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McLaren teammate Lando Norris locks in second
Lewis Hamilton finds form to secure fifth for Ferrari
Oscar Piastri claimed pole for the Spanish Grand Prix with a dominant display for McLaren in Barcelona. He was imperious at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya to beat his teammate Lando Norris into second by a huge two-tenths of a second, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in third.
George Russell was fourth for Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton, who has struggled in Spain this weekend, found his pace when it mattered to take fifth place for Ferrari.
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Ramon Morales-Reyes might have been set up by man currently in jail for attacking and robbing him in 2023
An undocumented man who was accused by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, Kristi Noem, last week of threatening to assassinate Donald Trump in a letter may have been framed by someone accused of previously attacking the man, according to news reports.
Investigators are said to be looking into whether the letter was an attempt to get the man deported, to prevent him from testifying against his alleged attacker.
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Confiscating the funds would shock Putin, help Ukraine, and take advantage of disillusionment in the US economy
Ukraine needs more than long-range missiles and fibre-optic drones in its fight with Russia. What it needs is more money, and lots of it.
In particular, the war-torn nation should be handed the €300bn (£250bn) of frozen Russian assets stored mostly in accounts hosted by the Euroclear trading system.
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It’s not the first time the president has sought to curry favor this way. His instincts about Black Americans are clear
This week, Trump issued two dozen presidential pardons to a motley crew of wrongdoers, including shady politicians, fraudulent CEOs and other wealthy ne’er-do-wells. On that list were the Louisiana rapper NBA YoungBoy (whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden) and the Chicago gangster Larry Hoover.
Regardless of where you stand on American carceral culture and what we know about the ways the criminal justice system squashes Black people who have the misfortune of interacting with it, Trump handing out pardons to Hoover and Gaulden isn’t the magnanimous or justice-focused move he wants us to believe it is. Instead, it’s a clear effort to garner support from the Black community by way of its big names.
Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist.
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