Chipotle misses revenue estimates as same-store sales growth disappoints
Chipotle reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results.
29th October 2024 21:10Man who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband gets life in prison
David DePape, who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial.
29th October 2024 20:59Brentford v Sheffield Wednesday: Carabao Cup last 16 – live
- EFL Cup updates from the 8pm GMT kick-off at the Gtech
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My sense is that Wednesday will look to get men into the box, with the wing-backs looking to hit crosses. But here’s Röhl to give us more…
Email! “From Wednesday’s point of view,” beings Bill Preston, “I think this season is looking a lot better than last years at this point in the year. Also, I do believe this is the first quarter-final they’ve been in for a long time. As a fan, I am ot too bothered about the cup, but it’s always nice to cheer on a good run.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 20:54Middle East crisis live: US concerned by ‘horrifying’ Israeli airstrike in Gaza that has killed many women and children
US spokesperson says officials are asking Israel what happened, expressing ‘deep concern’ over loss of civilian lives
Al Jazeera has spoken with the director-general of the Gaza government’s media office, Ismail al-Thawabta, who has said at least 93 people were killed in the Israeli airstrike on northern Gaza’s town of Beit Lahiya. Gaza’s health ministry said earlier today that 60 people were killed in the strike this morning, which hit a residential building housing displaced civilians. Al-Thawabta said that the building Israel attacked housed 200 people. Dozens of people are reported missing and 150 others estimated to be injured. Medics said 20 children were among the dead.
Many of those injured have been rushed to nearby Kamal Adwan hospital inside the Jabalia refugee camp. But the hospital is struggling to treat them as it reportedly has run out of medical supplies and only has two paediatric doctors, with no surgeons. Israeli forces detained dozens of medical staff at the hospital days ago. Dr Hossam Abu Safiya, director of the hospital, told Al Jazeera on Friday that most of the surgeons had been arrested by Israeli troops, meaning urgent surgeries could not be performed.
The UAV (drone) force of the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a specific military operation targeting the industrial zone of the Israeli enemy in the Ashkelon region.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 20:52England v South Africa: women’s international friendly – live
- Updates from 7.45pm GMT kick-off at Coventry Arena
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3 min: Kelly tees up Park for a shot down the inside-right channel. The ball’s blocked, then clumsily put out for a corner. One leads to another, then …
2 min: England spend the first couple of minutes getting a feel of the ball.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 20:52Puerto Rico’s largest newspaper endorses Harris; Trump defends criticized rally as ‘love fest’ – live
El Nuevo Día supports VP’s presidential bid; Trump rejects criticism of the Madison Square Garden event and claimed rally was ‘beautiful’
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Most Americans are prepared to accept the election results as legitimate, according to a new ABC/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday.
The poll, conducted between 18 October to 22, 2024, states 83% of Americans surveyed and 86% of registered voters surveyed are prepared to accept the outcome of the presidential election as legitimate, regardless of which candidate they support.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 20:51"Three Meals": Texas Senate race tightens as voters head to the polls
"CBS Morning" series "Three Meals" heads to Texas, where a close race between Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Colin Allred reflects a shifting political landscape. With Election Day just a week away, Omar Villafranca speaks with voters.
29th October 2024 20:39Southport murder suspect charged with terrorism offence and producing ricin
Axel Rudakubana, 18, who is already charged with three counts of murder, faces new charges of possessing terrorist material and making poison
The suspect accused of murdering three girls in Southport is facing new charges of possessing terrorist material and producing the highly toxic poison ricin, police have announced.
Axel Rudakubana, 18, will appear at Westminster magistrates court on Wednesday charged with producing the biological toxin ricin and having a document titled “Military studies in the Jihad against the Tyrants – the al-Qaida training manual”.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 20:38Consumer confidence surges as election nears, while job openings move lower
Consumers grew more optimistic heading into the contentious presidential election even as job openings hit multiyear lows.
29th October 2024 20:34Teri Garr, actor known for "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie" roles, dies at 79
Teri Garr rose from being a background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star in such favorites as "Young Frankenstein" and "Tootsie."
29th October 2024 20:20An Israeli airstrike in north Gaza killed dozens of people, as parliament bans UNRWA
An Israeli airstrike on a building in northern Gaza overnight killed at least 60 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
29th October 2024 20:19Halloween costume chain Spirit bet on the pop-up model and won
Spirit Halloween's success as a seasonal pop-up retailer is leading it to make a foray into Christmas with 10 temporary stores.
29th October 2024 20:17Borthwick backs ‘energised’ Henry Slade to sparkle on England return
- Slade selected at outside-centre against New Zealand
- Ben Spencer to make first England start on Saturday
Steve Borthwick has insisted he is not taking a risk by selecting Henry Slade to face the All Blacks, revealing the No 8 Ben Earl is providing centre cover for Saturday’s autumn internationals curtain-raiser.
Slade has been selected at outside-centre after making his first appearance of the season last Sunday following shoulder surgery, turning out for Exeter for 55 minutes after leaving England’s training camp in Girona early last week.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 20:13Microsoft's GitHub expands beyond OpenAI, lets developers use AI models from Anthropic, Google
GitHub is giving software developers more choices for its popular coding assistant, meaning they won't be limited to models from OpenAI.
29th October 2024 20:09Starbucks tells corporate workers to return to office or risk being fired
Internal note reportedly warns ‘accountability process’ will start next January for company’s hybrid work requirements
Starbucks office workers will risk losing their jobs if they fail to comply with the company’s hybrid work requirement that employees are in the office three times a week.
According to the Wall Street Journal an internal message sent to employees warns that an “accountability process” will start in January 2025. Consequences for non-compliance are “up to, and including, separation”, according to the company message.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 19:55Sporting’s Rúben Amorim set to be confirmed as new Manchester United manager
- United ready to pay €10m (£8.3m) release clause
- Club working to announce move as soon as possible
Rúben Amorim is set to be confirmed as Manchester United’s manager after Sporting said the Premier League club were ready to pay his release clause of €10m (£8.3m).
Sporting issued a statement to Portugal’s financial regulator, the securities market commission, saying United “had expressed interest” in hiring the 39-year-old and paying the termination fee.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 19:49U.S. citizens are among the voters removed in Virginia’s controversial purge
Nadra Wilson and other Virginians got letters saying her U.S. citizenship was in question, along with her voter registration. “I was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. — I'm a citizen,” Wilson told NPR.
29th October 2024 19:44Microsoft says Google is running 'shadow campaigns' in Europe to influence regulators
Microsoft suggested Google has a pattern of funding organizations with the mission of discrediting the software company with regulators.
29th October 2024 19:30McDonald's executives say E. coli outbreak is 'behind us'
The outbreak isn't expected to have a material impact on McDonald's business, CFO Ian Borden said.
29th October 2024 19:29Teri Garr, actor, comedian and multiple sclerosis ambassador, dies at 79
Garr's breakout role was as sexy Inga in Young Frankenstein. She earned an Oscar nomination for her role in the 1982 film Tootsie, and played Phoebe's mom on the sitcom Friends.
29th October 2024 19:13Teri Garr, actor from Tootsie and Friends, dies aged 79
Oscar-nominated actor was also known for roles in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Young Frankenstein
Teri Garr, the actor known for roles in Tootsie, Young Frankenstein and Friends, has died at the age of 79.
Garr died of multiple sclerosis, “surrounded by family and friends”, as confirmed to Associated Press by her publicist. She had been diagnosed in 2002 and also had an operation in 2007 after a ruptured brain aneurysm.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 19:05US election extra: the two Trump campaigns – podcast
Donald Trump is running two campaigns for president. One is a relatively well-organised and targeted ad campaign in swing states. The other involves the man himself on stage. Chris Michael reports
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 19:00The Strava problem: how the fitness app was used to locate the world’s most powerful people
A French newspaper has revealed the whereabouts of world leaders with the use of the hugely popular running app. So is it time to stop it tracking your location?
Name: Strava
Age: Founded by former Harvard rowers Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey in 2009.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 18:52Investors need clarity on BP policy not boss’s weak promises
Shareholders still do not know if giant will jettison goal to cut oil and gas production by 25% by 2030
There goes another of BP’s shiny targets-cum-ambitions. This one is not related to the pace of energy transition but is purely financial. Soon after getting the top job permanently at the start of the year, the chief executive, Murray Auchincloss, said BP planned to spend $14bn (£10.7bn) buying back shares over the course of 2024 and 2025. Now he’s not so sure about the second lap of the track.
The $14bn figure is described as “currently unchanged”, meaning the $1.75bn a quarter pace can be maintained for the rest of the year, but a warning has been attached thereafter. Next February, BP will “review elements of our financial guidance, including our expectations for 2025 share buybacks”, said Tuesday’s third-quarter report. In other words, this was pre-guidance guidance that BP expects to change. It is the sort of laborious preamble that is becoming a BP hallmark.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 18:48Pfizer tops earnings estimates, hikes full-year guidance as Covid products help sales
It is a critical quarterly report for Pfizer, which is grappling with activist pressure from Starboard Value.
29th October 2024 18:37Former US air force pilot cleared of assaulting nine-year-old girl in London
Robert Prussak, who approached girl after she got lost on family holiday, acquitted of kidnapping and sexual assault
A former US air force pilot has been cleared of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl during her family holiday to London earlier this year.
Robert Prussak approached the girl after she became separated from her family near Harrods.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 18:36Donald Trump and Kamala Harris' stances on police
In the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, both Harris and Trump have been presenting themselves as the tough-on-crime candidate.
29th October 2024 18:32Mystery artist leaves neo-Nazi tiki torch ‘tribute’ to Trump near White House
Unknown artist who made bronze piece of feces to ‘honor’ January 6 rioters appears to be behind new statue
The unknown artist or artists who fashioned a swirled bronze piece of feces on a replica of the former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk – and placed it on the National Mall recently – appear to have struck again.
This time, the artistic-political commentary is focused not on the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack carried out by Donald Trump supporters, when a participant did indeed defecate on Pelosi’s desk. Instead, the display satirically evokes the notorious white nationalist Unite the Right tiki torch parade through Charlottesville’s University of Virginia campus in August 2017, with some marchers chanting: “Jews will not replace us”.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 18:1610/29: CBS Mornings Plus
Political experts weigh in on the final stretch of 2024 presidential election, tips on how to maximize your annual wellness checkup and Sindhu Vee on “The Pradeeps of Pittsburgh."
29th October 2024 18:16DJT stock soars amid Donald Trump's rise in the betting markets
Trump Media's shares have soared with the former President Donald Trump's rise in the betting markets.
29th October 2024 18:02Kamala Harris to urge voters to ‘turn the page’ on era of Trump
Vice-president to strike hopeful tone in remarks delivered from site of Trump’s speech before deadly January 6 attack
With the presidential race deadlocked a week before election day, Kamala Harris will call on voters to “turn the page” on the Trump era, in remarks delivered from a park near the White House where the former president spoke before a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol in a last effort to overturn his 2020 loss.
Harris, a former prosecutor, will deliver what her campaign has called her “closing argument” intended to persuade the vanishing slice of undecided voters, in a location she hopes will remind them precisely why Americans denied Trump a second term four years ago. The Democrat is expected to cast her opponent as a divisive figure who will spend his term consumed by vengeance, leveraging the power of the presidency against his political enemies rather than in service of the American people.
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Continue reading... 29th October 2024 18:00Where do Trump and Harris stand on housing, taxes and other policies?
Polls show US voters unhappy about the economy, their top election concern. How would the presidential candidates address economic issues such as cost of living and labor?
The economy looms large over next month’s presidential election as tens of millions of Americans begin casting their votes.
Employers are hiring and inflation is fading but consumers are still counting the cost of years of soaring prices. Polls show voters of all persuasions remain unhappy about the state of the economy.
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Continue reading... 29th October 2024 18:00Harris vs. Trump: Auto insiders weigh in on both candidates, top issues
Auto executives and lobbyists told CNBC they're ready for all election outcomes and EVs, trade, tariffs, China, emissions regulations and labor are top issues.
29th October 2024 18:00McDonald's Quarter Pounder burgers to return to restaurants affected by E. coli outbreak
The Colorado Department of Agriculture's testing did not detect E. coli in samples of the beef patties taken from McDonald's restaurants in the area.
29th October 2024 17:53Undone by the loss of his brother Eddie, Alex Van Halen looks back in a new memoir
Though Alex had been the guitarist in the family, when they formed Van Halen, it quickly became clear who would play: "[Ed] made that instrument sing." Alex's new memoir is Brothers.
29th October 2024 17:53Football Daily | Real Madrid’s Ballon d’Or boycott ushers in the age of the super-sulk
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Isn’t modern football just super? We’ve got superclubs, super-agents, Super Sunday, supercomputers, even – we’re not making this up – super-lawyers. And now, Real Madrid, a club that prides itself on conquering new ground, has ushered in the age of the super-sulk. Madrid effectively boycotted last night’s Ballon d’Or ceremony, no doubt setting a precedent for future club-wide tantrums, when they heard a whisper that Vinícius Júnior wasn’t going to win the big prize.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 17:52Steve Bannon feels 'empowered' after four months in federal prison
Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was back to hosting his daily podcast "War Room" just hours after his release from federal prison.
29th October 2024 17:41Steve Bannon released from prison after 4-month sentence
Firebrand rightwing influencer Steve Bannon served a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from a congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
29th October 2024 17:35Dynacare baby powder recall expands recall due to asbestos concerns
Recalled products were sent to distributors in 35 states and sold on Amazon, Dynarex said in notice posted by FDA.
29th October 2024 17:3323andMe appoints three new board members following abrupt resignations
23andMe appointed three new independent directors to its board, the company said Tuesday.
29th October 2024 17:32Here review – cursed Forrest Gump reunion is a total horror show
Robert Zemeckis reunites with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright for an ugly de-aged nightmare that boringly follows the same house throughout time
A swirl of concern and outright fear has long been following Robert Zemeckis’s unusual big bet Here, a 30-year reunion for his Forrest Gump co-stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. The film, based on Richard McGuire’s comic strip turned graphic novel, was heralded as the most ambitious use of digital de-aging yet, following the pair through the decades, from teenage years to final days, as part of an ensemble of characters who have lived in the same space over time. Early stills, and a trailer, had clued us into the film being plainly terrifying but nothing had quite prepared us for just how unforgivably dull it would also be. Here lies the year’s most eerie and embarrassing misfire.
Zemeckis was once a director who knew exactly how to manipulate a mass audience. He was the guy who made Back to the Future, Death Becomes Her, Romancing the Stone, Cast Away and What Lies Beneath, a conjurer of the kind of transcendent movie magic we just don’t get that much of anymore. We’re certainly not seeing it in his contemporary work, whether it be pointless sub-par remakes like The Witches or Pinocchio or misfiring tech experiments like The Walk or Welcome to Marwen (I will gladly be one of the few defenders of his perfectly fun 2016 second world war thriller Allied). Here exists in the latter category, another baffling folly that plays this time like a museum installation crossed with a 100-minute insurance advert. His latest gimmick traps us in the same fixed spot as he flits back and forth in time, from the dinosaurs all the way through to Covid, an ugly sitcom melange of surreal FX, painful overacting and pat Live Laugh Love lessons.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 17:31The mysterious world of Two Shell: ‘Our pranks don’t mean we’re not sincere’
They promised us an in-person interview – then sent along two decoys. So who are the enigmatic musicians who make it so hard for fans to hear their thrillingly alien music?
Two Shell, a buzzy London duo who make hyperactive yet melancholy bass music, are well known for giving people the runaround. They keep themselves anonymous, and perform with scarves and sunglasses hiding their faces. Fans are sent on digital breadcrumb trails via mysterious websites and social media posts. Their first interview, with the Face, was conducted in a chatroom of their own design, and scrubbed from the internet shortly after publication. Their second, with Mixmag, was done over email and paired with photos of a duo who fans on Reddit are almost certain are not actually Two Shell.
So I am excited and wary when I arrive at their Deptford studio to talk with them about their self-titled debut album, released last week on the big-budget indie label Young. Two Shell’s music mashes together various kinds of dance music from the past few decades – speed garage, techno, hyperpop, house, dubstep – and runs it all through a cartoon filter, making for a sound that’s fast and dizzyingly heightened. Their studio is crammed with abstract paintings and pieces of outlandish raver gear. Two tables are covered with dozens of hats, each embellished with embroidery and scraps of fabric. Two young women are sitting on a fuzzy green couch, wearing outfits that sit somewhere between avant garde clubber and first-year art student: they introduce themselves as Flat Earther and Ghost Shrimp.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 17:30White Island volcano disaster: owners appeal against criminal conviction
Buttle brothers argue in Auckland court that tour operators to blame for deaths of 22 people, including 14 Australians
The owners of an island volcano in New Zealand that erupted in 2019 killing 22 people, including 14 Australians, have launched an appeal against their criminal conviction for violating safety laws.
They argue that tour operators – rather than their company – were responsible for the safety of visitors to Whakaari, also known as White Island.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 17:24Mourners say goodbye to ‘political giant’ Alex Salmond at his funeral
Former SNP leader and first minister ‘restored pride in our nation’, says acting Alba head in eulogy
Mourners have remembered a “political giant” and a “friend to many” at the funeral of former first minister Alex Salmond, which took place in Strichen, Aberdeenshire, on Tuesday.
Salmond’s niece Christina Hendry told the private service that in the period after the 69-year-old’s sudden death in North Macedonia earlier this month, his family had “felt the grief of a nation, and beyond”.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 17:20McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years
Amid sluggish spending in US, Europe and China, sales fell by 1.5% between July and September
McDonald’s has posted another bigger than expected drop in sales as demand continues to slow, despite attempts to lure customers back with value meals.
Spending by consumers has been sluggish or falling across the US, Europe and China in recent months, with people weary from years of high food inflation looking for cheaper meal fixes or staying at home.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 17:14Catholic church still failing to deal with sexual abuse cases, says Vatican report
Vatican’s child protection commission delivers first report on scandal that has engulfed church for decades
Church leaders who fail to take action against paedophile priests are a “further source of evil” for victims of sexual abuse and should be removed from their posts, the Vatican’s child protection commission has said.
In its first report on a scandal that has embroiled the Catholic church for decades, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors said the church was still failing to ensure that clerical sexual abuse cases were dealt with adequately. It also criticised the Vatican office charged with processing complaints of being slow and secretive.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 17:12More than 46 million early voters already cast ballots as Harris, Trump enter final sprint
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have encouraged voters to get to the ballot box as soon as they can.
29th October 2024 17:12Amid a backlash over Puerto Rico remark, Trump repeats claims about the border
The Republican nominee's remarks come days after jokes about Puerto Ricans at his New York rally prompted backlash.
29th October 2024 17:07The Guardian doesn’t ‘sanewash’ Trump or take orders from a billionaire owner. That’s why I’m proud to write here | Rebecca Solnit
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The Guardian is unafraid. And it’s independent. (No billionaire bosses.) In this media climate, those qualities are as rare as they are crucial to good journalism.
Good journalism is also crucial to the informed citizens we need for a functioning democracy. From too many legacy media outlets based in the US we’re getting something else entirely: horse race coverage, scraped-up and reheated scandals of little significance, credulous repeating of claims, polite evasions about the threats and crimes of the right, and what’s been dubbed “sanewashing”: the translation of the luridly loopy utterances of Donald Trump and his minions into coherent-sounding policy statements. And now we’re seeing billionaire owners of major papers suppress their own editorial department’s endorsements.
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Poop on Pelosi's desk, a neo-Nazi tiki torch: Mysterious statues are popping up in D.C.
Two politically pointed statues have mysteriously appeared in the nation’s capital in the leadup to the election: a pile of poop on the former House speaker's desk and a hand holding a tiki torch.
29th October 2024 17:03Lionesses lose thriller and Bonmatí wins Ballon d’Or – Women’s Football Weekly
Faye Carruthers, Suzanne Wrack, Emma Sanders and Ameé Ruszkai to discuss the Ballon d’Or and latest international action
On today’s pod, the panel dives into a dramatic seven-goal clash between England and Germany which ended in a 4-3 defeat for the Lionesses, raising questions about the team’s defence and whether a dip in form was inevitable.
The panel also cover Northern Ireland’s concerns over playing conditions in Croatia, and reviews how Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland fared in the Euro 2025 play-offs.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 16:56Photographer killed after accidentally walking into plane propeller in Kansas
Amanda Gallagher was taking pictures of skydivers when she inadvertently stepped back into a spinning propeller
A photographer was killed after inadvertently walking into a spinning airplane propeller while taking pictures in Kansas.
Amanda Gallagher, 37, was on a work assignment on Saturday capturing pictures of skydivers getting on and off planes in the town of Derby – less than 15 miles from Wichita – when she stepped back into the propeller of a plane that was stationary yet still running.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 16:55What to know after ballot box fires in Washington and Oregon
Two ballot boxes went up in flames early Monday morning in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, in incidents that authorities believe are connected.
29th October 2024 16:55Tram derails and crashes into shop in central Oslo
At least four people injured including the driver in ‘surreal’ incident that caused panic in Norwegian capital
A tram has careered into a store in central Oslo after coming off its rails, in an incident that left at least four people injured and caused panic among passersby.
The accident happened in the late morning in a bustling commercial neighbourhood of the Norwegian capital.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 16:45‘I can’t wait to paint myself when I’m old and knobbly’: the sensual world of Louis Fratino
His old-fashioned painting prowess and explicitly queer subject matter has made the young American artist hot property. So why are some people so shocked?
Next month, the 2024 Venice Biennale will close, and a memorable painting in the main exhibition will come down: I Keep My Treasure in My Ass, by Louis Fratino. With a title taken from a 1977 book called Towards a Gay Communism, the work depicts Fratino giving birth to himself from his rectum. It has been stopping visitors in their tracks. “I had a friend at the biennale,” says the 31-year-old American artist, “who said that people were almost queuing to stand at that painting – then grimacing or having physical reactions. Which to me is hilarious, because it’s so not naturalistic. There’s no implication of pain. It’s like a tarot card, almost.”
An unassuming figure in wire-rimmed specs, flannel shirt and New Balance trainers (who despite not being “super gregarious” is recovering from a celebratory night in a Florentine gay bar called Crisco Club that finished at 4am), Fratino is talking to me at the Centro Pecci in Prato, Italy, where an exhibition of his work has just opened. Promoted on giant banners throughout the city showing a magnified version of his tiny work Blowjob and Moon – one of which is slung over the ramparts of the local castle – the show is called Satura, and it’s his first solo show in a public art institution, rather than a commercial gallery.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 16:45Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post's decision to end endorsements
Billionaire Jeff Bezos said not endorsing a presidential candidate was a "principled" and "right" decision.
29th October 2024 16:25A history of violence: how has Chris Brown survived so much controversy?
A shocking new documentary lays out the many allegations of abuse against the star, from attacking Rihanna to a claim of sexual assault on Diddy’s yacht
On 30 December 2020, Jane Doe, a professional dancer who had just moved to Los Angeles, was invited by a friend to a New Year’s party on a yacht in Miami. The yacht was owned by the now-disgraced rap mogul Diddy; of course she should attend as someone trying to break into the music industry, she recalls thinking in the new ID documentary Chris Brown: A History of Violence. Once on the yacht, Jane Doe met Chris Brown, the R&B star once considered the next Michael Jackson, and still a successful touring artist. Jane Doe knew that Brown had once, famously, assaulted his girlfriend, Rihanna, on the eve of the 2009 Grammys (in fact, as the documentary reminds, Rihanna later said he assaulted her on several occasions), but that was a long time ago. She had been a kid then. Brown took an interest in her music and dance career, and offered her the first of two drinks.
According to Jane Doe, something immediately felt off. She describes feeling heavy, suddenly very tired and nearly immobilized. Through tears (and anonymizing techniques), she says Brown led her to the back of the yacht, raped her, then put his number in her phone, in order to connect about her career back in LA – a textbook way to stay close to and confuse the victim, as the domestic violence expert Dr Carolyn West points out in the film. The two stayed in contact for several months, until Jane Doe was able, through therapy, to come to terms with what had happened to her. “I know it for a fact. Instead of telling myself that it wasn’t. It was. It was rape,” she says in the film. She filed a lawsuit, she says, only because she was advised that it would help another woman who had a similar experience with Brown.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 16:22‘The rich need to pay more’: Britons’ hopes and fears for the budget
While some want Rachel Reeves to raise taxes for the wealthy, others fear the long-term sick could be penalised
Seven Britons share their hopes and fears about the chancellor Rachel Reeves’s first budget, and weigh up the needs of pensioners, those unable to work and small businesses, with tax incentives for professionals and the government’s budgeting needs.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 16:21Hulk Hogan once endorsed Barack Obama. How did he become a big Maga mascot? | Arwa Mahdawi
Almost a decade since his lawsuit brought down the Gawker website, the former wrestler seems to have a taste for hanging around with vengeful billionaires. He might even harbour political ambitions
It was less WWE, more WTF. On Sunday night, Terry Gene Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan, strutted on stage at Madison Square Garden to speak at a Donald Trump rally. Wearing tiny yellow sunglasses that looked as if they’d been nicked off a toddler, Hogan attempted to rip his shirt off. It took a bit of struggling, but eventually the 71-year-old wrestling legend managed it.
The high jinks continued: Hogan treated the crowd to a dance. Notably, Hogan’s dance moves are just like the ones Trump has shown off at numerous rallies. A lot of arm-pumping; kinda looks like they’re milking a cow. (That said, my own dancing looks like a penguin being caught in an earthquake, so I’m not judging.)
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 16:11Rare case of Lassa fever kills an Iowa resident. Here's what to know.
The middle-aged Iowa resident had recently returned from travel to West Africa, where it is believed they contracted the virus.
29th October 2024 16:02To defeat Trump, Harris must talk more about the economy | Robert Reich
US vice-president’s campaign has stalled because Americans continue to struggle with their bills despite economic growth
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling more anxious about the outcome of the upcoming election. I’m still nauseously optimistic, but the nausea is growing.
I’m as skeptical of polls as any of you, but when all of them show the same thing – that Kamala Harris’s campaign stalled several weeks ago, yet Donald Trump’s continues to surge – it’s important to take the polls seriously.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 16:00Apple announces new and smaller Mac Mini with first redesign since 2010
Apple is framing the new Mac Minis, like all of its new products announced this year, as built for Apple Intelligence.
29th October 2024 16:00Hezbollah picks cleric Naim Kassem to lead the Lebanese militant group
The cleric takes over after Israel killed Hezbollah's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike in a Beirut suburb in late September.
29th October 2024 15:54Exclusive discounts from CBS Mornings Deals
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29th October 2024 15:24How to make a pumpkin spice martini that's fall in a glass
In the "The Dish Recipe," J.M. Hirsch shares his autumn-inspired pumpkin spice martini from his new book, "Freezer Door Cocktails." This easy, ready-to-pour drink brings the perfect seasonal flavor to your fall gatherings.
29th October 2024 15:21JPMorgan sues customers over "infinite money" glitch
A temporary glitch let customers deposit phony checks and then withdraw thousands of dollars in "free money." Now JPMorgan is suing.
29th October 2024 15:19Examining the impact of the Latino vote in the 2024 election
With 62% of Latino voters backing Kamala Harris, the latest CBS News poll shows strong support among this group. But recent comments from Trump could shift the numbers. Lilia Luciano reports from the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
29th October 2024 15:14Biden unveils $3 billion investment in U.S. ports in Baltimore
President Biden announces initiative to modernize ports across the U.S., while touting his administration's economic record.
29th October 2024 15:05I don’t expect stone-cold truths from a chatshow, but Saoirse Ronan delivered one | Marina Hyde
The men on Graham Norton’s sofa found self-defence a hoot. I’m sure most women have found ourselves in that conversation
In a development that absolutely must not catch on, something interesting has happened on a TV chatshow. What a precedent: I’m desperately hoping the entertainment industry rallies around to prevent it ever happening again. We can probably count on it. The dance of all chatshows these days is almost entirely mechanised. You go on. You do your rehearsed anecdotes. The news that the late Michael Parkinson is being relaunched as an AI barely raises an eyebrow because it’s all so synthetic anyway.
Therefore the moments when it isn’t take on outsize significance. As you may have guessed, we are talking about last Friday’s episode of The Graham Norton Show, on which the Blitz star Saoirse Ronan appeared as a guest alongside Gladiator II actors Denzel Washington and Paul Mescal and Day of the Jackal leading man Eddie Redmayne. We join the sofa as Redmayne is doing an anecdote about how his Jackal preparation involved being trained in self-defence, in order to do what Team America would call “his acting”. (Not how Eddie put it, obviously. And yet, the reality.) Redmayne’s revelation that he was shown how to use a phone as a weapon if attacked proves quite the hoot, with Mescal riffing on the absurdity – “Who’s actually going to do that, though?” – Norton chiming in, and Denzel laughing along. Ronan is trying to say something but she gets honked over, before managing to cut through with a line for the ages: “That’s what girls have to think about all the time”.
Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist
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Continue reading... 29th October 2024 15:0250,000 Oasis tickets to be cancelled for violating purchase terms
Promoters said the affected tickets were bought using prohibited techniques, including acquiring more than four tickets per household and using multiple identities
Ticketmaster will cancel about 50,000 tickets for the UK and Ireland dates of Oasis’s reunion tour for violating the company’s terms and conditions in the coming weeks, the BBC reports.
The tickets concerned are listed for sale on unofficial secondary websites such as Viagogo – as opposed to the official resale partner, Twickets, where tickets can only be resold at face value. Promoters Live Nation – which is part of Ticketmaster – and SJM told the BBC that 4% of tickets sold – close to 50,000 – ended up on resale sites.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 15:01Mont Ventoux returns for 2025 Tour de France with Pogacar aiming for No 4
- Race begins in Lille on 5 July and returns to Paris finale
- Tour de France Femmes begins in Brittany on 26 July
Mountains, crosswinds, cobbles and time trials: none of the hazards of the 2025 Tour de France route, unveiled in Paris on Tuesday, are likely to derail the seemingly unstoppable Tadej Pogacar, winner of almost every race worth winning in 2024.
Next summer the Slovenian – once a cheeky prodigy but now a ruthless terminator – will be back at the Tour’s Grand Départ, for a race that starts in Lille on 5 July and returns to the traditional finale, after a one-year absence because of the Paris Olympics, on the Champs-Élysées in the capital on 27 July.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 15:00Don’t flick the flick! Justice for the Buffy movie
The 1992 film, also called Buffy the Vampire Slayer, predates the beloved series by five years. It’s low-rent and oft-forgotten – but it’s delightfully camp
If it’s possible to have a parasocial relationship with a fictional character, I have it with Buffy Summers. She’s tattooed on my thigh. I’ve dressed as her for comic conventions. I’ve attended Buffy trivia. And I’ve watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer more times than Giles, her watcher – kind of like a guardian-slash-taskmaster, for the uninitiated – got knocked on the head.
Even as a megafan I recognise that many aspects of the show have aged badly. Still, Buffy helped me get through adolescence into adulthood by showing me that nearly everything is survivable: in Buffy’s case, even one’s own death.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 15:00‘Don’t take his life’: South Carolina man faces execution despite state justice calling his sentence invalid
Children of Richard Moore, 59, plead for his clemency as experts insist he should be ineligible for capital punishment
The children of a South Carolina man on death row are pleading for clemency days before his scheduled execution, in a case that advocates and a state supreme court justice say should not be eligible for capital punishment.
Richard Moore, 59, is due to be killed by lethal injection on Friday despite growing concerns about racial bias in his conviction and the highly unusual nature of his death sentence.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 15:00‘Biden has failed me’: at a Michigan soup kitchen, people are torn between Harris and Trump
At Saginaw city’s biggest soup kitchen, most are hoping for a candidate who can usher in notable economic change
People on the east side of Saginaw city are more used to seeing buildings come down than go up. Bulldozers have erased houses, schools, department stores and factories over recent years as jobs disappeared and the population plummeted.
But builders will soon be at work in one corner of the Michigan city constructing a sprawling extension to Saginaw’s largest soup kitchen after demand soared through the Covid-19 pandemic and then as rampant inflation hit a community where many people live on the edge financially.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 15:00Jon and Sam Stannah: the father and son taking the British stairlift manufacturer to the next level
The two members of the chairlift-making dynasty are branching out with startup led by the sixth generation of the family
Sam Stannah is only 31 but is already feeling the pressure to produce the next generation to lead the family-owned lift business. In a recent blooper reel from a corporate video, his 89-year-old grandfather Brian was filmed telling him “get going, don’t hang about”. Smiling, he points out: “I’ve only been married a few months!”
He is the sixth generation of the family to run the business founded by Joseph Stannah in 1867 as a manufacturer of cranes handling goods off the Thames docks during the Industrial Revolution.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 15:00The first broad beans of spring take me back to my childhood garden – and my mum | Nova Weetman
She used to tell me the first crop picked would taste very different from the last. And she was right
As a child, I spent most days outside with my hands in the dirt. When I wasn’t reading, I was gardening, which seems incongruous now because I live in an apartment building and my idea of keeping plants alive extends only to those in pots. And even then, I struggle. But as a kid, I watched my parents commit to regenerating their quarter-acre block with plants native to the area, slowly encircling our house in bush. And with the growth of the gum trees and the bottlebrush and the wattle came the echidnas, the blue-tongue lizards and the birds. So many birds.
And while I loved having my hands in the dirt, I wasn’t interested in growing trees. I wanted to crowd the earth with vegetables and flowers that I could look after. With my dad’s help, we converted a strip of paving at the sunny end of the house, removing the bricks and covering the ground with rich, dark soil. I planted pansies and daises, sweet peas, broad beans, carrots and beetroot, staking those that needed somewhere to climb and tying up their fragile stems with strips of nylon stockings.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 15:00McDonald's reverses U.S. same-store sales declines in the third quarter, but E. coli fallout looms
Shares of McDonald's have fallen 6% since its Quarter Pounder burgers were linked to a deadly E. coli outbreak.
29th October 2024 14:59Armie Hammer is back … and this time he has a podcast
The disgraced actor has returned with a lofi new podcast, shot in his tiny apartment, where he interviews other stars but seems more interested in talking about himself
Yesterday, with very little warning, Armie Hammer resurfaced. You may remember that in 2021 Hammer’s career ended in an instant, after multiple women came forward to accuse him of varying degrees of abuse. His representatives dropped him, his work dried up and he was forced to sell timeshares in the Cayman Islands to get by. That, everybody thought, was that.
However, in recent months, Hammer has started to re-emerge into public life. He moved back to Los Angeles and made a big deal about selling his car. He was on Piers Morgan’s YouTube channel, and Bill Maher’s podcast. And now it looks as if he’s back for good. Yesterday saw the launch of the first episode of Hammer’s new podcast, Armie HammerTime.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 14:54Baby girl found dead in "safe haven" box at Idaho hospital
Monica Kelsey, the founder of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, said hospital staff responded within one minute to an alarm indicating a baby was in the box.
29th October 2024 14:54Zombie protesters and a derailed tram: photos of the day – Tuesday
The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 14:53Harris will offer an alternative to Trump-era politics in closing argument speech
Vice President Kamala Harris has eroded Donald Trump's polling lead since taking over the Democratic ticket from Biden, but the race remains a dead heat.
29th October 2024 14:51Protest over war in Gaza breaks out while Harris campaigns in Michigan
Vice President Kamala Harris rallied in Michigan Monday, but as she spoke she was again interrupted by a group protesting the war in Gaza. Michigan has the largest percentage of Arab Americans voters, and some Democrats fear support from those voters has slipped away.
29th October 2024 14:50Police in Minneapolis face backlash over response to man who allegedly shot, injured neighbor
Nearly a week after Davis Moturi was shot while trimming a tree outside his Minneapolis home, police have arrested his neighbor, John Sawchak. Moturi, who is recovering, and his wife filed at least 19 police reports against Sawchak for months. Police say the harassment was racially motivated. Warning: The video of the incident is disturbing.
29th October 2024 14:43Fallout from controversial comments made at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally
Former President Donald Trump's campaign faced bipartisan backlash over comments made by conservative comedian Tony Hinchcliffe on Sunday at Madison Square Garden. Jokes, including one about Puerto Rico, were ad libbed, a source told CBS News, claiming the Trump campaign vetted other parts of the routine.
29th October 2024 14:42Eye Opener: Trump defends himself against being called a "fascist"
Donald Trump responds to critics who say he is a "fascist" as Election Day looms. Also, the FBI is investigating fires at ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state. All that and all that matters in today's Eye Opener.
29th October 2024 14:41Steve Bannon released from prison a week before US election
Trump ally served four-month sentence for defying subpoena in investigation into 6 January attack
Steve Bannon, the longtime Donald Trump acolyte, was released from prison on Tuesday, following a four-month sentence for defying a congressional subpoena in an investigation of the 6 January 2021 US Capitol attack.
The far-right firebrand’s release from federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, comes just one week before election day. Bannon, 70, surrendered to prison on 1 July after the US supreme court rebuffed his effort to postpone this sentence pending appeal.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 14:29Jannik Sinner ‘very weak’ with virus and withdraws from Paris Masters
- Italian expects to recover in time for ATP Finals
- Sinner joins Djokovic in missing Paris tournament
Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from the Paris Masters because of a virus, the world No 1 announced on Tuesday.
The 23-year-old Italian, who defeated Carlos Alcaraz in the final of the Six Kings Slam exhibition event to secure the $6m title in Saudi Arabia on 20 October, has been replaced in the draw by the Frenchman Arthur Cazaux.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 14:25How a California organization transforms yards to feed communities
In the "CBS Mornings" series, "Rebuilding America," a Los Angeles urban farming program is helping to feed its community. "Crop Swap LA" is an organization that transforms people's yards into produce gardens, which is crucial in neighborhoods that don't always have easy access to fruits and vegetables.
29th October 2024 14:18Consumer report shows companies are failing to protect from robocalls, texts
A new report says many phone companies are not doing enough to protect people from robocalls and texts. A consumer watchdog group says more than half of them have not fulfilled all of the requirements of a recent federal law.
29th October 2024 14:18A look at safety measures taken at ballot printing facility
Runbeck Election Services shows how they securely print ballots for voters in nine states, including the battleground state of Arizona. For the general election, they'll print about 35 million ballots.
29th October 2024 14:17Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay in shock after terror threat to Israeli tourists
Israeli travellers told to evacuate area immediately as police set up patrols and roadblocks
The golden sands of Sri Lanka’s Arugam Bay are usually carefree, a place for tourists to surf the famous break and relax on the beach.
But last week, the slow rhythm of the bay was dealt a shock. The US embassy, followed up by Sri Lankan police and Israel’s national security council, warned of a serious terrorist threat in the area. Israeli travellers were believed to be the intended target of a planned attack and were told to evacuate immediately. Hundreds of police and senior intelligence officials descended on the small coastal town, setting up patrols and road blocks.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 14:13Lucid has high expectations for new Gravity SUV as customer orders set to open
The Gravity is Lucid's second vehicle following the Air sedan, which the luxury EV manufacturer has been selling in small numbers since late 2021.
29th October 2024 14:08Racist jokes about Puerto Rico at rally bring anger and disgust: ‘Truly how the Trump party sees us’
Tony Hinchcliffe’s series of racist jokes at Donald Trump’s rally on Sunday were widely condemned
Some Americans, particularly those of Puerto Rican descent, said that the racist remarks aired at Donald Trump’s Sunday night rally at Madison Square Garden in New York helped them decide who to vote for.
The speaker and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe took aim at Puerto Rico, in a series of racist jokes including one in which he called it “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean”.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 14:00I used to conserve artworks. Now I am in prison for taking climate action | Margaret Reid
It was my dream job. But what’s the point of preserving masterpieces for a future being destroyed by fossil fuel companies?
- Margaret Reid is currently on remand for taking action with Just Stop Oil
I used to be part of the art world but I just can’t stomach it any more. Now I’m in prison, and it suits my conscience better. Back in the 1980s, art was my life. Aged 16, I fell head over heels for painting and could imagine nothing better than spending my life working in museums.
Looking back almost 40 years, I see my younger self, starstruck in Paris. I’m staring up with awe at Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa and greedily gobbling up the story of how it scandalised the art world. That sickening green cadaver that almost fell out of the frame had me weeping with admiration. Of course it shocked the critics. They hated the grisly truth: the emaciated corpse that was a direct challenge to government corruption and incompetence.
Margaret Reid is a former museum professional currently on remand for taking action with Just Stop Oil
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Continue reading... 29th October 2024 14:00The day Roe died: inside Arkansas’s last abortion clinic
Patients left behind accounts of their experiences at the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic before it was shut down
Eight patients were in the waiting room of the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic on the morning in June 2022 that Roe v Wade died. Until that moment, the clinic was the only place where women in Arkansas, a deeply red state, could get surgical abortions.
Natalie Tvedten, who helped found the clinic and provided counseling to patients, remembers huddling in a back room with a visiting doctor from Los Angeles after they heard the news.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 14:00Turn Me On review – dystopia’s kindly new manners
Michael Tyburski’s intelligent and funny film features a young couple seduced by an apparently bland regime promising to tidy away messy emotions
The ironically named Joy (Bel Powley) is anything but; instead she and her partner Will (Nick Robinson) are calm and content in this neat little film which is essentially a musing on the difference between passion and contentment, via a retro-futuristic dystopia in which a pill is taken daily to tamp down those awkward big emotions that prevent life from running smoothly, but are also sort of the point of living.
The world these people occupy also satirises a particular kind of white-collar work and leisure environment – the sort of culture embraced by the companies you find in co-working spaces that are decorated so inoffensively that they have no personality whatsoever. (Think WeWork, or boutique hotels.) Everything is clean, everything is carefully tasteful, there’s nary a speck of grit to be found, other than carefully curated ersatz grit. Joy and Will’s emotional landscape is exactly the same.
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 14:00What to know about the presidential race with Election Day one week away
Republican strategist and CBS News political contributor Leslie Sanchez breaks down the presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump as the campaigns head into the final week before Election Day.
29th October 2024 13:56FBI investigating fires at ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington state
The FBI is investigating fires set at two ballot drop boxes that destroyed hundreds of ballots one week before Election Day. One happened in Portland, Oregon, and the other was in Vancouver, Washington.
29th October 2024 13:56What’s next for Manchester United after Erik ten Hag era ends? – Football Weekly
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Ali Maxwell, Sanny Rudravajala and Andy Mittento discuss Erik ten Hag’s departure
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On the podcast today: Andy Mitten from United We Stand joins us for part one to dissect Erik Ten Hag’s tenure at Manchester United. Where did it all go wrong and where do they go from here?
Continue reading... 29th October 2024 13:55How Trump’s speeches have changed. And, Israel threatens to ban aid agency in Gaza
Trump’s rally speeches have become increasingly erratic in the final days of his campaign. And, Israel has voted to ban the United Nations aid agency in Gaza.
29th October 2024 13:34