I’m marching across Lower Manhattan in the middle of a heatwave with a friendly mob of Luddite gnomes, and there isn’t a phone in sight. It’s Fourth of July weekend in New York City, and the brutal temperatures haven’t stopped a hundred-or-so people from donning pointy hats and dancing in ...
Oil price dives as US and Iran pause attacksOil price dives as US and Iran pause attacks
The US says attacks on Iran have been halted to give “talks some space”, raising hopes of a resolution to the conflict. ...
Three dead and several injured in shooting at food festival near Seattle’s Space NeedleThree dead and several injured in shooting at food festival near Seattle’s Space Needle
Police say two suspects were shooting at each other and one of them is in custody and one at large. ...
Pirlo out of Italy football top job after backlash over Russian betting firm linksPirlo out of Italy football top job after backlash over Russian betting firm links
The uproar throws the Italian Football Federation into further disarray following Italy’s third consecutive failure to qualify for the World Cup. ...
US pauses Iran attacks after Trump advised to halt bombingUS pauses Iran attacks after Trump advised to halt bombing
Top military officials say campaign has reached its limit of effectiveness and warn of dwindling stocks of munitions The US has paused strikes on Iran for a third night as top military officials advised Donald Trump to halt his bombing campaign, and diplomatic negotiations have continued to avoid a return ...
Senate Democrat’s new bills would restrict AI-powered ads and paid influencersSenate Democrat’s new bills would restrict AI-powered ads and paid influencers
The Scoop A flood of paid, unlabeled influencer marketing and AI-produced political ads has prompted a Senate Democrat to look at new restrictions on political advertising online. On Monday, California Sen. Adam Schiff plans to introduce two new bills that would attempt to illuminate who is paying influencers for political ...
He’s commander-in-chief of chaos. Now we’re all victims of Trump’s wars | Nesrine MalikHe’s commander-in-chief of chaos. Now we’re all victims of Trump’s wars | Nesrine Malik
New tariffs, gas price rises, the deaths of thousands, insecurity … We’re living at the whim of one capricious, vain, easily bored man and his gang of stooges You would be forgiven, as the US and Iran traded strikes over the past few days, for thinking that it was only ...
‘I thought it didn’t stand a cat’s chance in hell’: Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China‘I thought it didn’t stand a cat’s chance in hell’: Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China
Four decades after he and George Michael became the first western pop act to tour the country, Ridgeley recalls silent gigs, awkward embassy receptions – and the ‘bloody ludicrous’ hiring of Lindsay Anderson as director There has always been something surreal about Wham!’s 1985 trip to China. George Michael and ...
‘My mother was 4ft 11in and scared the hell out of people’ – Sean Astin on child stardom, The Lord of the Rings and surviving 45 years in Hollywood‘My mother was 4ft 11in and scared the hell out of people’ – Sean Astin on child stardom, The Lord of the Rings and surviving 45 years in Hollywood
His mother was an Oscar-winning actor who had been exploited from a young age; Astin appeared in The Goonies at just 13. Now, he has followed in his mother’s footsteps again as a union leader. He talks Stranger Things, AI and why playing Samwise Gamgee cost him his house Sean ...
Netanyahu accuses NYC Mayor Mamdani of ‘fomenting hate’ after arrest threatNetanyahu accuses NYC Mayor Mamdani of ‘fomenting hate’ after arrest threat
Mamdani walked back his threat last week, acknowledging he lacked the legal power to arrest Netanyahu on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. ...