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The marquee at Broadway‘s Booth Theatre appears to confirm the rumors: Bruce Norris‘ acclaimed and controversial play Downstate will take up residence at the venue in an upcoming production directed by Joe Mantello. The news was first reported by the Chicago Tribune – the play premiered in 2018 at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company – with the newspaper noting that the Broadway staging will be produced by Scott Rudin and feature at least two members of the original Chicago cast: Francis Guinan and K. Todd Freeman. The Chicago staging was followed by an Off Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons in 2022.…

The daughter of a woman missing in Nepal has told how she traced her mother’s location through a TikTok video posted hours before the devastating flash flood hit.The catastrophic flash floods that hit Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday, thundering down valleys and sweeping away entire villages, have killed at least 675 people, while more than 3,000 remain missing.Among the missing are 33 British nationals, including a 13-year-old, NHS workers and a priest. A team from the UK will arrive in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu, on Saturday.Tulshi Patel’s mother, Hemangini Jitendra Patel, and her aunt, Hema Sunil Amin, set off on…

Far-right British media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the US after being detained on Thursday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Orleans in connection with what the agency said was expired authorization to be in the country and a deportation order.Yiannopoulos’s deportation occurred on Friday, said a statement on Saturday from a spokesperson for the US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE.The DHS spokesperson’s statement did not say where Yiannopoulos had been deported to. But, citing “two senior US sources”, the UK’s Telegraph newspaper reported that Yiannopoulos had been flown back to Britain.A DHS spokesperson…

A combination photo shows CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman (L) on April 28, 2026 and Elon Musk on April 29, 2026 during the trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California, U.S.Manuel Orbegozo | ReutersOpenAI announced late Friday that it is ending developers’ access to its models on Cursor, following the acquisition of the AI coding startup by Elon Musk’s SpaceX earlier this month. Cursor CEO Michael Truell said, in a post on the SpaceX-owned social network X Friday night: “OpenAI models serve about 5% of Cursor user traffic, and we’re speaking…

Chris Bowen insists federal Labor’s new national laws on datacentre power supply will not include carve-outs for Queensland and the Northern Territory, with states that are eager to use coal and gas required to make their case to the national regulator.The energy minister told Guardian Australia on Friday the only concession agreed at Wednesday’s meeting of national cabinet was that existing coal and gas supply could be used on the condition it could be shown to be cheaper than renewables.Anthony Albanese had gone into the meeting clear that new national rules, expected to be debated in federal parliament next year,…

A federal judge criticised the Trump government for attempting to infringe upon foreign students’ rights to free speech.A United States federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration violated the constitutional rights of international students when it sought to punish them for criticising Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.In California on Friday, District Judge Noel Wise heaped criticism on the US Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the agencies attempted to deport noncitizens over protected speech.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“Stated plainly, in the United States, freedom of speech belongs to the people,”…

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has urged the federal government to urgently implement the retirement age of 65 years for clinical health workers. According to the association, this will serve as palliative measures for healthcare workforce shortages and migration. NMA President, Afekhide-Ernest Omoti, made the demand at a news conference in Abuja on Friday, to wrap-up the association’s 2026 National Executive Council (NEC) meeting held in Abuja. Mr Omoti noted that NEC reiterated its concern over the delay in implementing the retirement age of 65 years for clinical health workers. He said that at a time when Nigeria was experiencing…

Systematic mapping of protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks and determining how causal mutations rewire them in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) provide a powerful framework for uncovering disease mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities. Using …

Does Joe Root have an lbw problem?That was the debate during the rain-interrupted third day’s play at Lord’s, with the England captain twice succumbing leg before wicket during the second Test against Pakistan – taking his total to seven such dismissals this summer, and nine in his last 12 Test innings. “It’s fascinating that even a guy of more than 160 Tests, who averages over 50 – one of the greatest players England have ever produced – teams will still be looking at that developing trend,” Sky Sports Cricket’s Michael Atherton said. Image: How wickets have fallen in Test cricket…

Follow-up to 1990 racing movie roars into theaters in summer 2028 Tom Cruise has officially announced the sequel to Days of Thunder, with Anne Hathaway joining the cast for the follow-up to the 1990 racing film. The stars made the announcement Saturday at an empty Daytona International Speedway — home of the Daytona 500 — in front of a scuffed-up, lime green NASCAR touting a Summer 2028 release. While the film was rumored to be fast-tracked in recent months, shooting won’t happen right away: “I’m gonna have this baby, then we’re gonna make this movie,” the pregnant Hathaway quipped in the…