The deal would require the support of all 50 Senate Democrats, putting Sinema, which was not involved in the behind-the-scenes negotiations, under close scrutiny until it announces a position. “The reason people didn’t turn to it, I didn’t think it was going to happen,” Manchin told CNN’s “State of the Union” co-host Jake Tapper. “I didn’t want to let people down.” The bill is a stripped-down package from the roughly $3 trillion Build Back Better deal that Democrats had hoped to pass before Manchin announced he could not support the bill late last year after months of wrangling over a potential deal....

Having to rely on his laptime from the first run in the top-10 qualifying shootout, Hamilton dropped to seventh place and conceded it was frustrating to lose out on the opportunity having seen Russell take his maiden F1 pole. “Huge congratulations to George it is an amazing feeling to get your first pole position and it is huge for us also as a team,” Hamilton said. “We don’t know where our pace all of sudden came from, it came from nowhere, so that is a huge positive....

Last week the Pacific island nation is understood to have become the last nation in the world with a population of more than 100,000 to suffer an outbreak of the disease – after avoiding it for two and a half years thanks to its geographical isolation and border controls. Health officials said cases were rising rapidly, and the country reported 140 new cases on Monday, bringing the total to 1,261....

Health Minister Michelle Thompson said Wednesday that the first “couple” of monkeypox cases have been identified in Nova Scotia. On Thursday, he further explained that the two cases involved people visiting Nova Scotia who developed symptoms while here but tested positive in their province. “There were two cases that were detected but they were not people from here. So we don’t really have any cases of our own,” Thompson said....

The culture secretary, who is one of Johnson’s staunchest supporters, said he was a “great leader” and was “very disappointed” that he will be stepping down on September 5. But Dorris said they needed to look to the future and hailed Liz Truss as “someone who has both integrity and faith and can take the baton using those very important qualities to take the country forward”. Despite having been heavily critical of Mr Sunak for escalating a blue-on-blue slang battle between the two camps of the Tory leadership, Dorris tried to avoid being drawn into criticism of the former chancellor....

Ottawa firefighters received a call to the fire just before 10:30 p.m. Fire crews and paramedics responded to the scene. The fire started in a linen dryer in the center’s kitchen laundry Friday night, Annabelle Cloutier, a spokeswoman for the NAC, said in an email to CBC News. “The fire was extinguished and did not spread any further,” Cloutier said. One employee, a 51-year-old man, went into cardiac arrest due to smoke inhalation, according to Ottawa paramedics....

A quick recap for those who might need it: LIV is the Saudi-backed golf league that has upended the sport by challenging the PGA’s dominance. It has lured in athletes to participate in its events with huge paydays. But it has been the subject of significant controversy given that it is funded by the Saudis who have an atrocious record on human rights. “We call on all Americans to see this unsavory attempt to minimize the grisly bone-saw attack on Washington Post opinion writer Jamal Khashoggi for what it is — an attempt to sweep under the rug a brutal state-sponsored murder,” the National Press Club said in its blistering statement....

“I want to tell you how sorry I am,” he said. The roughly four-hour visit – which lasted more than an hour than planned – included private meetings with survivors from schools, as well as public performances by traditional singers and drummers. It culminated in the Pope’s public address outside a local primary school. When the Pope finished his speech, there were tears and applause, with some shouting “we love you!...

The Treasury Board of Canada released its guidelines on hybrid work arrangements in May, tasking government departments with deciding “whether the location of work can be made flexible, to what extent, and how.” Deputy heads will make decisions about health and safety in the context of how their organization runs, guided by public health authorities and workplace health and safety committees, said Barb Couperus, Treasury Board spokesperson, in a statement Thursday....

Major League Baseball announced the privately funded overhaul Thursday, which it says is focused on modernizing the fan experience and building elite player facilities. “It’s been a long time coming,” Jays President and CEO Mark Shapiro said in a presentation unveiling the changes. “When the fans come into the building next year, sit in those seats and the seats down, with the Canadian flag unfurled on the field behind us, it’s going to be a dramatically different vision, a dramatically different view and a different ballpark,” he said....

In a statement, the Russian Defense Ministry said that “the Kiev regime deliberately carried out a bloody provocation.” “The detention center in the area of ​​the settlement of Yelenovka (Olenivka), containing Ukrainian military prisoners of war, including fighters of the Azov formation, was hit by a missile attack by the US HIMARS multiple missile system.” The ministry claimed that “40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 wounded. In addition, eight employees of the isolation ward were wounded of varying severity....

When the first armored vehicles of the invading Russian army arrived at the heart of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the evening of February 24, they encountered a Ukrainian unit tasked with defending the infamous facility. In less than two hours and without a fight, the 169 members of the Ukrainian National Guard laid down their arms. Russia had seized Chornobyl, a repository for tons of nuclear material and a key station on the approach to Kyiv....

These are the key events so far on Saturday 30 July. Get the latest updates here. Militant Ukraine’s southern command said more than 100 Russian soldiers and seven tanks were destroyed in the fighting in the southern regions of Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa. Russia and Ukraine have traded blame for the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Donetsk region this week. Moscow-backed separatists said Kyiv targeted the facility with US-made rockets....

ROME — After the collapse of Mario Draghi’s coalition government, plunging Italy into fresh turmoil, a troubling question hangs in the air: Was the Kremlin involved? Two incidents involving contact between right-wing party leaders and Russian diplomats have sparked a round of finger-pointing in Rome as the election campaign gets under way. The dispute threatens to damage the position of Giorgia Meloni, leader of the popular far-right Brothers of Italy party, who is set to become prime minister at the head of a new right-wing coalition after the Sept....

Samsung’s next foldable phones could be just around the corner. The tech giant is holding its next Unpacked event on August 10, where it is rumored to launch the Galaxy Z Flip 4 and Galaxy Z Fold 4. This we assume is Samsung following its previous release pattern, which involved announcing the Galaxy Z Flip 5G in summer 2020 and Z Flip 3 and Z Fold 3 in August 2021....

The judge concluded that “significant parts” of Vardy’s evidence were not credible and that there were many instances where her evidence “was manifestly inconsistent with contemporary evidence, evasive or implausible”. He also said Vardy and her former agent Caroline Watt had deliberately destroyed potentially incriminating evidence. In one case, WhatsApp messages on Watt’s phone were lost after the device fell off the side of a boat in the North Sea, shortly after a search request....

Sunak’s interruptions in Monday night’s debate, his speech about Truss, his general “shouting private school behavior” were condemned as “desperate” and “inappropriate” by Truss supporters. Sunak’s team fought back. Yes, the discussion was lively. But it was “insulting” to suggest Truss couldn’t handle herself in a “rocky” debate, Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab insisted. Sunak, according to others, was simply explaining the shortcomings in Truss’s proposed fiscal policy. Nothing sexist about it....

Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at an America First Policy Institute agenda summit at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, Tuesday, July 26, 2022. Former President Donald Trump returned to Washington for the first time since leaving office on Tuesday, strongly reiterating his false campaign claims that sparked the Jan. 6 riot near Capitol Hill. “This election was a disaster. Shame on our country,” he said, insisting despite all evidence that he won in 2020....

Ukraine’s military added that the claims that the prisoners were killed in shelling were designed to hide the fact that the men had been “tortured and murdered”. The country’s foreign minister, Dymtro Kuleba, accused Russia of a “barbaric war crime”. The Ukrainian denial follows a claim earlier on Friday by the Russian defence ministry and Russian-backed self-styled separatist forces that Ukraine had struck a prison in Olenivka with US-made Himars rockets....

Die Übergabe der Turbine könne sofort beginnen, sagte ein Sprecher. Alle notwendigen Dokumente für den Export von Deutschland nach Russland sind vorhanden. „Was jedoch fehlt, sind die notwendigen Zolldokumente für die Einfuhr nach Russland“, betonte er, „diese Auskunft kann niemand anderes als Gazprom geben.“ Russland hatte kürzlich die Gaslieferungen durch seine wichtigste Pipeline, Nord Stream 1, aus technischen Gründen eingestellt. Die Auslieferungen hätten sich im Vergleich zu den Vortagen halbiert, die Leitungsauslastung liege bei 19,5 Prozent der tatsächlichen Kapazität, teilte die Bundesnetzagentur am Mittwoch mit....