Matt Gaetz allegedly took two women to see the musical version of Pretty Woman on Broadway after paying them to fly to New York City for sex and drug-filled romps. Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general allegedly partied, used drugs and paid women for sex repeatedly between 2017 and 2019 while serving in the House of Representatives. Joel Leppard, a Florida-based attorney for the two women also says they met up with Gaetz at least once to watch him appear on Fox News’ Outnumbered in New York in January 2019.

The mayor of Boston has promised to defy president-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts in ‘every possible way’. Mayor Michelle Wu has said that the city will continue to protect immigrants under the threat of deportation. ‘Elections have consequences, and the federal government is responsible for a certain set of actions, and cities – no individual city – can reverse or override some parts of that,’ Wu said on WCVB.

A former Hamas hostage bravely shared how she was beaten and sexually assaulted by the terrorists who kidnapped her as she confronted the leader of a university encampment that was set up earlier this year to protest Israel’s war in Gaza. Moran Stella Yanai, who was snatched from the Nova Festival and held hostage for 54 days, urged UCLA encampment leader Aidan Doyle to understand the facts of the conflict as the pair came face to face at a debate in Southern California. Doyle, who previously praised the October 7 massacre, refused to make eye contact with Yanai as she shared the traumatic details of her kidnapping by Hamas, the brutal violence she faced in captivity, and how Gazan civilians celebrated her capture.

The daughter of assassinated President John F. Kennedy has slammed the ‘dangerous’ views of her right-wing, anti-vaxxer cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr in a speech to Australian media. US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy initially even refused to mention RFK Jr by name when she addressed the National Press Club in Canberra on Monday. One reporter asked Kennedy whether Australia should be worried about intelligence-sharing with the US after Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was alleged to have ties with Russia.

Donald Trump promised he’s ‘not looking for retribution’ when he enters the White House in January despite vowing to throw his enemies in jail on the campaign trail. Despite the assurance, however, Trump pointed out he ‘obviously’ has the ‘upper hand’ and declared that he would draw the line after a certain amount of betrayal. ‘I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly, or even badly beyond comprehension,’ he told Fox News Digital.

The Bank of England governor today joined Britain’s biggest retailers warning that job cuts are ‘inevitable’ after Rachel Reeves’ monster national insurance raid. Andrew Bailey said dozens of businesses – including Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s – had been ‘right’ to sound the alarm in an open letter to the Chancellor. Ms Reeves unveiled an extraordinary £25billion hike in employers’ NICs in the Budget last month. The rate has been raised and the threshold at which firms must pay has been cut, with ministers adamant it was the only way to prop up public services.