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MARK PENN: Democrats ignored every warning sign in Graham Platner’s Senate disaster
In this Fox News opinion piece, pollster and commentator Mark Penn argues that the Democratic Party ignored repeated warning signs about Graham Platner, its Senate candidate in Maine, whose campaign has collapsed amid a series of scandals. Penn contends that Platner was unqualified from the outset and that party leaders backed him anyway as a…
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Treasury yet to do due diligence on finding extra money for UK’s Nato spend
The Treasury has not yet carried out any analysis of the trade-offs required for the UK to meet its Nato pledge to spend 3.5% of GDP on defence by 2035, its chief secretary Lucy Rigby has admitted. Under questioning from a joint session of the Treasury and defence committees, Rigby repeatedly insisted that funding decisions…
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GOP senator accuses NYT of sitting on bombshell allegation to protect Schumer, Dems
National Republican Senatorial Committee chair Tim Scott has accused The New York Times and senior Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, of colluding to delay publishing damaging allegations against Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner. Scott claims the newspaper sat on a story in June — a month before the latest allegation emerged —…
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Ukraine to receive US licence to manufacture Patriot air defence systems
US President Donald Trump has said the United States will grant Ukraine a licence to manufacture Patriot air defence systems, a move that could represent a significant shift in policy on arming Kyiv. Patriot systems are among the most sought-after air defences for Ukraine, which has repeatedly requested more of them to counter Russian missile…
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Republicans Gleefully Celebrate Midterms Chaos in Maine
Republican strategists aligned with Donald Trump are privately delighting in the turmoil surrounding Maine’s Democratic Senate candidate, Graham Platner, whose campaign has been engulfed by controversy. Platner, a US Marine veteran who won the Democratic primary last month, is now facing a fresh sexual assault allegation and calls from senior Democrats to withdraw, throwing the…
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Frosty Trump and chilly Meloni refuse to look at each other in Turkey days after menacing taunt
Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pointedly ignored each other as world leaders assembled for the traditional NATO family photo in Ankara, Turkey, according to the Daily Mail. Trump was reported to have walked straight past Meloni without a greeting or a glance, while she stared at the ground with a fixed smile.…
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Barnsley Council set to consider Town Hall flag policy following Pride row
Reform UK councillors have proposed a formal policy governing the flags flown at Barnsley Town Hall, arguing current arrangements have developed without clear rules.
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Katie Couric couldn’t remember the year or the president during frightening brain episode
Veteran American journalist Katie Couric has revealed that she suffered a frightening neurological episode on 27 June while attending the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, during which she was temporarily unable to recall the current month, year and president. Writing in a Substack post titled “The Day I’ll Never Remember,” she said she believed it…
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Nexstar’s ‘The Hill’ Launches ‘Insider’ Subscription Tier
Nexstar has launched “The Hill Insider”, a new paid subscription tier for its Washington-based political news outlet The Hill, marking the company’s first-ever subscription product. Going live on Wednesday, the service offers premium newsletters, live interactive video calls with journalists and deeper reporting, and represents a bid to build broader financial support for the publication,…
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Rosie O’Donnell ‘Horrified’ by Trump’s World Cup Intervention and AI Video of Her: ‘A Failure at Everything He’s Ever Tried’
Comedian Rosie O’Donnell told Variety she was “horrified” by Donald Trump’s alleged intervention at this year’s World Cup, in which she says the US president personally lobbied FIFA president Gianni Infantino to overturn a red card issued to American player Folarin Balogun. According to the article, the reversal — described as the first of its…