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Graham Platner faces 94% odds of quitting Maine Senate race
Prediction market Kalshi shows 94% probability that Graham Platner will drop out of the Maine Senate race as rape allegation rocks his campaign.
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Nigel Farage quits as Clacton MP to force a by-election
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, announced on Tuesday that he was resigning as the Member of Parliament for Clacton-on-Sea, a move deliberately intended to trigger a by-election in the constituency. The step matters because Farage is one of the most prominent figures on the British right, and he stated that he intended to…
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Team USA outclassed by Belgium as Swift-Kelce napkin and Dart boat party surface
This OutKick “Screencaps” column offers an opinion-driven, satirical reaction to Team USA’s heavy defeat by Belgium in a football match played in Seattle, which the author brands one of the most embarrassing performances in US sporting history. The piece matters chiefly as commentary on the poor state of American men’s football ahead of a home…
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Ken Paxton holidays in Europe with mistress as Senate race tightens
The Daily Mail reports that Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican US Senate candidate, has been photographed holidaying in Europe with his mistress, Christian influencer Tracy Duhon, while his Senate campaign faces a tough challenge back home. The paper frames the trip as politically risky, suggesting it could anger President Donald Trump and…
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Sustainable packaging trial launched by Deliveroo, Pho and Sheffield Hallam University
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Shahrnush Parsipur, Iranian novelist behind Women Without Men, dies aged 80
Shahrnush Parsipur, the acclaimed Iranian novelist best known for Women Without Men, has died at the age of 80. A pioneer of women’s literature in Iran, she used subversive feminist fiction to challenge the country’s patriarchal culture, and was imprisoned four times under both the Shah and the Islamic Republic. Her death marks the loss…
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Prince Harry and Doreen Lawrence lose High Court hacking claim against Mail publisher
The High Court in London has dismissed in full the £50 million phone hacking case brought by the Duke of Sussex, Prince Harry, Doreen Lawrence and five other claimants against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday. The judge, Mr Justice Nicklin, accepted that every article the claimants complained about…
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Global famine deaths could reach millions without urgent action
Writing in The Conversation, University of Edinburgh epidemiologist Mark Woolhouse describes a newly published catalogue that ranks RNA viruses by their potential to spark a public health emergency. Given that scientists discover two or three previously unseen human viruses in a typical year, and that past discoveries such as HIV-1 and Sars-CoV-2 went on to…
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Prince Harry defeated in Daily Mail privacy court battle
Prince Harry has lost his long-running privacy lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, in a significant defeat for the royal’s continuing campaign against the British press. Harry was among a group of seven high-profile claimants — including Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley, Sadie Frost, Doreen Lawrence…