President-elect Trump was sentenced Friday after being found guilty on charges of falsifying business records stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s years-long investigation.

Graham Harding and his wife, Helen Harding, have long enjoyed the game of Scrabble both separately and now together as a married couple — and are still playing in tournaments together.

Barrymore and Kate Hudson accidentally called the wrong Luke Wilson.

Kotb is leaving The Today Show, but she will be taking on a different role at NBC.

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Judge applies sentence to all 34 felony charges

The prosecution team has entered judge Juan Merchan’s courtroom, along with Emil Bove, a lawyer for Donald Trump.

Bove has taken a seat at the defense table.

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Firefighters working to combat the blaze which has killed at least 10 people encountered empty hydrants and insufficient water pressure.

The sentencing cements the president-elect's status as a convicted felon 10 days before he returns to the White House.

We can't wait to catch Sebastian Maniscalco, Mary J. Blige and Katt Williams these next few months.

Arguments are expected to start at 10am ET after app’s Chinese-based parent company ByteDance asked justices to review case

Could Donald Trump stop the TikTok ban?

Trump has filed a request with the Supreme Court to delay the implementation of a ban on TikTok until he takes office on 20 January, which the court declined to immediately act on. The president-elect’s intervention shows the significant effort by TikTok to forge inroads with Trump and his team during the presidential campaign.

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A Georgia couple was shocked to discover that they’d lost ‘everything’ in a house fire… except a Stanley Cup that miraculously survived the blaze. In this viral video that has since amassed millions of views, homeowner Alexus Wilkins is going through what’s left of her home when she happens upon the cup still intact. “As...

The chances are you’ve already got most of the ingredients for these sweet treats in the kitchen cupboard, so you’re ready to get baking

The start of a new year feels like a good time to have a proper clear-out of my kitchen cupboards. After a frantic festive season, I like to take stock of what I’ve got and get creative with my store-cupboard staples. I had two large opened bags of oats and even more bottles of golden syrup, so naturally a batch of flapjacks was the only answer. You very possibly have all these items in your cupboards already, so have a rummage and give them a go.

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© Photograph: Luke J Albert/The Guardian. Food styling: Benjamina Ebuehi. Prop styling: Anna Wilkins.

Think you always know what your mate is thinking? Forever making elaborate plans together? You might be doing your friendships more harm than you realise, say these experts

“It’s very British to joke and tease to show affection, but it can tip over into being unhealthy,” says the friendship coach Hannah Carmichael. Her online community, Friendshift, coaches adults to build authentic friendships and navigate social situations. “At the heart of every healthy relationship is the ability to show up fully as ourselves,” she says.

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Economy adds 256,000 jobs in December, with Biden boasting of 16.6m jobs created during presidency

The US labor market expanded strongly in the last jobs report of the Biden administration, according to new data released on Friday.

The number of new jobs added to the economy accelerated to 256,000 in December, up from 227,000 in November, soaring past expectations. The labor market last month was bolstered by new jobs in healthcare, retail and government.

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Drop FaceTune and get pearly whites for real this year.

It's the end of an era!

• Frankfurt may consider €60m-plus bid for forward
• City also preparing £33m bid for Palmeiras’s Vítor Reis

Manchester City are considering testing Eintracht Frankfurt’s resolve to keep highly-rated forward Omar Marmoush with a formal bid while also monitoring Lens centre-back Abdukodir Khusanov and preparing an offer of €40m (£33m) for Palmeiras’s 18-year-old defender Vítor Reis.

While Frankfurt’s official stance is that Marmoush is not for sale, it is understood the club, currently third in the Bundesliga, may countenance a €60m-plus (£50m-plus) offer for the 25-year-old Egyptian, who has scored 18 goals and provided 12 assists in all competitions this season.

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Nearly 200 New York firefighters were battling a massive five-alarm blaze at a Bronx apartment building Friday morning that has left at least seven people injured. The FDNY responded to the huge blaze at a six-story residential building at 2910 Wallace Ave. in the East Bronx around 1:40 a.m., fire officials said — with alarming...

The busty bot, named Melody, was one of several humanoid robots on display at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 7.

To solve the climate crisis, power must flow away from the billionaire class

When I feel uncertain, I find it’s helpful to write down things I know to be true. Fossil fuels are causing irreversible planetary overheating. Overheating threatens essentially all life on Earth. Oil and gas executives knew this but they chose to systematically lie and block a climate transition. They continue to make this choice.

I choose to focus my energy on the climate crisis because a habitable planet is a prerequisite for everything worth fighting for, and because the prospect of losing a planet feels horrific and sad to me in a primal way that I can’t express with words. I’m also simply in love with the Earth. But planetary overheating is really just the most geophysical symptom of extractive colonial capitalism – “billionairism” – a system designed to pump wealth from the poor to the rich, creating billionaires, the healthcare crisis, the housing crisis, genocide, hierarchies like racism and patriarchy, and a great deal of suffering.

Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist and author of Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution

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She said "I don't" to her wedding day glam.

Kate Beckinsale and Matt Rife are seemingly burying the hatchet. The exes, who dated back in 2017, were spotted smooching at Netflix’s Golden Globes party — in a star-studded night filled with romance. But it wasn’t all good news for other Hollywood duos. After 17 years of marriage and three kids together, Jessica Alba and...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are lending a helping hand to their pals as deadly infernos continue to rip through the surrounding areas.

Melissa lost her a 7,048-square-foot, six-bedroom Mediterranean-style home in Santa Monica in the Palisades Fire on Wednesday.

“I hope you are all doing OK !!! I had to evacuate my home and I’m driving 4 hours to a hotel !!!" Britney Spears posted on her Instagram.

Kohl's has faced significant challenges in recent months during which it has seen leadership changes amid dismal earnings reports and economic headwinds.

"In an ever-changing marketplace, we determined that it was best to meet the evolving demands of sports fans by focusing on existing products and distribution channels," the companies added.

Costner played the corpse at the start of The Big Chill.

Gobble all year long with this meal kit

Hemsworth had it in him to make it epic! The Academy will probably not.

• Spurs midfielder knocked himself out in EFL Cup semi
• Will miss three games, including north London derby

Rodrigo Bentancur has been given the all-clear to return to playing after he serves a 12-day concussion protocol. The Tottenham midfielder sparked concern when he collapsed to the turf in his club’s 1-0 Carabao Cup semi-final first-leg win over Liverpool on Wednesday night.

Bentancur was taken away on a stretcher after eight minutes of treatment and was assessed in hospital. The neurological tests have revealed nothing more serious than concussion.

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Here are some of the more curious health hacks circulating on the social media platform – and what the evidence says

The deluge of improbable health hacks on TikTok can only mean it’s the start of a new year. Here we look at some of the more curious tips and the evidence, where there is any, behind them.

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Justice rules against ordinances in counties and towns on Texas border that sought to limit access to mifepristone

The New Mexico supreme court late on Thursday ruled against several local ordinances in the state that aim to restrict distribution of the abortion pill.

In a unanimous opinion, the court said the ordinances invaded the legislature’s authority to regulate reproductive care.

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How long does it take to change a habit? It varies, but one paper suggests it takes an average of 66 days. We ask writers to change one thing in their lives within that timeframe … and tell us if it works

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Not even a year ago, I would have called myself crazy for giving up sugar, even for 66 days. But the truth is I eat way too much of it and it can’t be good for me.

I’ve eaten cake for breakfast on more than one occasion and can easily finish a packet of biscuits in a day. I have a soft spot for baked goods, kindled by the many bakeries and cafes in my neighbourhood. If I go to bed without eating something sweet I feel as though something’s missing.

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Experts recorded 45 entanglements off Australia’s east coast in 2024 – but believe that’s ‘the tip of the iceberg’

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At least 45 whales were entangled by fishing ropes and line on the east coast in 2024, and experts are calling for better management of fishing gear in Australia to prevent marine suffering.

Dr Olaf Meynecke, a marine scientist at Griffith University, said the issue of preventing whale entanglements was “largely ignored in Australia”.

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© Photograph: Ahmet Saner and Chris Dick

Summer holidays are a time of memory-making. We asked Guardian writers and contributors to share some of the summer holiday photos that transport them back to a simpler time

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It had always been Harriet’s dream to get married more than mine. I’ll never forget us as little girls on summer holidays, stretched out on twin beds, poring over her magazine cutouts of white wedding dresses, multi-tiered cakes and overflowing bouquets.

We would muse what our husbands’ names would be and how many children we would have. They would be born at the same time, so they could grow up together as best friends. Just like we had.

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Photographer Adam Lampton discusses capturing the vice, cash and sheer excess of the special administrative region of China – a place built on contradictions

“I am not a huge gambler,” says Adam Lampton. “The first time I went to Macau, fresh out of grad school, I didn’t have any money to spare – it all went on camera film. People take it all very seriously, so I was too intimidated to sit down and be the white guy who didn’t know what the hell he was doing.”

As a non-gambler in Macau, the American photographer would have been an oddity – most tourists go there to “play”, hoping Lady Luck glances their way. The former Portuguese colony, now a special administrative region of China, is the world’s gambling mecca. Located on China’s south-east coast, just across the water from Hong Kong, Macau’s gambling revenues often put the US’s “Sin City” in the shade. The Macau government expects its gaming revenues to hit about $27bn in 2024, while declining Nevada looks set to fall below 2023’s record $15.5bn.

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© Photograph: Adam Lampton

Mother and newborn saved from inflatable boat off Canary Islands, on a route on which thousands have died

The call that would lead to one of the most poignant images of the humanitarian emergency in the deadly waters off the Canary Islands came at 4am.

In the early hours of Monday, the Las Palmas command centre of Spain’s maritime rescue service, Salvamento Marítimo, told Domingo Trujillo, the captain of the search-and-rescue vessel Talía, that a small inflatable boat, packed with people, was adrift 97 nautical miles (180km) off the coast of Lanzarote. Among those onboard, they added, was a woman who was due to give birth at any moment.

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© Photograph: Salvamento Maritimo/Reuters

Have you been following the big (and small) stories in football, cricket, motor racing, golf, tennis and rugby?

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Sarah Silverman and others file court case claiming CEO approved use of dataset despite warnings

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Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta’s use of “pirated” versions of copyright-protected books to train the company’s artificial intelligence models, a group of authors has alleged in a US court filing.

Citing internal Meta communications, the filing claims that the social network company’s chief executive backed the use of the LibGen dataset, a vast online archive of books, despite warnings within the company’s AI executive team that it is a dataset “we know to be pirated”.

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