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Support trulyindependent journalism Our mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth. Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. Find out more Amy Dowden has opened up about the detail she “cried most over” after being diagnosed with cancer. The 34-year-old Strictly Come Dancing pro discovered she had the disease in May 2023 after discovering a lump in her…

Wild Thang walks on stage during the annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California, on June 21, 2024. — AFP  Wild Thang, an eight-year-old Pekingese, was crowned winner at the “World’s Ugliest Dog” competition on Friday after years of competing for the title. The canine from Coos Bay, Oregon beat seven other competitors at the event held on a fairground in at the Sonoma-Marin Fair in Petaluma, California. Among them…

Cola Boyy, the California singer-songwriter who collaborated with MGMT and the Avalanches and advocated for people with disabilities, has died. He was 34. Cola Boyy, who was born Matthew Urango, died Sunday at his home in Oxnard, his mother, Lisa Urango, said. No cause was given. A self-described “disabled disco innovator,” Mr. Urango assembled diverse instruments to create a brimming mixture of funky rhythm and colorful sounds that accompanied his alluring voice, a striking balance…

There’s a change underway in fashion. The safe, swaddling allure of quiet luxury, the sort of luxury that was as much of a local specialty as risotto alla Milanese, seems less and less consequential — a sort of relaxed, neutral approach to self-expression that no longer jibes with the increasing urgency of the world. That seems less like a panacea than a surrender. It started in January, back in couture, when John Galliano’s Maison Margiela…

EnergyEntertainment & Lifestyle 20 February 2024, 3:53 pm 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that India will invite private firms to invest about $26 billion in its nuclear energy sector to increase the amount of electricity from sources that don’t produce carbon dioxide emissions.  Market Impact The funding would help India to achieve its target of having 50% of its installed electric generation capacity use non-fossil fuels by 2030, up from 42% now. Article Tags Topics…

Later in life, the great poet Walt Whitman recalled the events of the Fourth of July, 1825. At around 6 years old, he wrote, he attended the cornerstone laying ceremony of the Brooklyn Apprentices’ Library, which had been incorporated a year earlier. The man who later penned “Song of Myself” said he was proud to have been lifted up into a better viewing position by none other than the Marquis de Lafayette, the French aristocrat…

The Golden Globes had a lot to prove Sunday night. It was the award show’s return to a primo broadcast time slot after a series of scandals over finances and lack of diversity upended what used to be known as the biggest party of the year in Hollywood. Now privately owned with a greatly expanded pool of voters, the Globes were making a bid for relevance. Did that bid succeed? Well, it helped that this…