Author: James Martin
American allies have again been rebuked by Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, this time for taking action against Russian state broadcaster RT. Canada and several European countries, as well as “elites”, were accused of “using this opportunity, this war in eastern Europe, to shut down domestic dissent in the United States”, after a number of American tech firms announced their own action against RT content. That included Meta (the company formerly known as Facebook), announcing a ban on RT on Monday. YouTube and Google followed behind with a ban on RT content on Tuesday.Ridiculing US allies for being the “first”…
The Secret Service spent $1.3m on hotel and transport costs protecting Donald Trump in the 12 months since he left office, newly released figures show.The Daily Beast obtained documents showing the former president’s federal security detail spent $788,286 on hotels, and just under $550,000 on rental cars, flights and rail travel while travelling between his homes in New Jersey and Florida.The amount is only a fraction of the total cost of protecting the former president, once wages and other expenses were included, and does not include details about the number of agents assigned to protect him, the Beast reported.Also not…
The workload of MPs has ‘dramatically’ increased in the past year, decision-makers said (Picture: Reuters)MPs will get a pay rise of more than £2,000 this year as many British people struggle with soaring energy and food costs. Their overall salary will jump from £81,932 to £84,144 from April 1, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) has announced. The exact increase of £2,212 per year is partly due to their work ‘dramatically’ increasing in the past 12 months, Richard Lloyd, Ipsa’s chair, has said. It marks a 2.7% jump – the same as the average increase in pay for public sector employees last year.…
DirecTV is the latest entity to cut ties with Russia Today, the state-owned, English-language Russian TV network, amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.”In line with our previous agreement with RT America, we are accelerating this year’s contract expiration timeline and will no longer offer their programming effective immediately,” the television distributor told Axios in a statement on Tuesday. The European Union has also announced plans to blacklist the Russian TV network as well as the state-owned news agency Sputnik.“Russia Today and Sputnik, as well as their subsidiaries, will no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin’s war…
British volunteers have flocked to the Ukrainian embassy to sign up for the ‘international legion’ of fighters ( Pictures: AFP / SWNS / PA)Britons signing up to fight for Ukraine have said they are ‘willing to die’ to stop Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Builders, brickies and even a 60-year-old army reservist are among those preparing to take up arms for a country that isn’t their own. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for Europe’s men to join the fight ‘and defeat Putin like we defeated Hitler’. Several people turned up to enrol at the Ukrainian embassy in London on Monday after…
Ukraine’s president is urging Joe Biden to say something that is “useful” for his government and shy away from vague statements of support that are not backed up by action during his State of the Union address.Volodymyr Zelensky made the comments on Tuesday, hours before Mr Biden is due to address a joint session of Congress.”It’s very serious … I’m not in a movie,” he told CNN and Reuters from his command center in Kyiv.More follows… Source link
Sophia Burke started giving fake psychic readings after two men told her she had ‘psychic vibes’ (Pictures: Kennedy News and Media)A raver pretended to be a psychic and told other people at a festival ‘when they were going to die’. Sophia Burke, 27, was at a bar at Creamfields festival last year when two men came up to her, told her she gave off ‘psychic vibes’ and asked her to give them a reading. She said: ‘I asked him if he had a younger brother and he said he had and I asked if he was popular at school and…
Smoke billows from Kyiv TV tower as huge explosion hitsFive people have died in a Russian airstrike that damaged a Ukraine TV tower in Kyiv.The death toll was given by emergency services, and reported by Ukrainian news agency Interfax.Five other people were injured in the blast, that was launched by Vladimir Putin’s forces, officials have said.The Ukraine Ministry of Internal Affairs said television channels would be off-air for a while after the explosion in the Shevchenkivsky district of the capital.Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the ministry, posted footage on social media of the attack that happened on the sixth day of…
The season two finale of HBO’s Euphoria premiered to a range of reactions, as fans and viewers took to social media to share fan theories and hot takes about the season’s conclusion. The episode was filled with drama, and not just from Lexi’s play. The high-stakes finale ended on a cliffhanger, but it wasn’t the only part of the show that had viewers buzzing. Rather, a significant number of reactions focused on Euphoria star Dominic Fike’s four-minute performance, which became the talk of the episode.The 3 Nights singer joined the cast of Euphoria during season two as Elliot, Rue’s newfound…
Sarah Panitzke, originally from York, has evaded capture for years (Picture: SWNS)A woman branded one of the UK’s ‘most wanted tax fugitives’ has been captured after nine years on the run. Sarah Panitzke vanished in May 2013 while she faced trial over an elaborate money laundering scam. She was convicted and sentenced in her absence to eight years in prison. Panitzke, originally from Fulford near York, had been traced to a town near Barcelona back in 2015. But she managed to flee in disguise after she caught wind of the looming police operation. Authorities again caught up with the fugitive…