‘War’s over. Thanks Bono…’: U2 front-man is mercilessly mocked over his ‘unhinged’ poem for Ukraine read by Pelosi

U2’s Bono has been ridiculed online for writing an ‘unhinged’ poem about Ukraine after it was read out by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on St. Patrick’s Day.

The 61-year-old rock superstar’s poem was unveiled by Pelosi at the White House’s annual ‘Friends of Ireland’ luncheon yesterday.

Bewildered guests were treated to such lines as: ‘They struggle for us to be free/ From the psycho in our human family/ Ireland’s sorrow and pain/ Is now the Ukraine/ And saint Patrick’s name now Zelensky.’

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Chris Cuomo demands $125 MILLION payout from CNN and claims Don Lemon, Jake Tapper & Brian Stelter mounted ‘calculated smear campaign to disparage him’

Ex-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is accusing his former colleagues of mounting a smear campaign after he was fired for helping his governor brother fight sexual harassment allegations, as he demands $125 million in severance from the network in private arbitration proceedings.

In a filing on Wednesday, Cuomo charged CNN with ruining his reputation and violating his contract by letting employees publicly criticize him.

‘Jake Tapper, a CNN anchor, publicly assailed Cuomo’s ethics as a journalist and falsely claimed that Cuomo “threatened” Zucker.

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GOLDSTEIN: Ford believes best shot at re-election is to support Trudeau

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has decided his best chance of re-election in June is to cozy up to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rather than anyone in the federal Conservative leadership race.

On Wednesday, Ford appeared with Trudeau as they jointly announced an investment of $131.6 million each by the Ontario and federal governments in Honda Canada’s $1.4 billion project to retool its Alliston, Ont. plant to produce hybrid electric vehicles.

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Court orders hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett release from jail during appeal

CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett was ordered released from jail Wednesday by an appeals court that agreed with his lawyers that he should be released pending the appeal of his conviction for lying to police about a racist and homophobic attack.

The ruling came after a Cook County judge sentenced Smollett last week to immediately begin serving 150 days in jail for his conviction on five felony counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police. The appeals court said Smollett could be released after posting a personal recognizance bond of $150,000.

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Who is Joe Rogan’s audience?

Fox News is the most watched cable news channel in America. According to figures for the fourth quarter of 2021, the network’s top show, The Five, pulled in 3.3 million viewers. The runners-up, Tucker Carlson Tonight and Hannity, were close behind. Altogether, Fox is comfortably ahead of the liberal news channels MSNBC and CNN. 

However, the channel would lose its top spot if the Joe Rogan Experience was included on the chart.

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Transport Canada investigating whether Freedom Convoy supporters aboard flight were screened for vaccination

Transport Canada is looking into a chartered flight that brought supporters of the so-called Freedom Convoy from Western Canada to Ottawa last month, to ensure passengers were properly screened for COVID-19 vaccination.

According to one of the passengers on the flight, some of those aboard were not vaccinated, an apparent violation of the federal government mandate requiring most air and rail passengers to produce proof of vaccination before travel.

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