The decision by Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to block their fellow Democrats from passing new federal voting-rights legislation clears the path for years of tightening ballot restrictions in Republican-controlled states. It also marks a resounding triumph for Chief Justice John Roberts in his four-decade quest to roll back the federal government’s role in protecting voter rights.
Roberts as much as anyone set in motion the events that have led to this week’s climactic Senate confrontation over voting legislation.
Fresh Covid restrictions could be imposed in time for New Year’s Eve as London’s hospital admissions surge by more than 90 per cent.
Boris Johnson will decide on Monday whether to introduce new curbs including a return to the Rule of Six and a ban on households mixing following a review of the latest data on the Omicron variant.
In a blow to the new year hopes of millions, Government scientists have indicated that these shutdown measures could remain in
Burnley supporters were left livid after their team’s game away to Aston Villa on Saturday was postponed just over two hours before kick-off.
A host of games in the Premier League have been unable to take place this weekend because of Covid-19 cases, and Villa couldn’t participate in the fixture following positive test results in the squad overnight in addition to injuries and illness.
This is the second time this week that Burnley have had a game called off on
The US government has won its High Court bid to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Assange, 50, is wanted in America over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following WikiLeaks’s publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
A US grand jury indicted him on 18 charges last year – 17 of which fall under the Espionage Act.
Assange’s lawyers claim he faces up to 175 years in jail
Der Staub hat sich in der regulären Saison der MLS gelegt und das Playoff-Bild ist festgelegt – aber nicht ohne ein spätes Drama und einen Abschied von einer Ligalegende.
Der Titelverteidiger Columbus Crew schaffte es nicht in die Playoffs, während beide LA-Teams – LAFC und LA Galaxy – auch nicht genug taten, was bedeutete, dass es seltsamerweise nicht alle Clubs der Liga aus Kalifornien und Texas in die 14. -Team Nachsaison. Darin enthalten sind die San Jose Earthquakes, deren Ausscheidung
Britons are rushing to buy flights to the US after Joe Biden finally said the fully-vaccinated will be allowed in from November.
Bookings surged by up to 700 per cent within an hour of the President’s announcement and airlines’ share prices rocketed.
Meanwhile people who have been kept apart from their friends and family due to the restrictions shared their glee at the changes.
They said it ‘feels like a dream’ while noting how hard it had been to be
Scott Kirby, the chief executive of United Airlines, reached a breaking point while vacationing in Croatia this summer: After receiving word that a 57-year-old United pilot had died after contracting the coronavirus, he felt it was time to require all employees to get vaccinated.
He paced for about half an hour and then called two of his top executives. “We concluded enough is enough,” Mr. Kirby said in an interview on Thursday. “People are dying, and we can do something
Divorcees are facing hardship in retirement by picking property over pensions, experts warn today.
Family law experts and financial advisers have told Money Mail that women are often too quick to accept the family home in a divorce settlement, overlooking the value of pension wealth.
But advisers and solicitors also say an increasing number of women are now the family breadwinners, so must pay up in divorce.
Hidden wealth: Family law experts and financial advisers say women are often too
