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PORTO, PORTUGAL – MAY 29: Thomas Tuchel, Manager of Chelsea lifts up the Champions League Trophy … [+] following their team’s victory in the UEFA Champions League Final between Manchester City and Chelsea FC at Estadio do Dragao on May 29, 2021 in Porto, Portugal. (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)UEFA via Getty Images He might have won the UEFA Champions League, but England’s appointment of a foreign head coach is certainly going to split opinions. One person even said “it is a little surprising that the motherland of football has ignored a sacrosanct law” that the…
ROME — President Donald Trump released a statement Wednesday commemorating the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest who helped bring down communism in Poland. “Father Jerzy was a Roman Catholic priest, a Polish patriot, a champion for workers, and a heroic messenger of the Gospel, who valiantly sacrificed his life for God, his country, and for all people who yearn to live in freedom,” Trump said in the statement. “For his steadfast fidelity to God, he was viciously beaten to death by agents of the communist secret police,” Trump notes of the celebrated former…
Vice President Kamala Harris raised doubts on Tuesday about whether November’s election will be “free and fair.” Harris has not yet answered if she would support certifying a Trump victory, although she has been highly critical of Republicans who objected to President Joe Biden’s victory in 2020. “Why are people acting like this is going to be a free and fair election and he won’t try to steal it?” Charlamagne tha God asked Harris. Harris replied the election would only be “free and fair” if Americans “stand up for that.” “It will be a free and fair election if we, the…
(Bloomberg) — Turkey’s central bank is expected to extend its interest-rate pause for a seventh straight month after September inflation data came in higher than expected.Most Read from BloombergThe Monetary Policy Committee led by Governor Fatih Karahan is seen holding rates at 50% on Thursday, according to almost all economists surveyed by Bloomberg. One dissenter is penciling in a 250 basis-point rate cut.The MPC softened its tone on a potential rate reduction last month, anticipating improvement in services inflation in the final quarter. That prompted economists to suggest a cut could come in November, but worse-than-anticipated data saw those forecasts…
Talk about a long walk.A paraglider getting an aerial view of the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt on Monday was surprised to see a dog atop the iconic giant pyramid.While he didn’t say anything in the video, Alex Lang turned the camera towards him as he was flying his paramotor and beamed, evidently happily surprised that he saw the canine. Disneyland, Walt Disney World to debut new skip-the-line service “He was barking at birds,” Lang told news agency Storyful.The pooch was also seen walking around the pinnacle of the largest pyramid in the Memphis necropolis.Who the dog belongs to,…
A Georgia judge invalidated several new election rules Wednesday, saying the measures approved by the state’s Republican-controlled Election Board were “unconstitutional” and in violation of state law.The ruling, handed down by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox, applies to seven rules, including a hand-count rule for Election Day ballots and rules tied to certifying results.Cox wrote that the five-member board, which includes three officials lauded by former President Donald Trump, “had no authority to implement these rules” and that the measures were “illegal, unconstitutional, and void.”The Georgia secretary of state’s office and the State Election Board did not immediately…
Harold J. Daggett, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, earned more than $800,000 in compensation for that role last year, plus another $194,000 as “president emeritus” of the union’s Local 1804-1. Photo by Mark Bonamo for New Jersey MonitorThe three-day dockworker strike that threatened to stall the American economy was a dramatic victory for 45,000 East Coast longshoremen, who now stand to collect 60% pay hikes by 2030.The tentative deal, between maritime shippers and the International Longshoremen’s Association, lifts top pay to $45 an hour next year for laborers on dozen of docks from Maine to Texas, including Baltimore’s. At that rate,…
Georgia reported more than double the number of ballots cast on the first day over the 2020 figure Early voting in the US presidential election in the critical battleground state of Georgia got underway with record turnout on Tuesday. Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s top election official, revealed that at least 328,000 ballots had already been cast in the state, more than double what was recorded on the first day of early voting in 2020. States are allowed to open early voting as early as six weeks before Election Day, scheduled for November 5 this year, thus allowing voters to avoid the crowds.The…
A new shocking report has found that Venezuelan transnational gang Tren de Aragua has taken over at least four apartment building complexes in San Antonio, Texas, as thousands of its illegal alien gangsters run amok nationwide, sparking crime and chaos from Colorado to Texas to New York City. Many of the members of the armed migrant prison gang invaded the nation through Biden-Harris’ open southern borders. DailyMail revealed: A dangerous Venezuelan gang has taken over at least four apartment complexes in San Antonio, Texas, as it expands its reach in yet another America city, DailyMail.com can reveal.The report confirmed that Palatia Apartments was one…
CBS News spoke to some leaders in the black community in Michigan today about the election and did not get the responses they were probably expecting. This is just more proof that Kamala Harris and the Democrats have a very real problem with black voters this year. Some of these men may not be excited about Trump, but they are also certainly not impressed with Kamala Harris. FOX News reports: Michigan community leader tells CBS ‘a lot of Black men are not into the Harris campaign’ A group of Michigan community leaders told CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe that Black men…