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Comedian Lucy Beaumont has said she has risked her television career by speaking out about David Walliams because the industry doesn’t tolerate troublemakers. In an interview with Sky News (watch below), the Taskmaster star and Hullraisers writer revealed that she was one of the “whistleblowers” on Walliams, who has been accused of using his fame […]

Lucy Beaumont told Sky News she was a "whistleblower" who spoke to reporters about allegations against David Walliams.

 The Princess Royal was among business leaders, politicians and farming delegates when she took part in the Commonwealth Agriculture Conference.

Amazon's redesigned basic Kindle costs more than before, but its lighter build and improved display make a compelling case for skipping the pricier models.

Usman Khawaja’s memoir is about to be released, and contains a remarkable revelation about the Australian team’s use of sandpaper earlier in the now infamous 2018 Test tour of South Africa.

I've been wanting to try 3D printing, people tell me. Which printer should I get? I finally have a fairly easy answer: the Bambu Lab P2S Combo. The auto-loading, fully enclosed touchscreen printer is one of the very few I can recommend. It's the only one I'd buy for myself. It's on sale for $649 […]

"Pre-EA, we never cancelled a project."

Tánaiste says Jim O’Callaghan and Helen McEntee discharge duties ‘in line with best possible advice’

Government departments spent thousands on external analysis of claims

Milcho Manchevski, the North Macedonian director whose 1994 debut “Before the Rain” won Venice’s Golden Lion and earned an Oscar nomination, is back in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival with “Sister Brother Manhole Cover,” a project stalled for years after he accused his country’s film agency of corruption. The dark comedy centers on […]

Il a peint sa mère de profil, en gris et noir, et en a fait une icône. Il a traîné en justice le plus grand critique de son temps, et a gagné. Le flamboyant James Whistler a ouvert la voie à l'art moderne. À Amsterdam, le musée Van Gogh lui consacre sa plus grande rétrospective européenne depuis 30 ans. « Whistler. Dandy and Disruptor », une exposition à vis

The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations.

A veteran Drug Enforcement Administration agent alleges the agency contributed to a growing drug crisis in New Mexico by allowing dangerous fentanyl pills to reach the streets in order to build bigger cases against dealers. CBS News investigative correspondent David Scott has more on this investigation.

As New Mexico grapples with a growing fentanyl crisis, a veteran DEA agent alleges the agency used a tactic to let fentanyl reach the streets to build bigger drug cases and that it's putting lives at risk. He says managers "didn't listen" to his warnings.

DEA Special Agent David Howell tells CBS News the agency tasked with enforcing federal drug laws has allowed millions of fentanyl pills to hit the streets.

In a new exhibition in Melbourne, bursts of colour typify Hoda Afshar’s humanistic photography, often strikingly at odds with its subject.

A federal judge has thrown out a whistleblower lawsuit that accused the Los Angeles Film School of massive student loan fraud and has sanctioned the claimants’ attorney for filing a brief generated by ChatGPT. The whistleblowers, two former executives at the school, filed a false claims suit in 2024, alleging a scheme in which the […]

In 2021, Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee turned whistleblower, told 60 Minutes that in her time with the company she saw "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook."

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President Trump said successful whistleblowers will get 1% of any fraud they report, although there may be limits.

Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz said he "was pretty shocked" by the version of Elizabeth Holmes he saw onscreen in the new documentary "You Can See Everything."