Moscow and Washington held their first talks on ending the nearly three-year war in Ukraine on Tuesday

Donald Trump’s shocking and mendacious attack this week on the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as a “dictator” while cozying up to the Russian president and indicating that traditional US security support for Europe is waning may have alarmed US allies abroad but has prompted a more starkly divided response among Americans at home.

Reflecting the country’s deeply partisan attitude to the new president and his “America first” foreign policy doctrine, polling suggests that Republicans are much more likely to oppose additional help for war-torn Ukraine. A Pew Research Center survey earlier this month found that 47% of Republicans but just 14% of Democrats thought the US was providing too much support to Ukraine – views that have changed dramatically since the war began three years ago, when just 7% of all American adults (9% of Republicans and 5% of Democrats) said the US was providing too much support to Ukraine.

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Pennsylvania drivers are legally obligated to clear snow and ice from their vehicles within 24 hours of a snowfall.

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad next month rather than by lethal injection or the electric chair.

Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform UK political party, told Fox News Digital he believes a "political revolution," like the one in the U.S., is headed for Europe.

Militant group due to release a further four hostages on Saturday as part of exchange for 600 Palestinian prisoners

After 35 US caps, three World Cups and hall of fame recognition, the former flanker is still a fighter – but now it’s in the octagon, for money

Phaidra Knight is already a pioneer, the only African American woman in the World Rugby Hall of Fame. In 2017, when she retired after three World Cups and 35 US caps, she was 43. Now she’s 50 but on Saturday night in Patchogue, New York, she will claim another first: the oldest woman ever to make her pro MMA debut.

“All roads lead to where I am,” Knight says, by phone from New York, on her way to training, with a sort of fierce zen sentiment familiar from conversations about rugby, the game she found at law school, through which she found herself, and which she came to see as a prop and a flanker as “violent yet controlled, kind of a form of art”.

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The London photographer always saw odd things going on while cycling at weekends, but nothing quite like this …

You’d be forgiven for thinking this shot was taken during the pandemic; an inventive, impromptu attempt at masking up, perhaps. Instead, Richard Chambury took it in the spring of 2013, in London’s Victoria Park.

“My daughter was 11 and to get her out and about on the weekends we used to go cycling,” Chambury says. “We eventually discovered this was not her favourite pastime; she’s a reader, and likes the warmth. But we always saw odd things going on, people doing the morning walk of shame dolled up from the night before, or wild birds and swans knocking about.”

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Barbecue restaurant Walrus Alley in Westport, Connecticut, has announced it will be going completely seed-oil free and switching to healthier alternatives as restaurants jump on the MAHA train.

An off-label prescription drug has been shown to help children with autism gain the ability to speak. Leucovorin is used for cancer patients, but doctors are pushing for its approval for autism.

Playboy’s 2025 Playmate of the Year made her debut during Super Bowl weekend in New Orleans. She wore a $10 million diamond-studded Playboy bunny costume designed by Kali Hawk.

Ending their decades-long ban on facial hair and bringing beards back to the Bronx had to be done to prop up New York’s declining competitive advantage

One of the last vestiges of George Steinbrenner era is finally over. The in-house (that Ruth built) rule that denied New York Yankees players the right to wear beards on baseball diamonds from the 1970s on is done and dusted, not unlike like The Boss himself, who died at 80 back in 2010. It’s the latest move showing that the new boss, George’s son Hal, who axed the 49-year-old rule on Friday, will do everything he can to differentiate himself from the old Boss, his dad.

“In recent weeks I have spoken to a large number of former and current Yankees – spanning several eras – to elicit their perspectives on our longstanding facial hair and grooming policy, and I appreciate their earnest and varied feedback,” Steinbrenner said in a statement. “These most recent conversations are an extension of ongoing internal dialogue that dates back several years.

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The Slow Horses actor on big foreheads, small talk, and why Gary Oldman’s up for playing her in the film of her life

Born in London, Rosalind Eleazar, 36, graduated from Lamda in 2015. In 2019, she was cast in Armando Iannucci’s film The Personal History of David Copperfield. In 2020, she won the Clarence Derwent award for her performance in Uncle Vanya at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London. She is currently filming season six of Slow Horses and stars in Harlan Coben’s Missing You on Netflix. She is married and lives in London.

What is your greatest fear?
Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.

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In 1994, Trump sent his helicopter to fly Gifford and her newborn daughter to his hotel so they could evade a stalker who threatened to kill her.

President Donald Trump and his administration focused on advancing negotiations for peace between Ukraine and Russia and more.

Report from New Zealand navy personnel comes a day after similar drill forced multiple airlines to change flight paths between Australia and New Zealand

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China’s navy has reportedly conducted a second live-fire exercise in international waters, a day after a similar drill forced multiple airlines to change flight paths between Australia and New Zealand.

New Zealand navy personnel advised live rounds were fired from a Chinese warship in international waters near the island nation on Saturday.

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The case involves the 1994 killing of Timothy Blaisdell during a drug deal robbery on the island of Maui.

US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agenda

In 1937, leaders of Germany’s Third Reich hosted two simultaneous art exhibitions in Munich. One, titled the Great German Art Exhibition, featured art viewed by the regime as appropriate and aspirational for the ideal Aryan society – orderly and triumphant, with mostly blond people in heroic poses amid pastoral German landscapes. The other showcased what Adolf Hitler and his followers deemed “degenerate art” (“Entartete Kunst”). The works, chaotically displayed and saddled with commentary disparaging “the sick brains of those who wielded the brush or pencil”, were abstract, profane, modernist and produced by the proclaimed enemies of the Reich – Jewish people, communists or those suspected of being either.

The Degenerate Art exhibition, which later toured the country, opened a day after Hitler declared “merciless war” on cultural disintegration. The label applied to virtually all German modernist art, as well as anything deemed “an insult to German feeling”. The term and the dueling art exhibitions were part and parcel of Hitler’s propaganda efforts to consolidate power and bolster the regime via cultural production. The Nazis used culture as a crucial lever of control, to demean scapegoated groups, glorify the party and “make the genius of the race visible to that race”, argued the French scholar Eric Michaud in The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany. Political control and suppression of dissent were one thing; art, said Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, was “no mere peacetime amusement, but a sharp spiritual weapon for war”.

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Taylor Swift seemingly had influence in the casting of young Lily Bloom in Blake Lively's "It Ends With Us." Justin Baldoni and Isabela Ferrer spoke about the moment in interviews.

A woman who survived her parents' murders as a toddler reveals her "missing piece" after their killer's execution and her childhood memories connected to the horrific crimes.

The Toronto plane crash and other flight mishaps have flyers on edge as a man with aerophobia reassures flyers about plane safety. A commercial pilot and psychotherapist also weighs in.

Democratic lawmakers told Fox News Digital on Capitol Hill they do support cuts to the federal government but aren't in support of how DOGE is conducting its sweep.

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair Tim Scott aims to expand the GOP's majority in the chamber in the 2026 midterm elections and thanks President Donald Trump.

"A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story," a four-part drama series, was inspired by Carol Ann Lee's true-crime book, "A Fine Day for a Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story."

From loyalty cards, to restaurant meal deals or simply parking your car – it is harder and harder to get by without signing up to a multitude of apps

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Michael is in his late 50s and is among the millions of people in the UK who cannot or do not want to use mobile apps, and feels he is being penalised for his choice.

He does own a smartphone – an Apple iPhone he bought secondhand about three years ago – but says: “I don’t use apps at all. I don’t download them for security reasons.”

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From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature

The volume’s glossy dust jacket shows a 1970s computer room, where high priests of the information age, dressed in kipper ties and flares, tap instructions into the terminals of some ancient mainframe. The only words on the front read “Master Operating Station”, “Subsidiary Operating Station” and “Free Standing Display”. Is any publication less appetising than an out-of-date technical manual?

Turn inside, however, and the book reveals a secret. It isn’t a computer manual at all, but a Polish language edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s famous anti-totalitarian novel, which was banned for decades by communist censors in the eastern bloc.

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David Moyes hopes to keep the Toffees resurgence going as Amorim’s United travel to Goodison Park

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The Champions Trophy returns, adding even more strain to cricket’s bloated schedule, with Pakistan and the UAE hosting matches for eight nations

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‘I spoke about #FreePalestine, oppression and injustice and my stance on this has not changed,’ the rapper insisted

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From undertaking to banned vehicles, here are the laws that catch drivers out

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Hamas returns remains of Israeli hostage after mixup that threatened the ceasefire

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Starting April 1st, alterations to Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) will impact thousands of electric car owners

City find themselves in an unfamiliar position outside the race for top spot this season

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The hostages are among the final living captives to be freed under phase one of a fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire, over 600 Palestinians are due to be released from Israeli prisons as well

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This CCTV shows a crisp thief climbing through the ceiling of a Sainsbury’s Local in Radford.

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US president Donald Trump reverses course and says Russia did invade Ukraine after facing backlash

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‘It's quite boring, to make these big special effects films,’ said the Lucius Malfoy actor

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Actor was described as ‘one of the kindest, sweetest, funniest women who ever lived’

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Matt Sherratt begins his interim tenure in charge as the tournament favourites come to Cardiff

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Scotland have dominated this fixture in recent years and will hope to continue their superiority

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On the three year anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine frontline soldiers tell World affairs editor Sam Kiley that it’s Russia that should be suing for peace

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