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Why is Trump hosting a cage fight at the White House?Critics have questioned whether seven bouts in a 92-ft structure called The Claw is a suitable celebration of US independence.
Ricky Resendez first tried e-cigarettes in eighth grade. By the time he got to high school, he was vaping daily.“It was just kind of normal,” said Ricky, a 17-year-old recent graduate in Superior, Wisconsin. “Kids were vaping in class, in the bathrooms, wherever.”Nationally, nearly 6% of middle and high school students — amounting to 1.63 million kids — reported using electronic cigarettes in 2024, federal figures show. Although that’s down from previous years, e-cigarettes remain the most commonly used tobacco products among teens, and nearly 9 out of 10 of kids choose flavored products. Some doctors are concerned that youth…
USA start tournament in style – but will they finally join the elite?If there were any doubts the USA were ready to live up to the pressure of being a World Cup host, they were dispelled in a 4-1 win over Paraguay.7 hrs agoUSA
LIVEKing and Queen watch Trooping the Colour ceremony ahead of 41-gun salute and flypastThe King and Queen will later be joined by other members of the Royal Family on the Buckingham Palace balcony for a Red Arrows flypast.
BBCAllan Taylor spent 60 years on the folk scene before retiring earlier this yearWhen Ed Sheeran recently declared his love for an obscure album he had unearthed in a second-hand record shop in New York, it was big a surprise to the English singer who made it almost 50 years ago.After buying a copy of Allan Taylor’s 1978 LP The Traveller, Ed Sheeran may have recognised something of a kindred spirit in his fellow singer-songwriter.Taylor started out performing in pubs and bars, sleeping on floors and sofas with his guitar and little else, several decades before Sheeran began his career…
Anthony PhamHarry Styles is the first artist to play 12 nights at Wembley Stadium in a single yearHarry Styles opened the first night of his record-breaking residency at Wembley Stadium by reminiscing about his audition for The X Factor, 16 years ago.”Just outside of this building, just next door in Wembley Arena, my sister brought me to London for the very first time,” said the star, who was born in Redditch and raised in Cheshire.”It was… in that building that I was put in a band. We were called One Direction,” he recalled, prompting screams from a sold-out crowd of…
BBCMarried at First Sight Australia stars say the show left them feeling unsafe and unprotected because their on-screen partners had criminal pasts which they were not told about, a BBC investigation can reveal.It comes after the British version of the show, known to many as MAFS UK, was plunged into crisis after BBC Panorama reported rape allegations from two women contestants – allegations the men involved have denied.One woman from last year’s Australian series says she was not told the man she had been matched with had a previous drug conviction and only found out after the show ended. “There…
LIVEWorld Cup 2026: USA win opening game – will World Cup fever hit the country now?All the latest reaction and highlights as USA start their Fifa World Cup 2026 with a big win over Paraguay,
ReutersNo-campaign posters feature Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, warning against “breaking with Europe”Can a country put a fixed limit on its population? That is the question Switzerland will be answering on Sunday when voters go the polls to decide on a proposal to cap their population at 10 million.The move is backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, which describes it as a “sustainability initiative” aimed at easing pressure on housing, public services and the environment.The Swiss government, all other major parties, business leaders and trade unions have dubbed the proposal a “chaos initiative”, arguing it will deprive…
NurPhoto via Getty ImagesAnthropic has suspended its powerful new AI model after US authorities raised security concerns just days following its public release.In a statement published on its website, Anthropic said it was ordered to suspend foreign nationals from using Claude Fable 5, a program that the company self-described as “too powerful”.”The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance,” the company wrote. Anthropic and the Trump administration are involved in a separate ongoing lawsuit over an order to stop government agencies using the company’s…