M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit dies aged 87
Swit won awards for her role as "Hot Lips" Houlihan, a nurse based at hospital during the Korean War.
Trump’s week shows the risks of his full-speed-ahead approach – The Washington Post
- Trump’s week shows the risks of his full-speed-ahead approach The Washington Post
- Week in politics: Supreme Court allows humanitarian program pause, Musk leaves DOGE KOSU
- A look at what happened in the US government this week KCRA
- ELAM: Chaos continues Odessa American
- Trump Clings to Good News While Risks Pile Up Fast Bloomberg
Live updates: Hamas considers Gaza ceasefire proposal as Israeli strikes kill at least 27 – AP News
- Live updates: Hamas considers Gaza ceasefire proposal as Israeli strikes kill at least 27 AP News
- Unable to Justify Their Army Killing Children in Gaza, Israelis Retreat Into Deep Denial Haaretz
- Israeli Airstrike Kills at Least 7 of a Doctor’s Children, Gaza Officials Say The New York Times
- Tiny girl who emerged from flames of Israeli strike on Gaza school-turned-shelter says "fire filled the sky" CBS News
- Israeli attacks kill at least 70 in Gaza as hunger crisis deepens Al Jazeera
French scientist behind abortion pill dies aged 98
Etienne-Emile Baulieu created the pill to give women a safe alternative to surgical abortion.
French scientist behind abortion pill dies aged 98
Etienne-Emile Baulieu created the pill to give women a safe alternative to surgical abortion.
In Oval Office farewell, Trump says Elon Musk is ‘not really leaving’
Musk's time in government ended with a colourful Oval Office meeting at Trump's side.
Watch: A black eye and a gold key – Musk’s last day at Doge
The tech mogul, whose time as a special government employee has ended, attributed the bruise to rough-housing with his five-year-old son.
Anthony Weiner says female politicians ‘judged much more harshly than men’
Weiner makes comment as he campaigns for New York City council seat years after sexting scandal
Anthony Weiner says politicians such as him and Donald Trump can survive scandals while qualified candidates including Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton lose elections because “women get judged much more harshly than men do”.
“I do believe that,” Weiner said Friday on ABC’s The View amid his run for a New York City council seat years after he crashed out of Congress in the wake of a sexting scandal that some argue aided Trump in clinching his first presidency in 2016.
Continue reading...‘Disturbing’: Expert breaks down ‘sheer garishness’ of Trump’s Oval Office makeover – AlterNet
- 'Disturbing': Expert breaks down 'sheer garishness' of Trump's Oval Office makeover AlterNet
- Opinion | Trump’s Oval Office Is a Gilded Rococo Nightmare. Help. The New York Times
- Trump’s Midas touch transforms the Oval Office into a glittering gilded palace News24
- From gravitas to glitter: the White House reality show - Opinion Daily Kos
- Don’t blame staff for Trump’s missteps | READER COMMENTARY Baltimore Sun
Russia throws down ceasefire conditions – Istanbul awaits Ukraine’s reply – Euromaidan Press
- Russia throws down ceasefire conditions – Istanbul awaits Ukraine’s reply Euromaidan Press
- U.N. Security Council Holds Meeting on Russia-Ukraine War C-SPAN
- Senate to 'start moving' Russia sanctions bill next week, Graham says The Kyiv Independent
- Ukraine's foreign minister calls for sanctions after Russia's UN threats Українська правда
- Russia tells UN West must stop arming Ukraine during any ceasefire Reuters
Last hospital in North Gaza governorate evacuated after Israeli order
Al-Awda, the last functioning hospital in the North Gaza governorate, is out of service after the Israeli military ordered its evacuation.
Macron warns the West could lose credibility over Ukraine and Gaza wars
The French president spoke at the Shangri-la Dialogue, a high-level Asia defence summit in Singapore.
Free Speech Warrior: I’m Victim of ‘Criminal’ Sex Tapes Leak – The Daily Beast
- Free Speech Warrior: I’m Victim of ‘Criminal’ Sex Tapes Leak The Daily Beast
- Glenn Greenwald Sex Tape Leak: Journalist Cites “Maliciously Political” Motives The Hollywood Reporter
- Queer Scribe Glenn Greenwald Responds to Damaging Video, Says it was Leaked by Political Enemies EDGE Media Network
- FACT CHECK: Glenn Greenwald 'Has Never Bowed' and 'Does Not Bend' freebeacon.com
- Glenn Greenwald Confirms Leaked Videos, Calls It A 'Malicious' Political Attack Times Now
Supreme court allows White House to revoke temporary protected status of many migrants
Ruling reverses hold on Trump administration’s ending humanitarian parole of Venezuelan migrants and others
The US supreme court on Friday announced it would allow the Trump administration to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States, bolstering the Republican president’s drive to step up deportations.
The court put on hold Boston-based US district judge Indira Talwani’s order halting the administration’s move to end the immigration humanitarian “parole” protections granted to 532,000 people by Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, potentially exposing many of them to rapid removal from the country, while the detailed case plays out in lower courts.
Continue reading...Google and Home Depot drop Pride Toronto sponsorship amid Trump’s DEI war
Organizer points to president’s anti-diversity push as companies join Adidas and Clorox in withdrawing support
In another blow to one of the largest celebrations of LGTBQ+ people in North America, Pride Toronto has unexpectedly lost two more major corporate sponsors, just weeks before the festival in a setback the festival’s organizer says is direct result of Donald Trump’s campaign to eradicate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the US.
Google and Home Depot both announced their plans to abandon the festival in the form of one-line emails, said Kojo Modeste, the executive director of the Canadian event.
Continue reading...Trump Says Macron ‘Fine’ After Viral Shoving Incident With Wife – Bloomberg
- Trump Says Macron ‘Fine’ After Viral Shoving Incident With Wife Bloomberg
- ‘It’s Nonsense’: Macron Plays Down Video of Shove From Wife The New York Times
- Trump offers his marital advice after viral video of Macron's wife shoving his face Fox News
- ‘Le Slap’ talks to the dark truth behind Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron’s marriage The Independent
- Trump's advice to Macron after airplane shoving video: 'Make sure the door remains closed' USA Today
Is a Palestinian state being derailed by Israel’s illegal settlements?
Israel is expanding its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank while it wages its war on Gaza.
Despite Gaza plan “many Israelis” hoping their govt is “over”
“It shows in the polls that more than 50 percent of Israelis hate the idea that Israel is becoming another South Africa.
A statue of Stalin is unveiled in the Moscow subway as Russia tries to revive the dictator’s legacy – AP News
- A statue of Stalin is unveiled in the Moscow subway as Russia tries to revive the dictator's legacy AP News
- Rosenberg: What a new Stalin statue says about Russia's attempt to reshape history BBC
- What can a ‘poorly-made’ Stalin sculpture tell us about Putin's Russia? The Art Newspaper
- Monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in Moscow metro stirs debate Reuters
- Stalin’s Image Returns to Moscow’s Subway, Honoring a Brutal History The New York Times
Gaza is ‘hungriest place on Earth’ with all its people at risk of famine, says UN
Mission to deliver help is ‘one of most obstructed aid operations in recent history’, humanitarian agency says
Gaza is “the hungriest place on Earth”, according to the UN, which has warned that the Palestinian territory’s entire population is at risk of famine.
Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the territory was “the only defined area – a country or defined territory within a country – where you have the entire population at risk of famine. One hundred per cent of the population at risk of famine,” he said on Friday.
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