This is why the EU has moved toward greater flexibility–“variable geometry,” it’s called in Brussels. Nearly all major initiatives of the past decade have been accepted by only a subset of the EU’s membership. The single currency has yet to be accepted by three countries, and the elimination of border controls by two. EU social policy has settled on loose coordination. Foreign and defense policies are based on voluntary “coalitions of the willing....

The administration wants no part of another war with Saddam, even with Iraq in a weakened condition. Instead, Washington decided to ratchet up the rhetoric last week. Bush complained about helicopter attack on the rebels by Saddam’s forces and said he was “warning them: do not do this.” Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the allied commander in the region, warned Baghdad not to send fixed-wing warplanes aloft for any reason. U....

Despite the likelihood that the e-mail was a hoax, authorities shut down the school for Christmas break two days early while sheriff’s deputies patrolled the empty campus. Tracing the e-mail through AOL, the FBI arrested Michael Ian Campbell, an 18-year-old from Cape Coral, Fla., and charged him with using interstate communications to make a threat, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine....

“That’s my sense of when we will and frankly my sense of when we’ll have all the information we need to put the next bill together,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), who chairs the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said on Monday, The Hill reported. Blunt added that “it might be about the time when all of the money from the [previous] bills has been spent,” per Politico. Other senior Republicans, including Sen....

It had five years to not only make this right, but to get this right. The school president — another clueless, tone-deaf, circle-the-wagons school president — got it wrong. A brand-new, extra-heinous spotlight was thrown back onto Penn State last week, with more revelations and accusations about exactly how long Jerry Sandusky preyed on little boys and how long Joe Paterno and others at the school and the football program kept it hidden....

Less than 24 hours after LeBron James agreed to an extension with Los Angeles, Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that Anthony Davis is finalizing a five-year, $190 million maximum contract with the Lakers. He could sign the contract as soon as Thursday. MORE: Best and worst contracts of NBA free agency While Davis re-signing with the Lakers was not at all shocking — the guy forced his way out of New Orleans and then won a championship in his first season alongside James — the structure of the deal is interesting because he had ultimate control in how he wanted to set up his future....

“I did one in Detroit, man, my kids just murdered me,” Gentry said, laughing. “They go, ‘Dad that’s the worst acting I ever saw in my life. Please don’t do those anymore. The kids at our school are killing us.’ I can’t wait till my kids get down here and see these. My 15-year-old is going to kill me.” Oh, how Gentry would love to rewind to those preseason days, when the resentment of his teenaged child was high on the list of his concerns....

If there’s a player who correlates best with Griffin around the league — a star big man who is languishing on a mediocre team, surrounded by trade rumors that have gone nowhere — it’s the Pelicans’ Anthony Davis. But, like Griffin up until the last week or two, Davis has been declared untouchable by New Orleans’ brass. That won’t change between now and next week’s trade deadline. Pelicans general manager Dell Demps won’t trade Davis, and the only way he will go is if Demps is replaced after the year is over....

Wilder retained his WBC heavyweight title after the judges returned a split decision that earned much ire from pundits and fans, with most considering Fury the victor despite having to twice climb off the canvas. Join DAZN and watch Canelo plus more than 100 fight nights a year It now remains to be seen what direction Wilder goes in, with a rematch against Fury and the winner facing Joshua later in 2019 one possibility....

In the ring, Joshua has provided fans with memories that can last a lifetime. Outside of it, his influence has reached far beyond what any other boxer has been able to accomplish over the years. Turning pro in 2013, Joshua is a former Commonwealth, British, and WBC International heavyweight champion. He has held the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight titles twice. The 32-year-old Joshua is set to face off against Oleksandr Usyk on August 20....

“Anti-masker threatens a woman, pushes an older guy, all while threatening to ‘f**k them up,’ then gets punched in the face and cries about ‘assault’—very satisfying,” a tweet accompanying the video read. The video, which originated on Reddit from user u/no-flash-photography before it made its way over to Twitter, begins with a man shown at a counter yelling at an employee and said, while pointing his finger in her face, that he was going to “f**k [their] restaurant up....

Rabbi Michael Schadick, of the Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids, found the posters on Sunday morning on the synagogue’s front doors, reports The Jerusalem Post. Schadick said the doors where the posters were placed are the same ones children walk through to get to their Sunday school classes. One of the posters features an image of Adolf Hitler along with the words “Did you forget about me?” A second calls for a “crusade against Semite led subhumans....

In an average year, more than 10,300 hate crimes in the U.S. involve a firearm. During the period between 2017 and 2021, guns were the most frequently used weapon in the murder of trans people—the majority of which were of Black trans women. Anti-trans legislation and weak gun laws not only enable hate-fueled violence, they can also create mental health crises that put LGBTQ+ people at increased risk of suicide at a time where some state agencies are working to make suicide prevention resources less accessible to LGBTQ+ youth....

The comments were made during a protest on Staten Island, outside a venue where New York Governor Kathy Hochul was scheduled to speak. Videos of the speaker, who has not been identified, were posted to Twitter by freelance journalist Oliya Scootercaster. “If they’re going to push this on the kids,” the unknown speaker can be heard saying in the video, “I can guarantee you one thing: Town halls and schools will be f–king burned to the ground....

The man, identified as Anthony Collins, stopped production of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine when the fake bomb was discovered at the Wales factory on Jan. 27. 2021. Collins, who is from Chatham Hill, in Kent, England, was found guilty at Maidstone Crown Court on Nov. 24. About 120 people had to be evacuated from the Welsh plant when staff discovered the suspicious package and contacted police. They then evacuated all buildings within a 328-foot radius and called in the bomb-disposal experts....

Brown’s unceremonious exit from the Buccaneers (and the NFL at large) in December led to a he-said, he-said saga between the wideout and the team. Brown, though, is eyeing his next move in the league. On a recent interview on “The Pivot Podcast,” the free agent wideout hinted that he’d welcome a move to the Lone Star State for the 2022 NFL season, issuing a thinly veiled message to Cowboys owner Jerry Jones....

While the Buccaneers did most of their heavy lifting earlier in the offseason, returning all 22 of their starters after their Super Bowl 55 win, they added one more familiar face, re-signing Antonio Brown on Wednesday morning. MORE: NFL Mock Draft — Who do Bucs take at No. 32? The Buccaneers were planning to re-sign Brown once his last-standing legal issue was settled, which it was on April 21....