Our number one priority is protecting our people, says Starmer, overlaid with the sound of electric guitars played by Dire Straits. Starmer refused to join the US and Israeli strikes on Iran but has since authorised defensive action.
The clip, posted to X on Friday morning opens with a familiar scene from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, when main character Carl CJ Johnson saying, Ah sh*t, here we go again, moments after he's tossed out of a police car. The video then cuts to drone footage of a truck being blown up as the word WASTED flashes on the screen.
The 42-second video posted on the official X account of the White House on Thursday was met with almost universal mockery online, with comments accusing the Trump administration of immaturity, and likening its social media strategy to one run by teenagers.
War is ugly, smells bad, and if anybody's ever been there, and been able to smell the war that's happened around you and taste it and feel it in your nostrils and hear it, it's something that you'll never forget, and it's ugly. And fortunately, you have, President Hegseth - or I say, 'President Hegseth' - Secretary [of Defense Pete] Hegseth that is - got a great relationship with President Trump.
It won't be the billionaire kids of Donald Trump and his buddies that die, the Connecticut Democrat said. It's going to be the children of middle class and poor families all across this country who are going to die for a war of choice, a war of vanity, an illegal war.
Conservative broadcaster Erick Erickson said Bondi should "be fired or resign" after she responded to an Epstein-related question by touting the president's economic numbers. Erickson added that Republicans' handling of the situation will lead Democrats to have a "good election year." Podcaster Tim Pool said that he gives Bondi "more credit than people do," but that he couldn't say she's done a decent job.
Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show has drawn criticism from the country's top Republican: Donald Trump said it was "one of the worst, EVER!" in a post on Truth Social. Strong words from the president - but this isn't the first time a musician has drawn ire from right-wing politicians and conservatives. Stars like Lady Gaga, Cardi B, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Bruce Springsteen have riled up conservatives, often over progressive themes or sexual lyrics in their music.
Hess was asked in a press conference on Wednesday what it was like to represent the US in the Olympics given the current situation in the country, which has included ICE raids in Minnesota and a number of geopolitical crises. Hess said representing the US at the 2026 Winter Olympics brought up mixed emotions and that it was a little hard.
The contact maintained by Princess Mette-Marit of Norway with the American financier Jeffrey Epstein even after his 2008 conviction for sex trafficking has not only made headlines in the national and international media, but has also triggered an unprecedented reaction in the Scandinavian country: direct criticism from Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stre, who chided the wife of Crown Prince Haakon and future queen consort for her poor judgment.
Sinn Féin is standing over comments by its finance spokesman, Pearse Doherty, linking the withdrawal of cost-of-living payments to Ireland's support for Ukraine, which have drawn sharp criticism.
"It is not the critic who counts," President Theodore Roosevelt once said. "The credit belongs to the man who is in the arena." The Heritage Foundation has been in the arena for many years, fighting many battles, so it's no surprise that it has attracted many critics as well. And while Heritage cannot claim perfection, this much is certain: We have stayed true to our mission despite the critics;
Screenshot/White House Dr. Mehmet Oz was loudly condemned for referring to robot ultrasounds as pretty cool on Friday, with many Democrats highlighting a lack of doctors that forced the use of machines in healthcare. Oz, who runs the nation's Medicare and Medicaid programs, joined the visibly bored President Donald Trump and other healthcare advisers for a roundtable discussion about health care in rural America.
On Monday, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez got everyone excited about a new countrywide travel pass which will cost 60 per month and can be used anywhere' in the country and on all types' of means of transport. People under 26 will pay 30. But it hasn't taken long for the first cracks to appear. For starters, there's the fact that, as things stand, it can only be used on commuter trains, mid-distance trains and state buses.
She's [Crockett] got about as much chance of being the next senator from Texas as I do to have being the next senator from California, remarked Thiessen after being prompted by Perino. Her candidacy would be exactly everything that's wrong with the modern Democratic Party today. It's what I would call the first iteration of the Mamdani fallacy, which is that the lesson of the last off-year elections was We gotta go out and find some more energetic leftists to energize our base and run just like Mamdani did.'
Taxes are going up not because of Brexit, Ukraine, Trump, poor productivity or the tooth fairy running away with the magic money tree at the end of the Downing Street gardens. They are increasing because of conscious Labour policy choices to abandon welfare reform, eschew any cuts in public spending and tax working people more to raise welfare benefits - the express demands of Labour backbenchers on a Prime Minister and Chancellor too weak to resist them.
Housing Minister James Browne has been accused of 'fleeing the country' and 'running scared' instead of defending the Government's new plan to tackle the spiralling crisis.
So considering that Minnesota and Canada, their trade relations are so important, what happens when Trump wakes up and doesn't like a commercial that's on Canadian TV, like that happened last week? Oh, I don't like the way you quoted Ronald Reagan. I'm going to impose another 10% , another 10 percent tariff.. Aren't there real life consequences for people in Minnesota who deal with trade in Canada because he whimsically wakes up and gets angry like a child at something?
On CNN's The Arena With Kasie Hunt, conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg took the first at-bat reacting to the report. Goldberg called it weird politics and submitted that it shows you what a different time we're in that this is even being considered, especially given the ongoing government shutdown and other corruption allegations against Trump. Then the Times Lulu Garcia-Navarro noted that the cash Trump was seeking was taxpayer money that would be going into the president's pocketbook.
The Department of Homeland Security entered into a contract to purchase two US-made Gulfstream G700s for $172 million on Friday, The New York Times reported. Thetaxpayer-fundedplanes will be used by Noem, as well as other high-ranking DHS personnel, said a release put out by the Coast Guard, which is part of DHS. They're replacing decades-old planes that "experienced 30 days of unplanned maintenance, with six missions requiring unplanned cancellation," the release said.
And I'm not saying that to be nasty, but like he's a weird guy and some of the stuff that he does, just the way that he's always glazing himself and repeats himself. He's not right in the head. He continued: And I don't know if that's his psychology or if it's just his age, but there's something not right there and anyone who's been around him will tell you that.
Laura when I first heard that these things were no king' protests I thought this was a RuPaul [Charles] thing, said Arroyo. You know, no kings only queens. But apparently this is anti-Trump protest. That's really what this is.
The Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan celebrated his birthday on board a 268million superyacht in the heart of London, according to reports. Sir Sadiq is understood to have marked his 55th birthday with a private celebration on the huge vessel anchored near London Bridge and was hosted by billionaire Fulham FC owner Shahid Khan. The mayor's appearance on one of the extravagant superyachts has been criticised by his rivals in City Hall, with one insider suggesting to the Express that it was inappropriate.
Turning Point USA announced Thursday that it would be staging its own counterprogramming in protest of the league's choice. It'll be called "The All American Halftime Show" - and it most certainly won't be in Spanish. Ever since the NFL announced that Bad Bunny (whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio) would play the Big Game on Feb. 8 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, critics have been decrying the decision.
