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European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken downBy the time Europe finished the job, finally, on Sunday, the golf had the last word. But, until the thrilling denouement, the lasting memory of this Ryder Cup threatened not to be a single swing of the club so much as the ugly backdrop: galleries that drifted from partisan into venomous and the organizers who let the line slide until it snapped.It didn't happen all at once. For the first day and a half of golf's most intense rivalry, it was New York-loud without being unruly. Then Saturday afternoon arrived and the tenor shifted. Rory McIlroy, the visiting lightning rod, kept stepping off shots as volleys of abuse landed in the quiet of his pre-shot routine. Shane Lowry played teammate and minder. Justin Thomas, not exactly a shrinking violet, began shushing his own end of the grandstand so his opponents could putt. Continue reading...

Forecast track could take storm, which caused disruption in Bahamas and Cuba, away from US east coastTropical Storm Imelda formed on Sunday and was expected to become a hurricane on a forecast track that could take it away from the US east coast in the coming days. The storm was causing disruption in the Bahamas and Cuba on Sunday, and a tropical storm watch was posted in parts of Florida.Meanwhile, Hurricane Humberto weakened very slightly but remained a strong category 4 storm in the Atlantic, threatening Bermuda. Continue reading...

Police chief William Renye said a gunman opened fire inside a Michigan church during Sunday services before apparently setting the building ablaze, killing at least one person and injuring nine before police shot him. Hundreds of people were inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc Township when a 40-year-old man rammed his vehicle into the front door, then exited the vehicle and started shooting. The suspect is also believed to have set the church on fire, Renye said. 'We do believe we will find some additional victims once we find the area where the fire was,' he added.

Ty Cobb, who managed Trump's Mueller investigation response, said president is trying to rewrite history'The indictment of former FBI director James Comey is part of a concerted effort by Donald Trump to rewrite history" in his favor, a former senior White House lawyer claimed on Sunday as he warned of more retribution to come for the president's political opponents.Ty Cobb, who defended Trump's first administration during the Mueller investigation into his 2016 campaign's alleged collusion with Russia, also told CBS that he doubted Comey would be convicted, if the case ever reached trial. Continue reading...

Footage shows a Mormon church in Michigan burning after multiple people were shot. The shooting occurred at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, about 50 miles (80km) north-west of Detroit

Dick Durbin renews push to talk to Trump officials as operations and protests escalate at Broadview facilityAfter days of clashes between federal officers and protesters at an immigration jail in his home state of Illinois, Democratic US senator Dick Durbin on Sunday renewed demands to meet with Trump administration immigration officials.Durbin wrote on X that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) must be accountable for its actions" amid the administration's cruel immigration crackdown". The post on Sunday morning came after Saturday night protests and arrests at an immigration detention center in Broadview, Illinois. Continue reading...

Many voters who voted Trump into the White House fear that the free childcare program could face a slow deathFor almost as long as she's been a mother, Sara Laughlin has known where she could turn for help in Troy, a western Ohio town 20 miles north of Dayton.For years, the local Head Start program provided stability and care for her oldest son, and it now does the same for her two younger children, twin boys. Head Start was there for Laughlin and her family through tough transitions, including the end of a long relationship. She credits the free federally funded program, housed in a blue building on the edge of this manufacturing hub of 27,000, for allowing her to keep her job as a massage therapist while raising three kids. Continue reading...

US president reverses course days after scrapping meeting to discuss crisis with Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck SchumerDonald Trump has reversed course and is purportedly planning to host a bipartisan gathering of the top four US congressional leaders at the White House on Monday afternoon in a last-ditch effort to avoid a looming government shutdown, the House speaker and the US president's fellow Republican Mike Johnson said on Sunday.Trump's climbdown comes days after he scrapped a planned meeting to discuss the crisis with Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, the respective Democratic minority leaders in the House and Senate. Continue reading...

Europe braces for further damage if products containing metal, such as windows and doors, are added to rolling listThe EU steel industry, already reeling from Donald Trump's 50% tariffs on imports, is bracing itself for further damage after the US opened the possibility of a rolling list of derivative" products that could be subject to tariffs including windows and doors with some metal.In August the US listed 407 product categories as derivative" inclusions, ranging from wind turbines, mobile cranes and bulldozers to rail cars and furniture. Continue reading...

With BLS figures under scrutiny, indices from Truflation, Zillow, Adobe and ISM show a more nuanced picture of pricesDonald Trump has a lot of questions about the official government statistics these days. And while his skepticism of bad numbers may look cynical and political, there are reasons to look at the numbers cautiously.According to some reports, staffing shortages have forced the US federal government to scale back the price checks it uses to calculate the inflation rate" with the labor department reportedly admitting that it had to cut back" on its price checking nationwide and even suspend its surveys in some cities due to manpower shortages. Continue reading...

US voting machine maker sued ex-New York mayor and Trump lawyer in 2021 for repeatedly calling election riggedRudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor and personal lawyer to Donald Trump, has settled a long-running defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over lies he told about the result of the 2020 presidential election.Details of the settlement, revealed in federal court in Washington DC in a filing late on Friday, are confidential. The Colorado-based voting machine manufacturer sued Giuliani for $1.3bn in 2021, citing more than 50 instances in which he made false or defamatory statements insisting the election was rigged against Trump, with the integrity of Dominion's machinery at the heart of the conspiracy theory. Continue reading...

Representative Doug LaMalfa made headlines in August after being booed and shouted down at a local town hallInside a packed banquet hall in northern California in early August, tensions were flaring. As the representative Doug LaMalfa spoke to constituents in his district, he faced immediate pushback from frustrated audience members who shouted the Republican down.It was the first public town hall LaMalfa had held in Chico, the largest city in his district, in eight years. The booing and shouts grew louder still as the Republican representative, a loyal supporter of Donald Trump, talked about waste and fraud" in government programs, and the uproar continued for more than an hour as people expressed fear and anger over immigration raids, tariffs, cuts to Medicaid and Medicare and the impacts on rural hospitals. Some called for his resignation, while one attendee yelled: No fascism in America." The rowdy scene made headlines across the US. Continue reading...

A recent trip to Britain from my native California presented some worrying truths about our shared political futureI've always wanted to visit the UK. This might sound absurd to you, considering I'm from California - home of sunshine, half-naked bodies and the studio where they film Jeopardy. What could possibly pull me to the cold, damp, gray shores of England? The oppressively brown food? The dodgy colonialist history? Tesco? No, it was the glowing box that vibrated with whatever passed for culture in my small town: television.British TV was an obsession in my house, via those purveyors of affordable, exotic entertainment at PBS. We'd get classy fare through the Masterpiece Theatre series, but also more downmarket comedies like Are You Being Served? (a variety of sexually obsessed retail clerks trip over each other) or Keeping Up Appearances (lower-middle-class oafs desperately wish they were posh). I had no concept of what people were saying in their thick accents or most of the jokes meant, especially the double entendres. Continue reading...

Party prepared to risk government shutdown and will not support GOP bill unless cuts to healthcare are reversedIt has been nine brutal months for congressional Democrats.Relegated by voters to the minority in last year's election, they have been powerless to stop Republicans from acting on Donald Trump's demands to fund an immigration crackdown, strip money for foreign aid and public media, and downsize Medicaid, which provides healthcare to poor and disabled Americans. Continue reading...

As Latino communities ramp up air quality monitoring, Trump's EPA moves to weaken pollution regulationsOn a tree-lined street in a quiet suburb known by some as Arbor City", Eileen Miranda often watched her grandson race around the yard, trusting - like most - that the air they were breathing was clean. But data from an air quality sensor she recently installed outside her home showed otherwise. Now she wonders if it was the air that contributed to her eldest son's childhood struggle with asthma.It overwhelmed me," Miranda said. I thought the numbers would be low. This community is nice, but lo and behold"Eileen Miranda outside her home in La Mirada, California, in March. She is among many Latinos in the US who have installed monitors to stay informed about their neighborhoods' air quality. Continue reading...

Legal experts speak of cruel' and harmful deprivations for families held in Texas immigration facilityChildren, including the very young, have been spending weeks or months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in a remote part of Texas where outside monitors have heard accounts of shortages of clean drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation and kids struggling for hygiene supplies and prompt medical attention, as revealed in a stark new court filing.Legal experts able to witness conditions made a barrage of allegations about deprivations, violations of legally agreed basic detention standards and humanitarian concerns at the only known Ice center currently holding families. At the facility in Dilley, a small town an hour south-west of San Antonio, kids and their parents described a prison-like environment" where the guards reportedly call them inmates" despite them not being criminals, and said they live in cell-like trailers".prolonged, vaguely explained detention: This goes beyond the general legal limit of 20 days for children, with accounts of children held for two or three months and a family detained for 45 days, released, then quickly re-detained.lack of access to drinkable water: Families have not wanted to consume dirty" water that smells so horrible", but drinkable water is often unavailable unless they buy it.sleep deprivation: Children, especially, are suffering sleeplessness because the lights are never switched off, while officials slam doors, walk in and out frequently and speak loudly on walkie-talkies all night.inadequate medical care: One boy complained of acute stomach pain" for six hours before he vomited and ended up being rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery for appendicitis. Monitors observed children with diseases like leukemia [or] on the autism spectrum ... suffering immensely from missing needed therapies and the harsh conditions".lack of hygiene products: Apart from liquid hand soap, which reportedly can cause rashes and hives, shampoo and body soap must be paid for.emotional abuse: Mothers gave accounts such as I am not allowed to hold my husband's hand anywhere ... there is no place where we can ... speak privately".poor education: School takes place just one hour daily for each age group and typically constitutes drawing, painting and worksheets, but little real teaching.self-harm: One parent said his son's exhaustion, distress and anxiety over continued detention led him to start throwing himself against the floor and getting bruises". Continue reading...

As the constitutional order frays, the US could look to Brazil as a demonstration of a functioning democracyBetween anti-immigrant zeal and a general disdain for any rules whatsoever, the Trump administration has shredded the constitutional order that makes government legitimate.This is now a legitimacy crisis.Daniel Mendiola is a professor of Latin American history and migration studies at Vassar College Continue reading...

The court is expected to weigh in next session on same-sex marriage, which it legalized in 2015Settled legal precedent in the US is not gospel" and in some instances may have been something somebody dreamt up and others went along with", the US supreme court justice Clarence Thomas has said.Thomas - part of the conservative supermajority that has taken hold of the supreme court over Donald Trump's two presidencies - delivered those comments Thursday at the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law in Washington DC, ABC News and other outlets reported. His remarks preceded the nine-month term that the supreme court is scheduled to begin on 6 October. Continue reading...

More than 40,000 Elvis fans flocked to Porthcawl, south Wales, for the world's biggest gathering of its kind, with tribute acts and dazzling scenes captured by Rick Findler Continue reading...

Forget the US president's seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problemFor many people in eastern Europe, August 1939 may not feel that long ago. That was the moment Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union secretly agreed to partition Poland and forcibly subsume the sovereign Baltic republics and Finland into their totalitarian spheres of influence". The world knows what came next.Now the question arises: is it happening again? This time around, it's Donald Trump's United States and Vladimir Putin's Russia making the big geopolitical power-play - and, once again, all of Europe is potential prey. Notwithstanding last week's sparring over Ukraine, the two leaders' core aims appear closely aligned.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading...

While not without its challenges, autism isn't a curse to be cured of, as the likes of the US president and RFK Jr want us to believeDonald Trump's claims about autism deserve as little oxygen as possible, but it's been a depressing, infuriating week for many autistic people and those of us who love them. His administration unveiled contentious claims about the causes of autism - pregnant women taking Tylenol, also known as paracetamol - and pushed for research to find a cure". It got me thinking about how to cope psychologically, and my conclusion - and that of many of my friends in the autism community - is that you have to laugh or you'll cry.There's a saying that when you've met one autistic child, you've met one autistic child. I've never loved the autism as superpower" narrative, and how it erases those with high-support needs and the challenges autistic people can face. Equally, Trump's framing of autism as a tragedy and a disease in need of curing is deeply problematic, so I feel it's important to highlight some of the incredible, brilliant things about autism. The fact is that the autistic children I've met have more to teach a man like Trump, more than he is ever capable of learning. Things such as:Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is a Guardian columnist and author. Her Republic of Parenthood book is out now.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

Officials in Portland have pushed back against the announcement, saying there is no need for military troops' - key US politics stories from Saturday 27 SeptemberDonald Trump has ordered the deployment of the national guard to Portland, Oregon, authorizing full force, if necessary", ignoring calls from local and state officials who say the president has been misinformed about the scale of a protest outside a federal immigration office.The president says that he has directed all necessary troops to be deployed to protect war ravaged Portland", claiming that immigration facilities were under siege from attack by Antifa and other domestic terrorists". Continue reading...

Europe won three out of four fourballs matches to put themselves in a commanding position at Bethpage BlackMatt Fitzpatrick and Cameron Young send their drives at 2 down the middle. Ludvig Aberg finds the green with his approach but the ball spins back into the fringe. Bryson should learn something about how receptive the greens are, but doesn't, spinning America's second back into the thicker stuff behind the fringe. Slight advantage to Europe here, with the not inconsiderable caveat of the hot-in-form Young taking Team USA's next shot.Back on the 1st tee, Rory McIlroy is roundly abused in the pantomime style. He throws back a couple of theatrical kisses to the gallery. A cheeky smile. All good knockabout fun. Everyone enjoying it. He takes the first shot of match two ... but with the adrenalin pumping, lashes his drive into the gallery down the left! We've not seen anyone over there yet. McIlroy and his partner Tommy Fleetwood were excellent yesterday; their opponents here, Harris English and Collin Morikawa, not so much. But English starts well by finding the semi-rough down the right of the fairway. Advantage USA. Continue reading...

No world No 1 had ever started a Ryder Cup by losing three straight matches. Scheffler went one worseScottie Scheffler went to the 1st tee on Saturday afternoon backed by the theatrics of a prize-fighter making his ringwalk. He crossed the bridge from the practice green to the grandstand alongside Bryson DeChambeau, the thumping bassline and clavinet riff of Sirius by the Alan Parsons Project rattling the aluminum beneath their feet: the same track that once summoned Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls thundered from the speakers, the closest US analogue to the All Blacks' haka for spine-tingling pregame stagecraft. The stage was set for the world's best golfer to spark a comeback, to pull the United States back from the edge of humiliation at Bethpage Black.Instead, it became the overture to a historic dud. Continue reading...

Claims of violence by US president contrast with reality of life in vibrant, peaceful Oregon city, residents sayA visit to downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, hours after Donald Trump falsely declared the city war ravaged" to justify the deployment of federal troops, made it plain the US president's impression of the city, apparently shaped by misleading conservative media reports, is entirely divorced from reality.There were just four protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in an outlying residential neighborhood that the president had claimed was under siege" by antifascists and other domestic terrorists". Jack Dickinson, 26, wore a chicken costume draped in an American flag and held a sign that read Portland Will Outlive Him". Passing motorists honked in appreciation. Continue reading...

Flooding overwhelms town of Globe as North Carolina governor declares an emergency ahead of stormAt least three people died and others were believed missing after flooding in a rural community in Arizona, officials said on Saturday.Meanwhile, in South Carolina, crews spent Saturday making preparations for an unnamed weather system that is forecast to approach that state's coast as a hurricane early next week. Continue reading...

President has shouted from rooftops what his predecessors would have tried to cover up for fear of ending their careersAs the Watergate scandal unfolded, new editions of the Washington Post newspaper were rushed over to the White House at night so Richard Nixon, the president, could brace for each devastating revelation.Half a century later, Donald Trump does not seem to fear explosive front page headlines or shocking disclosures of malfeasance. Usually because he has written them himself. Continue reading...

Apparently misled by hyperbolic reporting from conservative outlets on a single small protest, president described peaceful city as war ravaged'Donald Trump said on Saturday he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon, authorizing Full Force, if necessary", ignoring pleas from local officials and the state's congressional delegation, who suggested that the president was misinformed or lying about the nature and scale of a single, small protest outside one federal immigration enforcement office.Trump made the announcement on social media, using references to antifascists and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). He claimed that the deployment was necessary to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists". Continue reading...

Officials name Robert Eugene Brashers in brutal deaths of Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas and Jennifer and Sarah HarbisonAfter more than three decades, police have identified a dead suspect in an infamous 1991 murder case in which four girls were slain at a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas.Austin police revealed Friday that Robert Eugene Brashers had been identified as a suspect in the murders through a wide range of DNA testing". Brashers, who had a lengthy criminal history, died by suicide in 1999 at age 40 during a standoff with police in Missouri. Continue reading...

Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals and admirals to Virginia to meet and receive address on warrior ethos'US military officials are reportedly bracing for possible firings or demotions after the Trump administration's Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, abruptly summoned hundreds of generals and admirals from around the world to attend a gathering in Virginia in the upcoming days.The event, scheduled for Tuesday at Marine Corps University in Quantico, is expected to feature a short address by Hegseth focused on military standards and the warrior ethos", according to the Washington Post. Continue reading...

Friends and colleagues remember the first Black woman hired as a TV reporter on the west coast for her courage, integrity, grace and humanity'Unflappable. Fair. A mentor. The trailblazing journalist Belva Davis carried all of these traits, according to friends and colleagues, as they remembered the first Black woman hired as a television reporter on the west coast in the days following her death.Davis entered television news in the 1960s, when the industry was dominated by white men, making her presence on screens especially pioneering. She died on Wednesday at the age of 92. Continue reading...

Students say mandatory training video is biased in favor of Israel and could inflame campus tensions over GazaAt least 300 students have been prohibited from registering for classes at Northwestern University because they refused to watch a controversial antisemitism training video that they said was biased in favor of Israel, contained factual inaccuracies and could inflame campus tension over Gaza.The university's decision puts jobs, visas, stipends and health insurance at risk, students said during a press conference in Chicago on Friday morning, but those who spoke said they were still unwilling to do the training. Continue reading...

Speaking outside the UN general assembly in New York on Friday, Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro, called on nations of the world to contribute soldiers for an army 'larger than that of the United States'. He also urged US troops to 'disobey Trump's order' and instead 'obey the order of humanity'. In response, the US state department said it would revoke Petro's visa

Agents kneeled in Washington DC during protests following the murder of George Floyd by police in MinneapolisThe FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington DC that followed the 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, three people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press on Friday.The bureau last spring had reassigned the agents but has since fired them, said the people, who insisted on anonymity to discuss personnel matters with the AP. Continue reading...

RJ May is accused of trading hundreds of photos of children involved in sex acts; he faces up to 100 years in prisonA Republican member of the South Carolina state house who prosecutors say used the screen name joebidennnn69" agreed on Friday to plead guilty to distributing sexual abuse material involving children.RJ May signed court papers to change his plea a few days after a hearing during which prosecutors laid out how they would present their evidence in May's trial in October. May, who does not have a law degree, is acting as his own attorney. Continue reading...

A concern for women's health is absolutely not at the heart of it - rather, this is yet another way to control womenDonald Trump is a man with no medical training. However, that's never stopped the very stable genius from inflicting his unhinged health views on the rest of us, has it? Back in 2020, for example, Trump memorably mused that injecting disinfectant could help fight the coronavirus - which forced the maker of Dettol and Lysol to put out an urgent statement explaining that this was a very bad idea.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Having already attacked judges, lawyers, media companies and universities, the president has set his sights on civiliansAs a former federal prosecutor, I know that prosecutors should be guided by the facts. But in his determination to hound George Soros, Donald Trump wants prosecutors to become agents of his personal vendetta, facts be damned. That is the conclusion to be drawn from the instructions issued by one of Trump's senior justice department officials to a group of US attorney's offices across the country, telling them to investigate Soros's foundation.This is the latest step in Trump's implementation of the autocrat's handbook, with the aim of chipping away at the checks and balances on presidential authority. Having already attacked judges, lawyers, media companies and universities, Trump now sets his sights on civil society. Soros, a longtime and extraordinarily generous funder of progressive causes around the world including in the United States, is Target Number 1. Trump shares this fixation with the likes of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban, Europe's most prominent autocrat, who for years has used Soros as a scapegoat for widespread and growing dislike of his corrupt, self-serving rule.Kenneth Roth, former executive director of Human Rights Watch (1993-2022), is a visiting professor at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs. His book Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments is published by Knopf and Allen Lane Continue reading...

In 107 Days, Harris leaves little room for nuance - nor is she afflicted with a surplus of self-awarenessKamala Harris's book 107 Days confirms two truths: Joe Biden never should have sought re-election and she did not belong on a national ticket.Biden was snared by Father Time and hubris. The 46th president was not the transformational figure he saw in the mirror. More than half the US rated him a failure.107 Days is published in the US by Simon & Schuster Continue reading...

Six people at a remote Ice facility in California City describe medical problems and filthy conditions, which operator CoreCivic deniesImmigrants locked up in California's newest federal detention center have described the facility as a a torture chamber", a zoo" and hell on earth", saying they were confined in filthy cells and suffered medical crises without help.Six people detained at the California City detention center, which opened in late August and is now the state's largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention center, shared accounts with the Guardian of poor conditions and alleged mistreatment by staff.staff were not consistently giving people daily medications, and some detainees fell unconscious due to health issues;some toilets and sinks were backed up or not functioning properly, creating a stench;detainees were left to clean their own cells, but not given proper supplies;detainees were confined to cells for hours, and when they were allowed outdoors, it was sometimes only for 30 minutes a day in a dusty area with nothing to do;small food portions left people hungry, with some saying they rationed meals and feared the water they were drinking was dirty. Continue reading...

After Charlie Kirk's killing, the US president has unleashed an assault on free speech. Some conservatives are questioning his razor sharp U-turnIt has taken barely two weeks for Donald Trump to turn the horrific killing of Charlie Kirk to his political advantage, unleashing an unprecedented peacetime assault on free speech and a free press on the back of the assassination.Since Kirk's death, the president and his top team have:forced a private media company to suspend late-night TV star Jimmy Kimmel for inaccurate comments he made about Kirk's suspected shooter;threatened other TV networks with losing their licences should they say things Trump doesn't like;vowed to prosecute hate speech" that is fully protected under the first amendment;declared antifa a terrorist organisation in an indiscriminate attack on political ideology;and told journalists covering the Pentagon that they will have their access revoked unless they agree to restrictions on their reporting. Continue reading...

Democrats are abandoning their careful messaging in favor of gut-level rhetoric that's unapologetically more profane as the party faces an authenticity problemDemocrats want your attention, and they're done asking politely.Several months into Donald Trump's second term, presidential aspirants, members of Congress and party officials are abandoning carefully calibrated messaging in favor of gut-level rhetoric that is angrier, rawer and unapologetically more profane. Continue reading...

Basketball can provide players with huge financial rewards as well as intense scrutiny. How do they adapt to life in the public eye?Michael Cooper knew pressure. The NBA's 1987 Defensive Player of the Year had won five rings with the 1980s Showtime Lakers, blocking shots alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and finishing Coop-a-loop" passes from Magic Johnson for dunks. But in 2000, things were different. He wasn't in the game, he was coaching it from the sidelines for the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks. And despite Cooper being named coach of the year, the Sparks fell short in the playoffs to the Houston Comets.When we lost that," Cooper says, people said, Coop, you're supposed to be this great coach. And you can't get the Sparks over the hump.'" It was hard to swallow. When most people come up short at work, the world doesn't know about it - or debate it on live television. With fame comes consequences," says Cooper. You have to take the good and the bad." Continue reading...

At a pro-Palestine protest, Petro urged US soldiers to disobey Trump's order' and not point their rifles at humanity'The US state department said on Friday it would revoke the visa of Colombian leftist president Gustavo Petro for his incendiary actions" during a pro-Palestinian street protest in New York.Earlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged US soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence," the state department said on X. Continue reading...