The Society of Authors (SoA) is calling on celebrities and the publishing industry to properly acknowledge the writers behind celebrity books, particularly those aimed at children. In a statement published on Monday, the SoA – the largest trade union of writers, illustrators and translators in the UK – said that many celebrity titles, especially those…
Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s military has charged a former spy chief with “engaging in political activities”, in essence accusing him of working with ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan to destabilise the nation. The chargesheet against retired Lieutenant-General Faiz Hamid, the former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), follows months of investigations and proceedings under the Pakistan Army Act….
Top Senate Democrat warns mass deportations ‘would damage our economy and separate American families’ Democratic Senate judiciary committee chair Dick Durbin kicked off the hearing into Donald Trump’s plan for mass deportations by warning that such an effort would inhumane, prohibitively expensive and harmful to the US military. Trump and his advisers have proposed using…
Tel Aviv, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stand Tuesday in his long-running trial for alleged corruption, setting off what’s expected to be a weekslong spectacle that will draw unwelcome attention to his legal woes as he faces an international arrest warrant for war crimes and the fighting in Gaza continues. It is…
Olga Rudnieva Rudnieva has provided prostheses and trauma therapy to over 1,000 amputees Serhiy Petchenko lost both hands while defending Ukraine from Russian invaders in June 2023. After surviving the bitter months-long battle for the city of Bakhmut, his injury came in a railway incident further from the front line. It left the 42-year-old feeling…
CNN — The Democrats’ last line of defense against Republican inroads among working-class voters is continuing to crumble. Even labor unions, which have provided Democrats their best vehicle to reach blue-collar voters, could not prevent Donald Trump from making big gains among their members without a college degree in last month’s presidential election. Trump ran…
The wide-ranging case against Sean “Diddy” Combs ensnared another member of rap royalty Sunday. Jay-Z is accused in a freshly amended lawsuit of sexually assaulting a teenage girl alongside Combs at a 2000 MTV Video Music Awards after-party. The suit, filed originally in October on behalf of an unnamed Alabama woman, alleges Diddy and the Roc Nation…
The public naming of Jay-Z as the mysterious celebrity accused in an anonymous civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean “Diddy” Combs came after weeks of behind-the-scenes battling between the star’s lawyer and the Texas attorney representing the woman. Since Combs was charged by federal prosecutors in a salacious sex trafficking probe, numerous…
The election of Donald Trump this year shattered a long-standing piece of conventional wisdom in American politics: that Latinos will vote overwhelmingly for whichever party has the more liberal approach to immigration, making them a reliable Democratic constituency. This view was once so pervasive that the Republican Party’s 2012 post-election autopsy concluded that the party…
Birthday wishes go out to Raven-Symone, Kiki Layne and all the other celebrities with birthdays today. Check out our slideshow below to see photos of famous people turning a year older on December 10th and learn an interesting fact about each of them. Top celebrity birthdays on December 10, 2024 Kenneth Branagh arrives at the…