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Hamas defends executions of Palestinians after Trump issues stern warning to terror group

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After Trump’s threat, Hamas official Mohammed Nazzal defends the recent executions of Palestinians in Gaza as the group seeks to settle scores with opponents.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:30 pm

Zelenskyy pitches Trump on Ukraine drone-for-Tomahawk missile exchange as president weighs escalation concerns

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President Donald Trump shows interest in a potential drone deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy but calls Tomahawk missiles a significant escalation.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:22 pm

Senators look to block Trump from engaging in ‘hostilities’ in Venezuela

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Senators Tim Kaine and Rand Paul lead bipartisan effort to prevent President Donald Trump from launching military strikes in Venezuela without Congress approval.

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:58 pm

Iran’s execution rate tops 1,000 this year as death row inmates launch hunger strike

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Iranian death row prisoners call on U.N. Secretary General António Guterres to intervene as the regime executes over 1,000 people since the start of the year.

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:47 pm

Thatcher centennial celebration examines how Reagan partnership guides modern US-UK relations

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Experts examine how the Cold War alliance between President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher influences today's U.S.-U.K. relationship amid Russian President Vladimir Putin's threats.

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:48 pm

Trump to meet with Zelenskyy as Ukraine pushes for powerful American Tomahawk missiles amid ongoing war

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seeks American Tomahawk missiles in meeting with President Donald Trump following his call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Published: October 17, 2025, 10:00 am

US military drone strike on drug 'submersible' in Caribbean leaves survivors, official confirms

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U.S. military drone strike destroyed a drug-smuggling submersible in the Caribbean Thursday, leaving 2 to 3 survivors in the water, a U.S. official tells Fox News.

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:32 am

Hamas captors once held ordinary jobs — ‘teachers and doctors,’ says ex-Israeli hostage

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Israeli hostage Tal Shoham describes increased faith and gratitude after enduring torture and starvation during 500 days held by Hamas in Gaza tunnels.

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:02 pm

Teen street musician jailed for leading anti-Putin song performance in St. Petersburg: report

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Diana Loginova faces charges for organizing an unauthorized public gathering and discrediting the Russian military after performing an anti-Putin song.

Published: October 16, 2025, 8:48 pm

Former security guard at US Embassy overseas is convicted of spying for Russia and Iran

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A former U.S. Embassy security guard in Norway was reportedly sentenced to three years and seven months after allegedly spying for Russia and Iran.

Published: October 16, 2025, 4:27 pm

IDF holds memorial ceremony at base attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7 honoring fallen troops

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) remembered the second anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Nahal Oz with a ceremony at the base this week.

Published: October 16, 2025, 2:55 pm

Trump, Putin plan Hungary meeting on Ukraine war, Zelenskyy to visit White House Friday

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President Donald Trump schedules call with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Ukraine seeks long-range Tomahawk missiles following recent Russian strikes on energy sites.

Published: October 16, 2025, 2:54 pm

Remains of last female Hamas hostage and IDF soldier handed over to Israel

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Israel received two more deceased hostages' bodies, including that of Inbar Hayman, who was considered to be the last female hostage in Gaza.

Published: October 16, 2025, 11:44 am

Trump signals new trust in Erdogan, raising concerns over Turkey’s ambitions in Gaza and beyond

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Turkey seeks expanded influence in Gaza through construction contracts and peacekeeping roles as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rebuilds trust with Washington after the ceasefire.

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:00 am

State Department aware of reports after American tourists attacked, 1 killed in popular seaside destination

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State Department aware of reports from coastal town near Lisbon, Portugal, as Cascais police investigate after two Americans attacked, leaving one dead.

Published: October 16, 2025, 12:28 am

Live Updates: Trump Equivocates on Ukraine’s Request for Long-Range Missiles

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As President Trump renews efforts to end the war, President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked for Tomahawk missiles capable of striking deep into Russia. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has warned against providing them.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:58 pm

Madagascar’s President Was Ousted After Youth Protests. Now What?

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The young people who toppled the government are now confronting questions about what’s next, and who will deliver on their demands.

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:02 pm

Chevron Thrives in Venezuela Despite Threats by Trump

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Chevron enjoys unusual sway in socialist-led Venezuela, positioning the energy colossus to gain from whatever comes of the crisis between Washington and Caracas.

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:30 pm

Internet Clampdown Strains Iranians’ Links to One Another, and the World

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Since its brief June war with Israel, Iran has throttled internet traffic and jammed GPS, making day-to-day tasks online challenging and prompting fears of greater surveillance.

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:07 pm

Prince Andrew Surrenders Duke of York Title Amid Epstein Fallout

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The royal’s fall from grace began nearly six years ago with a calamitous television interview about his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:37 pm

Devastating Floods in Mexico Test President Claudia Sheinbaum

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Torrential rains last week brought death and widespread damage. President Claudia Sheinbaum has visited affected areas, facing some angry residents.

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:55 pm

How a U.K. Spy Case Against China Abruptly Fell Apart

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Evidence prepared for a collapsed espionage trial was published by an under-pressure government in Britain, offering a window into Western countries’ struggle to define Beijing as friend or foe.

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:32 pm

After ‘Horrors,’ Israeli Hostages Taste Freedom and Savor Family Reunions

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Some former captives have been sent home from the hospital. But a doctor said they all had “endured untold adversity,” as details emerge of their time in Gaza’s tunnels.

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:17 pm

Starmer Objects as Police Bar Israeli Team’s Fans From U.K. Soccer Game

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Confrontation has shadowed Israeli teams’ games in Europe since the start of the Gaza war. Local authorities sought to bar visiting fans at a game in central England next month.

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:56 pm

Russia Jails Street Band for Performing Antiwar Songs

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The group, called Stoptime, had been performing anti-Kremlin songs for months and gaining in popularity before the authorities moved against the open dissent.

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:22 pm

China Ousts Senior General on Corruption Charges

With the fall of He Weidong, the No. 3 figure in China’s military hierarchy, Xi Jinping’s purges have reached the top of the People’s Liberation Army.

Published: October 17, 2025, 12:39 pm

Funeral Is Held for Raila Odinga, a Pillar of Kenya’s Democracy

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Thousands paid their respects at a stadium in Nairobi. President William Ruto said the spirit of Mr. Odinga, who died at 80, “lives within every Kenyan and every African.”

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:10 pm

Vivienne Westwood Show Opens Riyadh Fashion Week, as Saudis Highlight Creative Side

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Some Saudis see the provocative brand’s appearance as one more example of the kingdom’s pursuit of cultural cachet. But some critics see incongruity in such pairings.

Published: October 17, 2025, 10:00 am

Meet the Designer Who Got Zelensky Into a Suit

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Viktor Anisimov, one of Ukraine’s top fashion designers, first met Volodymyr Zelensky about 20 years ago, when the future president was a comedian. He didn’t want to wear a suit then either.

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:40 pm

Maps: Where the U.S. Is Building Up Military Force in the Caribbean

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About 10,000 U.S. troops and dozens of military aircraft and ships are in the region as the Trump administration increases pressure on Venezuela.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:56 pm

Bessent Stakes Credibility and Taxpayer Money on Argentina Bet

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s multibillion-dollar bailout of a serial defaulter raises the specter of losses for the United States.

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:38 pm

Teresa Ulloa Ziáurriz, Rights Advocate Who Fought Sex Traffickers, Dies at 75

In Mexico, where the cult of machismo has long held sway, she waged a lonely, sometimes dangerous and often single-handed fight against prostitution and organized sex rings.

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:22 pm

What to Know About Madagascar’s Government

After weeks of protests calling for him to resign, Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, seemed to have left the country, and the military said it had taken control. John Eligon, the Johannesburg bureau chief for The New York Times, explains what we know and don’t know.

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:35 pm

OpenAI Blocks Videos of Martin Luther King Jr. After Racist Depictions

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People have used its Sora video app to create vulgar and sometimes racist depictions of the civil rights leader.

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:29 pm

U.S. Pressures Countries to Delay Fees to Clean Up Ship Pollution

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Under threats of tariffs and other sanctions from the U.S., nations postponed a vote on whether to charge fees on emissions from ships.

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:57 pm

Putin Plays to Trump’s Ego as U.S. Wavers on Ukraine Aid

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After Thursday’s phone call with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, President Trump appeared to express doubts about supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons.

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:15 pm

Zelensky to Meet With Trump to Discuss Weapons and Peace Prospects for Ukraine

President Trump is energized after the Mideast deal between Israel and Hamas. But President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine is seeking more weapons to force Russia to negotiate.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:58 pm

Save the Whales. But Save the Microbes, Too.

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Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes.

Published: October 17, 2025, 9:02 am

Explosion Destroys Vehicles Outside Home of Italian Journalist

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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the attack on Sigfrido Ranucci, the host of the investigative program “Report.”

Published: October 17, 2025, 12:33 pm

Tomiichi Murayama, Japanese Leader Who Gave Landmark War Apology, Dies at 101

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His televised address as prime minister, delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender, set a marker for his country’s “deep remorse” over wartime atrocities.

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:26 pm

U.S. Military Killed Venezuelan Fisherman in Suspected Drug Boat Attack, Family Says

For the first time, one of the 27 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on suspected drug vessels has been publicly identified.

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:35 am

Trump Warns Hamas of Strikes if Violence in Gaza Continues

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The president later clarified that the United States would not be involved in such an action.

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:28 pm

What’s Next for the Gaza Cease-Fire Plan

Israel and Hamas have reached a cease-fire deal in Gaza, but the hard part starts now. David Sanger of The New York Times describes the major obstacles to further agreement about Gaza’s immediate future.

Published: October 16, 2025, 9:19 pm

How to Live a Long and Healthy Life as an Introvert

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Our personal health reporter explains why it’s the quality, not quantity, of socializing that matters.

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:31 am

2 Dead After Kenyan Police Fire Bullets at Raila Odinga Memorial

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The deadly tumult was the latest example of officers using force to quell demonstrations in the country.

Published: October 16, 2025, 9:52 pm

Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize Brings Hope and Scrutiny to Venezuela’s Opposition

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Ms. Machado’s efforts to reclaim a stolen election by any available means, including military intervention, has long galvanized her supporters. Her opponents say these hard-line policies have a political cost.

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:40 pm

Kanchha Sherpa, Last Member of First Team to Conquer Everest, Dies at 92

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A trip to India to find work led to a career climbing the world’s highest mountain.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:30 am

A History of the C.I.A.’s Involvement in Latin America, From Bay of Pigs to Chile Coups

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For much of the 20th century, the C.I.A. devised plots to overthrow governments, kill high-profile leaders or arm dissident groups.

Published: October 17, 2025, 11:20 am

After ‘Productive’ Call, Trump Plans Another Meeting With Putin

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President Trump has come close to imposing penalties on Russia several times, only to backtrack after talking with President Vladimir Putin and raising hopes for a diplomatic solution to the war.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:25 am

Yemen’s Houthis Confirm Killing of Top Military Official

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It was unclear when Maj. Gen. Mohammed al-Ghomari was killed, or by whom, but Israel appeared to claim the killing.

Published: October 16, 2025, 5:28 pm

Oscar Wilde Gets His Library Card Back, 125 Years After His Death

The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of gross indecency. On Thursday, the British Library will hand over a symbolic new card to his grandson.

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:02 pm

How Raila Odinga Symbolized the Good and Bad of Kenyan Politics

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He was one of the most pivotal public figures in Kenya. He died this week after fighting against tribalism for decades.

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:35 am

Fire in Party Office Raises Tensions as Cameroon Awaits Election Results

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The blaze and arrests of protesters highlight the strife in the country, whose longtime president faced rare electoral opposition.

Published: October 16, 2025, 8:38 pm

Russia Is Arming Drones With North Korean Cluster Weapons, Report Says

Though Pyongyang has largely pulled its soldiers off the front lines in Ukraine, it is expanding the types of ammunition it supplies to Russia.

Published: October 16, 2025, 4:44 pm

Where Does the Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Stand?

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Unresolved issues — mainly over the exchange of the remains of hostages and prisoners — threaten to destabilize the fragile agreement.

Published: October 16, 2025, 9:16 pm

World Meteorological Report Marks Biggest Annual Jump in CO2 Levels

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Surging emissions from wildfires may have been behind the increase, which was the largest since modern measurements began more than half a century ago.

Published: October 16, 2025, 4:34 pm

Vatican Panel Says Church Is Still Too Slow in Addressing Sexual Abuse

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The commission’s report highlights the difficulties Pope Leo faces in trying to end clerical abuses and ensure abusers are held to account.

Published: October 16, 2025, 6:05 pm

India Tiptoes Around Trump’s Latest Claims on Russian Oil Purchases

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The government subtly rebuffed the president’s comments that it would stop buying Russian oil, as it tries to avoid a public fight and end a trade dispute with Washington.

Published: October 16, 2025, 2:06 pm

Israel Marks Two Years Since Oct. 7 as a Fragile Cease-Fire in Gaza Holds

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Ceremonies took place on Thursday to commemorate two years since the surprise attack of Oct. 7, 2023, on southern Israel.

Published: October 16, 2025, 3:57 pm

China Fans Patriotic Sentiment as Trade War With U.S. Heats Up

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Chinese state media is rallying the public and posting old propaganda footage, but officials are also careful to leave room for talks with President Trump.

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:12 am

France’s Government Narrowly Survives No-Confidence Vote

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The result gives Sébastien Lecornu, France’s prime minister, a reprieve after weeks of political turmoil. But he still has to get a budget passed by the end of the year.

Published: October 16, 2025, 2:27 pm

Armed With Anemones: How Some Young Fish Survive in the Sea

Photos taken by blackwater divers offered a new glimpse into the early life stages of marine fishes and their interactions with other animals.

Published: October 16, 2025, 9:03 am

How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria and Justice

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As Syria’s regime collapsed, the world’s eyes were on Bashar al-Assad’s getaway flight. Behind him, officials key to his brutal rule made a mass exodus, virtually undetected.

Published: October 16, 2025, 2:52 pm

Inside the Reporting on Assad’s Top Officials Who Fled Syria

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New York Times reporters compiled a wide array of clues to uncover what happened to Bashar al-Assad’s key enforcers after the fall of the regime.

Published: October 16, 2025, 9:00 am

Guatemala Welcomes U.S. Help in Gang Crackdown After Prison Break

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President Bernardo Arévalo called an overhaul of his country’s prison system an “absolute priority” after 20 inmates accused of belonging to the Barrio 18 group were found to have escaped undetected.

Published: October 16, 2025, 6:55 pm

China’s Own Immigration Backlash

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The response to a new visa for skilled foreign workers has caught even the Chinese government by surprise.

Published: October 16, 2025, 4:32 am

Hamas Says It Has Returned All Hostage Remains It Can Recover

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The militants said they would need special equipment to retrieve more bodies in Gaza. The announcement could put the truce with Israel at risk.

Published: October 16, 2025, 2:34 am

Judge Throws Out Children’s Lawsuit Against Trump’s Energy Policies

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The group had challenged the president’s executive orders as unconstitutional. A judge “reluctantly” said the suit was too broad in scope.

Published: October 16, 2025, 4:21 pm

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

Published: October 16, 2025, 4:08 pm

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

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The development comes as the U.S. military is drawing up options for President Trump to consider, including possible strikes inside the country.

Published: October 16, 2025, 8:45 am

Routine school day turns tragic as staffer dies after student allegedly boots her in chest: DA

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Staff member Amy Morrell died after a 14-year-old student allegedly kicked her in the chest during an attempted departure from the dorm at a Massachusetts therapeutic school.

Published: October 17, 2025, 8:00 pm

Illegal immigrant accused of offering $10K bounties to kill ICE agents on TikTok arrested with loaded gun: DHS

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Federal authorities arrested Eduardo Aguilar in Dallas after he allegedly offered $10,000 bounties on TikTok for killing ICE agents and was found with a loaded gun.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:27 pm

Mother says alleged stalker who killed her daughter should be tried as an adult

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Mother of Maria Niotis calls for justice after teenage daughter and friend Isabella Salas died in New Jersey crash involving alleged juvenile stalker facing murder charges.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:24 pm

Epstein documents: House committee releases transcript with former US attorney who negotiated plea deal

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The House Oversight Committee released more documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein on Friday afternoon. The committee released an interview with former US attorney Alex Acosta.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:23 pm

Two illegal immigrant police officers busted in just 3 months have one thing in common

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Jon Luke Evans and Radule Bojovic, serving as police officers in Maine and Illinois, were arrested by ICE for being in the U.S. illegally despite passing background checks.

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:46 pm

US military seized survivors after Caribbean drone strike on suspected drug smuggling boat: report

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The Trump administration conducted a sixth deadly drone strike against suspected drug vessel, killing at least one and capturing survivors in the Caribbean.

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:27 pm

Video shows masked trio in Halloween costumes terrorize family in attempted home invasion

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Video captures three suspects in Halloween masks attempting to break into an Alexandria, Virginia, woman's home while allegedly threatening the family inside.

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:48 pm

FBI arrests alleged pro-Hamas Oct. 7 attacker living in Louisiana

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The FBI has arrested a suspect in Louisiana, identified as Mahmoud Amin Ya'qub Al-Muhtadi, who allegedly participated in Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel.

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:49 pm

Organized crime rings drive street takeovers by using kids to steal cars for wild stunts: expert

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Street takeovers organized on social media involve stolen high-performance cars, with thieves targeting luxury vehicles and using new technology to steal them.

Published: October 17, 2025, 12:00 pm

John Bolton indicted on classified materials retention charges and more top headlines

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Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox.

Published: October 17, 2025, 11:24 am

'No Kings' organizer discourages violence following coast-to-coast arrests

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Lisa Gilbert of Public Citizen defends 'No Kings' protests as peaceful despite June 14 violence that led to arrests in Texas, Utah, California and other states.

Published: October 17, 2025, 10:00 am

DHS to impose $1K fee for migrants granted humanitarian parole

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The Department of Homeland Security announced that migrants paroled in the U.S. would face a new $1,000 immigration fee "to institute accountability and prevent rampant fraud."

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:49 am

Fox News ‘Antisemitism Exposed’ Newsletter: Hostages' 'deep and lasting effects' revealed

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Fox News' "Antisemitism Exposed" newsletter brings you stories on the rising anti-Jewish prejudice across the U.S. and the world.

Published: October 16, 2025, 11:26 pm

Video shows gunman ‘lying in wait’ to ambush businessman outside estate as police hunt shooter: prosecutor

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Macomb County authorities search for a suspect in the attempted murder of businessman Eddie Jawad, who survived an ambush outside his home Tuesday morning.

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:34 pm

Officials release cause of death for newlywed couple found in car just days before anniversary

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Illinois officials have released a cause of death for a newlywed couple that was found dead in their car on Oct. 6, but an investigation is still ongoing.

Published: October 16, 2025, 8:56 pm

Massachusetts woman charged with threatening to kill federal agents while interfering with immigration arrest

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Bethany Abigail Terrill was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill federal agents who were making an immigration arrest outside a Massachusetts court.

Published: October 16, 2025, 7:18 pm

Blue state governor vows 'zero tolerance' approach to street takeovers after violent attack on law enforcement

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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced the results of a crackdown on illegal street takeovers by the state police, saying seven new arrests have been made.

Published: October 16, 2025, 5:54 pm

ICE arrests illegal alien sworn in as suburban Chicago police officer: 'Pritzker's Illinois'

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests Illinois officer Radule Bojovic, who was living illegally in the U.S. for a decade after overstaying visa.

Published: October 16, 2025, 5:49 pm

Colorado driver walks away from dangerous 300-foot highway crash with minor injuries: 'A miracle'

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Rescuers helped a driver who miraculously walked away from a 300-foot fall off Colorado's treacherous Million Dollar Highway with minor injuries.

Published: October 16, 2025, 5:29 pm

DOJ brings first Antifa-related terrorism charges in Texas ICE attack

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Cameron Arnold and Zachary Evetts become first Antifa members charged with terrorism-related offenses for July 4 attack on ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas.

Published: October 16, 2025, 5:01 pm

Blue city repeat offender accused of metal pipe rampage just days after release

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A 23-year-old New York City man faces new assault charges after allegedly striking three victims with a metal pipe in separate Bronx attacks on Wednesday.

Published: October 16, 2025, 4:25 pm

Chinese USC grad student accused of drugging, raping multiple women

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Chinese national Sizhe 'Steven' Weng could face life in prison for alleged drug-facilitated sexual assaults spanning three years in Los Angeles.

Published: October 16, 2025, 3:36 pm

Police chase ends with truck explosion and fire in dramatic scene captured on camera

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A traffic stop outside Kansas City escalated into a slow-speed pursuit that concluded with a truck fire and explosion in Clay County, Missouri.

Published: October 16, 2025, 2:07 pm

Judge sides with Democrat historian to temporarily block Trump presidential library deal in Florida

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A Florida judge has temporarily blocked the transfer of a site earmarked for President Donald Trump’s future presidential library in Miami, Florida.

Published: October 16, 2025, 12:23 pm

Florida thieves ambush couple at gunpoint after tracking them with AirTag, police say

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Luis Charles and Odardy Maldonado-Rodriguez allegedly used an Apple AirTag to track a Florida couple to their Odessa home before holding them at gunpoint.

Published: October 16, 2025, 12:16 pm

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow National Guard Deployment in Chicago Area

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The president has mobilized state-based military forces to U.S. cities over the objections of state and local officials.

Published: October 17, 2025, 8:19 pm

Maps: Where the U.S. Is Building Up Military Force in the Caribbean

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About 10,000 U.S. troops and dozens of military aircraft and ships are in the region as the Trump administration increases pressure on Venezuela.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:56 pm

U.S. Detains 2 Survivors of Latest Military Strike in Caribbean

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The capture of prisoners presents a major new set of legal and policy problems for the Trump administration in its escalating campaign.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:53 pm

Bessent Stakes Credibility and Taxpayer Money on Argentina Bet

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s multibillion-dollar bailout of a serial defaulter raises the specter of losses for the United States.

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:38 pm

Massachusetts School Employee Dies After Trying to Restrain Student

The student, 14, has been charged with assault.

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:35 pm

Some Chicago Businesses Feeling the Impact of Trump’s Immigration Blitz

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More customers and workers are staying home, they say, leading to lower revenue and worries of wider economic repercussions for the city.

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:00 pm

John Bolton Pleads Not Guilty to Charges of Mishandling Classified Documents

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Mr. Bolton appeared in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., a day after he was indicted by a grand jury.

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:42 pm

Trump Pushes Indiana Lawmakers to Redraw State Maps

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A call Friday morning by the president to Republican state senators is part of an escalating pressure campaign by the White House.

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:47 pm

Trump Officials Appeal Challenge to Their Efforts to Restrict D.E.I.

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A federal judge had previously stopped the administration from cutting off billions to schools that have diversity and equity programs.

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:20 pm

Unions Return to Court as Trump Eyes Additional Cuts During Shutdown

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Unions representing federal workers told a judge they believed the administration might violate a temporary ban on layoffs during the shutdown.

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:51 pm

For Ukraine, Budapest brings back painful memories of security promises broken.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 1:40 pm

How Would Putin, Who Faces an International Arrest Warrant, Get to Hungary to See Trump?

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Questions loom about whether the Russian president might be subject to arrest while traversing the airspace of International Criminal Court members.

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:46 pm

Senators Move to Force Vote to Bar Ground Strikes in Venezuela

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The bid comes after the Senate rejected a similar measure to curb President Trump’s attacks against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean Sea.

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:07 pm

The Guilt of Not Being Bilingual

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A new comic book exhibit showed me how the genre has grown, but it also stirred up other feelings.

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:00 pm

U.S. Says Louisiana Man Joined Hamas-Led 2023 Attack on Israel

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The man appeared in court on Friday morning, after federal prosecutors accused him of joining Gazan militants in attacking Israel and lying to obtain a U.S. visa.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:30 pm

What We Know About the Latest ‘No Kings’ Protests Amid Government Shutdown

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The nationwide protests are playing out as a federal government shutdown lingers and troops are being deployed in cities.

Published: October 17, 2025, 9:04 am

Universities Are Standing Up to Trump

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A White House proposal for special funding treatment crossed a line for several schools. Some say it feels like a turning point in the federal government’s battle with higher education.

Published: October 17, 2025, 9:03 am

ICE Deported a Teen and Her Mother. Devastation Met Them in Guatemala.

ICE deported 17-year-old Nory Sontay Ramos and her mother. Devastation met them in Guatemala.

Published: October 17, 2025, 11:19 am

Top San Francisco Lawmaker Expected to Challenge Nancy Pelosi in Primary

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Ms. Pelosi, 85, has not yet said whether she will run again. The challenge would be the latest example of the Democratic Party facing a push for generational change.

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:08 am

Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force

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The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump.

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:56 am

In Virginia A.G. Debate, Spotlight Is on Democratic Candidate’s Violent Texts

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Jay Jones apologized for his threatening messages and tried to tie his opponent, Jason Miyares, to President Trump’s policies.

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:46 am

Small Plane Crashes in Michigan, Killing 3

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The cause of the plane crash was not immediately known, officials said.

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:28 am

Police Warn Against Pranking People With A.I. Images of Homeless Intruder

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Law enforcement departments in several states said that an online trend in which people are tricked into believing a homeless man is in their homes could have dangerous consequences.

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:19 am

How the Bolton Indictment Compares to Trump’s Classified Documents Case

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Some charges against the onetime national security adviser resemble the dropped case against President Trump, but there are also differences.

Published: October 17, 2025, 12:52 am

Wisconsin Man Used TikTok to Call for the Killing of ICE Agents, U.S. Says

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Andrew Stanton, 38, was charged with threatening federal law enforcement officers, whom he said should be shot. He pleaded not guilty and remains in custody.

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:08 am

Parties Brace for a Political Future Without the Voting Rights Act

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After the Supreme Court appeared poised to weaken a key provision of the landmark civil rights law, both parties began to reckon with an uncertain future.

Published: October 16, 2025, 9:54 pm

Trump Warns Hamas of Strikes if Violence in Gaza Continues

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The president later clarified that the United States would not be involved in such an action.

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:28 pm

John Bolton Indicted Over Handling of Classified Information

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Mr. Bolton, a Trump aide turned critic, is part of a string of presidential foes to become prosecutorial targets. But his case gained momentum in the Biden administration.

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:55 am

Republicans double down after outrage over Senate GOP’s AI-generated deepfake of top Democrat Chuck Schumer

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Political journalists and observers warned that the AI-animated ad marked a ‘slippery slope’ and that ‘new boundaries’ were being pushed.

Published: October 17, 2025, 8:22 pm

Trump falsely claims no other US president has ever solved a war

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The president’s comments came as he welcomed Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House

Published: October 17, 2025, 8:20 pm

Mom’s worst nightmare: Woman nearly lost custody of her 5-year-old after medical tests falsely showed STDs

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Ordeal happened after mother brought her sick daughter to an urgent care center in Atlanta area of College Park for testing

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:46 pm

Cartel crackdown or conflict creation? Trump’s Venezuela strategy raises questions

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Scholars warn U.S. military actions in Venezuela may stretch the bounds of international law

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:45 pm

Zelensky offers to make drones deal with Trump for Tomahawk missiles at White House summit

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Donald Trump’s meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky began markedly differently to the one in February – but Trump was reluctant to publicly commit to sending Kyiv coveted long-range weapons

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:44 pm

Trump drops F-word live on air during White House meeting with Zelensky

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Trump was taking questions from reporters and was asked about Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro when he dropped the expletive

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:32 pm

Over 76,000 dressers sold on Amazon recalled for tip-over risk

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Customers who own the recalled WLIVE Fabric 12-drawer dressers must provide a photo showing proof of disposal to receive a refund

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:16 pm

Dangerous TikTok trend hospitalizes teenager in Florida: ‘The fire risk is real’

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Boy left with “life changing injuries” after he set himself on fire in St. Petersburg

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:13 pm

Colorado hospital paused surgeries for a week after inspectors found hundreds of instruments covered in ‘dried blood and tissue’

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The hospital had to take drastic steps after the incident

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:51 pm

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump warns supplying Tomahawks could be ‘escalation’ in Zelensky White House meeting

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Ukraine’s president is lobbying Trump to provide Tomahawk missiles to help in the war against Russia

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:35 pm

Louisiana man took part in Oct 7 Hamas attack on Israel, FBI says

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Mahmoud Amin Ya'qub Al-Muhtad denied he had ever been involved in terrorist activities, and became a legal permanent resident in 2024, the complaint says

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:31 pm

Arizonans warned against licking toxic toads that have appeared after heavy rainfall

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The National Park Service issued a similar warning in 2022 about the deadly risks of licking toxic Sonoran Desert toads

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:26 pm

Trump-backer Joe Rogan shreds president’s decision to deploy National Guard as ‘a dangerous precedent’

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The wildly popular podcaster joins a growing number of Americans opposing Trump’s use of the military against civilians – one reason behind the‘ No Kings’ protests this coming weekend

Published: October 17, 2025, 6:26 pm

Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton pleads not guilty to mishandling classified docs and faces decades in prison

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Bolton is accused of retaining and sharing defense information while serving as national security adviser during the first Trump administration

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:03 pm

Hamas reaffirms commitment to ceasefire as delays in returning hostages' bodies fray nerves

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Hamas has moved to shore up its brittle ceasefire agreement with Israel by reaffirming its commitment to the terms of the deal that includes a pledge to hand over the remains of all dead Israeli hostages

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:36 pm

Cop nearly ‘threw up’ after finding 11-year-old autistic boy weighing just 46 pounds living in squalor in Texas home

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The boy’s mother has been charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:23 pm

Kremlin proposes 70-mile ‘Putin-Trump unity tunnel’ linking the US and Russia – built by Elon Musk

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Kirill Dmitriev suggested the undersea tunnel could be built for less than $8bn by Elon Musk’s Boring Company

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:56 pm

‘It’s a trickle – we need a flood’: Northern Gaza is still not seeing enough aid despite ceasefire, humanitarian agencies warn

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The ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel has allowed more aid to flow into Gaza – but obstacles remain, particularly in the north

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:52 pm

Only 15 reporters remain in Pentagon after press pledge prompted walkouts. This is who they are

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A handful of reporters from pro-Trump outlets signed the policy, as well as freelancers from foreign-based publications and obscure independent websites.

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:51 pm

Watch live: Trump meets Zelensky at White House after Putin’s missile warning

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Watch live as Donald Trump meets Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday (17 October).

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:35 pm

‘I am a good boy’: Eric Trump responds after hot mic catches Indonesian president asking his dad for meeting

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Donald Trump’s son grilled about possible conflict of interest in father arranging personal business matters on political trip but insists ‘huge wall’ keeps the two concerns apart

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:06 pm

Trump admits that his 157% tariff on China is ‘not sustainable’ but shrugs off changing it

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During a Fox interview, Donald Trump also criticized Richard Nixon for his landmark 1972 visit to Beijing

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:03 pm

Czech fishermen gather to catch fish destined for traditional Christmas meal

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Carp is not just a delicacy but an indispensable centrepiece of their festive celebrations

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:01 pm

Three killed after Kenyan security forces fire on crowds mourning opposition leader

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Dramatic footage of the incident showed panicked mourners running for cover as shots were fired at the memorial event for the Kenyan opposition leader. There has also been a stampede at Raila Odinga’s funeral

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:49 pm

Putin’s mini-coup in the White House has beaten Zelensky to the punch with Trump

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Putin sneaked in a call to the White House before Zelensky arrived in the US, turning Trump back to his side after the president drifted towards democracy. World affairs editor Sam Kiley in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, explains how

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:32 pm

Chick-fil-A issues a groveling apology after Black cop is forced to pay for meal while White cops were free

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Tracey Reid, a sergeant in the Clover Police Department in South Carolina, said that he felt "humiliated" during the incident, which he feels was racially motivated

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:31 pm

From Spice Girl to fashion mogul, Victoria Beckham grabs the chance to tell her own tale

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Sounds hard to believe, but a young Victoria Beckham was put in the back row at theater school for being too heavy

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:24 pm

‘Phantom hacker’ scam that targets the elderly has stolen over $1B in the past 12 months

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Increasingly sophisticated AI-enabled scams up 600 percent over the last year

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:08 pm

How the murder of an ice-cream seller from Florida embodies a hidden war on the West Bank

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Even as Donald Trump touts peace in the Middle East with his Gaza ceasefire deal, the families of US citizens killed in unprecedented settler violence in the West Bank are getting no answers, reports chief international correspondent Bel Trew in Al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:56 pm

School employee dies after being kicked in the chest by 14-year-old student she was trying to restrain

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Meadowridge Academy is a ‘residential therapeutic school’ about 50 miles outside of Boston

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:48 pm

A veteran Marine was found shot dead after working an Uber shift. Now three teens have been arrested

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The Texas teens allegedly shot the Marine veteran, who was driving for Uber, and dragged his body to the side of a Harris County road

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:27 pm

Popular grocery chain recalls ice cream after a possibly ‘serious or life-threatening’ mistake

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Publix said French Vanilla ice cream was mistakenly labeled as Vanilla, risking severe allergic reactions from eggs

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:23 pm

Political deadlock and spending on dual crises leaves French finances in disarray

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France is a major industrial power, the world’s seventh-largest economy

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:21 pm

Stephen Miller is selling his home after his wife said they would ‘not back down’ from sidewalk chalk messages

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The house, which is nearly 6000 square feet in size, is based in an affluent Arlington neighborhood in Virginia and is listed for $3.75 million

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:20 pm

Over 6,000 truck drivers have been pulled from the road for failing Trump’s demand they be proficient in English

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The DOT is withholding $40 million from California, claiming the state is not complying with the English-language proficiency order for commercial truck drivers

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:17 pm

MAGA targets prestigious Christian private school in Nashville for not doing enough to honor Charlie Kirk

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Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, attacked over response to Kirk memorial staged by students and accused of left-wing bias by reality TV star Savannah Chrisley

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:12 pm

Kevin Federline says his sons with Britney Spears are the reason for his new memoir

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Britney Spears' ex-husband Kevin Federline is telling his side of their time together in a new memoir being released Tuesday

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:07 pm

Trump goes on spyware purchasing blitz to help ICE find people who they claim want to ‘overthrow of the United States Government’

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ICE is spending tens of millions of dollars on new spyware contracts, including eye-scanning and facial recognition apps

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:58 pm

Fired Stephen Colbert professes his ‘love’ for new CBS boss David Ellison: ‘That oughta buy us a couple more months’

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‘Mr. Ellison, I love you,’ Stephen Colbert joked on Thursday night

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:57 pm

RFK Jr uses platform during Trump event to go on rant about teenager’s sperm

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Health secretary again warns of declining fertility rate and claims teens less fertile than men approaching 70

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:25 pm

Woman who fatally stabbed 3-year-old in five-second attack as mom loaded groceries is found guilty of murder

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The woman ambushed the toddler and his mom after they walked out of the store

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:23 pm

John Bolton compares Trump administration to Stalin’s secret police after becoming latest political enemy to be indicted

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National defense hawk vows to expose ‘abuse of power’ after criminal charges over classified documents

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:22 pm

Apple's new five-year deal with Formula 1: What it means for US fans

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Formula 1 has announced a five-year deal with Apple to become its U.S. broadcast partner, replacing ESPN starting next season

Published: October 17, 2025, 1:00 pm

‘Can’t get more pro-life than this’: Trump brushes off IVF concerns of some conservatives as he rolls out drug price drop

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In vitro fertilization has emerged as a wedge issue within the Trump coalition, as some praise the treatment for supporting the president’s goal of increasing new births, while others criticize IVF on pro-life grounds

Published: October 17, 2025, 12:59 pm

At least three dead in apartment explosion in Romania’s capital city

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The cause of the fatal explosion was not immediately clear

Published: October 17, 2025, 12:51 pm

Police search after Picasso painting disappears on way to exhibition

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After discovering the painting was missing, the foundation filed a complaint with Spain's national police

Published: October 17, 2025, 12:42 pm

Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre suffered nightmares of ‘greedy men on top of her’ years after abuse, new memoir reveals

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Giuffre described the aftermath of her abuse in the posthumous book Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir Of Surviving Abuse And Fighting For Justice

Published: October 17, 2025, 12:15 pm

National Guard will be deployed during ‘Antifa-linked’ No Kings protests in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott says

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Austin Mayor Kirk Watson says Guardsmen will be on hand but not called upon ‘unless there is a determination that there is an emergency need’

Published: October 17, 2025, 12:15 pm

Bolton is expected to surrender after indictment over his handling of classified information

John Bolton is expected to surrender to authorities and make his first court appearance

Published: October 17, 2025, 11:39 am

Australians accused in fatal shooting of fellow national could face death penalty in Bali

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Australian nationals to be charged with premeditated murder and illegal possession of firearms

Published: October 17, 2025, 11:18 am

Multiple Republican congressional offices have received American flags with embedded ‘optical illusion’ swastikas: report

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The news comes just days after a Young Republican’s group chat rife with homophobic and racist slurs was leaked

Published: October 17, 2025, 11:03 am

Museum makes appeal to Taylor Swift after fans flock to see ‘Ophelia’ painting

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A German museum has seen hundreds of additional visitors due to a scene in Swift’s new video

Published: October 17, 2025, 11:01 am

The violent Amsterdam football riot that led police to fear clashes at Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match

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Keir Starmer has criticised the ban and said ‘we will not tolerate antisemitism on our streets’

Published: October 17, 2025, 10:57 am

What is the ‘Blue Slip’ that Trump claims is stopping his nominations from getting through?

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Procedure dating back to early 20th century is frustrating the president’s ability to appoint judges and U.S. attorneys

Published: October 17, 2025, 10:29 am

Hackers take control of airport PA system to shout anti-Trump and anti-Israel messages prompting federal investigation

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Display screens in Canada were also hacked to feature messages about the war between Israel and Gaza

Published: October 17, 2025, 10:10 am

UK authorities seek to reverse decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Villa game

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British officials are working to overturn a decision preventing Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending a Europa League game at Aston Villa

Published: October 17, 2025, 9:27 am

Israel, grocery prices, and Trump: Key moments from Mamdani-Cuomo’s New York mayoral debate

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Democrat Zohran Mamdani and independent ex-governor Andrew Cuomo clash over experience, allegations of antisemitism and Islamophobia, and how to handle the president

Published: October 17, 2025, 9:22 am

Russia gives long prison sentences to captured volunteer Ukrainian fighters

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Their trial took place behind closed doors in a military court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don

Published: October 17, 2025, 9:02 am

Alaska floods: What we know as hundreds evacuated after devastating storm

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Hundreds of residents from remote Alaska Native villages are being airlifted after a storm battered their communities

Published: October 17, 2025, 8:56 am

Trump refiles $15B New York Times lawsuit after judge skewered the original complaint as being too long and embellished

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Trump’s first lawsuit included lines which described his 2024 electoral victory as the ‘greatest personal and political achievement in American history’

Published: October 17, 2025, 8:47 am

Big Tech training teachers to prepare classrooms for AI revolution

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AFT is planning to build an AI training hub that will offer virtual and in-person workshops for teachers

Published: October 17, 2025, 8:29 am

Search ends for four-year-old boy missing in South Australia’s rugged outback

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Authorities found no new evidence in case of boy whose disappearance captured the nation’s attention

Published: October 17, 2025, 8:21 am

Tomahawk missiles are Trump’s ace card for Ukraine – Zelensky says it’s time to play it

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The US president has shown he loves to back a winner – especially one that uses US weapons – which means Zelensky must convince him that he’s the one to back with Tomahawk missiles, writes Sam Kiley in Dnipro

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:54 pm

Ted Cruz claims ‘Christian mass murder’ is happening in Nigeria. But what does the data say?

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US Senator Cruz is pushing for Nigeria to be labelled a ‘country of particular concern’

Published: October 17, 2025, 8:05 am

IKEA is struggling to stick to famously low prices due to Trump tariffs

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Popular affordable furniture brand hints it could be forced to raise the price of its products in response to the ongoing econominc uncertainty in the U.S.

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:24 am

Italy's Meloni offers solidarity with journalist after explosive device targets his car

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Italy's state-run RAI says an explosive device detonated under the car of one of its leading investigative journalists that was parked outside his home

Published: October 17, 2025, 7:20 am

Australia shares tips on how to wean children off social media ahead of ban

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Messages raising awareness will be shared across digital channels, television, radio and billboards

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:59 am

Susan Stamberg, first woman to host national news program, dies age 87

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She later became a cultural correspondent for Morning Edition and Weekend Edition Saturday

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:38 am

Hundreds gather for rare anti-Putin demonstration in St Petersburg singing protest songs: ‘The old man clings to his throne’

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Young people sang ‘Swan Lake Collective’ a song by a Russian rapper that was banned by a court

Published: October 16, 2025, 1:19 pm

Greta Thunberg claims she was ‘kicked and had wh*** written on her suitcase’ in Israeli detention

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The Swedish activist says she had to ‘beg’ for water after her Gaza aid flotilla was seized, leading Israeli authorities to call the accusations ‘ludicrous’

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:23 am

Trump announces new location to meet Putin for second Ukraine-Russia war summit

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‘Great progress was made’ in two-hour conversation, says the US president

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:18 am

Fears for Gaza ceasefire grow after Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaching Trump’s peace

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Hamas has claimed Israel has killed 24 Palestinians since the ceasefire began, while Israeli hostage families call on the truce to be terminated if the remaining bodies in Gaza are not returned

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:14 am

Poisoned water and shattered grid: Gaza left in environmental freefall after war, report says

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Approximately 80 per cent of all croplands in Gaza had been either damaged or destroyed, report says

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:11 am

Trump claims Modi has agreed to stop importing Russian oil to India

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Trump prepares to rope in China and Japan to agree to half energy imports from Russia

Published: October 17, 2025, 5:01 am

Diane Keaton’s former co-star and partner Al Pacino was ‘shaken’ by her death: ‘She left a mark that cannot fade’

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‘On screen, she was magnetic — lightning and charm, hurricanes and tenderness,’ Pacino said of the late actress

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:11 am

Virginia’s AG debate spotlights Democratic candidate’s ‘abhorrent’ texts likening rival to Hitler: ‘I am ashamed’

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Republicans have called on Jay Jones to drop out of the Virginia attorney general’s race after the leak of text messages where he made violent and offensive comments about a former GOP colleague

Published: October 17, 2025, 4:04 am

US cops mistook Indian migrant’s ‘Opium’ perfume for drugs and threw him into an ICE jail. It changed his life forever

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Kapil Raghu, 28, says he was thrown in a jail cell with a pile of human faeces on the floor and put in deportation proceedings after police officers mistook a knockoff perfume bottle in his car for drugs and detained him. Maroosha Muzaffar writes

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:06 am

NOAA just released its holiday weather forecast – here’s how it looks in your neighborhood

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Those dreaming of a white Christmas may be in for a shock

Published: October 17, 2025, 3:04 am

Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani pledges to work with Trump if elected even though president has vowed to defund NYC if he wins

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The candidates were asked what they would say in their first official call with Trump ‘to set the tone for your relationship’ if they were elected

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:57 am

Three-quarters of Americans say everyday prices are increasing - despite Trump saying inflation is over

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Three-quarters of Americans are paying at least $100 more for their monthly household costs, a new poll reveals

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:54 am

US strikes another suspected drug boat boat in Caribbean, this time leaving survivors: reports

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At least 27 people have been killed in U.S. strikes against alleged trafficking boats so far

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:48 am

Immigration officials have arrested nearly 20 children who are US citizens - including two with cancer - in first nine months of Trump’s term, report says

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The Trump administration has called reports it’s arresting U.S. citizens ‘fake news’

Published: October 17, 2025, 2:07 am

Trump vs Bolton: How it all led to an indictment after FBI raid of former national security adviser’s home

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Bolton held the high-profile position of national security adviser from 2018 to 2019. He later became an outspoken critic of President Trump, particularly regarding his approach on Russia

Published: October 16, 2025, 11:01 pm

Trump touts slavery icon as Vance whitewashes racist texts. These guys aren’t saying quiet part out loud — they’re shouting

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No one asked the president about Robert E. Lee, it just rolled off his tongue, and his No. 2 used whataboutism to take a pass on denouncing blatantly racist statements. It’s not a good look for the Republican Party, writes John Bowden

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:57 pm

Ex-Trump adviser turned critic John Bolton indicted in classified documents case

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18-count indictment accuses former national security adviser of illegally transmitting classified material

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:52 pm

World on track to add nearly two months of superhot days each year, study finds

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The research also highlights the significant positive impact of global efforts to reduce heat-trapping gas emissions

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:45 pm

New Hampshire teen sues school officials for vehicle search linked to gun ownership

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State law prohibits students from bringing firearms onto school property

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:43 pm

Billionaire Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker won $1.4M playing blackjack at a Vegas casino last year: ‘I was incredibly lucky’

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Pritzker and his wife reported taxable income of more than $10 million on their 2024 tax returns – triple their earnings from the previous year

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:43 pm

Karoline Leavitt calls Democratic base ‘Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals’

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White House Press Secretary also insisted that Democrats were ‘antisemites’

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:41 pm

Two monkeypox cases in California under investigation

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Investigators there say they have not found a close contact who traveled abroad, nor have they confirmed additional cases

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:36 pm

Venezuela floated a plan for Maduro to slowly give up power, but was rejected by US, AP source says

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Venezuelan government officials floated a plan in which President Nicolás Maduro would eventually leave office, a bid aimed at easing mounting U.S. pressure on the government in Caracas

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:27 pm

Head of US command overseeing Trump ‘drug boat’ strikes steps down after expressing concern with the attacks: report

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‘Serving as your commander and deputy for the past 34 months has been a tremendous honor,’ Admiral Alvin Holsey said

Published: October 16, 2025, 10:13 pm

Jeanine Pirro fails again: DC jury finds protester not guilty of assaulting FBI agent in case she can’t stop losing on

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Washington’s top prosecutor loses another case stemming from the Trump administration’s federal takeover

Published: October 16, 2025, 8:57 pm

Trump ‘OK’ with DC statue honoring Civil War leader who fought for slavery: ‘Lot of people in this room’ agree

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Trump’s administration has pushed for restoring multiple memorials to the pro-slavery leader

Published: October 16, 2025, 9:28 pm

He ‘freed Palestine, literally’: Karoline Leavitt rips protesters who hacked into airport systems to mock Trump

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Leavitt asks why pro-Palestine demonstrators aren’t praising Trump as ceasefire teeters on the edge

Published: October 16, 2025, 9:07 pm

Emmanuel Haro’s father weeps in court as he admits murdering infant son he pretended had been kidnapped

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Jake Haro and his wife Rebecca were accused of pretending their infant son had been kidnapped in the street – he has now admitted murder, while she faces trial

Published: October 16, 2025, 8:49 pm

9-year-old girl in California has been missing for a year and cops are begging for help finding out what happened

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Police consider Melodee Buzzard an ‘at-risk’ child

Published: October 16, 2025, 8:45 pm

Scientists find rare plant species, unseen in almost 70 years, in middle of California park

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The native species was once abundant – until invasive plants and construction drove it to near-extinction

Published: October 16, 2025, 8:29 pm

Immigration and Customs Enforcement announces the arrest of a suburban Chicago cop and claims he is in the US illegally

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Radule Bojovic overstayed a tourist visa a decade ago, Department of Homeland Security says

Published: October 16, 2025, 8:29 pm

‘Have we done ourselves out of a job?’: concerns in film and TV industry over on-set body scanning

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Actors unclear on rights over their data and what it will be used for, as cast and crew alike fear for future of their roles

For performers on TV or movie sets, it is not unusual to receive a request to enter a booth filled with scores of cameras ready to capture their likeness from every possible angle. Yet with the cast and crew of productions already fretting over the coming role of AI in the industry, it is an increasingly troubling undertaking.

“It happens without warning,” says Olivia Williams, who adds she has been scanned more times than she cares to remember during a career that has spanned from The Sixth Sense to Dune: Prophecy.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 3:00 pm

Maga is painting Saturday’s protests as violent treason. Prove them wrong | Judith Levine

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Trump allies would love an excuse to step up their crackdown. Nonviolence, both disciplined and open-hearted, must define the day

“They have a ‘Hate America’ rally that’s scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall,” the House speaker, Mike Johnson, said on Fox News on Friday. “It’s all the pro-Hamas wing and, you know, the antifa people. They’re all coming out.”

The Republican Minnesota congressman Tom Emmer said the party’s “terrorist wing” was holding the “Hate America” rally. “Democrats want to keep the government shut down to show all those people that are going to come here and express their hatred towards this country that they’re fighting President Trump,” said the House majority leader, Steve Scalise. The transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, embellished the story on Fox, referring to the demonstrations’ “paid protesters” and adding: “It begs the question who’s funding it.”

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Published: October 17, 2025, 10:00 am

Playboy, fighter, golfer and wearer of a George Washington wig: Donald Trump’s best magazine covers

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The US president has called his latest Time magazine cover ‘the worst of all time’. Our writer found some he may hate even more – and others pivotal to his rise

In a turn of events that may surprise some, Donald Trump expressed a few relatable insecurities this week. First he questioned the attractiveness of his beach body, then he blasted Time magazine for an unflattering cover photo. In fairness, he wasn’t wrong. He called the picture, taken from below, “the worst of all time”. People have focused on the wattle neck, the gossamer hair, the inside of his nostrils.

The question he asked of the editorial decision was actually a pertinent one. “What are they doing, and why?” This is the kind of scrutiny that the press should attract, except that media literacy is dying a fast death – and that has a lot to do with Trump himself. Constantly lambasting Pulitzer prize-winning publications as “fake news” and then retweeting Photoshopped images and deep fakes isn’t helping the situation.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 4:24 pm

Right hair, right now: top stylists on the products they use themselves – and ones to avoid

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Make every day a good hair day with top tips from the professionals, from bargain buys to treatments worth splurging on

Colourist based in California who specialises in silver hair. His clients include Jane Fonda and Andie MacDowell

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Published: October 17, 2025, 2:00 pm

Many people go their whole lives without seeing a platypus in the wild. We just saw four in one night

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Ten platypuses were reintroduced into Sydney’s Royal national park in 2023. This week, two new juveniles were discovered, leading one researcher to cry ‘Oh, give me a hug’

Hunting platypuses takes patience. On Thursday afternoon, I headed into the Royal national park, south of Sydney, with researchers who had reintroduced a small population of the elusive monotremes two years ago.

There was a big net and torches – and our dinner. It could be a long wait.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 2:00 pm

Tummy-flipping kisses and a chlamydia love story: TV’s best ever romcoms

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To celebrate the return of charming hit Nobody Wants This, romcom superfans like Russell T Davies and Jack Rooke pick their favourite shows. Prepare to be swept off your feet!

It’s perfect, that’s all. It’s got the perfect meet-cute (boob, crashed car, injured dog); the perfect combination of realism and romance (especially for non-romantics like me); the perfect heroine (neither the hot mess nor the manic pixie dream girl we are so often forced to accept); the perfect hero (laid-back but not lazy, older but not creepy, patient, not a pillock) and perfect writing.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 12:00 pm

Fox News employees expressed concerns network was intentionally aiding Trump, legal filings reveal

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Survey responses cited in $2.7bn defamation lawsuit filed against Fox by voting technology company Smartmatic

Multiple Fox News employees expressed concerns about the network’s editorial standards and the conduct of top hosts in an internal survey conducted in the summer and fall of 2020, with one going as far as to wonder if they had sold their “soul to the devil”, according to legal filings.

The employees’ statements were excerpted in a 771-page filing released last week, made public as part of a defamation lawsuit filed against the network by voting technology company Smartmatic.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 6:28 pm

Trump downplays hopes he will supply Ukraine with US missiles after meeting with Zelenskyy

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Trump said US may need Tomahawk missiles for a future conflict after surprise phone call with Putin earlier in day

Donald Trump has played down hopes that he will supply Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles, saying during a White House meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy that the US may need them for a future conflict.

Responding to a question on whether the US would send the cruise missiles requested by Ukraine, Trump said: “We need Tomahawks and we need a lot of other things that we’ve been sending over the last four years to Ukraine.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 7:08 pm

Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after ‘discussion with king’

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In statement released by Buckingham Palace, Andrew says he will give up titles and honours

Prince Andrew has agreed to give up his use of the Duke of York title, he said in a statement released through Buckingham Palace.

He will also give up his membership of the Order of the Garter, meaning his only remaining title will be that of prince, which cannot be removed as he was born the son of a queen.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 6:37 pm

Young Republicans New York chapter suspended after racist chats leaked

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Group suspended following unanimous vote after Politico documented racist and antisemitic chats from members

The New York Republican state committee has suspended the authorization of their Young Republicans chapter after members were implicated in highly offensive and racist messages that were obtained and published by Politico.

The Young Republican National Federation is made up of members aged 18 to 40 and has an active chapter in every state. Their website calls them the oldest youth political organization in the US, with the aim being to recruit young voices to the GOP before equipping and encouraging them to run for office.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 5:07 pm

Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton pleads not guilty to sharing classified information

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Ex-national security adviser surrendered to authorities and made court appearance as he faces 18-count indictment

John Bolton, the former national security adviser to Donald Trump in his first term, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges relating to diary-like notes he shared that contained top secret information with relatives and stored classified documents at his home.

Bolton did not comment to reporters as he walked into the courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, where he surrendered to authorities and made an initial appearance before US magistrate judge Timothy Sullivan on the 18-count indictment filed against him.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 6:34 pm

Trump says ‘drug-carrying submarine’ was target of latest strike in the Caribbean – US politics live

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US president says boat was carrying ‘massive amounts of drugs’ as Marco Rubio says more information to come later today

The US Senate failed on Thursday to re-open the government and to vote to fund the military during the federal government shutdown, ensuring that the standoff will stretch into next week.

The Senate vote on a short-term Republican funding bill failed for the 10th time with just 51 votes. A second vote on Pentagon funding in the afternoon similarly failed in a floor vote, meaning the process to begin fully funding military operations also becomes a non-starter. After the votes, senators are expected to leave Washington for the weekend, almost guaranteeing the shutdown lasts until at least Monday.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 8:11 pm

At least 11 detained after protesters and police clash outside Chicago Ice center

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Officers reportedly tackled and dragged several people after authorities told demonstrators to stay in ‘protest zones’

At least 11 people were taken into custody outside the Broadview Ice detention center outside Chicago after heated confrontations between Illinois state police and protesters on Friday.

Authorities had instructed demonstrators to remain in designated “protest zones”, but tensions escalated when officers moved to clear the roadway.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 7:59 pm

Pentagon criticises Netflix for making ‘woke garbage’ after gay military drama

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Boots, hit show about a closeted teen joining the marines, has led to a statement on ‘restoring the warrior ethos’

The Pentagon has slammed Netflix for making “woke garbage” after the release of the hit gay military drama Boots.

The show, based on Greg Cope White’s 2015 memoir The Pink Marine, tells the story of a closeted teenager who enlists in the United States Marine Corps in the 1990s.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 7:38 pm

Faculty at Texas university fear entire liberal arts departments will be slashed

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University of Texas at Austin faculty fear changes from new taskforce that could restructure humanities programs

Faculty at the University of Texas at Austin fear entire academic departments might be on the chopping block after the university quietly appointed a committee charged with studying the restructuring of its liberal arts programs.

The university – the largest in the public University of Texas system – has not made any announcements about cuts or restructuring, but faculty there have learned the committee was established earlier this semester and tasked with a review that they believe is focused on ethnic and regional disciplines such as African and African diaspora studies, Mexican American and Latina/o studies, as well as women’s and gender studies.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 6:44 pm

Trump administration freezes $11bn for infrastructure in Democratic states

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Budget chief ups ante in shutdown fight, announcing work pause in cities such as New York, San Francisco and Boston

The White House budget director, Russell Vought, said on Friday that the Trump administration will freeze another $11bn worth of infrastructure projects in Democratic states due to the ongoing government shutdown.

Vought said on social media the US army corps of engineers will pause work on “low priority” projects in cities such as New York, San Francisco, Boston and Baltimore. He said the projects could eventually be canceled.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 8:08 pm

Key US nuclear agency to send 80% of workforce home as shutdown drags on

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About 1,400 staff at NNAS, which manages America’s nuclear weapons stockpile, to be furloughed on Monday

The agency that maintains the US nuclear arsenal will be sending home 80% of its workforce as the government shutdown drags through its 17th day and into the weekend, now the longest full funding lapse in US history.

House armed services committee chair Mike Rogers said in a Friday press conference that the National Nuclear Security Administration has now exhausted its carryover reserves.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 6:43 pm

US cities to resist Trump’s crackdown on dissent with No Kings protests: ‘We will not be bullied’

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Second round of protests at more than 2,500 sites are set for Saturday, including in cities where Trump has sent troops

Donald Trump has promised to crack down on dissent and sent troops into US cities. His allies are claiming antifa, the decentralized antifascist movement, is behind plans to protest. He is looking for any pretext to go after his opponents.

Still, this Saturday, even in cities with troops on the ground, millions of people are expected to march against the president as part of a second “No Kings” protest. The last No Kings protest in June drew several million people across more than 2,000 locations. This time, more than 2,500 cities and towns nationwide are hosting protests.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 10:00 am

Pop star Reneé Rapp delivers expletive-filled rant against Ice and Donald Trump

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Chart-topping singer protested the presence of Ice in Portland, Oregon, where she was performing

The chart-topping pop star and actor Renée Rapp has excoriated Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and Donald Trump in an expletive-filled onstage rant.

Rapp was performing in Portland, Oregon, where Trump is attempting to send national guard troops, claiming that the city is a “war zone”. There have been continuous protests outside the city’s Ice facility in recent months.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 10:56 am

In Alaska, where overdose deaths are rising again, Narcan and community are a lifeline

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Overdoses have been declining nationally since August 2023, but Alaska is far behind in that progress

Whenever he can, Shane Shelton offers neighbors naloxone, an overdose reversal medication, and a place to sleep out of the cold.

The 54-year old’s home is known as the “Dog House” in Williwaw, Alaska – on the outskirts of Wasilla in Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) borough. In this neighborhood, family homes with manicured lawns sit side by side with yards piled with old tires and tarps, some with makeshift walls nailed around them to hide the mess and avoid fines. People come to the Dog House to get high – and keep one another alive. Shelton said he had administered naloxone more times than he could count, and cannot get enough of it.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 3:00 pm

Revealed: how a Russian fight club expanded into the US with the help of American neo-Nazis

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Members of white supremacist ‘active clubs’ spearheaded a US expansion of a Russian fighting group that has raised money for the Kremlin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine

A Russian street fighting organization that has raised money for Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine expanded into the US earlier this year with the help of prominent American white supremacists from the extremist neo-Nazi “active club” movement and the neo-fascist organization Patriot Front, the Guardian can reveal.

The group, known as Streets Fight Club (SFC), also promoted violent, for-profit combat events featuring white nationalist extremists held in the US south to tens of thousands of followers on Instagram and YouTube.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 2:00 pm

‘Finances are getting tighter’: US car repossessions surge as more Americans default on auto loans

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Wall Street sounds alarm over strain throughout car lending market as experts warn of potential risks for wider economy

Alarm bells are ringing on Wall Street. The recent collapses of Tricolor, a used car seller and sub-prime auto lender, and First Brands, an auto parts supplier, have put the finance industry on edge, almost two decades after problems in the sub-prime mortgage lending market set the stage for the global financial crisis.

“When you see one cockroach, there are probably more,” Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase CEO, ominously cautioned analysts this week, after the US’s largest bank disclosed a $170m charge tied to Tricolor’s bankruptcy. “Everyone should be forewarned on this one.”

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Published: October 17, 2025, 10:00 am

‘A little mix of classy and gore always works’: costume and makeup pros on how to win Halloween

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A drag queen, costume designer, makeup artist, and more pros weigh in on how to pull off a costume that turns heads

You’ve probably been there: it’s 31 October and after weeks of procrastinating you’re clawing through your closet, trying to pull together a clever Halloween costume and wondering if you’ll need to resort to cutting eyeholes in that old white bedsheet.

Others among us – hair and makeup artists, costume designers, drag queens – spend the whole year thinking about transformation. We spoke with these creative pros, including an artist who worked on The Substance and the organizer of New York City’s famed Greenwich Village Halloween parade, about what makes a memorable Halloween costume, and how even procrastinators can craft a memorable look.

Frédérique Arguello, hair designer and Bafta and Critics Choice winner for The Substance

Jeanne Fleming, artistic and producing director of New York’s Village Halloween Parade, the largest in the world

Machine Dazzle, Emmy and Obie-award winning costume designer, set designer, performance artist and drag queen

James Nguyen and Alexander Gottlieb, AKA James & AC, costume designers who have collaborated with Chappell Roan and were on the design teams of the Broadway shows Death Becomes Her (James) and Moulin Rouge! (AC)

Mike Marino, make-up artist whose credits include The Batman (2022), A Different Man (2024) and Black Swan (2010). Frequently collaborates with Heidi Klum on Halloween costumes.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 7:15 pm

‘Our world is combustible’: Kathryn Bigelow on AI, Andy Warhol and nuclear Armageddon

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The record-breaking Oscar winner explains how her new film, A House of Dynamite – starring Idris Elba as the US president – is rooted in her cold war childhood and the urgent threats we all face today

Kathryn Bigelow has been thinking about death: hers, and mine, and yours as well. History will always remember her as the first woman to win a best director Oscar, which she did in 2010 for The Hurt Locker. But in her new film, A House of Dynamite, history may not have long to run. It is the story of a nuclear missile, launched at an American city. The rest is about what happens next. Bigelow would like you to consider Armageddon.

“Someone I know said the bomb for the audience is realising this is possible,” she says. She smiles. “I’m glad if people come away from the movie as concerned as I am.”

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Published: October 17, 2025, 4:00 am

‘A foot out in the cold’: leaders huddle at IMF as icy economic winds blow

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Worries over private credit, tax and spend, skittish bond markets and tariff chaos dominate meeting in Washington

“The security blanket is covering us, but maybe we have a foot out in the cold.” That was the typically colourful warning from the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, this week to its gathering of finance ministers in Washington.

At its spring meetings in April, the IMF said the erratic trade policies emanating from the White House, half a mile away from its glass and steel HQ, amounted to a “major negative shock” for the global economy.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 3:14 pm

Jimmy Kimmel on the Republicans: ‘So much greed and hypocrisy and duplicity’

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Late-night hosts spoke about Trump’s obsessive ‘Cinderella ballroom’ plan as many Americans struggle to afford basics

Late-night hosts spoke about Donald Trump’s attempts to transform the White House and how he was “cashing in bigly” on being president.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 3:00 pm

Trump’s peace plan is just about holding together, but may be unravelled by two unresolved issues | Rajan Menon

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The withdrawal of Israeli troops and the establishment of an international stabilisation force are key in securing long-term peace, but the plan is dangerously vague on these issues

Two years of death and destruction in Gaza ended once Israel and Hamas signed off on Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan. A ceasefire is in place. Humanitarian trucks have begun to roll in. Hostages and prisoners are being exchanged. Israel has begun a first-phase pullback from the territories it controls, and under Trump’s plan its troops will eventually be deployed in a buffer zone along Gaza’s land border.

Given these developments – all part of the opening phase – dismissing the momentous changes in Gaza is to deny reality. There have already been disputes over the return of the bodies of Israeli hostages, but there are unresolved longer-term problems that could derail the ceasefire and imperil the rest of the Trump plan.

Rajan Menon is a professor emeritus of international relations at the City College of New York and a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

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Published: October 17, 2025, 11:18 am

Donald Trump claims to be the president of peace, but at home he is fomenting civil war | Jonathan Freedland

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His ruthless use of the national guard to menace cities and political enemies is unprecedented. He is preparing for battle against the ‘enemy within’

Donald Trump had better hope the members of the Nobel committee are not paying attention to what’s happening inside the United States. If they did take a look, they’d notice a jarring pattern. While the US president likes to play the peacemaker abroad, at home he is Trump, bringer of war.

It’s easy for the first fact to conceal, or divert our attention away from, the second. This week was a case in point. It began with Trump travelling to Israel, where he was hailed as a latter-day Cyrus, a mighty ruler whose name would be spoken of for millennia to come, the man who had brokered what he himself boasts is an “everlasting” peace.

Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist

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Published: October 17, 2025, 4:51 pm

Trump is battling the ravages of Time – in more ways than one | Dave Schilling

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The president is upset with his photo on the magazine’s cover. I, too, have a bone to pick with my scalp

Why are we so obsessed with hair? Just a bunch of fibers sprouting out of your skin, yet we make a massive fuss over it. Those with it, flaunt it. News anchors, fashion models, that damned Jeremy Allen White. Boy, does he love to show off. His hair should be nominated for an Emmy, just on thickness alone. What did he do to deserve that floppy mess on top of his head? I thought this country was a meritocracy? Nope. He’s obviously benefited from a family history of thick locks.

Call me greedy if you must, but I don’t just want some hair – the sad remnants of a life in decline – I want a lot of hair. I want so much hair that I have to employ a live-in barber to trim me up twice a day just to keep it all from consuming my entire face. I want people in the streets screaming at the top of their lungs. “Look at that hair! The guy under it isn’t so bad, either!”

Dave Schilling is a Los Angeles-based writer and humorist

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Published: October 17, 2025, 1:18 pm

Martin Rowson on Trump, Putin and prospects for peace in Ukraine – cartoon

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Published: October 17, 2025, 3:32 pm

Millennial dads are experiencing something mums have known for a long time | Gaby Hinsliff

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Men want to be active, engaged parents, but many are being torn apart by the competing demands of family and work

Can men really have it all? It’s a ridiculous question, obviously; a loaded assumption that women spent years clambering out from under. Mothers have worked long and hard to dispel the myth that anyone should be able to single-handedly juggle a job, children, a happy relationship and a meaningful life without ever breaking sweat or (more pertinently) needing help.

And to some extent we have succeeded, judging by a survey of 5,000 UK fathers published this week by the charity Working Families which found three-quarters now say they genuinely want to share the parenting load equally with their partners. Except, it seems, the outside world has yet to catch up.

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

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Published: October 17, 2025, 5:00 am

The Guardian view on Trump and the law: a restraint on the executive is morphing into its weapon | Editorial

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The indictment of critics including John Bolton rings alarm bells as the US president expands his power and seeks to use the justice system to exact revenge

“He who saves his country does not violate any law,” Donald Trump posted after beginning his second term – emboldened, perhaps, by the supreme court’s bombshell ruling on presidential immunity last year, which many say gave the office-holder the powers of a monarch.

Millions of Americans are expected to push back against the president’s growing power at No Kings protests across the US on Saturday. The demonstrations come as former intelligence and national security officials warn that the country is sliding towards “competitive authoritarianism”, in which elections and courts survive but are systematically manipulated by the executive.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 5:22 pm

The Guardian view on Austen and Brontë adaptations: purists may reel, but reinvention keeps classic novels alive | Editorial

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The appetite for onscreen versions of much-loved literature is endless, but dogged faithfulness to a text is not the only way to stay true to authors’ spirit

It is a truth universally acknowledged that every classic novel must be in want of a sexed-up adaptation. Ever since Colin Firth’s Mr Darcy waded out of the lake in a wet shirt in the BBC’s 1995 Pride and Prejudice adapted by Andrew Davies, we have expected the undercurrents of novels to be writ large on screen: the novel is dripping in sexual tension – who knew? No one objects when Jane Austen’s couples kiss on TV, although it never happens on the page. But we are reluctant to imagine more troubling historical realities, such as maternal mortality, or where the fortunes behind the big houses came from.

As part of the 250th celebrations of Austen’s birth, Davies shocked audiences at the Cliveden literary festival last week with revelations that he is working on versions of Emma and Mansfield Park that will include death, debauchery and slavery. Spoiler: Emma dies in childbirth.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 5:21 pm

Most athletes have chosen to ‘shut up and dribble’ over Gaza | Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva

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Only a handful of North American athletes have spoken out against Israel’s assault on Gaza, a silence shaped by fear, sponsorship and the policing of speech

“I will not just shut up and dribble… I get to sit up here and talk about what’s really important.” So proclaimed LeBron James in 2018 when confronted with the question of whether athletes have the right to speak about the political and social justice questions of their time.

Yet since 7 October 2023, elite athletes in North America have had startlingly little to say about what most human rights groups in the world, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and the United Nations have characterized as Israel’s genocide in Gaza (a situation currently in flux due to a mutually agreed upon ceasefire and prisoner exchange).

Nathan Kalman-Lamb is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick. Derek Silva is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at King’s University College at Western University. They are co-authors of The End of College Football: On the Human Cost of an All-American Game and co-hosts, with Johanna Mellis, of The End of Sport podcast.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 9:00 am

Carter Hart’s return shows hockey’s redemption machine never stops

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The Vegas signing of the former Team Canada goaltender, acquitted but still suspended, exposes a sport where talk of “values” masks a deeper culture of silence

On Thursday, the Vegas Golden Knights announced that goaltender Carter Hart will join the team on a professional tryout contract. Hart was one of five former Team Canada World Junior players initially charged with sexual assault stemming from an incident in 2018, and, though acquitted earlier this year, remains suspended by the NHL until 1 December. In a statement about Hart’s contract signing, the Golden Knights said that the team remains “committed to the core values that have defined our organization from its inception” and that the team expects “that our players will continue to meet these standards moving forward”.

Which sounds all well and good, but there’s a difference between expecting someone to meet a standard and maintaining it – or even enforcing it. It’s not surprising that Hart is back on the ice in the NHL. For one thing, he was indeed acquitted, along with the other four accused, which is technically grounds for readmittance, whether one agrees with the ruling or not. For the league, the union, and the teams, the story is – or can be – relatively simple: a player cleared by the courts is ready for a comeback. But the real reason Hart’s return will strike many as unsurprising is because, well, this is just how hockey works. That is, yes, everyone can talk about values and standards and expectations, but in reality hockey is still driven by silence.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 8:30 am

Cooper Flagg can’t escape the ghost of the Great White Hope | Lee Escobedo

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From Jack Johnson to Larry Bird, American sport has grappled with the racial myth of the Great White Hope. Now the Mavericks’ new phenom, 18-year-old Cooper Flagg, inherits the mantle – whether he wants it or not

Every time Jack Johnson’s big Black fists smashed into a white fighter’s face, he wasn’t just breaking the bones of his opponents, but the spirit of White America. Blow after blow after blow. Out of this shame, a mythos was born. One after another, white fighters propped up like scarecrows. One after another, collapsing. As cultural critic Gerald Early has argued, Johnson’s fights became less about sport and more about the drama of race in America, with every knockout symbolizing a direct challenge to white supremacy. For the next 100 years, across multiple sports, whites have tried to find the next champion to return them to glory. This myth-making even inspired Howard Sackler’s Pulitzer-winning play The Great White Hope.

In basketball, figures like Jerry West and “Pistol” Pete Maravich represented Anglo excellence before the NBA’s full desegregation revealed the overwhelming superiority of African-American players. By the time Larry Bird rose in the 1980s, the Great White Hope narrative had simply been repackaged for a new generation. Bird was a badass hick from Indiana. Bird was a godsend to Boston’s white working class. Bird was Magic’s equal. Bird was the Great White Hope disguised as the Great White Hope denier.

I don’t want to be seen as the Great White Hope. I just want to be a great basketball player, period.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 8:00 am

Home Office offers extra resources in effort to undo Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ban

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No 10 says talks happening ‘at pace’ over West Midlands police order banning fans from attending Aston Villa tie

The Home Office is offering extra support to West Midlands police in an effort to reverse its ban on fans of the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv attending a match at Villa Park next month.

After a political outcry about the police decision that would stop the Israeli team’s fans going to the match, Downing Street said on Friday that discussions were happening “at pace across government” to resolve the issue.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 5:12 pm

Joe Flacco leads Bengals past Steelers with late drive and McPherson field goal

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  • Flacco throws for 342 yards and three touchdowns

  • McPherson’s kick with seconds lifts Bengals 33-31

  • Chase hauls in 16 passes for 161 yards and a TD

Aaron Rodgers v Joe Flacco didn’t disappoint in the fourth-ever matchup of 40-plus-year-old NFL quarterbacks.

Evan McPherson’s fourth field goal, from 36 yards with seven seconds remaining, lifted the Cincinnati Bengals past the Pittsburgh Steelers 33-31 on Thursday night.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 3:57 am

Dodgers on brink of World Series return after topping Brewers for 3-0 NLCS lead

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  • Edman’s sixth-inning single puts LA ahead for good

  • Dodgers lead series 3-0; Game 4 in LA on Friday

Tyler Glasnow had eight strikeouts, Tommy Edman hit a go-ahead RBI single in the sixth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers took a commanding lead in the National League Championship Series with a 3-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday.

Mookie Betts had an RBI double in the first inning and Roki Sasaki delivered his third save of the postseason as the Dodgers never trailed on their way to a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven series with Game 4 at Los Angeles on Friday.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 1:29 am

US businessman tied to global football empire indicted in $500m fraud case

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  • Josh Wander accused of defrauding investors

  • 777 Partners held stakes in global soccer clubs

  • Case renews scrutiny of multi-club ownership model

An American businessman whose firm invested in several European soccer clubs that struggled under its ownership has been indicted in New York on charges of financial wrongdoing in an alleged $500m fraud scheme.

Josh Wander was a co-founder of Miami-based 777 Partners that owned stakes in an Australian airline plus soccer clubs Hertha Berlin in Germany, Genoa in Italy, Standard Liege in Belgium and Vasco da Gama in Brazil.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 2:16 pm

Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend

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West Ham’s lack of forward planning, Rodri’s fitness concerns and a crunch clash at Anfield

Ange Postecoglou is under increasing pressure at Nottingham Forest having failed to secure a win in his seven games in charge. Reports suggest Sean Dyche is waiting to take over, but history shows Evangelos Marinakis sways like the wind, and victory against Chelsea could be enough to save Postecoglou’s job for now. Goals have been a mounting concern for a team that have been beaten in four of their last five league matches and failed to score in any of those defeats. Failure to find their shooting boots will ensure Forest go three consecutive top-flight games without a goal for the first time since 1999. It will be a tough task against a buoyant Chelsea team, who entered the international break having beaten Liverpool. Moisés Caicedo was instrumental in the win against the defending champions, scoring the opener, and the 23-year-old leads the league in tackles (28) and interceptions (18). Elliot Anderson, whose total of 55 turnovers is also a league-high tally, will have his work cut out for him in what may be his toughest midfield battle of the season. Yara El-Shaboury

Nottingham Forest v Chelsea, Saturday 12.30pm (all times BST)

Brighton v Newcastle, Saturday 3pm

Burnley v Leeds, Saturday 3pm

Crystal Palace v Bournemouth, Saturday 3pm

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Published: October 16, 2025, 11:00 pm

Chess: Ukraine soldier grandmaster wins gold medal at European team championships

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Igor Kovalenko, 36, the world No 48 with a Fide rating of 2669, has been a frontline soldier for three years and only began playing again a month ago

Ukraine was the most successful nation at this week’s European Team Championships, winning gold in the open event and silver in the women’s. It also sparked one of the most memorable results of recent years, as Igor Kovalenko, a serving army soldier who played no chess for three years, won the individual gold on fourth board with 6.5/8, the best percentage of the entire tournament.

Kovalenko’s games included a key win against Serbia’s 2024 European individual champion, Aleksander Indjic, and a draw with Gawain Maroroa Jones in the final round when the Englishman was in pole position for third board gold.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 7:00 am

Gaza aid still critically scarce, say agencies, as Israel delays convoys

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UN urges opening of all crossings with aid deliveries at less than half of agreed frequency, as WHO issues disease alert

Aid remains critically scarce in Gaza one week into the ceasefire, humanitarian agencies have warned, as Israel delays the entry of food convoys into the territory. The Israeli government and Hamas continue to trade blame over violations of the truce.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday that it had brought about 560 tonnes of food a day on average into Gaza since the ceasefire began, but it was still below what was needed.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 12:14 pm

Mahmoud Khalil can freely travel within US, federal judge rules

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Palestinian activist can speak across country at events while pushing back on Trump’s attempts to deport him

A federal judge has lifted travel restrictions within the US for Mahmoud Khalil, allowing the Palestinian activist to speak at rallies and other events across the country while he fights the Trump administration’s efforts to deport him.

Khalil, who was freed from a Louisiana immigration jail in June after being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) amid student and activist roundups, had asked a federal magistrate judge to lift the restrictions that had limited his travel to New York, New Jersey, Washington DC, Louisiana and Michigan.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 3:45 pm

Burqa ban bill approved by Portugal’s parliament seen as targeting Muslim women

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If signed into law, the bill proposed by far-right party would follow other European countries in banning face veils

Portugal’s parliament has approved a bill banning face veils worn for “gender or religious” reasons in public, in a move seen as targeting Muslim women who wear face coverings.

The measure was proposed by the far-right Chega party and would prohibit coverings such as burqas (a full-body garment that covers a woman from head to foot) and niqabs (the full-face Islamic veil with space around the eyes) from being worn in most public places. Face veils would still be allowed in airplanes, diplomatic premises and places of worship.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 7:18 pm

California Democrat to run for congressional seat held by Nancy Pelosi

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Scott Wiener, the California state senator, will reportedly announce his candidacy in the coming weeks

Scott Wiener, the California state senator, is expected to run for the San Francisco congressional district long held by Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker, as young Democrats across the country are pushing for generational change.

Pelosi, 85, the first woman to serve as speaker of the House, stepped aside as the Democratic leader in 2022 but has not yet said whether she intends to seek a 21st term next year for the seat she has held since 1987. The San Francisco Standard first reported that the 55-year-old Wiener, a prominent San Francisco Democrat who had been waiting for Pelosi to retire to run for the seat, would announce his candidacy in the coming weeks.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 6:05 pm

Manhattan district attorney works to curb interstate gun trafficking: ‘It’s a national issue’

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Alvin Bragg was appointed co-chair of Prosecutors Against Gun Violence and sets sights on addressing flow of guns

At a time of intense focus on high-profile and local incidents of gun violence in the US, Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, has been appointed to help lead Prosecutors Against Gun Violence (PAGV), a national group that has been trying to decrease shootings and violence since 2014.

Bragg says he plans to bring his “big city experience” to the national group, and wants to collaborate with his peers to address interstate gun trafficking.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 12:00 pm

Man who fought for Hamas in October 7 attack fled to US and lived in Louisiana, FBI alleges

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According to complaint, Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi participated in attack on Israel, then applied for US visa

The FBI has accused a Louisiana resident of participating in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 – then lying about his past and fraudulently obtaining a visa to live in the US.

According to a recently unsealed FBI criminal complaint, Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi armed himself and gathered a group to cross from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel during the attack that left nearly 1,200 people dead.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 6:47 pm

Mississippi residents sue UK-owned biomass firm granted permit for more emissions

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Nearby residents say they have had health concerns due to air pollution from Drax Biomass facility

Residents of a small Mississippi town are suing Drax Biomass after the company won a permit to become a “major source” of hazardous air pollution at a local wood pellet production plant.

The subsidiary of the FTSE 250 energy company was previously denied permission to increase emissions in the 900-person town of Gloster, Mississippi, after local residents warned that they had already suffered serious adverse health consequences because of the operation.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 3:03 pm

Olivia Williams says actors need ‘nudity rider’-type controls for AI body scans

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Dune star says performers are regularly pressed to have bodies scanned on set with few rights over how data is used

Actors should have as much control over the data harvested from scans of their body as they do over nudity scenes, the actor Olivia Williams has said, amid heightened concern over artificial intelligence’s impact on performers.

The star of Dune: Prophecy and The Crown said she and other actors were regularly pressed to have their bodies scanned by banks of cameras while on set, with few guarantees about how the data would be used or where it would end up.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 3:00 pm

Mango founder’s son becomes alleged suspect in fashion tycoon’s death

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Spanish media report Jonathan Andic’s status has changed from witness of father’s fatal ravine fall

The family of Isak Andic, the founder of the fashion chain Mango, have insisted on his son’s innocence after media reports suggested he was a potential suspect in the billionaire’s death.

Andic died last December, aged 71, after apparently falling 100 metres down a ravine while hiking at Montserrat, near Barcelona, with his son, Jonathan. His death prompted tributes from politicians, journalists and the fashion world.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 11:42 am

World’s oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds

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Researchers say decline in phytoplankton suggests weakened planetary capacity to absorb carbon dioxide

The world’s oceans are losing their greenness owing to global heating, according to a study that suggests our planet’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide could be weakening.

The change in the palette of the seas is caused by a decline of phytoplankton, the tiny marine creatures that are responsible for nearly half of the biosphere’s productivity.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 6:00 pm

Shipping emissions levy shelved as countries bow to US pressure

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Long-planned charge on greenhouse gas emissions postponed as Trump officials accused of intimidation tactics

Under intense pressure from Donald Trump’s government, countries have postponed plans to force shipowners to start paying for the damage they do to the climate.

US officials were accused of “bullying” and “intimidation”, as nations met in London for what should have been the rubber-stamping of a decision made months ago to place a small levy on the greenhouse gases from global shipping.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 4:31 pm

Overconsumption and ruin: before and after images visualise how tech could harm our planet

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From Venice to the Iguazu Falls, an exhibition in London illustrates the hidden cost of our gadgets and devices

Artists have created visualisations of the impact of the climate crisis on some of the world’s most recognisable landscapes, in a project to highlight the environmental effects of tech consumption.

Venice in Italy, the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil, and the Seine River in Paris were among the locations used to explore to potential impacts of the climate crisis by the end of the century. The results are on display at an exhibition in London.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 12:46 pm

Gavin Newsom’s veto on bill to ban Pfas hands industry a win, advocates fear

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Decision from governor, eyeing presidential bid, could echo across US as similar bans considered in states like New York

A decision by Gavin Newsom, the California governor, to veto a bill that would have banned the sale of cookware and some other consumer products made with toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” may reverberate across the US by slowing or killing similar legislation in other states, public health advocates fear.

California is often looked to for guidance by other states considering new environmental rules, and some legislatures, including large states like New York and Illinois, are weighing bans on Pfas in cookware.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 12:00 pm

Apple swoops on exclusive F1 US TV rights amid expansion into sports

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Deal reportedly closed for $140m a year, on the heels of worldwide success of Apple-produced Brad Pitt film F1

Apple has landed US broadcast rights to Formula One in a five-year deal that would help the tech giant bolster its streaming service with one of the country’s fastest-growing sports, following the success of its Brad Pitt-starrer F1: The Movie.

The two sides did not disclose the financial details of the deal on Friday. CNBC reported it was for $140m a year, much higher than the $90m the Walt Disney-owned ESPN was paying each season for F1, which it has broadcast since 2018.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 2:25 pm

US anti-vax stance to blame for continent-wide surge in measles, say experts

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The disease was eliminated across the Americas in 2024, but urgent vaccination drives are now under way as cases rise from Mexico to Bolivia after outbreaks farther north

Governments across Latin America are stepping up efforts to vaccinate their populations against measles, as outbreaks in North America drive a 34-fold increase in the number of cases reported in the region this year.

Measles cases have surged worldwide to a 25-year high, due to low vaccine coverage and the spread of misinformation about vaccine safety. However, there is added concern in parts of Latin America over unequal access to healthcare and the worrying situation in the US, which is facing its worst measles outbreak in decades following a reversal of vaccine policy led by Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 11:00 am

‘Time to take the big leap’: Reese Witherspoon’s first novel hits the shelves

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Oscar-winning actor and producer has written Gone Before Goodbye with bestselling author Harlan Coben

For more than three decades, Reese Witherspoon has been many things to many people: the Oscar-winning star of Walk the Line; the pink-clad Elle Woods of Legally Blonde; the Hollywood producer who brought Gone Girl and Big Little Lies to the screen. Now, she’s adding another title to her résumé: novelist.

This month, the 49-year-old releases her first work of fiction, Gone Before Goodbye, co-written with the bestselling thriller author Harlan Coben.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 1:26 pm

Three-year-old Michigan boy saves mother’s life with quick thinking after she has seizure

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Cody James Williams used facial recognition to call for help as his mother suffered medical emergency

Authorities in Michigan are saying a three-year-old boy is a hero after he managed to unlock his mother’s phone using her face while she experienced a severe epileptic seizure and then summoned life-saving help on a video call.

Cody James Williams’ actions serve as “a good reminder for all parents that you should talk to your kids [about what to] do in an emergency”, the Oakland county sheriff, Michael Bouchard, said at a 14 October news conference where he honored the boy by symbolically deputizing him as a junior member of his office.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 9:00 am

Broken promises and political crises: how Emmanuel Macron fell from French favour

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The president is seen to have accelerated the financial crisis, social inequalities and the rise of the far right

Three French governments have collapsed in less than a year, and the political crisis looks likely to continue, overshadowing Emmanuel Macron’s last 18 months in power and his domestic legacy.

This week, the latest minority government narrowly survived its first vote of no confidence. But it remains the weakest cabinet in decades and could be toppled at any moment if opposition parties join together to oust it. France faces a brutal two-month battle in parliament to achieve what once seemed the most basic element of governance: passing a budget.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 2:43 pm

Giorgia Meloni condemns Italian union leader for ‘Trump courtesan’ remark

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Prime minister says CGIL head is ‘clouded by resentment’ and accuses the left of hypocrisy towards women

Giorgia Meloni has condemned the boss of Italy’s biggest trade union after he referred to the prime minister as the “courtesan” of Donald Trump.

Maurizio Landini, the leader of CGIL, which organised several pro-Palestinian protests before the Gaza ceasefire deal, made the remarks on TV on Tuesday, the day after world leaders, including Meloni, met in Egypt for a Middle East peace summit.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 12:40 pm

Bank shares lead global market fall amid jitters over US private credit

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Signs of credit stress send markets in Europe and Asia down, while investors turn to safe haven assets

European stock markets fell on Friday and gold hit a record high after two US regional banks said they had been exposed to millions of dollars of bad loans and alleged fraud.

Signs of credit stress rattled markets across Europe and Asia. In London the FTSE 100 fell 0.9%, Germany’s Dax fell 1.8%, Italy’s FTSE Mib fell 1.5%, the Ibex in Spain was off 0.3% and France’s Cac 40 dropped 0.2%.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 4:24 pm

Italian investigative journalism TV host targeted in bomb attack near Rome

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Rudimentary but powerful device detonates outside home of Report presenter Sigfrido Ranucci in Campo Ascolano

A prominent Italian investigative journalist has been targeted in a bomb attack, with the rudimentary but powerful device almost destroying his car and damaging a neighbour’s home.

Sigfrido Ranucci, who hosts Report, an investigative programme aired by the state broadcaster, Rai, said the explosion happened about 20 minutes after he returned to his home in Campo Ascolano, close to Rome, on Thursday night.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 11:47 am

‘What I do with my body is none of your business’: musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland on trans rights, cult stardom and living with dementia

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His music was ignored for decades. Now, at 81, he is collaborating with pop stars. He and his wife talk about his extraordinary life – and facing severe illness

When Beverly Glenn-Copeland was diagnosed with a form of dementia called Late two years ago, he was advised to stay at home and do crossword puzzles. He tried, but he doesn’t like crosswords, and it didn’t feel right. One day, recalls his wife Elizabeth, he said: “Honey, I know this is meant to be giving me more time, but I just feel like we’re not living a life. I have places I want to see and people I want to meet before I die. Since we have to make money, let’s make money doing what we love to do.”

And so the couple, who live in Hamilton, Ontario, are in London, midway through a tour that is the latest chapter in Glenn’s extraordinary late-in-life journey from unknown musician to revered cult icon. It has only been 10 years since his indefinably radiant music was rediscovered (not that it was ever really discovered in the first place), and he wants to enjoy it.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 7:00 am

Keeper review – a sparkling ecological fantasia of pure imagination

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This whimsical action-adventure game sees you stomping through nature as a life-giving lighthouse – and it only gets weirder from there

The world of Keeper looms from the screen like a dream coloured by psilocybin. Here is a gnarled landmass of bubblegum blues, powder pinks and strange, luminous beasts, where evolution seems to occur at light speed. This world’s considerable beauty is amplified by how it is rendered: like a 1980s fantasy movie filled with charmingly handmade practical effects. Keeper is the latest title from Double Fine, maker of trippy platformer Psychonauts 2, Kickstarter sensation Broken Age and many other idiosyncratic titles. It is an action-adventure resplendent with the lumps and bumps of life’s imperfections, as if its 3D modellers had sculpted the setting from papier-mache rather than using computer software.

Even stranger than the setting is the protagonist: you play as a lighthouse, coming to appreciate this gleaming ecological fantasia by shining its beacon about the environment. Long shadows stretch behind illuminated objects, making the outlines of spectacularly supersized plants and tiny critters all the more pronounced. The casting of light is how you interact with the world: it often causes vegetation to grow before your eyes, and sometimes unusual inhabitants will feast upon it. As you lumber through this environment – calm lagoons and sun-baked canyons filled with prickly cacti – there is joy to be found in simply looking, taking the weirdness in, and then bringing it to even greater life.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 3:00 pm

Back of the net! Steve Coogan film roles – ranked

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As Manchester’s finest turns 60, with new film Saipan coming soon, we rank the British comedy hero’s best big-screen performances, from Tropic Thunder and Mindhorn to Philomena and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. A-Ha!

Steve Coogan entered the unofficial British comedy hall of fame at the tender age of 30, when he joined four of the Pythons and the likes of Stephen Fry and Victoria Wood in this largely forgotten version of the classic children’s tale. Bedecked in a long scarf and wearing rimless specs, he puts in a respectably twitchy turn as Mole alongside Eric Idle’s Rat and Terry Jones’s Toad.

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Published: October 16, 2025, 12:46 pm

Black Phone 2 review – hit horror sequel lumbers toward Elm Street

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Ethan Hawke’s child-killing murderer returns from the dead to become a joke-free, low-rent Freddy Krueger in a follow-up that leaves us cold

Arriving as the re-activated Stephen King machine was still churning out adaptations, quality be damned, The Black Phone felt like a lazy fanboy tribute. With its 1970s small-town setting, high school cast, psychic kids and gnarly neighbourhood villain, it was close to pastiche and, like the very worst of King’s stories, it was also inelegantly overstuffed.

Funnily enough the call came from inside the family home, as it was based on a short story from King’s son Joe Hill, over-extended into a film that was a surprise $161m hit. It was the story of the Grabber, a sadistic killer of young boys who would revel in elongating the ritual of their deaths. While sexual abuse was never mentioned, there was something inescapably queer-coded about the character and the historical touchpoints/moral panics he was clearly supposed to refer to, reinforced by Ethan Hawke playing him with a certain swishy, effeminate flare (even before his appearance, the word fag had also been liberally used). But the film was too opaque to ever really admit that and even without that uneasiness, it was too busily plotted and too high on its exhaustingly grubby nastiness to work as anything more than an undiscerning sleepover nightmare fuel.

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Published: October 16, 2025, 9:01 am

Leonard and Hungry Paul review – this Julia Roberts-narrated comedy is the perfect antidote to modern life

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Alex Lawther and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell star in this adaptation of Rónán Hession’s understated 2019 novel. Its quiet celebration of the gentle life is the opposite of today’s frantic TV – even if it does feature a Hollywood megastar’s voice

On a well-maintained driveway in an unremarkable suburb of Dublin, a small man in a sleeveless jumper is professing a desire to expand his horizons. “I feel myself getting quieter. More invisible,” says Leonard, blinking up at the night sky. “One thing’s led to another and now I feel like if I don’t do something I’ll just carry on in this …” – he searches for a fitting encapsulation of his life – “… minor, harmless existence.” Hungry Paul – Leonard’s best and, indeed, only friend – considers the implications of this announcement. “Nothing wrong with that, though,” he replies, bathrobe flapping thoughtfully in the breeze. “Better than trying to make a mark on the world only to wind up defacing it.”

For those exhausted by the bluster and rat-tat-tat of today’s TV terrain, here is Leonard and Hungry Paul with a foil blanket and warming mug of Ribena.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 9:00 am

Tame Impala: Deadbeat review | Alexis Petridis’s album of the week

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(Columbia)
Australian indie’s breakout star takes a dancefloor diversion, but amid the four-four fun are fears about fame’s effect on his domestic life

In May, Dua Lipa introduced a special guest at her Sydney gig: Kevin Parker, who duetted with her on a version of The Less I Know the Better, the biggest hit Parker has ever released under the name Tame Impala. The pair have a longstanding creative relationship – Parker co-produced and co-wrote most of Dua Lipa’s last album, Radical Optimism – but nevertheless made for quite the study in contrasts. She was resplendent in a glittering lace catsuit, stiletto-heeled boots, a fake fur stole draped over her shoulder. Lank-haired, clad in a baggy multicoloured cardigan and a string of wooden beads, Parker looked not unlike a man who had arrived onstage direct from a very long night up at Glastonbury’s stone circle.

You could see it as a visual metaphor for Parker’s unlikely journey to pop’s upper echelons which began, improbably enough, while he was listening to the Bee Gees while tripping on magic mushrooms. The experience prompted him to pivot away from the guitar-led psychedelia of Tame Impala’s first two albums and embrace his love of “sugary pop music” on 2015’s Currents. As evidenced by the success of its single The Less I Know the Better – 2bn streams on Spotify and counting – the record vastly outsold Tame Impala’s previous work. Moreover, a succession of mainstream pop stars decided they wanted some of what it had to offer. Parker subsequently worked with Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Travis Scott and the Weeknd among others. Last year, he cropped up on the Australian Financial Review’s list of his homeland’s richest under-40s.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 9:01 am

Add to playlist: Conna Haraway’s deeply detailed dub techno and the week’s best new tracks

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Listening to Shifted, a new EP from the Glasgow producer, is like running your hand over cool, subtly textured slate tiling

From Bath, now based in Glasgow
Recommended if you like Porter Ricks, Basic Channel, Robert Hood
Up next
Manchester and Glasgow DJ sets this weekend, a China and Japan tour in November, and new collaborative project Department releasing an album in November

As autumn paints the British air, skies and seas grey-white, it’s time to colour-match your soundtrack accordingly. Dub techno is something I always reach for at this time of year, cold but with a crackle of heat at its heart. Pioneered in the early 90s and blending stern techno with kindlier ambient and the sagely nodding offbeat of dub, it has been a deep, slow current in dance culture ever since and still has excellent new proponents such as Purelink, Cousin and the Glasgow producer Conna Haraway (who also heads up the labels co:clear and Index:Records).

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Published: October 17, 2025, 11:00 am

Sebastian Rochford: Finding Ways review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month

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(Edition)
Rochford showcases his signature alchemic touch, featuring seven electric guitarists in a fusion of improv, reggae and romantic pop

When Aberdeen-raised drummer and composer Sebastian Rochford’s star rose around the millennium, he quickly made an impact with his precocious and inclusive awareness of 1950-1960s Monk-and-Miles jazz grooves, rock, funk, global music and more. From 2002, Rochford’s unique sax-led quintet Polar Bear began earning nominations for Mercury, Mobo and Urban Music prizes, as well as the kind of fame rare in instrumental jazz. He also played key roles with Acoustic Ladyland, Basquiat Strings, Fulborn Teversham, Sons of Kemet, and as a sideman with Damon Albarn, Brian Eno and Adele.

Finding Ways follows 2023’s A Short Diary (a duo album in partnership with pianist Kit Downes) in dealing with the death in 2019 of Rochford’s beloved poet father Gerard. The title of Finding Ways is no accident: this sharply contrasting record features edgy, metal sounds from seven studio-mixed electric guitarists, including acid-to-improv musician Tara Cunningham, Portishead’s Adrian Utley and former Verve and Albarn sideman Simon Tong. But it’s Rochford’s signature, songlike chemistry – subtly transformed by rich textures, energised by his own unpredictably shifting ambiguities of rhythm – that still infuses his sound.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 8:00 am

The Last Dinner Party: From the Pyre review – baroque’n’roll band’s speedily released second album is overheated

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(Island Records)
The London five-piece throw the kitchen sink at these dizzyingly dense songs, often crushing their melodic pleasures in the process

In an era when new bands struggle to break into the mainstream, the Last Dinner Party’s unusually swift rise (they were supporting the Rolling Stones a mere eight months after their first gig, and won the Rising Star Brit award just two years later) meant they spent much of the press cycle for their Mercury-nominated, chart-topping 2024 debut rubbishing suggestions they’d been manufactured by the music industry. As its follow-up arrives, the London five-piece still seem defensive. “While it may seem to an outsider that we have moved quickly on to a second album,” they write in a self-penned press release, “this timing felt like a natural progression to us.”

From the Pyre certainly doesn’t sound opportunistically rushed out. Quite the opposite, in fact: this is a dizzyingly dense collection of long, intricate tracks that layer biblical imagery, baroque detailing and cacophonous 00s indie energy. From Kate Bush cosplay (Second Best) to slightly tortured metaphors (if This Is the Killer Speaking’s narrator has been ghosted, does that make her a murderer?), often all this sonic and lyrical extravagance seems to come at the expense of basic melodic pleasure. It’s only when the band restrain their instincts for maximalism and melodrama – as on the beautiful (and still stompingly anthemic) I Hold Your Anger, a brooding exploration of maternal instinct – that the Last Dinner Party’s erudite, elaborate pop is able to really sing.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 7:30 am

Rumours of My Demise by Evan Dando review – eye-popping tales of drugs and unpredictability

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An indie-pop darling details his rise to fame and subsequent public humiliations with appealing frankness

Evan Dando’s autobiography opens in early 2021. The singer is living in a mouldering trailer on Martha’s Vineyard. He has a $200-a-day drug habit and is subsisting off a diet of cigarettes and cheeseburgers that he can’t chew because the heroin, cocaine and amphetamine he’s injecting have caused his teeth to fall out.

It’s all a very long way from Dando’s brief burst of fame as frontman and solitary longstanding member of the Lemonheads: two big albums in 1992’s It’s a Shame About Ray, and 1993’s Come on Feel the Lemonheads, a huge hit cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s Mrs Robinson, an era with Dando’s face taking its place alongside the Betty Blue and magic eye posters on halls of residence walls, the Docs-shod female student’s pin-up of choice. But it’s also not totally unexpected, at least if you have even a glancing knowledge of the singer’s subsequent travails. Mainstream success was short-lived: Dando succeeds in sabotaging his own career in a blaze of hard drugs and wildly unpredictable behaviour. For the last 35 years, drugs and unpredictability – rather than music – is what Dando has become known for. The book’s blurb mentions “heroin chic”, but in truth, Dando’s dissipation is almost impossible to put any kind of romantic gloss on. To his credit, he doesn’t bother, instead recounting one public humiliation after another with a what-can-you-do? shrug.

A cocktail of heroin and cocaine puts paid to a show designed to impress investors who’ve just bought a share of Dando’s song publishing for $300,000, but it’s just one of many gigs that collapse into chaos: he falls offstage, or the police are called and he’s led away from the venue in handcuffs. The Lemonheads miss their slot at Glastonbury because Dando is holed up in a hotel, doing heroin: when he does eventually turn up, he performs an unscheduled solo set, but the crowd throw bottles and boo him offstage. He hangs around Oasis in their pomp, even writing a song with Noel Gallagher: it has to be removed from a Lemonheads album at the last minute, because Gallagher deems it an “embarrassment”.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 6:01 am

Joelle Taylor: ‘I picked up The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in a swoon of nine-year-old despair’

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The poet and playwright on queer classics, cinematic TS Eliot and the comforts of a ghost story

My earliest reading memory
I was around five when my mum first pulled out Clement C Moore’s The Night Before Christmas, a bumper blue book with vivid illustrations. There was such suspense in the poem, such inexorable music, the sonic possibilities matching the mystery.

My favourite book growing up
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner. I used to spend every spare moment in Bacup library, Lancashire, bag of sweets to the right and a book open before me. I had read all of Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven books, thought Famous Five were all a bit dry, and picked up Weirdstone in a swoon of nine-year-old despair. The darkness was delicious, exciting because many of the landmarks in the story were from my local area.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 9:01 am

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

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Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan; The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves; The Long Shoe by Bob Mortimer; Benbecula by Graeme Macrae Burnet; The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek

Quantum of Menace by Vaseem Khan (Zaffre, £20)
Dismissed from his role as a back-room boffin in the British secret service, Major Boothroyd, AKA Q, returns to his market-town roots in Khan’s excellent James Bond spin-off. This Q is currently in his 50s; his backstory includes a fling with Miss Moneypenny, and emotional baggage in the form of his retired history don father. What’s drawn him home is the mysterious drowning of his old friend, quantum scientist Peter Napier, who has left him an encrypted note; although the coroner has ruled the death to be accidental and Q’s old flame, DCI Kathy Burnham, is not minded to reopen the case. The stakes here are worthy of the Fleming canon – Napier’s revolutionary work may have terrible consequences – and even if you’re not a Bond fan, you can’t fail to enjoy this solidly plotted and unexpectedly funny blend of nostalgia and new technology.

The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves (Macmillan, £22)
Bestseller Cleeves’s latest novel is billed as the return of Jimmy Perez, as Perez and his life partner DI Willow Reeves, now living on the Orkney Islands with their young son, team up to solve a murder. It’s nearly Christmas when Jimmy’s old friend Archie Stout is found dead at the site of an archeological dig, felled by a Neolithic stone purloined from the local heritage centre. Suspects soon proliferate: the artist with whom roving-eyed Archie may have been having an affair; teacher and local history enthusiast George Riley; mediagenic archeology professor Tony Johnson, and even the deceased’s wife. With an evocation of place that is second to none, Cleeves keeps the narrative plates spinning beautifully to create a complex plot that takes in both the thorny issue of who controls heritage and the pernicious effects of online misogyny.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 11:00 am

Hekate by Nikita Gill review – the ancient Greek goddess works magic in this retelling

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Hekate is a traumatised youngster looking for love and a sense of belonging in this novel imagined in verse

Hekate, the Greek goddess of magic and the underworld, is the prototypal witch known to many from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, where she chastises the weird sisters for their meddling. Along with witchcraft and necromancy, Hekate is also associated with boundaries and crossroads, acting as protector and guide to lost travellers. In art, she is commonly depicted holding torches to show the way, and accompanied by a black dog or serpent.

In Hekate the Witch, the poet Nikita Gill reimagines the life of this enigmatic goddess in verse. Born during a war between the old Titan rulers and new Gods of Olympia, Hekate is birthed alone by her Titan mother, Asteria, who tells her she is destined for greatness. The pair live alone in a dilapidated palace but are forced to flee when Zeus and Poseidon come to enslave them. Seeking refuge in the Underworld, Asteria is denied entry but Hekate, still a Godling, is admitted and taken into the care of Styx and Hades. There, she briefly meets her father, Perses, chained to a mountain after the Titan defeat, who predicts a future for his daughter in which “the dead will bow to you as you move in their wake”.

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Published: October 16, 2025, 2:00 pm

Silent Hill f review – fascinating horror game maims the monsters teenage girls face

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PC, PS5, Xbox; Konami
After an apocalyptic supernatural fog descends, school girl Hinako wakes up in a town populated by psychosexual beasts and gaslighting men in masks

There are some horror games you can finish in a couple of days of intense play; they almost invite that sort of frenzied consumption. But there are others that need to be savoured, and sometimes even suffered. Silent Hill f is in the latter category, which is why our review is somewhat delayed. This slowburn descent into psychological horror is set in 1960s Japan, but it also has pertinent things to say about the modern era and the tendrils of misogyny crawling out of the basement of the culture wars.

Lead character Hinako Shimizu is a school girl in the small conservative town of Ebisugaoka. Her father is a bully who treats his wife like a servant and his daughter like an inconvenience, and her best friend is Shu, a boy who may harbour deeper feelings for her – much to the frustration of another friend Rinko, who has a serious crush on him. It reads like a teen drama, which in a way it is, until an apocalyptic supernatural fog descends on the town and almost everyone goes missing.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 9:00 am

ROG Xbox Ally X review – like nothing handheld gaming has seen before, for better or worse

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Xbox’s portable console combines the openness of PC gaming and Microsoft’s desire for you to play its titles anywhere – but it doesn’t come cheap or without hitches

The ROG Xbox Ally X, the handheld console collaboration from Asus and Microsoft, is an impressive, yet expensive, piece of gaming tech. The pricier of the two portable gaming devices dropping on 16 October, the all-black ROG Xbox Ally X will cost you a cool £799 (€899/$999/A$1599) to sample its splendour. (The less powerful ROG Xbox Ally, which comes in white, will run you £499/€599/$599/A$999.) Thankfully, the pricier option has said splendour in spades.

I’ve put the ROG Xbox Ally X through its paces for the last few weeks, playing indie darlings and massive role-playing games throughout my apartment. Though the price tag is certainly a shocker (the Steam Deck OLED, a direct competitor, costs £479/€569/$549/A$899 for its cheaper model), the power packed into this comparatively smaller frame (291 x 122 x 51mm) is like nothing the portable gaming market has seen before.

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Published: October 16, 2025, 1:21 pm

Without Ace Frehley, Kiss could not have achieved their extraordinary greatness | Michael Hann

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The guitarist was the most proficient musician in the original lineup and his bludgeoning ‘monster plod’ was central to their sound

Ace Frehley was the last of the quartet to join Kiss, and when he left, the band were beginning their slow descent through the 80s. By the time Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley wrestled the brand back to the big stages, Frehley – who has died aged 74 – was little more than a face-painted pattern to the generations of new fans who came to gawp at the fireworks.

But one shouldn’t underestimate his contribution to Kiss: almost all of Kiss’s setlist to the end was made up of songs he had played on. And though he was not a prolific writer, one of his compositions – Cold Gin – remained in their setlist until Stanley and Simmons quit in 2023, more than 40 years after Frehley left the band (the less said about the 1998 reunion album, Psycho Circus, the better).

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Published: October 17, 2025, 2:27 am

& Sons review – Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton’s riveting showdown rescues a laborious plot

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London film festival: Nighy stars as a boozy literary has-been and Staunton his estranged wife in Pablo Trapero’s unconvincing adaptation of David Gilbert’s 2013 novel

No movie with Imelda Staunton and Bill Nighy can be entirely without interest – and they’re heading up a mighty cast here under the direction of the great Argentinian film-maker Pablo Trapero, making his English-language debut. He has co-written the screenplay with another A-lister: Canadian actor and director Sarah Polley.

And yet the resulting picture, adapted from the 2013 novel by David Gilbert, feels nebulous and laborious. It is dependent on a giant twist-reveal, which is bafflingly implausible and strangely uncompelling even if taken at face value, and which tends to undermine the emotional reality of the whole film and its big confrontation scenes – though there is one riveting showdown between Staunton and Nighy, two black-belts each at the top of their game.

Nighy is Andrew Dyer, a cantankerous old literary lion revered throughout the world for the brilliant novels of his youth, who has published nothing for years and is now marooned like a bearded, drunken hermit in his huge Oxfordshire mansion, boozing, playing jazz LPs too loud and shouting at the walls. He lives with his longsuffering Czech housekeeper Gerde (Anna Geislerová) and high-schooler Andy (Noah Jupe), the product of an affair that destroyed his marriage to Isabel (Imelda Staunton).

Andy is (possibly) like Smerdyakov in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov: the non-canonical brother to his other, older siblings, would-be documentary film-maker Jamie (George MacKay) and recovering alcoholic screenwriter Richard (Johnny Flynn). The entire family is imperiously summoned to the mansion by Dyer.

Andy and Richard are furious with the old man for how he treated their mother but self-hatingly aware they are still using him for their various careers. The film shows that their intense dislike of Dyer is not helped by the extraordinary claim he now makes about Andy – is it just a delusional, self-serving excuse for his infidelity and the only imaginative effort of which the raddled old man is now capable? Or could it be true?

Either way, there isn’t much drama to be had from it. The whole situation circles around Dyer’s revelation without satisfactorily fleshing out its claims to the truth, or its implications as fiction. Jupe, MacKay and Flynn transmit their roles strongly enough, though the male cast are perhaps upstaged by Staunton as Dyer’s estranged wife; it is actually Flynn’s character Richard, furiously obsessed with what Dyer owes him, who delivers the film’s second disclosure, which would be quite enough on its own for most stories.

There are memories here of other films about ageing, conceited toxic-male authors: Bjørn Runge’s The Wife (2017) and Alice Troughton’s The Lesson (2023). Although as a movie about a dysfunctional family, it isn’t anywhere near the quality of Trapero’s own tremendous crime-family movie The Clan from 2015.

& Sons doesn’t deliver on the promise of all its film-making talent but Nighy is always amusing, especially when he crisply orders his nephew Emmett (Arthur Conti) to fix him a whisky. In his untutored way, the kid fills the glass almost to the brim and Dyer grinningly congratulates him on an excellent “Scotch-to-air ratio”.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 10:53 am

Palestine 36 director Annemarie Jacir: ‘We don’t want a state, we just want to live’

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Fresh from a 20-minute ovation at Toronto, the film-maker’s historical drama reveals how Britain’s 1936 crackdown created the blueprint for the ongoing genocide in Gaza

It is a black hole, the director and writer Annemarie Jacir tells me of the year 1936. Our discussion has fallen back in time to the start of the first mass Palestinian revolt against British rule and Zionism. It’s the year from which her latest film, Palestine 36, takes its name, a year she’s heard about her entire life. It’s also the origin, she believes, of today’s reality – even if for others it’s a historical void. “A lot of people don’t even know, surprisingly, that the British were even in Palestine,” Jacir says incredulously. “This film is for Palestinians. It’s our story that hasn’t been told.”

The veteran film-maker is undoubtedly well placed to tell it: this is her fourth feature to be selected as Palestine’s Oscar entry. And although a period film, it does not belong to the past. While years have passed since the executions, widespread detentions and demolished villages under Britain’s 30-year rule, she argues that history is alive. At one point in the film, a young Palestinian man is tied to the front of a vehicle by British soldiers, as a human shield. While filming the scene in Nablus, a city in the West Bank, the very same day Israeli soldiers strapped a wounded Palestinian man to a military vehicle during a raid in Jenin. “Everything that is going on now was set up back then in 1936; everything that the Israeli army does, in fact, is all taken from that moment,” says Jacir.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 12:00 pm

Elliott Gould remembers Diane Keaton – ‘We snuck into a bush and she said: “This is called making out”’

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Gould and Keaton made three movies together. He recalls a co-star who was professional, original, and remarkably down to earth

I was shocked when I heard about Diane’s passing. I loved her. There was nobody like her. Bright, talented, generous, and very smart and witty. She had more than just a sense of humour; she was hysterical. Whatever it was, she just had it.

The first time I saw her was in a deodorant commercial where she bit somebody’s ear. Everything about her was original. I’d be interested in anything she was involved in because she was so keen and so smart and so witty. And anybody who got to work with her was in for a treat – as I later found.

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Published: October 16, 2025, 5:00 am

Experience: I am the air guitar world champion

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For 60 seconds I gave everything – explosive energy, perfect mime and rock star charisma. I think I blacked out from shock when they said I’d won

I was 10 when I read an article in the local paper about the Air Guitar World Championships, which take place every year in my home town of Oulu, Finland. My parents had helped out at the very first contest back in 1996 – my mum gave out flyers, my dad sorted the music. Since then, national championships have been held all across the world, with the winners assembling in Oulu every summer.

At the time, I asked my parents if I could compete. At first they were hesitant; the event was in a bar, and there would be a lot of adults. They thought it might be an intimidating atmosphere, but I was determined.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 4:00 am

Night owls versus early birds: who is superior according to science?

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And is it actually possible for your body clock to change? Am I really turning into an early bird or have I just been forced into a child-dictated schedule?

We all know that early birds get the worm. But who wants a worm? Not me. For most of my life I have identified as a night owl, clambering out of bed as late as possible and not so much seizing but reluctantly easing into the day.

US work culture is not really optimal for night owls. Rather, it favours CEOs who get up at 4am and run a marathon while the rest of us hit the snooze button. Still, I always consoled myself with the idea that night owls are actually more intelligent and creative than their early bird counterparts. Franz Kafka and Thomas Wolfe wrote at bedtime; Bob Dylan recorded at night. Even scientific studies indicated it was true.

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Published: October 16, 2025, 4:00 pm

The eight best showerhead filters in the US for every budget and bathroom

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Shower filters claim to help with the chlorine and chemicals in the tap water we rinse with – here are the ones we recommend

Most of us jump in the shower without giving it much thought. Lather, rinse, repeat. But what’s in that water you’re being sprayed with, and what effect is it having on your skin and hair? Tap water contains a laundry list of chemicals and minerals, some of which may be detrimental. Chlorine is the most common concern, which can dry out your skin and hair and possibly even aggravate asthma.

Fortunately, it can be removed with filters, which claim to solve all of these problems and sometimes more. One calls itself an “essential beauty wellness tool”; another is “step zero of your self-care routine”. When I began researching, the claims of beautification were so varied and extreme that I half expected to begin as a middle-aged man with thinning hair and end up as Jacob Elordi. No such luck.

Best overall:
Canopy Handheld Filtered Showerhead

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Published: October 16, 2025, 7:15 pm

Instant coffee just beat drip – we were stunned too

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Sometimes simple wins: why instant coffee might deserve a second look

Each week in the Filter US newsletter we cut through the noise to bring you smart, practical recommendations on how to live better – from what is worth buying to the tools, habits and ideas that actually last.

As the Filter US’s new editorial coordinator, I was thrilled that my first assignment allowed me to write about something I can’t live without: coffee. And I’ll confess, I consider myself quite the coffee snob. Every morning, I sit at my tiny New York City kitchen table, trying (and often failing) to solve a crossword puzzle, while enjoying my first cup of the day.

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Published: October 16, 2025, 2:00 pm

‘A 360 turn’: concern as fashion shows feature fewer plus-size models

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Vogue report finds fall in number of ‘curve’ models, while widespread use of weight-loss drugs credited with normalising thinness

Fashion insiders have expressed concern that efforts towards size inclusivity are being eroded, with experts saying the industry has “done a 360 turn” back to promoting thinness.

This week a report by Vogue Business found that out of the 9,038 looks presented across 198 shows in the womenswear collections earlier this month, 97.1% were shown on straight-size models who measured between a US size 0-4 (the equivalent of a UK 4-8). Only 0.9% of models were plus-size, also known as curve (UK 18+), while 2% were mid-size (UK 10-16).

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Published: October 17, 2025, 5:31 pm

‘We keep wine in caves and cathedrals’: an eating and drinking tour of Burgos, Spain

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A Norman Foster-designed ‘wine cathedral’, Hobbit-style cellars and a Petra-lookalike church are drawing attention to this tasty corner of the Ribera del Duero in northern Spain

‘We can talk about culture, churches, monasteries, whatever, but the main thing here is eating and drinking.” My guide, Loreto Esteban Guijarro, is keen to ensure I have my priorities straight. I’m with Loreto to discover the food and wine culture of Spain’s Burgos province, a high-altitude area ringed by distant mountains. In summer the days are hot, and at night temperatures plummet. To thrive in these extremes, the food, the wine, and even perhaps the people, are robust and straight-talking.

I’m staying deep in wine country at the rural Posada de Pradoray, built as a hunting lodge for the Duke of Lerma in 1601. The thick stone walls, dark polished wood and heavy doors leading to simple rooms with vineyard views suggest little has changed in this landscape for centuries. Burgos is part of the Ribera del Duero wine region which stretches for 71 miles following the Duero River through the provinces of Burgos, Segovia, Soria and Valladolid.

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Published: October 16, 2025, 6:00 am

You be the judge: should my housemates bring the bins in?

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Mohammed alleges that his flatmate Ben isn’t doing his bit when it comes to the garbage. You decide who is talking rubbish
Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror

If the bins are left out for ages, our neighbours don’t like it and random people chuck rubbish in

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Published: October 16, 2025, 7:00 am

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for baked leek and egg gratin | A kitchen in Rome

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Soft leeks topped with halved boiled eggs and smothered in a blanket of cheesy bechamel: what’s not to like?

While sorting out some books the other day, as well as gathering a pile to give away or sell, I spent a large part of two hours looking for books I know I once had, and trying to remember if I had loaned or lost them. And then, in the case of one particular book, ordering another copy. Ten out, one in: not terrible.

The book I (re)ordered was Beaneaters and Bread Soup, by Lori de Mori and the photographer Jason Lowe. Gathered over decades of living just outside Florence, the book is a collection of wonderful, practical Tuscan recipes, and also tells a story of Tuscan food through portraits of photogenic local artisans: a chestnut grower, a bee keeper, a man who makes knives … I would mention more if I could find the book, which I suspect was borrowed and never returned – you know who you are! (Unless I have got this wrong and it is behind the bookcase.)

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Published: October 16, 2025, 5:00 am

‘Teach kids internet bollocks, not my old rubbish,’ says Shakespeare: the Stephen Collins cartoon

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Published: October 17, 2025, 9:30 am

‘Gen Z gave us the victory’: how young protesters toppled Madagascar’s leader

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There is jubilation in Place du 13 Mai in the capital but concern about army’s intentions after military takeover

As the sun set on Place du 13 Mai in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, thousands of people danced, waved and cheered to pulsating rap and reggae beats and rousing speeches.

When young people started protesting on 25 September, first against water and power cuts, then demanding a complete overhaul of the political system, military police stopped them from reaching the square. The site has been a symbol of democracy and the focal point of anti-government protests on the Indian Ocean island since 40 student demonstrators were killed there by security forces in May 1972.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 11:18 am

‘Legacies condensed to AI slop’: OpenAI Sora videos of the dead raise alarm with legal experts

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The video app can produce realistic deepfakes of Marx shopping and MLK Jr trolling. Some say using ‘historical figures’ is the company’s way of testing the legal waters

Last night I was flicking through a dating app. One guy stood out: “Henry VIII, 34, King of England, nonmonogamy”. Next thing I know, I am at a candlelit bar sharing a martini with the biggest serial dater of the 16th century.

But the night is not over. Next, I am DJing back-to-back with Diana, Princess of Wales. “The crowd’s ready for the drop,” she shouts in my ear, holding a headphone to her tiara. Finally, Karl Marx is explaining why he can’t resist 60% off, as we wait in the cold to get first dibs on Black Friday sales.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 11:00 am

Tell us your favourite TV romcom of all time

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TV writers have told us their favourite television romcoms of all time – now we’d like to hear yours

The Guardian has asked TV writers for their favourite television romcoms of all time – and now we’d like to hear yours.

You can tell us about your favourite series and why below.

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Published: October 17, 2025, 2:11 pm

The week around the world in 20 pictures

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The hostage release, floods in Mexico, protests in Madagascar and polar bears in an abandoned research station: the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

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Published: October 17, 2025, 5:52 pm

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