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• The Fortune Hotel review – a fiendishly addictive mix of The Traitors and White Lotus

  13-05-2024 23:10 via theguardian.com
  
  In this gloriously high-stakes game of pass the parcel, 20 contestants try to win £250,000 by passing around a briefcase full of cash at a Caribbean hotelThe Traitors on a beach, anyone? Ever since the BBC’s Claudia Winkleman-in-a-castle contest became a runaway hit, rival broadcasters have been tripping over their hooded cloaks to commission their own version. We’ve had The Traitors in a stratified high-rise (Channel 4’s Rise & Fall), The Traitors go Greek island-hop
  
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• Gareth Southgate’s new England look worryingly free of energy and resistance | Barney Ronay

  08-06-2024 00:46 via theguardian.com
  
  England’s 1-0 defeat by Iceland in their final warm-up match before Euro 2024 left manager Gareth Southgate with more questions than answersBy the time the PA announcer had announced a “lap of appreciation”, with what seemed at the time to be viciously mocking levels of excitement, England’s players found themselves applauding a vast expanse of empty red plastic seats. One of the big fears with tournament football, among the better teams, is peaking too early. On that fro
  
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• Six UK airports temporarily reintroduce 100ml liquid limit

  08-06-2024 00:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Restriction brought back to make improvements to checkpoint systems, according to Department for TransportSix regional airports in the UK will temporarily reintroduce restrictions on carrying liquids over 100ml, the Department for Transport has said.The change will come into effect from midnight on Sunday, and will affect passengers travelling from London City, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Leeds Bradford, Southend and Teesside airports. Continue reading...
  
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• Taylor Swift review – as all-powerful as a pop star can be

  08-06-2024 00:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Murrayfield stadium, Edinburgh
  ​The audience is overwhelmed by an astonishing, risk-taking, strangely intimate extravaganza – and Swift in turn is overwhelmed by themAs Cruel Summer fades away and she surveys the audience, Taylor Swift looks startled. She clasps her hand to her chest and shakes her head in disbelief. They cheer louder. “That went straight to my head!” she exclaims, apparently unable to take in the vociferousness of their reaction.Of course, this is hokum
  
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• Multiparty debate shows an audience tiring of the Labour-Tory slugging match | Rafael Behr

  08-06-2024 00:30 via theguardian.com
  
  There were no knock-out blows, but some refreshing arguments that don’t get aired when the two heavyweights dominate the ringIt is called a general election, but Friday night’s multiparty debate was a reminder that it is also a messy array of specific elections.Over on one side of the stage, Penny Mordaunt and Angela Rayner traded blows in the prize fight between incumbent power and the only challenger that can supply a replacement government. First on defence, then on tax and the co
  
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• One hundred and thirty six candidates to run in NI

  08-06-2024 00:18 via bbc.com
  
  Nominations for the general election closed on Friday but the voter registration deadline is 18 June.
  
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• At least four people die crossing US-Mexico border amid brutal heatwave

  08-06-2024 00:11 via theguardian.com
  
  El Paso, Texas, saw temperatures of 106F, with border patrol identifying ‘heatstroke and dehydration’ as cause of deathAt least four people have died crossing the US-Mexico border near El Paso, Texas, amid the searing heatwave gripping the south-west.Temperatures in El Paso peaked at 106F (41C) on Thursday, and some 34 million people – from the southern tip of Texas across Arizona and up into California and Nevada – were under heat alerts. Continue reading...
  
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• Election debate review: everyone struggled to be heard in this seven-way brawl

  08-06-2024 00:07 via theguardian.com
  
  PM’s D-day disaster dominated discourse as Rayner and Mordaunt engaged in ‘undignified’ clashes‘Well that was dignified’: key takeaways of BBC general election debateEmerging as the winner of a seven-way brawl is never easy and, in the second of this election’s televised debates, nobody won. Either because of the strictures placed on them by their parties’ political situations or because they just didn’t cope very well with the format, every partic
  
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• Call for specialist drug search of prison

  08-06-2024 00:05 via bbc.com
  
  There have been 10 deaths at HMP Parc prison in Bridgend in under four months.
  
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• Wendell Pierce alleges he was denied rental apartment because he is Black

  08-06-2024 00:04 via theguardian.com
  
  The Tony award winner says ‘Racism and bigots are real’ after being turned down by landlord in HarlemThe Tony award winner Wendell Pierce has alleged that he was denied a rental apartment in New York’s historically Black Harlem neighborhood because he is Black.“Racism and bigots are real,” the actor posted on X this week. “There are those who will do anything to destroy life’s journey for Black folks. When you deny our personal experiences, you are as vi
  
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• Man who killed unhoused woman with pellet gun gets five years in prison: ‘Her life mattered’

  07-06-2024 23:41 via theguardian.com
  
  William Innes, 19, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in 2023 death of Annette Pershal in San DiegoA 19-year-old who fatally shot an unhoused woman with a pellet gun in southern California was sentenced to five years and eight months in state prison on Thursday.William Innes pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the killing last May of Annette Pershal, 68, who was living on the streets of San Diego and nicknamed “Granny Annie”. The case sparked national outrage after
  
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• Revealed: Trump ally Kari Lake gave speech in front of Confederate flag

  07-06-2024 23:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Video shows Arizona Senate candidate repeating election-fraud claims at event with Confederate flag behind herThe Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake addressed supporters with a Confederate flag displayed behind her during a campaign event at a Trump merchandise store in Arizona last week, where she repeated false claims about election fraud.In footage obtained by the Guardian, Lake is seen speaking into a microphone, surrounded by a group of supporters, at the Trumped Store in Show Low, Arizo
  
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• Johnson-Thompson pulls out of European Championships in blow to Olympic hopes

  07-06-2024 23:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Coach: Johnson-Thompson has ‘small niggle in right leg’Olympic champion Nafi Thiam leads heptathlon Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s dreams of winning Olympic ­heptathlon gold in Paris next month have been thrown into uncertainty after she pulled out of the European ­Athletics Championships three events in due to injury.At that point Johnson-Thompson, the reigning world champion, was struggling in ninth – 318 points behind the 2020 Olympic gold medallist Nafi Thiam. An
  
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• Alcaraz edges out Sinner and Zverev beats Ruud to set up Roland Garros final

  07-06-2024 23:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Alcaraz recovers to defeat Sinner 2-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3Zverev beats Ruud and settles court case on same dayCarlos Alcaraz entered his first ATP challenger event in April 2019 aged just 15, still a long way from fulfilling his considerable talent. In the first round, Alcaraz, an unranked ­wildcard, was drawn against a 17-year-old named Jannik Sinner, ranked No 319. The pair battled across three intense sets before Alcaraz emerged with his first challenger win.That fateful first meeting, pla
  
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• Man arrested after attacking Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen

  07-06-2024 23:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Attack took place in central Copenhagen on Friday but it is unclear whether Frederiksen was injuredA man has been arrested after attacking Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen in central Copenhagen on Friday.It was unclear whether Frederiksen was injured by the attacker. The prime minister’s office said in a statement that Frederiksen was “shocked by the incident”, but did not provide further details. Continue reading...
  
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• England booed off after failing against Iceland once more in Euros warm-up

  07-06-2024 23:04 via theguardian.com
  
  It was a long way from being the triumphant Euro 2024 send-off for Gareth Southgate and his England players at a sold-out and increasingly fretful Wembley. Never mind the result because it was not the main thing, however much it stirred memories of you-know-when against Iceland.It was the performance that raised the difficult questions, the worst one for quite some time and at exactly the wrong time. The home fans, thousands of whom made for the exits before the end, were forced to watch the sec
  
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• US seizes $63m worth of cocaine after dramatic shootout on high seas

  07-06-2024 22:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Patrol boat off Venezuelan coast shoots and sinks vessel suspected of carrying drugs as three people go overboardA high-seas shootout pitting drug runners against the law ended with the smugglers’ boat at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea and the US Coast Guard seizing $63m worth of cocaine, authorities in Florida said on Friday.The dramatic encounter took place on Tuesday about 25 miles (40km) north of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, when the coast guard cutter Resolute – patrolling with t
  
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• Slanging matches and soundbites: debate delivers seven ways to make time drag

  07-06-2024 22:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Second TV outing manages to be simultaneously predictable, deadly dull and extremely bad-temperedLabour and Tories renew clashes in ill-tempered second election debateNot another one. We’ve only just recovered from the last election debate. A fairly tawdry head to head between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer in which all we learned was that the prime minister would tell any lie to try to stay in Downing Street. He’s even moved on to lying that he isn’t a liar. We’re now in B
  
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• Labour and Tories renew clashes in ill-tempered second election debate

  07-06-2024 22:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Angela Rayner and Penny Mordaunt spar over taxes, defence and cost of living as others jostle for attentionLabour and the Conservatives renewed hostilities in the second TV debate of the campaign, with Angela Rayner and Penny Mordaunt clashing over taxes, defence and the cost of living in a series of bad-tempered exchanges.In an echo of Tuesday’s head-to-head debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, Mordaunt, the Commons leader, several times raised the much-criticised idea that Labour
  
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• Antman completes Finland fightback as Scotland draw final Euro 2024 friendly

  07-06-2024 22:52 via theguardian.com
  
  The sharing of four goals preceded Doris Day blaring from the Tannoy at Hampden Park. What will be, will be.Steve Clarke and Scotland must hope this flat ending to their Euro 2024 buildup counts for nothing. They need only glance towards Wembley for solace on that score. Continue reading...
  
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• Penny Mordaunt says Rishi Sunak leaving D-Day event was 'wrong'

  07-06-2024 22:27 via bbc.com
  
  Ms Mordaunt said it was right that Rishi Sunak apologised as senior figures from the other six parties criticised the PM in BBC election debate.
  
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• Spain’s Garciá-Caro pipped to European race walk bronze after early celebration

  07-06-2024 22:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukraine’s Lyudmila Olyanovska overtakes rival at the last‘I was really tired on the last lap … I did my best’Unbridled joy turned to devastation for the Spanish race walker, Laura García-Caro, on the opening day of the European Athletics Championships, as a premature celebration cost her a first major medal.Five metres from the end of the women’s 20km race walk in Rome, García-Caro punched the air and stuck her tongue out in triumph, thinking bronze w
  
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• Something fishy this way comes: rare 7ft sunfish washes ashore in Oregon

  07-06-2024 21:51 via theguardian.com
  
  The hoodwinker sunfish, or Mola tecta, is a different species from the more common ocean sunfish, Mola molaAn enormous rare fish thought to live only in temperate waters in the southern hemisphere has washed up on Oregon’s northern coast, drawing crowds of curious onlookers intrigued by the unusual sight.The 7.3-ft (2.2-metre) hoodwinker sunfish first appeared on the beach in Gearhart on Monday, the Seaside Aquarium said in a media release. It was still on the beach on Friday and may remai
  
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• Hunter Biden gun trial: key takeaways from the first week

  07-06-2024 21:39 via theguardian.com
  
  President’s son, accused of buying a firearm while being a drug addict, was joined in court by family membersFederal prosecutors rested their case against Hunter Biden on Friday morning after days of testimony that revealed deeply personal and grim details about his struggles with drug addiction.Hunter Biden, the only surviving son of Joe Biden, faces three felony charges tied to a 2018 firearm purchase while using narcotics. He is accused of making false statements on a gun-purchase form
  
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• Bob Gibbons obituary

  07-06-2024 21:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Inspirational nature photographer and writer whose search for spectacular wildlife took him around the worldThe nature photographer and writer Bob Gibbons, who has died aged 74, once conceived the idea of visiting all the most colourful floral spectacles on Earth. That was no easy feat, for wildflower seasons are unpredictable. When he trekked to find the spectacular alpine gardens of Washington state in the spring, he found them covered by 10 feet of snow. His journeys took him from the Mojave
  
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• Furious Tories turn on Rishi Sunak over D-day commemorations snub

  07-06-2024 21:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Penny Mordaunt criticises absence as ‘completely wrong’ while internal party WhatsApp groups reportedly full of horrified responsesRishi Sunak provoked condemnation from a senior cabinet colleague and fury from Conservative grassroots after he was forced to apologise for skipping a key part of the D-day commemorations, the biggest misstep yet of an already faltering election campaign.Penny Mordaunt, the leader of the House of Commons, criticised the prime minister’s absence fro
  
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• Albert Ruddy obituary

  07-06-2024 21:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Canadian-American producer who won Oscars for the hit film classics The Godfather and Million Dollar BabyIt is common enough for the lives of actors to be dramatised. Even directors get the biographical treatment on occasion. Producers not so much. One exception is Albert S Ruddy, who has died aged 94. His initiative and perseverance in shepherding to the screen the magisterial crime drama The Godfather was documented in the 10-part mini-series The Offer (2022), starring Miles Teller as Ruddy.It
  
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• Anger mounts at Washington Post over leadership changes and CEO’s record

  07-06-2024 20:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Will Lewis’s appointment of his ex-Telegraph lieutenant Robert Winnett sparks fears journalism will be diminishedBelow the archaic font of the Washington Post’s masthead, its motto is printed in italic flourish: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”The publication has been enveloped in its own black cloud this week, as a worsening crisis sparked fears among staff – and media commentators – about the new British senior executives at the heart of its operation. Continue
  
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• Election Extra: Sunak’s D-day disaster

  07-06-2024 20:41 via theguardian.com
  
  The Guardian’s political sketch writer John Crace discusses Sunak’s extraordinary decision to fly home early from Normandy on Thursday and skip the international D-day commemorations Continue reading...
  
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• Wildfire smoke prematurely killed over 50,000 Californians in a decade – study

  07-06-2024 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Exposure to toxic particles also led to $432bn in health expenses between 2008 and 2018More than 50,000 people have died prematurely in California over a decade due to exposure to toxic particles in wildfire smoke, according to a new study.Wildfires create smoke containing PM2.5, tiny particles roughly one-thirtieth of a human hair that can embed themselves deep in the lungs and enter the bloodstream. The particles have been linked to numerous health conditions and premature death. Previous rese
  
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