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Senior US officials have said overnight they expect a ceasefire deal to be implemented “in the coming hours” along the Israel-Lebanon border. Speaking to reporters in a late-night, last-minute phone briefing, the US administration officials said that exhaustive behind-the-scenes diplomacy had brought an agreement between the two sides close. One administration official said: “The ceasefire
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Lady Gaga has admitted she has struggled to let go of playing her version of the infamous comic book character Harley Quinn in the new Joker sequel. Speaking to Sky News at the UK premiere of Joker: Folie à Deux, she admitted: “I don’t really know if I did because I’ve made a whole record
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The cause of death of Crazy Town lead singer Seth Binzer, known by his stage name Shifty Shellshock, has been revealed by officials. The 49-year-old died from the combined effects of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine, Californian officials said. Binzer was found dead at his home on 24 June this year. Image: Binzer in 2014. Pic:
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A senior executive at CrowdStrike has apologised for a faulty software update that caused a global IT outage in July. The incident led to worldwide flight cancellations and impacted industries around the globe including banks, health care, media companies and hotel chains. The outage disrupted internet services, affecting 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices. Adam Meyers,
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A toy company must pay $71.5m (£53m) for making dolls infringing the name and likeness of a US teen pop group. OMG Girlz sued MGA Entertainment over its LOL Surprise! OMG dolls, arguing the company had copied their look and brand. On Tuesday, the group finally won the long-running intellectual property case after a California
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A man has been charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump after staking out the presidential hopeful on his Florida golf course. Ryan Routh was arrested after allegedly poking his gun through bushes surrounding the West Palm Beach golf course on 15 September. Routh was initially charged with two gun offences but prosecutors have upgraded
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                                                                         By Howard Bloom Tuesday the world was shocked by one of the strangest war stories of the century.   Between 2,800 and 4,000 pagers went off in the hands or pockets of Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon as the fighters went about their daily lives.  Yes, pagers, old fashioned pagers, exploded. In fact, pagers blew up from
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By Howard Bloom Tuesday’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was not a battle of words, it was a battle of body language.   The facial language and the body language of Harris signaled strength, confidence, and authority.  Those are usually the facial and body language signals we get from Donald Trump.  But not Tuesday night. Tuesday night,
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                                                                     By Howard Bloom Education Week reports that we are in a student mental health crisis.  So does the surgeon general.  Will taking cellphones away from kids while they’re in school help us get out of this crisis?   I asked the science search engine Consensus to do a survey of studies on school cellphone bans and mental
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By Howard Bloom Anger is on the rise in 2024.  Ask ChatGPT or the search engine for scientific studies, Consensus, and they will feed you great gobs of information showing that anger in America is reaching record highs.   What’s more, they will tell you that much of the anger scientists have studied recently is based on
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By Howard Bloom In January, eight months ago, Nikki Haley said, ‘The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the one who wins this election.’ Nikki Haley may be right.   The Democratic National Convention that took place at the United Center in Chicago the week of August 19th demonstrated something no
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By Howard Bloom Australia has us beat.   When it comes to how long you can expect to live, you’d expect America to come out on top.  Far from it.   In a new study of life-expectancy in six English-speaking countries,  America does not come in first, second, or even third.  We come in last.  Dead last. The new study, which
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