RFK grandson to become U.S. diplomat
President Biden will appoint former Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy III – a grandson of former senator and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy — to be the next U.S. special envoy to…
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Sharon Stone and Paul Verhoeven remember the infamous ‘Basic Instinct’ interrogation room scene differently. Here’s why.
Sharon Stone in one of the most famous scenes from Basic Instinct (Photo: @TriStar/courtesy Everett Collection)There's nothing basic about Basic Instinct. When it premiered in theaters 30 years ago, on…
US, allies accuse Russia of using UN Security Council to ‘launder’ disinformation on Ukraine
March 18, 2022, 12:00 PMThe United States and its allies on Friday accused Russia of using the U.N. Security Council to attempt to "launder" disinformation and conspiracy theories as Moscow’s…
McCarthy denounces Madison Cawthorn labelling Zelensky a ‘thug’ but still tells people to vote for him
House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has denounced North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorn for calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug”.A reporter noted the epithet to Mr McCarthy during a…
America Has a Free Speech Problem
At the same time, all Americans should be deeply concerned about an avalanche of legislation passed by Republican-controlled legislatures around the country that gags discussion of certain topics and clearly…
‘Lupin’ Set Robbery Suspects Arrested in Paris, Including a 13-Year-Old
French police have arrested suspects in the bold Feb. 25 daylight robbery on the Paris set of Netflix jewel-thief series “Lupin,” according to local news reports.French radio outlet RTL reports…
National Book Critics Circle Names 2021 Award Winners
Anthony Veasna So’s short-story collection “Afterparties,” which centers on the lives of Cambodian Americans in California, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best debut book on Thursday.By turns…
UN food agency official alarmed by Afghan food, fuel prices
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An official with the U.N. food agency warned Friday that with Russia’s war in Ukraine taking an increasing toll on the global economy, the ripples of…
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What we know so far about Biden’s nearly 2-hour call with Xi Jinping
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke for nearly two hours on Friday to discuss Russia's unprompted invasoin of Ukraine, CNBC…
What we know so far about Biden’s nearly two-hour call with Xi Jinping
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke for nearly two hours on Friday to discuss Russia's unprompted invasoin of Ukraine, CNBC…
UN: 6.5 million people displaced inside Ukraine
Nearly 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine since Russia's invasion, the UN migration agency wrote in a paper out Friday.Driving the news: "The group agreed that the figures…
Marie Yovanovitch says Trump’s Helsinki press conference with Putin was so ‘disastrous’ that she couldn’t finish eating her french fries
Associated PressTrump's former Ukraine ambassador writes that she lost her appetite while watching his 2018 presser with Putin.It was "a spectacle that left observers pondering the depths to which Trump…
Friday evening news briefing: Vladimir Putin cut off mid-speech
Your evening briefing from The TelegraphThe big story: Russian TV cuts off Putin during rallyIf there is one form of media Vladimir Putin can rely upon to toe his line,…
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