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The Russian government has expelled the second-highest-ranking U.S. diplomat from the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, according to the State Department. Bart Gorman, the U.S. deputy chief of mission to Russia, was expelled on Feb. 17, a State Department spokesperson told news outlets. “Russia’s action against [Gorman] was unprovoked, and we consider this an escalatory step and are considering our response,” the spokesperson said. The spokesperson told news outlets that Gorman had a valid visa and has been in Russia for less than three years. “We call on Russia to end its baseless expulsions of U.S. diplomats and staff and to work productively…

Long before full time, debate was under way regarding where this sits in a table of one-off results for Scottish teams in European competition. Success for Rangers against Borussia Dortmund is at least a valid part of the discussion. The visiting contingent inside Signal Iduna Park not only – and quite rightly – partied but realised this was an extraordinary occasion that will be spoken about for years to come. Far from stealing victory, the Scottish champions were fully deserving of it; including by the two-goal margin. There may even be frustration for Giovanni van Bronckhorst that Rangers do not have more…

Millions of Britons were urged to stay at home today amid major travel chaos after the Met Office issued a rare ‘red warning’ for 100mph winds over southern England including London as Storm Eunice swept into Britain. The warnings run from 7am until 12pm in the South West and 10am until 3pm in the South East with forecasters concerned over ‘flying debris resulting in danger to life’ as well as ‘roofs blown off and power lines brought down’. Hundreds of schools were closed, all trains in Wales were suspended and rail passengers across England were told not to travel amid…

Imagine if your bank notified you that you no longer owned your life savings, and that your money would be distributed to those in need on the island of Madagascar. The crowdfunding platform GoFundMe essentially tried to pull that off last week, when it announced that the $10 million raised by the Freedom Convoy in Canada would be withheld and redistributed to a “verified charity.” Immediately, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis tweeted out that it was theft on a massive scale, and declared that he would begin investigating GoFundMe for fraud. Within hours, GoFundMe reversed their decision to repurpose the funds, and agreed…

Babcock – one of Britain’s biggest engineering firms – could relocate its shipyard at Rosyth to England within a few years if it is not welcome in an independent Scotland, its chief executive said today. David Lockwood said the timescales around any future independence negotiations mean such a move would be ‘manageable’, though not ideal. He spoke after the Prime Minister visited the Fife shipyard on Monday and saw work being carried out to build the first new Type 31 frigate for the Royal Navy. The same site assembled the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. Figures within the independence movement, including the SNP’s…

San Francisco voters on Feb. 15 overwhelmingly voted to recall three school board members, expressing their frustration with the board’s strict rules during the COVID-19 pandemic. Alison Collins, Gabriela Lopez, and Faauuga Moliga were all recalled, with preliminary results showing at least 72 percent of voters opted to oust each one. Lopez, the board’s president, Moliga, the board’s vice president, and Collins supported harsh measures during the pandemic. They stoked anger when they didn’t move to reopen schools and spent time on matters deemed frivolous, such as renaming school buildings. “The impetus to it was really seeing that the school board seemed to deprioritize reopening, deprioritize a lot…

Boston city workers have won their bid to suspend Mayor Michelle Wu’s vaccination mandate policy. A Massachusetts Appeals Court judge issued an injunction prohibiting the city from enforcing its Dec. 20, 2021, vaccine mandate policy for Boston union police and firefighters. The ruling overturned a lower court’s earlier ruling that kept the mandate in place. The injunction is in effect indefinitely. In an 18-page opinion, Judge Sabita Singh concluded that an injunction against the vaccine mandate posed a low risk to the public while denying one would risk the loss of essential public employees. “Given the limited harm to the city and the public…

Twenty-four hours before Boris Johnson scrapped most of England’s Covid rules last July, the Scottish First Minister tweeted: ‘To talk of tomorrow as “freedom day” (England only remember) is not sensible IMO [in my opinion] given current situation.’ That snide reference to ‘England only’ speaks volumes about Sturgeon’s approach to the pandemic. Almost as important as her own lockdown measures has been her relentless efforts to define Scottish policy against Westminster’s, and her own decisions against those taken by Boris Johnson. Nothing suits her better than when she’s crowing on about how superior her own judgment has been. But now we know it wasn’t.…

Jürgen Klopp had seen enough. With almost an hour played at San Siro, Internazionale cutting his team to ribbons and the home crowd buoyant, the Liverpool manager retreated to his bench in dim spirits. There were a few seconds of discussion with his coaches. Training tops were peeled off, tactical instructions issued, last-minute warm-ups executed. And then, the flourish: a triple substitution in the 59th minute. Off came Sadio Mané, Fabinho and Harvey Elliott. Diogo Jota had already gone off injured at half‑time. It was Klopp’s inimitable way of telling his players that he wasn’t angry, just disappointed. Jordan Henderson bounded…

Downing Street has demanded police keep secret hundreds of pictures handed to an official probe into the Partygate scandal, a leaked document revealed today. Information shared with civil servants suggests that Scotland Yard will not identify by name anyone handed a fixed penalty notice (FPN) fine by the investigation into a string of events in No10 during lockdown. But the message, seen by ITV News, suggests the Cabinet Office has asked the Metropolitan Police to also commit to not publishing any images handed to detectives if they would lead to people being identified. The force has previously indicated that it has been given around…