GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina repudiated the rumor that she might retire early from the House of Representatives, noting, "Retiring is a BIG FAT NO from me"

Experts warned Trump's Caribbean military deployment diverts critical resources, as Venezuela crisis tests the limits of diplomatic pressure tactics.

Former Duke of York reportedly wants six-bedroom Sandringham house with full staff including cook, housekeeper, and security despite losing royal titles.

Archaeologists in Northern Ireland searching for a medieval castle recently discovered 9,000-year-old flint tools and Bronze Age remains in County Fermanagh.

Luigi Mangione fights to suppress key evidence in UnitedHealthcare CEO murder case, but legal experts say his chances look slim in Manhattan court battle.

Virginia twin brothers arrested for allegedly conspiring to delete government databases hosted by a federal government contractor after their terminations.

The New York Times is taking the Pentagon to court over its newly implemented press access policy the paper claims violates the First and Fifth Amendments.

Donald Trump’s special envoy to brief Kyiv’s chief negotiators on Kremlin meeting

He previously served 17 years in prison after being convicted of felony possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a gun in a drug trafficking crime.

As the band celebrate their 60th anniversary, a California exhibition draws attention to the unique psychedelic artwork that has long told their story

Artist Bill Walker is one of those guys who always seems to be in the right place at the right time. Having met Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead bassist and avant-garde classical composer, as a student at Nevada Southern University (now the University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Walker was invited in 1967 to make an album cover for the band’s second album, Anthem of the Sun. This experience led to an epic LSD and ayahuasca trip in the Valley of Fire outside Las Vegas over New Year’s Eve and when Walker returned to San Francisco, he painted Anthem of the Sun, complete with figures he came across in the desert.

The Anthem of the Sun painting visually demonstrates the intense innovation that happened in the psychedelic revolution, when music was electrified and LSD became central to the burst of culture that defined the 1960s. The Grateful Dead encapsulated this spirit in their music and came to be considered the most American band of all time for being at the center of the psychedelic movement and its transition from the Beat generation that preceded it.

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© Photograph: The Chambers Project. Via Colin Day

© Photograph: The Chambers Project. Via Colin Day

The new Data (Use and Access) Act, which criminalises intimate image abuse, is a huge victory won fast in a space where progress is often glacially slow

For Jodie*, watching the conviction of her best friend, and knowing she helped secure it, felt at first like a kind of victory. It was certainly more than most survivors of deepfake image-based abuse could expect.

They had met as students and bonded over their shared love of music. In the years since graduation, he’d also become her support system, the friend she reached for each time she learned that her images and personal details had been posted online without her consent. Jodie’s pictures, along with her real name and correct bio, were used on many platforms for fake dating profiles, then adverts for sex work, then posted on to Reddit and other online forums with invitations to deepfake them into pornography. The results ended up on porn sites. All this continued for almost two years, until Jodie finally worked out who was doing it — her best friend – identified more of his victims, compiled 60 pages of evidence, and presented it to police. She had to try two police stations, having been told at the first that no crime had been committed. Ultimately he admitted to 15 charges of “sending messages that were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing nature” and received a 20-week prison sentence, suspended for two years.

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© Composite: Guardian Design;Roger Harris Photography;Chunyip Wong/Getty Images

© Composite: Guardian Design;Roger Harris Photography;Chunyip Wong/Getty Images

For many families, Christmas in the Caribbean is a tradition. It’s just too bad that the holiday season follows the hurricane season.

“Real Housewives of Potomac” star Monique Samuels stopped by the Page Six studio to chat with “Virtual Reali-Tea” co-hosts Danny Murphy and Evan Real about her epic return to the Bravo franchise after taking several seasons off. Monique unpacked more details about her split from now-ex-husband Chris Samuels, admitting that their co-parenting dynamic is a...

Investigators, however, argued that the case "presented dangers that an educated, adult woman must have recognized," according to a sentencing memorandum. 

"They want you to know they are your support."

Anyone can book a hotel room for the holidays, but pick a specialty themed suite at one of these six hotels around the country and this holiday season will be one the kids will never forget.

Up against the brilliant Mitchell Starc and his band of bowlers, even a dot ball for England in the Ashes is a moment of relief

“Must be amazing to be in Australia for the Ashes, what’s the atmosphere like?” It’s an understandable, if slightly daft question. Brett Lee isn’t in my house. I don’t wake up next to a furious Jonathan Agnew. “WHY AREN’T YOU IN CANBERRA, MAX?” I’m 850 miles from Brisbane.

Apart from me the atmosphere is one of wild indifference amongst the family. The good news is I’m hosting the Guardian Ashes Weekly podcast - now a professional excuse to watch another five (or two) days of agony.

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OTTAWA — In 2017, Quebec politicians of all stripes marched in unison in Lévis to demonstrate their support to Davie shipyard workers and blast Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government for failing to provide enough contracts to avoid hundreds of more job losses. Read More

A family of four can expect to pay nearly $1,000 more on food in the coming year than it did in 2025, according to Canada’s Food Price Report 2026. Overall, food prices could rise by as much as six per cent next year, with meat expected to see the largest increases at five to seven per cent. Read More

Global Witness says plan to upgrade railway line from DRC to Angola puts up to 1,200 buildings at risk of demolition

Up to 6,500 people are at risk of being displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project funded by the EU and the US, amid a global race to secure supplies of copper, cobalt and other “critical minerals”, according to a report by campaign group Global Witness.

The project, labelled the Lobito Corridor, aims to upgrade the colonial-era Benguela railway from the DRC to Lobito on Angola’s coast and improve port infrastructure, as well as building a railway line to Zambia and supporting agriculture and solar power installations along the route. Angola has said it needs $4.5bn (£3.4bn) for its stretch of the line.

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As leaders try to break smugglers’ business model, research suggests strategy so far has had opposite effect

Hardline migration policies adopted by governments across the globe have been a boon for people smugglers, fuelling demand and allowing them to raise their prices, according to a report.

The findings, released on Thursday by the Mixed Migration Centre of the Danish Refugee Council, and based on interviews with thousands of migrants and hundreds of smugglers, come as officials prepare to gather next week in Brussels to discuss how best to combat smuggling.

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The rookie plays like a linebacker at quarterback. His reckless style is costing his teammates and coaches as well as himself

Jaxson Dart wants you to know something: this is real football. It’s not soccer or flag. It’s tackle football, the kind where quarterbacks go airborne. After taking the latest in a growing compilation of bone-crushing hits, Dart brushed himself off and delivered a post-game sermon on toughness. “We’re not playing soccer,” he said. “You’re going to get hit. Things happen.”

Yet these “things” continue to happen to Dart at an alarming rate. In his eight NFL starts, he has absorbed as many unnecessary hits as any rookie quarterback in recent memory. On Monday night, Dart took another heavy hit near the sideline in the first quarter of the Giants’ 33-15 loss to the Patriots. Dart scrambled out of the pocket on second-and-13 and ran for a first down. As he approached the sideline, Dart could have stepped out and gained fewer yards while still moving the chains. Instead, he braced, lowered his shoulder and was sent soaring through the air by Patriots linebacker Christian Elliss.

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Here’s where to go to make the most of mistletoe madness in NYC.

Researchers say her movements highlight how white sharks use the coast in late fall and winter, and her presence near beaches is normal and poses minimal risk.