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The TelegraphPalestinian student ‘full of joy’ after Oct 7 attack upset she faces deportation
A Palestinian student who said she was “full of pride” after Hamas launched its attack on Israel faces deportation.
- The Telegraph
Putin and Xi are being handed a terrifying victory
Joe Biden is the worst US president since Jimmy Carter. He specialises in betraying America’s friends and rewarding its enemies, in humiliating the West and empowering the Global South’s autocracies.
- HuffPost UK
'Why Do You Hate Pensioners?': Rishi Sunak Suffers Brutal Loose Women Grilling
The prime minister was taken to task live on ITV.
- HuffPost
OUCH! Desi Lydic Tells Trump How 'Everyone' Around Him Really Feels
The "Daily Show" correspondent hit the former president with a blunt reality check.
- Business Insider
Putin is putting his bromance with Xi on full display — but China has reason to be wary
China's leader is facing growing pressure over his support for Russia's isolated president.
- The Independent
Trump was given the day off trial for Barron’s graduation. Now he’s headlining a Republican fundraiser
Defendant’s busy schedule on Friday comes after the judge in his hush money case cleared the decks to allow him to attend son’s high school leavers’ ceremony in Florida
- HuffPost
Mary Trump Thinks She Knows Exactly Why Ivanka And Don Jr. Haven't Turned Up In Court
Their no-show at Donald Trump's hush money trial is down to two things, said the former president's niece.
- The Telegraph
‘I’m a bin lady – but I’m being taxed like a second homeowner’
Innocent home movers are being caught out by a council tax crackdown intended for wealthy second home owners.
- The Telegraph
It’s time to bring back the world’s greatest fighter jet – from the 1990s
The Lockheed Martin F-22 is the US Air Force’s best fighter. The Lockheed Martin F-16 is its most numerous fighter. But its workhorse fighter – the type which balances capability and mass – is the Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle, the multi-role version of the classic air-superiority fighter. The Eagle was the best fighter in the world before the F-22 came along.
- The Telegraph
Keir Starmer’s plan for government is vanishing before the voters’ eyes
The strange thing about Keir Starmer’s policy ideas is that they tend to evaporate as the years go on. He ran for Labour leader with clear, radical pledges: to abolish the House of Lords, waive all university tuition fees and more. Over time, such promises were downgraded then, dropped altogether. On Thursday, it seemed his policy vanishing act was complete. Amid great fanfare in an Essex film studio, the Shadow Cabinet gathered to reveal the latest strategy: to promise, in effect, almost nothin
- CNN
Opinion: Did Trump’s defense think this strategy would work on Cohen?
Norm Eisen writes that he saw something unprecedented in Trump’s trial: Michael Cohen was talking directly to the jury, and all the jurors were looking at him and listening.
- The Daily Beast
MAGA Rep’s Insane Biden Claim Is Too Much Even for Maria Bartiromo
Fox Business NetworkRep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) made a bizarre claim Thursday, insisting that he has “evidence” to support his allegation that President Joe Biden was “jacked up on something” during the State of the Union address. He even offered to show his so-called proof to Fox Business Network host Maria Bartiromo “offline.”The MAGA congressman’s wild accusation seemed to go too far for the pro-Trump conspiracy-loving Bartiromo, who once relied on “wackadoodle” claims made by a woman who thinks
- CNN
Opinion: Stormy Daniels testified about something billions of humans do. Why was she demeaned for it?
The media decided to erroneously describe a grown woman openly discussing an alleged sexual encounter with a grown man as obscene, writes Danielle Campoamor.
- Evening Standard
Theresa May mocks Liz Truss and Boris Johnson at parliamentary lunch
The former PM has had a humour upgrade
- The Independent
Supreme Court Justice Alito faces fury after scathing report on ‘stop the steal’ flag outside his home
The Supreme Court justice said his wife, Martha-Ann, flew the flag in response to signs in neighbors’ gardens.
- The Telegraph
Labour chief claimed £40,000 expenses to rent house next door
Sir Keir Starmer’s election chief claimed more than £40,000 on expenses for rent on a constituency home despite owning the house next door.
- The Telegraph
The West’s useful idiots are Hamas’s last hope
With all the criticism that is being directed at Israel over its conduct of the war in Gaza, one essential fact is constantly overlooked: Hamas, the terrorist group responsible for provoking this conflict in the first place, is on the brink of suffering a catastrophic defeat.
- Yorkshire Live
DWP PIP claimants given five-week warning over planned payment changes
The Department for Work and Pensions is looking at changes to Personal Independence Payments
- HuffPost
Majorie Taylor Greene Insults Jasmine Crockett, Sends Oversight Committee Hearing Into Chaos
Even by recent standards, Thursday's meeting of the House Oversight Committee was a shocking train wreck.
- The Telegraph
Ukraine launches its biggest drone attack on Russian oil facilities
Ukraine appears to have conducted its largest-ever drone strike against Russia, causing a massive fire to break out at an oil refinery hundreds of miles behind the front line.