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DHS plans costly crackdown on states that don’t cooperate on election security
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to withhold billions of dollars in preparedness grant funding from states that decline to adopt a set of new election-security requirements. The conditions, attached to more than $1 billion available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Homeland Security Grant Programme, would require measures such as voter…
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Guy Ritchie’s ‘Sherlock Holmes 3’ Officially Gets Its Biggest Update in 15 Years
Sherlock Holmes 3 writer Chris Brancato has confirmed that he has written a draft of Robert Downey Jr.’s long-awaited sequel.
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12 New Songs Out Today
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OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is closing down Atlas, the AI-powered web browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its heart, but it is not abandoning the wider goal of using AI to help people browse the web. Rather than maintaining a standalone browser, the company is redistributing the agentic browsing features it trialled in Atlas across ChatGPT’s…
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Bad Bunny’s Foundation Shares Details for ‘Un Verano Contigo’ 2026, A Free Program For Youth in Puerto Rico
Bad Bunny’s charity, Fundación Good Bunny, has announced the 2026 edition of Un Verano Contigo, a free educational and cultural programme for young people in Puerto Rico. The three-week initiative will host 270 participants and covers art, fashion, music and sport, aiming to give island youth access to experiences, tools and mentors that help them…
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Tom Hanks’ son Chet Hanks shares the life-changing decision that followed rehab and addiction
Chet Hanks, the 35-year-old actor and musician son of Tom Hanks, has spoken candidly about his struggles with addiction and self-worth during an appearance on the podcast “Artist Friendly with Joel Madden”. He described how his life and career only improved once he stopped trying to control every outcome, embraced gratitude for life’s simplest pleasures…
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Burnham is warned he may face the ‘Putin test’ in his first few weeks of taking charge
Andy Burnham, on the brink of becoming Prime Minister after securing 322 nominations from Labour MPs to replace Sir Keir Starmer, has been warned he could face an early confrontation with Russia within weeks of taking office. John Bew, a former chief foreign affairs adviser who served under Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and…
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Utah Shuts Down Provo Canyon School Paris Hilton Accused of Abuse
The US state of Utah has revoked the operating licence of the Provo Canyon School’s campus in Springville, the “scared straight” facility for troubled adolescents where socialite and businesswoman Paris Hilton says she was subjected to brutal abuse as a teenager. Regulators ordered the campus to close after finding it non-compliant on multiple health and…
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Trump’s antifa crackdown sparks panic over Newsom reprisals in 2028
Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, has invited senior officials from dozens of countries to a summit on far-left terrorism, part of a wider Trump administration crackdown on antifa groups. According to the Washington Post, the initiative has alarmed some within the White House itself, who fear that establishing tough new counterterrorism powers could…