own assassination attempt

The official portrait of former president Barack Obama has moved to the opposite side of the hallway — directly across from the new addition

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4 d. ago Martin Luther King Jr's family opposes Trump move to reveal secret assassination records

The family of Martin Luther King Jr. protested President Donald Trump's decision to release the secret files surrounding his assassination, asking to review them before they are made public. 

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5 d. ago Florida brings charges against a man jailed on federal counts of trying to assassinate Trump

Florida's attorney general says his office will bring terrorism and attempted murder counts against a man already jailed on federal charges of attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump while he was golfing last fall

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7 d. ago Parents of brilliant young artist found dead at Tube station hope coroner will leave no stone unturned on Underground safety

Sarah Cunningham’s death aged 31 led to outpouring of grief from art world

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2 w. ago Teenage girl shot dead in north London in feud sparked by social media humiliation, court told

17-year-old Tanesha Melbourne-Blake, shot dead in Tottenham, may not have been intended victim of gang feud, trial hears

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2 w. ago Teenage girl shot dead in feud sparked by social media humiliation, court told

Marcus La Croix and Michael Clarke deny murdering 17-year-old Tanesha Melbourne-Blake in north London.

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2 w. ago AP photographer who took photo of Trump after assassination attempt is fighting his White House ban

Photographer for the Associated Press said the news wire service is ‘struggling to keep up’ with competitors without White House access

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2 w. ago Donald Trump had PTSD from assassination attempt when he picked JD Vance as vice president, says former aide Anthony Scaramucci

At first glance, Anthony Scaramucci and Dominic Sandbrook make an unlikely duo. One – known to friends and detractors as ‘The Mooch’ – is a silver-tongued businessman with quiffed hair and an Italian-American twanged voice, whose 11 day stint as Donald Trump’s communications director in 2017 in his first term as President makes Liz Truss look seasoned. The other is an Oxford educated historian with a roster of BBC documentaries under his belt and an RP accent.

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on Trump and reality: from promoting alternative facts to erasing truths | Editorial

The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of dataWhat does the public need to know? The Trump White House boasts of being the most transparent administration in history – though commentators have suggested that the inadvertent leak of military plans to a journalist may have happened because senior figures were using messaging apps such as Signal to avoid oversight. Last week, it released thousands of pages of documents on John F Kennedy’s assassination. Donald Trump has declared that Kennedy’s family and the American people “deserve transparency and truth”.Strikingly, this stated commitment to sharing information comes as his administration defunds data collection and erases existing troves of knowledge from government websites. The main drivers appear to be the desire to remove “woke” content and global heating data, and the slashing of federal spending. Information resources are both the tar...

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2 w. ago How the world might look after four years of Trump: FREDDY GRAY imagines Zelensky's assassination, Israel's all

At 3.07 pm, on September 25, 2027, 81-year-old president Trump shuffled out awkwardly on to the White House balcony.

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3 w. ago Trump reveals who he thinks killed JFK after releasing new assassination files

Donald Trump previously vowed to blow the lid off decades of secrets surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but said papers released last week were "unspectacular"

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3 w. ago Trump reveals who he thinks killed JFK after releasing assassination investigation files

Trump released approximately 80,000 documents pertaining to the investigation into Kennedy’s assassination

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3 w. ago I had my face ripped off by a bear. I heard the bones crushing... here's how I survived

GRAPHIC WARNING: Lee Ann Galante was with her dog in the backyard when she came face-to-face with a bear. 'I heard the bones in my face crushing... and could feel his teeth biting into my scalp.'

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