Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will not run for re-election, the longtime Senator announced Thursday.

On Wednesday, our lame-duck PM quacked out the news that “Canada is getting high-speed rail”: this is of course duckspeak for “the usual engineering firms are being handed billions of dollars to devise a plan for high-speed rail in a 1,000-kilometre strip of Ontario and Quebec.” In the new spirit of national unity, I suppose I am not allowed to object to the idea on behalf of any of the other eight provinces. But, like a troll in a riddle, I have questions three before this railroad you will see. And the first is the Inevitable Mike Moffatt Question, already asked by the economist and tribune of southwestern Ontario: Read More

Portis Jr, who won the NBA championship with the Bucks in 2021, tested positive for banned substance Tramadol

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Dozens of inspectors general were let go in a brutal Friday night purge carried out by the Trump administration in January

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Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy party took an initial step toward dissolving on Thursday

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‘Again, I don’t understand the Democrats. Who do you think the American people will side with on this issue?’ Fox & Friends host Lawrence Jones declared on Thursday.

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North West performed at The Hollywood Bowl in May

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Patel’s confirmation vote is scheduled for Thursday

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President Zelensky has said that Russia could send up to 3,000 more North Korean troops to the Kursk region

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Watch as UK defence secretary John Healey held a press conference on Thursday (20 February) following Donald Trump’s false claims labelling Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator”.

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The timing of Clinton’s emergence comes as the Lionesses have been dealt with the blow of losing Georgia Stanway for ‘several months’

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Hamas made Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi speak about seeing his wife and daughters while the group knew they were dead, Mr Sharabi's brother-in-law has said.

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Understanding this simple concept can save tens of thousands down the line

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The push comes as egg prices remain sky high around the nation, leaving consumers in the lurch

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Officials say that Russia and Belarus will hold a joint military exercise in September, part of efforts by the two neighbors and allies to expand military ties amid the fighting in Ukraine

Previous plans had put the figure at £3 billion – but it may now be much more

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A Toronto fraudster who was born into a prominent Ontario medical family has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison for a lofty diamond investment scam that stripped hundreds of victims of more than $21 million. Read More

Hamilton drove Ferrari’s 2025 F1 car for the first time and fans went to desperate measures for a better view

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Raducanu was visibly shaken while the man was removed from the court during her second-round match against Karolina Muchova

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The dragons also try out some American-inspired BBQ sauces and seasonings

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This sensational true-life tale from director Walter Salles depicts the abduction of a congressman in military-occupied Brazil in 1970 – and fully deserves its three Oscar nods

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One of the most intriguing voices in horror has adapted a short story by Stephen King – about a mechanical toy that incites doom – that just about gets by on its own eccentricity

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A 15-year-old boy is facing first-degree murder charges in the shooting deaths of four people on a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan. Read More

Martin was initially selected among the replacements but has been ruled out by injury.

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Broccoli family dynasty has struck deal with Amazon MGM studios amid concerns over the franchise’s future

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Chandler will face the brash Liverpudlian at UFC 314 in April, in a five-round co-main event

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The 24-year-old missed England’s last two T20s against India and the three-match ODI series owing to a left calf injury.

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UK defence secretary John Healey compared Volodymyr to Winston Churchill after Donald Trump claimed that the Ukrainian leader was a “dictator”.

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Donald Trump hit out a federal workers working from home for “golfing”, despite spending nearly a third of his presidency playing golf.

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Watch live as speakers JD Vance, Steve Bannon, and Nigel Farage address the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference at the National Harbor in Maryland on Thursday, 20 February.

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One mortgage broker said market movements ‘look to be enough to put some of the very lowest rates in peril’.

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Hamas has returned the bodies of four hostages, including the two youngest captives seized in its 7 October 2023 attack on Israel.

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New York is suing several large electronic cigarette distributors for allegedly selling vaping flavors that can appeal to children

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Snowy roads led to hundreds of crashes throughout Virginia and North Carolina, including a series of crashes on an interstate highway involving more than 50 vehicles

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Hydrogen as well as battery-pack fuelled trucks were the big plan for Nikola but they got only 400 onto the road last year. Karl Matchett details the wrong turns taken

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The current limit is £20,000 across all ISA types per person

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Liz Truss – who has blamed her own downfall on ‘the establishment’ – said the ‘deep state’ is making decisions in Britain

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Starting April 1st, alterations to Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) will impact thousands of electric car owners

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‘Sex’ is defined under the new guidance as an ‘immutable biological classification as either male or female’

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