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Michelle O’Neill was never supposed to be here. When the Northern Ireland Assembly was established following the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended 30 years of sectarian bloodshed known as “The Troubles,” it established a delicate system of power sharing. Traditionally Protestant British unionists, who want to preserve Northern Ireland’s status within the U.

Hong Kong made its first acquittals under the national security law while finding 14 opposition figures guilty in a landmark case, ending a conviction streak that fueled doubts over the city’s judicial independence. Judges in the once-freewheeling finance hub found 14 out of 16 defendants guilty of subversion charges under a 2020 national security law imposed by Beijing.

The Rockies’ May resurgence rests on their starting pitching, and Ty Blach has been central to the revival. The Denver native began the season at Triple-A Albuquerque, got called up as a reliever, and was inserted into the starting rotation out of necessity. Now he’s pitching like he should have been in there all along. Wednesday night, the veteran left-hander pitched seven solid innings, setting the table for Colorado’s 7-4 win over Cleveland at Coors Field in front of an announced crowd of 21,374. “You can’t control so many things in this game,” Blach said when asked about his trip from the minors to the majors this season.

WASHINGTON — An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least $99 million in profits by reselling access to criminals who used it for identity theft, child exploitation, and financial fraud, including pandemic relief scams. The U.

By JIMMY GOLEN (AP Sports Writer) LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Kendall Coyne Schofield once showed off her speed racing against the men in an NHL skills competition at All-Star weekend. On Wednesday night, she made a mad dash into women’s hockey history. The three-time Olympian chased down a rolling puck and knocked it into an empty net to seal Minnesota’s 3-0 victory over Boston in the winner-take-all Game 5 to claim the inaugural championship of the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Liz Schepers scored to break a scoreless, second-period tie, Michela Cava made it 2-0 midway through the third period and Nicole Hensley stopped 17 shots for Minnesota.

It's difficult to remember all of the players in Trump's orbit who are paying the price for doing the former President's illegal bidding, but Jenna Ellis is the one who Rudy Giuliani Covid-farted on in her general direction. An agreement has been reached between Colorado legal officials and the Fart Lady, barring her from practicing law in the state for three years after she pleaded guilty to helping the twice-impeached former President try to overturn the 2020 election. Imagine giving everything up for that chud.