Livesicily yacht disaster

Mike Lynch’s body and four others recovered from Sicily yacht but daughter still missing

<p>Police officers outside the Tate brothers residence in Pipera, Ilfov, near Bucharest, Romania, on Wednesday </p>

Crime

Andrew Tate under house arrest as prosecutors investigate allegations involving minors

<p>Mustache-less Mike Lindell is mocked by 12-year-old influencer Knowa</p>

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Mike Lindell follows through with plan to shave mustache for DNC – and gets into spat with 12-year-old influencer

<p>Matthew Perry was found dead in a hot tub at his Pacific Palisades home last October</p>

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Doctor charged in Matthew Perry death to return to medical practice

<p>Tim Walz and family on stage at the DNC on Wednesday </p>

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Kamala Harris set to close out DNC after ‘coach’ Tim Walz delivered powerful ‘pep talk’

<p>Gus Walz during his father’s speech to Democrat delegates in Chicago </p>

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Heartwarming moment Gus Walz tearfully cheers on Tim at DNC: ‘That’s my dad!’

<p>A small group of uncommitted delegates hold a sit-in outside the United Center to protest the lack of a Palestinian American speaker at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday </p>

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Muslim Women for Harris-Walz disbands in uproar after Palestinian speaker refused slot at DNC

DNC 2024

Neil Young gives Tim Walz permission for his song – after he sued Trump for using it

<p>Donald Trump speaks to supporters in Asheboro, North Carolina. Trump responded to Tim Walz’s speech at the DNC with a lengthy rant on Fox & Friends </p>

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Trump goes on unhinged five-minute tear when asked about Tim Walz’s speech on Fox & Friends

<p>Kenan Thompson speaks on day three of the Democratic National Convention </p>

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SNL’s Kenan Thompson trolls Republicans over Project 2025

<p>Oprah Winfrey speaks on Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago</p>

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Oprah Winfrey hits back at JD Vance’s ‘childless cat lady’ jibe in surprise speech

<p>Harris now has a 2.8-point lead over Trump in the latest average of national polls</p>

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Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Latest poll updates

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Tim Walz is clearly a midwest ‘man’s man’. But he’s the antidote to toxic MAGA masculinity

<p>Tim Walz’s former football team introduced him to the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday </p>

<p>Carmen Cusido on day 2 of the DNC </p>

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I used to be a Republican. Now, I’m a volunteer at the DNC

Carmen Cusido reports from Chicago about the unusual route she took to championing Kamala Harris at the Democratic convention

<p>Mindy Kaling </p>

DNC 2024

Mindy Kaling cracks joke about Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s divorce during speech

<p>Rep Hakeem Jeffries speaks on Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center, in Chicago on August 21, 2024. He sent the crowd into a roar of laughter when he likened Trump to an ‘old boyfriend’ that won’t go away </p>

DNC 2024

‘An old boyfriend who won’t go away:’ Hakeem Jeffries gets crowd laughing with Trump dig

<p>Trump’s rant was provoked by Josh Shapiro’s speech at the DNC </p>

DNC 2024

Trump launches overnight attack on ‘highly overrated Jewish governor’ Josh Shapiro

DNC 2024

Cats or kids? Democrats react to JD Vance’s notorious comment

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‘Trumpy Trout’ advertisement features talking fish head resembling Donald Trump

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I went to the Gen Z events at the DNC. I was met with a Hall of Hotties and Wall of Weirdos

<p>The Hotties for Harris party at the DNC featured a ‘Wall of Weirdos’ depicting a broad range of Trumpworld denizens</p>

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<p>Ruth Dalton, 80, was stabbed to death in a carjacking in Seattle this week</p>

Crime

Beloved dog-walker, 80, killed in carjacking - before eight-time felon knifed her dog

<p>This undated booking photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Marcellus Williams</p>

Crime

Missouri Supreme Court blocks agreement that would have halted execution of inmate who claims innocence

<p>Elsie Wiggington went missing more than a year ago </p>

Crime

She texted family ‘he’s going to kill me.’ One year later, her body was found under a concrete slab

‘Blob’ of material is able to learn like a living thing, scientists say

SICILY YACHT DISASTER

The 22 people on board the Bayesian and how they were celebrating after years of court battles

The five bodies recovered from the wreck have now been identified, with Mike Lynch’s teenage daughter still missing

<p>Mike and Angela Lynch </p>

<p>A tuber floats down the Comal River on Wednesday in New Braunfels, Texas</p>

Texas gripped by deadly heat wave raising drought concerns and straining power grid

<p>Balenciaga’s $1,490 top mocked online for 2003 design </p>

Balenciaga’s $1,490 layered tank top mocked: ‘Straight out of 2003’

<p>Following actor Alain Delon’s death at the weekend, the fate of his lapdog Loubo is playing out like a French farce</p>

Was Alain Delon so wrong to want his still-alive dog to be buried with him?

Inside J-Lo and Ben Affleck’s doomed romance

The singer has filed for divorce after two years of marriage

Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck

<p>Stanley Kotowski, 60, has been missing since Friday </p>

NEWS

Massive search on for missing Massachusetts dad who vanished on beach vacation

<p>Angelina Williams (left), Robert Michalski (center) and Taylor Marvin-Brown (right) are in police custody after Williams’ six-year-old son was attacked by a pit bull</p>

Crime

Mom, boyfriend handcuffed 6-year-old boy as ‘corporal punishment’ before he was attacked by pit bull, cops say

<p>Dr Oumair Aejaz, 40, has been arrested for allegedly recording nude images of women and children for at least six years</p>

Crime

Doctor charged with sex crimes for allegedly filming women, kids as young as 2 with hidden cameras

<p>Matthew Robert Austin, 18, has been booked after cops say he was planning to kill his ex-girlfriend and her mom</p>

Crime

Accused rapist caught with gloves and mask on way to kill ex and her mom, cops say

<p>Tim Burton at a ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ photo call in New York on August 17, 2024</p>

Tim Burton says Wednesday rekindled his career: ‘I could have retired’

<p>(pictured top left to right clockwise) Nadav Popplewell, Yoram Metzger, Alex Dancyg, Yagev Buchshtab, Avraham Munder, Chaim Peri </p>

Body of six Israeli hostages recovered from Gaza

<p>Warren Alexander (bottom left), who is awaiting trial for murder of Nona Cobb (top left), has been arrested for the murder of three women in California (top). Cobb was first thought to be a victim of Sean Patrick Goble (bottom right) until DNA excluded him as a suspect</p>

crime

Police were searching victim DNA for one serial killer. Instead, they discovered a possible new one

<p>Donald Trump’s nephew Fred Trump III recently wrote tell-all book about Trump family </p>

Politics

Trump’s nephew says former president is showing signs of ‘dementia’ like his grandfather

Race for the White House

2024 election

Run-DNC: What the very different RNC and DNC soundtracks say about the 2024 election

Kamala Harris says her dad taught her to be fearless

<p>Presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Donald Trump take the mic</p>

<p>Chairman of the House Oversight Committee James Comer (left) and Republican Representative of Ohio Jim Jordan attend a hearing on oversight of the Secret Service in July 2024. The pair also lead two committees that conducted the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, claiming he engaged in ‘impeachable conduct’ in a new report </p>

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Republicans accuse Biden of ‘impeachable conduct’ — without any proof

The committees deferred the decision to impeach the president to the full House of Representatives

<p>Joe Biden walks with his grandchild at the Democratic National Convention on August 19. </p>

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Biden begins his long goodbye as he rallies DNC around Kamala Harris

<p>A group of 50 Republican veterans have written a letter to Tim Walz accusing him of ‘egregious misrepresentations’ over his military service</p>

Politics

Tim Walz slammed by GOP veterans in letter over his ‘misrepresentations’ of service

<p>Donald Trump speaks from Michigan on August 20. His super PAC received $50m from a billionaire donor on Tuesday </p>

2024 election

Reclusive Republican megadonor drops $50m into Trump super PAC

<p>Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., leaves the Pennsylvania Judicial Center on August 20 in Harrisburg, Pa. He arrived too late to testify in the case challenging his presence on the Pennsylvania ballot </p>

2024 election

RFK Jr arrives too late to testify after Democrats’ court challenge to keep him off Pennsylvania ballot

<p>Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (L) speaks as her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz looks on during a stop on their campaign bus tour in Rochester, Pennsylvania, on August 18, 2024</p>

Politics

Where do Kamala Harris and Tim Walz stand on abortion?

Democrats hope to make reproductive rights a central issue of the 2024 campaign

<p>Mankato West High School students Jacob Reitan and Amanda Hinkle. Reitan founded the school’s first ever gay-straight alliance in the late 1990s. Former students at the school spoke of how VP candidate Tim Walz was an unlikely LGBT+ ally when he was a teacher and coach at the school</p>

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‘I knew who I could go to’: How Tim Walz gave his queer high school students a refuge

Tim Walz’s wife on how they met as they join Harris on pre-DNC tour

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Mike Lindell says he’s shaving his mustache to infiltrate the DNC

<p>US vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has made a habit of mocking the former president Donald Trump </p>

2024 ELECTION

How Kamala Harris became Donald Trump’s supertroll and broke him

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<p>Omaha man John Channels accepts plea deal after taking an active shooter drill too far</p>

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Nebraska man whose active shooter drill got out of hand admits terroristic threats and sexually assaulting a child

<p>Mikki Moody and Sean Moody allegedly locked a 7-year-old non-verbal boy with autism in a storage locker</p>

Crime

Couple kept 7-year-old boy with autism in a storage locker in their filthy home, cops say

Former US President Donald Trump (2nd L) watches his granddaughter, Kai Trump, play golf at Trump National Doral Miami golf club on October 27, 2022 in Miami, Florida, a day ahead of the 2022 LIV Golf Invitational Miami

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Trump’s granddaughter, 17-year-old Kai, plans to play golf at University of Miami

<p>‘She was able to get dirty. She and John understood that sometimes there has to be a little grime to have a good time’: Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy in 1999</p>

It’s been 25 years since Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s horrifying death – and she still remains an enigma

<p>The new Starbucks boss could make well in excess of $100m (£76.6m) in his first year</p>

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New Starbucks boss faces backlash over 1,000 mile private jet commute

<p>The 43-year-old Duchess of Sussex says her three-year-old daughter Lilibet has ‘found her voice’</p>

Meghan Markle reveals how three-year-old daughter Lilibet has ‘found her voice’

<p>Scott Peterson on a call from prison, as seen in the trailer for ‘Face to Face with Scott Peterson’</p>

crime

Scott Peterson breaks silence in prison interview over pregnant wife Laci’s last hours

<p>Former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage by U.S. Secret Service agents after being grazed by a bullet during a rally on July 13, in Butler, Pennsylvania. Now, according to a report, the Secret Service wants to put bulletproof glass around Trump’s podium at future outdoor rallies. </p>

Trump Shooting

Secret Service ready to protect Trump at outdoor rallies by surrounding podium with bulletproof glass

A Ukrainian serviceman Oleh of 148th separate artillery brigade of the Air Assault Forces fires towards Russian positions by a M777 howitzer at the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, August 21, 2024

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Kyiv targets Moscow with largest ever drone attack as it uses US rockets in Kursk

<p>Nathan Morris, 35, with his wife and children. Morris was shot and killed by his neighbor, Devereaux Christopher Johnson, on August 10, 2024 near his home in Canton, Michigan. The shooting occurred after Johnson allegedly accused Morris’s daughter of touching his mulch</p>

Crime

Top Michigan Republican shot dead by neighbor in dispute over daughter touching ‘mulch,’ cops say

<p>A pharmacist works at a NYC Discount Pharmacy in Manhattan on July 23, 2024 in New York City</p>

Politics

Biden deal to lower prescription drug costs will save taxpayers $6bn next year, Democrats say

<p>In March 2023, former attorney Alex Murdaugh (pictured) was found guilty of murdering his wife and son. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole</p>

Crime

Alex Murdaugh could get new murder trial after state’s Supreme Court agrees to hear tampering appeal

Vast reservoirs found on Mars, scientists say

<p>Jamaican officials work at a crime scene in Clarendon, Jamaica on Wednesday after gunmen opened fire at a birthday party, killing seven before an eighth victim died in a separate shooting</p>

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Jamaica declares state of emergency after night of killings

<p>Could the relatively unknown Puente Hills thrust fault in California cause an earthquake more deadly than any seen before on the famous San Andreas Fault? </p>

News

A California fault line remains relatively unknown. It caused last week’s quake and might be the site of ‘the big one’

<p>Oakland Police Department officer Tuan Le was killed in December 2023 in the line of duty. The city has walked back a request from his widow for payment of $461. </p>

News

City issues apology after demanding $461 from widow of slain cop for overpaying him months earlier

<p>Financier James Kohlberg claims financier Mark Attanasio is pilfering sand from the public. </p>

News

Billionaire accuses billionaire of using public Malibu beach as ‘personal sandbox’ for $30 million home

<p>Food Allergy Death Lawsuit Disney</p>

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Disney says husband can’t sue over wife’s wrongful death - because he signed up to Disney+ trial

<p>Kaitlynn Lee, 25, was shot and killed in New Albany, Indiana </p>

Crime

Mom was filming a TikTok in a kitchen with her friend. Moments later she was dead

Lifestyle

<p>Mindy Kaling </p>

Mindy Kaling jokes about Ben Affleck’s divorce during DNC speech

‘Ben Affleck, hang in there,’ Kaling said at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago

Lily Allen gives back her adopted dog after it ate her kids’ passports

<p>Ashanti reveals the inspiration behind her and Nelly’s newborn son’s name</p>

Ashanti reveals the inspiration behind her and Nelly’s newborn’s name

<p>Balenciaga’s $1,490 top mocked online for 2003 design </p>

Balenciaga’s $1,490 layered tank top mocked: ‘Straight out of 2003’

<p>A woman refused to pay her artist friend for a wedding portrait she commissioned </p>

Woman refuses to pay artist friend for ‘sexualized’ wedding portrait

<p>Where to find the best fall coffee drinks </p>

Where to find the best fall-inspired drinks this season

<p>Jennifer Lopez stepped out in Manhattan on the day of Ben Affleck separation </p>

Jennifer Lopez’s whereabouts on the day she separated from Ben Affleck

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Diners robbed of their watches at gunpoint during meal in Brooklyn

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