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USA TODAYTaylor Swift draws backlash for 'all the racists' lyrics on new 'Tortured Poets' album
Global superstar Taylor Swift is drawing the ire of the internet after a lyric saying she wished she lived in "the 1830s but without all the racists."
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Princess Kate influences Prince William to make big change amid return to public duties
The Princess of Wales influenced Prince William to make a big change to his fashion sense when he headed to Sunbury-on-Thames for a visit to Surplus to Supper this week, marking his return to public duties
- BBC
Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department broke Spotify record
The Tortured Poets Department became Spotify's most-streamed album in a single day, the platform said.
- The Canadian Press
Labrador woman going home after harrowing evacuation from raging fire's 'blast zone'
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A Newfoundland and Labrador woman worries she'll find the windows blasted out of her building when she returns home today after a massive fire nearby forced her, her husband and their six dogs to flee on Friday evening. Monica Legge says she had just sat down to dinner when her phone lit up with frantic messages about the fire at the old airport in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, a community of about 7,000 people in central Labrador. She says she was watching the massive blaze from he
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Victoria Beckham shows off toned arms in steamy photo with shirtless David Beckham
Victoria Beckham turned 50 on Wednesday and ahead of her birthday bash posed for a steaming photo with her husband, David Beckham. See photo.
- The Conversation
How Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave
Tombstones that used the honorifics ‘Mr.’ and ‘Mrs.’ restored a sense of dignity to people who had been denied it in life.
- Evening Standard
Man City vs Chelsea LIVE! FA Cup match stream, latest team news, lineups, TV, prediction today
The winner will face Manchester United or Coventry in the final
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Police launch murder investigation months after woman, 74, disappears
Bedfordshire Police said they believe Annette Smith has not been seen since November.
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Cyclists take part in slow ride for safer streets
Around 160 cyclists took part in the ride calling for safer streets for children.
- Digital Spy
Coronation Street's Isabella Flanagan pays tribute as close friend bows out from soap
Coronation Street star Isabella Flanagan has paid tribute after her close friend Savannah Kunyo bowed out of the soap this week.
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Iraq explosion at Iran-allied militias' base
Iraqi authorities said Saturday that they are investigating an explosion that struck a base belonging to the Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of Iran-allied militias, overnight, killing one person and injuring eight.
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Dubai airport: Full schedule resumes after flooding chaos
Emirates airline has apologised for the disruption, saying its response was far from "perfect".
- Miami Herald
How Miami-Dade students are feeding astronauts. Inside NASA-funded program at Fairchild
“If you would’ve told me in middle school that I would be doing research for NASA, I would’ve never believed you.”
- The Conversation
Harnessing the brain’s immune cells to stave off Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases
Microglia, immune cells disguised as brain cells, are known as the janitors of the brain. Dialing up their usual duties just enough could provide an avenue to treat neurodegenerative disease.
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AP Photos: The skies fill with color at a Chinese kite festival
More than 1,000 kites filled the skies of Weifang, an eastern Chinese coastal city that touts itself as the “kite capital of the world,” on Saturday. Locals say there is nothing that can’t sail the skies of Weifang. From dragons to pandas, modern cars to mythical characters from a canonical Chinese novel, kite craftsmen and aficionados showcased their latest art at the Weifang International Kite Festival.
- The Canadian Press
The Senate passes a reauthorization of a key US surveillance program just after a midnight deadline
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barely missing its midnight deadline, the Senate voted early Saturday to reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse. The legislation approved 60-34 with bipartisan support would extend for two years the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk to become law. Whit
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor working on 'happy disco music' after Murder On The Dance Floor Saltburn resurgence
EXCLUSIVE The singer has spoken about her next move after the ‘magical’ new lease of life given to her 2001 disco-pop hit
- The Telegraph
Advantage Chelsea after Barca blunted in Women’s Champions League semi-final
Chelsea ended Barcelona’s five-year unbeaten streak at home, to take an unlikely advantage home for the second leg of this Champions League semi-final.
- BBC
Squatters vow to stay in Gordon Ramsay pub
Squatters say they have come to an agreement with the owners of the York and Albany near Regent's Park in north London.
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