February 2020

‘The Daily Show’ Curates ‘SOTU Edition’ Of Trump’s Dictionary Of Non-Words

Entertainment /

The president, who once said, “I know words. I have the best words,” added “stankchuary” and “dersault” to the collection during his 80-minute State of the Union address Tuesday. The late-night show regularly curates supercuts of Trump’s creative vocabulary, and it delivered a compilation of his “best words” of 2019 in December. Here’s the latest on […]

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Gambling in football: Bookmakers considering ban on shirt and pitchside advertising

Business /

10 clubs in the Premier League are currently sponsored by gambling firms Bookmakers are “considering” a voluntary ban on football shirt sponsorship and pitchside advertising, a parliamentary committee has heard. It would expand on the whistle-to-whistle ban on television gambling adverts introduced last year. Half of Premier League clubs and 17 of 24 Championship clubs

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Coronavirus: Australian evacuated from China to Christmas Island for quarantine

World /

Daniel Ou Yang is one of many Australians being evacuated from Wuhan in China. The student, who was in the city visiting family when the coronavirus outbreak happened, documented his experience on TikTok as the city was put on lockdown. He has since been put on a flight to New Zealand, where he would then

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Assured of Impeachment Acquittal, Trump Makes Case for Second Term in State of the Union

Politics /

WASHINGTON — The defendant finally showed up to have his say. President Trump never uttered the word impeachment, but in a 78-minute speech to the nation that combined a celebration of the American economy, hard-edge policy pronouncements and reality show-style surprises for the audience, he made the case for his presidency as only he could.

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Frankie Bridge on mental health: ‘I couldn’t cope with everyday life’

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Image copyright Getty Images In 2011, girl group The Saturdays were filming a music video in Iceland for their single My Heart Takes Over. But one of the members – Frankie Bridge – just didn’t want to do it. “I’d reached a point where I couldn’t cope with everyday life,” she tells Radio 1 Newsbeat.

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