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HuffPost'Look At The Evidence': Karl Rove Drops Bad News For Trump Live On Fox News
The longtime GOP strategist pointed to a shift that's taken place over the past few weeks — and predicted what will happen next.
- The Telegraph
Brace yourself for Keir Starmer’s puritan war on life’s pleasures
This is how the Conservative world ends, not with a bang but a flutter. The Tories in office were gamblers, shaggers, nutters and clowns, but at least they were funny – and their wrist too limp to grasp power entirely. Now the cavaliers are leaving the stage; here come the roundheads. Brace yourselves for a war on joy.
- HuffPost
'Truly Shocking': Prankster Reveals Trump Rally Moment That 'Knocked Me Over'
Jason Selvig of The Good Liars said he had never seen this before at one of the former president's rallies.
- The Telegraph
Will voting Reform put Labour in power? Check your postcode
“A vote for Reform is a vote for Labour.”
- The Independent
Tories believe Sunak ‘has given up’ after surprise auction lot admission at fundraiser
A fundraiser last week suggests that Rishi Sunak may have given up on winning the election
- Business Insider
Russian saboteurs burned down a Berlin factory to hit weapons supplies to Ukraine. Just one problem — the facility made car parts.
Diehl Metal's parent company makes the IRIS-T anti-air system given to Ukraine, but the factory hit makes parts for cars and electrical systems.
- Sky News
Former Tory defence secretary joins Johnny Mercer's attack on Labour candidate's military service claims
Conservative former defence secretary Ben Wallace has joined veterans minister Johnny Mercer's attacks on his Labour electoral rival. Mr Mercer, who is standing as the Tory candidate for the Plymouth Moor View constituency, had claimed his Labour opponent Fred Thomas was "bloating" his military service.
- HuffPost UK
Exclusive: Majority Of Voters Want Next Government To Take UK Back Into European Union
New poll shows the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum has been reversed.
- HuffPost UK
'Are You A Betting Man?': Sky News Presenter Leaves Top Tory Squirming Over Gambling Scandal
The controversy is intensifying with the election just 10 days away.
- Business Insider
Village on Ukraine's doorstep set to become NATO's biggest European air base as Putin vows to go 'until the end' in the war
The base is about 12 miles from the Black Sea coast and 180 miles from Odesa in southern Ukraine.
- Sky News
Liz Truss' constituency hangs in the balance after voters look to cast ballots on her record as PM
In 2019 Liz Truss was once again elected MP for South West Norfolk - her fourth election win. The then international trade secretary and later prime minister romped home to victory with nearly 70% of the vote. Another talked about how she couldn't vote for Truss because her daughter's mortgage had risen three times in the past 18 months.
- The Daily Beast
Trump Made ‘Nazi Ovens’ Joke Around Jewish Execs: Ex-Trump Org VP
Donald Trump has claimed he’s better for Jewish Americans than Democrats, but according to a former senior Trump Organization executive, the former president reveled in making Nazi jokes around his Jewish employees.Former Trump Organization executive vice president Barbara Res told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi that Trump once made a joke about a German residential manager the company had hired before turning to some Trump Organization executives who happened to be Jewish. “He was bragging amongst executiv
- The Telegraph
Brexit is working for Britain
Eight years ago today, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. The British people collectively decided that it was time to reclaim our islands’ sovereignty. It was the right decision then – and it remains the right decision now.
- Associated Press
Russia summons the American ambassador over a deadly attack that Moscow says used US-made missiles
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the American ambassador on Monday to protest what it says was the use of U.S.-made advanced missiles in a Ukrainian attack on Russian-annexed Crimea that reportedly killed four people and wounded more than 150. Washington “has effectively become a party” to the war on Ukraine’s side, the ministry said in a statement, adding, “Retaliatory measures will certainly follow.” The Associated Press could not independently verify Russia's claims about the missiles used.
- The Telegraph
Why it’s too late to stop World War 3
Imagine, for a moment, that the Iranian government announces it has developed a nuclear bomb and threatens to use it on Israel. The United States reacts with the threat of military intervention, as it did in 1991 and 2003 in Iraq. Iran signals that it will not tolerate a third Gulf war and looks for allies. American forces mass to enter Iran, which orders national mobilisation. Russia, China and North Korea express their support for Iran, and Washington expands its intervention force, bringing i
- The Guardian
The Kremlin’s Noose by Amy Knight review – vital primer on Putin’s Russia and Boris Berezovsky’s death
The American historian and expert on Russia has written a definitive study of the flamboyant life and mysterious death of the oligarch, a confidant of Yeltsin and a man to whom Putin was once indebted
- HuffPost
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill Warns Biden Must Begin Trump Debate In This Brutal Way
It could help debunk a right-wing narrative, said the former Democratic senator from Missouri.
- The Telegraph
No Brexit renegotiation without free movement, warns Barnier
The European Union will reject a future Labour government’s Brexit plan unless it agrees to a return to free movement, the bloc’s former negotiator has warned.
- The Telegraph
Crimean sunbathers struck by deadly shrapnel shower from Ukrainian missile
Shrapnel from an intercepted US-made missile fired by Ukraine hit a beach packed with sunbathing tourists in occupied Crimea on Sunday.
- The Telegraph
Starmer could bring back benefits Britain
“Working people want success more than state support” is a phrase that could have been uttered by any Conservative Party leader since Ted Heath. That Keir Starmer said it last weekend suggests one of two things. Either he is truly going to address the question of growing dependency on the state, or that he is making a cynical appeal to wavering Tory voters.