The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s hand-holding during official events commemorating the death of Queen Elizabeth II sparked a huge debate and now the former Real Housewives star has waded into the discussion. Frankel, who rose to notoriety for her appearances on the Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of New York, opened up about her feelings towards the couple’s public displays of affection on her JustB podcast in an episode titled “Battle Royal....

Liverpool vs Everton (1 – 1.70) Only once before have Liverpool been on a longer unbeaten run against their neighbours, a win or a draw here equalling the record of 13 matches. Everton’s star striker Romelu Lukaku has scored five times against the Reds, but only once at Anfield. The home win is tipped but if you’re looking for longer odds, a red card to be shown is at 4....

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O’Rourke has been far from alone in placing blame on Trump’s shoulders for stoking anti-immigrant and racist sentiments in the lead-up to Saturday’s attack after it emerged that the 21-year-old suspect was believed to have posted a manifesto on the website 8chan railing against Texas’ Hispanic and immigrant communities before carrying out the assault. However, the former Texas representative, who grew up in El Paso, has been one of the president’s most vocal critics in the wake of the shooting, which is being investigated as a domestic terrorism case....

The El Paso, Texas native wasted little time before repeating his assertion that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist. He also called for reparations for the descendants of enslaved people, saying he would enact fellow Texan Sheila Jackson Lee’s proposal to study how the redistribution of wealth should be carried out. But O’Rourke’s big moment came when the 10 candidates were asked about gun control. O’Rourke, who represented Texas’ 16th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 until earlier this year....

Finally the situation could go on no longer. Poyet was dumped by Shenhua, who turned locally for a replacement. Wu Jingui has stepped into the breach with his club languishing in 11th in the Superleague, with almost no contribution from Tevez. The 33-year-old striker has played just 11 times for Shanghai, scoring a measly two goals as his team has entered free-fall. Almost as soon as he came in Jingui made it clear that there would be no free-riding for Tevez, who has treated this year in China as little more than the highest-paid sabbatical in football history....

This was to have been the season when South Koreans traded in their high-mileage politicians for new models with more pizzazz. Yet less than a month before the vote, the race’s two fresh faces are playing catch-up to an anti-communist ideologue from their parents’ generation. Once written off as a political has-been, Lee, 67, is staging a comeback that owes much to the North Korean regime he’s so fond of bashing....

Berman spent 10 days in the hospital and another 10 at a psychiatric facility. Misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, she suffered for more than two months before a therapist finally suggested she contact Depression After Delivery (DAD), an organization for women with postpartum depression. Within days she was under the care of Joyce Venis, a therapist in Princeton, N.J., and the current president of DAD. “Joyce said, ‘This is a classic case of postpartum depression’,” says Berman....

In a series of interviews on Capitol Hill this week, several Republican members of Congress told Newsweek they had concerns about the chain of custody involved in the handling of sensitive material amid mounting questions about how several former presidents were apparently able to remove classified material from the White House. In particular, some members urged figures like Obama to begin scouring their records to see whether they had improperly removed materials from the White House amid what some have described as an “epidemic” of protocol breaches at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue....

Since April, when Bernie Sanders ended his campaign, Biden has been the presumptive nominee for the Democratic party. On Friday he formally reached the 1,991 delegates needed to secure the nomination after results were registered from seven states and the District of Columbia. Biden has 1,995 delegates, with contests still to come in eight states and three U.S. territories, the Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, Sanders is still collecting delegates in an effort to influence the party’s platform at its August convention, The Guardian reported....

The comments by Liz Murrill follow a ruling by Washington, D.C Judge Rudolph Contreras to throw out the sale of 1.7 million acres of oil and gas leases. Louisiana was one of 13 states which had successfully challenged Biden’s executive order when he took office to pause new leases on federal land as part of his climate change policy. After the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana overturned the pause, the sale of more than $198 million worth of leases went ahead in November just days after Biden called for action on climate change at the COP26 summit in Glasgow....

Rather than take action to address these issues, like cutting gas taxes and producing more oil domestically, the Biden administration and its like-minded toadies offer out-of-touch suggestions for how Americans can cope with the financial strain. It would be foolish to dismiss this advice as merely ignorant, as if those elitist liberals chauffeured around from meeting to meeting on the Hill simply don’t understand the plight of the American people....

The Center for Responsive Politics, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt, charitable organization that runs the campaign finance website OpenSecrets.org, estimates that the election will cost $14 billion, with Democrats beating out Republicans. The Biden campaign raised a combined $1,380,583,483 this cycle. That figure includes contributions to the official campaign committee, Biden for President, and outside groups campaigning for the Democrat. So far, $1,146,283,972 of that total has been spent and the Biden campaign is likely to burn through most of the remainder before the FEC filing deadline for the post-general election report on December 3....

The outcome of the election in November will shape the remainder of Biden’s first term in office. The midterms will also set the next election cycle in motion, forcing him to start laying the groundwork for his reelection bid — assuming he decides to run again — and Democrats to begin preparing for a much more challenging political map in the Senate in 2024. Senate Democrats will be on defense in two years, with fewer opportunities on the horizon as of now to flip Republican-held seats or make pickups in purple states....

Dave Aronberg, state attorney for Palm Beach County in Florida, suggested on Thursday morning that the DOJ could bring charges against Trump partly as a way to emphasize the seriousness of the case. “From a prosecutor’s perspective this is exactly like the Trump situation at Mar-a-Lago, except for just about everything,” Aronberg told CNN and compared the two situations. “There is no allegation here that Biden personally handled the documents or claimed them for himself or refused to give them back or obstructed attempts by the feds to retrieve them,” he said....

According to a Fox News poll published on Sunday, Biden holds a 16-point lead over Trump on who would better manage the pandemic. About 56 percent of likely voters surveyed said that Biden would do a better job, while 40 percent supported Trump’s management of the COVID-19 crisis. Biden’s lead has doubled since September when he surpassed Trump by 8 percentage points. A recent poll conducted by ABC News and The Washington Post shared similar findings....

Nationally as of Saturday, Biden is ahead of Trump by just under eight percentage points, 49.8 to 41.7, according to figures from RealClearPolitics. Biden’s campaign has also been buoyed by a forecast from The Economist predicting that he had an 85 percent chance of winning, compared with President Donald Trump’s 15 percent. Given the idiosyncrasies of the Electoral College system, how Biden fares at the state level is central to his chances and to this end, he appears to be between two and eight points ahead in the battleground states, according to FiveThirtyEight....

A declaration of genocide is rarely convenient, not least when your relationship with the accused is as complex as the U.S.-China relationship. Among nations, there is no more grave an allegation, and the moral weight of the term necessarily limits states’ rapport and avenues for diplomacy. The outgoing administration further complicated the issue by formally breaking out the “g-word” the day before Biden took office, leaving his team no time to plan for the ramifications of such a consequential indictment....

In the race for the 270 electoral college votes needed to take the White House, Biden was narrowly ahead of Trump by 238 electoral college votes to 213, by 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday. If those results stand, the composition of the other electoral college votes makes for some interesting calculations. Wisconsin’s Democratic Party chairman Ben Wikler has expressed confidence that Biden has taken the crucial battleground state, while in Michigan he pulled ahead of President Donald Trump with votes still to be tallied up from Democratic strongholds, CNN reported....

Biden is willing to further target the checks to “ensure they hit the Americans who need that help the most,” Psaki said on Fox News Sunday, adding that the president will not negotiate the size of the direct payments. The House of Representatives passed the sprawling relief legislation on Friday evening, advancing it to the Senate, where Republicans are expected to offer several amendments to the bill. Any successful amendments will then be sent back to the House for a final vote....