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Analysis
Analysis
Trump’s optimism meets Macron’s caution in carefully choreographed dance side-stepping divisions

While hosting the French president at the White House, Donald Trump insisted Russia is going “all-out” to end the war in Ukraine, while Emmanuel Macron said there is “good reason” to re-engage with Vladimir Putin.
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Pic: Reuters

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Clint Hill, Secret Service agent who leapt onto John F Kennedy’s limo after assassination, dies aged 93

On 22 November 1963, Clint Hill leapt from a Secret Service car to the US president’s limo after John F Kennedy was shot.
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Clint Hill jumped onto the back of JFK’s limousine after the president was shot in 1963. File pic: AP

Boris Johnson hits out at Donald Trump’s ‘ghastly’ comments to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

“It’s ghastly to hear, some of the language that’s been coming from Washington about who started the war and [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy being a dictator,” former British PM Boris Johnson said.

US joins Russia, North Korea and Belarus to vote against UN resolution on Ukraine war

Two motions were passed by the UN today as the world marks the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion – with the US voting against one and abstaining on another.
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The US voted against Ukraine’s resolution. Pic: AP

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Dorothy Shea said the war has ‘dragged on too long’. Pic: Reuters

Podcast
Podcast
Day 36: Is Trump 2.0 like a scene from Jurassic Park?

Explainer
Explainer
Dan Bongino: The right-wing podcaster who is Trump’s pick for deputy FBI director

The Secret Service agent turned right-wing political pundit has been a leading voice for Trump’s narratives for years. He will now help lead the bureau, breaking a longstanding tradition of having someone with direct FBI experience acting as its deputy director.
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Mr Bongino pictured while running for Senate in 2012. Pic: AP

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Mr Bongino at a hearing on proposed changes to police practices and accountability on Capitol Hill in 2020. Pic: AP

At least three dead after boat capsizes off New York coast

Two others were injured, one critically, after the vessel sank in the Ambrose Channel around noon on Sunday.

Diverted American Airlines flight escorted by Italian fighter jets after ‘bomb threat’

Flight 292 landed at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport “due to a possible security issue”. The airline later said the threat “was determined to be non-credible”.
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The view from the cockpit of the fighter jet. Pic: Italian air force/Reuters

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Pic: Italian air force/Reuters

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The flight on the ground in Rome. Pic: AP

‘Everybody is looking at their phones,’ says man freed after 30 years in prison

A steak dinner and visiting his mother’s gravesite in Hawaii were among the first things Gordon Cordeiro did when he was released from prison due to new DNA evidence.

Elon Musk says US federal employees must justify their work or resign

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have received an email with the following instruction: “Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.”