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BBC News
11-07-2025
- BBC News
East Yorkshire horse owners angry after youths filmed riding them
Horse owners say they have been left angry and distressed after young people filmed themselves climbing over the gate of a livery yard to ride them. The video, posted on social media, appears to show people standing on the horses' backs and grabbing hold of their manes causing them "pain or anxiety", stables owner Alex Thompson said. Ms Thompson, who has run Humber View Track Livery in Welton, East Yorkshire for 12 years, said many of the horses have health conditions including heart issues and asthma, and one has had spinal surgery. Humberside Police said it was investigating the incident. Ms Thompson said someone called her on 30 June to tell her a group of people were chasing and riding the horses. "I was just fuming. I dived out of the house and drove up there," she said."You just can't express how angry you are at that point."I found three of them still there. They denied everything and then gave lots of excuses that actually it was perfectly fine to do." Ms Thompson said the young people could have been injured by the horses rearing up or falling on them."I don't think they even considered the dangers," she said."I think they just thought it was a fun thing to do." One owner said the experience had left her horse "psychologically upset by it all".Sacha Cutts' horse, Reuben, has been living at the yard for about two years. He was retired from ridden work because of a serious heart condition. Ms Cutts said she was distressed watching the video."Stress for him, it could kill him," she said."That's not me being dramatic. That was obviously playing on my mind when I saw the videos." Insp Matthew Wilson of Humberside Police said: "I understand the impact an incident of this nature will have on the local community."Animal and wildlife cruelty is a selfish and cruel act and will absolutely not be tolerated, and I want to offer reassurance that we believe we are currently carrying out a number of lines of inquiry to identify those suspected to be involved."The stables has boosted its security including installing an electric fence and CCTV to protect the horses and prevent any future incidents. Listen to highlights from Hull and East Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, watch the latest episode of Look North or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here. Click here, to download the BBC News app from the App Store for iPhone and here, to download the BBC News app from Google Play for Android devices.
Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Kymera weakness a buying opportunity, says Stifel
Stifel analyst Alex Thompson is reiterating a Buy rating on Kymera Therapeutics (KYMR) following 'a slate of updates,' including the decision by partner Sanofi (SNY) to discontinue development of lead IRAK4 degrader KT-474 in favor of next-gen KT-485 and a new partnership deal with Gilead (GILD) for a CDK2 molecular glue degrader. While the update related to IRAK4 is 'disappointing and removes potential catalysts' next year, Sanofi expects to move KT-485 into Phase 1 next year and the broader partnership remains in place, notes the analyst. On the Gilead deal, Kymera will receive up to $85M in upfront and options, adds the analyst, who would view any weakness from today's news as a buying opportunity as the firm contends there remains limited credit in the stock for the broader pipeline and additional milestone payments. Stifel has a Buy rating on Kymera shares, which are down $1.18, or 2.5%, to $45.96 in morning trading. Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks right to your inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter Published first on TheFly – the ultimate source for real-time, market-moving breaking financial news. Try Now>> See the top stocks recommended by analysts >> Read More on KYMR: Disclaimer & DisclosureReport an Issue Morning Movers: General Mills dips following fourth quarter report Kymera Therapeutics Partners with Gilead for Oncology Treatment Kymera Therapeutics Advances KT-485 in Sanofi Collaboration Gilead sees Kymera deal lowering 2025 EPS by 2c-3c Gilead, Kymera enter license agreement for molecular glue degrader program
Geek Vibes Nation
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Vibes Nation
'Rounding' Blu-Ray Review - Medical Horror Film Conjures Psychological Torment
After a traumatic incident, a driven young medical resident transfers to a rural hospital for a fresh start, but the demons of his past start to catch up to him when he becomes consumed by the case of a patient with mysterious symptoms. Director Alex Thompson assembles a strong ensemble of veteran character actors in this humanist and unconventional genre vision. For in-depth thoughts on Rounding, please see my colleague Cody Allen's review from its original theatrical release here. Video Quality Rounding arrives on Blu-Ray in a 1080p presentation that provides an ideal viewing experience. This is a visually dynamic film with haunting shots where you can see an incredible amount of detail. The transfer retains the intended claustrophobic look where subtle elements of the costumes and production design are able to come through. The skin tones and makeup look very detailed and natural throughout. The film is not bursting with bold colors, but the hues in some of the design elements stand out in a welcome way. This film uses lighting deliberately as it establishes the mood of the locales to conjure tension. The highlights are handled beautifully, along with the deep blacks that do not appear to falter with any compression artifacts. This presentation represents this film to great effect. Audio Quality The Blu-Ray disc comes with a DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio track that deftly handles the creepy soundscape introduced here. The environmental effects create a really haunting experience that believably realizes the world. This is not a particularly kinetic film, but activity in the low end is handled well thanks to the music and some key developments. The film uses the score in really notable ways that fill the room with grand fidelity. Dialogue comes through crisp and clear without ever being covered up by the sound effects or the score. The sound design is just as precisely deployed as the on-screen visuals with all of the sounds positioned just right in the mix. This track accomplished everything that is asked of it. Optional English SDH subtitles are provided. Special Features Audio Commentary: Director Alex Thompson and editor Mike Smith provide an informative commentary track in which they give background details on how they brought the film together, memories from the production, the shooting locations, the movement of the camera, and more. Behind The Scenes of Rounding: A 16-minute featurette that takes a look at the story, the dynamics between the characters, the themes of the narrative, the performances, and more. Interviews: A selection of interviews featured in the above featurette is provided in an extended form. Director Alex Thompson (5:13) Co-Writer Christopher Thompson (4:20) Namir Smallwood (3:42) Sidney Flanigan (2:26) Michael Potts (2:49) Deleted Scenes: A five-minute selection of unused material is provided in a slightly unfinished form. Outtakes: A six-minute collection of unused takes is provided. Theatrical Trailer (1:34) Final Thoughts Rounding examines the psychological toll that the medical field takes on professionals, manifested through a genre lens. Hardcore horror fans may come away underwhelmed by the lack of overt scares, but there is enough body horror and psychological torment to make your skin crawl. The screenplay is a bit underdeveloped in terms of revealing motivations and shoring up dangling narrative threads, keeping the film from reaching its full potential. Even with its flaws, it is worth diving into the mental spiral. Music Box Films has released a Blu-Ray featuring a strong A/V presentation and a worthy assortment of special features. Recommended Rounding is currently available to purchase on Standard Edition Blu-Ray or with a Limited Edition Slipcover exclusively through Vinegar Syndrome. Note: Images presented in this review are not reflective of the image quality of the Blu-Ray. Disclaimer: Music Box Films Home Entertainment has supplied a copy of this disc free of charge for review purposes. All opinions in this review are the honest reactions of the author.
Fox News
09-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Biden book authors pressed on why the media failed in covering cognitive decline scandal
CHICAGO - The journalists behind the bombshell book about Joe Biden's cognitive decline continue to face tough questions about the media's failure to report on it sooner. Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, the co-authors of "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," appeared in Chicago as part of their book tour and were confronted with an audience question submitted by Fox News Digital about the reckoning the media has been facing in recent weeks and months regarding their role in the Biden scandal. "I mean, it was a failing of the press," Thompson responded Thursday. "'I'd say, on the most basic level, if the press was completely on this story, then the debate would not have been such a shock." The Axios reporter insisted newsrooms aren't a "monolith" and dismissed the notion that there was any coordination between news outlets in covering up for Biden, jokingly telling the Windy City crowd "they can't even plan a happy hour." "There are a lot of really great reporters and there are a lot of great reporters in the Biden White House," Thompson said. "And it does frustrate me a bit when there's this broad brush painted by, in my opinion, some bad-faith right-wing people trying to be like, 'They were all in the tank.' That being said, I do think there were a few things going on that allowed some reporters to miss this. One is, I do think some people let their own personal ideological leanings affect how they reported." "The other thing I will say about the D.C. sort of circuit beyond reporters – D.C. is a liberal town. It didn't always use to be, but it is now. And if you are an aggressive, tough, fair reporter on Donald Trump, you get snaps all around town. If you are invited to every single garden party… You don't get as many yes snaps when you're covering Obama or when you're covering Biden," he continued, adding that the "social incentives" change between covering the Trump administration and covering the Biden administration. "It's a complicated question," Tapper chimed in. "Yes. I wish I had been more aggressive about it, but I will say when we started writing this book after Election Day 2024, we did not know what we were gonna get or how many people were gonna talk to us… We talked to more than 200 people. And we were surprised at what we learned. Like we did not know that some of this dated back to 2015 after the tragic loss of his son Beau." "And so the idea is that this was all just sitting there waiting for the reporting, I wish it was so, it is not true," Tapper said. While the CNN anchor conceded that "right-wing media" was right in calling out Biden's cognitive decline before the rest of the legacy media, he swiped that sharing viral videos of Biden over the years isn't "investigative journalism." "If any of those outlets actually published any investigative journalism that had cabinet secretaries as we do, or senior White House staffers as we do, etc., saying these things as opposed to just pointing and laughing at him, then maybe I would be more receptive to the argument from them, 'Oh, we all knew this as we reported it at the time,'" Tapper said. When asked what their takeaways from their reporting and the entire Biden saga were, Thompson called out journalists who rely on a "moral calculus" when determining whether to cover a major political story. "If reporters are doing a moral calculus, or they start doing some weird calculus where 'If I report this, would it help Trump and that's gonna be bad or good,' that is an endless path that I don't think reporters should be trying to do," Thompson said. "The job and the reporting is, is this true? Can we report it? And it's really up to the country to decide what to do with that reporting. I think sometimes reporters get caught up in thinking about the externalities and the consequences of putting this out into the world." "There are always going to be bad-faith people and bad-faith politicians that are gonna take the reporting and skew it and use it for their own partisan purposes. But if you start thinking that way in saying like, 'Oh, I don't want to report something that's true because bad-faith people are gonna take advantage of it,' I think you just end up in this, like, bad cul-de-sac," he continued.
Arab News
08-06-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Americans deserve the truth about Biden's decline
America is waking up to a truth many suspected, but few dared to say out loud. Former President Joe Biden, the leader of the free world, was not entirely in charge during some of the most critical years of his presidency. The recently released book 'Original Sin,' by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, lays out in painful detail a scandal that may well be the biggest of our era: a cover-up of the president's decline, executed by those closest to him and enabled by an obedient political class and a complicit media. This was not just about an aging man who slowed down. According to the book, based on nearly 200 interviews with senior White House officials, Democratic strategists and other insiders, President Biden frequently forgot names, even those of his own national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and close allies like George Clooney. Staff privately discussed whether he needed a wheelchair. His schedule was carefully limited, his access to the press tightly managed and key decisions were increasingly made not by him but those around him. Let us pause and think about that. Who was making those decisions? If the president was not capable, who was really running the country? Was it Chief of Staff Ron Klain or his successor, Jeff Zients? First Lady Jill Biden? Cabinet members? Or a shadow circle of advisers acting in his name? More importantly, who knew and chose to say nothing? The answer is nearly everyone in power. Members of Congress, top donors, Democratic operatives and members of the press all knew something was wrong. Yet they continued to assure the public that Biden was 'sharp,' 'focused' and 'fit to serve.' They brushed off any concern about his age as 'right-wing smears' or 'misinformation.' Hollywood elites, late-night television show hosts and social media influencers joined in, mocking anyone who dared ask real questions. They were not just wrong. They were lying. This was not a momentary lapse in judgment but a coordinated effort to mislead the American people. It was a calculated political gamble: keep Biden on the ticket, protect the brand and do whatever it takes to hold on to power. Truth was sacrificed for strategy. Integrity was buried for the sake of winning. Even when signs of decline were impossible to ignore, his stumbling debate performances, long pauses mid-speech, lost trains of thought and confusion about global leaders led Democratic leaders to close ranks. When Tapper, who now admits that the media fell short, says this scandal 'may be worse than Watergate,' we should listen. Because unlike Watergate, which involved the abuse of power in a reelection campaign, this deception significantly shaped America's national security, economy and global standing. For years, the US was led by someone who was increasingly not fully present, while those around him quietly managed the illusion. We need to determine what decisions were made during this period and by whom. What was the real chain of command during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, when chaos erupted and American allies were left behind? Who shaped Washington's response to rising tensions with Beijing, the war in Ukraine and the growing unrest at the southern border? This was not a momentary lapse in judgment but a coordinated effort to mislead the American people. Dalia Al-Aqidi If Biden was unable to engage meaningfully, then these decisions were made by unelected staffers or advisers, people the American people never voted for. This scandal goes beyond Biden. It reflects how far today's Democratic Party is willing to go to protect its grip on power. Rather than face the truth and find a viable leader, they doubled down, attacked critics and told Americans to look the other way. Even after Biden's disastrous debate performance last June and his withdrawal from the 2024 election race the following month, the damage was done. Former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped in, but the voters had lost trust. The deception cost Democrats the White House and, more importantly, shattered public confidence. This betrayal also sends a dangerous message: that image matters more than honesty, that loyalty to the party outweighs duty to the country and that political victory is worth more than democratic accountability. Honesty should be a nonnegotiable principle, no matter who is in power. This scandal is not about defending a Republican or attacking a Democrat. It is about the responsibility that comes with leading the free world. It is about preserving dignity, transparency and the trust of the people. If the roles were reversed, if a Republican president showed signs of severe cognitive decline, Democrats would be on every network demanding transparency, invoking the 25th Amendment and calling for impeachment. But when it was one of their own, they chose silence. This is not just about Democrats versus Republicans. It is about truth versus power. And the American people deserve better than this kind of politics. Those who stood by silently, including elected officials, Cabinet members, media figures and celebrities, owe the nation more than just a retrospective apology. They owe the country the truth, the whole truth. And they owe the people their resignation if they played a role in hiding this scandal. This moment should be a turning point not just for one party but for the entire country. Leaders should be held accountable not only for what they do but for what they hide. This is not just about one presidency, it is about a culture that allowed deception to masquerade as leadership. It is about the warning signs that were ignored, the voices that were silenced and the consequences that will echo for years. The presidency is not a performance, it is a responsibility. And those who turned it into a cover story must be held to account. Truth should never have a side; it must stand alone. That is the foundation of American democracy.
