Randy Holmes/ABCOn Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel didn’t go live after the three-hour Democratic debate-that burden fell on the shoulders on Trevor Noah-but the amiable late-night host did tee off on members of the Trump family, as is his wont. “Many of the president’s false claims lately have been about Joe Biden’s son Hunter, and his work with a gas company in Ukraine,” Kimmel explained of the ongoing Trump-Ukraine controversy, adding, “Hunter Biden had an interview with ABC News this morning in which he admitted he probably wouldn’t have been asked to serve on the board of that company if his father wasn’t vice president-unlike Ivanka Trump, who earned her role in the White House on the merits of her line of stylish pumps.” “Team Trump has been spreading all sorts of unproven nonsense about Hunter Biden, and I don’t get that,” the comic said. “I mean, why would they align themselves with these conspiracy theories when they can just point out that Hunter Biden is a 49-year-old man with two bracelets? For me, that’s all I need to know.” Later on, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host took aim at Lara Trump, wife of Eric, spokesman of Trump Productions’ not-so-suitably-titled Real News Update propaganda show, and the Trump-Pence Women’s Empowerment Tour during the 2016 campaign (yes, that is not a joke).Trevor Noah Roasts Joe Biden Over Bad Debate Answer on Son HunterJohn Oliver Thinks Rudy Giuliani Is Totally Screwed: ‘Trump Will Abandon Him’“He has the best people defending him-people like his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, wife of Eric,” said Kimmel, before throwing to a clip of Lara on Fox News saying of Trump’s decision to abandon America’s Kurdish allies in Syria at the behest of Turkey, “I think we should start with the fact that if you asked the average American out there, I think they would have to google, ‘Who are the Kurds?’ and ‘Why is America even over there fighting this war?’”Kimmel seemed pretty fired up by that statement. “They’d also have to google, ‘Who is the heartless imbecile with lip injections on my TV right now?’” he offered. “The Kurds, Lara, are our allies, and if they get slaughtered ISIS moves in. They’re really scraping the bottom of the Trump-family barrel on the news.” Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

Aides to Kim Jong Un are convinced the North Korean leader plans "a great operation", state media said on Wednesday in a report that included lavish descriptions and images of the leader riding a white horse up North Korea's most sacred mountain. In the photos released by state news agency KCNA, Kim is seen riding alone on a large white horse through snowy fields and woods on Mt Paektu, the spiritual homeland of the Kim dynasty. “His march on horseback in Mt Paektu is a great event of weighty importance in the history of the Korean revolution,” KCNA said.

When Syria's Kurdish fighters, America's longtime battlefield allies against the Islamic State, announced over the weekend that they were switching sides and joining up with Damascus and Moscow, it seemed like a moment of geopolitical whiplash. Fearing U.S. abandonment, the Kurds opened a back channel to the Syrian government and the Russians in 2018, and those talks ramped up significantly in recent weeks, American, Kurdish and Russian officials told The Associated Press. "We warned the Kurds that the Americans will ditch them," Russia's ambassador to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov, told Russia's Tass news agency on Monday.

The baby was delivered at 30 weeks weighing a tiny 1lb 5oz.

Vietnam and China have overlapping claims to the South China Sea. People noted that "Abominable" showed China's claim, known as the "nine-dash line."