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Brynn Whitfield trashes ‘RHONY’ co-stars in shady rant: ‘I’m the only one that works’

22 avril 2025 à 18:47
Brynn Whitfield threw her “Real Housewives of New York City” co-stars under the bus in a recent interview, claiming she is the only one who actually holds a “full-time job.” “I’m the only one that works a full-time job on my cast,” the reality star — who aside from her TV pursuits claims she is...

Wall Street Bull painted over by environmental group — cleaned once when NYPD arrives

22 avril 2025 à 18:45
A group of climate activists vandalized the Wall Street Charging Bull with bright green graffiti — but then swiftly wiped it all off when they spotted cops nearby. Members of the activist group Extinction Rebellion sprayed the words “Greed = Death,” plus their organization’s symbol, on the iconic bronze statue in a morning rush hour...

‘The devil wants this pattern of mass death repeated’: Actors Guild of Nigeria calls for better regulation after two actors die

22 avril 2025 à 18:21

After two actors died in Owerri, Imo State, AGN head Emeka Rollas drew comparisons to events last year, when popular Nollywood actor Junior Pope drowned

The president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria has called for mass prayers and increased unionisation after the death of two actors in Owerri, the capital city of Imo State.

Posting on Instagram, Emeka Rollas advocated spiritual intervention and better workplace regulation to try to prevent future tragedies after the two men, who have not yet been named, died on Friday.

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© Photograph: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters

© Photograph: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters

RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records

22 avril 2025 à 18:19

The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is collecting the private medical records of many Americans from several different federal and commercial databases to give to researchers for US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s new autism study.

With this information being included in the database, the NIH is also reportedly crafting a new registry to track those with autism, per CBS News.

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© Photograph: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Even Trump must know that firing the chair of the Fed would be self-defeating | Nils Pratley

22 avril 2025 à 18:16

Jerome Powell is a soft target for the president amid economic instability. But getting rid of him would only invite more chaos

US stock markets, Treasury bonds and the dollar itself are sliding amid the tariff turmoil and Donald Trump needs a soft target. It was probably only a matter of time before he intensified his attacks on Jerome Powell, chair of the US Federal Reserve. It is an easy narrative to blame the dull central banker with orthodox worries about anchoring inflation expectations. Nor is Powell able to engage in tit-for-tat soundbites. Unlike Trump, he must measure the impact on markets of his every word.

The open question is how far Trump intends to push things. Monday’s reaction in financial markets was strong because it seemed for the first time that the president could be serious about removal. “Powell’s termination cannot come fast enough!” declared Trump, which was several notches beyond his usual whine about urging the Fed to hurry up with cuts in interest rates.

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© Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters

Marco Rubio announces sweeping reorganisation of US state department

22 avril 2025 à 18:16

Secretary of state says overhaul of department will close a number of overseas missions and reduce staff

The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has proposed a sweeping reorganisation of the US state department as part of what he called an effort to reform it amid criticism from the Trump White House over the execution of US diplomacy.

If approved, the reorganisation would cut more than 700 positions and eliminate 132 of 734 offices, according to state department officials. But those officials also stressed that the plan, which was suddenly announced on Tuesday, remained a proposal and would not lead to immediate layoffs or cuts.

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© Photograph: Julien de Rosa/AP

Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage

22 avril 2025 à 18:08

GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project to research and protect the community and its culture

A new $500,000 Mellon grant will allow Georgia State University to develop archival, historical and cultural research to protect Gullah Geechee heritage and communities in Georgia and South Carolina.

Using the grant, GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project (GGSLP), which will be “dedicated to maintaining African American burial grounds by recovering communities’ spiritual, genealogical and spatial lineages and safeguarding the places where those communities interred their ancestors”, according to a statement by the college.

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© Photograph: Rita Harper/The Guardian

Lessons picked up in real life during a summer stay in Israel have lifelong impact and lead to authentic conversations 

22 avril 2025 à 18:04
In a world where textbook-worthy events are unfolding in real time, my generation, Gen Z, is failing to learn about or engage with them. Weakened by education gaps lingering from pandemic education and social media overuse, our attention spans and subconscious biases conspire to block real and necessary knowledge from penetrating. And when it comes...

Putin ready for direct talks with Ukraine, spokesperson says

22 avril 2025 à 18:03

Moscow turns down proposal to extend Easter ceasefire as Ukraine officials head to London to discuss US peace plan

The Kremlin says it is open to direct talks with Ukraine but has declined to back Kyiv’s proposal to extend the Easter ceasefire.

Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson told reporters in Moscow on Tuesday that there were no concrete plans for negotiations on halting strikes against civilian targets, but that the Russian president was willing to discuss this directly with Ukraine if Kyiv removed “certain obstacles”.

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© Photograph: Volodymyr Hordiienko/AP

Mountainhead: first trailer for Jesse Armstrong’s topical Succession follow-up

22 avril 2025 à 18:03

Billionaires, starring Steve Carell and Ramy Youssef, meet amid an international crisis in HBO’s of-the-moment satire

A summit of influential male billionaires is under way in the first teaser trailer for Mountainhead.

HBO unveiled the extended look at the first feature from the Succession creator Jesse Armstrong on Tuesday, which stars Steve Carell, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef and Jason Schwartzman as a group of billionaire friends who meet at an alpine retreat during an international crisis.

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© Photograph: HBO

Netflix reveals how it recreated an Apple Store from scratch for new ‘iHostage’ thriller

22 avril 2025 à 18:01

In February 2022, a hostage situation unfolded at an Apple Store location in Amsterdam when a gunman demanded a $227 million ransom in cryptocurrency. The hostage and other Apple Store visitors escaped the situation safely, while the gunman died from injuries sustained when he was hit by a police vehicle.

Netflix subsequently announced its plans to create a thriller based on the situation, called iHostage, which debuted this week.

As part of the production of iHostage, Netflix recreated the Amsterdam Apple Store from scratch – and has shared a behind-the-scenes video of what that process entailed.

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Look to his stand on Gaza: Pope Francis gave us moral leadership in amoral times | Owen Jones

22 avril 2025 à 18:00

With his outspokenness about Israel’s outrages, the late pope showed up the hypocrisy of the media and politicians

The deaths of major public figures can provoke the most grotesque outpourings of hypocrisy. So it goes for Pope Francis, now lauded by leaders and media outlets that were complicit in the very evils he condemned. “Pope Francis was a pope for the poor, the downtrodden and the forgotten,” said Keir Starmer, a prime minister who stripped the winter fuel payment from many vulnerable pensioners before launching an assault on disability benefits predicted to drive up to 400,000 Britons into poverty. “He promoted … an end to … suffering across the globe,” wrote Joe Biden, enabler of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.

Indeed, the fate of Gaza seemed to preoccupy the pope’s final years. In his last Easter address, he condemned the “death and destruction” and resulting “dramatic and deplorable humanitarian situation” – a powerful sermon that hardly any western media outlets covered. Indeed, you will struggle to find much prominent coverage of any of his courageous statements on Gaza, such as: “This is not war. This is terrorism.” In his final published piece, the pope reiterated his support for a Palestinian state, declaring: “Peace-making requires courage, much more so than warfare.”

Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist

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© Photograph: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters

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