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Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of The Grateful Dead, Dies at 78

His songwriting and rhythm guitar playing helped shape the San Francisco band’s sound as it emerged to become an American institution.

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Bob Weir performing with the Grateful Dead at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island in 1979. Over a career that spanned more than 60 years, Mr. Weir helped shape the sound of American rock and became a cornerstone of the jam-band movement.
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US protests condemn ICE killing of Renee Good and ‘a regime that is willing to kill its own citizens’

In Philadelphia, protesters demanded ICE leave US communities and Trump end warmongering in Venezuela

On a rainy Saturday in Philadelphia, two separate protests, both with a few hundred people, marched from city hall to the federal detention center. They differed slightly in solutions as well as crowd makeup – white older adults dominated the morning’s march organized by the groups behind the No Kings protests, while a more racially diverse crowd swathed in keffiyehs and N95 face masks led the afternoon’s, planned by the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter. However, both groups shared a goal: for ICE to get out of American communities and to put an end to Donald Trump’s warmongering in Venezuela.

“From Venezuela to Minneapolis, all we’re seeing is a regime that is scrambling, willing to kill its own citizens, willing to kill foreign citizens, to maintain its power,” said Deborah Rose Hinchey, co-chair of the city’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter.

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© Photograph: Matthew Hatcher/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: Matthew Hatcher/AFP/Getty Images

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Succession creator Jesse Armstrong says he struggles with impostor syndrome

Award-winning screenwriter tells Desert Island Discs that success has not silenced self-doubt

The award-winning screenwriter Jesse Armstrong has said a writers’ room can feel like “walking on the moon” when it is working well, but has admitted to experiencing impostor syndrome during his career.

Armstrong was behind the hit HBO drama Succession, starring Brian Cox as the global media tycoon and family patriarch Logan Roy, who sets off a power struggle among his four children.

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© Photograph: Europa Press News/Europa Press/Getty Images

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Ban social media for under-16s, top teaching union urges UK government

NASUWT says evidence growing that unregulated access affects behaviour in school and harms mental health

One of the UK’s biggest teaching unions has called on the government to ban social media for under-16s over concerns about mental health and concentration.

The Teachers’ Union (NASUWT) wants legislation to be tightened so big tech firms would face penalties for allowing children to access their platforms.

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© Photograph: David Burton/Alamy

© Photograph: David Burton/Alamy

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US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries

State department says armed ‘colectivos’ appear to be setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for Americans

The United States has urged its citizens to leave Venezuela immediately amid reports that armed paramilitaries are trying to track down US citizens, one week after the capture of the South American country’s president, Nicolás Maduro.

In a security alert sent out on Saturday, the state department said there were reports of armed members of pro-regime militias, known as colectivos, setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for evidence that the occupants were US citizens or supporters of the country.

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© Photograph: Gaby Oráa/Reuters

© Photograph: Gaby Oráa/Reuters

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Heated Rivalry review – these physically perfect people have so much sex it’s tedious

This steamy queer romance between ice hockey rivals is packed with constant shots of muscular bottoms in fancy hotel rooms. But a bit more character development or emotional investment wouldn’t go amiss

I suspect that Chala Hunter is still on a recuperative retreat somewhere. Until about May, I would think. For she was the intimacy coordinator on Heated Rivalry and she has earned a break.

For those not aware: intimacy coordinators gained prominence in the aftermath of the #MeToo movement, when assorted testimonies from actors (largely female) made public and unignorable the shocking fact that actors (largely male) and directors (largely male) will often (largely always) try to get away with more than has been contracted for once they are naked with A N Other person. An intimacy coordinator is there to help arrange scenes and advocate for actors. Think of them as somewhere between a bureaucrat and a contraceptive.

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© Photograph: Sphere Abacus/Sky

© Photograph: Sphere Abacus/Sky

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Paul Haggis Reaches $2 Million Settlement After 2022 Rape Verdict

A judge had ordered the Oscar-winning filmmaker to pay at least $7.5 million to a former film-industry publicist after a civil jury found him liable for raping her.

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Paul Haggis, who won two Oscars for “Crash” (2004), had maintained that the sexual encounter was consensual.
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