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1. Voices: Labour is giving us a psychodrama that absolutely nobody wants

   Editorial: As more than 60 MPs call on Keir Starmer to quit, the party must look to its PM, roll up its sleeves and get on with the hard work of delivering for the UK rather than engaging in more unnecessary infighting

2. Bill Maher and John Fetterman defend Trump’s $1Bn ballroom cost as ‘couch money’

   Bill Maher and John Fetterman have defended the construction of the White House ballroom, blasting criticism as “so stupid”.

3. Read Naushabah Khan statement in full after quitting as Cabinet Office PPS amid calls for ‘new leadership’

   The Cabinet Office PPS was the latest Labour aide to step down on Monday

4. Trump says he’s seriously considering making Venezuela the 51st US state

   US has already built up massive naval fleets in the Caribbean and continues a deadly bombing campaign on alleged drug boats

5. Group sues Trump to stop his ‘pool guy’ from making renovations on DC’s reflecting pool

   The Trump administration is coating the bottom of the reflecting pool with ‘American flag blue’

6. Trump floats making foreign country the 51st state

7. Streeting ‘to go against Starmer in leadership bid’ as key allies join Labour revolt against PM

   PM pledges to fight for the soul of Britain – but more than 60 MPs publicly urge him to go, with speculation mounting that health secretary Wes Streeting is preparing a challenge

8. Starmer latest: Streeting ‘poised for leadership bid’ as key ministerial aides resign in call for PM to quit

   Labour sources told The Independent that Wes Streeting is expected to launch a bid on Tuesday, as more than 60 MPs call for Sir Keir Starmer to go

9. Trump Derangement Syndrome ‘actually is a disease,’ the president claims after a night of calling himself the ‘GOAT’

   MAGA boosters routinely dismiss opposition to the president as a symptom of mental illness rather than a principled political stance

10. Ex-NBA player, Fab Five member Jalen Rose is a fixture at the school that bears his name in Detroit

    Jalen Rose regularly visits the high school he founded in Detroit, the Jalen Rose Leadership Academy