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US man eats McDonald’s three times a day for 100 days – and the weight falls off
Most people might think that eating nothing but fast food from McDonald’s for more than three months would demolish a diet rather than constitute one, but that wasn’t the case for a 57-year-old man from Tennessee. Kevin Maginnis went on various media outlets this week and explained how he dropped nearly 60lbs by eating each of his three daily meals…
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The View is thrashed in scathing New York Times review by longtime fan and author Megan Stack
The bad reviews keep coming for The View as the long-running talk show was thrashed in a scathing New York Times review by longtime fan and author Megan Stack who called it a ‘chorus of conformity’. She took aim at the show in a guest essay published Friday and said she loved it for its ‘messy and fearless debate’ but…
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Sports
Atletico boss Diego Simeone jokes players who have sex four times a month ‘can’t play in my team’
Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone jokes players who have sex just four times a month ‘can’t play in my team’… with the Argentine claiming to have ‘a good average’ with his model wife Carla Pereyra Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone joked about sex in a recent interview He said players who only have sex four times a month are barred…
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World
Russia-Ukraine War: Live Updates – The New York Times
President Emmanuel Macron and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in Bulboaca, Moldova, on Thursday.Credit…Ludovic Marin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Thursday that a gathering of European leaders in Moldova showed Europe’s unity in supporting Ukraine and in standing up to Russian aggression, but he reiterated France’s position that full-fledged NATO membership for Ukraine was…
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World
Your Thursday Briefing – The New York Times
Russia denounces West over drone strike on Moscow A day after the first military strike to hit civilian areas in Moscow, Kremlin officials jumped on the refusal of Ukraine’s allies to condemn the attack as proof that Russia’s real war was with the West. None of Ukraine’s allies went so far as to endorse the drone attack, but Britain’s foreign…
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World
A Climactic Opening – The New York Times
Today is something of a curtain raiser for the U.S. National Parks system, ushering in its busiest season. Last year, nearly 312 million people visited the parks, hiking across the Grand Canyon, posting Instagram stories from Joshua Tree and waiting for Old Faithful by Yellowstone’s rainbow pools. (Reminder: Don’t touch the bison calves!) On Memorial Day last year, so many…
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Life Style
B&Q, Homebase, Wickes, and ScrewFix opening times for Spring Bank Holiday Monday
With the Spring Bank Holiday falling on Monday, May 29 when the weather’s been warming up, it’s also a great time to get gardening and make your plot or window boxes look lovely. But with some shops changing their opening times over bank holidays, when can you pop to B&Q, Homebase, Wickes and Screwfix? Here’s what you need to know.…
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World
Your Monday Briefing – The New York Times
In a tough race, Erdogan is re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey beat the opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu in a runoff yesterday with 52.1 percent of the vote, according to Turkey’s Supreme Election Council, assuring the mercurial leader another five years in power. Erdogan, who has vexed his Western allies in NATO while tightening his grip on the Turkish…
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World
The Counteroffensive Is Coming – The New York Times
Retaking land occupied by an enemy during war is a brutally difficult task. But a military trying to do so usually has one big advantage: surprise. The occupying force does not know when or where the attackers will strike. In 1944, the U.S. and its allies tricked the Nazis into believing that an invasion of France would take place on…
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Economy
Savers moving to best rates earned THREE TIMES the interest since 2008
Ever since interest rates plummeted in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, savers have had little to cheer about. The average easy-access savings rate remained at less than 1 per cent from 2010 until early 2022, falling to an all-time low of 0.18 per cent in early 2021. A typical saver who put £10,000 in an easy-access account at…
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