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Summary Populist leader offers clearer view of a possible Reform UK government Says it would end arrivals of illegal migrants by boat in two weeks Farage, a Brexit veteran and Trump ally, says main parties are in meltdown Reform UK riding high in opinion polls, though still behind major parties in donations Farage suggests next election might come earlier than 2029 BIRMINGHAM, England, Sept 5 (Reuters) - British populist leader Nigel Farage vowed on Friday to start preparing for government, saying the nation's two main parties were in meltdown and only his Reform UK could ease the anger and despair...

Former President Joe Biden sparked concern after he was seen with a massive gash on his head while greeting people in Delaware over Labor Day weekend. Shocking footage shared on social media showed the frail 82-year-old sporting a noticeably red wound across the front of his head, partly hidden by his white hair, while leaving a church in Rehoboth Beach. “I was a little surprised ’cause it’s a noticeable scar,” Fred Karger, who filmed the video and shared it to X Tuesday, told Inside Edition, which first broke the news Thursday.

In the sun-drenched villages dotting Spain’s Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca, a culinary revolution is frying up a storm. Local tapas bars, once steadfast purveyors of patatas bravas, croquetas, and gambas al ajillo, are flipping tradition on its head by embracing a quintessentially British institution: fish and chips. The debate and controversy are also cooking. Dubbed “Fish and Chips Fridays,” this unlikely trend has taken hold in expat-heavy towns, transforming sleepy village squares into bustling hubs of cross-cultural feasting. From Málaga to Alicante, restaurants are battering up cod and hake, serving golden chips with a side of sangría, and...

PBS informed 34 staffers Thursday they were being laid off as part of a broader downsizing effort that's resulted in 100 jobs being cut in recent months. The cuts were triggered in part by the Trump administration’s rescission package, which slashed over $1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting. "Due to the loss of federal funding, PBS eliminated close to 100 positions over the last several months, including 34 valued PBS staff members notified yesterday their employment is ending. In this unprecedented moment, we remain focused on what matters most: ensuring our member stations can deliver quality content and...

The Turtles co-founder Mark Volman has died aged 78. Guitarist and vocalist Volman passed away on September 5 after a 'brief, unexpected illness' in Nashville, Tennessee, his representative confirmed in a statement to People. The Turtles were known for hits including Billboard number one single Happy Together in 1967 and Elenore in 1968. Volman joined The Turtles - then known as the Nightriders and later the Crossfires - in 1963 when he was a student at Westchester High School in California with fellow founding member Howard Kaylan. While Volman first started out as a saxophonist in the surf music band,...

A symbolic “border” as the UK tightens family-reunion rules. Credit : DesignRage, Shutterstock The Home Office has paused new family-reunion applications from refugees while it rewrites the scheme. Officials say the route, created to reunite families split by war and persecution, has ballooned far faster than expected and is piling extra pressure on housing in parts of the country. During the pause, refugees who want to bring relatives to the UK must use the standard immigration routes, not the bespoke humanitarian one. Stricter criteria are coming, with ministers signalling higher financial thresholds and firmer English-language requirements, in line with wider...

Anthropic told a San Francisco federal judge on Friday that it has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the artificial intelligence company of using their books to train its AI chatbot Claude without permission. The plaintiffs in a court filing, opens new tab asked U.S. District Judge William Alsup to approve the settlement, after announcing the agreement in August without disclosing the terms or amount. "This settlement sends a powerful message to AI companies and creators alike that taking copyrighted works from these pirate websites is wrong,” the authors'...

Coleman Hawkins’ 1958 Verve Records classic, Coleman Hawkins And Confrères, is set to be reissued on October 24 through Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series. Pre-orders are available now.Hawkins’ tenor saxophone playing is particularly confident and eloquent throughout the set. His group of “confreres” on the session is fortified by the Oscar Peterson Trio along with sit-in guests including Hank Jones (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar), Roy Eldridge and Buck Clayton (both on trumpet), and others. The album was initially recorded across two sessions, on October 16, 1957 and February 7, 1958. Consisting of both original compositions from Hawkins and covers, highlights include...

I know Jon Stewart is variably regarded in these parts, but this cracked me up! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FpEYY7kkLQs

Germany’s beer market is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by changing consumer preferences and the evolving tastes of younger generations. While traditional beer consumption is declining, the demand for alcohol-free alternatives has surged, signalling a shift in the country’s long-standing beer culture. In the first half of 2025, German beer sales fell by 6.3%, amounting to a reduction of around 262 million litres and bringing total consumption to roughly 3.9 billion litres. This represents the steepest decline in the domestic beer market since 1993, excluding non-alcoholic products. Economic pressures, rising prices, and shifts in social habits, particularly among younger consumers,...

On a toasty summer Sunday 40 years ago, Richard Ramirez was the nation’s most wanted man. The Nightstalker serial killer had spent months on a reign of terror, casually slipping into homes across Southern California and killing a total of 15 people.He had eluded the police all summer, but they finally identified him and released his photo to the public. He emerged that Sunday morning on a bus at the edge of downtown and moved east into Boyle Heights, the heart of Latino L.A. and the entry point for countless undocumented immigrants coming from Latin America in the 1980s. What...

By Alexandra Bellusci Published Sep. 5, 2025, 12:53 p.m. ET Culkin spoke about his time filming the John Hughes comedy in Colin Hanks and Ryan Reynolds’ new documentary, “John Candy: I Like Me.” SNIP “He showed a lot of respect. When you’re eight years old, you don’t really get respect, whether it’s in a workplace or just from adults and grown-ups in general. You felt invited in,” Culkin expressed. Elsewhere in the film, Culkin shared he felt “paternal” vibes from Candy, especially when it came to dealing with his now estranged father, Christopher “Kit” Culkin, during the early days in...

The deputy White House chief of staff has emerged as a key enforcer of the D.C. operation in the month since Trump federalized the local police department.From the head of the conference table in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, Stephen Miller was in the weeds of President Donald Trump’s takeover of policing in the nation’s capital. The White House deputy chief of staff wanted to know where exactly groups of law enforcement officers would be deployed. He declared that cleaning up D.C. was one of Trump’s most important domestic policy issues and that Miller himself planned to be involved for...

Last May a study came out suggesting that merely giving people money doesn’t do much to lift them out of poverty. Families with at least one child received $333 a month. They had more money to spend, which is a good thing, but the children fared no better than similar children who didn’t get the cash. They were no more likely to develop language skills or demonstrate cognitive development. They were no more likely to avoid behavioral problems or developmental delays.These results shouldn’t have been a big surprise. As Kelsey Piper noted in an essay for The Argument, a different...

Austin has introduced a new logo that took seven years to design, and the fallout could be worse than Cracker Barrel's disastrous rebrand because Austin's was funded by tax dollars. Taxpayers in the Texas capital are outraged after learning their leaders spent over a $1 million on a new city brand all while warning they will ask for higher taxes in November. Residents blasted city hall after it rolled out its new moniker after it was approved in 2018 and spending a staggering $1.1 million for a green and blue letter 'A.' 'Is it just me or does Austin’s new...

MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been informed that he will be deported to the African country of Eswatini. .... Snip.... Per Fox News reporter Bill Melugin: @FoxNews has obtained an email ICE sent to Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers this afternoon notifying them that ICE now plans to deport him to the tiny African country of ESWATINI due to him claiming fear of persecution/torture in Uganda & 20+ other countries, which ICE says is “hard to take seriously”.

Well-known authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued the company over what their lawyer calls “brazen infringement.”AI startup Anthropic will pay a $1.5 billion settlement after being accused of copyright violations and piracy by illegally downloading books to train its AI's language models. (Scripps News)AI startup Anthropic will pay a $1.5 billion settlement after being accused of copyright violations and piracy — a case that legal experts say is a first-of-its-kind, that "will be known by its first name to law students for a long time." Well-known authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued...

Emma Stone has sparked backlash over her recent "tone-deaf" comments about Luigi Mangione. The actress was called out for comparing her new film "Bugonia" to the Mangione case, where the suspect is accused of killing a healthcare CEO. Away from the controversy, critics have praised "Bugonia" as a genre-bending thriller, with Emma Stone's performance hailed as both daring and darkly convincing. Stone came under fire after drawing a controversial parallel between her new film "Bugonia" and the high-profile Luigi Mangione case. In Yorgos Lanthimos's dark drama, the 36-year-old actress portrays a powerful healthcare executive who is abducted by a disgruntled...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco for the plaintiffs means 600,000 Venezuelans whose temporary protections expired in April or whose protections were about to expire Sept. 10 have status to stay and work in the United States. It also keeps protections for about 500,000 Haitians. Chen scolded Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for revoking protections...

Mark Volman, a cofounder of the Turtles and the cosinger on several of their hit songs, has died. He was 78. Over his five-decade career, Volman also performed with fellow Turtles cofounder and singer Howard Kaylan as Flo & Eddie, who released albums as a duo and also performed on songs by Bruce Springsteen, T. Rex and Frank Zappa. According to Variety, Volman died in his home in Nashville on Friday after a sudden illness. In 2023, Volman revealed he had dementia. He noted at that time that he was diagnosed in 2020, but did not discuss his illness as...