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Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out a return to frontline politics for Lord Peter Mandelson in the wake of revelations about his friendship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Speaking to reporters during a trade visit to India, Starmer said Mandelson would not be receiving another government job.

Vt., attacked female GOP governors while mocking the Democratic Party’s focus on identity politics on Trevor Noah’s podcast Thursday.

It’s Day 8 of the government shutdown, and there’s still no end in sight. The Senate voted today for the sixth time on a House-passed stopgap funding measure and a Democratic counterproposal, both of which failed — again. No senator has budged and the House is not in session.

The former VP had a mic-drop moment when stopping by the A Day of Unreasonable Conversation summit in Los Angeles on Monday.

La., responds to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries', D-N.Y., claims that he and the Republican Party are responsible for the shutdown, saying Democrats are attempting to appease their 'far-left' base.

The White House on Friday criticized the Nobel Prize committee's decision to grant the peace prize to a Venezuelan opposition leader instead of U.S. President Donald Trump, who aggressively lobbied for the award and touted his role in brokering international ceasefire deals.