Ellen, the long-running US daytime television chatshow hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will end at the conclusion of the 2021-22 season. The news comes after allegations of bullying of junior employees and a toxic workplace environment caused ratings to tank
This week’s roundup also features the most left-wing football match ever and breakdancing title celebrations1) After Sergio Agüero’s recent fluff, we start our round-up in Romania, head to MLS, then venture to Serbia, take a detour to the Championship and finally catch right back up with Bryan Taiva in Chile this week. We can’t quite tell if Bersant Celina was in the Panenka process when this happened (but it looks possible). Oh, and of course, when they go right with the man himself. Continue reading...
Occasion overshadowed by disclosure that bones of children who died held for almost four decades by University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia on Thursday marks the city’s first official day of remembrance for the 1985 bombing of a Black liberation group in which 11 people, including five children, were killed and an entire African American neighborhood burned to ashes.Related: Ivy League colleges apologize for ‘serious error’ in using bones of Black child for teaching Continue reading...
The scheme is one of several unusual incentives across the US, including scholarships, bonds and beerTo those who are still hesitant to get the coronavirus vaccine, Ohio’s governor is asking: would you do it for a million bucks?Mike DeWine announced on Wednesday that over the next five weeks, the state will draw the names of five people from its ledger of residents who have received at least one jab, and award them $1m each. The lottery scheme will be funded by federal coronavirus relief funds, DeWine said during a televised address. Continue reading...
Leader of a group called Love Has Won was found decorated with Christmas lights and glitter in what appeared to be a shrineProsecutors have charged seven people after the mummified body of the leader of a spiritual group called Love Has Won was found decorated with Christmas lights and glitter in what appeared to be a shrine in a southern Colorado home.Amy Carlson, 45, who was known as “Mother God” by her followers, was found dead in a home in the tiny, rural town of Moffat on 28 April, according to arrest affidavits. Each of the defendants is facing charges related to tampering with or abusing a corpse as well as child abuse. Continue reading...
Many investors are right to wonder if the ultra-low interest rates they have been semi-promised until 2023 will materialiseStatistical quirk or a warning of a fundamental change in the inflationary weather? We know on which side of the debate the US Federal Reserve will land. It will take the relaxed view that the sharpest monthly rise in US consumer prices since 2008 – 4.2% – is nothing to worry about.The Fed is committed to keeping interest rates at rock-bottom levels into the middle distance on the grounds that an economy in recovery mode is bound to throw up a few odd-looking pieces of data. Inflation fell a year ago at the onset of the pandemic, so one should not be misled by so-called “base effects”, goes the argument. Don’t risk the recovery by reacting. Continue reading...
Anthony Gay, who calls solitary confinement ‘wrong, despicable and horrible’, hopes bill passed by lower house will become lawAn inmate who spent 22 years in solitary confinement in an Illinois prison after being arrested for stealing a hat and a dollar bill is campaigning for legislation to end a practice that he says drove him to self-mutilation and a suicide attempt.Anthony Gay said he was “tortured for decades” by his isolation for up to 24 hours a day in a cold, tiny cell he likened to a dungeon, and was denied access to necessary mental health care. Continue reading...
After being voted out from her role as House Republican conference chair, Liz Cheneysaid she planned to 'lead the fight' to create a stronger party in the future. The congresswoman said: 'I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office.' Cheney was one of 10 Republicans in the House who voted to impeach Trump over the US Capitol breach
The ousting of Cheney snuffs out all doubt – Republicans don’t think they can win next year’s midterm elections without TrumpLafayette Square, outside the White House, reopened this week to strolling couples, tourists and scampering children. After nearly a year sealed off by eight-foot metal fencing, it was one more sign of life in America getting back to normal.Then there’s the danger. For more than three months it’s been tempting for many to assume that, with Joe Biden in the White House and Donald Trump off Twitter, democracy survived its near-death experience, recovered and checked out of hospital. But the ousting of Liz Cheney by the Republican party shows that the potential for a relapse is all too real. Continue reading...
The UN Middle East envoy issued the stark warning as violence continued and the death toll in Israel and Gaza rose. Plus, Liz Cheney’s defiant last stand
The state is poised to hold a gubernatorial recall vote for only the second time in historyThe recall election may seem like an oddity, considering Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor, remains fairly popular across the state. Continue reading...
The WNBA has always demonstrated a sense of urgency around societal issues, but a new ESPN doc shows how the 2020 season took this commitment to a new levelWhen the WNBA decided to operate in Bradenton, Florida, last July, it marked the start of a season like no other, one that interrogated the careers, identities and principles of every player inside the league’s campus-style bubble. It was an emotionally grueling summer: not only because of the global pandemic that disproportionately affected communities of color across the US, but for the deaths of innocent Black people including Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police brutality. By the time the gruesome murder of George Floyd was broadcast worldwide, the grief and the exhaustion of Black communities in America were palpable – and professional athletes were not spared.A new documentary by filmmakers Jenna Contreras and Lauren Stowell entitled 144 – which premieres Thursday on ESPN, the day before the league’s 25th season tips off – offers a behind-the-scenes look at this unprecedented moment at the intersection of sports history and social justice. Continue reading...
The US representative Liz Cheney, speaking in the House a day before her expected ouster from a Republican leadership post, chastised her party colleagues for not standing up to the former president Donald Trump and his false claim that the November election was stolen. ’Remaining silent and ignoring the lie emboldens the liar. I will not participate in that,’ she said.Cheney, the No 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, was one of 10 Republicans in the House who voted to impeach Trump in January after he delivered a fiery 6 January speech to supporters, many of whom then stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to block certification of his election loss to Joe Biden
The Wyoming representative stands by her opposition to Trump’s election lies as she prepares to be removed from No 3 House roleOn the eve of a vote almost certain to remove her from a leadership role in the Republican party, a defiant Liz Cheney embraced her fall from party grace and offered a final appeal to her colleagues: “We must speak the truth.”Republicans are poised to remove Cheney from her House leadership position over her refusal to support Donald Trump’s “big lie” that last year’s election was stolen from him. Cheney, a Wyoming representative who hails from a Republican political dynasty, was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for “incitement of insurrection” following the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol. Continue reading...
From portraits of friends in the pool to beautifully lit streets, the 21-year-old’s work captures the essence of being young in a small town Continue reading...
Newsom proposes creating 46,000 housing units and effort to end family homelessness within five yearsCalifornia’s governor has proposed a $12bn plan to tackle its homelessness crisis, calling the situation in America’s most populous state “unacceptable”.Buoyed by a large budget surplus and swimming in federal pandemic recovery money, Gavin Newsom’s proposal includes $8.75bn over two years to create an estimated 46,000 housing units, expanding on a program he launched last year to convert motels and other properties into housing. Nearly half the money would go toward housing in places where people with mental health and other behavioral issues can get services onsite. Continue reading...
Federal court says claim was not filed in good faith, paving the way for legal bid by New York state to close the group downA federal judge has dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a lawsuit from New York state that accuses it of financial abuses.The judge sitting in Dallas was tasked with deciding whether the NRA should be allowed to incorporate in Texas instead of New York, where the state is suing in an effort to disband the group. Though headquartered in Virginia, the NRA was chartered as a nonprofit in New York in 1871 and is incorporated in the state. Continue reading...
Asim Jamal Shakir Jr is suing the Los Angeles police department after he was injured during a George Floyd demonstration last MayA 23-year-old Los Angeles film-maker has sued the Los Angeles police department, alleging that his uncle, a Los Angeles police department officer, ordered him to be shot by projectiles during the George Floyd protests last summer.On the evening of 29 May 2020, Asim Jamal Shakir Jr had joined the demonstrations in downtown LA and was live-streaming when police formed a skirmish line, and he spotted his uncle, Eric Anderson, among the officers, according to a complaint filed on Monday. Anderson allegedly told his nephew to go home and then later motioned for an officer to shoot a “less-than-lethal” rifle at Shakir. Continue reading...
Two of the candidates to replace Bill de Blasio did themselves no favours by vastly underestimating the cost of a place in BrooklynWith less than six weeks to New York’s mayoral primaries, two candidates have left themselves electorally vulnerable for vastly underestimating the median cost of buying a home or apartment in Brooklyn.“In Brooklyn, huh? I don’t know for sure. I would guess it is around $100,000,” Shaun Donovan, the housing and urban development secretary under Barack Obama and housing commissioner under the former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, told the New York Times. Continue reading...
Christopher Miller will testify that he was concerned sending troops to the Capitol would cause a repeat of Kent State shootingsDonald Trump’s acting defense secretary during the 6 January Capitol riots plans to tell Congress that he was concerned in the days before the insurrection that sending troops to the building would fan fears of a military coup and could cause a repeat of the deadly Kent State shootings, according to a copy of prepared remarks obtained by the Associated Press.Christopher Miller’s testimony is aimed at defending the Pentagon’s response to the chaos of the day and rebutting broad criticism that military forces were too slow to arrive even as pro-Trump rioters violently breached the building and stormed inside. He casts himself as a deliberate leader who was determined that the military have only limited involvement, a perspective he says was shaped by criticism of the aggressive response to the civil unrest that roiled American cities months earlier, as well as decades-old episodes that ended in violence. Continue reading...
Hate crime charges and the death penalty are being sought against Robert Aaron Long, accused of killing six women of Asian descentA Fulton county grand jury indicted Robert Aaron Long, 22, in the March 16 slayings of Sun Cha Kim, 69; Soon Chung Park, 74; Hyun Jung Grant, 51; and Yong Ae Yue, 63. The indictment only covers those four killings that happened at two spas in Atlanta, and not the attack in Cherokee county in which Xiaojie “Emily” Tan, 49; Daoyou Feng, 44; Delaina Yaun, 33; and Paul Michels, 54, were killed. Continue reading...
US tech sell-off and report of rising prices for goods leaving China’s factories spook stock marketsFears that central banks will have to abandon their zero-interest rate strategies in the face of mounting inflation prompted steep falls on the world’s leading stock markets on Tuesday.In the UK, the FTSE 100 had its biggest one-day fall since February, closing down 175.69 points at 6947.99 – a drop of 2.47%. The British Airways owner, IAG, was the top faller on the City’s main share-price barometer, down 7.4%, with the engineering companies Renishaw, Melrose and Rolls-Royce also among the the worst performers. Continue reading...
He took the power-dressing pomp of the 1980s and directed it at banks, airports and corporate HQs. Here are some of the greatest buildings of the German-American architect, who has died aged 81 Continue reading...
McDonald’s to promote vaccine information on coffee cups while Uber and Lyft to give free rides to vaccine sitesIncentivising the vaccine-hesitant in America has reached the fast food and ride-share industries.Burger chain McDonald’s has announced it is partnering with the White House to promote vaccination information on its coffee cups. Continue reading...
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Confidential data obtained by AP shows the number of children in government custody more than doubled in the past two monthsThe Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that the Associated Press has learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside.Confidential data obtained by the AP shows the number of migrant children in government custody more than doubled in the past two months, and this week the federal government was housing around 21,000 kids, from toddlers to teens. Continue reading...
Concerns over bonds involving Trump’s then daughter in-law Vanessa and daughter Tiffany revealed in Carol Leonnig’s Zero FailTwo Trump family members got “inappropriately – and perhaps dangerously – close” to agents protecting them while Donald Trump was president, according to a new book on the US Secret Service.Related: A Very Stable Genius review: dysfunction and disaster at the court of King Donald Continue reading...
Selection ends months of speculation over whether Obama’s first chief of staff would be nominated to an administration roleJoe Biden has picked former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel to be his ambassador to Japan.The selection ends months of speculation over whether Barack Obama’s first chief of staff, a former congressman and longtime Democratic operative, would be nominated to an administration role. Continue reading...
Senator says McCarthy ‘trying to silence others in the party’ in service of TrumpThe only woman in Republican Senate leadership complained about cancel culture on Monday, regarding the imminent removal of Liz Cheney, the only woman in Republican House leadership, because she opposes Donald Trump’s big lie that the presidential election was stolen.Related: Republican says party leader dismissed his warnings of Capitol violence Continue reading...
Israeli airstrikes kill 24 in Gaza – including nine children. Plus, Tom Cruise returns his Golden GlobesGood morning.Twenty-four people, including nine children, were killed in Gaza, the enclave’s health ministry has said, following all-night Israeli airstrikes that came after weeks of tension that dramatically escalated on Monday. Officials said seven of those killed in Gaza were members of a single family. Continue reading...
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Under a highway, beautiful structures offer food, healthcare, showers and a free ‘store’ – as well as a strong sense of communityTucked under a highway overpass in West Oakland, just beyond a graveyard of charred cars and dumped debris, lies an unexpected refuge.There’s a collection of beautiful, small structures built from foraged materials. There’s a hot shower, a fully stocked kitchen and health clinic. There’s a free “store” offering donated items including clothes and books, and a composting toilet. There are stone and gravel paths lined with flowers and vegetable gardens. There’s even an outdoor pizza oven. Continue reading...
Twenty-four states object to bankruptcy proposal for Sacklers to settle lawsuits by paying $4.3bn but family would keep about $7bnNearly half of US states have joined growing opposition to a highly unusual bankruptcy plan that would protect the wealth of the Sackler family after it made billions of dollars from selling the drug that kickstarted the US opioid epidemic.Attorney generals of 24 states, members of Congress, municipalities and victims families object to the proposal for the Sacklers to forfeit ownership of Purdue Pharma, manufacturer of the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin, and surrender part of their immense fortune in return for immunity from further litigation over their part in a drug epidemic that has claimed more than 500,000 lives. Continue reading...
As Democrats struggle for united front, conservative groups act in lockstep to protect Senate procedure that could frustrate Biden’s agendaWhile congressional Democrats hope to make dramatic changes to a controversial legislative tool that has stalled bills in the Senate and could be used to frustrate Joe Biden’s ambitious agenda, Republicans are mounting an all-out defense to protect it.Conservative outside groups have been organizing overtly and covertly to counter Democratic pressure to gut the filibuster – a Senate device that in effect allows the minority party to halt proposed legislation. Continue reading...
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