6 h. ago Cotswolds villagers' anger at US Vice President JD Vance for taking EVERY disabled parking spot at grocery store with huge Secret Service entourage

JD Vance sparked outrage when his huge security convoy took up all of the disabled parking spaces at a posh Cotswolds farm shop.

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25 h. ago Golf for them, grind for us: Trump, Vance and the hellish US holiday divide | Arwa Mahdawi

While American workers battle burnout and ‘infinite workdays’, the men at the top are living the endless vacation dreamYou know what the problem is with the US? Nobody wants to work any more. People feel entitled to cushy jobs with fat salaries and unlimited holiday time. And by “people” I mean American politicians, who seem to treat public office as an excuse for endless vacations. Because the president and vice-president are technically always on duty, there’s no official holiday policy – and it rather feels as if they are taking advantage of this.Take the vice-president, JD “OOO (out of office)” Vance. When he’s not inspiring memes or threatening to deport menswear influencers, he always seems to be off on a jolly. So far this year, the man has been skiing in Vermont, shut down bits of Disneyland for his family’s use and apparently raised the water level of a river in Ohio for a kayaking trip. Now, the Vances are summering in the Cotswolds. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago JD Vance's Cotswolds invasion: Jeremy Clarkson and Kaleb Cooper join the grumbling as countryside crawls with Secret Service and protesters flock to target US Vice President

The Vice President's visit to the Cotswolds has already attracted some criticism with locals complaining about disruption and left-leaning protesters flocking to the area.

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27 h. ago JD Vance's Cotswolds invasion: Jeremy Clarkson and Kaleb Cooper join the grumbling as countryside crawls with Secret Service and protesters flock to target US Vice President

The Vice President's visit to the Cotswolds has already attracted some criticism with locals complaining about disruption and left-leaning protesters flocking to the area.

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29 h. ago JD Vance's not welcome party: Cotswolds protest as countryside swarms with secret service agents

Members of the Stop Trump Coalition have vowed to make a racket to show their opposition to the US Vice President's 'politics of hate'.

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31 h. ago ‘Zombie grannies’ acting as ‘human bombers’ for Ukraine says Putin's secret service

Russia's FSB counterintelligence service has accused a group of elderly women of being 'human bombs', after the pensioners were allegedly lured by Ukraine's secret services

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44 h. ago JD Vance UK summer holiday puts Cotswolds on lockdown 'like Men in Black scene'

Fuming locals have likened the scene to the 'Men in Black', describing guards in black suits and sunglasses, and a number of police and US Secret Service agents on standby as JD Vance holidays in the Cotswolds

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49 h. ago JD Vance's Beast of the Cotswolds: Countryside in lockdown as US Vice President arrives in tiny hamlet with Secret Service convoy amid huge security operation

Police have closed off all roads and paths leading to the hamlet of Dean, where the US Vice President is staying with his family at Dean Manor, an 18th-century country house.

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4 d. ago The Masked Singer UK's Harriet Rose admits feeling like 'MI6 agent' over secrecy

EXCLUSIVE: Harriet Rose has revealed the one condition she had when signing up for The Masked Singer UK, and revealed that she often feels like a member of the secret service backstage

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5 d. ago JD Vance arrives in UK as security swarm stately home as Vice President goes fishing

JD 'Dunce', as your Daily Star famously dubbed Donald Trump's deputy, will descend on a small Cotswold village with his small army of secret service agents — and some locals aren't happy about it

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5 d. ago Secret Service request to raise river level made ‘without knowledge’ of JD Vance, his office says

Decision to alter Ohio river flow ‘made solely by agents’, the security agency said in a statementA spokesperson for JD Vance said he and his staff were unaware that the Secret Service decided earlier this month to ask military engineers to raise the water level of the Little Miami River ahead of a family boating trip, which took place on his birthday.“The Secret Service often employs protective measures without the knowledge of the vice-president or his staff, as was the case last weekend,” the spokesperson said.Do you have a tip related to this story? You can contact the Guardian via Signal on +1 646 886 8761 Continue reading...

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5 d. ago JD Vance blames Secret Service over raising of Ohio river level to accommodate VP’s birthday kayaking trip

JD Vance’s office claimed the vice president was ‘unaware’ that the water levels had been raised to accommodate his trip

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5 d. ago Ohio river's level raised to accommodate Vice President JD Vance's birthday kayaking trip

Vice President JD Vance’s security detail had an Ohio river’s water level raised last week to accommodate a kayaking trip he took with his family for his 41st birthday

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6 d. ago JD Vance’s team ordered the water levels in Ohio to be raised so he would have ‘ideal kayaking conditions’, report claims

Vice President JD Vance was on a family vacation in south-western Ohio last week and spotted by locals canoeing down the Little Miami River on his birthday

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6 d. ago JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip

Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake in Ohio to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, the Guardian has learned.The request from the US Secret Service was made to “support safe navigation” of the US vice-president’s security detail for an August outing on the Little Miami River, according to a statement by the US army corps of engineers (USACE). Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Panic at White House as Secret Service rushes reporters inside and lockdown ordered

The Secret Service put the White House 's front lawn on a brief lockdown after a security incident near the front gate.

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4 w. ago Secret Service put White House front lawn on lockdown after security incident

The Secret Service put the White House 's front lawn on a brief lockdown after a security incident near the front gate.

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4 w. ago Who is Dan Bongino? FBI deputy at center of Maga fallout over Epstein files

Bongino appears to be on course to be the Trump administration’s first casualty of the Epstein files falloutThe future of the deputy FBI director, Dan Bongino, is unclear after he stormed out of a meeting with Pam Bondi, the attorney general, and told friends he was considering quitting over the controversy surrounding Jeffrey Epstein.Bongino, a former New York police officer and Secret Service agent who helped protect George W Bush and Barack Obama, appears on course to be the Trump administration’s first casualty of the Epstein fallout, which is threatening to split the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement Continue reading...

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last month Trump confirms new weapons deal for Ukraine and threatens ‘severe’ tariffs on Russia if war doesn’t end in 50 days – Europe live

President says US will make weapons, including Patriots, but Europe will fund them for Ukraine during meeting with Nato chief, Mark RutteUkrainian intelligence agents killed members of a Russian secret service cell wanted on suspicion of having shot dead a colonel last week, the SBU said.The SBU intelligence agency said in a statement that the operation had sought the arrest of the agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), who it believes were behind the killing of Col Ivan Voronych – also a member of the SBU security service – in Kyiv on Thursday. Continue reading...

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last month Trump confirms deal for ‘greatest military equipment’ for Ukraine and threatens ‘severe’ tariffs on Russia if war doesn’t end – Europe live

President says US will make weapons but Europe will fund them for Ukraine during meeting with Nato chief, Mark RutteUkrainian intelligence agents killed members of a Russian secret service cell wanted on suspicion of having shot dead a colonel last week, the SBU said.The SBU intelligence agency said in a statement that the operation had sought the arrest of the agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), who it believes were behind the killing of Col Ivan Voronych – also a member of the SBU security service – in Kyiv on Thursday. Continue reading...

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