Recently retired football superstar Tom Brady is in talks to become a limited partner with the Las Vegas Raiders, Seth Wickersham and Adam Schefter of ESPN reported Friday. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; This would be the second time Brady and Raiders Mark Davis partner on a sports franchise in Sin City. In March, the seven-time Super Bowl champion purchased a stake in the Las Vegas Aces of the WNBA. Wickersham and Schefter further reported that the talks have been ongoing for weeks but that Brady’s interest in the venture is “passive.” Should Brady invest in the Raiders,…
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Turkey’s voters head to the polls on Sunday in an election that will not only determine the country’s domestic policies but could also influence Sweden’s NATO membership. After Russia invaded Ukraine, Finland and Sweden abandoned decades of military neutrality and applied a year ago to join the world’s largest military alliance in an effort to fortify their borders. While most NATO members were quick to ratify the two Nordic nations’ membership applications, Turkey and Hungary held back. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused both countries, especially Sweden, of providing safe haven to members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and…
Key Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives have signed onto a bill that would bar the US government from funding international conservation groups that finance or support human rights violations.The proposed law would require federal agencies to monitor international projects they support for abuses and, if any are discovered, to stop sending money. And every year, agencies would have to submit to Congress a report on human rights abuses that have occurred at US-funded projects.The House Committee on Natural Resources has been looking into the issue in response to a 2019 BuzzFeed News investigation that found that the…
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan is to be released on bail for two weeks following a decision from the High Court.The former prime minister, who served from 2018 to 2022, was back in court following his arrest on Tuesday on corruption charges, which sparked countrywide violence that left at least 10 people dead and dozens injured.The country’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday the arrest was unlawful and ordered his release from custody, although Mr Khan spent the night as a police guest for his own protection.It then asked the Islamabad High Court – a lower court – to reconsider…
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan is to be released on bail for two weeks following a decision from the High Court.The former prime minister, who served from 2018 to 2022, was back in court following his arrest on Tuesday on corruption charges, which sparked countrywide violence that left at least 10 people dead and dozens injured.The country’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday the arrest was unlawful and ordered his release from custody, although Mr Khan spent the night as a police guest for his own protection.It then asked the Islamabad High Court – a lower court – to reconsider…
At least two Armenian forces have been wounded after Baku used drones in the direction of Sotk, according to Yerevan.Renewed border clashes have erupted between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces, according to Yerevan, a day after deadly fighting threatened to derail European Union-led weekend peace talks between the Caucasus arch-foes. Baku and Yerevan are locked in a decades-long territorial dispute over Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh, over which they have fought two wars. On Friday morning, “Azerbaijani Armed Forces violated the ceasefire in the direction of Sotk (eastern part of the state border) using UAVs”, the defence ministry in Yerevan said…
Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security have been planning to tell Mexico that a controversial Trump-era border policy enacted during the pandemic may come to an end as soon as April, which could lead to an increase of immigrants coming to the border and a strain on resources, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.The existence of such planning, which was revealed in a draft document, comes as the Biden administration deals with the fallout of two federal court orders on the border policy known as Title 42, which has been met with rebukes from Senate Democrats and…
Former US President Donald Trump is appealing against a $5m award to a woman that a jury found he had sexually abused.Former US President Donald Trump is appealing a New York jury’s verdict awarding $5m to a magazine columnist after the jurors concluded Trump had sexually abused her in the 1990s and defamed her last October. A notice of appeal was filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, the first step in a process that will move the civil case brought against Trump by writer E Jean Carroll to a three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals.…
This shift is most apparent in Europe, which is heavily reliant on imported Russian energy to keep the lights and heat on and has been experiencing a steady rise in energy prices. The new conflict, and the escalating sanctions and scrapped pipeline plans in response, has raised concerns that additional projected price hikes could trigger supply shortages as soon as next winter.“We must become independent from Russian oil, coal and gas,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said in a statement on Monday. “We simply cannot rely on a supplier who explicitly threatens us. We need to…
Lindy Ruff did not expect Jack Hughes to suit up for Game 5 against the Carolina Hurricanes but the New Jersey Devils superstar was not going to let his team down. Hughes did not take part in line rushes and was questionable to play because of an upper-body injury. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Hughes ended up playing 14:16 and registered an assist in the game which earned the respect of his head coach who commended his star centre for showing great character. “For him to put his skates on and play, says a lot about his character,”…