The Northern Ireland secretary has denied the government has “abandoned” the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) after the UK and EU agreed a new Brexit deal. The DUP, which has supported the minority Conservative government since 2017, said it remained opposed to the deal. But Julian Smith said: “We have abandoned nobody. No deal is not […]
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Britain and the European Union finally reached a new tentative Brexit deal on Thursday, hoping to escape the acrimony, divisions and frustration of their three-year divorce battle. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson now faces the Herculean task of selling the accord to his recalcitrant parliament — including his allies in Northern Ireland. Interested in Brexit?
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Image copyright Getty Images Earlier this week, former Disney-star-turned-porn-director Bella Thorne announced that she would be working with the pornography-sharing site, Pornhub, to keep it free of “revenge porn”. This is the story behind that announcement. Bella Thorne starts crying. One of her dogs, Ma, an Australian Shepherd, scampers around her ankles to show her
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Image copyright Getty Images Mobile network Three has acknowledged it is experiencing “technical difficulties with voice, text and data”, leaving many customers offline. The problems appear to have started on Wednesday evening, according to the Down Detector website. Customers across the UK have taken to social media to complain about the loss of service. Three
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Forty-seven years since the Miami Dolphins had the only undefeated season in NFL history, the team is heading toward an ignominious record. The Dolphins are 0-5 and on pace to score only 134 points, which would be the fewest by any team in a 16-game season in the 100-year history of the NFL. The 1992
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Representative Elijah E. Cummings, a son of sharecroppers who rose to become one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress and a key figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump, died on Thursday in Baltimore, his spokeswoman said. He was 68. His death resulted from “complications concerning longstanding health challenges,” the spokeswoman, Trudy Perkins,
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Trump impersonator Anthony Atamanuik, who portrayed the U.S. commander-in-chief on Comedy Central’s “The President Show,” voiced the “leaked” clip that he shared to Twitter on Wednesday. Atamanuik, in character as the president, mispronounced various words and called the Turkish capital of Ankara by the name “Anakin” in the comedy bit. Check out the audio here:
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Image copyright Getty Images The pound has soared after a Brexit deal was agreed between UK and EU negotiating teams. Sterling surged nearly 1% against the dollar, climbing above $1.29, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK and EU had agreed a “great new deal”. The pound also jumped against the euro, and was
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Nathan Chen would love little more than to become the first man to win four straight U.S. figure skating championships since Brian Boitano achieved the feat in the mid-1980s. But with nationals still three months away, and an entire Grand Prix season on the horizon, the 20-year-old phenom refuses to get distracted with more pressing
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WASHINGTON — You know a White House meeting has gone off the rails when the president of the United States and the speaker of the House cannot agree over the precise insult one called the other. According to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Trump called her a “third-grade” politician during a combative meeting with congressional leaders
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