Robert Tait
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David Hasselhoff becomes the unlikely face of campaign against all-male panels
The Tumblr was created last year by Dr Saara Särmä, a Finnish artist and feminist researcher who was trying to inject some humour into her campaign against all-men panels. Followers were invited to submit pictures and screen shots of all-male panels, illustrated with a “Hoffsome stamp” represented by Hasselhoff’s image. Now the campaign is gaining new adherents after Sree Sreenivasan, digital… → Read More
US supreme court quashes black death row inmate's conviction African-American jurors excluded
A black death row inmate has had his conviction for murdering a white woman overturned after the United States supreme court ruled that African-Americans had been illegally excluded from serving on the jury at his trial. Timothy Tyrone Foster was facing execution for murdering a 79-year-old returned school teacher in Georgia nearly 30 years ago, when he was 18. He may now undergo a re-trial… → Read More
Louisiana politician adds 'joke' amendment on age and weight for strippers
A Louisiana legislator provoked an angry backlash from his female counterparts after proposing that women working as strippers should be no older than 28 and not too fat. Kenny Havard, a Republican, tabled the proposal as an amendment to a bill before the southern state’s house of representatives, saying he wanted to “trim the fat”. “I put an age limit - no one over 28 or more than 160lbs,” he… → Read More
Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner named in fresh sexual assault case against Bill Cosby
Ms Goins claims she and a friend went to a party at the Playboy mansion when she was 18 and met Hefner, who introduced her to Cosby, who in turn then gave her a drink which she believes was deliberately spiked with a drug, making her feel ill. The two men saw that she was “woozy”, according to a suit filed at California superior court by Ms Goins’ lawyers, and Hefner suggested that she go and… → Read More
Female British aviator survives desert plane crash
A British adventurer on a round-the-world journey has escaped without serious injury after her 1940s bi-plane crashed in the Arizona desert. Tracey Curtis-Taylor suffered only bruises to her thigh after the vintage Boeing Stearman aircraft turned upside down after hitting a bush during takeoff at Winslow, where it had stopped for re-fuelling. Ewald Gritsch, Ms Curtis-Taylor’s Austrian passenger,… → Read More
Officers suspended after footage shows them punching suspect during arrest
Another officer is also seen striking the suspect after throwing himself on top of him. The arrest happened after Simone, 50, who was wanted on outstanding arrest warrants for assault and battery with a deadly weapon and larceny, refused to obey an officer’s order to stop and instead led a phalanx of police vehicles on an hour-long pursuit that crossed state lines. The chase began in Holden,… → Read More
Aerial footage appears to show police assaulting a suspect after car chase
One officer throws himself on top of the man while a colleague is seen punching him more than half a dozen times. The suspect does not appear to offer any resistance. He is later seen standing up, pushed against his vehicle with his hands cuffed behind his back as officers search him. Wednesday’s incident happened in the New Hampshire town of Nashua after a half-hour chase that reached speeds of… → Read More
Bernie Sanders keeps Democratic contest alive with emphatic win over Hillary Clinton in West Virginia
“Nothing short of embarrassing that Hillary Clinton has now been defeated twenty times by a 74-year old socialist from Vermont,” Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican national committee, tweeted. Mr Sanders’ victory appeared to have been assisted by lingering anger over comments made by Mrs Clinton in March when she said that future government polices “put a lot of coal miners and coal… → Read More
Donald Trump closing in on Hillary Clinton in race for White House, new polls show
The most encouraging sign for the presumptive Republican nominee was in the midwest state of Ohio, where he led Mrs Clinton by 43 per cent to 39 among registered voters. The same poll showed Bernie Sanders, Mrs Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic race, leading Mr Trump by 43 to 41 points. Mr Sanders also did better than Mrs Clinton in a head-to-head match-up against Mr Trump in Florida and… → Read More
Rare pupfish left dead after drunken revellers rampage at only natural habitat
The drunken visitor no doubt thought going skinny dipping in waters at an isolated spot called Devil’s Hole, leaving his boxer shorts floating in the water, was a good lark. But officials at Death Valley National Park, straddling the borders of California and Nevada, refused to see the funny side after the outbreak of inebriated ribaldry left a rare and endangered species of pupfish dead in its… → Read More
Donald Trump says Sadiq Khan could be exception to his ban on Muslims entering US
Donald Trump has said that Sadiq Khan, the new mayor of London, could be an exception to his proposed ban on Muslims entering the US. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s comments came just hours after Mr Khan, who last week became the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital, said he planned to visit America before January in case Mr Trump was elected to the White House - an event… → Read More
Civil war threatens Republicans over Donald Trump
The Republicans stood on the brink of civil war over Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy on Sunday as the billionaire businessmen issued an implied threat against the party’s congressional leader for not supporting him as its nominee. Mr Trump refused to rule out punishing Paul Ryan, speaker of the US House of Representatives, by unseating him as chairman of this summer’s Republican national… → Read More
Hillary Clinton to form "Republicans for Hillary" group to exploit furore over Donald Trump
Among them are Mark Salter, a senior adviser to John McCain, the defeated Republican candidate in the 2008 election, who has already declared his support for Mrs Clinton after Mr Trump tied up the party’s nomination this week. They also include Robert Gates, a former US defence secretary in both George W Bush's and Barack Obama’s administrations, and General David Petraeus, a former CIA director… → Read More
'Four more years', cheering supporters tell Barack Obama, aghast at the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency
“In addition to the constitution, Michelle (Mr Obama’s wife) would not allow that.” The president - who is coming to the end of his term in office after being elected twice - was referring to the 22nd amendment of the United States constitution, which bars presidents from seeking a third term. "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held… → Read More
Arsenio Hall sues Sinead O'Connor over inflammatory Prince Facebook claims
Sinead O’Connor is being sued by the comedian Arsenio Hall after she accused him of being Prince's drugs supplier in an incendiary Facebook message. Hall denies the allegations in a US$5 million (£3.46 million) suit filed with the Los Angeles superior court and calls them "despicable". The suit dismisses O’Connor as “desperate attention seeker” and says she and Hall have not spoken in 25 years.… → Read More
Dead man with 'cement shoes' washes up on New York beach
The spectre of the body dumped in the river or at sea, doomed to sink without trace by the dead weight of “concrete shoes”, is straight out of crime fiction lore. But the dead man washed ashore on Brooklyn’s Manhattan beach in New York was an example of life - or more accurately, death - imitating art after a passing student noticed that his feet were indeed encased in cement. Unsurprisingly,… → Read More
Ex-garbage collector convicted of LA's 'grim sleeper' serial killings
A former garbage collector officially became one of California’s most prolific serial killers on Thursday after a jury found him guilty of the so-called “grim sleeper” murders that took the lives of nine women and a 15-year-old girl. Lonnie Franklin Jnr, 63, sat impassively as the verdicts were read out in a Los Angeles courtroom, while the families of his victims burst into tears. He could face… → Read More
Woody Allen 'immune' to criticism over affair with former partner's daughter
Woody Allen has said he was “immune” to the criticism of his affair with Soon-Yi Previn, the adopted daughter of his then partner Mia Farrow, after their relationship became public in the 1990s. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Allen called Soon-Yi, now his wife, “one of the great experiences of my life” and said he had been able to transform her life after she was adopted as an… → Read More
Caitlyn Jenner to feature on Sports Illustrated cover wearing only US flag and Olympic gold medal
Caitlyn Jenner is to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, the leading American sports magazine, dressed only in an American flag and sporting her Olympic gold medal in a rare acknowledgement of her previous life as a champion male athlete. Her appearance on the magazine’s summer cover is being timed to mark the 40th anniversary of her world record-breaking victory at the 1976 Olympic Games… → Read More
Shamelessness has mapped Donald Trump's path to electoral success
They include: Senator John McCain, former Republican presidential candidate and war hero, ridiculed for being shot down by North Vietnam and becoming a prisoner of war; Megan Kelly, Fox News host, on the receiving end of relentless personal and misogynistic attacks after confronting the candidate about his attitude to women; Jeb Bush, scion of one of America’s most successful political dynasties… → Read More