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Today — 14 October 2024Main stream

Investigation underway after man tried to enter Trump California rally perimeter with guns in vehicle

Federal authorities are investigating after a man with guns in his vehicle was arrested Saturday after he was stopped at a checkpoint near a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump.

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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco speaks before leading the Pledge of Allegiance at a campaign rally for Donald Trump near Coachella, Calif., on Saturday.

SpaceX catches Starship rocket booster in historic test launch

13 October 2024 at 19:22
SpaceX launched its fifth test flight of its Starship rocket on Sunday and made a dramatic first catch of the rocket’s more than 20-story tall booster. It comes as SpaceX makes a big push to send people to the moon and Mars in the coming years. NBC News' Steve Patterson has the latest, and what it means for the future of space travel.

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SpaceX launched its fifth test flight of its Starship rocket on Sunday and made a dramatic first catch of the rocket’s more than 20-story tall booster. It comes as SpaceX makes a big push to send people to the moon and Mars in the coming years. NBC News' Steve Patterson has the latest, and what it means for the future of space travel.
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Joker: Folie à Deux flops further in second week at US box office after lacklustre opening

13 October 2024 at 22:04

Panned sequel to Oscar-winning hit makes just $7m domestically in second weekend, an 81% drop that places it among the steepest ever recorded

Joker: Folie à Deux is continuing its downward trajectory after flopping in its opening weekend, with historically low box office figures in its second week.

The sequel to the 2019 film Joker, which was both a hit with critics and fans, Joker: Folie à Deux grossed $38m at the US box office in its opening weekend, far beneath previous predictions in the $50-70m range.

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How Giorgia Meloni became Europe’s favourite far-right leader – podcast

She’s the far-right prime minister with whom leaders across Europe seem to love being photographed. What’s her appeal and what does she really want? With Alexander Stille

From Keir Starmer to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, every European leader seems keen to have their picture taken with Italy’s Giorgia Meloni. Yet she is the country’s first far right prime minister since the second world war and when she was elected she was talked of as a danger to Europe.

Alexander Stille, a former editor of Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper and now a professor of journalism at Columbia University, has been watching her rise. He looks at the influences that have shaped her – from her romance novelist mother to her time in the government of a previous controversial Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. And, most surprisingly of all, JRR Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings books.

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Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says North Korea providing personnel to Russia’s army

13 October 2024 at 20:27

Increasing alliance between Russia and North Korea goes beyond transferring weapons, Ukraine leader says; Belarusian president says Putin’s nuclear threat will ‘cool the ardour’ of its western adversaries. What we know on day 964

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SpaceX catches returning rocket in mid-air, turning a fanciful idea into reality

13 October 2024 at 20:14

SpaceX accomplished a groundbreaking engineering feat Sunday, when it launched the fifth test flight of its gigantic Starship rocket, then caught the booster back at the launch pad in Texas with mechanical arms seven minutes later.

This achievement is the first of its kind, and it's crucial for SpaceX's vision of rapidly reusing the Starship rocket, enabling human expeditions to the Moon and Mars, routine access to space for mind-bogglingly massive payloads, and novel capabilities that no other company—or country—seems close to attaining.

The test flight began with a thundering liftoff of the 398-foot-tall (121.3-meter) Starship rocket at 7:25 am CDT (12:25 UTC) from SpaceX's Starbase launch site in South Texas, a few miles north of the US-Mexico border. The rocket's Super Heavy booster stage fired 33 Raptor engines, generating nearly 17 million pounds of thrust and gulping 20 tons of methane and liquid oxygen propellants per second at full throttle.

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Hezbollah drone attack kills four IDF soldiers as US prepares to send missile system to Israel

13 October 2024 at 19:56

Strike on base near Binyamina city is deadliest since Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon, and follows rare US commitment to deploy Thaad battery to Israel

A Hezbollah drone attack on an army base in central Israel killed four soldiers and severely wounded seven others on Sunday, the Israeli military said, in the deadliest strike by the militant group since Israel launched its ground invasion of Lebanon nearly two weeks ago.

Hezbollah called the attack near Binyamina city retaliation for Israeli strikes on Beirut on Thursday that killed 22 people. It later said it targeted Israel’s elite Golani brigade, launching dozens of missiles to occupy Israeli air defence systems during the assault by “squadrons” of drones.

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‘We’re a powerhouse’: the Māori canoe and haka leading New Zealand into America’s Cup battle

13 October 2024 at 19:18

As New Zealand goes head to head with the old colonial power, Great Britain, a waka is leading the team out of Barcelona harbour

As New Zealand goes head to head with Great Britain in its defence of the America’s Cup, the Kiwis have a secret weapon, a Māori waka (canoe) that will lead them into the contest.

The race began on 12 October and is due to end a week later. Each race day, the waka will lead Team New Zealand out of Barcelona harbour as a “Māori guard of honour”, says Graham Tipene, coordinator of the waka that is crewed almost entirely by members of the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei iwi (tribe).

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Keir Starmer will promise to slash red tape as he hosts investment summit

Unions express concern as PM to say government will ‘rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment’

Keir Starmer will promise to slash red tape and “rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment” as he hosts hundreds of global business executives for a major summit in central London.

After a troubled run-up to the event, including a bruising row with the Dubai-based owner of P&O Ferries, the prime minister will urge the world’s largest businesses to invest in the UK, promising them stable policy and low regulation as an incentive to do so.

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AI gives voice to dead animals in Cambridge exhibition

13 October 2024 at 19:01

Creatures can converse and share their stories by voice or text through visitors’ mobile phones at Museum of Zoology

If the pickled bodies, partial skeletons and stuffed carcasses that fill museums seem a little, well, quiet, fear not. In the latest coup for artificial intelligence, dead animals are to receive a new lease of life to share their stories – and even their experiences of the afterlife.

More than a dozen exhibits, ranging from an American cockroach and the remnants of a dodo, to a stuffed red panda and a fin whale skeleton, will be granted the gift of conversation on Tuesday for a month-long project at Cambridge University’s Museum of Zoology.

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Paralysed right-to-die activist ‘would be livid’ over lack of change to laws

Daughter of Tony Nicklinson, who died in 2012, says he would be frustrated by new bill’s likely exclusion of those who are not terminally ill

The family of a paralysed right-to-die campaigner who was refused permission to have a doctor kill him has said he would be “absolutely fuming” that the right-to-die laws have not changed in the 12 years since his death.

Tony Nicklinson’s daughter, Lauren Peters, said he would also be frustrated that the assisted dying bill, which covers England and Wales and is due to be published this week, is unlikely to propose legalising assisted dying for people like him who are not terminally ill.

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‘The job starts straight away’: Adrian Ramsay on his first 100 days as Green MP

13 October 2024 at 19:00

Co-leader has had to prioritise the most urgent constituency cases until finally assembling his full team

When Adrian Ramsay confounded more than a century of Conservative hegemony in rural East Anglia to win Waveney Valley for the Greens on a wave of local enthusiasm, he might have expected to enjoy a pleasant political honeymoon.

Pledging to work constructively with the new government, Ramsay’s first significant parliamentary intervention at the inaugural PMQs 20 days into his new job was an innocuous inquiry about how Keir Starmer would show leadership at the forthcoming Cop16 conference on nature. It was met with the football-loving prime minister’s rhetorical equivalent of a two-footed tackle.

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Scientists map the genome of Australian ‘punk’ fish that prefers to walk instead of swim

13 October 2024 at 19:00

Information ‘blueprint’ of the spotted handfish could aid monitoring, captive breeding and protection efforts, scientists say

They’re Australia’s own underwater punks in leopard print.

Spotted handfish are an endangered species of fish that prefer to “walk” instead of swim, thanks to their unusual pectoral and pelvic fins; have a fluffy dorsal fin on their head that looks almost like a mohawk; and live in the waters off south-east Tasmania.

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Man arrested near Donald Trump’s California rally with loaded guns, police say

13 October 2024 at 18:47

The suspect, identified as Las Vegas resident Vem Miller was, apprehended by authorities about half-mile from entrance to Coachella rally

A man armed with guns and false press and VIP passes was apprehended by authorities at a campaign rally in California on Saturday being held by Donald Trump.

The suspect, identified as Las Vegas resident Vem Miller, was intercepted by police at a checkpoint about a half-mile from an entrance to the rally in Coachella Valley, California, soon before the it began, police said Sunday.

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Police launch appeal over man missing from Chelmsford with four children

By: PA Media
13 October 2024 at 18:45

Jethro Cox, 38, is believed to be driving white Ford C-Max and may have travelled towards Romford and Hainault

Police have launched an appeal to find a man who is missing from Chelmsford with four children.

Essex Police said Jethro Cox, 38, is missing from his home, and they believe he is with four children aged five, four and two two-year-olds.

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‘It’s been an incredible ride’: Wales and Lions centre Jonathan Davies retires

By: PA Media
13 October 2024 at 18:22
  • Davies won 96 caps and two grand slams for Wales
  • Centre played six Tests for British and Irish Lions

The former Wales, British and Irish Lions and Scarlets centre Jonathan Davies has announced his retirement from professional rugby.

The 36-year-old, who won 96 caps for Wales, left Scarlets at the end of the 2023-24 season having scored 55 tries in 209 appearances across two spells for the Welsh region.

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Hauntings review – there is not a single spark of wit to this meaningless nonsense

13 October 2024 at 18:05

This docuseries about supposed paranormal activity is dreary, devoid of creativity and picks an atrocious topic for its opening episode. Could they really not have applied some common sense to the Enfield Poltergeist?

Ah! It’s pointless-TV-rehashes-of-supposed-supernatural-phenomena season. Every year I long to skip from September to November and avoid all this, but I have yet to find a way of doing so. Maybe there is a time spell I can cast, or a charm I can wear that will stop Halloween rage consuming me.

Maybe not. Anyway, the stupid, infuriating season gets under way on the small screen with our publicly funded broadcaster pushing out four meaningless lengths of programming that have not a spark of creativity or wit to recommend them. The first hour-long episode of Hauntings is about the Enfield poltergeist (others look at a house in Rhode Island whose owners came to believe it was a portal to extraterrestrial activity, the disturbance of the 17th-century tomb of “Bluidy Mackenzie”, an executioner in Edinburgh, which led to blackouts and paranormal attacks, and the mysterious drownings and ghostly figures associated with Lake Lanier in the US state of Georgia since the 1950s.)

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Lee Carsley fears losing focus if he talks about permanent England job

  • Interim coach says he made mistake at three clubs
  • England bounce back from defeat with win in Finland

Lee Carsley has attempted to explain why he is so reluctant to say whether or not he wants the England manager job on a permanent basis, insisting that it comes down to professional focus.

The interim manager has held the same caretaker position previously at Coventry, Brentford and Birmingham and admits that he spent so much energy thinking about what might happen to him in the longer term at those clubs that he forgot to do the job in hand.

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Harris and Trump, locked in tight race, seek edge among undecided voters

13 October 2024 at 16:11

Presidential candidates spend Sunday trying to shore up support among must-have voting blocs

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump spent Sunday trying to shore up political support among what they perceived to be must-have voting blocs with polls showing them locked in a tight 5 November presidential race.

With election day less than a month away, the Democratic vice-president attended a Black church in Greenville, North Carolina, as part of her campaign’s “souls to the polls” push. She later exalted the way communities – especially in the western part of the state – were coming together after damage from Hurricane Helene in late September, especially the way “people who have the least give the most”.

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WSL roundup: Shaw doubles up as Manchester City sink Liverpool

13 October 2024 at 13:26
  • City stay unbeaten after coming from behind at Anfield
  • Manchester United and Brighton maintain fine starts

Manchester City remain top of the Women’s Super League after two goals from Khadija Shaw helped them to come from behind to secure a 2-1 win against Liverpool.

Despite a hugely dominant performance at Anfield, it took Gareth Taylor’s side until the 58th minute to cancel out Olivia Smith’s first-half strike. It had looked like Liverpool would deal a significant blow to the title chasers, who are a point ahead of Chelsea but have played a game more, but Shaw’s powerful strike into the top corner in the second minute of 10 minutes of stoppage time spared their blushes.

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