82 minutes ago QUENTIN LETTS: Sending migrants to St Helena is 'nothing like' Rwanda, wailed the Lefties. True

QUENTIN LETTS: Tories pointed out that the plan was remarkably similar to the one they had to send migrants to Rwanda. This accusation of hypocrisy was pooh-poohed by Labour MPs.

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2 hours ago Sean Penn, 64, has something dangling from his lips when with girlfriend Valeria Nicov, 30, in Paris

The actor, 64, was spotted walking around the City of Love with the 30-year-old model on his arm and what appeared to be a toothpick in his mouth.

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2 hours ago Harris and Cheney talk economy, women’s health and Trump in Michigan campaign event – US elections live

VP and former Republican congresswoman meet voters in swing state; Trump holds rally in North CarolinaDon’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsWe reported earlier that Kamala Harris has a huge advantage in campaign cash over Donald Trump. But the former president has his own deep-pocketed backer in the former of Tesla boss Elon Musk, who held a strange town hall in swing state Pennsylvania this weekend where he started handing out mammoth checks to voters to get them to back Trump. The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland witnessed the spectacle in person:Standing before a large US flag, which spanned the breadth of a vast stage, the world’s richest man told an assembled crowd that he loved them.Today, my Administration is taking a major step to ...

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2 hours ago 'Delivering NHS fit for 21st century is prize only Labour government can win for Britain'

Britain's National Health Service is the closest thing we have in this country to a true national religion, and Labour's plans to restore it to greatness with ambitious plans benefits us all

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2 hours ago Joel Dommett's wife Hannah reveals how mum had to learn to walk again after stroke

Joel Dommett's wife Hannah Cooper has candidly shared how her mother had to learn how to walk again after suffering a stroke - and says she is her "biggest inspiration"

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4 hours ago The New York Liberty show investment in women’s sports is simply good business

Five years after playing before crowds of 2,000 fans in White Plains, the Liberty completed a stunning turnaround with a first WNBA title. And the future looks brighter than everFrom the earliest days of the Women’s National Basketball Association, it seemed like winning a championship was only a matter of time for the New York Liberty. A glamour franchise by default, they first reached the doorstep of a title during the league’s inaugural season back in 1997, falling to the Houston Comets in a championship game that was wiped from the headlines within hours by the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. That was the first of five times New York tripped at the final hurdle, including last season’s crushing defeat to the Las Vegas Aces on their home floor. As the years became decades, much li...

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4 hours ago Oleksandr Zinchenko: ‘We need to stick together to bring peace in Ukraine, we cannot give up’

Full-back opens up on the difficulty of following the war back home from overseas and positive lessons at Arsenal and Manchester City“To become a professional football player from the place where I was born and raised was almost impossible. It was super, super tough,” Oleksandr Zinchenko says as his eyes widen and we consider how far he has come from his small home town of Radomyshl in northern Ukraine. “We didn’t have many facilities and we trained only twice a week, for one game, and this is not the way to become a professional. It was a pure joy to play and train with my local team but I was always wanting more. My mother said she saw the fire in my eyes to make it.”We sit in a light and airy room on a beautiful autumn afternoon in Hampstead. In Ukraine, as a deva...

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5 hours ago Football fans report Twitter troll to the police after he labelled female supporter a 'fridge freezer' in cruel weight jibe

The incident occurred after X, formerly known as Twitter, user @abbey1878 shared a picture of herself and two other friends attending Everton 's trip to Ipswich Town on Saturday.

Sport

5 hours ago Can Democrats still win in rural states? Montana’s Senate race offers litmus test

Jon Tester is fighting to keep his Senate seat amid the prospect that Democrats like him are now facing political extinction in the stateHe was a young and little-known underdog. So Max Baucus, candidate for Congress, decided to trek 630 miles across Montana and listen to people talk about their problems. “As luck would have it, on the first day, I walked into a blizzard,” he recalls, pointing to a photo of his young self caked in snow. “It was cold! But the blizzard didn’t last that long.”Baucus shed 12lbs during that two and a half month journey in 1974. He also made friends. The Democrat defeated a Republican incumbent and would soon go on to serve as a Montana senator for 36 years. He never lost an election but saw his beloved home state undergo many changes. Among them is the prosp...

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5 hours ago Can Democrats still win in rural states? Montana’s Senate race offers high

Jon Tester is fighting to keep his Senate seat amid the prospect that Democrats like him are now facing political extinction in the stateHe was a young and little-known underdog. So Max Baucus, candidate for Congress, decided to trek 630 miles across Montana and listen to people talk about their problems. “As luck would have it, on the first day, I walked into a blizzard,” he recalls, pointing to a photo of his young self caked in snow. “It was cold! But the blizzard didn’t last that long.”Baucus shed 12lbs during that two and a half month journey in 1974. He also made friends. The Democrat defeated a Republican incumbent and would soon go on to serve as a Montana senator for 36 years. He never lost an election but saw his beloved home state undergo many changes. Among them is the prosp...

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