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Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletterStay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter The Pentagon has slammed Fox News host Jesse Watters after he said Taylor Swift could be a “psy-op” for the US government.During Tuesday’s Jesse Watters Primetime, the Fox News host played a video that he falsely claimed showed a Department of Defense official suggesting Taylor Swift was a Pentagon psy-op for combating misinformation.“I like her music,” Mr Watters began the segment by saying. “She’s all right, but I mean,…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Chief executive Darren Eales has admitted even Newcastle could not resist a “£1billion” bid for one of their biggest names after reporting a loss of £73.4million.The Magpies, who are 80 per cent owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, are considered one of the world’s richest football clubs, but like all their Premier League counterparts they have to operate within profit and sustainability rules.Sporting director Dan Ashworth has insisted in the past that spending £200m a year…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailHours ahead of closing arguments in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York, a bomb threat was made at the home of the judge overseeing the case, according to New York courts and law enforcement officials.Early Thursday morning, a “swatting” investigation was underway at the home of Judge Arthur Engoron, the Nassau County Police Department told The Independent.“At this time it has been deemed unfounded, the investigation is ongoing,” a spokesperson for the police department said.Mr Engoron…

Guardiola welcomes return of ‘unique’ Kevin De Bruyne: ‘These guys win games’The January transfer window can be a strange beast on occasions, slow to start but frenzied at the end of the month as teams try to fix flaws or add depth in a compressed timeframe – and often with clubs who don’t want to deal. That can result in inflated fees or extremely late deals being done, but the rumours themselves start early and simply keep going.This month, Arsenal and Chelsea are expected to be two of the teams trying to bring in at least one player each, with…

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inboxGet our free View from Westminster emailRishi Sunak is facing calls to suspend new public contracts with Fujitsu, after it emerged that the IT giant has won billions in deals with the government despite knowing about its involvement in the Horizon scandal.Postal minister Kevin Hollinrake said the government believes it has a “solution” to overturn the wrongful convictions of Post Office staff – promising an “imminent” announcement.It comes as the spotlight turns on the company at the centre of the scandal, after Fujitsu’s faulty accounting software…

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailAs the Republican Party continues the hunt for its 2024 presidential nominee, it increasingly looks like only Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis stand even an outside chance of ousting Donald Trump.The former president remains the clear front-runner in nearly all polls, despite the myriad legal problems he faces, any one of which could yet derail his hopes of mounting a return to the White House.As it stands, he has been crossed off the primary ballot papers in Colorado…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter The sports minister Stuart Andrew has condemned “dangerous” comments made by Joey Barton about female football commentators and pundits and says he will take the issue up with social media platforms.Barton has posted a number of abusive comments online in recent weeks, and the former Manchester City midfielder described ITV pundits Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward as “the Fred and Rose West of football commentary” on X, formerly Twitter, following the channel’s coverage of Crystal Palace’s FA…

Jeffrey Epstein victim Sarah Ransome has doubled down on allegations that the convicted paedophile made sex tapes of Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, and Richard Branson.Ms Ransome alleged in the newly released files that Epstein would film her “friend” having sex with each of the men.After making the claims in 2016, she then later retracted them.In 2019 Ms Ransome publicly admitted that she had invented the story and through her own admission confirmed that her original claims were baseless.In an interview with Good Morning Britain on Tuesday (9 January), Ms Ransome claimed she was forced to take back the allegations after…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Roy Keane has said that he’d be “fuming” with Rasmus Hojlund if he was a Manchester United teammate of the striker after another frustrating night for the Danish forward.Hojlund passed up a number of good opportunities in the 2-0 FA Cup win at Wigan, clipping the crossbar with a diving header.While the 20-year-old has shown glimpses of the talent that convinced Manchester United to spend upwards of £60 million in signing him from Atalanta, he has struggled…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USA man has been named as a suspect in three murders that took place in the late 1980s, two of which were connected to the infamous Colonial Parkway Murders.Police have identified a deceased fisherman as the suspect, over thirty years since the victims were murdered.Alan W. Wilmer has been linked to the 1987 deaths of David Knobling and Robin Edwards in Isle of Wight County and the 1989 killing of Teresa Lynn Howell in Hampton.Investigators were…