Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene declared that President Donald Trump's "endorsements are an insult to his base" after Trump endorsed GOP Rep. María Elvira Salazar.

Prince William refuses to defend "despicable" uncle Andrew, choosing to modernize the monarchy by supporting Jeffrey Epstein victims instead.

Roman medicine used human fecal matter mixed with thyme and olive oil in treatments, according to a surprising archaeological discovery from Pergamon, Turkey.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets President Donald Trump Wednesday to discuss Iran negotiations, as Washington weighs diplomacy against military action.

The reparations fund did not receive any philanthropic donations this year as of Jan. 31, so the fund is primarily supported by a cannabis sales tax and real estate tax money

By entering into negotiations with Ottawa, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has tacitly conceded that it needs news content and that it is valuable for Meta. You might think that, having conceded this, Meta would do what normal companies do and pay for this vital input to its business. Instead, Meta appears to be actively lobbying the Government of Canada to gut the Online News Act so that it can reinstate news on its services without having to pay for it. Having Canadian news back on Meta would be good, but not at the cost of massively damaging Canadian journalism. Read More

The restriction, which came into force at 11.30 p.m. Tuesday local time (1.30 a.m. ET), impacts flights to and taking off from El Paso International Airport and it will be in place until Feb. 20.

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2nd over: Australia 12-1 (Inglis 5, Green 0) Cameron Green joins Inglis in the middle. Ireland buzz around but Inglis calms a few nerves with a languid back cut for four through the off side.

Head is run out! Squirts a shot behind square and sets off for as dodgy single, doesn’t get there and is gone!

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The riders are having to squint into the sun to see their scores come up. There’s lots of USA support on the slopes, first for 19-year old Bea Kim, who looks happy to settle into fifth, then for the queen of half pipe, Chloe Kimm, who is aiming for her third consecutive gold medal in this discipline. Oh and she’s also just finished a degree at Stamford. It’s a cracking start – a big backside 720, frontside 900, and something floaty and turny which the commentators describe as “the penny black” of halfpipe. She immediately settles into first.

Women’s halfpipe qualifying: Thinking about my attempts to stand on a skateboard as young women in baggy snow trousers zig-zag and float across the halfpipe.

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Russian attacks show no sign of slowing as fourth anniversary of full-scale invasion approaches

Meanwhile, the European Commission has outlined its plan to counter drone threats after months of disruptions caused by drones and meteorological balloons causing chaos on major airports across the EU.

The plan sets out proposals to rapidly increase technological development and industrial production of anti-drone technologies, and their testing through a new EU Counter-Drone Centre of Excellence.

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Whether making microtonal pop or playing Renaissance instruments with sheep bones, a crop of bold artists are making genuinely strange music go mainstream – but are they at the mercy of the algorithm?

Chloë Sobek is a Melbourne musician who plays the violone, a Renaissance precursor to the double bass. But instead of playing it in the traditional manner, she puts wobbling bits of cardboard between its strings or uses a sheep’s bone as a bow, and these weird interventions have become catnip for Instagram’s algorithm, getting her tens of thousands – sometimes hundreds of thousands – of views for each of her self-made performance videos. “Despite how it might appear, I’m a reasonably shy person,” she says.

When Laurie Anderson’s robo-minimalist masterwork O Superman hit No 2 in the UK charts in 1981, thanks to incessant airplay on John Peel’s radio show, it was a signal of a media outlet’s power to propel experimental music into the mainstream. That’s now happening again as prepared-instrument players such as Sobek, plus experimental pianists, microtonal singers and numerous other boundary-pushing solo performers, are routinely breaking out of underground circles thanks to videos – generally self-recorded at home – going viral on TikTok and Instagram.

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Police search for more possible victims of Jacques Leveugle, whose alleged crimes span many countries and date back to 1960s

French police have made a rare international appeal for victims and witnesses in the case of a 79-year-old former teacher accused of raping and sexually assaulting 89 children across five continents from the 1960s until 2022.

Police in Grenoble said Jacques Leveugle, who has been in pretrial detention in France since April 2025, was a “textbook example” of a serial sexual offender in an unusually sprawling case spanning many countries from Germany to India over more than five decades.

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Fatema Rajwani’s comments come after she and five others were cleared of aggravated burglary over break-in at Israeli defence firm

The youngest of six Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary over a break-in at an Israeli defence firm’s UK site has said the verdicts were a vindication of their cause.

After 18 months in jail, Fatema Rajwani, 21, was released on bail last Wednesday, having also been acquitted by a jury at Woolwich crown court of violent disorder in relation to the raid on the Elbit Systems factory in Filton, near Bristol, on 6 August 2024.

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Cancelled flights and petrol shortages are disrupting daily life across the island. We want to hear from people living in Cuba about what it’s like right now

Severe fuel shortages are disrupting daily life across Cuba after the US tightened its oil blockade on the island. International flights have been cancelled and petrol stations have closed with people reportedly struggling to access fuel.

The US has threatened any country that sends oil to Cuba with increased tariffs, claiming the island’s government is a threat to US national security and comes amid wider tensions between Havana and the Trump administration.

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"They held me against my will," the man told reporters outside his home. "They didn't even read me my rights until two hours later."

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The former girlfriend of the Norwegian biathlete Sturla Holm Lægreid has responded to his public apology for having an affair, saying it “is hard to forgive” what he did.

It was after Lægreid had won bronze in the individual 20km on Tuesday that he, unprompted, opened up on what he described as the “hardest week of my life,” saying: “Half a year ago I met the love of my life. The world’s most beautiful and nicest person. Three months ago I made the mistake of my life and cheated on her, and I told her about that a week ago. This has been the worst week of my life.”

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He turned the private heartbreak into a public spectacle.

• Club five points above drop zone after Newcastle defeat

• Spurs have not won in the Premier League in 2026

Thomas Frank has been sacked by Tottenham, the final straw for the head coach coming on Tuesday when his team lost at home to Newcastle, leaving Spurs 16th in the Premier League, five points above the relegation zone.

The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium crowd again rebelled against Frank, booing him and chanting that he would be sacked in the morning.

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Korean-American artist’s work has continued to resonate in many years since her tragic murder in 1982 at the age of 31

If there’s one thing the late avant-garde artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha is known for, it’s almost certainly her experimental 1982 book Dictée, a hard-to-classify work that has become a mainstay of college curriculums and ambitious writers. Poet Juliana Spahr has described the work as “part autobiography, part biography, part personal diary, part ethnography, part auto-ethnography, part translation”, noting that it collages “multiple voices – American, European, and Asian – so as to build a history”.

A major new retrospective of Cha at the Berkeley Art Museum – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings – aims to go far beyond Dictée to present the artist’s varied and prodigious output, bringing attention to her full complexity as a creative force and the many contemporary thinkers who have been inspired by her career.

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© Photograph: Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung/Photograph by James H. Cha. Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation

© Photograph: Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung/Photograph by James H. Cha. Gift of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Memorial Foundation

Surprisingly few products cater for people with a mixture of dry, balanced and oily skin. The ones that do shoulld be key to your regime

Given that combination is probably the most common skin type, it’s frustratingly under-served, especially when it comes to moisturisers.

In practice, day creams, lotions and gels marketed for those with a combination of dry, balanced and oily areas often only play to the latter condition. They add no oil and shine to the chin, nose and forehead, but offer only fleeting comfort to tight, parched areas around the cheeks.

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Some Russians have dismissed the Games over the continued exclusion of their athletes. But the truth is international sport is still important to Moscow

Duma member Vitaly Milonov didn’t mince words when asked four years ago about the international ban against Russian athletes.

“There’s no point in humiliating ourselves and begging to be let in,” said the St Petersburg deputy, a member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. “We have our pride.” International events had been corrupted by the United States, he claimed in a 2022 interview, just weeks after the International Olympic Committee and other governing bodies imposed the ban. “Only Russia can say no. Other countries will accept whatever nonsense the Americans force on them – teams of vegans, queers and lesbians.”

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In interviews with community leaders, lawyers, security specialists and bereaved relatives, the Guardian pieces together how an operation targeting a criminal gang left 122 people dead last October

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Juliana Conceição startled awake as the first shots of an infamous day were fired in the Complexo da Penha, the labyrinthine Rio favela where she was born and raised.

It was 4.30am on 28 October. Thousands of police had surrounded the community’s barricaded entrances and were preparing to swarm up its streets on foot and in black armoured personnel carriers with firing ports and bullet-cracked ballistic windows.

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Lead author of Australian study says breeding slowdown is linked to climate-driven changes in ‘magnificent’ whale’s foraging grounds

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After decades of recovery, southern right whales are showing signs of a climate-driven decline in breeding rates, which scientists say is a “warning signal” about changes in the Southern Ocean.

After being hunted to near extinction by commercial whaling in the 19th and 20th centuries, southern right whales remained endangered in Australia.

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The IOC earlier in the day said the athlete had worn the helmet in training and had expressed his views on social media but could not do so once the competition got under way.