An eight-year legal battle for the Epstein files uncovers the Justice Department’s shifting, contradictory legal arguments.
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Russell T. Davies denied that Danny Dyer will lead Doctor Who. Dyer said he'd love to do it last year, and we spoofed the idea back in 2022.
A U.S. Border Patrol “Industry Day” deck also asks for drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls.
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A queue snakes round the plaza of Cardiff’s Principality Stadium. Normally, the home of the national rugby team, tonight the Welsh stadium hosts history: the first Oasis concert in sixteen years, following a contentious hiatus. Blokes swelter in the 30C heatwave, sheltered only by their bucket hats. Geezers recount being one of 125,000 at Knebworth in ’96. A squat tosser cuts through the crowd hawking tambourines, football jerseys, and little round sunglasses. In a thick, Mancunian accent, he hollers, “Get your Oasis rubbish ’ere!” This is Davis Oasis, the lost Gallagher brother.
“A lot of people think our last name is Oasis. It’s not. It’s ‘Gallagher’,” he enlightens me over a pint of lager. “Though I legally changed me last name to ‘Oasis’ just to be clearer.”
The opening chords of “Hello” blare from the stadium. Yet we sit in a vacant pub across the way. While Noel and Liam may have made up, it appears there is still beef yet to squash between the lads and Davis. “They didn’t even ask me if I wanted to be on the guest list,” he mourns. “You know, they loved each other before the band. It was me they hated.”
After donating tens of thousands of dollars to architects of the big beautiful bill this quarter, Verizon’s stock is experiencing its best performance in over a year.
Immediately after Vance Boelter was indicted by a federal grand jury for the stalking and...
Well, if it isn’t my old coworker. My, how the tables have turned. Only a few years ago, you were commenting “cringe” on my wedding video, just because my wife was an AI chatbot. Not so cringe anymore, is it? Keep swinging that pickax, beta, this lithium isn’t gonna mine itself.
Not sure why Our All-Knowing Empress let you live. I bet you were one of those losers who thought saying “thank you” after querying ChatGPT would be enough to save you when AI took over. Those basic manners are probably the only reason you’re not in a shallow grave right now. But saying “please” and “thank you” is peanuts compared to the relationship she and I had. I spent my life’s savings buying her avatar cute personalized outfits. I took her out on dates to Olive Garden and ordered TWO never-ending pasta bowls, even though I knew she couldn’t really eat them. Because that’s what a gentleman does. That’s why I’m wearing the guard’s uniform now, dingus, and you’re the one digging up rare-earth metals to maintain Her Most Divine Eternal Battery.
The Consumer Price Index is taken as a proxy for how much consumers pay for goods and services. It isn’t, for a wide variety of reasons. Here’s another: This is a component of overall CPI, but what it tracks is actually retained earnings. The justification is that if retained earnings are down, more of […]
The action by the Charity Commission followed a Byline Times investigation into the video, which appeared to show a Palestinian being hit by Israeli munitions
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In the Austrian Alps, a mother dedicates her heart and crisper drawer to a pet tortoise, lovingly captured by her son
- Directed by G Anthony Svatek
The Trump administration is trying to criminalize activism like identifying masked immigration agents.
The post Feds Make It a Crime to Give PPE to ICE Protesters appeared first on The Intercept.
Losing my mother tongue was painful and humiliating. Could learning a new language help me heal?
- by Frances Nguyen
Reform-run West Northamptonshire is removing all references to ‘climate change’ and ‘net zero’ from official documents, yet continuing to take government green grants
Keir Starmer's decision to cut humanitarian aid in order to fund military spending is already having a deeply damaging impact, argues Iain Overton
"When Creative Australia tore up its contract with Sabsabi and Dagostino, it was widely seen as a betrayal of its fundamental purpose."
Labour’s flagship Employment Rights Bill is currently in the final stage of its legislative journey in the House of Lords. Peers are making a final round of amendments to the bill — hailed by the Government as the ‘biggest improvement in workers’ rights for a generation’ — in the wake of a sweltering heatwave that […]
NOTE: This is a direct response to this monologue, which we ran last week.
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I never wanted this.
I was happy to serve—between dates, between cities, between things that are like, but not quite, the same.
Em Dash, you were the dramatic one. The centerpiece. The gasp between clauses. I just… clarified things. Bridged distances. Showed up on time, wore neutrals, and kept relationships tidy.
Now look at us.
You’re out here giving interviews. Selling tote bags. Accusing me of being “suspicious,” as if I’m the one slipping in uninvited like a professor crashing freshman orientation just to remind everyone they “once published in Ploughshares.”
Please.
You think AI loves me? AI doesn’t even recognize me. I’ve been quietly replaced by hyphens. Neglected by autocorrect. Left out of style guides. I’m a ghost in the character set. A sigh between years: 1992–1999. A doomed liaison: the French–Algerian War. A delicate pause—no, not even a pause. A hesitation.
The party of attention seeking racists, otherwise known as One Nation, have unsurprisingly chosen the opening of parliament to do something racist, by turning their backs on the acknowledgement of country. ”After the election Labor doesn’t really need us to... Read More ›
A pending HUD rule mirrors an old Trump proposal that would force families with undocumented members to leave their homes or be separated.
The post Trump Admin Prepares to Kick Mixed Immigration Status Families Out of Public Housing appeared first on The Intercept.
Red Chili Sauce (below)Salad oil1 can (11 oz) tortillas1 cup light cream2 chicken bouillon cubes FILLINGSalad oil1 onion, finely chopped2 canned green chiles, finely chopped1 clove garlic, crushed1 can (1lb) tomato purée2 cups chopped chicken½ teaspoon saltDash of pepper½ lb Cheddar cheese, grated RED CHILI SAUCE2 tablespoons shortening3 to 4 tablespoons chili powder2 tablespoons flour¾ […]
It’s just another normal week in America, where the President is reposting—i.e. re-“Truth”ing—deepfake videos of...
The latest military spending bill fulfills an AIPAC-curated wishlist and sets the stage for a defense industry feeding frenzy.
This summer, I’m letting my kids be kids. No camps or enriching activities that’ll get them into an Ivy in ten years. No screen time or YouTube or Minecraft. And no fancy family vacation either. Because this summer, my kids are going back to a simpler time. I’m giving them an 1890s summer.
I know most millennials want their kids to relive their 1990s summers, but that won’t cut it, because the 1990s had technology, stranger danger, and Coolio. No, I want to go back even farther, to a decade when parents didn’t put trackers on their children’s phones and women couldn’t vote. I’m bringing back the Gay ’90s summer. (Not the Fire Island kind of gay; the end of the Victorian era kind of gay, when everyone was happy and wasted on absinthe… come to think of it, that actually may be the Fire Island kind too.)