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Former New Jersey governor and 2024 candidate Chris Christie (R) visited war-torn Ukraine where he gave President Volodymyr Zelensky handwritten lyrics to the Bon Jovi hit “It’s My Life.” Speaking to CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Christie said that the classic song served as an inspiration for Ukranians as they faced Russian invasion. “[The song] served as an inspiration for a lot of the citizens in Odessa, as they were preparing for the invasion by the Russians,” Christie said. “[Bon Jovi] wrote it out in his own hand, got it framed, and I brought it to President Zelensky...

Former US president Barack Obama on Friday warned against rising nationalism as he painted a grim picture of American and global politics on a visit to Denmark. “I’m concerned enough about the international and American trends that I thought it was important to offer my views,” he told entrepreneurs and students in the Danish central city of Kolding. “When you start seeing our politics driven completely free of facts, when you start seeing a debate that is driven solely on racial or nationalistic impulses, when you start seeing a rejection of science and expertise and logic in politics... we are...