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Israeli forces have continued to pound the besieged Gaza Strip, killing at least 78 Palestinians, including several aid seekers, as ceasefire talks stall amid a deepening fuel and hunger crisis. An Israeli attack near an aid distribution point in Rafah in southern Gaza killed at least five people who were seeking aid on Monday, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. The killings raised the death toll of Palestinians killed near aid sites run by the controversial Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to 838, according to Wafa. In Khan Younis, also in southern Gaza, an Israeli strike on…
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is expected to move quickly now that the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue unwinding her department. The justices on Monday paused a lower court order that had halted nearly 1,400 layoffs and had called into question the legality of President Donald Trump’s plan to outsource the department’s operations to other agencies. Now, Trump and McMahon are free to execute the layoffs and break up the department’s work among other federal agencies. Trump had campaigned on closing the department, and McMahon has said the department has one “final mission” to turn over its power to the states. “The…
Donald Trump Jr.’s romance with Bettina Anderson appears to be going strong. Trump Jr., 47, and Anderson, 38, were spotted kissing, holding hands and wrapping their arms around each other on an airfield tarmac in Teterboro, New Jersey, on Sunday, July 13. The pair, matching in crisp white button-down shirts, were en route to the FIFA World Cup Final at MetLife Stadium, awaiting Trump Jr.’s father, President Donald Trump, and First Lady, Melania Trump, who also attended Sunday’s history-making sporting event. (2025 marks the first year the United States has ever hosted the competition.) It wasn’t the first time the…
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The High Court judge agreed with this interpretation, writing that the story could lead readers to believe that Harry had purposefully tried to bamboozle the public about the truth of his legal proceedings against the government.“It may be possible to ‘spin’ facts in a way that does not mislead, but the allegation being made in the article was very much that the object was to mislead the public,” the judge wrote. “That supplies the necessary element to make the meanings defamatory at common law.”Nicklin also determined that the story’s description of how Harry and his lawyers had attempted to keep…
Welcome to Music Business Worldwide’s weekly round-up – where we make sure you caught the five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days. MBW’s round-up is supported by Centtrip, which helps over 500 of the world’s best-selling artists maximize their income and reduce their touring costs.This week, we learned that Merck Mercuriadis, the maverick founder of Hipgnosis Songs Fund, is launching a new investment firm targeting artist management companies and music catalogs. His new company will also be called Hipgnosis.Elsewhere, South Korea’s financial regulator is reportedly preparing to refer HYBE Chairman Bang Si-hyuk to prosecutors over allegations related to the…
This week, Superman is back in theaters in a film from director James Gunn. Gunn has a lot of superhero movies under his belt, including a far darker take on the Man of Steel called Brightburn. Gunn produced this film from a script by his brother, Brian Gunn, and their cousin, Mark Gunn, for director David Yarovesky. Brightburn may not have been a big hit in 2018, but it’s the cracked reflection of every bit of humanity in Gunn’s Superman movie. Related: Who Are All A-List Celebrity Cameos in James Gunn’s ‘Superman’? Superman is full of twists, turns and unexpected…
Are the St. Louis Blues Done Making Moves This Offseason? St. Louis Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong joined NHL Network with Mike Johnson, Ken Daneyko, and Bill Pidto as he was asked about the rest of his offseason plans. Armstrong said that he did not have much more to accomplish this offseason. NHLRumors.com Transcriptions Mike Johnson: “Doug, we know players, we love after July 1, we kind of we get away, we turn it off, we go back to training, go back to whatever we are going to do. We’ll see in September as a GM. We know there are…
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This article is an on-site version of Free Lunch newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Thursday and Sunday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newslettersWelcome back. This week, as promised, I return to Britain and its mounting fiscal problems.Capital Economics estimates that UK chancellor Rachel Reeves may need to raise up to £24bn in the forthcoming autumn Budget to restore the buffer against her main fiscal rule to balance current spending by 2029/30.That figure includes around £6bn in shelved savings, following recent U-turns on plans to reduce welfare…