Getty Images Lorde recently performed a not-so-secret set at Glastonbury Fans of singer Lorde say copies of her latest album won’t work in CD players. Virgin, the newest release from the New Zealand-born star, came out last Friday, the same day as a “secret” Glastonbury performance. Lorde fan Max tells BBC Newsbeat they pre-ordered a...
Reuters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a site in Israel hit by Iranian missiles Back in March, as he turned his back on a ceasefire process that was delivering results, the Israeli prime minister took a decision described by some commentators as akin to “political suicide”. The Gaza ceasefire deal, brokered by Donald Trump’s envoy...
Munaza Rafiq Disability news producer Handout Kailee Kember-Brown says she has only heard back from 10 of the 40 job applications she’s sent “I don’t want to live off benefits all my life.” Teenager Kailee Kember-Brown, a wheelchair user, says she has so far applied for more than 40 jobs without success. Kailee, from Dover,...
Southgate became the fourth England manager in history to be knighted, after Sir Walter Winterbottom, Sir Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Robson. Asked if he missed parts of the job, Southgate said it was a relief to no longer carry the expectations of a nation. “I think it’s hard to describe because until that weight’s...
In our last exciting episode of As The World Burns, a twelve-day war between Israel and Iran had ended (?) in a cease-fire brokered by Donald Trump and the Qataris. After putting some finishing touches last night’s Final Word post, I went to bed, unaware that another exciting episode was about to air. Around midnight...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Catriel Guerreiro, of the Argentinian band Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso, will make his Glastonbury debut on Friday It’s understandable. The main coverage of Glastonbury focuses on big names – which this year means a curious mix of ageing veterans and pop upstarts: Rod Stewart and Charli XCX; Neil Young...
Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent Getty Images Students are being urged not to suffer in silence when targeted by scams on dating apps, as investigators see blackmail cases rise. Fraud teams at Nationwide, the UK’s biggest building society, said trusted friends could help potential victims avoid sending private or intimate images during new online...
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Democrats claim that they are looking for candidates to fix their electoral losses following Donald Trump’s victory. The data shows that Democrats lost ground among young men,...
Becky Morton Political reporter BBC The public no longer back spending on international aid, Trade Minister Douglas Alexander has suggested. The former international development secretary under Gordon Brown told BBC Radio 4’s Political Thinking with Nick Robinson that even if money was not tight “the argument would have to be made” for investment in foreign...
US spies have assessed that Iran has not been pursuing a nuclear weapon for over 20 years. Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he doesn’t care that his own Director of National Intelligence...
Getty Images Israel continued to strike Iran’s capital Tehran on Sunday night Long queues at petrol stations and bakeries. Long lines of cars trying to escape the capital. And long, frightening nights. Residents of Tehran – still shocked by Israel’s sudden attack on Iran in the early hours of Friday morning – speak of fear...
One of the reasons I share a lot of posts from X is that it is the best (and sometimes worst) place to gather information about what is really happening in the world. That is the reason why the security state, particularly under Joe Biden, worked so hard to censor it, and why oppressive countries...
Since 2017 our movement has faced repression of a scale and intensity previously unseen. The main distinctive feature of the situation is the massive use of torture by the Federal Security Service (FSB). Previously, cases of beatings and torture of anarchists in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus were rather isolated exceptions. We heard that radical Islamists...
I mean, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s never been shy about where she stood on any raging woke issue, from painting Black Lives Matter on the streets and then trying to make it a felony if, God forbid, your tire marked a yellow square inch of the paint surface…on a street…to standing tall with the illegals among...
Say, weren’t we supposed to fall into the Tariff Apocalypse this month? See runaway inflation? According to the Chicken Littles, the consumers were poised to flee the consumer-driven economy as a trade war ravaged Middle America. Looks like consumers missed the memo on the Tariff Apocalypse. After a hiccup on Liberation Day, the economic indicators...