• Not everyone from Labour has given Tory defector Dan Poulter a warm welcome

    Following Dan Poulter's switch from blue to red, the pleasantries haven't quite been extended from all corners of the Labour Party.

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    Shelley Duvall Says People 'Turned' On Her As She Talks About Career In Rare Interview

    The Shining star Shelley Duvall just gave a rare interview to the New York Times, in which she addressed her absence from the spotlight and her longtime partner opened up about some of the hardships she's dealt with in that time. Duvall hasn't acted since the 2002 film "Manna from Heaven," effectively retiring at the time. In the years since, she's been somewhat reclusive, aside from a highly-publicized appearance on "Dr. Phil" in 2016 and her role in the upcoming horror movie, The...

  • ‘A lot of collective trauma’: Sweden’s Indigenous Sami people speak to truth commission

    Authorities have been hearing how historical wrongdoing against Sami people has affected their livesBefore starting “nomad school” – a segregated church-run school system for Indigenous children that existed in Sweden until the 1960s – aged seven, Lars Stenberg had only ever known the safe environment of his family.But after three years of bullying at the institution – which the Swedish church has since admitted to being racist – he was left with emotional scars so deep they still haunt him...

  • What happens when people deceive people, P-D-P, by Emmanuel Aziken

    For those with PDP DNA in their system, it was eerie that the once-dominant political party could have been so swept aside to the point of irrelevance in the polity

  • Rishi Sunak says young people are 'trapped on benefits' when they 'ought to be in the prime of their lives' amid push to get people with 'mild' mental health problems back to work

    They will be told to get therapy and crack on under plans to be outlined this afternoon as ministers seek to reduce the 3.5million disability benefits bill.

  • Some People Have All the Luck

    How many people do you know who work really hard? Or have a strikingly good sense of what’s becoming popular? Or have a talent for getting things done? You probably know people — maybe even bunches of people — in all these categories. Our world is teeming with hardworking, perceptive, and talented people. Now let’s More

  • Warming Up This Week

    Sunny and warm start to the week. A series of disturbances will keep weather unsettled beginning Tuesday.

  • Power to the people

    What is worse than this infernal weather, with the heat index surging to the mid-40s, threatening people’s health and well-being, and causing either the suspension of classes or a shift to synchronous or asynchronous modes of learning?

  • Career Hype

    by Anonymous I applied for a position posted on my LinkedIn page, a public service job with a major Multnomah County organization. I'm fine with the job I have but since I had most of the listed qualifications I applied out of curiosity. The online application process took me through a number of steps that didn't seem to relate to the job posted, including providing contact information to a recruiting company called Lensa. It was impossible to proceed...

  • Welcome kiss

    Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, right, welcomes Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa at the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting, on the Island of Capri, Italy, on Wednesday. Soaring tensions in the Mideast and Russia's continuing war in Ukraine top the agenda for the meeting which runs until Friday.

  • PEOPLE, PLACES & THINGS

    BY GWEN DERU | The Birmingham Times TODAY READ THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES. Catch up on the news! ALABAMA BLAZIN BINGO, 6 p.m. at Overtime Grill and Bar. FILM – 7 p.m. at the Sidewalk Film. LEGENDS NIGHT WITH HEATH GREEN, SUE WESTCOTT & ADAM GUTHRIE! at the Nick. BURLESQUE NIGHT at The Nick. DRAKE WHITE – THE BRIDGE TOUR at Iron City. ALABAMA BLAZIN BINGO, 6 p.m. at Overtime Grill and Bar. THIRST TRAP THURSDAY, 5 p.m. at 2400 7th Avenue South. LIVE BAND KARAOKE hosted by ELLE JAI at...

  • Continuing the warming trend!

    DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — We're keeping temperatures much more mild tonight with higher dew points leading to upper 50s with mostly clear skies. Thursday will be partly cloudy, but we'll have enough sunshine to warm us up to the middle 80s. A few isolated showers will be possible. Brief, heavy rain will be possible in []