6 h. ago Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter calls TSA 'unconstitutional' after pat

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter says she had an "absurdly invasive" pat-down at an airport security checkpoint on Thursday

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19 h. ago Chase Infiniti: ‘My parents freaked out more than me when I said I was acting opposite Leonardo DiCaprio’

The breakout star of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (the Guardian’s No 1 film of 2025) on learning karate, her love of car chases – and how she got her name You could hardly ask for a better movie debut than Chase Infiniti’s in One Battle After Another, even if the 24-year-old actor was very much thrown in at the deep end. As Willa, the teenage daughter of former revolutionaries, she was called on to do shoot-outs, car chases, karate, and to hold her own against heavyweights like Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and Regina King. “My whole life has literally changed in the last six months,” she says.Tell us how you got this role? Was there a giant karate tournament where you had to defeat all your rivals?No, thank God. I did six months of auditioning for the film while I was working on my first project, Presumed Innocent. So I was in California when I sent in my first self-tape. And about a month after that, the casting director called me and was like: ...

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3 d. ago Billy Crystal ‘saw bodies of Rob Reiner and wife Michele’ following double killing

The actor and longtime friend of Rob Reiner reportedly dashed to the director’s Brentwood home after receiving a phone call from Reiner’s daughter

Events

3 d. ago South Africa in talks with Russia over men ‘tricked’ into fighting in Ukraine

Government says it received distress calls, as daughter of ex-president Jacob Zuma accused of luring men to frontlineSouth Africa’s government is in talks with Russia to bring home 17 South African men fighting for Russia in Ukraine, after the men were allegedly tricked on to the frontlines of the war by a daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla has been accused in multiple lawsuits of luring the 17 South African and two Botswanan men to Russia in July, by telling them they would be training as bodyguards for her father’s uMkhonto weSizwe political party or attending a personal development course. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago 'My daughter wants to be called something else and it really breaks my heart'

A mum was left heartbroken after her 11-year-old daughter started going by something other than her first name - and people say she needs to 'let it go' and accept her decision

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5 d. ago 'He killed her hamster and dog then chopped my beautiful daughter into 224 pieces'

A grieving mother whose daughter was brutally murdered by her husband is calling for a law change after 'red flags' surrounding her son-in-law's past behaviour went unnoticed

Events

7 d. ago New York could lose $73 million in highway funds over ‘improperly issued’ driver’s licenses

Drivers could be caught in the middle of a spat between the transportation secretary and the state of New York

Economics

7 d. ago Iraq War veteran was banned from coaching his daughter's football team because he called Southport killer a 'creature'

Jamie Michael, from Penygraig in Wales, was charged with inciting racial hatred after a Facebook video - then cleared by jurors in 17 minutes.

Events

9 d. ago Sean Duffy wants to bring ‘civility’ to air travel so why is he doing pull

Transport infrastructure in the US is a hot mess – and the guy in charge thinks ‘wellness spaces’ are gonna solve the problemSean “Dog” Duffy is a legend in the lumberjack world: a three-time world champion in the 90-ft lumberjack speed climb who is renowned for his prowess in mounting and rolling big bits of wood. Not just a lumberjack, Duffy also made waves on late-90s reality TV shows The Real World: Boston and Road Rules: All Stars. And now Duffy is parlaying his experience on Road Rules into his role as US transportation secretary.Duffy has got a lot on his big lumberjack hands: transport infrastructure in the US is, to use the technical term, a hot mess. More than a third of the country’s bridges need major repair work or replacement. There has been little historical investment in railways and the country lags behind the rest of the industrialized world when it comes to high-speed trains. Meanwhile, there’s a chronic air-traffic-controller shortage, which was exacerbated by th...

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9 d. ago Sean Duffy wants ‘civility’ in air travel so why is he doing pull

Transport infrastructure in the US is a hot mess – and the guy in charge thinks ‘wellness spaces’ are going to solve the problemSean “Dog” Duffy is a legend in the lumberjack world: a three-time world champion in the 90ft lumberjack speed climb who is renowned for his prowess in mounting and rolling big bits of wood. Not just a lumberjack, Duffy also made waves on late-90s reality TV shows The Real World: Boston and Road Rules: All Stars. And now Duffy is parlaying his experience on Road Rules into his role as US transportation secretary.Duffy has got a lot on his big lumberjack hands: transport infrastructure in the US is, to use the technical term, a hot mess. More than a third of the country’s bridges need major repair work or replacement. There has been little historical investment in railways and the country lags behind the rest of the industrialized world when it comes to high-speed trains. Meanwhile, there’s a chronic air-traffic-controller shortage, which was exacerbated by ...

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1 week ago Gwyneth Paltrow tells Jacob Elordi her daughter Apple, 21, 'is in love with' him... and gets a cheeky reply

She shares two children with her ex-husband Chris Martin of Coldplay fame - a 21-year-old daughter called Apple and a 19-year-old son called Moses.

Politics

2 w. ago Better buses finally on the way after years of decline says Labour transport chief

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander announced £3billion of funding for bus services - giving councils more freedom to bring in new routes, lower fares and make bus stops safer

Sport

2 w. ago UK Transport Secretary issues update on £445m Welsh rail funding

The Transport Secretary was speaking at an event to mark the £140m Cardiff Central redevelopment announcement

Economics

2 w. ago 'I'm Britain's best mum because I'd happily call daughter a whale for being fat'

Former glamour model Carla Bellucci, who gained infamy for faking depression to get NHS nose job, says she would tell her daughters to lose weight if justified as she believes it's 'good parenting'

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2 w. ago 'I'd happily call my daughter a whale if she got fat as it's good parenting'

Carla Bellucci has opened up about her parenting style and how she would not hesitate to fat-shame her own daughters if she ever thought it would benefit their health

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2 w. ago Mother made desperate 999 call as her teenage daughter, 17, was stabbed to death in her bedroom, inquest hears

Rhian Stephens rang for help as her teenage daughter Lainie Williams (pictured) was 'being stabbed' in an attack at their family home on November 13 in Cefn Fforest, Gwent.

Events

2 w. ago Manchester to London ‘ghost train’ to carry passengers after U

The decision to run it without passengers was criticised by Avanti West Coast and the transport secretary

Politics

2 w. ago Transport chief's brutal dig at chicken run Tory over train fares

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander gave a spiky response to her Tory counterpart, Richard Holden, after Rachel Reeves announced she was freezing rail fares in last week's Budget

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3 w. ago M25 chaos for years as government backs £33bn plan to move London ring road to build Heathrow third runway

The Transport Secretary admitted that Heathrow’s scheme ‘requires major works to the M25’

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3 w. ago Newsom reups notorious photo after Trump’s transportation secretary says air passengers should dress more smartly

California governor uses unfortunate photograph of Robert F Kennedy Jr to ridicule Sean Duffy’s call for air passengers to wear sharper clothes and behave more considerately on flights

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