Adam Hamilton on faith, Trump and the fight for Kansas

Would a gambling tax rise in the budget really shut shops and cost jobs. Most of the betting industry is urging the chancellor not to double slot machine duty to raise up to £460m more a year Gambling industry kingpins are fuming about reports that the chancellor, John Healey, is considering increasing taxes on high-street slot machines in his first budget. The influential Social Market Foundation thinktank, the most vocal advocate for a rise in machine games duty (MGD), from 20% to 40%, thinks the measure could raise between £275m and £460m annually , on top of the roughly £610m.

Ben Affleck’s ‘Animals’ Cast Wants Him to Run for Office: ‘Maybe They Hate Me’. Ben Affleck plays a Brentwood businessman running for Los Angeles mayor in the new thriller “Animals.” The Oscar winner, who directed and co-wrote the film, is also a longtime political activist who has supported the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Now, his “Animals” cast would like him to […].

Move to stop charges for parents to sit by children on flights. The government says sitting together can currently cost a parent and child up to £104 on a return journey.

NY's governor appoints special prosecutor in Cornell frat rape investigation. The governor said she'd lost faith in prosecutors overseeing the case and handed it over to New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Aaron Sorkin Clarifies He “Was Never Asked” To Omit Trump From ‘The Social Reckoning’ But Film Is “Not A Red-Blue Thing”. Although Facebook has played a big role in recent U.S. politics, Aaron Sorkin didn’t want to make The Social Reckoning a political statement. The Oscar winner noted that although he “was never asked” to omit Trump from his upcoming movie about a young Facebook whistleblower, which premieres Oct. 9, he didn’t want the film to […].

David Ellison’s “Coziness” With Donald Trump Is “Way Overstated”, Per Paramount Backer Gerry Cardinale. Gerry Cardinale, Paramount board member, investor and key architect of its pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, says the notion that CEO David Ellison is tight with Donald Trump has been “way overstated.” “Forget about where you are on the political spectrum,” Cardinale said at the Bloomberg Screentime conference in L.A. on Thursday. “You have […].