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Sinn Fein maintains abstentionist stance as DUP puts out feelers to Tories
The Conservatives won 318 seats , eight short of a Commons majority of 326. A giant screen on Sky News asked "WHO ARE THE DUP?" and data from Google showed searches spiked significantly in the hours after the election results emerged. People do not want Tory business as usual, they do not want a politics built on fear that spreads despair, and they certainly do not want a lame duck prime minist... [Full Article...]
British Prime Minister Theresa May to form a minority government
London , Jun 10 A petition against British Prime Minister Theresa May's deal with the ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist Party garnered almost 600,000 signatures today as concern grew over her plan to govern with their support. "It's early days... early days", Boris Johnson , who was reappointed as Foreign Secretary, said on Friday in response to a question from a BBC reporter if she had ... [Full Article...]
What Comey said, and didn't say
One of the things that really jumped out from the Comey hearing was the weird, downright surreal, questions asked by John McCain , who was either completely out of it and totally incoherent, or was disingenuously trying to compare a completed investigation to one that was still ongoing. [Full Article...]
Ukrainians Celebrate Visa-Free EU Travel
The European Commission confirmed that Ukraine met all the necessary requirements for visa liberalization in December 2015, and on April 6, the European Parliament approved the introduction of the short-stay visa-free regime for Ukraine. "I am grateful to you for being a true friend of Ukraine", the Head of State stressed. "Today we bring down the barrier between the people of Ukraine and the pe... [Full Article...]
America's Cup challenger final series: Team New Zealand v Artemis
Helmsman Burling, an Olympic gold-medallist, was bullish in Bermuda and said his Kiwi outfit would've won regardless of Outteridge's slip. Japan's America's Cup dream ended as SoftBank Team Japan went down 5-3 to Sweden's Artemis Racing in their semifinal on Friday. [Full Article...]
The Road to Larry O' Episode 9: Warriors Crumble in Game 4
They had the Cavs down, 3-1. That taste wouldn't have been the same if we would have lost tonight and they would have celebrated on our home floor. Stay out of early foul trouble (which is very much in their control no matter what you may think otherwise) and make the Cavaliers do the reacting and chasing. [Full Article...]
Graham: Trump could 'go down' because he can't stay quiet
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Sunday said President Donald Trump could be the first president to "go down" as a result of his inability to stop tweeting about the investigations he appears to view as a threat. He also said asking former FBI Director James Comey to pull back on the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn's Russian Federation ties doesn't amount to obstruct... [Full Article...]
Macron's party headed for big French parliamentary majority
According to the ministry, left-wing Unsubmissive France (La France Insoumise) and Socialist Party got 11.02 and 7.44 percent of votes, respectively. The results - which need to be confirmed in the second round of voting next Sunday - would give Macron the biggest majority in the Assembly since 1993. [Full Article...]