One of the biggest sporting events of the year is taking place at Wembley Stadium in London this weekend, when Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund play in the Champions League final. The city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, said Thursday that he wants to make London the “sporting capital of the world,” and this summer is a…

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President Joe Biden took heat Friday for his strange response to a question about his political rival’s historic criminal conviction following remarks from the White House, flashing what some called an “evil” grin.  President Biden, 81, said Friday after former President Donald Trump was found guilty in his New York criminal trial “he’ll be given…

CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig criticized the New York criminal case against Donald Trump as an “unjustified mess” in a scathing analysis piece, saying prosecutors “contorted the law” to ensnare the former president. “Prosecutors got their man, for now at least — but they also contorted the law in an unprecedented manner in their…

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Former U.N. Ambassador and GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley has remained silent on the criminal conviction of former President Donald Trump as prominent Republicans and former Trump rivals continue to sound off. Haley’s social media accounts have made no mention of the conviction as of early Friday afternoon and neither she, nor her representatives, responded…

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Inadequate staffing and poor oversight have meant that labor law violations are not properly enforced, the audit found.

The 18-year-old Chechen wanted to attack a football stadium in Saint-Étienne, officials say. https://ift.tt/gs1L9iA May 31, 2024 at 09:43PM