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Jennifer Lopez continued her exposed lingerie style streak in photos shared on May 15.

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• The "On the Floor" singer wore nothing but a white bra under her plunging blazer.

• Lopez paired the office siren look with a whimsical feathered skirt.

Jennifer Lopezis channeling herinner office sirenas she continues topromote her new rom-comOffice Romanceopposite Brett Goldstein. Over the last few days, the multi-hyphenate has been serving up a steady drip of lingerie-meets-CEO looks in her own version of method dressing—and on May 15, Lopez kept her streak going while pairing a peekaboo bra moment with a whimsical skirt.

In photos posted by Backgrid on Instagram, Lopez could be seen wearing nothing but a whitebra under her boxy taupe blazer jacket, mimicking a sartorial pairing she sported just a few days earlier. The “On the Floor” singer, who was photographed leaving a meeting at Netflix’s headquarters in New York City, buttoned up her double-breasted jacket and rolled up the sleeves to her elbows. A glimpse of her white bra could be seen peeping through the front of her plunging neckline.

Unlike on May 13, when Lopez wore her black bra and open blazer with a pair of low-rise sweatpants, she went whimsical with a white midi-length skirt that was completely covered in feathers. Pulling her caramel-highlighted brown hair back into a low bun, Lopez accessorized with a pair of white-rimmed rectangular sunglasses, pointed-toe cognac brown sling-back stilettos, and a tiny dark brown crocodile leather clutch.

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The mom-of-two added some major sparkle to her look by adding a pair of diamond drop earrings and covering her fingers in statement cocktail rings. A matte berry-colored lipstick finished off her subtly NSFW look.

Lopez’s latest appearance comes after she opened up about her “chemistry” with co-star Goldstein. While speaking withPeopleat the 2026 Netflix Upfront, the star—who went topless under aplunging blush pink Victorian-style blazer—revealed, “We had great chemistry to begin with. It just grew as we did the film together.”

Lopez also said she experienced a different side of Goldstein behind the scenes compared to the gruff Roy Kent he played inTed Lasso. “I thought he was going to be more like the character, but he was so soft-spoken and sweet and totally different,” she gushed. “I expected more of a rough guy, but you get this kind, gentle but also very smart person that is so charming. That was a surprise, I think.”

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Hailey Bieber turned up the heat in a new Rhode campaign while giving fans another glimpse of her effortless summer style, flaunting her curves in a stringy bikini. The model posed in a series of sun-soaked photos and showcased bronzed glam while teasing what appeared to be an upcoming Rhode launch.

Hailey Bieber flaunts her curves in barely there stringy bikini for Rhode

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For the latest shoot,Hailey Bieberslipped into a barely there chocolate-brown stringy bikini that highlighted her sun-kissed glow and minimalist style. The tiny two-piece featured delicate tie details and a classic triangle silhouette. She layered it with a matching cropped cover-up for an elevated beach-inspired look.

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In several photos, the Rhode founder posed poolside and held products from the brand while embracing a warm, bronzed beauty aesthetic. She kept her hair loose in soft waves. She opted for natural glam that allowed her glowing skin to remain the main focus.

Bieber captioned the post simply with, “Warming up.” Fans immediately flooded the comments section, with one commenter writing, “The GLOW and BRONZE insane.” Another said, “Hailey we need the drop now.”

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By Karen Lema

MANILA, May 17 (Reuters) - Philippine government lawyers have urged the Supreme Court to reject the bid of fugitive Senator Ronald dela Rosa, who is wanted for alleged crimes ‌against humanity linked to his role in a bloody "war on drugs", to block his arrest ‌and surrender.

Dela Rosa, the former police chief who oversaw former President Rodrigo Duterte's anti-narcotics crackdown, had asked the Supreme Court to ​stop authorities from arresting him and surrendering him to the International Criminal Court.

He is facing the same charges as Duterte, who is set to become the first former Asian head of state to go on trial in The Hague. Both have denied wrongdoing.

Dela Rosa argued the ICC no longer has jurisdiction after the Philippines' 2019 withdrawal from the ‌Rome Statute.

But the Office of the ⁠Solicitor General (OSG) argued the Philippines may enforce the ICC warrant under a domestic law, Republic Act 9851, which allows authorities to surrender suspects accused of grave international crimes ⁠to international courts for prosecution.

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It said dela Rosa could not demand a separate Philippine court finding that there was sufficient basis to arrest him since the ICC has already issued a warrant, adding the country "will never become a sanctuary ​for impunity."

The ​OSG said dela Rosa was not entitled to relief ​because his "actions show that he comes to ‌court with unclean hands."

"His flight, coupled with the fact that he had previously gone into hiding, is not merely incidental but is a deliberate act to avoid accountability. His conduct places him squarely within the definition of a fugitive from justice," the OSG said in comments filed on Saturday and shared with media on Sunday.

Dela Rosa evaded arrest on Monday after being granted protection by the Senate, whose new president he ‌helped install by reappearing after months out of public view ​to cast a decisive vote for Alan Peter Cayetano, a ​staunch ally of the Duterte family.

The ICC ​unsealed a warrant on Monday for dela Rosa's arrest, dated November. Dela Rosa had ‌been taking refuge at the Senate but slipped ​out before dawn on ​Thursday in what his wife called an "escape". His current whereabouts are unknown.

"To once more extend exceptional privileges to a petitioner who now seeks relief while evading lawful process sends a chilling message — ​not only to the victims of ‌the drug war, but to all who look to the law for justice: that its ​protections are strongest for the powerful, and weakest for those who are now dead," the ​OSG said.

(Reporting by Karen Lema; Editing by Jamie Freed)

MILAN, May 17 (Reuters) - Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will travel to Modena on Sunday, a ‌day after several people were injured in a ‌car-ramming incident there, cancelling a meeting in Nicosia with Cyprus' president in ​order to make the trip, government sources said.

Several injured after car drives into pedestrians in Italian city of Modena

Italy's President Sergio Mattarella will also travel to the Italian northern city, the sources added.

A 30-year-old man, born in Italy and of ‌North African origin, ⁠drove a car into a crowd in the city centre on Saturday, injuring eight people, ⁠four of them seriously.

The man attempted to flee and stabbed one of three passersby who tried to stop him. ​He was ​later arrested by police.

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Modena's ​prosecutors said in a ‌statement on Sunday that the suspect is under investigation for massacre and personal injury, adding that efforts are under way to establish the motive behind his actions.

They said the man struck pedestrians in the crowded city centre, which ‌has more than 180,000 residents, "in ​an indiscriminate, random and deliberate manner".

"The ​man had received ​treatment for mental health issues in 2022 ‌due to schizoid personality disorder, ​after which he ​went off the radar," Modena's mayor, Massimo Mezzetti, told broadcaster RaiNews24 late on Saturday.

Among those seriously injured, ​two had suffered ‌the loss of their legs, with one in ​a life-threatening condition, the prosecutors added.

(Reporting by Sara ​Rossi, editing by Kirsten Donovan)

Justin Thomas took to social media to laud Jordan Spieth after his astonishing shot at the PGA Championship.

The second day of the competition at Aronimink was riddled with issues with Rory McIlroy agreeing withScottie Schefflerover the controversial layout of the course. The world No.1even turned to Justin Rose's caddie to voice his frustrations- deeming it the hardest he had ever seen.

Elsewhere, Bryson DeChambeau didn't even make the cut with pace-of-play issues proving a nightmare, while the greens also caused issues for the players. It comes after McIlroygave another crude response to his second-round score in a fresh interview.

Spieth also fell foul to the tough putting conditions but did pull off an incredible shot on the 11th hole to avoid the bunker. AndThomaswas among those mightily impressed.

"Can’t put into words how incredible this is and how MAYBE 5 people in this tournament could even hit that shot let alone try it during a major, and pull it off," he wrote on social media.

It would prove to be a rare highlight in the second round for Spieth, who sits tied for 30th after shooting two over par. Thomas meanwhile has put himself back into contention, despite being criticized for an angry outburst during the opening round.

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He sits two under going into day three on Saturday and is just two shots off the pace, alongside the likes of Scheffler and playing partner Cameron Young.

His performance came despite his group, of Young and Keegan Bradley, being put on the clock by tournament officialsand Thomas admitted he did not agree with the decision.

He said: "It's hard because it's kind of the whole time par thing. What is time par? How can time par on this course be the same when it's blowing 25 and the pins are tough than if it's not?

"And does time par change every day? There's just so many factors that go into it.

"The hard part to me with the whole pace of play thing is that you, there's so much that goes into golf and there's so much that goes into hole to hole in terms of, are you hitting it close, are you able to tap it in, or you have to mark it, stuff like that, to where, are you holding the group up or are you not, to where it's very hard to make that call.

"So it kind of goes to our point of why we didn't think we should of, but it is what it is. It's a part of it."

St Mirren will likely make changes ahead of the play-offs while Declan John (hernia), Dan Nlundulu (thigh), Shamal George (ankle), Ryan Mullen (thigh), Jonah Ayunga (knee), Malik Dijksteel (groin) and Keanu Baccus (Achilles) remain out.

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Dundee United wing-back Will Ferry has joined up with the Republic of Ireland squad but Emmanuel Agyei returns from suspension. Dario Naamo (foot), Amar Fatah, Luca Stephenson (both hamstring), Kristijan Trapanovski, Isaac Pappoe (both knee) and goalkeeper Ashley Maynard-Brewer (shoulder) remain out.

The historian Andrew Lownie looks in pretty fine fettle for a 64-year-old man with an absolutely brutal work regimen. His day job, he reminds me as we meet in his unexpectedly plain sitting room in Westminster, is as a literary agent. But he is now possibly better known for his side-hustle as a biographer; most recently he producedEntitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, an explosive and meticulously researched book on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson.

Lownie says he wrote the book, which has just been updated for itsforthcoming paperback edition, around his agenting duties, which meant lots of early mornings, evenings and weekends, plus the odd snatched day off for important interviews.

“Fergie’s actually sat in that seat,” he says, pointing to the small leather armchair I’ve just settled into. He is dressed in a suit and tie (he’s not a man easy to imagine in jeans); beside us on the mantelpiece are works of art – and a rather plaintive commemorative mug from Andrew and Fergie’s wedding, in 1986. When he was working on the book, he says, he invited the former duchess to meet him – and she came by, seemingly in an effort to nudge the biography in a more positive direction. In that, as in many things, Fergie failed.

Was it strange, finding the woman he had uncovered so much about, suddenly in his house? “Yes,” Lownie says. He alleges several eye-watering details about Fergie in the book: that she frequently failed to pay her staff, that she continued to associate with Jeffrey Epstein years after publicly disowning him, that she once spent £25,000 in a single hour at Bloomingdale’s. Even so, Lownie airily admits, he was “charmed by her. You know, she’s very charismatic. She’s like a Labrador, a bundle of energy. These are the two sides to her.”

Around us is some of the evidence of Lownie’s industry: scruffy boxes filled with Freedom of Information requests, tome after tome about the Royal family, acres of press cuttings. Lownie used, he says, only around 10 per cent of the material he collected. It took him two years just to read it all and to compose a list of names to approach, which eventually numbered some 3,000 people. Of those, just 300 agreed to speak to him – “but”, he points out, “that’s probably about 250 more than most books”.

Andrew’s ‘possible sexual assault’

Many in the publishing world admire Lownie’s completionism, his Pied Piper ability to coax apparently slight but telling anecdotes from an extraordinary range of sources. One of many marmalade droppers in the new edition ofEntitledare comments from an armed police officer who used to work at Heathrow, and who recalls Andrew meeting a British Airways crew member on a plane, spinning her around when she tried to shake his hand and bending her forward “so that his groin was clearly and firmly in contact with her backside”. The police officer judged that the then-prince’s action amounted to a “possible sexual assault” but no action, of course, was taken.

At another point in the updated edition, Lownie returns to his theme of Fergie’sMarie Antoinetteattitude to food, reporting that her chef was ordered to “make a sizeable cream cake” every day. If it wasn’t eaten, the cake was thrown away – and a fresh one baked the following day regardless.

The book itself begins, as with all of Lownie’s books, with a question – in this case, whether Andrew and Fergie really were, as they used to be described, “‘the happiest divorced couple ever’. I thought, of course, that was a myth.” In general, Lownie admits, he is drawn to “what I call rogue royals, the bad boys. They’re more fun.” Still, when he started on Andrew, he was warned off it. “Everyone said ‘You’re crazy, he’s so boring, no one’s interested’.”

It turned out, of course, that people are very interested in Andrew – including various members of America’s Congress. “I was lucky it was part of the news agenda,” he says. WhenEntitledwas first published, “though it got a bit of attention, nothing happened. If there hadn’t been the Epstein releases, it would have just died a death.”

Why Epstein’s death may not have been a suicide

Lownie sets out persuasive evidence that suggests that Epstein may not have died by suicide – a position long dismissed as an outlandish conspiracy theory. “I think the thing with the Epstein revelations is we all say, ‘Oh conspiracies don’t happen, it’s all cock-up’. Then you suddenly realise that there is sort of a conspiracy here. This is all carefully planned and it’s sort of supranational.”

When the news ofAndrew’s arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public officebroke in February, and the press had a field day, a quiet minority of people felt some empathy for the former prince. Does Lownie?

“Well, he’s basically under house arrest. His reputation has been trashed. I mean, that look of absolute terror on his face when he came back from the police station. So, of course anyone who’s human will have sympathy – and have sympathy for Sarah Ferguson.”

‘Andrew’s still quite cocky, he’s not very remorseful’

But, Lownie points out: “they brought all this on themselves. And actually, I had a contact who’s close to him, saying he’s still quite cocky, he’s not very remorseful… I mean, he is so nasty to people.”

Earlier this month,a man pleaded not guilty at Westminster magistrates’ court for using threatening words towards Andrew, while he was out walking his dogs near his home in Norfolk. Lownie estimates that although he does have some protection, if he were to be, “I don’t know, in his car with one policeman and five cars turn up and ram him, and they try to kidnap him – I mean, yes, he is vulnerable.”

In the book we learn that, post-disgrace, Andrew is mainly spending his time watching golf on a vast television and playing on a flight simulator. Now 66, he’s also reportedly sinking many hours into playing Call of Duty; a royal source told Lownie that the former prince “prioritises gaming over work, health and hygiene”. It is hard not to feel a pang of melancholy at this desolate image: the former war hero and pin-up, now gaming deep into the night, all alone.

There is something, Lownie believes, profoundly “sad” about Andrew. “He talks about himself being a loner. And he’s always been kept apart from people. At school, he had separate accommodation because of security. He always had a separate wing on the naval bases. He didn’t drink. I think he kept himself apart, possibly because he thought he might be betrayed. … There is something that is not quitethere. So of course one feels sorry for him, but at the same time he is responsible for his own actions.”

For many, feeling sorry for Andrew is a stretch too far – but it is easier, I venture, to feel sympathy for his and Fergie’s daughters. I mention to Lownie that I’d watched him promise, in a YouTube video last year, that he was going to reveal much more detail about the girls’ activities in the paperback edition. But the book has relatively little about them. How come? “Lawyers,” he says darkly.

Still, Lownie says he feels that the Royal family needs to develop a proper strategy for how it deals with Beatrice and Eugenie. “There’s a slightly schizophrenic approach at the moment. One moment, the daughters arevery publicly not coming to Ascot– the next they can come. They can come to Sandringham – no, they can’t. It’s a bit cruel. I think it’s almost as if they can’t decide what to do.”

Beatrice and Eugenie should give up their titles

Lownie believes that the princesses should give up their titles and keep a low profile. But, he claims, their professional lives – Beatrice is a strategic adviser for the company Afiniti, and Eugenie is a director at the art gallery Hauser & Wirth – are dependent on their association with the Royal family. “Their jobs rely on that access that they give as royals. I mean, it’s never Beatrice Mozzi who’s going off to conferences – it’s always Her Royal Highness. And that’s part of the problem – they want the trappings, the perks, without any of the responsibilities.”

The hardback ofEntitledshot to number one in the bestseller charts, and the paperback is bound to do similarly well. Does it feel good to be at the peak of his career, at 64? “Well, I can only get better,” Lownie jokes. “No, I mean, I’ve watched so many authors over the last 40 years and there’s sometimes a book that catches on because of timing – and then you retire back into obscurity.”

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For all the book’s success, for many – especially in the Establishment – Lownie is deemed a menace. He is perceived as targeting the Royal family, and even sometimes accused of undermining the very fabric of the country, by revealing such damning information about them.

He has, he admits, paid a social toll for his work: there’s been a bit of “cold-shouldering” from his acquaintances. But he is, he insists, a royalist, and he genuinely wishes for the Royal family to continue to reign over us for many decades to come – he just happens to think they need to be held to account.

“I don’t think anyone should be given a pass just because they’re a member of the Royal family. There’s not a two-tier justice system here,” he says. “My father was a judge and Scottish, and I think there’s quite a strong Presbyterian element to this that drives me on. The monarchy depends on trust and respect from the public, and it carries moral authority. It brings the nation together… and that compact is undermined by people who seem to have their noses in the trough.”

It also undermines, he points out, “the reputation and the good work of all the others – the Prince Edwards andPrincess Annes, who get on with it day by day.”

As for the accusations that he is a scurrilous muckracker, Lownie seems exasperated by them: “There are a lot of, I would say, slightly jealous royal writers. Because clearly [the book] has changed the narrative. A lot of them who produce the sanitised stuff don’t like an outsider coming in and disrupting.” Someone has warned him, he adds, that publishing his Andrew biography would be like riding a tiger: “and ithasbeen like riding a tiger. And, you know, I prefer not to.”

Lownie lives in his Westminster townhouse with his wife and their two grown-up children; Alice, who works in publishing, and Robert, a journalist. What do they make of their father’s book? “I think they’re probably slightly embarrassed by it,” he says. “I think they also think I’m probably a bit of a media tart.”

Well, is he? “I hope not,” he says, looking rather worried. “I’ve been in the shadows for the last 40 years as an agent supporting writers, and that’s where I feel happiest.”

He maintains a frequent presence in the public eye – speaking on TV, radio, YouTube, podcasts and so on – as he feels an obligation to publicise the book, and also because he feels “more and more strongly about the need for more royal transparency. Really, that for them, that they do need to modernise. The old system of just hoping the problem will go away isn’t going to work. If they want to survive and want to restore trust and respect, they have to adapt. … And if they really want to restore respect, it’s not by us operating with censorship like Stalinist Russia or China. It’s actually by having openness and behaving well.”

The King’s recent trip to America –during which Charles seemed to charm Donald Trump to his core– is a good example, Lownie believes, of “just how effective” the Royal family can be. “I think we’re very lucky that Charles is clearly a highly cultured, compassionate, clever man.” After all, he says, “We could have got Andrew. I mean, if Charles had been killed in a skiing accident, we might well have had him as regent at least.” How would that have shaken out? A smile. “It would have been a disaster.”

William ‘is quite controlling, quite secretive’

Lownie is cautiously optimistic about how William will fare as king: “From the things I’ve heard, he is more prepared to move to this more European-style monarchy – fewer people with titles who are not working royals, look at the Crown Estates – but at the same time, he’s not declared the tax that the Duchy pays. His father did. And he is quite controlling, quite secretive, quite suspicious of the media.”

He is less ambivalent, however, about Catherine, and agrees with those who see her as the monarchy’s shining hope.The Princess of Wales, he reckons, is a “nice middle-class girl” – and “they’re far better royals than the royals themselves, and I would argue it’s the same with Sophie and Camilla”. Catherine is also, Lownie believes, “very tough – shades of the Queen Mum. And I think as an outsider, she gets it in a way I don’t think the royals do.”

Lownie sees himself as an outsider in the Windsor world, but there are striking parallels between him and the other Andrew: both are around the same age (Lownie is 64 and Mountbatten-Windsor is 66), both went to private schools in Scotland (Lownie to Fettes, Mountbatten-Windsor to Gordonstoun), both were involved in the military (Lownie as a naval reserve). Lownie remembers Andrew coming to play rugby at Fettes, and remembers hearing the stories about him, even then.

And Lownie has said that his wife, Angela Doyle, a house historian, was “brought up” with Ferguson, that they were neighbours: “So I knew quite a lot of the stories. For example, the story which no one has picked up on, Prince Philip and Susan Barrantes [Ferguson’s mother] being lovers. That all came from family information.”

Still, observing the teetering piles of royal material in Lownie’s house, you would imagine that he had been obsessed with the family since he was a boy. But in fact, it took him years to get to the royals. After founding his Andrew Lownie Literary Agency in 1988, he launched his writing career with a biography about the Scottish writer John Buchan in 2003, followed byStalin’s Englishman, a book about the spy Guy Burgess in 2015. He had long had a sense, he says, “that it’s not a proper job, being a writer” and that while various members of his family had done it, “they always had other jobs”.

It was only when he was writing about Burgess that he realised there was a good book to be done on Lord Mountbatten. “I had no interest in the royals until then,” he says. “I’d probably never read a royal biography in my life.”

Now Lownie is in the early stages of a new book about Prince Philip, which is so far shaping up to be a good deal more positive thanEntitled, he says. He clearly loathes the idea that people think he’s on some mission to wreck the Royal family’s reputation to such an extent that the whole edifice collapses altogether. “I don’t want to get a reputation for doing aTom Bower,” he says.

And he is still recovering, he says, from his five-year legal battle to gain access to the diaries and correspondence of Lord and Lady Mountbatten that became his bestselling bookThe Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves(2019). He was successful in his fight to open up the archive – but was forced to cover his own legal costs, paying around £400,000 from his own pocket.

Entitled, he says, “will hopefully get me back to where I was five years ago. So [Andrew’s] kind of been my saviour.” In the rush to stump up the money for the legal bill, he even had to use money he’d inherited from his late mother that had been earmarked to pass to his children.

The doorbell rings, and Rob, Lownie’s son, appears to let in the photographer. Lownie calls out to him: “Are you embarrassed by my book?” “Not in the slightest,” his son calls back.

As to the claim that he is harming the country by publishing such damaging information about the Royal family, Lownie clearly finds the idea faintly ridiculous. “The role of historian and journalist is to tell the truth. We can’t sugarcoat it just to protect them,” he says. “If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.”

The updated paperback of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie is published on May 21. Lownie will be appearing on the Daily T podcast on Sunday, May 17; you can watch episodes of The Daily There. You can also listen onSpotify,Apple Podcastsor wherever you get your podcasts.