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Trump Denies Knowing of Any Hush Money Paid to Porn Actress

ROTFLMAO In his first public remarks, President Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he knew nothing about $130,000 paid to the pornographic film star known as Stormy Daniels.

The west must not just abandon the Balkans to Russia’s embrace | Ivor Roberts

#TraitorTrump cares not a whit!

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The proposal to honour the late Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milošević with a statue in Belgrade reflects a wider power play

The commission for monuments and naming of streets and squares in Belgrade will soon rule on a proposal to erect a statue of Slobodan Milošević, Serbia’s late president, who led his country into and through the collapse of Yugoslavia and a series of calamitous wars in the 1990s.

This proposal, made by the youth wing of Milošević’s Socialist party (now back in government in Belgrade), tells us much about the state of politics in Serbia and the wider Balkans. To the west, Milošević – who died in 2006 while on trial for crimes against humanity at The Hague – was a war criminal; to many Serbs he was not only that but also the man who oversaw a collapse in living standards, the isolation of Serbia and the loss of swaths of territory that had once been majority Serb.

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Trump defends Mexican rapists claim during conspiracy-laden speech

When rats are cornered – they get even wilder and more dangerous to the rest of us.

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The president threw out his script at West Virginia event, speaking of voter ‘conspiracy theory’ and referencing his infamous 2015 remarks

Donald Trump veered wildly off-script at an event intended to tout the Republican tax bill on Thursday, making false claims about voter fraud and darkly warning of the menace of predominantly Hispanic gangs.

Trump, who spent much of the 2016 campaign alleging massive voter fraud, returned to the topic at the event in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

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Kimmel on Trump v Amazon: ‘He’s jealous because Jeff Bezos is actually a billionaire’

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Comics discussed Trump’s attacks on Amazon and his statement about the state of US-Russia relations

Late-night hosts on Tuesday discussed president Trump’s attacks on Amazon and its owner Jeff Bezos, as well as his comments regarding the administration’s relationship with the Kremlin.

Related: Kimmel on Melania Trump: ‘all she’s been working on is an escape tunnel’

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As a Jewish Corbyn supporter, this antisemitism row feels like gaslighting | Rachel Shabi

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We have faced varying degrees of hostility and manipulation. But let’s not pretend Corbyn’s Labour invented antisemitism

It is utterly bewildering that Labour MPs and journalists thought it was fine to distinguish bad Jews from good this week, as a way to discredit Jeremy Corbyn’s Passover meeting with the radical London-based group Jewdas. These voices said the Jewish community organisation, friendly to the Labour leader, was the wrong kind of Jew. Yet other Jewish groups – those critical of the Labour leader – had until then refused to meet with him unconditionally. It wasn’t him refusing to meet them.

Related: Corbyn agrees to meet Jewish leaders for antisemitism talks

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When Robert F. Kennedy Told an Indianapolis Crowd of King’s Assassination

I have to say – 50 years later – I never really got over the deaths of Martin and Bobby. I was living and going to college at American University in Washington, D.C. at the time. In an improvised speech 50 years ago, Kennedy broke the news of King’s death to a largely black crowd. Two months later, he too was killed.