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Republicans Gleefully Celebrate Midterms Chaos in Maine
Republican strategists aligned with Donald Trump are privately delighting in the turmoil surrounding Maine’s Democratic Senate candidate, Graham Platner, whose campaign has been engulfed by controversy. Platner, a US Marine veteran who won the Democratic primary last month, is now facing a fresh sexual assault allegation and calls from senior Democrats to withdraw, throwing the…
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Academy Museum Unveils The Horror Show Exhibition Featuring ‘Carrie’ 50th Anniversary Screening, John Carpenter Retrospective
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles has announced a major new exhibition, The Horror Show, devoted to the art and craft of horror cinema. Running for 10 months from 26 September 2026 to 25 July 2027 in the museum’s Katzenberg Gallery, it will be accompanied by film retrospectives, including a 50th anniversary…
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Former model uncovers the secret online marketplace where British men swap footage of innocent women they have captured on spy cameras hidden in pens, air fresheners and plugs
A new BBC documentary, “Hunting the Spycammers”, presented by former glamour model turned online safety campaigner Jess Davies, has exposed a hidden online network in which men covertly film women and share the footage. Going undercover, Davies uncovered people boasting about secretly recording wives, girlfriends and strangers in private spaces such as bedrooms, bathrooms and…
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Recognise 110: GIDEÖN
DJ Mag’s “Recognise” series profiles Gideon Berger, known as GIDEÖN, a South London-based DJ, producer, curator and activist whose work fuses dance music with political organising. The piece matters as a portrait of a figure who has occupied a singular, long-standing place in UK club culture, treating house music as a tradition with a lineage…
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Ministry of Sound launches DJ competition to find new resident DJs
Ministry of Sound has launched Boxed In, a live-streamed DJ competition designed to find the London club’s next resident DJs. The contest will be broadcast on Twitch from The Box, the venue’s recently renovated main room, on 13th September, marking part of the club’s efforts to champion emerging talent for a new generation. Over 12…
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Heartbreak as suicide prevention campaigner, 22, dies four years after her brother took his own life
Poppy Reynolds, a 22-year-old suicide prevention campaigner from Bundaberg in Queensland, has died, four years after her older brother Harry took his own life in 2022. Her death matters because she had become a passionate advocate and fundraiser for mental health charities following her brother’s loss, making her passing a stark illustration of how grief…
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Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is reportedly raising $10 billion at a $130 billion pre-money valuation, according to The New York Times. The round would be the company’s first external fundraise, drawing in major backers including Coatue Asset Management, Bezos himself, and other large investors, and marking a significant vote of confidence in the…
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L’Rain Plots Tour, Enlists Arooj Aftab for New Video
The “Borderline” video also features Cécile McLorin Salvant and Tasha
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Can AI equalize political campaign ads – or will it remain a tool for spreading lies?
A candidate for a New York City council seat, Jonathan Rinaldi, was arrested in June on misdemeanour forgery charges after using an AI chatbot to fabricate fake news stories and endorsements during his campaign, including a bogus CNN-branded report falsely claiming his opponent had quit the race. The case appears to be one of the…