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A prominent progressive political scientist has been met with outrage after calling actress Sydney Sweeney ugly. ‘She’s a butterface who looks great in jeans,’ Rachel Bitecofer, 48, wrote Monday in a post responding to Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle ad.’You sound jealous,’ a user replied.’Yer [sic] jealous. Clearly,’ another said, in a torrent of more than 2,000 posts that almost all panned Bitecofer, a former lecturer at Christopher Newport University.Most questioned how she came to such a conclusion. The term ‘butterface’ is an insulting British slang word derived for a person who has a good body but unattractive face.Sweeney, at 27, has surfaced as…
A family has been left distraught after allegedly receiving a text message from a suicide clinic in Switzerland telling them their mother was dead and her ashes would be sent in the post. Maureen Slough, a 58-year-old mother from Cavan, Ireland, travelled to the Pegasos clinic on July 8 telling her family she was going to Lithuania with a friend, according to the Irish Independent. But her daughter Megan Royal was shocked when she later received a WhatsApp message saying her mother had died listening to gospel music sung by Elvis Presley, the report claimed.Now the family is demanding answers to find…
Jorge Costa, who captained Jose Mourinho’s Porto team to the Champions League, has died at the age of 53.According to reports in Portgual, Costa suffered a cardiac arrest while at Porto’s training camp at the Olival Stadium on Tuesday.Costa, who had previously had a heart attack in 2022, had reportedly complained of intense heat several times after giving a television interview to SportTV.A Bola reported that Porto’s medical team provided first aid and used a defibrillator, before Costa was taken to the Sao Joao Hospital.Costa was admitted into intensive care, but died in the early afternoon.The former central defender played for Porto between…
Greggs and KFC have teamed up for the first time to create a sausage roll drenched in gravy in a move sure to delight fast food lovers across Britain. The high street food giants have dubbed the new treat the ‘culinary crossover of the century’ and claimed it is the ‘mash up the nation’s been craving’. It will consist of a Greggs sausage roll with KFC gravy and is promised to be ‘seriously flavoursome’.The brands said the alliance followed the revelation that Britons consumed 15,000 litres of KFC gravy and more than one million Greggs sausage rolls every day over the past year.Greggs…
Denise Richards made a shock visit to estranged husband Aaron Phypers’ LA home on Sunday – days after taking out a temporary restraining order on him.The 54-year-old actress, whose split from Phypers, 52, was revealed last month, was granted the TRO on July 16, after accusing Phypers of years of physical and emotional abuse – which he has denied.The court ordered Phypers to stay 100 yards away from Richards and her homes, workplaces and cars – but Richards was seen arriving at Phypers’ Calabasas home to pick up a dog before she was confronted by police in photos obtained by TMZ.Sources…
By STACY LIBERATORE, US SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EDITOR Published: 17:35 BST, 5 August 2025 | Updated: 18:15 BST, 5 August 2025 New Jersey was rattled by its second earthquake in less than a week on Tuesday.The US Geological Survey (USGS) recorded a magnitude 2.7 tremor near Hillsdale at around 12:12pm ET.The seismic activity came just days after a stronger magnitude 3.0 quake struck in Hillsdale on Saturday evening, about 11 miles away.Shaking from Tuesday’s quake was felt beyond New Jersey, with reports of movement coming from parts of New York City and Upstate New York, according to USGS data.USGS received more than 400…
Experts have warned against taking trendy placenta pills, claiming that the spongey organ can contain viruses, bacteria and even heavy metals due to its role of filtering the blood and protecting the growing foetus. Their warnings came after Vick Hope, wife of DJ Calvin Harris, became the latest star to reveal that she will be ingesting her expelled organ in capsule form. In wellness circles, there is a belief that eating the organ – whether in the form of freeze dried capsules, cooked and roasted, or blended raw into a smoothie – can replenish a woman’s iron levels after giving birth. It is…
By ALESIA FIDDLER, TRAINEE REPORTER Published: 14:48 BST, 5 August 2025 | Updated: 15:13 BST, 5 August 2025 For some tourists, getting their passport stamped at iconic or dreamy destinations is like a badge of honour.Many use them as a way of keeping track of all the different places they’ve visited across the globe, almost like a souvenir.However, travellers have been warned to avoid collecting ‘novelty’ stamps in their official passports.At some popular destinations such as Machu Picchu, in Peru, tourists may be offered unofficial stamps as a memento of their visit.Other places include Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, in Wales and Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin. But what…
By VICTORIA CHURCHILL , US POLITICAL REPORTER and JON MICHAEL RAASCH, US POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 15:35 BST, 5 August 2025 | Updated: 16:03 BST, 5 August 2025 Several of America’s former top political leaders have been issued subpoenas to testify about the ‘horrific crimes’ perpetrated by former financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued deposition subpoenas on Tuesday to several former Trump-era Department of Justice officials, as well as historical Democrat power players.Former President Bill Clinton and Former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton have been called to appear before…
By WILL STEWART Published: 15:03 BST, 5 August 2025 | Updated: 15:45 BST, 5 August 2025 A beach brawl broke out in war-ravaged Odesa when two bikini-clad women clashed and wrestled each other to the ground. One media outlet claimed the battle was over the playing of Russian music in Ukraine’s leading Black Sea resort during the war.There is a ban on the public playing of Russian music in Ukraine due to Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion, although the exact reason for this free-for-all was not confirmed.The video begins with two women pulling their hair and throwing punches at each other. The…