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US president Joe Biden and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have joined those paying tribute to the once-in-a-generation talent of Tina Turner.Biden hailed the singer's remarkable personal strength in addition to having changed American music forever.Multiple Grammy-award winner Turner, famous for hits including The Best and Proud Mary, died peacefully on Wednesday at the age of 83.

Broadsides to the global economy have myriad causes, not all within the control of governments.But when global economic pain is caused not by a devastating worldwide pandemic but by political pettiness and irresponsible governance, it's infuriating.Last week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that America is poised to default on its $31.4 trillion debt by June 1.

President Joe Biden is expected to name Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chief of the Air Force, as his choice for the next top US general, according to a source familiar with the matter.If approved by the Senate, it would mark the first time in United States history that the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs are both African American, a notable milestone for an administration that has prided itself on the diversity of its leadership.

The Democratic Unionist party is unlikely to make a decision on whether to support Rishi Sunak's deal with the EU to revise the Northern Ireland protocol until April.The party has just launched a consultation process with an eight-person panel including former party leaders, Lady Arlene Foster and Peter Robinson.

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough declared that President Joe Biden has the best legislative record of any president since Bill Clinton.On Monday's Morning Joe, Washington Post senior national political correspondent Ashley Parker, also a network contributor, touted legislative wins that have been on Democratic wish lists, in some cases for decades; climate change, prescription drug, bipartisan gun legislation, semiconductor bill, helping veterans with burn pits, the Covid relief bill.

Vladimir Putin told Bill Clinton three years before his 2014 attack on Ukraine that he was not bound by the Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing the country's territorial integrity, according to the former US president.The revelation raises questions about whether the US and its European allies should have been more prepared for the 2014 attack, when Russia annexed Crimea and attacked the Donbas.

More than two-thirds of people in Northern Ireland believe big changes are required to the power-sharing institutions created by the Good Friday agreement, research commissioned by a parliamentary committee has found.The same proportion of the population, 70%, think the peace accord of 1998 has failed to deliver stable governance with the Stormont assembly not sitting for nine of the 25 years that have elapsed since the Belfast agreement was struck.

The solitary denizens of Macondo appear to have proved too much for a famously insane knight errant, according to research that shows Gabriel Garcia Marquez has overtaken Miguel de Cervantes to become the most translated Spanish-language writer of the century so far.However, the genius who gave the world Don Quixote and with him the first modern novel and a byword for impractical idealism can take comfort in the fact that he remains the most translated writer in Spanish over the past eight decades.

Getty Images / Realtor.comThe Hot Springs, AR, house where Bill Clinton grew up is available for a modest $345,000.The listing marks the property's first time on the public market.But the 3,708-square-foot home, known as the Birnbaum-Shubetz House, needs an update.This six-bedroom abode is listed on the National Register of Historic Places-a designation that could afford certain tax credits.

Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images Sometimes you have to marvel at the cosmic absurdity of it all.The Giants had the unique chance to add a franchise-changing player this winter, and came up short ... twice.Though the Aaron Judge and Carlos Correa situations were completely different, they both hurt.

Shackles from the film Cool Hand Luke; a script from the 1963 comedy A New Kind of Love; the wedding dress that Joanne Woodward wore the day she married Paul Newman in 1958.These artifacts, along with some 300 others, tell the story of a union between two of Hollywood's most enduring film stars that lasted more than a half century.

Former US president Donald Trump has said he is cutting his trip to Ireland short so he can return to confront his accuser in a New York civil rape case, which he described as a political attack.Mr Trump said he would probably attend the hearing as he spoke to reporters while golfing at his resort outside the village of Doonbeg, Co Clare.

A lot of people believe I make political predictions, but that's not really true.Instead, I try to marshal history, data, polling, reporting and more to help make sense of the political landscape.It usually amounts to one of those old, yellowish, distorted maps from the age of exploration.It offers only a rough guide of what lies ahead.

The 250m design for King Charles' superyacht that was scrapped last year has been unveiled.Plans for the 125-metre Royal Yacht Britannia were previously confidential but have now been published by London-based firm Vitruvius Yachts.The superyacht was initially set to sail by 2025, but in October last year it was reported chancellor Jeremy Hunt was planning on scrapping the plans as part of a package of spending cuts.

Government officials anticipated a period of turbulence following the election of Bill Clinton as US president in 1992 because of views he had expressed about Northern Ireland.In the letter to an Irish-American group, written just weeks before he won the presidential vote, Mr Clinton had called on the UK Government to establish more effective safeguards against the wanton use of lethal force.

Tony Blair was desperate to establish good relations with US president George Bush, according to newly released official documents.The former prime minister was famously close to Mr Bush's predecessor, Bill Clinton, and there was concern in Number 10 that would not go down well with the new Republican neo-con administration in Washington.

Dionne Warwick refuses to stay put.At 82, the five-time Grammy-winning artist is making stops in Hawaii and Vancouver on her One Last Time tour  she won't say whether it's truly her last  tweeting (or twoting, as she calls it) to her more than half a million followers, and making appearances on S.N.L. and on movie soundtracks like Jordan Peele's Nope.

Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac died yesterday, aged 79.RIP.The British singer-songwriter had been a member of the band since 1970.She left in 1998 then rejoined again in 2014.McVie was behind some of the band's biggest hits, including "Little Lies", "Everywhere", "Don't Stop", "Say You Love Me" and "Songbird". Her family issued a statement saying she had died in hospital following a short illness.

But the issue with DiCaprio is not love with an age gap.The longer this all goes on, the less his situation looks even vaguely love-related.It looks like a pattern of swiftly replacing one model for the next once they hit a specific age milestone.Not all of them even make it that far - Blake Lively was 23 when the couple split (he was 36), Erin Heatherton was 22 (he was 37), Toni Garrn was 21 (he was 39).

"I could see how much access the Clintons were giving to Harvey," an "appalled" Miramax staffer recalled.Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein in 2000 Getty Images Long before Andrea Riseborough's controversial campaign for To Leslie, there were the regularly questionable campaign dealings of one Harvey Weinstein.