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Slade back in England XV for must-win game with Fiji
Centre Henry Slade has been recalled to England’s starting line-up for Saturday’s Nations Championship match against Fiji in Liverpool, as head coach Steve Borthwick seeks to end a run of five straight Test defeats. Slade, 33, was overlooked for the entire Six Nations campaign earlier this year but returns after strong domestic form in which…
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‘The Pitt’s’ Brittany Allen On Self-Submitting For The Emmys: “You Reach A Point Where You Go, I Don’t Want To Get Overlooked Anymore”
Brittany Allen, an actress in the second season of HBO’s medical drama The Pitt, has secured an Emmy nomination for outstanding guest actress in a drama series after choosing to submit herself for contention when HBO declined to put her forward. Her performance as Roxie Hamler, a terminally ill cancer patient, drew a strong fan…
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Platner quits Senate race over assault claim; Northampton husband guilty of wife’s murder
A US Senate campaign collapses amid an assault allegation and a Northampton man is convicted of murdering his estranged wife, as the 2026 Emmy nominations, a Hatton Garden diamond theft and Justin Verlander’s retirement also feature.
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BROADCAST BIAS: Graham Platner scandal shows how media’s #MeToo movement collapsed
This Fox News opinion piece argues that the sexual misconduct allegations against Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate in Maine’s US Senate race against Republican incumbent Susan Collins, expose what the author sees as inconsistency in the media’s handling of #MeToo cases. Platner suspended his campaign on 8 July after the allegations, and the article contends…
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Nigel Farage to trigger Clacton by-election with Count Binface as main rival
The Daily Mail’s “Poll of the Day” invites readers to vote on whether Nigel Farage will beat the novelty candidate Count Binface in a forthcoming Clacton by-election, framing the contest as a light-hearted test of the Reform UK leader’s standing in his own constituency. The article suggests the by-election is set to be triggered and…
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Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
A Floodlight investigation has found that data centres are rapidly proliferating across Texas, often building large fossil-fuel power plants with minimal public scrutiny. The report centres on OpenAI’s flagship “Stargate” data centre in Abilene, whose 360-megawatt on-site gas plant sits just 500 yards from the home of resident Omaira Garcia, who says she learned of…
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Dragon Age’s former lead writer thinks the series is probably dead, but he’d be happy to take it off EA’s hands and ‘go somewhere dark and dangerous’ with it
Rescue mission.
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Trump holds Washington hostage over SAVE Act as midterm clock ticks on GOP control
President Donald Trump is using the stalled SAVE America Act as a bargaining chip on Capitol Hill, linking the elections bill to unrelated Republican priorities as the party rushes to exploit its congressional majorities before the midterm elections. On Tuesday he tied the measure to a proposed “Reconciliation 3.0” package seeking $350 billion in new…
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“This band is like no other, what they stand for and what they’ve done”. The story of the Rage Against The Machine anthem that topped the Christmas charts 17 years after it was released
In December 2009, Rage Against The Machine’s 1992 track “Killing In The Name” reached the UK Christmas No.1 spot, driven by a grassroots Facebook campaign designed to stop that year’s X Factor winner, Joe McElderry, from claiming the top slot. The song sold more than half a million downloads to become the fastest-selling digital single…
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Locarno: Lakeside Fest Unveils 2026 Selection With Hong Sang-soo, Basil Da Cunh, Gurvinder Singh & Denis Côté Pictures In Competition
Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival has revealed the lineup for its 79th edition, running from 5 to 15 August 2026, with new works from established auteurs Hong Sang-soo, Basil Da Cunha, Gurvinder Singh and Denis Côté in the main International Competition. The announcement matters as a marker of the autumn festival calendar, signalling which arthouse titles…