Ariana Grande had some choice words for Donald Trump after the US leader’s team used her music in a post taking aim at the transgender community.

Earlier this week, the Grammy winner spoke out after her song We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love) was featured in a TikTok shared by the verified account @TeamTrump.

“Me and my truth we sit in silence… men can’t have babies and should never compete in women’s sports,” the post read alongside the caption: “This shouldn’t be controversial!”

Before long, Ariana popped up in the comments to tell the Trump administration “Never use my music again.”

“Also, your truth is false,” she added, speaking in defence of transgender people.

Earlier in the summer, Ariana was similarly perturbed to see her Eternal Sunshine cut Bye had been featured in a video depicting arrests being carried out by ICE agents.

“Please do not ever use my music in relation to this barbaric, inhumane, heinous nonsense. [Fuck] ICE,” she wrote at the time, before the song clip was removed.

@TeamTrump’s post now no longer features We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love), either.

Ariana is currently in the middle of her final stretch of her dates on her Eternal Sunshine world tour, with six dates left of her 10-night run at London’s iconic O2 Arena.

While she’s in the UK, Ariana’s charity fund the Brighter Days Ahead Foundation will be supporting a number of smaller British organisations.

These include, Save The Children UK, Micro Rainbow, The Proud Trust, Choose Love, LGBT Consortium and Trans+ Solidarity Alliance.

The Hate That I Made You Love Me singer has long been a vocal ally to the trans people.

She notably voiced her support for the transgender community in January 2025, after comments made by Trump during his second inauguration speech.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sparked a wave of reaction online Wednesday night after it was revealed that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are returning to the UK.

Harry and Meghan are set to move imminently with their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, according to The Telegraph and People magazine, who were the first to report the news.

Here’s what we know so far:

The Sussexes announced they were stepping back from the royal family on January 8, 2020, in a shocking post on their now-defunct Instagram account, Sussex Royal.

At the time, the two said they were “working to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen,” while also splitting their time between the UK and North America.

The family of four are settling across the pond quickly, as Archie, 7, and Lili, 5, will start school in the UK in September.

Sources close to the royal couple are keeping the royal’s whereabouts private, as they have repeatedly faced concerns about their safety over the years, though it’s thought that the family will settle outside of London.

One thing is clear, and that is that the couple are not moving into a royal residence. Harry and Meghan were asked to vacate their UK home, Frogmore Cottage, in 2023 following the publication of Harry’s memoir called Spare.

The couple currently have residences in Montecito, California, and a vacation home in Portugal.

Harry and Meghan haven’t yet directly addressed why they’re heading back to the UK.

One line of thinking is the move is for Harry and his family to be closer to King Charles III, 77, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2024. Harry made a remarkable disclosure to the BBC last year, in which he said, “I don’t know how much longer my father has. He won’t speak to me because of this security stuff.”

Though Harry and Charles weren’t speaking at the time, the two have since reconciled – though the status of the monarch’s health remains in question.

Charles’ health aside, Harry has also spoken fondly of his love for the UK, and wanting to show his children his home more, something he once said he hasn’t been able to do because of security concerns.

“I can’t see a world in which I would bring my wife and children back to the UK at this point,” he told BBC last year. “The things that they’re going to miss is, well, everything. I love my country … despite what some people in that country have done … and I think that it’s really quite sad that I won’t be able to show my children my homeland.”

Harry and Meghan ended up bringing their children to the UK in July, where the family met privately with King Charles and Queen Camilla.

According to a YouGov poll conducted and published on Thursday, 44% of Britons say they don’t know if the couple should move back, while 33% of those surveyed think the royals should not return ― leaving 21% in favor of the move.

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Melania Trump made her first public appearance in a month on Thursday, but the timing of her return to public life just inspired a lot of suspicion on social media.

The first lady attended a White House event announcing the launch of Fostering The Future, a new scholarship program that helps young adults transition out of foster care.

It was her first appearance in public since she appeared at the World Cup final on July 19.

“I heard you missed me,” Trump said to the crowd gathered in the Rose Garden. “Here I am.”

Although the purported purpose of the first lady’s appearance was to promote the initiative, many people on social media were suspicious whether that was the real reason – or whether there was a Natalie Harp factor.

The White House has recently been rocked by revelations of Trump’s close relationship with Harp, an aide who is known as the “Human Printer,” and for her “extreme devotion” and “borderline obsession” with the president.

Harp’s relationship with Trump has gotten closer scrutiny this week after Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff (Democrat) referred to her in a speech on Sunday, saying the president doesn’t actually “want to do the job,” and instead “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.”

And, yes, social media had thoughts. Lots of thoughts.

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I don’t know about you, but as I’ve gotten older my tolerance for alcohol has gone right out of the window. Hangovers nowadays are nightmarish – to the point where I’ve practically stopped drinking altogether.

According to Lauren Booker, author of Try Dry: The Official Guide to a Month Off Booze, hangovers do get worse as we age because everything in our bodies tends to slow down, including our livers, which find it harder to process alcohol into harmless waste products.

“This means there are more toxins in our bodies for longer as they’re broken down more slowly into carbon dioxide and water,” she previously told HuffPost UK.

Before it turns to that, alcohol is broken down by the liver into a number of different substances, including the compound acetaldehyde. And guess what? As we age, our ability to metabolise acetaldehyde is also reduced.

To add insult to injury, many of us are just not fit as we once were. “More body fat and less muscle make the alcohol we consume more concentrated in the body,” said Booker, “leading to dehydration and worsening the dreaded hangover.”

In a bid to try and steer clear of horrific hangovers, people are unsurprisingly turning to ‘zebra striping’ when out on the town. In fact, you’ve probably done it yourself.

It’s a tactic where you opt for an alcoholic beverage and follow up with a non-alcoholic drink before flitting back to booze for your next drink.

The idea is that you’re drinking less overall and staying hydrated.

In theory, yes. But a pharmacist has warned the drinking trend could actually make hangovers worse if you’re not properly considering the drinks you alternate with.

Karen Hutchinson, prescribing pharmacist at online pharmacy Chemist4U, said: “Zebra striping is a smart way to reduce your alcohol intake and stay more hydrated, but not all drink choices are equal.

“Many people focus on alternating drinks but overlook what’s actually in the glass.”

She noted that dark spirits such as whisky, rum and brandy contain higher levels of compounds called congeners, “which are linked to more severe hangover symptoms”.

And sugary soft drinks can contribute to dehydration and blood sugar spikes, potentially making symptoms like fatigue, nausea and headaches feel worse the next day.

The pharmacist said some of the best non-alcoholic choices to go for are water and electrolyte drinks, including some sports beverages, coconut water or infused water, or 100% fruit juices (with a pinch of salt added). These may contain useful minerals like sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, and more.

As for alcoholic options, clear spirits like gin and vodka are “generally associated with fewer hangover-related compounds”.

She advises against ordering doubles or stronger alcoholic drinks, as “alternating only works if your alcohol intake actually drops”.

“If you’re replacing the single vodka with a double vodka every round, you’re unlikely to feel better the next day,” said Hutchinson.

Start hydrating before your first drink, so you’re not starting the night off dehydrated. “Having a pint of water before you start drinking and regularly topping up throughout the night is often more effective than trying to play catch-up at the end,” she added.

And don’t forget to eat beforehand, too.

“One of the biggest mistakes people make is relying on a takeaway at the end of the night. A balanced meal before drinking helps slow alcohol absorption and gives your body more time to process alcohol gradually,” said Hutchinson.

“While a late-night burger might feel helpful, it’s unlikely to undo the effects of drinking on an empty stomach.”

Once the night is over, don’t forget to have one last water before you hit the hay. “The easiest hangover-reduction habit is one of the [most] overlooked,” she said.

“Finishing the night with a large glass of water or electrolyte drink can help replace some of the fluids lost through alcohol and may reduce the severity of dehydration-related symptoms the next morning.”

Here’s to fewer head-banging hangovers!

Though dementia risk rises as we age, memory changes can be a part of healthy ageing.

Some people might occasionally miss a bill, find it harder to take in new information, or lose things without having anything to worry about (we’ve written before about the differences between normal age-related memory loss and differences you should speak to a GP about).

But some researchers think standard memory “loss” isn’t as straightforward as it sounds.

Professor Louis Renoult, the lead researcher in a paper published in Psychology and Ageing, said: “We wanted to better understand how young and older adults retrieve autobiographical memories – the personal experiences that form the story of our lives.

“These sorts of memories can range from… one-time events, such as a birthday party [specific memories], to more general or repeated experiences like commuting to work [episodic memories].

“We focused on how flexible people are when asked to shift between these types of memories, and what happens when that flexibility is put under pressure.”

In this study, researchers spoke to 74 participants – 37 students and 37 older adults. They were asked to recall both specific (general) and episodic (repeated) memories related to words, like “market”.

In the beginning, they stuck to one form of recollection (either episodic or specific). But later, they were asked to shift between memory types.

Then, the researchers measured how well different participants’ memories did by age.

Prof Renoult, part of the University of East Anglia’s School of Psychology, said: “We found that across all age groups, memory performance declined when participants had to switch between memory types.

“However, older adults were particularly affected in one area – they were less accurate at recalling more mundane repetitive memories, like commuting to work under switching conditions.”

Meanwhile, their ability to recall more specific memories, like a party, suffered far less.

“This suggests that certain types of memory retrieval may be more vulnerable to the effects of ageing when multitasking or adapting to changing demands,” added the professor.

Then, there was the nature of the memories to consider. When remembering specific events, older adults’ answers had fewer details about things like sights, sounds, and emotions.

Instead, they remembered more semantic details, including general knowledge; the same was true for episodic memories.

“When older adults recall events, the richness of those memories may be reduced,” Prof Renoult continued. “As we get older, our memories tend to become less detailed and more general, focusing on the overall story rather than specific moments.

“This shift may reflect changes in underlying brain systems involved in memory, particularly those responsible for retrieving detailed contextual information and managing complex cognitive tasks.”

The researchers hope findings like these can help us to learn more about the cognitive traits that may benefit or harm older people.

Their findings, Prof Renoult said, have “practical implications for everyday life”.

“ Tasks that require people to quickly adapt their thinking or switch between different kinds of recall – such as storytelling, decision-making or problem-solving – may become more challenging with age,” added the expert.

“At the same time, the increased reliance on semantic knowledge may have benefits. Generalised memories can support wisdom, pattern recognition, and efficient communication, even if the finer details are lost.”

An Ohio voter had a straightforward message for President Donald Trump amid the ongoing controversy surrounding Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio).

Rich Beeby, a resident of Strongsville, Ohio, and a self-proclaimed registered Republican, told NBC News’ Jon Allen on Tuesday that he’s not happy with the direction the Republican Party has been taking lately.

“Hopefully it finds its way,” Beeby said.

“If you could say something to President Trump right now, what would you say?” Allen asked.

“Resign,” Beeby said. “You’re destroying the country.”

Allen also said that Beeby told him he would not be voting for Miller in the upcoming midterm elections.

Another Ohio voter who spoke with Allen said that despite voting for Miller in the past, the recent accusations of domestic violence and family abuse have made her reconsider her support.

“I don’t think I will,” Katie Heinz said when asked if she’d vote for Miller again. “Again, it’s kinda back to, there’s too much intermingling of exterior items that are affecting day-to-day. So like, what he’s got going on in his personal world, unfortunately, is gonna roll over into his day-to-day, and we need to get things done.”

The embattled congressman has been accused by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, of a pattern of emotional and physical abuse towards her and their 2-year-old daughter, leading to growing calls for his resignation.

Earlier this month, the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into the allegations against Miller.

Last week, Moreno, the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), filed a lawsuit against the congressman for allegedly publishing an explicit photo of the couple’s daughter.

Miller has repeatedly denied the allegations against him.

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