Nazeeh Johnson’s story is a heartbreaker and not because he learned on Friday that the NFL is suspending him six games for violating league policy, but because that violation is apparently linked to the Tennessee Titans player and his wife trying in vain to start their family. Hours after the NFL announced Johnson would be […]
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Caitlin Clark picks up technical foul over ‘scoreboard’ taunt, nears one-game suspension
Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark inched closer to a one-game suspension on Wednesday night when she picked up her seventh technical foul of the season against the Connecticut Sun. With the Fever leading 95-67 toward the end of the third quarter, Olivia Nelson-Ododa was called for a foul. Saniya Rivers, Nelson-Ododa’s teammate, began to jaw […]
Olympian weightlifter faces potential suspension, loss of medal after doping violation
Aurimas Didzbalis, who won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics in weightlifting, tested positive for doping, the International Testing Agency said Thursday. Didzbalis, 34, is one of seven athletes who participated in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and tested positive after a fresh analysis of their samples. Samples taken at […]
Charlie Kirk ally defends Jimmy Kimmel suspension over ‘vile lie’ amid First Amendment criticism
Charlie Kirk friend and Turning Point USA (TPUSA) spokesman Andrew Kolvet vehemently defended Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension this week as critics raged over First Amendment concerns. “Something important that’s being missed with the Jimmy Kimmel saga… By spreading the vile lie that Charlie was assassinated by MAGA, the implicit message from Kimmel was clear: If you […]
Anti-corruption agencies seek Ukrainian deputy prime minister’s suspension amid land grab case
Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) have filed a motion with the High Anti-Corruption Court seeking to impose bail and suspend Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov from office, NABU’s press service reported on June 27. Chernyshov was officially named a suspect on June 23 in what NABU called a […]
Ukraine war latest: Trump to discuss potential suspension of military aid for Ukraine
Key developments on March 3: Trump to discuss potential suspension, cancellation of military aid for Ukraine on March 3 Ukraine committed to work with US, Europe to end war ‘the soonest possible,’ Zelensky says US wants Zelensky to ‘regret’ Oval Office clash, sign minerals deal, Waltz says ‘A tragedy’ — Russia strikes Ukrainian military training […]
Trump to discuss potential suspension, cancellation of military aid for Ukraine on March 3
U.S. President Donald Trump will discuss on March 3 the possible suspension or complete cancellation of military aid to Ukraine, including weapons pledged by the Biden administration, The New York Times (NYT) reported, citing an undisclosed source. The news comes after Trump’s public spat with President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House on Feb. 28 […]
US foreign aid transformed Ukraine. Its suspension threatens decades of work
Editor’s Note: The Kyiv Independent isn’t a recipient of U.S. foreign aid, and its funding wasn’t affected by the aid freeze. With the stroke of a pen, U.S. President Donald Trump last week put a freeze on projects that have helped Ukraine become freer and more democratic since the earliest days of its independence in […]
Transnistria faces industrial collapse after Russian gas suspension, senior official says
The cessation of Russian gas supplies via Ukraine has halted all industrial activity in Moldova’s Russian-occupied Transnistria, Sergey Obolonik, the first deputy chairman of the Transnistrian administration, said on Jan. 2. Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom suspended gas supplies to Moldova on Jan. 1, citing unpaid debts by Moldovagaz. Moldovan officials, however, argue that these […]