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Christopher Lazazzaro alleges mass-market chocolatier failed to reveal lead and cadmium in dark chocolate products to consumersA lawsuit filed in New York state alleges that the confectionary giant Hershey “fails to disclose” that some of its chocolate products “contain unsafe levels of lead and cadmium”.A New York man, Christopher Lazazzaro, filed the suit in Long Island federal court on 28 December. The suit against the mass-market chocolatier, which in 1988 acquired the license to produce Cadbury products in the US, seeks class-action status. Continue reading...

Too many designers are unable – or unwilling – to make clothes for women with breasts and bums. Westwood embraced the curvesThe first time I saw a Vivienne Westwood dress in the wild was while shopping for my best friend’s wedding, almost 10 years ago. She told me she wanted something black, not white, something in the sale, something she could wear after the wedding and – turning to face me on the middle of London’s Regent Street, added: “something that will stretch because I’m six weeks pregnant”. So off we went to the Vivienne Westwood store on Conduit Street in London, and left half an hour later with a loose black silk sleeveless pencil dress, with a draped neckline and ruched waist with plenty of give. She successfully wore it, five weeks later and 11 weeks pregnant, to her wedding.Vivienne Westwood, who died on Thursday night, could pack more contradictions into one collection than most designers could in a lifetime. But in her clothes, she did the one thing designers are unable – or rather unwilling – to do. That is, make fancy stuff for real people with real bodies, making her truly the mother of all fashion contradictions. Continue reading...

Congressman who won narrowly in New York denounced as ‘complete and utter fraud’ for fabricating swaths of biographyWeeks after winning a district that helped Republicans secure a razor-thin majority in the US House of Representatives, the congressman-elect George Santos is under investigation in New York after acknowledging lying about his heritage, education and professional pedigree as he campaigned for office.Santos has conceded he lied about his background, but there is also growing scrutiny over his campaign spending and whether it ran afoul of campaign finance laws. Continue reading...

The greatest heartbreak that comes with extreme wealth is not being able to trust even your friendsAs a therapist to “ultra high net worth individuals”, for me the new Netflix sensation, Glass Onion, A Knives Out Mystery, hits a little too close to home. While the average person naturally finds it hard to muster any sympathy for billionaires, the sequel to the 2019 murder mystery film Knives Out perfectly illustrates why I would never choose to enter the complicated world of my clients. Trust me when I say you’ll never see me buying a lottery ticket.Director Rian Johnson sets his sequel on a lavish private Greek island owned by billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton). Miles’ closest friends gather to play a murder mystery game over the course of a glamorous weekend – along with the world’s greatest detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig). While this might seem like a far-fetched storyline, it is not entirely unusual. Continue reading...

Alyssa Farah Griffin, once Trump’s communications director, criticizes ex-White House press chief in January 6 testimonyKayleigh McEnany, Donald Trump’s final White House press secretary, is “a liar and an opportunist”, according to testimony to the House January 6 committee by Alyssa Farah Griffin, formerly communications director to Trump.In testimony released on Thursday, Griffin was asked where McEnany “fell” after the 2020 election, “either, ‘Hey, we lost, let’s gracefully exit’ versus ‘let’s facilitate the big lie’” that Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden was caused by electoral fraud. Continue reading...

John Yarmuth, outgoing House budget committee chair, sounds alarm about GOP going into ‘blow-it-up mode’ on Capitol HillA leading Democratic lawmaker has warned that the Republican party is now so extreme it could cause the world’s largest economy to default on its debt for the first time ever in its quest to extract concessions from the Biden administration.“My guess is that whoever is speaker of the House will be so in a vice from the extreme members of their caucus, that they won’t be able to get anything done here. I really worry about defaulting,” John Yarmuth, Kentucky Democrat and chair of the powerful House budget committee, told the Guardian. Continue reading...

Pelé, a three-time World Cup winner with Brazil, scored a world record 1,281 goals in 1,363 games. Plus, legal weed in New York

From neighborhood heatmaps to banana diagrams, the visuals we used to tell this year’s storiesIn 2022, the Guardian US visuals team used data to tell stories ranging from the effects of our warming planet to voter disenfranchisement and abortion deserts. When our reporting led us to a point too complex for words we crafted data graphics to simplify and inform. Below are nine stories that represent our best work of the year.

On the heels of another sports year that was chock full of surprises, Guardian US contributors make their bold predictions for the months to comeHere are our bold predictions for 2023 in sports. Please note the bold (or should that be bold?) in bold predictions: these are to be taken with a pinch of salt. Continue reading...

China is still regarded as a threat, although not an immediate one and Taiwan’s military faces an image problemOn Tuesday, less than two days after the largest deployment of Chinese military craft into Taiwanese airspace this year, Taiwan’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, announced an extension of military conscription, lengthening the period for men born after 2005 from four months to one year.It was expected that Tsai would make the announcement before the end of the year, so this was not a direct reaction to China’s most recent military threats. Tsai cited China’s August live-fire exercises around Taiwan, which took place after Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the country. Tsai also brought up the invasion of Ukraine as offering lessons for Taiwan. Continue reading...

Clerk allegedly drenched unhoused woman sitting in parking lot of store where Alton Sterling was killed by police in 2016A worker at a convenience store in Louisiana’s capital has lost her job and is facing criminal charges after she dumped water on an unhoused woman who was outside the shop during the Christmas weekend’s freezing weather.The dismissed employee – identified by authorities as 33-year-old Kasey Weber – purportedly posted video of the 26 December encounter on social media herself before police arrested her in a case containing one of the most extreme examples of alleged mistreatment against a neighbor at a time when community leaders called on Americans to band together to survive the dangerous Arctic weather that gripped much of the US recently. Continue reading...

I was far from alone in going through a major breakup. Perhaps others, too, found romantic love was not enough to fulfil themRumours swirled last week that alternative pin-up couple Phoebe Bridgers and Paul Mescal had parted ways. The pairing of singer and actor over two-and-a-bit years was the stuff of internet legend: he was the sensitive hunk with a star-making turn in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People. She was the sorrowful indie-crooner who, it turned out, was one of Mescal’s favourite musicians. They met over Zoom, in a public interview as the pandemic raged. Soon they were dating and seemed destined to live happily ever after, until suddenly gossipy reports suggested it was all over.In my circle of friends, this story felt like a fitting culmination to a year marked by the end of long-term relationships. “Wow, the season finale of breakup season,” one tweeted in response to the maybe-news. It doesn’t really matter whether these two celebrities, entirely separate from my social milieu, are no longer together – we saw what we wanted to see: 2022, the year of big breakups, may have claimed yet more scalps. Continue reading...

Airline says it will also reimburse related expenses as other carriers are capping fares to assist stranded travelersSouthwest Airlines has promised to refund tickets and reimburse passengers for hotels, car rentals and other expenses after its mass cancelations left thousands of people stranded across the country.The airline’s chief commercial officer, Ryan Green, told reporters on Thursday that it would take several weeks to repay customers, but that the airline would cover costs people incurred when they were forced to make alternative travel arrangements, including paying for meals and gas. The company said it would also pay to ship people’s baggage to them. Continue reading...

Heartbreaking stories pour in about people missing a heart transplant or dying inside a carOne man never came home from a grocery run. Another man missed a chance at a new heart. A woman died after getting trapped in her car.The human toll that the winter blast which gripped much of the US last week has continued to mount. Since the “blizzard of the century” swept through multiple parts of the nation last week, at least 60 people have died countrywide, and details about the heartbreak their families are enduring have been trickling out. Continue reading...

House of Representatives’ report details ‘corporate greed’ and ‘atypical review process’ preceding agency’s approval of Biogen’s drugUS drug regulators failed to follow their own guidance and practices when they approved the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, a congressional report said on Thursday.The US food and drug administration’s (FDA) process of approval, it said, had been “rife with irregularities”, and the FDA’s interactions with maker Biogen had been “atypical”. Continue reading...

Mayor Eric Adams hails ‘major milestone’ as former Gap store in Lower Manhattan sells variety of cannabis-related productsFrom the long-empty husk of a Manhattan retail chain, new life blooms – in the form of the state of New York’s first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana, which was set to open on Thursday at 4.20pm.Housing Works Cannabis Company will roll out retail adult-use weed sales at a shop on Broadway and Astor Place in Lower Manhattan – a former Gap outpost – with items such as edibles priced from $20 and flowers from $40, according to NBC New York. Continue reading...

Former first lady says caring for their young daughters put strain on their marriage in Revolt TV interview promoting latest bookFormer first lady Michelle Obama has said she “couldn’t stand” her husband for a decade while the couple’s children were young.In frank comments to the Black news station Revolt TV last week, Obama – one of the most popular women in America – said that raising children had put strains on her three-decade marriage to Barack Obama, the US president for two four-year terms beginning in 2009. Continue reading...

Nearly 700 bats have been released in Houston, Texas, after undergoing one week of rehabilitation from exposure to frigid temperatures. The Houston Humane Society and Texas Wildlife Rehabilitation Coalition announced the Mexican free-tailed bats would be released back to their colony.

Banned from schools, streets, universities and even working for NGOs, women and girls are now nothing more than prisoners in their homes in my home countryIn the past 15 months or so, life has changed unrecognisably for Afghanistan’s women and girls. Speak to secondary school pupils, their parents and education activists, and you will hear just how devastating the impact of the Taliban’s school closures have been. It is hard to fathom the depth of the darkness that has emerged as a consequence of this action.Girls are dealing with the psychological fallout of being cut off from their classmates and social networks. Many are struggling with severe depression. Since secondary schools were closed, child marriage has increased dramatically. Suicide rates among women and girls have been steadily rising since the Taliban’s return to power. Women protesting against the Taliban’s closure of universities in Kabul this week have been beaten and whipped.Zahra Joya is an Afghan journalist living in London and the editor-in-chief and founder of Rukhshana Media, a news agency reporting on life for women and girls in AfghanistanDo 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...

Opinion comes in ruling barring man charged with role in Capitol attack from arguing former president authorized his actionsDonald Trump may have been telling his supporters he wanted them “to do something more” than simply protest against his defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race when he told a mob of them to “fight like hell” on the day of the Capitol attack, according to findings from a federal judge on Wednesday.The opinion from Judge John Bates came in the form of a ruling barring one man charged with having a hand in staging the Capitol assault on January 6 2021 – Alexander Sheppard – from arguing that Trump, as president at the time, had authorized his actions. Continue reading...

Campaign posters during French elections become pavement palimpsests that exist to be defaced – hence Le Pen in a hjiab

Documents accuse bank of ‘turning a blind eye’ to illegal activities committed by their clientThe US Virgin Islands is suing the bank JPMorgan Chase, accusing it of helping Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of women and girls, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York.The documents submitted by the US Virgin Islands’ (USVI) attorney general accuse JPMorgan of “turning a blind eye” to illegal activities committed by Epstein – a client of the bank – on his private island, Little St James, which is part of the Caribbean US territory. Continue reading...

Statistics are often likened to a minefield – and frequent reader complaints highlight the need to tread with cautionImagine this newspaper reports that cuts in the dairy industry mean there will now be “four times fewer” maids a-milking on the eighth day of Christmas. How many do you imagine will be at work? We’ll come back to that question later.The handling of numbers is something that readers regularly make contact about, and 2022 has been no different. But with the bountiful optimism of an approaching new year, we can hope that a review of some repeat offences brings down the 2023 tally by a fraction.Elisabeth Ribbans is the Guardian and Observer’s global readers’ editor. She can be contacted at this email addressDo 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...

Other countries including Italy take similar steps after Beijing’s rollback of ‘zero-Covid’ policies. Plus, a marathon a day – for a year

Niagara Falls partially froze because of extreme cold weather in Canada and the north-east of the US.Drone footage shows thick layers of ice and snow around the waterfall.Major storms brought blizzard-likeconditions south across much of the US, including record snowfalls and hurricane-force winds Continue reading...

Civil rights leader says party must step up its appeal or risk Trump or other Republicans making inroadsThe Rev Al Sharpton has warned Democratic leaders that they must step up the party’s appeal to African American voters or risk Donald Trump or other Republican leaders making greater inroads with the Black electorate in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election.Speaking to the Guardian from the Harlem headquarters of his civil rights group, National Action Network (NAN), in New York City, Sharpton, 68, said that Trump’s small but notable support in 2020 among voters in certain minority demographics should set off alarm bells for Democratic strategists. Continue reading...

In a new book, Lenore Anderson says the legal system doesn’t serve most victims or alleviate unaddressed traumaFor decades, the cause of victims’ rights has been one of the most powerful political movements in the US.From the 1980s to 2010s, advocates worked with law enforcement to transform the criminal justice system, passing more than 32,000 laws explicitly in the name of victims. Fueled by backlash to the civil rights era, white Americans’ fears of rising crime and hysteria around particularly shocking cases of violence, the policies exponentially grew prison populations. They also created mandatory long and indefinite sentences; locked up youth for life; expanded surveillance; and restricted the rights of defendants and incarcerated people. Continue reading...

In California’s Inland Empire, nearly 9,500 warehouses – many near schools – cloud the air with pollutionWhen Ana Carlos looks past the horse stables behind her home, over the back fence and out across the wide open field and scrub-covered hill that blooms bright orange in the springtime, she feels dread.Soon it will be paved over, transformed into a 213-acre industrial complex with three vast warehouses. Nearly 100 of Carlos’s neighbors’ homes in the tiny, once rural town of Bloomington, California, will be razed to make way for the development, as will the local elementary school.Overall, there are about 9,500 warehouses in the region with a footprint above one acre.Each day, more than 1m truck trips out of these warehouses cloud the air with 1,450lbs of toxic diesel particulate pollution and 164,000lbs of nitrogen oxide pollution, which are linked to health problems including respiratory conditions.The trucks also emit just under 100m lbs of carbon dioxide each day.Across the region, about 340 school campuses are located within 1,000ft of a warehouse property line. Continue reading...

The saxophonist was among an assembly of American jazz musicians who reached across continents to find meaning in soundThe day the music died was 24 September 2022. On that Saturday, the legendary tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, a man who blew his horn “as if he was a dragon breathing fire”, passed on, at age 81. With his death came the end of a majestic era, a time of saxophone spirituality and musical mysticism that will probably never be surpassed or even replicated. Sanders, like so many of his generation, channeled spirit into song, drawing inspiration from a panoply of sacred sources.For a while, younger hip-hop generations also found words and meaning in a similar kind of search, and the music –along with the quest – continued. Continue reading...

My snapshot of 2022 shows the Amazon burning – but what it doesn’t communicate is the painI have covered the Amazon as a journalist for almost 25 years. It started in 1998, with a trip along the Trans-Amazonian Highway. In 2017, I moved to the city of Altamira in Pará, northern Brazil; it is the centre of the deforestation, forest fires and social devastation caused by the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam. I moved here because I no longer wanted to be just a “special correspondent to the Amazon”, but so I could describe what was happening to the largest tropical forest on the planet from the inside. Despite this long experience, 2022 was the first year in which I watched the forest burn from the window of my home. I didn’t need to go to the fire, as journalists normally do. The fire had come to me.The photo I’ve chosen, taken by my husband, is from the night of 27 August. Later, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research revealed that it was the worst August for fires in the Amazon since 2010. Fires and deforestation rose considerably under Jair Bolsonaro who, this year, was narrowly defeated in the presidential election by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, as he is better known.Eliane Brum is one of the creators of the trilingual news platform Sumaúma and the author of Banzeiro Òkòtó: the Amazon as the Centre of the World, which is published in the UK in 2023. This article was translated by James Young

Even with the Pelicans having perched themselves at or near the top of the Western Conference all year, many don’t seem to take them seriously as contenders. It’s time for that to changeA lot has been made over the years of the raw deal offered to small-market NBA teams. The younger brothers of the league, they often get overlooked in favor of their flashier coastal franchise siblings. While I’ve always argued that a competent front office is the tried and true salve for this issue, as evidenced by Giannis Antetokoumpo’s loyalty (and delivery of a championship) to the Milwaukee Bucks, it’s verifiable that as far as national media coverage goes, smaller-name teams often don’t get their due.One such team is the New Orleans Pelicans. I mentioned in my end-of-season wrap in June that I believed the future to be decidedly bright in Louisiana. With Zion’s long-awaited return to form on the court having even exceeded expectations so far, that looks to have been a sound prediction. But even with the team having perched themselves at or near the top of the Western Conference standings all year, many don’t seem to take them seriously as contenders. While, yes, the team hasn’t historically made much noise in the postseason, and doesn’t currently boast any NBA champions on its roster, there’s more than enough reason to believe that Nola won’t have to wait long to bring a Larry O’Brien to Bourbon Street. And that’s because of one simple fact: they already have all the ingredients that go into the recipe of a champion. Continue reading...

Southwest Airlines’ cancellations over Christmas weekend led strangers to unexpected adventures and unlikely friendsBeyond the hours of anger and frustration owing to the Southwest Airlines chaos over Christmas weekend, some passengers found relief in (unexpected) company.As the airlines scrambled with its flight schedules, some of those who were stranded decided they’d much rather trust a stranger on a road trip than trust the airline company. Continue reading...

From audiobooks to podcasts and voice notes, there’s a steady generational shift in the way we understand the worldInsomniacs do it in the middle of the night. Dog owners do it while trudging round the park. Some people do it in the gym, but lately I’ve taken to doing it alone in the car, on long journeys north through the dark when I need distraction from everything circling round my head.Listening, that is; and perhaps more specifically, listening to things you might once have read instead. The growth of audiobooks, podcasts and even voice notes – those quick self-recorded clips that are steadily taking over from typed messages on WhatsApp and range, depending on the sender, from something like a brisk voicemail to a rambling internal monologue – reflects a steady generational shift away from eyes to ears as the way we take in the world, and perhaps also in how we understand it.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Adding to his woes, prosecutor in part of Santos’ legislative district launching investigation into his ‘nothing short of stunning’ claimsRepublican congressman-elect George Santos is under fire on multiple fronts – including in a blistering interview with Tulsi Gabbard and an investigation by Long Island prosecutors – after admitting to lying about his heritage, education and professional pedigree.Late Wednesday, Santos also faced questions on social media over contradictory tweets on the timing of his mother’s death. One post on his account suggested she died in the September 11 attacks in New York, another said she died in 2016. The tweets appear to have been sent from his official Twitter account. Continue reading...

Trump adversary and top Democrat in next House oversight committee says prognosis is ‘excellent’ and will continue to legislateMaryland representative Jamie Raskin said on Wednesday that he has a type of lymphoma that’s a “serious but curable form of cancer” and he is beginning several months of treatment.Raskin, who will be the top Democrat on the House oversight and reform committee in the next Congress, said he expects to be able to work through his outpatient treatment at a Washington-area hospital. Continue reading...

To understand my Nan’s incredible longevity, you have to know more about the life she’s lived“Just because no one has lived forever before, doesn’t mean Nan won’t be the first.” That’s a joke my cousin made about my then 94-year-old grandmother. A decade later it feels more like a prophecy.Nan is 104. She’s lived on her own for more than 30 years, remains sharp between the ears and maintains her hair appointments religiously. Whenever I mention her age the reactions are the same eye-widening universal amazement – yet it still catches me off-guard. Apparently this isn’t normal. Not everyone’s grandparent has a letter from Queen Elizabeth II. Continue reading...

Research shows anti-abortion laws may have affected suicide rates among reproductive-aged women from 1974 to 2016Women with restricted access to abortion during the last 40 years may have faced a higher risk of suicide, according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania.Abortion restriction laws may have influenced suicide rates among reproductive-aged women from 1974 to 2016, according to a study released Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry.In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is at 800-273-8255 and online chat is also available. You can also text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis text line counselor. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

The US and Canada have been battling with record freezing temperatures after a deadly winter storm, resulting in at least 65 deaths. Drone footage shows a row of lakefront houses completely frozen over in Ontario in Canada, where authorities declared a state of emergency after heavy snowfall. Western New York state has been hardest hit by an Arctic freeze. The national guard have been going door to door in the city of Buffalo, where in some cases residents have been trapped inside houses and without power

Wesley Brownlee, arrested in October while allegedly ‘out hunting’ for another victim, now faces seven charges for slayingsA man suspected in northern California serial killings has been charged in four additional slayings this week, bringing the total to seven deaths since April 2021, authorities said.The shootings terrorized the Central Valley city of Stockton earlier this year as police searched for a man clad in black who appeared to be “on a mission” as he hunted victims for ambush-style shootings. He was also tied to violence in Alameda county. Continue reading...

Officials fear more fatalities may be found after high winds and record snowfalls ravage western New YorkMembers of the US national guard went door-to-door in some neighborhoods of Buffalo, New York, on Wednesday to check on residents who lost power during a winter storm earlier this week that killed nearly three dozen residents of the region.As the national guard made their way from house to house, members were confronted with the bleak possibility of encountering still more victims in frigid homes and piles of melting snow, according to the Associated Press. Continue reading...

Barry Croft Jr, the co-leader of the stunning plot to abduct the governor from her vacation home, is the final defendant in the caseA Delaware trucker described as a co-leader of the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan’s governor has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison.Barry Croft Jr was the fourth and final federal defendant to learn his fate, a day after ally Adam Fox was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The two men were convicted in August of conspiracy charges at a second trial in Grand Rapids. Continue reading...

Portions of northern California, Oregon and Washington could see an inch of rain an hour, spurring mudslides and debris flowsSeveral western US states are battling heavy rain, wind and flooding as a powerful storm system sweeps across the region.This system, called an “atmospheric river”, bore down on portions of northern California, Oregon and Washington on Tuesday. The deluge could also spur mudslides and debris flows, according to the New York Times. Continue reading...

The US can often be cruel to its citizens, but the public library is a sanctuary and a vision of what our country might one day beIf you proposed it now, at any town council or city hall meeting, you would be laughed from the room. The concept is almost unthinkably indulgent, in our austere times: an institution, open for free to anyone, that sells no products, makes no money, is funded from public coffers, and is dedicated solely to the public interest, broadly defined. And it’s for books.If the public library did not already exist as a pillar of local civic engagement in American towns and cities, there’s no way we would be able to create it. It seems like a relic of a bygone era of public optimism, a time when governments worked to value and edify their people, rather than punish and extract from them. In America, a country that can often be cruel to its citizens, the public library is a surprising kindness. It is institution that offers grace and sanctuary, and a vision of what our country might one day be. Continue reading...

Case contesting race for governor was rejected and Republican candidate ordered to pay $33,000 to cover legal costsAn Arizona judge declined a request on Tuesday to sanction Kari Lake for filing a lawsuit trying to overturn the result of the state’s gubernatorial race.Peter Thompson, a superior court judge in Maricopa county, rejected the case on Saturday, saying Lake, a Republican, had failed to prove there was intentional misconduct that cost her the race. Continue reading...

An exhibition in Amsterdam will gather most of his masterpieces in one place – with a notable English exceptionOne night, a girl was stolen from her home on Hampstead Heath. A ransom was demanded but no reward offered. Three months later she was found in St Bartholomew’s churchyard in Smithfield. She was returned home to an attic at Kenwood House, where I was then allowed to visit her. She was Vermeer’s painting The Guitar Player, and she had long fascinated me.For Vermeer obsessives, next year is to be an annus mirabilis. Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum set itself the challenge of gathering together every one of the artist’s known paintings from around the world (estimates of the total settle at about 35 – with question marks over the attribution of a handful). Some 28 works will be on display, with only nine of the requested paintings omitted, several on grounds of their fragility. The exhibition is to open in February. I have booked my place in the queue. Continue reading...

From US Open glory for Matt Fitzpatrick to Tiger’s emotional farewell to St Andrews via a Ko masterclass and LIV fireworksMatt Fitzpatrick, holding a one-stroke lead, tugs his tee shot into a bunker on the final hole at Brookline’s Country Club. Heads are in hands. Will Zalatoris lurks with intent. What followed, under intense pressure, was one of the finest recoveries in major championship history. From sand and 160 yards, Fitzpatrick’s iron shot finished within 20ft of the cup. “It was a hit-and-hope,” a beaming Fitzpatrick said later of that epic moment of sporting theatre. Continue reading...