3 d. ago Amber Ruffin says she feels ‘less welcome’ under Trump after being dropped from White House Correspondents’ Dinner

The comedian was disinvited from the White House event last month

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3 d. ago Lutnick says someone asked him for 10 Trump immigration cards: ‘That’s $50m for dinner. So it’s paying for my dinner’

Commerce secretary says sales of gold cards make him ‘very popular’

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5 d. ago What UK legend did with her knickers in surprise moment when PM walked in

Dubbed the First Lady of Musical Theatre, Elaine Paige is celebrating 60 years in showbiz - and has collected many stories of her encounters with the world's most famous people

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6 d. ago Journalists defend press freedom at muted White House correspondents’ dinner

Event took place with no Trump, no comedian and notably fewer politicians or Hollywood stars than in past yearsJournalists rallied in defence of press freedom on Saturday, insisting they “are not the enemy of the people” at a Washington media gala snubbed by Donald Trump.The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner was a muted affair with no US president, no comedian and notably fewer politicians or Hollywood stars than in past years. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago UK weather: Met Office heatwave verdict as exact time of temperature peak revealed

Brits are in store for above average temperatures next week, which will bring summerlike heat to major cities across the country - Met Office weather forecasting maps reveal the day and time these temperatures will peak

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8 d. ago ‘Everyone’s scared’: little appetite for mirth before White House correspondents’ dinner

Annual event likely to prove gloomy affair amid Trump attacks on press and rise of Maga media ecosystemIt is no laughing matter. The annual dinner for journalists who cover the White House is best known for American presidents trying to be funny and comedians trying to be political. But this year’s edition will feature neither.Instead the event in a downtown Washington hotel on Saturday night will, critics say, resemble something closer to a wake for legacy media still trying to find an effective response to Donald Trump’s divide-and-rule tactics and the rise of the Maga media ecosystem. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trump bailing on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner means Washington can have some fun

Analysis: The entire reason for this insufferable ritual of official Washington has nothing to do with whether the president sits down for a meal with the press, writes Andrew Feinberg

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9 d. ago Bill Maher calls Larry David’s mockery of his Trump dinner ‘insulting to six million dead Jews’

‘I don’t need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is,’ US host said after ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ star compared president to Hitler

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9 d. ago Bill Maher brands Larry David ‘insulting’ for mocking his Trump dinner with Hitler comparison

‘I don’t need to be lectured on who Donald Trump is,’ US host said

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9 d. ago Danny Dyer in tears in emotional moment from The Assembly as group give surprise performance

The Assembly saw Danny Dyer sit down with a group of inquisitive interviewers who are autistic, neurodivergent and/or learning disabled as they asked him about his life

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9 d. ago Bill Maher calls Larry David’s satire of his Trump dinner ‘kind of insulting to 6 million dead Jews’

‘Nobody has been harder about Donald Trump than me,’ Maher says after fellow comedian compared his meal with US president to meeting HitlerBill Maher has responded to Larry David’s satirical essay in the New York Times that compared Maher’s glowing account of having dinner with Donald Trump to dining with Adolf Hitler.Maher, a vocal critic of Trump in the past, had dinner with the US president and a group of his high-profile supporters, including their mutual friend Kid Rock, on 31 March. On an episode of his talkshow Real Time on 11 April, Maher described Trump as “gracious” and “much more self-aware than he lets on”, saying: “Everything I’ve ever not liked about him was – I swear to God – absent, at least on this night with this guy.” Continue reading...

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9 d. ago The Conners producers reveal John Goodman’s surprising series finale moment was his idea

The spin-off series was greenlit in 2018, a month after a planned revival of ‘Roseanne’ was canceled

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9 d. ago Trump’s tanking meme coin gets massive boost when dinner with the president is offered as a reward

$Trump coin shot up by 60 percent after the dinner was announced, but remains well below its peak

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9 d. ago John Beaton verdict on Hearts red card delivered as KMI Panel reveal view on 2 key Celtic VAR calls

Referee came under fire from Hearts after Michael Steinwender and Cammy Devlin saw red in defeat to Aberdeen

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1 week ago Trump’s meme coin surges in price after he invites investors to dinner

The $Trump coin shot up by 60 per cent but remains well below peak

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1 week ago Donald Trump’s meme coin value surges after gala dinner invites

Invitations for top 220 holders of $TRUMP coin to private reception with US president fuels 50% price riseThe value of Donald Trump’s meme coin jumped by more than 50% on Wednesday after its official website said the coin’s top 220 holders would be invited to a private gala dinner with the president on 22 May.The top 25 holders of the coin will also get “an ultra-exclusive VIP reception with the president”, as well as a “special tour”, the website said. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Who wept for these people?’ Francis’s papacy was defined by compassion for refugees

From personally promising to relocate vulnerable asylum seekers to speaking out against ‘cruel’ policies, the late pope was a voice for the marginalisedOn a glorious spring day almost a decade ago, an Airbus A320 took off from Mytilene airport on the Greek island of Lesbos. For what seemed like an age, a small group of bystanders, including officials and the media, watched in disbelief until the plane veered left over the sun-speckled Aegean Sea and its Alitalia livery could no longer be discerned. On board was Pope Francis, who had spent barely five hours on Lesbos, then at the centre of the refugee crisis on Europe’s eastern fringes.The whirlwind tour had been replete with symbolism but it was the pontiff’s fellow travellers who had caused such surprise. Moments after the head of the Roman Catholic Church had entered the aircraft, 12 refugees had also appeared, cheerfully making their way across the runway with expressions of stunned relief, their first taste of freedom after inca...

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1 week ago Gary Neville gives Man Utd brutally honest Matheus Cunha verdict as 'desperate' problem revealed

All the latest Manchester United news ahead of a busy summer transfer window for Ruben Amorim

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1 week ago Voices: Mischievous, kind, extraordinarily empathetic: The Pope I knew supported me even at my lowest hour

Writing exclusively for The Independent, former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby recalls his meetings with Pope Francis – and reveals how he received a surprise call moments after he was forced to resign in November

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1 week ago ‘I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came’: Larry David spoofs Bill Maher’s fawning White House visit with Trump

Essay describes a surprise invitation in 1939 to a previously vocal critic for dinner with the Nazi leader, where ‘suddenly he seemed so human’Larry David has written a long spoof essay in the New York Times in response to Bill Maher’s recent glowing account of his dinner with President Trump in the White House.The essay, entitled My Dinner With Adolf, purports to be written by someone who was “a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship”. But he agrees to dine with the Führer because he “concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side”. Continue reading...

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