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Is a $910 Fleece Actually Worth It?

This month Jonah Weiner made a purchase that was a cry for help. Or at least a new financial adviser. He spent $910 on a fleece pullover. “My wallet wept,” Mr. Weiner said. But, as Mr. Weiner, 43, the co-writer of the ur-cool guy fashion newsletter Blackbird Spyplane, pleaded, this was no prosaic Polartec. It […]

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Kamala Harris to appeal to Latino voters at Las Vegas town hall

Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris will be making her pitch to Latino voters at a Las Vegas town hall on Thursday night. The town hall, hosted and broadcast by the Spanish-language network Univision, comes as Democrats have been losing ground with Latino voters, once a reliably blue voting block. While Harris continues […]

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Israel Targets Peacekeepers in Lebanon, U.N. Says

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Israel’s strategy in Lebanon, the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, and the death of an Indian business icon. Israel Fires on U.N. Peacekeepers Israeli forces fired on several positions used by United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Wednesday and Thursday. According to the Lebanese mission, known […]

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NATO aims to publish its own commercial space strategy next year

NATO is devising a commercial space strategy as allied militaries realize just how much they might need industry’s satellites in wartime.  It will resemble the Pentagon’s six-month-old commercial space strategy, said Maj. Gen. Devin Pepper, deputy chief of staff for strategic plans and policy at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation.  The U.S. strategy aimed to define […]

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Solar Storm Buffets Earth and Is Likely to Generate Light Show

An eruption of particles from the sun collided with Earth on Thursday morning. The Space Weather Prediction Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reported that the solar particles, which were ejected on Tuesday evening, arrived at 11:15 a.m. Eastern time, traveling at nearly 1.5 million miles per hour. The center warned that […]

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Biden Again Criticizes Trump Over Hurricane Misinformation: ‘Get a Life, Man’

President Biden warned on Thursday that Florida was in for “a long haul” after Hurricane Milton, and for a second day in a row he singled out former President Donald J. Trump for spreading misinformation, telling him to “get a life, man.” Speaking from the White House, Mr. Biden also issued a direct appeal to […]

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Tim Johnson, Senator Who Came Back From an Aneurysm, Dies at 77

Tim Johnson, a Democratic senator from South Dakota who suffered a brain aneurysm in 2006, throwing his party’s narrow majority into question for months, then not only returned to work but also won a third term, died on Tuesday in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was 77. A spokesman for his family said the cause of […]

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Another 65 women come forward with allegations of abuse by Mohamed Al Fayed stretching back nearly 50 years

A FURTHER 65 women have come forward with allegations of abuse by Mohamed Al Fayed stretching back nearly 50 years.

They contacted the BBC with new details of rape and sexual assault.

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Mohamed Al Fayed , who died last year, is accused of multiple sexual assaults after a BBC probe was published last month[/caption]
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Fayed was the former Harrods and Fulham FC owner[/caption]

One woman said she was assaulted by Fayed in Dubai in 1977 — the earliest allegation so far.

Fayed, the former Harrods and Fulham FC owner who died last year aged 94, is accused of multiple sexual assaults after a BBC probe was published last month.

The corporation said 37 of the latest women had worked at the London department store.

Barristers representing alleged victims said last week that the group has more than 70 clients.

The Metropolitan Police has also said it was investigating a number of new allegations made against Mr Al Fayed, in addition to prior reports.

The force said it would carry out “full reviews of all existing allegations” of incidents said to have taken place between 1979 and 2013 to ensure there are “no new lines of inquiry based on new information which has emerged”.

The Met said it was contacting lawyers representing alleged victims to “ensure they have the opportunity to speak with us and report any offences”.

A Harrods statement said: “So far there are 200-plus individuals in the Harrods process to settle claims directly with the business.”

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Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch must now convince Tories, not left-wing voters, they have what it takes

A proper Tory

OUR hearts go out to all those non-Tory voters apparently aghast that the Tories appear to have picked two actual Conservatives to lead them.

Hand-wringing pundits and staunch Labour or Lib Dem supporters have queued up to denounce the party’s alleged lurch into “far-right extremism” in the form of leadership wannabes Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick.

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Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick must now convince Tories, not left-wing onlookers, they have what it takes
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None ever vote Tory. It just discomforts them to think of Conservatives run by someone who believes in conservatism over, say, the Tony Blair fan worship the party has too often indulged.

They pretend the Tories cannot get elected away from the “sensible centre” where they like to see this party they don’t vote for.

They pretend most people share their concerns.

Except Margaret Thatcher was no soggy centrist, nor “far right”.

She won three elections easily via her reforming zeal, her courage to cut taxes and curb union power, her strength, competence and unswerving principles.

With respect to the five leaders the party has had since 2010, lost Tory voters don’t want more of the same.

They can be won back by Conservative values informing new Conservative policies.

By a strong leader with the energy to carry those forward in Government against a truculent civil service, lawfare campaigners and Left-wing social media.

A leader who, until then, can hold Keir Starmer’s feet firmly to the fire.

Jenrick and Badenoch must now convince Tories, not left-wing onlookers, they have what it takes.

Born identity

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Woke hospital bosses have banned staff from saying babies are born male or female[/caption]

BABIES are born male or female. It really is that simple.

To claim they are merely “assigned” a gender at birth is not progress. Just absurd, bewildering Orwellian new-speak of which the public is heartily sick.

No NHS trust should plead poverty then splurge on a guide to trendy LGBT terms, flags and banned “non-inclusive” words including, incredibly, “gay”.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting need look no further in his quest to refocus precious NHS funds on frontline care.

Hospitals indulging puerile wokery are crying out for their budgets to be slashed.

Fuel flaw

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Motorists are facing a double whammy as petrol price falls grind to a halt while Chancellor Rachel Reeves eyes a fuel duty rise[/caption]

WE understand Rachel Reeves’ problem.

Her Treasury officials are warning that many of her tax-raising plans may ­produce little . . . or even cost money.

Hiking fuel duty, which The Sun’s Keep It Down campaign has kept frozen for 14 years, will be just as self-harming.

Pump prices appear to have bottomed out around 133.7p a litre. No one will welcome a Chancellor opportunistically raising that by 5p or more in the Budget.

Fuel duty is a tax on working people. It feeds inflation and crushes growth.

We hope officials point that out too.

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