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Ukraine: The Latest – The Telegraph’s most popular ever podcast

Ukraine: The Latest – The Telegraph’s most popular ever podcast

Published by Sam Flores

War in Ukraine is reshaping our world. Every weekday, the Telegraph’s top journalists analyse the conflict from all angles – just as they have since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, when tanks, jets and troops crossed Ukraine’s borders. Downloaded over 140 million times and trusted by listeners worldwide, the team considers military strategy, history, weaponry, economics, refugee crises, culture, and daily life in Putin’s autocratic Russia and Zelensky’s democratic Ukraine. Our correspondents on the ground talk to experts and civilians to cover every aspect of Russia’s brutal invasion. It is available on its own YouTube channel, featuring dispatches on the ground, maps, and battlefield footage. The podcast has earned major accolades, most recently winning Podcast of the Year at the London Press Club and News Podcast of the Year at the 2025 Press Awards, where the judges called it “a gripping testament to courageous and vitally important public interest journalism.” It also won Best Use of Audio at the Digital Publishing Awards 2025. Previously, it was awarded Best News Podcast at the Publisher Podcast Awards …

Fox News Anchor Highlights Trump’s Recent Threat

Fox News Anchor Highlights Trump’s Recent Threat

Published by Sam Flores

Fox News is … sounding the alarm? Shortly after the conclusion of a Cabinet meeting Q&A at the White House on Tuesday, Fox News anchor John Roberts decided to zero in on one very disturbing thing President Donald Trump did: casually threaten to blow up Oman. During the Q&A, Trump rejected a plan to have Oman and Iran jointly control the Strait of Hormuz. “The Strait is going to be open to everybody. It’s international waters,” Trump said. “We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it. Oman will behave like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that. They’ll be fine.” “In the middle of all that — and it really kind of went unnoticed by the reporters,” the visibly flummoxed anchor said. “President Trump became the first American president that I know of to ever threaten to take military action against Oman, saying that they have to behave like everyone else or we’re going to blow them up. I’m not quite sure what that was all about.” “Let’s …

RFK Jr Calls UK ‘Dictatorship’ In Bizarre Rant With Joe Rogan

RFK Jr Calls UK ‘Dictatorship’ In Bizarre Rant With Joe Rogan

Published by Sam Flores

Robert F Kennedy Jr has called the UK a “dictatorship” over its social media laws in a bizarre attack. The US health secretary – known for pushing debunked conspiracy theories about vaccinations – compared Britain to the Soviet Union and suggested it was “Kafkaesque” for its crackdown on online hate. Speaking on the podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience, the Kennedy said: “You look what is happening in England right now. A lot of people are going to jail for Twitter posts.” “Twelve thousand people in the last year,” Rogan replied. “It’s just a dictatorship,” Kennedy claimed. That stat may have come from a report by The Times last year, which revealed around 12,000 people were arrested – not jailed – in 2023 by 37 police forces under UK communication laws. People may be arrested if their posts online cause distress, are grossly offensive or are of an indecent, obscene or menacing character. But that can refer to “any form of communication,” and can relate to “serious domestic abuse-related crimes”. Most arrests did not lead to …

Trump Posts AI Image Of Himself Swimming In Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

Trump Posts AI Image Of Himself Swimming In Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

Published by Sam Flores

President Donald Trump baffled nearly everyone with a Truth Social post showcasing an AI-generated image of himself swimming in one of Washington DC’s most iconic monuments. In the wee hours of Friday, the president uploaded an image of a thinner, younger version of himself, wearing swim trunks and floating bare-chested in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. As his digital dupe lounged in a gold inflatable pool chair and flashed a thumbs up, he was joined by bare-chested versions of Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, alongside an unidentified (likely imaginary) woman wearing a gingham bikini and sitting on an invisible floating pool chair. The image was part of a spree of photos Trump posted to herald renovations he’s put in motion ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary. During a Friday night social media spree, President Trump posted this AI-generated image. RealDonaldTrump/Truth Social This past week, the 2,030-foot-long water feature was drained so crews could paint the bottom of the pool a vibrant cerulean shade, which the president …

All about new Apple CEO John Ternus: from very private family life to swimming career

All about new Apple CEO John Ternus: from very private family life to swimming career

Published by Daniella Wilson

Apple has officially found its 8th CEO. On Monday, April 20, the trillion-dollar company announced that Tim Cook, its CEO since 2011, who succeeded co-founder Steve Jobs, would be stepping down. Stepping up to the plate is now John Ternus, who has worked with Apple for almost a quarter century, and brings a different background and skillset to the executive table. Here’s what to know about him. © AppleJohn will be succeeding Tim in September Who is John Ternus? John, who was born in 1975, is currently senior vice president of hardware engineering, a contrast to his predecessor’s previous job as chief operating officer prior to becoming CEO; Tim had joined the company in 1998 as a senior vice president for worldwide operations, and then as vice president for worldwide sales and operations. Though little is known about John outside of his professional life, he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997, and worked as an engineer at Virtual Research Inc. for four years before starting his 25-year career at Apple.  During his time …

Trump Threatens To Strike Iran Infrastructure

Trump Threatens To Strike Iran Infrastructure

Published by Sam Flores

Donald Trump has threatened to strike Iranian infrastructure after accusing Tehran of breaching their ceasefire agreement. The US president claimed Iran fired bullets in the Strait of Hormuz at a “French ship and a freighter from the United Kingdom”. In a furious post on TruthSocial, the US president said there was going to be “no more Mr Nice Guy” – even though America “loses nothing” over the ongoing chaos. He also called Iran’s decision to close the strait “strange”, claiming the US blockade had already closed it. He said Iran should take the “very fair and reasonable” deal the US negotiators put forward on Monday while meeting with their Iranian counterparts in Pakistan – or the US “is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran.” Trump claimed his military would “come down fast, they’ll come down easy”, adding: ” IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END!” Tehran has also accused the US of breaching the ceasefire deal by imposing a naval blockade on Iranian ports. No …

Pete Hegseth Quotes ‘Pulp Fiction’ During Prayer Service

Pete Hegseth Quotes ‘Pulp Fiction’ During Prayer Service

Published by Sam Flores

In a move that seems indicative of the Trump administration’s increasingly fractured relationship with the Vatican, Pete Hegseth appeared to mistake lines from a classic crime film for Scripture during a public appearance this week. The defense secretary delivered a prayer during a livestreamed worship service at the Pentagon on Wednesday. “They call it CSAR 25:17, which I think is meant to reflect Ezekiel 25:17,” he said in his introduction of the prayer he’d been given. However, viewers quickly noticed his words more closely echoed one of Samuel L. Jackson’s monologues from 1994’s “Pulp Fiction” than the biblical verse he’d referenced. “The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men,” Hegseth said in part. “Blessed is he who, in the name of camaraderie and duty, shepherds the lost through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who …

How much The Masters tournament winner gets in prize money — and what the runner-ups take home

How much The Masters tournament winner gets in prize money — and what the runner-ups take home

Published by Daniella Wilson

The 2026 Masters has kicked off in Augusta, Georgia – but, fun fact, the competitors are yet to know how much prize money they may actually win. The Augusta National traditionally doesn’t announce the prize until after a 36-hole cut has been made, which can take up to two days. Part of the reason that the organization can get away with this is that winning the Masters is about much more than the prize money. That seven-figure number is secondary to what comes with the title: the Green Jacket, a spot in the Champions locker room and the Champions Dinner, and, of course, your name in history. © Getty ImagesCameron Young of the United States with his caddie Kyle Sterbinsky and Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland with his caddie Harry Diamond How much will The Masters winner get? In 2025, the total purse was $21 million, which was $6 million more than 2022 and a little less than $10 million more than in 2021 when it was $11.5 million. The winner will take home just less than …

Trump Doubles Down On Iran Wipeout Threat

Trump Doubles Down On Iran Wipeout Threat

Published by Sam Flores

Donald Trump has doubled down on his threat to take out Iran by claiming the entire country could be wiped out in one night. The US president claimed over the weekend that Tehran had until Tuesday 8pm ET (12am GMT) to open the major oil shipping lane, the Strait of Hormuz, or face total wipeout. In a post on TruthSocial on Tuesday, he said: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” The country closed the waterway, which carries around a fifth of the world’s oil supply, in response to US-Israeli strikes five weeks ago – knocking the global economy in the process. While describing the US military’s “historic” mission to rescue two airmen from Iran during a press conference on Monday, the president interrupted himself to reissue his warning. “The entire country could be taken out in one night. And …

Pete Hegseth Won’t Rule Out US Troops On The Ground In Iran

Pete Hegseth Won’t Rule Out US Troops On The Ground In Iran

Published by Sam Flores

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not dismiss the possibility of deploying ground troops in Iran when questioned about the joint military operation between the US and Israel there. Speaking at a Tuesday press briefing, Hegseth appeared guarded on whether President Donald Trump may order “boots on the ground” in Iran, but stressed that “the upcoming days will be decisive” as far as the conflict is concerned. “We’re not going to foreclose any option,” he said. “You can’t fight and win a war if you tell your adversary what you are willing to do or what you are not willing to do, to include boots on the ground. Our adversary right now thinks there are 15 different ways we could come at them with boots on the ground. And guess what? There are.” He added, “So if we needed to, we could execute those options on behalf of the president of the United States and this department. Or maybe we don’t have to use them at all. Maybe negotiations work, or maybe there’s a different approach.” …