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HuffPostLocal TV Anchor Catches Donald Trump Off Guard With A Simple Question
The former president floundered in the face of Roop Raj's response.
- Wales Online
Rishi Sunak gives State Pension update as he's challenged on 'cut'
The Prime Minister was asked the question the Commons on Wednesday
- The Guardian
‘This is cleansing’: Dublin sends in police and buses to dismantle tent city
Shocked people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria herded on to coaches as 200 tents removed and streets cleaned
- Bournemouth Echo UK
Supermarket shoppers warned bills could rise £96 due to new rule change
Whether you shop at Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons or any other major supermarket in the UK, customers are being warned grocery bills could increase
- HuffPost
Trump Had 'Different Devices' To Keep Him Awake. You Can Guess What Happened.
The former president's attorneys are trying to stop him from dozing off during the trial.
- HuffPost
Donald Trump Appears To Reveal His Plan If He Loses Election To Joe Biden
The former president made the chilling remark about the 2024 election to a Wisconsin newspaper.
- Liverpool Echo
Foreign Office issues fresh warning to anyone visiting Turkey
The country is a popular holiday destination for thousands of people
- The Telegraph
Whisper it, but the Tories’ immigration plans are working
Anyone looking closely at the Rwanda plan will quickly realise one thing. It’s not simply about preventing migrants arriving in this country, tearing up their documentation, indistinctly mouthing the word “asylum,” and presenting the Home Secretary in many cases with a fait accompli. The final passing of the Safety of Rwanda Act last week was also, and perhaps more importantly, a matter of psychology.
- The Daily Beast
Trump Struggles to Cite a Source for His Exaggerated Crime Claim
Fox 2During an interview that touched on immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, a Detroit news anchor challenged Donald Trump to support his claim about rapidly falling crime in Venezuela—which fact-checkers have previously noted is false.In his interview with Fox 2 anchor Roop Raj, which will air in its entirety on Thursday, the former president closed with a shot at President Joe Biden regarding immigration, a topic that Trump has signaled he wants to use to help his campaign at the expense of
- The Telegraph
Xi Jinping’s vast gold war chest could let him take Taiwan without a fight
Xi Jinping has benefited in many ways from Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, not least in his single most important personal goal: to go down in history as the Chinese leader who annexed Taiwan in defiance of the West.
- HuffPost
CNN Fact-Checker Spots Trump Contradicting Himself ‘Almost In The Same Breath’
The former president was "simultaneously complaining" about opposing things in his courthouse rant, said Daniel Dale.
- HuffPost
Trump Attorney Alina Habba Mocked For 'North Korean' Levels of Praise
The lawyer's brazen new claim about the former president gets an instant fact-check on social media.
- HuffPost UK
Kwasi Kwarteng Lashes Out At Liz Truss Over His 'Trumpian' Sacking
No love lost between the one-time double act, then.
- Business Insider
Massive drone strike suggests Ukraine is going after Russia's devastating glide bombs
Russia has increasingly relied on glide-bomb strikes to hammer Ukrainian positions on the front lines and in the rear over the past few months.
- The Independent
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s exercise in vanity has failed — spectacularly
Not even the people we might have expected to go with MTG seem to have the appetite to back her up this time
- Yahoo News UK
Map reveals how much debt your local council is in
Local elections take place across 107 councils in England on Thursday against a backdrop of financial disarray.
- Bristol Live
UK council to give out four sets of £75 vouchers to households - see if you're eligible
The vouchers will be handed to households on these dates to help people with their shopping after the government renewed the scheme
- The Hill
Judiciary Republicans zero in on top prosecutor in Trump hush money case
The House Judiciary Committee is again singling out a top prosecutor in former President Trump’s hush money case, asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over the bulk of its communications relating to Matthew Colangelo. Colangelo, who delivered the opening statement in Trump’s New York trial last week, was a senior Justice Department official…
- Sky News
Boris Johnson tells voters to 'forget about the government'
The Tory mayor of the West Midlands is sending voters an endorsement from Boris Johnson which urges people to "forget about the government", Sky News can reveal. Other campaign literature - including the front page of a campaign "newspaper" seen by Sky News - makes no mention of the Conservative leader.
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How China's J-20 stacks up to USA's F-22 fighter jet
The US claims China stole American tech to make a copycat of the F-22 Raptor, known as the J-20 Mighty Dragon. We compare the stealth, accuracy, and radar technology of the two fighter jets.