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 Notre Dame president apology, Coney Barrett’s nomination event Saturday. Notre Dame President Father John Jenkins is apologizing after he was seen not wearing a mask at Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination event Saturday. Father Jenkins says after talking to the Notre Dame Wellness Center, he is now quarantining out of an abundance of caution. You can read his full statement below: Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, I know many of you have read about the White House ceremony I recently attended. I write to express my regret for certain choices I made that day and for failing to lead as I should have. Last Saturday morning I received, on very short notice, an invitation to attend the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court. It was important, I believed, that I represent the University at this historic event to support a faculty colleague and alumna of Notre Dame who is greatly respected by academic and judicial peers, revered by her students and cheri...

 Estonia ferry new evidence, loss of 852 lives in Europe’s worst. Estonia, Sweden and Finland will look into fresh evidence on the sinking of the ferry Estonia, which went down 26 years ago on Monday with the loss of 852 lives in Europe’s worst peacetime maritime disaster since World War Two. The roll-on roll-off ferry, carrying 803 passengers and 186 crew, sank on a stormy Baltic Sea shortly after midnight on Sept. 28, 1994. The official investigation in 1997 concluded that the bow shield had failed, damaging the bow ramp and flooding the car deck. However, Sweden said that a Discovery Network documentary about the disaster included new underwater video images from the wreck site showing damage on the starboard side of the wreck. “Estonia, Finland and Sweden have agreed that verification of the new information presented in the documentary will be made,” the foreign ministers of the three countries said in a joint statement on Monday. “Our countries will cooperate closely in t...

 Ai Weiwei Julian Assange, where the WikiLeaks founder is on trial. Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei has staged a silent protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because “all the words we want to say are already there”. Assange’s case has attracted the support of high-profile figures including fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, actress Pamela Anderson, and rapper MIA, who have spoken out in various forms for the Free Assange campaign. The former journalist is fighting being sent to the US on charges relating to leaks of classified documents allegedly exposing war crimes and abuse. Outside the Old Bailey in London, where his ongoing trial is taking place, Weiwei told the PA news agency Assange represents “a core value of why we are free”. Weiwei, who knows Assange personally and has visited him at the Ecuadorian embassy and HMP Belmarsh high security prison in London, said: “It’s getting more and more difficult for him.

 England quarantine breach fine, New rules brought in after a government. The government has today (28 September) made refusing to self-isolate when you show  symptoms of Covid-19  a criminal offence that carries a potential fine of up to £10,000. Having commissioned a study that found just 18% of people with symptoms of Covid-19 were self-isolating, the government has brought in tough new rules that could see people who choose not to comply with an official instruction to self-isolate fined anywhere between £1,000 and £10,000, with the most serious fines being given out to repeat offenders and people who commit "serious breaches". NHS Test and Trace "has now become as important in a sense as catching criminals, fighting fires and and treating heart attacks Home secretary Priti Patel said the new fines were "a clear sign that we will not allow those who break the rules to reverse the hard-won progress made by the law-abiding majority", while health secreta...

 Ivanka Trump running mate, vice-president’ in book out in October. Donald Trump wanted to name his daughter, Ivanka Trump, as his running mate in 2016, according to a new book by former campaign deputy Rick Gates,  reported by Bloomberg News . “I think it should be Ivanka,” Trump is quoted as saying in Wicked Game: An Insider’s Story on How Trump Won, Mueller Failed and America Lost, which will be published on 13 October. “What about Ivanka as my VP?” The news lands as Ivanka Trump, who with her husband Jared Kushner remains a senior White House adviser, is  named in the New York Times’ bombshell report  on her father’s taxes, appearing to have received “consulting fees” that helped reduce the family tax bill. Ivanka has not served in elected office but is widely thought to have political ambitions of her own, possibly in the 2024 presidential race. Gates says Trump was serious about making his then 34-year-old daughter his potential vice-president, returning t...

 Chrissy Teigen hospitalized due to excessive bleeding (Details). Chrissy Teigen  informed her fans on Instagram that she was being hospitalized due to excessive bleeding. Teigen, who is pregnant with her third child, posted videos on Sunday from her hospital bed to her  Instagram Stories . The 34-year-old explained that she has been on bed rest for a few weeks due to bleeding. "I'm about halfway through pregnancy and the blood and has been going on for like a month, maybe a little less than a month. But we're talking more than your period girls and definitely not spotting. A lot of people spot and it's usually fine but mine was a lot," Teigen said to the camera. "I guess in the simplest of terms, we can say my placenta is really really weak. I feel really good. The baby is so healthy, growing stronger than Luna or Miles. He moves a lot. He moves so much earlier than they ever did," she continued by referencing her children Luna, 4, and Miles, 2, that sh...