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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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Initiate reveal new EP With Love // With Rage and single Numb The Pain
Southern California hardcore band Initiate have announced a new EP titled With Love // With Rage, alongside its lead single and video “Numb The Pain”. The release marks the group’s first substantial new output since their 2022 debut album Cerebral Circus, following only a one-off 2025 single called “Too Much”, and continues their approach of…
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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…
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Joanna Pettet, Actress in ‘The Group’ and ‘Casino Royale,’ Dies at 83
Joanna Pettet, the London-born actress best known for Sidney Lumet’s ensemble drama The Group and the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale, has died at the age of 83. She died on Tuesday at Temecula Valley Hospital in California, according to her friend and former manager Pam DuBois. Her death fell exactly 31 years after…
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“Great job Microsoft”: Former id Software artist says the legendary dev has been “relegated to support studio size” after Xbox’s strategy of “nuking a team into the dirt”
A former id Software artist has publicly criticised Microsoft over the current state of the studio behind Doom and Quake, claiming the legendary developer has been “relegated to support studio size” following Xbox’s handling of its teams. The former staffer accused Microsoft’s strategy of “nuking a team into the dirt” and sarcastically remarked “great job…
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I’m starting to lose track of Arc Raiders dupes at this point, but Embark says it just fixed another one
Embark Studios has fixed another item-duplication exploit (“dupe”) in its co-op extraction shooter Arc Raiders, the latest in a run of similar glitches that have troubled the game. Dupes let players clone valuable in-game items, which can distort the game’s economy and undermine the fairness of its loot-driven progression, so the studio has been moving…