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Matthew Rhys’s alma mater pays tribute to ‘loyal pupil’ and Welsh language devotee
Matthew Rhys, who made history as the first actor to win two best lead Emmy awards in one night, has credited his Welsh-speaking schooling for nurturing the talent behind his Hollywood success. The 51-year-old, who grew up in Whitchurch, Cardiff, and now lives in New York, thanked “the great and good people of Wales” in…
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Iran war has led to US munitions shortfalls, Pentagon inspector confirms
The US Department of Defense’s independent inspector general has confirmed that the war with Iran caused “strategic inventory shortfalls” in munitions and bottlenecks in resupply, directly contradicting President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that US weapons stockpiles are “virtually unlimited” and that reports of shortages are “fake news”. The White House rejected the watchdog’s findings, insisting…
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Trump’s $5,000 ‘bribe’ to Americans backfires in brutal new poll as shock number of Republicans reject it
President Donald Trump’s pledge to give every American adult a $5,000 “dividend” if Republicans retain control of Congress in the November midterms is proving unpopular even among his own supporters, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The survey found that 63% of respondents disapprove of the plan, with nearly four in ten Republicans also opposed,…
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Republican Nancy Mace calls for killer mom Lindsay Clancy to be publicly EXECUTED as a ‘warning to women’
Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace has called for Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who killed her three young children, to be publicly executed, describing it as a necessary “warning to women”. Her comments came after a judge declared a mistrial earlier this month when jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on whether Clancy was not…
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Datacentre giant accused of using AI while lobbying for Victorian minister’s support for hyperscale factory
The Victorian jobs minister, Melissa Horne, has accused datacentre giant NextDC of using artificial intelligence to draft a letter lobbying her to support the expansion of its Footscray facility, alleging the correspondence contained basic factual errors. The exchange highlights growing political sensitivity around datacentre expansion in Victoria ahead of the state election, as local residents…
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Trump unleashes fury on Supreme Court he built as he fumes they ‘set America back a hundred years’ after voting defeat
Donald Trump has launched a furious attack on the US Supreme Court after it blocked his attempt to alter mail-in voting rules just weeks before the November midterm elections. The court’s emergency order, issued on Monday evening, rejected an executive order that would have let the US Postal Service check mail-in ballots against a central…
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FBI Director Patel forced into extraordinary answer on bestiality as Senate Democrats grill him over new FBI hiring rules
FBI Director Kash Patel faced pointed questioning from senators during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Tuesday, including an unusual exchange about a June revision to the bureau’s hiring screening rules. The change means an admission of involvement in bestiality no longer automatically disqualifies an applicant, which Patel defended as protecting trafficking victims rather…
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Mom-of-four left fighting for life after hit-and-run driver rammed her off bike as family hunts for culprit
Lisa Martinez, a 42-year-old mother of four, is fighting for her life after being struck by a car while riding her bicycle in Oak Cliff, Dallas, on 29 August. The driver fled the scene before police arrived, and both Martinez’s family and Dallas Police are now appealing for information to identify and locate the culprit.…
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Trump LOSES mail-in ballot crackdown fight as Supreme Court rejects his eleventh-hour plea with weeks to midterm elections
The US Supreme Court has dealt Donald Trump a significant setback in his bid to restrict mail-in voting, rejecting his administration’s eleventh-hour request to enforce new Postal Service checks on mail ballots just weeks before the November midterm elections. The order would have allowed officials to cross-reference mail-in ballots against a central voter database and…
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Pro-Palestine activist who spray-painted ‘Zionist war criminal’ on statue of Sir Winston Churchill is found not guilty of criminal damage
A pro-Palestine activist who spray-painted slogans including “Zionist war criminal” on the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square has been cleared of criminal damage by a jury. Olax Outis, also known as Caspar San Giorgi, 39, a Dutch national, had argued he did not believe he had committed a crime because he was…