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Starcleaner Reunion Announce Debut Album Umbrella: Hear “Never Odd Or Even”
New York indie rock band Starcleaner Reunion have announced their debut album, Umbrella, due out in September, alongside a new single titled “Never Odd Or Even”. The band, previously highlighted by Stereogum as one of 2024’s Best New Artists, have been building momentum, and the album marks a significant step following their well-received sophomore EP,…
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‘Ideal patient medicated to just above a coma’: What doctor told nurse at scandal-hit mental health hospital where more than 2,000 inpatients died, inquiry hears
A former NHS mental health nurse, Stuart Ayris, has told the Lampard Inquiry that a doctor at a scandal-hit Essex mental health hospital once said “the ideal patient is one medicated to just above a coma.” The inquiry is examining more than 2,000 deaths of patients admitted to inpatient mental health units in Essex between…
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Sheffield ambulance station closures part of £10m-plus improvement to service, bosses say
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Stella McCartney Releases Behind-the-Scenes Photo Series ‘Shot by Stella’
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The New York Times couldn’t ‘corroborate’ abuse claims against Graham Platner, so I called the woman they didn’t. This scandal just got so much worse: KENNEDY
Daily Mail columnist Kennedy attacks a New York Times investigation into Graham Platner, a combat veteran turned socialist candidate whose 2026 Maine Democratic Senate primary campaign has collapsed. The Times reported that three women who had dated Platner described “volatile” and “toxic” relationships, but the columnist argues the paper handled the story dishonestly, and set…
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Family of accused cannibal mum reveal their last contact before she allegedly murdered and ate parts of her son, 4: ‘We should have stepped in’
A 32-year-old woman from Gunnedah in north-central New South Wales has been charged with the murder of her four-year-old son, whom she allegedly killed and partly ate. According to the Daily Mail, she handed herself in at Wyong Police Station on the NSW Central Coast on Saturday and allegedly admitted the killing. The case is…
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10 best anime announcements you missed at Anime Expo 2026
Polygon has rounded up ten anime projects announced at Anime Expo 2026 that were overshadowed by the convention’s blockbuster reveals, such as The Ghost in the Shell, Yoshitaka Amano’s ZAN, Star Wars: Visions spin-off The Ninth Jedi, and updates on Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, Kagurabachi and Black Clover. The piece argues that the biggest franchises dominate…
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4 Heartfelt Ballads That Dominated the Charts in 1982
American Songwriter looks back at 1982, a year when slow songs of every stripe — rock power ballads, R&B quiet storm tracks and sentimental duets — dominated pop radio and MTV. The piece highlights four ballads that either topped the US charts or came close, using them to illustrate how varied and commercially powerful the…
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Bacon hails Bonnie Tyler as one of rock’s great voices
Actor Kevin Bacon has led tributes to the Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, whose death at the age of 75 was announced on Thursday 9 July, describing her as “one of the great voices of rock”. Bacon, who starred in the 1984 film Footloose, credited Tyler’s track “Holding Out For a Hero” with elevating one of…
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‘Artificial’ Not Expected To Play The Festival Circuit — The Dish
Luca Guadagnino’s film Artificial, which dramatises the sudden firing and reinstatement of OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, is expected to skip a traditional autumn film festival launch, according to Deadline. The decision matters because the project has become a lightning rod for media scrutiny, particularly after Amazon dropped the film last month and independent distributor…