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The controversy, she alleges, prompted ITV to remove her on repeated occasions from the line-up of its long-running lunchtime programme.”ITV have continued to take me on and off Loose Women, forever changing the goalposts whilst also saying they couldn’t guarantee they wouldn’t take me off again as it would depend on what was said,” she said.Sawalha added that she was “hired for being an opinionated woman on a discussion show and I’ve never brought up or spoken about Palestine directly on the show”.The presenter also said she wanted to express “how sad I am that it’s got to this -…

By Roxana Walker, updated August 6, 2026 Maczo says its observed Player Win Rate increased by 70% in the period after the crypto gaming platform expanded Provably Fair verification and removed routine document-based KYC from standard play. For investors and market watchers, the headline is less important than the mechanism and the quality of the disclosure. The update connects product transparency, privacy, risk controls and user economics. It also leaves several questions that a serious due-diligence process should answer. Maczo has confirmed that the figure refers to Player Win Rate, but it has not published the starting and ending rates,…

Harmanpreet Kaur batting during the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup match between India and South Africa, at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester, England, Sunday June 21, 2026. (AP) Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Thursday revised the schedule for the India women’s team’s tour later this year by adding a three-match T20I series to the itinerary, alongside the already scheduled one-off Test and three ODIs.Under the revised schedule, the one-off Test will be played from December 9 to 12, followed by the ODI series from December 16 to 22.India will now stay in South Africa for an extra week to play the…

Representational image. Generated through AI. Great discoveries rarely announce themselves with fanfare. More often, they begin with a moment so ordinary that almost everyone else overlooks it.For California middle-school student Seungah Chung, that moment arrived while watching ants march purposefully across the ground. Like countless others, she had seen the tiny insects carrying food and disappearing into their nests. Unlike most people, however, she didn’t simply move on.How could creatures with brains no bigger than a grain of sand travel long distances so confidently? What invisible map were they following?That simple curiosity eventually grew into an award-winning research project, earning…

In Bitcoin news today, BitMEX co-founder and Maelstrom Chief Investment Officer Arthur Hayes has made his most direct Bitcoin price prediction yet: $1M per coin, driven not by a crypto-native catalyst but by the collapse of what he calls the largest credit bubble in modern history. The mechanism he describes is the AI infrastructure buildout, and the trail of debt financing it leaves behind. Hayes argues that Bitcoin’s path to $1M runs through a financial crisis, not around one, and that crisis hasn’t happened yet. In a podcast appearance and subsequent letter to his readers, the BitMEX co-founder believes that…

Gold enters August with fresh momentum, but Fed policy, inflation, and real yields could decide whether the breakout has legs.

Most peo­ple know that Mark Twain wrote about Jim and Huck­le­ber­ry Finn nav­i­gat­ing down the Mis­sis­sip­pi. Less well known is that he occa­sion­al­ly dab­bled in the bur­geon­ing genre of sci­ence fic­tion. His 1898 short sto­ry “The Great Dark” is about a ship that sails across a drop of water on a micro­scope slide. His nov­el A Con­necti­cut Yan­kee in King Arthur’s Court is one of the first to explore time trav­el. And, in a short sto­ry called “From The ‘Lon­don Times’ in 1904,” Twain pre­dict­ed the inter­net. In 1898. Read it here. Set six years into the future, the sto­ry starts off…

After Patsy Ramsey called 911 at 5:52 a.m. on Dec. 26, 1996, to report that her daughter JonBenét Ramsey had been kidnapped, she and husband John Ramsey also reached out to a number of their friends, who came right over to support the couple. In turn, in addition to responding officers, there were people milling around the Ramseys’ 5,000-square-foot home all day before John found JonBenét’s body in the basement shortly after 1:30 p.m. “I should have removed all those people from the scene, that was a crime scene mistake,” retired Boulder Police Detective Bob Whitson recalled in the Netflix…

How do you navigate the highs and lows of high school when you also have a terminally ill parent? This is the question at the center of Julia Hart‘s latest musical drama, “Don’t Say Good Luck,” which stars Sunny Sandler (star of the delightful 2023 comedy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah“) as a young woman navigating this difficult situation.  Writer-director Julia Hart was born with Hollywood in her blood: her father James V. Hart wrote the screenplays for Steven Spielberg’s “Hook” (1991) and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (1992). But she still took a long…

A recent interview in Foreign Affairs acknowledges: it’s hard to name someone alive today who has had more of an effect on how America thinks about trade policy than Robert Lighthizer. In “The New Trade Order,” he lays out the case against free trade. For decades, he says, Washington chased a free-trade fantasy. The “trifecta of stupid” (his phrase for NAFTA, the WTO, and permanent normal trade relations with China) exposed our markets, caused the “China shock,” and shipped millions of manufacturing jobs overseas. The narrative result is a hollowed-out heartland where wages stagnated while coastal areas like San Francisco…