8 h. ago Newsom roasts Stephen Miller over ‘homeland defender’ call: ‘Slay queen’

California governor’s office mocked the Trump administration with a meme ending in ‘slay queen’

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15 h. ago Fire still burning at California Chevron refinery following explosion

No injuries reported in El Segundo, site of company’s second-biggest US refinery, which supplies jet fuel for LA airportA fire that broke out at Chevron’s El Segundo refinery that supplies jet fuel for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) was still burning on Friday morning after an explosion at the plant.The press office of Gavin Newsom, the California governor, had confirmed that the fire erupted on Thursday night on the outskirts of the city, with a county official adding that the flames had been confined to one area. Continue reading...

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66 h. ago Stephen Miller rages about being called a ‘fascist’ despite regularly using the term to describe his enemies

Miller accuses Democrats of using extreme language to ‘put a target’ on political opponents

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3 d. ago Hundreds of feet of coastal bluff in California fell toward the ocean in landslide

A wealthy enclave in Southern California that has been threatened for years by worsening landslides faced more land movement this week, but it suffered minimal damage

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3 d. ago ‘Bad Bunny dressed in drag’: Gavin Newsom trolls MAGA over uproar to Super Bowl halftime show with JD Vance throwback

The Puerto Rican singer and actor was announced as the halftime headliner, which has upset MAGA in part because the artist has previously dressed in drag

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3 d. ago Was the beheading of this Tudor Queen the first death orchestrated by the Secret Service?

Kate Williams reveals how the Secret Service as we know it today, a murky world of 'codes, secret letters and infiltration', was born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

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4 d. ago Truck driver accused of being in the US illegally pleads not guilty in Florida crash that killed 3

A commercial truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people on a Florida highway last month has waived his first appearance hearing and entered a not guilty plea

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4 d. ago ‘His buildings were always ready for their closeup’: how Terry Farrell’s postmodern exuberance conquered the world

From the ziggurats of the MI6 HQ to TV-am’s eggcups and a Hong Kong tower that featured on a banknote, Farrell strived to make uplifting architecture• ‘Nonconformist’ architect of MI6 building dies – news• Spies, eggcups and penthouses: Farrell’s best buildings – galleryTerry Farrell made his mark on London. All his buildings had a certain postmodernist swagger, but one of his most conspicuous (ironically, in view of its function) was the headquarters of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6, on the site of the former Vauxhall pleasure gardens.Completed in 1994, MI6 showed Farrell, who has died aged 87, in his postmodern pomp, energetically juggling historicist motifs to conjure a flamboyant, flesh-coloured fortress, replete with ziggurats and crenellations, dominating its Thames-side locale. Deyan Sudjic described MI6 as “an epitaph for the architecture of the 80s”, and its styling that which “could be interpreted equally plausibly as a Mayan temple or a piece o...

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5 d. ago MI5 spy recruitment drive looks for people with one key talent

The MI5 secret service is on a recruitment drive to find people who can foil emerging terrorist attacks and keep Britain safe from serious threats of attack

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6 d. ago Newsom’s newest troll of Trump looks back at ‘escalatorgate’ and difficulties saying acetaminophen

The clip was set to the the 90s hit ‘Macarena’

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7 d. ago What to know about the stricter rules coming to noncitizen truck drivers after fatal Florida crash

It is now significantly harder for non-U.S. citizens to obtain a commercial driver’s license under new rules the Transportation Department has imposed

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7 d. ago Trump's Secret Service place snipers in Ryder Cup crowd as bulletproof glass disregarded

The Orange Manbaby cheered on Team USA as they once again went head-to-head against old golfing rivals Europe. Donald Trump stepped out from bulletproof glass to hype up the crowd

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7 d. ago Climate change scepticism is rising. Will Starmer hold firm or buckle?

Attacks from Donald Trump and Reform UK – plus a cost of living crisis – have created a politically tricky conundrumWhat are the critical environmental decisions piling up in Labour’s inbox?This week, the world’s most powerful man claimed that climate change is a “con job”. Speaking at the UN general assembly, Donald Trump told global leaders – including Keir Starmer – that “all of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong”.“They were made by stupid people that have cost their countries fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success,” the US president said. “If you don’t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Gavin Newsom trolls the return of Trump vodka with his own red wine: ‘Coming soon’

California Governor Gavin Newsom has been adopting President Trump’s posting style to mock him for weeks

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9 d. ago Secret Service probes escalator sabotage of Trump even as UN blames snafu on cameraman

The Secret Service is looking into whether the escalator Donald Trump rode at the United Nations was sabotaged, after the UN said his videographer likely tripped a safety switch.

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9 d. ago UN tries to blame TRUMP’S own team for stopping escalator as he & Melania boarded – sparking fury & Secret Service probe

TRUMP's escalator drama at the UN could have been caused by one of his own team, officials have said. The US President and First Lady Melania Trump were left stopped at the bottom of the moving starcase yesterday at the UN building in New York. It came before Trump delivered a scorched earth speech where...

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9 d. ago Secret Service probing if UN escalator was intentionally turned off as Trumps got on, Leavitt says

Trump and the first lady suffered an embarrassing moment when the escalator came to an abrupt stop as the couple stepped on ahead of the president’s address to the UN

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9 d. ago Gavin Newsom launches brutal attack on ‘son of a b****’ Trump and admits his fears about the 2028 election in Colbert appearance

California govenor rails against president’s ‘absurdity’ while also sounding the alarm over his ‘authoritarian actions’ in his state and beyond

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9 d. ago Secret Service in sabotage probe over Donald Trump UN escalator mishap

Donald Trump framed the embarrassing escalator failure as a metaphor for what he views as the incompetence of the United Nations but the Secret Service are now involved

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1 week ago US Secret Service 'dismantles potential threat to world leaders' ahead of UN assembly

More than 300 SIM servers were found in New York

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