US secretary of state Marco Rubio also warned White House may move on unless there are signs of progress

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Can Arsenal continue resurgence under Renee Slegers and knock out the eight-time champions?

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Nicky Miceli, a member of Massachusetts' Republican State Committee, was walking outside Boston's Wentworth Institute of Technology when a strange mustachioed man walked up and "just started shouting in my face."

Tehran’s foreign minister says Washington has issued contradictory signals about reaching a deal

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5 min: Selma Bacha has her first sight of goal. She lets it fly from about 25 yards out, forcing Manuela Zinsberger to make a smart save down to her left. Zinsberger can only parry it away to Daniëlle van de Donk but the former Arsenal player hits it wide.

2 min: The atmosphere is electric at the Emirates. Arsenal, who are used to attracting anything between 30,000 and 60,000 fans, have a similar level of support today.

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The Wedding Crashers star was crashing a very different party this time.

Amanda Reynolds of Woodbury said she would like her chance to join the US Navy SEALs.

Angelman syndrome is a rare genetic condition which causes physical and learning disabilities

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White House released a strange mocked-up film poster to mark the visit

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Federal workers are whining about the "DOGE 15" - the added weight they've packed on since being dragged back to the office and worrying about their own productivity and looming layoffs.

‘It’s too late for me’ said the 56-year-old actor as she advocates for early detection

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Barney Casserly took his life aged 21 as he struggled with a ketamine addiction which left him using the toilet 20 times a night due to irreversible bladder damage

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This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who tried to seize their guns and gunpowder.

Everything is under threat. What you care about can make it to the other side.

More cheetahs are also expected to be brought in from Kenya

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Arpan Rai sits down with Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan’s only remaining female ambassador, to talk about the Taliban’s new regime and what it means to resist

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Member states are considering removing the country’s voting rights after its attempts to stymie support for Kyiv

The posters are going up all over Hungary. “Let’s not allow them to decide for us,” runs the slogan alongside three classic villains of Hungarian government propaganda.

They are: Ukraine’s wartime leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy; the European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen; and Manfred Weber, the German politician who leads the centre-right European People’s party in the European parliament, which counts Hungary’s most potent opposition politician among its ranks.

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Jey Uso challenges Gunther for the World Heavyweight Title and CM Punk faces Reigns and Rollins, ahead of night two’s John Cena vs Cody Rhodes clash

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‘All Harry ever wanted to be was a farmer’ his devastated father said

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Organizers have called for 11 million people across country to participate this weekend in effort to ‘protect democracy’

The US will witness its second wave of protests in a fortnight on Saturday as organizers seek to turn discontent with Donald Trump’s presidency into a mass movement that will eventually translate into action at the ballot box.

More than 400 rallies are anticipated across the nation loosely organized by the group 50501, which stands for 50 protests in 50 states, one movement.

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iPhones and Google Maps are out – and you can keep your existing friends from across the pond, but don’t go making any new ones

I really wish I had a Tesla. Ideally it would be a Cybertruck but any Tesla would do. Then I could plaster it with those “I bought this before Elon went mad” stickers, shamefacedly sell it at a loss and write a performative social media post about no longer being able to stomach the guilt of driving it around town. But as I don’t actually own a car, let alone a Tesla, I’ve felt unable to add my voice to the anti-Musk and anti-Trump protests gaining momentum around the world. Until now.

Of course, I will not be travelling to the US at any time soon. As former US secretary of labor Robert Reich writes, why reward Trump’s America with my tourist dollars? But as I wasn’t planning to visit America, this doesn’t feel like a sacrifice, let alone a meaningful one. So the appearance of the #BoycottUSA movement has arrived at just the right time. Here is a campaign I can sign up to wholeheartedly. But I plan to go further than the one in three French people who are merely “avoiding” American products. Instead, I am proposing a total purge, ridding my house and my life of any taint of Americana. Not a Marlboro will be smoked, no Manhattan drunk, no foot stomped to the exuberant refrain of Cotton Eye Joe.

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Tasneem Sharif Abbas, 16, flew with her sister to the US, where doctors awaited and volunteers cheered their arrival

Dozens of people across the world were in non-stop communication for several months to arrange the arrival of Tasneem Sharif Abbas to the US. Abbas’s entire life changed when a bomb dropped on her family’s home in Gaza on 31 October 2023. A piece of metal severed her arm and she blacked out as rubble fell on her. Soon after, her arm was amputated at a local Gaza hospital. “This is not a movie or a fictional story. This is the reality I have lived,” Abbas said in a statement. “This is just a glimpse of the dark days that have turned my life into a nightmare.”

Last year, the 16-year-old and an accompanying guardian, her adult sister Ashjan who is not injured, evacuated to Egypt, where they spent several months aboard a medical ship. The journey to fit Abbas with a prosthetic arm began with a 24-hour-flight from Cairo to New York, where volunteers met them in the airport during a several-hour layover. “The only time there was uncertainty was in the visa process,” said Raghed Ahmed, vice-president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a non-profit that has provided medical care to Middle Eastern kids since the 1990s. The group also facilitated the sisters’ travel. “We weren’t sure if it would take two weeks or six months, but her visa was approved in a couple of weeks,” Ahmed said.

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As egg prices are still high this Easter holiday season, here are four alternative items that can be colored instead of eggs for a more affordable way to celebrate.

Foundation leaders say charitable organisations could be next in the firing line – but must ‘stand together’ to resist

John Palfrey will not be obeying in advance.

At a moment when leaders of tech companies, law firms, media corporations and academic institutions have bent the knee to Donald Trump, the president of the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation insists that charitable organisations choose resistance over capitulation.

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Nick and Lily were lovers in their 20s and reconnected 40 years later. But should they walk away from their marriages?

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For the past two years we’ve been meeting up once a month, but I want more

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Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer has re-enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve after nearly 15 years, driven by a sense of unfinished duty.

Travelers will be required to have updated identification by May 7. Here's a look at what REAL ID is, why it's happening now and how to get one before time runs out.

The immigration crackdown has come to America’s campuses.

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In border towns and grocery stores, from the mouths of politicians campaigning and sports fans booing, from snowbirds to TikTokers there’s a parade of Canadians seemingly falling out of love with America. Read More

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought throughout her career for women’s rights — “on the basis of sex.” But since “sex” merged into “gender” three decades ago, the entire area of sex-based rights has become blurred. In the United Kingdom, they have suddenly become unblurred and — legally — crystal clear.  Women celebrating in front of...

The "Becoming" author shot down "horrible" speculation that she and Barack were headed for divorce earlier this month.

Rollbacks, but make them beauty: Sol de Janeiro, Olaplex, more.

“When I started talking with Joaquim, I realized that it was much more than self-defense,” Gisele said in 2022.

It's the most sensational rumor going back more than century.

Exclusive: The home secretary is under fresh pressure to close a ‘prison-like’ camp housing asylum seekers

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The revered artist conjured groundbreaking scenes of gods, legends and lost civilisations, but, more than anything, his work came to represent the complex soul of Britain like that of no artist before or since

He never crossed the Atlantic. Never sailed the Aegean. A cross-channel ferry was enough for Joseph Mallord William Turner to understand the might and majesty of the sea. His 1803 painting Calais Pier records his feelings on his first arrival in France as foaming green mountains of waves look as if they’re about to sweep away the frail wooden jetty where passengers from England are expected to disembark. He is fascinated and appalled by the water, so solid in its power but always shifting, dissolving, sheering away.

If JMW Turner, born 250 years ago this spring, is Britain’s greatest artist – and he is – it is partly because he is so intensely aware of a defining fact about his country: it’s an island. For Turner, Britain is bordered by death, terror and adventure. Just one step from shore takes you into a world of peril. In the Iveagh Seapiece, fishers are hauling up their boats on a soaking beach while a wave like a wall surges towards them. One fishing boat is still out on the wild waters, so near to shore yet so far from safety.

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