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Nikki Haley, the erstwhile UN ambassador, said the erstwhile caput of authorities Mike Pompeo’s assertion that she plotted to regenerate Mike Pence arsenic Donald Trump’s vice-president was “lies and gossip to merchantability a book”.
Haley spoke to Fox News past night, aft the Guardian obtained a transcript of Pompeo’s forthcoming memoir, Never Give An Inch, and reported his comments astir Haley.
Haley resigned from the Trump medication successful October 2018. Before that, Pompeo says, she acceptable up a idiosyncratic gathering with Trump successful the Oval Office without checking with him.
Pompeo writes that John Kelly, past Trump’s main of staff, thought Haley had successful information been accompanied by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner arsenic they presented “a imaginable ‘Haley for vice-president’ option”.
Pompeo besides writes unfavourably of Haley’s show arsenic UN ambassador and criticises her resignation.
What did Haley say? Speaking to Fox News, Haley said: “I don’t cognize wherefore helium said it, but that’s precisely wherefore I stayed retired of DC arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, to get distant from the drama.” She besides pointed retired that Pompeo says successful his publication helium does not cognize if the communicative is true.
Is Haley readying the Republican statesmanlike information successful 2024? Both Haley and Pompeo are among imaginable contenders successful the contention successful which Trump remains the lone confirmed candidate. Haley seems acceptable to run. She told Fox News: “We are inactive moving done things and we’ll fig it out. I’ve ne'er mislaid a race. I said that then, I inactive accidental that now. I’m not going to suffer now.”
Zelenskiy expecting ‘strong decisions’ arsenic Kyiv’s allies conscionable successful Germany
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said his authorities is expecting “strong decisions” from defence leaders of Nato and different countries gathering connected Friday to sermon boosting Ukraine’s quality to face Russian forces with modern conflict tanks.
The meeting, astatine Ramstein airbase successful Germany, is the latest successful a bid since Russia invaded Ukraine astir 11 months ago, and wherever aboriginal weapons supplies volition beryllium discussed, peculiarly of Germany’s Leopard 2 tanks utilized by armies crossed Europe.
Berlin has veto powerfulness implicit immoderate determination to export the tanks and Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s authorities has appeared reluctant truthful acold to authorise their merchandise for fearfulness of provoking Russia.
Some allies accidental Berlin’s interest is misplaced, with Russia already afloat committed to war, portion Moscow has repeatedly said occidental weapons transfers would prolong the struggle and summation suffering successful Ukraine.
What has the US authorities said? The US defence caput has called for the allies to “dig deeper” successful their enactment for Ukraine arsenic “history is watching us”, arsenic helium gave details of the $2.5bn subject assistance bundle the US announced yesterday.
What other is happening? Here’s what we know connected time 331 of the invasion.
Ron DeSantis bans African American studies people from Florida precocious schools
Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Republican governor, has rejected a caller precocious placement people successful African American studies from being taught connected precocious schoolhouse campuses. He argues that the people violates authorities instrumentality and “lacks acquisition value”.
This prohibition is the latest successful a bid of actions to support conversations and lessons astir race, sexuality and sex individuality disconnected the state’s schoolhouse campuses.
DeSantis officially banned the course successful a missive from the authorities acquisition section to the College Board, the enactment that administers assemblage readiness exams specified arsenic the scholastic aptitude trial (SAT). They besides oversee precocious placement (AP) courses, which let students to gain assemblage credits successful subjects specified arsenic English and chemistry.
In a missive connected 12 January to the College Board, the Florida acquisition section said the people was “inexplicably contrary to Florida instrumentality and importantly lacks acquisition value”.
When did schools commencement offering the course? It has not been moving for long. In the summertime of 2022, the College Board announced a aviator programme to “offer precocious schoolhouse students an evidence-based instauration to African American studies” would beryllium launching successful 60 precocious schools during the 2022-23 schoolhouse twelvemonth and would grow to different campuses the pursuing year.
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The legendary US instrumentalist David Crosby has died at 81 aft a “long illness”. The singer, guitarist and songwriter was portion of the archetypal lineup of the Byrds and appeared connected their archetypal 5 albums. He besides co-founded the people stone supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash.
One of the world’s oldest Zionist organisations with adjacent ties to the Israeli government, the Jewish National Fund (JNF), is using American anti-terrorism laws to writer a large Palestinian rights radical successful the US implicit its enactment for the planetary boycott movement.
A national justice has ordered Donald Trump and 1 of his attorneys to jointly wage nearly $1m successful penalties for pursuing a frivolous lawsuit that accused Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and others of engaging successful racketeering and concocting a immense conspiracy against him.
A tiny municipality successful Alabama is honoring a antheral who paid disconnected his neighbors’ pharmacy bills for years, and kept his generosity a concealed until soon earlier his death, by picking up precisely wherever helium near off. Hody Childress donated $100 a period for neighbors who could not wage their prescriptions.
Stat of the day: Joshua Tree’s ‘Invisible House’ could beryllium yours for $18m
Joshua Tree’s existent property roar whitethorn person reached a symbolic peak, arsenic the godforsaken town’s iconic, mirror-walled mansion goes on the marketplace for $18m successful what is said to beryllium a record-setting asking price. The Invisible House, constructed successful 2019 by the movie producers Chris and Roberta Hanley, has hosted celebrities including Alicia Keys and Ariana Grande. It is simply a surreal, box-like structure, with glinting solid walls that bespeak the godforsaken landscape, and a massive, 100ft indoor excavation that stretches astir fractional the magnitude of the house. Even if the Invisible House ends up selling for $9m, fractional the asking price, “it volition beryllium the astir costly location ever sold successful Joshua Tree”, the section paper San Bernardino Sun reported.
Don’t miss this: ‘You person to acceptable clip speech for friendship’– the extremist powerfulness of hanging out
From sharing a cuppa to lazing successful the park, is the cardinal to happiness doing mundane activities with pals? Leisure time, shrinking since the 1970s, is progressively precious for women, successful particular, with US and UK statistic showing a stark sex gap. What escaped clip radical bash have, time-use surveys consistently show, is mostly spent watching tv – possibly due to the fact that we find ourselves excessively exhausted to bash thing else. The writer and world Sheila Liming wants america to find the clip – or, much precisely, to reclaim it. Her caller book, Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time, is partially a paean to the pleasures of idling with others and partially a manifesto to “take backmost our societal lives from the deadening whirl of modern life”.
Climate check: ‘Super-tipping points’ could trigger cascade of clime action
Three “super-tipping points” for clime enactment could trigger a cascade of decarbonisation crossed the planetary economy, according to a report. Relatively tiny argumentation interventions connected electric cars, plant-based alternatives to nutrient and greenish fertilisers would pb to unstoppable maturation successful those sectors, the experts said. But the boost this would springiness to artillery and hydrogen accumulation would mean important knock-on benefits for different sectors, including vigor retention and aviation. Urgent emissions cuts are needed to debar irreversible clime breakdown and the experts accidental the super-tipping points are the fastest mode to thrust planetary action, offering “plausible hope” that a accelerated modulation to a greenish system tin hap successful time.
Last Thing: ‘We dubbed it Toadzilla’: elephantine cane toad believed to beryllium the largest of its taxon recovered successful Australia
She’s toxic, weighs arsenic overmuch arsenic immoderate newborn babies and was recovered successful the wilds of Australia’s acold north. A elephantine cane toad, dubbed “Toadzilla”, recovered by rangers successful Queensland’s Conway nationalist parkthis week, is believed to beryllium the largest of her taxon ever found. The Guinness satellite grounds for the largest toad successful past is 2.65kg (5.8lbs), recovered successful 1991. The rangers who recovered “Toadzilla” took it backmost to their basal and weighed it. She tipped the scales astatine 2.7kg (6lbs). Ranger Kylee Gray saw the tremendous toad portion walking successful the nationalist park. “I reached down and grabbed the cane toad and couldn’t judge however large and dense it was,” she said. “We dubbed it Toadzilla.”
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