VP Vance blasts McConnell’s vote against Trump Pentagon nominee: ‘Political pettiness’

Vice President JD Vance spoke out against Sen. Mitch McConnell's, R-Ky., vote against confirming Elbridge Colby to serve as undersecretary of defense for policy. "Mitch’s vote today—like so much of the last few years of his career—is one of the great acts of political pettiness I’ve ever seen," Vance declared in a post on X.…

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Health

Washington Post columnist trashes colleagues, says editor robbed him of his humanity in memoir: report

A former member of the Washington Post editorial board accused a colleague of robbing him of his humanity and confessed to going to HR over a line in an editorial he disagreed with, according to a review of his upcoming memoir. Jonathan Capehart wrote he was sent into an "eye-popping rage" that caused him to…

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‘It was a magical chemical balance’: How Monty Python and the Holy Grail became a comedy legend

Fifty years after Monty Python and the Holy Grail redefined comedy, stars Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam look back on the freedoms – and limitations – that shaped the film. An independent British comedy made on a shoestring by a television sketch troupe? It sounds like a film destined to be forgotten within weeks of…

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Technology

Choline: The underappreciated nutrient that’s vital for our brains

The compound has been linked to improved cognitive performance and reduced anxiety – but are you getting enough of it? You may not have heard of choline before, but studies show that it's crucial for our health, at various stages of life. Choline is neither a vitamin or a mineral – it's an organic compound…

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Sports

The US’s 2,000-year-old mystery mounds

Constructed by a mysterious civilisation that left no written records, the massive site is now open to the public for the first time in more than a century. Autumn leaves crackled under our shoes as dozens of eager tourists and I followed a guide along a grassy mound. We stopped when we reached the opening…

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Science

Fur is firmly back in fashion – and even more divisive than ever

It's having a moment with celebrities, fashionistas and Gen Z. But wearing any kind of fur, from vintage to synthetic, poses some difficult questions. Could a new plant-based faux fur be the way forward? From Tory Burch in New York and Simone Rocha in London, to Fendi in Milan and Miu Miu in Paris, fur…

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Health

The polar bears living in an abandoned Arctic weather station

A photographer's iconic shot of polar bears in abandoned buildings on a Russian island shines a spotlight on wider changes in their behaviour. In September 2021, Russian wildlife photographer Dmitry Kokh and his team were sailing around the wild and remote Chukotka Peninsula in Russia's extreme northeast. They were hoping to visit Wrangel Island, a…

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One of the best action movies of 2025 so far is now streaming — and it should be your next adrenaline fix

This year hasn’t exactly blown me away when it comes to new movies. “Companion” and “Black Bag” have definitely been standouts, but beyond that, I’ve been craving pure adrenaline and something that did what so many recent movies haven’t: offer the perfect kind of escapism. “Novocaine” gave me exactly that when I saw it in…

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News

‘They do not surrender’: Ukraine commander details fight with North Koreans in Russia

LONDON -- Maj. Oleh Shyriaiev's first experience of North Koreans came at the contact line near Kruglenkoe -- a village around 8 miles from the Ukrainian border in Kursk, the western Russian region that has become a focal point of the war and an example of both Ukraine's determination and the brutal war of attrition…

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Technology

5 questions for SMBs to reveal hidden security threats

Headline-making mass outages—think 2024’s CrowdStrike event and 2023’s Google Cloud services disruptions—can bring multinational corporations and small businesses to their knees. But smaller technical events are far more common and can shut down business functions with equally devastating effects. Cybersecurity attacks like Change Healthcare and Snowflake data breaches that impacted millions wreak even greater havoc,…

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