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Sunshine Girl Jessy
Sunshine Girl Jessy is a 5-foot-6, hazel-eyed Taurus who enjoys playing pool at Stevie D’s in Hamilton, drawing, working on cars and spending time with her pets. (ERNEST DOROSZUK/TORONTO SUN).
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Burnham Bets a Trump-Style Show Buys Time to Fix the Hard Stuff
Burnham sees merits in certain aspects of the style of President Donald Trump — especially his ability to dominate the daily news agenda through the force of his personality — according to close allies, who like others interviewed for this story requested anonymity when recounting private conversations. One Burnham ally suggests the main difference between him and Starmer is that the new prime minister lives and breathes politics 24/7, where his predecessor,.
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Russia strikes Kyiv with ballistic missiles and drones, killing at least nine and wounding 22
Russian ballistic missile strikes left a crater near a children's clinic in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on August 1, 2026, amid the Russian invasion Firefighters work at the site of an apartment building hit by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv early on Saturday At least nine people were killed in Russian ballistic missile strikes on Ukraine, local officials said early on Saturday. Saturday’s attack on Kyiv came just two days after a large-scale Russian ballistic missile and drone attack across Ukraine killed 10 civilians and wounded more than 50 others and saw a Russian missile enter Polish airspace.
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U.S. drops Reflecting Pool case, admits damage due to botched work
Federal prosecutor Jeanine Pirro had announced the charges in a high-profile press briefing earlier this month, saying witnesses had viewed Hearn “forcefully and violently” pulling up the pool’s new liner on June 19. Justice Department on Friday dropped its case against a former Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying the hurried renovations ordered by President Donald Trump had actually just been botched. His lawyers Norm Eisen, Mary Dohrmann and Steve Levin said in a statement Friday that the case “should never have been brought.” “Its dismissal today does US drops charges.
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FIFA scraps private investment plan after backlash: Infantino
The World Cup is not for sale.” Pressure mounted on Infantino on Friday with the resignation of senior advisor Carlos The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) had been a key ally for Infantino in his 11-year presidency, but in their statement of opposition to the private investment plans came the recommendation that FIFA must urgently. FIFA, world football’s governing body, had floated the plan on Tuesday, saying it could raise up to $4.2 billion based on a valuation of $20 billion for a new FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), a commercial subsidiary it proposed to run events such as the World Cup and Club World Cup.
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Fifa scraps controversial World Cup investment plan
Gianni Infantino has been the president of Fifa since February 2016 Fifa president Gianni Infantino says he has scrapped the controversial plan to sell off stakes in the governing body's competitions to private investors following widespread opposition. Infantino writes to all 211 Fifa member associations saying they will receive $40m (£30m) if they back his plans, but must do so by 19 September if they want to. The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said it stood in "solidarity" with Uefa and Concacaf, while UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Infantino was "the wrong man" to lead Fifa.
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FIFA scraps World Cup sell-off plan after pushback from members
On Thursday, UEFA’s 55 member nations voted unanimously to boycott all FIFA tournaments until the proposal was withdrawn, saying that the World Cup “cannot be treated as an investment product.” CONCACAF, the 41-member federation for North America, Central America and the Caribbean, rejected the proposal during a meeting on Thursday. FIFA’s plan was to raise up to US$4.2-billion by selling about a 20 per cent stake in a new unit that would run FIFA events including the World Cup, valuing it at US$20-billion. I cannot stand by while FIFA considers selling a stake in the World Cup," Cordeiro, a former Goldman.
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