For seven minutes after the final whistle, Liverpool players and staff stood in front of their supporters at Preston as they chanted Diogo Jota’s name. Sunday’s pre-season friendly at Deepdale was originally envisaged as a day to kick-start preparations for Liverpool’s Premier League title defence, but it played out as a memorial service for Jota and his brother Andre Silva, 10 days after they died in a car accident in Spain. On the pitch Liverpool eased to a 3-1 win through goals from Conor Bradley, Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo but thoughts of Jota and Silva remained at the forefront throughou...
The bipartisan Senate committee called for stronger disciplinary actions for the agents present at the July campaign rally in Butler, where Trump was targeted. The US Secret Service failed to prevent the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump last year during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, a Senate report leaked on Sunday found. The bipartisan Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said that a series of “multiple, unacceptable failures” by the security agency allowed 20-year-old Thomas Crooks to evade detection by the USSS. “This was not a single error. It was ...
A small plane has crashed after take-off at Southend Airport, sending a fireball into the sky. Essex Police and East of England Ambulance Service are responding to the incident at the airport this afternoon. The passenger plane is reportedly a Beechcraft King Air B200 that was leaving the airport for Lelystad in the Netherlands. In a statement, Essex Police said: "We were alerted shortly before 4pm to reports of a collision involving one 12-metre plane. "We are working with all emergency services at the scene now and that work will be ongoing for several hours. We would please ask the public t...
NBC host Kristen Welker called out Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem because the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reportedly responded to fewer than 16% of calls in response to the recent deadly flooding in Texas. "The New York Times is reporting that thousands of calls from flood victims to FEMA call centers went unanswered in the middle of this ongoing disaster because you didn't renew contracts to keep call center staff in place until nearly one week after the floods," Welker told Noem on Sunday. "Why did it take so long to extend those contracts?" "It's ...
NBC host Kristen Welker called out Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem because the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reportedly responded to fewer than 16% of calls in response to the recent deadly flooding in Texas. "The New York Times is reporting that thousands of calls from flood victims to FEMA call centers went unanswered in the middle of this ongoing disaster because you didn't renew contracts to keep call center staff in place until nearly one week after the floods," Welker told Noem on Sunday. "Why did it take so long to extend those contracts?" "It's ...