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Morgan Spurlock, who has died aged 53, “owed his career to a Big Mac”, said The Times.  In 2002, he saw a TV news story about two young women who were suing McDonald’s for allegedly misleading them about the nutritional …

Based on a novella by Henry James, this “arthouse epic” was rejected by the 2023 Cannes Film Festival – “for being too nuts?” – and went on to become “the most provocative movie of last year’s Venice selection”, said Kevin …

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Better late than never, said The Daily Telegraph. For weeks, President Zelenskyy has been begging Washington to allow Ukrainian forces to use US-supplied missiles against targets inside Russia.   The ban on doing so had left Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, …

Depending on which way the fickle finger at the end of Adam Smith’s infamous “invisible hand” is pointing on any given day, tech titan Elon Musk is one of — if not the — richest men in the history of …

What happened President Joe Biden addressed dozens of World War II veterans at the Normandy American Cemetery above Omaha Beach on Thursday, using the 80th anniversary of D-Day to highlight current battles against autocracy. Biden met individually with 41 Americans …

What happened U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols on Thursday ordered Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former campaign chair and White House chief strategist, to report to prison by July 1 to serve a four-month sentence after being convicted of contempt of Congress …

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‘The sins of the educated class’  David Brooks at The New York Times  Modern “elite, educated-class progressivism [is] a lot less attractive than the working-class progressivism of Frances Perkins that I read about when I was young,” says David Brooks. …

What happened Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on Thursday afternoon, depositing astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams for a brief stay, a day after the aerospace giant’s first crewed space flight launched from Cape Canaveral …

Scientifically proven to reduce fine lines, wrinkles and pigmentation, retinol is commonly referred to as the “gold standard” of skincare. It boasts “almost magical properties”, said GQ, and has developed a reputation as one of the industry’s “most effective ingredients”. …

The Marubo people, who live in the Amazon rainforest, are one of the most isolated societies in the world – and, until recently, it was entirely offline. When Elon Musk’s Starlink brought the web to their villages, the impact was …

The two men vying to be the UK’s next prime minister went head-to-head this week in a TV debate widely seen as a scrappy and ill-tempered encounter. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, Joe Biden had troubles closer to home as his …

For 60 years, the American feminist artist Judy Chicago has been making “thunderous art driven by the certainty that men are bad and women are good”, said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. Born Judith Cohen to liberal Jewish parents …

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A Welsh couple have been jailed for a string of “dine and dash” offences, walking out of restaurants without paying bills that totalled nearly £1,200.  Bernard McDonagh, 41, and his wife Ann McDonagh, 39, went viral last month after CCTV …

June TV heralds a return to form. This month’s releases include a new addition to a classic sci-fi universe, a second season of the fire-breathing “Game of Thrones” spin-off and a third season of Hulu’s Chicago sandwich shop show (say …

Taxes are a reality you cannot escape, even when it comes to investing. While they may not be top of mind when you are focused on returns, how much you are paying in taxes can be “a significant headwind to …

Throughout his career as both a business mogul and political whirlwind, Donald Trump has never made secret his love of revenge. “Get even with people,” he said to attendees at the 2011 National Achievers Congress in Sydney, Australia. “If they …

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In the past six months or so, we have had no fewer than three films about female open-water swimmers, said Brian Viner in the Daily Mail.  The latest stars Daisy Ridley as Trudy Ederle, the New Yorker who, in 1926, …

What happened Israel organized and funded a covert influence campaign targeting U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel and anti-Muslim messaging through fake news and social media accounts, The New York Times and Haaretz said Wednesday. Documents show Israel’s …

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What happened The world just experienced a year of record-breaking heat, with average global temperatures surpassing all measurements since 1850 and likely any extended period since the end of the last ice age 125,000 years ago, the European Union’s Copernicus …

‘Ukraine’s peace summit could be a game-changer’   P. Michael McKinley at The Hill  Ukraine “urgently needs the strongest possible reaffirmation of the West’s diplomatic, security and economic support,” says P. Michael McKinley. Wars “are not won only on the …

The Royal Court’s new artistic director, the playwright David Byrne, has launched his tenure with a production “so technically sophisticated that it leaves the head spinning, but so full of poetic feeling that it penetrates the heart”, said Sarah Crompton …

What happened The Senate voted 51-39 on Wednesday to advance the Right to Contraception Act, short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster. Two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) joined all Democrats present …