This year’s Super Bowl won’t be a politics-free zone, as both President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg will air campaign ads during the game.But most other advertisers will offer escape  from impeachment and the upcoming presidential election by stuffing multiple celebrities in their ads, appropriating iconic songs, going for inoffensive humor, and trying to tug at people’s heartstrings.Here are 10 ads to watch for during Sunday’s game in Miami:AMAZONAmazon’s ad stars Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, imagining life before the company’s voice assistant Alexa. A maid named Alexa throws some burning firewood out a window when she is asked to turn the temperature down; an Old West pioneer asks his companion Al to “play that song I like.” In one of the few political allusions of the night, a newsboy says his newspaper has “fake news” and a character resembling Richard Nixon asks his secretary to remind him to delete his tapes (although she tells the camera she won’t do it).AUDIArya can sing as well as stab, it turns out. “Game of Thrones” actress Maisie Williams belts out the hit song “Let it Go” from “Frozen” as she promotes Audi’s e-tron family of electric vehicles. The ad airs in the second quarter.BUDWEISERThe Anheuser-Busch brand enlisted Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow for a 60-second ad that contrasts a voiceover of “typical American” behavior with real-life video of Americans doing heartwarming things. For instance, the narration says typical Americans are “always so competitive” while the ad shows Hannah Gavios, who is partially paralyzed, completing a marathon.CHEETOSThe MC Hammer classic “U Can’t Touch This” is 30 years old this year, but that’s not keeping Cheetos from embracing it. The snack-food ad features a man with bright orange Cheetos dust on his hands who can’t stop moving furniture or performing office tasks. Hammer himself — “Hammer pants” and all — also keeps popping up to utter his iconic catchphrase.DORITOSThe snack chip is betting people will connect with “Old Town Road,” the smash hit of the summer by Lil Nas X. In the Western-themed ad, Lil Nas has a dance off with grizzled character actor Sam Elliott. Billy Cyrus, who features in the song’s remix, also makes a cameo.FACEBOOKThe social media site hasn’t unveiled its first-ever Super Bowl ad but it will star Rocky himself, Sylvester Stallone, with comedian Chris Rock to promote the site’s Groups feature. The 60-second ad airs late in the game during the fourth quarter.GOOGLEGoogle’s 90-second ad is one of the few ads this year that doesn’t use humor or celebrities. It features a man reminiscing about his wife, using the Google Assistant feature to pull up old photos of her and past vacations. The ad is set to an instrumental version of “Say Something” by Great Big World.HYUNDAIThe automaker pokes fun at Boston accents with a 60-second ad in the second quarter that uses Boston-affiliated celebrities including actor Chris Evans, John Krasinski, Saturday Night Live alum Rachel Dratch and Boston Red Sox manager David Ortiz. They discuss Hyundai’s feature that lets car owners park remotely with exaggerated accents that make “Smart Park” sound like “smaht pahk.”MICHELOBWrestler-turned-actor John Cena tries to convince Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon that there’s a “lighter side” to working out, with cameos by Tonight show band The Roots and Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt. The ad ultimately hawks Michelob Ultra, which Anheuser-Busch promotes as a lower calorie beer.PEPSIPepsi tries to reignite the Cola Wars with Missy Elliott and H.E.R. performing an updated version of the Rolling Stones’ classic tune “Paint It Black.” As singers intone the lyrics “I see a red door and I want it painted black,” a red cola can resembling a Coke changes into a black can of Pepsi.
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A Connecticut opera singer charged with using an SUV to blast through barricades outside President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, drawing law enforcement gunfire, refused to appear in court Saturday, delaying her initial appearance. Palm Beach County Judge Ted Booras said Hannah Roemhild’s first hearing would be held Monday if she could be brought from the jail to the court without endangering herself or deputies, local media reported. Roemhild, 30, is charged with two state counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer after Friday’s wild chase through Palm Beach and past the president’s Mar-a-Lago club. She was being held at the Palm Beach County Jail without bond. Officials have said Roemhild was obviously impaired'' and they do not believe she targeted the president or Mar-a-Lago. He was not present. This driver's license photo shows Hannah Eileen Roemhild, the driver of the vehicle authorities say breached security at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 31, 2020, in West Palm Beach, Fla.Friday's events began just before noon when a Florida Highway Patrol trooper working an off-duty security shift at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach approached Roemhild as she danced on the roof of her rented Jeep SUV in the high-end resort's parking lot. She jumped inside and refused to acknowledge his taps on the glass. She then put the car in reverse and drove away. The trooper smashed the window and tried to grab the steering wheel to prevent her from leaving, but she sped away, leading him on a chase south down swanky Ocean Drive toward Mar-a-Lago, 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) miles away, at speeds in excess of 70 mph (113 kph). Authorities there said she swerved around concrete barriers and through two checkpoints, endangering the lives of Secret Service agents and Palm Beach County deputies staffing them. They opened fire, breaking out her back window. At this point, the trooper ended his pursuit, fearing lives would be endangered if it continued. At some point, Roemheld picked up a female relative before automatic license plate readers soon tracked her to a motel near Palm Beach International Airport. A trooper tackled her as she tried to flee into her room, officials said. TV video shows a dazed Roemheld showing a blank expression as she was handcuffed and placed into a patrol car. Roemheld has appeared in several Connecticut operas and said on social media recently that she had an unspecified performance scheduled in Palm Beach this past week. Marilyn Malcarne, a Connecticut friend of the Roemhild family, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that the woman's alleged behavior was completely out of character and shewouldn’t hurt a soul.” She's incredibly talented, Malcarne said. “She has really studied her opera singing and she has an amazing voice.” 
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Arab foreign ministers pledged support Saturday for the Palestinian cause at an extraordinary summit in Cairo, criticizing the Trump administration’s peace plan but taking no concrete action to oppose it.  Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the plan, though, saying he was “cutting security relations with both the U.S. and Israel.” The foreign ministers applauded Abbas’ fiery speech denouncing the Trump administration’s “Deal of the Century” peace plan, which he vowed “never to accept.” He also said he would not accept that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Jerusalem, he insisted, “is our capital.” Abbas read off other grievances against the peace plan, saying it would give the Palestinians “a piece of Swiss cheese,” with “no sovereignty over either land, sea or air,” and “just 22% of historic [British-mandated] Palestine,” including several Arab towns now inside Israel. FILE – Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat.Dismissive of ‘Sham’Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat, who sat next to Abbas, advising him at times over the choice of words, broke the monotony of Abbas’ angry litany, mocking the Trump peace plan in English. “We strongly disapprove of the ‘Sham of the Century,’ “ he said. Abbas also expressed displeasure with a provision in the plan saying Palestinians must “show good will,” and another provision that the Palestinian Authority “must disarm Gaza,” which is now controlled by the rival Hamas group. Arab League head Ahmed Aboul Gheit told the gathering the “change of America’s position vis-a-vis the Palestinians” and its “disregard for historic U.N. resolutions” toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “do not help the cause of peace.” He said Saturday’s meeting was meant to “examine the negative effects of the Trump peace plan,” arguing it did “not meet the basic demands of the Palestinians” and would “sow the seeds of another 100 years of conflict.” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri urged Israel “not to continue creating facts on the ground,” alluding to the creation of new Israeli settlements in the West Bank or Jerusalem. “Delaying a just and fair solution,” he added, “will promote regional and world instability.” Jordanian: No changes in JerusalemJordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi also warned Israel not to tamper with the current religious situation in Jerusalem, in which Amman is responsible for Islamic holy sites, including the al-Aqsa Mosque. He said there must be no changes to the traditional situation in Jerusalem. The city, he insisted, is the symbol of peace and must continue to embody peace. FILE – A man holds the daily Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper fronted by a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump, at a coffee shop in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 29, 2020, following Trump’s unveiling of a Mideast peace plan.Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali Hakim urged “all Arab countries to help the Palestinians,” and Bahrain’s foreign minister, Sheikh Khaled al-Khalif, urged Palestinians and Israelis to “start [direct] negotiations immediately, in order to achieve an acceptable agreement.” The UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Ghargash, reiterated the point, adding, “Dialogue is the key to a peace solution,” and “Each side must make difficult decisions, given the serious regional situation.” Verbal backing, but no moreEgyptian political sociologist Said Sadek told VOA that Arab foreign ministers “gave verbal support to the Palestinians” but most Arab states are “too busy with their own problems and interests to do more than that.” “Arab countries,” he insisted, “are no longer willing to fight wars for the Palestinians, as they did in 1948, 1967 or 1973.” “The Arab people had little reaction” to the Trump peace plan in the streets of most capitals, and “little to no reaction at Friday prayers in mosques across the region,” he added. 
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