64 m. ago Richard Madeley admits ‘I hate them’ in brutal confession about fellow TV presenters

Good Morning Britain's Richard Madeley says criticism early in his career felt 'painful' but now believes it's 'fair comment' if someone has a negative comment about him

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2 h. ago Lucy Powell slams 'unacceptable' Labour infighting and explains what needs to change

Speaking in a week that saw a briefing war emerge over Keir Starmer’s leadership, the Deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell called for a 'cultural reset' in how politics was done

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2 h. ago Trump pressures Thailand to recommit to Cambodia ceasefire with ‘threat of tariffs’

Bangkok had earlier said it was suspending ceasefire, accusing Cambodia of laying landmines along the borderThe US has put pressure on Thailand to recommit to a ceasefire with Cambodia, warning trade talks could be halted as Washington seeks to keep a Donald Trump-brokered truce agreement from falling apart.Earlier this week, Thailand said that it was suspending the ceasefire deal, accusing Cambodia of laying fresh landmines along the border, including one it said wounded a Thai soldier on patrol, who lost a foot in the explosion. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ATP Finals tennis: Sinner beats De Minaur before Alcaraz faces Auger

Jannik Sinner defeats Alex De Minaur 7-5, 6-2Carlos Alcaraz plays Felix Auger-Aliassime laterGet in touch! Email Katy with your thoughtsFirst set: Sinner 1-1 De Minaur* (*denotes next server)Ooohs and aaaahs from the crowd on a lovely first point, with slicing and dicing and drop shots and lobs and eventually a De Minaur winner, which lands bang on the baseline. Even the Italians are applauding the Australian. “Just another 80 of those will do,” quips Laura Robson on commentary. And look, look: 0-15 morphs into 0-30 and 0-40. Sinner hasn’t been broken this week at all. He fends off the first bp with an unreturned serve; De Minaur slaps into the net on the second. Another snarling serve and it’s deuce. Then advantage Sinner and game. Sinner maintains his perfect record. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Jimmy Kimmel Live! band leader Cleto Escobedo III’s cause of death revealed

The musician work on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ for almost 23 years

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2 h. ago Holly Willoughby responds to Strictly presenter rumours with cryptic comment

Holly Willoughby has been hotly tipped to take over from Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly as the host of Strictly Come Dancing, and the TV presenter has now broken her silence on the rumours

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2 h. ago Questions arise over strikingly similar signatures by Trump on recent pardons

Seemingly identical signatures appeared on clemency orders, which White House blamed on technical errorThe Trump administration’s clemency drive is coming under scrutiny after the justice department this week replaced pardons posted online that bore strikingly similar copies of Trump’s signature with others that are distinctively variable.The corrections came after online commenters seized on the similarities in the president’s signature granting “full and unconditional” pardons to seven men, including to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon, on 7 November. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Nursery worker Thomas Waller seen in chilling police interview over rape of kids

Chilling footage caught the moment police asked nursery worker Thomas Waller why his saliva was found on the inside of a child's boxer shorts as the teen coldly answered 'no comment'

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2 h. ago Nigel Farage is 'today's incarnation of Enoch Powell's politics' according to Labour minister who said Reform leader was 'on the side of Jimmy Savile'

The Cabinet minister, who sparked a furious row when he claimed the Reform leader was 'on the side of Jimmy Savile', also compared Reform to the fascist British National Party.

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3 h. ago Thousands hit streets of Belém to call for action during crucial Cop30 summit

Funeral for fossil fuels held as part of Great People’s March calling on governments to step up climate effortsThousands of people have turned out in the streets of Belém to demand urgent action on the climate crisis.It was the first major protest outside the annual climate talks since Cop26 four years ago in Glasgow, as the last three gatherings were held in locations with little tolerance for demonstrations – Egypt, Dubai and Azerbaijan. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Trump says stopping suspected drug boats doesn't work. But the US reports record cocaine seizures

President Donald Trump has justified American military strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs by saying the longtime U.S. strategy of interdicting such vessels has been a major failure

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4 h. ago Chuck Schumer should quit – but would his imaginary friends agree? | Arwa Mahdawi

The US government was shut down for weeks – and then Democrats shrugged their shoulders and gave upChuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, has a pair of very sweet imaginary friends. They’re a middle-class couple called Joe and Eileen Bailey and they live on Long Island. At one point the imaginary couple, who feature in Schumer’s 2007 book, Positively American, were called the O’Reillys. According to the Hill, one Schumer aide said the name then was changed because the publisher thought O’Reilly was “too ethnic” for mass consumption. Another aide said that claim was false, and Schumer just wanted a name that “sounded more national”. Naming strategy aside, the key point here is that Schumer has said he runs all his policy decisions by this completely fictional couple. He’s referred to them hundreds of times throughout his political career.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Nigel Farage blasted by minister as he's compared to politics of Enoch Powell

The senior Cabinet minister compared the Reform UK leader to Enoch Powell, known for the phrase 'rivers of blood' during a speech in in 1968 blamed for inflaming racial tensions

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5 h. ago Nigel Farage is ‘incarnation of Enoch Powell’s politics’, says minister

Business Secretary Peter Kyle hit out at the leader of Reform UK while speaking at the Co-operative Party conference.

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6 h. ago Chris Eubank Jr has secret girlfriend after Strictly star admitted she was in love with him

Chris Eubank Jr makes an active effort to keep his romantic life away from the limelight

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7 h. ago Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show

Pair devised responses to public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful people Hundreds of texts over almost a year show Maga influencer Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein workshopping legal and media strategies to protect Epstein from the legal and publicity quagmire that enveloped him in the last year of his life.The texts, released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, show that as early as June 2018, the pair were devising responses to the gathering storm of public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his favorable treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful figures in business, politics, and academia. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Big content is taking on AI – but it’s far from the David v Goliath tale they’d have you believe | Alexander Avila

Deals between media conglomerates and tech companies serve both sets of interests, while leaving artists by the waysideThe world’s biggest music company is now in the AI business. Last year, Universal Music Group (UMG), alongside labels including Warner Records and Sony Music Entertainment sued two AI music startups for allegedly using their recordings to train text-to-music models without permission.But last month, UMG announced a deal with one of the defendants, Udio, to create an AI music platform. Their joint press release offered assurances that the label will commit to “do what’s right by [UMG’s] artists”. However, one advocacy group, the Music Artists Coalition, responded with the statement: “We’ve seen this before – everyone talks about ‘partnership’, but artists end up on the sidelines with scraps.”Alexander Avila is a video essayist, writer and researcher Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Levy on international students’ tuition fees not in best interest of UK, says leader of top university

Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’A levy on tuition fees paid by international students is “wrong”, will “hurt the sector” and is “not in the long-term interests” of the UK, according to the vice-chancellor of one of the country’s leading universities.Duncan Ivison, who took over as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester (UoM) last year, was speaking ahead of the budget later this month when the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is expected to flesh out her plans for the proposed 6% surcharge. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing leaderboard as remaining couples battle for the glitterball

The BBC Saturday night favourite is well past the halfway point right now, so let's have a reminder of which couples managed to snag a place at the top half of the leader board last week

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9 h. ago Lando Norris' Brazilian GP comment proves he is ready to be crowned F1 world champion

Lando Norris heads into the final three races of the season with a commanding World Championship advantage, and the British racing sensation is ready to receive motorsport's most prestigious crown

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