2 h. ago US Vice President Vance to join his wife on Friday trip to Greenland

U.S. Vice President JD Vance says he’s joining his wife on a Friday trip to Greenland, suggesting in an online video that global security is at stake

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9 h. ago JD Vance's wife Usha leads 'very aggressive' Greenland trip as she claims visit is about dogs

Usha Vance, the wife of Republican frontrunner JD Vance, is set to visit Greenland in a move that has been described as 'very aggressive' by the territory's outgoing prime minister

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28 h. ago USA baseball star suffering from horrifying illness with body 'eating itself'

Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts says he has lost 18 pounds after falling ill during the team's recent trip to Japan for MLB's Tokyo Series, claiming his body has been 'eating itself'

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33 h. ago Greenland responds with fury as questionable US visit 'is no longer harmless'

Greenland has accused the Trump administration of being 'highly aggressive' by sending a delegation of senior officials to the territory this week ahead of Usha Vance's trip

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37 h. ago Trump sends Usha Vance and top security official to Greenland as PM slams ‘highly aggressive’ moves: Live

Tensions remain over president’s repeated threats to annex Danish territory

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47 h. ago Greenland slams ‘highly aggressive’ visits by Usha Vance and Mike Waltz after Trump’s takeover threats: Live

Tensions between Greenland and the U.S. are high following President Donald Trump's repeated threats to annex the Danish territory

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5 d. ago Trump is trying to crush the arts – and he’s starting with the Kennedy Center | Charlotte Higgins

Artists might cancel shows, donors withdraw and audiences flee. It all plays into the hands of his authoritarian projectIn Washington, Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center – the US’s imposing national centre for the performing arts – presents a bizarre, unnerving and, at times, bleakly comical spectacle. Last month, he announced himself its new chair, replaced 13 board members, and inserted a new interim president, foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell. On Monday this week, the president’s motorcade disgorged him at the building – which contains an opera house, theatre, concert hall and a plethora of smaller venues off its towering, chandelier-hung foyers. By this point, his and Melania Trump’s portraits, alongside those of vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha, had been screwed to the wall beside the concert hall stage door.Trump and his new trustees – who include Usha Vance and Fox presenter Laura Ingraham – then discussed changes to the Kennedy Center Honors, founde...

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5 d. ago Trump’s weird obsession with the arts is part of the authoritarian playbook | Charlotte Higgins

His focus on the Kennedy Center fits a pattern. From Augustus to Stalin, strongmen have sought cultural control for their own endsIn Washington, Donald Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center – the US’s imposing national centre for the performing arts – presents a bizarre, unnerving and, at times, bleakly comical spectacle. Last month, he announced himself its new chair, replaced 13 board members, and inserted a new interim president, foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell. On Monday this week, the president’s motorcade disgorged him at the building – which contains an opera house, theatre, concert hall and a plethora of smaller venues off its towering, chandelier-hung foyers. By this point, his and Melania Trump’s portraits, alongside those of vice-president JD Vance and his wife Usha, had been screwed to the wall beside the concert hall stage door.Trump and his new trustees – who include Usha Vance and Fox presenter Laura Ingraham – then discussed changes to the Kennedy Center Hono...

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8 d. ago Usha Vance: US second lady and wife of JD Vance making a name for herself

New Kennedy Center board member booed alongside husband at classical music concert

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1 week ago Senator Kelly ditches his Tesla after Musk called him a ‘traitor’ for Ukraine visit and because DOGE head is wrecking nation

The car is ‘designed by an a**hole’ who’s ‘dismantling our government and hurting people,’ the senator said in a videotaped statement

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1 week ago ‘Ruined this place’: chorus of boos against JD Vance at Washington concert

Attendance of vice-president – who once disbelieved that people listened to classical music for pleasure – strikes sour note at Kennedy Center in light of Maga takeoverJD Vance, the US vice-president, was booed by the audience as he took his seat at a National Symphony Orchestra concert at Washington’s Kennedy Center on Thursday evening.As the normal pre-concert announcements got under way, the vice-presidential party filed into the box tier. Booing and jeering erupted in the hall, drowning out the announcements, as Vance and his wife, Usha, took their seats. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Brit fisherman almost has arm ripped off after being bitten by whopping 300lb shark

Curtis Miller was left needing 19 stitches and three arteries tying up after being attacked by a huge shark, but has claimed he'd happily go on the 'trip of a lifetime' again

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2 w. ago 'I visited UK's most expensive farm shop – price at checkout left me floored'

A shopper has taken to social media to document her trip to what she claims is the 'most expensive farm shop in the UK' – and her £40 budget didn't get her very far

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3 w. ago Anger as Commons Speaker bills taxpayers more than £500 to take 'an extra suitcase' on one of his lavish jaunts

A list of Sir Lindsay Hoyle's expenses reveals he lodged the claim of £504 during a nine-day trip to South Africa and St Helena, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic.

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4 w. ago Queen Camilla changes dog's fate with latest move during London visit

Queen Camilla changes dog's fate with latest move during London visit  Geo News

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4 w. ago Lanarkshire MSP hails work of Dogs Trust following charity’s visit to Holyrood

The charity held a drop-in event in Parliament to raise awareness of dog welfare issues in Scotland and to chat with MSPs who are a crucial piece of the puzzle that can help build a better future for dogs.

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