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Ground beef tariff cut, record Tesla recall, Coventry’s Premier League return spoiled
President Donald Trump said the United States would waive above-quota tariffs on up to 300,000 metric tonnes of imported ground-beef products for 90 days, presenting the measure as an attempt to ease high grocery prices. He said there was a commitment for the beef to be sold at 25% below prevailing market prices, though the…
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HBO Max Is Officially Saying Goodbye to One of Sci-Fi’s Most Infamous Flops
HBO Max is removing Luc Besson’s *Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets* from its streaming library, marking the exit of one of the most notorious box-office bombs of the past decade. Released in 2017, a year after Besson’s hit *Lucy*, the sci-fi adventure was a passion project based on comics he read growing…
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10 Greatest American Book Masterpieces of the 21st Century
Collider has published a ranked list of the ten greatest American books of the 21st century, spanning both fiction and non-fiction. The selection highlights how varied and strong American literary output has been since 2001, mixing acclaimed novels with genre works and historical narratives that the piece argues deserve recognition as modern classics. Entries include…
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Washington DC IndyCar Grand Prix scheduled for 23 August
The 2026 IndyCar Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C. took place as scheduled, with practice and qualifying on Saturday 22 August followed by the main race on Sunday 23 August. The event, round 15 of the IndyCar season, was run on a street circuit around the National Mall and formed part of the series’…
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“The paganism was never a problem. All of us shared an interest in that side of things”: The story of Sabbat’s cult pagan-thrash classic Dreamweaver: Reflections Of Our Yesterdays
This feature from Louder revisits the making of Dreamweaver: Reflections Of Our Yesterdays, the acclaimed 1989 album by Nottingham pagan-thrash band Sabbat, exploring how a British group with strong folk, progressive and pagan influences briefly rivalled thrash contemporaries from the US and Germany during a period when British metal was otherwise struggling to make an…
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DHS starts deportation flights after end to remaining protections for TPS holders
Lower court judges have now fully lifted certain limitations on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that cleared the end of temporary protected status (TPS), removing any final roadblock to deportations. A federal judge earlier this week lifted the final stay that barred immigration officials from carrying…
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Canada to match US 50% tariffs after talks collapse
The United States has imposed 50% tariffs on about $20bn (£14.6bn) of Canadian goods after trade negotiations collapsed, prompting Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, to promise matching measures “dollar for dollar”. The failure marks a major rupture between close trading partners and could deepen political tensions, while putting vulnerable Canadian businesses and jobs under pressure.…