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Major blow for One America News as Verizon Fios drops far-right network
Platform was largest US pay-TV provider still carrying OAN, which is facing billion-dollar lawsuits over election fraud claimsVerizon Fios will no longer carry One America News (OAN) at the end of this month, dealing a major blow to the far-right television network that has become a hotbed of misinformation.Verizon was the largest pay-TV provider still carrying the OAN, according to the Daily Beast, which first reported the network was getting dropped. Verizon and OAN were unable to reach an agreement to continue providing the network and customers will not be able to access the service after 30 July. Continue reading...
Ghislaine Maxwell moved to low-security prison in Florida
Disgraced socialite serving 20-year sentence for procuring teenage girls for Jeffrey Epstein to abuseGhislaine Maxwell has been sent to a low-security prison to serve her 20-year prison sentence for procuring teenage girls to be abused by the financier Jeffrey Epstein.The 60-year-old has been moved to FCI Tallahassee in Florida, according to the Bureau of Prisons. She will be eligible for release on 17 July 2037. Continue reading...
If you have a miscarriage in Republican America, your health is now at risk | Moira Donegan
The supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe has created a vast new public health crisis, as abortion bans complicate once-standard care for pregnant womenThe worst-case scenarios arrived with alarming speed. In the weeks since the US supreme court’s decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health, the case that overturned Roe v Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion, American women have faced a radical reordering of their lives. A right essential to their dignity and self-determination has been stripped away after nearly 50 years – and with it, the gains women have made in professional, political and social life are newly and gravely endangered. But in addition to this moral and civic crisis, the supreme court’s decision has also created a vast and acute new public health crisis, as abortion bans complicate once-standard care for pregnant women – and place the health of even those who are not pregnant into new and arbitrary danger.For one thing, there are the miscarriages. Care for patients experiencing spontaneous pregnancy loss has been dramatically reshaped in hospitals across Republican states. The treatment for a miscarriage is to evacuate the contents of the uterus, either with a minimally invasive surgery or with medication, and these interventions, as it happens, are identical to those used in voluntary abortions. But with ambiguous, as-yet-uninterpreted but strongly worded laws now in effect in anti-choice states, providers don’t know what they are permitted to do for miscarrying patients. Many bans have so-called “life of the mother” exemptions, but these are vaguely worded, and carry strong penalties for providers if they get it wrong. How sick does a patient need to be before a doctor can abort the pregnancy that is killing her? Does she need to be dying? How close does she need to be to death?Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
Ginni Thomas faces possible January 6 subpoena | First Thing
Cheney and Kinzinger suggest wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas could be compelled to testify. Plus, how to learn to handle rejectionGood morning.The House January 6 committee could subpoena Ginni Thomas, the wife of the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, if she will not testify voluntarily about her involvement in Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election.Why does the committee want to speak to Thomas? She corresponded with Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, and John Eastman, a law professor who shaped the congressional side of a push that culminated in the deadly Capitol attack. She also corresponded with Arizona Republicans about attempts to overturn Joe Biden’s victory there.What can we learn from the January 6 hearings? Trump’s efforts to subvert the elections laid bare the system’s weaknesses, exposing it to greater exploitation.Have any homes been destroyed? At least 10 homes and other structures had been destroyed, with thousands remaining at risk in its path.Is it the only fire raging? No. The fire is one of dozens burning across the American west as the region braces for peak fire-risk months that still lie ahead. More than 5.5 million acres have already burned in the US this year, roughly 70% more than the 10-year average. Continue reading...
Camera chaos and water falls: 2022 world athletics championships – in pictures
As the dramatic event draws to a close in Eugene, we take a look at the best images from Oregon 2022 Continue reading...
California wildfires – in pictures
An out of control wildfire is raging close to Yosemite national park Continue reading...
The dystopian American reality one month after the Roe v Wade reversal
In the month since the supreme court’s decision, states have embraced the ability to ban abortion, with both chaotic and predictable consequencesSevere new restrictions upend reproductive care across whole regions of the US. Patients report delays for procedures that were once common and routine, as doctors fear vague new laws with criminal penalties. A 10-year-old rape victim was forced to travel out of state to terminate a pregnancy. And activists promise more draconian restrictions to come.In the month since the supreme court bombshell that ended the right to abortion, this picture is the new American reality, as states across the south and midwest embrace their new ability to ban abortion – at times without exception. The consequences have been both chaotic and predictable. Continue reading...
Amusan shatters 100m hurdles world record to revive super shoes debate
Shooting in Los Angeles park leaves at least two dead
Seven people taken to hospital after gunfire erupts at informal car show in Peck Park in San Pedro areaAt least two people were killed and several others injured in a shooting at a park in Los Angeles, officials said.Seven people were taken to local hospitals after gunfire erupted at an informal car show at Peck Park in the San Pedro neighborhood on Sunday, the Los Angeles fire department said.
The UN wants to educate children – it will succeed only if it feeds them first | Kevin Watkins
Millions have missed out on education during the pandemic, and school meals programmes are another Covid casualtyMore than 100 years have passed since social reformer Margaret McMillan fought for free school meals in Britain. As a primary school inspector in Bradford, she had seen hunger render poor children unable to learn, robbing the promise that came with universal education. The landmark 1906 Education Act provided public funds for meals where children were “unable by reason of lack of food to take full advantage of the education provided”.That phrase should be at the heart of the agenda for the UN’s Transforming Education summit scheduled for September. This is the world’s opportunity to tackle a hunger crisis jeopardising recovery from learning lost during Covid-19 school closures. Yet UN agencies, the World Bank, and governments shaping the summit have failed to grasp the nettle. Continue reading...
California wildfire explodes near Yosemite and Sierra national parks – video
A blaze erupted in California on Friday and quickly grew to 11,900 acres (4,800 hectares) in size as the state's governor, Gavin Newsom, declared a state of emergency for the Yosemite area. More than 2,000 people were fighting the Oak fire along with helicopters, other aircraft and bulldozers. The blaze blocked one of the main routes into Yosemite, where this month a stand of huge, ancient sequoias was threatened by a wildfire that began near the Washburn Trail. That fire burned 4,857 acres and is now about 80% contained. The Oak fire was already more than twice the size of the Washburn blaze
How a Trump-backed ‘QAnon whack job’ won with Democratic ‘collusion’
Dan Cox won the Republican nomination for Maryland governor, but the current governor, Larry Hogan, says that was thanks to Democrats promoting extremist opponents they think will be easier preyDan Cox, an extremist pro-Trump Republican, won his party’s nomination for governor in Maryland last week thanks to “collusion between Trump and the national Democrats”, the current Republican governor said.“I don’t think there’s any chance that [Cox] can win,” Larry Hogan added, speaking to CNN’s State of the Union. Continue reading...
Oak fire remains uncontained as Al Gore warns ‘civilization at stake’
Blaze exploded on Friday and quickly grew to 11,900 acres in size as Gavin Newsom declares state of emergency for Yosemite areaThe governor of California, Gavin Newsom, declared a state of emergency for an area close to Yosemite national park, mobilizing thousands to tackle a wildfire that exploded on Friday, grew to more than 15,600 acres and on Sunday remained entirely uncontained.Discussing the ferocity and fast-growing nature of the blaze, the former vice-president Al Gore, long a campaigner for action on the climate crisis, warned: “The survival of our civilization is at stake.” Continue reading...
James Harden has taken a $14m pay cut to try to win a title. Why the hate?
The 10-time All-Star has plenty of individual accolades but has never claimed an NBA championship. His latest contract decision is as unselfish as it is wiseWhen James Harden entered the NBA in 2009, the league’s highest-paid player, Kobe Bryant, made just over $23m a year. Now, there are 50 players making more than that sum, and the highest-paid among them, Steph Curry, will make a hair over $48m in 2022-23.But when Harden declined his player-option of $47.3m next season to sign a new two-year contract (with a player-option in Year 2) worth $68.6m that will see him take a $14m discount next year, he became the first star player to take a pay cut of that magnitude in the modern history of the league. After all, this isn’t Dirk Nowitzki taking a team-friendly deal at 39-years-old or Kevin Durant, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh losing out on a couple million in the prime of their careers. Harden took a big pay cut with the aim of helping his Philadelphia 76ers build a championship contender around himself and co-star Joel Embiid, reportedly telling Sixers’ president of basketball operations Daryl Morey “to improve the roster, sign who we needed to sign and give me whatever is left over.” Continue reading...
Chinese military has become more aggressive and dangerous, says US chief of staff
As Washington seeks to shore up alliances in the Pacific, Gen Mark Milley says Beijing’s attempts to expand its influence are ‘not benign’The Chinese military has become significantly more aggressive and dangerous over the past five years, the United States’ top military officer said during a trip to the Indo-Pacific that included a stop in Indonesia.Gen Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said on Sunday that the number of intercepts by Chinese aircraft and ships in the Pacific region with US and other partner forces had increased significantly over that time, and the number of unsafe interactions has risen by similar proportions. Continue reading...
North-eastern US endures record-breaking heat
One heat-related death reported in New York while authorities in Philadelphia extend health emergency declarationFrom the Pacific north-west to the southern Great Plains and on to the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor, more than 85 million Americans were on Sunday under excessive heat warnings or heat advisories issued by the National Weather Service (NWS).The agency warned of “extremely oppressive” conditions from Washington to Boston. Continue reading...
Cheney and Kinzinger tee up possible January 6 subpoena for Ginni Thomas
Republicans on House committee suggest wife of supreme court justice Clarence Thomas could be compelled to testify
MLB All-Star Arenado to miss Toronto games – and $384,416 – due to vaccine status
Biden ‘doing just fine’ after testing positive for Covid, White House says
Ashish Jha, coronavirus response coordinator, and physician Kevin O’Connor say president contracted BA.5 variantJoe Biden is “feeling well” and “doing just fine” after testing positive for Covid, the White House coronavirus response coordinator said.Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation, Ashish Jha said: “So it is the BA.5 variant, which is about 80% of infections. But thank goodness, our vaccines and therapeutics work well against it, which is why I think the president’s doing well. Continue reading...
Pete Buttigieg urges Republicans to back same-sex marriage bill
Senate Democrats hope at least 10 Republicans will support Respect for Marriage Act after 157 in House voted against itThe US transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, has delivered an emotional appeal for Republicans to support a law protecting same-sex marriage as it heads for the Senate.Democrats who control Congress aim to protect same-sex marriage amid uncertainty over which privacy based rights the conservative-dominated supreme court might target next, having overturned the right to abortion last month. Continue reading...
My knees creak, my eyes are failing, my memory’s shot, everyone ignores me … I love being 57 | Nancy Jo Sales
Why are older people often so irritable? How long have you got?The world is on fire, literally and figuratively, but to young people who think that their lives are terrible because of the time we are living in, I say: well, at least you are not old. At 57, I defer to Cher, who said pithily of ageing: “I think it sucks.”I know there are people out there – blessed with age-defying genetics or the foresight not to have got hammered on a regular basis – who show few signs of deterioration (there must be a picture in an attic somewhere of Jennifer Lopez with grey hair), but for most humans ageing is inexorable. And annoying, at best. Continue reading...
Italy’s loss of Mario Draghi is a warning to progressives across Europe – and to the EU | Lorenzo Marsili
The prospect of the far right taking power underlines the failure of technocratic government – and the need for true alternativesIn a summer overshadowed by war in Europe, a pandemic, an energy and cost of living crisis and climate chaos, Italy has decided to follow the UK and trigger a government collapse.Mario Draghi, the internationally admired former head of the European Central Bank, was never elected but was called upon in 2021 to lead a temporary government of national unity. That unity ended last week.Lorenzo Marsili is an Italian philosopher, the founder of the European Alternatives movement and author of Citizens of Nowhere Continue reading...
Josh Hawley, senator who ran from Capitol mob, mocked by home paper
Kansas City Star editorial excoriates Republican as ‘laughingstock’ as memes based on January 6 video proliferate
Trump’s attempted coup continues – even after January 6 hearings are over for now | Robert Reich
The committee has produced history’s most detailed account of an American president’s cruel and seditious pursuit of power. Even now, Trump continues to push states to alter the outcomes of the 2020 electionThe House of Representatives’ select committee investigating the January 6 attack has finished its hearings, at least for now.But Trump’s attempted coup continues.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com Continue reading...
The US baby formula shortage continues. Don’t tell desperate parents to ‘just breastfeed’ | Tayo Bero
The US baby formula crisis isn’t really about whether or not a person can breastfeed, because they shouldn’t have to live in a society where that’s their only optionIn the US today, states that have banned abortion can force you to give birth against your will. Yet in those same states – and the whole country – there is a severe shortage of baby formula. The baby formula shortage is just one of the many crises facing American parents: there is still no national pre-K, no guaranteed parental leave, and few protections for people who lose their jobs when they give birth or become pregnant.But rather than blame the government for failing to protect children and parents, some Americans are blaming parents. Since news of the US baby formula shortage broke, there’s been a tidal wave of news and social media commentary yelling at desperate parents to “just breastfeed”.Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...
Four games, 59 runs conceded: the Red Sox are in an impressive historic slump
Boston recently put together the worst three-game stretch in modern MLB history. Is it a sign of a franchise that has stopped prioritizing winning?Things have gotten so bleak in Red Sox Nation in recent days that Saturday afternoon’s 4-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays counted as a bright spot. Yes, Boston once again lost to an AL East opponent and fell further away from an increasingly unlikely playoff spot, but at least this time it wasn’t the most embarrassing regular season loss in franchise history.It wasn’t just that the Red Sox did something they had never done before on Friday night, namely give up 28 runs in nine innings. No, it was the manner in which it happened. Their 28-5 loss to the Blue Jays was a clinic in how not to play baseball. It came complete with a starting pitcher getting knocked out early, an overworked bullpen failing to get outs and fielders brutally botching defensive plays. Continue reading...
Victims of war crimes in Ukraine have an unprecedented chance to seek justice | Anya Neistat
The principle of ‘universal jurisdiction’ is gaining ground, a real boon for survivorsThere was no fear, no defeat in the eyes of Valentina (not her real name) – only quiet determination. She spoke calmly about the Russian soldiers, her younger son’s age, who raped her and her friend in a small village outside of Kyiv. When her friend’s husband tried to stop them, they shot him dead. I asked whether she wanted to pursue the case in court, and she did not hesitate. “To be able to live, I need to see him either dead or behind bars,” she said.I have been documenting war crimes in different parts of the world for more than two decades, and every time I agonise about how to ask survivors whether they want to pursue justice. At what is probably the most traumatic moment of their lives, offering up an abstract concept like justice as a solution seems insensitive. But, every time, people like Valentina prove me wrong.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...
LIV has paid big money for golfers past their best. Will the Saudis care? | Ewan Murray
Henrik Stenson has not won since 2017 and like García, Poulter, Mickelson and Westwood is being paid on name not formSportswashing is not supposed to make commercial sense. Therein lies the reason that no normally functioning business saw fit to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at a disruption plan for golf. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) can attempt to rebrand a kingdom for which the murder of a journalist and human rights atrocities are typical reference points with the benefit of an apparently bottomless pit of cash. If the PGA and DP World Tours find themselves embroiled in a commercial long game with the Saudi-backed LIV Series, they know they will be outmuscled.Events of recent days did, however, serve as a reminder of what advantage players of a certain vintage have taken of Saudis bearing gifts. There is cause to ponder the point at which the PIF – which is by very definition answerable to somebody – reflects on the value of golfers who have slipped towards irrelevance. That day of reckoning will arrive. It is merely a question of when. Continue reading...
A new wave of migration is coming – Europe is not ready | Simon Tisdall
Britain and the EU responded dismally to the 2015 migrant crisis. The number of ‘irregular entries’ is up by 84% this year – and the ways to deal with the issue now range from limited to bizarreIn a week when Russia threatened to annex more territory in Ukraine, gas shortages loomed, and inflation and Covid surged across Europe, it seems almost unkind to remind EU and UK leaders of another crisis that is unfolding, largely unremarked, right under their noses. As Claudius laments in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions.”As if defeating Russian aggression was not enough of a challenge, Europe now also faces rapidly rising new “waves” of undocumented asylum seekers. Given the sociopolitical upheavals that ensued after 1 million refugees, mostly Syrians, arrived on Europe’s shores in 2015, the EU and UK might be expected to be better prepared this time.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...
Allyson Felix goes from eating hot wings in retirement to searing track comeback
‘US democracy will not survive for long’: how January 6 hearings plot a roadmap to autocracy
Trump’s efforts to subvert the elections laid bare the system’s weaknesses, exposing it to greater exploitationThey promised the January 6 hearings would “blow the roof off the house”, presenting America with the truth about Donald Trump’s attack on democracy culminating in the US Capitol insurrection. In the end, the roof of the House, where the summer season of hearings reached their finale on Thursday night, remained intact, though mightily shaken.It will take time for historians to assess whether the eight public sessions were comparable to the 1973 Watergate hearings, as Jamie Raskin, a Democratic member of the January 6 committee, predicted. Yet it’s already clear that after 19 hours and 11 minutes of testimony, filmed depositions, documentary evidence and raw footage of the Capitol attack the hearings have generated a mountain of words and images that will linger long in the collective memory. Continue reading...
Texas lawmakers test how far their threats against abortions can reach
Letters warning of felony charges for firms who offer funds could set up a showdown over constitutional rightsRepublican lawmakers have sent legal threats to Texas organizations that offer to fund out-of-state travel for abortions, potentially setting up a showdown between abortion law and long-held constitutional rights such as freedom of association and freedom of travel.The Texas Freedom Caucus, a conservative faction of Republicans in the state legislature, sent a letter on 7 July to a law firm that offered to cover employees’ expenses if they travelled for abortion. It threatened Sidley LLP with felony charges, claiming Texas can criminalize anyone who “furnishes the means” for an abortion, regardless of where the abortion occurs. The letter cites a 1925 law which was not formally repealed after the supreme court codified the right to abortion in Roe v Wade in 1973; last week, the Texas supreme court confirmed the 1925 law can be applied. Continue reading...
Dina Asher-Smith in Commonwealth Games doubt after injury scare in relay
I finally decided to wear my hearing loss rather than hide it – I was just exhausted | Nick Button
As a child it was a secret I worked feverishly to hide, and then adult life brought more humiliating encounters
New Orleans cop who saved Lil Wayne’s life as a boy, dies aged 65
Robert Hoobler had save the rapper’s life when, as a 12-year-old child, he had shot himself in the chestA former New Orleans police officer who essentially saved the life of rap superstar Lil Wayne after the artist shot himself in the chest as a boy has died, all but closing the book on an episode of music history that struck some fans as apocryphal until the ex-cop spoke out about it 13 years ago.Robert Hoobler, 65, was found dead at his home in Jefferson Parish, a few miles west of New Orleans, on Friday, said the parish’s coroner, Dr Gerry Cvitanovich. Details about a cause or manner of death weren’t immediately available, though he was dealing with various health problems in his final years. Continue reading...
How the January 6 panel set the stage for a criminal case against Trump
The committee laid out evidence in a manner federal prosecutors could use as framework for potential prosecutionThe House January 6 select committee advanced new evidence at its Thursday primetime hearing that Donald Trump took active steps to obstruct the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s election win, paving the way for prosecutors to construct a criminal case against the former president.The former president knew as early as 15 mins after returning to the White House from his rally at the Ellipse that the US Capitol was under attack by his supporters, and yet acted only to find ways to stop the certification by calling senators to make objections, the panel showed.
Meghan a threat to the royals? That’s one way to sell a book of tawdry gossip bashers | Catherine Bennett
The biographer Tom Bower makes no attempt at balance in a hit job on the Duchess of SussexThe respected biographer, Tom Bower, has been giving some extraordinary interviews about his new study of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. His book, the calmly entitled Revenge, is not merely, we learn, a comprehensively negative assessment of the couple: Bower would like it actively to damage them. “This book may hasten a downward trend at which I wouldn’t be sad at all,” he told an enchanted Piers Morgan, “because they pose a real threat to the royal family.”The public should not, you gather, be reassured by the Sussexes’ departure, some time back, for California. Nor deceived by their very minor role at a jubilee widely considered a triumph for the royal family. Nor taken in by the couple’s replacement occupation, now they are non-working royals, of supplying bland, homiletic content to US clients. It is not enough that every display of Sussex sanctimony is already made safe by Bower’s tireless allies in the UK media, with an answering volley from royal experts and body language professionals. Harry’s recent address to the UN was, for instance, immediately brought down with blasts of Sarah Vine and, still struggling to get over Meghan’s ghosting, Piers Morgan. Continue reading...
I can only stand in baffled awe as my husband’s novel is brought to life on film | Rachel Cooke
Just as he couldn’t explain to me what inspired his characters, I can’t divine what he thinks of this adaptationI often feel other human beings are essentially unknowable; don’t even those closest to us do such strange and unwarranted things? But the sensation has surely never been more powerful than when, earlier this month, I went on the location of The Critic, a film based on my husband’s novel, Curtain Call. Taking it all in – the cinders on the road, the vintage cars, the extras in their furs and brogues – intense pride mingled with something less easy to identify. One day, several years ago, the man I live with was sitting in his office, staring into space, and now… all this?The year is 1934. Ian McKellen plays Jimmy Erskine, veteran theatre critic and sacred monster of Fleet Street. Gemma Arterton is Nina Land, an actress who longs for his approbation. Watching them together was wonderful, and oddly intimate; after a while, they completely dislodged from my mind the figures I’ve pictured for almost a decade. But what did T think? On the train home, I tried – and failed – to interrogate him. Just as, once, he couldn’t possibly tell me where these characters had sprung from, so he could not now articulate precisely what it felt like to see them brought to life. As we pulled into Finsbury Park station (it’s not all glamour), I thought yet again that I’ll never know quite what goes on in his mind. All I can do is be patient, encouraging and, in this particular case, cling very tightly to his coattails. Continue reading...
Trump and Pence duel in Arizona in fight for Republican future
Former president and his one-time wingman appear at rival events – and it’s all to play for as the US midterms approachEddie Palazuelos drove 200 miles and lined up for five hours under the baking sun to to see Donald Trump at a campaign event for candidates he is backing in the forthcoming Arizona Republican primaries.It’s the fifth Trump rally the 27-year-old has attended since the former president lost the White House in 2020 – because Palazuelos vehemently believes the election was stolen. Any judge or lawmaker who concludes otherwise is “willfully ignorant”, he said, referring to the dozens of lawsuits and recounts nationwide which ruled out fraud. Continue reading...
TikTok influencers fearmongering about birth control are playing into the hands of the right | Arwa Mahdawi
Republicans aren’t stopping at Roe v Wade. They’re coming for all our rights. The last thing we need is ‘hormone coaches’ giving them a helping handQ. What do you call people who exclusively use “natural” forms of birth control such as the rhythm method? Continue reading...
Renton shooting: one dead and five injured in Seattle suburb
Police say initial investigation suggests dispute outside of large gathering that led to gunfire, possibly by more than one suspectOne person was confirmed dead and five others were treated for gunshot wounds after multiple shots were fired in the Seattle suburb of Renton, Washington, police said.The Renton police department tweeted that officers were called before 1am Saturday and found multiple victims, five of whom were treated for injuries. Police confirmed one fatality in the shooting. Continue reading...
Vince McMahon retiring from WWE amid sexual misconduct inquiry
Reports earlier this month said McMahon agreed to pay $12m to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelityThe World Wrestling Entertainment impresario Vince McMahon has said he is retiring. The announcement comes amid an investigation into alleged misconduct.In a brief statement issued by WWE, McMahon said he is retiring as the company’s chair and CEO. He remains its majority shareholder. Continue reading...
Woeful Red Sox concede inside-the-park grand slam in record 28-5 loss to Jays
Inside the remote California county where the far right took over: ‘Civility went out the window’
In Shasta county the pandemic intensified political divisions, and many officials quit or were pushed out amid bitter tensionsAt some point in the last two years, Janine Carroll started avoiding certain grocery stores in her hometown of Redding, California. The retired grandmother could hear the taunts people made to those like her who chose to wear a face mask to fend off Covid-19. “You never know anymore what the atmosphere is going to be when you walk into any given place,” she said.Masks are just one symbol of the divisions gripping Shasta county, a remote, heavily forested region in far northern California that has long considered itself an outlier in a deep Blue state. Continue reading...
Boston’s new hero: woman who jumped from burning subway car into river
The anonymous woman jumped into the water, swam to shore, and carried on with her day. How Bostonian!Boston Red Sox legend David Ortiz will be inducted into the baseball hall of fame this weekend. Aside from the three World Series he helped bring to the city, among the memories this is likely to stir up among fans is the rousing speech Big Papi gave shortly after the Boston Marathon bombing. “This is our fucking city!” he shouted at Fenway Park.Many locals had a similar reaction to the heroics of another Boston figure on Thursday morning when an MBTA train heading into the neighboring city of Somerville caught on fire. Continue reading...
‘The beaches belong to the people’: inside Puerto Rico’s anti-gentrification protests
Locals and climate activists battle against coastal development and privatization of public beaches as luxury condos proliferateClimate activists in Rincón, Puerto Rico, celebrated the Fourth of July by demolishing part of a construction at the beach that has been the symbol of resistance against coastal development on the island.Wearing swimsuits and holding tight to their sledgehammers, hundreds of people flocked to Los Almendros beach in early July to take apart a structure that would have been an infinity pool just a few yards away from the coast. The protests against the structure, which a condominium started building last year, continues to grow and activists are still expressing their concern over the construction’s effect on the area. Continue reading...
Sydney McLaughlin pushes boundaries with huge 400m hurdles world record
‘It’s a kangaroo court’: in key state, Trump backers dismiss January 6 hearings
Residents of rural northern Wisconsin, a key swing state, have not been shaken by slickly planned congressional testimonyMillions of Americans spent Thursday evening stunned, appalled and amused by the season finale of the congressional hearings into the storming of the Capitol in the waning days of Donald Trump’s presidency, and his part in the deadly insurrection.The slickly planned primetime hearing showed Trump refusing to call off the insurgents for more than three hours as he watched Fox News coverage from the White House dining room on 6 January 2021. The House committee heard how Secret Service officers protecting the vice-president, Mike Pence, were telling their families they may not make it home alive. Continue reading...
Paxlovid going underused due to doctors’ ‘misperceptions’, experts say
Clinicians are ‘skittish’ about the Covid antiviral, resulting in a failure to treat patients who could greatly benefitEven before the US president tested positive for Covid-19, Dr David Smith – an infectious disease consultant at the University of California, San Diego – said he was getting calls daily from other physicians seeking advice on whether to prescribe Paxlovid, an antiviral drug, to patients with coronavirus.The calls come from “doctors who haven’t educated themselves on how to use the drug, and so they are a little skittish about it”, Smith said. “If I had a magic wand out there … one of the things that I would want to do is to get more people comfortable with the medication.” Continue reading...
Monkeypox: US confirms first cases of virus in children
Cases of infant and toddler unrelated and likely from household transmission, say health authoritiesCases of monkeypox have been identified in the United States for the first time in children – a toddler in California and an infant who is not a US resident, health authorities say.The two cases of the viral disease were unrelated and were likely the result of household transmission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a statement on Friday. Continue reading...
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