The cause of death for comedian Anthony Clark has been revealed as pneumonia-related complications.

The “Yes, Dear,” and “Boston Common,” actor died Tuesday according to his former co-star Mike O’Malley, who announced the news on social media. The stand-up and actor died from complications related to pneumonia according to Deadline. Clark was 62.

“Anthony Clark died yesterday,” O’Malley wrote. “He was a hilarious guy. When my wife Lisa and I were dating back in the mid-nineties, Anthony was already famous in Boston, regularly selling out comedy shows.

“The first time we saw him at The Comedy Connection we laughed and laughed and laughed,” O’Malley continued. “He was so unique—one of those comics who is laughing along with you at the absurdity of his stories and observations. I was a fan before I was a friend. We spoke on the phone three weeks ago. He had us laughing loudly once again.”

Clark was a fixture in the L.A. stand-up scene through the ’90s. In 1995, he was featured in an HBO young comedians special alongside Dave Chappelle and Louis C.K., hosted by Garry Shandling. He made his foray into acting in the early 1990s. Clark made his feature film debut in the 1991 drama “Dogfight,” according to IMDb, but he’s perhaps best known for starring as Gregory “Greg” Warner in the hit CBS sitcom “Yes, Dear” alongside O’Malley across six seasons and 122 episodes in the early aughts.

Clark also held lead roles in TV shows including NBC’s “Boston Common” and CBS’ “Soul Man” and acted in films “The Rock” and “My Uncle Rafael.” He also hosted the fourth season of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” and appeared in shows including “Ellen” and, most recently, “West of Liberty.”

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NEW YORK — Two Democratic senators are launching an investigation into whether Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress about his reason for a 2019 trip to Samoa after the Associated Press and the Guardian published documents in August refuting his testimony.

The new inquiry is one of a vast array of investigations planned into the Trump administration after Democrats regained control of the House and the Senate from Republicans in the midterm elections.

Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) said in a letter Wednesday to Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit group known for anti-vaccine activism that was formerly chaired by Kennedy, that they were starting an investigation.

The lawmakers asked the group for a broad range of documents related to Kennedy’s Samoa travel, his 2024 presidential campaign and his Senate confirmation process. The letter also requested all communications between the group and federal government officials since President Trump’s second term began in January 2025. The senators gave the group a deadline of Dec. 4 to comply.

AP and Guardian reporting in August showed that while Kennedy repeatedly told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation last year that his visit to Samoa before a deadly measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines,” a letter he sent to the Samoan prime minister ahead of the trip on Children’s Health Defense letterhead showed otherwise. In the letter, Kennedy used the words “vaccine” or “vaccination” eight times.

“We intend to hold Secretary Kennedy accountable for the grave harm he has caused to vulnerable children,” Wyden and Alsobrooks wrote in their letter. “We also intend to hold him accountable for any false statements made to Congress, a crime that undermines the Senate’s ability to fulfill its constitutional duties.”

The Department of Health and Human Services has maintained that the Samoa visit “was unrelated to vaccines.” In response to an AP inquiry in August, it said “any claim or insinuation based on these letters that Secretary Kennedy lied under oath or to Congress is not only false but outright defamatory.”

Kennedy was not under oath during his confirmation hearing. Knowingly giving material false testimony to Congress is a crime that carries a possible prison sentence regardless of whether a person is under oath, though it is rarely prosecuted.

Spokespeople for Children’s Health Defense and HHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday.

Wyden is expected to chair the Senate Finance Committee, which has oversight into Kennedy’s health department, when Democrats retake Congress in January. Alsobrooks serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which also oversees the department.

The same senators on Wednesday announced a separate investigation into hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of gifts reportedly given last year to Kennedy by a donor and former employee.

Swenson writes for the Associated Press.

Australia captain Pat Cummins has hit back at former team-mate Usman Khawaja’s claims over the sandpaper scandal, calling them “100% wrong” and “utter nonsense”.

In 2018, Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft were punished for a plot to tamper with the ball using sandpaper in Australia’s Test against South Africa in Cape Town.

Khawaja has published his autobiography this week and the former batter has said the entire Australia team, which included Cummins, knew about the sandpaper scheme and should have taken responsibility.

But in an extraordinary address to the media in Sydney, Cummins countered and said: “When he says we all knew, if by that he means we knew sandpaper was going out on the field, he’s 100% wrong.

“I said that consistently for the last eight years. I did not know that was happening.

“He says that I and others were architects of a scheme to ball tamper with sandpaper. That’s complete and utter nonsense.”

Cummins and Khawaja played 56 Tests together until Khawaja retired from international cricket in January.

Khawaja was in the Australia XI when Cummins made his Test debut in 2011 and the pair were also once team-mates in domestic cricket with New South Wales.

“Usman is a friend, but friends aren’t casual with each other’s lives and reputations,” said Cummins.

“In his book he’s been casual with my life and the lives of many others – and, I think, Australian cricket.

“I support him to tell his story, 100%, I’m glad he feels like he can, but we have to be accountable for the things that we say and do.”

More to follow.

Prosecutors say the woman shared security details with Ukraine, while her lawyers argue the information wasn’t secret.

A court in Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad has sentenced a 66-year-old rights lawyer to 12 years in prison for treason, after prosecutors accused her of passing sensitive information to Ukraine.

The court imposed the sentence on Thursday on Maria Bontsler, according to the rights group Slovo Zashchite, which said she had worked with a number of defendants accused of political offences in Kaliningrad.

The territory sits on the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Poland.

A court statement posted on Telegram did not name her, but said she had been detained by the FSB intelligence agency on allegations of passing information to Ukraine beginning in 2024 about security officers in Kaliningrad.

Prosecutors also alleged she gave Ukraine information on criminal cases in the exclave that were of interest to Kyiv, the statement said.

She was also given an extra year of restrictions on her activity. Prosecutors had sought 15 years, according to Slovo Zashchite.

Closed trial

Slovo Zashchite said the trial was held behind closed doors, with Bontsler and her lawyers prevented from attending, and that she was allowed only to make a closing statement. It said her lawyers argued that none of the information cited by prosecutors was secret, and that she had been in ill health in detention.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, parliament has approved laws that make public actions aimed at “discrediting” the army illegal and ban the spread of “fake news” about the armed forces.

Russian courts have also jailed lawyers who took on politically sensitive cases. In January 2025, a court sentenced three lawyers of the late opposition leader Alexey Navalny to between three and a half and five and a half years on “extremism” charges, in a case widely seen as an effort to discourage defence lawyers from taking political cases.

Police have identified the 46-year-old man who was killed after a gunman opened fire in Washington DC.

James Stewart was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting, while four others who were injured were rushed to local hospitals for treatment. One of the injured is in a critical condition, police said.

The shooting began on Thursday morning local time inside a gym in an apartment building in the Logan Circle neighbourhood, which is about a mile (1.6km) north of the White House.

Police said the suspect, identified as 55-year-old Matt Wade Lambert, barricaded himself in one of the apartments, and later died of self-inflicted gunshot wound.

While the suspect was barricaded, “he did fire through the door at officers at least on two occasions”, Carroll said.

Negotiators had been on the phone with the suspect when they heard a gunshot and he stopped communicating with them, according to Carroll.

Officers forced their way into the apartment and saw the suspect had what appeared to be a “self-inflicted gunshot wound”, he said.

Carroll added that police “believe there was a fire that was set”, which has been contained.

Authorities are still working to understand the exact timeline, suspect’s motivation, and other details of the incident.

“We believe there was some sort of a conflict with the apartment building, but we don’t have much more than that,” Carroll said.

Authorities recovered three firearms from Lambert’s apartment. He was a registered gun owner, police said.

Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser called it a “senseless act of gun violence” and said the White House had been briefed.

Frontier Airlines is trying first class.

Even in an industry that’s constantly in motion, this is a departure not many would have predicted. Frontier has made its reputation as a low-fare carrier that relies heavily on extra charges for items including carry-on bags, boarding priority and airport agent assistance.

Yet for flights beginning March 5, 2027, the carrier will be offering a first class section in the first two rows of seating, with a seat-to-seat distance (known as seat pitch) of 37 inches. Frontier’s usual seat pitch is 28-31 inches. In addition, first class seating will be in 2-by-2 formation, eliminating the middle seat, and eventually, each passenger will have a USB-C power port.

A rendering of Frontier’s first class seats.

(Frontier)

In announcing the changes, Frontier said that the individual power ports and Starlink Wi-Fi — an addition the carrier announced in July — “will begin rolling out in 2027, with enhancements becoming available aircraft by aircraft throughout the year.” The idea, Frontier said, is to boost passenger comfort, choice and connectivity.

The airline is changing life in rows 3-8, too, charging extra-legroom prices while increasing the seat pitch there to 34 inches. Those seats, too, will have individual USB-C ports. Neither the first class not the extra-legroom seats include meals or snacks, unless you pay extra. Also, travel advice site the Points Guy points out that Frontier’s new first-class seats “don’t actually recline.” The airline says the seats “are pre-reclined for a relaxing experience throughout your journey.”

Frontier’s announcement comes about six weeks after Jetblue’s announcement that it would create a high-end category on domestic flights, Bluefirst, which will include wider reclining seats, an included meal, snacks, drinks and curb-to-carousel priority for baggage. Depending on the route, Jetblue’s flights with that new class will begin in December, January and February.

Frontier, founded in 1994 and based in Denver, flies about 170 aircraft to about 120 destinations in the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. The company has survived a bankruptcy reorganization (in 2008) and performance reports that ranked Frontier last among the 10 major U.S. airlines in 2022, 2023 and 2024. (Factors in those rankings included on-time arrivals, passengers denied boarding and customer complaints.)

To promote the new seating classes, Frontier is offering introductory prices for flights booked before Nov. 17 for travel from March 5 through April 5, with first-class, one-way fares starting at $129. As part of that promotion, one-way extra-legroom seats will start at $90.

KATE Ferdinand has left husband Rio red-faced after revealing she sometimes has to scrub his skid marks from the toilet.

The former Towie star, 35, made the embarrassing confession during a hilarious discussion about living with men on their Blended podcast.

As the conversation turned to the messy habits of husbands, Kate listed the things she had struggled to get used to, including leaving belongings everywhere, eating habits and toilet etiquette.

But former Manchester United footballer Rio, 48, was quick to defend himself, insisting: “My toilet etiquette is impeccable.”

Kate wasn’t having any of it, however, and cheekily replied: “Sorry, we’re not going to get into it.”

When Rio continued to protest, she dropped the bombshell: “I have to scrub your skids sometimes with a brush.”

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A horrified Rio immediately hit back: “That’s once in a blue moon. Oh my God. This is a liberty.”

He then insisted: “I do not,” before claiming Kate hadn’t even known when he went to the toilet until around two years ago.

Kate insisted she’d tried to spare Rio’s blushes, but the footie legend had only himself to blame after repeatedly pushing her to spill the dirty details.

The couple also revealed they have strict boundaries when it comes to bathroom privacy, with Rio admitting he panics if Kate tries to enter while he’s on the loo.

He joked: “If I’m on the toilet and she tries to walk in, there’s a big alarm goes off. I start shouting, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa.’”

The hilarious exchange comes after Kate recently admitted she sometimes fears her stepchildren “hate” her when they refuse to listen, while also revealing that she and Rio occasionally clash over how to handle their children’s emotions.

Credit agency Fitch Ratings has dealt another blow to the troubled Skylink people mover train at Los Angeles International Airport, downgrading the project’s debt deeper into junk bond territory over the continued inability of the contractor and city’s airport department to complete the project.

The downgrade — to B-, from BB four months ago — “reflects the near certainty” that contractor LINXS won’t have the 2.25-mile train running by Dec. 8, leading to a “technical event of default and could give rights to either LINXS or Los Angeles World Airports … to issue project termination notices,” Fitch said in a report this week.

“It’s an uncommon action of severity,” Fitch analyst Seth Lehman told The Times. “We were under the view that there was a fair amount of cushion for LAWA and LINXS to settle on disputes, or for LINXS to show that they can have the trains run safely per this reliability test.”

The contractor has already said the train won’t be ready until February 2027 — or even later. In a statement to The Times Thursday, a spokesperson said that “LINXS remains committed to working with LAWA to successfully deliver the Automated People Mover and provide a world-class transportation system for the Los Angeles region.”

LINXS, an acronym for LAX Integrated Express Solutions, is a consortium that includes Fluor, Balfour Beatty, Alstom Transport USA, ACS Infrastructure Development, HNTB, Dragaos USA. LINXS declined comment beyond the statement.

LAWA officials had no immediate comment on the latest bond downgrade.

The deadline for the train’s completion is Dec. 8. While the airport or the contractor could technically terminate the contract at that time, Lehman noted that there’s a 120-day buffering period to allow for additional time to settle issues.

“After you get past that date, then the question becomes: Will both sides still want to work with each other, or just decide to find a path toward separation?” Lehman said about the months-long grace period.

The contractor and city airport officials have long been at odds.

LINXS filed a complaint against the city over the summer blaming the airport for the delays. Last month, the airport disputed multiple claims that the contractor made in its monthly brief on the project. And meetings between chief executives for the contractor, airport officials and others that began last year stopped in August.

Though officials say the project is 99% done, there are multiple unresolved issues. Agreements to implement solar energy on the project have not been signed with the city’s water and power departments, and the cause of technical problems with the train are still under investigation, according to a recent report from the contractor’s technical advisor.

In order for the train to run, it must undergo 30-days of consecutive testing without substantial issues and get sign-off from the airport and an outside assessor. That month-long testing period has continued to restart.

The $3.3 billion train is the most-anticipated feature of the airport’s $30 billion overhaul. It was initially slated to open in 2023 — before the World Cup and the Super Bowl and long before the 2028 Olympics. It’s now three years behind schedule and more than $1 billion beyond its original construction budget. When it does open, the airport said it will shuttle travelers between terminals, parking lots, the LAX/Metro Transit Center and a new rideshare lot.

Lehman noted that the train is hardly a novel project as many major airports have one, making the delays at LAX all the more confounding.

“Each time there’s a path towards opening, there’s a setback,” he said.

Coco Gauff showed all of her battling qualities as she fought through a back injury to beat Marta Kostyuk and keep her WTA Finals last-four hopes alive.

American Gauff was visibly in pain as she received treatment on her lower back midway through a match she needed to win to stay in the tournament.

She found herself 5-1 down in the second set – only to win six games in a row to complete a 6-4 7-5 win at Indian Wells.

“Physically, I wasn’t at my best, which I’m not really used to,” Gauff told Sky Sports.

“It was like a mental challenge, learning how to play through that.”

The long tennis season has taken a toll on a number of players, with Ukraine’s Kostyuk also receiving treatment on a wrist injury that has been hampering her since August.

It is the second time that Gauff has overturned a 5-1 deficit at this tournament, having done the same to beat Jessica Pegula on Sunday.

However, the 22-year-old admitted she was not expecting it to happen again, and was already preparing herself for a third set.

“I asked my physio at 5-2 down, what can I do on the bathroom break [between sets] to try and loosen up,” Gauff said.

“And then there was no bathroom break!”

Gauff will need Wimbledon champion Linda Noskova to beat Pegula in the final group match if she is to reach the semi-finals.

Gauff struggled with her serve throughout, producing nine double faults to one ace, but said afterwards she struggled to get through her motion without feeling pain.

Kostyuk – a late call-up to the season-ending finals after Elena Rybakina’s withdrawal – also struggled to generate pace and spin because of her wrist problem.

World number four Gauff came back from an early break down to take the first set, but immediately ran into problems in the second.

She called for the trainer after going 3-0 down but soon trailed by a double break, with Kostyuk saving three break points inbetween.

However, with her movement hampered and the crowd behind her, Gauff was able to swing hard and ultimately outlast Kostyuk.

Michael Olise gives France the lead, but double from Pio Esposito and one from Davide Frattesi secures win for Italy.

Francesco Pio Esposito struck twice to inflict a first defeat on Zinedine Zidane as France’s head coach, while Italy stormed back to win 3-1 at San Siro and top their Nations League group.

Michael Olise profited from a Gianluigi Donnarumma error to put the visitors in front after 10 minutes on Thursday, but Italy hit back through Esposito and Davide Frattesi either side of half-time.

Inter Milan striker Esposito’s second came from the penalty spot after his brother Sebastiano had earlier fired a spot kick wide, while France were twice denied by the woodwork in an entertaining encounter.

The result sent Italy top of Group A1 on 10 points, level with France but above them on head-to-head record, while Belgium are third on nine points after inflicting a fifth straight defeat on rock-bottom Turkiye.

France were without star attackers Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele through injury, but it did not show as they made an electric start in pouring rain in Milan.

Desire Doue hit the side netting and first-time captain Adrien Rabiot tested Donnarumma before Lucas Da Cunha’s rasping half-volley flew narrowly wide.

But the opener was gifted to France when Donnarumma passed the ball straight to Olise, who skipped past a defender before firing home his fifth goal in five Nations League games – a record only bettered by England captain Harry Kane’s seven.

The hosts struck back in the 26th minute with their first chance of the game when Nicolo Cambiaghi drove to the byline and cut back a cross, which Esposito converted with a deft touch.

The goal brought San Siro to life as the older Esposito sibling, Sebastiano, threatened a quickfire comeback two minutes later, forcing a sharp save from Mike Maignan.

Bradley Barcola came closest to a third goal before the break with a curling shot from the edge of the box that struck the foot of the far post.

The end-to-end nature of the game continued in the second half as Rayan Cherki’s rasping strike was tipped onto the post by Donnarumma before Italy charged up the other end and forced Maignan into a point-blank save from Cambiaghi.

Italy had a glorious chance to go in front when Cambiaghi was tripped by Malo Gusto to earn a penalty, but Sebastiano Esposito failed to join his brother on the scoresheet as he hammered his spot kick wide on the hour mark.

The Azzurri did not dwell on the disappointment for long, taking the lead just three minutes later when Frattesi drilled in a shot from a Federico Dimarco cross moments after the Inter Milan wing-back was brought off the bench.

Fellow substitute Antonio Vergara earned the home side another penalty when he was tripped by Dayot Upamecano, and this time Francesco Pio Esposito stepped up to drill a shot into the bottom corner.

The result continued a strong start to Roberto Mancini’s second spell as Italy coach as his side stretched their unbeaten run to four matches and notched their first home win over France since 1962.

Belgium host Italy and Turkiye travel to France in the final round of group games on Sunday.

Elsewhere, captain Harry Kane celebrated his record 126th cap for England with a match-winner from the penalty spot as England beat Croatia 2-1 at Wembley on Thursday to qualify for the Nations League last eight.

The 33-year-old followed a script that seemed destined to happen when he stepped up in the 64th minute to put England ahead in front of an 80,400-strong crowd after the hosts had conceded a sloppy equaliser five minutes earlier.

It was the Bayern Munich forward’s 92nd England goal, and there was never any doubt from the moment he placed the ball and sent it straight down the middle as goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic dived to his left.

Kane had started a night of celebration as the centre of attention, handed a commemorative token by former goalkeeper Peter Shilton, the previous record holder since 1989, when he surpassed Bobby Moore’s 108 caps.

RUSSELL Brand could be hit with a £2.9million tax bill after his jail sentence made him a UK resident again. 

The rapist was advanced £7.4million by his British firm managing his earnings after sex investigations began. 

Then two years ago he moved his residence to the US on company records.  

And the loan was taken off his firm’s accounts last year. 

Entrepreneurs living abroad usually pay no further UK income tax on dividends from their companies — if they stay abroad over five years. 

UK residents pay up to 39.35 per cent on dividends so Brand could be liable for up to £2.9million tax. 

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The fallen funnyman and his wife Laura co-own Pablo Diablo’s Legitimate Business Firm Limited which was formed in October 2006. 

The company managed his earnings from film and broadcast work, live shows, royalties and merchandise and made profits of £3,341,057 in 2021. 

A tax expert said: “HMRC will want to know how Brand’s £7.44m loan was wiped out in 2025 as a dividend or a write-off is taxable, and prison could bring the five-year rule into play. 

“Companies House records show he didn’t change his residence to the US in 2024 so he hasn’t been there long enough to be exempt. 

‘The tax will be owed by Brand personally – not the firm – and he won’t be able to offset his criminal defence costs against any business profits.” 

Brand was convicted at Southwark Crown Court eight days ago of one rape and three sexual assaults against four women. 

 He was cleared of two rapes and an attempted indecent assault. 

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Thursday that she views her defeat in the Nov. 3 election as part of a much larger political phenomenon, with voters across the nation demanding change at every level of government.

Bass, 73, said Mayor-elect Nithya Raman’s win was, at least in part, the result of “a wave that took place around the country.”

“This happens every five or six years, that voters get in a space where they just want everything new,” she said. “And I think that what happened here was part of that.”

Bass made her remarks while appearing at the opening of a new 140-bed interim housing facility in North Hills, which will provide homeless people with medical referrals, job counseling and help with finding an apartment.

It was the first open-press public event scheduled by the mayor’s office since Bass called Raman, a city councilmember and onetime ally, to concede the race.

Raman, who takes office on Dec. 14, won with nearly 55% of the vote, compared to about 45% for Bass, according to the most recent results.

Her victory dealt Bass, a former state Assembly Speaker and six-term member of Congress, her first election defeat in a political career that spanned more than two decades.

“Obviously I was disappointed in the results,” Bass said after the event. “But the results are the results.”

Bass became mayor in 2022 and immediately made the fight against homelessness a cornerstone of her administration. She declared a local emergency on homelessness on her first day in office and soon afterward launched Inside Safe, which moves homeless people into hotels, motels and other forms of temporary housing.

Although Raman supported those efforts for much of Bass’ tenure, she criticized the program on the campaign trail, calling it expensive and ineffective.

Although Inside Safe has moved more than 6,000 people indoors, nearly 43% of the program’s participants had returned to the street by Sept. 1, according to figures issued by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

Despite those setbacks, Bass told reporters in North Hills that she feels good about her administration’s progress in addressing the crisis, saying her office established L.A.’s first citywide strategy for addressing homeless encampments.

During Thursday’s ribbon cutting ceremony, San Fernando Valley civic leaders thanked Bass for putting a priority on homelessness.

“It’s a hard, hard issue to solve, and we’re going to be working on it for awhile,” said Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth, while addressing the mayor. “But you have moved it forward leaps and bounds.”

Bass, a Democrat, did express delight with the election results in other parts of the country, particularly in Mississippi, where voters elected the first Black U.S. Senator since Reconstruction.

“I was very happy for the election nationally. Obviously, I’d prefer different results here,” she said. “But you know, the fact that now Democrats are in control of both the Senate and the House means that we’ll be able to put a check on the president, which is something that has been needed.”

Asked what she intends to do next, Bass said she has “so many ideas.”

Another run for political office isn’t one of them.

“You understand never to say never,” she added. “Right now, I can’t imagine it.”

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves signed relief pitcher Evan Phillips to a three-year, $35 million contract on Thursday, bringing the right-hander back to his original team after he made a promising return from Tommy John surgery this season with the Dodgers.

Over his last 14 appearances in the regular season, Phillips had 19 strikeouts and a 1.46 ERA in 12 1/3 innings. He made five scoreless appearances in the playoffs for the Dodgers, who beat the Braves in the National League Division Series before losing the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series.

Over the last five years, Phillips has a 2.31 ERA, the best in the NL and fourth-best in the majors among those who pitched in at least 200 games. Fellow Braves relievers Robert Suarez (2.66) and Dylan Lee (2.84) rank fourth and seventh in the NL during that span. Phillips, who joined the Dodgers in 2021, has not allowed a run in 17 career postseason appearances, winning the 2024 World Series.

He underwent elbow ligament replacement surgery in June 2025 and missed the subsequent postseason, when the Dodgers won their second consecutive World Series, and the start of this season.

Phillips, 32, will make $11 million in 2027 and 2028 and $13 million in 2029. The Braves, in their announcement of the signing, said Phillips agreed to donate 1% of his salary to the team’s charitable foundation.

With closer Raisel Iglesias a free agent, the Braves were in the market for late-inning reinforcements. Phillips appeared in 31 games for the Dodgers in 2026, posting a 3.46 ERA in 26 innings with 33 strikeouts. He made his season debut right before the All-Star break.

Phillips was drafted by the Braves in the 17th round in 2015 and made his major league debut in 2018. The native of North Carolina was traded to the Baltimore Orioles for starting pitcher Kevin Gausman less than a month later.

Microsoft says servers unexpectedly went offline, disrupting Outlook email, Teams, Copilot and other services.

Thousands of Microsoft users reported trouble accessing their email and connecting to work apps after a widespread outage hit Outlook and other services on Thursday.

Reports of problems with Outlook, the company’s email client, climbed to about 130,000 on the outage tracking site Downdetector shortly after 1pm Eastern Time (18:00 GMT), with some users saying emails weren’t being sent or received, while others couldn’t open their inboxes.

By just before 3pm (20:00 GMT), that figure had fallen to about 77,000.

Users also reported having trouble accessing Microsoft’s workplace messaging app Teams and its AI assistant Copilot, along with other Microsoft 365 services. The company said the issues could impact users in any region.

Microsoft said on X that servers were unavailable and failing automatic health checks, putting pressure on those still operating. It said it was testing a configuration change to redistribute traffic that was elevated on parts of its infrastructure and restarting affected services to bring them back online.

“We’re working to safely return them to service,” the company said.

Microsoft did not state when it expected services to be fully restored.

Marina Hyde said on her podcast with Richard Osman: ‘Someone at some level in Britain’s Got Talent was trying to get rid of him.’

People within Britain’s Got Talent “leaked” the controversial comments that led to David Walliams‘ departure from the ITV show, it was claimed this week.

The Little Britain star, 55, left the telly hit in 2022 after derogatory comments he made about contestants came to light.

He was recorded during filming breaks at the London Palladium calling one contestant a ‘c***’ and said of another: “She thinks you want to f*** her, but you don’t.”

Walliams – accused of allegedly using his status as a celebrity to prey on vulnerable teenagers and young women for sex, which he denies – was the subject of a discussion on The Rest is Entertainment podcast.

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Marina Hyde, who hosts with TV star Richard Osman, said: “Did we also know that people were trying to get rid of him?

“Operatives, I don’t know who and I don’t know at what level… who leaked those comments? They were trying to get rid, someone at some level in Britain’s Got Talent was trying to get rid of him.”

Walliams sued the show’s makers Fremantle for misuse of private information and for breaching data protection laws and the case was settled in 2023.

Speaking about when the remarks came to light, Hyde, 52, added: “Those comments were leaked, they dropped him and rather than leave that – which you might have thought, you are a hugely bestselling author, perhaps why would you wish to excavate it? – he sued them in the High Court in 2023.

She added: “He clearly thought they had leaked it deliberately. Eventually they settled amicably. I can assure you that would not have been at all amicable on either side.”

Walliams was a judge on Britain’s Got Talent for a decade, joining the show in 2012 on the panel alongside Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon and Amanda Holden. When he left in 2022 he was replaced by Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli.

The show, which is still a bit hit for ITV, is due to return next year. Since 2026, YouTuber and musician KSI has taken Bruno’s spot on the judging panel after the Italian star ran into scheduling conflicts.

The Mirror has contacted reps for Britain’s Got Talent.

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday pulled Vice President JD Vance away from negotiations with Iran, suggesting that the United States no longer needs to pursue a deal to end the Middle East conflict and instead directing Vance to turn his attention to corruption in states run by Democrats.

“We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got the Strait!”

In the same post, Trump said he asked Vance, who has played a central role in talks with Tehran, to “focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States.” He singled out California, Minnesota and Illinois, calling them “poorly run, corrupt disasters.”

The reassignment came as Vance and other Republicans have blamed the Iran war for the party’s sweeping losses in last week’s midterm elections. The morning after the election, Vance wrote in a lengthy social media post that “the reason we lost is the war.”

“If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next six years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was worthwhile cost to pay,” Vance wrote. “Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost.”

Trump insisted the post had not damaged their relationship, telling reporters last week that “a lot of people didn’t like his comments,” but that he didn’t mind them.

A White House official on Thursday said the United States remains in a “very strong position” in negotiations with Iran, citing a naval blockade and control of the Strait of Hormuz — even though there is evidence that struggles continue over the key oil route.

“President Trump holds all the cards, will do what is best for the United States, and will make sure that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon,” the official said.

Trump’s decision to pull away Vance from the talks was among a flurry of social media posts he fired off early Thursday morning that conveyed the president has little appetite for changing course nine days after voters rebuked his policies, in large part due to economic struggles triggered by the war.

President Trump speaks during an event Wednesday to mark Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery.

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In a series of posts that began around 6 a.m., Trump threatened to impose new tariffs on Mexico, called for the prosecution of Democratic lawmakers he has previously threatened, declared that Democrats were “CORRUPT AND EVIL” and claimed without evidence that they had won the midterms by cheating.

Trump also claimed an “invasion” of migrants was coming from Mexico in “huge CARAVANS,” returning to language he used to rally his base shortly after taking office. And at one point, he even cast doubt over this year’s election results, calling it a “perceived loss by the Republicans in the Midterms.”

It was yet another sign that Trump wanted to double down on the very issues that exit polls showed voters rejected on election day. His posts were a departure from a more reflective tone Trump had struck in the hours after the midterms, when he congratulated Democrats for their victories and conceded that his immigration policies and the war had played a role in his party’s losses.

“Congratulations to the Democrats. They did a good job. They’ve been looking for this one for 11 years and they finally got it,” the president told Fox News on the night of the election.

But, he added: “I don’t view it as a hit on me. I think we’ve had the greatest two years in the history of the president in terms of the economy, in terms of all the things that we’ve done.”

Democrats won at least 55 seats in the Senate and are projected to have control of at least 255 seats in the House, flipping seats in Republican strongholds like Kansas and Mississippi — a stunning sweep that Republicans have warned could take years to recover from.

In the days since the election, Trump has taken an aggressive approach to fighting the new Democratic majorities.

The White House’s top lawyers on Wednesday warned of the possibility of criminal inquiries into House Democrats who investigate Trump when they assume power next year.

He also attacked Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is expected to lead Democrats in the Senate, for saying he wants to address corruption in the United States. Schumer has said this in reference to dealings within the Trump administration.

“I assume he is referring to Democrat run Blue States such as California, Minnesota, Illinois, Maine and New York,” Trump wrote. “Hopefully his words will ring true! It will be an honor to work with him on this very big Democrat problem that, when solved, will literally balance the Budget of the U.S.”

Arsenal extend their unbeaten start to four matches in the Uefa Women’s Champions League, as they produce a dogged display to hold Barcelona to a 1-1 draw at the Camp Nou.

The point moves Renee Slegers’ side into the top four, putting them in a great position to automatically qualify for the knockout stages.

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