Trump lawyer attempted to point to adult film star using the phrase ablacked outa in testimony and saying that Donald Trump didnat wear a condom

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Trump attorney Susan Necheles reveals that Stormy Daniels is expected to be the prosecutionas second witness for the day.

Sheas fighting to keep details about the alleged sex act between Daniels and Donald Trump under wraps.

With fuel dwindling for aid trucks and main entry points to south of Gaza closed, residents wonder how they will survive

• Gaza aid operation under threat with agencies down to a dayas fuel

Aid agencies in Gaza have less than a dayas fuel for trucks and tankers that deliver vital food, medicine, water and diesel to millions across the territory, threatening an almost complete shutdown of operations including bakeries and hospitals, officials have warned.

All main entry points to the south of Gaza are closed and there has been widespread looting of existing stocks in Rafah after aid agencies were forced to leave warehouses unguarded following warnings to evacuate the area from Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) ahead of the military offensive launched on the city on Tuesday morning.

Guard was shot inside Drakeas home and had serious but non-life-threatening injuries, while the assailant fled in a vehicle

A security guard at the mansion of Canadian hip-hop artist Drake has been aseriously injureda in a shooting outside the musicianas Toronto home.

The victim, an adult male, was rushed to a Toronto hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries following the shooting early on Tuesday morning.

Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date

Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former chief executive of the blood-testing company Theranos, has had her federal prison sentence shortened again, new records show.

The 40-year-old Holmes is now scheduled for release on 16 August 2032 from a federal womenas prison camp in Bryan, Texas, according to the US Bureau of Prisons website.

President makes forceful speech commemorating Holocaust in Washington DC event

Joe Biden is condemning the ascourge of antisemitisma during the US Holocaust Memorial Museumas Days of Remembrance ceremony.

Heas commemorating the 6 million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War at the event in Washington DC, also attended by congressional leaders, including Republican speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Never again, simply translated for me, means never forget.

This ancient hatred of Jews didnat begin with the Holocaust. It didnat end with the Holocaust either. Or even after our victory in world war two, this hatred continues. That hatred was brought to life on October 7 2023.

Over 1,200 innocent people, babies, parents, grandparents, slaughtered in their kibbutz, massacred, brutally raped, mutilated and sexually assaulted. Thousands more carrying wounds, bullets and shrapnel from the memory of that terrible day they endured.

Joe Biden signed a bill giving ByteDance up to 19 January 2025 to sell TikTok to an approved buyer or risk being banned from the US

TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have sued to block a law signed by Joe Biden just weeks ago that would force the sale of the short video app or ban it from the US.

The companies filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the US government in the court of appeals for the District of Columbia, arguing the law is unconstitutional and violates free speech protections.

In a blow to reproductive rights advocates and Democrats, judge rules procedures were not followed for constitutional amendment

A New York judge on Tuesday blocked a politically important abortion rights amendment from appearing before voters on the November ballot, dealing Democrats a setback as the party moved to focus battleground races in the state around abortion access.

State supreme court justice Daniel J Doyle found that state lawmakers failed to follow procedural rules around passing constitutional amendments, incorrectly approving the amendment before getting a written opinion on the language from the attorney general.

Collection of more than 1,000 fossils including rare dinosaurs given to National Museum in Rio six years after devastating blaze

Nearly six years after it was engulfed by a devastating fire that inflicted incalculable damage on Brazilas cultural heritage, the countryas national museum has received an important donation of more than a thousand fossils as part of a campaign to help rebuild the collection lost to the flames.

The fire, caused by an electrical short-circuit on the night of 2 September 2018, consumed the former imperial palace which housed the 200-year-old museum in a park just north of Rio de Janeiroas city centre and destroyed about 85% of its archive of 20m artefacts.

Holly LeGresley, 37, whose username was aThe Immolatora, uploaded images and videos to online group

A British woman has pleaded guilty to being part of a global monkey torture network.

Holly LeGresley, 37, from Kidderminster in Worcestershire, admitted uploading 22 images and 132 videos of monkeys being tortured to an online chat group.

PA Media contributed to this report

Cloud 3 used at height of his stardom may beat estimate and become most expensive of late musicianas guitars

One of Princeas guitars used by the late musician on stage at the height of his stardom in the 80s and 90s is being auctioned later this month.

The Cloud 3 guitar, which Prince wielded during tours such as Purple Rain, Parade, Sign of the Times, Lovesexy, and Diamonds and Pearls, is estimated to fetch between $400,000 (APS320,000) and $600,000 but could beat this estimate to become the most expensive Prince guitar sold at auction.

Itas a moment of truth for Bidenas policy on Israel and the Palestinians a and at the least will make continued prevarication harder to disguise

When Israeli troops paraded through the Rafah crossing with an oversized star of David on Tuesday morning, they were making a point to Hamas a and at the same time driving up to the very edge of Joe Bidenas ared linea.

The Biden administration avoids that phrase at all costs. Its top officials also served Barack Obama, who drew a red line he did not enforce over Syriaas chemical weapons. But there is no hiding from the fact that they have clearly and repeatedly stated US opposition to a Rafah offensive, absent proper humanitarian provision for the more than 1 million people sheltering there.

Beijing joins France in urging Israel against Rafah offensive in latest effort to make its diplomatic mark

Xi Jinping, sensing a diplomatic opening, is stepping up Chinaas intervention in the Middle East crisis, issuing a joint statement with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, to urge Israel not to go ahead with an offensive in Rafah.

The rare moment of Sino-European synergy is the latest effort by China to make its diplomatic mark in a region in which it has deep economic interests, but more shallow diplomatic moorings.

IOC will use Paris 2024 to promote wellness among athletes after concerns raised over mental health in sport

When it comes to sporting success stories anyone would be hard pressed to find elite athletes more impressive than Simone Biles, Bryony Page and Holly Bradshaw. But while the trio are great competitors and multiple medal winners, they are also notable for their openness about the mental health of athletes.

In summer 2021 Biles withdrew from the womenas gymnastics team final at the Tokyo Olympics saying she had lost her air sense and admitted she awas still scared to do gymnasticsa months later. The pole-vaulter Bradshaw voiced concerns earlier this year about damaging herself in the pursuit of sporting achievement, while the British gymnast Page has recounted struggles with alost skills syndromea, which, she says, fuelled anxiety leading up to the Olympics in Rio.

The American authoras 20th book reads as a series of parables on grace. In an interview, she reflects on a life she thought she wouldnat get to live

When I speak with Anne Lamott, she is in a ahotel-motela in Ypsilanti, Michigan, halfway through a cross-country book tour, flaunting sparkly pink nails. The manicure was part of a coping strategy initiated in response to a bad review a aseriously the worst reviewa of her life, said Lamott. No matter that Somehow: Thoughts on Love, her 20th book, is cresting the New York Timesa bestseller list a a dig by a prominent critic can still capsize her day.

But this is Anne Lamott, known for her preternatural ability to uncover grace in all her trials, from the trivial to the existentially unmooring. Lamott has found Christ-like qualities in a colicky baby, self-love in the abyss of addiction, and even ways to shepherd her own neuroses when they arrive at the writing desk like damaged relatives awith their weird coppery breatha.

More than half of couples take on debt to finance their weddings. We asked some how they feel about it

Cale Weissman, 35, and his partner didnat have an exact budget for their 2018 wedding, but they knew they couldnat afford to spend more than $10,000 (APS8,000).

aWe thought in terms of, what do we want from the experience, and what are the ways we can make it feasible without putting us in dire financial straits,a he says.

Netflixas hit show The Circle recently introduced an AI chatbot contestant, a potentially worrying sign of where weare heading

According to his profile, Max, a contestant on season six of the Netflix reality show The Circle, is 26 years old, brunette and into his Australian shepherd, Pippa. He is a veterinary intern from Pismo Beach, California, and a bit cheeky a asingle, but my dog is takena. He enters into the Circle chat, the fake social media service contestants use to vie for $100,000, posting either as themselves, an embellished version of themselves or a fully fake identity, with ease. aI like this guy! He seems so real,a says Lauren, a fellow twentysomething hoping to build enough online alliances and secure enough positive peer reviews to win, upon seeing Maxas profile.

You just know the producers ate that up, because aMaxa is the front for an AI chatbot, a new gimmick to up the ante in this middleweight reality show. The Circle has nowhere near the following of Love Island, but hasnat sunk to the bottom of the streaming service slush pile a and is the latest example of artificial intelligenceas seemingly inexorable creep into our entertainment. As we continue to determine the line for use of AI in film and TV, from the recent AI-generated promotional posters for A24as Civil War to, far more egregiously, suspected use of AI-manipulated old aphotosa in the Netflix documentary What Jennifer Did, The Circle seeks to wring some low-level fun out of all this existential anxiety. Max, weare told by the relentlessly cheery host Michelle Buteau, is open-source generative AI trained on previous seasons of the show. Heas essentially a glorified ChatGPT, which already feels like old news in the warp-speed trajectory of widespread AI use, but with fake profile photos provided by the comedian Griffin James.

Star wore two dresses by John Galliano at event cutting across fashion, celebrity and Hollywood

The Met Gala and its red carpet is an annual X-ray of where power lies in fashion and in the adjacent worlds of celebrity, Hollywood and music.

It shows us who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down. It is a heat map showing us the connections between culture and entertainment, between the establishment and new money, between the tech billionaires who have the deep pockets to fund nights like these and the designers whose dresses their wives want to wear. These are the new corridors of soft power, and the Met Gala draws back the veil on the alliances, feuds and fallings-out.

Late-night hosts talk Donald Trumpas latest day in court, more Kristi Noem book excerpts and the Maga Republican race to be Trumpas running mate

Late-night hosts talked Donald Trump potentially going to jail for another gag order violation and even more strange excerpts from Kristi Noemas book.

Tiger Stripes, about a girl who turns into a jungle cat when her periods start, was chosen by Malaysia as its Oscar entry. But they wanted cuts. Amanda Nell Eu relives a apainful and comedica experience

The director Amanda Nell Eu has always been a bit of a rebel, she says over video chat from her home in Kuala Lumpur. aWhen I was a teenager, I was sometimes labelled a monster by my parents and teachers. I probably wasnat the most obedient child.a Now Eu has turned the horrors of puberty into an actual horror movie. Tiger Stripes is her feature debut, a funny and political film with a whopping air punch of girl power. Set in a conservative Muslim school, it mixes body horror with Mean Girls energy and a sprinkle of Malaysian folklore.

Eu cast her trio of leading girls during lockdown, putting adverts on Instagram and searching through TikTok profiles: aSchools were shut, everything was shut.a Zafreen Zairizal plays 12-year-old Zaffan, a rebel who is constantly yanking off her headscarf and daringly wears a bra to school. Zaffanas body is changing: hairs sprout and spots erupt. Then, when she becomes the first girl in class to get her period, sheas ostracised by her two best friends. aYouare dirty now,a adds her mother.

Dozens of film professionals fell prey to Hargobind Tahilramani, who tricked them into parting with thousands of dollars. The makers of new documentary Hollywood Con Queen reveal how he was tracked down

In 2017, the New-York-based freelance photographer and film-maker Will Strathman received a thrilling email: the megaproducer Amy Pascal wanted to talk. Her initial message explained that he had been recommended by someone at a fashion brand for whom Strathman has previously worked. On the phone, Pascal described a TV show she planned to pitch to Netflix that would showcase rare beauty spots around the world. Would he be interested in going to Indonesia to create a storyboard for the pilot?

It was a surprising opportunity to get out of the blue. But Strathman was a talented professional and felt he could deliver what Pascal needed. He paid for a flight to Jakarta and worked tirelessly photographing locations, before spending hours each night updating Pascal on the phone. He was exhausted and strapped for cash, but Pascal assured him that he would be reimbursed for all his expenses and rewarded with a healthy day rate.

She says I think about sex all the time a but her libido has fallen since our third child and I feel shame at being rejected

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My wife and I have been married for nearly 10 years. We have three children and love each other dearly. We are a good team 99% of the time, but we regularly argue about our differing libido levels. I feel she doesnat instigate sex very much and that when she does itas with messages like: aShall we have a 3pm ameetinga before the kids come home?a I prefer it to be more spontaneous, like after sheas had a few glasses of wine and suddenly becomes more racy. Iave let her know how exciting her racy mode is for me, but I donat want to encourage her to become an alcoholic. She feels that I think about sex all the time and that I am not accepting of her feeling tired or not being in the mood.

After a recent argument, we agreed we have different libido levels. She said she felt hers had gone down, especially after our last child was born. Iam conscious that neither of us need to be afixeda, but equally I struggle with being the instigator most of the time and with the intense shame and rejection I feel when she says no. I donat want her to feel forced into anything; I want her to feel comfortable with me. She says she enjoys sex with me, but doesnat always feel that her body is sexy, something I very much disagree with.

University and police denounced as masked group marched on campus and attacked pro-Palestinian demonstrators last week

The University of California, Los Angeles, said that it would create a new office dedicated to campus safety following mounting criticism of authoritiesa slow response to a brutal attack on pro-Palestinian protesters by a mob of ainstigatorsa.

The schoolas chancellor, Gene Block, said on Sunday that urgent changes were needed to abetter protect our community moving forwarda and announced that a new office of campus safety would oversee the university police department and the UCLA office of emergency management, aeffective immediatelya.

Officers in riot gear raid encampment at dawn as university warns demonstrators that failure to leave could lead to arrest

Police have dismantled the student-led Palestinian solidarity encampment at the University of Southern California.

About 4am on Saturday, as many as 100 Los Angeles police officers in riot gear raided the encampment at dawn as anti-war student demonstrators slept in the tents. In a series of tweets during the raid, the university warned demonstrators to leave the area, adding that apeople who donat leave could be arresteda.

More than 1,400 people have been arrested as police dismantle campus encampments a but are the tactics used too brutal?

More than 1,400 people have been arrested across the US during a week of intense police crackdowns on a sprawling campus movement of pro-Palestine student demonstrations.

As Joe Biden defended studentsa free speech rights but warned them that adissent must never lead to disordera, colleges across the country brought law enforcement to campus to arrest dozens or even hundreds of protesters and clear away their encampments.

The protests sweeping US universities have brought intense division, but some students have treasured hope, unity, solidarity and love

Seven months ago, before Hamas stormed into Israel, killing roughly 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostage, Eleanora Ginsborg and Samar Omer had never met.

But in the attackas violent aftermath, Ginsborg and Omer, students at the University of California, San Diego, forged a new friendship a and a new sense of activism-fueled purpose. A third student who already knew Omer alike a sistera, and requested to go by the pseudonym Hala Abdallah out of safety concerns, completed the group.

Roll up for a buffet of baffling outfits, celebs scared stiff of Anna Wintour and an utter refusal to acknowledge the outside world

Tuesday is officially the morning after the Met Gala of the night before, when we civilians get to press our noses up against the glass of our phone screens and pass unsparing judgment on dresses whose trains alone cost more than HS2.

If you havenat sat in mismatched pyjamas huffing toast while remarking what an unacceptable misstep Lana Del Reyas mosquito net was, and how Chanel seems to be going tits up, then you have simply failed to capitalise on the digital banquet spread out for you. These are dark times, and nothing but a| gratitude, I think? a| should be shown for film director Taika Waititias decision to come dressed as a brown pleather three-piece suite, while his wife, Rita Ora, presented as the ribbon curtain tacked over their back door to keep the flies off it.

Trumpas disgraced former attorney somehow frittered away almost $120,000 in January. As a cash-strapped millennial, Iam delighted to share some money-saving tips

aBankruptcya is a surprisingly amorphous term. For poor people, it means not having any money. For corporations and the super-wealthy it means a nifty legal strategy that can shield their riches from lawsuits. And for Rudy Giuliani, the disgraced former mayor of New York City and personal attorney of Donald Trump, it means being forced to try to subsist on a measly $43,000 (APS34,200) a month.

Half a million dollars in spending money a year might seem a princely sum to the common man, but aSira Rudy (recipient of an honorary knighthood) is anything but. Weare talking about a gentleman with elevated tastes here: a bon vivant who, during a legal battle with his estranged third wife, was accused of spending $7,000 on fountain pens and $12,000 on cigars over a five-month period. In that same timeframe, his ex-wifeas lawyer claimed he spent $286,000 on his alleged lover, $165,000 on personal travel and $447,938 afor his own enjoymenta. Thatas a lot of enjoyment.

Israelas evacuation orders and seizure of the key crossing are exacerbating the suffering of Palestinians and endangering hostages

Men, women and children danced in the streets of Rafah on Monday after Hamas said it had approved a ceasefire deal. There was little to celebrate. Hours later, Israel ordered 100,000 in the city to flee and protesters took to the streets in Israel warning that the government was endangering the lives of surviving hostages taken on 7 October. Shortly afterwards, Israeli forces took control of the Palestinian side of the crossing with Egypt a the key entry point for aid a and shut off supplies.

Hopes of a deal have been raised and dashed repeatedly. There are differing accounts of what precisely Hamas agreed to, including the timing of hostage releases and a most painfully a whether their figure includes the dead as well as the living. Continued fighting does not negate negotiations to end a conflict. But the end of the war is likely to mean the end of Benjamin Netanyahuas prime ministership and polling suggests that while most Israelis prioritise a deal to release hostages over military action in Rafah, that is reversed among the rightwing voters on whom Mr Netanyahuas future rests.