NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mick Jagger briefly waded into Louisiana politics, taking a verbal jab at the state’s conservative governor, as The Rolling Stones performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The band had finished “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” during Thursday evening’s set when Jagger began talking about inclusion, according […]
Liverpool have reached a verbal agreement with Feyenoord for their head coach Arne Slot to succeed Jurgen Klopp at the end of the season. The club made their move for the Dutchman earlier this week and after days of negotiation the PA news agency understands they have finally settled on a compensation package for the […]
One of the two new co-chairs of the Republican National Committee made a statement on Fox News Friday that will likely piss off former President Donald Trump. The gaffe wasn’t made by Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, but by her seemingly more experienced co-chair, Michael Whatley. It happened when Whatley attempted to reiterate the GOP’s latest […]
A theatre has banned a Belfast comedian after Jewish audience members claimed they were “subjected to verbal abuse” and made to feel “unsafe”. The Soho Theatre in London said Paul Currie would not be invited back to perform following an incident on Saturday evening which allegedly saw the comedian “aggressively demand” Jewish members of the […]
Experts on ageing caution against concluding that US president Joe Biden and his Republican rival Donald Trump are suffering from cognitive decline based on their verbal slip-ups, saying that mixing up names or dates does not necessarily mean a deterioration in mental acuity. Mr Biden, 81, a Democrat running for re-election in November, and former […]
By Alexandra Ulmer and Tim Reid (Reuters) – Experts on aging caution against concluding that U.S. President Joe Biden and his Republican rival Donald Trump are suffering from cognitive decline based on their verbal slip-ups, saying that mixing up names or dates does not necessarily mean a deterioration in mental acuity. Biden, 81, a Democrat […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Any parent who’s ever called one of their children by the other’s name — or even the family pet’s name — likely could empathize when President Joe Biden mixed up the names of French leaders Macron and Mitterrand. The human brain has trouble pulling names out of stuffed memory banks on cue. […]
When President Joe Biden appeared at a last-minute news conference Thursday night, he hoped to assure the country of his mental acuity hours after a special counsel’s report had devastatingly referred to him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Instead, a visibly angry Biden made the exact type of verbal flub that […]
Donald Trump is getting a quick reminder of one of his administration’s low points after a verbal stumble during an interview that aired on Monday. The former president claimed on Newsmax that the country wouldn’t be able to function if President Joe Biden wins reelection. “Look at even things like supply change,” Trump said, likely […]