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14 hours agoBy Bonnie McLaren, Culture reporterGetty ImagesNetflix’s America’s Sweethearts shows the blood, sweat and tears behind the smilesAmerica’s Sweethearts, which lifts the lid on life in the most famous cheerleading team in the US, has been climbing up the Netflix charts since its release last month.The series follows the gruelling recruitment and coaching process for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders – DCC for short – and how much pressure the members face to be perfect.Among the hopefuls is 24-year-old Ariana McClure – a medical sales rep who moved to Dallas to pursue her dream.It is her second attempt at making the team,…

A senior Hamas commander was killed in an air strike in Gaza on Saturday, the Israeli military has said. Khan Younis Brigade commander Rafa Salama died in the attack, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).In a statement, the Israeli army said Salama was one of the “masterminds” of the 7 October attack and a close associate of Mohammed Deif, the top commander of Hamas’s military wing. The IDF said that Salama’s death “significantly impedes Hamas’ military capabilities”.Israel has said the attack was targeting senior Hamas leaders, but Hamas says the claim is “false” and aimed at “justifying” the attack.The…

Actress Shannen Doherty, best known for roles in hit TV shows like Beverly Hills 90210 and Charmed, died on Saturday from cancer at 53. “It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen Doherty,” her publicist, Leslie Sloane, said in a statement. “The devoted daughter, sister, aunt and friend was surrounded by her loved ones as well as her dog, Bowie.”Doherty spent over four decades as an actress. She is best known for role playing Brenda on four seasons of 90210. The actor was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2015 and underwent a mastectomy,…

57 minutes agoBy Tom McArthur, BBC NewsGetty ImagesThe FBI has named the man who shot at Donald Trump during a campaign rally as Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks is alleged to have opened fire while the former US president was addressing a crowd in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaving one audience member dead and two others badly hurt.The 20-year-old was shot dead at the scene by a Secret Service sniper, officials said.In a statement, the FBI said Crooks was the “subject involved” in the assassination attempt on the former president and that an active investigation was under way.He had not been carrying ID, so investigators…

Getty ImagesThe new government has made tackling NHS waiting times a key priority – and this week appointed NHS surgeon and former health minister Lord Ara Darzi to investigate what is going wrong. Is productivity the place to start?The scale of the challenge facing Health Secretary Wes Streeting was made clear as he announced the review on Thursday. The latest performance figures – the first published since the election – showed the hospital backlog had risen again for a second month in a row, hitting 7.6 million. The British Medical Association called it a “shameful” legacy for the Tories to…

Video footage obtained by TMZ shows the moment a shooter started opening fire at a rally for Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.The FBI says it is treating the incident as an assassination attempt.One bystander was killed in the shooting and two others were critically injured, police said. Source link

BBCRachel Reeves’ favourite chess move is the Sicilian Defence.It’s an opening move designed to open up the board for later in the game – and one the chancellor used often as a junior chess champion. It’s “particularly good when you want to go on the attack,” she suggests.Growing up, Reeves was driven around the country by her parents to compete and beat privately educated boys, often as the only state school-educated girl. The story has echoes of the fictitious chess prodigy Beth Harmon – the lead character in Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit, of which Reeves is a fan -…

2 hours agoBy Anthony Zurcher, @awzurcher, North America correspondentEPADonald Trump when he arrived at the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania A spray of bullets may have only grazed Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday night, but they killed one rally attendee and critically wounded two others.They have also torn through the 2024 presidential campaign, damaging the social and cultural fabric of the nation. The illusion of security and safety in American politics – built over decades – has been dramatically shattered.Trump received only minor injuries but it was close – a photograph by Doug Mills of the New York Times appears to show…

1 hour agoBy BBC Culture team, BBC NewsEuro 2024: Celebrities out in force to wish England well ahead of finalEd Sheeran, Little Simz, Kate Beckinsale and Sir Patrick Stewart are among dozens of celebrities and sports stars who have sent personal messages of support to England ahead of the team’s Euro 2024 final later.The messages will feature in a montage during a pre-match special on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, hosted by Gary Lineker.Among them are contributions from Ricky Tomlinson, who played football manager Mike Bassett, Al Murray as the Pub Landlord, and Craig David singing “we got the Euros in our…

Police in Kenya say they found five bags filled with the dismembered remains of a number of women at a rubbish dump in the capital Nairobi on Saturday. Detectives have been scouring the site in the Mukuru slum since Friday, when the corpses of six other women were found in sacks floating in a sea of rubbish.Officers said the bags recovered on Saturday included severed legs and two torsos, speculating that the deaths could be related to the activities of cultists or serial killers. But the country’s police watchdog said on Friday that it was investigating whether there was any…