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“For the first time since the conflict began, Russians are starting to imagine a future without [Vladimir Putin],” writes a former senior Russian government official in a guest essay. “This is down to a confluence of four factors” economist.com/by-invitation/…

BREAKING: 23 hantavirus cruise passengers returned home to 'all corners,' including to the US, and one is already sick, per NYP

Memory holed: Stephen Colbert ‘ran’ for president as a gag in 2008 and tried to get on the South Carolina primary ballot. But the Obama campaign in SC was worried that having Colbert on the ballot would pull young voters away. So they worked the state Democratic party to keep Colbert off the primary ballot — and they won. One of my first big campaign scoops for CNN — and also how I met @Bakari_Sellers cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/…

Not one mfer has been hard enough to leave it uncarpeted

its called the power of positive thinking

€3 million for a temporary platform which will be torn down We can’t find money for catering or to run earlier or later services but we can fund a service for a commercial event which costs €499 a person No spare carriages available either… irishtimes.com/sport/golf/202…

The distribution of crannogs shows that the native people of Scotland and Ireland were always closely linked. Note that the crannogs stop appearing almost exactly on the modern border with England.

Obama: For those of you who still think that we’ve got little green men underground somewhere, one of the things you learn as president is... government is terrible at keeping secrets. This idea of conspiracy theories — if there were aliens, alien spaceships, or anything under the control of the United States government that we knew about, seen photographs... I promise you some guy guarding the installation would have taken a selfie with one of the aliens and sent it to his girlfriend.

Stephen Colbert: How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president? Obama: Well… you know. The bar has changed... I think you would perform significantly better than some folks we've seen. Colbert: Is that an endorsement? Obama: It was not.

Obama: "What I'm more interested in for Democrats is, do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar? Can you talk in plain English to folks? And not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it. Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high.'"

Nearly 80% of U.S. hoteliers in 11 World Cup host cities say bookings are tracking below original forecasts, with some describing the tournament as a “non-event,” according to an American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA) survey of members released Monday. Read more: forbes.com/sites/suzanner… (Photo: Dustin Satloff via Getty Images)

These islands as we know it will be unrecognisable politically within a generation. A rebalancing of where power resides will make for far better governance and prosperity. United Ireland, Independent Scotland & rUK working together in a new political framework

A majority of people on the island of Ireland would vote for Irish unity as part of the EU, according to a poll. European Movement Ireland said the responses in favour of Irish unity were higher in this poll compared to others due to the “EU framing”. jrnl.ie/7031946

A majority of people on the island of Ireland would vote for Irish unity as part of the EU, according to a new poll 👀 #Echobox=1778049035-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thenational.scot/news/26078859.…

UK should not try rejoining EU until it accepts it won't get special à la carte deal it had before because 'you would be unhappy and we would be unhappy', Polish foreign minister @sikorskiradek says 🔗 theguardian.com/politics/live/…

About two months after Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, he put in a call to his bank back home, a close friend, the Rev. Tom McCarthy, told a gathering of Catholics last week. The new pope identified himself as Robert Prevost, saying that he wished to change the phone number and address that the bank had on file. The pope answered the security questions correctly. Then, the woman on the line for the bank told him that it wasn’t enough — he would have to come to the branch in person. “He said, ‘Well, I’m not going to be able to do that,’” Father McCarthy said in a video clip shared on social media. The pope tried a different tack. “Would it matter to you if I told you I’m Pope Leo?” he asked, according to Father McCarthy. She hung up.

Municipal election day on Mackinac Island, today. Mayor Doud is running unopposed. The mayoral elections are annual, so this will be her 51st term she'll be heading into after tonight.

I think part of the thing that really irks me about the “Michael” success is there is a really tragic dark American tale that could be made about MJ but it never will be.