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Prime Video’s 5-Part Fantasy Saga Is a Streaming Smash as Final Season Looms
A month after returning with its fourth season, Prime Video’s animated fantasy series The Legend of Vox Machina continues to perform strongly on the platform’s streaming charts, currently sitting at number ten among the most-watched TV shows in the United States. The series, praised for its characters, animation and escalating stakes across seasons, remains popular…
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Socialists launch radical platform to abolish the US Senate in bid to fundamentally transform America
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist organisation in the United States, is reportedly preparing to release an updated long-term policy platform that would radically reshape the country’s system of government. According to a source cited by Fox News, the proposals include abolishing the US Senate and replacing both the president and the…
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Kemi purges the Tory wets! Badenoch blocks former MPs who back Net Zero and staying in ECHR from standing for Conservatives at the next election
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is barring former Tory MPs who still back Net Zero targets or want to keep Britain within the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) from standing as party candidates at the next general election. Applications that conflict with her revised policy platform are being rejected regardless of whether the applicant previously…
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‘AI accountability agenda’: US senator unveils package of bills to curb tech’s harms
Democratic US senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has unveiled a package of bills he calls an “AI accountability agenda”, aimed at curbing what he sees as the wide-ranging harms of unregulated artificial intelligence. The agenda targets energy- and water-intensive datacenters, intrusive workplace surveillance, biased algorithms, AI overriding human judgment and deepening economic inequality, framed as…
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Trump calls terrorist Iranian a ‘cancer.’ Is he finally the one to remove it?
This Fox News opinion piece argues that President Donald Trump’s remarks on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, may mark a significant shift in US strategic language towards the Islamic Republic of Iran, possibly the most consequential since the 1979 revolution. The author contends that by warning that any fresh Iranian attack…
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Fears Putin could declare general mobilisation for war after September elections
Czech President Petr Pavel has warned that Ukraine has roughly two months to revive peace talks with Russia before Vladimir Putin may sharply escalate the war. Speaking at a Nato summit in Ankara, Pavel — a retired general and former chairman of Nato’s military committee — said Putin could order a general mobilisation once Russia’s…
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Drug dealer who laughed and asked Barnsley burglar if he wanted an aspirin after shooting is jailed for murder
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“Our popularity has gone up massively over the last six or seven years.” With a summer of European festivals ahead, Saxon are happy to fly the flag for British metal
Saxon frontman Biff Byford has spoken to Louder about the veteran British metal band’s busy 2026 summer of European festival appearances, giving an update on his recovery from the colon cancer that forced date cancellations the previous year. He says he is “doing okay” and taking things day by day, as the band press on…
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Here’s how Andy Burnham can finance a reindustrialised Britain – without doing a Liz Truss | Larry Elliott
In this Guardian comment piece, economics writer Larry Elliott argues that Andy Burnham, whom he characterises as Britain’s “prime minister-in-waiting”, is correct in his diagnosis that 40 years of neoliberalism have failed the country, particularly its former industrial heartlands in Scotland, Wales and northern England. Elliott draws a pointed comparison with Liz Truss — both…
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‘Being a billionaire is so tacky!’ Musical firebrand Lido Pimienta on exploitation, class struggle – and going ‘Enya mode’
Colombian-Canadian musician Lido Pimienta, the genre-defying artist who won Canada’s Polaris prize with 2016’s La Papessa, speaks to the Guardian about her outspoken political stance as Colombia elects a new right-wing president. The winning candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, has favoured fracking and closer ties to the US, once spoke of wanting to “disembowel” the…