How a wild week in Washington changed the game for Biden and Trump
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Departing his small, unshowy home state of Delaware, Joe Biden roared into the sky aboard Air Force One, borne aloft by jet fuel and a dramatic uplift in his political fortunes. A thousand miles away, some unexpected ...
TV tonight: a magnetic Colin Firth gears up for the finale of The Staircase
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Amid many controversies (claims that it irresponsibly blurs the truth; killer-owl storylines), the magnetic performances in this drama shouldn’t be overlooked: Colin Firth’s hypnotic turn as Michael Peterson and Odess...
Colin Cantwell, Star Wars designer behind the X-Wing and Death Star, dies aged 90
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Colin Cantwell, the man who designed the spacecraft in the Star Wars films, has died at the age of 90. Sierra Dall, Cantwell’s partner of more than two decades, confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that he had died at ...
‘His heart is broken’: Buffalo mourns shooting victims as first funeral held
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The first of 10 funerals for the 10 Black people killed in a Buffalo supermarket was held on Friday following an impassioned gathering of Black civil rights and community leaders at a church the night before where spe...
Washington Post wins public service Pulitzer for Capitol attack coverage
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The Washington Post has won the 2022 Pulitzer prize for public service journalism, for The Attack, its account of the deadly assault on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump on 6 January 2021. The paper beat tw...
The Staircase review – Colin Firth and Toni Collette scale the heights in riveting true-crime tale
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If you didn’t know it was true, you wouldn’t believe it. That’s the abiding sense left by the latest miniseries from HBO Max (shown here on Sky Atlantic), The Staircase. The eight-part drama tells the story of Michael...
‘A visionary in many ways’: art world mourns loss of Yolngu artist Mr Wanambi
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The art world is mourning the loss of one of Australia’s most respected First Nations artists, Mr Wanambi, with one of his mentees saying “his passing has changed our entire landscape”. The Yolngu painter, film-maker ...
Suspect in shooting that injured four near Washington school found dead, police say
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A gunman opened fire on random victims from a sniper’s nest on the upper floor of an apartment building near an elite prep school in Washington, wounding four people before taking his own life as police burst into his...