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Dallas Cowboys player who died by suicide diagnosed with brain disease
Marshawn Kneeland, a Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman who died by suicide in November 2025 aged 24, has been posthumously diagnosed with stage 1 chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), researchers at Boston University’s CTE Center have said. The finding matters because it adds to mounting evidence that the degenerative brain disease, caused by repeated blows to the…
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Kentucky woman left man, 91, locked inside car on 101 degree day after he refused to buy her cigarettes, cops say
A woman in Kentucky has been arrested after allegedly locking a 91-year-old man inside his own car during 101-degree Fahrenheit (about 38C) heat because he refused to buy her cigarettes. Nikki Reed Hoskins, 37, was detained last Thursday in East Bernstadt, roughly 75 miles south of Lexington, according to the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office. The…
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Abbott orders probe after Texas hospital advertises ‘birth packages’ in Mexico: ‘Citizenship is not for sale’
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered a state investigation into Mission Regional Medical Center after the hospital confirmed it ran Spanish-language billboards in Mexico advertising “Birth Packages in South Texas” to pregnant foreign nationals near the border. The move matters because it feeds a wider Republican push against so-called “birth tourism” and birthright citizenship, with…
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MTG brands Mitch McConnell’s wife a ‘communist spy’ as she flees to China during terrifying hospitalization
Former US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed there is a “100 percent chance” that Elaine Chao, the wife of Senator Mitch McConnell, is a “Chinese communist spy”. Greene based the allegation on Chao’s reported trip to China during McConnell’s lengthy hospitalisation, pointing to Chinese media photographs that appear to show Chao meeting Vice President…
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Political heiress dies in ‘incredibly painful’ circumstances aged just 55 after failed election bid and ugly squabble over family fortune
Renata Ford, the widow of the controversial former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, has died at the age of 55. Her death was announced by her brother-in-law, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who described the loss as “incredibly painful” for her two children, Stephanie and Dougie. The cause of death has not been made clear. The passing…
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Former Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum arrested on drug charges
Andrew Gillum, the former Democratic nominee for governor of Florida and one-time mayor of Tallahassee, was arrested in Alabama last week on drug possession charges. The arrest marks a further downfall for a politician once regarded as a rising star in the Democratic Party, who narrowly lost the 2018 governor’s race to Republican Ron DeSantis…
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Does the WNBA Not Like Caitlin Clark?
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McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, saw no need for ‘immediate return’ from China as former GOP leader hospitalized
Former US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao stayed in China on a family trip while her husband, Senator Mitch McConnell, was hospitalised, with her spokesperson saying his condition did not warrant an “immediate return”. The matter matters because McConnell, 84, is the longest-serving Senate Republican leader in history, and the lack of official detail about his…