Christian author Philip Yancey admitted to participating in a years-long extramarital affair, asserting that he had "disqualified" himself from ministry.

Brock Purdy continues his rise with the San Francisco 49ers while staying grounded and using his success to support fans, veterans, and children in need.

Jennette McCurdy admits Hollywood rewards dishonesty over truth as she produces her memoir, "I'm Glad My Mom Died," into a TV show with Jennifer Aniston.

President Donald Trump said in an interview that the U.S. would run Venezuela and extract its oil possibly for years following Nicolás Maduro's arrest.

The Girl Scouts of the USA is launching Exploremores for 2026, which are new sandwich cookies with chocolate, marshmallow and almond flavored creme. Here's what to know.

California parent exposes controversial "Teen Talk" gender curriculum with privilege rankings and transgender lessons in Sacramento school.

Republican lawmakers push bill to modify Immigration and Nationality Act, making fraud convictions deportable and requiring automatic denaturalization of naturalized citizens.

DHS labels Minneapolis ICE shooting "domestic terrorism" after woman allegedly tried to "weaponize her vehicle" against agent.

NASA reportedly considers early ISS crew return due to unspecified medical issue with astronaut. Rare safety move prompts comprehensive mission evaluation.

The "Sinister" actor died on Dec. 19.

Perhaps that should be the main goal: Get someone on the sideline who can clean up this mess and at least give the Giants a fighting chance.

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The Jarman brothers’ ninth album adds a little 80s pop sheen to their distorted guitars and confident songwriting, while always sounding exactly like the indie stalwarts

Last summer, the BBC broadcast an eight-part podcast called The Rise and Fall of Indie Sleaze. Its third episode heavily featured the Cribs’ bassist and vocalist Gary Jarman talking about his band’s first flush of mid-00s fame. It centred on their 2005 single Hey Scenesters!, from which the episode also took its name. It was a curious choice: on close examination, Hey Scenesters! wasn’t a celebration of what some people unfortunately dubbed the New Rock Revolution so much as the sound of Jarman and his bandmate brothers poking fun at it.

There was the peculiar dichotomy of the Cribs in a nutshell. They were a band so of the mid-00s moment that they were nearly signed to a record label founded by Myspace. But they always seemed slightly apart from the scene. They were certainly less voracious in the pursuit of mainstream success than contemporaries Razorlight or Kaiser Chiefs: “A cash injection, a nasty infection – don’t regret it,” offers a song from their ninth album, Selling a Vibe, with the pointed title Self Respect. They were more in tune with what their sometime-producer Edwyn Collins called “proper indie” from a pre-Britpop age, when “indie” indicated not a predilection for skinny jeans and trilby hats, but something set apart from the mainstream that viewed the attentions of Top of the Pops and the tabloid press with deep suspicion and balanced limited commercial ambitions against artistic freedom. It was a point underlined by the kind of artists who gave them co-signs. Quite aside from the former frontman of Orange Juice, there was Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, Johnny Marr – who briefly joined the Cribs, co-writing 2009’s Ignore the Ignorant – and the late producer/engineer Steve Albini.

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President Trump offers a scathing rebuke of the woman shot and killed by ICE in Minneapolis after DHS said Renee Nicole Good weaponized her vehicle and targeted its agents. And, banning big banks and investment firms from buying up single family homes. It’s the administration’s latest move to build back the American Dream.

French president warned the US under Donald Trump was ‘breaking free from international rules’

Another news line dominating this week’s coverage of European politics is to do with Greenland, and the US president Donald Trump’s ambitions to somehow take control of the Danish semiautonomous territory.

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said last night that he had plans to meet Danish officials next week to discuss Greenland as a crisis escalates within Nato over US threats to take over the Arctic territory.

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Governor Tim Walz said he was prepared to deploy the National Guard and expressed outrage over the shooting

Here are some more images from the various demonstrations that took place yesterday:

There are more anti-ICE protests planned across the United States today, with rallies expected in New York, North Carolina and Texas.

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Advocates suing to reverse administration’s surcharge system that has led to passport checks and angry visitors

A new $100 fee for foreign tourists entering US national parks has triggered chaos and frustrating waits, with staff reporting long entry lines as citizenship checks are made and irate visitors regularly ditching plans to patronize some of America’s most cherished landscapes.

The new fee system, introduced by the Trump administration from 1 January, has caught many visitors and National Park Service (NPS) staff off-guard, with checks now having to be undertaken to assess nationality and tourists often turning away from entrances rather than pay the surcharge. The Guardian heard accounts of problems from several NPS staff, speaking anonymously, who work at different parks across the country.

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Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old mother of three fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis Wednesday morning, was a stay-at-home mom who didn't show any signs of activism, according to family.

Coote, 43, had previously pleaded guilty to making an indecent moving image of a child

The former Premier League referee David Coote has been given a suspended sentence after he was found to have a sexual video of a 15-year-old boy in school uniform on his laptop.

Judge Shant said Coote, 43, had a “spectacular fall from grace” after police charged him with making a category A video, the most serious kind, of a 15-year-old schoolboy. The charge refers to activities such as downloading, sharing or saving photos or videos containing abuse.

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The Big Apple already has universal Pre-K and 3K programs and Hochul said she will partner with new Mayor Zohran Mamdani to age down the program to cover 2-year-olds.

"I do my duty. I'm helping and saving ... It felt like my duty as a human being. Helping, keeping people safe," Al-Ahmed told The Post.

The Venezuelan oil industry is ‘a total bust’ according to Donald Trump, something he has promised to ‘fix’ after attacking Caracas and seizing the country’s leader. But with analysts estimating it could take up to 14 years and billions to fix, what is in it for the US president? Jillian Ambrose, the Guardian’s energy correspondent, explains why Venezuela’s dense, sticky oil is so valuable to Trump

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Somewhere between record label and artist project, False Aralia harks back to microhouse and dub techno with its deep, detailed productions

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Up next Double LP from Topdown Dialectic released in spring

False Aralia disappears into a misty gulch somewhere between record label and artist project. It’s ostensibly a label, where each EP has a different named artist, and each sleeve, designed by Nick Almquist, features a different abstract expressionist monochrome doodle. But all the tracks are numbered, not named, and each EP is actually the work of just one producer, Izaak Schlossman (credited as IS), joined by a changing cast of collaborators.

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John Harbaugh would be the modern version of when the Jets hired Bill Parcells.

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