Yahoo News Government will not 'water down' winter fuel payment cut to 10 million pensioners, minister says
The government will not "water down" cuts to the winter fuel payment after it was voted through on Tuesday, a minister has said.
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HuffPost UKKay Burley In Extraordinary Clash With Lisa Nandy Over Police Escort Given To Taylor Swift
"I paid for my tickets," the Sky News presenter told the culture secretary.
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Slimmed-down winter fuel payments will ‘add insult to injury’, MPs hear
The Government has ended the previously universal scheme.
- The Independent
Starmer under pressure as Labour big beasts warn he has ‘lost grip’ after Sue Gray row
Labour grandees say rows that led to resignation of PM’s top aide ‘uncomfortable’
- The Telegraph
Reeves urged to scrap free prescriptions for 60- to 65-year-olds
Rachel Reeves is under pressure to scrap free prescriptions for 60- to 65-year-olds in a move that could raise more than £6bn for the Treasury.
- The Daily Beast
Trump Lashes Out at ‘Dumb Women’ Hosts of ‘The View’ After Harris Interview
Former President Donald Trump lashed out at the hosts of The View, labelling them “degenerates” and “dumb women” after Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris appeared on the show.Trump took to Truth Social and X on Tuesday in the latest attack on the daytime talk show hosts that have irked the former president for years. Trump appeared to be particularly irate over an answer the vice president gave when asked if she would have done anything differently from President Joe Biden.Though Harr
- The Hill
Opinion - The candidates’ response to Hurricane Helene tells voters all they need to know
When Americans go to the polls in November, they will have an opportunity to choose whether they want a president who will put aside politics when disaster strikes or one who will use disasters to help his supporters and punish those who are not.
- HuffPost UK
Putin Just Turned 72 – And Ukraine Has Delivered An 'Unprecedented' Birthday Present
To think the Russian president had tried to play down the occasion, too.
- Sky News
Russia trying to create 'mayhem' on UK streets, MI5 boss warns
Russia is trying to create "mayhem" on the UK's streets, the head of the MI5 has warned. In a wide-ranging speech, the organisation's director general Ken McCallum said Britain faces an increased threat from "Putin's henchmen" and "plot after plot" from Iran.
- HuffPost UK
Putin's 'Henchmen' Are Looking To Create 'Mayhem On British Streets,' MI5 Chief Warns
"Dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness," Ken McCallum said.
- HuffPost
Chris Wallace Gives Unvarnished Brutal Truth About Why He Left Fox News
The veteran anchor didn't hold back this time in discussing his days at the conservative network.
- Manchester Evening News
Pensioners say 'we have been betrayed' as they protest winter fuel payment cut
Protesters direct their anger at the new Labour government
- The Independent
UK politics live: Tory leader candidate says he may be victim of ‘horse trading’ as Starmer to face PMQs
Robert Jenrick says there is always deal-making at the final Tory leadership vote
- The Telegraph
Deadliest month for Russian army as ‘meat wave’ assaults take their toll
September was the deadliest month for Russia’s army since the start of the war in Ukraine, British military intelligence said on Monday.
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Government faces criticism for £22 billion spend on carbon capture projects
Reform UK’s Richard Tice argued that millions of pensioners will view the decision to spend £22 billion on renewable energy as ‘extraordinary’.
- Euronews
The EU has lost its patience with Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán. So, now what? | Radio Schuman
After three months of a European Council's presidency that has turned into a debacle, what can the EU do now with Orbán? Radio Schuman asks Daniel Hegedüs, Regional Director for Central Europe at the German Marshall Fund.View on euronews
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Rosie Duffield: ‘Starmer is how he appears on TV – astonished that anyone dares question him’
It’s only been a week since Rosie Duffield resigned the Labour whip and wrote THAT letter to Keir Starmer. In it, she criticised his “managerial and technocratic approach” as well as his “lack of basic politics and political instincts”.
- The Telegraph
Mexican mayor ‘decapitated by drug gangs’ six days into job
The mayor of a Mexican city plagued by gang violence has been murdered less than a week after taking office.
- The Independent
Trump stuns social media as he dances along to YMCA at the end of speech about October 7 attacks
The event was billed by the Trump campaign as an October 7 ‘remembrance event’
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Gov. Ron DeSantis Refused To Answer Hurricane Relief Calls From The White House
“It’s up to him if he wants to respond to us or not,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of the Florida Republican.
- Business Insider
Lithuania says it intercepted military supplies on their way to Russia, and sent them to Ukraine instead
Lithuanian customs said it intercepted military supplies leaving the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, bound for Moscow, and gave them to Ukraine.