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Platner aide hit with brutal timeline check after campaign denied rape claim, then folded days later
An adviser to Graham Platner’s suspended Maine Senate campaign has come under scrutiny over an apparent inconsistency in the timeline surrounding a rape allegation against the candidate. The adviser, Morris Katz, stated that the team recommended Platner suspend his candidacy “as soon” as it became aware of the allegation, yet the campaign had publicly denied…
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EXCLUSIVE: Former ‘Apprentice’ star picked by Trump to showcase America’s 250th anniversary through art
Erin Scavino, who once appeared as a contestant on NBC’s “The Apprentice,” says President Donald Trump has chosen her to lead the State Department’s little-known Art in Embassies programme as the United States prepares to mark its 250th anniversary. In an interview with Fox News Digital at the Art Museum of the Americas, Scavino said…
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Nigel Farage is just one strand in the tangle of rightwing politicians and crypto investors | John Harris
Ahead of the representation of the people bill returning to the House of Commons for its third reading this coming Tuesday, controversy over Nigel Farage and his wealthy donors has pushed big-money political funding to the top of the agenda. The bill, which also extends the vote to 16- and 17-year-olds, has become a focal…
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Democrat politicos rerun underhanded leftist playbook in effort to torpedo Trump’s AG nominee
Fox News reports that around 1,200 former Department of Justice officials signed a letter opposing the Senate confirmation of Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, ahead of key confirmation hearings. The article, written from a critical perspective, characterises the effort as a partisan manoeuvre by Democratic-aligned figures in Washington attempting to derail…
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‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won
An interview with Texas trial lawyer Mark Lanier recounts how he and his 20-year-old client, known as Kaley or KGM, secured a landmark legal victory against Meta and Google in a Los Angeles courtroom earlier this year. The case, KGM v Meta et al, was the first to hold major social media firms accountable for…
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Why do free speech debates make us so angry?
This Guardian essay, written by an anthropologist, argues that the ferocity of modern free speech debates stems not from disagreements over rules and principles but from implicit judgments about people’s character. The author traces the argument back to the January 2015 al-Qaida attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which killed cartoonists over their…
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“There were smears of dried blood around his chin and mouth. His usually perfect clothes and hair were messed up and soaked with gasoline”: The brief life and unsolved death of the cult 60s rocker who inspired The Clash
This feature from Louder revisits the short life and mysterious death of Bobby Fuller, the 1960s rock musician best known for the hit “I Fought the Law” and later cited as an influence on The Clash. Fuller rose to prominence in El Paso, Texas, as a precociously enterprising figure before moving to Los Angeles in…
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SWFC News: Henrik Pedersen reviews pre-season opener after ‘very, very tough week’ – thestar.co.uk
SWFC News: Henrik Pedersen reviews pre-season opener after ‘very, very tough week’ thestar.co.uk
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Labour minister fails to commit to backing Home Secretary’s bid to make migrants wait longer before they settle in Britain as he admits he ‘doesn’t know the specifics’ of the policy
A Labour minister declined to firmly endorse the Home Secretary’s proposal to make migrants wait longer before gaining the right to settle permanently in Britain, saying he “doesn’t know the specifics” of the policy. The reluctance is notable because it suggests possible uncertainty or a lack of coordination within the Government over a significant immigration…
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DUP MP hits out at Ian Paisley Jnr for his silence on Jeffrey Donaldson rumours – while revealing what he knew and saw while he was sharing a London flat with convicted paedophile
This article is presented as the Daily Mail’s Sunday homepage rather than the story named in the headline, so the actual reporting is not available in the supplied text. The intended piece concerns a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP publicly criticising Ian Paisley Jnr for staying silent on rumours about former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson,…