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Hold onto your wigs and grab your dipping sauces – Arby’s just dropped the campiest National Fry Day promo we didn’t know we needed, and it stars none other than Rebecca Black, the internet’s original Friday queen and now a bona fide LGBTQ+ icon.
Threats of retribution from Donald Trump are hardly a novelty, but even by his standards, the US president’s warnings of wrathful vengeance in recent days have represented a dramatic escalation. In the past week, Trump has threatened deportation, loss of US citizenship or arrest against, respectively, the world’s richest person, the prospective future mayor of […]
In the early 1970s, South Africa repeatedly refused to issue a visa for him to travel to the country alongside other US players. The white-minority government there had legalised an extreme system of racial segregation, known as apartheid – or apartness – in 1948. The authorities said the decision to bar him was based on […]
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Nobody backs their way into a U.S. Open title. J.J. Spaun wasn’t about to be the first to say he did. On a day built for umbrellas, ponchos and industrial-sized squeegees, Spaun reversed his own free fall, took advantage of several others’ and hit two shots that turned him into a […]
King Charles says Canada would remain ‘strong and free’ in speech from the throne Charles, who is speaking during a symbolic visit to show support for Canada at a time it has faced US annexation threats, expresses his love for Canada and says the country would remain “strong and free” – a reference to the […]
Columbia University President Claire Shipman was booed during a graduation ceremony on Tuesday, with chants of “Free Mahmoud” heard drowning her out. Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate was detained by US immigration officials in March over his role in pro-Palestinian protests on campus. He is a permanent legal US resident and has not been […]
I remember the line. It ran diagonal to the grain of the library’s hardwood floor. It escapes me whether the line was black paint or black electrical tape back in the ’80s and ’90s, but it’s tape today—scuffed and trodden upon, as though it were just some line to be stepped on that didn’t matter […]
The Trump administration announced Monday it will offer immigrants in the U.S. illegally free airline tickets and a $1,000 incentive if they sign up for self-deportation and return to their home countries voluntarily. The Department of Homeland Security said it has helped some migrants obtain flight tickets, so they can return to their native countries […]
In December, Trump accused China of expanding its influence in the management of the Panama Canal and slammed officials for charging “exorbitant prices and rates of passage.” The
Donald Trump has demanded free transit for American commercial and military ships through the Panama and Suez canals, tasking his secretary of state with making progress “immediately”. Trump has for months been calling for the United States to take control of the Panama canal but his social media post also shifted focus on to the […]