As flags spring up across the city, some speak of national pride. Others cry racism. Birmingham council just wants to tear them down… Exactly what this flag-placement signifies and who is behind it is the subject of dispute, but if Samuel Johnson was right, and patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, it’s no surprise that an online movement called Operation Raise the Colours has been promoted by far-right figures such as Tommy Robinson. However, standing in Castle Square, Robert Eden, a longtime resident, is adamant that there is absolutely no bigotry involved. “If I thought they were racist,” he says, “I would go up every lamppost, wherever they are, and rip them down. They just want them to be racist to have something to say. They just want to complain.” Who are “they”? “Basically,” he says, lowering his voice conspiratorially, “the Muslims.”

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized with a broken vertebrae after a car accident, his spokesperson said on Sunday. Giuliani, 81, was traveling on a highway in New Hampshire when his car was "struck from behind at high speed," said Michael Ragusa, who is also his head of security.

Why women don't have the luxury of "sticking to sports", Michael Porter Jr.'s dangerous ignorance, and the recent weaponized misogyny at W games.

Abed Ibrahim posted about his failing tallow-fried food business and got roasted by X users, but he says the concept isn't political.

Saturday's match was delayed over three hours, prompting frustrations from players, coaches, executives and the NWSLPA

“The assimilation rate, the rate at which hunter-gatherers were grafted into farming communities, was actually very low — only about one in 1,000 farmers converted a hunter-gatherer to farming each year,” Huber explained

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the creation of a statewide task force aimed at dismantling homeless encampments on state property and expanding access to shelter and services. The announcement follows Newsom’s 2024 executive order, which directed encampment cleanups after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted state and local governments more authority to remove them.

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

Rising temperatures and chronically broken cooling systems are turning the lunch rush into a deadly risk for some workers.

Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime. Republicans rarely ask, “But how do we talk to Democrats?” They already know: You don’t win voters over by decoding them. You win them by speaking plainly—and by seeming like you mean it. Maybe that’s why Collins’s cosplaying moderation and then doing what the party tells her is wearing thin. Reportedly, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is wooing Maine Governor Janet Mills to run for the nomination. At 77, a win against Collins would make her the oldest senate freshman in history. (Platner is 40.) Platner’s campaign only becomes an insurgency against Susan Collins if he first survives the Democratic establishment. His pointed critiques of party inaction have already set the tone. His candidacy isn’t just about beating Republicans, it’s about forcing Democrats to do more than fundraise off of their failures.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump and ‘Special Attorney for Mortgage Fraud’ Ed Martin are speaking as often as four times per week as the GOP activist prepares to seek indictments against prominent Democrats

The Navy is reportedly throwing Trump an even bigger military parade this fall, as he wasn’t satisfied by the first one.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was killed at 35 by an officer in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Babbitt was a U.S.

Third Way's latest memo has weak advice and a hidden agenda

Vance's boss, President Trump, is the oldest person to be sworn in as president of the United States.

On the same day Susan Monarez was fired, four of the agency’s top leaders quit.

Indiana House candidate Kellie Moore faces a battery charge after authorities accused her of striking a Warrick County deputy. She denies doing so.

Google once declared OAN too toxic for its platform—now Sundar Pichai and Neal Mohan are breathing new life into the conspiracy network as they negotiate a high-stakes agreement with Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corporation.

A group of chimpanzees in Zambia have been very busy putting grass in their ears and sticks up their bum for fashion purposes. Scientists studying the behaviour think that one influential chimp started the trend and, instead of the rest of the gang going, “mate, you look like an idiot”, they all just followed suit. Clearly we haven’t evolved from apes that much because a similar phenomenon is at play with the billionaire and Make America Great Again (Maga) set, who are spending enormous sums of money acquiring identical plastic faces.

An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.