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Hegseth’s Pentagon prayer mirrors fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction
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Hegseth’s Pentagon prayer mirrors fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction

The defense secretary said his prayer drew on Ezekiel, but wording closely matches Quentin Tarantino dialogueIt was perhaps inevitable that a braggadocious Christian nationalist defense secretary elevated from his role as a weekend Fox News television host would pluck a fake Bible verse from a viole...

Richard Luscombe
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Next chief executive Simon Wolfson paid record £7m last year
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Next chief executive Simon Wolfson paid record £7m last year

Company says ‘sustained outperformance’ merited pay rise as it ups profit guidance by £8m for the year to January 2027Business live – latest updatesThe Next chief executive, Simon Wolfson, took home more than £7m last year, his highest ever pay package, and could be handed up to £9.27m this year aft...

Sarah Butler
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Senate Democrats move to stall Trump’s ‘absurd’ bid to install new Fed chair
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Senate Democrats move to stall Trump’s ‘absurd’ bid to install new Fed chair

Democratic lawmakers urged Republican leaders to postpone the confirmation hearing of Kevin WarshSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxDemocrats have moved to stall Donald Trump’s effort to exert greater control over the US Federal Reserve, condemning the presi...

Shrai Popat in Washington
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Epsom church minister condemns ‘intimidating’ protest over alleged gang-rape
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Epsom church minister condemns ‘intimidating’ protest over alleged gang-rape

The Rev Catherine Hutton says ‘hate cannot drive out hate’ after protesters gather to demand information about suspectsThe minister of a church near the scene of an alleged gang-rape in Epsom has condemned the “intimidating” protest involving hundreds of people gathering in the Surrey town to demand...

Chris Osuh Community affairs correspondent
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More US young men than young women say religion is important to them
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More US young men than young women say religion is important to them

Men aged 18-29 who see religion as central rises to 42%, Gallup survey finds, compared with 30% of young womenYoung men are now more likely than young women in the US to say religion plays a major role in their lives, according to the newest findings from Gallup.Data covering 2024-25 indicates that...

Marina Dunbar
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RFK Jr once cut penis off ‘road-killed raccoon’ in New York, new book reveals
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RFK Jr once cut penis off ‘road-killed raccoon’ in New York, new book reveals

Health secretary in a diary entry said his kids were in the car as he cut off animal’s genitals in 2001 to ‘study them later’Robert F Kennedy Jr once cut the penis off a road-killed raccoon in an incident that is just one of several involving dead animals that the controversial US health secretary h...

Guardian staff
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Millionaires fund last-ditch attempt to save humpback whale stranded in Germany
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Millionaires fund last-ditch attempt to save humpback whale stranded in Germany

Critics say efforts to rescue the animal, nicknamed Tommy, unlikely to succeed and could lead to further harmA last-ditch effort to rescue a wayward whale that has transfixed Germans for weeks has begun in the Baltic Sea despite criticism it has little chance of success and could further harm the 12...

Deborah Cole in Berlin
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Archbishop of Canterbury backs pope’s calls for peace amid Trump feud
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Archbishop of Canterbury backs pope’s calls for peace amid Trump feud

Sarah Mullally urges Anglicans to join Leo’s ‘courageous’ call and says human cost of war is incalculableThe archbishop of Canterbury has said she is standing in solidarity with Pope Leo XIV’s calls for peace amid his public feud with Donald Trump.Days after the US president objected to comments fro...

Caroline Davies
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Campaigners seek listed status for historic trig points that mapped Britain
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Campaigners seek listed status for historic trig points that mapped Britain

Pillars at Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire, and Thorny Gale, Cumbria, bookended the project that modernised mappingHeritage campaigners are bidding for listing status for two concrete pillars hailed as “modest obelisks of modernity in the countryside”.These functional 120cm (4ft) stone or concrete “tri...

Matthew Weaver
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