In a foreword to a book, he articulated the church’s position on marriage.

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The developer behind transforming Pfizer’s former headquarters in Midtown Manhattan into about 1,600 apartments is hoping young people won’t care about the area’s lack of a neighborhood.

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With 1,320 rental apartments and a host of amenities, 25 Water Street is the country’s largest office-to-residential conversion to date.

A British popstar’s jaw-dropping before and after photos have divided men and women everywhere – exposing a drastic difference between the sexes.

"Sure there could be a shark but my reaction was, ‘I just have to save this woman,’” Blake Donaldson recalled.

Luckily, The Traitors is safe from the axe.

Diamond experts tell us that they estimate her stack of diamond and pink sapphire anklets to be worth more than $50,000.

The record-breaking box office for A Minecraft Movie has been followed by a rush of announcements for more films based on games

Margot Robbie and Sydney Sweeney are two of the most in-demand actors in Hollywood. As such, they’ve both logged their time in superhero movies of recent vintage (though Robbie’s turn as Harley Quinn is probably better-known than whatever Sweeney found herself doing in Madame Web). It feels notable, then, that in recent weeks they’ve both been connected to multiple projects based on video games. Robbie’s Lucky Chap plans to produce a movie based on The Sims; Sweeney, meanwhile, will produce OutRun, based on a 30-year-old arcade game, and has also signed to star in a movie based on the more recent hit game Split Fiction. Score a bunch of points for the gamers. Is the dawn of gamer cinema finally here?

Regardless of this Hot Lady defection, superhero movies and other comics-based properties will likely stick around for years to come. Marvel still kicks off the summer movie season this week with Thunderbolts, and the MCU series in particular has probably reached (and touched) too many people to go the way of Transformers movies quite yet. Still: games are providing major competition as far as Hollywood’s favorite IP. While Marvel and DC movies have flopped left and right in the past two years, that same period has seen the release of the top three videogame-based movies of all time. That list includes A Minecraft Movie, which is still raking in money even after the Chicken Jockey riots have quieted.

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The reality TV star will testify in person at the trial that is scheduled to run through May 23. She is expected to speak on May 13.

Dramatic interventions from US president have upended election

• Canadians head to polls

A record number of people – 7.3 million – have already voted during an early voting period that was held last weekend. That topped the 5.8 million Canadians who voted early at the last federal election in 2021.

All ballots in a Canadian federal election are counted by hand in front of witnesses, and the final results are validated over a period of time then made available online.

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A massive power outage is impacting Spain and Portugal, knocking out key services and forcing the evacuation of subway systems in both countries, reports say.

"I have been in contact with someone that’s very close to her about her safety and all that,” Bryant said on Sunday's episode of "Watch What Happens Live."

Gizelle Bryant went on Love Hotel because it was "time to try something different."

Anyone else feel that the show let all the air out of its own tires when it said goodbye to Pascal and Joel?

The Tigers’ Jack Flaherty lost to San Diego, but allowed just two runs and fanned nine Padres.

Woman, who requested anonymity, says ‘a group of 100 men’ followed her, shouting threats and kicking her

A Brooklyn woman said she feared for her life as she was chased, kicked, spit at and pelted with objects by a mob of Orthodox Jewish men who mistook her as a participant in a protest against Israel’s far-right security minister.

The assault, recorded by a bystander, unfolded Thursday near the global headquarters of the Chabad Lubavitch movement in Crown Heights, where an appearance by Itamar Ben-Gvir set off clashes between pro-Palestinian activists and members of the neighborhood’s large Orthodox Jewish community.

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The actor describes the horrifying details of the ordeal that left him with 38 broken bones in his upcoming memoir

Jeremy Renner has detailed the chain of events which led to him being crushed by his own snowplough on New Year’s Day 2023.

Writing in his upcoming memoir, Renner, 54, has shared his memories of the moments before and during his experience being dragged under his own vehicle while trying to save his 27-year-old nephew, Alexander Fries, outside his home in Lake Tahoe.

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Jeffrey Taylor, 64, was arrested for the murder of real estate broker Shirley Brant in her office during an attempted robbery in 1986, cops said.

The survey of 2,000 American drivers, split evenly with 500 per generation, revealed that despite younger generations and cell phones being ubiquitous, Gen Z is using tech in smarter ways while driving.

If you don't tell your child this before sending them off to school, a teacher says they will be left behind. "Congratulations, you’re a pushover," she said.

“This should serve as an urgent safety signal for the FDA and is more consistent with what I see in clinical practice,” said Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified obstetrician and CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life OB/GYNs.

During Trump's first 100 days in office, the Energy Department has immediately saved taxpayers $700 million. It is projected that over time the cuts will amount to a total savings of $3 billion.

Saquon Barkley was laughing about the public outrage over him hanging out with President Donald Trump on Sunday.

Page Six reported earlier this month that Lively apologized to Swift for dragging the pop star into her ongoing legal war with Justin Baldoni.

A coalition fixated on intelligence is staking the US economy on AI – which will devalue the very skills the right fetishises

One thing that Donald Trump and his Silicon Valley partners share is an obsession with IQ. Being a “low-IQ individual” is a standard insult in the president’s repertoire, and being “high-IQ” is an equally standard form of praise for those on the tech right. Yet in the drive for US supremacy in artificial intelligence – signalled by the $500bn (£375bn) Stargate project announcement in the White House and an executive order to integrate AI into public education, beginning in kindergarten – there is a hidden irony. If their vision for our economic future is realised, IQ in the sense that they value will lose its meaning.

IQ testing arose at a time when the US and other industrialised nations were worried about the health of their populations. Recruitment campaigns for the Boer war in the UK, and then the first world war elsewhere, showed male populations that were unhealthier than their fathers’ generation. Industrial work seemed to be triggering what looked like a process of degeneration, with a fearful endpoint in the subterranean Morlocks of HG Wells’s classic novella, The Time Machine. Intelligence tests were a way to salvage the diamonds from the rough and find a new officer class – and later a new elite – to guide mass society from the slough of despond into a braver future.

Quinn Slobodian’s latest book is Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

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Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a three-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine next month to celebrate the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II.

The muscular "Step Up" star was seen kissing Williams in a collage shared to her Instagram in honor of the actor's 45th birthday.

A surveillance video caught a Bronx car owner being dragged in street while attempting to stop a carjacking outside a Chinese restaurant.

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, John Brewin and Robyn Cowen as Liverpool are crowned as champions and Manchester City and Crystal Palace go through to the FA Cup final

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On the podcast today: Liverpool come from behind at Anfield to thrash Spurs and claim their 20th league title, the first of the Arne Slot era. For weeks now, the title’s destination has been in no serious doubt and Slot paid tribute to his predecessor, Jürgen Klopp, for bequeathing a title-winning squad.

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Astonishing video captures a speedboat flying into the air at more than 200mph during a doomed attempt to break a speed record — then flipping over multiple times before slamming into a Nevada lake. The speedboat’s drivers — using the pseudonyms John Wayne and Clint Eastwood — were attempting to break the record of 206mph...

Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson: FBI warns of "time-traveling" hackers.

Conservative US Catholics like Steve Bannon look to win ‘war that lasts decades’ with pope antithetical to Francis

Once the papal conclave starts, the cardinals choosing Pope Francis’s successor will be strictly shut off from the world until a new pope is named. But the coming days before the conclave begins on May 7 will see competing factions of Catholics, including many laypeople, campaigning in the Vatican and the US to influence the church’s future – none with more urgency than those discontented with Francis’s liberal reign.

American Catholics will fight to play a central role. Soon after the news of Francis’s death reached faithful the world over, the American counter-revolution mobilized, Vatican watchers say. Red-eyes to Rome were booked. Long-distance phone calls were made. Various cardinals likely received sudden dinner invitations.

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Is this a new kind of "smart" living?

J.C. Escarra’s journey from Uber driver to backup catcher for the Yankees got another chapter on Sunday, as he homered for the first time in his major league career in a 5-1 win over Toronto in a doubleheader sweep in The Bronx.

With advice from the experts, expect your space to look like something straight off the pages of a home magazine.

Court considering if Israel acted unlawfully by cutting ties with Unwra with claim it is ‘starving, killing and displacing Palestinians’

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The very nature of the UN is threatened by Israel’s refusal to accept the rights of its agencies to operate freely in the occupied Palestinian territories, the international court of justice has heard.

The statement was made at the start of five days of proceedings in The Hague that may prove critical to Israel’s future within the world body. The UN’s top court will hear from dozens of nations and organisations in order to draw up an advisory opinion on Israel’s humanitarian obligations to Palestinians more than 50 days into its total blockade on aid entering Gaza.

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Illegal immigrants will not be able to escape U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Trump's border czar Tom Homan said Monday.

Soldiers expect Moscow to launch summer offensive and dismiss US efforts to bring peace as ‘pretty disappointing’

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From a line of trees the Ukrainian gun team prepared to fire. An artilleryman, Yurii, loaded a 152mm shell into an old Soviet-made howitzer. “We are ready!” Yurii said. He moved away from the barrel. “Fire!” the unit’s commander replied. There was an almighty boom.

White smoke filled the dugout, which was hidden beneath camouflage nets and cut pine branches. From the undergrowth, a chiffchaff resumed its spring warbling.

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A sweet-and-salty snack has been recalled because of potentially undeclared almonds and cashews. It's the second such recall for Mauna Loa's products this year.

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, delaying the secret voting for two days to help them get to know one another better and find consensus on a candidate before they are sequestered in the Sistine Chapel. Read More