73 m. ago Surprise Fire TV Stick code offers massive upgrade but you need to use it today

Fire TV Stick fans can currently get a better model at a cheaper price by using a very simple Argos code.

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80 m. ago Olivier Giroud making the most of dream MLS move as he reflects on devastating LA fires

Mirror Football were among a small group to meet popular striker Olivier Giroud at LAFC's state-of-the-art training facility before watching their opening-day win over Minnesota United in Los Angeles

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1 hour ago Lurid sex chats among NSA agents exposed as intel chief Tulsi Gabbard vows to punish workers posting about 'kinks, fetishes and polyamory'

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was irate and promised to root out National Security Administration agents alleged to have taken part in lurid sex chats on the job.

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2 h. ago Voices: Keir Starmer’s plan to send British troops to Ukraine divides opinion

Readers are split on the prime minister’s proposals for a European ‘reassurance force’, debating Britain's military readiness, war escalation risks, and the UK’s duty to counter Russia

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3 h. ago Grace Slick on sex, drugs and Jefferson Airplane: ‘I was sober in the 80s. That was a mistake’

She topped the charts, dropped the F-bomb on US TV, was ghosted by Jim Morrison and planned to spike Richard Nixon’s tea with LSD. Now 85, the legendary singer tells allRock’n’roll might not be advertised as being good for your health, but it’s worked out all right for Grace Slick. The former Jefferson Airplane singer is talking me through a life story that spans psychedelic drugs, free love, alcoholism, house fires and a high speed car crash. And yet, even at the age of 85, she sounds as perky, full of mischief and hilariously coarse as any interviewee I can remember.“Rock’n’roll people are spoiled brats,” she says at one point with a throaty cackle. “We don’t know anything about anything except having fun, how much money we can spend and who we can screw.” Continue reading...

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3 h. ago GOP congressman claims ‘God has a plan’ for fired federal workers at yet another hostile town hall

Missouri representative Mark Alford was the latest Republican to provoke shouts and heckles while attempting to defend Donald Trump and Elon Musk

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4 h. ago Suit battles controversial state law that’s part of a ‘nationwide crackdown’ on pipeline protests

Louisiana argues infrastructure law is about trespassing, not about free speech

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4 h. ago Trump administration briefing: chaos caused by Musk’s Doge; fears over far

From the latest in Musk’s fight to fire federal workers to concern over appointment of Dan Bongino – key US politics stories from Monday at a glanceConfusion continued on Monday over the demands made by Elon Musk of federal workers. Just hours after the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) had directed agencies that responses to its email were optional, Musk again threatened federal workers. He wrote on X, the platform he owns: “Subject to the discretion of the president, they will be given another chance. Failure to respond a second time will result in termination.” President Donald Trump backed Musk earlier Monday, two days after OPM initially sent an email asking federal workers to list five things they accomplished last week. Several government agencies, including the FBI and state department, have told their employees not to respond.Here are the biggest stories in US politics on Monday, 24 February. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Beatings, torture and electric shocks: freed scam compound workers allege horrific abuse

Lured by the promise of well-paying jobs in Southeast Asia, thousands instead allegedly end up enslaved in jail-like compounds and forced to carry out online scams“The Chinese would shock me with electric probes almost daily. I endured this continuously for nine months,” claims Seye, a 27-year-old woman who is one of hundreds of alleged trafficking victims who streamed across the Thai-Myanmar border this month.Seye was among 260 people, more than half of them Ethiopian, who were transferred across the border to Thailand this February by a rebel group. Several among the group agreed to be interviewed on the condition they use only their first name. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago US personnel office walks back email ultimatum from Musk to workers

OPM says failure to respond to email will not be considered resignation but Trump ally digs in and threatens job lossesThe US government’s human resources office has walked back an ultimatum issued by Elon Musk that would have forced its workers to resign if they did not submit a bullet-point list of their recent accomplishments, in one of the first signs of internal pushback to the Tesla billionaire’s campaign to downsize the federal workforce.The demand, made in an email sent to million of government employees over the weekend and quickly sued over by a coalition of labor and advocacy groups, represented the latest salvo by the “department of government efficiency” (Doge), the Trump-sanctioned cost-cutting initiative Musk chairs. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Jobsworth councils treat their residents with contempt. Here I share the stories from readers like you that will make your blood boil

First it was council staff bursting into tears and given a day off to compensate for the trauma of having to deal with the people who pay their wages.

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6 h. ago Prospect of UK troops being deployed to Ukraine a step closer

Military experts have suggested the British force could be as large as 15,000 personnel and would include RAF jets and a Royal Navy force in the Black Sea, as well as ground troops.

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6 h. ago Musk issues new ultimatum to federal workers after 'what did you do last week?' email sparked meltdown

Elon Musk plans to use a controversial method to judge federal workers' response to the DOGE chairman's 'what did you do last week?' email request to determine which employees to fire.

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7 h. ago Federal workers free to ignore Elon Musk email ultimatum, US personnel office says – as it happened

This blog is now closed. Here’s our latest politics storyHere’s a little more on Dan Bongino, the Maga podcaster Donald Trump has named as deputy director of the FBI and who will oversee the bureau alongside newly appointed director Kash Patel.The president announced the appointment on Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our country”. He called the announcement “great news for law enforcement and American justice”.Kash Patel should have been a redline. Bongino is what you get when R Senators fail to do their jobs and say no to Patel. The Trump Admin is turning federal law enforcement over to unqualified, unprincipled, partisan henchmen. It’s unacceptable and conservatives need to say so. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Hegseth says he fired the top military lawyers because they weren't well suited for the jobs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he doesn't think they are “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given

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8 h. ago Who’s really in charge of DOGE if not Elon Musk? Government lawyers ‘don’t know’

Judges are raising constitutional alarms about the role of the world’s wealthiest man

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8 h. ago Only 1% of UK workers off sick find jobs within 6 months, report says

Think-tank’s findings show need to change financial incentives to help ill and disabled people return to employment

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8 h. ago Trump and Macron 'both aim to dominate' in US talks before 'death grip' handshake

Trump and Macron greeted one another with a 'death grip handshake' as they appeared to clash during a meeting on the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine

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9 h. ago Video: Van full of fireworks explodes after vehicle set alight in Clydebank

A van containing fireworks was deliberately set on fire in the early hours of Sunday, 23 February, in Clydebank, Scotland, police said.

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9 h. ago Federal workers free to ignore Elon Musk email ultimatum, US personnel office says – live

OPM says federal workers not obliged to respond despite Musk’s that ignoring email would be considered resignationHere’s a little more on Dan Bongino, the Maga podcaster Donald Trump has named as deputy director of the FBI and who will oversee the bureau alongside newly appointed director Kash Patel.The president announced the appointment on Sunday night in a post on his Truth Social platform, praising Bongino as “a man of incredible love and passion for our country”. He called the announcement “great news for law enforcement and American justice”.Kash Patel should have been a redline. Bongino is what you get when R Senators fail to do their jobs and say no to Patel. The Trump Admin is turning federal law enforcement over to unqualified, unprincipled, partisan henchmen. It’s unacceptable and conservatives need to say so. Continue reading...

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