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Johannes Radebe Has A Message For Strictly Come Dancing Fans Concerned About His New Role

Johannes Radebe Has A Message For Strictly Come Dancing Fans Concerned About His New Role

Published by Sam Flores

Johannes Radebe Johannes Radebe is opening up about his upcoming role as one Strictly Come Dancing’s new presenters. The South African performer, who joined the BBC dance show as one of its resident pros in 2018, was announced last week as part of its new hosting team, alongside TV personality Emma Willis and comedian Josh Widdicombe. Johannes has become a fan favourite since taking to the ballroom, thanks to his partnerships with celebs like chef John Whaite, tennis player Annabel Croft and actor Alex Kingston. So, the news about his new role has left his fans understandably concerned about whether or not they’ll get to see him dancing on this year’s series. Fortunately, Johannes has now assured them that they needn’t have worried. Speaking to his new co-star Emma on her Radio 2 show, Johannes insisted that he is “not hanging up” his dancing shoes just yet. “I will definitely be throwing some shapes and moving my hips,” he enthused. “I can’t not, that’s my life. For it to be just taken away would be …

Doctor concerned over Trump’s health | World | News

Doctor concerned over Trump’s health | World | News

Published by Sam Flores

Presidents usually take one trip to Walter Reed a year, but Trump took two in 2025, one of which he initially said was for an MRI but was later revealed to be for a CT scan. The White House has said that Trump has not made any trips without the public knowing. “He has never made an undisclosed visit to Walter Reed,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said last month. Jonathan Reiner, a leading cardiologist, told The Washington Post: “This White House just doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge any physical ailment, but older people develop medical issues, and the president is almost 80 years old.” “There just seems to be a lack of candour from the White House.” Reiner is a professor of medicine and the director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at The George Washington University Hospital. He said he was concerned that Trump’s legs were becoming noticeably swollen. The White House in July had said that Trump had chronic venous insufficiency, an age-related condition that causes veins to struggle to return …

UN gravely concerned by an Afghan Taliban law that has provisions on child marriage : NPR

UN gravely concerned by an Afghan Taliban law that has provisions on child marriage : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

FILE: Zareena, left, and Shakeela, internally displaced Afghan girls play outside a shanty at a refugee camp in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 25, 2011. Dar Yasin/AP hide caption toggle caption Dar Yasin/AP KABUL, Afghanistan — The United Nations expressed “grave concern” on Thursday about a new law issued by Afghanistan’s Taliban government on separation in marriage which includes provisions on child marriage, saying the code further entrenches discrimination against women and girls. The government rejected the accusations, saying the decree follows Islamic law and insisting the country has already banned the forced marriage of girls. Afghanistan’s justice ministry published Decree No. 18 “on judicial separation of spouses” last week, which sets out rules for separation of a married couple. Among its most controversial provisions, it says that the silence of a girl reaching puberty can be interpreted as consent to marriage. It also includes a section on the separation of girls who reach puberty and are married, which “implies that child marriage is permitted,” the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) …

Trump concerned about Ebola after American tests positive in Africa

Trump concerned about Ebola after American tests positive in Africa

Published by Sam Flores

US President Donald Trump speaks during a healthcare affordability event in the South Court Auditorium of The White House in Washington, DC, on May 18, 2026. Kent Nishimura | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday said he was concerned about Ebola after an American tested positive for it. “I’m concerned about everything, but certainly [I] am,” Trump said when asked about Ebola during a White House event on his administration’s consumer-drug website TrumpRx. “I think that it’s been confined right now to Africa, and but it’s something that has had a breakout,” he said of the disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced earlier Monday that one American tested positive for Ebola while in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A day earlier, the World Health Organization declared that the spread of the Ebola-causing virus known as Bundibugyo, which is currently appearing in the DRC and Uganda, constitutes a global public health emergency. The WHO specified that it “does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency,” as defined under International …

Americans are increasingly concerned about AI – want more regulation

Americans are increasingly concerned about AI – want more regulation

Published by Jenni Sidey

Artificial intelligence is now familiar to most Americans, but familiarity has not brought comfort. A new national survey finds a public that is far more uneasy than excited about what AI could mean for the country in the next decade, with majorities across party lines saying government has not done enough to regulate it. The poll, conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, comes at a moment when the country is arguing over how quickly to build the infrastructure behind AI, who should set the rules, and how much disruption the technology may bring to daily life. The answers suggest that many people are already paying attention, and a large share do not like where things appear to be heading. Only 17% of Americans said AI would have a somewhat or very positive impact on the United States over the next 10 years. Far more, 42%, said the effects would be somewhat or very negative. Another 32% said the technology’s impact would be equally positive and negative. That gap matters …

Armed Services Republicans ‘very concerned’ about US troops withdrawal from Germany

Armed Services Republicans ‘very concerned’ about US troops withdrawal from Germany

Published by Sam Flores

The chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Service committees on Saturday expressed they are “very concerned” about the withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany amid President Trump’s feud with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Trump on Wednesday had announced that he was reviewing a possible reduction of U.S. troops in Germany. “We are very concerned by the… Source link

Republican lawmakers increasingly concerned over Hegseth’s ideological military

Republican lawmakers increasingly concerned over Hegseth’s ideological military

Published by Sam Flores

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sat for hearings with Congress this week to discuss his handling of the Iran war, along with fielding questions about the Trump administration’s controversial $1.5 trillion defense spending proposal for 2027. Meanwhile, his support among Republican lawmakers is wavering following his firings of numerous high-profile military leaders, which experts say is both concerning and unusual. Since becoming head of the Pentagon last year, Hegseth has overseen a dozen dismissals, retirements and reassignments among some of the highest positions in the U.S. military. Among them were the first female commandant of the Coast Guard, the head of the Army’s Chaplain Corps, and a four-star general overseeing the Army’s Transformation and Training Command. However, it was the recent firing of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George in the middle of the ongoing Iran war that first spooked Congressional Republicans. House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers, R-Ala., said that George “made great progress on increasing recruitment, improving efficiency, and modernizing the Army.” Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., said the move was “concerning,” …

OpenAI Strangely Concerned About Goblins

OpenAI Strangely Concerned About Goblins

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech OpenAI is forbidding its latest AI model from discussing an unlikely topic: goblins. As Wired reports, the company’s developers included strongly-worded instructions for its coding tool, Codex, that specifically proscribe any talk of the troublesome mythological creatures, along with a peculiar grab bag of other entities, both real and fictional. “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user’s query,” read the Codex instructions, per the magazine. The bizarre directive was flagged in a tweet that drew attention from other AI enthusiasts. Initially, it was unclear why OpenAI developers included the instructions, though they strongly implied that the model, GPT-5.5, may have a propensity for talking about goblins, ogres, and the like. Some users on X claimed that this was the case. One said they noticed that the AI of late kept describing bugs as “goblins” and “gremlins.” Anotherclaimed that the 5.5 version …

Why a major reorganization at the Forest Service has people concerned

Why a major reorganization at the Forest Service has people concerned

Published by Sam Flores

I was on a road trip to visit a friend late in March when my phone started lighting up. The Trump administration had just announced a sweeping reorganization of the U.S. Forest Service. People — among them current and former agency staffers — had thoughts. Under the overhaul, the Forest Service will move from a regional to a state-based leadership structure, relocate its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City and close nearly three-quarters of its research stations. A news release described this as a much-needed shift to streamline the agency and bring its leadership closer to the forests and grasslands it manages, which are primarily west of the Mississippi. But a common refrain emerged among the sources I spoke with: The Trump administration is trying to break the Forest Service, they claimed, to pave the way for privatizing or even selling off the 193 million acres of land it oversees. On a recent podcast, Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said this is false, that the reorganization is about prudently stewarding taxpayer dollars, not …