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Although John Early dons a wig and fake boobs for Maddie’s Secret, he doesn’t consider his titular role to be drag. The writer, director and star of the Magnolia Pictures comedy, which is now in theaters, admitted he’s “not strong enough” to attempt proper drag, despite playing a woman in his directorial debut. “When I’m asked about if I classify this as drag, I don’t think I do,” he explained to Queerty. “I love drag—I worship drag! I’ve done drag once, in a bar setting, and I was awful at it. It’s a different skill, and I’m not strong enough!”…

Hydration is important. In temperatures like those we’re increasingly seeing in much of the world, sweating can be the only way for our bodies to cool down, and our thirst isn’t always the best indicator of how much water we’ve lost or need. The consequences of not being sufficiently hydrated as temperatures creep towards the 40s can be severe, and can kick in much faster than most people realise. The good news is that remembering to drink plenty of water at regular intervals throughout the day will be enough for most people to avoid the worst. But if you’d like…

Germany, Czechia, Poland and Hungary reached record temperatures of more than 40C on Sunday as a heatwave linked to hundreds of deaths in western Europe spread east.More than 191 million people in Europe faced temperatures of at least 35C, with extreme heat warnings across the region.Germany recorded a new all-time high of 41.7C, in Coschen, near the Polish border in eastern Brandenburg, according to preliminary data from the national weather service. This broke the previous record of 41.5C set a day earlier in Drewitz.In Gohrischheide, in eastern Germany, a fire broke out in a forest contaminated with ammunition from the…

They are not all Israel who are of Israel. In the scriptures, the women are largely exemplary, but the men are ingrates. The disciples, especially, were a terrible lot. They specialised in driving people away from Jesus. They were determined to preserve their exclusive relationship with Jesus. When they brought little children to Him, so that He would bless them, the disciples tried to drive them away. When the Samaritans denied Jesus an easy passage to Jerusalem, the sons of Zebedee asked Jesus to send fire from heaven to destroy them. One of them, Judas, betrayed Jesus. Another one, Peter,…

Some of the biggest bond managers are zeroing in on one specific area of the market as the best place to ride out the early days of the Kevin Warsh era.

Ford executives said they have hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them were former employees, while others had been working at suppliers — after artificial intelligence and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality level. Bloomberg reports the company’s chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been “relying more and more on automated quality systems” with disappointing results. So the company “brought back technical specialists,” and those specialists “hunt for failure points before a part ever reaches the plant floor.” Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, added, “Mistakenly we thought that by…

Keir Starmer is out after a short tenure as prime minister during which he failed to connect with voters and much of Britain’s media. As Andy Burnham prepares to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade, can he navigate a media landscape transformed by Brexit and the rise of Reform UK?Contributors: Chris Painter – Professor, Birmingham City UniversityPeter Oborne – Journalist and broadcasterShehab Khan – Political editor, Zeteo UKPolly Toynbee – Columnist, The GuardianOn our radarA controversial luxury resort backed by Donald Trump’s family has sparked weeks of protests in Albania. With much of the country’s media looking the…

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has expressed concern that consumers have yet to benefit fully from the recent decline in global crude oil prices, warning that it will sanction businesses found to be exploiting buyers in the downstream petroleum sector. The commission states that findings from its ongoing surveillance of the downstream petroleum market show that price reductions by local refiners, marketers, depot operators, and retail outlets have not been commensurate with the sharp drop in global crude oil prices. Tunji Bello, the Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the FCCPC, disclosed this in a…

Jun 27, 2026, 02:39 PM ETBrandon Aiyuk continued his online campaign against the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday, posting a video on YouTube in which he claims his former agent has influenced the ongoing situation and that general manager John Lynch recently showed up at his house.In the 3½-minute video, Aiyuk insisted that his relationship with the 49ers will never be repaired and that he has no plans to return to the team facilities — barring one exception.”We is not cool,” Aiyuk said. “We won’t be cool, and I will never be stepping in that building” outside of Oct. 19,…

‘There’s no place like home,” Dorothy declares at the end of The Wizard of Oz, as she departs the dazzling Emerald City for Aunt Em’s Kansas farmhouse. It’s a powerful metaphor for the way the domestic sphere is often portrayed in art: action, adventure and drama happen “out there” in glorious Technicolor, with the home rendered by contrast in sober sepia tones. Home may be the place we ultimately yearn for, but only once we have left it behind.While working on my second novel, Natural Disaster, I was periodically plagued by the potential pitfalls of putting domestic life front and…