57 m. ago Social Security Administration planning to lay off thousands more staff in DOGE cuts despite long wait times and web crashes

Cuts could be made across variety of departments, including communications, personnel, legislative affairs, and retirement and disability policy.

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98 m. ago Top football agent arrested on suspicion of rape after plane lands at Heathrow Airport

Police said the man, who cannot be named due to privacy rules around naming suspects, was arrested on suspicion of rape after his plane landed at Heathrow last weekend

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1 hour ago Violent gang behind Edinburgh gang wars "named" as carnage spreads to Glasgow

The video also calls out the feared Daniels gang from the north of Glasgow.

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2 h. ago Eminem becomes a grandfather as daughter Hailie Jade welcomes first baby — and his name has a nod to the rapper

Hailie revealed she gave birth to her son on March 14

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3 h. ago Eminem's daughter Hailie Jade welcomes son with husband... and his name is a nod to his famous grandfather

Hailie shared adorable photos of her newborn child clad in a blue sweater along with details of his birth.

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3 h. ago Duke freshman star Cooper Flagg named the AP men's college basketball player of the year

Duke star Cooper Flagg is The Associated Press men's college basketball national player of the year

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3 h. ago Think twice before bailing out of the stock market, financial advisers say

The huge swings rocking Wall Street and the global economy may feel far from normal

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4 h. ago Dog finds gran's missing dentures before she does and the pictures are hilarious

The Samoyed dog named 007 shot the stunned gran a large grinning smile with a full set of teeth – as the elderly gran was relieved to have finally located her missing dentures

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4 h. ago The unseen Celtic difference maker behind Daizen Maeda goal explosion as unsung hero namechecked

Maeda has been red hot and Rodgers thanked one man for his specific role in his firing form

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4 h. ago ‘Bomber Harris’ the hawk to be retrained after terrorising village

The bird of prey named after an RAF wartime chief will be rehomed after weeks of swooping attacks on villagers

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5 h. ago Willie Haughey fury at Queen's Park over derogatory pub quiz names as seething owner unloads during Spiders exit speech

The 68-year-old confirmed Record Sport's story earlier this week that he was pulling out of the historic Glasgow outfit

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5 h. ago ‘A mutual love affair’: David Hockney 25 retrospective makes a splash in Paris

Exhibition of 456 works by the Bradford-born Francophile underscores Paris’s efforts to reclaim its status as Europe’s art capitalPoised to open its doors on Wednesday, Paris’s biggest art show of the year carries the humble title David Hockney 25. A more accurate description of its ambition would have been the name of the artist’s best-known painting: A Bigger Splash.Purportedly focused only on the last 25 years of the Yorkshire-born painter’s career, the 456 works on display at the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s 11 vast galleries in fact span 1955-2025. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Shop closures in April 2025: The names disappearing from high streets across Great Britain

More big-name brands are shutting their doors for good this month, continuing January, February and March’s exodus

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6 h. ago HMRC demands £75 per week from 'worried' elderly people on DWP state pension

A pensioner who worked 32 years before being medically retired from the Royal Mail in 2015 was perplexed by the HMRC deciding to increase repayments from £4 to £147 every fortnight

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7 h. ago Scotland's cheapest and most expensive places for three course meal named

A Fife town has been crowned the most affordable destination in Scotland for eating out.

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7 h. ago She’s a waitress raised on a farm – can Rebecca Cooke win a key Wisconsin seat?

Moderate Democrat believes she can unseat Republican Derrick Van Orden, who was at the Capitol on January 6Wisconsin’s third congressional district has voted for Donald Trump every time he’s been on the ballot, but the moderate Democrat Rebecca Cooke, a waitress who grew up on a dairy farm, thinks she can flip the state’s most competitive seat next year.Last year, Cooke outperformed other Democrats when she tried to unseat incumbent Derrick Van Orden, a retired US Navy Seal who attended the January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally at the Capitol and shouted “lies” during Joe Biden’s 2024 state of the union address. She lost the race by less than three points. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago People reaching State Pension age this year can no longer claim these benefits

Some people may not be aware of the benefits that can no longer be claimed after reaching retirement age.

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8 h. ago Tommy Robinson to appeal against sentence for contempt of court

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed for 18 months last October after admitting 10 breaches of a High Court order.

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9 h. ago ‘Everyone is affected’: UK town with Jaguar Land Rover plant reacts to Trump’s tariffs

In Solihull, where the factory employs 9,000 workers, there are fears for an ailing industry and wider communityFrom mountainsides to deserts, or even just to get around town, Land Rovers are used the world over. For a time however, many of the sturdy vehicles’ distinctive oval plates were branded with the name of a West Midlands town.“It’s an icon for Solihull and it was synonymous with Britain,” said Robert Mills, 70. The town is home to the 121-hectare (300-acre) Jaguar Land Rover car plant, which employs more than 9,000 people and is one of the last bastions of the UK’s waning automotive industry. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Ozempic is hailed as a miracle drug. But how does it affect people with eating disorders?

Doctors worry about semaglutides being used by people with restrictive eating disorders – but research also shows they could help others struggling with binge eatingGLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have, in three short years, changed our attitudes to the body. They’ve revived a cultural fervor for thinness that has been blamed for everything from the closure of wine bars to killing off the body positivity movement. What began as a seeming miracle drug posited to help those most in need of losing weight for health reasons has led to a clamor in which one in eight Americans have tried the drugs and telehealth companies have offered cheaper off-brand versions with very little oversight.Ozempic (the brand name for semaglutide) and other GLP-1s mimic a natural hormone in the body, stimulating insulin and slowing the rate of stomach emptying after eating, increasing one’s sense of fullness. But the very qualities that make GLP-1s such powerful tools for weight loss also make them potentially dang...

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