Speaking in the House of Lords under the protection of parliamentary privileges, former Labor Minister Lord Heine called for the Pagliuca Consortium to be excluded from the race to oust the Blues. Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca is on the list of the four strongest contenders for the top team. The 67-year-old billionaire is also co-chairman of Bain Capital, which the company says is independent of Bain & Company. Lord Hein told the House of Lords: “As a Chelsea fan for 57 years, will the government ensure that no winning offer owes the club debt like the Glazers did at Manchester United?...

Party voters on Tuesday are set to choose between Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.), a former Republican governor making his second bid to regain office, and state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, the only elected to statewide Democratic. the main challenge for DeSantis this fall. But while few Republicans have sparked the same kind of anger among Democrats as DeSantis, it’s unclear whether the party has the candidates — or the firepower — to oust a governor whose political rise among conservatives has seemed, at times, unstoppable....

The 9-8 victory over Denmark in the playoffs on Saturday afternoon sent Canada to the semifinals tonight and to a match against South Korea. The Einarson quartet from the Manitoba Gimli Curling Club are three-time Canadian champions, but the 2022 World Championships in Prince George, BC, were their first to play in an arena with fans cheering for the host country. The World Cup in Prince George was canceled two years ago and last year’s championship in Calgary was without spectators due to the COVID-19 pandemic....

The case against Johannes Rivoire, who victims say has been on the run for decades, came to a head this week when the Inuit leader of Canada asked the pope to intervene in person during a visit to the Vatican by a delegation of indigenous peoples. . Meeting in person with Pope Francis on Monday, Natan Obed, head of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, asked Rivoire to return to Canada to “be tried for the damage he has done....

Canada, which beat North Brisbane, Australia 7-0 and Takarazuka, Japan 6-0 earlier in the 75th Little League World Series, then saw the bats go cold in a 10-0 loss to Matamoros, Mexico . Team Vancouver had just five scattered hits against Curaçao. Lucas Weisser, the starting pitcher for Canada, went 3.2 innings and had three strikeouts. Unfortunately, he drew six walks that allowed Curaçao to post some early runs. In fact, Curaçao only had five hits in the entire game, but scored twice in the first inning and left the bases loaded....

The commission has won two major victories in recent days: more than six hours of testimony from Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kouchner, and a federal judge ruling that the former president may have committed crimes to overthrow the 2020 election. The committee members believe that Kouchner’s cooperation could push other Trump officials to assist in the investigation as the commission draws closer to Trump’s inner circle and the former president himself, according to sources familiar with the matter....

Une action des militants nationalistes guadeloupéens En déplacement en Guadeloupe pour 24 heures, la candidate RN à la présidentielle a été prise pour cible par des manifestants samedi alors qu’elle enregistrait un duplex à son hôtel du Gosier pour France 3 “Dimanche en politique”. Après un entretien d’une dizaine de minutes, “des militants de nombreuses organisations nationalistes de Guadeloupe”, dont l’Alliance nationale de la Guadeloupe (ANG), ont investi les lieux, rapportent nos confrères de la 1ère Guadeloupe, provoquant l’arrêt de l’enregistrement....

The Chicago Moves initiative will issue up to 50,000 preloaded gas cards worth $ 150 each, which will be distributed to residents through a lottery system, Lightfoot told a news conference. “People need to be able to go to work, to school, to places of worship, to medical offices, to grocery stores,” Lightfoot said. “The goal of this program is to help make these moves easier.” The city will also issue $ 100,000 preloaded public transportation cards worth $ 50, the mayor added....

The official said the woman, a New Zealand national, arrived in South Korea in 2018 and there was no record of her leaving the country. According to the official, the woman held Korean citizenship before acquiring New Zealand citizenship “a long time ago”. The official did not name the woman or provide other identifying information and could not confirm whether she was born in South Korea. His whereabouts are unknown, the official said....

His local health unit has ordered the resort to shut down all of its hot tubs because they don’t comply with provincial rules — rules that he says have been ignored by local officials for decades and don’t apply in neighboring jurisdictions. Orr runs the Buttermilk Falls Resort, which includes nine rental cottages and five hot tubs. Hot tubs are located on the private decks of each cottage and are only used by guests renting that particular cottage....

+++ 21:58 Frankreich meldet 139.517 Neuinfektionen +++Nach Angaben der Behörden stieg die Zahl der Neuerkrankungen in Frankreich um 139.517 Fälle. In den letzten 7 Tagen wurden durchschnittlich 123.360 Neuinfektionen pro Tag verzeichnet. +++ 21:30 Erstes Volksfest in Bayern seit zwei Jahren – Söder feiert mit +++Nach zweijähriger Pause eröffnet Corona Bayerns erstes Volksfest: Beim Würzburger Volksfestfrühling schlägt Oberbürgermeister Christian Schuchardt unter dem Jubel der Cheerleader das erste Fass an. Ehrengast ist Ministerpräsident Markus Söder (CSU), der dann das Rädchen des Freizeitparks fährt....

Costa Rica will play in the playoffs between the confederations with New Zealand this summer for a place in the World Cup. US boss Greg Berhalter put his strongest players on the pitch, and they came close to scoring a few times in the first half, but Costa Rican superstar goalkeeper Kaylor Navas showed up again and again. It was a negative appearance and result overall, but it nevertheless marked a monumental day for a team eager to return to the world’s biggest stage, finishing third in the Concacaf table....

Health officials reported 438 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours on Sunday, along with 7,788 asymptomatic. Both figures were slightly higher than the previous day, while the northeastern province of Jilin recorded a total of 4,455 cases on Sunday, also marking an increase from Saturday. Although small by the standards of some countries, the daily increases are some of the largest since the virus was first detected in central Wuhan in late 2019....

The announcement completed today’s presentation of the Unreal Engine 5 by Epic Games, which coincided with the general release of the engine. Unreal Engine 5 is the powerful toolkit behind Epic Games’s recent demo The Matrix Awakens, which also runs the ever-changing Fortnite. “This new engine translates into next-level storytelling and gaming experiences, which is why we are excited to announce today that we have just started developing our next Tomb Raider game powered by Unreal Engine 5,” Crystal Dynamics said today....

However, the Denver Parks and Recreation immediately banned him from their premises and contacted the police, who issued an arrest warrant for him. Gunay went to the police headquarters on March 24, facing charges of felony criminal mischief. He could go to jail for one to three years, but the Denver Public Prosecutor’s Office decided not to charge him and instead sent the case to mediation. “Mr Guney was injured because he had to surrender....

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those of mind and body as well as the disabled. In early 2020, just as the coronavirus spread to Canada, Dr. Brooks Fallis became the interim medical director of the Critical Care team at William Osler Health System in Bradton, OD. Dr. Falis has had to deal with what he says will probably be “my biggest challenge as a doctor....

Jose Castillo, a current Walt Disney Company employee who is running for Congress in Florida as a Republican, told Fox News Digital that Disney’s new political activism may come back to bite the company… in its pocketbook. Florida legislators have floated the idea of repealing the 1967 Reedy Creek Improvement Act, which gives Disney the autonomy to effectively run its own government in the area around Disney World, in response to the company’s recent advocacy against the parental rights law H....

The council said Wednesday that a commission led to the release of Tracy Connelly, who was jailed indefinitely with a minimum of five years in prison in May 2009 for causing or allowing the death of her 17-month-old son, Peter. He had suffered more than 50 injuries with the extent of the cruelty inflicted on him causing extensive shock and disgust. Dominic Raab Appeals Against Baby P’s Mother Released From Prison – Video At the beginning of a speech to the Commons outlining plans to reform the release system with conditions to stop the release of dangerous offenders from prison, Justice Minister Raab said: “In the light of the release board mandate of Tracey Connelly, I have to inform the house that, having carefully read the decision, I decided to submit a request to the release board to request their reconsideration “....