Jackson’s silky voice earned him two Grammy nominations and a slate of platinum and gold records.

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Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adoptive mother in later life Eva Marie Saint, one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s golden age of the 1940s and 50s, has died aged 102. Her screen work spanned six decades: Saint made her screen debut opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s celebrated thriller North by Northwest, and in one of her last screen appearances played Superman’s adoptive mother Martha Kent in the 2006 superhero film Superman Returns. A family spokesman said on Tuesday that Saint had died of natural causes at her home in Los Angeles. Continue reading...

Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities

Michael Goessling’s first phone call with his biological father brought a shock: He was speaking to Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers.

In a small Idaho town, a young mother is accused of killing her young twins. She blames the childhood vaccines they received.

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

‘Healthy demand backdrop’ for manufacturers but fuel and transport costs on the rise, says AIB

Defense secretary ranted against diversity claiming ‘no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals’ in troops * Send us your questions about how the Iran war will affect US voters in the midterms US defense secretary Pete Hegseth has confirmed plans to cut 20% of generals and admirals and declared “no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps” would be tolerated inside the country’s military. Delivering his latest extraordinary attack on diversity, and dismissing reports of low morale within the US armed forces as “false claims”, Hegseth also suggested they were retaining service personnel at “record” rates. Continue reading...

Bestselling author of ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ has written his first novel for adults about the caprices of celebrity and self-identify in a digital world

Five British men arrested on suspicion of terror offences have since been released on bail

The BBC has announced more wide-ranging cuts to local radio and regional TV news provision with the expected loss of 90 jobs.

Kowtowing to tyrants makes him think he’s strong.

The game went ahead, Ireland won - but that doesn't even start to tell the history and controversy of Sunday's match

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officials The film-makers behind NAZA, the award-winning documentary on Israel’s systemic mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, defended their findings at the film’s North American premiere in New York on Saturday, amid protests in Israel and escalating threats from Israeli officials to strip them of their citizenship. The critically acclaimed film, directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, features the testimony of 24 anonymized Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers involved in the surveillance and remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, who describe the AI-powered systems used to select their targets. The project takes its name from an acronym used euphemistically by Israeli intelligence to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike, which are often conducted at night in private homes, killing many family members, including children, at once. Continue reading...

New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.

The singer failed but there is a principled way forward.

Head of communications Shlomi Barzel says he takes back using the word ‘stupidity’ when describing Heimir Hallgrímsson

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

In this documentary, Israeli military and intelligence sources reveal systems, policies, and practices that have resulted in high numbers of civilian deaths and widespread destruction.

The new security agreement allows the US to establish two additional military bases on the Arctic island.