“The president was expressing his concern about former president Trump receiving access to sensitive intelligence,” press secretary Jen Psaki told The Washington Post. Biden previously argued against providing Trump with any classified intelligence, saying in an interview with CBS News on Friday it would be a bad idea “because of …
Read More »Super Bowl LV: Tom Brady vs. Patrick Mahomes ‘dream matchup’ set for center stage in NFL showpiece between Chiefs and Buccaneers
After two decades of unrivalled success and six Super Bowl rings alongside Bill Belichick at the New England Patriots, 43-year-old Tom Brady switched gears in the offseason and signed a deal with the unfashionable Tampa Bay Buccaneers – a team who hadn’t made the playoffs in 13 consecutive seasons. And now, …
Read More »‘Khabib is very closely involved’: Dagestani MMA fighter says UFC king Nurmagomedov has given priceless support to 50 drug addicts
Magomedzaid Zaidov has claimed that Nurmagomedov plays a personal role in inspiring addicts in his country to break free of their problems, acting as an influential role model they can turn to for motivation and support. Sport Express said that welterweight Zaidov had been a drug addict himself for around …
Read More »NYPD launches probe into ‘domestic terrorist’ cop wearing ‘political patch’ amid calls for purges & cleansing of ‘Trump’s Army’
At a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Brooklyn on Friday evening, video was captured of the officer in uniform with two Trump badges attached to her vest. One is of a skull styled after the comic book character The Punisher – which some have called for to be retired – …
Read More »Watch out, ref: Cristiano Ronaldo bags for Juventus against Roma – then grabs for official’s arm as he asks to check goal (VIDEO)
The striker, who was spotted wearing an 18-karat white gold Rolex worth around $510,000 at an awards ceremony in June, asked official Daniele Orsato whether his effort had gone in after nearly netting in the home game on Saturday evening. When Orsato assured him that the sensor on his decidedly …
Read More »Myanmar approves Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine despite post-coup crisis
The nation has become the 20th foreign state to greenlight the Russian jab, and the first in South East Asia, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said in a statement. Myanmar has approved the emergency use of the vaccine, requesting additional clinical trials on the ground. The development came despite …
Read More »‘Genie’s out of the bottle’: German FM pledges €21 million to help Belarusian opposition, ‘oppressed people’
Seemingly in an effort to cement an image of Berlin as the leader among European nations sponsoring anti-government movements in the post-Soviet space, Maas on Saturday addressed the so-called Belarus Solidarity Conference – an online event organized by the World Belarus Congress, a forum of Belarusian expatriate diasporas and opposition-supporting …
Read More »‘Martian landscape’: Sahara sand covers Alpine snow as early desert wind from Africa turns Europe orange (PHOTOS)
While pictures of the surreal scenes flooded social media on Saturday, the French are actually quite used to the annual phenomenon: the sandy wind is “not extremely rare,” but it is “exceptional” that it is so early in the year, Le Parisien wrote. Sirocco normally arrives in April, and leads …
Read More »‘Rules do not apply to her’: GOP accuses Pelosi of breaking metal detector rule but not facing $5,000 fine like Republicans
GOP members of the Committee on House Administration squealed on the House Speaker for allegedly avoiding going through a metal detector on Thursday when entering Congress, a new rule that two Republican congressmen are being docked thousands of dollars for breaking. “Yesterday at approximately 9:59 am multiple members observed the …
Read More »Splintered SCOTUS gives California churches partial win, rules state can’t ban indoor services, but can limit capacity over Covid
Religious organizations have been battling with California for months now, as the state’s lockdown restrictions have meant that indoor services have been banned across most of the state – a move that has drawn criticism, in particular, because Hollywood productions have been allowed to move forward. The Supreme Court ruled …
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