The Justice Department is fighting to keep Biden’s plan alive after it was halted by two federal courts in recent weeks. The agency is asking for quick action to block both rulings and allow the plan to take effect even as it plays out in the nation’s courts. In a legal filing Thursday, the administration announced plans to appeal one of those rulings, from a federal appeals court in St....
Jeremy Kyle was the latest to break the news after completing his own, less-heralded interview with comedian Dom Joly. A final push for interest came as the minutes wound down, not that it was needed. “The first part of this bombshell interview is coming next,” Kyle said. The wait had lasted three days. A 72-hour trail that began on Sunday night had teased global audiences with the best bits of Ronaldo’s interview with Piers Morgan and, damning as the content was, it ensures the veteran forward’s days as a Manchester United player will soon be over....
Whitehall sources said the deputy prime minister, who is facing two formal complaints over alleged bullying, had acted “so badly and inappropriately” at a high-level meeting earlier this year that the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) was forced to call to senior officials of the then home minister, Priti Patel, to express his regret. An insider suggested that the top Justice Department official, Antonia Romeo, had taken the highly unusual step of apologizing on behalf of her minister to prevent the incident from escalating into a formal complaint....
Florida Gov. Ron DeSandis said it was too early for Republicans to focus on the next presidential election when asked about the divide in the Democratic Party during a news conference the morning after Trump’s announcement. Declining to name the former president, DeSantis, a potential Trump opponent in 2024, said he was instead focused on the upcoming Georgia Senate runoff and his gubernatorial priorities in Florida. “We just finished this election....
On a day when two leading think tanks said high taxes had arrived for good and wages were set for the longest period of stagnation since the 19th century, Hunt insisted the £55bn budget squeeze was “fair”. But Tory MPs slammed the £25bn tax hikes on Thursday, which take Britain’s tax burden to 37.1 per cent of economic output, the highest since the second world war. David Jones, a former Welsh secretary, said the Tories’ prospects of winning the next election “will become more remote” if the tax hike plan remains in place....
Sign up for our free US News newsletter delivered straight to your inbox every weekday morning Sign up for our free US morning email newsletter A Walmart employee shot and killed six people in a mass shooting inside a store in Chesapeake, Virginia, before turning the gun on himself, authorities said. Police were called to the store at around 10.12pm on Tuesday night to find several people dead and injured at the scene....
“He certainly wouldn’t speak to the US president like that. So it suggests that Mr. Xi has a degree of contempt for the prime minister and doesn’t see Canada as an important partner,” said Charles Barton, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and former diplomat in China. Barton said he found the language used by Xi during his interaction with Trudeau at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, “quite dismissive and threatening,” suggesting that any illusions the administration has that China respects Canada as a nation influential in the world....
RCMP and emergency crews responded to the crash between exits 5a and 5 in Goffs, NS, around 7am. Police say traffic on the freeway was stopped due to an unrelated collision, which led to a pile-up. While approaching traffic, police say a Dodge Ram collided with a Subaru Outback and both vehicles then struck a Ford F-150. The crash forced the Dodge Ram into the median. A passenger in the Dodge Ram died at the scene....
Alcohol will be banned from stadiums during the 2022 World Cup, FIFA announced on Friday. The last-minute reversal came just two days before the start of the tournament. The World Cup is the first to be held in a conservative Muslim country with strict controls on alcohol, the consumption of which is banned in public, and the reversal has raised questions among some supporters about the host nation’s ability to keep promises to fans....
“Congratulations to @SpeakerPelosi on a remarkable, historic career of service in the House,” Boehner tweeted. “We were able to disagree without being indifferent. You have been incredibly kind to me and my family.” McConnell congratulates Pelosi on “historic tenure” and “#RIPTwitter” trends for “career” as users await possible site collapse Pelosi announced Thursday that she will not seek the leadership next year, clearing the way for a younger generation to vie for leadership roles and ending her two-year tenure in the Democratic Party....
To make matters worse, he tried to cheat them out of refunds, police added. Officials say Emmanuel Reyes Montalvo, 41, who also went by the name Miguel Santos, approached some residents in Livingston and Saddle Ridge with offers to build detached garages on the homes. “After signing contracts and receiving nearly $30,000 from the victims upfront, allegedly to purchase materials, the man failed to complete the project,” police said in a statement....
The Public Order Emergency Committee hears testimony Tuesday from Public Safety Minister Marco Medicino. As Rouleau was about to announce the usual lunch break, Brendan Miller, an attorney for Freedom Corp., interrupted to say he was speaking with Alexander Cohen, Mendicino’s communications director, who Miller said was in the hearing room. “It has very relevant information about the investigation, the circumstances and the invocation of the Emergency Act,” Miller said....
In the early hours of Friday morning at the Cop27 UN climate summit in Egypt, European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans presented a proposal on behalf of the EU to agree to the creation of a damage and loss fund. Rich countries had resisted this basic request, arguing that it would take time to determine whether such a fund was necessary and how it would work. Timmermans said on Friday morning that the EU has listened to the G77 group of developing countries, for whom the creation of a fund at this summit is a key demand....
“If a school board determines that it cannot maintain the healthy and safe operation of schools in person, school boards must support students in an expeditious transition to distance education,” the memo, titled Labor Disruptions – Continued Contingency Planning, states. . On Wednesday, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced it had given the mandatory five-day strike notice after renegotiations collapsed. The union said the two sides recently agreed to a 3....
“Recommendations are important, but there has to be a second part of it, and that’s holding people accountable,” said Tom Fenske, president of the Laurentian University Staff Association. Inside her reportOntario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk concluded that Laurentian’s financial collapse was largely due to a poorly planned and costly capital expansion in 2010. He said a lack of oversight by the university’s senior leadership and its board led to a series of poor financial decisions culminating in the decision to apply for creditor protection under the Companies Creditors Act (CCAA)....
Moscou porte la “responsabilité ultime” La Russie porte la “responsabilité ultime” de l’abattage du missile en Pologne, a déclaré le juge Antony Blinken, secrétaire d’État américain. 14:10 Le président polonais à l’endroit où le missile était visé 14:04 Zelensky affirme qu’il “ne sait pas ce qui s’est passé” Le président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky a déclaré qu’il “ne sait pas ce qui s’est passé” en Pologne où un missile a atterri mardi, tuant deux personnes, après avoir affirmé que le missile était “russe”....
The M23 near Crawley is closed southbound between junctions 10 and 11 due to flooding leading to long delays for motorists at junction 9 for Gatwick Airport. In Petersfield, the A3 northbound has lane closures due to flooding. Near Portsmouth, the A27 is closed eastbound between the junction with the A259 at Havant and the A259 at Chichester. Last night about 20 cars were stranded in the same section after being caught in flood waters....
The Twitter boss also tweeted: “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” – a Latin phrase meaning “the voice of the people is the voice of God”. In May, before he decided to buy Twitter, Musk said he would reverse Trump’s “stupid” ban on the platform if he took over the company. “Permanent bans should be extremely rare and really reserved for accounts that are bots or spam, scam accounts. I think it was wrong to ban Donald Trump,” he said....
Some days you can look at multiple factors to determine why a team wins or loses. You can spend hours talking about what to do or how to do it, but when it comes to the Edmonton Oilers looking for success against the Los Angeles Kings, there is one constant that guarantees them success: Score the first goal. Over the last five seasons, including the playoffs, the Oilers are undefeated when scoring first against the Kings....
House Democrats appear likely to select New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries to succeed Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a potentially historic move to elect the first black person to lead a party in Congress. Jeffries launched his bid for House Democratic leader on Friday, promising his colleagues in a letter that he would empower and protect them — and expand their ranks. “Our top non-government priority, for the sake of the American people, must be to regain the majority in November 2024,” Jeffries wrote....
