Real Madrid suffered one of the biggest Champions League upsets in recent memory Tuesday, when the Spanish power fell at home to Sheriff Tiraspol, a first-time participant in the tournament representing a nation that, in some ways, does not even exist.
Tiraspol is the principal city of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, also known as Transnistria or Trans-Dniester, a breakaway region that separated itself from Moldova just as that country was declaring its independence amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Read More...
Explore More Tens of thousands of fraudsters splurged on Lamborghinis, vacation homes, private jet flights and Cartier jewelry by fleecing the PPP loan system in a $200 billion heist — and did it because the COVID loan scheme was so easy to milk.
Approximately $1.2 trillion was rushed through Congress in 2020 and 2021 in COVID bailout cash for businesses and spent on the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDLP) and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) schemes. Read More...
By Max MatzaBBC News
Getty ImagesFrom left: Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis and Vivek RamaswamyThe Republican field has shrunk to just four candidates for its final presidential primary debate on Wednesday in Alabama.
Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Chris Christie and Vivek Ramaswamy were the only candidates who qualified to appear in the last bout, the party said.
The debate, the fourth of the primary race, required candidates to have 80,000 donors and 6% in two US polls. Read More...