Trial will see more questions for former National Enquirer publisher following his testimony about acatch-and-killa schemes to buy up negative stories

Trump defense attorney Emil Bove has resumed his cross-examination of Pecker.

aWe were talking about Hope Hicks, right?a Bove asked, referring to the former campaign and White House aide to Trump. Pecker answered in the affirmative.

Tarana Burke called Harvey Weinsteinas accusers aheroesa and said movement would continue to bring progress to society

The founder of the #MeToo movement, Tarana Burke, has called the women who spoke out against Harvey Weinstein aheroesa and said such campaigns for justice and equality will continue to bring about progress in society.

Burke, who nearly two decades ago coined the phrase aMe tooa from her work with sexual assault survivors, found herself again declaring a after New Yorkas highest court in a shock decision on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinsteinas 2020 rape conviction in the city a the #MeToo reckoning is greater than any court case.

Multiple arrests at crackdown on Emory University campus encampment focused on Palestine and Cop City

Police have carried out multiple violent arrests at Emory University in Decatur, Georgia, in what appears to be the first campus crackdown in recent days to involve rubber bullets and teargas after students set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine and against Cop City.

On Thursday, Emory students set up multiple tents on the campusas lawns in protest against the universityas ties to Israel, as well Atlantaas Cop City, a police and fire department training center that is being constructed on a 171-acre plot in a forest south-east of Atlanta.

Infant dies five days after caesarean delivery following death of mother in Israeli airstrike in Rafah

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A premature Palestinian baby rescued from her motheras womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike has died, the babyas uncle has said.

Sabreen Jouda died in a Gaza hospital on Thursday after her health deteriorated and medical teams were unable to save her, Rami al-Sheikh said on Friday.

After meeting with Xi Jinping in Beijing, Antony Blinken says relations improving but rift remains over Ukraine war

Antony Blinken has warned Xi Jinping at a meeting in Beijing that the US and its European allies are ready to impose new sanctions on Chinese companies if they do not stop supplying material and equipment to the Russian arms industry.

There was no immediate response from Xi, but earlier on Friday Chinaas foreign minister, Wang Yi, said adisruptionsa could reverse recent improvements in US-China relations and lead to a adownward spirala of rivalry, confrontation and even conflict.

Plan to break up Noaa claims its research is aclimate alarmisma and calls for commercializing forecasts, weakening forecasts

Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), disbanding its work on climate science and tailoring its operations to business interests.

Joe Bidenas presidency has increased the profile of the science-based federal agency but its future has been put in doubt if Trump wins a second term and at a time when climate impacts continue to worsen.

South Dakota governor includes bloody tale in campaign volume a and admits aa better politician a| wouldnat tell the story herea

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In 1952, as a Republican candidate for vice-president, Richard Nixon famously stirred criticism by admitting receiving a dog, Checkers, as a political gift.

In 2012, as the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney was pilloried for tying a dog, Seamus, to the roof of the family car for a cross-country trip.

Excitement among patients and researchers as custom-built jabs enter phase 3 trial

Doctors have begun trialling in hundreds of patients the worldas first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its agamechanginga potential to permanently cure cancer.

Melanoma affects about 132,000 people a year globally and is the biggest skin cancer killer. Currently, surgery is the main treatment although radiotherapy, medicines and chemotherapy are also sometimes used.

Therapy has remarkable medical potential but experts say private clinics making far-reaching claims operate in regulatory grey zone

Stem cells have become a favoured miracle treatment among the rich and famous, with Kim Kardashian reportedly a fan of stem cell facials and Cristiano Ronaldo turning to stem cell injections after a hamstring injury.

The latest to extol their benefits is the Monty Python actor John Cleese, who suggests that stem cells could hold the secret to eternal youth a or, at least, buy him aa few extra yearsa.

Rapper trails summer release of The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de GrAC/ce) with a fictional crime report suggesting that the antic character will meet a violent end

One of the great alter egos in pop could be meeting a grisly end, as Eminem announces his first album since 2020: The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de GrAC/ce).

Set for release on an unspecified date this summer, the album was announced with a trailer that frames the demise of the antic character, with a crime reporter saying to camera: aThrough his complex and oft-criticised tongue-twisting rhymes, the anti-hero known as Slim Shady has had no shortage of enemies a| rude lyrics and controversial antics may have ultimately led to his demise.a

Students demonstrating and hunger-striking face arrests and hospitalization a but they think they can make a difference

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The arrests of more than a hundred Columbia University students, who were protesting against Israelas actions in Gaza, shed more light on arguably the most energetic pro-Palestinian movement in the US: the one taking places on college campuses around the country.

Since Israel launched its war on Gaza in October, in response to terrorist attacks by Hamas, students have launched protests, sit-ins and, most recently, encampments, in a wave they hope will encourage universities to divest from companies which have ties to Israelas military.

As support for abortion even in states as red as Kentucky and Kansas grows, the GOP appears to be breaking ranks with the hardliners

In the two years since the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, the 50-year-long partnership between Republicans and anti-abortion activists has steadily fractured as political backlash to abortion bans has mounted. But perhaps the biggest crack emerged on Wednesday, when Arizonaas Republican-controlled state legislature moved to repeal the stateas 1864 near-total abortion ban.

After days of national outcry over an Arizona supreme court ruling that upheld the 1864 ban, passed before Arizona became a state, three Republicans in the state house broke ranks to vote with Democrats to support a repeal. Last week, two Republicans in the state senate also voted with Democrats to advance a similar repeal. As long as those Republican votes hold firm, Democrats will likely send the repeal to Arizonaas Democratic governor in May.

The professor on his famous 13 akeysa to the White House, a method for predicting election results thatas been right nine times out of 10

He has been called the Nostradamus of US presidential elections. Allan Lichtman has correctly predicted the result of nine of the past 10 (and even the one that got away, in 2000, he insists was stolen from Al Gore). But now he is gearing up for perhaps his greatest challenge: Joe Biden v Donald Trump II.

Lichtman is a man of parts. The history professor has been teaching at American University in Washington for half a century. He is a former North American 3,000m steeplechase champion and, at 77 a the same age as Trump a aiming to compete in the next Senior Olympics. In 1981 he appeared on the TV quizshow Tic-Tac-Dough and won $110,000 in cash and prizes.

Egg cartons are labeled with all sorts of descriptors, making grocery shopping a confusing experience. Experts tell us what these labels mean and how to shop

Shopping for eggs at the grocery store can be a confusing experience. Cartons are labeled with all kinds of descriptors a natural, organic, cage-free, free-range a and some cost more at checkout. But what do they actually mean, and for ethically minded consumers, are they actually worth the money?

Protein-packed eggs are linked to relatively low carbon emissions compared with other land-based animal protein sources, but not all eggs are created equal when it comes to the environment, health or animal welfare, experts say.

Standout spots include food truck parks, honky-tonk hangouts and Lady Birdas wildflower sanctuary

Austin has become one of the most popular places in the US to move to, and also to visit. Droves of people descend on the city in March for the South by Southwest tech, film and music festival and in the fall for the Austin City Limits music festival. And Austin is one of the top five destinations in the US for bachelorette parties. Donat let the bachelorettes scare you away, though. Austin is a great place to spend a few days, so long as you do it like a local.

My family and I moved to Austin 12 years ago, after living in New York for many years. Iave also lived in Washington DC, the San Francisco Bay Area and Philadelphia. Austin has a feel all of its own: it has a world-class music scene, great food that now goes well beyond Tex-Mex and barbecue, Texas history and fun shopping and museums a all with less hassle than bigger cities in the US.

Rates are improving in the US as healthcare organizations take steps to confront the continuing crisis. Still, new mothers often feel alone: aPeople donat know what to doa

After five months of maternity leave with her second baby, a daughter born on 26 March 2020, Pam Lins felt she was ready to return to work and start a new role. This was the first year of the pandemic, so she had to work remotely while simultaneously raising her newborn and a toddler.

Six weeks into her leadership position a about eight months postpartum a she finally admitted something was wrong.

The actoras feminist credentials, a wholehearted embrace of comedy and being one of the most memed actors on social media has seen Goslingas auto-satirising alpha male become white-hot box office in 2024

In Hollywood, there are no accidents. Ryan Goslingas role in stuntman pic The Fall Guy, hard on the heels of his show-stopping Oscars rendition of Iam Just Ken, is perfectly timed to confirm his ascension to the very top tier of stardom. Not only is it a four-quadrant entertainment turbo boost a covering all audience bases with action, romance, a legacy franchise for the oldies, John Wick-slick for the kids a it is shrink-wrapped to his public persona. His role as stunt veteran Colt Seavers, saving the skin of the idiot megastar he doubles for, caps off the stance Gosling has upheld on talkshows and memes over the last decade: stardom and celebrity as a delectable facade, an in-joke between star and audience to be played with the lightest of ironic touches.

But of course Gosling is a bona fide star, one of Hollywoodas most important. His confused, toxic himbo Ken stole the Barbie limelight from Margot Robbie. Tunnelling into classic archetypes of masculinity with modern self-awareness is the on-screen niche he has made his own a giving us a new, uniquely supple male star for the post-#MeToo era. His mainstream roles a getaway drivers, daredevil motorcyclists, venal bankers a have often been ultra-macho, but the actor himself comes with rounded metrosexual edges. Men want to be him, with his debonair cool and inexhaustible supply of swanky jackets (the leather Miami Vice stunt-team number in The Fall Guy being the latest). As far back as 2017, Morwenna Ferrier noted that Gosling clones, sporting a certain aturbo cleanlinessa, were now on the loose in cities everywhere.

The 27-year-old American actor has gone from the Disney channel to new classy arthouse threesome drama Challengers, via a massive blockbuster and a hot-button TV series. So can she convince as an Oscar contender?

Actor-model-producer Zendaya Coleman a universally known mononymously, without her last name a has never been short of attention, but it feels as if the 27-year-old has arrived at a breakthrough moment. With the tennis romance Challengers arriving in cinemas, in which she is the central focus, the sci-fi blockbuster Dune: Part Two still reeling in audiences, and acting as the simultaneous cover star of two separate editions of Vogue magazine a the British and the American a Zendaya appears to have achieved a new level.

Her career has so far specialised in an impressively high number of attention-grabbing moments, including appearing in a spectacularly bizarre metallic silver arobot suita at the premiere of Dune: Part Two earlier this year, and the Challengers trailer release in June 2023, with its sexually suggestive premise of a threeway love affair.

He melted hearts as Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid, but his latest role couldnat be more different a playing an Auschwitz tattooist in an epic Holocaust drama. The actor opens up about how his own familyas plight inspired him

Itas not every day that I meet a real-life Disney prince. Itas even more discombobulating when he tells me he spent the weekend cheering on Clapton CFC womenas team in windy east London. aBefore The Little Mermaid, a lot of people told me, aThis is going to happen! That is going to happen!aa says Jonah Hauer-King, who starred as Prince Eric in last yearas remake. aItas just really not the case. I wouldnat say my life has changed much. Honestly.a Itas probably about to, though. Massively.

The 28-year-old lifelong Londoner is sharply suited and booted in the capitalas Corinthia hotel, ready to take on a full day of press with the poise and charm that clearly helped him bag that wide-eyed royal part (he even convincingly claims that these interviews are worth missing his beloved Arsenalas Champions League game in the evening for). His next project, however, is a world away from Disney dreams.

EV sales have plateaued across the world but the newfound glut of vehicles may just be temporary

Elon Musk became the worldas richest man by evangelising about electric cars a and delivering them by the million. Yet in recent months his company, Tesla, has struggled to maintain its momentum: sales have dropped this year, and so has its share price.

Those struggles have become emblematic of a broader reckoning facing the electric vehicle (EV) industry. After the soaring demand and valuations of the coronavirus pandemic years, the pace of sales growth has slowed. The industry has entered a new phase, with questions over whether the switch from petrol and diesel to cleaner electric is facing a troublesome stall or a temporary speed bump.

Fatima has taken drastic action to cure Sadeas chronic lateness. Sade says she doesnat need her hand holding. You decide whose time is up
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I know Iam perennially late but by changing the clocks, Fatima makes me feel infantilised

Sade hasnat changed all the clocks back. I think on a subconscious level she knows it actually helps her

Both were pilloried, but that was then. Today, one has beaten a rape conviction, the other may return as president

According to his representatives, former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is still digesting the overturning of his rape conviction by a New York court, but they did come out to say he was acautiously exciteda. Cautiously excited? Iam not sure these are the words Iad alight on to paint a word-picture of a rapist. You might as well say atentatively arouseda. Then again, as weare about to discuss, quite a lot of guys donat particularly have to worry about what they say or do, or how they say or do it. Itas only natural that Harvey should very much want to be one of them again.

Speaking of word-pictures, though, howas this for a vignette of our times? When they heard the news that Weinsteinas conviction had been overturned on Thursday, a whole host of reporters happened to be looking at the exact spot in the exact New York courtroom that head sat in when that original judgment had been handed down. This was because they were waiting for Donald Trump to sit in it for Thursdayas proceedings in his hush money trial. Mr Trump, you might recall, is in such a lot of trouble that he is the presumptive Republican nominee and current bookiesa favourite to win the US presidency again, though admittedly he lags behind Weinstein on the sexual assault and misconduct front, given that only 26 women have accused him of it. Ultimately, though, I guess the question is: if #MeToo awent too fara, what would agoing just far enougha have looked like?

The California university cancelled Asna Tabassumas speech because of asecurity concernsa. The real reason is cowardice

When Asna Tabassum, a hijab-wearing Muslim, was announced as the valedictorian for the University of Southern California class of 2024, my initial reaction was the thought of my south Asian mother saying, aWhat are you doing? Why arenat you valedictorian?a But what followed was pride.

Then the university announced last week that it would no longer allow Tabassum to speak at commencement. After pro-Israel groups mischaracterized Tabassumas pro-Palestinian views as aantisemitica, the USC administration claimed that security concerns made her speech untenable.

aI am not surprised by those who attempt to propagate hatred,a Tabassum, a friend of mine, wrote in a statement. aI am surprised that my own university a my home for four years a has abandoned me.a

This is not a repeat of the Covid pandemic. Yet global governments should follow the US and prepare a response

Avian flu, or H5N1, is making headlines in the United States. The past few years have seen concerning signs of it spreading across the world a whether in chickens in Britain, sea lions in Peru, or Caspian seals in Russia. This time, it is has been confirmed in American cows, and the World Health Organization has warned that the risk of it spreading to humans is of aenormous concerna.

While it is early days, the hypothesis is that in late 2023, a single cow was infected by coming into contact with infected birdsa faeces, or having infected dead birds in its feed. This began cow-to-cow transmission, and potentially even cow-to-bird transmission. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also confirmed one human case of H5N1 in a farm worker, which could either represent cow-to-human (not seen before) or bird-to-human transmission.

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

His viral TikToks of his generic 9-5 life in a Texas suburb have become a Rorschach test of sorts

Connor Hubbard might be the most boring man on the internet. The 29-year-old dresses like a generic white guy, lives in a nice but unremarkable house in the Dallas, Texas, suburbs and works a 9-5 in insurance. He alives fora his morning coffee and loves going to the gym after work and watching TV in the evening. He is perfectly happy with his mundane existence a which includes a wife, a dog and a baby on the way a and does not aspire to anything more. The internet is obsessed with him.

Every few months one of Hubbardas slice-of-an-ordinary-life videos goes viral eliciting extreme reactions. A Rorschach test of sorts, half of the viewers seem to think his world is morbidly depressing (awhat is the point of even living?a one person asked), while the other half thinks it is hugely aspirational. Under the comment section of the latest video to go viral, people are having heated debates about whether the man is a role model or a cautionary tale.

Germanyas complicity with Turkeyas repressive regime worries me more than its dAPner diplomacy

aNazis eat dAPner kebabs in secret,a must be one of the dumbest slogans I have seen at German protests against the far right. Yes, the popularity of the kebab in Germany has become something of a symbol of labour migration from Turkey after the second world war. And yes, Nazis get hungry, too. So what? If the consumption of ethnic-minority food was really an obstacle to the ideology of white supremacy, Germans would either be starved out by now or they wouldnat vote for Alternative fA1/4r Deutschland (AfD). Neither of these is the case: the kebab is the second most popular fast food among Germans, and according to polls, the AfD their second most popular political party.

Still, for the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, it seems to be a sign of cosmopolitanism to promote kebab eating, so his team thought it a good idea to send him to Turkey with a whole skewer full of meat as part of an official visit this week, the first by a German president in 10 years.

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The Atlanta Falcons provided the shock of the first round of the NFL draft by selecting quarterback Michael Penix Jr with the No 8 overall pick on Thursday night.

The Falcons extended their recent trend of selecting offensive skill players in the first round by drafting Penix one month after signing Kirk Cousins to a four-year, $180m contract with $100m guaranteed. Using a draft slot normally targeted for players expected to make an immediate impact, the Falcons picked Penix as the apparent long-term successor to the 35-year-old Cousins. The Falcons had been expected to use the pick to boost their pass rush.

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Chris Wilder has been in contemplative mood this morning as the spectre of Sheffield Unitedas impending relegation (finally) moves in. A loss to Newcastle on Saturday will confirm their place in the 2024/25 Championship.

Weare not saying everything is great. What we are saying is there is a load of optimism about the future of the football club. Itas a poor season, not a poor football club. Weave been in far more worse positions than this as a football club, certainly over my time as a supporter, player and manager.

So, weall come again if the inevitable happens on the weekend. Weall try our best, as we did, like we did on Wednesday night at Old Trafford, to get a result for our club and our supporters.

I canat be the only person who thinks the media love-in for Roberto de Zerbi is a little overblown, right? Brighton has played some very pretty football under his management, but then they did under Potter. And the results are no better. In recent months, theyave looked pretty soft.

If De Zerbi gets a bigger job off the back of an aOKa job at Brighton, then he should really thank the Brighton recruitment team because theyare the real assets at the club.