- The Telegraph
Lucy Bronze key to turning table on Lionesses’ long-time nemesis France
Having avoided France for the first three years of her reign as England head coach, Sarina Wiegman will now meet them twice in the space of five days – and will be hoping to avoid the misery they have inflicted on so many of her predecessors.
- The Telegraph
Starmer’s own party will be his real opposition, and he’s purging it now
When Keir Starmer first became Labour Party leader, he and his team were fascinated by the emergence of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her “squad” of Left-wingers in US Congress. How did this group of four newly-elected Democrats, all women under-50 with no power or experience, acquire such potency and profile? Why did their agenda seem to attract so much attention that they were able to go up against (and defeat) their own party leadership? And who might present a similar threat to Labour?
- Associated Press Finance
Reading the 'tea leaves': TV networks vamp for time during the wait for the Donald Trump verdict
Jury deliberation meant tense, ultimately boring hours of waiting for lawyers, journalists and others at the Manhattan courtroom where former President Donald Trump's hush money trial is being held. Since the case began in mid-April, Fox News Channel’s daytime viewers are up 15% over last year at the same time, MSNBC is up 17% and CNN up 19%, according to the Nielsen company. “They could come out with a verdict between now and however long it takes them,” Newsmax reporter Christina Thompson said Thursday — the safest of hundreds of televised predictions since the jury began considering evidence.
