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I'm worried my new partner won't love who I really am
The Guardian - 12 May 2024 07:00
Try to steer your focus to what you want rather than what you think you should be The question At 36, I find myself in a stable phase of life, contrasting my earlier years of nomadic renting and dead-end jobs as an artis...
Notes on chocolate: pistachio bars on a family holiday in Italy
The Guardian - 12 May 2024 10:00
The treats bring a little solace to a sad occasion I am in Avellino, southern Italy. We have taken my mum home to her final resting place and the trip has been sad, but healing. Plugging into my enormous Italian family n...
Could new US sanctions threaten future of West Bank settlements? | Emma Graham-Harrison and Quique Kierszenbaum
The Guardian - 12 May 2024 07:00
Joe Biden's latest executive order gives scope to target the finances of Israeli politicians and businesses linked to extremists Escalating US sanctions on violent settlers, initially taken as a mostly political rebuke t...
Nadhim Zahawi admits he paid nearly £5m to HMRC after 'careless mistake'
The Guardian - 12 May 2024 18:17
Tory former minister says he made error over tax paid on sales of YouGov shares after previously saying he was being 'smeared' Nadhim Zahawi has admitted for the first time he paid nearly £5m to the tax authority to set...
Prosecutors ask for 40 years for man who attacked Paul Pelosi with hammer
The Guardian - 12 May 2024 01:20
Request made week before sentencing of David DePape, who in 2022 broke into ex-US House speaker Nancy Pelosi's home Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to give David DePape a 40-year prison sentence for breaking in to...
Afghanistan flash floods kill more than 300 as torrents of water and mud crash through villages
The Guardian - 12 May 2024 04:50
Survivors pick through debris-littered streets and damaged buildings as rescue workers dispatched amid warning some areas cut off by flooding More than 300 people were killed in flash floods that ripped through multiple ...
Pig kidney 'xenotransplant' [patient dies two months later
The Guardian - 12 May 2024 04:48
No indication that Richard 'Rick' Slayman's receipt of genetically modified kidney caused his death, says Massachusetts transplant team The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died about t...
Man Charged in Bronx Sexual Assault Partly Captured on Disturbing Video
The New York Times - 12 May 2024 01:00
The video shows him throwing a belt around a woman's neck, pulling her to the ground and dragging her along.
'Arsenal win ugly to take title race to the wire'
BBC - 12 May 2024 22:10
Arsenal show their ugly side to keep the title race in the balance with victory at Manchester United, writes Phil McNulty.
Something is stirring in England: right to buy looks imperilled, and not a moment too soon | John Harris
The Guardian - 12 May 2024 13:59
It was Thatcher's most dire piece of social engineering. Labour's leadership can't keep ignoring the voices now raised against it More than a decade after her death and 34 years since she left Downing Street, Margaret Th...
Ukraine strikes Russian apartment building, local governor says
ABC News - 12 May 2024 13:49
Russia's state-run TASS news agency said at least five people had been injured.
Chicken Wings Are the New Inflation Hedge
Wall Street Journal - 12 May 2024 13:00
Diners are buying more wings at fast-food chains and frozen tenders at grocery stores. Meat giants like Tyson Foods and Pilgrim's Pride, in turn, are bringing in higher profits.
'Extreme' protest groups face ban under proposal
BBC - 12 May 2024 04:11
A report will recommend proscribing "extreme" groups using criminal tactics to achieve their aims.
Putin Replaces Defense Minister in Rare Cabinet Shake-up
The New York Times - 12 May 2024 22:07
Mr. Putin shifted Sergei Shoigu to run the security council, and nominated an economist to run the defense ministry.
The Guardian view on Giorgia Meloni's Italy: the politics of 'illiberal democracy' | Editorial
The Guardian - 12 May 2024 19:30
A strike by journalists at the state broadcaster sends a disturbing signal, in one of the European Union's most important member states According to the latest audit of press freedom by Reporters Without Borders, Italy h...
Baseball's Most-Hyped Pitching Prospect Gets the Fast Track
Wall Street Journal - 12 May 2024 17:05
Paul Skenes's rapid ascent to the majors after only 12 minor-league starts speaks to a wider trend in the sport.
Wealth Managers, Charities Defend Fees From Donor-Advised Funds
Wall Street Journal - 12 May 2024 17:00
"Strange bedfellows" are teaming up to oppose a Treasury Department proposal penalizing certain payments.
Here's why Ireland is at boiling point over mass immigration
Fox News - 12 May 2024 15:07
Hundreds of protests in towns have sprung up in Ireland with people calling on the government to end what they say is an "open borders" globalist agenda that is putting the needs of migrants ahead of its citizens.
Engineers to set off explosives at Francis Scott Key Bridge wreckage site
ABC News - 12 May 2024 14:20
Engineers are scheduled to set off explosives in the remains of the Francis Scott Key Bridge to remove the debris from the freighter that crashed into the crossing.
Russia blames Ukraine after blast flattens 10-storey apartment block
BBC - 12 May 2024 14:12
At least 17 people have been hurt in Belgorod and there are reports of people trapped in the rubble.
Canadian police announce the arrest of a fourth Indian suspect in the killing of a Sikh activist
ABC News - 12 May 2024 13:58
A fourth Indian national living in Canada has been charged in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India
Labour defends Natalie Elphicke after claims of lobbying over husband's trial
The Guardian - 12 May 2024 12:33
Frontbencher says new Labour MP dismissed allegations from Tory former justice secretary that she lobbied him as 'nonsense' A senior Labour frontbencher has defended his party's newest MP, Natalie Elphicke, after allegat...