September 2019

Boris Johnson responds to allegations of inappropriate behaviour

Boris Johnson insists allegations about his conduct towards women have not overshadowed the Conservative Party conference. “I think that what the public want to hear is what we’re doing for them and for the country” he said. The prime minister has denied a female journalist’s claim he squeezed her thigh at a lunch 20 years

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John Oliver Offers Seriously Funny Hope For Donald Trump Impeachment

John Oliver thinks this could finally be it. President Donald Trump’s involvement in the Ukraine whistleblower controversy left the “Last Week Tonight” comedian feeling seriously upbeat that Trump could fall after “so many terrible things” he has done. “This particular Trump scandal does start to feel a little different and something that is absolutely meriting

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Everton FC sponsor SportPesa suspends gambling operations in Kenya

Image copyright Getty Images Everton football club’s main sponsor, sports betting firm SportPesa, has halted operations in Kenya after a rise in tax on betting stakes. It comes amid worries about the effects of gambling in the African nation. Online sports gambling firms such as SportPesa have grown rapidly in the East African nation in

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Bundesliga switching to ESPN+ from Fox for 2020-21 season

Germany’s Bundesliga is moving its U.S. telecasts from Fox to ESPN, which will carry most of the matches on its digital streaming service in the latest switch from traditional broadcast networks. ESPN and the Bundesliga announced Monday they had reached a six-year agreement that starts with the 2020-21 season. Select matches will be televised on

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In Death Penalty Cases, Sotomayor Is Alone in ‘Bearing Witness’

Instead, she looked forward. “In an appropriate case,” she wrote, “this issue could warrant the court’s review.” She made a similar point in August, criticizing a “Kafkaesque procedural rule” in Florida. The rule, she wrote, served to thwart a 2014 Supreme Court decision, Hall v. Florida, that struck down as too rigid the I.Q. score

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