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Perry Knotts/Getty Images The Traitors season 4 cast not only had to deal with backstabbing fellow contestants — but incurring the wrath of Taylor Swift’s fan base as well! The Peacock reality competition returns on Thursday, January 8, with Swift’s future mother-in-law, Donna Kelce, leading the new batch of contestants. Promoting the new season on the Wednesday, January 7, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host Alan Cumming admitted that Donna’s adjacency to the pop superstar left some other stars worried about trying to vote her out. “The contestants, the players, talk about it quite a lot,” Cumming, 60, said. “[They…

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The Winnipeg Jets are looking for scoring help, but how far are they willing to go to get it? TSN: The Winnipeg Jets are looking for some scoring help, but as Darren Dreger says, teams are giving away scoring wingers or top centers. There is the cost aspect if someone is available, and how much are the Jets willing to give up? “And wondering, from a media perspective, what type of assets is Cheveldayoff willing to include? Are we talking about a young player or a prospect, another first-round draft pick? None of that can be ascertained until the market…

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US President Donald Trump has withdrawn the US from dozens of international organisations, including many that work to combat climate change.Nearly half of the 66 affected bodies are UN-related, including the Framework Convention on Climate Change – a treaty that underpins all international efforts to combat global warming.Groups working on development, gender equality and conflict – areas the Trump administration had repeatedly dismissed as advancing “globalist” or “woke” agendas – are also included. The White House said the decision was taken because those entities “no longer serve American interests” and promote “ineffective or hostile agendas”.The memorandum was signed on Wednesday…

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Google and Character.AI have agreed to settle multiple lawsuits filed by families whose children died by suicide or experienced psychological harm allegedly linked to AI chatbots hosted on Character.AI’s platform, according to court filings. The two companies have agreed to a “settlement in principle,” but specific details have not been disclosed, and no admission of liability appears in the filings.  The legal claims included negligence, wrongful death, deceptive trade practices, and product liability. The first case filed against the tech companies concerned a 14-year-old boy, Sewell Setzer III, who engaged in sexualized conversations with a Game of Thrones chatbot before…

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CBS’ Yellowstone spinoff about Kayce Dutton has changed its show name months before the series premiere. Y: Marshals, which is scheduled to premiere on March 1, will now be known as just Marshals. The change comes ahead of the show’s highly-anticipated debut, which will reintroduce Luke Grimes‘ character after the events of the original Paramount+ series. According to the official synopsis, Marshals follows Kayce leaving “ranching life behind to join an elite unit” of U.S. Marshals. While “combining his skills as a cowboy and Navy SEAL to bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family,…

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Newcastle scored the latest Premier League winner on record. Harvey Barnes scored a 102nd-minute winner as Newcastle United came from behind three times to beat Leeds United 4-3 in a Premier League classic at St James’ Park. In-form Leeds contributed hugely to a remarkable spectacle on Tyneside and looked as if they would take all three points when Brendon Aaronson’s second goal gave them a 3-2 lead in the 79th minute. Aaronson had earlier opened the scoring to punish a sloppy a Newcastle start, with a hugely contentious Dominic Calvert-Lewin penalty restoring their advantage on the stroke of half-time after…

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European leaders, including in France and Germany, have announced they are working on a plan in the event the United States follows through on its threat to take over Greenland as tensions soar.French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told France Inter radio on Wednesday that while nations want to act if the US moves to seize Greenland from an ally, Denmark, they want to do so “together with our European partners”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“I myself was on the phone with the [US] Secretary of State [Marco Rubio] yesterday… He discarded the idea that what just happened in…

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The amount of money spent on music subscriptions by UK consumers grew modestly last year, up 3.2% YoY.That’s according to new preliminary stats from the UK’s Entertainment Retailers’ Association (ERA), whose members include Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, and SoundCloud.aAccording to ERA’s data, some GBP £2.045 billion (USD $2.69bn) was spent on music streaming subscriptions in 2025, up from GBP £1.982 billion in 2024.In monetary terms, that represented a YoY increase of GBP £63.0 million.(ERA’s figures are retail amounts – i.e. what consumers spent on subscriptions, rather than the wholesale figure paid to music rightsholders. They don’t include revenue from ad-supported tiers.)The 3.2%…

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