Tag Archives: controversial

ANTONIO CONTE decided Diego Costa was done in January – after a training ground bust-up following interest from China – but got him to lead Chelsea to the title before signing him off this summer. Daily Express :: Sport Feed

OFCOM have made a shock decision not to investigate an episode that featured controversial scenes of controlled crying, despite receiving 132 complaints from angry viewers. Daily Express :: TV and Radio Feed

U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to shorten the sentence of convicted leaker Chelsea Manning is hardly the first time a presidential grant of clemency or a pardon has attracted controversy. CBC | World News

Making book recommendations is apparently a new addition to President Donald Trump’s long resume. Trump, who famously declared that he does not read books, promoted one written by a controversial official on his personal Twitter account. Trump recently plugged a book titled Cop Under Fire, a memoir written by Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, Jr. who was caught in a series ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday granted a pardon to former Arizona lawman and political ally Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America,” less than a month after he was convicted of criminal contempt in a case involving his department’s racial profiling policy. CBC | World News

Days after counter protester Heather Heyer died in the Charlottesville race riots, and a car crashed into and injured 19 others, the Confederate flag flew proud in Ireland. The waving red-and-white bunting had nothing to do with the Charlottesville riots, the KKK rally in Virginia, or the deadly car crash though. Irish fans of the Cork hurling and football teams ...

A Texas judge on Tuesday dismissed the last remaining charge against two California anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood. CBC | World News