USA Update

A stone’s throw from advancing Russian troops, Volodymyr refuses to leave his eastern Ukrainian town. The daily Russian pummelling has killed some of his neighbours and destroyed buildings around his house, but the 34-year-old does not want to move to a safer area because he would be forcibly conscripted. “I’ll be herded back home but […]

Al-Bara, Syria – Musa Baghdadi paid $6,000 for the privilege of exchanging one bombardment for another. “I paid to escape the shelling in Lebanon to reach my village, which is also under bombardment by Assad’s army,” he tells Al Jazeera at his modest, one-storey home in al-Bara, western Idlib. The little house has not fared […]

A group of Republican donors and operatives has been the hidden hand behind some of this campaign’s most controversial advertisements attacking Kamala Harris and bolstering Donald J. Trump. Over $100 million was raised and spent over the past four years by a political nonprofit called Building America’s Future, according to four people briefed on the […]

It might now be his most famous movie, but Al Pacino had a rocky start to The Godfather—to the point that the film’s director told him he wasn’t meeting the mark. Pacino’s breakthrough role was as Michael Corleone in The Godfather Trilogy, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. For his acting in the series, Pacino was […]

One of Tesla’s biggest Chinese rivals is welcoming the prospect of a tech battle with the automaker after being blocked from the US by punishing tariffs. Speaking at a roundtable at the Paris Motor Show on Monday, Xpeng co-president Brian Gu said the Guangzhou-based EV startup, one of many competing with Tesla in China, was […]

Americans are more eager to vote early than they were before the pandemic, but a deep partisan divide on early voting remains, the latest national NBC News poll shows. With not even a month to go before Election Day, 5% of registered voters said they had already cast their ballots (3% by mail and 2% […]

James Bond Producer Posts 40% Revenue Boost EON Productions, the storied British production company behind James Bond, saw revenues rise in another year without a 007 movie release. The company’s sales for 2023 stood at £22.2M ($29M), a 40% increase on £15.8M the previous year, thanks to merchandising and other income. It was still a […]

EXCLUSIVE – As the GOP fights to win back the Senate majority, the leading super PAC that supports Republican incumbents and candidates says it hauled in $114.5 million during the July-September third quarter of 2024 fundraising. And the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), in sharing its fundraising figures first with Fox News on Tuesday, reports having […]

The introduction of Halloween and Christmas treats on the supermarket shelves seems to get earlier and earlier every year. And a new survey by Safefood has found that almost nine in ten adults (87%) say retailers sell Halloween and Christmas-themed foods like sweets and chocolate too soon. Three in four (75%) also say these kinds […]

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A grief-stricken Phillip Schofield has announced the passing of his beloved mum aged 88, declaring he is so privileged to be her son. The former This Morning host, 62, confirmed the sad news that Pat had passed away on Monday, after the family spent the weekend at her side. RELATED: Holly and Phil crash out […]

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