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White House’s World Cup head defends Trump lobbying Fifa over red card
Andrew Giuliani claims actions of referee Raphael Claus over US player Folarin Balogun ‘very, very highly suspicious’Andrew Giuliani, head of the White House’s World Cup taskforce, has defended Donald Trump’s lobbying of Fifa to lift the suspension of US player Folarin Balogun for Monday’s game against Belgium.The US president claimed that Brazilian referee Raphael Claus,…
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Ritzy lakeside enclave distraught after beloved goose called Princess Collette is shot dead
State police in Oregon are investigating a suspected act of animal cruelty after a much-loved goose known as Princess Collette was found to have been shot several times with BB pellets and later died. The bird had become a local celebrity in the affluent lakeside community of Lake Oswego, and her death has left neighbours…
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Patrick Dempsey rules out running for Senate seat in Maine
Actor Patrick Dempsey has ruled out running for the U.S. Senate in Maine, removing his name from the list of potential Democratic candidates being considered. In an op-ed published in the Portland Press Herald, the Maine native said he had given “real thought” to a bid but concluded that he could contribute more effectively through…
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Shameless squatters move into Bay Area home of MURDER victim
Squatters have reportedly moved into a San Francisco Bay Area property owned by Przemyslaw Jeziorski, a UC Berkeley professor who was murdered in Greece last year, according to the lawyer representing his family. The case matters because it compounds the ordeal facing Jeziorski’s surviving relatives, who are already caring for his orphaned twin children while…
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Off-duty female cop is cleared of wrongdoing after killing victim of Chicago gangsters who tried to take her gun after he was attacked
An off-duty Chicago police officer, probationary officer Precious Dunn, has been cleared of wrongdoing over the fatal shooting of 39-year-old Leevon Smith outside her home in January 2023. According to the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA), Smith had himself just been attacked by a group of three men further down the block before the…
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Ariana Grande impersonator shares DM she received from singer: “You’re very beautiful as YOURSELF”
Ariana Grande impersonator Paige Niemann has shared a private direct message she says the singer sent her in 2019, publishing it in her new six-part Apple TV documentary series “Turning The Paige”. In the message, Grande gently encouraged Niemann to embrace her own appearance, writing that she was “very beautiful as YOURSELF” without heavy make-up…
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Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic
Google’s SynthID watermarking system has been used to expose a high-profile fake image, marking a notable success for anti-deepfake technology. An AI-generated picture purporting to show US Senator Mitch McConnell severely ill in a hospital bed spread widely on Reddit and X earlier this week, but the fact-checking site Snopes debunked it after finding the…
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JON BON JOVI Hologram Selfie Experience Comes To Madison Square Garden Courtesy Of Superfan.Live
Superfan.Live, working with Proto Hologram and HIFI Labs, has launched the Jon Bon Jovi Hologram Selfie Experience at Madison Square Garden, debuting it at the opening night of Bon Jovi’s nine-show run at the venue. The experience lets fans meet a hyperrealistic, life-size hologram of Jon Bon Jovi — and the rest of the band…
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Pretty Sick – “UrNewImTrue”
Pretty Sick, the project of musician Sabrina Fuentes, has released a new single called “UrNewImTrue”, the latest preview of the band’s forthcoming record Anarchy. The song marks a further move away from Fuentes’s usual grungy sound, following earlier singles “Star” and “home2hide”, and signals a deliberate refusal to be tied to a single genre. Described…
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Watch: Nato chief asked if there really is ‘unity’ in Nato
At the Nato summit in Turkey, Secretary General Mark Rutte maintained that there is “unity” among the alliance’s member nations, but the BBC’s Frank Gardner pressed him on whether that claim holds up while US President Donald Trump continues to level criticism at Nato. The exchange highlights persistent tensions within the alliance over Washington’s commitment,…