White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has gone viral after using a "Your Mom" joke to dress down a journalist.

So is this a fireable offence? Probably not, but it does speak to the current mood in media-politics relations in the US.

Plus, the origin of yo mama jokes cuts deeper than we realise.

And in headlines today, Telstra has tested phones in the wake of customers in another network outage being unable to contact Triple 0, finding there are a range of older Samsung model phones that are unable to connect to the Vodafone network as a backup; The Director of the Louvre museum in Paris says the building’s ageing camera system failed to detect the thieves who stole the French crown jewels on Sunday in enough time to prevent it from happening; King Charles will publicly pray with the Pope today, the first time a British monarch has done so since King Henry the VIII broke away from the Catholic Church and created the Church of England; Australia’s worst boss has been revealed 'The Battle Buffoon' making his employee watch as he reenacted battle scenes with soldier figurines during his lunch break

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"Your Mom Did" The Joke That Broke The Rules Of Politics

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