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The TelegraphReeves 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.
- HuffPost UK
Blow For Keir Starmer As Labour's Lead Over The Tories Falls To Just 1 Point
It's a damning result for a government which have been in power for less than 100 days.
- 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.
- PA Media: UK News
Slimmed-down winter fuel payments will ‘add insult to injury’, MPs hear
The Government has ended the previously universal scheme.
- Barrons.com
The Dow Has Predicted 22 of the Past 24 Presidential Elections. What It Says About Trump and Harris’ Odds of Winning.
The stock market’s performance bodes well for Harris. While the stats are tantalizing, history isn’t necessarily predictive.
- 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.
- The Telegraph
Britain to suffer biggest exodus of millionaires in the world
Britain is set to suffer the biggest exodus of millionaires in the world ahead of the Government’s planned raid on non-doms, analysis has found.
- 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.
- HuffPost
George Conway Sums Up A Donald Trump Tactic With 2 Words From Adolf Hitler
“That’s German. I don’t speak German, so forgive my pronunciation," the conservative lawyer told MSNBC's Alex Wagner.
- The Independent
Voices: After the Elon Musk-Donald Trump rally, there’s a better word for Republicans than ‘weird’
Now that the former president and Tesla CEO have teamed up, there’s only one way to describe the American political right in its current form...
- The Daily Beast
Lara Trump Fumes as CNN Host Calls Out Donald’s Hurricane Helene Lies
CNN’s Dana Bash and Lara Trump sparred over misinformation Donald Trump has spread about funding for disaster relief in North Carolina, with the anchor refusing to let the former president’s daughter-in-law get away with ducking her questions.Bash laid into the Republican National Committee co-chair as she tried to change the direction from her father-in-law's dubious claims that FEMA is only offering a few hundred dollars to Americans who have had their homes destroyed in Hurricane Helene. “I w
- The Daily Beast
Donald Trump Goes Off the Rails With Claim That Some Races Have Murder Gene
Donald Trump revealed an unhinged eugenics theory Monday, claiming during a morning rant that some migrants have “bad genes” that make them predisposed to committing murder. Trump spent a good chunk of an interview on the The Hugh Hewitt radio show slamming the policies of his political opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, and baselessly accused her of wanting to install a communist government.“She wants to [do] government housing. She wants to go into government feeding. She wants to feed pe
- HuffPost
Joe Scarborough's Take On Trump's Weekend Speech Is Too Terrifying To Imagine
The "Morning Joe" host sounded the alarm big time.
- The Telegraph
How Sue Gray lost the battle for Starmer’s ear
It was a fortnight ago, on the opening weekday of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, that Sir Keir Starmer settled down for lunch with the man he has just made his most senior adviser.
- The Daily Beast
Giuliani’s Daughter Reveals How Dad Reacted to Harris Endorsement
Caroline Giuliani, who is the daughter of the former New York City mayor and ardent Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani, has revealed how her father responded to her endorsement of Kamala Harris.Giuliani said she has been forced to have “open conversations” with her father since she penned a column in Vanity Fair about her decision to support Harris.“He knows how I feel about all these things,” she said Sunday on MSNBC’s Alex Witt Reports. “I don’t think any of this came as a surprise. I think one thi
- 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.
- Associated Press
Ukraine strikes a Russian oil hub as Zelenskyy says the war is in 'a very important phase'
Ukraine’s military said it struck a major oil terminal Monday in Crimea that provides fuel for Russia’s war effort as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the war has entered a key phase. Both sides are facing the issue of how to sustain their costly war of attrition — a conflict that started with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and that shows no signs of a resolution. Ukraine’s General Staff said on social media that the oil terminal in Feodosia, on the south coast of the Russia-occupied Crimea Peninsula, has been supplying the Russian army with fuel and that the strike was part of an ongoing effort to “undermine the military and economic potential of the Russian Federation.”
- Fortune
The Russian economy can’t sustain Putin’s war on Ukraine much longer, expert says
"Ukraine could win the war if it had an additional $50 billion per year, as well as a green light to bomb military targets inside Russia."
- 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 Daily Beast
‘Morning Joe’ Tells Viewers Trump Is ‘Preparing for Civil War’
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Monday claimed Donald Trump and his family are now “preparing for civil war.”Scarborough made the alarming assertion on Morning Joe after reacting to a compilation of footage from the former president’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania over the weekend. Trump told attendees at the rally—which took place at the site where a would-be assassin tried to kill him in July—that his political opponents have stopped at nothing to try and prevent him from returning to the White