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A UK politician has warned Donald Trump could "destroy" the BBC.

The British Broadcasting Company director general, Tim Davie, as well as head of news Deborah Turness, resigned Monday following criticism of a documentary aired about Trump. An internal memo at the BBC suggested two parts of Trump's speech in the Panorama show had been edited together to make it look as though he explicitly encouraged the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021.

Trump has since responded to the documentary and the resignations of Davie and Turness in a post to Truth Social. He wrote: "The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught 'doctoring' my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th....

Time magazine released its shortlist for its perennial Person of the Year selection. The annual honor began in 1927 when Charles Lindbergh received the distinction following his solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Since then, people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Pope Francis and climate activist Greta Thunberg have received the honor, along with several world leaders and every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt (except Gerald Ford). The magazine has also swerved in the past and awarded “concepts,” like “The Silence Breakers” who started the MeToo movement a......

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle asked President Biden for a ride home on Air Force One following Queen Elizabeth’s funeral last September, according to British tabloid reports. The reported request was immediately shut down by the White House, with one source describing the idea as a “non-starter.” Harry and Meghan live in California, but they were already in the U.K. for charity reasons when the queen died on Sept. 8, 2022. They stuck around through her funeral on Sept. 19. President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden were among the many foreign dignitaries in attendance for the ceremony. Accordi......

The language in the Lord’s Prayer might be “problematic” for some people, the archbishop of York said Friday during his address to a meeting of the Church of England’s ruling body. The Most Rev. Stephen Cottrell, the archbishop of York, was specifically referring to the words “Our Father,” which opens the prayer that Jesus taught when his disciples asked him how they should pray. “I know the word ‘father’ is problematic for those whose experience of earthly fathers has been destructive and abusive, and for all of us who have labored rather too much from an oppressively patriarchal grip on life......

Paul Simon is keeping a positive tune as he deals with hearing loss. The Newark-born, Queens-raised singer-songwriter began losing hearing in his left ear about 2½ years ago, he told “CBS Sunday Morning” in a new interview. Simon, who released the studio album “Seven Psalms” last month, hopes his surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival last year wasn’t his last. “I really wanted to perform the ‘Seven Psalms,’ ” Simon, 81, told CBS. “I haven’t given up hope, but I’m prepared to accept that I might not be able to.” Simon, a 16-time Grammy winner, said hearing in his left ear is now at ......

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have reportedly not been invited to Saturday’s party celebrating the birth of the British sovereign. The pair attended the centuries old Trooping the Colour celebration in 2022 when it was hosted by Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September. This weekend’s jubilee will be the first to take place with Harry’s father, King Charles, seated on the throne. The event was dubbed the Queen’s Birthday Parade during Elizabeth’s reign. According to People, Harry, 38, and Markle, 41, will likely be at home in California with their young children when the festivities get unde......