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The temptation is strong to hope that the storm has passed. To believe that a week that began with a US threat to seize a European territory, whether by force or extortion, has ended with the promise of negotiation and therefore a return to normality. But that is a dangerous delusion. There can be no return to normality. The world we thought we knew has gone. The only question now is what takes its place – a question that will affect us all, that is full of danger and that, perhaps unexpectedly, also carries a whisper of hope.Forget that Donald…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! William Kelly, one of the anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agitators who disrupted a service at Cities Church in Saint Paul, Minn., on Sunday, has been arrested.”A THIRD subject has now been arrested connected to targeting Cities Church in Minneapolis Sunday. William Kelly is now in custody,” FBI Director Kash Patel declared in a Thursday post on X.Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem noted in a post, “William Kelly is being charged with conspiracy to deprive rights, a federal crime, for his involvement in the St. Paul church riots.” VIDEO SHOWS ANTI-ICE…

No 10 says Trump was ‘wrong to diminish role’ played by British troops in AfghanistanDowning Street has said that Donald Trump was “wrong” to downplay the role played by British troops in Afghanistan.Asked about the comments at this morning’s lobby briefing, the PM’s spokesperson said: The president was wrong to diminish the role of Nato troops, including British forces, in Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks on the US. Article 5 of the Nato treaty was invoked for the first time and British forces served alongside American and other allied troops in sustained combat operations. 457 British service personnel lost their…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former special counsel Jack Smith testified during a hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill, where he faced searing criticism from Republicans and praise from Democrats over his two prosecutions of President Donald Trump.The hearing gave Smith, a career prosecutor of nearly three decades, a rare chance to speak publicly about his work. He defended his indictments against Trump related to the 2020 election and classified documents as by-the-book and apolitical.”If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so, regardless of whether that president was…

One of the things that the depleted, often denigrated British state is still pretty good at is persuading the public that another country is a threat. As a small, warlike island next to a much larger land mass, Britain has had centuries of practice at cultivating its own sense of foreboding. Arguably, preparing for conflict with some part of the outside world is our natural mindset.Warnings about potential enemy countries are spread by our prime ministers and major political parties, intelligence services and civil servants, serving and retired military officers, defence and foreign affairs thinktanks, and journalists from the right…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Thursday said the United States should have considered testing NATO by forcing member countries to respond to America’s southern border crisis.Trump speculated in a post on Truth Social that the U.S. could have invoked Article 5 — the alliance’s collective defense clause that deems an attack on one member as an attack on all — thereby putting NATO “to the test.””Maybe we should have put NATO to the test: Invoked Article 5, and forced NATO to come here and protect our Southern Border from further Invasions of Illegal…

Nigel Farage is riding high in the polls. And the last few months his party has had a slew of political defections from the Conservatives – with more expected to follow. He’s also fresh from Davos, the meeting of the World Economic Forum that he once railed against as a jolly for the global elites.But where does all this leave Farage and Reform’s renegade image? Peter Walker is the Guardian’s senior political correspondent and says some Reform voters would like the defections to stop. “There is a worry if you get to the election and there’s loads of former Tories,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Newly sworn-in Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones drew swift online mockery Thursday after his office released a statement referring to him as “Attoney General,” an error that critics seized on as emblematic of his first major move in office.The error appeared in a graphic accompanying Jones’ announcement defending Virginia’s in-state tuition law for undocumented students.Former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, Jones’ predecessor, struck a lighter tone in a post that quickly gained traction online.”Go easy folks,” Miyares wrote on X with a screengrab of the faux-pas circled in red. “Perhaps someone on…

Members of parliament have called for the Serious Fraud Office to investigate the UK’s home insulation sector, after thousands of householders suffered ruined homes, big financial losses and months of disruption from the “clear and catastrophic failure” of two Conservative government schemes.More than 30,000 households were left with defects, some of them severe, including mould, water ingress and damage to the fabric of walls, with about 3,000 dwellings so badly damaged they presented immediate health and safety risks to occupants.Households that had external cladding installed – numbering about 23,000 – bore the worst of the damage, with 98% damaged and…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The White House is experiencing a baby boom. At least three women with close ties to the White House are pregnant, including second lady Usha Vance, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, who is married to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. The Vances announced Tuesday that they are expecting their fourth child in July. The couple share three children together: Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel. “Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July,” the Vances wrote in a statement…