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‘We can find renewal despite the bullshit we navigate as Black women’: Kelela on stan armies and speaking up for Gaza
The Guardian profiles genre-bending R&B artist Kelela around the release of her third studio album, New Avatar, framing it as another bold reinvention of her sound and persona. The piece highlights how her latest work fuses silky, hook-laden vocals with shoegaze reverb and rock textures, a shift the writer calls one of her least expected…
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Helldivers 2 dev cracks down on ‘suspicious super credit activity’, though it would help if earning premium currency wasn’t so boring to begin with
Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead has announced a crackdown on what it calls “suspicious super credit activity”, targeting players or accounts that are acquiring the game’s premium currency through illegitimate means. Super credits can be bought with real money but also earned in-game, which makes any large-scale or automated harvesting of them a concern for the…
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Trump pays tribute to ‘greatest’ US Senator after Lindsey Graham’s unexpected death at 71
US Senator Lindsey Graham, a prominent Republican and close ally of President Donald Trump, has died unexpectedly at the age of 71, according to reports carried by the Daily Mail. Graham is said to have suffered a cardiac arrest only days after returning from a visit to Ukraine, where he had met President Volodymyr Zelensky.…
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Conor McGregor reacts to disastrous UFC return: ‘My head gasket is gone’
Conor McGregor landed awkwardly on his right knee early in the UFC 329 bout, and Dana White says doctors believe it was a blown ACL that ended it.
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Born 74 Years Ago Today in Alabama, the Man Who Wrote Hits for Conway Twitty and Gave Us One of the Most Iconic Piano Intros of All Time
American Songwriter marks the 74th birthday of Randy McCormick, the Alabama-born keyboardist and songwriter behind the distinctive piano introduction to Bob Seger’s 1979 hit “Old Time Rock and Roll”. The article celebrates his largely behind-the-scenes contribution to a song made iconic by the 1983 film Risky Business, highlighting how a session musician’s brief improvised part…
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Andy Burnham ‘to axe David Lammy’s plans to scrap jury trials’ when he becomes PM
The article reports that Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, is said to be planning to scrap Justice Secretary David Lammy’s proposals to abolish some jury trials, should Burnham become Prime Minister. The claim positions Burnham against a key justice policy associated with Lammy, framing it as a point of division within Labour over…
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Christian family takes fight to DC embassy after government seizes daughters over ‘religious extremism’
A Christian couple, Daniel and Bianca Samson, have brought their custody dispute to Washington after Swedish authorities removed their daughters from their care, citing concerns described as “religious extremism”. Supporters gathered outside the Swedish Embassy in the US capital to rally on the family’s behalf, drawing attention to a case that campaigners frame as an…
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British Nationals Caught in Deadly Almeria Wildfires: Man Killed While Escaping; Couple Rescued With Severe Burns
British nationals have been caught up in wildfires that swept through Almeria province in Spain over the weekend, with at least one fatality reported. A British man attempting to flee the rapidly advancing flames perishe
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‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won
An interview with Texas trial lawyer Mark Lanier recounts how he and his 20-year-old client, known as Kaley or KGM, secured a landmark legal victory against Meta and Google in a Los Angeles courtroom earlier this year. The case, KGM v Meta et al, was the first to hold major social media firms accountable for…
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Why do free speech debates make us so angry?
This Guardian essay, written by an anthropologist, argues that the ferocity of modern free speech debates stems not from disagreements over rules and principles but from implicit judgments about people’s character. The author traces the argument back to the January 2015 al-Qaida attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which killed cartoonists over their…