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Lawyer Sidney Powell asserted that due to alleged foreign interference in the Nov. 3 election, “it’s more than sufficient to trigger” President Donald Trump’s executive order on foreign interference issued in 2018. In September 2018, Trump signed an executive order that says “not later than 45 days after the conclusion of a United States election, the Director of National Intelligence, in consultation with the heads of any other appropriate executive departments and agencies (agencies), shall conduct an assessment of any information indicating that a foreign government, or any person acting as an agent of or on behalf of a foreign government, has acted with the…

Arsenal’s Premier League troubles intensified as they fell to a 1-0 defeat at home by lowly Burnley on Sunday with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scoring an own goal after Granit Xhaka was sent off. The Gunners, who have now lost four straight home games for the first time since 1959, are in 15th place in the standings with 13 points while Burnley climb out of the bottom three moving up to 17th place on nine points after their first away win of the season. The pressure will now increase on Spanish coach Mikel Arteta with Arsenal having made their worst start to…

-The European Union’s Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said on Monday that sealing a new trade pact with Britain was still possible as the two sides tried to break deadlocks on access to British fishing waters for EU trawlers and corporate fair play rules. Britain and the EU agreed on Sunday to “go the extra mile” in coming days to try to reach a trade agreement despite missing their latest deadline to avert a turbulent split in trading ties at the end of the month. “We are going to give every chance to this agreement… which is still possible,” Barnier told…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the 27 national EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Friday a no-deal split in trading ties with Britain at the end of the year was now more likely than not, an official said. Von der Leyen spoke for less than 10 minutes about Brexit as EU leaders started their second day of talks, having spent the whole night haggling over raising the bloc’s ambition on fighting climate. “Situation is difficult. Main obstacles remain,” the EU official said of the message shared with the leaders by von der Leyen, who heads the EU’s…

Britain will not back down in trade talks with the European Union and will thrive even if breaking away from the bloc without a trade deal is a “choppy” ride, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said on Friday. The United Kingdom quit the EU in January but remains an informal member until Dec. 31 when it will finally leave the bloc’s orbit after 48 years – with or without a trade agreement. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday, as EU leaders were meeting in Brussels, that there was “a strong possibility” Britain and the EU would fail to secure an…

Marcus Rashford is drawing interest from some of Europe’s top clubs but the young Manchester United forward said he wants to be a one-club man. Rashford came out of United’s academy and scored twice on his senior debut in the Europa League in 2016 at the age of 18. He now has 77 goals in 232 club appearances. “For me, I never look beyond Manchester United,” Rashford told the Sports Journalists’ Association. “As a kid I’ve never looked beyond Manchester United in my mind, it wouldn’t sit right for me to be pulling on another shirt.” Rashford was speaking after…

Financial markets will be disrupted in January unless the European Union allows the bloc’s investors to use derivatives trading platforms in London, a group of seven financial industry bodies have said. Britain has left the EU and transition arrangements giving continued full access end on Dec. 31. Brussels has so far not granted “equivalence” or permission for platforms in London, the world’s major centre for derivatives trading, to continue serving banks and companies in the bloc from January 1. The industry bodies told the EU’s financial services chief Mairead McGuinness in a letter dated Dec. 9 that without access, EU…

The Bank of England said on Friday it would review the test that borrowers must pass if they want a mortgage, raising the prospect of obtaining home loans more easily. The BoE introduced a tougher “affordability” test in 2014 to ensure that borrowers do not become a threat to financial stability by taking on debt they cannot afford to repay if interest rates were to rise by 3 percentage points. The assumption of such a jump in rates has now become more questionable due to the very low BoE base rates and a global fall in borrowing costs. The BoE…

President Donald Trump and 17 U.S. states on Wednesday threw their support behind a long-shot lawsuit by Texas seeking to overturn his election loss by asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the voting results in four states. Trump, defeated by President-elect Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 election, filed a motion with the court asking the nine justices to let him intervene and become a plaintiff in the suit filed on Tuesday by Republican-governed Texas against Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. If the justices let Trump join the lawsuit, it would create the extraordinary circumstance of a sitting…

Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said he is no longer sure the use of VAR technology is good for football after Wednesday’s Champions League match against Midtjylland was interrupted three times in the second half, causing long delays. The match in Herning, which ended 1-1, was stopped while VAR reviewed the penalty that led to Midtjylland’s equaliser. Action was also halted as the system disallowed goals for each side late on. Klopp agreed with all three decisions but was concerned about the amount of time players had to wait on the pitch in cold conditions. “I used to be one of…