The EU has finally admitted it needs Britain more than we need it You will be able to work from the beaches of Ibiza, the cafes of Crete, or the cool startup hubs of Berlin. The European Union’s big offer this week to restore a form of freedom of movement between ... 04/19/2024 - 4:25 am | View Link
EU planning to ditch post-Brexit travel restrictions for UK citizens aged 18 to 30 EU planning to ditch post-Brexit travel restrictions for UK citizens aged 18 to 30 - Proposals aim to ‘rebuild human bridges between young Europeans on both sides of the Channel’ ... 04/18/2024 - 3:54 am | View Link
UK and EU ‘within kissing distance’ of post-Brexit Gibraltar border deal Gibraltar’s chief minister says progress made in talks about free movement across border with Spain The UK and the EU are within “kissing distance” of a post-Brexit deal to guarantee free ... 04/12/2024 - 7:02 am | View Link
EU official sparks anger by saying Gibraltar is Spanish in Brexit talks Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula (Getty Images/iStockphoto) The UK and EU are negotiating to secure a deal for a post-Brexit ... 04/5/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Brexiteer fury over new Labour plans to give citizenship to millions of Europeans With Sir Keir already on record calling for EU citizens to be allowed full voting rights in the UK, and the close links between Labour and the think tank, the Conservatives have slammed the proposals. 04/1/2024 - 3:19 am | View Link
Who was the first tortured poet? Maybe the ancient Egyptian who wrote, sometime in the 15th century BCE, “My beloved stirs my heart with his voice. He causes illness to seize me…. My heart is smitten.” Maybe the poet Catullus, whose heartbreaks lit up ancient Rome: “I hate and love,” he explained in Latin, “and it’s excruciating,” or (depending on the translator) “it crucifies me.” Petrarch’s sonnets, in 14th century Italy, complained that love both scorched and chilled.
Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But just as no breakup is exactly the same, the same can be said of breakup songs.
8212; College football is ready to put the signs away.
Following a sign-stealing scandal that rocked the sport and hung over Michigan’s championship run in 2023, the NCAA’s football oversight committee approved Friday the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season.
The football rules committee last month made a recommendation to allow — but not require — teams at the highest tier of Division I to use radio technology similar to what NFL teams use.
Only one player for each team will be permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field.
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place.
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Witnesses say the man doused himself with liquid in Collect Pond Park, a designated protest area across the street from the courthouse, before orange flames soon engulfed him.
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94.
Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison.