1 hour ago 'We’ll never be ready for what’s coming': Manchester's Oasis bar gears up for most anticipated gigs ever

'I don’t think we’ll ever be fully prepared for what the next few weeks are going to be like'

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2 h. ago Donald Trump 'obsessed with death' and asked Keir Starmer 'weird' question over brother

The US President allegedly asked the PM 'Your brother, Keir... He died... Was it a good death?' during a "weird" conversation at the White House, according to one insider

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2 h. ago Shock poll shows Trump's approval rating savaged by key group

President Trump is facing growing backlash from a surprising demographic, with a new poll showing his approval has plunged to one of its lowest points yet.

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3 h. ago Carnage breaks out at Portland ICE detention center as woke crowd tries to storm holding cells

Tear gas, flares and mass arrests rocked Portland, Oregon as protesters stormed an ICE detention center just hours after Trump signed his sweeping immigration bill into law.

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3 h. ago ‘Blatant misinformation’: Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’

Previously apolitical Social Security Administration lauded Trump’s debt-expanding bill after its passageAn email sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that claims Donald Trump’s major new spending bill has eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients is misleading, critics have said.The reconciliation bill – which the president called the “one big, beautiful bill” before signing it on Friday after Republicans in Congress passed it – includes provisions that will strip people of their health insurance, cut food assistance for the poor, kill off clean energy development and raise the national debt by trillions of dollars. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago David Lammy deploys army of top diplomats to kickstart economic growth and combat impact of Trump tariffs

Exclusive: With a failure to deliver economic growth leaving an estimated £18bn in Rachel Reeves’ budget, the use of senior diplomats to bolster engagement with business is just the latest part of a strategy to turn things around

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3 h. ago From primary challenges to stranded astronauts: How Elon Musk can hurt Donald Trump

In his feud with Donald Trump, the world’s richest person has the distinct disadvantage of not possessing nukes. But that doesn’t mean he has no cards to play, writes Io Dodds

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3 h. ago Melania appears to have lost her groove as she mimic Trump’s infamous ‘YMCA’ dance at July 4 bash

Melania Trump surprised onlookers by joining Donald Trump in his signature “Trump Dance” during the July 4th celebration at the White House.

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3 h. ago Texas flooding latest: 9 children among 27 dead while frantic search continues for missing summer camp girls

Donald Trump described the flooding as ‘terrible’ as emergency services search for dozens of missing children

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3 h. ago Musk calls Bannon a ‘fat, drunken slob’ and says he should be arrested as their feud rages on

Bannon and Musk have had a bitter rivalry since the tech billionaire secured a spot in Trump’s orbit

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4 h. ago Texas flooding latest: Two campers found dead as desperate search for girls missing from summer camp continues

Donald Trump described the flooding as ‘terrible’ as emergency services search for dozens of missing children

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5 h. ago Elon Musk’s proposed new political party could focus on a few pivotal congressional seats

Billionaire said his ‘America party’ would try to turn attainable House and Senate seats to decide major issuesThe new US political party that Elon Musk has boasted about possibly bankrolling could initially focus on a handful of attainable House and Senate seats while striving to be the decisive vote on major issues amid the thin margins in Congress.Tesla and SpaceX’s multibillionaire CEO mused about that approach on Friday in a post on X, the social media platform which he owns, as he continued feuding with Donald Trump over the spending bill that the president has signed into law. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Bloodbath cartel violence worse than ever in Mexico with beheaded bodies hanging from bridges, mass shootings and a 'extermination camps' with ovens for disposing of the dead

Once confined to remote borderlands, the carnage is now brazen, public, and unrelenting, leaving Mexican streets soaked in blood.

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6 h. ago ‘The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ‘scientific asylum’ in France

Almost 300 researchers have applied for for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump unleashed his attack on academia It was on a US-bound flight in March, as Brian Sandberg stressed about whether he would be stopped at security, that the American historian knew the time had come for him to leave his home country.For months, he had watched Donald Trump’s administration unleash a multipronged attack on academia – slashing funding, targeting international students and deeming certain fields and even keywords off limits. As his plane approached the US, it felt as though the battle had hit home, as Sandberg worried that he would face reprisals over comments he had made during his travels to the French media on the future of research in the US. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago ‘Harvey would say, we’re on the brink’: why conservatives are coming for a gay rights hero

Emboldened by Trump, the right is trying to chip away the legacy of the trailblazing politician Harvey Milk. Activists say it’s a sign of a wider assault on the LGBTQ+ communityAs San Francisco’s pride festivities came to a close last week, a cloud hung over the otherwise joyful celebrations as the city’s LGBTQ+ community learned that the US government had stripped a naval ship of its name honoring the gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk.Donald Trump’s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, claimed the action showed the administration’s commitment to “taking the politics” out of military naming conventions. San Francisco’s queer community saw things differently. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Tightwad Brit couples among most secretive in Europe when it comes to one thing

Young British couples have been thrown the mantle of some of the most secretive couples in Europe when it comes to sharing this one key aspect about their personal lives

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8 h. ago Texas flooding latest: Desperate search for girls missing from summer camp after 24 killed

Donald Trump described the flooding as ‘terrible’ as emergency services search for dozens of missing children

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9 h. ago Pride organisers warn Trump’s DEI purge directly hitting UK events as corporate sponsorships drop (cloned)

Experts have said ‘the golden era of corporate sponsorship might be over’ for Pride, as 75% of event see sponsorship funding drop

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9 h. ago Ukraine says it hit Russian airbase following huge drone strike

Ukraine said Saturday it struck a Russian airbase in the Voronezh region

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9 h. ago To Rest Our Minds and Bodies by Harriet Armstrong review – a singular new voice

This blackly comic debut is an astute and funny examination of the pain and pleasure of first loveThe heart is a peculiar organ. It wants what it wants, as Emily Dickinson wrote. Especially when you’re young and have no previous experience of love and desire, or the deleterious effects of time on both. This is the core subject of 24-year-old Harriet Armstrong’s debut novel, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, published by the consistently adventurous independent press Les Fugitives.When the unnamed narrator, a third-year psychology student, meets fellow student Luke in their campus kitchen, she falls hard. They begin sharing meals and confidences in her room, which bears a “suicide beam” running the length of the ceiling. This memento mori is archly juxtaposed with the narrator’s breathless infatuation, which feels as if “some great transition was occurring inside me, something was aligning, I could actually feel it”. She finds herself “wide open and completely soft like a small trem...

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