3 h. ago Trump ignites culture war with extraordinary plan to ban transgender Americans from owning guns

President Donald Trump's Justice Department could take a huge step to address gun violence that goes against decades of precedent set by previous Republican administrations.

Politics

1 week ago FA investigate banner showing Nottingham Forest owner holding gun to Morgan Gibbs

There has been tension between the clubs after they indirectly went head-to-head for a place in this season’s Europa League and only earlier this month it was decided Forest would enter UEFA’s second-tier competition at the expense of Palace

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1 week ago Peacemaker season two review – the orgy scene feels like a TV first

John Cena puts in an Emmy-worthy performance in a DC superhero drama whose lengthy group sex scene isn’t exactly new to television. But a follow-up episode about the logistics of clean-up? You don’t see that very oftenWith his medicine-ball biceps and chin worthy of an Easter Island moai, the wrestler turned actor John Cena can actually pull off wearing a daft comic book outfit, shiny silver helmet and all. That’s what makes Cena’s spandex-clad Chris Smith AKA Peacemaker so inherently funny: he looks the part but is a demonstrably terrible superhero. Being a hard-charging, self-sabotaging meathead with a propensity for violence and a hair-trigger temper will never make you as beloved as Superman. But it can be highly entertaining to watch.To give Peacemaker his due, he is a survivor. He was first introduced in James Gunn’s 2021 movie The Suicide Squad, a film that bumped off cast members with glee, before getting his own small-screen spin-off overseen by Gunn in 2022. That brash and...

Culture

2 w. ago Zainab Johnson: Toxically Optimistic review – US comic targets gun culture

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe slick standup’s fringe debut is full of searching questions about the right to keep and bear arms‘I’ve got a gun.” Nice to be pitched, with that opening line, straight into a show declaring itself different from the others. Zainab Johnson’s maiden fringe set – although she’s already a big noise in the US – gives an account of how she came to own a firearm. It’s not an explicitly political show – if a show about gun ownership by a black, Muslim, American female is allowed to be anything but. But Toxically Optimistic does invite engagement with some searching questions about guns, their use, and the safety they supposedly ensure – even if, so poised is Johnson’s delivery, you barely notice it doing so.Hers is that particularly American style of standup that can feel too polished for UK tastes: smiling, slick and a little bit frictionless. If a British comedian tells a dating story, you can bet they’ll be the butt of the joke; when Johnson does, it’s t...

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3 w. ago Man pleads guilty to killing his mum with her own gun after she took away his phone

A 21-year-old Tennessee man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder in the second degree for killing his mother in 2020, court documents show

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3 w. ago Evil son, 16, killed mom with her own gun because he was mad at her for taking his phone away

Shawn Willis, now 21, was only 16 when he shot his mother, Sandy Willis, with her own gun while she slept in her Rocky Top home on April 20, 2020.

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3 w. ago ‘Marty stop that! You can’t do it!’: Scorsese reveals he toyed with buying a gun to threaten film studio

Proposed edits to his movie Taxi Driver made the director so furious, he threatened to take the law into his own handsOscar-winning film director Martin Scorsese threatened to buy a gun when in a rage at a film studio, according to a new docuseries about his life. After suggested edits to his 1976 movie Taxi Driver, which starred Robert De Niro, he flew into such a fury that he began threatening to take the law into his own hands.“Marty was very upset,” says Steven Spielberg. “We get a call at the office: ‘Steve, Steve, it’s Marty. Can you come over to the house? They want me to cut all the blood spurting, they want me to cut the guy who loses his hand.’” Continue reading...

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4 w. ago 'Murdered' in cold blood: Moment gunmen assassinate Kurdish cannabis drug lord in 'gang shooting' on millionaire's row 

EXCLUSIVE: CCTV obtained by the Daily Mail shows the suspected gunmen calmly fleeing the scene in Stoke Newington in a black Kia sport's car seconds after the shooting.

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4 w. ago 'Murdered' in cold blood: Moment gunmen assassinate Kurdish club owner in 'gang shooting' on millionaire's row

EXCLUSIVE: CCTV obtained by the Daily Mail shows the suspected gunmen calmly fleeing the scene in Stoke Newington in a black Kia sport's car seconds after the shooting.

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4 w. ago 'Murdered' in cold blood: Moment gunmen assassinate Kurdish club owner in 'gang

EXCLUSIVE: CCTV obtained by the Daily Mail shows the suspected gunmen calmly fleeing the scene in Stoke Newington in a black Kia sport's car seconds after the shooting.

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4 w. ago Moment gunmen flee London millionaire's enclave after assassinating Kurdish working men's club owner in 'gang

EXCLUSIVE: CCTV obtained by the Daily Mail shows the suspected gunmen calmly fleeing the scene in Stoke Newington in a black Kia sport's car seconds after the shooting.

Society

4 w. ago The Kurdish social club owner gunned down in London millionaire's enclave: Father, 45, shot dead as residents claim killing could be 'gang related'

Residents were awoken by the sounds of gunshots and screaming after 45-year-old Erdal Ozmen was killed on a road in Stoke Newington, North London, in the early hours of yesterday.

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