HuffPost night news editor Jade Walker said, "My husband wants an assortment of salami and cheeses and a 'the world is going to hell in a handbasket' bottle of Laphroaig Lore whiskey." This Harry & David meat and cheese gift box includes four sausages, salami, four cheeses, three kinds of crackers, sesame sticks, a pepper and onion relish and a container of honey dill mustard. It would also make a great host or hostess gift. Another colleague chimed in to add that "Laphroaig Lore is sooooo goood." It's a classy and elevated gift for a true whiskey lover.

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Michel, 52, declined to address the court before U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced him. AdvertisementIn April 2023, a federal jury convicted Michel of 10 counts, including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. Michel also tried to end a Justice Department investigation of Low, tampered with two witnesses and perjured himself at trial, prosecutors said. Advertisement“Low’s motivation for giving Mr. Michel money to donate was not so that he could achieve some policy objective. Instead, Low simply wanted to obtain a photograph with himself and then-President Obama,” Michel’s attorneys wrote.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGLONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson oversaw a toxic, chaotic and dithering response to the COVID pandemic, with a delay to locking the country down resulting in about 23,000 more deaths, a report by a public inquiry concluded on Thursday. ‘Toxic And Chaotic Culture’ In Government“There was a toxic and chaotic culture at the centre of the UK government during the pandemic,” the inquiry chair, former judge Heather Hallett, said in her report. Advertisement“Mr Johnson should have appreciated sooner that this was an emergency that required prime ministerial leadership to inject urgency into the response,” the report said. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Dorland House after giving evidence to the COVID inquiry in London on Oct. 21, 2025. A failure to act sooner again as cases rose later in the year also led to further national lockdowns, it added.

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But I’m exclusively dating women at the moment, not because men are terrible (though some of them are), but because I think I’m more attracted to women, and I’m interested in exploring this side of myself. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Dating women involves less fear. The straight dating world comes with a series of unwritten, internalized scripts, and many of these scripts are rooted in misogyny and patriarchy. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementLesbian dating has its own unique challenges … and it also has most of the same challenges that straight dating does. So when straight women say they wish they were gay, maybe what they mean is they just wish dating were easier.

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showed absolutely no interest Thursday in pushing back on President Donald Trump’s call for certain Democrats in Congress to face the death penalty. Johnson said Trump’s posts on Thursday morning, one of which boosted a message that said “HANG THEM,” were not calls for Democrats to be executed. In his remarks, Johnson did not distinguish between legal and illegal orders. “That was a wildly appropriate thing for so-called leaders in Congress to do, to encourage young troops to disobey orders,” Johnson said. Advertisement“The words that the president chose are not the ones that I would use,” Johnson told reporters.

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That issue was the cornerstone of Mamdani’s mayoral platform, which included policies like free buses, universal childcare and rent freezes for rent-stabilized apartments. In the past, Trump has repeatedly said he’d curb federal funding to the city if Mamdani were elected and suggested that he’d take actions to “straighten out” New York. Mamdani said he didn’t view Friday’s meeting as a venue for personal disputes but rather as an opportunity to advocate for his constituents. Advertisement“It’s not about myself, it’s not about a relationship with an individual, it’s about a relationship between New York City and the White House, the president, the federal administration,” he said. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, meanwhile, was less conciliatory.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump’s long-ago claim that he hadn’t spoken to Jeffrey Epstein in 15 years got challenged by the late financier’s brother on CNN Thursday. AdvertisementBut Burnett noted that Mark Epstein had claimed they had a conversation in 2016. AdvertisementMark Epstein even asserted to Burnett that it was Epstein who canceled their relationship because he thought Trump was a crook. The White House wasn’t buying Mark Epstein’s assertion. And why did one of Epstein’s victims write that she saw Clinton on Epstein’s island with two young women?

Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. Navy analyst who spent three decades in prison for spying for Israel, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Huckabee met Pollard in July at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, pictured, and Jonathan Pollard. via Associated PressPollard, in an interview with an Israeli news channel, said the meeting with Huckabee took place at his request. It was unclear whether Huckabee sought administration approval, raising concerns the meeting could signal a softer U.S. stance on espionage by allies.

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Labour promised during the 2024 general election campaign that its plan to achieve “clean energy” would save families up to £300 on gas and electricity bills per year by 2030. Energy security secretary Ed Miliband via Associated PressAdvertisementWhat’s going on with UK energy bills? AdvertisementThe Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to affect energy prices as well, because it meant the UK weaned itself off Russia’s cheap energy exports to hit back at Moscow. Energy bills remain around 35% higher than before the war began in February 2022. Labour’s political opponents have all proposed different solutions for reducing energy bills.