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As Americans cook their vegetables to at least 158°F to kill a diarrheal parasite that has sickened over 24,000 people and killed two this summer, one US Senator is turning up the heat on Health Secretary Robert F. Kenney Jr. over the government’s “calamitous response” to the record outbreak. In a letter sent Thursday, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called the federal response to the Cyclospora outbreak “botched” and “marred by missteps.” She pointedly questioned whether corruption and incompetence within the Trump administration and its clear ties to Taylor Farms—the mammoth produce distributer that sold Mexican-grown iceberg lettuce linked to the outbreak—played…

Reform UK would cut about £50bn from the benefits bill and scrap the disability payments system, Pip, the party will announce next week.Robert Jenrick, the party’s treasury spokesperson, said the plans would be the most comprehensive overhaul to the welfare system in a generation and affect nearly three million people.In an article for the Sunday Telegraph, external he said the current system is “suicidal empathy” and “a strange perversion of compassion”.Labour said it was “fantasy economics, built on stripping support from disabled people”, while the Conservatives called it a “half-baked policy” and another “attempt to distract from” questions about the…

The Accord Party candidate and incumbent governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, is in an early lead in the ongoing governorship election after results from 15 of the state’s 30 Local Government Areas were collated. The results announced across the 15 LGAs reviewed showed that Mr Adeleke has so far secured 283,235 votes, ahead of his closest challenger, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Bola Oyebamiji, who has polled 216,003 votes. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidate, Najeem Salaam, is in third place with 11,196 votes. Based on these figures, the tally shows that Mr Adeleke had a lead of…

Coventry City have reached an agreement with Nottingham Forest to sign Nigerian striker Taiwo Awoniyi on a permanent transfer. The Championship club have agreed a deal with Forest, with Awoniyi now undergoing his medical ahead of completing the move. The transfer will see the experienced forward join Frank Lampard’s Coventry City squad as the club seek to bolster their attacking options. Awoniyi brings significant Premier League experience to Coventry, having spent the past few seasons with Nottingham Forest. The Nigeria international joined Forest from Union Berlin in 2022 and has featured prominently for the club during his time at the…

She’s back, back, back again! MTV has renewed RuPaul’s Drag Race for its upcoming 19th season, while Paramount+ has additionally greenlit new seasons of the All Stars spinoff. The renewals come after the mainstay series celebrated its 18th season, where Myki Meeks was crowned America’s Next Drag Superstar. RuPaul’s Drag Race also recently received 11 Emmy nominations this awards season, with RuPaul earning his 11th consecutive nomination for outstanding reality or reality competition program host. Season 18 notably delivered double-digit growth over the previous season and set a new franchise premiere viewership record. RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars wrapped its…

We can no longer use ‘rising star’ for my Oga again o. At 62, he cannot be rising o. This star is set. The man celebrated his birthday during the week, and I took my time to read all the many accolades poured on him. The most powerful one out of the over 300 pieces that I read was the one written by me. I wrote it so well that even I did not believe that I wrote such a beautiful work of satire. If not that I was the one who wrote it, I would have accused myself of…

One Nation senator Tyron Whitten has claimed parents supporting their children who identify as transgender are engaging in “child abuse”, telling a fringe YouTube show: “there’s male, there’s female, and then there’s mental illness”.Guardian Australia has unearthed several incendiary comments from Whitten and fellow One Nation senators Pauline Hanson and her longtime lieutenant Malcolm Roberts, about transgender Australians.“They’re saying you can cut your dick off and become a woman … That’s a complete distortion of science,” Roberts told a podcast in June.Sign up for the Breaking News Australia emailWhitten filmed an interview at Parliament House in August 2025 with a…

Australia’s most populous state will launch a gun buyback scheme later this year, becoming the first to offer cash in exchange for firearms in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack.Gun owners in New South Wales (NSW) will be offered up to AUS$1,000 (£523) to hand over eligible handguns, shotguns and rifles from 2 November.Australian authorities had pledged sweeping firearm law reforms after 15 people were shot dead at a Jewish festival on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, which is located in NSW, last December.The state’s premier Chris Minns said on Saturday: “We want those guns handed in, compensated for and…

AEW CollisionAll Elite WrestlingAfter a busy episode of Dynamite, the action continued on Saturday, Aug. 15, with another edition of AEW Collision from Las Vegas.This show placed more emphasis on the Continental Challenge Cup, as three more matches took place, including the main event between Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong for a spot in the next round.Additionally, Adam Page, Bandido and Brody King defended their AEW World Trios Championship against Jay Lethal, Blake Christian and Lee Johnson of the Lethal Twist. Would this makeshift trio solidify their reign with a successful defense?All this, and more, went down on this episode…

A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk’s xAI over the role the company’s chatbot Grok allegedly played in creating child sexual abuse material. According to a report in The Washington Post, the woman alleged that her stepfather used Grok to manipulate a photo taken when she was 11 years old to create more than 7,000 explicit images of her. The woman also said that her stepfather was found dead of suicide two days after the images were uncovered in a law enforcement raid. “Limitless access to these tools…