Day: May 13, 2024

Eurovision banned the EU flag from the song contest. The EU is angry and wants to know why

10:08 pm May 13, 2024

The Eurovision Song Contest continued to spawn unprecedented controversy, days after the winner was crowned, with the 27-nation European Union lambasting organizers on Monday for their “incoherence” in banning its flag from the concert hall during the final. In an unusually sharp letter, EU Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas wrote to the Swiss-based European Broadcast […]

Belfast judge says parts of the UK’s migrant deportation law shouldn’t apply to Northern Ireland

10:05 pm May 13, 2024

The United Kingdom’s law to deport asylum-seekers shouldn’t apply in Northern Ireland, because parts of it violate human rights protections, a Belfast judge ruled Monday. The Illegal Migration Act was incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights and undermines rights provided in the Good Friday peace agreement of 1998, High Court Justice Michael Humphreys […]

Maine Gov. Mills declines to remove embattled sheriff from office

10:03 pm May 13, 2024

Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Monday declined to take the rare step of removing a sheriff accused of improprieties including the transfer of guns from an evidence locker to a gun dealer without proper documentation. Oxford County Sheriff Christopher Wainwright was also accused of failing to ensure proper certifications were in place for school resource […]

Houston pizza delivery driver shoots, kills customer trying to rob him: police

10:02 pm May 13, 2024

A Texas pizza delivery driver shot and killed a customer early Sunday who was trying to rob him, police said. The delivery person working for an unnamed establishment arrived at the Park Yellowstone Apartment Homes in Houston just before 12:45 a.m. when a male customer confronted him, the Houston Police Department said. “A male was […]

‘The View’ co-hosts worry about president’s chances: Biden ‘worse off’ than Clinton, Obama

10:00 pm May 13, 2024

“The View” co-hosts admitted on Monday that they were concerned about President Biden’s re-election chances, as polls show him trailing Donald Trump in key battleground states. “I’m concerned,” co-host Sunny Hostin said. “When you look at these stats, it’s very clear that Biden is actually worse off now six months from the election than [Barack] […]