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Missouri grandma ordered to stop serving free breakfasts refuses to back down, ‘They are my family’
Missouri grandmother Kathy Kite has continued serving free breakfasts from her Harrisburg home after Boone County health officials said she needed a food permit to do so. The dispute has drawn support from the Goldwater Institute, which challenged the department’s legal reasoning and said litigation remained possible, raising questions about how food-safety rules apply to…
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How Mark Carney’s speeches have become political earthquakes | Ted Widmer
Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, has become an unexpected orator of note, delivering two speeches in 2026 that have reverberated globally despite his famously flat, understated delivery. His January address at Davos warned of a “rupture in the world order” and urged like-minded nations to align without relying on US leadership, while a 23 August…
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De Gaulle: Résistance review – a galloping bromance for Churchill and France’s wartime hero
Antonin Baudry’s biopic De Gaulle: Résistance, the first of two planned films, offers a warm and often wryly comic portrait of Charles de Gaulle during his years as the exiled leader of Free France in London. Based on Julian Jackson’s biography A Certain Idea of France, the film centres on De Gaulle’s charged, affectionate rivalry-turned-alliance…
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Ridley Scott’s 10/10 Sci-Fi Series Is Officially One of the Most Popular Shows on Earth
Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise is enjoying a surge in popularity, with the Hulu/Disney+ series Alien: Earth ranking in the top 10 in several countries as fans await its second season. The show, created by Noah Hawley, marked the franchise’s first venture onto television and proved successful enough to secure a renewal, coming at a moment…
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“I watched it and I thought, ‘That’s similar.’ I watched it again and thought, ‘That’s really similar!’ She sent me a big apology… it was pretty cool”: Prog metal prodigy Plini’s laid-back reaction to a pop star stealing his solo
Australian progressive metal guitarist Plini has spoken about the moment a Doja Cat performance appeared to lift a guitar solo from his own music, and why he chose not to pursue any legal action over it. During an MTV EMA appearance, Doja Cat performed a heavier version of her hit “Say So” featuring a newly…
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Friends of boy, 15, who drowned in lake on one of the hottest days of the year saw him ‘gasping for air’ but ‘thought it was a prank’, inquest told
An inquest in Grimsby has heard that friends of 15-year-old Declan Sawyer initially believed he was joking around when he began struggling in the water at Swanholme Lakes nature reserve in Lincoln, only realising too late that he was drowning. Declan got into difficulty on 24 May while swimming towards an island with friends during…
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At least 17 killed as flash flood sweeps part of Nepal-Tibet border
At least 160 people have been killed and hundreds remain missing after a flash flood and mudslide struck the Nepal-Tibet border region, devastating villages, roads and other infrastructure. Rescue teams are searching on both sides of the border, but disrupted communications and the scale of destruction mean the death toll is expected to rise. The…
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Max Olesker: Making the Cut review – up close and personal account of comic’s religious conversion
Max Olesker’s solo show *Making the Cut*, playing at Pleasance Dome in Edinburgh, gives a candid account of his lengthy conversion from liberal to Orthodox Judaism, a process he undertook to marry his partner. The show, adapted from his memoir, matters as a piece of theatre because it balances comedy with a genuinely searching, ambivalent…
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Slash your cholesterol by a third in just a month… hundreds of thousands are on a new diet that’s transforming lives. Here are the exact foods you need to avoid a life on statins: MEIKE LEONARD
High cholesterol, which affects more than half of British adults, causes fatty deposits to build up in the arteries and raises the risk of heart attack, stroke and dementia. While nearly eight million people in the UK take statins to manage it, the drugs can cause side effects and often fail to bring cholesterol down…
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My wife and I are in our 50s and haven’t had sex for TWO YEARS. Today I’m revealing all about the desperate truth so many couples hide… by CHRIS TAUNTON
A middle-aged husband has written an anonymous account describing how he and his wife, both in their fifties, have not had sex for over two years, despite remaining close and amicable as a couple. His reflection highlights a common but rarely discussed experience among long-term couples, where physical intimacy fades even as the relationship otherwise…