Logical situation of losing to get a better pick has led to big fines but June's superstar draft created a perfect storm'Imagine you are the director of football at a crisis-stricken Premier League club in a world where relegation doesn't exist and the planet's best teenagers become available for free in a draft every June.In this alternate universe, you are also aware of something else: the 2026 Premier League draft is one for the ages. Barcelona's Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsi are in it. So are Bayern Munich's Lennart Karl and Real Madrid's Franco Mastantuono. Sign one of them and the glory days will suddenly beckon again. Continue reading...
President makes evidence-free claim despite video showing US Tomahawk missile hit naval base next to schoolAs oil prices surged amid the widening war with Iran, Donald Trump suggested, without evidence, on Monday that the strike on an Iranian elementary school could have been carried out by Iran or somebody else".During back-to-back appearances in Florida, Trump was asked whether the US would accept responsibility for a strike that hit the school and killed scores of people, many of them children, after video evidence showed a US Tomahawk struck the naval base next to it. Continue reading...
Brothers who visited White House reunited with family after outcry from Texas lawmakers, including Republican congresswomanTwo teenage mariachi musicians were released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after their detention sparked widespread backlash, including from a Republican congresswoman.The Democratic representative Joaquin Castro of Texas announced the release of the brothers, Antonio Yesayahu Gamez-Cuellar, 18, and Caleb Gamez-Cuellar, 14, on Monday afternoon, sharing photos on social media of the family reuniting. Continue reading...
Trump is also pushing for the Save America Act to includes provisions to limit transgender youth's access to care and banning trans women athletes in women's sports - key US politics stories from Monday 9 March at a glanceDonald Trump renewed his push on Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any bills until Congress approves the legislation.All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote," Trump said during remarks on Monday at a Republican event in Miami. No mail-in ballots, except for illness, disability, military or travel." Continue reading...
The so-called Zorro Ranch was the site of numerous alleged abuses, but was not subject to intense scrutinyNew Mexico authorities launched a search of a ranch previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein, state officials announced on Monday.The late convicted sex offender and financier's so-called Zorro Ranch was the site of numerous alleged abuses, according to civil and criminal proceedings. But the location was not subject to the same scrutiny as other Epstein properties, and a Guardian investigation in February revealed that federal authorities apparently never searched the New Mexico ranch. Continue reading...
Save Act would limit voting access in the US and centers on Trump's unfounded claims of noncitizens stealing electionsDonald Trump renewed his push Monday for the Save America Act, a curtailment of voting access, after threatening on Sunday not to sign any bills until Congress approves the legislation.All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote," Trump said during remarks on Monday at a Republican event in Miami. No mail-in ballots, except for illness, disability, military or travel." Continue reading...
Request for records related to election audit appears latest part of Trump effort to spread false claims about votingA federal grand jury subpoenaed Arizona's legislature for records related the state senate's widely criticized review of the 2020 election, the state senate president said on Monday, in what appears to be the latest part of the Trump administration's efforts to spread false claims about the 2020 election and voting in the United States.Warren Petersen, the president of the Arizona state senate, confirmed on X on Monday the legislature had received a subpoena related to records of its review of the election results in Maricopa county, the most populous in the state. He added that the FBI has the records". Continue reading...
Eighteen tornadoes between Thursday and Saturday resulted in deaths in towns from Michigan to OklahomaCommunities throughout the central United States were cleaning up and trying to recover after an onslaught deadly tornadoes struck the region over the weekend.At least eight people had been confirmed dead as of Monday, with dozens more injured. Continue reading...
Eureka police took two calls for unconscious individuals, and officials reported elevated' carbon monoxide in roomA California motel has been closed after authorities found two women dead in the same room just days apart.The Eureka police department in northern California said in a news release last Thursday that on 21 February, officers and Humboldt Bay fire personnel were dispatched to a motel on the 4000 block of Broadway Street in Eureka - identified by the Eureka Times-Standard as the Lamplighter Inn - after receiving a report of two unconscious patients due to a possible drug overdose". Continue reading...
I should probably be fuming about the way that companies try to cash in on IWD. But there are so many vile opinions to worry about insteadSunday was International Women's Day, which you'll know because every company you've ever shopped with will have emailed you, taking this fine opportunity to suggest things women might like to buy. Plants, clothes, spices ... all are particularly female-friendly at this time of year, or maybe I'm revealing nothing but my algorithms. Is any of it emancipating? Would you have to balance the freedom of the woman wearing the midi-dress against the servitude of the woman who had to sew it? I don't really want to set myself up as the arbiter of the spirit of IWD, being unable to remember a time before it meant mass-marketing mail-out.On Women's Day Eve, though - yes, that is a thing - I was attending evensong at a university college, maybe for the first time ever, and it was definitely the first time I'd heard an IWD sermon. The Rev Marcus Green had set himself the challenge of feministly reading a book, the Bible, in which almost none of the women have a name. There are a bunch called Mary, but so few other names that Mary" was basically Bible-speak for Karen". There's one who is the mother of the sons of Zebedee, but even though she has actual lines and he has none, he still gets this cracking name, while you have to piece her identity together by triangulating other accounts, like an investigator at a crime scene. Continue reading...
One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged - for also daring to speak the truthSunday marked one year since Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate, was arrested last year for his political advocacy. Below, he writes to Leqaa Kordia, a fellow Palestinian currently in ICE detention in Texas. Khalil was released after more than three months but the Trump administration continues to seek his deportation; Kordia has been detained for nearly a year. Read more about her case here.Dear Leqaa, Continue reading...
Five teenagers arrested after Jason Hughes run over outside his home after prank involving toilet paperA beloved Georgia teacher was accidentally run over and killed outside his home recently by a student driving away from a prank involving toilet paper, according to authorities.The death of math instructor and athletics coach Jason Hughes, 40, has led to the arrests of five teenagers - including one accused of vehicular homicide - while plunging the community of Gainesville into mourning. Continue reading...
by Dani Anguiano in Redding, California on (#743WR)
Jenny O'Connell-Nowain was put under house arrest, and her husband, Benjamin, lost his job after they protested at board of supervisors meetingsJenny O'Connell-Nowain was ready to go to jail.She had been prepared to spend six months in the custody of the Shasta county sheriff's office. One of the top prosecutors in this part of far northern California had presented the evidence against her in a weeklong trial, and a jury had delivered a guilty verdict. A judge offered probation, but O'Connell-Nowain did not agree to the terms. Continue reading...
As states scale back requirements for comprehensive sex ed, some parents and faith communities are stepping in to teach what schools won'tWhen Wendy Pfrenger's children started high school in the town of Oxford, Mississippi, she had the choice to enroll them in abstinence-only or abstinence-plus sex ed.Although the abstinence-plus option would include instruction on contraception, neither curriculum was required to provide medically accurate information. As a parent, she felt like the lessons her teens were receiving fell short of their reality. Continue reading...
Move could lead to escalation of war as Donald Trump has already called Mojtaba Khamenei an unacceptable' choice. Plus, stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens
ICE launched Operation Buckeye' and influencers' claimed Somalis are running fraudulent businesses after Trump repeatedly used racist language against group in DecemberThe men started showing up at around 6am in late December.In their cars, they circled the 161 Child Care facility in Columbus, before parking at the front of the building. Then they sat in their cars, opening their windows enough to tell the Somali Americans who own the daycare: We're exposing all of you. Every single one of you, you're all going back." Continue reading...
Exclusive: Bank Policy Institute, representing lenders such as JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, argues that new licenses could harm US consumers and financial systemSome of the largest US banks are considering suing their financial regulator, arguing that a new raft of licenses for crypto, payment and fintech could put American consumers and the wider financial system at risk.The Bank Policy Institute (BPI), which represents 40 of the biggest US lenders including JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, is understood to be weighing its legal options after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) failed to heed repeated warnings from influential banking groups and state regulators over its reinterpretation of federal licensing rules. Continue reading...
Trump is choking off oil imports to the communist nation, plunging it into a crisis not seen since the fall of USSROn 29 January this year, after the kidnapping of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro but before the assassination of Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei, President Trump turned his attention to another country. He issued an executive order declaring a national emergency against the government of Cuba, ruling it an unusual and extraordinary threat" to the United States and threatening to impose tariffs to stop ships from carrying petroleum to Cuba. It was an evident bid for regime change.The actions to deny oil to Cuba have severely exacerbated a growing crisis on the island, with even some US congressional representatives denouncing the measures. Cuba produces about one-third of its own oil needs and imports the rest - mostly from Venezuela and Mexico. After the US attack on Venezuela and the tariff threat, both countries completely halted oil exports to Cuba. Since early February, the length of daily power outages has doubled, lasting about 18 hours a day.Sara Kozameh is assistant professor in history at University of California San Diego Continue reading...
The company's clash with the Pentagon is a fight over the future of American privacyThe US military wants to use its state-of-the-art AI tools to supercharge surveillance against Americans, making it easier than ever to monitor our movements, our search history, and our private associations. That's one of the major takeaways from a dramatic dispute between the Department of Defense and some of the leading AI companies in America. What this clash highlights most of all, however, is just how easily AI surveillance systems can be turned against the people in this country, and the urgent need for Congress to intervene.Last week, the Pentagon and Donald Trump announced that the government would cease using Anthropic's AI products, asserting that the safety guardrails proposed by the company - no mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons - were unacceptable. The Trump administration went even further, claiming that these positions render Anthropic a supply chain risk", and prohibited anyone doing business with the US military from conducting commercial activity with Anthropic in their military work. Continue reading...
A new book traces how the Hall of Famer overcame humble beginnings in Indiana to take his place among basketball's greatest playersHow otherworldly was Larry Bird during his memorable season for Indiana State in 1978-79? At one point he made an assist while sprawled on the floor: From his end of the court, he made a one-armed throw to a teammate, who streaked coast-to-coast for a quick bucket.That season ended with an epic showdown in the NCAA championship game against Magic Johnson and Michigan State. Magic got the better of Bird in that game, but the contest had wider repercussions. Not only did it spark interest in the NCAA Tournament, but Bird and Magic would help revitalize the NBA, after Bird joined the Boston Celtics and Magic the Los Angeles Lakers. But none of this was preordained, especially Bird's trajectory. Continue reading...
Countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE are finding their carefully projected image of stability has been blown awayThere is a tendency to think of the Gulf powers as static and unchanging. They are, after all, fortified by massive wealth and absolute monarchical rule, and secured with deep economic and military relationships with the US. The past week of US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran, and Iran's retaliations, have brought into focus what these countries export (oil and gas) and what they import (tax avoiders and labour). But beyond thinking about energy-supply challenges to the global economy and engaging in the cheap and popular sport of smirking at influencers in war zones, we must remember that the current conflagration will have profound consequences for the entire region. This is not just about the US, Israel and Iran; it is about a complex, overlapping political order in the Middle East that is much more fragile than it looks.Amid all the ways the region has been changing over the past few years, the low-key evolution of three Gulf countries in particular has been the most significant. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have been rapidly making changes, the effects of which have been felt from Libya to Palestine. The 7 October attacks, which arguably set off the chain of events that led to this moment, were partly inspired by Hamas's desire to stop the normalisation process that Saudi Arabia was undertaking with Israel; this was following the UAE and others signing the 2020 Abraham accords with Israel. The three countries have been pursuing in different ways, often at odds with each other, ambitious global and regional agendas. And they are also much more unsteady than their decades-long familial rule suggests. Continue reading...
Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein's chief enabler. Maxwell's conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she saysOn 9 September 2022, Lucia Osborne-Crowley flew from London to Miami and caught a Greyhound bus north to West Palm Beach. The writer and journalist had arranged to meet Carolyn Andriano, who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell from the age of 14 until she was 17, starting in 2001. Andriano had been a crucial witness in the trial against Maxwell in 2021.When the two women met, Andriano said she had just been visited by a private investigator - a man in his 60s, who had heard she was talking to someone about a book. In a restaurant that afternoon, Osborne-Crowley was approached by a man in his 60s. What was she writing, he wanted to know. He offered her drugs, cash and a meeting with one of Epstein's pilots, then put his hands under her skirt. When the manager asked him to leave, he waited in the car park; Osborne-Crowley had to escape through a staff exit. Continue reading...
Sunday's attack brought death toll to at least 157 people since the Trump administration began targeting alleged narco-terrorists'The US military said it killed six men on Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific as part of the Trump administration's campaign against alleged traffickers.Sunday's attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the administration began targeting narco-terrorists" in small vessels in September. Continue reading...
Thom Tillis says he believes Miller has outsized influence' over operations of Trump's cabinet - key US politics stories from Sunday 8 March at a glanceThe Republican senator Thom Tillis said on Sunday that he believed the White House adviser Stephen Miller should go" and that his role in the Trump administration has been a big problem".The senior senator representing North Carolina, when asked on CNN's State of the Union if he thought Miller should go during a conversation about the administration's immigration crackdown, responded to the host Jake Tapper by stating: Oh, of course I do." Continue reading...
Conservative outlet aired footage of president saluting at similar ceremony in December for at least three broadcastsFox News used old video of Donald Trump in multiple reports on Saturday and Sunday, concealing from viewers that the commander-in-chief wore a golf hat throughout a ceremony on Saturday in which he saluted six flag-draped transfer cases carrying the remains of the first US troops to die in his war on Iran.The president had stirred outrage online by failing to remove his Trump-brand white hat during the ritual homecoming at Dover air force base in Delaware on Saturday for six army reserve soldiers killed in Kuwait. Continue reading...
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Two men are in custody in connection with incident after anti-Islam demonstrators clashed with counterprotestersNew York police have confirmed that an improvised explosive device was thrown outside Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday when anti-Islam demonstrators, led by rightwing influencer Jake Lang, clashed with counterprotesters.New York police commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed that a preliminary bomb squad analysis of the device that was ignited and thrown during the protest had determined that it is not a hoax device or a smoke bomb". Continue reading...
by Pablo Iglesias Maurer at M&T Bank Stadium on (#743CP)
DC United sought to use the occasion to woo Charm City, but another flat loss put Miami's quality in sharp reliefThe pregame scene outside Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium on Saturday likely felt familiar to anybody who has followed Lionel Messi's time in Major League Soccer. Fans milled about, forming a colorful patchwork of Inter Miami pink, the light blue and white of Argentina's national team, and in this case, the purple of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens. Others simply came in whatever soccer jersey they happened to own, all the way down to indoor soccer's Baltimore Blast, the closest thing the city normally gets to top-flight soccer.What there wasn't a lot of was DC United black and red. Despite its proximity to the nation's capital, Baltimore isn't exactly DC United country, and as far as decision-makers at United are concerned, that was an opportunity. The club moved the Miami match away from their usual home, the 20,000-capacity Audi Field, to maximize ticket sales, but also to put themselves on display to potential fans in Charm City, a market they've badly wanted to engage for years. DC are in the process of starting an MLS Next Pro team in the city, and they've partnered with Baltimore's local government to construct a stadium here for that club. Continue reading...
Chris Wright says price increase would last weeks, not months, and that US would not target Iran's energy industryChris Wright, the US Department of Energy secretary, said on Sunday that the spike in energy prices would last weeks, at the worst, not months, and that the US would not target Iran's energy industry.His comments come amid rising anxiety that Iran's response to the US-Israel strikes, which caused a reduction in shipping through the strait of Hormuz and production slowdowns in some oil and gas producing states in the Middle East, may cause broad economic turbulence and higher inflation. Continue reading...
