After Ann Widdecombe’s murder, Reform UK has criticised the Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle and suggested its MPs are not given enough security. Pippa Crerar tells Kiran Stacey what Hoyle’s team have been telling her Please keep sending your comments and questions to Pippa and Kiran at politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com Please follow and subscribe to the Politics Weekly YouTube channel here Continue reading...
Marcos Charles, an ICE official, speaks with the press near the Cook County jail and courthouse complex, in Chicago, on Sept. 8, 2025.
The new Alejandro González Iñárritu film sees Cruise playing an eccentric oil baron on a mission to save the world The first full length trailer for Alejandro González Iñárritu ’s hotly anticipated comedy-drama Digger has been released, and with it audiences’ first look at Tom Cruise ’s least recognisable role since he donned a fatsuit and prosthetics for 2008’s Tropic Thunder. The film will be released worldwide in early October and stars Cruise as Digger Rockwell, “the most powerful man in the
Twelve state attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. NBC News' Allie Canal breaks down how the lawsuit says consumers could be impacted and what it could mean for Paramount.
Brent crude jumps nearly 5% and Asian markets drop, with chipmakers including SK Hynix among hardest hit Business live – latest updates Oil prices jumped and stocks fell after the US launched a fresh wave of attacks against Iran amid an escalating standoff over the strait or Hormuz. Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, rose 4.7% to $79.59 a barrel. Asian stock markets dropped sharply, with South Korea’s Kospi down 8% and Japan’s Nikkei 225 and China’s Shanghai Composite 2% lo
Fox News · Oct 8
I have known Lindsey Graham since we campaigned together in 1994 during the Contract with America reform movement. That effort led the American people to give Republicans control of the House for the first time in 40 years. It was an enormous shock to lose him so suddenly this week. His closest political ally, President Donald Trump , said Sen. Graham was "one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known." He went on to say Sen. Graham was a "true American Patriot." LINDSEY GRAHAM, SOUT
Fox News · Oct 8
Comedian Margaret Cho is facing backlash after a video circulating on social media Sunday showed her mocking the death of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and appearing to suggest that President Donald Trump could be next. "Bye Lindsey… Bye Lindsey Graham. From the closet to the coffin, real seamless. Real seamless," Cho said in a video posted on Facebook. Cho continued her rant, appearing to suggest that Trump might be the next to die, and including the hashtags, "#resist" and "#fdt" in he
NPR News · Oct 8
California is among the states suing to block Paramount from buying Warner Bros. Discovery in a Hollywood mega-merger that would unite some of the nation's largest movie studios and TV newsrooms. (Image credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images)
BBC World News · Oct 8
The Fontainebleau forest blaze, described by officials as of 'exceptional scale', continues to rage for the second day.
