48 h. ago SNL cold open skewers Trump’s obsession with winning prizes – and taking other people’s: ‘I love me!’

The opening sketch also featured impressions of Kristi Noem, Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, and Argentinian president Javier Milei

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64 h. ago They survived conquistadors and settlers. Now the Arhuaco are facing an even greater threat

Colombia’s Sierra Nevada has become a strategic prize for drug traffickers and paramilitaries, leaving its Indigenous people threatened with ‘physical and cultural extinction’Around a fire in a ceremonial hut in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the Arhuaco people make a pledge. Tying traditional cotton threads around their wrists, they promise to guard the land beneath them – and then they ask for protection.“Our culture has been preserved for thousands of years,” says Ati Quigua, an Indigenous leader. “We are a peaceful community, but now violence is coming to our land.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago BBC Question Time applaud as panellist skewers Donald Trump in scathing tirade

Emily Thornberry, the long-serving Labour MP, took aim at Donald Trump during Thursday's Question Time, which was recorded in Macclesfield, Cheshire, amid the Greenland row

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9 d. ago SNL’s Trump brings out ‘Cabinet of curiosities’ after Venezuela attack and ICE raids

SNL’s James Austin Johnson brings out ‘freaks, various monsters and nightmares from the twisted mind of Guillermo del Trump’

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2 w. ago Bolton ‘always worried’ Trump would take Teddy Roosevelt’s Nobel Peace Prize from White House

President has publicly obsessed with not winning the prize, awarded last year to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado

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2 w. ago National Lottery update on Wednesday's jackpot after Lotto winning numbers issued

A number of people have won large prizes

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3 w. ago People’s Postcode Lottery results: The winning streets for December 27 to January 2

A postcode in Leicester split a prize of £1M in this week's People's Postcode Lottery draws

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3 w. ago Graham Norton skewers Donald Trump in brutal swipe minutes into New Year's Eve show

The Graham Norton New Year’s Eve Show on BBC One, which featured actors Will Arnett and Owen Cooper as guests, looked back at the highlights - and low points - of 2025

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