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Taylor Swift sure seems to be having the time of her life in London. On her third night putting on a show before 90,000 people—including a number of British celebrities—at Wembley Stadium, and her 106th Eras Tour show worldwide, the 2023 TIME Person of the Year found a new way to surprise her fans and the Internet: with a special appearance—and performance—from her boyfriend Travis Kelce. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Kelce, tight end for the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs and a budding actor, appeared onstage during the introduction to Swift’s Tortured Poets Department song “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart.” Videos of the viral moment showed Kelce donning a tailcoat and top hat to match the usual dress and choreography for the scene, in which Swift is urged along with her costume change to continue performing. So the 3x Super Bowl champion tight end of the Kansas City Chiefs has joined his superstar girlfriend on stage in front of Paul McCartney and 89k in London.

h/t Tengrain. ICYMI: People are standing outside in hundred degree heat in Las Vegas to hear Trump babble on and on about sharks and batteries. He doesn’t talk about you, or what he’s going to do for you, or your future. It’s always about him, or meaningless nonsense. He’s a complete waste of time.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Episode 2 of House of the Dragon Season 2. House of the Dragon has always been about familial in-fighting. But in the second episode of Season 2, we got a particularly salient look at how the Targaryen Civil War is rippling out to impact families other than the one at its center. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Following the introduction of twin brothers in the Kingsguard, Arryk and Erryk Cargyll (Luke and Elliott Tittensor), in the back half of Season 1, Sunday’s episode saw their conflicting loyalties come to a violent head when Ser Arryk was ordered to covertly kill Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) by posing as his brother.

MOSCOW — More than 15 policemen and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, were killed by armed militants in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan on Sunday, its governor Sergei Melikov said in a video statement early Monday. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The gunmen opened fire on two Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a police post in two cities, according to the authorities. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorist Committee described the attacks in the predominantly Muslim region with a history of armed insurgency as terrorist acts. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were declared days of mourning in the region. Dagestan’s Interior Ministry said a group of armed men shot at a synagogue and a church in the city of Derbent, located on the Caspian Sea.

NEW YORK — Donald Trump has narrowed his vice presidential shortlist to a handful of contenders as he prepares to announce his pick in the days before — or perhaps even at — next month’s Republican National Convention. He told reporters Saturday that he already has made his decision and that the person will be in attendance Thursday night in Atlanta at the first debate of the general election campaign against Democratic President Joe Biden. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Trump’s choice would likely become the immediate front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination four years from now if Trump were to win a second term, the constitutional limit.

8212; Officers went door to door in a rural area of southern Colorado on Sunday as aircraft searched overhead for a man suspected of shooting three people, killing one, and then fleeing on foot into farmland after a failed carjacking. Suspect Henry Corral, 44, should be considered armed and dangerous, said police in the small city of Alamosa. “It’s a huge area — probably almost 30 square miles that we’ve got to work.