4 d. ago White America: Map reveals surprising American cities with most cocaine users

Residents of cities in the Rocky Mountain and Southwestern US have the most cocaine usage nationwide, a new study found.

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6 d. ago 'Pollen bomb' warning as levels soar in the UK: Map reveals the areas where hay fever sufferers will be worst hit

If you suffer from hay fever, make sure you stock up on antihistamines and tissues - as a dreaded 'pollen bomb' is heading our way.

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6 d. ago Trump signs executive order on water pressure to ‘restore shower freedom’

White House says order will ‘make America’s showers great again’ and ‘end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure’A global trade war roller coaster was not enough to distract Donald Trump from fulfilling one of his longtime priorities Wednesday: changing the federal definition of “showerhead”, a move the White House said would “end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure”.Trump has complained for years about inadequate water pressure in American showers, sinks and toilets, and has blamed federal water-conservation standards for the problem. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago US scientists create most comprehensive circuit diagram of mammalian brain

3D map of a cubic millimetre of mouse brain reveals half a billion synapses and 5.4km of neuronal wiringThe most comprehensive circuit diagram of neurons in a mammalian brain has been created by scientists, providing groundbreaking insights into the mystery of how the brain works.The map is of a speck of a mouse’s visual cortex, smaller than a grain of sand, and traces the structure of 84,000 neurons linked by half a billion synapses and approximately 5.4km of neuronal wiring. The 3D reconstruction of the cubic millimetre of brain is helping uncover how the brain is organised and how different cell types work together, and could have implications for the understanding of intelligence, consciousness and neuronal conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, autism and schizophrenia. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago New map reveals extent of countryside scorched by Dumfries and Galloway wildfire

Forestry and Land Scotland have released the graphic from OpenStreetMap which reveals the amount of damage caused by the blaze.

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7 d. ago Associated Press scores victory after Trump banned outlet from White House events over 'Gulf of America' clash

A federal judge gave the Associated Press a major victory over Donald Trump's White House on Tuesday.

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7 d. ago Met Office map reveals where in UK temperatures soar by 10C in 24 hours

Temperatures could reach highs of 23C for parts of the UK later this week

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1 week ago As a white Afrikaner, I can claim asylum in Trump’s America. What an absurdity | Max du Preez

We are not victims, there is no genocide. This rhetoric shows that the US administration doesn’t understand my thriving countryI am a blue-blood Afrikaner, at least in terms of ancestry: both my grandfathers were young Boer soldiers in the Anglo-Boer war and I am directly related to the president of the old Transvaal Republic, Paul Kruger. I am a descendant of Dutch, French and German settlers who were brought to the southern tip of Africa in the 17th century. Unlike other colonial societies in Africa, my ancestors never left.They occupied the whole country, displacing and oppressing the Indigenous inhabitants. Eventually, their concept of white supremacy developed into a formal state policy, apartheid. The UN classified this as a crime against humanity. Miraculously, my country has been a thriving democracy and open society ever since the formal end of apartheid in 1994.Max du Preez was the founding editor of Vrye Weekblad, an anti-apartheid, Afrikaans weekly newspaper Continue rea...

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1 week ago Do YOU live near Britain's best takeaways? Interactive map reveals the locations of award

You might well have your own most cherished local takeaway - yet only a favoured few find themselves highly prized enough to win glittering awards ceremony glory.

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1 week ago Are YOU living in 'fuel poverty' without knowing? Interactive map of 36,000 neighbourhoods reveals almost 75% of households in parts of England fall below threshold

Almost three-quarters of homes in some of the country's most-deprived neighbourhoods fall below the fuel poverty threshold, MailOnline can disclose.

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1 week ago Will Trump’s tariffs ignite a global trade war? Today in Focus Extra – podcast

Donald Trump has introduced eye-watering tariffs on countries around the world. Will they ‘make America wealthy again’? Richard Partington reportsDonald Trump is on a mission to ‘make America wealthy again’. Speaking outside the White House, he said for too long the country had been ‘looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike’. Now that would come to an end, he said, as he slapped eye-watering tariffs on countries around the world.The Guardian’s senior economics correspondent, Richard Partington, explains why Trump has taken such action and how it could affect the global economy. ‘It could come at huge costs to consumers,’ he says, as markets around the world react with confusion. With prices in the US also likely to rise, will voters soon rue what the president has called ‘liberation day’? Continue reading...

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1 week ago Do you live in an asbestos hotspot? Interactive map reveals levels of deadly material in your area with one town's deaths EIGHT times higher than road traffic accidents

Today, the Mail is publishing an interactive map produced from the Asbestos Information CIC researc as part of The Mail's Asbestos: Britain's Hidden Killer campaign

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1 week ago Do you live in an asbestos hotspot? Interactive map reveals levels of deadly material in your area with one town's deaths SEVEN times higher than road traffic accidents

Today, the Mail is publishing an interactive map produced from the Asbestos Information CIC researc as part of The Mail's Asbestos: Britain's Hidden Killer campaign

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2 w. ago Brit A* student takes American SAT exams – and she's surprised by the results

Erin Meryl, who studies economics at Cambridge University, has gone viral after revealing how she tried to sit an American SAT exam to see how it compared to UK A Levels

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2 w. ago Full list of areas where 'highly pathogenic' bird flu has been detected across UK

A government map has revealed where strict bird flu prevention measures are in force across the UK

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2 w. ago Revealed: The world's best nudist beaches where sunbathers are free to get an all

It might not be everyone's cup of tea but naturism is popular in many countries around the globe. Find the locations of some of the world's best nudist beaches in this travel map...

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2 w. ago The Beatles: actors playing the Fab Four in Sam Mendes’ biopics announced

All four Beatles biopics, focusing on each member of the band, will be released in cinemas in April 2028The cast of Sam Mendes’ four upcoming Beatles biopics has been officially announced, with Harris Dickinson playing John Lennon, Paul Mescal playing Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan playing Ringo Starr and Joseph Quinn playing George Harrison.Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of films including American Beauty, 1917 and Skyfall, made a surprise appearance on stage with his Fab Four at CinemaCon, an annual industry event for Hollywood, in Las Vegas on Monday night. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago American visiting Manchester says 'I was so surprised' after making 'shocking' discovery

Kristin Wilson, who runs the Traveling with Kristin YouTube channel, revealed what she found surprising about the UK, including one thing that "shocked" her the most

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2 w. ago ‘Woodstock for elder millennials’: the Garden State soundtrack anniversary concert

The music from Zach Braff’s seminal comedy drama took centre stage for one special night bringing back artists from Imogen Heap to The ShinsIt’s been two decades since the release of Garden State, Zach Braff’s film about an alienated young actor’s struggle to find meaning in life. But while the movie itself became a cult classic, perhaps its biggest legacy is its soundtrack, which went platinum, won a Grammy and became a cultural touchstone among a certain subset of the American population.So it was no surprise that, when Braff announced a 20th-anniversary concert celebrating the album, at which each of its dozen or so artists would perform, tickets were going for hundreds of dollars. This was Woodstock for elder millennials – at least a certain swath of us who, when the soundtrack came out in 2004, found an outlet for our big teenage feelings in bands like the Shins, Frou Frou and Iron and Wine. All three were among the performers at Los Angeles’s Greek Theater on Saturday evening ...

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2 w. ago The Observer view on JD Vance: spurned in Greenland and humiliated at home, the vice

His foolish foreign trip and the response to the Signal chat leak reflect the irresponsibility of White House teamNot for the first time, JD Vance, America’s outspoken vice-president, has made a public fool of himself. He insisted on visiting Greenland despite unequivocal statements by the territory’s leaders and Denmark’s government that he was not invited and not welcome. Vance’s trip was confined to a remote Arctic base, where he briefly spoke to a few Americans. Plans to make a wider tour and speak to Greenlanders were cancelled – because Greenlanders did not want to speak to him.Such hostility is entirely understandable, given the repeated, provocative and disrespectful declarations by Vance’s boss, Donald Trump, that the US plans to annex Greenland and may do so illegally and by force. Greenland is a semi-autonomous territory within the kingdom of Denmark. Election results this month showed the vast majority of local people back expanded self-rule or outright independence. The...

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