It is the internet meme of the summer, sparking laughter and thousands of wry smiles at the pitfalls of a British summer holiday.

But the journey of the viral Jet2 holiday advert – with its promotional voiceover played out over cheerless summer holiday footage, including water-slide disasters and images of pouring rain – took a darker turn this week when it was used by the White House in a post on X to promote Ice (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) deportations.

Jess Glynne – whose 2015 single Hold My Hand accompanies the advert – responded to the post on Wednesday, saying she felt “sick” that her music was being used to spread

It is the internet meme of the summer, sparking laughter and thousands of wry smiles at the pitfalls of a British summer holiday.

But the journey of the viral Jet2 holiday advert – with its promotional voiceover played out over cheerless summer holiday footage, including water-slide disasters and images of pouring rain – took a darker turn this week when it was used by the White House in a post on X to promote Ice (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) deportations.

Jess Glynne – whose 2015 single Hold My Hand accompanies the advert – responded to the post on Wednesday, saying she felt “sick” that her music was being used to spread

Donald Trump’s global tariffs faced significant skepticism in a federal appeals court on Thursday, as judges investigated whether the president had overstretched his powers just hours before the latest sweeping round of duties is set to kick in.

The full 11-strong bench of the US court of appeals for the federal circuit in Washington DC is considering whether Trump exceeded his authority in imposing “reciprocal” tariffs on a large number of US trading partners.

Judges repeatedly asked if Trump was justified in relying on emergency powers to effectively tear up the US tariff schedule without consulting Congress.

Businesses challenging his strategy accused the White House of engineering a “breathtaking” attempt to force

When Hulk Hogan died and a rush of people searched his name on Google to read various obituaries, I’m sure at least some of them were shocked to find that one of the most popular search terms related to the WWE Hall of Famer is “Hulk Hogan lies”. There are countless videos, Reddit threads, social media posts and articles detailing all the things the Hulkster apparently said that were either exaggerations, distortions or outright fabrications. One time, Hogan said he was asked to play in Metallica. The band denied the story straight away. Hulk said in his autobiography that he partied with John Belushi after WrestleMania 2 in 1986,

When Hulk Hogan died and a rush of people searched his name on Google to read various obituaries, I’m sure at least some of them were shocked to find that one of the most popular search terms related to the WWE Hall of Famer is “Hulk Hogan lies”. There are countless videos, Reddit threads, social media posts and articles detailing all the things the Hulkster apparently said that were either exaggerations, distortions or outright fabrications. One time, Hogan said he was asked to play in Metallica. The band denied the story straight away. Hulk said in his autobiography that he partied with John Belushi after WrestleMania 2 in 1986,

Summer McIntosh came within a whisker of breaking a long-standing world record and Léon Marchand failed to improve on a new mark he set just a night earlier, but both young guns won gold medals at the world championships in Singapore on Thursday.

Romania’s David Popovici also flirted with a record on day five at the World Aquatics Championships Arena, the 20-year-old claiming a thrilling 100 metres freestyle gold to go with his 200 crown on day three.

The 200 butterfly world record of 2:01.81 set by China’s Liu Zige in 2009 is the last surviving mark from the supersuit era in women’s swimming – and McIntosh all but took it

Summer McIntosh came within a whisker of breaking a long-standing world record and Léon Marchand failed to improve on a new mark he set just a night earlier, but both young guns won gold medals at the world championships in Singapore on Thursday.

Romania’s David Popovici also flirted with a record on day five at the World Aquatics Championships Arena, the 20-year-old claiming a thrilling 100 metres freestyle gold to go with his 200 crown on day three.

The 200 butterfly world record of 2:01.81 set by China’s Liu Zige in 2009 is the last surviving mark from the supersuit era in women’s swimming – and McIntosh all but took it

The new agency vetting name, image and likeness (NIL) deals in college sports reached an agreement Thursday that relaxes standards on player agreements with third-party collectives and avoids taking the issue back to court after years of legal wrangling.

The College Sports Commission said it will now consider a third-party company that seeks to pay a player to have a “valid business purpose” if the deal “is related to the promotion or endorsement of goods or services provided to the general public for profit.”

It did away with the concept that collectives established simply to pay players did not have a valid business purpose even if they sold products for profit.

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Late-night hosts continued to track the fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that Donald Trump just won’t let go and the Environmental Protection Agency giving up on the environment.

Seth Meyers

Seth Meyers continued to relish Donald Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein scandal that just won’t go away, as the president was hounded by questions about his friendship with the convicted sex offender while in Scotland. “They did this to themselves,” the Late Night host said of Maga’s Epstein quagmire. “This is like if after Trump screamed they’re eating the dogs in a debate, Donald Trump started eating the dog.”