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(comic) Handover? We Don't Do That.

Bad Bunny's all-Spanish halftime show was joyful and infectious, or as MAGA calls it, "the single worst halftime show in NFL history"

Stacey LaRouche, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's spokeswoman, in a statement just now on Trump's threat to block the opening of the new bridge to Canada: "It's going to open one way or another, and the governor looks forward to attending the ribbon cutting."

Chlöe Swarbrick & Chris Hipkins hold Luxon to account while Winston Peters plays his usual mockery tactics amid a new electricity/gas tax This comes as National commits to $1 billion plus to build & operate an LNG plant for private fossil fuel & USA seeks LNG buyers #nzpol #Kiwi

OMG he did it. He really did it! (Turn captions on)

If a lawyer says: "My client will clear you if you grant her clemency," that seems awfully similar to: "We know my client is guilty as sin, but you set her free and she'll lie to the world about you."

Pope Leo XIV has turned his call for solidarity with Ukraine into action: the Vatican, via the Dicastery for the Service of Charity led by Cardinal Krajewski, delivered 80 electricity generators, thousands of medicine packs (antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, melatonin & more), and food supplies to Fastiv and Kyiv. Three trucks departed from Rome's Ukrainian Basilica of Santa Sofia to help Ukrainians endure renewed attacks on energy infrastructure amid freezing winter. Grateful for this concrete support

This guy is currently calling on his party leader, our Prime Minister, to quit, because he doesn’t like the Prime Minister’s decision to appoint his ‘old friend’ as an Ambassador. What a fraud.

Wow, this speech from Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani 👏💯 "They command us not to believe what we see" "They compel us as George Orwell wrote nearly 80 years ago, to reject the evidence of our eyes and our ears" "And they would succeed, were it not for the many among us who read the scripture, but who live the scripture" "Those who refuse to abandon the stranger" "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her moments later were: I'm not mad at you" "I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. Here was a man who held the hand of the afraid and the afflicted in their final moments" "Here was a man who dedicated his life to healing those who he never met" "ICE shot him 10 times because he did something they could never fathom doing, he extended his arm towards a stranger" "Not to push her down, but help her up" "Let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion"

It’s now 40 years since this quite brilliant episode of Yes, Prime Minister was broadcast but somehow it still seems remarkably appropriate after all this time! One of the best comedy series ever and superbly acted.

Trump says on AF1 that he won’t apologize for the now-deleted video casting Obamas as apes because he didn’t make a mistake

It appears Trump's pursuit of a prosecution in Fulton County was a ploy concealing more election mischief.

Bath Spa? … Bath? … Bath & Wells? … Wells? … Wales!

omg I forgot about this banger

As Reform scream about Mandelson......... Never forget.........

Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to European cities in December and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying grants to spread ‘American values’. ft.trib.al/O4ss54T

For years, I've been asking experts: "Speculation aside, what possible business use can a non-criminal find in cryptocurrency?" The best answer to date: "Well, what if the non-criminal has to pay ransom to a criminal?"

Zack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month" "That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group" "Alongside Wes Streeting the Health Secretary, close friend of Peter Mandelson" "I've written to the Health Secretary today to say we have to break that contract" "The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson" "It's a whole range of questions that need answers urgently"