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Sky News host James Morrow has explained why he thinks JD Vance is a “great” pick to be Donald Trump’s running mate in the 2024 presidential election. “Let me throw my cards on the table. I think this was a great choice,” he said on Tuesday night. “Vance ... acts as an insurance policy – if you take down Trump, you’ll get the same, but worse, and in the body of someone who is right now only 39 years old. “That age, by the way, is fascinating too ... it shows the huge generational difference here.”

A World War Two veteran has finally received his medals, nearly 80 years late. Now 98 and living in Watchet, Somerset, George Lewis served with the Royal Tank Regiment from 1944 to 1947. But he never received his medals, with Mr Lewis suggesting they may have been lost in the post. Presented with the medals on Saturday afternoon, he said: "After all this time, to get those two medals, that was wonderful." The journey towards Saturday's ceremony began when neighbour Valerie Norman contacted her brother, who served in the same regiment as Mr Lewis. Her brother passed on the story...

For 50 years, Cyprus has been split in two by a military border, the constant reminder of a deadly conflict that has never been resolved. The island, visited by more than a million Brits each year, is famed for its crystal clear waters, pristine beaches and rich culture, but the tiny country in the Mediterranean has a bloody history which provokes strong emotion to this day. "We are lost souls," Greek Cypriot Mario Pischiris says. He was just a boy when war broke out in Cyprus on 20 July, 1974 - exactly 50 years ago. He was forced to flee...

Police in Bangladesh have been granted “shoot-on-sight” orders and a nationwide curfew has been imposed as student-led protests continue to roil the country, leaving more than 100 people dead. The curfew, imposed at midnight on Friday, was expected to last until Sunday morning as police tried to bring the swiftly deteriorating security situation under control, with military personnel patrolling the streets of the capital. The curfew was lifted briefly on Saturday afternoon to allow people to run essential errands, but otherwise people have been ordered to remain at home and all gatherings and demonstrations have been banned. The government has...

Former President Trump vowed to “bring peace” after he spoke on the phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine and I had a very good phone call earlier today. He congratulated me on a very successful Republican National Convention and becoming the Republican nominee for President of the United States,” Trump posted to his Truth Social site. Trump said Zelensky condemned the “heinous” assassination attempt against the former president last Saturday and remarked about the American people coming together in unity. “I appreciate President Zelenskyy for reaching out because I, as your next President of...

It’s not often a Republican member of the Senate Banking Committee attacks the home of the financial services industry. Sen. JD Vance did so Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention as he accepted his party’s nomination for vice president. “President Trump’s vision is so simple and yet so powerful,” Vance, R-Ohio, said to the GOP delegates and faithful at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. “We’re done, ladies and gentlemen, catering to Wall Street. We’ll commit to the working man.” Vance also placed part of the blame for the rising cost of housing on large financial institutions. “Wall Street barons...

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) released a statement Friday urging President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, joining a growing list of Democrats to make the call. Brown pointed to the the issues at the top of mind for his constituents in the Buckeye State, including job creation, giving law enforcement tools for the fentanyl crisis, protecting Social Security and Medicare and preventing efforts to restrict abortions. “There are the issues Ohioans care about and it is my job to keep fighting for them,” Brown said in a statement, shared on social media platform X. “At this critical time, our...

Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) compared Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to an “inflatable sex doll” following his speech at the Republican National Convention. On Wednesday evening, the Florida lawmaker became the center of attention and mockery due to his appearance at his convention speech. Some users on social media suggested that Gaetz had recently undergone Botox or other cosmetic procedures. Van Orden took the accusations to a new level by comparing his fellow Republican colleague to an “inflatable sex doll” via a post made on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday.

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is locked in a tight reelection bid, on Thursday became the second Senate Democrat to call for President Biden to withdraw from the presidential race. “Montanans have put their trust in me to do what is right, and it is a responsibility I take seriously. I have worked with President Biden when it has made Montana stronger, and I’ve never been afraid to stand up to him when he is wrong,” Tester said in a statement. “And while I appreciate his commitment to public service and our country, I believe President Biden should not seek...

JD Vance formally accepted the Republican vice-presidential nomination on Wednesday with a deliberate, and at times divisive, pitch to re-elect Donald Trump in November. Addressing delegates in Milwaukee on the third night of the convention, Vance, the junior senator of Ohio, presented the Republican party as a champion of working-class Americans while denouncing Democrats as out of touch and ineffective. The populist-tinged rhetoric offered the latest sign of how Trump has reshaped the Republican party and rejected much of the traditional conservatism of its past. “From Iraq to Afghanistan, from the financial crisis to the Great Recession, from open borders...

A police car has been flipped on to its side as unrest and disorder broke out in Leeds. Crowds of hundreds of people have gathered in the Harehills area, with police saying they are dealing with an "ongoing situation" that appears to have seen at least one fire lit and riot police later on the scene. Councillor Salma Arif asked people to stay at home amid what officers described as "pockets of disorder". Livestream footage on social media appeared to show vehicles on fire, including a bus.

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As more information emerges about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania this past Saturday, the idea that a 20-year-old gunman, operating alone, evaded security and was able to fire off multiple shots at the former President before being taken out by snipers appears more and more suspicious. The gunman also had no social media presence and had not previously demonstrated any strong political leanings.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) needled his rival, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), on Tuesday while the two were on the floor of the Republican National Convention, tauntingly asking McCarthy when he was slated to speak. “What night are you speaking? Are you speaking tonight?” Gaetz mockingly asked McCarthy. “If you took that stage, you would get booed off of it,” he told McCarthy. “You would get booed off the stage.” Gaetz defended his previous comments in a brief interview with The Hill, saying he was counterpunching. “He was saying something very untrue and nasty about me to CNN. So, this...

@JDVance1 Just overwhelmed with gratitude. What an honor it is to run alongside President Donald J. Trump. He delivered peace and prosperity once, and with your help, he'll do it again. Onward to victory!

The Welsh Labour government is set to scrap its blanket 20mph speed limits just a year after they were introduced. Ken Skates, the Welsh transport minister, admitted 'errors have been made' with the scheme, which is set to be reverted in September this year with the introduction of new guidance across the country. This will allow local authorities to raise the speed limit to be back to 30mph on certain roads 'outside urban centres and rural residential roads with no nearby facilities'. They will also be increased on major routes, such as bus corridors, with minimal cyclist and pedestrian traffic...

COLUMBIA, Ky. (WBKO) - Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) was watching Donald Trump’s speech at the Pennsylvania rally on television with his wife Saturday, when the shots were fired at the former president, shocking the nation. “As this unfolded, we were horrified by it. We still are,” Paul said. “Violence, of course, has no place in our in our country.” After addressing the crowd at an appearance in Columbia on Monday, Paul spoke with the media about the attempted assassination, echoing the comments of many government officials, urging political leaders to “calm down the rhetoric.” “I’m sure there’s rhetoric on the...

@elonmusk This is the final straw. Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas. RE: @libsoftiktok Gavin Newsom signed AB1955 today which bans schools from making rules requiring parental notification if a child identifies as transgender. ... @elonmusk I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children

The deputy prime minister has dismissed comments by Donald Trump's running mate for US vice president that UK under Labour might be the first "truly Islamist" country with nuclear weapons. JD Vance, the Ohio senator chosen as Mr Trump's vice presidential candidate on Monday night, made the comments while at the National Conservatism conference in Washington DC last week. The 39-year-old said he was "beating up" on the UK, and had discussed with a friend “what is the first truly Islamist country to get a nuclear weapon", then joked "maybe it's Iran, maybe Pakistan kind of counts, and then we...

Freepers, I can't tell you how huge this is. Trump made the RIGHT CHOICE as far as I'm concerned and all common sense and for CONSERVATISM. Vance is NOT a Neocon. He's a foreign policy realist and shares the same views as Trump. The likes of Bill Kristol and the perpetual War Machine will not have slept well last night. It's superb. I'm sure Sen. Rand Paul although snubbed and skeptical of Trump 2.0 will be delighted that his friend from Ohio has got this. Please get behind J.D Vance not just as a potential VP but a future star...