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Shaquille OβNeal was never suspended for drug use of any kind during his decorated 19-year NBA career. The rugged 7-foot-1, 325-pound Hall of Fame center freely acknowledged playing through pain and openly worried about damage to his kidneys and liver from his prolonged use of legal anti-inflammatory medications. He also recently recounted on βInside the…
Cards on the table, when I first read a story heavily suggesting the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s mobile phone was somehow connected to requests for messages about Lord Mandelson, I thought to myself: that is an absurd conspiracy theory. After all, what are those “raising an eyebrow” at this affair saying happened? Was Number 10’s…
Chappell Roan has left her booking agency, Wasserman Music, over its founder Casey Wassermanβs ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. βAs of today, I am no longer represented by Wasserman, the talent agency led by Casey Wasserman,β Roan wrote on Monday in a post to social media. βI…
Could Andy Burnham be on the brink of becoming a member of parliament? After former minister Andrew Gwynne stepped down as a Labour MP, his Gorton and Denton constituency has been touted as a potential seat for the mayor of Greater Manchester. Starmer responds to leadership speculation – politics latest Well, he faces a BIG…
Anthony Joshua, JK Rowling and Mo Salah have been named among the UK’s 100 biggest taxpayers. The billionaire brothers behind gambling giant Betfred topped the rankings of The Sunday Times Tax List 2026 for the first time, surpassing musicians, entrepreneurs and sports stars. Fred and Peter Done, who founded the Warrington-based business in 1967, paid…
Gala Bingo players have been left “angry” and “disgusted” after a technical glitch led them to believe they had won thousands of pounds. Several punters received notifications saying they had won an online bingo game, with some able to withdraw the money. But they were later told there had been a “technical error” and the…
SACRAMENTOΒ βΒ Despite a plea from the head of the California Democratic Party for underperforming candidates to drop out of the governorβs race, all but one of the partyβs top hopefuls spurned the request. Party leaders fear the growing possibility that the crowded field will split the Democratic electorate in the stateβs June top-two primary election and…
So Trump and tariffs – what’s going on? Let’s start with the latest development and work backwards.Β The president has announced a tariff of 15% globally. Now you might be thinking “didn’t he set it at 10% on Friday?” Yes he did. But now he’s raised it to 15%. The latest pronouncement came – on…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ President Trump has harnessed the weight of his office in recent days to accelerate a campaign of retribution against his perceived political enemies and attacks on 1st Amendment protections. In the last week alone, Trump replaced a U.S. attorney investigating two of his political adversaries with a loyalist and openly directed the attorney general to…
SEOULΒ βΒ Governments and companies around the world scrambled Saturday to determine the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down most of President Trumpβs sweeping tariffs and his response with a new round of import taxes. The latest twist in the U.S. tariff roller-coaster ride, launched when Trump returned to office 13 months ago…
