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The backgrounds of Angela Rayner and Sir Laurie Magnus – the sleaze watchdog who holds her fate in his hands – couldn’t be more different. Labour’s “Red Queen” is a working-class council house girl who got pregnant at 16. He’s an old Etonian “quango king”, a City grandee and a pillar of the establishment. He’s…
The federal governmentβs Boeing E-4B Nightwatch β a military aircraft known, somewhat alarmingly, as the βDoomsday Planeβ β touched down at Los Angeles International Airport this week, in what may be the famed aircraftβs first-ever LAX landing. Aviation enthusiasts spotted the plane Thursday on its approach to LAX. It is billed by the U.S. Air…
During his first term, President Trump was both praised and condemned for being wildly unpredictable, pushing boundaries and disregarding long-standing norms in Washington. During the 2024 presidential campaign, then-Vice President Kamala Harris β Trumpβs opponent β spoke directly to his volatile leadership style in her final pitch to voters, saying their choice would determine βwhether…
A key committee of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to alter its recommendation on an early childhood vaccine, after a discussion that at times pitted vaccine skeptics against the CDCβs own data. After an 8 to 3 vote with one abstention, the CDCβs Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will no…
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…
The Chinese mobile app “Are You Dead?” which sounds an alarm if a user doesn’t check in every 48 hours, has announced it will drop its catchy name, after it drew international media attention. It rose to the top of paid app rankings on Apple’s App Store in China, prompting widespread media coverage among Chinese…
An experiment intended to rid βThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hillsβ alum Brandi Glanville of a facial parasite left the former reality TV star with chemical burns. In a short video posted to TikTok on Sunday that is a little startling and also a little painful-looking, Glanville, 52, said that she decided to use Nair…
Thrillers, thrillers, thrillers, so many thrillers. Every third show I review seems to be one, and even if that math is not perfectly correct, the seeming is real enough. Sometimes they are full of interesting characters and ideas, sometimes full of posturing stereotypes with nothing to say, sometimes mostly smoke and noise, and often just…
Hey, hey, theyβre the Runarounds, the latest Pinocchio band to straddle the line between fiction and fact. Meet Charlie (William Lipton), guitar! Heβs a romantic! Neil (Axel Ellis), also guitar! Not just a pothead! (He reads Ferlinghetti.) Topher (Jeremy Yun), lead guitar! The quiet one! Wyatt (Jesse Golliher), bass! The even quieter one! And Bez…
Annual energy bills will fall by Β£117 from April due to government changes, forecasters have predicted. Measures announced in the budget will mean a drop to Β£1,641 a year for a typical dualβfuel household, according to research firm Cornwall Insight. That would represent a 7% fall from the Β£1,758 being paid until the end of…
