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Nashville Airport set to vote on name change to Dolly Parton International
The board of the Metro Nashville Airport Authority is due to vote on 11 September on a proposal to rename Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton, following the country music icon’s death on 25 August at the age of 80. The move follows a petition, launched in January and later gaining tens of thousands of…
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Republicans head to Dallas with one mission: Defy history and win big
Republicans held their first-ever national midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, roughly two months before the November elections, as the party sought to defy the historical pattern of the sitting president’s party losing seats in midterm votes. Organisers used the two-day event to showcase President Donald Trump’s record in office and to rally Republican candidates and…
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NFL legend reveals why eating ‘real food’ after retirement led him to raise his own beef
Former Cleveland Browns offensive tackle Joe Thomas, a Pro Football Hall of Famer known for playing an NFL-record 10,363 consecutive snaps, has built a second career running Hall of Fame Farms, a roughly 4,100-acre cattle operation in Wisconsin. The story highlights a growing trend of retired athletes turning to agriculture and food production, and has…
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Socialist politicians are ‘more racist than the KKK,’ says Black Dem official urging voters to ditch El-Sayed
A Michigan Democratic state representative, Karen Whitsett, has publicly criticised her party’s socialist wing and urged voters to reject US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, arguing that left-wing leaders take Black voters for granted. She went as far as describing far-left socialist politicians as “more racist than the KKK,” comparing their treatment of Black communities to…
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Blue Film review – polarising sex worker drama is well-acted and deeply disturbing
The Guardian’s review examines Blue Film, an American independent drama by director Elliot Tuttle that has reportedly caused walk-outs at screenings and was turned down by several major festivals. The two-hander centres on a sex worker who is hired for the night, only to discover his client is his former English teacher, a convicted paedophile,…
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US allies lack resources to keep pace on AI, top Pentagon official says
The Pentagon’s top artificial intelligence official, Cameron Stanley, said on Tuesday that America’s closest allies lack the resources to match the pace of US military AI adoption, and that Washington is working with partners to help them avoid mistakes it has made. Speaking at the Billington Cybersecurity summit, Stanley said the US was actively guiding…
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Eco-friendly holiday claims under fire as watchdog cracks down on misleading adverts
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has used an AI-powered monitoring system to identify misleading environmental claims in holiday adverts from Thomas Cook and Loveholidays, ruling that terms such as “eco resort” and “eco hotel” were not properly explained. The watchdog found that consumers could reasonably interpret these labels as indicating genuine environmental benefits, yet the…
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Cambridge lecturer called passenger ‘jihadist’ and told him to ‘blow himself up’ in drunken outburst on BA flight
Cambridge academic Dr Adam Coutts has been given a suspended prison sentence after racially abusing a fellow passenger on a British Airways flight, calling him a “jihadist” and telling him to “blow himself up”. Coutts, 48, who has advised the UN on migration and refugees, launched the drunken tirade against Hammad Aziz and his wife…
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‘Superhero’ officer killed in A66 crash to be laid to rest today with procession through his home town
PC Matthew Blades, 37, is being laid to rest today in Hartlepool with full police honours and a procession through his home town, following his death alongside colleague PC Tom Clough, 38, in a head-on crash on the A66 on 22 August. The officers were killed when their vehicle collided with a car carrying a…