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Security turned away Joie Henney's TikTok-famous, leashed reptile Wally from Philadelphia baseball game on WednesdayWally and his companion just wanted to see the Philadelphia Phillies play baseball against the Pittsburgh Pirates like everyone else.After all, he was an emotional support animal. He wore a harness with his name on it. He enjoyed hugs. He looked imposing at just over 5ft long, but he had never bitten anyone. He helped his handler, Joseph Joie" Henney, with his years-long battle with depression. Continue reading...

Funding for federal agencies will run out on 30 September, a crisis fueled by ideological divisions among House RepublicansThe US stands just days from a full government shutdown amid political deadlock over demands from rightwing congressional Republicans for deep public spending cuts.Fuelled by bitter ideological divisions among the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, funding for federal agencies will run out at midnight on 30 September unless - against widespread expectation - Congress votes to pass a stopgap measure to extend government funding. Continue reading...

Dianne Feinstein, the oldest serving member of the US Senate and longest-serving female senator, has died aged 90. Feinstein's trailblazing career was full of firsts. She was the first female head of the San Francisco board of supervisors, first female mayor of San Francisco and the first female senator to represent California when she was elected in 1992. From there her career spanned the administrations of five US presidents over three decades. During her time in office, Feinstein distinguished herself as a vocal advocate for gun control. Joe Biden led tributes, calling Feinstein a 'pioneering American'

Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall triggered flash flooding in New York City on Friday, disrupting subway services and turning many streets into rivers. Move to higher ground now. Act quickly to protect your life,' the National Weather Service said in an advisory posted on its website. Pictures and video footage showed the extent of the flooding and disruption to rush-hour traffic

Luke Donald's team whitewashed the holders in the morning, then snatched a couple of halves to increase their lead late in the afternoon, on a dramatic day at Marco SimoneCollin Morikawa's opening shot is a nervy one. His drive sails off towards the gallery on the right, and clanks some poor dude upside the head. His ball nestles in thick rough ... though not as thick as the rough Sepp Straka finds down the left of the hole. That was even more jittery, and won't have settled the Austrian debutant's nerves any. Meanwhile the US captain Zach Johnson is taking the barracking his team are copping from the home gallery in good spirit: Fans are the engine behind the Ryder Cup, whether here or back home," he tells Sky with a smile. The energy, the passion, makes it special."Rahm/Hatton A/S Scheffler/Burns (2)

Norwegian got crowds and his team going with brilliant early birdie and he and his Swedish partner never looked backThere were some strange sights around Marco Simone on Friday, the strangest of the lot the 50-man marching band of the Guardia di Finanza who came trampling across the course at noon. Up, down and around the fairways they went, blasting out Antonio D'Elia's Armi e Brio while the midday sun bounced around off their brass, buttons, and epaulettes. They were led by a fellow who, judging by the look in his eye and the polished silver sword at his side, wasn't going to take no for an answer even if Tommy Fleetwood was standing over a birdie putt on the 15th. You don't get that on the back nine at Muirfield.It seemed they had gone just a touch early with the triumphals, but then Fleetwood made the putt anyway, and Europe were three holes away from a four-nil sweep of the morning foursomes. So maybe they had timed it right after all. By the time the band had turned and trooped off back to the barracks there was more blues on the scoreboards around Marco Simone than in the bars on Beale Street. Continue reading...

UAW president Shawn Fain says members fed up with corporate greed' as another 7,000 workers to strike at GM and Ford plantsThe United Auto Workers union escalated its strike against the big three US automakers on Friday as the industrial action entered its third week.In a livestream update on the strike on Friday, UAW president Shawn Fain said another 7,000 workers would be joining the action. About 25,000 workers are now on strike. Continue reading...

Joe Biden salutes a pioneering American' as Hillary Clinton says I'll miss her greatly as a friend and colleague'

California governor had vowed to pick Black woman to complete veteran senator's term but hints at interim appointment'

Europe's caddies were baking at the opening ceremony and Viktor Hovland's language embarrasses SkyEurope were generally reckoned to have won" Thursday's opening ceremony, thanks to their captain Luke Donald's excellent opening address, which began in respectable Italian. That was the result of months of Duolingo lessons, but not everyone in Team Europe was entirely happy afterwards. Some caddies were heard grumbling that they had been kept in the sun throughout the one-hour ceremony - in 31C (88F) heat - while their US counterparts were given the side that was in the shade. Continue reading...

NSC spokesman John Kirby says shutdown would mean 1.3m troops will not get paid, significantly' affecting US military moraleHard-right House Republicans are holding the entire US government hostage" as a shutdown appeared all but certain and could have a significant effect" on the morale of active duty US troops, the national security council (NSC) spokesman warned early on Friday.John Kirby, the NSC spokesman, noted that 1.3m active duty military personnel will not get paid if the government shuts down, and added in an interview with ABC on Friday morning that hundreds of thousands of civilian Pentagon employees also will have to be furloughed. Continue reading...

Self-styled realists' of both parties underestimate the depth of voters' disillusionment with the status quoThis autumn, more than ever, British politics is a waiting game. Waiting for the Tory and Labour party conferences. Waiting for possibly pivotal byelections. Waiting to see if Labour's large but not wholly convincing poll lead will crumble, and whether the Tories or Lib Dems will take advantage. And above all, waiting for the general election and what sort of government comes afterwards.These are the current preoccupations of many journalists, politicians and party strategists, and of those voters who pay regular attention to politics. Yet there is also another form of waiting going on in Westminster and beyond, which is less conscious and focused but more profound. People are waiting to see if the form of politics that both main parties have been following since the mid-80s, with only a few significant interruptions, is about to be replaced by one better equipped to deal with the deep crisis in which Britain finds itself. Continue reading...

Didion Milling in Wisconsin faces fines and a trial over 2017 explosion - but should it have been punished more severely?Dallas Oosterhof worked at Didion Milling in Cambria, Wisconsin, for 25 years until May 2017, when he was working late finishing paperwork and the mill exploded due to a buildup of combustible dust. Covered in debris, he was able to crawl out with the help of light from a co-worker's cellphone.A corn processing company, Didion Milling is currently facing over $2.5m in Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Osha) fines related to workplace deaths and injuries, and a criminal prosecution by the US justice department. A final hearing before the trial in the criminal case is set for Friday. Continue reading...

The former Italian president was a communist who learned that utopianism does not work and the common good involves compromiseIt's not every day that you see a pope paying tribute to a former communist - but it happened this week in Rome. By the same token, it is a surprise to hear one of the church's most senior cardinals make an affectionate and generous address at the same communist's strictly secular, defiantly non-religious, funeral - at which attenders included Emmanuel Macron - but these things, no less unusually, happened this week, too.But then Giorgio Napolitano, who died a week ago aged 98 and whose funeral took place in Rome on Tuesday, was no ordinary president of Italy and no ordinary communist either. A lifelong member of the Italian Communist party until it dissolved in 1991, Napolitano was elected president in May 2006. He was also, very reluctantly, the first Italian president to be re-elected to serve a second term in 2013. Until the current president, Sergio Mattarella, overtakes him in a few days' time, he was Italy's longest serving head of state since 1945. Continue reading...

The president has a golden opportunity to prove that green jobs will bear dividends for the working classJoe Biden had to choose a side in the United Auto Workers' contract fight with the big three" American automakers, and he did. This week, he became the first US president to walk a picket line while in office when he joined strikers in Belleville, Michigan, offering enthusiastic support for their demands. Biden should be thanking the UAW for handing him a golden opportunity: to prove that the green jobs his administration is creating will be good, union jobs, too, and that climate policy will bear dividends for the working class.Republicans cosplaying solidarity have tried to exploit the strike to score cheap political points. As Republican presidential hopefuls debated this week, Donald Trump told a rally at a non-union plant in Michigan that the strike wouldn't make a damn bit of difference" because the car industry was being assassinated" by EV mandates". (Whether there were any union members or even autoworkers in the room isn't clear.) Ohio senator JD Vance has similarly blamed autoworkers' plight on the premature transition to electric vehicles" and Biden's war on American cars".Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at the New Republic and the author of Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet - And How We Fight Back Continue reading...

Venmo records show members of rightwing militia paid vice-president for months after group's January 6 role was exposedOath Keepers members paid dues to the rightwing militia's then vice-president for up to almost a year after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and months after the organization and its founder, Stewart Rhodes, were named in court filings as participants in the assault, according to publicly accessible transaction records on the payment platform Venmo.Those who made payments to an Oath Keepers leader on Venmo include an engineer whose employer provides satellite technology to US government agencies including the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security, a former Department of Homeland Security employee whose tenure at the agency overlapped with his membership in the group, and a 2022 candidate for the Wyoming state senate. Continue reading...

Faced with stagnant approval ratings, president ups ante in his re-election campaign. Plus, the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the worldGood morning.Joe Biden dramatically raised the ante in the forthcoming US presidential election campaign yesterday with a stark and impassioned warning that American democracy was imperiled by a vengeful Donald Trump, his likely opponent next year.What did he say about Trump? Referring to Trump by name just once in his half-hour speech, Biden nevertheless set out to contrast democratic norms and traditions with conduct that appeared to characterize his predecessor. He said democracy means rule of the people, not rule of the monarchy, not rule of money, not rule of the mighty."What about the House? The House has teed up votes on four of the dozen annual spending bills that fund various agencies in hopes that would cajole enough Republicans to support a House-crafted continuing resolution that temporarily funds the government and boosts security at the US border with Mexico. It's a long shot, but McCarthy predicted a deal. Continue reading...

Unless the EU and US are tougher on Belgrade, Serbian nationalist attacks could destabilise the regionThe killing last weekend of a Kosovo police officer by a group of 30 or more heavily armed Serbian nationalist militants marks the most significant security incident in that country, and the western Balkans region, in more than a decade. The US ambassador to Pristina, Jeffrey M Hovenier, described the attack subsequently: We know it was coordinated and sophisticated ... The quantity of weapons suggests this was serious, with a plan to destabilise security in the region."Kosovo's authorities concur and are even more explicit in who they blame. Namely, Serbia's government, and its strongman president, Aleksandar Vui.Jasmin Mujanovi is a political scientist and the author of Hunger & Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans and The Bosniaks: Nationhood after GenocideDo 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...

Joe Biden has dramatically raised the ante in the forthcoming US presidential election campaign with an impassioned warning that US democracy is being imperilled by a vengeful Donald Trump, his likely opponent next year. 'There is something dangerous happening in America,' he told an audience in Phoenix, Arizona, on Thursday. 'There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy: the Maga movement.' He said he did not think all Republicans ascribed to the Maga agenda, but added: 'There is no question that today's Republican party is driven and intimidated by Maga Republican extremists'

The president has had a good run. But the Democrats must choose a younger candidate if Donald Trump is to be kept out of the White HouseDuring the two months I spent in the US this summer, I kept asking every journalist, academic and analyst I met one simple question: Who will be the next president of the United States?" The response was usually the same. First there was a distinct hesitation, then they said Well, probably Joe Biden, but ..."What followed the but" was a long list of concerns, partly about deeper trends but mainly about how old and frail the 80-year-old president looks. Often, the conversation ended with my interlocutor saying it would be better if Biden stood aside, to let a younger candidate turn the age card against the 77-year-old Donald Trump.Timothy Garton Ash is a Guardian columnistDo 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...

Faced with stagnant approval ratings, president ups ante in what may become a central theme of his re-election campaignJoe Biden dramatically raised the ante in the forthcoming US presidential election campaign on Thursday with a stark and impassioned warning that American democracy is imperiled by a vengeful Donald Trump, his likely opponent next year.Faced by stagnant approval ratings and worries about his advanced age, the US president attempted to stir his dormant supporters and animate the undecided by spelling out the dangers he insisted a second Trump presidency would pose to the US's status as the world's leading beacon of democratic government. Continue reading...

Store owner in Shasta county who has elevated conspiracy theories about mosquitoes and vaccines gets seat on local boardEver since the far-right movement in California's Shasta county gained control of local government, they have sought to throw out voting machines in favor of hand counting and pledged to defend the second amendment using all lawful means".This week they focused their efforts on a new target: mosquitoes. Continue reading...

He may stand trial as soon as 23 October in case alleging he conspired to reverse 2020 presidential election loss in stateDonald Trump will not seek to move a criminal case alleging he conspired to reverse his 2020 presidential election loss in Georgia from state to federal court, his lawyers said on Thursday.Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and 18 others are charged with pressuring Georgia election officials to overturn his 2020 loss in the state to the current president, Joe Biden, a Democrat. Continue reading...

With no evidence and their own witnesses admitting to no firsthand knowledge of wrongdoing, GOP members tried to take a commonsense question too farThere was a commonsense question at the heart of Thursday's congressional hearing on whether to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden that Republicans are counting on Americans to ask themselves. Would any foreign business hire the president's son, Hunter, if it were not for his father?Out of that, Republicans on the House of Representatives oversight committee spun a vision of Biden Sr sitting atop a sprawling crime family that would be the envy of the mafia. But, as so often in modern American politics, the spectre of Donald Trump was lurking in the shadows. Continue reading...

College student must also spend three years on probation for breaking in, pouring gasoline and setting the building on fireA woman who says anxiety and nightmares led her to set fire to Wyoming's only full-service abortion clinic, setting back the facility's opening by almost a year, was sentenced to five years in prison and three years of probation on Thursday.Lorna Roxanne Green could have been sentenced to up to 20 years for burning the Wellspring Health Access facility in Casper. She pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge in July. Continue reading...

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New York Democrat gets each witness in impeachment inquiry to admit they have no firsthand evidence of a crime committedQuestioning witnesses in the first impeachment hearing staged by House Republicans, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prompted each to say they were not presenting firsthand witness accounts" of crimes committed by Joe Biden.The New York Democrat also accused Republicans of fabricating supposed evidence of corruption involving the president and his surviving son, Hunter Biden. Continue reading...

Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett launched a blistering attack on the impeachment hearings against President Joe Biden on Thursday, asking key Democrat witness Michael J Gerhardt how many times GOP members of the inquiry said 'if' when probing allegations against the president. Crockett said: 'Honestly, if they would continue to say "if" or "Hunter" and we were playing a drinking game, I would be drunk by now.'During a hearing of the House Oversight Committee, Crockett also accused GOP members of ignoring evidence against Donald Trump while continuing 'disturbing' efforts to impeach Biden.

Members of the GOP have been investigating the president's connections to his son's business for months to prove corruption

Christopher Steele's dossier also alleged Putin supported and directed' plan to cultivate' Trump as a presidential candidateDonald Trump is suing a former MI6 officer and the intelligence consultancy he founded, high court records in England show.The former US president, who is mired in lawsuits in his own country, is bringing a data protection claim against Orbis Business Intelligence and its founder Christopher Steele, who previously ran the secret intelligence service's Russia desk. Continue reading...

Designs for the commemoration to unborn children aborted during the era of Roe v Wade' must be turned in by SaturdayArkansas is building a monument to unborn children" on the grounds of its state capitol, and Saturday marks the last day for its would-be artists to submit prospective designs for it.The monument is planned to commemorate the unborn children aborted during the era of Roe v Wade", the 1973 US supreme court decision that legalized abortion nationwide until it was overturned last year. It will be funded by private individuals and organizations, rather than the state, while its construction will be overseen by the capitol arts and grounds commission, a state agency - with the help of some Arkansas anti-abortion groups. Continue reading...

Trump weaponizing government secrecy rules to delay his trial closer to the 2024 election, prosecutors claim in filingSpecial counsel prosecutors accused Donald Trump of trying to delay the classified documents case to within three months of the 2024 election in a court filing late on Wednesday, suggesting his lawyers had attempted to weaponize the complex government secrecy rules to upend the trial schedule.The alleged delay effort from Trump - whose overarching legal strategy is to push back his criminal cases, potentially until after the election because he could have them dropped were he to win - centers on a proposal from his legal team to extend pre-trial deadlines. Continue reading...

The holders can boast seven major winners in their side but it's been 30 years since they won a contest on European soilAmericans call them road games. The label might as well be pain games. Three decades have elapsed since a United States team lifted the Ryder Cup in Europe. Paul Azinger, Fred Couples, Tom Kite, Lee Janzen, Corey Pavin, Payne Stewart, John Cook, Davis Love, Chip Beck, Jim Gallagher, Raymond Floyd, Lanny Wadkins; a decent enough collective but unlikely history makers.Success for the United States in the last Ryder Cup was so emphatic that giddy onlookers pointed towards a decade of dominance. Since Europe retained the trophy at The Belfry in 1989, the US have only actually prevailed half a dozen times. Bold predictions about reducing Europe - and, in fact, the Ryder Cup itself - to an irrelevance were precisely that. Timing can be everything in this competition; in 2021, it was an undeniable fact that umpteen European golfers arrived at Whistling Straits in questionable form. Continue reading...

Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused Republicans of fabricating evidence in the first hearing of Biden's impeachment inquiry on Thursday. Ocasio-Cortez said: 'Earlier today, one of our colleagues, the gentleman from Florida, presented up on the screen something that looked, appeared, to be a screenshot of a text message containing or insinuating an explosive allegation. That screenshot of what appeared to be a text message was a fabricated image'In a blistering attack on the GOP-led inquiry Ocasio-Cortez continued: 'This is an embarrassment. An embarrassment to the time and people of this country'

Spectators started singing Sweet Caroline but there was no place for spontaneity at the cliche-ridden opening ceremonyFrom the deckchairs and beanbags of the spectator village, through parched and fraying voices, came the strains of a song. They had come from all over Europe, taken holiday leave and emptied bank accounts, to join the party. And as they waited patiently in the baking Roman heat, they struck up - organically and quite unbidden - a chorus of Sweet Caroline. It was quite nice. Still, it was nothing that couldn't be drowned out by an industrial-strength sound system, some synthetic drum beats downloaded straight off Uppbeat and a woman spewing banal platitudes for an hour. Little people of the 44th Ryder Cup: shush. We will decide how you will be entertained.And so from the eternal city came the eternal opening ceremony: an inexorable treadmill of pumping music and glossy video montages and speeches so incoherent they verged on crimes against language. Was this sport? Clearly not. But by the same token it was evidently the stuff of which modern sport seems to be made these days: a kind of hydrogenised sport-adjacent substance, the fatty tissue of sport, the bit we now have to wade through to get to the thing itself. There was something good that we lost along the way," the singer-songwriter and celebrity golf fan Tom Grennan sang from the stage. Know how you feel, mate. Know how you feel. Continue reading...

LIV rebels deserve to have their past contributions recognised, even if wounds from golf's civil war still lingerThe walk into Marco Simone Golf and Country Club takes you past a series of giant posters of the European team's greatest moments: Darren Clarke's chip at the 16th to beat Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk in the four-balls at the K Club in 2006, Jamie Donaldson in the seconds after Keegan Bradley had conceded on the Sunday at Gleneagles in 2014, Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari hugging after winning their fourth point together at Le Golf National. It's a long way, and they run on and on and on, Seve at the Belfry, Woosie at Muirfield, Ollie tearing up in the aftermath of the Miracle at Medinah.There are, you'll eventually twig, three people who are very conspicuously missing from the gallery. You'll have to walk a lot longer again before you find any photos of Sergio Garcia, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter, the three men who have come to be most closely associated with the European team in this century. In fact, if you're looking for one you can walk right across the course's 350 acres and carry on going off it back into the city again. Continue reading...

Madeline-Michelle Carthen was added to a death master file by SSA in error' but to this day she cannot revive herselfMadeline-Michelle Carthen was declared dead in the summer of 2007. The only problem? She was still very much alive.Carthen, 52, learned she died while studying at university. A business technology student at Webster University, Carthen was accepted into an international internship program. But when she applied for financial aid to assist with expenses, the financial aid office told her that her social security number was associated with a deceased person and that she would have to withdraw immediately. Continue reading...

Jason Billingsley charged with first-degree murder after Pava LaPere, 26, found dead in apartment complex on MondayA suspect has been arrested over the murder of a Baltimore tech chief executive, following a citywide manhunt.Jason Billingsley, 32, was arrested on charges of first-degree murder on Wednesday by Baltimore police over the killing of 26-year-old Pava LaPere. Billingsley was reportedly apprehended at a Maryland train station, ending a day-long manhunt for the suspect. Continue reading...

Failed far-right gubernatorial candidate is also a possible pick for Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential electionThe far-right Trump supporter Kari Lake still refuses to accept her defeat in the 2022 race for Arizona governor but will nonetheless run for US Senate next year.We need to get a senator in there who is going to fight back and put America first," the Republican told the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading...

Elsewhere, Europe's youngsters claim first blood on the course while Italy's transport unions are dealt a blow off itThe official gala dinner on Wednesday night was a prime opportunity to engage in some of the Ryder Cup's more stubbornly enduring traditions: golf-themed desserts (this time a lavish coconut cream effort called Hole In One"), bad music (the singer-songwriter Phillip Phillips, who I'm sure played in the singles at Celtic Manor in 2010), and of course putting women in expensive dresses and making them stand silently while other people photograph them. As the European players and their wives descended the famous Spanish Steps, two of their number were conspicuously unaccompanied: Viktor Hovland and the vice-captain Jose Maria Olazabal. And so, in an arrestingly tender gesture, Olazabal and Hovland decided to couple up, posing hand-in-hand as they entered the Piazza di Spagna. A powerful stand against the heteronormativity and innate conservatism of professional golf? Or a piece of quite cringey banter? Probably depends how the rest of the evening panned out, to be honest. Continue reading...

Whatever the outcome of this battle between developer and local authority, high-rise blocks should not be the futureThe demolition of two new apartment buildings at Woolwich's Mast Quay would be daft. The claimed reason - 26 deviations from the development's 2012 planning permission - cannot justify planners pulling down the 36m high-rise blocks, embodied carbon and all. The developer, Comer Homes, seems to have slashed the proposed roof garden and playground, and pulled back on balconies, disabled access and overall quality. But that does not make the towers uninhabitable. I am sure you can see a dozen worse towers from its top floor.More than a third of Mast Quay's 204 units have reportedly now been rented - a two-bedroom flat is around 2,000 a month - with 126 still empty. Like towers across London, the block could well lie mostly empty as an asset on a company's books until the market improves. But what Greenwich may have envisaged as a luxury riverside hub for young urban professionals is now plainly not what it expected. The council is understandably eager to put things right. It is furious and wants the mutant" blocks to come down. The developers are appealing the decision, suggesting the council's public statements were inaccurate".Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

The FBI is investigating alleged civil rights violations at Baton Rouge's unmarked Brave Cave' torture warehouseThree Baton Rogue, Louisiana, police officers are on administrative leave after a series of federal lawsuits exposing the abuse and sexual humiliation taking place at an unmarked torture warehouse known as the Brave Cave" that was operated by members of the Baton Rouge police department (BRPD).Baton Rouge's police chief, Murphy Paul, told city councilors on Wednesday night that the department would hold itself accountable as the FBI investigates alleged civil rights violations at the agency stemming from the allegations that members of the department may have abused their authority". Continue reading...

At least two people holding signs saying union members for Trump' and auto workers for Trump' turned out to be neitherWhen Donald Trump gave a speech in Michigan on Wednesday, seeking to capitalise on the United Auto Workers strike, at least two crowd members holding signs saying union members for Trump" and auto workers for Trump" turned out to be neither.The Detroit News reported: One individual in the crowd who held a sign that said union members for Trump' acknowledged that she wasn't a union member when approached by a reporter after the event. Continue reading...

Trainers say president is ultimately responsible for German shepherd's behaviour after 11th biting incident in two yearsPerhaps the name didn't help in establishing who's boss. When Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, were given a three-month-old German shepherd puppy in December 2021, they decided to call the very adorable" new pet Commander.With his in chief" suffix, Biden may technically outrank him - but it seems nobody told the dog. On Monday Commander (dog not president) bit a Secret Service agent, leaving him requiring medical treatment - and this was not a first offence. The dog has bitten or attacked Secret Service personnel at least 11 times, which among Biden's security team has earned it the less polite code names of that stupid dog" and freaking clown". Continue reading...