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Story highlightsClaire Wineland has cystic fibrosis and vowed she'd never seek a double-lung transplantBut she had a change of heart, wasn't ready to die and worked hard to get on the waiting listComplications got in the way, though, and then came the call that would change everything (CNN)Having spent a quarter of her life in the hospital, she knows how to sleep through noise. She's so good at it that she worried the phone call wouldn't wake her. But when her cell rang at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday, she was ready.Claire Wineland, inspirational speaker and social media star, dies one week after lung transplantOn the other end was the news Claire Wineland had been waiting for: Doctors had found a pair of donor lungs. She'd been on the transplant list for just over two weeks after months of uncertainty. Now she was getting her chance at an extended life. A change of heartClaire, 21, gained social media attention starting in high school with her frank -- even funny -- YouTube videos about growing up with cystic fibrosis. At 13, she started a foundation to help other families affected by the genetic and progressive disease, which can be terminal. At 14, she started sharing her beyond-her-years wisdom from stages. Read MoreThere is no cure for cystic fibrosis, which causes an overabundance of mucus, traps infections and blocks airways in the lungs. It complicates digestion, affects the pancreas and other organs and, eventually, leads to respiratory failure. Dutiful treatments eat up hours each day and can help ease complications and symptoms -- until they don't. But CFers can add years to their lives with double-lung transplants, assuming the surgery is successful. For years Claire dismissed the idea of a transplant. She was of the mind that she would live a meaningful life for as long as she could and that she'd leave the world with the body she came in with. Period. Claire Wineland has spent a quarter of her life in the hospital.Earlier this year, though, her deteriorating health forced her to do some soul-searching. Unable to travel, work and do what she loved, she had a change of heart. She realized if she didn't get new lungs, she would die sooner than she was willing to accept.Getting on the waitlist, though, was not a given. It required a thorough, grueling evaluation by a large team at the Center for Transplantation at UC San Diego Health. To qualify, they had to know she was sick enough to need lungs yet strong enough -- physically and psychologically -- to handle the surgery and life afterward. She took to Twitter at the end of May to share the news that she was an approved candidate."It's a YES!!!! I am officially on the #UCSD transplant list! Woohoo!" she wrote. "It's ON!""It's a YES!!!!" Claire Wineland posted on Twitter when she learned she was on the transplant list.Her supporters joined in the excitement, offering prayers, congratulations and GIFs."My lungs are telepathically saying hello to your future lungs," wrote one person. "Where do I get my #TeamClaire T-shirt???" asked another."Amen!" chimed in a third. "Waiting for 2 new lungs at UCSF and one of my greatest lessons on this journey is 'Be present in each moment'. Easier said than done on a pity party day."Unanticipated stressorsThe joy of making it onto the list, however, was quickly tempered by a barrage of complications -- some health related, others simply life related. Living on the list isn't just about waiting. It's hard work, doesn't happen in a vacuum and can come with unanticipated stressors. Just two weeks after making the list, a CT scan showed Claire had fungal balls, or clumps of mold, in her sinuses. If left untreated, the fungus would infect new lungs, "so everything came to a screeching halt," Claire's mother, Melissa Nordquist Yeager, explained. Determined to locate the source of the infection, Claire and her roommate asked their property managers for an inspection of their leak-laden apartment in Venice Beach in Los Angeles. The place turned out to have high levels of mold. For months her health had been spiraling downward, despite being diligent with her treatments. Now, suddenly, she had a possible explanation -- and she had to get out. Fast. Why a terminally ill young woman has changed her mind about livingShe and her roommate threw everything they had in plastic bags and fled.They went from one Airbnb to another. A tree branch fell onto the back porch of the first. A gas leak forced them out of the second. A short-term lease they signed in LA's Silver Lake neighborhood offered a reprieve but too many stairs, which proved exhausting for Claire. She says they moved four times in the span of a few weeks. In the middle of all of this, their beloved pit bull Daisy got sick. They first wrote it off as a nervous stomach, but when they took her to a vet, they learned cancer had metastasized throughout her body. They had no choice but to put Daisy down. Stressed, emotionally crushed and unable to focus on her self-care and treatments -- her full-time job at that point -- Claire began to slip.The strong antifungal medication she was on didn't help. Her mom described the effect as comparable to chemo. Claire couldn't tolerate it and developed purple welts all over her body. "I looked corpse-like," she said.She had diarrhea, grew nauseous and had no appetite, which is problematic for a person who needs to take in 5,000 calories a day. She lost 6 pounds, none of which she could afford to lose. She fell below the BMI range needed for a transplant. By early July, the transplant team at UCSD had no choice but to put her on "Status 7," a designation that, at least temporarily, took her off the active list. 'Making a promise to everyone else'Being knocked off the list might have devastated others, but for Claire it was a relief."I was too sick, too malnourished, too stressed out to do well in surgery. I didn't have the strength," she said recently. "I need to be ready for whatever comes, and I wasn't ready." The day after her status changed, she posted a video unlike any before. A self-described "goofball," Claire is known for her bright smile, humor and optimistic-but-honest talk. When she hit the record button this time, though, she fought back tears and pleaded for help."It hurts everything inside of me to have to make this video," she said into the camera. "I didn't realize how much I didn't expect to live this long. I didn't expect to have a chance. ... The years of telling myself I can do it on my own are over. So here I am."Claire has always had plenty of emotional support. Now, unable to work and terrified about what the months ahead would look like for her and her family, she sought financial support."I've never felt so embarrassed in my entire life," she said.It was an ask, posted on a GoFundMe page, that made her cringe. She was used to raising money for others through Claire's Place Foundation, which she imagined at age 13 after coming out of a 16-day medically induced coma. The foundation offers financial assistance to struggling families affected by cystic fibrosis. For Claire, this was new, raw and swallow-your-pride territory. But it was something she felt she needed to do. She worried how her journey would affect those who loved her. What if her parents poured everything into supporting her transplant only to lose her and everything they have? What if she survived but couldn't work for a year or longer? What if the next apartment she moved to wasn't a good place to heal? "The biggest hassle has been figuring out how to structure your life in a way that can handle whatever happens in the future," she said. "You have to plan for like 50 different outcomes. ... Who am I going to be in six months? It stays in a weird part of your brain and messes with you."What also messed with her were concerns about whether she deserved the transplant. "Everyone deserves it," she clarified. "It was more, 'So what am I going to do with it? ... What if I get it and I don't do anything good with it?' " Living while dying: 'Little Buddha' wisdom from a terminally ill 'goofball'By asking for help, she was "making a promise to everyone else that there's something at the end of this. ... It's for something, and it's going somewhere." Claire wanted people to know she would continue giving back. All of this drove her when she turned to the camera.Her mother had set up the GoFundMe page to cover expenses for the three to six months Claire would need to relocate to San Diego to live near the transplant center after surgery. She'd raised $7,000, reaching out to everyone she knew. Six hours after Claire posted her video, the pot grew to $100,000. At last count, the page had raised more than $237,000.The outpouring of donations, more than 8,000 of them, overwhelmed her. "I don't have the words to say how grateful I am," she said in a thank you video. "You took such a huge weight off of me. ... I feel like I can breathe for the first time in so long." The panic that washed over her each day finally dissipated. She was freed up to focus on getting stronger -- and getting back on the list.'On the list because I should be'A stint in the hospital helped her gain weight. A different antifungal medication agreed with her. In-home antibiotic IVs got to work beating back a more recent infection.Her days revolved around self-care. Big meals, like breakfasts of eggs, bacon, toast and smoothies, coupled with formula through her feeding tube. Hours of breathing treatments, IVs, insulin and pills. Exercises, including repeated rounds of squats to build up strength. Those were a must, because after a transplant she'd be unable to use her arms and would need to rely on her legs to stand up.Those squats offered more than advertised, she discovered."Transplant is unintentionally making me get an ass," she laughed. "I might come out with new lungs and a new butt." On August 10, greatly improved, she got back on the waiting list."It felt really good because now I'm back on the list because I should be," she said. "I haven't been doing anything other than taking care of myself." She was told the call could come at any minute. She wanted to be situated in a new, clean, mold-free apartment with her roommate before it came. They found a place they loved, one without steps, in Silver Lake. The first night they slept there, her phone rang. Breathing it inThe doctors had warned Claire that one out of three potential donations aren't a good match, said Yeager, her mom. There was a chance the lungs she raced to San Diego to receive wouldn't, upon further examination, become hers.Still, when she arrived at the transplant center Sunday morning, she was admitted and put on anti-rejection drugs just in case. By early afternoon, she learned this was no dry run."It's a GO!!! Surgeon said they are perfect!!" she posted on Twitter, with a picture of her and her mom hugging and beaming from Claire's hospital bed. "See y'all on [the] other side" Claire and her mother beamed in a photo posted on Twitter on Sunday.Team Claire sent her off with cheers and prayers, and they rallied together not just for her but for the donor's family."Send love and prayers to the family of the person who lost their life today, " wrote Elizabeth Bailey, a family friend who was once Claire's stepmother. "That in their grief they will find comfort knowing that the life they lost will move on to give the hope of life to another. To an incredible woman who will use those lungs to continue to make the world a better place with her love and inspiration." Claire was wheeled into the operating room before 2 p.m. PDT Sunday. Her surgery began about an hour later and lasted nearly nine more. Word filtered out that it went well, that Claire's color and vitals were good. Before midnight, she was rolled into ICU for recovery. Fear of germs meant even her mother couldn't yet visit or touch her hand.Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team.So from the waiting room, her mom did the only thing she could. She posted a video of herself with two friends, including Bailey, doing a happy dance."Doing GREAT so far!!" Yeager wrote in an email Monday afternoon. "Today feels like a dream!!"Tuesday morning, Claire will be woken up, according to one of the transplant team's pulmonologists, Dr. Kamyar Afshar. Once it's clear that she can "follow commands and protect her airway," the breathing tube will come out.At that point Claire, who's never known what it's like to have clear lungs, will breathe in -- for the first time -- her new life.Editor's note: Since publication of this story, Claire Wineland has faced new complications.

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(CNN)Angela Merkel has been seen shaking in public for the second time in less than two weeks, raising concern over the wellbeing of the German chancellor.Merkel, 64, appeared to clutch her arms together to keep herself still as she attended an event with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday.The incident, at a farewell ceremony for Justice Minister Katarina Barley, was captured on a live feed by the Reuters news agency. At one point she was handed a glass of water, which she waved away.Merkel's spokesperson later told CNN that the chancellor is "fine." "Everything is taking place as planned. The chancellor is well," he added, indicating that Merkel would still take part in this weekend's G20 summit in Japan.Read MoreThe chancellor attended the country's parliament half an hour later for the swearing-in of the new justice minister. According to Reuters, she then appeared relaxed and showed no signs of shaking as she talked and laughed with her vice chancellor, Olaf Scholz.Angela Merkel says she is 'very well' after visibly shaking during ceremonyEarlier this month Merkel was seen shaking dramatically as she met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Berlin. She blamed dehydration for that incident."Since then I have drunk at least three glasses of water -- I obviously needed that and so I'm doing very well now," Merkel told reporters at a press conference with Zelensky shortly after video of her tremors was circulated.Tremors can be caused by a number of conditions, ranging from neurological disorders to less serious issues such as medicinal side effects, stress or caffeine consumption. Germany is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave, with temperatures hitting 38.6 degrees Celsius (101.5 Fahrenheit) in parts, though Berlin was cooler than much of the country on Wednesday.Merkel, who has been chancellor since 2005, is approaching the end of her lengthy tenure.She will not seek reelection when her current term ends in 2021, she announced last year, telling reporters the position had been a "very challenging and fulfilling task."Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, widely seen as Merkel's protege, was elected as leader of the Christian Democratic Union party last year and will likely lead it into the 2021 federal elections.CNN's Simon Cullen and Amy Woodyatt contributed to this report.

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(CNN)It began as a movement among a few people in lower middle-class rural France protesting a new eco-tax on fuel they felt would push their budgets over the edge.But as France locks down in preparation for a possible fourth weekend of violent protests, the movement of "gilet jaunes," named after the yellow high-visibility jackets French motorists must carry in their vehicles, has morphed into a movement of many colors, with extremist groups jumping on the bandwagon.Eiffel Tower, Louvre to close amid fears of weekend 'gilets jaunes' protests The demands have also expanded, with even students taking part, calling for changes to the French high school examinations and university entrance procedures.Also among the protesters are anarchists, elements of the anti-immigration populists and hard-core fascists. There are even groups on social media claiming to be environmental "yellow jackets," a direct contradiction of the original protesters' demands to scrap a new eco-tax. Action coordinated on FacebookRead MoreMuch of the organizing for the protests has taken place on Facebook. According to the social media company's own figures, 67% of French people use Facebook, with 22 million people logging on every day. The protests have been coordinated through groups called "groupes colères," or "angry groups," which have amassed hundreds of thousands of members over the course of this year. The biggest Facebook group is the "Compteur Officiel de Gilets Jaunes" or official yellow jacket count, which boasts 1.7 million members. Another group is the "Carte des Rassemblements," which means rally or demonstration map, with 300,000 members. A more sinister-sounding group, "Angry Patriots," has 53,000 members. Leading 'gilets jaunes'The original "yellow vest" was the motor mechanic Ghislain Coutard, 36, from Narbonne in southern France. Nicknamed "vestman" on social media, a video he produced encouraging people to show their opposition to the tax by wearing a yellow jacket quickly went viral, with 5.4 million views. Another social media "gilet jaune" popular with the media is Jacline Mouraud, 51, a hypnotherapist and accordion player from Brittany.She is part of a group called the "Free Yellow Vests," who are calling for demonstrators to stay away from Paris because of what they say is a "trap" set up by the government, which they accuse of pursuing "a strategy of chaos.""I don't see the point in marching on Paris, that is a piece of theater. This is not a game, everyone needs to understand now, everyone needs to realize what we have achieved and the fact we have been given the right to discuss," she told French newspaper Le Parisien. A recent favorite with the media is Jean-François Barnaba, 62, a former director of culture and tourism in Indre, a department in central France, who was removed from his post and placed on extended "gardening leave" on 80% of his salary, 10 years ago.Barnaba currently receives $2,900 dollars a month, which he says leaves him with just $1,000 a month to support his wife and seven children after all the bills are paid. According to the AFP news agency, Barnaba wrote and self-published a novel in 2016 and has given more than 30 interviews to French media on behalf of the "yellow vest" movement.Éric Drouet, 33, a lorry driver from Melun in the south-eastern suburbs of Paris with 47,000 Facebook followers, started a "yellow vest" movement in his local automobile club, the Muster Crew, according to Le Monde newspaper.He told CNN affiliate BFMTV on Wednesday: "Saturday will be the final goal. Saturday it's the Elysée (presidential residence). We would all like to go to the Elysée. It will really be Saturday. We are all united to the end and we move on the direction of l'Elysée." "Si on arrive devant l'Elysée, on rentre dedans" déclare un gilet jaune #GJSortirdelaCrise pic.twitter.com/C4YymVqQab— BFMTV (@BFMTV) December 5, 2018 However, in a Facebook video published later, Drouet damped down the angry tone. "I ask people to come out to demonstrate, not to smash things up," he said in the video. "I want to go to the Elysée not to break it, but so we get listened to." French media reported Friday he was now being investigated by the public prosecutor. An associate of Drouet is Priscillia Ludosky, 33, who runs an online perfume company from the south-east Parisian suburbs. She became another "yellow vest" figurehead after starting an online petition to call for lower fuel prices that collected more than a million signatures. Ludosky says she is against all political parties, but on Thursday published a political manifesto calling for, among other things, popular referendums, the creation of a people's assembly, a cut in the salaries of public officials as well as a curb on their expense accounts. A black woman, many of her Facebook followers come from France's non-white communities. To the right of the movement is Maxime Nicolle, 31, otherwise known as Fly Rider, whose posts have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, according to Le Monde. Sporting a red beard and baseball cap turned backward, he is something of a conspiracy theorist. He is associated with the online blogger and conspiracy theorist Étienne Chouard, who first became known in France 13 years ago when he called for a referendum over the European Union constitution. Nicolle is credited with spreading fears that Macron is preparing to sign a United Nations agreement to allow 480 million more immigrants into Europe. On a recent Facebook video post, seen below, he was advising people to stock up on food and to secure their homes in case of looting and called on the forces of law and order to defend "the people against the government." "I'm definitely not backing down now," he told CNN Wednesday, following the suspension of the new fuel tax. "The moratorium (on the fuel tax) is useless. The people want a referendum, a referendum on Macron, the senate and the national assembly."His Facebook page was down on Friday. The concern now, and the reason for the strong police mobilization Saturday, is the hijacking of the "angry groups" by violent political extremists. "These past three weeks have seen the birth of a monster that has escaped its creators," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner told a press conference Friday.CNN's Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report.

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(CNN)Prosecutors on Tuesday filed the first significant conspiracy charge in the US Capitol attack, alleging that three members of the so-called Oath Keepers, an extremist militant group, planned and coordinated ahead of the January 6 assault.In an amended complaint unsealed Tuesday in federal court, an FBI agent divulged striking new details about the group's efforts. Jessica Watkins, the alleged founder of an Ohio militia, had instructions to make explosives out of bleach printed out at her home, according to the court document. Chilling messages sent between the militants during the siege that are quoted in the complaint appear to indicate they were searching for lawmakers inside the building as they sought to stop Congress from certifying the presidential election.Capitol riot investigators narrow in on extremist groups and military-style coordination While at the Capitol, one alleged member of the conspiracy, Thomas Edward Caldwell, allegedly received a Facebook message reading "All members are in the tunnels under capital seal them in. Turn on gas."In subsequent messages, an unidentified person appeared to give Caldwell directions inside the labyrinthian government building: Read More"Tom all legislators are down in the Tunnels 3floors down" one says. "Go through back house chamber doors facing N left down hallway down steps," says another, according to court documents. Watkins turned herself into local police in the state on Sunday along with Donovan Crowl, another member of the Ohio group accused in the conspiracy charges.JUST WATCHEDMitch McConnell: Capitol rioters were fed liesReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHMitch McConnell: Capitol rioters were fed lies 02:04The pair, along with Caldwell, are accused of moving together "in an organized and practiced fashion" as they pushed through a crowd towards a door to the Capitol building, according to a charging document.The three were part of a group of eight to 10 people all wearing paramilitary gear and Oath Keeper paraphernalia, signifying their affiliation with the self-styled militia that's driven by anti-government conspiracies, according to an FBI affidavit. (The Ohio militia founded by Watkins pays dues to the Oath Keepers, according to the affidavit.)How Parler is trying to get back onlineIndividual charges against the three had been revealed in recent days but the new conspiracy charge grouping them together represents the most serious allegation of coordinated activity at the riot made by prosecutors investigating the events of the insurrection. Prosecutors have called Caldwell an apparent leader of the Oath Keepers, and had previously charged him alone with conspiracy. (Oath Keepers leader Steward Rhodes denied that to CNN.)It's not clear who is representing Watkins and Donovan on the charges. Caldwell was arrested in Virginia earlier Tuesday and at an initial appearance in federal court in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Tuesday afternoon, a federal magistrate judge ordered that he remain in jail as he awaits trial. "The conduct and statements of Mr. Caldwell and the others, it really is just pure lawlessness," Judge Joel Hoppe of the Western District of Virginia said.Prosecutors said at the hearing that Caldwell could face more charges, potentially including federal riot and sedition charges. He currently faces charges of obstruction of a federal proceeding, destruction of federal property and two conspiracy counts that carry serious possible penalties.Caldwell's defense lawyer argued that he should be released because he is at risk of contracting Covid-19 in detention, his charges are not that serious and that he is a retired Navy captain who served the country and was honorably discharged. Caldwell said in court he still receives retirement payments from the Navy."Seventy percent of Republicans believe that the election was fraudulent," his temporarily appointed defense lawyer said, adding that Caldwell's opposition to the government wasn't out of the ordinary for "blustering on Facebook."According to a recording of walkie-talkie-like communications that the militant group members were allegedly having during the riot, Watkins said that she was part of a team of 30 to 40 people. "We have a good group. We have about 30-40 of us. We are sticking together and sticking to the plan," Watkins said, according to the affidavit. 12 Army National Guard members removed from inauguration dutyAt another point in the recording, after Watkins reports to the group that unknown others were "throwing grenades" and "shooting people with paint balls," a man responds to her telling her to be safe and adding, "Get it, Jess. Do your F**king thing. This is what we f**king [unintelligible] up for. Everything we f**king trained for." In an interview, Crowl's mother, Teresa Joann Rowe, said her son, who previously served in the US Marine Corps, has expressed increasingly hostile political views in recent years."It felt like he did a 180-degree turnaround, felt like the world owed him a living and had a big chip on his shoulder," she told CNN. "I don't know if it's because life didn't go the way he planned."Asked why she thinks Crowl may have been joined to this extremist group, she said, "I would like to understand myself. I don't get it."She said Crowl served in the Marine Corps for about six years starting in the late 1980's and in recent years has done "odd jobs, being paid under the table so that he doesn't have to pay taxes."She said prior to the news surrounding the storming of the Capitol, she was unaware of Crowl's involvement in any political groups, though she had heard him express pro-Donald Trump political views. She also said she recalled Crowl stating that "they were going to overtake the government if they... tried to take Trump's presidency from him. So he did make that statement, but that was two or three years ago so I forgot all about it."JUST WATCHEDElection fraud rhetoric 'precipitated riots' says BarrReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHElection fraud rhetoric 'precipitated riots' says Barr 02:22Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism, said he's concerned some of those arrested have US military backgrounds."Some right-wing extremist groups, particularly the anti-government Oath Keepers, have a long history of recruiting from current and former members of the military and law enforcement," Segal told CNN."Oath Keepers are part of the resurgent militia movement, which believes the federal government has been co-opted by a shadowy conspiracy that is trying to strip American citizens of their rights. Though the Oath Keepers will accept anyone as members, what differentiates them from other anti-government extremist groups is their explicit focus on recruiting current and former military, law enforcement and first responder personnel," he added.This story has been updated with additional developments.CNN's Curt Devine, Mallory Simon, Sara Sidner and Anna-Maja Rappard contributed to this report.

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Story highlightsFrance's National Front gained 20% of the vote in the first round of the presidential electionThe far-right group is against membership of the euro and taps into anti-Muslim sentimentThe far right has seen gains in Austria, Belgium, Scandinavia and elsewhereAnalysts say the austerity crisis is only one factor in the far right's rise in EuropeThe success of France's anti-euro National Front party in the first round of the country's presidential elections thrust the far right into the headlines.A day later in the Netherlands, the refusal of the far-right Freedom Party to back austerity measures led the Dutch government to collapse.Two very different scenarios, but with a common thread: the efforts of extremist parties to win support by plugging into popular discontent over the financial crisis, against the backdrop of a wider social unease and anti-immigrant sentiment.Across Europe, anger at a perceived mismanagement of the economic crisis, and accompanying high unemployment, low growth and painful cuts, has seen the fall of half a dozen governments. Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Finland and Italy are among them -- and unless President Nicolas Sarkozy pulls a victory out of the bag in the second round of voting on May 6, France may be the next to see power change hands, this time in a shift to the left.Sarkozy, for his part, says he will keep an open ear to the concerns of the National Front party, led by Marine Le Pen -- but rejected any notion of striking a deal with the far-right group."There will be no pact with the National Front, there will be no National Front ministers, but I refuse to demonize the men and women who in voting for Marine Le Pen expressed a crisis vote, a vote of anger, a vote of suffering and a vote of despair," he said on French radio Wednesday. "I have to take their message into account, I have to listen to them, I have to hear them and not hold my nose."Even so, will the region's economic insecurity translate into greater gains for the far right?JUST WATCHEDPart 1: Bernard Henri-Levy ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHPart 1: Bernard Henri-Levy 11:49Europe's far-right parties are definitely seeing a resurgence, according to Dr. Matthew Feldman, director of the Radicalism and New Media Research Group at the University of Northampton, but the austerity crisis is only one part of the picture.He says the far right movement has been gaining ground for years, thanks partly to efforts to revamp its previously overtly racist and fascist image.JUST WATCHEDComing in third has its perks for Le PenReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHComing in third has its perks for Le Pen 02:02This doesn't mean that those racist or Nazi-sympathizing elements don't still exist within different countries' far right groups, he said, but those at the top have often learned to present a more acceptable public face. JUST WATCHEDHow will French election affect Germany? ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHHow will French election affect Germany? 03:06Instead of open racial attacks, they play up a threat to national identity and criticize multiculturalism, Feldman said.On the campaign trail, National Front leader Marine Le Pen called for France to leave the eurozone and restore its own currency, the franc, as well as criticizing its political integration into the European Union.But her rhetoric also drew on an anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim sentiment that has deep roots in France and elsewhere. A report by rights group Amnesty International released Monday highlighted the issue, saying Muslims in Europe face discrimination in education, employment and religious freedom.This discourse was likely a factor in Sarkozy turning the labeling of halal meat into an election issue, in a bid to win far-right supporters from Le Pen.Dr. Michael Minkenberg, a professor of political science at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) who has also taught at New York, Cornell and Columbia universities, said concern over immigration, law and order "and the feeling that things aren't what they used to be any more" are at the heart of support for Europe's radical right.Euroscepticism, as resistance to greater European political integration is known, is also on the increase, he said, and "there's this anxiety about what will happen, a growing complexity and not much reassurance from either national governments or the European Union."Coupled with a mistrust of the political elite, this has also led to a swell of support for the far right in Austria, Belgium and Scandinavian countries, Minkenberg said.Despite that trend, analysts caution against drawing sweeping conclusions from the far right's success in France.The National Front has been well entrenched in France's political life for decades, under Jean-Marie Le Pen before his daughter Marine took charge last year, said Thomas Klau, of the European Council on Foreign Relations.As such, its achievement in taking a fifth of the votes in Sunday's election, while notable, does not indicate a sudden rise to prominence for the far right, he said.Socialist Francois Hollande, who is favored to win on May 6, told France's daily Liberation newspaper that he saw the strong showing for the National Front as an expression of people's "social anger" rather than a firm adherence to the party's more extremist views.It revealed a discontent particularly in rural areas and among working class voters, he said, with many feeling abandoned by the government. His job will be to persuade them that his left-wing party will listen to and answer their concerns, he said.Klau argued that a feature of recent ballots in Europe has been the readiness of voters to change their governments without turning to the political extremes, pointing to Spain's election last November as an example. "Voters have been single minded across the eurozone in terms of expressing their dissatisfaction at how the crisis has been run by the government in charge, whatever their political hue," he said. "But at the same time, they have sufficient confidence in their own political system to replace their governments with the mainstream political opposition."If the major parties can convince voters that they hear their concerns, they are less likely to turn to the extremes of left or right, said Minkenberg.But Sarkozy's failure to deliver on his promises on immigration during five years in power has undermined his support from the right-wing electorate despite his attempt to appeal to them in campaigning, Minkenberg said.In the Netherlands, Klau said the impact of Dutch politician Geert Wilders' decision to withdraw his Freedom Party's support for the government, triggering its collapse, will have only a temporary destabilizing effect.The economy will be central to the election of a new government, but the far right does not attract the same level of support as in France.Wilders, who wants a referendum on the euro, preferred to exit the coalition than lose political credibility by backing the painful cuts demanded by Europe, said Dr. Kostas Gemenis, at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte urged lawmakers to act responsibly. "The economy is stalling; unemployment is threatening to rise; and the national debt is growing more quickly than we can afford. These are the facts, and we cannot ignore them," he said Tuesday.Debt-ridden Greece also faces an election on May 6 that hinges on the economy.The situation is very fluid there, but the far-right LAOS party, with a couple of lawmakers in parliament, has lost ground to the ultranationalist Golden Dawn party, which has a history of street violence, Gemenis said. Opinion polls suggest Golden Dawn may pass the threshold of 3% of the vote, which could give the party eight or nine MPs in a parliament of 300, he said."They won't be able to make any difference, but it's a very strong message when people vote for such an extreme party," he said.At the moment, the most likely outcome is another coalition between the two main parties, Gemenis said. But if the radical groups manage to tie anger over the austerity measures mandated under the country's international bailout to a sense of nationalism, they might pick up more disaffected voters.So, does the far right present a broader threat to European freedoms?How extreme the anti-immigration debate becomes depends very much on the individual country, Minkenberg said.Farther east, a different strand of far-right thinking dominates in countries like Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, he said. There, far-right groups poll around 10% but tend to be more nationalistic in tone, he said, with anti-Semitism and anti-Roma views seen as more legitimate there than elsewhere in Europe.Feldman highlights the far right's recent apparent moves to establish a pan-European cultural movement as the biggest risk.Far-right groups from Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Eastern Europe gathered last month in the Danish city of Aarhus for what they said was a rally to make their governments aware of the threat of Islamic extremism.Although it was dwarfed by a left-wing counterdemonstration, the protest was significant as an attempt by the far-right groups to create a common trajectory, he said. What remains to be seen is how much traction their extreme views can gain. "It's clear that a large minority across Europe isn't comfortable with these things, demographic change and multiculturalism," Feldman said. "But what the far right offers is not something that many can accept."

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Moscow (CNN)Russian lawmakers submitted a draft bill that could grant former presidents lifelong immunity from criminal prosecution beyond their terms of office, state-run news agency TASS reported Thursday. Such a bill would give current President Vladimir Putin protection from prosecution if and when he decides to leave office. Under current Russian law, presidents cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed while in office. The proposed change seeks to extend the immunity beyond their terms of office so it would apply to offenses committed in the president's lifetime. It was submitted by a parliamentary group that assessed Putin's controversial constitutional amendments earlier this year. Russian voters overwhelmingly back a ploy by President Vladimir Putin to rule until 2036"After the expiration of his term of office, such person has the right to count on the level of protection and legal guarantees that is not lower than those provided to him while he exercised presidential powers," senator Andrey Klishas, the group's co-chair which submitted the bill, told TASS.Read More"This order acts as a guarantee against unjustified persecution of the former head of state and recognizes the importance of his role in the general system of public authority."The legislation has to go through three readings in the lower house of the Russian parliament, a review in the upper house, and then be signed by Putin to come into force.Immunity Among the first decrees Putin signed when he first came into office in 2000 was a document granting immunity to former president Boris Yeltsin, who stepped down and picked Putin as his successor. The new bill also complicates the process of revoking immunity by requiring the indictment of high treason or other grave felonies to be confirmed by the Supreme and Constitutional courts, where judges are nominated by the president. Then both chambers of the Russian parliament must support the motion by a two-thirds majority. Under current law, a former president could be stripped of immunity if a criminal case over state treason or grave felony is initiated by the Investigative Committee and supported by the both houses of the parliament.Strongmen rush to remake the world order as Trump faces potential election defeatThe latest legislation comes a week after Putin submitted another bill under his constitutional reforms giving ex-presidents a lifetime seat in the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council.The proposed bills have prompted speculation whether this could be a retirement plan for Putin, who has the option to stay in power until 2036 thanks to the constitutional reforms approved this summer.Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Thursday in a conference call with reporters that lifetime guarantees for former presidents are not "a novelty" in the international law and follow the constitutional amendments. Peskov said Friday that Putin is in great health and has no plans to step down.

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Washington (CNN)A rookie Republican congresswoman from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene, was suspended from Twitter on Sunday for 12 hours after she repeatedly tweeted election misinformation. Greene has a long history of embracing baseless conspiracy theories. And she has been a serial tweeter of false claims -- about the election, the Capitol insurrection and other subjects -- since she won her seat in November.Below is a fact check of 11 false claims Greene has tweeted in the last month alone, including three related claims about the integrity of the election. After CNN emailed her congressional office to offer her the opportunity to comment on any of these findings, her communications director, Nick Dyer, had only a brief response, "Here's our comment: 'CNN is fake news.'"The insurrection timelineDefending President Donald Trump against accusations that he incited the Capitol insurrection, Greene argued: "The timeline doesn't fit the narrative. Trump supporters could not have listened to President Trump's speech at the WH and then been 'incited' by him to walk to and attack the Capitol."Read MoreFacts First: This is just not true -- even leaving aside the fact that insurrectionists near the Capitol could have listened to Trump's speech on their phones or could have been inspired by Trump's previous rhetoric. There was more than enough time for people to walk about a mile and a half from The Ellipse park, where Trump gave a speech that ended before 1:15 p.m. ET, to the Capitol, where rioters were still present more than three hours after Trump concluded. In fact, the FBI alleges that some insurrection participants did make this walk, including one who allegedly went from the Trump speech to her hotel and then into the Capitol.White supremacists and the insurrectionAbortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America tweeted the following about the insurrection: "Anti-choice extremists, white supremacists, and violent misogynists all converged this week to attack our country. But the thing is, these groups already have a lot of overlap. What we saw was horrifying and devastating. But it wasn't surprising."Greene responded that the Capitol attack was "terrible and shouldn't have happened" -- but then added that all of the people who died as a result of the insurrection were White, "so I'm not sure where your white supremacy bs is coming from."Facts First: According to the FBI, it is true, not "bs," that White supremacists were involved in the insurrection. (Also, the fact that people killed at the Capitol were White obviously does not mean White supremacists could not have been among the perpetrators. Some of the people killed had been participants in the insurrection. And White supremacists sometimes kill other White people.)The FBI alleges that Bryan Betancur, who has been charged for alleged involvement in the insurrection, is "is a self-professed White supremacist who has made statements to law enforcement officers that he is a member of several white supremacy organizations." The FBI alleges that a confidential source says that another man who has been charged, Timothy Louis Hale-Cusanelli, is "an avowed white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer."A third man who has been charged, Robert Keith Packer, is alleged to be the man seen at the insurrection wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" shirt. The FBI alleges the shirt "appears to be a symbol of Nazi hate ideology." A fourth man who has been charged, Anthime Joseph (Tim) Gionet, is an Internet personality who is known for his role in the racist and anti-Semitic "alt-right" movement and who attended the infamous White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.The charges against these men were announced after Greene's "bs" tweet, but nonetheless, there was never any basis to accuse NARAL of making up the claim that white supremacists were present at the Capitol. In addition, a variety of symbols used by white supremacists had been seen at the Capitol during the insurrection. The publication Insider has reported that Gionet has disputed the assertion that he is a white nationalist. Packer did not respond to CNN requests for comment before his arrest. Betancur and Hale-Cusanelli did not immediately have lawyers listed in an online federal system. Voter fraudGreene tweeted that "there was MASS voter fraud on a scale that should terrify every American regardless of political party."Facts First: This is, again, just false. There is no evidence of mass voter fraud -- as Republican election officials around the country and Trump-appointed former Attorney General William Barr have acknowledged. Rather, there have been isolated instances of alleged fraud by lone voters, far too minor to have affected the outcome.In court, even Trump's own legal team often declined to allege mass fraud -- focusing instead on complaints about law and process. But the Trump team lost case after case anyway. The integrity of the electionWe'll address three related claims under this one heading.Greene repeatedly called the presidential election "stolen." She repeatedly referred to some of President-elect Joe Biden's electoral votes as "fraudulent." And she explicitly claimed that Biden "lost" the election and Trump "won." Facts First: All three claims are false. Biden won the election, fairly and legally. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise. Trump's various claims about supposed fraud and supposed election-rigging have been rejected in court and debunked at length by officials and fact checkers. The presidential election in GeorgiaGreene criticized Gabriel Sterling, a senior official in the office of Georgia's top elections official, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. She tweeted, "You ran a Nov 3rd election that was stolen bc you idiots at the SOS mailed out millions of absentee ballots to any one and everyone while GA was an open state."Facts First: Georgia's presidential election was not "stolen." Biden won the state fair and square, as confirmed by three counts of the ballots and an audit of some voters' signatures. Georgia was not one of the states to send an absentee ballot to every eligible registered voter; a ballot was only sent to an eligible voter who requested one. Georgia does not require any excuse to vote absentee, but this no-excuse policy was created by state Republican leaders in 2005, not by Raffensperger himself. The Senate elections in GeorgiaGreene tweeted: "... Georgia state leaders refused to listen to Georgia tax payers. They refused to change anything after allowing @realDonaldTrump's election to be stolen. And they refused to #StopTheSteaI with our two senate seats."Facts First: There was no "steal" of Georgia's two Senate seats; Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock won fair and square in the January runoff elections. Their Republican opponents, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, have both conceded defeat. The presidential election in PennsylvaniaGreene tweeted, "202,377 more votes cast than voters voting in Pennsylvania! This is called election fraud." Facts First: False again. State officials and fact checkers have repeatedly explained that the claim that Pennsylvania had more votes than registered voters is just not true; Greene was invoking an incorrect figure from a Republican state legislator who had relied on incomplete data.The First AmendmentThe day after Twitter banned Trump's @realDonaldTrump account, Greene tweeted, "Yesterday they crushed the First Amendment. You can see what's coming next. I vow to do everything I can to protect American's Second Amendment rights."Facts First: Nobody crushed the First Amendment on January 8. Greene didn't explicitly say she was talking about Twitter's decision to suspend Trump's account, but if she was, she was clearly inaccurate. The First Amendment prohibits the government from silencing citizens, but it does not require corporations, including social media companies like Twitter, to allow citizens to speak freely.Violence in 2020Greene tweeted, "ZERO Democrats have condemned the political violence of BLM/Antifa terrorists that lasted the entirety of 2020. Instead, each of them fanned the flames of hate."Facts First: Numerous Democrats -- including Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and senior members of the party's congressional caucus -- condemned rioting and looting last year while also supporting peaceful Black Lives Matter protests against racism and police brutality.Republicans are entitled to argue that Democrats should have issued such condemnations more forcefully or frequently, or that they should have been more explicit in identifying the perpetrators, but it's just inaccurate to say or suggest they didn't issue the condemnations at all.

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(CNN)Presidential Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg said he believes that if America leads on human rights and LGBT issues, "other country leaders would actually be, to some extent, forced by world opinion to make some advancements.""I think it's one example of why American moral authority, even today, is so important, because other models are being held up right now," Buttigieg, who married his husband Chasten last year, said in an interview with Van Jones on "The Van Jones Show" airing on CNN Saturday at 7 p.m. ET when asked about how other world leaders would respond to America having a gay couple in the White House. "When we show leadership, people respond, and that includes when we show by an election that we're an inclusive country — whether that's about an LGBT leader or in some other way — that other country leaders would actually be, to some extent, forced by world opinion to make some advancements. It's one of the things that's at stake right now if America is not trusted, is not respected, then it won't much matter what we have to say about that or any other human rights issue," the South Bend, Indiana, mayor said.This week Buttigieg scored his highest Democratic primary national poll number to date, at 4% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning registered voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll."There's this intangible energy you can just feel when I walk into a room," Buttigieg said.Read MoreBut to win in 2020, Buttigieg says Democrats can't just point to the "chaos" of the Trump administration, calling for a serious look into what Trump voters and the President himself are saying."If [President Donald Trump] is saying the system is rigged — and the way he's saying it is twisted and not really true, but there's a kernel of truth in there — and we look like we're the ones saying, 'oh no, the system is perfectly fine,' then we've got a problem," Buttigieg said. "The problem is normal wasn't working for a lot of people," he said.Buttigieg, 37, said his background as a small-city mayor in a red state allows him to reach voters — particularly in the industrial Midwest — in a different way than other candidates. "They just haven't heard from us in a while. And I think coming from that part of the country, as well as the generational background that I have — and the background of being a mayor, which just puts you in a different headspace, I think — than if you go to work in Washington every day. I think that that just might create a way to reach people differently," he said.Buttigieg discussed diversity among the 2020 Democratic candidates and slammed Trump's rhetoric as sowing division in the country. "Right now, identity as means of division is being mastered by this White House. We're in a moment of peak white identity politics. And it's being used to divide us across the working middle class, to divide us regionally, to divide us on partisan lines," he said."It's harder to use political rhetoric to make people feel big-hearted and secure and forward-looking. But it can be done and then that's one of the reasons to get into this in the first place."Tune in to "The Van Jones Show" at 7 p.m. ET Saturday for the full interview.

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Washington (CNN)There is a lot up for grabs Tuesday.All 435 House races are on the ballot, with Democrats feeling optimistic about winning control of the chamber.In the Senate, 35 seats are at stake, with Republicans positioned to hold -- and possibly expand -- the party's slim majority. 2018 Key Races tracker And 36 gubernatorial contests will be decided, with Democrats looking to put a dent in the current 17-seat advantage for Republicans.That doesn't count the 6,066 state legislative races across 46 states and 158 ballot measures in 37 states.Read MoreWith so much at stake, we here at CNN have identified 10 races that help explain the story of the 2018 midterms -- and might offer hints about how things are likely to shake out on Election Night.Kentucky's 6th District: The Early IndicatorDemocratic congressional candidate Amy McGrath This Lexington-area district will be one of the first places we see votes on Election Night and could offer an early clue at just how energized Democrats are this year. Democrat Amy McGrath, a retired Marine fighter pilot, has given GOP Rep. Andy Barr a run for his money in a district President Donald Trump carried by 16 points. If Democrats are winning in places like eastern Kentucky, then Republicans could be in for a long night on Tuesday.Virginia's 7th District: Tea Party vs. The ResistanceAbigail Spanberger, Democratic U.S. Representative candidate from VirginiaTwo-term Rep. Dave Brat stunned the political world in 2014 when he defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a GOP primary. Four years later, Brat could find himself on the losing end of another upset, facing a strong challenge from Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA operations officer. She is not running as a progressive firebrand, but just as Brat rode the Tea Party wave against Cantor, Spanberger could capitalize on the suburban backlash to the President in a traditionally Republican district.New Jersey's 7th District: The Trump Drag Rep. Leonard Lance, R-N.J., Can a moderate Republican survive in a swing district where disapproval with the President is creating significant headwinds? That is the question confronting several GOP incumbents, including New Jersey Rep. Leonard Lance. The five-term incumbent broke with his party and voted against the Republican tax bill and the GOP's 2017 effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Despite those moves, Lance might not be able to escape the shadow cast by Trump and the GOP agenda. He faces a well-funded challenge from Democrat Tom Malinowski, a former State Department official, in a district Hillary Clinton carried by a single point.California's 45th District: Welcome to the O.C.Rep. Mimi Walters, R-Calif.There are seven GOP-held seats in California that Hillary Clinton carried in 2016. They include the 45th District which is based entirely in Orange County and is a longtime Republican stronghold that's become increasingly diverse. Mitt Romney won the district by 12 points, but it went for Clinton by five. GOP Rep. Mimi Walters is running against Democrat Katie Porter, a consumer protection lawyer and Elizabeth Warren protégée. A victory here by Porter, a progressive favorite who has endorsed single-payer health care, would send a signal of how far the politics of this area have moved.Iowa's 3rd District: Obama-Trump TurfCindy Axne, democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Iowa's 3rd districtThere's been a lot of attention paid to the 25 GOP seats Clinton carried in 2016 -- and rightfully so -- but Democrats are also on offense in many of the dozen districts that swung from Barack Obama in 2012 to Trump four years later. Iowa's 3rd District is a prime example. Obama twice won this southwestern Iowa district, home to the capital city of Des Moines, on his way to capturing the Hawkeye State during both of his presidential runs. Trump carried the district by three points as part of his nine-point victory in the state. Do voters in Iowa and other spots on the Obama-Trump map swing back to the Democrats? This contest features a matchup between two-term GOP Rep. David Young and Democrat Cindy Axne, a small business owner and first-time candidate.Texas' 7th District: The Swanky Suburbs Rep. John Culberson, R-TexasFor Democrats, gaining the 23 seats needed to win control of the House will likely mean flipping several upscale suburban districts with large numbers of college graduates. Texas' 7th District, home to the west Houston suburbs, fits that mold. This once solid Republican seat sent George H.W. Bush to Congress in 1966. But the changing demographics of the district -- which became majority-minority after redistricting in 2011 -- have turned it into one of the most competitive House races in the Lone Star State. Trump lost the district by a single point to Clinton, 48% to 47%, after Romney carried the district 60% to 39% four years earlier. Nearly $18 million has been spent on TV ads in the race between nine-term GOP Rep. John Culberson and Democrat Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, an attorney.Georgia's 6th District: The Wave MakerLucy McBath, the Democratic candidate in Georgia's 6th District.For decades, Georgia's 6th District has been solid Republican turf -- electing Newt Gingrich and Tom Price to Congress -- and voting for GOP presidential candidates such as Romney and John McCain by wide margins. Then Trump entered the picture. In 2016, Trump won the suburban Atlanta district by a single point. GOP Rep. Karen Handel scored a four-point victory in a fiercely-contested 2017 special election against Democrat Jon Ossoff. Now she faces a challenge from gun control activist Lucy McBath, whose son was shot and killed in 2012 after a dispute over loud music. If Democrats are winning districts like this one in Georgia, then the party should be in the majority come January with some room to spare.Missouri Senate: A Red State Toss-UpThe Senate story this cycle has centered on the favorable map for Republicans with 10 Democratic incumbents running in states Trump won in 2016 -- five of them by double digits. Democrats hold a very narrow path to the majority -- one that almost certainly closes if Sen. Claire McCaskill is unable to hold on in Missouri. The two-term Democrat won her first race in 2006, a strong year for the party, and benefitted from a weak opponent in 2012. Polls in the Show Me State show the race is deadlocked. If McCaskill is able to defeat Republican Josh Hawley, the state's attorney general, that would be a positive sign for other Red State Democrats such as Joe Donnelly in Indiana, Jon Tester in Montana and Joe Manchin in West Virginia.Nevada Senate: A Test of the Health Care ArgumentHealth care has been the dominant message for Democrats this cycle -- mentioned in more than half the party's TV ads. In Nevada, Democrats have made every effort to ensure voters in the Silver State remember GOP Sen. Dean Heller's shifting stances on the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Heller initially opposed GOP proposals to dismantle Obamacare, only to vote in favor of the so-called "skinny repeal" measure that failed in the Senate. The campaign of Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen has run TV ads featuring a clip of the President pressing Heller on health care to suggest the senator bowed to political pressure when he voted for the GOP plan. A recent CNN poll found health care was the top issue for 28% of likely voters in Nevada, followed closely by immigration at 26%. But it was the number one issue for 49% of likely Democratic voters. For Democrats such as Rosen who are in razor-thin races, the potency of the health care argument could be crucial to their chances.Florida Governor: The 2020 TeaserThe race for governor in the Sunshine State is one of the marquee races of the cycle. In the short-term, it's a battle of political bases with progressive Democrat Andrew Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, facing off against former Rep. Ron DeSantis, who won the GOP primary by aligning himself closely with President Trump. That's reason enough to keep a close eye on this race. But there are massive implications for 2020, with Democrats in the midst of a debate between the progressive and moderate wings of the party. 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Story highlightsBiles is a dual citizen of the US and BelizeHer mother, Nellie Biles, is from Belize CityBiles has called Belize her "second home"Belize City (CNN)Simone Biles has won the hearts of Americans with her routines jam-packed with difficulty, winning gold medals in the team final, all-around, vault and floor exercise, while also earning bronze on balance beam despite a fall.But she's not just beloved in the United States. She's also got a fan base in Belize.That's right. Belize, a country with roughly 350,000 people that didn't gain its independence until 1981.It initially sounds like a head-scratcher, as there aren't any outward signs showing any celebration of Biles in Belize City. But on Tuesday afternoon, relatives -- as well as Kim Simplis Barrow, the first lady of Belize -- gathered at the Radisson Fort George Hotel and Marina in Belize City to watch Biles win gold in her final event, floor. It's the second time the group met at the hotel to watch arguably the best female gymnast of all time. the picture says it all. A photo posted by Simone Biles (@simonebiles) on Jun 24, 2015 at 12:31pm PDT Biles -- who is a dual citizen of Belize through her mother, Nellie Cayetano Biles -- is the most-decorated US women's gymnast in a single Olympic Games. After winning floor on Tuesday, Biles finished her Olympics with four golds -- setting the US mark for most gold medals in women's gymnastics at a single Olympics. Aly Raisman (who took silver Tuesday afternoon) and Gabby Douglas, who both competed in London in 2012 as members of the Fierce Five, each won two golds in 2012 and were part of the Final Five team gold medal in Rio. However, those two needed London and Rio to get to three golds. Biles has needed a little more than a week to get four.Read More"I think that most things about Belize are kept quiet," said Opal Enriquez, one of Biles' cousins. "We are the best-kept secret. For Simone to shine a light on Belize, I think it's meaningful because it's such a huge part of our family history and the foundation of who we are, and we are excited that this is being used as a platform to showcase other talent in Belize."Family tiesNellie Biles grew up in Belize City before moving to the US at age 18 in 1973. Her mother, Evarista Cayetano, owned a grocery store and was a teacher, while her father, Silas Cayetano, also was a teacher and became a senator. Nellie met Ron Biles in 1976; they married in 1977.Simone Biles, meanwhile, was born in Columbus, Ohio. Her father had abandoned the family, and Biles' biological mother struggled with drug and alcohol abuse. A young Simone and her sister, Adria, ended up in foster care.Then Ron and Nellie stepped in. Ron is the maternal grandfather of Simone and Adria, while Nellie is Ron's second wife and not Simone and Adria's maternal grandmother. The couple brought Simone and Adria to Spring, Texas, and later adopted them.Simone Biles wins fourth Olympic gold on floorAfter the adoption was official, Nellie Biles said to the girls, "It's up to you guys, but you can call us mom and dad if you want."The next day Simone asked, "Grandma, can I call you Mom?""Of course," Nellie said.In a way, it's reminiscent of Nellie's childhood, according to Enriquez. The Cayetano family helped raise Enriquez and her eight siblings.Enriquez calls Silas Cayetano the only father she knows."For Nellie to step up and embrace the responsibility of being Simone's mother... the family values of caring for each other is all we know, and it's because of him." Belize a 'second home' for BilesSimone now had a mom and dad. What followed was the blossoming of a gymnastics prodigy.In 2003, a 6-year-old Biles was on a daycare field trip at a gym and was seen imitating other gymnasts. The gym sent home a letter to Biles' family requesting she join tumbling or gymnastics.It was a good recommendation. Today, Biles is the best in the world. And on Tuesday, members of her family -- and the rest of the world -- watched Biles compete in her favorite event. It's on floor where she showcases her signature move, the "Biles," which is a double layout with a half twist.Belize, which competed as British Honduras in its Olympic debut in Mexico City in 1968, is represented by three athletes in Rio: Brandon Jones and Katy Sealy for track and field, and Renick James in judo. The country has never won an Olympic medal.So after Biles won the all-around competition in dominating fashion, the Belize Tourism Board tweeted out an invitation to her and the rest of the Final Five: "Congrats @simone_biles! Belize is so proud of you. We'd love to host you and the entire #FinalFive on a vacation once you're ready to relax."Congrats @simone_biles! Belize is so proud of you. We'd love to host you and the entire #FinalFive on a vacation once you're ready to relax.— Belize Tourism Board (@belizevacation) August 12, 2016 Biles responded, "My second home, you betta Belize we're coming."my second home, you betta belize we're coming ❤️😉 https://t.co/V1KxiyaLGD— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) August 12, 2016 The Biles family has vacationed in Belize often. Biles' brother got married in Belize last year, a wedding which Simone attended. And that may not be the last wedding Biles attends there."Simone said, when she gets married, it's going to be in Belize," Nellie Biles said, according to the New York Times.Elwyn Lopez reported from Belize City. Jill Martin wrote from Atlanta.

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(CNN)After winning the World Cup in 2014, Germany's recent regression has been as shocking as it has rapid.A semifinal appearance at Euro 2016 is as good as it's got for Die Mannschaft since being crowned world champions five years ago, with the team proceeding to be eliminated in the group stages of Russia 2018 and relegated from their Nations League group.The on-field struggles have been mirrored by divisiveness off the pitch. Last year Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil quit international football, citing criticism from the media and the German football federation president that struck him as racist.Visit CNN.com/Sport for more news, features and videosFast forward to earlier this month and coach Joachim Löw, who has faced calls for his 13-year tenure to end, made the controversial decision to announce stalwarts Mats Hummels, Thomas Muller and Jerome Boateng would no longer be called up to play for the national team.Read MoreJUST WATCHEDHow Borussia Dortmund is tackling anti-SemitismReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHHow Borussia Dortmund is tackling anti-Semitism 04:30With none of the trio over the age of 30, many felt their experience and quality could still be beneficial to an ailing squad.But their absence has left space in the squad for a new generation of players, three of which scored in Germany's thrilling Euro 2020 qualifier against the Netherlands Sunday.READ: Can football clubs defeat the far right in Germany?READ: The anti-Semitism shaming Dutch soccerLeroy Sane, who was left out of Germany's 2018 World Cup squad -- a decision Low was widely criticized for -- gave his side the lead before Serge Gnabry made it 2-0 before half time.Some of the defensive and mental frailties which have hampered Germany in recent times reappeared in the second half, as Matthijs de Ligt and Memphis Depay drew Holland level in Amsterdam.But Hoffenheim star Nico Schulz made it a hat-trick of goals for players not called up in Brazil, rounding off a fine German move to snatch a stoppage time winner.Nico Schulz scored Germany's winner in stoppage time."To win away in Holland in the first game is very helpful for the belief of a newly-formed team," Low told reporters after the match. "Also, the highs and lows that they went through today help their experience. "A victory like today's helps for the coming weeks and months. However, I know that we have to keep working hard. We knew at halftime that the Netherlands would switch things up and start pressing higher, as they had nothing to lose. "We started to get flustered and gave the ball away too easily. It's a process that a young team has to go through. What pleases me is that the team never lost the belief that they could win the game, and in the end we got our reward."Victory not only gets Löw's Euro 2020 qualifying campaign off to a perfect start, but also serves as revenge of sorts after a defeat and a draw against Holland in the Nations League helped relegate Germany from League A without a win.It was the first time in 23 years that Germany has beaten the Netherlands on Dutch soil, leaving both teams on three points and Northern Ireland at the top of Group C with six points after wins against Belarus and Estonia.

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(CNN)Tiger Woods may have been in the media spotlight for all the wrong reasons recently, but an act of kindness by the beleaguered golf star has attracted global attention.The former world No. 1, who split from girlfriend and skier Lindsey Vonn this month and is struggling with his game, took time to offer words of support to a kid suffering with a stutter.Follow @cnnsport The 14-time major winner sent a personal letter of support to a teenage boy named Dillon after LPGA player Sophie Gustafson brought his story to the attention of Golf Digest journalist Ron Sirak.Dillon had been driven to attempt suicide after classmates bullied and taunted him over his stutter, a condition Gustafson has struggled with throughout her successful two-decade professional career.Having read the story, Woods, a stutterer himself in his youth, immediately sent off the letter after his camp contacted Sirak to ask for Dillon's home address.Read MoreHere's the letter Tiger wrote to the bullied boy who stutters. Truly heartfelt. pic.twitter.com/FAM2RuLUZ0— Ron Sirak (@ronsirak) May 12, 2015 "I know what it's like to be different and sometimes not fit in," Woods wrote. "I also stuttered as a child and I would talk to my dog and he would sit there and listen until he fell asleep.""You have a great family and big fans like me on your side. Be well and keep fighting. I'm certain you'll be great at anything you do."Gustafson, who has been mentoring Dillon, was delighted with Woods' rapid response upon learning about Dillon's plight."Tiger sent Dillon a letter and told him he also stuttered when he was younger," the Swede said in a text to Sirak, the journalist reported. "He's ecstatic. It was real class to get that out so fast."Thanks so much @TigerWoods for sending my friend Dillon a letter. He got so happy! It's being framed and hanged. #class— Sophie Gustafson (@SophieGustafson) May 10, 2015 Dillon has since replied to Woods' letter by sending an email to Sirak, in which he said he would go to his first golf tournament once his leg has healed -- it was fractured during his suicide attempt."On Saturday, I got a letter from Tiger!" he wrote. "He told me that he used to stutter too. We are going to frame the letter. We have never seen a golf tournament in person, only on TV. I told my mom that when my leg gets better I think that would be a fun thing to do. "I hope that maybe one other person out there that is also having struggles, will hear my story and realize suicide is not the answer and maybe it can help them."Read: Rickie Fowler and Alexis Randock: Is this golf's new power couple?Read: Tiger Woods deals with Lindsey Vonn breakup, anniversary of dad's death

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(CNN)It seems every week NBA superstar Steph Curry is making history. Earlier this week, he overtook Wilt Chamberlain to become the oldest player to record 50 points and 10 assists in a game. And on Friday night, the 33-year-old passed basketball great Ray Allen for the most three-pointers scored in all NBA games, including playoffs, in NBA history. Curry connected with nine of his 17 three-point attempts in the Golden State Warriors' 119-93 win over the Chicago Bulls, taking his tally in regular season and playoff games to 3,366, surpassing Allen's total of 3,358. He had come into the game just one behind two-time NBA champion Allen and equaled his record within the first few minutes of the game. Read MoreAnd he became the all-time lead just minutes later, drilling a long-range effort over Alex Caruso. Astonishingly, Curry passed Allen's record in 585 fewer games. Curry ended the night with 40 points, his third 40-point game of the season, as the Warriors accelerated in the second half to beat the high-flying Bulls. Curry shoots the ball during the game against the Chicago Bulls.It is the 52nd time in Curry's career that he's scored 40 points or more in a game, as the Warriors continue their blistering start to the season, now with an 11-1 record. Curry is now chasing Allen's regular-season record of 2,973 three-pointers. Curry is on 2,896.The win wraps an eight-game home stand for the Warriors, with the Bay Area team winning seven and losing just once. "In general, the high point is establishing our home floor, that this is going to be a tough place to come win a game," head coach Steve Kerr told the media afterwards. Visit CNN.com/sport for more news, features, and videos"And a lot of that is the way we're playing. A lot of that is our fans, the energy in the building. There's a really good vibe about the team; the fans feel it. "Great way to start the year but now we've got to go out on the road, and it's going to get a lot tougher. We obviously are very happy to be where we are."

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Story highlightsThe tournament runs until July 5There are some compelling story lines (CNN)It's a shame the Women's World Cup doesn't get the love the men's does. You're so missing out. The women play with a hunger that million-dollar prima donnas (read: Ronaldo) just can't always muster. The games aren't always a foregone conclusion (Long-shots like Australia can surprise you here). And your team can actually win this thing. (We're talking to you, U.S. and England).The tournament began Sunday and runs until July 5. The U.S. takes on Australia at 7:30 p.m. ET Monday.Still not convinced? Let us dispel some more doubts, so you'll give Women's World Cup a shot. You don't think there's enough goal scoringRead MoreYou know how some Americans complain that soccer's boring because there are so few goals? Not here. In the opener yesterday, Norway beat Thailand 4-0. And how many goals did Germany score against the goalless Ivory Coast? TEN! Yes, 10!You're tired of the flopping and the preeningYou know how in men's soccer, a strong wind is enough to knock a player over. And they play-act like a babies? The women don't have time for that. According to a study, women fake injury half as much as men do. And when they are on the ground rolling around, they're back up 30 seconds faster than men.You like a good blood-boiling controversyYou know what the big controversy was, ahead of the 2014 men's World Cup in Brazil? In six of the 12 cities that hosted the games, the quality of the grass was poor and could really injure a player. Oh boo hoo! At least the men had grass. The women will play their games on synthetic turf. Turf burns are brutal. Legs are going to get beat up. This is why soccer should be played on grass! pic.twitter.com/fsNGi27oRY— Sydney Leroux Dwyer (@sydneyleroux) April 15, 2013 You like a sport where, you know, your team can actually winIf you're an American, then get behind Team USA. While the men's team has made much progress, the women have won the World Cup not once (1991) but twice (1999) and came so close four years ago. Remember that iconic pic of Brandi Chastain celebrating? That was her after scoring the winning penalty kick against China, when she became every girl's soccer hero. Brandi Chastain rejoices after scoring the last penalty kick in the World Cup final --July 10, 1999 pic.twitter.com/GWG1WvikAh— Sports in Pictures (@OldSportsPics) March 14, 2015 If you're a Brit, your women's team could also make you proud (unlike Rooney and the boys). Plus, they're in a relatively easy group. And if you're German, your guys already won the men's World Cup last year. Why not make it a two-fer? Your gals are ranked #1 in the world. You kind of like some on-field shenanigans We'll admit, it's hard to top Luis Suarez chomping down on an opponent. And that's a good thing in the women's game. It keeps the 'beautiful game' beautiful. But women's soccer has its share of drama. Remember this epic hair pull?Or what about when Colombia's Lady Andrade left a shiner on U.S.' Abby Wambach during the London Olympics?You're holding out for a heroMessi. Tevez. Neymar. You know them all. And you should. They're really, really good. You know who else is good? Abby Wambach. How good? Well, she's scored more goals for a national team than any other player in soccer history. And that includes women and men. Then there's Brazil's Marta, nicknamed "Pele with a skirt." Slightly sexist, we know. But it's meant as a compliment. She was named FIFA Woman's Player of the Year five times. She's yet to win a World Cup and you can bet, she'll be giving it her all. Marta, (arguably the best woman's football player in the world) has scored 79 goals in 91 games for Brazil... pic.twitter.com/1oQ7myhagx— Football Facts (@FootbalIFacts) May 28, 2015 Top 10 players to watch

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Story highlightsReal Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo talks to CNN's Pedro PintoHe has won the Spanish title, scoring 46 goals, a record for himRonaldo says that he believes he is better than Lionel MessiHe believes Jose Mourinho is the best coach in the worldIt's not a phrase that usually gets said out loud, but you have to feel sorry for Cristiano Ronaldo.The Real Madrid player has just finished the season of his life, winning Spain's La Liga while vanquishing the club's hated Catalan foes Barcelona.He scored more goals than he ever has before too, 46 in the league to be precise, and 60 overall. Yet even though Madrid finished nine points clear of second place, it is Barca's Lionel Messi that still gets all the attention."Some people say I'm better, other people say it's him, but at the end of the day, they're going to decide who is the best player," Ronaldo told CNN in an exclusive interview before this weekend's Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Chelsea at Munich's Allianz Arena."At the moment ... I think it is me," he laughs."Sometimes (the comparisons with Messi) makes me tired ... for him too because they compare us together all the time. JUST WATCHEDRoad to the Champions League finalReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHRoad to the Champions League final 03:45JUST WATCHEDMessi wins third straight Ballon D'orReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHMessi wins third straight Ballon D'or 02:25 Photos: European football season review Photos: European football season reviewReal rule the roost – Real Madrid captain Iker Casillas lifts the Spanish Primera Division trophy after Jose Mourinho's team defeated Mallorca 4-1 on Sunday. The 32-time Spanish champions finished the season with 100 points, a record amount.Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos: European football season reviewVillarreal vanquished – Villarreal midfielder Marcos Senna cut a forlorn figure after a 1-0 defeat to Atletico Madrid condemned the 2006 European Champions League semifinalists to relegation from the Spanish top flight.Hide Caption 2 of 8 Photos: European football season reviewCity win battle of Manchester – Manchester City beat archrivals and neighbors Manchester United to the English Premier League title on goal difference, after two goals in stoppage gave Roberto Mancini's side a 3-2 victory against Queens Park Rangers.Hide Caption 3 of 8 Photos: European football season reviewBolton beaten – Defeat in Manchester would have sent QPR down, if Bolton Wanderers had beaten Stoke City. But Owen Coyle's team could only draw 2-2 at the Britannia Stadium, a result which ended Bolton's 11-year stay in the Premier League.Hide Caption 4 of 8 Photos: European football season reviewDelight for Del Piero – Veteran striker Alessandro del Piero celebrated his final game for Juventus in style, scoring as the Italian champions beat Atalanta 3-1. Juventus were undefeated throughout the 38-game league season.Hide Caption 5 of 8 Photos: European football season reviewFarewell Filippo – Filippo Inzaghi marked his final game for AC Milan in similar style to Del Piero, netting the winner in a 2-1 defeat of Novara. Milan finished second, four points behind Juve.Hide Caption 6 of 8 Photos: European football season reviewDortmund's double – Borussia Dortmund were crowned champions of Germany for a second year in a row, with Jurgen Klopp's side finishing eight points ahead of Champions League finalists Bayern Munich.Hide Caption 7 of 8 Photos: European football season reviewFortuna favors Dusseldorf – At the bottom of the Bundesliga, Hertha Berlin were relegated after losing a two-legged playoff against Fortuna Dusseldorf 4-3 on aggregate. The result means Fortuna, who finished third in Bundesliga 2, will return to the top flight next season for the first time in 15 years.Hide Caption 8 of 8Messi breaks Barcelona's all-time scoring record"You cannot compare a Ferrari with a Porsche because it's a different engine. You cannot compare them. He does the best things for Barcelona, I do the best things for Madrid. "I think we push each other sometimes in the competition, this is why the competition is so high. This is why Madrid and Barcelona are the best teams in the world because everyone pushes each other, not just me and Messi but other players."Good cop/bad copPerhaps Ronaldo is right. The world needs the "good cop/bad cop" routine of Messi and Ronaldo to bring the best out of both them. It might be the reason why neither has set the world alight on the international stage.But while Messi is hailed as a secular saint, Ronaldo is derided for his self-confidence, some would say over-confidence. How does he cope with the vitriol he provokes in opposition fans?"Sometimes, you have to put on a mask. You cannot smile every time for all the people. It's impossible, I cannot do that," he says. "This is not my type of personality. And people really don't know me. And I do it for that because I don't want every person to know me, just close friends ... you know, my friends, teammates. These people know me very well. Other people, to be honest, I really don't care about that."Still, such has been Madrid's dominance in the league that Ronaldo is entitled to feel, if not exactly sycophantic praise, then at least recognition of his and his team's achievements. Photos: The world's 10 best-paid sports teams Photos: The world's 10 best-paid sports teams1. Barcelona FC $8.6 million average – Barcelona's players are the best paid in the world according to a new report. The team kept its No. 1 place on the earnings table with each player taking home an average annual salary of $8.6 million (£5.2 million). That's a whopping $166,934 (£101,160) per week and a 10% rise on last year. Hide Caption 1 of 10 Photos: The world's 10 best-paid sports teams2. Real Madrid $7.7 million – Spanish football teams continued to dominate the rankings, with Real Madrid keeping its No. 2 spot. It's players earned an average $7.7 million (£4.7 million) - a 6% rise on last year. Cristiano Ronaldo became the most expensive footballer in history in 2009 after moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid in a six-year deal worth $129 million (£80 million).Hide Caption 2 of 10 Photos: The world's 10 best-paid sports teams3. Manchester City $7.4 million – Manchester City moved up the rankings from 10th last year to 3rd in 2012, thanks to an average annual salary of $7.4 million for its players. It's a 26% increase on last year and demonstrates the wealth of the English club's owner Sheikh Monsour.Hide Caption 3 of 10 Photos: The world's 10 best-paid sports teams4. Chelsea $6.7 million – Russian billionaire Roman Abromovich's Chelsea team climbed the rankings from sixth to fourth, with players earning around $6.7 million a year -- the equivalent of $130,690 a week.Hide Caption 4 of 10 Photos: The world's 10 best-paid sports teams5. LA Lakers $6.2 million – The first non-soccer entry in the rich list is the LA Lakers. The Americans are also the only bastketballers in the top 10, with players taking home $6.2 million annually -- about $120,732 per week.Hide Caption 5 of 10 Photos: The world's 10 best-paid sports teams6. New York Yankees $6.1 million – Baseball's New York Yankees have continued to fall in the rankings -- dropping from No. 1 in 2010 to sixth this year. But the MLB team's players can still take comfort from an average yearly salary of $6.1 million -- around £118,968 a week.Hide Caption 6 of 10 Photos: The world's 10 best-paid sports teams7. AC Milan $6.1 million – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi pumped even more money into his football club AC Milan last year. The Serie A champions rose from 14th in the list with players enjoying a yearly salary of $6.1 million, pocketing $117,399 per week.Hide Caption 7 of 10 Photos: The world's 10 best-paid sports teams8. Bayern Munich $5.9 million – Also rising in the rich list was Germany's Bayern Munich, up from 12th place last year. Players boasted a yearly salary of $5.9 million, taking home $113,609 a week.Hide Caption 8 of 10 Photos: The world's 10 best-paid sports teams9. Philadelphia Phillies $5.8 million – The Philadelphia Phillies are one of just three U.S. teams in the top 10. The baseball franchise's players earned an average $5.8 million a year, or $111,884 per week.Hide Caption 9 of 10 Photos: The world's 10 best-paid sports teams10. Inter Milan $5.7 million – Internazionale sneaked into the top 10 with an average yearly salary of $5.7 million for its players. It's a family affair for Italian oil tycoon Massimo Moratti, whose father Angelo also owned the club in the 1950s and '60s.Hide Caption 10 of 10 Photos: Real Madrid's La Liga triumph Photos: Real Madrid's La Liga triumphMourinho's mission accomplished – Real Madrid players lift Jose Mourinho after winning the Spanish title for the 32nd time. The Portuguese coach has also won league titles in Portugal, England and Italy.Hide Caption 1 of 6 Photos: Real Madrid's La Liga triumphFlying the flag – Real Madrid supporters celebrate their team's triumph, which was clinched with two games to play after a 3-0 win at Athletic Bilbao. Hide Caption 2 of 6 Photos: Real Madrid's La Liga triumphGonzalo's joy – Gonzalo Higuain celebrates his opener for Real against Bilbao. It was followed by goals from Mesut Ozil and Cristiano Ronaldo.Hide Caption 3 of 6 Photos: Real Madrid's La Liga triumphReal Madrid triumph – Bilbao's Javi Martinez was sent off late in the match at San Mames. His team had been expected to put up a tough test, having reached the final of the Europa League this season.Hide Caption 4 of 6 Photos: Real Madrid's La Liga triumphMessi breaks record – Barcelona may have lost the Spanish title after a three-year reign, but Lionel Messi broke Gerd Muller's longstanding record for goals in a European season. Messi's eighth hat-trick this season in the 4-1 win over Malaga took him to 68 overall and 46 in La Liga -- two ahead of Ronaldo.Hide Caption 5 of 6 Photos: Real Madrid's La Liga triumphAjax clinch Dutch title – As Real triumphed in Spain, Ajax Amersterdam won the Dutch league for the second year in a row as coach Frank de Boer's team beat VVV Venlo 2-0.Hide Caption 6 of 6 Photos: The end of an era: Josep Guardiola Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaTime away – Pep Guardiola has been on a year-long sabbatical in the U.S. after stepping down as Barcelona coach, but he returned to Europe in January for the Ballon d'Or when he was shortlisted for FIFA's world coach of the year award.Hide Caption 1 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaEnd of an era – When he confirmed he was to end his four-year reign as Barcelona coach, Guardiola gave an emotional press conference.Hide Caption 2 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaLeague of his own – Guardiola announced his intent to quit at the end of last season just three days after the club's Champions League semifinal exit against Chelsea, drawing 2-2 at home and losing 3-2 on aggregate. He left a remarkable legacy.Hide Caption 3 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaFlying high – He was massively popular at the Camp Nou after four trophy-laden seasons. Here he is thrown in the air by his players after winning the FIFA Club World Cup for the second time in December 2011, having been the first team from Spain to win it two years earlier.Hide Caption 4 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaA super bond – Guardiola congratulates Barca players Cesc Fabregas and Javier Mascherano after winning the Spanish Supercup against Real Madrid at the start of the 2011-12 season.Hide Caption 5 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaCup runneth over – Guardiola lifts the 2011Champions League trophy after Barca beat Manchester United at Wembley. The 41-year-old has earned a reputation as a coach who prepares meticulously for matches. Hide Caption 6 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaA golden career – Guardiola won the FIFA Men's Football Coach of the Year award in January 2012. "I can't promise you silverware, but I can say that we'll keep on battling to the end and you'll be proud of us," he said after becoming coach four years ago.Hide Caption 7 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaSix-time champs – In the 2009 calendar year, Guardiola won six trophies in total -- the Copa del Rey, La Liga, the European Champions League, the Spanish Supercup, the UEFA Supercup and the Club World Cup.Hide Caption 8 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaPlayer turned coach – Former Barcelona president Joan Laporta shakes hands with Guardiola on June 5, 2008. The Catalan club's 15th coach arrived with the mission to end a two-season trophy drought -- he didn't disappoint.Hide Caption 9 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaBarcelona boy – As a player, Guardiola spent more than a decade in Barcelona's senior team, winning six Spanish titles and one European Cup. He captained Spain to a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and went to the 1994 World Cup. Hide Caption 10 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaAcademy graduate – He joined Barca's famed La Masia youth academy in 1984, and wore the No. 4 shirt until leaving for Italy in 2001.Hide Caption 11 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaItaly calling – He had two spells at Serie A side Brescia either side of a brief time at Roma, and is pictured playing against Perugia in 2002.Hide Caption 12 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaWorld class – Guardiola left Europe to join Qatar's Al-Ahly from 2003 to 2005, then joined Mexico's Dorades de Sinaloa for a season before finally hanging up his boots.Hide Caption 13 of 14 Photos: The end of an era: Josep GuardiolaGolfing fan – Guardiola is pictured here with fellow Spaniard Jose Maria Olzabal at the Ryder Cup after Europe produced a remarkable comeback to win the tournament at Medinah in the U.S.Hide Caption 14 of 14"My high point (in my career) is to win the title here in Madrid, La Liga," he explains. Clasico win gives Real the edge over rivals"(It) was my first time, so I was so happy because it's my best moment here in Madrid, the most important trophy. In terms of individual, it was great for me, the goals that I scored, to break my own record ... to do 100 points in the Spanish league which is a record too. It's phenomenal. "For me this is the most difficult league in the world. To compete with Barcelona, as everyone knows is very complicated and we beat them. Nine points ahead ... so it was an amazing year."In Barca's shadow? Barcelona. It is the shadow that follows not just Ronaldo, but also Real coach Jose Mourinho, who has also had a remarkable season in Spain. You could argue it is a shadow that follows the city of Madrid around too. "The points speak for themselves," Ronaldo replies when asked about the rivalry."Nine points separated Madrid and Barcelona; it's a lot here in Spain. We played better than them this year, I'm sure about that. I remember we went there one month ago and we won 2-1...nobody can do that, it's very difficult so we deserve to win the league. We are better than them at the moment, but we have to respect them because they are a great team too."Now there has never been a better time for Real Madrid to break the spell of Barcelona. With coach Pep Guardiola gone and questions being raised about the age of the Barca squad, Ronaldo believes that Madrid could go on to do something special, with the "Special One" at the helm.Drained Guardiola quits Barca"As a person (Jose Mourinho's) a humble guy ... he's very simple. We joke all the time, with funny stories all the time. It's great. In terms of coaching, he's completely different. He's so serious, so professional." For Ronaldo, Mourinho has proven himself to be the best coach in the world."This is why he wins the titles that he won. Because for me, not just because I work with him, but he's the best because of what he does: the tactics, everything around the players, the motivation ... and you know, the titles speak for themselves. He won in every country that he's passed, so I think that's great. I think nobody ... two or three coaches do that in their lives, so we have to appreciate that." The worst dayYet the season has not been without its disappointments. It may well have delivered the greatest single triumph in Ronaldo's career so far, but it also delivered its nadir -- losing to Bayern on penalties in the Champions League semifinals.Ronaldo missed a spot-kick during the shootout as Real's wait for a record-extending 10th European title spilled into its second decade."To be honest, it was one of the worst days in my career so far," he admits.Ronaldo, Real Madrid suffer heartache "It's always tough when you lose something, when you lose on penalties. But I'm not really worried about that because if I didn't score the two goals most of the players aren't going to shoot the penalties, so I have to appreciate what I did in the Champions League, what I did for the club."The dream Madrid-Barcelona final didn't happen. Instead we have a final that no one could predict. On the one hand a Bayern Munich side that unexpectedly fought back to knock out Madrid. On the other hand a Chelsea side that shocked Barcelona, the world, and one suspects, even themselves. Who does Ronaldo think will win?"Most people think that Bayern is going to win easily. I don't think so," he says, perhaps remembering the battles he had with Chelsea while playing for Manchester United in the English Premier League."Don't forget that Chelsea beat Barcelona, which is very, very tough. It will be an interesting game. I don't know which team is going to win. I'm not going to bet on anything because Chelsea is very strong. They defend well, they have a good counterattack. Bayern is a fantastic team too, so it will be a good game." In 12 months' time he will hope to realign the order of things and play in the 2013 Champions League final. For now he'll have to make do with being the best player in the best league with the best manager in the world. Should you feel sorry for Cristiano Ronaldo? So far everything seems to be going just fine.To celebrate the release of the documentary Castrol EDGE Presents Ronaldo Tested To The Limit for free on iTunes, fans were given the chance to challenge the player live through Facebook in a new test #RonaldoLIVE To see if Ronaldo had the strength to perform against his fans see www.youtube.com/castroledge

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Story highlights1,000 emergency responders take part in two-day exerciseExercise comes just a week before 10th anniversary of London transport bombingsPractice session is not in response to any specific intelligence, official saysLondon (CNN)How well can a major world city contain a deadly terrorist attack?That's a question that more than 1,000 emergency personnel in London set out to answer on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was a major anti-terrorism exercise -- one that had been months in the planning but that took on new significance after an attack on a Tunisian beach last Friday left many people dead, most of them Britons. The exercise took place at a disused Underground station in central London. All the first police officers on the scene knew was that a lone gunman had disappeared into a subway station. Outside, bodies lay sprawled on the pavement. Some were people supposedly injured; others were supposedly dead.Read MoreThe object, obviously, was to help the injured as as effectively as possible -- and to find the gunman and halt his murderous spree.Reaction of decision-makers tested"Our first responders will be put through their paces by mounting an operation to contain the area, evacuate the public, rescue and treat the wounded, manage a crime scene and, importantly, catch the people responsible," said Maxine de Brunner, deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. The exercise would also test the reactions of decision-makers and the ability of different agencies to communicate with each other, de Brunner said.Called Operation Strong Tower, the exercise has been in the works since January. That it came days after the terrorist attack in Tunisia was a coincidence. It also came just a week before the 10th anniversary of the July 7, 2005, London transport bombings -- the deadliest terrorist attack ever in Britain.De Brunner said the exercise was just part of keeping Britain's response effective, and she stressed that it was not being carried out in response to any specific intelligence. Follow @faithcnn

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Doug Jones, a CNN political commentator, is a former Democratic US senator from Alabama. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN. (CNN)In today's partisan political world, we often hear folks on both sides of the aisle say, "Elections have consequences," to explain policy shifts they support. Coming from Alabama, where we all too often have witnessed political figures using "dog whistle" style rhetoric to inflame passions and in many cases incite violence, I also remind people that words have consequences as well. And when those consequences include a violent insurrection in our nation's Capitol like the one on January 6, accountability is an absolute necessity, in order to protect our democracy. In my view, the House impeachment managers presented a concise and compelling case that former President Donald Trump incited the insurrection of January 6.At the outset, it is important to be clear that two "legal" issues have been dispensed with and should not be part of any senator's deliberations. First, regardless of one's personal opinion about the Senate's jurisdiction to hear the impeachment case, this issue was decided by a bipartisan vote of the Senate on Tuesday evening: It is constitutional to try a former president following the presentation of the articles of impeachment. The Tuesday vote is binding in this case and leaves only the issue of guilt or innocence to be determined. How Americans know Trump is guiltySecond, no serious constitutional scholar argues that the First Amendment protects speech that incites violence. The only question for the senators is a factual one: Did the then-President's conduct incite the insurrection?Read MoreIn any trial, the accusing party must connect the dots between the words and actions of the defendant to the harm that occurred. Over the last two days, the House managers did just that. The managers presented evidence of the former President's support for the "fine people" whose conduct resulted in the tragedy in Charlottesville and subsequent occasions when he condoned violent behavior. They also showed that the seeds of this insurrection were planted last spring when Trump's supporters twice stormed the Michigan State Capitol to protest the state's stay-at-home order -- designed to help combat Covid-19 pandemic -- and plotted to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Then-President Trump never condemned the actions of those who showed up at the state's Capitol, but rather praised the group, telling Whitmer that they were "very good people" and she should negotiate a deal. In response to the foiled kidnapping plot, Trump made light of the situation. The President was clearly taking up the cause of those threatening Whitmer and the state Capitol, using precisely the kind of dog whistle-style rhetoric seen in Alabama decades earlier. And it is clear that the insurrectionists were listening, prompting House impeachment managers to refer to the Michigan episode as a "dress rehearsal" for what transpired on January 6.As the election drew nearer, Trump knew his reelection was in trouble. But instead of retooling his campaign, he began to fertilize the seeds of insurrection with baseless allegations that the election would be stolen. Time and time again he set the stage for an election loss, claiming that it could only be the result of fraud. And his supporters grew more and more angry. Trump lawyers have a lot of explaining to doAfter the election loss became a reality in November, Trump ratcheted up the rhetoric of the false narrative that he had won the election by a landslide but that it had been stolen -- not only from him but from his supporters. And his supporters grew even angrier.When all his efforts to overturn the election results failed, Trump knew that his only hope of the clinging to the presidency was to stop Congress from counting and certifying the Electoral College votes on January 6. That was the moment when, in a string of tweets, he summoned his supporters to Washington, DC, on the day of the vote count, promising it would be "wild." And his supporters came -- by the thousands. The then-President knew that the crowd he had summoned was prone to violence. He even retweeted some of their posts and amplified their violent and divisive rhetoric.This was a crowd ready to start a revolution in Trump's name, and he knew it. And just like Southern politicians of the past who never explicitly told the White supremacists to bomb a church or murder a civil rights leader, Trump never told that crowd to commit a specific act of violence. He told them to go to the Capitol and fight to take their country back. Given all that he knew and all that had been said in advance, how in the world did he expect them to do that, to stop the counting of the electoral votes, without violence? If he did not expect violence, why did he not "be there with" them, as he promised?In the hours following his speech, the horror of the insurrection played out live on TV. But there was no condemnation by the Commander in Chief. There was no meaningful effort from the White House to get the insurrectionists to stop the madness. Republican members of Congress were pleading with the President to call the rioters off. But instead, he tweeted a video of the incendiary speech he had made earlier. At one point he went so far as to criticize then-Vice President Mike Pence at the same time insurrectionists carrying Trump flags were yelling, "Hang Mike Pence!" as they searched for him in the US Capitol. Get our free weekly newsletterSign up for CNN Opinion's new newsletter.Join us on Twitter and FacebookThe House managers connected all of these dots to the video of Trump finally telling insurrectionists to leave but also that they were "special," that he loved them and that they should "remember this day forever." Trump's 6:01 p.m. tweet made the picture, and his intent that day, crystal clear, "These are the things and events that happen ..."I never dreamed I would see what happened in this country on January 6. I never dreamed that I would see a president stoke the flames of hate to cause a siege of the US Capitol with Congress in session. If Trump's actions are not impeachable, then nothing is, and we may as well strike that provision from the Constitution.

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Story highlightsThe Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII, was raised from the seabed in 1982Visitors will now be able to see the ship and thousands of objects found with herThe warship sank in 1545 while leading an attack on a French invasion fleetThe 500-year-old wreck is still undergoing conservation workA Tudor warship sunk off the English coast more than 400 years ago will go on display in a new museum Friday, along with thousands of artifacts recovered with the wreck.The Mary Rose, which is still undergoing conservation work, is the only 16th century warship on display in the world, according to the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.The 500-year-old vessel was the flagship of King Henry VIII and sank in his view off the south coast near Portsmouth on July 19, 1545, while leading an attack against a French invasion fleet.It remained there until it was raised from the seabed in 1982 to great fanfare. Over the decades since, the wooden hull has been sprayed continuously, first with fresh water to remove salt and then with a wax solution, to prevent the timbers drying out and shrinking.That spray was turned off last month to allow the next phase of conservation to be carried out, the dockyard said. While the ship is on display, it will be dried out in a specially constructed airtight glass chamber. More than 100 tons of water will be extracted from the hull over the next four to five years, conservationists say.Once that process is complete, the walls will be removed to give visitors an unimpeded view of the ship.The new Mary Rose Museum, built at the Portsmouth dockyard at a cost of £27 million ($40.7 million), also houses many of the 19,000 artifacts raised with the ship.Items on display include the skeleton of the ship's dog, wooden bowls, leather shoes, musical instruments and combs complete with 500-year-old head lice, as well as weapons such as longbows and metal cannon. Many of the ship's crew died when she went down.The raising of the ship and its preservation were landmarks in marine archeology, the dockyard says.

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(CNN)A new heat wave is expected to hit Australia over the weekend and into next week, raising fears that high temperatures and dry winds could further intensify deadly bushfires that are burning out of control.In some parts of South Australia, authorities have raised a "severe" fire danger rating, which advised residents that evacuating early was "the safest option" for their survival.Temperatures were forecast to peak at a maximum of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 Fahrenheit) in the state capital, Adelaide, on Saturday and Sunday, potentially rising to 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). Heatwave conditions are developing over South Australia, peaking on Monday. Know how to stay healthy in the heat: https://t.co/lO2M7q35zV and stay up to date with the weather by checking outthe the latest forecast: https://t.co/sVYeXMACJC pic.twitter.com/A6HjZX9fX7— Bureau of Meteorology, South Australia (@BOM_SA) December 27, 2019 The heat wave was scheduled to reach the eastern part of the country over the weekend, according to CNN Weather producer Taylor Ward."Over the weekend the heat will build over Victoria and New South Wales, gradually reaching all the way to the Sydney area by Monday," he said. "Temperatures and the fire threat will increase as we head through the weekend, with the worst conditions expected for the fire-plagued areas of eastern New South Wales on Monday and Tuesday."Read MoreMelbourne, capital of Victoria state, could hit 41 Celsius (105.8 Fahrenheit), on Monday, the BOM said on its website.The deadly bushfires may pose a renewed threat amid another heat wave.Deadly wildfiresFor over two months, deadly bushfires have been burning out of control across Australia and engulfing whole towns, exacerbated by strong winds and rising temperatures.By December 21, a total of nine people had died, with one missing, and nearly 800 homes had been destroyed by the fires. On December 19, two volunteer firefighters were killed while battling the blazes in New South Wales. It's believed their vehicle hit a tree before rolling off the road, said the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSWRFS) in a statement last week.Australia has experienced one of the worst droughts in decades and sweltered under a record-breaking heat wave last week, when the average maximum temperature across the country hit 41.9 degrees Celsius (107.4 Fahrenheit).The NSWRFS said that although firefighters have now contained half of the 72 bush fires still burning across the state, a fresh heat wave could pose a renewed threat.A member of the Australian Defence Force overlooking the bushfires in New South Wales on board a helicopter. "Our main focus at this stage is making sure we have strengthened the containment line, especially those to urban areas," said James Orris, a spokesman for the service. He said some 1,500 firefighters have been deployed, and the priority was to control the fires to the northwest and southwest of Sydney, which it said were the most threatening for residents.The fires have also threatened koalas living in the wild. In a photo on Facebook, firefighters in Hawkesbury, New South Wales were seen pulling two koalas to safety next to a highway.In response to the heat wave, the South Australian government said it was providing more shelter options and had extended operating hours to cater for the homeless."Keeping vulnerable South Australians safe and well in the extreme heat forecast over the next few days is our priority," said Michelle Lensink, who heads the state's government services.In a statement, the State Emergency Service has also urged the public to remain vigilant and drink plenty of water to remain hydrated."If you have to leave the car, even for a few minutes to run a quick errand or drop into a shop, make sure you take your children and pets with you," said Chris Beattie, chief officer of the emergency service."Hot cars kill, so there are no excuses and no exceptions. Because of their low body mass, children and pets are especially at risk. They lose fluids quicker and can become dehydrated very quickly."CNN's Taylor Ward and Robert Shackelford contributed to this report

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(CNN)President Donald Trump -- back in the final days of his presidency -- didn't exactly make a secret of his effort to overturn the election he'd just lost and so it's very easy to get tired of thinking about it, now that he's out of office and his official powers have been clipped.But in addition to the lies he was spreading all along, we continue to learn new and disturbing details about his obstinate and pernicious efforts to poison the system from within, which included an "Apprentice"-style showdown between two top Justice Department officials at the White House and threats of resignation. Timeline: What Georgia prosecutors are looking at as they investigate Trump's efforts to overturn the electionWoven together, they show that Trump's assault on democracy, which looks more and more like an attempted coup, was even more reckless and insistent than previously thought.The recent news includes these items:Read MoreTrump pressured acting DOJ officials like acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on December 27 to "Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen," according to the notes of acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue's notes, shared with House investigators.A day later, on December 28, at least one acting DOJ official, Jeffrey Clark, who was in charge of the civil division, apparently bought into Trump's lies, or wanted to assuage him, and drafted a letter suggesting there were election irregularities in the election (there weren't), but it was rebuffed by other top acting officials.Officials like Rosen's chief of staff Patrick Hovakimian drafted letters of resignation in case his boss was pushed out in favor of Clark.CNN's Marshall Cohen, Jason Morris, Christopher Hickey and Will Mullery have put together an in-depth timeline of Trump's efforts to corrupt the US government and the Georgia government. It is exhaustive and shocking.It's the threat of a block of DOJ resignations among the acting officials (these people, as acting officials, were supposed to be Trump loyalists) that may have stopped Trump from a last-minute firing of officials at Justice.Read moreFact checking claims January 6 was not an armed insurrectionAssault on Democracy: Paths to InsurrectionHere's where you can get the latest news about the January 6 Capitol riot investigations Bear in mind that Trump's pressure on Rosen and Donoghue came exactly one day after the final resignation of former Attorney General William Barr.Barr left the administration in its final month, not long after he'd told a reporter the truth, that there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the election. Trump exploded at this perceived betrayal by Barr in a White House meeting documented by Jonathan Karl in a forthcoming book.On Barr's last day, Trump was on the phone with officials in Georgia, encouraging them to "find" votes. They wouldn't do it.These details will come out in a fuller narrative now that House investigators are interviewing former Trump officials.That official record will supplement the details we already knew, like the "Apprentice"-style showdown, which went on for hours, where Rosen and Clark each presented arguments to Trump about how to proceed in his final days.That occurred January 3. Three days later, Trump's supporters attacked the Capitol to stop the counting of electoral votes.The strain of Trump's efforts to undermine the election were not isolated to the Justice Department. Earlier this year we learned from another book that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley was actively engaged in countering any effort by Trump to use the government to seize power.It's good news that even officials once perceived as Trump loyalists would not help him overturn the election. But it all needs to be considered in context and with the knowledge that Trump could very well run for the White House again.It's also worth considering whether he broke the law by exerting pressure to break the US democratic process."Forget about a crime. I see several federal crimes here," said the former federal prosecutor and CNN analyst Elie Honig, who has recently published a book that is an indictment of Barr's time in the Trump administration. Here's more detail from Honig, who made these comments to CNN's Erin Burnett:"I'll be specific. It is a federal crime to deprive a state of a fair election. It is a federal crime to solicit false counting of ballots, false certification of an election. It is a federal crime to conspire against the United States.JUST WATCHEDWhat could have happened if DOJ officials did not push back against Trump's demands to declare the election 'corrupt'? ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHWhat could have happened if DOJ officials did not push back against Trump's demands to declare the election 'corrupt'? 09:13Now, could a good defense lawyer come in and quibble with this or try to poke holes in it? Sure. I gladly take on that fight."Honig said there's ample evidence for a criminal probe and that current Attorney General Merrick Garland should launch one even though DOJ hasn't: "This is deadly serious and there has to be consequences. Imagine if there is no consequences for this whatsoever. What kind of message does that send?"Trump already escaped impeachment, although these latest details were not known when the vote was taken. He pressured Republicans on Capitol Hill to kill a full nonpartisan review of the insurrection. He's argued the committee Democrats have empaneled is partisan.He's trying to corrupt our knowledge of the events just like he tried to corrupt the outcome of the election.

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(CNN)A big criticism of Arsenal in recent years is that the English Premier League club crumbles in the biggest games.Failure to beat major rivals in crunch clashes has left Arsene Wenger's side without a domestic championship since 2004, while the Gunners have not gone past the second round of the UEFA Champions League for the past five seasons.Follow @cnnsport But that is about to change, according to the London team's Spanish midfield maestro Santi Cazorla."I don't think we are inferior to the Spanish clubs or Bayern Munich. It's true that they are very powerful teams and it is very difficult to compete with them," Cazorla told CNN ahead of the new Premier League season, which kicks off this weekend."In recent years they have all won the Champions League and are favorites when they face English teams.Read More"But I think we are very strong too and can be at that level next season." Victory! #FACup @arsenal A photo posted by Santi Cazorla (@santicazorla) on May 30, 2015 at 1:32pm PDT Arsenal begins its 2015-16 campaign at home to West Ham on Sunday, buoyed by a rare victory over Premier League champion Chelsea in last weekend's Community Shield curtain-raiser.Wenger's men lost just twice in the last 18 league games of last season, which saw them climb from sixth to third but still finish 12 points behind Chelsea, while they also successfully defended the FA Cup."We need to play to the same level that we were at for the second half of the season," Cazorla said. "We need to be at that level if we want to dispose of Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City."We need to be there to fight for the title, and regularly maintaining a high level is something that we have lacked, but the second part of the season proves that we can do it."JUST WATCHEDIs this the season Arsenal wins the Premier League?ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHIs this the season Arsenal wins the Premier League? 01:25Sat in a small room overlooking the Emirates' impeccable pitch, Cazorla's smile and charisma are infectious. When he tells you Arsenal will be competing domestically and internationally next season, you can't help but believe him.The team's improved showing during the last campaign was thanks largely in part to one of Wenger's marquee signings."Extremely energetic, contagious enthusiasm and very ambitious."No prizes for guessing which Arsenal player Cazorla is talking about. 🏆🎊🎉🎊🎉 copa América 2015 ... A photo posted by Alexis Sanchez (@alexis_officia1) on Jul 23, 2015 at 7:24pm PDT He may have been halfway across the world at the Copa America, scoring the penalty that won his country its first international trophy, but the eulogizing of Chile star Alexis Sanchez back in London never stopped."Alexis is a player that transmits a lot of energy," Cazorla said of the former Barcelona forward, who was Arsenal's top scorer with 16 league goals. "He transmits a lot of ambition and as well as being an incredible footballer, his enthusiasm -- and just being the person he is -- is contagious to the rest of the team.JUST WATCHEDCan Aguero and Sterling send Manchester City to the top? ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHCan Aguero and Sterling send Manchester City to the top? 01:24"It has helped the team reach a completely different level."Cazorla was flattered when Wenger chose him as his player of the season, but the diminutive Spaniard was quick to pass on the compliment to the player he felt it was more befitting."For me it has to be Alexis," he said. "He has given us so much and a big increase in quality."He is a player that wants to better himself every day. I am happy with the season I had, I felt very comfortable, but for this to be Alexis' first season at Arsenal, he needs the (player of the season) prize."Cazorla himself has enjoyed a rise to prominence as one of the Arsenal faithful's favorite players during his three years at the club, and last week the former Villarreal, Recreativo and Malaga man committed to a new contract. So happy to sign a new long-term contract! Thank you to @Arsenal and the #arsenalFans! pic.twitter.com/edSGIe3rS0— Santi Cazorla (@19SCazorla) July 31, 2015 His incredible skill and unparalleled two-footed ability, not to mention recording a goal almost every four games, has won over the fans' hearts and earned him a lofty spot on their song sheet.JUST WATCHEDCan Chelsea win EPL title again this season?ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHCan Chelsea win EPL title again this season? 01:09JUST WATCHEDCan Rooney, Schweinsteiger win Man United a trophy?ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHCan Rooney, Schweinsteiger win Man United a trophy? 01:44The honor of being club captain was -- surprisingly to him, but unsurprisingly to others -- bestowed upon him several times over the course of the season, including during some testing times when both skipper Mikel Arteta and his deputy Per Mertesacker were out injured."The first time that the gaffer told me I would be captain, I was honestly a bit surprised," Cazorla said with a proud smile."I didn't think he would choose me, but it's a responsibility you have to the rest of the squad. I do my best to contribute when I'm the captain and be a point of reference to the rest of the squad."The 30-year-old's improvement as a player and flexibility to play in a number of positions has partly been down to a man he once thought of as something of a divine being."When you arrive at a club like Arsenal and you see the boss, who has been here for so many years, he appears almost like a god," Cazorla said of the 65-year-old Frenchman, who became Arsenal manager in 1996.Playing with @19SCazorla . Impossible to beat him. pic.twitter.com/0VIQ1RiqO7— nacho monreal (@_nachomonreal) February 19, 2015 "But soon you realize he's a simple man, a trainer who is very close to his players and he makes them feel very comfortable."That is what I found the most impressive when I first arrived at the club."JUST WATCHEDHarry Kane targets more goals in 2015ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHHarry Kane targets more goals in 2015 03:28If there is one man who doesn't hold Wenger in high esteem, it is Jose Mourinho. The pair have had several very public spats over the course of their careers, including one occasion in October 2014 when they nearly came to blows on the touchline.Prior to Sunday's Community Shield victory, Wenger hadn't recorded a win over his Portuguese rival in 13 attempts. However, with this success, and the signing of Chelsea's talismanic goalkeeper Petr Cech, some see the power shifting from the blue side of London to the red.With Wenger finally breaking his duck against "The Special One," this could be the season Arsenal finally ends its long wait for a Premier League title.What a day @Wembley ! Thank you @arsenal fans and @ChelseaFC fans for your support ! pic.twitter.com/8fNKgSPNNY— Petr Cech (@PetrCech) August 2, 2015 Read: Stadium move cost Arsene Wenger 'best years of career'Who will win the Premier League? Tell us on CNN FC's Facebook page

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Story highlightsFour people, plus the attacker, were killed in Wednesday's attack in central LondonKeith Palmer was stabbed by the attacker who was then shot by police (CNN)Keith Palmer's 15-year career as a London police officer was brutally ended Wednesday by a terrorist's knife."He was someone who left for work today expecting to return home at the end of his shift, and he had every right to expect that would happen," Metropolitan Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Mark Rowley said in an evening press conference.Palmer, a 48-year-old father, was one of four people killed in Britain's most lethal terror attack since the 2005 public transit bombings.The assailant drove a car through crowds of people, injuring dozens before crashing into a fence near London's Houses of Parliament.Keith Palmer, 48, was killed in Wednesday's attack in London.Witnesses said the attacker then got out of his car, brandishing the knife that he used to fatally stab Palmer.Read MoreA member of the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command, Palmer was not carrying a gun, said Rowley, Britain's most senior counterterror police officer.Rowley added that authorities believe they know the attacker's identity but are not releasing it, and are operating on the assumption the incident was "Islamist-related terrorism."'A lovely man'Bystanders rushed to Palmer's aid as he lay bleeding on the cobblestone street, including Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Tobias Ellwood. But there was nothing they could do."Keith Palmer was killed while bravely doing his duty, protecting our city and the heart of our democracy from those who want to destroy our way of life," London Mayor Sadiq Khan said. "He personifies the brave men and women of our police and emergency services who work around the clock to keep us safe -- tonight all Londoners are grateful to them."At Scotland Yard, headquarters of London's police force, flags were flying at half-staff on Wednesday evening, in honor of Palmer and the other victims.Full coveragePolice name London attackerLondon unites against terrorA city stilled, shocked, enragedOpinion: Attack was long overdueAnalysis: Don't bet on lone wolf Challenge of low-tech terrorPolitician rushes to victim's aidHis death drew tributes from politicians including Conservative James Cleverly, who said he served with Palmer in the Royal Artillery before he became a "copper.""A lovely man, a friend. I'm heartbroken," Cleverly said on Twitter.The remaining victims have not been identified, other than that they were described by Rowley as "members of the public."French, South Koreans among injuredThree French students, one Australian and a group of South Korean tourists were among those hurt in Wednesday's attack, which took in a popular location for sightseers.In total, police said about 40 people had been injured.JUST WATCHEDPolice: 4 dead in London attackReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHPolice: 4 dead in London attack 02:03The three students were from Saint-Joseph school in Concarneau, in Western France, according to the French Foreign Ministry. They were on a school trip to London. There was no word on the extent of their injuries."(Foreign Minister) Jean-Marc Ayrault supports the families of our compatriots concerned in this difficult time," the statement said.Five South Korean sightseers were also injured, the country's foreign ministry said. One man and three women in their 50s and 60s suffered fractures, while another women in her 60s needed surgery after sustaining a serious head injury.In Australia, Attorney General George Brandis told the Senate a female permanent resident from South Australia had been hospitalized after the attack, while Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying said a Chinese tourist was slightly injured.This story has been updated to reflect the latest number of fatalities from London Metropolitan Police.

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(CNN)Senate Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Act from advancing on Wednesday when the Senate took a procedural vote on whether to open debate on the legislation. The final tally was 50 to 49 with GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voting with Democrats in favor.The John Lewis voting bill that the Senate considered is aimed at fighting voter suppression and restoring and updating key parts of the landmark Voting Rights Act, originally passed in 1965. The measure is named in honor of the civil rights icon and late Rep. John Lewis of Georgia. At least 10 Republicans would have needed to join with all 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus for the legislation to advance. That was not expected to happen as most Republicans have decried any Democratic attempts to enact new voting legislation in the current Congress as partisan and unnecessary.Democrats have been under intense pressure to pass voting legislation as the party currently holds a majority in both chambers of Congress and the White House. But efforts by the party to do so have run into a wall of opposition in the Senate as a result of GOP resistance. Read MoreDemocratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont introduced a Senate version of the legislation early in October. Earlier this week, Leahy, along with Murkowski and Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Dick Durbin of Illinois, released an updated, bipartisan compromise version of the bill making changes to the text to garner bipartisan support. The bipartisan compromise could only later be offered as an amendment if the Senate were able to proceed to the bill.Murkowski, who voted to advance the bill on Wednesday, spoke on the Senate floor ahead of the vote."I will be among those who vote to begin debate on this measure when we have this vote in a few minutes," she said, "I will do so because I strongly support and I believe that Congress should enact a bipartisan, re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act." Speaking of efforts to broker bipartisan compromise, Murkowski said, "At this point, I feel that we've got a good foundation to help provide access to the ballot that is equal for all Americans and free from any form of discrimination. We should all be able to support legislation to assure just that much." Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer thanked Murkowski after the vote on Wednesday, while criticizing the rest of the Senate Republican conference for blocking the measure. "I thank her for working with us in good faith on this bill," he said, "but where is the rest of the party of Lincoln? Down to the last member, the rest of the Republican conference has refused to engage, refused to debate, refused to acknowledge that our country faces a serious threat to democracy."Schumer said "just because Republicans will not join us doesn't mean Democrats will stop fighting," and went on to say they will work to "find an alternative path forward, even if it means going at it alone to defend the most fundamental liberty we have as citizens." Democrats, however, don't have 50 votes to eliminate the filibuster with some moderate Senators, including Manchin, opposed.Expressing GOP opposition to the measure, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized the voting legislation at a news conference on Tuesday. "This is a Trojan horse to carry a lot of other provisions that the Democrats had wanted to enact through the earlier voting rights bill that we've already considered and rejected," he said. "Clearly they want to change the subject away from how the American people feel about this administration, about the reckless tax and spending bill onto a nonexistent problem with this marching out of the John Lewis voting rights act," he said. This story and headline have been updated with additional developments Wednesday.CNN's Ted Barrett, Ali Zaslav and Alex Rogers contributed to this report.

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Opelousas, Louisiana (CNN)As arson investigators worked to find out who has been setting Louisiana churches ablaze, the Rev. Dwight Brown slept in his church two nights last week, he said Wednesday. "I was afraid my church was going to be targeted. My church is directly between two of the churches," he said. "I wasn't going to sit there and let it burn down. It's 130 years of history. I couldn't take that chance."Brown asked that CNN not divulge the name of his church, for fear that it could become a target, but it sits near two of the three churches that burned in recent weeks in St. Landry Parish, about an hour's drive west of Baton Rouge. Firefighters respond to a fire at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Opelousas on Thursday.Police say three black churches were intentionally torched over a 10-day span: St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre on March 26, Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas on April 2 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on Thursday. Officials are also investigating a fourth, smaller fire on March 31 at the predominantly white Vivian United Pentecostal Church in Caddo Parish, more than 200 miles north of St. Landry. The blaze was intentionally set, officials said.Read MoreBrown, a law enforcement officer, attended services at his church for more than three decades before becoming pastor there. His church was founded in 1889. He knew it was dangerous to sleep in his church after three fires in the parish -- and fire officials have cautioned against doing so -- "but I could not sleep in my bed knowing the church I was a pastor of for 15 years could be burned down," he said. The charred remains of Greater Union Baptist Church, one of three black churches torched in 10 days in Louisiana. pic.twitter.com/TX9h9PPt5k— Darran Simon (@darransimon) April 9, 2019 He's heard of other pastors sleeping in cars outside their churches, he said. Brown stopped sleeping in his church over the weekend, after taking precautions to safeguard it, including removing the church's sign and installing cameras inside the church and at its entrance. He also stops in every night and turns on a light, and members of his congregation have begun walking by the church during the day and giving each other updates, he said. More questions than answersIt is still unclear who is responsible for the fires and will likely take investigators time to sift through what evidence remains to determine if the blazes are connected."We believe these three fires are suspicious," State Fire Marshal Butch Browning said. "We are falling short of talking about what caused the fires, falling short of saying they are related, however cognizant that there is a problem and no coincidence that there are three fires."Residents and worshipers in St. Landry Parish, where all three fires occurred, are withholding judgment about what may have caused them, even as officials say they contained "suspicious elements" and the episodes evoke recollections of past acts of hate against black churches.A firefighter stands outside the door to Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church on Thursday. "I feel our district was being targeted because all three of the churches were in our district," Pastor Freddie Jack, the Seventh District Missionary Baptist Association president, said Monday.The NAACP labeled the fires "domestic terrorism," adding the "spike in church burnings in Southern states is a reflection of the emboldened racial rhetoric and tension spreading across the country."St. Landry Parish is nearly 42% black. Opelousas is 75% black.The city's mayor, Julius Alsandor, called the church burnings "hideous." "The relevance and the impact on the people in the surrounding communities and especially the congregation of each of these churches, it's hurtful and there may be some fear that is being exhibited by those who are a part of the three churches," he said. For now, fear and confusion is the norm for congregants. View this post on Instagram St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre, Louisiana, one of three predominately black churches authorities believe was intentionally torched. #opelousas #louisiana A post shared by Darran Simon (@darransimoncnn) on Apr 9, 2019 at 11:12am PDT "We don't know why. We don't know when. We don't know who," the Rev. Gerald Toussaint of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church told CNN affiliate KATC. "We will let the authorities handle that, but we just know a higher power and a higher authority who can bring this thing to fruition."In an appeal for the public's help, Gov. John Bel Edwards said he directed local, state and federal authorities to "aggressively investigate" the fires."Churches are sacred places, and no one should fear for their safety in their house of worship," he said. "And no one should be concerned that their house of worship would be destroyed."The FBI and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are assisting in the investigations. About 100 people are involved in the probe, including about 40 state and 40 federal employees, said state fire marshal spokeswoman Ashley Rodrigue. CNN's Josh Campbell contributed to this report.

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Story highlightsTrio accused of breaking ethics rulesBlatter, Valcke already banned by FIFAEx-FIFA VP Webb banned and fined (CNN)FIFA's former president Sepp Blatter faces an investigation into multiple allegations including bribery and corruption, the football governing body's ethics committee announced Friday.Proceedings were also opened against FIFA's ex-secretary general Jerome Valcke, and its former director of finance and corporate services Markus Kattner.The announcement came on the same day Jeffrey Webb, a former FIFA vice president and president of CONCACAF -- the ruling body for North America and the Caribbean soccer -- was banned from the sport for life and fined 1 million Swiss francs ($1.02 million).FIFA's investigatory chamber said Blatter, Valcke and Kattner had possibly violated rules involving conflicts of interest, offering and accepting gifts and other benefits, loyalty, and general rules of conduct, as well as bribery and corruption, in the context of their salaries and bonuses plus other provisions in their contracts. 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That punishment marked a two-year reduction on his original ban after being found guilty of breaches over a $2 million "disloyal payment" to former UEFA president Michel Platini.Franz Beckenbauer: Criminal probe launchedValcke, meanwhile, was banned from all football-related activity for 12 years after the ethics committee investigated allegations of misconduct relating to sales of World Cup tickets, television rights and using a private jet for personal reasons.Swiss attorney general Michael Lauber also opened criminal proceedings against Blatter in September 2015, and against Valcke in March. Neither Valcke nor Blatter has been arrested, and the former's lawyer has reportedly said his client has done nothing wrong.Kattner, who is not yet facing any criminal proceedings, was fired in May "for breaches of his fiduciary duties to FIFA."In an interview with CNN in April, Blatter denied he ever took any bribes while at FIFA, saying he was forced out of the organization in a "coup d'etat" led by the US, which is carrying out its own investigations into FIFA, and assisted by the Swiss."I can understand that the Americans are not always happy with what's happened somewhere in the world because they try to be the police of the world everywhere," Blatter said."But I couldn't understand that the Swiss authorities had agreed." Follow @cnnsport Have your say on our Facebook pageWebb banned for lifeFIFA's adjudicatory committee said Friday Webb had broken rules on duty of disclosure, conflicts of interest, and bribery and corruption.The former Cayman Islands banker was one of several FIFA officials arrested during a now infamous dawn raid on the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, Switzerland, in May 2015. Visit cnn.com football for more news and videosHe was extradited to the US and subsequently plead guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy, three counts of wire fraud conspiracy and three counts of money laundering conspiracy at a district court in New York in November 2015.

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Story highlightsThis year's Ralph Lauren designs have been mockedPrevious years' Team USA uniforms weren't all sartorial gems either (CNN)For the lazy, unathletic masses, sitting on the couch and judging the Opening Ceremonies is the closest we Americans will ever get to actually competing in the Olympics.The Games are a time to truly come together as a nation, to look upon our finest athletes and to say together as one:"Ew. What are they wearing?"JUST WATCHEDTeam USA Olympic uniforms receive heat on social mediaReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHTeam USA Olympic uniforms receive heat on social media 01:30This hallowed tradition will no doubt continue Friday, thanks to the 2016 Olympic uniform designs by preppy standard-bearer Ralph Lauren. The uniforms display some of the classic hallmarks of Olympics past: Clean white bottoms, navy blazers, a combination of red, white and blue ... and a secret homage to the Russian flag. Oh. Read MoreDesign flaws aside, it was far from the most offensive or even the most talked-about round of Olympic regalia. Quiz: What kind of Olympian are you?Click through the gallery above for a poly blend trip back in time through cowboy hats, oversized coats, slap-chopped American flag motifs and TRACK SUITS.

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(CNN)Anastasia Pagonis is, in many ways, a typical teenage girl. The New Yorker loves trying out TikTok dance trends and is obsessed with her dog. But Pagonis is far from average. She's a record-breaking swimmer who made it to the Tokyo Paralympics. She has more than 2 million followers on TikTok. And her pup, Radar, is a guide dog who's been by her side for years -- Pagonis lost her sight when she was 14, as a result of an autoimmune disease. Pagonis, who at just 17 is a newly minted gold medalist, just made major waves at her very first Paralympic Games. With sweetly funny TikToks, athletic prowess and irresistible positivity, she's becoming one of her sport's brightest stars. She swims to feel freePagonis made her Paralympic debut this past week in Tokyo, breezing through the S11 400-meter freestyle to a gold medal. (S11 is a classification that corresponds to Pagonis' level of blindness; under this classification, she has "very low visual acuity and/or no light perception," according to World Para Swimming.) Read MoreShe finished with a time of four minutes and 54.49 seconds -- a full 10 seconds ahead of the second-fastest swimmer. It's a new world record, trumping the world record she set earlier in June at the US Paralympic Trials, according to Team USA. "If you told me this a few years ago, I wouldn't even think I'd be alive, so just being here and being able to have this experience and this opportunity -- unbelievable," Pagonis said, according to Team USA. How does the Paralympic classification system work?Pagonis began losing her vision around age 11 -- she has a genetic and autoimmune retinopathy, which means her immune system attacks her retinas. Her experiences with swimming as she lost her sight weren't initially positive, her mother told Team USA. Pagonis struggled to make it across the pool without bumping into a lane, and attempts to swim usually ended with Pagonis sobbing in the water.Once Pagonis connected with her coach, Marc Danin, though, she began to feel more comfortable in the pool, she told Team USA. He was the only coach her parents contacted who agreed to train a swimmer who is blind, which he taught himself to do by wearing blacked-out swim goggles.Swimming competitively again helped Pagonis regain some independence, she told CNN affiliate WABC. "When I jump into the water, that's my happy place," she told WABC. That's when I feel free. When I'm out of the water, I always have to rely on someone."Anastasia Pagonis won gold during the women's 400m freestyle swimming final at the 2020 Paralympic Games.She's a major TikTok presenceBefore she became a gold medalist, Pagonis was a TikTok star, poking fun at the thoughtless questions she's asked about her blindness. She even attempts popular TikTok dances with the help of her mom, always with a self-deprecating smile. Her dog and the retractable cane she uses in public make frequent appearances as well. Many of her videos are instructive, though: Pagonis shows her viewers how she's able to swim without bumping into the wall ahead of her (someone stands outside the pool and taps her on the head with a foam-tipped pole to let her know when it's time to turn), how she films TikToks (her iPhone speaks to her with every tap so she knows what to click) and how she does her makeup (she knows which product is which based on its texture and orders them accordingly -- and no, she doesn't have a mirror). "I just want to teach people that this is blind, not just what you think is blind where you have to wear sunglasses and you can't do anything," she told Team USA. "This is blind." She's shared a few videos from Tokyo, too, including a celebratory clip with her gold medal, joking that the weight of first place hurts her back. She's BFFs with her guide dogLosing her sight at 14 dropped Pagonis into a "dark depression," she told Olympics.com. She felt "extremely suicidal" -- but with her constant companion Radar, she's never alone. 'The best of humanity': Paralympic Games officially begin with vibrant Opening CeremonyThe loyal canine has been by her side since last year, when she adopted him from the New York Islanders, a National Hockey League team that had earlier chosen him from the Guide Dog Foundation as their "Puppy with a Purpose." (The team selects one dog every year to be trained as a guide dog through the program and gives them a team-appropriate name; Radar shares his with late Islanders coach Al "Radar" Arbour.)"I just feel so lucky to have him in my life and to take care of me and that I can be independent," Pagonis said in a video from the NHL. "He's perfect. We're a match made in heaven."As much as she loves Radar, being away from him in the pool (while he watches over her not far away) is where she feels most at home. She told Olympics.com she hopes her success in swimming and positive TikTok presence inspire other visually impaired teens to persevere. "Jeez, I lost a whole sense and I'm still OK, I'm still here!" she said in the Olympics.com interview.

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Cypress, Texas (CNN)Dortha Biggs enters through the front door and rushes to greet her daughter, Lesli, who sits in a recliner, curled in fetal position.Mother and daughter lock hands and begin a ritualistic rubbing of hands, the only way they can communicate. It's rhythmic and intimate, beautiful and heartbreaking. Lesli squeals as her mother holds her right hand and pats her left.A smile starts to radiate from Lesli's face."Looka there," Dortha says. "Are you going to smile? Can you smile? There's that smile!" Ever since Lesli was born 48 years ago, Dortha has longed to hear her daughter say a single word. She cried more tears than anyone can imagine, rocking young Lesli every night for years on end. Mom would get maybe an hour or two of sleep before heading off to her teaching job. Read More"Because you just care so much," Dortha says.Dortha contracted rubella when she was 2½ weeks pregnant, before she even knew that she was expecting. Although she got better, the virus took root in her fetus' bone cells, nerve cells and skin cells. It would leave Lesli blind, deaf and severely brain-damaged. She spent 100 days in the hospital before her first birthday and has undergone more than 20 surgeries over the years, including an open-heart operation at 3 months that left her ribs broken. Lesli has lived in a Houston-area group home since 2000. Dortha, 77, now lives in Oklahoma and visits as often as she can, about eight times a year. As the two hold hands, Dortha ponders whether her daughter knows who she is."I don't think she's aware that I'm her mother," she says. "I think she is aware that I'm someone special who cares about her."Dortha Biggs rubs her daughter's hands, the only means they have of communicating. It's been a grueling journey for both. Mom yearns for the one thing that is unattainable: for Lesli to get better or just to enjoy the simplicities of life. Lesli lives in a dark, silent, isolated world in her group home, unable to communicate with her mother beyond touch. Four decades earlier, mother and daughter made headlines when the Texas Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling. Dortha had sued her doctor, accusing him of failing to diagnose the rubella. If she'd known, she would have had an abortion. On February 19, 1975 -- three years after Roe v. Wade -- about 60 women filed into the Supreme Court chamber in unison and took up seats in support of Dortha's case. The women heard a decision that stunned the legal community and reversed lower court rulings that had sided with the doctor.The high court's ruling set a precedent that said a woman could sue her doctor for a "wrongful birth."Dortha, who stayed home, learned of the ruling through the news. This year, the news brought Dortha another shock: A Texas state senator had introduced a bill that would ban such lawsuits -- in essence, overturning the precedent she helped set. And he invoked her case, saying wrongful birth lawsuits such as hers promoted abortion.Texas 'wrongful birth' bill would allow doctors to lie, critics say"The presence of a disability in a child should not be grounds for a lawsuit," Sen. Brandon Creighton told his colleagues. "It sends the message that there are births that are wrongful. There are no wrongful births." Dortha was outraged. Never once did a lawmaker reach out to her. Never was she asked to testify in committee hearings. Never did they ask about Lesli.If they had, she would have told them of the pain her daughter has suffered since she was born March 8, 1969, in Wichita Falls, Texas. Of traveling more than 100,000 miles to hospitals in Dallas, Baltimore, Washington and San Francisco -- anything to give her little Lesli the best shot in life. "If you have not watched your daughter suffer pain -- pain that was just hell -- for days and days," Dortha says, "you cannot even grasp the pain that you experience."She'd have told those under the Capitol dome how she dedicated her life to special needs children for more than 30 years. Of designing the curriculum for disabled children in public schools, first in Dallas and then in Wichita Falls. Lesli's portrait hangs on the wall at the group home where she lives.Tormented by the virus that wrecked her child, she wrote her master's thesis on rubella and its devastating effects in pregnancy. Many nights, Dortha weeps. "I would have given anything to have never been born," she says. "Because had I not been born, she would not have been born and suffered this."A legal legacyDortha is like a hawk, making sure Lesli's hair is cut short so she won't yank it out, checking to make sure her wheelchair works and monitoring the cleanliness of her bedroom.The day after her visit, a scene reminiscent of the 1975 Texas Supreme Court ruling played out across the state in Austin. More than a dozen women dressed in long red robes and white bonnets sat in the chamber of the Texas Senate, their outfits matching characters from "The Handmaid's Tale," the popular dystopian novel that explores themes of power, gender and religion in politics.Before Zika: The virus that helped legalize abortion in the US They were there to protest two anti-abortion measures, including the bill that would undo Dortha's legal legacy.It's a saga that began in the summer of 1968. Deposition transcripts tell the story: Dortha had fallen ill with "nausea, shivering attacks, cramping of the stomach" during a July Fourth trip with her husband to Port Aransas on the Texas coast.A pinpoint rash broke out across the top of her face and eventually extended "downward to other portions" of her body, including her legs. The possibility of being pregnant was the last thing on her mind. She was 28 and on birth control. She had a son and had planned to have a second child sometime down the road. She spoke by phone with Dr. Louis M. Theimer, the well-regarded family practitioner in Wichita Falls who opened his practice in 1953 and delivered hundreds, if not thousands, of the town's babies. He'd delivered Dortha's first child, Jake, on December 24, 1961.Theimer had seen her just before the trip. She wasn't feeling well then, but she told him she was feeling much worse now. Dortha and her husband of 32 years, Tom Biggs, visit Lesli as often as they can.She first saw a doctor in Port Aransas and was given antibiotics. When she returned home, she was still ill. She saw Theimer on July 11, 1968. He believed she might be pregnant and ran a test. She mentioned that she had a rash on her vacation but didn't ask about the possibility of rubella, also known as German measles -- at least not yet. Four days later, Dortha returned and was informed that she was indeed pregnant. She broke down, fearing that the rash was rubella and that her fetus would be harmed. It was the summer of 1968. A rubella epidemic had swept across the United States from 1963 to 1965. The diagnosis during pregnancy was a deep fear among any expectant mother, similar to how Zika took hold in Central and South America last summer. Rubella was known to cause deafness, blindness, heart disease, neuromuscular tightness, seizures and extreme intellectual disabilities. If the mother got rubella in the first two months of pregnancy, it was known to be especially debilitating, continuing to live in the child long after birth."I was alarmed," Dortha testified. "He told me the test was positive and I was pregnant.""I said ... 'Could this rash that I had have been measles?' And his statement was, 'No, if you hadn't had measles (as a child), you would have had them in the '64-'65 epidemic.' "In his deposition, Theimer equivocated when asked about that conversation but acknowledged that he believed her rash was from an antibiotic, not rubella.The surprising history of abortion in the United StatesThree times during her pregnancy, Dortha's body tried to spontaneously abort. Believing her child to be healthy, each time she agreed for shots to be administered to stop her contractions and save the fetus."After I was told I did not have rubella, I very definitely wanted the baby," she testified.And what would she have done if she'd been informed that she had rubella?"I would have done the kindest thing that I could have known to have done for her," Dortha said, "and that would have been to terminate the pregnancy."Abortions were illegal in Texas at the time. She said she would've traveled to Colorado for the procedure.Theimer acknowledged that he never ran a test on Dortha to determine the presence of rubella antibodies. "No, I never did," he said.Born blind, deaf and severely brain-damaged, Lesli Jacobs lives in a silent world.A Christian, the doctor said he had no religious scruples against abortion. He added that he would inform patients if he believed they have "a possibility of having a deformed fetus." "That's what I tell them, but I think the choice after that is theirs," Theimer said."I agree with you. That's the whole case," Dortha's attorney shot back. "Doctor, did you give this patient of yours that choice medically?""No," he said. "I didn't think she ever had rubella."'No right to judge'It's those words that still haunt, still sting. Time has not healed the wounds of the doctor's misdiagnosis. "Now, they're punishing me again," she says of the legislation at the state Capitol. The fact that Creighton, the bill's author, implied that people like her were just looking for a payout, she says, is "beyond insulting." Creighton also argued that the mere threat of wrongful birth suits kept the best doctors from setting up practice in Texas and could lead to a shortage. To this, Dortha says, "Despicable." "It would've been nice if they'd just contacted me." Infuriated at the news of the measure, her fingers clapped at her keyboard as she typed a letter to Creighton. "I have stood over her bed for hundreds of nights watching her suffering," she wrote. "If you have not experienced this heartbreak, you have no right to judge."Dortha and Lesli made headlines when the Texas Supreme Court agreed parents could sue doctors for "wrongful birth."After the Supreme Court ruling, her family received about $120,000 in a settlement reached with Theimer -- money that was placed in a special needs trust for Lesli. At the time, the family owed $21,472 in medical bills. Back then, Dortha made just $4,200 a year as a teacher. After the suit, she was forced to move from Wichita Falls to Dallas because doctors back home refused to treat her two children. Her marriage to Lesli's father didn't survive the move. Dortha has left the money in the trust mostly untouched in recent years, preferring to pay Lesli's out-of-pocket costs with her own money. It's a burden she's more than willing to take on. That way, there is money left for Lesli's care long after Mom is gone. Dortha keeps a yellow scrapbook called "The First Six Years." The first page announces Lesli's birth, hailing the 6-pound, 10½-ounce girl. Next to it, a black-and-white photograph shows Lesli with her mouth open and both fists clenched. Memories burst from the album's pages. Lesli's 7-year-old brother, Jake, beams on the couch, his little sister in his arms. On her 4th birthday, Lesli sits in front of a giant cake shaped like a teddy bear. Can forgotten rubella children of the '60s hold clue for Zika babies?The message below, like others in the scrapbook, is in Lesli's voice, written as her mother imagined it: "I have now learned to sit alone, and in four more months, I will crawl. My teachers worked on helping me sit for over three years." Turn the page. Lesli is sprawled out, crawling. "I no longer have to just lie where someone places me."But there are sobering reminders, too. "At one time, I took over 40 medications daily." "If only you could hear me long enough to say, 'I love you.' "On the back page is a final note, which Dortha reads in a soft, hushed Texas twang. "This has been the story of my first 6 years. I have brought a new kind of love and strength into the lives of many," she reads. "I have fought hard and suffered to live. Very few days of my life are without pain, but still I smile."Dortha, right, and her husband have spent countless hours touching and stroking Lesli. Mom closes the book and uses tissue to dab her eyes. "I did try for so long to think that things would be a lot better, and then you start accepting," she says. "You have to learn to accept that some things are going to just be."Dortha accepted that the milestones would become few and far between. Lesli would never learn to stand on her own. She would never speak. She would never hear her mom's words: "I love you."Who gets to decide?Lesli sits in a wheelchair in her room, her head hunched over. She sports a crew cut. If her hair grows out much more than an inch, she'll pull it out. One of her eyes was removed due to cataracts. Her other is so deteriorated, it's hard to tell whether it's even there.Her group home sits in a cul-de-sac in Cypress, Texas, about 25 miles northwest of Houston. The spacious three-bedroom brick home with wood siding blends in well with the four residential homes on the street. The only thing that distinguishes the house is the specialty van with wheelchair access in the driveway. It's a home she shares with five others, all of whom receive round-the-clock care. The letters L-E-S-L-I gaze down from the wall above her bed. Next to them rests a cowboy hat. Dortha rubs her daughter's right hand. Dortha's husband of 32 years, Tom Biggs, runs his fingers back and forth across the back of her neck. Dortha decided he was a keeper when he didn't cut and run like most guys upon seeing the severity of Lesli's disabilities."He has patted hands as many hours as I have," she says. Dortha never gave birth to another child. Shortly after Lesli was born, she was told that her baby was perfect. She had her tubes tied three days later. The following week, Dortha spotted cataracts in her daughter's eyes, the start of the arduous journey they're still traveling.Standing over her daughter, Dortha has a message for the senator who drafted the bill. "Senator Creighton has not stood where I have stood or walked in my shoes. He has not," she says. "He has not stood and watched a child suffer like this."She says it's interesting that the current administration in Washington, as well as Texas lawmakers, wants to deregulate everything from the EPA to banks to businesses. "But when it comes to the most intimate decisions an individual has to make, it's 'let's put more regulations on that.'"I'm the one who should have made the decision."Does she still wish her daughter had never been born? "Yes," she says. Lesli has lived in this group home since 2000; she shares it with five others.Holding her daughter's right hand, Dortha chokes up. Lesli places her mother's right hand on the back of her neck. Mom strokes her daughter's head. Tom rubs Lesli's left arm.Mom continues talking through her tears: "Because I have had the joy of loving her, but I've had the sorrow of watching her suffer. She has suffered so much of her life. If she could have come through the suffering and come through it and be able to enjoy her life more, I think it would have been a different issue."Mother and daughter now hold hands. Lesli moans. "But, no, I could never have said I want her to experience this -- just to be born. Anyone who would say they thought that was the right thing to do has not stood and watched a child suffer like this."She understands that those words in her daughter's presence might come across as cruel or twisted, but she reiterates that it's for the love of her daughter and the freedom from her pain that she wishes she'd had an abortion or allowed her body to abort naturally."I could never have made the choice to have terminated the pregnancy for me or the hardships that it would bring on me," she says. "But I could have in a heartbeat for her -- knowing what she was going to go through.'"'The wrong message'More than a dozen specialty vans line up about 8:30 a.m. at a community center about 15 minutes from Lesli's home. It's on the grounds of the faith-based nonprofit that runs Lesli's home and several others in the surrounding area. Every weekday, about 70 residents from the various group homes are driven to the center for specialized treatment. It's the first day of spring, and the Texas heat is already suffocating, pushing 80 degrees. Lesli is helped from her van in her wheelchair and escorted into a cavernous building with polished floors. She comes here for therapy and worship. Once in class, Lesli takes up a seat in a beige recliner and relaxes. Class leader Catherine Konneh brings over bean bags and rubber balls so she can feel them. Lesli pushes them away. Konneh tries a variety of scents to arouse her olfactory senses. Lesli holds her nose over the smell of strawberry and takes in the aroma. Konneh's goal for Lesli is to someday wash her hands on her own. "I keep (the residents) active," she says, "so that whatever skills they have, they won't lose them." Next, everyone moves to the fellowship hall, where therapy dogs greet the crowd. Lesli seems more interested in the touch of the dog handlers than the dogs. She grabs the trainers' hands and places them on the back of her neck. When a fluffy white dog named Lammie licks her face, she backs up her wheelchair. But a black pooch named Omri makes a breakthrough. Omri places one paw on her leg, and she pets him with the help of the handler. Lesli pushed away bean bags and rubber balls but welcomed the chance to pet Omri with his handler's help.By early afternoon, Lesli, Dortha and Tom meet with staff for her annual review, going over her care for the upcoming year. The severity of her disabilities are rattled off: blind, deaf, cerebral palsy, allergies, seizure disorder, autism. Even the most minute details are covered. All tags on her shirts must be cut off because they annoy her. Her wheelchair footrest must be down at all times to keep her from falling. Pay attention to her picking at her underwear. She prefers hot lunches, preferably noodles with no MSG.Lesli moans through much of the session and plays with Konneh's hands while Mom listens. Her care for the upcoming year will cost about $200,000. Medicare and Medicaid will cover most of it. More than two hours away in Austin, state senators take up the wrongful birth bill. Dressed in a navy suit and light blue tie, Creighton stands on the floor and tells his colleagues that Senate Bill 25 prohibits "patients from suing their physician for lifelong payments, claiming that they would not have had their baby had they known different information. It removes the wrongful birth cause of action."He says doctors currently are "overcautiously suggesting termination in order to protect themselves."Democratic Sen. Jose Rodriguez of El Paso pushes back, saying the current law exists to protect women like Dortha and remains relevant even today. He said the Texas Supreme Court found that the doctor "had failed to carry out his obligation of fully informing the patient.""It's about ultimately the woman's right to receive accurate information from her doctor, so she can make an informed choice," Rodriguez says.The bill sails through. It must now go before the House for final approval. Creighton soaks in the moment not too long after the vote. He tells CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen that it is time for the "archaic 40-year-old cause of action" to go away. "It just sends the wrong message," he says. "It sends a message that the best physicians in America should not practice in Texas because ... you have to consider that you could be held liable just for doing your job correctly."Told that's not true -- and certainly not what happened in Dortha's case -- Creighton insists that he's correct because lawyers are clever and "you can be sued for anything."Lesli touches the plants as she is wheeled outside. On weekdays, she attends therapy at a nearby community center.Asked why he never contacted Dortha, he offers several answers. First, he says it's because of privacy concerns -- even though he brought her case into the fight. Then, he says he can't contact everyone from past cases about new legislation. He says he plans to respond to her letter but hasn't had time. He says he hopes to meet her one day.He says he was especially moved by her "exceptional" letter. "I'm very, very proud of her, almost to a heroic standpoint, just what it takes to raise a child and the challenges in disabilities."Legal experts say wrongful birth suits are rarely filed and certainly don't scare doctors from opening up practice in Texas. One former director of the Texas Medical Board told a Senate panel that her agency had investigated only five wrongful birth cases since 1975, according to Courthouse News Service. Join the conversationSee the latest news and share your comments with CNN Health on Facebook and Twitter.And while Creighton maintains that an expectant mother who is given a wrong diagnosis during pregnancy would still have other means to pursue a lawsuit, legal scholars say that is not true. If you take away the wrongful birth cause of action, "there is no other action," said George Annas, director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at Boston University."What this guy doesn't like is making a decision to terminate a pregnancy," Annas said. "He doesn't want you to do that."That motivation was on display just before Creighton answered CNN's questions. A lawmaker stopped by and slapped him on the back: "Congratulations, you're the only senator who's gotten a pro-life bill through this session."The irony, Dortha says, is that the first thing to go when GOP-led legislatures begin slashing budgets is money for programs serving the special-needs and mentally ill communities. Put more precisely, she says, they care only when a child is in the womb, not after. "They don't love my daughter. They don't know my daughter," she says. If they cared, she says, they would have contacted her. They would have toured her daughter's group home. They would have held Lesli's hand. CNN's Elizabeth Cohen, John Bonifield and Ken Tillis contributed to this report.

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(CNN)A two-time NBA scoring champion knows a winner when he sees it: Tracy McGrady is backing Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors to vindicate his preseason championship prediction.T-Mac -- a seven-time All-Star across a 16-year career -- was the league's back-to-back highest scorer in 2003 and 2004 as part of the Orlando Magic before retiring in 2013, three years before Curry would win the first of his two scoring titles.Now into his 12th season in the Bay Area, Curry has continued his one-man assault of the record books with dogged consistency, twice being named the league's most valuable player en route to three NBA championships.The 33-year-old point guard has already been serenaded with MVP shouts and dazzled again this season, following up a 50-point haul against the Atlanta Hawks with another starring role in the Warriors' 117-99 dominant victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night.Curry sunk nine three-pointers in a 37-point performance to pass 2,900 career regular season three-pointers, putting him within range of all-time leader and Hall of Famer Ray Allen on 2,973.Read MoreTracy McGrady thinks Steph Curry is going to lead the Warriors to the title this season.READ: How CJ McCollum is using his love of wine to become a different type of trailblazerContent to now admire and love the game from the sidelines as an analyst, McGrady believes Curry will justify his NBA foresight."You're not going to believe me, but before the season started, I had the Warriors," McGrady told CNN Sport's Andy Scholes."I just look at who Steph is, I look at the pieces that they have on that team. Klay [Thompson] is not even back yet, the emergence of a guy like Jordan Poole, you brought [Andre] Iguodala back, Draymond [Green] looks fantastic. [James] Wiseman is not even on the court -- and these guys are off to a wonderful start."Steph, you seen the other night had 50 points. I mean, you just don't know who to key in on. It's going to be a hell of a run when Klay gets back and they could put that together."They're going to be tough because the shooting is outstanding on his team. To have four or five guys that shoot the ball better than anybody in the league and the way they play team basketball, it's tough to really game plan against a team like that."LeBron to the Lakers' rescue?Victory over the Nets improved the Warriors' record to an NBA-best 12-2 on the season, keeping them top of a Western Conference that many had initially tipped the Los Angeles Lakers to lead.The injury absence of one of the greatest players of all-time in LeBron James stands as a notable mitigating circumstance, but the Lakers have made an underwhelming start to the season.Tuesday night's 121-103 defeat to the Chicago Bulls dropped the Lakers to 8-7 and leaves them middling in seventh place, though the reportedly imminent return of 17-time All-Star James from his abdominal strain may well inspire an upturn in fortunes.James has struggled with injury this season, but T-Mac thinks that the veteran superstar's teams are always in it with a chance.But can James lift the oldest team in the league to the title?"I think they can," T-Mac said. "Any team that LeBron is part of, they can win a championship."I think they're built for the playoffs. This is a marathon for them because these guys are up in age. It's going to look spotty at times, it's not going to look like they can win a championship."They're still trying to put things together; we're talking about adding a lot of new pieces to this team to build that chemistry."So I like their team. I just like Golden State better."Simmons Sixers sagaOver in the Eastern Conference, the Philadelphia 76ers sit on an identical record to the Lakers following a crushing 120-85 defeat to the Utah Jazz on Wednesday that made it five losses in a row.The Ben Simmons saga continues to loom large over the team -- the Australian point guard reportedly receiving another fine for not turning up to the Sixers' run of six away games -- in a public stand-off that has bubbled continuously since an incident involving a play late in the team's Game 7 Eastern Conference Semifinals defeat to the Hawks last season.However, McGrady believes both parties must take responsibility for the seemingly inevitable divorce of the Sixers and a "fantastic" player."I think it's blame on both sides, to be honest with you," McGrady said."How things really played out in the playoffs last year, with Ben not shooting the ball, how the fans reacted to his playoff performance. Philly is a tough, very, very tough fan base and you got to be mentally tough to be able to play in a city like Philly."I just think with how Ben played in those playoff series and how those fans reacted, I knew it was going to be tough for him to go back coming into this season to play for the Philadelphia 76ers, and I'm sure he felt that."I think it's blame on both sides, to be honest with you," McGrady said of the Sixers-Ben Simmons rift."The Sixers knew that. They should have done something to protect this kid and not have this go on for so long. So I blame both sides really and, hopefully, they can rectify this situation so Philly can move on and Ben Simmons can move on with his career because I think the kid is fantastic as a basketball player."Hopefully, this offseason, he worked on his shooting ability to come in so whoever he plays for ... he can then become a complete player because I love his game."On Kyrie: 'I have to respect his decision on not getting vaccinated'For all the coverage of the Simmons saga, it still may not be the current highest profile NBA player-team impasse -- a title that surely goes to Kyrie Irving and the Nets.In light of his decision not to get vaccinated against Covid-19, the Nets' seven-time All-Star guard remains away from the team. Irving had initially only been unable to play home games as per the New York vaccine mandate, though the Nets announced ahead of the season that Irving would not play or practice with the team until he is eligible to be a full participant.Irving's absence leaves the burden of responsibility upon the shoulders of superstar duo Kevin Durant and James Harden, though McGrady believes he would have respected Irving's choice if he had been his teammate.McGrady says of Irving: "I want to win a championship and I would love for my teammate to be there, but I also have to respect his decision on not getting vaccinated.""Obviously, the main goal is to win a championship, and we're going to need everybody to be a part of that," McGrady said."With Kyrie choosing not to because of whatever reason he has, I have no other reason but to respect his decision. I want to win a championship and I would love for my teammate to be there, but I also have to respect his decision on not getting vaccinated."Speaking to CNN Sport on Veteran's Day and having just returned from visiting American troops in Qatar, T-Mac reflected on the realization of a career that he attributes to the sacrifice of servicemen and women."My dream was to make it to the NBA ... and my dream came true," McGrady said."That game has taken me to so many places that I never thought I would be, to meet so many people all across the globe."Standing in front of our military -- if it wasn't for them, my dream doesn't come true. For what they sacrifice, their courage, what they do for us for our freedom. It was beautiful, a great day."

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(CNN)A day after Kylian Mbappe lit up the Champions League with an impressive hat trick against Barcelona, Erling Braut Haaland netted a wonderful brace as the game's new stars continue to take center stage. The 20-year-old was in devastating form as Borussia Dortmund came from behind to take control of its Champions League round of 16 tie against Sevilla on Wednesday.His two goals inspired the German side to a 3-2 away win, earning a slight advantage ahead of the return leg on March 9. "It was good to score goals, I love the Champions League," Haaland told reporters after the match."When I saw Mbappe score a hat trick yesterday, I got free motivation, so thanks to him. It was a nice evening."Read MoreSevilla had started the match on the front foot when Suso's deflected shot gave the hosts an early lead in the seventh minute but going behind seemed to ignite a fire in Haaland. He was the provider for the equalizer, powering past several defenders to tee up Mahmoud Dahoud for a wonderfully crafted finish, but the striker quickly got on the score sheet himself. READ: Haaland -- The making of football's 'humble' superstarErling Haaland celebrates scoring his second goal against Sevilla on Wednesday.His first goal came from yet another powerful run which seemed to scare the Sevilla defenders into retreat. A quick one-two with the impressive Jadon Sancho saw Haaland slide in to hand Dortmund the lead in the 27th minute. He then added his second moments before halftime after Marco Reus pounced on a sloppy mistake in midfield to put Haaland through on goal. Unsurprisingly, the in-form forward coolly stroked past the onrushing keeper. In truth, it was never in doubt. Haaland has now scored 10 Champions League goals in just seven appearances for Dortmund, the quickest a player has ever reached the total for a team in the tournament's illustrious history. The night was almost perfect for Dortmund until it conceded a late goal, as Luuk de Jong steered home a cross in the 84th minute."We didn't deserve to lose, but they have some of the best attacking players in the world and they made the difference with three opportunities which we should have avoided. The scoreline is harsh on us," Sevilla coach Julen Lopetegui said after the game.Haaland scores Dortmund's third goal against Sevilla. Juventus trail Elsewhere, Porto beat Juventus 2-1 in the first leg of its Champions League last 16 tie. Mehdi Taremi gave the hosts the perfect start in a little over a minute after he capitalized on a major blunder in the Juventus defense. Rodrigo Bentancur's pass back to goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny was woefully underhit, allowing Taremi time to bundle the ball into the net. Moussa Marega then doubled Porto's lead just 19 seconds into the second half before Federico Chiesa gave Juve some hope for the return leg after heading home in the 82nd minute.

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(CNN)Three women who were sisters and all but one of their children were identified as the victims in the fire at a Philadelphia row home that left 12 people dead, according to their cousins, Frank and Pamela McDonald. Sisters Rosalee McDonald, 33; Virginia Thomas, 30, and Quinsha White, 18, were killed. Six of McDonald's children and three of Thomas' children also died in the fire, according to their family. The ages of their children were not given. From left: Virginia Thomas, Rosalee McDonald and Quinsha White Thomas' 5-year-old son survived, her cousin told CNN. A city news release initially said eight children and four adults were killed in the fire. Authorities are also trying to determine if a lit Christmas tree in the home might have touched off the blaze."They were both good people, good mothers and were very family-oriented," Frank McDonald told CNN. "Rosalee was one of the best people you could ever meet. She was very supportive -- they both were. They came down to help me with my business when I opened it."Read MoreThe distraught family members said the sisters were very close and have lived together in the apartment since they were teenagers. The family has started a GoFundMe page to help pay for the funeral expenses of several of their family members. Officials with the Philadelphia Housing Authority, a municipal agency that leases homes to people with low incomes, said Thursday there were 20 people living between the two subdivided units in the row home, despite fire officials saying Wednesday there were 26. "I don't know how they were able to ascertain that," said Kelvin A. Jeremiah, PHA president and CEO. "The authorized number of residents would be the folks who are indicated on our leases, and in both of those units the combined total should be 20 -- six and 14."Kelvin A. Jeremiah, Philadelphia Housing Authority president and CEO, speaks to reporters on Thursday, January 6, 2022.In 2011, three people moved into Unit A and six in Unit B. In the four-bedroom unit B, the family grew exponentially between 2011 and 2021, with at least eight children added to the household, Jeremiah said.Jeremiah described the family in Unit B as a multi-generational family consisting of a grandmother, her three daughters and their children. The family wanted to stay together and the PHA does not have occupancy limits. "Our policies and procedures do not evict people because they have children," Jeremiah said. "We don't remove them because their families are growing." The deadly fire along with persistent questions about why there were so many people living in each unit has put the spotlight on deep issues plaguing the US including the state of affordable housing, class relations and cultural misunderstandings, Jeremiah said.When a reporter asked Jeremiah why PHA didn't move some of the residents in either apartment into another unit, the CEO replied that there was no indication the family wanted to do that. "It's a question, perhaps, that resonates, particularly, with Black and Brown communities," Jeremiah said, adding that he himself grew up in a similar unit with 16 people.Federal agencies are helping with the investigation Firefighters responded to flames around 6:40 a.m. Wednesday and found "heavy fire" in a kitchen area at the front of the second floor, officials said. There was "nothing slowing that fire from moving," said Philadelphia Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy.Murphy told reporters during a news conference Thursday that the Philadelphia Police Department and the ATF Philadelphia branch were assisting with the investigation. Neither PHA nor fire officials would comment on the suspected cause of the fire. Investigators are trying to determine if a child under the age of 5 playing with a lighter under a tree was the cause of the deadly fire, according to Jane Roh, spokesperson for the Philadelphia District Attorney's office.This is just one avenue investigators are pursuing, among other leads, Roh said, and there are currently no plans to bring charges against anyone in relation to the deadly fire."It's a very traumatic scene, it's a very complex investigation," said Fire Deputy Chief Dennis Merrigan with the Philadelphia Fire Marshal's Office. "It's something that would challenge us if we had to do it on our own."Matthew Varisco, ATF special agent in charge, said there will be no expense spared in the investigation. The resources that will be deployed, Merrigan said, include laser scanners."It's like 3D cameras. As opposed to taking hundreds and hundreds of still pictures, we're going to scan the entire room, that way it's almost like a virtual reality. We can take that scene later, go back and look at the computer and look at it in extreme detail," he said.PHA units were legally split in the 1950s The fire took place at a row home that had been legally subdivided into two apartments since the 1950s and has had no violations, according to a spokesperson for the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections.The building, according to records, was estimated to have been built in 1920.Bystanders watch as the firefighters work at the scene of a deadly row house fire in Philadelphia on Wednesday.Jeremiah said PHA took pride in investing in its infrastructure, despite being a cash-strapped agency. "The conditions in our nation's public housing is deteriorating, in some cases it is abysmal," he said. "You look anywhere across this country -- from New York to LA to Seattle to Florida, you name the city -- the condition of the nation's public housing is just in a disgusting state." While conditions continue to decline, he said, families are left waiting. "They can wait no more. It has become a question of life and death for too many families," Jeremiah said. PHA replaced smoke detectors in 2019 and 2020, official says Murphy initially told reporters that four smoke detectors were in the building, "and none of them operated."Murphy later indicated that Philadelphia Housing Authority records show that at least six battery-operated smoke detectors had been installed there from 2019 to 2020.However, Dinesh Indala, PHA's senior executive vice president of operations, said the agency had different information about the detectors. The Philadelphia fire department works at the scene of a deadly row house fire in Philadelphia on January 5, 2022. Unit A of the apartment had seven smoke detectors and three carbon monoxide detectors at its last inspection, Indala said Thursday. Unit B had six functional smoke detectors and three functional carbon monoxide detectors as of its last inspection in May 2021, Indala said.Two batteries and two smoke detectors were replaced in 2021, Indala said. Smoke detectors also were replaced in the B unit in an inspection in September 2019, according to Indala."When we last conducted our inspection, the smoke detectors were, in fact, working," Jeremiah, the PHA CEO, said. "If the fire marshal determined, as a result of this fire, that they were not, in fact, working or they were not, in fact, operational, it would be that they were tampered with or the batteries were somehow removed. We don't go into units and remove batteries." Faulty smoke detectors are treated as emergencies and are replaced in 24 hours if requested, Indala said, and the authority does inspections annually."Every time we come in for an inspection, as is evident from the last one, we had to replace two batteries, replace the smoke detectors. And these are 10-year smoke detectors, so that's something we run into quite often on our properties," Indala said.Residents describe escape escaping flamesQaadira Purifoy said her family suffered an unimaginable loss. Two of her sisters and four of her nieces and nephews died in the fire, she told CNN affiliate KYW-TV. "Losing sisters, I never thought this would happen," Purifoy said. "Sisters, nieces and nephews."Debra Jackson's sister was able to escape the home's first floor with three of her children, she told KYW-TV.People react near the scene of a deadly row house fire, Wednesday, January 5, 2022, in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia. "Two of her sons got burned, she probably is just smoke inhalation. But thank God that they're alive," Jackson said. "My heart goes out to the family that lost all their family."Philadelphia's school district said Wednesday it was working with City Council President Darrell Clarke to set up a fund to help the affected families. Some of the children who died were students in city schools, the district said, without saying how many. The district said it also has made counseling and support services available for grieving students. Neighbors and others -- some sobbing -- gathered outside the burned row house as firefighters and police worked the scene Wednesday morning, CNN affiliate WPVI reported."It's very upsetting," Richards, who also lives on the block, told WPVI. "I just can't wrap myself around it."Richards described the area as "a very family-oriented neighborhood.""We'll help each other get through the grief," he said.CNN's Kelly McCleary, Caroll Alvarado, Laura Dolan, Mark Morales and Kristina Sgueglia contributed to this report.

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Story highlightsTiger Woods return 'compelling' for golf TV audiences at record levels Former world No.1 among favorites for Masters (CNN)His comeback is compelling from a sporting perspective, but Tiger Woods' resurgence is like gold dust for golf's PGA Tour.The 42-year-old defied spine-fusion surgery last April, the latest of four back operations, to finish within one shot of a playoff for a first victory since 2013 at last week's Valspar Championship in Florida.Follow @cnnsport It was a remarkable return to the top of the game by the former world No.1, who feared his career was over during "dark times" in his recuperation.And it had fans and golf watchers gripped, with TV ratings for the weekend at record levels and social media abuzz."It's a story that the world is finding very compelling and ... that's what you want as a business," PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan told CNN.Read MoreREAD: "YouTube star" is "loving life" and pain free ahead of returnJUST WATCHEDTiger Woods' Perfect Day: 'Caddyshack,' oatmeal?ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHTiger Woods' Perfect Day: 'Caddyshack,' oatmeal? 01:35Ratings successTV broadcasters are also finding Woods' return to competitive form compelling viewing.NBC Sports reported its third-round TV viewing figures on the Golf Channel were up 181% on the same day last year, while the final round drew a 5.11 overnight rating -- the highest audience outside the majors since the 2013 Players Championship, won by Woods.It was also the highest non-Masters rating since the 2015 PGA Championship. The event also had 27.2 million minutes streamed across Golf Channel and NBC Sports digital platforms -- the most-streamed PGA Tour event ever for the network, it reported.All that, despite the emergence in Woods' absence of exciting young stars such as Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas. "We have grown over the last few years as these new players have come forward, but nobody has produced more compelling television in sport over the last 20 years than Tiger Woods," added Monahan. "Now he's reintroduced into the mix. I think it's clear that people are really interested to see how the Phils [Mickelson], how the Tigers, how they are going to perform against these great young players."Earlier this month, Mickelson edged Thomas in a playoff at the WGC-Mexico Championship to earn his first victory since the 2013 British Open at Muirfield. READ: Veteran Phil Mickelson ends title droughtREAD: 20 years of Tiger, where it all went right -- and wrongJUST WATCHED4 days with Tiger WoodsReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCH4 days with Tiger Woods 22:29Significant injuriesWoods won the last of his 14 majors in 2008, and many had written him off as a credible major contender even if he recovered enough to resume playing on the Tour. "It was a tough, tough road," Woods told CNN's Living Golf show in Dubai in February 2017 during a short-lived comeback. "There was a lot of dark times where I couldn't get out of bed, couldn't move, the pain was too great."Anyone who's ever had nerve pain in their back, they certainly understand what that feels like. I honestly didn't know this time last year, I didn't know if I'd ever play golf again."READ: Tiger Woods: 'I'll never feel great again'But after a pain-free return to the game in December, Woods' performance over the Copperhead course in Palm Harbor suggests he now ranks among the favorites for a fifth Masters title and first since 2005 at Augusta in April.JUST WATCHEDTiger Woods speaks to CNN after 1997 Masters winReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHTiger Woods speaks to CNN after 1997 Masters win 01:20"The injuries that he had to overcome were significant and when you are talking about four back surgeries, I think a lot of people would assume that is an obstacle that one can't overcome," added Monahan. "As great of a champion as he is and was, I think it's fair to assume that those are obstacles that no human being might be able to overcome. "So for him to come back and to be performing very well and for him to come back and the relatablility and appreciation that he has for being out there and being back in that environment with all these great young stars — I think that is what is so compelling to people."The next chapter in the Woods story is at the Arnold Palmer Invitational this week where he has a very real chance of adding an 80th PGA Tour victory and ninth over the Bay Hill course near Orlando. The Masters begins on April 5."No one has a crystal ball, but it's a pretty neat spot for the PGA and the game of golf to be in," said Monahan. On the eve of the Bay Hill tournament Woods was named as USA captain for the next Presidents Cup, a role usually reserved for veterans at the end of their career.

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Nearly 70 nurses and doctors working in the intensive care unit at a Spanish hospital have tested positive for Covid-19 after attending a Christmas party, health authorities said on Monday.Sixty-eight medics at the University Regional Hospital in Malaga had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, the Andalusian regional government said.Health authorities said they were investigating the source of the infection but added all 68 attended a Christmas party on December 1 at which 173 people were present.Those who contracted Covid-19 all had antigen tests or the third booster vaccinations before attending the party, health authorities said.Another possible source of the infection could have been a large meal for hospital staff, authorities said.Read MoreThe world has the tools to end the coronavirus pandemic. They're not being used properlyThose infected have shown mild symptoms.Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warned people to remain vigilant against the coronavirus over Christmas."We must not lower our guard," he told journalists in Madrid.Health authorities in Andalusia have recommended staff at other public and private hospitals do not attend Christmas parties.Four cases of the Omicron variant have meanwhile been confirmed in Spain's Balearic Islands, health authorities there said.A father arrived in the Balearic islands recently and infected two members of his family and a fourth person recently arrived in Spain from South Africa, authorities said.Spain had earlier confirmed a total of five cases of the Omicron variant.

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Story highlightsMaria Sharapova beats Li Na 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5) to win Italian OpenDeciding tiebreak delayed by 2 hours because of rain in RomeMen's final between Nadal and Djokovic postponed until MondaySharapova heads to French Open with two clay-court titles this yearMaria Sharapova beat Li Na in three sets to defend her Italian Open title in Rome on Sunday in a bizarre match played in sometimes heavy rain and amid the distraction of football fans gathering nearby.Sharapova was 6-4 4-0 down but fought back to take the match into a deciding tiebreak -- after saving a match point at 6-5 in the third set.By the time the tiebreak came around, the rain was falling heavily, making conditions unplayable, and it even started to rain again when the players returned two hours later to complete the match.Sharapova eventually won it 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5) and the two players burst out laughing when they shook hands at the net."It was a crazy match," Sharapova said. "Either one of us could have won it. There really is no loser."The men's final between Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal was postponed until Monday because of the weather -- prompting some fans to throw objects onto the court in disgust.Nearby, Napoli and Juventus fans were gathering for the Italian Cup final at the nearby Stadio Olimpico, and the final was punctuated by the sound of fireworks going off and police helicopters flying overhead."The match was a joke, it was like playing a football match in the rain," said Li, who came close to her first title since winning the French Open almost a year ago."Even when we were sent off court, you had to still concentrate for every second, it was tiring for both players."You could not relax. It was tense. When we came back out, she was the tougher player. But I take some positives away. It's getting close to Roland Garros and I think I hit the ball well. I also moved her around the court well."Sharapova heads to Roland Garros with a second clay-court title of the year under her belt. Not traditionally a threat on the slow surface, the world No. 2 has only lost once on clay in 2012 -- to Serena Williams. "This is a great win for me going into Roland Garros," Sharapova said. "It will be nice to have a week off now, after playing three tournaments in the last four weeks. I'll have to time to recover, mentally and physically."Sharapova can complete a career Grand Slam if she wins in Paris.

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Story highlightsCasey Stoner clinches second MotoGP world titleStoner wins Australian round as main rival Jorge Lorenzo sidelinedDefending champion Lorenzo picked up an injury in Sunday's warmup Stoner was claiming his fifth straight win at Phillip IslandCasey Stoner wrapped up his second world MotoGp title before his home fans at Phillip Island Sunday as he claimed the Australian Grand Prix.With defending champion Jorge Lorenzo sidelined by an injury sustained in the morning warmup, Stoner needed only 10 points to seal the title, but he turned on the style for his ninth win of the season.Starting from pole, the Repsol Honda star had built up a seven-second lead after seven laps and he was able to complete an easy victory, his fifth straight at the track. Marco Simoncelli finished second after a close battle with fellow Italian Andrea Dovizioso and Spain's Dani Pedrosa. Honda thus occupied the first four places to wrap up a 60th constructors world title, but their first in the 800cc era.Yamaha's Lorenzo came to grief in changeable morning practice conditions and he will require surgery on his hand, losing a chunk of his ring finger after a nasty fall.It left the way clear for Stoner to add to his previous title back in 2007 with Ducati."I don't think anyone could plan things to happen better than they have today," he told the official MotoGP website."But the race was incredibly difficult, the conditions were very tough. I built up an early lead as I saw the rain coming in, but I wasn't sure if it would hit us."I basically ran into a wall of rain, there wasn't any warning at the back part of the circuit and I came into the last turn and the rain started hard. I nearly lost control but I managed to control it and maintain the gap to everyone and thankfully bring it home for the win."It proved the perfect way for Stoner to celebrate his 27th birthday and he will look to underline his dominance in the two remaining rounds in Malaysia and Spain.

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Story highlightsFavorite Vonn settles for downhill bronzeItaly's Sofia Goggia wins goldVonn: "I wish this wasn't my last Olympics"Pyeongchang, South Korea (CNN)Lindsey Vonn said she "left it all on the line" as she had to settle for bronze in downhill in what is likely to be her final Olympics.The most successful women's ski racer of all time was one of the pre-race favorites, but the 33-year-old could not match the pace of Italy's Sofia Goggia. The 25-year-old Goggia, the World Cup downhill standings leader, produced a stunning run to become the first Italian woman to win gold in alpine skiing's most prestigious event.Goggia's time of 1:39.22 was 0.47 seconds better than Vonn's effort, and 0.09 seconds faster than Norway's Ragnhild Mowinckel, who took her second silver of the Games at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre.Read MoreREAD: Winter Olympics day 12 results and live updatesREAD: Best photos from day 12 at PyeongChang 2018.Sofia Goggia (center) celebrates with Ragnhild Mowinckel (left) and Lindsey Vonn (right)."I came here with one goal -- to beat Lindsey," said Goggia, who had beaten Vonn in the Olympic test events on the same hill."This was good, but here I realized that though this duel was really good, it wouldn't have helped me out so much because I have to be focused on myself."Goggia's gold is Italy's third at the Games, two fewer than the US who are sixth in the medal table with a disappointing haul of 13 medals.READ: 'I'm not going to back down' to online abuse - VonnREAD: How Vonn's dogs helped her beat depression 'I wish I could keep going'Vonn, second only to Ingemar Stenmark's record of World Cup wins, becomes the oldest woman to win an Olympic medal in any of the five Alpine skiing disciplines."I'm so thankful to be here, to be on the podium in what is likely to me my last Olympic downhill race," the US great told reporters. "It's so difficult to get a medal at the Olympics. I wish I could keep going, I wish this wasn't my last Olympics, but it is and I'm trying to accept that, deal with the emotions of that and enjoy the ride."I thought I skied really well. I have to look at a video, but I thought I executed the line perfectly. I thought I did great. "Maybe I was a bit too clean, too precise, maybe I should've let the skis run more. I didn't make any mistakes, I didn't ski stiff, I wasn't nervous, I left it all on the line." JUST WATCHEDLindsey Vonn's furry friendsReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHLindsey Vonn's furry friends 01:46Eight years after she became the first American woman to win the Olympic downhill title, Vonn admitted that the intervening years had been "full of ups and downs."Since winning gold in Vancouver, her only Olympic title, the four-time world champion has suffered multiple injuries -- fractures, knee ligament tears, concussion - and undergone surgery five times. It was a knee injury which prevented her from defending her downhill title in Sochi four years ago, but Vonn said her injury problems had made her stronger. "The last eight years have been full of ups and downs. Lots of downs I'd say, especially from 2013 to now," she said."I've never thought of quitting because of an injury, but it's taken its toll and that's why I can't keep ski racing. "My injuries have made me stronger because I wouldn't be the same person that I am today. "When you're young you ski and you win and you don't appreciate things. I've been in the fences so many times, I know so many doctors on a first name basis that it's ridiculous. "But that's what makes life interesting, what makes you appreciate all of the moments like this because I've been through the hard times."I have a huge metal rod in my right arm, that makes me a stronger person. I wouldn't change it. I'd like to have a little less pain, but I wouldn't change it."Vonn is 'the greatest'Despite lengthy absences from the slopes, the US skier has 13 more World Cup victories than any other woman in history and is five wins from equaling Stenmark's record of 86 World Cup victories.Vonn reacts after crossing the finish line in the downhillVonn made her Olympic debut as a 17-year-old in Salt Lake City in 2002 and, after finishing sixth, was lauded as a new American heroine of the sport. Multiple Olympics later she has fulfilled that early promise.Vonn still has an outside chance of capping her final Games with Olympic gold when she competes in the combined on Thursday.After the race Vonn revealed she had invited Goggia to her house in November to discuss dealing with pressure and expectation. "I'm happy to do that: that's sportsmanship," said Vonn. "I appreciate that she even asked me. And I want to give back, I want to see the next generation of ski racers raise the level of our sport."Goggia told reporters that Vonn was "the greatest skier.""She has 81 victories, I have four - five with this," said the Italian. "She's unbelievable. She's acting like it's normal, it's easy. She's the greatest and she's had a wonderful career -- and she's still having that because it's not over. The battle with her is still going on."'I've been crying all day'JUST WATCHEDLindsey Vonn overcomes grief to reach OlympicsReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHLindsey Vonn overcomes grief to reach Olympics 01:15These Games have been emotional for the American, not only because they are her last but also because she wanted to win a gold medal in memory of her grandfather who recently died. After finishing her race, the skier cried when asked about her grandad but said that despite not taking gold she hoped she had made him proud. "That's another reason I've been crying all day. I just wish he was here and wish he could've watched me," she said, adding that it was also special to have her father, Alan Kildow, in the crowd. "It's very special to have my family here, especially my dad. He wasn't at the 2010 Olympics. We had some rough times, but it means a lot that he's here. With my grandfather passing, it's his father and it makes you realize how short life is. "To have them here today means everything to me."'Savage' social media abuseIt has also been a difficult few months for the American because of the "savage abuse" she has received on social media. After she told CNN in December that she wouldn't visit the White House should she win a medal in Pyeongchang, the veteran skier has been intermittently abused on social media.READ: I won't be representing US President - VonnJUST WATCHEDVonn: I won't represent Trump at Winter GamesReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHVonn: I won't represent Trump at Winter Games 01:11That abuse increased on Saturday after she finished sixth in the super-G, a race won by snowboard specialist Ester Ledecka."I think the most important thing with social media is to be who you are," she said. "I think social media can be used in a positive way if you're a good person. I feel like recently it's just taken a different turn and I hope it turns around. "Instead of tearing people down we can build people up. That's what sports is about. You're supposed to be uplifting. This is the Olympics, we cheer for every country, instead of someone hoping that someone takes a fall or skis off a cliff and dies. "It's hard for me to understand the thought process of the savage abuse I've taken on the internet. In real life most people wouldn't say that to me to my face. "I will not be beaten. I stand strong and I'm proud of what I represent and who I am. "I'm very proud to hold the American flag on the podium. All Americans deserve to hold the flag and be proud of their country no matter what their beliefs because that's what makes America great."

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London (CNN)The United Kingdom's position on Brexit is based on "pure illusion," European Council President Donald Tusk told reporters in Brussels after a meeting of EU leaders.His comments Friday came a day after UK Prime Minister Theresa May and senior Cabinet ministers spent hours at her official country retreat hammering out London's position in future Brexit negotiations in the face of deep divisions within her Conservative Party.May is expected to set out her vision for Britain's future trading relationship with the European Union in a speech next Friday. But Tusk's remarks raise questions over how well it will go down in Brussels."I'm afraid that the UK position today is based on pure illusion. It looks like the 'cake philosophy' is still alive," Tusk said. "From the very start, there has been a key principle of the EU 27 members that there can be no cherry-picking and no single market à la carte."JUST WATCHEDMay: 'Ideology' must not impede security dealReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHMay: 'Ideology' must not impede security deal 02:37Tusk has previously accused May of holding a philosophy of "having her cake and eating it" over Brexit by trying to keep the benefits of EU membership without having to follow its rules.Read MoreTusk said he had informed EU leaders that he would present draft guidelines in the future EU-UK relationship at a European Council summit next month."Our intention is to adopt these guidelines, whether the UK is ready with its vision of our future relations, or not. Naturally, it would be much better if it were, but we cannot stand by and wait. I hope to have some more clarity about the UK plans next week, when I meet Prime Minister May in London."Tusk's meeting with May is scheduled to take place Thursday, a day before she gives her speech on trade.Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will give a speech Monday in which he could pave the way for a government defeat over Brexit, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported, by backing a move by rebel Conservatives to keep Britain in a customs union with the European Union.Theresa May meets with her Cabinet at Chequers to discuss the UK's future relationship with the EU.May gathered key members of her fractious Cabinet this week for an "away day" at her country retreat, Chequers, in a bid to galvanize support within her divided party for a common position on Brexit.She needs to establish Britain's terms for the transition period that will follow its departure from the EU in March 2019. However, that process has been fraught with difficulty in the past few months.UK media reports indicate that Cabinet ministers agreed Thursday on an approach of "managed divergence" by which Britain would take control of its own regulations but maintain the standards required by the EU in certain key areas to protect trade and jobs."The Brexit committee made a step forward yesterday by agreeing (to) the basics of the future relationship," a Downing Street representative told CNN.Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond tweeted Friday that the Chequers meeting had been "positive and constructive" and that "steady progress" was being made toward delivering Brexit.Positive and constructive meeting at #Chequers last night. December was a decisive moment and we're now making steady progress to delivering #Brexit -- with a real sense of momentum as we move towards March European Council and agreement on implementation period.— Philip Hammond (@PhilipHammondUK) February 23, 2018 Speaking Tuesday in Vienna, Austria, David Davis, secretary of state for exiting the EU, described what Britain aspired to as "a race to the top in global standards," which meant that British regulators and institutions could continue to be recognized by the EU."We start from a position of total alignment, with unprecedented experience in working with one another's regulators and institutions," Davis said. "The agreement we strike will not be about how to build convergence, but what we do when one of us chooses to make changes to our rules. Neither side should put up unnecessary barriers during this process."CNN's Zahra Ullah and Bianca Nobilo contributed to this report.

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(CNN)Netflix didn't make "Tiger King 2" available in advance, and zapping through it, it's easier to understand why.Adding relatively little to the story, and jumping all over the place, the project is mostly defined by how self-referential it is, with almost all roads leading back to the impact of the original docuseries, which was, let's face it, 19 months ago. If you're feeling nostalgic for the the early days of the pandemic for some reason or eager to see what Joe Exotic (as well as several lawyers) are up to, the five-episode season of "Tiger King 2" is streaming now on Netflix." allowfullscreen>The docuseries picks up where the first season left off, with Joseph Maldonado-Passage serving a 22-year prison sentence for violating the Endangered Species Act and an attempted murder-for-hire plot against rival big cat sanctuary owner Carole Baskin.Baskin and her current husband, Howard, have said they felt betrayed by their portrayal in the first season of the show and declined to participate in the second. The series revisits the disappearance of Baskin's first husband, Don Lewis, but doesn't shed new light.Read MoreThe rest of the returning cast of colorful characters seem to be enjoying the notoriety "Tiger King" has brought them.Carole Baskin is in a 'Cage Fight' post 'Tiger King'The timing of "Tiger King's" initial release in March of 2020, in hindsight, couldn't have been better. The timing now feels like a bit of a snooze. Assuming that counts as the concept's second life, let's hope nobody's planning on seven more.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN)The remaining 12 hostages kidnapped by an armed gang in Haiti two months ago were released Thursday, according to the country's justice minister Berto Dorcé. Seventeen missionaries representing Christian Aid Ministries (CAM), including 16 Americans and one Canadian, were kidnapped by armed men on October 16 while driving through the suburb of Croix des Bouquets, just outside of the capital city Port-au-Prince. The group had been returning from visiting an orphanage and were headed back to their home base.Two of the missionaries were released on November 21. Two weeks later, three more hostages were released followed by the remaining 12 on Thursday morning.A source in Haiti's security forces said the remaining hostages were released around 5 a.m. ET in the neighborhood of Morne Cabrit. According to the source, the missionaries were found by locals who dropped them off at a local police station, close to the territory controlled by the gang. Read MoreCNN-obtained images show the released hostages boarding the coast guard plane on Thursday. The freed group underwent a medical check and appeared skinny, the source added. The group flew to the US on Thursday via a coast guard flight, the source told CNN. The gang that authorities said was responsible for the kidnappings, 400 Mawozo, had initially demanded a ransom of $1 million per hostage, according to Haiti's then-justice minister Liszt Quitel.A ransom was paid to the 400 Mawozo, according to the source. A US official also said that a ransom was paid, but not by the US government. Though the exact amount is not known, the source said it was far less than the original request of $1 million per hostage.CNN has reached out to CAM for comment.A sign stands outside the Christian Aid Ministries in Titanyen, Haiti, on October 22, 2021.CAM released a statement praising the release on Thursday."We glorify God for answered prayer -- the remaining twelve hostages are FREE! Join us in praising God that all seventeen of our loved ones are now safe. Thank you for your fervent prayers throughout the past two months. We hope to provide more information as we are able," the statement read. "I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously" (Exodus 15:1b)," it concluded.The US State Department welcomed the news that the missionaries "are free and will soon be reunited with their loved ones."A State Department spokesperson told CNN Thursday that they were continuing to provide "appropriate" assistance to the group and their families and thanked Haitian and international partners "for their assistance in facilitating their safe release.Kidnappings for ransom in Haiti are widespread and often indiscriminate, targeting rich and poor, young and old. Rising crime has accompanied the country's political instability, with kidnappings spiking in the months after the July assassination of President Jovenel Moise, according to local human rights organization CARDH. The 400 Mawozo group is particularly notorious for group kidnappings.Journalist Etant Dupain and CNN's David Shortell in Mexico City contributed to this report.

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(CNN)Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie has criticized the US government's handling of the issues of systemic racism in the country and the coronavirus pandemic, labeling them a "tragic embarrassment."Protests have broken out across the country over the past few months, particularly after the police killing of George Floyd and the shooting of Jacob Blake.Meanwhile on Monday, the US topped six million cases of Covid-19, which has killed over 183,000 people.Lurie, who called the racism that still afflicts the US one of the country's two "pandemics,' said that change will not happen until we "realize we're responsible for it.""Now, systemic racism, it's our legacy," the 68-year-old NFL team owner said during his annual State of the Eagles address.Read More"When you write back on the 400 years of the United States, there's a lot of wonderful, wonderful things that have taken place in our country, and we can all be proud of it."We can all love our country, but to love our country is to own our country, and that's where I really believe strongly that we have to own the good and own the bad, and we won't be able to change the bad until we realize we're responsible for it."Lurie took charge of the Eagles in 1994, and led the team to its first Super Bowl title in 2017, when it beat the New England Patriots 41-33 at Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. The most recent protests demanding an end to police violence and systemic racism have been in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which is where Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot by police. Blake has undergone multiple surgeries and has been left paralyzed from the waist down.US President Donald Trump announced he was planning to visit Kenosha, despite Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers writing a letter to him urging him to reconsider as the city continues to grapple with racial unrest following Blake's shootinig.However, Trump is not going to meet with Jacob Blake's family in Wisconsin because they wanted to involve lawyers, he said at a media conference on Monday.READ: Naomi Osaka wears mask honoring Breonna Taylor before winning US Open matchLurie holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy after his teams 41-33 victory over the New England Patriots.'Needless deaths'There have been at least 6,002,615 cases of coronavirus in the United States and at least 183,203 people have died, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.Only two other countries in the world have over 1 million reported Covid-19 cases -- Brazil with roughly 3,862,000 cases and India with 3,621,000 cases.President Trump has defended the response of his administration, and has continued to urge states to reopen the nation's businesses and schools. Last week as he formally accepted the Republican renomination ahead of the November 3 election, Trump said: "We are meeting this challenge. We are delivering lifesaving therapies, and will produce a vaccine before the end of the year, or maybe even sooner. We will defeat the virus, end the pandemic and emerge stronger than ever before."Although Lurie didn't name Trump directly, the Eagles owner was very critical of the government's response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic."We have to own the questions of leadership, we have to own the questions of policy, and there's a lot to be discussed here on that in the future, That's the reality I think we face. I'd rather just say it straight out from my heart" It's heartbreaking," said added."These are needless deaths. Needless. We should be similar to most countries on the planet, and yet, we are an embarrassment, and a tragic embarrassment."READ: Nuggets star says shoes with images of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd 'give me life' after scoring 50 pointsLurie on the sidelines against the Seattle Seahawks at CenturyLink Field. VotingAs the November elections fast approach, sports players and teams have been using their platforms to encourage and help people to vote.Los Angeles Laker star LeBron James is spearheading a multimillion-dollar campaign to recruit poll workers in Black electoral districts.In a statement released on Friday, the NBA and its players union jointly announced a commitment to establish a social justice coalition and voting initiatives. That includes using arenas as polling places and sharing voting information in advertisements during the playoffs.In the NFL, the Houston Texans announced that its stadium, NRG Arena, will serve as election headquarters for Harris County and as a polling place.Visit CNN.com/sport for more news, features, and videos"The Houston Texans are partnering with NRG Park and the Harris County Clerk's Office with the launch of their We Are Texans, We are Voters initiative," the Texans organization said in a statement."This will encourage fans and the Houston community to do their civic duty and take part in the election process."

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A version of this story appeared in CNN's What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. (CNN)There is a loud and growing chorus of calls for the International Criminal Court to pursue Vladimir Putin for his unprovoked attack on Ukraine. President Joe Biden said his opinion is that Putin is a war criminal.The top war crimes prosecutor for the ICC has traveled to Ukraine to investigate. The US Embassy in Kyiv argued earlier in the war that specific Russian attacks constituted war crimes.JUST WATCHEDInternational Criminal Court to Russia: 'The world is watching'ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHInternational Criminal Court to Russia: 'The world is watching' 13:43"It is a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant," the embassy said on its official Twitter feed. "Putin's shelling of Europe's largest nuclear plant takes his reign of terror one step further."Read MoreRussia's bombing of hospitals and a theater where children were seeking refuge along with its suspected use of cluster bombs and so-called vacuum bombs in dense areas with many civilians have also been described as war crimes."The law is clear on this, it is a crime to intentionally target civilians, it is a crime to intentionally target civilian objects," Karim Khan, the ICC's chief prosecutor, told CNN's Anderson Cooper. But Khan added there is a burden of proof and a process that must play out. Here's a very broad look at war crimes and the international justice movement. Note: Some of what's below comes from CNN's research library, which compiled information about the International Criminal Court.What is a war crime?The International Criminal Court has specific definitions for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of aggression. Read about them in this guide published by the ICC.Specifically, targeting civilian populations, violating the Geneva Conventions, targeting specific groups of people and more could be potential Russian war crimes.Khan said there can be justified attacks in civilian areas if they are being used to launch attacks. But even then, he said, attacks in civilian areas cannot be disproportionate. There is a method of gathering evidence from testimony, satellite images and elsewhere to meet a burden of proof. What is the International Criminal Court?Located in The Hague, Netherlands, and created by a treaty called the Rome Statute first brought before the United Nations, the International Criminal Court operates independently.Most countries on Earth -- 123 of them -- are parties to the treaty, but there are very large and notable exceptions, including Russia and the US. And, for that matter, Ukraine.Who can be tried by the court?Anyone accused of a crime in the jurisdiction of the court, which includes countries that are members of the ICC, can be tried. The court tries people, not countries, and focuses on those who hold the most responsibility: leaders and officials. While Ukraine is not a member of the court, it has previously accepted its jurisdiction.Putin could, therefore, theoretically be indicted by the court for previously ordering war crimes in Crimea. However, the ICC does not conduct trials in absentia, so he would either have to be handed over by Russia or arrested outside of Russia. That seems unlikely.What crimes does the court handle?The ICC is meant to be a court of "last resort" and is not meant to replace a country's justice system. The court, which has 18 judges serving nine-year terms, tries four types of crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression and war crimes.How does the ICC bring proceedings?Court proceedings can be brought in one of two ways: Either a national government or the UN Security Council can refer cases for investigation.Russia, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, has veto power over council actions. It was requests by 39 national governments, most of them European, that sparked this current investigation.Khan previously told CNN, "I want to emphasize that I'm willing to speak to all sides, and not just the Ukrainian side, but also the Russian Federation, state parties and non-state parties alike. This institution is not political. We're not part of the geostrategic or geopolitical divisions that we witness around the world." What will the ICC investigate in relation to Ukraine?In its new investigation into Russia's possible war crimes, the ICC has said it will look at all actions in Ukraine from 2013 to the present. Russia first entered Crimea, which has been part of Ukraine, in 2014. The ICC was already investigating crackdowns on protesters by a previous Ukrainian government that was pro-Russian. This new referral seems to put all potential war crimes together.How long do these investigations take?If justice in general moves slowly, international justice barely moves at all. Investigations at the ICC take many years. Only a handful of convictions have ever been won.A preliminary investigation into the hostilities in eastern Ukraine lasted more than six years -- from April 2014 until December 2020. At the time, the prosecutor said there was evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Next steps were slowed by the Covid-19 pandemic and a lack of resources at the court, which is conducting multiple investigations.That perception of slow and ineffective justice will test the system of international law, Khan told Cooper."This is a test for the court. It's a test for me, it's a test for the office," he said.What are cluster bombs and vacuum bombs? In addition to attacks on hospitals and civilian apartment buildings, the feared use of banned weapons meant to kill without discrimination is another very specific war crime.With a cluster bomb, a missile is fired and explodes thousands of feet in the air, releasing smaller bombs that each detonate when they fall to the ground. See an illustration from The Washington Post. Amnesty International said a Russian cluster bomb fell on a Ukrainian preschool."Vacuum bombs," or thermobaric weapons, suck in the oxygen from the surrounding air to generate a powerful explosion and a large pressure wave that can have enormous destructive effects. Russia previously used them in Chechnya.Why would a Ukraine prosecution be different?The international outcry against Russia is unique, and that could give the court the ability to operate differently, according to Ryan Goodman, a law professor at New York University and co-editor-in-chief of Just Security, an online forum."It's hard to judge the ICC's investigation based on past practice," Goodman said in an email after the court initially launched its investigation. "In the Ukraine situation, the prosecutor is buttressed by an extraordinary outpouring of support from dozens of countries, which I expect will be followed by an infusion of resources."How would an ICC case affect the conflict?"For better or for worse, the ICC investigation may affect the diplomatic space for negotiations," said Goodman, arguing Putin and other Russians might not want to risk arrest if they travel outside the country.The investigation could also, he argued, weaken Putin at home."Russians may come to realize this is another reason Putin can no longer serve their country," Goodman said.What happened before the ICC?Previous trials for war crimes were brought by special UN tribunals, such as those empaneled for the former Yugoslavia, focusing on the Serbian autocrat Slobodan Milosevic, and for the Rwandan genocide. All of this stems from the precedent of the Nuremberg trials to bring Nazis to justice after World War II and held by the Allies, including the US, the Soviet Union, France and Germany.So it is interesting that neither the US nor Russia are members of the ICC.Why aren't the US and Russia ICC members?Both the US and Russia are signatories to the treaty that created the court -- meaning their leaders signed it -- but neither is a member of the court.Russia pulled out of the court in 2016 days after an ICC report published what CNN called a "damning verdict" on Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014. The court also launched a probe in 2016 into Russia's 2008 efforts to support breakaway regions in Georgia.At the time, France had also accused Russia of committing war crimes in Syria.As for the US, while President Bill Clinton signed the treaty creating the court in 2000, he never recommended the Senate ratify it. The George W. Bush administration, to a fair amount of criticism, pulled the US from being a party to the treaty in 2002. The Pentagon and many US policymakers have long opposed joining such an international court system since it could open US servicemembers to allegations of war crimes."The president (George W. Bush) thinks the ICC is fundamentally flawed because it puts American servicemen and women at fundamental risk of being tried by an entity that is beyond America's reach, beyond America's laws and can subject American civilians and military to arbitrary standards of justice," then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said at the time.How has the US supported the court?Opposing America joining the court did not mean the Bush administration opposed the court itself. It supported ICC efforts to seek justice for genocide in Sudan.There has always been an awkwardness to how American presidents deal with the court, noted CNN's Tim Lister in 2011. He wrote about Barack Obama applauding ICC efforts to bring justice to people like former Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, while not endorsing the court for oversight of the US.This story has been updated with additional details.

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(CNN)Twenty-three gold medals were won. Here's a breakdown of who's taking home the gold:Basketball 3 X 3Women's: United StatesMen's: LatviaArtistic GymnasticsRead MoreMen's All-Around: Daiki Hashimoto, JapanCycling RoadWomen's Individual Time Trial: Annemiek van Vleuten, NetherlandsMen's Individual Time Trial: Primoz Roglic, SloveniaDivingMen's Synchronised 3m Springboard: Wang Zongyuan/Xie Siyi, ChinaEquestrianDressage Individual Grand Prix Freestyle: GermanyFencingMen's Sabre Team: Republic of KoreaJudoWomen's -70 kg: Chizuru Arai, JapanMen's -90 kg: Lasha Bekauri, GeorgiaRowingWomen's Double Sculls: RomaniaMen's Double Sculls: France Women's Four: AustraliaMen's Four: AustraliaMen's Quadruple Sculls: NetherlandsWomen's Quadruple Sculls: ChinaRugby SevensMen's: FijiSwimmingWomen's 200m Freestyle: Ariarne Titmus, AustraliaMen's 200m Butterfly: Kristof Milak, HungaryWomen's 200m Individual Medley: Yui Ohashi, JapanWomen's 1500m Freestyle: Katie Ledecky, United StatesMen's 4 X 200m Freestyle Relay: Great BritainWeightliftingMen's 73kg: Shi Zhiyong, China

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Minneapolis (CNN)The Pro Football Hall of Fame has a large contingent heading to Canton, Ohio, later this year, as wide receiver Randy Moss, wide receiver Terrell Owens, linebacker Brian Urlacher, safety Brian Dawkins, linebacker Ray Lewis, guard Jerry Kramer, linebacker Robert Brazile and Bobby Beathard made up the star-studded class of 2018 elected on Saturday.The group was announced during the taping of NFL Honors, a two-hour prime-time awards special held at the Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. The group will be enshrined in Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in August.Moss is the first wide receiver to be elected in his first year on the ballot since Jerry Rice. In his career, which spanned 14 seasons, Moss had 982 receptions for 15,292 yards and 156 touchdowns and led the NFL in touchdown receptions five times. He also set the NFL record with 23 touchdown receptions in 2007 with the Patriots."I started this game at 6 years old and never imagined that I'd be here, putting on a Hall of Fame jacket," Moss said.Terrell Owens.Owens, a previous snub, made it in his third year of eligibility. He noticeably was absent from NFL Honors on Saturday, opting instead, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, to play basketball in Los Angeles.Read More"He was very calm, very respectful and kind of humble about it," Pro Football Hall of Fame President David Baker said when describing Owens' reaction when he got the phone call.After a 16-year career, Owens finished with 1,078 receptions for 15,934 yards -- the second-highest yardage total in NFL history -- and 153 touchdowns, the third most. He also led the NFL in TD catches three times.Owens previously had voiced his displeasure at not being elected, tweeting this time last year, "HOF is a total joke" when he didn't get in. This year, though, Owens celebrated with a post on Instagram, reading, "CONGRATS to the HOF CLASS OF 2018. We're GOLDEN!" CONGRATS to the HOF CLASS OF 2018. We're GOLDEN! 🧥 A post shared by Terrell Owens (@terrellowens) on Feb 3, 2018 at 3:01pm PST Lewis: 'I want to go fishing with a cigar'Lewis, a first-time finalist, played for the Baltimore Ravens from 1996 to 2012. He was twice named AP defensive player of the year and won two Super Bowls, earning MVP honors in Super Bowl XXXV."Now I can finally rest," Lewis said. "I want to go fishing with a cigar now and just sit back. I don't want to work out every day now."Ray Lewis.Another first-time finalist, Urlacher spent his entire career with the Chicago Bears from 2000 to 2012. He won a defensive rookie of the year award and in 2005 was named defensive player of the year."I'm glad I didn't have to vote, because it would be really hard to pick," Urlacher said.Dawkins, in his second year of eligibility, was a safety with the Eagles and the Denver Broncos, spanning 16 seasons. He helped the Eagles to eight playoff appearances and was a nine-time Pro Bowler. He is the first player in NFL history to record a sack, interception, fumble recovery and touchdown catch in same game, when he did it against the Houston Texans on September 29, 2002.Dawkins called it "extremely gratifying" to be elected the same year the Eagles are in the Super Bowl."That's huge," Dawkins said. "That goes above anything I can think about besides being able to now call myself a Hall of Famer."Kramer: 'It's something I was afraid to believe in'Kramer, a senior finalist, played from 1958 to 1968, anchoring the offensive line of the Vince Lombardi-era Green Bay Packers. The right guard is remembered for a key block that made way for Bart Starr's game-winning touchdown in the famous "Ice Bowl." In his 45th year of eligibility, this was his 11th time as a finalist."There were 10 times I was waiting for a knock on the door that didn't come, so there wasn't a great deal of confidence that it was going to happen this time," Kramer said.The first time he heard a knock Saturday? "It's the maid," he said. "So we gather ourselves."Brian Dawkins.The knock from Baker came later. "I was over the top," Kramer said. "It's something I was afraid to believe in, was afraid to hope for."A first-time finalist, Brazile, a linebacker from 1975 to 1984 with the Houston Oilers, also was a senior finalist. He was selected to seven Pro Bowls and held the team record with 147 consecutive games played."I want to say thank you," Brazile said. "To the selection committee, thank you all."Beathard: 'Never really had it as a goal'Beathard, a contributor finalist, is a former NFL general manager. Teams he worked for reached seven Super Bowls and won four."I worked all the years in the league and I never really had that as a goal or anything," Beathard said on the phone to reporters. "Never thought much about it. ... It's a real honor. I never dreamed about being in (the Hall of Fame)."There were 18 finalists for this year's class, 15 of which are from the modern era. Of the 15, four were first-time finalists.Brian Urlacher.The Pro Football Hall of Fame's current bylaws stipulate that between four and eight new members are to be chosen each year. No more than five modern-era finalists can be elected in a given year.To be eligible, modern-era players and coaches must have last played or coached more than five seasons ago. Contributors do not need to be retired to be eligible. Senior finalists are determined by the Seniors Committee, which reviews the qualifications of those players whose careers ended more than 25 years ago.To be elected, a finalist must receive a minimum positive vote of 80% during the annual selection meeting. This year's class was selected by a 48-person selection committee.Tom Brady named NFL MVPIn addition to the Hall of Fame announcement, the NFL and the Associated Press named their annual award winners at NFL Honors. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, at age 40, was named NFL MVP.The Los Angeles Rams had an impressive showing, with running back Todd Gurley earning offensive player of the year, defensive tackle Aaron Donald winning defensive player of the year and Sean McVay named coach of the year. The Saints swept rookie-of-the-year honors with running back Alvin Kamara on offense and cornerback Marshon Lattimore on defense.The Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year went to Texans defensive end J.J. 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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)To the United States military, he was an ISIS-K facilitator they feared was involved in a plot to attack Kabul's international airport. To his family and colleagues at a US nonprofit, 43-year-old Zamarai Ahmadi was an aid worker applying for a US visa to get his family out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. In the two weeks since US drone operatives fired a Hellfire missile at a car in a residential Kabul compound, two vastly different narratives have emerged about the man who his family say died alongside nine relatives. JUST WATCHEDCNN investigates deadly US drone strike in AfghanistanReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHCNN investigates deadly US drone strike in Afghanistan 08:16The Pentagon maintains at least one ISIS-K facilitator was killed in what Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley called a "righteous strike" on the compound on August 29.In a statement, US Central Command pointed to "significant secondary explosions" as evidence of a "substantial amount of explosive material" in the vehicle. A US official with knowledge of the operation told CNN Thursday that operatives tracked the car for about eight hours before initiating the strike. Read MoreBut CNN interviews with two explosive experts and more than two dozen of Ahmadi's relatives, colleagues and neighbors raise questions about whether an ISIS-K facilitator was killed in the attack and whether the car contained explosives. Their accounts also prompt doubts over whether the military had sufficient intelligence to launch a strike that, according to family, would ultimately kill three men with visa pathways to the US and seven children aged 15 and under.The lead-upIn the days leading up to the strike, tensions in the Afghan capital were high. An ISIS-K suicide attacker had detonated his vest outside a gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport three days before, killing at least 170 people and 13 US service members. And an August 31 deadline was fast approaching for the US and its allies to complete their evacuation of increasingly desperate people from the airport.JUST WATCHEDVideo shows aftermath of blast outside Kabul's airportReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHVideo shows aftermath of blast outside Kabul's airport 01:22After the attack, US President Joe Biden was firm: "We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay."We will respond with force and precision at our time, at a place we choose and at a moment of our choosing." On August 28, Biden said US commanders had warned another terrorist attack on the airport was "highly likely" in the next 24 to 36 hours. "I directed them to take every possible measure to prioritize force protection," he said in a statement. "We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay."Joe BidenUS President The US official told CNN that intelligence sources led the US military to a compound about 5 kilometers (3 miles) northwest of Kabul's airport, where they believed the August 26 airport attack had either been planned or directed. As the compound was within a few hundred meters of an old ISIS safehouse, the location didn't surprise them, the official added. The US began monitoring the house and sent an unmanned aircraft overhead, the official said.August 29, about 8.30 a.m.That morning, Ahmadi's day started in a similar way to many others, according to his workmates. He often acted as their driver, they said, using a Toyota Corolla owned by the US nonprofit Nutrition and Education International (NEI), where Ahmadi had worked for 15 years.At 8.44 a.m., Ahmadi received a call from NEI's country director asking him to pick up a laptop from the colleague's house, according to the colleague and phone records of the call. But first, Ahmadi drove to pick up a former colleague, who asked to be called Khan for this story for security reasons. Khan wanted to go to the office to get information about US visa applications. Zamarai Ahmadi was a "humble, compassionate, humanitarian employee," according to the nonprofit he worked for. Some parts of the photo have been blurred for security reasons. Khan said Ahmadi arrived at his house at about 8.45 a.m., and phone records confirmed he phoned as he pulled up outside. Ahmadi and Khan then picked up the laptop from the country director's house. Ahmadi got out of the car to get the laptop from his colleague's father, Khan said. Ahmadi arrived at the house just before 9 a.m., according to Khan. At about the same time, the unmanned aircraft overhead detected a vehicle pulling out of a suspected ISIS safehouse, the US official told CNN. There wasn't much coming and going from the house, so when a vehicle did leave, "it was significant," the official said. The US began following that vehicle. The country director said his house -- where he lives with his parents, three sisters, wife and three children -- has never been an ISIS safehouse. His family has lived at the residential address for more than 40 years, he said. In a statement, NEI said the implication Ahmadi was sympathetic to a terrorist group was "incredulous" and said the accusation that NEI was indirectly or directly co-operating with the group threatened the lives of its employees. Just after 9 a.m. Ahmadi and Khan collected another colleague from his home, according to Khan, who corroborated the timing with phone records. The trio stopped at a roadside stall to buy a takeaway breakfast of chips and naan before driving to the office, according to Khan.August 29, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.As US drone operators monitored the car from above, the US military was picking up chatter from suspected ISIS militants plotting more suicide attacks, the US official told CNN. Intelligence indicated the cell would pick up materials and meet up with someone on a motorcycle, the US official said, without specifying the time and locations for those events. Over the next eight hours, the US observed the vehicle stop and unload objects, and appear to meet up with someone on a motorcycle. "So it seems to correlate or did correlate with what the intelligence was suggesting was going to happen," the official said. Security footage shows Ahmadi and two men arriving at Nutrition and Education International's office. Ahmadi carries what appears to be a laptop case. According to CNN's calculation, the time is 9.36 a.m. on August 29. Credit: Provided by Nutrition and Education International Ahmadi's workmates, however, described a relatively typical day for them. The mood in the car was jovial, said Khan, his former workmate."(Ahmadi) was the same, like the past -- just joking, talking with each other, laughing," he said. Recently, NEI -- a nonprofit dedicated to addressing malnutrition in Afghanistan -- had been delivering rice and soybeans to camps in Kabul full of people who had fled the Taliban as militants claimed more regional territory. At about 9.30 a.m., Ahmadi and his two passengers arrived at the NEI office where they ate their takeaway breakfast, according to Khan and the country director. "(Ahmadi) was the same, like the past -- just joking, talking with each other, laughing."KhanAhmadi's former workmate After breakfast, Ahmadi and three other men -- including Khan -- headed to a Taliban security station in a nearby district to request permission for the food distribution program. It was one of two security stations they visited that day, according to NEI's founder Steven Kwon and two of the people in the car.Two of the people in the car said they also visited a bank in the center of the city before the car returned to the office at about 2 p.m.Khan said he did not remember stopping to talk to a motorbike rider during their travels that day. CCTV footage shows the security guard at the office wheeling a motorbike. Both Khan and another passenger said they did not see anything suspicious.About 4 p.m. By late afternoon, the US military observed something else that alarmed them: people loading what they believed to be explosives into the back of the vehicle.The people were seen "delicately" handling objects that appeared to be "somewhat heavy" and loading them into the car, the US official said. Those objects were assessed to be some sort of explosive material due to the way they were being handled, the official said, without detailing what the objects looked like. For the past few weeks, Ahmadi had no running water at his house, so he filled plastic containers with water at work and took them home to his family, according to colleagues. A NEI watchman who asked not to be named said that at about 3 p.m., Ahmadi asked him to help fill the containers with a hose as he didn't have water at home. Ahmadi and another man are seen pulling out a hose and carrying containers. According to CNN's calculation, the time is 2.34 p.m. on August 29. Credit: Provided by Nutrition and Education International Closed-circuit television footage from the NEI office obtained by CNN shows Ahmadi filling up plastic containers with a hose that afternoon. The timestamp on the video said it was 12.48 a.m. on August 28, but it was light outside, indicating the timestamp was wrong. A CNN journalist visited the office and confirmed the timestamp was nearly 38 hours behind, suggesting the men filled up the plastic containers at about 2.30 p.m on Sunday.The men then put the water canisters into the boot of the car, the NEI watchman said.At about 4 p.m., Ahmadi gave two of his workmates a lift home, following the same route in reverse to drop them off before heading to his family's compound, according to Khan, the former workmate.It would be Ahmadi's final drive home. About 5 p.m. Excited children ran out to meet Ahmadi as he pulled up in the courtyard of the home he shared with his three brothers and their wives and children, relatives and neighbors said. Ahmadi often let his 9-year-old son Farzad park the car, and other children often clambered into the vehicle, family said. But as the children raced toward him, a Hellfire missile carrying a 15 to 20-pound warhead hit its target. It took less than one minute from the moment it was fired to explode, according to the New York Times. CNN asked the US official for comment on the timing of the missile, but the official declined to comment. The car was swallowed in flames, according to witness accounts and video from the scene. In total, 10 people were killed, including seven children -- four of whom were in the car at the time of the strike, according to family. The US disputes these numbers. Ahmadi's future son-in-law Naser Haidari, a former US army security guard who until recently served with Afghan forces, was killed as he washed himself in the courtyard ahead of evening prayers, the family said. Ahmadi's 19-year-old son Zamir, who his friends described as a fashion lover, was also killed. "There was screaming from everyone, not just myself," said Samia, Ahmadi's daughter who was due to marry Haidari in the coming days. "At first I thought this is an attack on the whole of Afghanistan and everywhere must be taken by terrorists. I did not know that the attack was only on our house."Ahmadi's brother Romal lost all three of his children in the strike. Romal's wife Arezo Ahmadi said shattered glass fell on her face immediately after the explosion, and she ran outside, screaming for her daughters."There was blood everywhere," she said. "We run to everyone, seeing if we could save them.""I saw the bodies, they were all burned," said neighbor Karim Ahmadi, no relation to Zamarai Ahmadi. "The car had been entirely destroyed. Pieces of flesh had flown everywhere."According to the US official, those who took the shot observed the driver and one adult male when they fired. No children could be seen in the car -- and it was only after the missile was fired that children were spotted on the drone video feed approaching the car, according to the US official. Immediately after the strike, a US Central Command spokesman said initial indications suggested there were no civilian casualties.Later that day, the spokesman said Central Command was aware of reports of civilian casualties, although it suggested those could have been caused by "subsequent explosions.""We're investigating this. I'm not going to get ahead of it. But if we have verifiable information that we did in fact take innocent life here, then we will be transparent about that, too. Nobody wants to see that happen," Pentagon spokesman John F. Kirby said on August 31.US nonprofit worker Zamarai Ahmadi, third from left, was applying for a visa to the US for himself, his wife Anisa, and their children Zamir, Zamira, Faisal and Farzad.Three days after the strike, the US Defense Department acknowledged for the first time that others had been killed in the strike. Milley said the US had very good intelligence, and had gone through the "same level of rigor that we've done for years." "At least one of those people that were killed was an ISIS facilitator," Milley said at a press conference on September 1. "So were there others killed? Yes, there are others killed. Who they are, we don't know. We'll try to sort through all of that." Speaking to Congress Monday during a House Foreign Affairs committee hearing, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the strike was being looked at "very carefully" by others in the administration."No country on earth, no government, takes more precautions to try to ensure that anyone other than the terrorist target is struck using a drone or by any other means," he said. "But certainly we know that in the past, civilians have been hurt and have been killed in these strikes."The aftermathCNN visited Ahmadi's house within hours of the attack and found the charred skeleton of his car sitting twisted in the courtyard. Broken glass and rubble lay around the concrete yard. The windows of a nearby maroon SUV were smashed and the trunk was blackened. But the rough clay walls around the courtyard were still standing. In the aftermath of the strike, the US pointed to "significant secondary explosions" as key evidence the car contained explosives. Two officials who saw US surveillance imagery in the aftermath of the strike confirmed to CNN that there were large secondary explosions. "It was loaded up and ready to go," an official said shortly after the strike. But the US official told CNN on Thursday there had been one "secondary explosion" -- rather than multiple explosions other US officials described immediately after the strike -- and said initial investigations confirmed there were at least three suspected civilian casualties. Relatives and neighbors inspect the remains of the US Hellfire missile strike in the residential compound in Kabul.Two experts who reviewed extensive footage filmed on the scene by CNN say the scene is consistent with the aftermath of a Hellfire strike, but both say there is no evidence of one "significant secondary explosion" -- let alone multiple blasts. They point to the limited damage to a car parked nearby and to the surrounding walls of the courtyard, which remain largely intact. One of those experts, Brian Castner, a former explosive ordnance disposal officer for the US military in Iraq who now works as a war crimes investigator for Amnesty International, said the site showed evidence of an initial blast followed by a car fire. He did not see any evidence of a significant secondary blast. "If there really was a 'significant secondary explosion,' that wall should be knocked over, the tree should be gone from the middle, the SUV should be flipped on its side," he said of the car parked nearby. He said the damage could be consistent with the detonation of a single, five-pound suicide vest -- something that would not be considered a significant secondary explosion -- but determining that conclusively would require a forensic investigation of the site. In a press conference Monday, Kirby said he was not aware of any option that would put investigators on the ground in Kabul to complete their assessment. The cause of the secondary explosion is still under review, said the US official, who claimed the secondary blast was four to five times larger than the initial explosion. While the official conceded the vehicle wasn't "packed to the gills with explosive material," he said the explosion was consistent with a couple of 15-pound suicide vests, a large number of 3 to 5-pound suicide vests or loose explosive material that had been put into the back of the vehicle. The US official acknowledged the secondary blast could also have been caused by a gas cylinder. But an international explosives engineer, who asked not to be named for professional reasons and who viewed CNN video of the scene, said there was no evidence whatsoever of a secondary explosion four or five times larger than the initial explosion. For that, the car would have needed to contain significantly more explosive material, and the blast would have damaged the nearby car, vegetation and wall, he said. "On the evidence that has been presented, the United States government is grasping at straws," the engineer said. Demands for justiceThe US official pointed to a final piece of evidence that they had successfully killed an ISIS-K facilitator: immediately after the drone strike, the terrorist chatter stopped. However, in comments to CNN Saturday, an ISIS-K source denied any of the victims were connected to the terror group. ISIS-K also claimed responsibility for a failed attack on the airport the next day, when at least five rockets were shot down by the airport's missile defense system. A burnt-out car that had been modified with multiple tubes appeared to confirm a vehicle was used as an improvised missile launch pad. CNN analysis shows that car was also a Toyota Corolla -- a common car in Kabul, and the same make as the car Ahmadi drove. ISIS claimed responsibility for a foiled rocket attack on Kabul's international airport.Kabul is now run by the Taliban, enemies of terrorist organization ISIS-K. A Taliban spokesperson told CNN Friday they did not believe Ahmadi's family was associated with ISIS-K and were not investigating the incident. Shoaib Haider, a judge who is also Ahmadi's second cousin, wants the strike to be investigated as a potential US war crime. "We hope the United Nations and human rights supporters will carry out an assessment of such incidents, so that tragic incidents like this one, in which innocent children and members of a family were eliminated (do not happen) in the future," he said. Emal Ahmadi, one of Ahmadi's brothers, and the father of Malika, a 2-year-old who died in the attack, called the US "traitors." Emal previously worked for a US company and had been in the process of applying for a visa to the US, he said. "(The US) should investigate and then target," he said. "How did you know from the sky what is here? There were children in and around the car and you targeted them. Isn't it a crime?"The law around drone strikes is complicated, and full transparency is not always possible, said Gloria Gaggioli, the director of the Geneva Academy on International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. "It does not mean that a complete lack of accountability is acceptable," she said. William Boothby, an international humanitarian law expert who wrote a book on the law of targeting, said states are required to do all that was feasible to verify the status of their target as lawful. But failing to take proper precautions isn't a war crime under the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court -- and regardless, the US isn't a party to the statute, Boothby said. "There were children in and around the car and you targeted them. Isn't it a crime?"Emal Ahmadi Victim's father But while the strike might not be illegal, it raises moral questions. The US has previously shown a "level of negligence" in distinguishing civilians from targets, and was often slow to admit to civilian casualties or pay compensation, Castner said. With the US pulling out of Afghanistan, strikes with less intelligence could happen more often, he cautioned."In some ways it's more of the same, and in some ways, it's going to be even more so lack of oversight, challenges with intelligence, and more of these cases where they may or may not have hit the right thing," Castner said. It's been two weeks since the attack, and Ahmadi's family is still struggling to comprehend the loss of loved ones. Some also lost a potential pathway out of Afghanistan; the family had made multiple applications for US visas between them, including applications in the names of Zamarai Ahmadi and Naser Haidari. The family now fears any perceived link to ISIS-K could expose them to danger from the Taliban. NEI worries the US has made their colleagues even greater targets, and wants the US to help evacuate and resettle them. Samia, who lost her fiance, father, and three of her brothers in the blast, feels she has no one left in Afghanistan. "(My fiance) always said to me that he would get us out of here. Now, the US should get us out of here," she said.Written and produced by Julia HollingsworthReporting by Sandi Sidhu, Julia Hollingsworth and Anna Coren in Hong Kong; Abdul Basir Bina in Istanbul, Turkey; Ahmet Mengli in Kabul, Afghanistan Edited by Hilary WhitemanGraphics by Henrik Pettersson and Natalie LeungVideo editing by Zane Hosgood

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Story highlightsManchester United score convincing 3-0 win at Newcastle Victory moves them to second in EPL behind ChelseaSpurs secure fourth straight win to beat Aston Villa 2-0 Juventus extend unbeaten run to lead Serie AManchester United moved into second spot in the English Premier League with a convincing 3-0 win at Newcastle Sunday.United have moved above local rivals Manchester City on goal difference, but both trail pacesetters Chelsea by four points after seven games.Alex Ferguson's men responded to their shock 3-2 home defeat last weekend to Tottenham Hotspur with a fine performance against north-east hopefuls Newcastle.Early goals from defenders Jonny Evans and Patrice Evra put them firmly in command before young England international Tom Cleverley wrapped up the three points with a brilliant strike after the break.It was his first English Premier League goal.Wayne Rooney, who set up the two opening goals from corners and was named man of the match, said United were delighted with their display."It was a great result, everyone knows this is one of the hardest games of the season and we came away and defended brilliantly," he told Sky Sports.Tottenham, improving fast under new manager Andre Villas-Boas, built on their success at Old Trafford with a 2-0 home win over struggling Aston Villa.Villas-Boas ended American goalkeeper Brad Freidel's run of 310 straight league games by selecting French international signing Hugo Lloris.A mistake by Lloris nearly let in Villa for the opener in the second half but shortly afterwards Steven Caulker deflected home a Jermain Defoe shot.Aaron Lennon sealed a win which lifts Tottenham to fifth, five points adrift of Chelsea, with a surging run and shot on 67 minutes.Elsewhere, Liverpool's disappointing start to the season continued as they were held goalless at Anfield by Stoke, while Southampton and Fulham drew 2-2.In Serie A, Juventus extended their unbeaten run to 47 games with a 2-1 away win at Siena.The Turin side were boosted by the news Friday that their coach Antonio Conte could return to their bench in December and the victory kept them ahead of Napoli, later 2-1 winners at home to Udinese, on goal difference.Andre Pirlo put them ahead after 14 minutes but Emanuele Calaio equalized after the break for the home side.Midfielder Claudio Marchisio volleyed a superb winner in the 85th minute for Juve.A third minute goal for Inter's Walter Samuel settled the Milan derby in the San Siro as they beat Milan 1-0.Lazio also stayed in early title contention as Miroslav Klose scord twice in a 3-0 win over Pescara.Reigning Bundesliga champions Borussia Dortmund lost more ground on runaway leaders Bayern Munich when they were held 1-1 at Hanover after Robert Lewandowski had given them a 26th minute lead.Second placed Eintracht Frankfurt suffered their first defeat of the season, beaten 2-0 at Borussia Moenchengladbach.

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Story highlightsGunmen storm satirical magazine's office in Paris, officials sayCharlie Hebdo has courted controversy before with satirical takes on religious extremismMagazine's offices were burned down in 2011 after it published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammed (CNN)Charlie Hebdo, the French magazine targeted by gunmen who killed journalists and police in a brazen lunchtime attack Wednesday, is no stranger to controversy. The Paris-based weekly satirical publication, which was founded in 1970, became famous for its risqué cartoons and daring takedowns of politicians, public figures and religious symbols of all faiths. And although the motive behind Wednesday's massacre is not yet clear, Charlie Hebdo's notorious cartoons satirizing the Prophet Mohammed in recent years have angered some Muslims and made it a target for attacks."Everybody knows them when you work in journalism," said Marie Turcan, a journalist who was just 200 meters from Charlie Hebdo's central Paris office when the shooting began. "They have marked French journalism forever with their drawings and their cover stories."A reputation for controversyRead MoreIn November 2011 Charlie Hebdo's office was burned down on the same day the magazine was due to release an issue with a cover that appeared to poke fun at Islamic law. The cover cartoon depicted a bearded and turbaned cartoon figure of the Prophet Mohammed with a bubble saying, "100 lashes if you're not dying of laughter."JUST WATCHEDVideos show Paris gunmen on attackReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHVideos show Paris gunmen on attack 01:37In September 2012, despite the ongoing global furor over the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims," the magazine published an issue featuring a cartoon that appeared to depict a naked Mohammed, along with a cover that appeared to depict Mohammed being pushed in a wheelchair by an Orthodox Jew. French and American officials expressed dismay with the decision, and France closed embassies and schools in about 20 countries temporarily as a precaution. Charlie Hebdo journalist Laurent Leger defended the magazine at the time, saying the cartoons were not intended to provoke anger or violence."The aim is to laugh," Leger told BFM-TV in 2012. "We want to laugh at the extremists -- every extremist. They can be Muslim, Jewish, Catholic. Everyone can be religious, but extremist thoughts and acts we cannot accept.""In France, we always have the right to write and draw. And if some people are not happy with this, they can sue us and we can defend ourselves. That's democracy," Leger said. "You don't throw bombs, you discuss, you debate. But you don't act violently. We have to stand and resist pressure from extremism."Massacre at editorial meetingJUST WATCHEDEditor in 2012: 'Disarm with humor'ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHEditor in 2012: 'Disarm with humor' 00:35Charlie Hebdo's last tweet before Wednesday's attack featured a cartoon of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seemingly sending out his wishes for the new year with the words "And, above all, health." Police surveillance had reportedly been fairly tight around the magazine's office until recently, and there had been 24-hour surveillance of the premises before that, according to CNN's Jim Bittermann in Paris. Bittermann said the staff of Charlie Hebdo, which publishes weekly on Wednesday, were in their lunchtime editorial meeting when the gunmen stormed the building.Among the dead are editor Stephane "Charb" Charbonnier along with Georges Wolinski, Jean "Cabu" Cabut and Bernard Verlhac, known as "Tignous" -- some of France's "most talented cartoonists," according to French journalist Agnes C. Poirier. Christopher Dickey, the Paris-based foreign editor of The Daily Beast, said Charlie Hebdo is a small publication that packs a big punch."It doesn't have a huge readership, but it has always had a very controversial approach to the news," Dickey told CNN. "To see it silenced this way, especially after it survived a firebombing of its headquarters three years ago, is really reprehensible."Thousands of people took to social media in the attack's aftermath to express solidarity with Charlie Hebdo, posting images with the words "Je Suis Charlie" in white on a black background, or paying tributes to the magazine on Twitter using the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag.The US Embassy in France (@USEmbassyFrance) has changed its Twitter pic to the #JeSuisCharlie image pic.twitter.com/afvSJT8jma— Elena Cresci (@elenacresci) January 7, 2015 Some considered cartoons blasphemousAny depiction of Islam's prophet is considered blasphemy by many Muslims. France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, with an estimated 4.7 million followers of the faith. France, which is known for its stark separation of church and state, angered some Muslims in 2011 when it banned full-face Islamic veils like the burqa, claiming they were degrading and a security risk.Charlie Hebdo is far from the only publication whose depiction of Mohammed sparked controversy. Newspapers in Norway and Denmark prompted furious demonstrations around the world in 2005 when they ran Mohammed cartoons. Several cartoonists were attacked in the fallout of that controversy. Sweden's Lars Vilks got death threats after drawing Mohammed with the body of a dog. And a man tried to break into Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard's house after he portrayed Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb.Hollande reactsOn Wednesday, French President Francois Hollande reacted to the news: "France is today facing a shock, the shock a of a terror attack, because this is a terrorist attack without a doubt, against a publication that was threatened several times and that was protected.""In these moments we have to form a block to show we are a united country. We know how to react appropriately, with firmness, but always with the concern for national unity."

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(CNN)Lyra McKee, the young investigative journalist shot dead during violence in Northern Ireland on Thursday, had been widely viewed as a rising star within the industry.McKee's reporting and writing, inextricably linked to the volatile period of history in which she grew up, had led to international recognition and a high-profile book deal. "McKee's passion is to dig into topics that others don't care about," Forbes magazine wrote in 2016, naming the journalist as one of the "30 Under 30" talents to watch in the media.Laura Hassan, editorial director at Faber & Faber, said McKee had a "knack of engaging the head and the heart" when announcing the publisher's two-book deal with the writer in April 2018. "I think Lyra McKee has a long and prestigious writing career ahead of her," Hassan added at the time.29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee shot dead in Northern Ireland violenceMcKee, who was 29, dedicated herself to journalism aged 14, starting a newspaper while still at school in Belfast. Her work as an investigative reporter explored the aftermath of The Troubles, the decades-long conflict between Irish nationalists and British unionists in Northern Ireland that left more than 3,500 people dead. Read MoreThe reverberations of the sectarian struggle was the setting for McKee's murder in Londonderry, also known as Derry.McKee had an affection for the region she frequently covered, referring to it in a TEDx talk as "Legend-derry." "Avoid that Londonderry/Derry thing. I hate that," she added.McKee was eight years old when the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 was signed. The pact was a turning point, intended to end years of bloodletting in the region."We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, spared from the horrors of war," McKee wrote in a piece published in The Atlantic in 2016. "But still, the aftereffects of those horrors seemed to follow us."On Good Friday, McKee's friends and former colleagues woke to news that she had been killed. "Her death is a major loss to journalism," the National Union of Journalists said in a statement.'You'll have found your calling'McKee received global acclaim for her writing in 2014, when a letter she addressed to her younger self went viral.Discussing her experience growing up gay and closeted at school, McKee wrote: "Life is so hard right now. Every day, you wake up wondering who else will find out your secret and hate you.""It's going to be okay," she added.In the same letter, later made into a short film, McKee described her passion for writing that blossomed at an early age and gained her a role on a training scheme for journalists at the age of 15."For the first time in your life, you will feel like you're good at something useful," she wrote. "You'll have found your calling." "You'll meet amazing people. And when the bad times come again -- FYI, your first girlfriend is not 'the one' and you will screw up that History exam -- it will be journalism that helps you soldier on."In a letter to her 14-year-old self, McKee described journalism as her "calling."Having left university before completing her degree, she created and ran the online-based "Muckraker Report" website which gave her a platform to research and write months-long investigative pieces.Her first story for the publication, published when she was 23, explored Northern Ireland's only rape crisis center and its battle to regain funding that had been cut years before. McKee spent five years working on the investigation, she told Ireland-based analytics group Insight News Lab in 2013. "There are wrongs you cannot fix," she said about the story. "As a younger reporter, I found this so hard to stomach. For me, journalism was about saving the world; if I told the terrible stories, someone would have to do something about them. Someone would sit up and notice."'She tirelessly pursued the truth'The following year, McKee's open letter letter was published -- and greater opportunities swiftly followed.McKee went on to write for publications including the Belfast Telegraph, BuzzFeed, Mosaic Science and Private Eye, frequently exploring the legacy of The Troubles amongst her own generation.She became an editor for Mediagazer, a US-based site that collates media news reports. "Police have named Lyra as the victim. Making this the hardest and saddest headline we've ever written," wrote Gabe Rivera of the site on Friday morning, sharing a report about her death.An investigation into suicide rates among the "Ceasefire babies" -- her generation in Northern Ireland born or raised immediately after the Good Friday Agreement -- was written for Mosaic Science and re-published by The Atlantic.McKee was also interviewed about her upbringing by the Irish Times in 2017, and earlier this year the same publication named her one of the 10 rising stars of Irish writing.McKee crowdfunded her first book, "Angels With Blue Faces," an exploration of the 1981 murder of Belfast politician Reverend Robert Bradford by the Provisional Irish Republican Army."I met Lyra many years ago as a young, determined and ambitious budding reporter," said Tina Calder, owner of Excalibur Press, which worked with her on publishing the book. "Her tenacity, determination, ambition and empathy made her an amazing young reporter and investigative writer ... For years she tirelessly pursued the truth."That book brought her to the attention of large publishers, and in 2018, McKee was signed for two books by Faber & Faber. The first of those works, "The Lost Boys," was due to be published in 2020, and is set to document the stories of eight boys who went missing in Belfast during The Troubles.McKee's rising profile as a freelance journalist and writer also earned her a platform to press for greater acceptance of LGBT people within religious communities.McKee talks at the TEDxStormont Women event in 2017.At a TEDx talk in 2017 about the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, McKee urged for a change in religious teaching on LGBT issues."I hated myself for much of my life because of what religion taught me about people like me," she said."We need to do to one thing that I didn't want to do when I left school at 16 -- we need to have conversations ... and fight for the hearts and minds of those who oppose us."'A bright light has been quenched' Shortly before her death, McKee tweeted: "Derry tonight. Absolute madness," alongside an image of police vehicles and rising smoke in the distance.McKee was described as "a journalist of courage, style and integrity" by Séamus Dooley, the assistant general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, to which the writer belonged."She was a woman of great commitment and passion. I have no doubt that it was that commitment which led to her presence on the streets of the Creggan last night, observing a riot situation in the city," Dooley added. "She had tweeted just minutes before being hit by a bullet."A journalist has been killed covering riots in Derry. Her name was Lyra McKee. She was 29. She recently signed a two-book deal with Faber, who called her a "rising star of investigative journalism". This is her last tweet, sent from the scene of the unrest. pic.twitter.com/0gk1Fa7Du0— Naomi O'Leary (@NaomiOhReally) April 19, 2019 "A young, vibrant life has been destroyed in a senseless act of violence," added the NUJ's general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet. "Our thoughts are with her partner, family and many friends and colleagues. A bright light has been quenched and that plunges all of us in to darkness."Lilly Dancyger, who edited a piece by McKee for Narratively, said she "was dedicated to covering the lasting trauma & violence of the Troubles. Devastating to hear she was killed tonight by that same violence."Next month, McKee had been due to speak at an event to mark World Press Freedom Day, hosted by Amnesty International, about the murder of journalist Marie Colvin, the NUJ said.Technology journalist and friend of McKee, Matthew Hughes, described her death as "heartbreaking" on Twitter."She was one of my closest friends. She was my mentor. She was a groomswoman at my wedding," he wrote. "I can't imagine life without her, and yet now I must. I'm devastated."Several politicians also expressed their condolences, and a GoFundMe page was set up in memory of McKee, raising more than £15,000 ($19,500) in a matter of hours.Many who knew her also urged police to identify her killer."She was shot and killed by a cowardly masked gunman who was intent on ending life," Calder of Excalibur Press said. "Someone in the community knows who lifted that gun, who wore the mask, someone knows who did this. It's time to bring them to justice.""The new Northern Ireland, of which Lyra was a shining light, does not want violence and destruction," Calder added. "It's time to stand up to those who continue to bring us to our knees in grief. It's time to show them they are no longer in charge."

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Story highlightsLatest in a string of high-profile transfers made by Chinese Super League teamsAtletico Madrid striker signed to a four-year contract (CNN)China's effort to become a football powerhouse has reached a new level.On Wednesday, its premier club Guangzhou Evergrande paid $45.8 million to sign Atletico Madrid striker Jackson Martinez -- a record transfer price for the burgeoning Chinese Super League.Martinez, a 29-year-old Colombia international, was signed to a four-year contract and will begin training with the club next week in Dubai.JUST WATCHEDChina's goal of world soccer dominationReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHChina's goal of world soccer domination 02:16The deal, which Evergrande announced via Twitter, is the latest in a string of high-profile transfers made by CSL teams in recent weeks.READ: China's million-dollar dream of soccer world dominationRead MoreJiangsu Suning FC recently signed 28-year-old Brazil international Ramires from Chelsea for a reported $28.5 million, while Shanghai Greenland Shenhua signed Colombian star Fredy Guarin from Inter Milan for a reported $14 million.Last June, Evergrande also signed Brazilian star and former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Paulinho for $14 million.The high-profile and high-priced transfers signal that China is dedicated to making a name for itself on the global football stage.While Europe's transfer window shut on Monday, Chinese clubs can sign players until February 26.Martinez had a brief stint in Spain, scoring three goals in 15 appearances following his $38 million move from Porto in July 2015.He had been prolific in his three years in Portugal, netting 67 times in the top flight.Who was the best signing of the transfer window? Tell us on CNN FC's Facebook page Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?English Premier League clubs have spent more than £1 billion ($1.4 billion) on transfers in a season for the first time, new figures from Deloitte reveal. The last day of Europe's January transfer window -- this year it was February 1 -- is usually very hectic, but Monday's announcement that Pep Guardiola will take over from Manuel Pellegrini as Manchester City manager at the end of the 2015-16 season arguably trumped any of the player moves.Hide Caption 1 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Jackson Martinez (Atletico Madrid to Guangzhou Evergrande) $45.8 million – China's transfer window is open until February 26 -- which allowed Guangzhou Evergrande to smash the country's record fee by splashing out on the Colombia forward. The 29-year-old had struggled in Spain after his $38 million move in July 2015 from Porto, where he was a prolific goalscorer in three seasons with the Portuguese team.Hide Caption 2 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Gervinho (AS Roma to Hebei China Fortune) $18 million – The ex-Arsenal winger is one of several big signings by Chinese Super League clubs. The striker had resurrected his career in Italy's Serie A after a frustrating time in London, and helped the Ivory Coast win the 2015 African Cup of Nations.Hide Caption 3 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Ramires (Chelsea to Jiangsu Suning) $28 million – The Brazilian's deal shattered the Chinese transfer record. During his time at Stamford Bridge, Ramires made 251 appearances, scoring 34 goals, helping the club to win the English Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Champions League and Europa League. The dynamic midfielder will join up with former Blues defender Dan Petrescu, who manages Jiangsu Suning.READ: China's millon-dollar dream of soccer world dominationHide Caption 4 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Fredy Guarin (Inter Milan to Shanghai Greenland Shenhua) $13 million – The Colombia midfielder also joined the Chinese revolution, having scored six goals in 28 Serie A games last season. The former Porto player signed for a club that previously made marquee signings of Nicolas Anelka and Didier Drogba from Chelsea.Hide Caption 5 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Alexandre Pato (Corinthians to Chelsea) Loan – Still just 26, Pato was once the most exciting Brazilian wonderkid on the conveyor belt, but his initial promise has been marred by a succession of injuries. Chelsea fans will hope the former AC Milan striker can replicate the form that netted him 10 goals in 27 international appearances -- though they could be forgiven for worrying he will repeat the struggles of Radamel Falcao at Stamford Bridge.Hide Caption 6 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Stephan El Shaarawy (AC Milan to Roma) Loan – The 23-year-old, seeking to win back his Italy place ahead of Euro 2016, returned to Serie A on a $2 million loan deal with an option to join Roma permanently for a further fee of $14.2 million. His season-long loan at Monaco was cut short when French club decided not to seek a permanent deal. Hide Caption 7 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Mohamed Elneny (Basel to Arsenal) $10.7m – The 23-year-old is the first senior outfield player to sign for Arsenal since Gabriel Paulista in January 2015. He won three Swiss Super League titles with FC Basel, and has 39 caps for Egypt. The defensive midfielder made more passes than anyone on the pitch during his Arsenal debut against Burnley. Hide Caption 8 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea City to Newcastle) $16 million – Precociously talented, naggingly inconsistent, the 23-year-old England international has switched Premier League teams with his best years ahead of him, but opinion divided. He initially impressed at the Welsh club following his 2013 move from Liverpool, but was a peripheral figure in midfield this season.Hide Caption 9 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Andros Townsend (Tottenham to Newcastle) $17.1 million – Hoping to regain his England place for Euro 2016, the winger has ended a 16-year stay at Tottenham, where he had been a fringe player this season after an argument with the team's fitness coach in November. Hide Caption 10 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Alberto Paloschi (Chievo to Swansea City) $11.4 million – The former Italy under-21 and AC Milan striker provides some much-needed firepower for a Swansea team seeking to stay in the EPL. Now 26, he has reunited with his former Parma coach Francesco Guidolin in Wales.Hide Caption 11 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Seydou Doumbia (Roma to Newcastle) Loan – The dynamic Ivory Coast international will hope to end struggling Newcastle's search for a top goalscorer. Though he was loaned back to CSKA Moscow after failing to impress in Serie A, his record in Russia -- 66 goals in 108 league games over two spells -- shows his pedigree. Doumbia's career goals-per-game ratio in the Champions League -- netting 16 times in 22 matches -- puts him up there with greats like Gerd Müller, Ferenc Puskás, Lionel Messi and Eusébio in Europe's top club competition.Hide Caption 12 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Emmanuel Adebayor (Unattached to Crystal Palace) Free – Crystal Palace signed a player with undoubted Premier League pedigree, albeit one who hasn't quite lived up to his promise. If manager Alan Pardew can get the best out of Togo's ex-Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester City striker, the ambitious London side might challenge for a European place after falling off the pace in recent weeks. Hide Caption 13 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Marko Grujic (Red Star Belgrade to Liverpool) $7.4 million – Jürgen Klopp's first signing as Liverpool manager, the 19-year-old is a FIFA Under-20 World Cup winner and has scored five goals in 22 games for Serbian Super Liga leader Red Star Belgrade this season. The Serbian midfielder was also wanted by Anderlecht and Stuttgart but agreed a four-year contract, and returned to Red Star until July 1.Hide Caption 14 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Timm Klose (Wolfsburg to Norwich) $12 million – Having struggled to win a regular place at the German club, the Switzerland center-back, 27, has been given a chance to impress in the team with the second-worst defensive record in the English Premier League. Hide Caption 15 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Charlie Austin (Queens Park Rangers to Southampton) $5.1 million – The English striker joined Southampton in a cut-price deal, having scored 18 goals in his maiden Premier League campaign last season for relegated QPR -- which has now cashed in before his contract expired. The former bricklayer netted the winner against Manchester United on his Saints debut. Hide Caption 16 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Benik Afobe (Wolves to Bournemouth) $13.6 million – The former England U21 international boosts the striking options of Eddie Howe's Bournemouth side, after the impressive Callum Wilson was ruled out with a cruciate ligament injury in September. The ex-Arsenal scored 23 goals in 48 appearances for second tier Wolverhampton following his permanent move from the Gunners in January 2015, and has netted twice in his first three games for the Cherries.Hide Caption 17 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Henri Saivet (Bordeaux to Newcastle) $6.1 million – Steve McClaren boosted his midfield options with the signing of the versatile 25-year-old. A major player for France from under-16 to under-21 level, he then chose to play for Senegal and appeared at the 2015 African Cup of Nations.Hide Caption 18 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Juan Iturbe (Roma to Bournemouth) Loan – The latest in a long line of touted heirs to Lionel Messi's footballing throne, the diminutive Argentine winger moved from Hellas Verona to Roma for $25 million in 2014. Having been largely used as a substitute by the Serie A side in recent months, the 22-year-old arrived at the English Premier League club with a point to prove.Hide Caption 19 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Nordin Amrabat (Malaga to Watford) $8.3 million – The 28-year-old played at top clubs such as PSV Eindhoven and Galatasaray before moving to Malaga in Spain and now Watford, one of the surprise teams in the English Premier League. Capped at under-21 level by the Netherlands, the striker has since played senior international football for Morocco, winning 23 caps. Hide Caption 20 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Steven Naismith (Everton to Norwich) $12 million – The Scotland forward scored 25 goals in 123 appearances for the Toffees -- including a memorable hat-trick against José Mourinho's Chelsea this season. The former Rangers striker netted on his Norwich debut in a 5-4 defeat against Liverpool as he bids to help the club avoid an immediate return to England's second tier.Read more: Naismith's charitable deedsHide Caption 21 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Steven Caulker (Queens Park Rangers to Liverpool) Loan – Liverpool signed the 24-year-old center-back after a series of injury setbacks in defensive areas. The one-cap England international spent the first half of the season on loan at Southampton, having previously played in the EPL with Tottenham, Swansea and QPR. Hide Caption 22 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Victor Valdés (Manchester United to Standard Liege) Loan – Having been frozen out by United manager Louis van Gaal, the former Barcelona keeper is hoping to revive his career in Belgium. The three-time Champions League winner will be relieved to be playing again, after what he called "eight months alone" at Old Trafford.Hide Caption 23 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Emmanuel Emenike (West Ham to Fenerbahce) Loan – Seeking to qualify for next season's Champions League, West Ham manager Slaven Bilic bolstered his forward options by signing the powerful Nigeria international, with an option for a permanent deal.Hide Caption 24 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Éder (Sampdoria to Inter Milan) Two-year loan – The Brazil-born Italy international striker has scored 12 Serie A goals this season; only Napoli's Gonzalo Higuain has more. The 29-year-old's loan deal came with a fee of $2 million. Hide Caption 25 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Giannelli Imbula (FC Porto to Stoke City) $26.3million – Imbula, pictured vying with Ramires, became Stoke City's record signing -- joining the EPL team for $26.3m. The 23-year-old midfielder put pen to paper on a five-and-a-half year contract, having only joined Porto seven months ago from Marseille. "I would say he is a Patrick Viera type ... a real driving force in there and perfect for the Premier League," said Stoke's Charlie Adam. Hide Caption 26 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Leroy Fer (Queen's Park Rangers to Swansea City) Loan – The Dutch international midfielder joined the Swans on deadline day from Championship club, QPR. Fer has previously played for Norwich City, as well as Eredivisie sides FC Twente and Feyenoord. Though he's twice faced relegation from the Premier League, Swans fan will be hoping the 26-year-old can boost their goal threat given the South Wales club are the second lowest scorers in the league this season. Hide Caption 27 of 28 Photos: Who's moving where in the football world?Oumar Niasse (Lokomotiv Moscow to Everton) $19.4 million – Everton moved to replace the departing Steven Naismith with Senegal forward Oumar Niasse. Niasse, 25, scored 13 in 23 appearances this season before the move, and was enthused by the prospect of playing under the Everton manager, Roberto Martinez. "I was interested to see how they play," said Niasse. "If you see players who are aged 20 or 21 and see them perform like that, you know you have a good coach."Hide Caption 28 of 28

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(CNN)A contentious decision from the US Supreme Court in a Voting Rights Act case from Alabama this week previewed what could be a momentous legal battle over the 1965 law, which over the past several years has been repeatedly whittled down by the conservative justices. After lower courts ordered Alabama to redraw a congressional map that they found diluted the strength of Black voters, the state turned to the Supreme Court with aggressive arguments about the reach of the historic law. Alabama secured a 5-4 ruling on Monday night that will reinstate the disputed map for this year's election. The assertions by Alabama about the role race should play in redistricting are just one of several claims being made by states defending their maps in court that would scale back the scope of the Voting Rights Act -- as Republican-controlled states move to adopt new voting restrictions in key battlegrounds. Some of the GOP states' arguments appear to go beyond even what a 6-3 conservative court would be willing to sanction. At stake is the role that a provision of the law known as Section 2 will play in combating racially discriminatory maps going forward. The provision prohibits voting procedures "not equally open to participation by members" of a protected class, like racial minorities, and it has been used to strike down maps said to dilute the power of voters of colors. In response to lawsuits filed in various GOP-led states challenging their maps under Section 2, the states have made a litany of arguments that would limit the use of the Voting Rights Act in redistricting cases."Republicans are in a mood where they want to throw mud at the wall," said Michael Li, a senior counsel for the Democracy Program at the liberal-leaning Brennan Center. Read MoreThe Supreme Court did not formally endorse Alabama's claims. Some justices said their votes were driven by how redrawing the map would disrupt Alabama's election planning."The court took pains to say that this was not a ruling on the merits, so we will take them at their word," former Attorney General Eric Holder, now the head of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, told reporters Thursday. "We will use Section 2 of the Act in other parts of the country." Still, even the sole conservative justice to dissent from the move, Chief Justice John Roberts, referenced a "wide range of uncertainties" that have arisen in how courts should approach vote dilution claims brought under the Voting Rights Act. Supreme Court rulings that soften the punch of the act in redistricting could decrease the number of representatives of color in Congress and state legislatures, legal experts say. However, some conservatives have argued that the political shifts in who is electing minority candidates -- with White voters helping to propel several people of color to Congress -- will minimize the impact of such a change in the law. "This notion that somehow you have to have a majority Black district to elect a Black representative was probably substantially more true in 1965 than it is in 2022," said Jason Torchinsky, a Republican election lawyer. What role should race play in redistricting Voting Rights Act compliance? The arguments Alabama is making are focused on the technical process that courts use to review Voting Rights Act redistricting claims, but they get at the heart of how race should be used as a corrective under the law. If Alabama can convince the Supreme Court to turn away from race consciousness that has historically been deployed in Voting Rights Act vote dilution cases, it will make those cases more difficult for minority voters to bring. "This comes down to the question of the role of race in drawing districts," Ben Ginsberg, a former Republican redistricting lawyer, told CNN. Under a 1986 Supreme Court precedent in the case Thornburg v. Gingles, redistricting challenges brought under the Voting Rights Act must pass what's commonly known as the Gingles test to get courts to strike down a map. According to the test's first prong, the challengers must prove that there is a relatively compact community of minority voters that could be drawn into a minority-majority district. The second two prongs have to do with racial polarization in voting: Does the minority population vote in a politically cohesive way? And does the racial majority vote as a bloc to defeat the minority voters' preferred candidates? The Alabama dispute before the Supreme Court targets the first prong, by digging into a tension between Voting Rights Act compliance and the Supreme Court rulings limiting the use of race in redistricting under the Constitution. "The court has made clear that partisan gerrymanders are not justiciable," Ginsberg said, referring to the Supreme Court's 2019 decision that said federal courts had no role in policing partisan gerrymanders. "If [the Alabama dispute] portends a race-blind Voting Rights Act, then that restraint on gerrymandering is gone. That would leave little but state law grounds to stop gerrymanderers from implementing their most creative thoughts." Alabama says that under the Voting Rights Act, states should be required to draw majority-minority districts only in circumstances where a race-blind approach to redistricting would have produced those districts. That means challengers could not use race over other redistricting criteria to prove that the first prong of the Gingles test could be met. "Alabama's proposal would turn the VRA into a race-blind statute that only looks into what this hypothetical race-blind process would produce," said Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a Harvard Law professor who specializes in election law. "And so the consequence would be just substantially less minority representation in America." The approach that Alabama is advocating "seems to be reverse-engineered to try to make it harder for plaintiffs to win these cases," said Rick Hasen, an election law professor at University of California-Irvine. Should the Voting Rights Act apply in redistricting? While Alabama is making complicated arguments to the Supreme Court about the technical approach to complying with the Voting Rights Act, Texas is shooting at the moon with its claims about the act's reach. The Lone Star State signaled in briefs filed in the Justice Department's redistricting case that Texas will argue to the Supreme Court that Section 2 of the act should not apply in redistricting. Texas already has Justice Clarence Thomas on its side with its claim, as he wrote in a 2017 concurrence and in other cases that he holds that view. That case was heard before former President Donald Trump's three appointees joined the court, so it is unclear whether any of them would join Thomas. Even if they did, that would still leave Texas one justice short of the five votes it would need for a ruling in favor such an argument. Part of what makes Texas' argument such a stretch is that it ignores the legislative history of the law, legal experts said. When Congress has renewed the Voting Rights Act in the past, its adjustments to Section 2 have been aimed at how courts should apply it in redistricting. "If Justice Thomas was right that Section 2 was never intended to apply to redistricting, Congress certainly seemed to think otherwise every time it renewed the act and tweaked the redistricting standards," Hasen said. Can private parties bring Voting Right Act claims? A similarly radical argument being made by Texas is that the law does not confer a so-called private cause of action. Texas made the claim in response to the redistricting lawsuit it faces from private civil rights groups challenging its maps. Alabama made the claim as well in earlier stages of its case, but it has abandoned the argument in its appeal to the Supreme Court. If that argument, which was also floated by Georgia in Voting Rights Act redistricting challenges brought there, were endorsed, it would mean that private individuals -- who currently bring the bulk of Section 2 case -- would no longer be able to file such challenges, leaving the law's enforcement to civil suits brought by the Justice Department. Texas and Alabama pointed to a line from Justice Neil Gorsuch's concurrence in the Supreme Court's most recent Voting Rights Act case, where he, joined by Thomas, said it was an "open question" whether such a private cause of action exists. Legal experts are deeply skeptical that the argument could gain traction with other justices, given that courts -- up to the Supreme Court -- have routinely heard privately brought Section 2 cases, including the case that produced the Gingles test."The idea that none of these lawsuits could ever have been brought because private plaintiffs can sue runs against, like literally, the entire history of Section 2," Stephanopoulos said. How should multi-ethnic coalitions configure into Voting Rights Act compliance? Unlike some of the other arguments put forward by GOP states, their claims about how multi-ethnic coalitions should be viewed under the Voting Rights Act would not require the Supreme Court to drastically shift its jurisprudence. States like Texas are arguing that their opponents' legal challenges should fail because the challengers are asking for minority-majority districts that would combine racial or ethnic minorities to reach a majority. Many lower courts have OK'd Voting Rights Act districts drawn with multi-ethnic coalitions, but some courts haven't. The Supreme Court hasn't yet confronted the question directly and if the justices rejected the use of multi-ethnic coalitions, the "Supreme Court wouldn't have to adopt total outlier position," Stephanopoulos said.In the Texas case, the state is claiming that the Voting Rights Act does not require Texas to create a minority-majority district by combining Black and Hispanic voters, as the challengers are seeking to do in the state.The impact of such a ruling would be less extreme than one that embraced GOP states' more sweeping arguments. Coalition districts are already tough to assemble under the Voting Rights Act because, under the Gingles test, those different ethnic groups must exhibit shared political preferences. "It's not like the court saying, 'You can't have the rainbow coalition,' would affect a lot of districts and would overturn existing understandings," Hasen said. "I think there's just an uncertainty about that."

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Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator, was a political consultant for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992 and served as a counselor to Clinton in the White House. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. View more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the nation's foremost experts on infectious diseases, has at long last reached the end of his rope. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was hectoring him in a congressional hearing, when he said, "You are the lead architect responsible from the government, and now 800,000 people have died." As Fauci began his response, stressing masks and vaccines for the umpteenth time, Paul interrupted, "and you have advocated to make it coercive and done by force, and you've advocated it be done by mandate."Paul BegalaRising to high moral dudgeon, Paul resorted to sarcasm: "You have advocated that your infallible opinion be dictated by law." Fauci had had enough. He put Paul's attacks into context -- and the context is dark."I have threats upon my life," he said. "Harassment of my family, and my children, with obscene phone calls because people are lying about me." Fauci then got into specifics, and they are chilling: "Just about three or four weeks ago, on December 21, a person was arrested who was on their way from Sacramento to Washington, DC at a speed stop in Iowa. And the police asked him where he was going. And he was going to Washington, DC to kill Dr. Fauci. And they found in his car an AR-15 and multiple magazines of ammunition, because he thinks that maybe I'm killing people."Read MoreNow we know the threat of physical violence is real. The Capitol itself was the scene of a violent and vicious attempted insurrection on January 6, 2021. Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot and grievously wounded by a gunman in 2017, and Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head at point blank range in 2011 by a man who murdered a federal judge and five others in the attack. JUST WATCHEDDr. Fauci: Rand Paul is making money 'by making me the villain'ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHDr. Fauci: Rand Paul is making money 'by making me the villain' 03:23But Fauci took it one step further on Wednesday, offering a theory behind Paul's attacks. He displayed screen shots he said were from one of Paul's political websites, seeking to raise campaign donations from his attacks on Fauci.Having been through more political song and dance than I care to recall, I think I can spot insincerity. Fauci's response, I believe, was real. It was raw. And it was righteous. Fauci is not infallible, but he is a dedicated public servant who has spent his long career trying to protect Americans from illness and death. He deserves tough questions, to be sure, and even criticism where warranted. But at a time when national security officials warn that, "We face an elevated threat from domestic violent extremists," Paul seems to have crossed a line.The fact the Rand Paul for Senate committee is raising money on a website called firefauci.org suggests that politics, rather than public health, might be part of the motivation of the junior senator from Kentucky.The Senate has always had demagogues, liars and outliers who go too far. Fauci's measured but heartfelt takedown should have been a Joseph Welch moment. Welch was the lawyer for the US Army when the notorious Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin was spreading hysterical chargers that communists had infiltrated the army, along with the State Department, Treasury and even the White House.When McCarthy impugned a young lawyer from Welch's firm, the soft-spoken, bespectacled Welch could take it no more. "Until this moment, senator," he said, "I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness." McCarthy was stunned into silence, as Welch continued, "Have you no sense of decency?"JUST WATCHEDSE Cupp blasts McCarthy's 'revenge plot on the popular kids'ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHSE Cupp blasts McCarthy's 'revenge plot on the popular kids' 05:06Welch's response broke the fever. Six months later, McCarthy was formally censured by his Senate colleagues 67-22. Half of the Republicans in the Senate voted to condemn their fellow Republican. Not now. Paul's rant against Fauci produced a strong and immediate condemnation from Democrat Chris Murphy of Connecticut. "Thank you, first of all, for what you do," he said. "You shouldn't have to put your life at risk.... And thank you for calling out this agenda for what it is: an attempt to score political points, to build a political power base around the denial of science and around personal attacks on you and your family."But where was the GOP condemnation of Paul? Nearly nonexistent.To his credit, though, Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah defended Fauci. "Some of what we do [in these hearings] is performing," he said, in an apparent reference to Paul's attack. "And some of what we do is to become informed."He went on to stress his appreciation for Fauci and the other scientists who were testifying. "I do want to point out how much I personally, and I believe the great majority of the people of our country respect you individually and professionally for the work that you do. You are scientists, not politicians. Nevertheless, you are being made subject to the political whims of various political individuals, and that comes at a high cost." Get our free weekly newsletterSign up for CNN Opinion's newsletter.Join us on Twitter and FacebookTwo cheers for Romney for defending Fauci and for labeling the attacks on him as political. But I do wish he had followed through and condemned his GOP colleague the way Republicans condemned McCarthy decades ago. Perhaps that's too much to ask in these hyper-partisan times. Perhaps Romney has assessed that condemning Paul might have opposite effect of the censure of McCarthy; that if he were to condemn Paul the result would be a diminution of Romney's political strength within the Trumpified GOP, while strengthening Paul even more.That is a depressing thought, but likely accurate. So long as there is money to be raised, clicks to be earned, votes to be gained, we can expect power-hungry politicians to, well, be reckless and dangerous -- even during a deadly pandemic. It seems that political decency is not as contagious as Omicron.

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Story highlightsCartoonists pay tribute to those killed at the Charlie Hebdo office Wednesday9 journalists were among 12 people killed in attack at French satirical magazine (CNN)The voices of some of France's best satirists went silent when masked gunmen stormed the office of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.Now, cartoonists around the world are breaking out their pens and brushes to pay tribute to the victims of the attack at the Paris magazine.We're compiling some of the best ones we've come across here -- if you've seen one you think we should put up, let us know in the comments. And click here to see more cartoons from our staff and readers.Can't sleep tonight, thoughts with my French cartooning colleagues, their families and loved ones #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/LqIMRCHPgK— David Pope (@davpope) January 7, 2015 The letter from The Independent's Deputy Editor: In solidarity with #CharlieHebdo http://t.co/i6xl68x2lw pic.twitter.com/3FYgFZSX72— The Independent (@Independent) January 8, 2015 Where's the trigger? @Newsday cartoonist @MatttDavies on "mind-numbing" tragedy http://t.co/l95XbVN1Hw #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/XAXJ20Weat— Newsday Opinion (@NewsdayOpinion) January 7, 2015 IN MEMORY OF MY COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS FROM CHARLIE HEBDO, a cartoon for the International New York Times pic.twitter.com/2v21S7ZmGJ— Chappatte Cartoons (@PatChappatte) January 7, 2015 #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/15O4YC2KWg— Ruben L. Oppenheimer (@RLOppenheimer) January 7, 2015 Steve Bell on the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris -- cartoon http://t.co/OOeHzfmkm4 pic.twitter.com/oqIX7N88OF— The Guardian (@guardian) January 7, 2015 Tomorrow's Matt cartoon http://t.co/szamuAE0Ps #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/xgXACgXzLB— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) January 7, 2015 De tout coeur avec Charlie Hebdo. pic.twitter.com/8KwTipn3Wp— PLANTU (@plantu) January 7, 2015 #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/ay6ugiyvnd— -Boulet- (@Bouletcorp) January 7, 2015 Charlie Hebdo. Nooit opzij. pic.twitter.com/MJwGKPQ8jU— Joep Bertrams (@joepbertrams) January 7, 2015 Tomorrow's cartoon from @washingtonpost cartoonist Tom Toles: http://t.co/0Re1XCL3qs #CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/kgEG6ALrjF— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) January 7, 2015 A terrible day for all cartoonists. #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/Ksbl89WLsE— Magnus Shaw (@TheMagnusShaw) January 7, 2015 Cartoon: The scales of justice after Charlie Hebdo http://t.co/zIntQOJJN8 pic.twitter.com/gjynKI0pw5— Quartz India (@qzindia) January 8, 2015 Well, today's #doodleaday was a no-brainer... #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/2OMAyQIQ1o— Jamesuary (@RteeFufkin) January 7, 2015 Cartoon on #CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie #cdnpoli #cartoonists #nspoli pic.twitter.com/VvGDifANCV— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) January 7, 2015 Still mortified about our fallen cartoonist colleagues, but free speech will always win. #CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/GHejOEXHwG— Rob Tornoe (@RobTornoe) January 7, 2015 #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/jIBbrIShe8— Francisco J. Olea (@oleismos) January 7, 2015 I am devastated by what just happened in France. #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/IxEbScqYFh— jean jullien (@jean_jullien) January 7, 2015 La viñeta de hoy. Comparta y/o comente si quiere. #CharlieHebdo http://t.co/aj7Vbn3b6c pic.twitter.com/jtuiGf0Vnq— malaimagen (@malaimagen) January 7, 2015 Adieu Cabu, Wolinski, Tignous, Charb...le dessin de Zep. N'arrêtez jamais de dessiner. #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/F9KInDR8AL— Adeline Francois (@a2linefrancois) January 7, 2015 C'est un drame pour la France... #CharlieHebdo pic.twitter.com/lGfNUHfQIZ— Cyprien (@MonsieurDream) January 7, 2015 Please, RT! #CharlieHebdo attack has another victim! Via @MiddleEastMnt #ParisShooting pic.twitter.com/PNesB88POL— Carlos Latuff (@LatuffCartoons) January 7, 2015 Break one, thousand will rise #CharlieHebdo #JeSuisCharlie #raiseyourpencilforfreedom pic.twitter.com/3n5fOEmrwJ— Lucille Clerc (@LucilleClerc) January 7, 2015 The little weapon! #CharlieHebdo #cartoon pic.twitter.com/VFFZD2f8Rz— Satish Acharya (@satishacharya) January 7, 2015 #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/FPYIswn625— MacLeodCartoons (@MacLtoons) January 7, 2015 The Independent's cartoonist @DaveBrownToons on the #CharlieHebdo attack. #JeSuisCharlie http://t.co/BuHwpq0ykC pic.twitter.com/GFBj9nD35S— The Independent (@Independent) January 8, 2015 What a terribly sad day. #morintoon #jesuischarly #terrorInParis pic.twitter.com/JfLiGBBX00— Jim Morin (@MorinToon) January 7, 2015

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Story highlightsBen Curtis lands his first trophy for six years by winning the Valero Texas OpenThe 2003 British Open champ has only qualified for four PGA tournaments this yearHis last victory came in 2006 but he didn't record a single top ten finish in 2011Curtis wins by two shots from Matt Every and John Huh at the TPC San AntonioHe's a former British Open champion but Ben Curtis' fall from grace has been such that the Valero Texas Open was only the fourth tournament he'd scraped a place in this season.But after securing his first PGA Tour victory in six-years on Sunday, and scooping the $1.1 million prize pot, the 34-year-old can stop praying for the phone to ring to offer him a shot at redemption.His status had sunk to such an extent he had lost his Tour privileges but after holding his nerve over a tense few final holes, he secured a two-stroke victory over Matt Every and John Huh."It's been a tough couple of years," an emotional Curtis told the PGA Tour's official website. "Just played through it, that's all you can do."You think you're just staying positive and not worried about it, but I think deep down, you realize all the hard work you put in that, you know, finally paid off."Curtis was catapulted into the limelight when he won the first major tournament he competed in -- the 2003 Open at Royal St George's. It was the first time a player had won on a major debut in 90 years.He was named PGA Tour rookie of the year that same season, and four further victories followed up to 2006. But his form dipped and so began a drought that lasted 2,045 days.Last year, he failed to record a single top ten finish for the first time since he joined the Tour."That's a long time," he added. "The last couple of years I felt like I was so close to playing so many good tournaments. "I'd end up missing the cut by one or I'd have a bad round here or there or I haven't putted well. Finally, every part of the game came together."Curtis showed he still has the mettle required to get over the line in a dramatic final few holes. He saved par on the 17th hole with a nerveless 23-foot putt.Then on the final hole he rolled in a birdie putt to finish on nine-under and claim the tournament by two clear strokes."When you come out here and win one, well, if I win one every year I have a great career. That would be true," Curtis said. "But, you know, to get to three, four, five wins -- you're a solid player. I just feel like you get yourself into contention and just have that belief, and anything can happen."His victory secured Curtis a two-year Tour card and almost certainly means he will qualify for the lucrative FedExCup Playoffs at the end of the season.After restoring his pride, Curtis is determined to make the most of his reinstated privileges too, which means he can play in all but a few tournaments on the 2012 Tour.So where will he begin? "New Orleans next week," he replied.

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Moscow (CNN)At least one person has been killed after a gunman opened fire near the headquarters of Russia's main intelligence agency in Moscow, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported.At least five people were injured in the shooting near the Federal Security Service (FSB) building on Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health. Two FSB officers suffered severe injuries, the Ministry of Health said. One FSB officer was shot dead, RIA said, citing an FSB representative.Social media footage from the scene captured the sounds of gunshots and screams as people fled the area. Russian state TV channel Rossiya 24 said that the perpetrator had been "neutralized." Traffic in the area was blocked in the wake of the incident, according to the Center for Traffic Management (DPC).Russian police officers next to the FSB's office in Moscow.A police cordon remained in place after the shooting and emergency vehicles and cars were parked outside the FSB's headquarters.Read MoreThe FSB, which Russian President Vladimir Putin used to head, is the successor agency to the former Soviet Union's KGB.At the time of the shooting, Putin was giving a welcome speech at a concert nearby in honor of Russia's security service workers' day. Putin has been briefed on the incident, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the state-run news agency Tass. The FSB said it had "neutralized" the gunman who opened fire in central Moscow.According to Russia's Investigative Committee a criminal investigation into the incident has been opened, spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko told TASS.Gun laws in Russia are strict and mass shootings are a rare occurrence. While citizens can acquire firearms for hunting or sport, they are required to undergo a thorough background check in order to obtain a license.

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(CNN)A January 6 defendant pleaded guilty on Friday to bringing Molotov cocktails and an unlicensed gun to Capitol Hill on the day of the insurrection. Vietnam veteran and Alabama resident Lonnie Leroy Coffman's actions that day remain some of the most unsettling to come out of the investigations into the Capitol riot. On January 6, Coffman parked his truck -- which contained unregistered firearms, a crossbow, machetes, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a large capacity ammo clip and 11 Mason jars filled with gasoline and Styrofoam -- a few blocks from the Capitol. This photo from court filings by the DOJ, shows eleven mason jars and related items were parts designed to create a Molotov cocktails, a dangerous incendiary explosive, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms concluded.Photos of Coffman in the crowd at the Capitol were found by investigators and prosecutors say Coffman was living out of his truck for a week in Washington, DC.Officers found Coffman in possession of two unlicensed handguns during his arrest on January 6, according to court documents. Investigators found 12 additional Molotov cocktails at Coffman's home in Alabama which he also faced charges for. Read MoreA point of contention came during the hearing when Coffman said he created the Molotov cocktails found in his truck several years ago and said that the gasoline would no longer be able to catch fire. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she couldn't accept the plea offer if Coffman did not agree that the devices could function as Molotov cocktails."If you're not agreeing to it, I'm not accepting it," Kollar-Kotelly said of the plea agreement.Assistant US Attorney Michael Friedman argued that whether the "combination of parts was designed or intended" to be an incendiary device is what mattered for the agreement. Kollar-Kotelly, however, said that was not sufficient, adding, "I want to hear whether (Coffman) agrees" that the Mason jars could have functioned as Molotov cocktails. A courthouse sketch depicts Lonnie Leroy Coffman during his arraignment in January 2021.After speaking with his lawyer, Coffman told the judge that while he "did not plan any action with those things," he did know the jars "could have been used" as Molotov cocktails. Coffman also said he did not check to see if there was still gasoline in the jars and that they may have still been able act as incendiary devices.When asked by the judge, Friedman confirmed that a chemical analysis showed gasoline in the jars.Kollar-Kotelly, satisfied the government had proven the crimes laid out in the agreement, accepted Coffman's guilty pleas and set the sentencing hearing for April 1.

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Story highlightsPolice says suspect arrestedCNN affiliate says man worked at the retirement home years ago (CNN)A man suspected of carrying out a knife attack at a French retirement home for priests that left one person dead has been arrested, the Hérault region military police said.The man was arrested Friday evening in Saint-Mathieu-de-Tréviers, a town about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the retirement home.CNN affiliate BFMTV reported the suspect is a 42-year-old former paratrooper and father of two. He had worked at the retirement home many years ago, BFMTV reported.A 15-year-old pointed out the suspect to the authorities, after noticing he hid away anytime the police helicopter came around, BFMTV said.Montpellier prosecutor Christophe Barret told reporters that police had been called to the Maison des Chênes Verts in Montferrier-sur-Lez, near the city of Montpellier in the greater French province of Lyon, at 10:45 p.m. Thursday.Read More The alarm was raised by a nurse at the home who told police she had been tied up by a male attacker. She managed to free herself to make the call, Barret said.Officers discovered the body of a woman in the laundry room. She had been stabbed several times with a knife, the prosecutor said. Prosecutor: No known link to terrorismThe motivation for the attack is still unknown, but police have no reason to connect it to terrorism, the prosecutor said.Gendarmes stand guard on a road near a retirement home for priests in Montferrier-sur-Lez.Police found an air rifle in a bag in a car left near the building, he said, adding that it was "not a real weapon." Other items were found in the bag, but Barret said he was not at liberty to say what they were.French media reports have said the suspect was masked and armed with a sawed-off shotgun. The prosecutor did not confirm those details. The Society of African Missions, a Catholic missionary congregation that operates mostly in Africa, oversees the retirement home, where about 60 people live.None of the home's residents were hurt in the attack, Barret said. Most were still asleep as the police entered the building, a source close to the operation told CNN.Lack of security?French commercial radio station RTL interviewed a man who said he was the husband of the victim. The man, identified only as Georges, criticized a lack of security at the home, saying there was no alarm or guard on the door.He said his wife was a care worker in her 50s who worked the overnight shift. She was very kind, he said, adding that he was "destroyed" by her death."She had no problem with anyone, she was friendly to everyone and always helpful," he said.CNN's Emanuella Grinberg, Margot Haddad, Julia Jones, Vasco Cotovio and Radina Gigova contributed to this report.

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Story highlightsPop star responds to a prank by a Russian TV station that called him The caller pretended to be President Vladimir Putin discussing gay rights in Russia (CNN)Pranks may be for giggles. But gay rights -- not so much, Elton John says.The pop star responded to a prank by a Russian TV celebrity who called him this week pretending to be President Vladimir Putin."Pranks are funny. Homophobia, however is never funny," he said in a post Thursday. "I love Russia and my offer to talk to President Putin about LGBT rights still stands."The callDuring the prank call, the singer apparently thought he was chatting about gay rights with the Russian leader. Read MoreRussian state television broadcast excerpts from the phone call Wednesday night."Hello Sir Elton," a man claiming to be Putin says in the recording. "I was told that you wanted to discuss important problems of Russian reality."John purportedly responds that he's eager to meet in person. He later posted an Instagram message thanking Putin for the call. Man admits to prank A Russian TV personality known for his pranks later said he made the call -- not the Kremlin.Russian celebrity prankster Vladimir Krasnov described how he and his comedy sidekick pranked the British singer, playing the roles of Putin and a press secretary during the call.'Happy to be pranked'John said while the pair can brag about the gotcha moment, he is proud to be pranked if it sheds light on gay rights. "If this unfortunate incident has helped push this vital issue back into the spotlight, then I am happy to be pranked on this occasion," he said. While Putin's office has insisted it had no conversation with the pop star, it told state-run Sputnik News he would be open to meeting with John. Pranks are funny. Homophobia, however is never funny. I love Russia and my offer to talk to President Putin about LGBT rights still stands. I will always stand up for those that are being degraded and discriminated against. If this unfortunate incident has helped push this vital issue back into the spotlight, then I am happy to be pranked on this occasion. @ejaf @president_vladimir_putin #lgbt #lgbtrights #ShareTheLove A photo posted by Elton John (@eltonjohn) on Sep 17, 2015 at 3:10am PDT Human rights groups have criticized a Russian law passed two years ago that forbids discussion of gay issues near children. The prank came after John told the BBC that he'd like to meet Putin to discuss gay rights in Russia. Follow @faithcnn CNN's Catherine Shoichet and Jethron Mullen contributed to this report.

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(CNN)Australia's east coast was smashed by heavy rains on Saturday, sparking dangerous flash flooding that forced the evacuation of multiple regions as the fast-moving waters unmoored houses, engulfed roads, stranded towns and cut power lines.In Sydney, the country's biggest city, authorities pleaded for people to stay at home as a major dam overflowed and a mini-tornado tore through a western suburb.Most of the coast in the state of New South Wales (NSW), which is home to about a third of Australia's 25 million people, has already seen March rainfall records broken and authorities warned the downpour was likely to continue for several days."I hate to say this again to all our citizens of the state, but it's not going to be an easy week for us," NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told a televised briefing. "The rain may not stop till Thursday or Friday."Officials had issued nine evacuation orders for about 15 areas by Saturday afternoon.Read MoreTelevision footage showed increasing damage across the state, with water engulfing houses up to the windows, people kayaking through the streets, and damaged roads. One video showed an entire house being swept away. Local media reported that the house owners had managed to evacuate.Warragamba Dam, a major water supply for Sydney, began overflowing on Saturday afternoon. Officials warned that the overflow would quickly add to swollen rivers, leading to flash flooding.A mini-tornado ripped through a suburb in the west of the city, causing damage to more than 30 homes, knocking down trees and cutting power, emergency services said.People were urged to stay at home and avoid any non-essential trips, with officials lambasting those who had needed help after venturing out into the stormy weather.Emergency crews responded to about 4,000 calls for help over the past two days, including 500 direct flood rescues, a level NSW Emergency Services Minister David Elliott said was "just completely unacceptable.""The message is clear: do not walk through or drive through floodwaters, do not drive over water that is covering a road," Elliott said.Social and sporting events were called off across the state, including football games and one of Australian turf's marquee horse races, the $2.7 million Golden Slipper.The federal government said the extreme weather was affecting its Covid-19 vaccine delivery in Sydney and throughout the state, but delays should last only a few days.Australia plans to deliver the first vaccine doses to almost 6 million people over the next few weeks.

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Story highlightsLindsey Vonn brands Russian doping "just not acceptable"American ski great, 33, adds: "I'm not surprised unfortunately"Compatriot Mikaela Shiffrin calls win at all costs mentality "really sad"St. Moritz, Switzerland (CNN)It's been called an unprecedented attack on the integrity of the Olympic Games and sport, prompting the most wide-ranging punishment ever meted out to a participating nation.Now leading US skiers Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin have joined the chorus of those backing the International Olympic Committee's decision to ban the country from next year's Winter Olympics.Follow @cnnsport "Doping and what the Russians did is just not acceptable," Vonn, the most decorated American skier in history, told CNN's Alpine Edge. "We have to make that clear and make sure that it doesn't happen again.""I don't question the integrity of the Olympic Games as much as the specific nations that host the Games," said Shiffrin, referring to Russia, which staged the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014."If you're working with a nation who's willing to go to those ends to have a successful Olympics, that's really sad for me," added the 22-year-old Shiffrin, who is the Olympic slalom champion and winner of the last three slalom World Championships. Read More'Right thing'Having consistently denied the allegations of a state-backed doping campaign, Russia was banned from PyeongChang 2018 on Tuesday over the country's "systemic manipulation" of the rules, following a 17-month investigation carried out by the former president of Switzerland, Samuel Schmid.Russian athletes who can incontrovertibly prove that they are untainted by doping will be "invited" to compete at February's Winter Games but won't be allowed to display any national symbols -- something President Vladimir Putin has previously said would be an humiliation. They'll instead compete under the name "Olympic Athlete from Russia" (OAR), and the Olympic anthem will be played at any medal ceremonies for Russian athletes."I mean, if even a small percentage of that is true, I would think the IOC did the right thing," said Vonn, telling CNN she was "not surprised" to learn of the lengths Russia went to in pursuit of victory,"Obviously there are potential athletes that are clean but they have the option now to compete under a neutral flag, which I think is a good solution."JUST WATCHEDVonn: I won't represent Trump at Winter GamesReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHVonn: I won't represent Trump at Winter Games 01:11READ: Why Vonn won't be representing the US President at the Winter Olympics READ: Lindsey Vonn delves into fashion'Not about the medals'As the scandal rumbles on, the Oswald Commission -- headed by another Swiss, the IOC member Denis Oswald -- is dealing with the specific cases and determining sanctions against individual athletes.It has so far handed out lifetime bans to 25 Russian competitors since the start of November and stripped 11 medals, which means Russia has dropped from first in the Sochi medal table, to fourth behind Norway, Canada and the US. Richard McLaren, whose reports into Russian doping provided much of the basis for Tuesday's decision, told CNN that the scandal was a "sad commentary on sport," but added that he was pleased his work had been confirmed by the IOC.Putin spoke out against the ruling, telling reporters "it all looks like an absolutely staged and politically motivated decision."But for Vonn and Shiffrin, sport has always been about more than just winning and losing. "When you're dealing with corruption like that, you don't expect it but at the same time it's not surprising," said Vonn. "Some people would do anything to win medals and bring home gold for their country. There are rules for a reason and some people just don't want to follow them.""The premise of the Olympics is clean, friendly competition but intense and inspiring competition," said Shiffrin. "I mean I know it's about the medals but it's not about the medals in a way." Photos: Skiing's speed queenThe world's greatest female ski racer Lindsey Vonn has officially retired from the sport after her final race at the World Championships in Are. Here's a look back at her glittering career. Hide Caption 1 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenShe made her Olympic debut at Salt Lake City 2002 as a 17-year-old, finishing 32nd in slalom and sixth in the combined slalom/downhill event.Hide Caption 2 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenLindsey Kildow -- as she was then before marrying fellow skier Thomas Vonn -- won her first World Cup race with victory in the downhill at Lake Louise, Canada, in 2004.Hide Caption 3 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenIn 2005, Vonn signed with Red Bull and began working with a completely new coaching team. She seemed set for the start of something special. Hide Caption 4 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenAny momentum from the new deal was slowed during the 2006 Olympics in Italy, though. A fall in practice resulted in a short stay in hospital. She recovered in time to compete but could only manage seventh in the Super G and eighth in the downhill events.Hide Caption 5 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenHowever, Vonn quickly bounced back and won the first of three straight World Cup titles in 2008 at the age of 23. Hide Caption 6 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenGolden girl Vonn achieved her Olympic dreams in 2010. She won the Olympic downhill gold at Whistler and added bronze in the super-G.Hide Caption 7 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenVonn added a fourth World Cup title in 2012, but is still behind Annemarie Moser-Proell's record of six overall crystal globes.Hide Caption 8 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenVonn's public profile went galactic when she dated star golfer Tiger Woods for two years between 2013 and 2015. Hide Caption 9 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenIn 2013, Vonn suffered an horrific crash at the World Championships in Austria. She underwent reconstructive knee surgery and began a long road to recovery. She attempted to return a year later, only to pull out of the 2014 Olympics after aggravating the injury again. Hide Caption 10 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenInjuries continued to hamper Vonn. She fractured her left knee in February 2016 in a crash during a World Cup super-G race in Soldeu, Andorra, but raced the combined event the next day before calling an end to her season.Hide Caption 11 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenVonn worked hard to get back in time to challenge for gold medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics. The American left PyeongChang with a bronze medal in the downhill but insisted she was proud to have made it through her injuries.Hide Caption 12 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenVonn announced the current ski World Cup season would be her last. She is already the most successful woman in World Cup history with 82 victories and was chasing down Ingemar Stenmark's overall World Cup record of 86 victories in her sights. Hide Caption 13 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenHowever, a knee injury from a training crash in November meant she couldn't start her season until January. On her debut in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, she was still struggling with knee pain. Hide Caption 14 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenAfter much soul-searching Vonn announced that she will retire from skiing after competing in the World Championships in Are, Sweden in February 2019. "My body is screaming at me to STOP and it's time for me to listen," she said. Hide Caption 15 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenIn her opening race at the World Championships, Vonn suffered a heavy crash and careered into safety netting. She was eventually able to ski to the bottom and said she would still compete in the downhill to bring the curtain down on her glittering career. Hide Caption 16 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenDespite her damaged knees, Vonn was able to retire on a positive note. She battled back to win bronze in the downhill -- becoming the oldest woman to secure a medal at a world championships and the first female racer to medal at six world championships.Hide Caption 17 of 18 Photos: Skiing's speed queenThe American retired four wins short of equaling Stenmark's record of 86 World Cup wins and the Swedish great (left) was in Are to watch Vonn's final race. "I basically begged him to come here," Vonn said. Hide Caption 18 of 18Vonn, who has had to overcome a number of serious injuries throughout her career, missed the Games at Sochi when she failed to recover from a knee problem. READ: Why Lindsey Vonn wants to race the menVisit CNN.com/skiing for more news and featuresWell on her way to beating Ingemar Stenmark's World Cup record of 86 victories, she'll now aim to add to the downhill Olympic title she claimed in Vancouver back in 2010.The PyeongChang Winter Olympics take place from 9-25 February 2018.CNN's Aimee Lewis and Lauren Said-Moorhouse contributed to this report

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(CNN)That steely blue-eyed stare. Eight national titles. More than 1,000 wins.She was a coach, a leader, a fighter, a friend.Quite simply, Pat Summitt was a game changer.Summitt, who died Tuesday at age 64, was a driving force in changing the sports landscape for women. While there are many shining moments in her career, below are five that illustrate her toughness and competitive fire to win.1. 1976: An Olympics pioneerRead MoreSummitt, then Pat Head, competed in the 1976 Summer Games in Montreal, the first year women competed in basketball at the Olympics. That U.S. team, whose members included Summitt, Nancy Lieberman and Ann Meyers Drysdale, were considered trailblazers for the sport, winning the silver medal and serving notice to the rest of the world that the Americans were there to stay in women's basketball.For Summitt, making the team was remarkable. That's because in her senior year at the University of Tennessee-Martin, she had suffered a torn ACL. A surgeon told her to quit the sport. Back then, ACL tears typically ended careers for many athletes. For a woman in that era? You could all but forget it. But not Summitt. Not only did she return, but she was co-captain for the inaugural Olympic team.2. 1984: Striking gold as a coachThe United States didn't compete in the Olympics in 1980, but Summitt returned, this time as a coach, in 1984 in Los Angeles. Putting the women's game on the map, Summitt led the United States to its first women's basketball gold medal. After the win, Team USA lifted Summitt up high and carried her around the Los Angeles Forum.With that win, Summitt became the first U.S. Olympian to win a basketball medal and coach a medal-winning team.3. 1998: Historic three-peatThe University of Tennessee became the first three-peat winner in NCAA women's basketball history with a 93-75 win against Louisiana Tech. Tennessee also finished with a perfect record at 39-0. At the time, no men's or women's team had ever finished 39-0. It was Summitt's sixth title in her career.Summitt won national titles in 1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007 and 2008.4. 2000: Surpasses another legend in all-time winsWith her mother at the game, Summitt picked up her 880th coaching win against Purdue 75-54 to surpass North Carolina's Dean Smith as the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division I history."It's a tremendous honor," Summitt said after the game. "I never even thought about anything like that ever. I don't think there could have been a better gift in terms of just the feeling that I had, and how much I love this university and how much I appreciate the vote of confidence. This recognition is very touching."5. 2009: No. 1,000Summitt added to her accolades, earning career win No. 1,000 in Tennessee's 73-43 win against Georgia. "People are saying that's a record that will never be broken, but I don't think so," Summitt said after the game. "Records are made to be broken."Summitt's record of 1,098 wins still stands as the most of all time for men's or women's Division I basketball.

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(CNN)The Houston Rockets are moving on from franchise superstar James Harden. They have traded the 31-year-old to the Brooklyn Nets as part of a three-team deal, the Nets announced on Thursday.In return for Harden, Houston is acquiring Caris LeVert and Rodions Kurucs from the Nets, Dante Exum from the Cleveland Cavaliers, three first-round picks from the Nets, one first-round pick from the Cavaliers via the Milwaukee Bucks, and four first-round pick swaps from the Nets.In a separate deal, Houston is trading LeVert and a second-round pick to the Indiana Pacers for guard and two-time All-Star Victor Oladipo, according to The Athletic's Shams Charania. Harden, an eight-time All-Star, was acquired by the Rockets from the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2012. Read MoreWhile in Houston, he was voted the league's best player for the 2017-18 season and led the Rockets to the playoffs in all eight years.Visit CNN.com/sport for more news, videos and featuresHarden reacts during the Rocket's game against the Portland Trail Blazers last December."Adding an All-NBA player such as James to our roster better positions our team to compete against the league's best," said Nets General Manager Sean Marks. "James is one of the most prolific scorers and playmakers in our game, and we are thrilled to bring his special talents to Brooklyn." The trade comes in the same week that Harden criticized the Rockets. "We're just not good enough -- obviously, chemistry, talent-wise, just everything -- and it was clear these last few games," Harden said."I love this city. I've literally done everything that I can. I mean, this situation, it's crazy. It's something that I don't think can be fixed."READ: LeBron James hits no-look three pointer to win mid-game bet with teammate in LA Lakers routThe postgame comments were the last of a string a of negative behavior from the disgruntled star, after arriving late to the team's training camp, and then being sidelined for four days and fined $50,000 by the NBA for violating the league's health and safety protocols days before the start of the season.The former MVP now reunites with former Thunder teammate Kevin Durant and perennial All-Star guard Kyrie Irving in Brooklyn.Harden in action for the Rockets against the Lakers on January 10. Further postponementsMeanwhile, the NBA announced on Wednesday that it was postponing its ninth game of the season.Two games scheduled for Friday between the Phoenix Suns and the Golden State Warriros and the Washington Wizards and Detriot Pistons have been postponed as ongoing contact tracing means the Suns and the Wizards do not have the required eight players to contest the games. Since January 6, 16 NBA players have tested positive for Covid-19. The league announced on Tuesday that it had adopted stricter health and safety protocols to combat the spread of the virus.

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(CNN)An 11-year-old skateboarder from Brazil has become the first person to land a 1080-degree turn on a vertical ramp. More than two decades after Tony Hawk became the first person to land a 900-degree turn, Gui Khury accomplished the feat -- which involves completing three full spins in the air at the top of a ramp -- in his grandmother's back garden. In 2012, American Tom Schaar achieved a 1080 on a mega ramp, which allows skaters to jump higher and at greater speeds compared to a vertical ramp. Visit CNN.com/sport for more news and videos"I was just like, 'oh my God what just happened,'" Khury told Reuters. Read More"I sent (the video) to all my favorite skaters -- Tony Hawk, Bob Burnquist, Neal Mims, all of them."I landed my first 540, my first 720 and my first 900 and now I can conclude the 1080 -- being the youngest for all of them and now being the first one to land [a 1080] on a vert ramp."JUST WATCHEDTony Hawk on the cultural impact of skateboardingReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHTony Hawk on the cultural impact of skateboarding 03:40Khury, who was only eight when he landed his first 900, completed his latest trick on a ramp built in his grandmother's garden in Curitiba, southern Brazil. The closure of schools in Brazil amid the coronavirus pandemic meant Khury had more time to focus on his skating, his father said. "Now he is at home more, he eats better and he has more time to train and can focus more on the training so that has helped," his father, Ricardo Khury Filho, told Reuters.READ: The Olympics need skateboarding's 'cool factor,' says Tony Hawk"He has an opportunity to train here. If he didn't have [the skate park] ... he would be stuck at home like everyone else and unable to do sport. So the isolation helped him focus."Skating legend Hawk became the first person to land a 900 on a vertical ramp at the 1999 X Games in San Francisco.Khury said he planned to keep practicing the 1080 to enable him to perform the maneuver in future competitions. JUST WATCHEDLGBTQ skateboarding crews create a safe space ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHLGBTQ skateboarding crews create a safe space 01:05Skateboarding is set to make its Olympic debut at next year's postponed Tokyo Olympics. "Skating has really infiltrated mainstream culture," Hawk told CNN Sport last year."It's come on exponentially in terms of acceptance and participation and global awareness."There are skate scenes in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Thailand and parts of Africa. I never expected any of that when I started skating. It was pretty much in southern California and that was about it."

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Story highlightsMona Patel lost part of a leg after being hit by a drunken driver 30 years agoShe started a support network after realizing she and other amputees were strugglingThe San Antonio Amputee Foundation has grown to include education, recreation and support servicesSan Antonio (CNN)On a spring day in 1990, Mona Patel was walking to class at Cal Poly University when a drunken driver slammed into her. She was 17. "I flew up about 12 feet," Patel said. "And then he pinned me between his car and a metal railing, and that's what smashed my leg and my foot." Patel's body, and future, were forever altered. JUST WATCHEDCNN Hero Mona PatelReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHCNN Hero Mona Patel 02:57Weeks later, when Patel got out of the ICU, she underwent her first amputation. It was the start of seven years' worth of surgeries in attempts to salvage the rest of her leg. Patel went on to earn a bachelor's and two master's degrees, and became a social worker. Read MoreBut along the way, as Patel continued to struggle physically with her disability, she also struggled to find a support group for amputees. In 1997, with the prospect of another amputation, Patel made a promise. "I vowed that once I got back on my feet, I would start one," she said. Today, Patel's nonprofit, the San Antonio Amputee Foundation, aims to help amputees rebuild their lives. The group offers peer support, education and recreation opportunities, as well as financial assistance for basic home and car modifications and prosthetic limbs. Every month, 30 to 60 amputees get together to shares stories and testimonies of strength and resilience. Patel estimates more than 1,100 amputees have attended the meetings. SAAF helps with prosthetic costs"When somebody becomes an amputee, maneuvering through the system is sometimes just scary," said Patel, a below-knee amputee. "I think the big catalyst of me doing what I do to help the amputee community is because I lived it." Patel also leads health and fitness programs and sponsors amputees to participate in tennis tournaments and endurance climbs. In 2015, led by Patel, a group of amputees climbed to the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. CNN's Allie Torgan spoke with Patel about her work. Below is an edited version of their conversation. CNN: What was it that inspired you to help others going through similar struggles? Mona Patel: Getting the news that you're going to have to face an amputation is overwhelming. It's scary. The questions are numerous. In 1997, I was getting ready for surgery number 21. I was already married by that time, and I thought to myself, "I don't have children yet. If I elect to have my leg amputated, how difficult is pregnancy going to be? How difficult is it going to be to care for my newborns?" I found a woman who was an above-the-knee amputee and had four children after her amputation, and she said that "I did everything on my one leg." At her bedside, she had a little crib, a rocking chair, a refrigerator and a bottle warmer. And that is all I needed to hear. She put so much confidence and comfort in my heart. Now, when I'm able to provide peer support to an individual, it's powerful. I'm able to lead by example. If I did it, there's no reason why you can't do it either. JUST WATCHEDCNN Hero Mona Patel: Sparkle TwinsReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHCNN Hero Mona Patel: Sparkle Twins 02:40 CNN: Your nonprofit has grown beyond the initial support group. What other resources do you offer? Patel: We'll do basic home modifications -- safety grab bars in bathrooms, door widening, wheelchair ramps. We'll do car modifications. So, if somebody's missing both of their limbs and wants to drive, we'll help them with hand controls. If there's a right-foot amputee, we can put a left-foot accelerator in. Just to promote independence so they can take their kids to school. They can go back to school. They can go back to work. I really try to promote healthy lifestyles, staying physically fit. I've exposed our members to various activities: yoga, horseback riding, wake surfing, hiking, skiing and tennis, recently. On average, a very basic prosthesis can cost anywhere from $8,000 to $25,000. And if somebody doesn't have insurance, a lot of times they just go without a prosthesis because not everybody can afford to buy privately. There are different organizations in the community that I refer our members to. And then we will provide prosthetic limbs to those that that have no access to any other options and resources. CNN: Today, nearly 30 years later, how do you see the journey as an amputee? Patel: I tell the people that I work with, "It may take you a while to figure out the 'why,' but you'll come to know why this has happened to you." Twenty years (after starting work), I know why this happened to me. It has become my platform professionally, philanthropically -- just to embrace the people that come to me. And I hold their hand through as much as they need me to. I have members from over the past 20 years who I still help in different ways. It's like I'm on speed dial. I get to guide them and watch them shine through the things that they never thought they'd ever be able to accomplish. Want to get involved? Check out the San Antonio Amputee Foundation website and see how to help. To donate to the San Antonio Amputee Foundation click the CrowdRise widget below.Mona Patel on CrowdRise

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Story highlightsTheresa May says SNP has "tunnel-vision nationalism"SNP leader has raised prospect of second independence referendumLondon (CNN)Prime Minister Theresa May accused Scotland's governing party of being obsessed with independence, as she stressed the importance of Scotland remaining part of the United Kingdom after Brexit.May, addressing the Scottish Conservative Party conference in Glasgow, insisted there would be no benefit to Scotland going it alone when the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.Uncertainty over Brexit has led to speculation that the Scottish National Party could call for a second independence referendum: in last year's referendum, 62% of voters in Scotland wanted to remain in the European Union.May accused the SNP, which controls the devolved administration in Edinburgh, of holding an "obsession" with independence and neglecting other domestic issues. She said that a "tunnel-vision nationalism, which focuses only on independence at any cost, sells Scotland short."JUST WATCHEDHow much will Brexit cost the UK?ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHHow much will Brexit cost the UK? 01:06She said the UK government would negotiate a deal with the European Union that would protect Scottish interests after Brexit.Read More"I am determined to ensure that as we leave the EU, we do so as one United Kingdom, which prospers outside the EU as one United Kingdom," May said."That means achieving a deal with the EU which works for all parts of the UK -- England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland -- and for the United Kingdom as a whole."Sturgeon: UK on different pathScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly argued that Scotland should stay in the European Single Market, even after the rest of the United Kingdom has left.Nicola Sturgeon attends a debate on keeping Scotland in the European single market at the Scottish Parliament on January 17, 2016.In a speech Tuesday, she accused the UK government of ignoring Scotland's views and failing to compromise as it prepares to trigger Article 50, kicking off the formal process of leaving the European Union. Brexit defeat for UK government over EU citizen rightsIf Scotland doesn't secure a special deal in Britain's negotiations with the European union, Sturgeon said, then "proposing a further decision on independence wouldn't simply be legitimate, it would arguably be a necessary way of giving the people of Scotland a say in our own future direction.""It would offer Scotland a proper choice on whether or not to be part of a post Brexit UK - a UK that is undoubtedly on a fundamentally different path today than that envisaged in 2014."In the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, 55% voted in favor of remaining in the United Kingdom.'Hard' BrexitThe devolved Scottish government published a report in December which set out ways for Scotland still to maintain its current position in the single market -- which guarantees the free movement of goods, services and people within the bloc -- even if the rest of the UK leaves.May indicated in a key speech in January that the UK government will pursue a "hard Brexit," leading to the UK withdrawing from the single market and European customs union.

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Story highlightsRoger Federer targets an Olympic gold medal in 2012 after his London victoryWorld number three won the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals SundayFederer's win over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was his 70th career title and his 100th finalHe says he'll return from the off season determined to win gold at Wimbledon in 2012Roger Federer wants to add an Olympic singles gold medal to his list of achievements in tennis after securing his 70th career title at the ATP World Tour Finals in London.The world number three defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Sunday in what was a record sixth victory at the season-ending event.Federer's triumph secured his 70th career title in his 100th final, a landmark to make up for the fact that he failed to win a grand slam in a season for the first time since 2002.But the 30-year-old has vowed to come back stronger next year as he bids for a gold medal in the men's singles at the London 2012 Olympics, to go with the one he won in the doubles at Beijing in 2008.If any extra incentive were needed, it will be held at Wimbledon -- which Federer calls 'my club' -- a place where he has won six times.Federer sets tournament record by winning 100th finalHe told CNN World Sport: "That's why I took some time off before Fall in the hope that I'm going to be more energized and more fresh when the Olympics come around next year.JUST WATCHEDMilos Raonic talks tennis ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHMilos Raonic talks tennis 02:12"We're going to be as well prepared as we can be because we've had some tough Olympic Games on the other side of the planet whereas this time around we'll be playing at Wimbledon."It's a very special occasion for the top players, and for all of us to experience that in our lifetime is going to be fantastic. I'm looking forward to it, playing at 'my' club, hopefully winning Olympic gold. We'll see what happens but I'm excited already."Federer was eclipsed for most of the year by Serbian Novak Djokovic, who went on a incredible 43-match unbeaten run, and secured the Australian Open, Wimbledon and U.S. Open crowns.CNN blog: Resurgent Federer still hungry for major titlesThe Swiss did make the final at the French Open, only to be beaten in four sets by Rafael Nadal, and also suffered a heartbreaking defeat in the semifinals at Flushing Meadows in New York, squandering two match points against Djokovic before losing in five sets.But he put together a strong finish to the 2011 campaign, winning titles in Paris and Basel, before his triumph in London."This is what champions are made of," he told CNN World Sport anchor Alex Thomas. "After a big loss, if you are able to come back and prove to yourself that losses do happen."Novak has had an amazing year and Rafa, we know how strong he was again on clay, so maybe for me there was not so much to win in a period when it was tough for me."That I have been able to save the best until last is amazing and to write history here in London, winning my sixth Tour Finals already, is a record which I'm very proud of."Federer said his strong end of season form was a warning to his fellow players that he could begin the 2012 season with a bang."Of course I'm exhausted and I want to go on vacation but I am looking forward to next year because usually when I finish strongly I also start strongly again the following season."We're looking forward to a great season next year on the Tour -- its not going to get any easier, I know that, but it's nice to get these wins and all I want to do now is celebrate."

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(CNN)The royal family adhered strictly to UK Covid-19 regulations during the funeral of Prince Philip, who was laid to rest Saturday. As such, the Queen sat alone during the service to follow current restrictions.All guests who are not members of the same household were required to sit around 2 meters apart. The Queen and the late Prince Philip had been in a bubble with some members of their household for the last year and so the monarch was not eligible to join a support bubble with other members of her family.The Queen and Philip had been married for 73 years, and the prince, who died last Friday at the age of 99, was the nation's longest-serving consort -- the name used to describe the spouse of a reigning monarch. The Duke of Sussex and Duke of Cambridge sat opposite one another in St. George's Chapel, with William sat beside his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, during the service. Prince Harry also sat alone. The Queen and the late Prince Philip had been in a bubble with some members of their household for the last year and so the monarch was not eligible to join a support bubble with other members of her family.Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex attends the funeral service of Britain's Prince Philip. He sat alone during the service.Read MoreThe ceremony started in St. George's Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle at 3:00 p.m. (10 a.m. ET). While the service was a muted affair, by royal standards, Philip was intimately involved in its planning, selecting the music and ensuring the ceremony reflects his military affiliations and personal interests. Some 30 people made up the congregation at the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral service as the memorial service has had to be stripped back in light of the pandemic.Though the UK government has set out a roadmap out of lockdown in England, restrictions remain for funeral services across the country, with a maximum of 30 people allowed to attend. Over the past year, the virus has robbed countless families in the country of the chance to properly grieve, with funerals limited to small numbers of socially distanced mourners to reduce the risk of coronavirus spreading. More than 127,400 people have died of Covid-19 in the United Kingdom, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

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Story highlights About 150 young adults, including illegal immigrants, rally in downtown Los AngelesStudents who qualify to remain in the United States are overjoyed It will give undocumented students a chance to work, they saySome lawmakers argue that it will lead to fraudJose Luis Zelaya shed tears of joy Friday morning."It's just insane," the graduate student at Texas A&M University said. "I've been working on this for six years. It is just overwhelming."Zelaya was electrified by news that the Obama administration will stop deporting illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children if they meet certain requirements.Zelaya came to the United States illegally from Honduras at age 14 to find his mother, who was already in the country, he said.Without the change announced Friday, he couldn't get a job to help pay for school; Zelaya, 25, is pursuing a master's degree in education with hopes of earning a doctorate and teaching middle school. He also wouldn't be able to consider job offers that presented themselves afterward. The uncertainty over what loomed after graduation spooked him. JUST WATCHEDNapolitano: Congress needs to actReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHNapolitano: Congress needs to act 00:51JUST WATCHED18-year-old fights to stay in U.S.ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCH18-year-old fights to stay in U.S. 01:44"Now, maybe I will be able to work without being afraid that someone may deport me," he said. "There is no fear anymore."Immigration shift sparks reaction from both sidesNews of the change raced across the country, buoying the spirits of immigrants and immigrant advocates who have campaigned for such a change for more than 10 years."I'm definitely speechless," said Pedro Ramirez, a recent graduate of Fresno State University who was student body president when he admitted that he was in the country illegally."It gives us a chance to show the American people that we're not here to use your tax dollars; we're not here to take your jobs; we're here to contribute," he said.Not everyone viewed the change with such enthusiasm."This is a classic Barack Obama move of choosing politics over leadership," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said on Twitter. "This decision avoids dealing with Congress and the American people instead of fixing a broken immigration system once and for all."Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said the decision would invite fraud and hurt unemployed Americans. "President Obama's decision to grant amnesty to potentially millions of illegal immigrants is a breach of faith with the American people," said Smith, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.Read Napolitano's memo here (PDF)Under the new directives, those who were brought into the country illegally before the age of 16 and are not criminals, among other requirements, are eligible to receive deferred action for two years, and will be eligible to apply for work authorization. "It's a step in the right direction," Ramirez said, though he characterized it as a "Band-Aid deal.""It's not the solution; it's a temporary fix. But it implements part of the key focal points of the DREAM Act," he said.The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors -- or DREAM -- Act, would create a path to citizenship for immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children under the age of 16 and have lived in the United States for at least five years, obtained a high school or General Education Development diploma, and demonstrated "good moral character," the White House said.Efforts to pass the DREAM Act in Congress have failed. Laura Vazquez, spokeswoman for the National Council of La Raza, said the Obama administration is within its authority to enforce the change. "This is a legitimate use of the tools that the administration has to focus on their immigration enforcement resources," she said. "In light of the congressional inaction on immigration reform, this is the right step for the administration to take at this time."Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform said the policy is politically motivated and misguided.What to know about immigration in the U.S."They're going to throw 830,000 people into an already dismal work environment," he said, referring to estimates of the number of people who could become eligible to apply for work authorization under the new policy.Mehlman said the law also disregards the authority of Congress."The president is basically announcing amnesty without authority from Congress," he said."This is what they need to rally a certain part of their base, but it's going to come at the expense of a lot of other people who say this is bad policy and a usurpation of the authority of the legislative branch of Congress," he said.In Arizona, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, known for his tough anti-illegal immigration stance, said that politics is behind the policy action. "Why now? Why not let Congress decide next year on this issue and on all the illegal immigration problems we have?" he said. Arpaio said he will abide by the directive, but added he will continue to enforce state laws as he sees fit. "We're going to continue enforcing these illegal immigration laws, including the state laws," he said. The new immigration directive could also help resolve immigration snafus that that system has created. Elizabeth Olivas nearly missed her graduation and salutatorian speech because she was caught in one such mix-up. An undocumented immigrant who was brought to the United States by her parents when she was 4, Olivas traveled to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, last month to beat a deadline to apply for a visa.But because of a miscalculation, she missed a deadline and risked being barred from the United States for three years. It took a waiver to allow her to return to the United States, where her father is a naturalized citizen. Her attorney, Sarah Moshe, said those who have grown up in the United States after entering illegally did so without intent to violate the law. Overheard on CNN.com: Decision to defer some deportations symbolic"It's not the end of the road, but it is great news," she said of the administration's announcement. "It will allow them to live without the fear looming over their head that they can be sent to their home country at any moment."In downtown Los Angeles, about 150 young demonstrators -- many of them undocumented immigrants -- rallied in front of the federal immigration office Friday and exalted over the news from Washington.Some shed tears of joy and chanted, "undocumented, unafraid!"Demonstrators then symbolically blocked a freeway on-ramp and next obstructed Aliso Street for about an hour to halt the movement of a fleet of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vans and buses, which are typically used to haul away illegal immigrants to the border for deportation.Protestors then broke up peacefully.Protest organizer Neidi Dominguez asserted that "there's so many undocumented youth graduating from UCLA, Harvard, Stanford" and the executive order will ensure "that they are going to be able to use their degree and work."It's a night and day change, and there's hope," Dominguez said.Alex Chavez, 20, a senior at California State University Fresno, drove four hours to downtown Los Angeles early Friday to participate in the "historic moment," he said."I was brought here at the age of 3 (from Mexico) and was raised in Tulare, California. I grew up here, this is my country and I have no intention of going back," Chavez said. "I want to come here and contribute, to be a teacher, educating young minds. That's what I plan to do for the rest of my life." Photos: Putting a face on the immigration debate

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(CNN)A 14-year-old boy who went missing in freezing conditions in Victoria, Australia, has been found.Will Callaghan, who has nonverbal autism, got separated from his family on Monday near the summit of Mount Disappointment, CNN affiliate 9News reported. He had raced ahead of them as they walked toward the mountain.Victoria police asked local residents to help draw him out of the bushland by playing music from the show "Thomas the Tank Engine" and leaving out food and water for him. On Wednesday, they announced that a volunteer, identified by 9News as Ben Gibbs, had located Will.The teen was reunited with his family on Wednesday after a volunteer found him in the bushland.Gibbs told 9News that he was very familiar with the terrain, and found the boy after going a bit farther past the search area scanned by rescue crews. Read More"He was about 15 meters from me just standing there," Gibbs told the station. "He was really angelic, just standing and looking."Gibbs said Will wasn't wearing any shoes, so he put some socks on him. He also gave the boy some chocolate and talked to him about Thomas the Tank Engine.Will was reunited with his parents and taken to a tent where he was treated by paramedics. He was later taken to a hospital, where an official said he was doing relatively well and should be able to return home by Wednesday evening.Penny Callaghan thanked everyone for their help in finding her son. She told reporters that Will was "quite calm," considering the situation, but that he was also communicating. "He's confused and he's scared.""I can't imagine what he is going through," she said. "I'm just so grateful and so relieved. He is just a very special person."CNN's Carly Walsh contributed to this report.

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Story highlightsKimi Raikkonen hints at Lotus walkout Raikkonen unhappy about not being paid yet for 2013 season Lotus fourth in constructors' championship heading into final three races Sebastian Vettel fastest in practice at Yas Marinas The simmering row between departing Kimi Raikkonen and his Lotus team came to a boil Friday as the Finn threatened to boycott the final two races of the F1 season because he has not been paid.Raikkonen turned up late for the Abu Dhabi round and took fourth behind all conquering Sebastian Vettel in afternoon practice.But addressing gathered reporters at the end of session, the former world champion gave vent to his frustrations."I came here only because hopefully we found an understanding on the certain issues we have been having," said Raikkonen told UK's Press Association."Hopefully it will be fixed and we can finish the season as well as we can."JUST WATCHEDWill Ferrari's drivers deliver success?ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHWill Ferrari's drivers deliver success? 02:57JUST WATCHEDLotus hopeful on RaikkonenReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHLotus hopeful on Raikkonen 02:22JUST WATCHEDKimi Raikkonen returns to Formula 1ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHKimi Raikkonen returns to Formula 1 05:39But when pushed on the possibility of not taking part in the final races in the United States and Brazil, Raikkonen hinted at the possibility of a no show."I enjoy racing, I enjoy driving -- but a big part of it is business," he said."Sometimes when that is not dealt with like it should, we end up in an unfortunate situation. You have to put the line somewhere, and if it goes over that... it is not really my fault anymore."Raikkonen is reported to be owed $20 million for his efforts in 2013, a situation which has arisen because of financial arrangement Lotus has with its majority owners, the Luxembourg based investment group Genii Capital.Read: Lotus focus on the cars rather than pay its drivers Under the arrangement, the drivers -- Raikkonen and Frenchman Romain Grosjean -- get their pay at the end of the season after sponsorship deals are tied up to cover the fees.Raikkonen's frustrations with Lotus have built up over the season and he was involved in an angry and very public altercation with pit wall boss Alan Permane at the Indian Grand Prix last Sunday.Team chairman Gerard Lopez has tried to cool the situation, praising Raikkonen for his efforts which leave them challenging for second place in the constructors' championship behind Red Bull."The only reason we're fighting for second in the world championship is because of all the points that Kimi has scored," he told the team's official website. "We're doing everything we can to ensure Kimi and the team can continue to fight right up to the checkered flag in Brazil."Of course, recently a lot was made about the comments between Alan Permane and Kimi during the course of a tense moment in a race, but this was just one exchange taking a matter of seconds in the course of a two-year relationship," he added.Read: Vettel wraps up fourth straight title Raikkonen told reporters that he regretted the incident, but said other factors had left him disgruntled."It is all the other stuff, and all the things come together in the end. Like I said, it is easy to say that is the reason but it is not that.""Sometimes it is not very nice when you hear that you are not really a team player, and you don't have the interests of the team (at heart) -- but you have been paid zero Euro the whole year," added the Finn.Meanwhile, Vettel, who wrapped up a fourth straight title in India, continued his domination with a one minute 41.335 second clocking at the Yas Marina Circuit, ahead of Red Bull teammate Mark Webber.Lewis Hamilton took third for Mercedes ahead of Raikkonen and Nico Rosberg in the second Mercedes.

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Story highlightsLadies' fifth major underway in Evian, FranceWorld No. 1 Inbee Park bidding for 8th majorLexi Thompson joint-leader on five-underJoin CNN at The Clubhouse Thursday for all the first day's action from the 2015 Evian Championship. (CNN)South Korea's golfing sensation Inbee Park is normally the model of consistency but the world No. 1 was unusually erratic in the opening round of the Evian Championship on Thursday.Amid the picture-postcard setting of France's Evian Resort Golf Club, Park hit four bogeys and three birdies to leave her six shots adrift of the first-round leaders, Lexi Thompson and South Korea's My Hyang Lee.The 27-year-old Park has won six of the last 14 majors -- most recently the British Open at Turnberry in August -- and has been so dominant that few would have bet against taking the fifth and final major of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) season. CNN's Tom McGowan and Lauren Moorhouse are live-blogging from the picturesque course. Park won the tournament back in 2012, a year before it was elevated to "major" status but may struggle to repeat the feat after making a stuttering start hitting a one-over par round of 72 to leave her in a tie for 40th.America's Thompson, on the other hand, had a faultless round, racing to five-under after six holes, including an eagle at the par five 13th — her 4th hole after teeing off at the 10th — before parring the final 12 holes. Read More"Overall it was a very steady day — I had a good stretch on the first nine with a few birdies and an eagle so that always helps out with the scorecard," Thompson told CNN's The Clubhouse after her round. "It was great conditions out there, I couldn't have asked for anything better."She's got a lot to smile about. A selfie from @Lexi after taking the clubhouse lead. #EvianChamp #CNNLivingGolf pic.twitter.com/PTfS8FuCBn— CNN Sport (@cnnsport) September 10, 2015 Lee joined Thompson with the final shot of her round, holing out for a birdie at the ninth (her 18th hole), putting the Korean on course for her best finish at the championship -- her previous best is tied 19th in 2013. A drive off the first tee from @thealisonlee ahead of the #EvianChamp #golf #slowmotion #evian #cnnlivinggolf A video posted by CNNSport (@cnnsport) on Sep 9, 2015 at 5:08am PDT One shot further back are a group of six players which includes China's Shanshan Feng -- winner of the 2012 PGA Championship -- and America's Beth Allen.New Zealand teenager Lydia Ko, who finished runner-up to Norway's Suzann Pettersen two years ago, is sitting on two-under par after 18 holes. Michelle Wie will do well to improve on her best finish of 37th after slumping to a four-over par 75 on day one.The American, who broke her major duck last year when she won the U.S. Women's Open, is currently in a tie for 80th. Read: When is a grand slam not a grand slam? Photos: Evian Championships: The contendersInbee Park – The current world No. 1 and seven-time major champion is the woman to beat at the Evian Championship. The South Korean has won two majors this season, including the British Open last month.Hide Caption 1 of 10 Photos: Evian Championships: The contendersLydia Ko – Lydia Ko is yet to win a major title but finished second to Park at the British Open. Still just 18, she remains the youngest winner on the LPGA Tour, taking the Canadian Open title aged 15.Hide Caption 2 of 10 Photos: Evian Championships: The contendersStacy Lewis – American Stacy Lewis is ranked third in the world and is a two-time major champion. She's the highest ranked of the 20 Solheim Cup players who will be featuring in France ahead of the team showdown between the United States and Europe on September 18.Hide Caption 3 of 10 Photos: Evian Championships: The contendersSo Yeon Ryu – South Korea's 2011 U.S. Open champion So Yeon Ryu is ranked fourth in the world and was rookie of the year in 2012.Hide Caption 4 of 10 Photos: Evian Championships: The contendersHyo-Joo Kim – World No. 5 Hyo-Joo Kim is the defending champion after beating veteran Australia Karrie Webb to the title last year. The 20-year-old South Korean will have to be at her best to retain her crown.Hide Caption 5 of 10 Photos: Evian Championships: The contendersSuzann Pettersen – Norwegian Suzann Pettersen won the 2013 Evian Championship -- the first year it had been elevated to major status. A veteran of seven Solheim Cup campaigns, the 34-year-old is ranked sixth in the world.Hide Caption 6 of 10 Photos: Evian Championships: The contendersLexi Thompson – American Lexi Thompson is a definite contender to win her second major in France. A golfing prodigy, she qualified for the U.S. Open at just 12 and turned pro at 15.Hide Caption 7 of 10 Photos: Evian Championships: The contenders Shanshan Feng – China's Shanshan Feng won the PGA Championship in 2012, becoming the first Chinese woman to secure a major title. She is currently world No. 8.Hide Caption 8 of 10 Photos: Evian Championships: The contendersIn Gee Chun – In Gee Chun's big breakthrough came at this year's U.S. Open. The South Korean won by one shot from compatriot Amy Yang and Stacy Lewis.Hide Caption 9 of 10 Photos: Evian Championships: The contendersAnna Nordqvist – Sweden's Anna Nordqvist won her sole major at the 2009 PGA Championship. She has seven titles to her name across the LPGA and European Tours. 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(CNN)It was meant to be his dream week, when all his hard work came to fruition. But for 27-year-old golfer Kamaiu Johnson, it has turned into a nightmare few days.The American was supposed to make his PGA Tour debut on Thursday at the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego, but after testing positive for Covid-19, Johnson has been forced to withdraw. On top of that, he took to Twitter to inform fans that his mother was hospitalized with the virus. "This is turning into a nightmare from hell my mom has just been rush(ed) to the hospital not being able to breathe due to COVID 19. Pray for my family please," he said on Wednesday. Read MoreREAD: The teenage twins pushing each other to pro golf successJohnson plays a hole at Seminole Legacy Golf Club. A few hours later, Johnson once again took to Twitter with the good news that his mother was "feeling better.""I've been talking to my mom all day today and she's feeling better and she's (in) really good spirits. I told her she basically has the entire world praying for her and she told me to tell you guys to keep praying and thanks for all the support."Although he reports feeling well, Johnson expressed that he felt "disappointed" that his debut will have to wait, but is remaining positive nonetheless. "To say that I'm disappointed would be a massive understatement. I've dreamed of playing on the PGA Tour for a long, long time, but health and safety come first," Johnson said. "It's times like these where you have to keep focusing on the bigger picture at hand, and from my experience, a fork in the road often has an interesting way of leading to new opportunities. Getting a brief glimpse of the Farmers Insurance Open and what it would be like to play on the PGA Tour only further ignites the fire inside me to work that much harder to chase the dream of playing on Tour full-time. "I am so thankful to Farmers Insurance and the entire team at the Century Club of San Diego for not only providing me with this opportunity, but also for all they're doing to promote diversity in golf and beyond."Johnson's rise into golf has drawn much attention given his humble beginnings. An eighth-grade dropout, his future was forged by the foundation of golf. Having initially been shown the game with just a stick in his grandmother's garden, Johnson -- who never knew his father -- found a home at a golf club where the assistant professional gave him work in exchange for one-dollar rounds. Johnson hits a tee shot on the 10th hole during the final round of an APGA Tour event on the Slammer & Squire Course at World Golf Village.Having grabbed every opportunity presented to him, the Advocates Pro Golf Association Tour (APGA) -- "a non-profit organization with the mission to bring greater diversity to the game of golf" -- is where he honed his game. He carded five straight top-10s on the APGA Tour, finishing with victory over former PGA Tour pros Tim O'Neal and Brad Adamonis at the APGA Tour Championship in September. The invite to make his PGA Tour debut followed shortly, with Johnson saying at the time that for real change to be made, players have to take advantage of these moments. "There are really good players on the APGA Tour that, if they got more opportunities, could play on the PGA Tour," he said. "People don't understand how much it takes to get through Q school and everything. It's a lot of money."He continued: "We have to put ourselves in position to take advantage of those opportunities. Make it to the weekend and show we can play out there just like those guys."And although he has been forced to delay his debut -- replaced in the field by friend Willie Mack III -- Johnson is keen to stress that he will be back. "This isn't the end of my story," he said.

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(CNN)David Beckham has handed over control of his Instagram account to a doctor in Ukraine, in a bid to highlight the "amazing work" of medical professionals caring for patients amid the Russian invasion of the country. Throughout Sunday, the former England football captain, who has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2005, enabled Dr. Iryna -- head of a perinatal center in Kharkiv -- to show his 71.6 million followers the conditions under which she and her colleagues are working. During the takeover, organized by UN children's agency UNICEF, Iryna, who is identified only by her first name, posted clips and images from the facility in Ukraine's second-largest city on Beckham's Instagram Stories and revealed how the war had affected her role and the work of her team. Iryna said she and her team were probably risking their lives by continuing to work.Iryna said she now works "24/7," adding that while her team were "probably risking (their) lives" working during the conflict, "we love our work." Writing on Instagram Stories, she said: "On the first day of the war, all pregnant women and mothers were evacuated to the basement. It was a terrible three hours that we spent together. Read More"Unfortunately, we can't take babies who are in intensive care to the basement because they rely on life-saving equipment," she wrote alongside photographs of newborns in the intensive care unit connected to oxygen generators. In another clip, she filmed a young mother, Yana, holding her son, Mykhailo, who was born with breathing problems.Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher raise $30 million in donations for Ukrainian refugees"The first days were the most difficult. We had to learn how to work with bombings and strikes. My workday is 24/7 now, I'm here all day," Iryna continued."Now, I'm not only the head of the center, but I continue to work as a pediatric anesthesiologist. I unload cargo, I work on logistics and offer emotional support."Beckham has launched an emergency appeal via his 7 Fund for UNICEF to help provide aid to those affected in the war-torn country. On Instagram, the father-of-four urged his followers to donate to UNICEF, which is working in Ukraine to provide families with access to clean water and food, ensure child protection services continue, and assess the refugee situation in neighboring countries. "Thanks to your donations, the oxygen generators they have received are helping newborns survive in appalling conditions," Beckham said. "Please continue to support these incredible people and charities like UNICEF in any way that you can. Together we can really make a difference." The president and co-owner of Inter Miami previously confirmed that he and his wife, Victoria Beckham, had made a personal donation to the appeal.

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Moscow (CNN)More than 2,300 people were evacuated from villages in the Russian region of Ryazan after a wildfire set off explosions at an ammunition depot, Russian state media reported Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The fire had not been contained as of Thursday morning, and more than 20 people were taken to hospital, the state news agency TASS reported, citing local officials. Local authorities imposed a state of emergency in the region, located in western Russia. A state of emergency has been imposed in the region.A victim receives first aid on the site of a fire at an ammunition depot. The fire broke out Wednesday afternoon as strong winds spread a wildfire onto a military storage facility leading to "sporadic explosions" of ammunition, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.UK, France and Germany plan Russia sanctions over Navalny poisoningThe depot can store up to 75,000 tons of munitions and housed 113 storage facilities with missile and artillery munitions, with some of the high-explosive ammunition contained in open storage, RIA Novosti agency reported, citing emergency services. Read MoreAt least 14 villages were evacuated within a five kilometer radius of the depot, and a motorway was closed down, Reuters reported, citing the Interfax news agency. More than 20 buildings burned down in two populated areas, the TASS news agency reported, adding that a criminal case had been opened.CNN's Amy Woodyatt contributed to this report.

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(CNN)The US Supreme Court on Friday said the federal government could invoke the state secrets privilege to protect evidence it said could harm national security, in a case brought by three Muslim men.The men are seeking to sue the government for hiring a confidential informant to secretly engage in electronic surveillance and gather information about their community in violation of their religious rights.While the government invoked the state secrets privilege, a lower court said that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act -- a law aimed at electronic surveillance -- displaced the state secrets privilege. In a 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court disagreed."Although today's ruling is technical, it's likely to have ominous implications for the ability of those subjected to unlawful spying by government intelligence agencies to ever challenge that spying in court," said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law. "Congress enacted FISA in 1978 not only to rein in abuses of government surveillance powers, but to provide effective remedies for those abuses. Today's ruling will make it that much harder for plaintiffs to pursue those remedies in any case in which the allegedly unlawful spying involves national security secrets."Read MoreThe dispute stems from a lawsuit brought by Yassir Fazaga and two other Muslim men, who say an undercover informant for the FBI infiltrated a mosque in Orange County, California, in 2006. They claim the informant spent more than a year collecting names, phone numbers, emails and other information culled from the community as a part of a counterterrorism investigation. According to court papers, the FBI told the informant, Craig Monteilh, that it wanted to "get as many files on this community as possible." The informant attended classes at the mosque, gathered information related to charitable giving and attended Muslim fundraising events, all the while going to daily prayers. Most of his interactions were recorded using devices provided by the FBI. In the end, Monteilh uncovered no terrorism. And when he began to ask about a willingness to engage in violent actions, several members of the community reported him to law enforcement. Ultimately, they learned he was an informant and sued, arguing that the government violated their religious freedom.The District Court for the Southern District of California dismissed the claims, under the state secrets privilege, "which permits the government under some circumstances to block the release of information in a lawsuit that could harm national security."The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision, holding that FISA provides for procedures for challenging unlawful electronic surveillance in early stages of litigation and takes priority over the states' secret privilege.The federal government appealed to the Supreme Court.Ahilan Arulanantham, a lawyer for the men -- two US citizens and one lawful permanent resident -- told the justices at oral arguments last year that his clients should be able to have their day in court after the government violated the Constitution's protection of freedom of religion. Fazaga says the 9th Circuit was right to permit the case to proceed because FISA allows the review of the lawfulness of the surveillance "and at least at the threshold" displaces a claim based on state secrets.He said that the state secrets privilege authorizes the exclusion of evidence but not the use of secret evidence to entirely dismiss a case. Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler told the justices that the federal appeals court decision holding that FISA displaced the state secrets privilege would seriously undermine the executive branch's ability to protect the nation's secrets. He said the privilege is "critical in safeguarding" national security.

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(CNN)Anthony Borges, the teenager who was shot five times while protecting his classmates during the Parkland shooting last year, will be honored Wednesday night by his beloved soccer club Barcelona.Follow @cnnsport Borges was the last patient to be released from hospital after the February 14, 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.The then 15-year-old was shot five times while shielding his peers from the gunman. He had barricaded a door with his body and was shot through the door. Seventeen people were killed.A huge soccer fan, Borges played for Barca Academy in Lauderhill, Florida, in 2016 -- a soccer academy based on the model of Spanish giant Barcelona. He gave an interview from his hospital bed wearing a Barcelona shirt, and some of the team noticed.Of the close on 100,00 fans who will fill Camp Nou this evening there is one who will experience the Champions League in a very special way. It will be his first game at the stadium after an event more than a year that changed his life. 👇 THREAD 👇 pic.twitter.com/SrsrJacjVm— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) March 13, 2019 Then, journalist Santiago Segurola got in touch with Borges' family and the club looked into how it could help.The Barça players also found out about Anthony's story after heavy media coverage in the USA and they wanted to add their support.The best, however, was yet to come... pic.twitter.com/yZdNYaDzmM— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) March 13, 2019 Read MoreThe club kept tabs on his recovery and former vice president Manel Arroyo visited Borges at his home in Florida to check on his progress. It was there that he invited Borges to the club's home Camp Nou stadium once he felt able to attend.Borges and his family will attend Barcelona's Champions League match against France's Lyon Wednesday before meeting the players at a training session the following day.After seeing the game between Barça and Lyon, Anthony and his family will visit the Museum on Thursday and will also meet the first team squad during their training session. pic.twitter.com/V9YpJjGyMp— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) March 13, 2019 Barcelona said he will receive a signed shirt from the squad, "in honor of his bravery after putting his life on the line to save his classmates."In a statement, the club added: "As a result of injuries, the youngster's life was in the balance but after many months of medical care in hospital he recovered and now his health is much improved. "In light of this, FC Barcelona have helped him make the trip to Barcelona to make his dream of seeing Barca play in the flesh come true."Barcelona will hope to progress to the quarterfinal of the Champions League after the first leg of the last-16 clash finished goalless.

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(CNN)Something unusual happened to Novak Djokovic at the US Open on Wednesday. He lost a tiebreak. But the world No. 1 recovered to beat Kyle Edmund 6-7 (5) 6-3 6-4 6-2 in the second round and -- despite dropping a set and the distractions stemming from spearheading a new players' association -- continues to be the heavy men's favorite. Follow @cnnsport With a record of 25-0 this season and closest rivals Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer missing, how could he not be? Still, it was some shock that the Serbian conceded the opener, even if his British opponent possesses one of the biggest forehands in the game. France's Kristina Mladenovic lost a tiebreak but also the match in one of grand slam tennis' biggest blown leads, having been up 6-1 5-1 and four match points on the 102nd-ranked Varvara Gracheva. Read MoreAnd women's top seed Karolina Pliskova fell to Mladenovic's compatriot Caroline Garcia in another outing featuring a tiebreak, 6-2 7-6 (2). It was a mild upset, given Garcia is a former top-5 player and Pliskova has made one quarterfinal at a major since the start of 2019. "I'm not a robot, so I don't have to play every day amazing," Pliskova, handed the top seeding because of the absences of Ash Barty and Simona Halep, said. Djokovic has been playing amazing in the truncated 2020 campaign and in tiebreaks. He had won 18 of his previous 20 tiebreaks, the lone blemishes both coming in London against Dominic Thiem at the ATP Finals in November and Hubert Hurkacz at Wimbledon in July. However, London was also the site of his greatest tiebreak success in a single match. He memorably won all three in last year's Wimbledon final against Federer, not making a single unforced error. That included Wimbledon's first ever 12-12 tiebreak in a finale. JUST WATCHEDNovak Djokovic reflects on Wimbledon victoryReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHNovak Djokovic reflects on Wimbledon victory 00:54On a steamy day in New York where ball people needed to clean sweat marks on court, Djokovic did make a few unforced errors in the tiebreak against Edmund -- notably a drop shot into the net when leading 4-3. But an early break in the second got the 17-time grand slam winner on the path to victory against Edmund, who topped Djokovic on the clay in Madrid in 2018 and made the Australian Open semifinals months earlier. We should have known there would be some drama in the tussle, since British players had produced their fair share of theater the opening two days. Cam Norrie rallied from two sets down and saved match points against Diego Schwartzman on Monday, prior to Andy Murray saving a match point and coming from two sets down to top Yoshi Nishioka. Murray watched his fellow Brit take on Djokovic as select players benefit from having their own luxury suites on Ashe in the absence of paying fans, who are being kept away amid the coronavirus. Djokovic tested positive for the virus in late June off the back of his controversial Adria Tour exhibition. Mladenovic's collapseMladenovic said she had been placed in what the US Open has called an enhanced protocol plan -- or in her words a "bubble in the bubble" -- after coming into close contact with a player who had tested positive for the virus. For that, she likened it Monday to being in a "nightmare."There was another nightmare for Mladenovic to endure Wednesday, as she "collapsed" against Gracheva. She held the four match points returning serve at 5-2 in the second set before exiting 1-6 7-6 (2) 6-0. "Yeah, it's definitely the most painful match and loss I've had in my career because it's a grand slam and I was 6-1, 5-1 and 0-40," she told reporters in English in a Zoom call. "I was playing really good tennis there but couldn't close it out and convert my match points. I think that she saved it well. "She was brave and went for it but I didn't take my chances and I would like to answer that question but from 5-2 slowly I started feeling that I was crashing down and I got tight and I just collapsed. I had nothing left in the tank."JUST WATCHEDMore than 60 players withdraw from 2020 NFL season over coronavirus concernsReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHMore than 60 players withdraw from 2020 NFL season over coronavirus concerns 02:49Asked whether the extra protocols she had been placed under played a role in the outcome, she replied, "Physically and mentally I'm completely drained. It's just worse and worse. I just would like to thank the USTA for the unreal experience and, yeah, I don't want to comment." Players must be used to highs and lows and Mladenovic has certainly had both. She is a former doubles No. 1 and former top 10 in singles and led her country to a long-awaited Fed Cup title last year. Conversely, besides the devastating setback against Gracheva, Mladenovic once lost 15 matches in a row. The losses are nowhere in sight for Djokovic.

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(CNN)Australian personal trainer Michael Italiano previously had little knowledge of Formula One, but that soon changed when he received a surprise text message from an old acquaintance.That message came from Formula One Daniel Ricciardo at the end of 2017, who wanted Italiano to travel the world with him as his performance coach. The pair, who had met through mutual friends in Perth at the age of 12, hadn't discussed the possibility of working together before, and most of Italiano's experience of F1 had come from following Ricciardo's rise through the motorsport ranks over the years."I used to watch the races, for sure," Italiano tells CNN Sport as he prepares to enter his fifth season alongside McLaren's Ricciardo."Did I know the history behind it? No. Did I know the sport science behind it or how to train a Formula One driver? No. So 2018 was a lot of work."Read MoreThe learning process entailed picking the brains of those around him in the F1 paddock, as well as scouring Google Scholar for any available information on the physical demands of driving headlong around a track for two hours.But Italiano's responsibilities don't stop with drawing up fitness sessions for the 32-year-old Ricciardo.An F1 performance coach is charged with ensuring their driver is in prime physical and mental condition at the start of every race -- something that means the pair spend 250 days of the year together.Italiano takes responsibility for massages, nutrition, sleep, jet lag, mindfulness and anything in between to ensure race weekends run smoothly.JUST WATCHEDF1 star Daniel Ricciardo on farm life in lockdownReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHF1 star Daniel Ricciardo on farm life in lockdown 03:40"It could be making sure his laundry is getting done, or even making sure he's having breakfast on time, or just cleaning up the room and making sure his backpack is packed and ready to go," explains Italiano."Little things like that really add up [...] giving him a schedule so that he doesn't have to think [...] kind of running his week so he can just focus on racing."Neck strengthThe pair are now coming off the back of a three-month preseason in preparation for the first race of the season in Bahrain on Sunday. Italiano has worked on building Ricciardo's neck strength -- a crucial requirement for drivers to withstand the G-force of tackling sharp corners at high speed. And as the sport advances, engines get bigger and cars get faster, placing more demand on a driver's body each year, according to Italiano. "It's not about just hitting the markers with their neck strength; every year, they need to hit PBs [personal bests] pretty much," he says."A typical corner on an F1 course might see drivers fighting against four to five G, which is about pulling roughly 35 kilos [77 pounds] on your neck -- quite a big load. "You might think, 'Okay, it's a corner, it only lasts for one to two seconds.' But you're doing it for two hours, so it can add up quickly."This weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix will mark the start of Ricciardo and Italiano's fifth season together having teamed up while Ricciardo was with Red Bull. In an attempt to build Ricciardo's neck strength, Italiano says he's studied other sports like the NFL, boxing and rugby for inspiration, while he also carries a neck harness with him throughout the season for flexion and extension exercises."These guys are under tension in the body pretty much for two hours. They're fighting the car and the vibrations of the car, the resistance of the car," says Italiano.That means whole-body strength and cardiovascular fitness become an important factor, too. "These guys are in fire-resistant suits, they don't breathe," Italiano continues. "All of a sudden, thermoregulation of the body -- the ability for the body to cool down -- is heavily restricted."They're low to the ground, the bitumen is so hot; they've got an engine behind them, which is bringing in more heat. "The ability to cool down is just non-existent [...] You start becoming dehydrated, you start lacking fluids, you start to fatigue. "And if you start to fatigue, your reaction times start to hinder. That starts happening, you start losing one or two tenths per lap in a Formula One race. It could be the difference between a podium and finishing in the top 10."In the gym during preseason, Italiano has tasked Ricciardo with cardio sessions (running, rowing and cycling), strength exercises (deadlifts, squatting and bench-press) and core stability training. "We also emphasize training on the posterior chain [muscles on the backside of the body] because a lot of the braking loads -- when they're smashing that brake with their left foot -- is going through the calves, hamstrings and glutes," says Italiano.JUST WATCHEDRed Bull team boss discusses Max Verstappen's win and moreReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHRed Bull team boss discusses Max Verstappen's win and more 03:58Mental preparationItaliano's influence extends to Ricciardo's diet during race weekends -- meeting with the McLaren team chef to provide guidance on mealtimes, recipes and portion sizes -- adapting to hot climates and high altitudes, and assisting with recovery from travel and jet lag. "We hired a bit of a jet lag guru and we also have a jet lag app, which helps a lot with caffeine timing, light exposure, adapting to the time zone," he says."The meal timing on a flight is a big one, and also exercise timing when you land can aid with sleep and getting on the right time zone. There are a lot of factors that affect jet lag. It was the number one thing we really, really tried to hone down on."Then there's also mental preparation during a race weekend. "Something we talk a lot about is getting to that flow state on a Sunday," says Italiano. "The Wednesday or Thursday, it's get everything off your chest day, where it's like: 'OK, mate, what's bugging you? What's on your mind?' Just get it off your chest. "Qualifying, I like to get Daniel in a very calming state of mind because qualifying is about just perfecting the one lap. And Daniel, he performs very well in a relaxed state for qualifying. "Whereas race, we want him at an intensity level of about seven out of 10, we don't want him too intense because being too fired up can actually make your reactions worse if you're too fired up."Come Sunday when the checkered flag falls at the start of the Bahrain Grand Prix, Italiano will be hoping that his painstaking preparation -- from calf strength to cardio, squats to sleep schedules -- bears fruit.Ricciardo, who placed eighth in the driver standings last season, tested positive for Covid-19 last week, but has recovered in time to compete in this weekend's race. Italiano juggles his work as Ricciardo's performance coach with his own online coaching platform, MI Coaching, which seeks to make elite-level performance training accessible to the public. But F1 remains the priority. He anticipates there will be plenty of nerves as the season gets underway on Sunday, but excitement and curiosity, too. "There is an element of uncertainty and unknown," says Italiano, "not knowing which teams have made gains and which teams are a step behind. I find it quite intriguing."Those emotions are always accompanied by a sense of pride when he watches Ricciardo take to the racetrack. "It's been a massive inspiration to see a guy from the same city as me on the world stage," says Italiano. "It's just inspiring to be with him and then also helping him. It gives me belief as a coach as well."

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Paris (CNN)In the past, when people thought about electric cars they probably envisaged being stranded at the side of the road, an empty battery and not a charging point in sight.The thought of even getting from home to work and back was worrying enough, and the idea of making it from one country to another was, frankly, absurd.Fast forward to 2019 and electric vehicles have come a long way. Gone are the short battery ranges and sporadic charging stations -- there are now full charges which last for hundreds of kilometers and a rapidly-growing network of chargers.Perceptions about what electric cars can be have changed too, thanks in part to Formula E's advent which has shown they can be fast and fun and not like old milk floats.Vastly improved technology, allied to environmental concerns, has also seen the sale of electric vehicles (EVs) soar in recent years.Read MoreREAD: Spectacular crashes mark first wet ePrixREAD: This is what supercars will look like in 2035According to EV Volumes, a global electric car database, plug-in vehicle sales reached 2,100,000 in 2018, 64% higher than in 2017.Of the total sales, 69% -- or 1,449,000 -- were all-electric, while the remaining 31% were plug-in hybrids.And for the first time in its 42-year history, British magazine What Car? chose an electric vehicle as its Car of the Year. But if you're thinking Tesla's latest model or BMW's new electric i8, think something more understated.Kia's e-Niro is the car for now, according to What Car? Marketed as a spacious, affordable family car, the e-Niro boasts a range of 282 miles (454 kilometers) in a single charge and is completely emission free. This improved technology has seen an increase in battery life across the EV market, with most cars now comfortably exceeding the 150-mile range, more than enough for the average road user to complete several journeys. Photos: Techeetah partner DS, which is sponsoring the Formula E team this season, has released its "dream" car the X E-TENSE.Hide Caption 1 of 6 Photos: Slated for a 2035 release, the all electric supercar has been designed with two different engines, one for race tracks and one for road use.Hide Caption 2 of 6 Photos: It boasts a driverless mode which will allow the passenger to kick back inside the comfy 'cocoon.'Hide Caption 3 of 6 Photos: Tesla expect its electric supercar, the Roadster, to be ready as early as next year and claim in will be able to complete 620 miles per charge, while boasting a top speed of 250mph.Hide Caption 4 of 6 Photos: The Rimac C_TWO slightly edges the Roadster for speed, boasting a top speed of 258mph, but will do 403 miles in one charge.Hide Caption 5 of 6 Photos: Though not a supercar, Aston Martin's Lagonda expects to revolutionize road travel with its vast, luxurious interior. The manufacturer estimates production on its new range of luxury, low-emission vehicles will begin in 2021.Hide Caption 6 of 6Some of the EV market's most recent models such as the BMW i3 boast a range of 153 miles, the Nissan Leaf almost 200 and Hyundai's Kona Electric 292."It's the first electric car that can fit into most people's lifestyles, and the reason for that is its range and its price," What Car? deputy editor Darren Moss tells CNN of the reasoning behind its award for the e-Niro.Range anxietyIn the motoring world, that fear of being stuck at the side of a motorway with an empty electric car actually has a name: range anxiety.This has been the primary factor behind the public's reluctance to ditch their combustion cars for an electric vehicle and explains in part why the transition has been so slow and gradual.READ: Can Monaco magic a ninth different winner in "fantastic" season?And those fears are not unfounded. Take the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, the world's first mass-produced, highway-capable electric car that was released in 2009.The US version had a range of just 62 miles (100km) in a single charge, though the 2015 version increased to 100 miles (161km) and takes just 30 minutes to fully charge."Now of course, you don't have that problem in a petrol or a diesel car because you can just pull into a petrol station," Moss says. "But I think these days electric cars have come on to the point where the range is pretty good. "So this car, the e-Niro will do 407km in the real world between charges, about 253 miles and the majority of journeys, that's going to be absolutely fine."The chances are, if you're doing that kind of journey, you're going to need to stop, in which case you'll be doing it somewhere like a motorway service station, where there are fast chargers which can get you back up to 80% in about 75 minutes, so that's enough time for a coffee and a chat." Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonFormula E 2018/19 – The 2018/19 Formula E season proved to be a thriller, with the exciting new Gen2 cars boasting top speeds of 280km/h. Eight different drivers won the first eight races in a season that went down to the wire.Hide Caption 1 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonFrenchman Jean-Eric Vergne became the first double champion in the sport's history, defending the title he won last season thanks to three race victories.Hide Caption 2 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonRobin Frijns won his second E-Prix of the season, storming to victory in the final race of 2018/19 in New York.Hide Caption 3 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonFormer world champion Sebastian Buemi claimed his first victory of 2018/19 at the first of a double-header in New York.Hide Caption 4 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonJean-Eric Vergne strengthened his grip on the title with his third victory of the season in Bern, extending his lead to 38 points at the top of the championship.Hide Caption 5 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonBerlin, race 10 – An ecstatic Lucas Di Grassi celebrated in style after dominating the Berlin E-Prix to close the gap at the top of the drivers' championship.Hide Caption 6 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonFormula E finally got its first repeat winner of the season in race nine, as Jean-Eric Vergne led from pole to finish to secure his second victory of the season.Hide Caption 7 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonDutch driver Robin Frijns claimed victory in Paris on the day his country celebrated its national King's Day. The Envision Virgin Racing man was the eighth different driver to win the eight races so far this season.Hide Caption 8 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonMitch Evans victory at the Rome ePrix was Jaguar's first in motorsport since 1991. The Kiwi is the only driver to score points in the seven races so far this season.Hide Caption 9 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonSanya, race six – Jean-Eric Vergne put an end to a miserable run of form that saw him go pointless for three straight races by taking victory in Sanya, the first time the championship had visited the south China cityHide Caption 10 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonHong Kong, race five – Edoardo Mortara backed up his third place in Mexico by claiming top spot in Hong Kong, Venturi's first ever victory in Formula E. Sam Bird had initially crossed the line in first place but after a four-hour investigation, was demoted for smashing into the back of race leader Andre Lotterer.Hide Caption 11 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonMexico City, race four – Former world champion Lucas Di Grassi celebrates his victory at the Mexico ePrix, arguably the most thrilling race in the sport's five seasons. Race leader Pascal Wehrlein's battery died just meters from the line, allowing Di Grassi to swoop past on the inside and snatch victory.Hide Caption 12 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonSantiago, race three – On a sweltering afternoon in Santiago, Chile -- the hottest ePrix in history -- Sam Bird stormed to victory at the Parque O'Higgins Circuit. After finishing third overall last season, the Briton will have hopes of coming out on top this time around.Hide Caption 13 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonMarrakesh, race two – Jerome d'Ambrosio followed up his podium finish in Saudi Arabia with victory in Marrakesh -- his third in Formula E -- to take an early lead at the top of the championship.Hide Caption 14 of 15 Photos: The 2018/19 Formula E seasonAd Diriyah, race one – The season got off to a thrilling start in Ad Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, as Portuguese driver Antonio Felix da Costa edged out Jean-Eric Vergne and Jerome d'Ambrosio to claim the second Formula E win of his career.Hide Caption 15 of 15London to Paris?So, in the name of green travel, we at CNN Supercharged willingly decided to give ourselves a taste of range anxiety and put the e-Niro to the test and attempt to drive from London to the Paris ePrix on a single charge.Our journey starts in Soho, in the heart of London.To make sure we complete the journey, we drive in the recommended Eco+ mode which limits the car's top speed to 60mph and disables energy consuming systems such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning.JUST WATCHEDFrijns win action-packed Paris ePrixReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHFrijns win action-packed Paris ePrix 05:23Though if you do start to feel the chill and you are traveling alone -- or aren't particularly friends with your passenger -- you can choose to heat only the driver's side of the car.The first leg of our journey takes us 75 miles to Portsmouth on England's south coast, where we'll cross the English Channel before eventually arriving in the French city of Caen.Upon leaving London, our worst fears are realized almost immediately, as we take a wrong turn, leaving the motorway and ending up on a more scenic route which no doubt drains some precious miles from the battery.Fortunately there are no further hiccups and we arrive in Portsmouth with a healthy amount of battery life remaining. Despite knowing we should make it comfortably with miles to spare, range anxiety inevitably kicks in as our eyes flick to and from the dashboard, checking the charge at regular intervals.Once we land in Caen, the longest stretch of the journey lies ahead; a five-hour, 150-mile drive to the iconic Invalides in the heart of Paris, where the eighth leg of the Formula E calendar takes place.Sadly, the miserable British weather has followed us across the Channel and while the gloom hinders our view of the rolling French countryside, it at least offers us the chance to test more of the car's functions.Sensors detect when rainfall on the windshield gets heavier and automatically turn on the wipers, while the heated seats and steering wheel provide a welcome bubble from the outside elements.It's widely acknowledged that the next big step in the car industry will be autonomous vehicles. The e-Niro has cameras providing lane assistance which forcibly pull you back into the middle of your lane if you stray and the cruise control adjusts its speed, accelerating and decelerating based on the distance to the car in front of you. JUST WATCHEDFormula E: Iconic cities like Paris 'cherry on the cake'ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHFormula E: Iconic cities like Paris 'cherry on the cake' 01:51All this means that technically you can take your feet off the pedals and hands off the wheel (though an alarming beeping sound quickly warns against it).Approaching Paris, the Eiffel Tower provides a welcome sight and signals that our journey is coming to an end. We pull into the gardens of Les Invalides, meters from where the weekend's race will start and check the dashboard one last time -- we made it and with 66 miles to spare. Range anxiety? Nothing to worry about.

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Story highlightsRed Bull's F1 driver Mark Webber tells CNN of his love for go-kartingThe Australian cut his teeth on karts at the start of his motorsport careerWebber says legendary Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna was a huge fan of kartingThe 36-year-old says karting is a "pure" form of racing and is "very, very raw"It is the ultimate breeding ground for any Formula One star of the future, and a medium endorsed by one of the sport's greatest drivers, Ayrton Senna.Right up until his tragic death in 1994, the three-time world champion from Brazil still raced go-karts, a rough and ready forerunner for those youngsters hoping to make the giant leap to the multi-million-dollar arena of F1.Senna's passion for karts is shared by Mark Webber, who started on his path to stardom as part of the all-conquering Red Bull team by speeding round miniature tracks as a teen.According to the Australian, who still squeezes his giant frame into a go-kart every once in a while, there is no better place to see if kids have what it takes to thrive in the fast-paced world of motorsport."Karting is very purist if you like, it's very basic," Webber, who was second fastest in practice for Sunday's Indian Grand Prix, told CNN. "Ayrton Senna was still a huge fan right until the end. "For him he really enjoyed it and he said he had some of his best racing in go-karts and he had some of his toughest opposition in go-karts, so there's no better endorsement than that."I suppose it's like learning new languages when you're young. Karting is the best way for you to get a feel of how to race each other, dealing with the competition, dealing with winning, dealing with losing, and you soak up so much at a young age and learn very fast."JUST WATCHEDMark Webber back in the go-kartReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHMark Webber back in the go-kart 02:32JUST WATCHEDRed Bull Show RunReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHRed Bull Show Run 02:57JUST WATCHEDRed Bull unveils 2012 carReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHRed Bull unveils 2012 car 01:25All of F1's stellar names, such as double world champions Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and seven-time drivers' championship winner Michael Schumacher, started out on karting tracks.Senna, one of the sport's most dynamic drivers, became transfixed with an improvised go-kart made for him as a four-year-old by his father using old parts of an old lawnmower.And though there can be little comparison between the speed and the danger of the two driving disciplines, Webber insists the challenge presented by karting is one that still excites him."The difference between go-karts and Formula One is obviously quite extreme. It's from the junior, the most basic form to the most extreme form," the 36-year-old said. "But a lot of Formula One drivers, including myself, still love driving karts because it's very, very raw."They still give us a great feel of adrenalin and sensation of speed even though they're not as powerful as what we race week in, week out, but we are low to the ground, you've got to be very precise -- all the things we have to deal with in our profession."Talent on the track is one thing but Webber says it is vital to have an understanding of the financial workings of motorsport even from an early age.Anyone who reaches the top will reap the rewards that come with F1 success, but it can be an expensive hobby to fund at the start of a driver's career."It's not a cheap sport, obviously, so you've got to try to find sponsorship if you can to help mum and dad pay for your go-kart tires and go-kart engines," he said."If you can, have a good nous and good awareness for the sponsorship side of things as well. I know they're only young but it's important for them to understand that."Webber's first love was motorbikes, but his switch to four wheels as a 14-year-old paid instant dividends as he won his state go-karting championship in New South Wales.But aside from the titles, the thing he most cherishes about his time in the junior ranks of motorsport was traveling round Australia with his father, who was otherwise kept busy at work.It wasn't until Webber started to enjoy success on a more prestigious stage that he thought his dream of becoming a Formula One driver could turn into a reality."There was definitely a moment when I was young and it clicked and I wanted to be a driver at the highest level," he said. "I was completely dreaming then and every day I was dreaming about how far I could get in the sport. "No-one's that arrogant when they're racing go-karts that (they think) for sure I'm going to be a world champion one day or I'm going to race Formula One or I'm going to do this. "It's just a process and you get more confidence and you win and you keep moving up. I think it's not until you start getting to Europe and winning races over there that you feel that you can go all the way. "Because it's in your wildest dreams that you'd ever get to race a Formula One car when you're racing karts."

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(CNN)Alexander Zverev will be allowed to play at Indian Wells, after receiving a suspended eight-week ban for his behavior at the Mexican Open in February. Alexander Zverev smashes his racket on the umpire's chair moments after losing a doubles match of the Mexican Open tennis tournament in Acapulco, Mexico, on Feb. 22, 2022. The world no.3 yelled at the umpire and then repeatedly hit the official's chair with his racquet following a first-round doubles loss. Consequently, he was ejected from the singles tournament, fined $40,000, and forfeited the $31,570 in prize money that he had already accumulated, as well as all ATP Rankings points from the event.The ATP's Senior Vice President of Rules and Competition Miro Bratoev has now determined that Zverev committed "Aggravated Behavior under the Player Major Offense section of ATP Rules."The 24-year-old Zverev has also been fined an additional $25,000 and handed a suspension for a period of eight weeks from any ATP-sanctioned event."However, the fine and suspension are withheld on the condition that, over a probation period ending 22 February 2023 [one year from the incident], the player does not incur a further Code Violation," said the ATP statement.The ATP has handed out a suspended punishment before, finding Nick Kyrgios guilty of a "Player Major Offense" in 2019 after a relatively similar incident in which the Australian broke two racquets and shouted at the umpire. Kyrgios' suspended ban was never implemented.Read MoreAlexander Zverev hits a return during men's singles first round match against Jenson Brooksby of the United States at the 2022 ATP Mexican Open tennis tournament in Acapulco, Mexico, Feb. 22, 2022. Zverev has until March 11 to appeal the decision but has already admitted his culpability, apologizing publicly and privately to the umpire in question, Alessandro Germani, according to a statement he posted on Instagram.Zverev's outburst at the Mexican Open in Acapulco has provoked outcry across the tennis world."There is absolutely a double standard. I would probably be in jail if I did that. Like literally, no joke," Serena Williams told CNN's Christine Amanpour, as she explained her thoughts on the incident. Qualifying is already underway at Indian Wells, with the tournament's main draw starting on Wednesday.

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(CNN)Days before a road trip to play the Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs asked his manager whether his teammates could dress up as cowboys.Skaggs and teammates took a picture wearing their cowboy gear on Sunday. It's one of the last photos Angels manager Brad Ausmus said the team has of the pitcher, who was found dead Monday in a Texas hotel room. "The last image of I have of him is standing on the plane with this awful cowboy shirt on, playing cards," Ausmus said Tuesday, smiling. "I'll miss him."In an emotional, somber press conference, Angels executives remembered Skaggs for his playful nature and his impact on people inside and outside the clubhouse. Two jerseys bearing Skaggs' name and number -- 45 -- hung in the background in Arlington, where the team will play the Rangers. Why Tyler Skaggs' death sends a wave of heartache through baseball"He impacted a lot of people, and the community," Angels general manager Billy Eppler said. "He was a staple in our community with all the efforts of the Angels throughout Southern California. There are so many people that knew Tyler and loved Tyler." Read MoreHis memory lives on in hearts and mindsEppler said Skaggs "was a teammate, he was a brother, a friend and most important of all, he was a husband and a son." "For some reason that is incomprehensible to all of us, he lives on now only in our minds and in our hearts," Eppler said, as several Angels players sat nearby. A memorial is set up in front of Angel Stadium for Tyler Skaggs. Skaggs was pronounced dead at the scene after he was found unresponsive at a Hilton in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Southlake, police said in a statement. Foul play is not believed to be a factor at this point, Southlake police said. "In these early stages of the investigation, it does not appear at this time that suicide was the cause of death," Southlake police officer Brad Uptmore told CNN. Ausmus said players met several times after learning about Skaggs' death. They talked and laughed "about some of the stories, some of the goofy things he did" and listened to some of his favorite music, Ausmus said, his voice getting choked up."It was good," he said, wiping away tears with his forearm. Angels statement on the passing of Tyler Skaggs. pic.twitter.com/6XA2Vu1uWV— Los Angeles Angels (@Angels) July 1, 2019 A personality that drew people inThe Angels drafted Skaggs in 2009. He made his major league debut in 2012 and spent the 2012 and 2013 seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Skaggs last pitched Saturday, completing 4⅓ innings in the Angels' game against the Oakland As in Anaheim. Skaggs was married at the end of 2018, according to his and his wife's Instagram accounts. Photos show them kissing and embracing on their wedding day. Carli Skaggs on Sunday night shared a photo of her husband wearing a black cowboy hat and black shirt. Tyler Skaggs posted this photograph after the team arrived in Texas.Tyler Skaggs later posted the picture on his Instagram account of him and his teammates wearing their cowboy hats, standing near a plane. "Howdy y'all," Skaggs' post said. "#TexasRoadtrip""He's got the type of personality that draws others in," Ausmus said. "He's goofy in a very good, funny way," Ausmus said.After he was hired last year, Ausmus said he had lunch with Skaggs in Santa Monica, where Skaggs went to high school.Ausmus said he told Skaggs he could be an all-star."I still think he can," he said, choking up. Playing for TylerThe first of the four-game series against the Texas Rangers was postponed Monday after Skaggs' death. The Angels took the field Tuesday night against the Rangers.The game began with a moment of silence to honor Skaggs. The Rangers will donate the proceeds from a fan raffle to the Angels Baseball Foundation in Skaggs' honor, the team said. Eppler said he talked to some members of the team about playing. Skaggs would have wanted them to play, Eppler said. "It's a time to allow them to get back into a routine and to have a period of time where they feel disconnected," Eppler said. "A lot of problems go away when the first pitch is thrown, until the last pitch is thrown," he said.CNN's Wayne Sterling, David Close, Nicole Williams, Amanda Jackson, Dave Alsup, Kevin Dotson and Amanda Watts contributed to this report.

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Story highlights2015 Africa Cup of Nations gets under way SaturdayEquatorial Guinea hosting tournament after Morocco was suspendedMorocco banned for refusing to host competition due to Ebola fearsReigning champion Nigeria did not qualify for 2015 tournamentFormer professional footballer Lutz Pfannenstiel, who played on six different continents, looks ahead to the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, which gets under way Saturday. (CNN)I wasn't surprised the Confederation of African Football (CAF) suspended host Morocco from its most prestigious tournament -- the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) -- as the continent grappled with the Ebola crisis.It is important to take Ebola seriously, but Morocco took too long to make a decision and the North African nation had various options to control the risk, notably preventing fans from West Africa from entering the country.AFCON is still one of the world's most important football tournaments and a sudden cancellation would have been ridiculous.The health of a continent is more important than any football tournament, but given the distance from Morocco to where the disease is most prevalent, the risk posed to the North African nation would have been small.Morocco offered to host the tournament the following year, but to have staged competitions in successive years -- 2016 and 2017 -- would have caused a huge rumpus with European clubs.Read MoreOf course, an AFCON should be played on African soil, but would offering it to Qatar have been a better solution?New host Equatorial Guinea -- the right choice?For CAF to give the tournament to Equatorial Guinea, however, was a controversial decision.Western officials cite Equatorial Guinea as an example of a resource-rich country that is plagued by kleptocracy problems.JUST WATCHEDAfrica Cup of Nations faces uncertaintyReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHAfrica Cup of Nations faces uncertainty 04:47President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has been in power since 1979 and the vast majority of his citizens live in poverty. In recent years, anti-corruption groups have tried to draw attention to the ruling family's assets in Europe and the United States.In 2012, Equatorial Guinea co-hosted AFCON. I attended that tournament and it worked out, but remember Gabon was the co-host as well and that made a huge difference.But CAF didn't have a lot of options. Africa isn't like Europe where you clap your hands and you have 10 countries willing to host a major tournament. As they say, TIA -- "This is Africa." To be honest CAF was lucky to find a replacement on that short notice."CAF wishes to express its sincere thanks to the Equatorial Guinean people, its government and particularly president Obiang," said CAF president Issa Hayatou in a statement. "To agree to organize a competition like this two months before the event, you must admit you really have to be a true African."But CAF could still face problems. Equatorial Guinea has two great stadiums, but the other two are not of international standard.It will be very difficult to host a tournament with similar conditions for all teams. The government will have to put in a lot of effort just to provide at least a normal playing surface.Equatorial Guinea's infrastructure could also present problems. There are a few decent roads between the airport and the stadium or from city to city, but that's not the case for the rest of the country.Will there be enough hotels and accommodation for the 16 teams, officials and international press? Participants need to be prepared to improvise, but it will be a big challenge for everybody involved.Power cuts are a normal part of life in West Africa, so it's not unusual that stars playing for Europe's top clubs will have to take a cold shower or spend time in hotels without electricity, walking around with flashlights or candles.Many international fans wonder why African stars would accept such conditions. The reason is simple: All Africans are proud to represent their country and are honored to play at AFCON, even if they have to play on a bumpy pitch or are living in a less-than-luxurious hotel.For me that's really impressive, touching even, when you realize how much it means to these guys to carry the flag for their country.Don't expect African players to crumble under any pressure from European clubs asking them not to travel to the tournament because of Ebola.The players believe that they have to fight this illness by showing some solidarity.Uncomfortable atmosphere?When I have been to Equatorial Guinea you often feel the locals aren't that keen to communicate with foreigners.The constant presence of military and police armed with rifles creates an uncomfortable atmosphere.When I was at the tournament in 2012, my local driver was punched in his face with a gun because he asked politely if he could drop me and my cameraman closer to the stadium.That was one reason why I felt more comfortable in Gabon.I expect the attendances in Equatorial Guinea to be strong because the locals are big football fans. And if the government wants the stadiums to be full then people are most likely to go there.Africans view Equatorial Guinea's national team somewhat critically, given it has too many naturalized players -- many were born in Spain, Colombia, Ivory Coast and Cameroon.Equatorial Guinea's participation also signals a remarkable turnaround in its fortunes, following the team's suspension from the competition for fielding an ineligible player earlier this year.A crazy draw -- who are the favorites?AFCON offers a strange mix of football. Within two minutes you can witness everything from amateur level to world-class ability. You see unbelievable skills and seconds later you shake your head about a mistake you wouldn't even see in the lowest leagues.The weaker teams are no better than German third-division level, but with teams like Ivory Coast you see plenty of players who earn their money at top clubs.However, the level, especially in the tactical area, has improved drastically over the last four tournaments. Algeria is my tip to win the tournament. It's a team that had a fantastic World Cup, a convincing qualification campaign and a team where it's hard to spot any weakness.Algeria is a team that plays European football, is disciplined and physical, and has plenty of experience.Ghana is a contender because of the individual class of players like Asamoah Gyan and many others.It's a shame that Nigeria -- the current African champions -- didn't qualify for the tournament. Nigerian coach Stephen Keshi always managed to field a team with a good mixture of overseas-based players and local youngsters. The Super Eagles will be sorely missed.I can't see a surprise winner like Zambia in 2012. It was a once-in-a-lifetime fairytale when a team of unknown players beat sides like Ghana and Ivory Coast against all the odds.Senegal, with my good friend Alain Giresse in charge, is a team that could potentially go all the way. Its physical strength is known to anybody who watches African football, but Alan has formed a unit which has also improved tactically.Equatorial Guinea has a decent side but it's not a team that has the level required to become African champions.FansOne of the big differences between the European Championship and AFCON is the attendance and the atmosphere in the stadiums.Why do you see so many empty seats in the stadiums? Africa is a huge continent and connections from one country to the other by plane, train or car can be quite complicated and can take hours or even days.The travel costs are also very expensive and sometimes connections between African countries are easier with a stopover in Europe.Likewise, an average African worker would never be able to afford the airfare, while accommodation can be completely overpriced. A very average hotel room during the 2010 AFCON was sometimes more than $500.Ticket prices at AFCON are also too high for fans. A normal ticket costs many times more than local fans would normally pay for tickets at a domestic league game. Average African fans just can't afford to pay such prices for a football game. Poverty forces people to buy food or medication instead of spending crazy money on a football match.Every match of the host nation is traditionally a sell-out crowd, and as long as the host is still in the tournament, the attendances are decent. But when the home team is eliminated, you sometimes get the feeling that the football in the country has just died, with local supporters losing immediate interest in the tournament.These days, African fan culture gravitates towards many of them supporting European teams. So much so, that the English Premier League means much more to African fans than AFCON.Who cares to watch Guinea against Senegal if you can see Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool or Arsenal at the same time on television?African football, therefore, has a real struggle competing against the major European leagues, with Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar now the true idols of African fans.Read: 'Lazarus' footballer who came back from the dead

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Story highlightsThe miners, who are in Rome promoting a film about the 2010 disaster, give the Pope several giftsFrancis blessed one miner's 5-year-old daughter, born when he was still trapped Read this story in Spanish at CNNEspanol.com (CNN)They were stuck underground for more than two months, staring at the pages of small Bibles as they prayed they'd make it out alive.But just over five years after their dramatic rescue from a remote desert mine, many of the Chilean miners saw a very different sight on Wednesday: Pope Francis.The group of miners, who are in Rome promoting a new film about the mine disaster, posed for photos and presented gifts to Francis at the Vatican.Photos posted on the official Facebook page of "The 33" movie show a smiling Francis in St. Peter's Square, blessing 5-year-old Esperanza Ticona, who was born when her father was still trapped in the mine. In Spanish, her name means "hope."The Pope gave each of the miners a blessed rosary.Read MoreAccording to film distributor Warner Bros. Pictures, which is also owned by CNN's parent company Time Warner, the miners gave the Pope a helmet signed by each of the miners and an enlarged framed message.Another photo shows miner Jorge Galleguillos presenting the Pope with a small box containing rocks from the mine. In a recent interview, Galleguillos said the day the mine caved in, he made the sign of the cross in front of an image of the Virgin Mary near the entrance.When the mine collapsed, he feared he would never see his family again. Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescue Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueRelatives stand by as rescuers work to free 33 miners trapped inside the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, on August 6, 2010. The mine collapsed a day earlier, and the miners ended up trapped 2,300 feet underground for more than two months. See how the rescue operation unfolded.Hide Caption 1 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueMiner Daniel Espinoza waits outside the collapsed copper and gold mine to help in the rescue efforts on August 7.Hide Caption 2 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueMiners carry an effigy of Saint Lorenzo, the patron saint of miners, before a Mass outside the collapsed mine on August 10.Hide Caption 3 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueChilean President Sebastian Pinera holds up a plastic bag containing a message from the miners on August 22. Translated from Spanish, it read: "We are OK in the refuge, the 33." The miners were confirmed to be alive when rescue teams reached them via a tube that was sent down a small hole. The same hole was used to provide the miners with food, supplies and letters.Hide Caption 4 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueDrilling machines work in the rescue operation on August 24.Hide Caption 5 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueMarion Gallardo, the granddaughter of trapped miner Mario Gomez, writes a letter to her grandfather on August 25.Hide Caption 6 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueRelatives watch a video of the trapped miners on August 26. Chilean television aired footage of the miners, showing them in good spirits and explaining how their underground shelter was set up.Hide Caption 7 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueMinister Javier Soto dedicates one of the 33 Bibles that would be sent down to the miners on August 31.Hide Caption 8 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueOn September 8, volunteers install heating and water purification systems at the La Esperanza tent city that sprang up outside the mine as news of the collapse spread. Esperanza means hope in English.Hide Caption 9 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueMargarita Segovia, the wife of miner Ariel Ticona, rests beside their newborn daughter Esperanza at a hospital in Copiapo on September 14.Hide Caption 10 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescuePeople celebrate the arrival of part of an oil rig on September 16. Soon, an escape route would be drilled for the trapped miners.Hide Caption 11 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueOn September 25, a worker tests a capsule that would be used as part of rescue operations.Hide Caption 12 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueA rescue worker walks past a banner with pictures of the trapped miners on October 11.Hide Caption 13 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueMedia vehicles are parked on the outskirts of the mine on October 11.Hide Caption 14 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueLoreto Campbell, a relative of miner Jorge Galleguillos, reacts while watching his rescue on a TV screen at the camp outside the mine on October 13. Galleguillos was the 11th of 33 miners who were rescued.Hide Caption 15 of 16 Photos: 2010 Chile mine rescueMiner Alex Vega hugs his wife after his rescue on October 13. All 33 miners were rescued.Hide Caption 16 of 16Galleguillos, 61, now subsidizes his pension by giving tours to visitors at the mine site for donations. He told CNN he teaches and performs Chilean folk dance to chase off nightmares that wake him up at 4 a.m. every day.In the five years since the mine collapsed, Galleguillos said he is more thankful than ever, but also struggling with the harrowing time he spent trapped underground."I'm alive thanks to God," he told CNN. "That's the important thing."CNN's Nicola Ruotolo, Sarah Butler and Rosa Flores contributed to this report.

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Story highlightsMultiple roundworm eggs are found in samples from where his intestines would've beenKing Richard III's remains were discovered beneath a parking lot in LeicesterHe was killed in 1485, at the Battle of Bosworth FieldEven a king can get them.Researchers working with the remains of King Richard III said on Wednesday that he was infected with roundworms in his intestines.They know because they found multiple roundworm eggs in soil samples from around his pelvis, where his intestines would have been, according to a study published online in the journal Lancet.New mystery: A coffin inside a coffinEggs were not found in a sample taken from near the king's head, and a sample from around his grave showed only scant contamination, the researchers said.JUST WATCHEDNew mystery at Richard III burial siteReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHNew mystery at Richard III burial site 01:58JUST WATCHEDThe king in the parking lotReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHThe king in the parking lot 02:47JUST WATCHEDSkeletal remains are of Richard IIIReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHSkeletal remains are of Richard III 01:40Last year, archaeologists unearthed a body buried beneath a nondescript parking lot in the city of Leicester. In February, they confirmed the remains were those of Richard III, the last king of England to die on the battlefield.Is this the face that launched 1,000 myths?The news drew global attention, thanks in part to Richard's bloodthirsty reputation -- as immportalized in William Shakespeare's play "Richard III."As many as 1.2 billion people in the world are thought to be infected with Ascaris lumbricoides, the kind of roundworm eggs found in the king's remains, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Ascaris lives in the intestine and eggs are passed in the feces.Some people infected show no symptoms, but some can have abdominal discomfort. In severe cases, the infection can cause intestinal blockage and stunt growth in children, the CDC said.Cases in present day Britain are rare, according to the National Health Service, with most cases now diagnosed occurring in people who have traveled from parts of the world where roundworm is present.War of the RosesKing Richard was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, at age 32. It was the last fight in the War of the Roses, which ended with Henry VII of the Tudor line on the throne.The Leicester site is where a church, known as Greyfriars Friary, once stood. Back from the grave, King Richard III gets rehabOver the centuries, the whereabouts of the friary's remnants were forgotten, but it remained in the records as the burial place of Richard III.Last year, archaeologists began to excavate the parking lot site, and in February announced that they were convinced "beyond reasonable doubt" that the skeleton found there belonged to Richard.Mitochondrial DNA extracted from the bones was matched to Michael Ibsen, a Canadian cabinetmaker and direct descendant of Richard III's sister, Anne of York, and a second distant relative, who wished to remain anonymous.Experts said other evidence -- including battle wounds and signs of scoliosis, or curvature of the spine -- found during the search and more than four months of tests afterward strongly supported the DNA findings.The king's remains are due to be reburied in Leicester Cathedral, close to the site of his original grave, next year.

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Paris (CNN)The investigation into a knife attack that left four people dead at Paris police headquarters has been forwarded to French terrorism prosecutors, a source at the Paris prosecutor's office told CNN Friday.Three policemen and a female police administrative worker were killed Thursday by a fellow member of staff, who was later shot dead inside the building located near Notre Dame Cathedral on the Île de la Cité in central Paris.French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said the assailant was a 45-year-old man who had been an employee at the police station since 2003. On Thursday, a source in the Paris prosecutor's office told CNN that the wife of the attacker had been taken into custody. It was not clear if she was at the scene of the attack or why she was taken into custody.Police block the street after the knife attack. President Emanuel Macron, accompanied by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe and Castaner, visited the scene Thursday. Read MoreThe Elysée Palace said in a statement: "The President of the Republic went to the police station to show his support and solidarity to all the staff."

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Holly Thomas is a writer and editor based in London. She tweets @HolstaT. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN)When Britney Spears' mental health deteriorated in early 2008, the story dominated the news for weeks. Pictures of the wide-eyed, shaven-headed superstar saturated the internet, and a Rolling Stone cover story described Spears as being a toy we'd all grown tired of playing with, a "perfectly proportioned twenty-six-year-old porcelain doll with a nasty weave." Long after the episode had passed, the meme "If Britney can survive 2007, you can handle today" remained synonymous with the worst, most embarrassing kind of breakdown. Holly ThomasAfter TMZ broke the news last week that Spears had checked herself into a mental health facility, the coverage, though extensive, was comparatively muted. The consensus (rightly) seemed to be that Spears, in the face of extreme stress, had done the responsible thing by seeking help. Many other celebrities expressed their support, and voiced to their fans the importance of getting the care you need. Spears, who announced earlier this year that she was taking some time out of the limelight to focus on her family, posted on her Instagram page last week: "We all need to take time for a little 'me' time." But for the non-rich and famous, seeking help for mental health issues in America is often fraught with complications which make a mockery of well-meant encouragement. According to new analysis of 300 emergency rooms published this week in JAMA Pediatrics and reported by CNN, the number of children aged 5-18 who arrived with suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts doubled from 580,000 to 1.12 million between 2007 and 2015. The average age of those evaluated was 13, and 43% of the children visiting were aged between 5 and 11. While previously suicidal behavior made up 2% of pediatric emergency room visits, it now accounts for 3.5%.JUST WATCHEDTaraji P. Henson talks mental health with Van JonesReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHTaraji P. Henson talks mental health with Van Jones 02:10It's not just kids who are struggling. Last year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that suicide among adults has risen in nearly every state over the last 20 years, in half by as much as 30%. Depression and prior suicide attempts represent significant risk factors for suicide. Read MoreThis is an emergency, but too often, the support millions of Americans need is not available. And, as always, the poorest are hardest hit.After the financial crisis in 2008, states cut mental health spending by billions of dollars. In 2014, a study published in JAMA Psychiatry found that therapists were the least likely medical providers to accept insurance. The percentage that did was "significantly lower" than physicians in other specialties like cardiology or dermatology. Therapy can cost hundreds of dollars per session, and is especially expensive in cities, where rates of depression are higher. Most of the United States faces a severe shortage of practicing child and adolescent psychiatrists, with fewer than 17 providers available per 100,000 children, according to data from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry."Even though I'm able to afford sessions out of pocket now, they're extremely expensive when I have to do that and a lot of the places that I need to go to don't accept my insurance," Cori Siren, an entertainer and jewelry maker from Indiana told me. "So, I'm left going to awful facilities that do accept my insurance and something always gets messed up." Regardless of whether you have medical insurance or not, finding support can be a mission unto itself, and Siren's story echoes others' who struggle to find timely access to appropriate care. This problem, a longstanding issue, has only grown worse over the course of the Trump administration so far.The ancient ways suicide continues to haunt usIn 2017, the Trump administration froze a federal database which had helped direct people to services and interventions to treat mental health disorders and substance abuse. The 2019 fiscal year budget requested $68.4 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services -- a 21% decrease from the budget enacted in 2017.In March, Trump supported a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. This is the latest in a series of attacks, with the administration having already given states powers to weaken Obamacare last October. About 30 million people covered would lose their health insurance if the Affordable Care Act was repealed without a replacement plan, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare dramatically increased access to care for conditions such as substance addiction in the most-affected states.The stress of seeking out evasive health care can have an impact over generations. Watching parents struggle with bills, drown in forms and sink into debt can put children off engaging with an unwelcoming system in their own adulthood, and exacerbate the effects of the original condition. When you have a mental illness, even the most perfunctory daily tasks can feel like mountains to climb, let alone making important phone calls or filling out complex paperwork.Though mental illness remains stigmatized, and to hugely varying degrees across race and wealth status, the conversation around it has evolved. The media is moving away from some of the derogatory language it used so thoughtlessly even a few years ago. But for those not wealthy enough to check into rehab facilities or access even basic care, the right words are far from enough to tackle a growing and dangerous problem. Stay up to date...Sign up for our new newsletter.Join us on Twitter and FacebookWhile there is undoubtedly value in seeing a beloved celebrity handle mental health issues as judiciously as Britney Spears has in recent weeks, the real lesson we should take is that against all sense and justice, mental health care in America remains for too many (and even more if the Trump administration has its way on healthcare policy) the domain of the privileged. Until that is addressed, for many, urges to seek help will remain a hollow echo.

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Story highlightsReal Madrid extend La Liga lead with 4-1 victory over nine-man AtleticoDerby success puts Jose Mourinho's team six points clear of BarcelonaDefending champions crash to first defeat of La Liga season at GetafeThird-placed Valencia close to within one point of Barcelona with victoryReal Madrid moved six points clear in Spain after winning a fiery derby match against nine-man Atletico on Saturday and then seeing defending champions Barcelona suffer a shock first La Liga defeat this season.Real marched to a 13th successive victory in all competitions, while Barca lost 1-0 at lowly Getafe -- who had won just once in seven games.Cristiano Ronaldo scored two penalties as Jose Mourinho's side came from behind to win 4-1 at the Bernabeu, with Atletico having teenage goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois sent off in the 23rd minute for bringing down Karim Benzema when the French striker tried to go around him.The 19-year-old was replaced by substitute keeper Sergio Asenjo, whose first job was to pick the ball out of the net after being beaten by Ronaldo.Angel Di Maria made it 2-1 four minutes after the break when Ronaldo's intended pass to Benzema fell in his path, and fellow Argentina international Gonzalo Higuain pounced on a mistake by Diego Godin in the 65th minute.Godin was also sent off for an 81st-minute foul on Higuain, who had been put through by Ronaldo's clever pass -- and the Portugal forward sent Asenjo the wrong way from the spot to make it 4-1.Atletico had not beaten Real for 12 years, but started the match promisingly as Adrian finished off a fine move to give the mid-table visitors the lead in the 15th minute.Barcelona, seeking to win the league for the fourth season in a row, succumbed to a 67th-minute header from Getafe defender Juan Valera after being caught napping at a corner.The Catalan side poured forward in search of a last-gasp equalizer, but Lionel Messi had an injury-time effort ruled out when substitute Seydou Keita was judged to be offside and then the Argentina star hit the post as he failed to match Ronaldo's leading tally of 16 league goals.Pep Guardiola's team will be hoping to reduce Real's lead in the first Clasico clash in the league this season in Madrid on December 10.Third-placed Valencia bounced back from last weekend's home defeat by Real by winning 2-1 at mid-table Rayo Vallecano.Brazilian striker Jonas put Valencia ahead in the 21st minute and Argentine midfielder Tino Costa made it 2-0 on 56, while Raul Talmudo scored a late consolation.The win left Valencia one point behind Barca after 13 rounds.

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(CNN)A woman has been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter following a paddleboarding incident in Wales last week in which four people died. Andrea Powell, 41, from the Bridgend area who was in hospital following the incident on the Cleddau River in Haverfordwest on October 30, was named by police as the fourth victim to die. Dyfed-Powys Police previously announced two other women and a man died at the scene last week after a group of nine adults from the South Wales area traveled to Pembrokeshire for a paddle-boarding excursion and got into difficulty in the water. A further five people were rescued without injury. "Our thoughts are with her family, and all those involved in this tragic incident. We are supporting her family, and would ask for their privacy to be respected at this very difficult time," the statement said about Powell.Police said the woman who had been arrested on Friday as part of the investigation "has been released under investigation."Read MoreThe families of the victims who died in the incident last week paid tribute to them.Morgan Rogers, 24, was described by her family as "the best that she could be," who would "sadly be missed by her mother, father, Rhys, Harry, Holly and Katy."The family of Nicola Wheatley, 40, said:"We are devastated by our loss. Nicola was a loving mother, daughter, daughter-in-law and wife. Nicola was a beautiful, caring, considerate and funny person. She was amazing in every way.She has left a void in our lives that will never be filled."The family of Paul O'Dwyer, 42, called him a "devoted husband, father, son and brother" and said that "he devoted his life to contributing to society in his many adventures in raising money for different causes."O'Dwyer's family also said: "Paul was a water baby. His passion for the water started with Aberavon lifeguards from an early age."His sporting prowess extended to many different sports. He was an army surfing champion, British Army 7 aside rugby team member, Aberavon Green stars rugby player, ski instructor and completed multiple times in British and Welsh 3 peak events."We as a family are truly thankful for the kind messages sent to us in our time of great sadness."

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(CNN)A couple dubbed the "Italian Bonnie and Clyde" who impersonated the US actor George Clooney to sell their clothing line have been arrested in Thailand. Francesco Galdelli, 58, and his wife Vanya Goffi, 45, who have been on the run for six years, were arrested Saturday in the Thai city of Pattaya in a joint operation by Royal Thai Police and Italian agents from Interpol, Italian police said in a statement. In 2010, Clooney took the witness stand in Italy and accused the couple of fraudulently using his name and forged signatures to create a bogus fashion line. Galdelli and Goffi also orchestrated a series of scams and frauds including selling fake Rolex watches online and sending their victims packets of salt instead of watches, Italian police said. The pair were convicted and sentenced in 2014 -- Galdelli to 8 years and 4 months, Goffi to 6 years and 5 months -- by Italy's supreme court. But by then they had fled the country and were wanted on an Interpol red notice issued by Italy.Read More"Until 2013, they would go back and forth to Thailand," Italian police's Andrea Vitalone told CNN. "They were considered respectable citizens and even benefactors amid the Italian community in Thailand. Galdelli even made massive donations for a charity supporting disabled children and children with HIV. Then, they went on the run."They were finally caught on Saturday after police surrounded the luxury villa where they were holed up, police said. Galdelli subsequently confessed to impersonating George Clooney in order to scam people, a Thai police spokesman told CNN. He was arrested on charges of illegally entering and staying in Thailand since "there was no legitimate migration record of his current entrance and stay," police said. Goffi, whose entry had been registered, was charged with overstaying in the country. Galdelli was previously arrested in 2014, at the Dusit Thani Hotel in the Thai resort city of Pattaya. But he managed to escape a day later, Italian police said. Local police found out he had bribed prison guards in charge of his transfer, paying them 20.000 Thai Baht (£500), who he personally withdrew from a cash machine while in custody, police said. The two Italians are being detained at the detention center of the Immigration Bureau in Pattaya, awaiting extradition proceedings.Italian police called the operation "Italian Bonnie and Clyde" after the American bank robbers of the Great Depression era.Jib Pirada contributed reporting.

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Leicester (CNN)The beloved owner of Leicester City Football Club died in a helicopter crash on Saturday near the club's stadium in Leicester, England, the club said Sunday.Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, 60, was one of five people on board the aircraft when it burst into flames after crashing in a parking lot next to King Power Stadium, the club said. No one on board survived."It is with the deepest regret and a collective broken heart that we confirm our chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was among those to have tragically lost their lives on Saturday evening when a helicopter carrying him and four other people crashed outside King Power Stadium."The statement described the chairman as a "a man of kindness, of generosity and a man whose life was defined by the love he devoted to his family and those he so successfully led."Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha bought Leicester for $57 million in 2010, six years before its remarkable Premier League title.READ: Fans mourn a 'great human being'Read More'Lives were touched'Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, and British Prime Minister Theresa May are among those to have paid tribute to Srivaddhanaprabha and the victims."I was lucky to have known Vichai for several years," said Prince William, the president of the English Football Association (The F.A.), in a statement. "He was a businessman of strong values who was dedicated to his family and who supported a number of important charitable causes. He made such a big contribution to football, not least through Leicester City's magical 2016 season that captured the imagination of the world. "He will be missed by all fans of the sport and everyone lucky enough to have known him."Aimon Srivaddhanaprabha (second right), the wife of the late Leicester owner, and their son Aiyawatt lay wreathes at the club.Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha (left), son of the late Leicester City owner, stands with striker Jamie Vardy (center) and goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.Mrs May wrote on Twitter: "The outpouring of grief is a testament to how many people's lives were touched by those on board."Srivaddhanaprabha's wife Aimon and son Aiyawatt laid flowers at the crash site Monday, while players from Leicester City arrived by coach to pay their respects. The 12 young Thai footballers who spent two weeks trapped in a cave also visited the stadium Monday after watching Manchester United at Old Trafford Sunday.Somber scenes here in Leicester. The boys recused from a Thai cave in June pay their respects outside the King Power Stadium. Members of the public applaud the boys as they depart. pic.twitter.com/tJfRHyYzhS— Aimee Lewis (@aimee_lou_lewis) October 29, 2018 A book of condolence will be opened at the King Power Stadium starting at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, October 30, the club said.The UK government's Air Accidents Investigation Branch said Monday it had recovered the helicopter's flight data recorder, which was subject to "intense heat" in the fire. The team said its inspectors will also continue to work with police at the crash site.READ: Boys rescued from Thai cave welcomed by Man UtdMakeshift memorials mournSrivaddhanaprabha's helicopter was a familiar sight at the Leicester stadium, landing in the middle of the pitch to ferry its owner to and from home games.Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy comforts Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, the son of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha #LCFC https://t.co/tkSYqz4r6g pic.twitter.com/gqkJCspAWs— CNN Sport (@cnnsport) October 29, 2018 The crash occurred about an hour after Leicester City's match against West Ham on Saturday night. Witnesses said the helicopter had barely cleared the 25 meter (82 foot) high stadium walls before making a loud noise, crashing to the ground and igniting in a large fireball.Distraught fans set up a makeshift memorial for the owner before official confirmation that he was on the flight.As day broke Sunday a shirt adorned with the badges of Leicester City and Oud-Heverlee Leuven -- the Belgian second-division team also owned by Srivaddhanaprabha -- was propped up against the King Power Stadium, along with a framed picture of the Hindu deity Ganesh and a handful of flowers.On a bitterly cold day, people of all ages -- some pushing babies in pushchairs -- flocked to the stadium to lay scarves, flowers and Buddha statues outside the ground.Those scarves weren't just the blue and white of Leicester City. There were West Ham, Liverpool and Aston Villa scarves as well as a Sporting Lisbon one."We witnessed a miracle," said Leicester fan Sam Tewley, 31, as he reflected on the unlikelihood of Leicester winning the Premier League in 2016 under Srivaddhanaprabha's ownership. He noted the goodwill Srivaddhanaprabha built through charitable acts, including a $2.5 million donation to Leicester's hospitals."He has brought the city together," Tewley said. "He did something to this city that changed the mindset. Walking around the town center in 2016 everyone was so happy."Majority of the tributes focused on Leicester's incredible Premier League title win in 2016. pic.twitter.com/GMJZ0ZmNal— Tom McGowan (@tompmcgowan) October 28, 2018 Russell Bentley, who works as a volunteer for the The Street Pastors initiative, arrived late in the morning at the stadium to help congregating supporters and said he would stay until he "wasn't needed anymore." He also credited Srivaddhanaprabha with reversing the team's fortunes."It looked touch and go for Leicester City at one stage," Bentley said. "The club was in administration and he came in, bought it all, paid off all the debts. Not just took it over because it was a cash cow, but because he wanted to be part of the Leicester support."A 'major incident'The confirmation came one day after Leicester City released a short statement saying that it was assisting police with a "major incident" near the stadium.As images and video spread online of flames leaping from the crash site, Leicestershire Police set up a cordon at the end of the stadium where the crash took place.Theres a major incident by the King Power Stadium. Emergency services attending. pic.twitter.com/GtAbo6AHpD— Mr Geoff Peters (@mrgeoffpeters) October 27, 2018 Fairytale runSrivaddhanaprabha bought the club for $57 million in 2010 and it was promoted to the Premier League in 2014. In 2016, the club achieved the once-unthinkable feat of winning the premiership.It went into the 2015-2016 season with odds of 5,000-1 to win but stunned fans, and bookmakers, by taking the title.The club's extraordinary run of success played out under Srivaddhanaprabha's ownership. Along with handing fans their first top-flight title in the club's history, the businessman won over fans by handing out free beer, water and cupcakes, as well as scarves in cold weather, in the stands.This file image shows the helicopter reportedly owned by Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.The Thai was No. 388 on the Forbes' billionaires list, with a net worth of $4.9 billion. He made his fortune through the creation of the King Power chain of duty-free stores, Thailand's largest. Srivaddhanaprabha's company sponsors the team's stadium.The crash occurred about one hour after Leicester City drew 1-1 against West Ham United on Saturday night. Several Leicester players tweeted their condolences. Striker Jamie Vardy and defender Harry Maguire tweeted the "praying hands" emoji. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼— Jamie Vardy (@vardy7) October 27, 2018 Soon after the match ended, West Ham tweeted: "The thoughts of all at West Ham United are with everybody at Leicester City at this time."The thoughts of all at West Ham United are with everybody at Leicester City at this time.— West Ham United (@WestHamUtd) October 27, 2018 Some of its players also extended their sympathies. "My thoughts and prayers are with all those involved in the helicopter accident at Leicester City," defender Pablo Zabaleta said.My thoughts and prayers are with all those involved in the helicopter accident at Leicester City. 🙏🏻— Pablo Zabaleta (@pablo_zabaleta) October 27, 2018 "Horrendous scenes at the king power tonight, my prayers & thoughts go out to everyone involved at Leicester," said his teammate, Declan Rice. Broadcaster and former Leicester City player Gary Lineker also tweeted, saying that his emotion made hosting the BBC's flagship football show Match of the Day difficult."That was the most difficult @BBCMOTD I've ever hosted," he said in the post. "Thoughts are with everyone at Leicester City. A terrible tragedy. Heartbreaking."That was the most difficult @BBCMOTD I've ever hosted. Thoughts are with everyone at Leicester City. A terrible tragedy. Heartbreaking.— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) October 27, 2018 Premier League club Arsenal tweeted: "We're saddened by tonight's incident and we're all thinking of you at this difficult time."

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Story highlightsInter Milan's Mauro Icardi embroiled in a battle with his own fansIcardi's autobiography recounts 2015 altercation with Inter's "Ultras" (CNN)You can't judge a book by its cover, but it seems you can judge a man by what's inside. Soccer autobiographies are all too often anodyne affairs, but Inter Milan footballer Mauro Icardi's book Sempre Avanti is currently causing the 23-year-old Argentine a spot of bother after he had some harsh words for the people who pay to watch him play. Follow @cnnsport The relationship between Italian clubs and their hardcore supporters is a complex one, but a number of Icardi's remarks -- notably "I will bring 100 criminals from Argentina who will kill them on the spot" -- have stretched the bond between Inter's fans and their star striker to breaking point. "The last couple of days have been a sad period in my time with the Nerazzurri," said Icardi as he struck as contrite a pose as possible after Inter sanctioned him for "contravening the club's internal regulations as signed by every player." The club didn't specify what the sanction was.Icardi added: "It all stemmed from a page of my book which was probably written in haste; a page where some of the tone wasn't appropriate, and I'm really sorry that the Inter fans got caught up in all this.Read More"I will make efforts to have those pages removed to avoid anyone feeling offended betrayed or threatened."Icardi has had better Sundays ... the Argentine missed a penalty in Inter's 2-1 defeat by Cagliari.Love triangleIcardi is no stranger to controversy having previously made headlines for a love triangle involving former teammate Maxi Lopez and his wife, Wanda Nara. But the striker's autobiography has threatened to destabilize his entire relationship with the Italian club's hardcore fans, especially as he's the team's captain.Reliving an altercation with a prominent member of the Inter Milan "Curva Nord" Ultras group in unusual depth in his autobiography, Icardi has angered them to such an extent that a missed penalty in Sunday's 2-1 defeat by Cagliari was met by derisive delight from his own supporters. JUST WATCHEDMauro Icardi talks family and feudsReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHMauro Icardi talks family and feuds 04:01The altercationThe fuse for the dispute was lit in an innocuous away fixture at Sassuolo during the 2014-15 season. Inter lost the game 3-1, and Icardi and his teammate Fredy Guarin faced the ire of the visiting supporters. "I am angry because I played so little," writes the Argentine. "The fans start to shout: they call us to come over to their section. I find the courage to face them."As I get closer, I receive insults and abuse of every kind. I take off my shirt and shorts and throw them to a kid as a gift. He is in seventh heaven and I am pleased to see him happy."A leader of the Ultras snatches the shirt away from him and throws it back at me. This is when I insult him: 'Piece of s**t, you act the big man with a little kid to show off in front of the rest of the Curva.'"In the changing room, I was acclaimed as a hero; nobody had ever stood up to one of the fan leaders."The entire match the Curva Nord booed Icardi, until he stepped up, took a penalty and missed. They then proceeded to cheer. pic.twitter.com/wuWTBDHUnv— ItalianFootballTV (@IFTV_Official) October 16, 2016 A feud resurfacedIn Sempre Avanti, Icardi recounts his feelings towards the Ultras that day, writing the incendiary remark: "How many of them are there? Fifty? A hundred? Two hundred? OK, record my message and let them hear it. I will bring 100 criminals from Argentina who will kill them on the spot." The book was published on October 11 and it didn't take long for the Curva Nord to make their feelings known."He talks about helping little kids, then invents an incident that never happened to make himself seem superior to us, as if it weren't obvious to all that we are the only Curva that helps kids design the choreography in the stands," said a Curva Nord statement."You are finished with us. You're done. TAKE THE ARMBAND OFF, YOU CLOWN. Yes, that is what we demand."That prompted Icardi to respond via social media, insisting he was "surprised and sorry" for any offense caused, and that captaining Inter Milan is the realization of his childhood dreams."I hope you understand how important you are for me and how much respect and love I have for you, even if you decide to jeer me."I ask you just one thing as captain: stay close to Inter, as you always have, because my teammates and I need you."Inter Ultras have left a message outside Icardi's home."We are here, let us know when your Argentinian friends arrive" pic.twitter.com/WDcrC92Heu— Simon (@SBuzz1992) October 16, 2016 A mixed startIf the club's performances this season are anything to go by, Inter needs Icardi. The Argentine signed from Sampdoria in 2013 and was appointed captain two years later at the age of just 22.The key events so far October 11 - Icardi releases his autobiography detailing the altercation with Inter fans on February 1, 2015.October 15 - Inter's Ultras, the Curva Nord, release a statement calling Icardi a liar and a "clown," asserting "An individual like this cannot wear the captain's armband." October 16 - Icardi is jeered by his own supporters as he runs up to take a penalty against Cagliari; the Argentinian misses a key spotkick to the derisive delight of some sections of the crowd. October 16 - Inter fans unveil a banner reading "You're not a man, you're not a captain, you're just a piece of "s**t." Another follows that says "100 goals & 100 trophies don't cancel out the s**t you are!" October 16 - After the game, Inter Ultras leave a message outside Icardi's home reading: "We are here, let us know when your Argentinian friends arrive." October 17 - Icardi retains the Inter Milan captaincy.He has only recently extended his contract until 2021, and with six goals in eight league appearances to his name this season, the striker has hit the back of the net more often than the rest of his team put together. Yet just six years on from Champions League glory under Jose Mourinho, the club languish in 11th in Serie A. And while Icardi has already scored more for the Nerazzurri than Brazilian Ronaldo during his Inter career, early indications suggest the Curva Nord supporters will not be quick to forgive. "You can't mock a fan and treat him like an idiot just because you can kick a ball," a spokesman for the Ultra group, Franco Caravita told SportItalia Monday."Icardi the player is dead to us. We hope he'll withdraw this book and then that would probably close the matter for us."

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(CNN)Prince William, second-in-line to the British throne, tested positive for coronavirus earlier this year, according to the BBC, citing palace sources.When exactly William was infected is unclear. The Sun newspaper, which broke the story, said that he took a seven-day break from calls and video messages from April 9 to April 16. The paper added that William, also styled the Duke of Cambridge, recently told an "observer" at a function that he did not go public with his diagnosis because "there were important things going on and I didn't want to worry anyone." The Press Association reported that Kensington Palace, William's residence and office, did not comment on the matter when contacted on Sunday, but also did not deny the report. CNN has also contacted Kensington Palace for comment but has not yet heard back.In March, William's father, Prince Charles, himself tested positive and had to go into isolation. The 71-year-old later said he had been lucky to only experience mild symptoms, adding he'd "got away with it quite lightly."Read MoreCharles urged the world to listen to scientists and act to protect the environment in order to avoid more pandemics in the future."We should have been treating the planet as if it was a patient long ago. So no self-respecting doctor would ever have let the situation, if the planet is a patient, reach this stage before making an intervention," he said."The more we erode the natural world, the more we destroy what's called biodiversity -- which is the immense diversity of life, plant life, tree life, everything else, marine life -- the more we expose ourselves to this kind of danger. We've had these other disasters with SARS and Ebola and goodness knows what else, all of these things are related to the loss of biodiversity."Nor are the royals the only people at the top of British politics to be stricken by the virus, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was himself infected in April, eventually being admitted to hospital and placed on oxygen. Johnson later said that "arrangements" were made for his death while he was being treated, and thanked doctors and nurses for saving his life. The United Kingdom is among Europe's worst hit countries, with more than a million coronavirus cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. On Saturday, Johnson said that England would enter a second national lockdown in the coming days, as the Office for National Statistics estimated that 1 in 100 people in England now have Covid-19. Of the UK's 1.034 million total cases, the vast majority, around 880,000, are in England, the union's most populous country. The other two countries which form mainland Britain, Wales and Scotland, both set their own health policy. Around the time its neighbor enters lockdown, Wales, with around 51,000 cases, will be most of the way through a two-week "firebreak" lockdown, designed to prevent the situation there worsening. Meanwhile, Scotland, which has around 1,000 daily cases at the moment, has advised residents against travel to England, and is considering additional restrictions should its domestic outbreak worsen.

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(CNN)Lewis Hamilton will miss this weekend's Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain after testing positive for Covid-19.His Mercedes team said that the seven-time Formula One world champion was self-isolating and had only mild symptoms."He is otherwise fit and well, and the entire team sends him its very best wishes for a swift recovery," said Mercedes in a statement.According to Mercedes, Hamilton was tested three times last week, including at the Bahrain International Circuit on Sunday, where he won the Bahrain Grand Prix. He returned a negative result each time.The 35-year-old Briton woke up on Monday morning with mild symptoms and was informed that a contact from before his arrival in Bahrain had tested positive. He took a further test and returned a positive result, which has been confirmed by a retest.Read MoreWill we ever see another Formula One champion like Lewis Hamilton?"I'm devastated that I won't be racing this weekend," Hamilton said in a post on social media."Since we started the season in June, my team and I have been taking all the precautions we possibly can and following the regulations everywhere we've been in order to stay safe."Unfortunately, even though I returned three negative results this past week, I woke up yesterday morning with mild symptoms and requested another test which came back positive. I've immediately gone into self-isolation for 10 days."Mercedes said a replacement driver for this weekend would be announced in due course. Over the last weekend in November and the first in December, Bahrain is hosting F1's third double-header of the 2020 season.READ: Grosjean hails halo as the 'greatest thing' in F1Hamilton's victory on Sunday saw him claim a record-extending 95th win of his career.Last month Hamilton's victory at the Turkish Grand Prix saw F1's most successful driver equal Michael Schumacher's tally of seven world titles.Hamilton has claimed 11 victories during 2020, which equals his personal race win record in a F1 season. Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel jointly hold the F1 record with 13 wins in a season and Hamilton's withdrawal from the Sakhir GP means the Briton will not be able to reach that landmark as after Sunday there is only one more race -- the Abu Dhabi GP.Mexican driver Sergio Perez tested positive for coronavirus in July and Canadian Lance Stroll said he had tested positive last month.

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(CNN)Kylian Mbappe has been hailed as the next Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi after scoring a wonderful hat trick in Paris Saint-Germain's 4-1 victory away at Barcelona in the Champions League.Mbappe's pace and finishing proved a constant threat throughout as he left Barça with a mountain to climb ahead of the second leg of the round of 16 tie at the Parc des Princes.The Frenchman's performance earned him praise from players across Europe, including Manchester United's Marcus Rashford, Borussia Dortmund's Jadon Sancho and fellow countryman Antoine Griezmann, who was on the losing end of Mbappe's hat trick on Tuesday."Kylian had a great night," said Griezmann. "PSG have a star for the future, who will be at the same level as Leo Messi or Cristiano."Visit CNN.com/sport for more news, videos and featuresRead MoreMbappe's first goal, a riffled shot into the roof of the net, canceled out Messi's earlier penalty for Barcelona. Kylian Mbappe celebrates after scoring his first goal against Barcelona.The 22-year-old added his second after half-time as Barcelona cleared an attempted cross into his path before Moise Kean headed in a third for PSG.Mbappe completed his hat trick by finishing a quick counterattack in the closing stages. After the game, PSG boss Mauricio Pochettino praised his striker's confidence."Yesterday in our training session, he asked me how many times I had won at the Camp Nou," said Pochettino. "I said once with Espanyol, and he assured me that tonight I'd win for a second time. He's a top guy."Mbappe also earned a rare nine out of 10 for his performance from French newspaper L'Equipe -- renowned for its harsh player ratings -- and the internet has already witnessed an outpouring of memes after Gerard Pique struggled against the pace of his opposing striker.pic.twitter.com/DHwhVJEXZ8— Tom Williams (@tomwfootball) February 16, 2021 It also means Mbappe has won both times he has faced Messi, who, with his Barcelona contract ending after this season, may have played his final Champions League game at the Camp Nou.READ: Champions League fixtures forced into unprecedented changes by pandemicMbappe outshines MessiMany had hoped the game between two European titans would be good value and they weren't disappointed. Barcelona had seemingly turned a corner in recent weeks after a difficult start to the season. The Catalans had been on a run of seven consecutive La Liga victories but were simply torn apart by PSG.The host side took the lead in familiar fashion after Frenkie de Jong was accidentally tripped inside the penalty box. Messi expertly dispatched the resulting spot-kick to score in the Champions League for the 17th consecutive calendar year. But it was all PSG from that moment on and, in the absence of Neymar, it was Mbappe who took center stage and outshone Messi.Mbappe completed his hat trick with a wonderful finish in the 85th minute. He became only the third player in history to score a Champions League hat trick against Barcelona in what was his first match at the Camp Nou. "We wanted to come here and win and we did that in style," said Mbappe, who played in PSG's Champions League final defeat by Bayern Munich last year."Tonight was magnificent, but we haven't won anything yet."Sluggish BarcelonaThe result leaves Barça asking big questions about the quality of its squad. Aside from a few moments of magic in the first half, Messi went missing for much of the encounter, and Barcelona's defense, which welcomed back Gerard Pique after a three-month injury layoff, looked vulnerable. Ronald Koeman's side can take some comfort in history, though: Barcelona had trailed PSG 4-0 in the 2017 edition of the tournament before turning the result around in the second leg with a 6-1 victory. But speaking after the match, Koeman wasn't holding out much hope. "The result reflects how superior PSG were, they were much more effective than us," he told reporters."I could tell you lies but the fact is that at 4-1 down from the home leg, there are very few chances of going through."Lionel Messi had put Barcelona ahead before PSG stepped it up. READ: Anthony Martial racially abused on social media after drawLiverpool in controlElsewhere in the Champions League, Liverpool took control of its last 16 tie with RB Leipzig.The English Premier League side was worthy of its 2-0 away victory thanks to goals from Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane. The result will come as a huge relief after a tough few weeks domestically for the Reds and their manager. "It was the game we wanted and the game we needed tonight," Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp told BT Sport."Leipzig can be a real monster, the way they played in the Bundesliga, they overrun teams, they are really physical, they are pretty much good in everything and tonight we controlled them in an exceptional way."Liverpool will host its German opponent in the second leg on March 10.

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The Olympic Stadium, Tokyo (CNN)It started the way his races often do -- a slap of the chest, a pump of the fist, and a roar to the camera -- but ended like none have done before.As Karsten Warholm crossed the finish line of the men's Olympic 400-meter hurdles final and registered the numbers on the stadium clock, his face turned to a mixture of exhaustion, elation and disbelief.The Norwegian's time of 45.94 seconds in Tokyo on Tuesday is likely to shift perceptions of what is possible in this event as he held off the USA's Rai Benjamin and shattered his own world record by more than half a second.In a golden era for the men's 400m hurdles, this was the Olympic final the event deserved. Benjamin's time of 46.17 seconds for silver would have comfortably broken the previous record Warholm had set in July, while Brazil's Alison Dos Santos' bronze-medal time of 46.72 was just outside it."That was the best race in Olympic history ... everyone in this event should be getting paid big bucks, in all honesty," Benjamin later quipped. Read MoreWarholm reacts after his gold medal and world record in the 400m hurdles final at the Tokyo Olympics.The forerunner in this event since his world championship title in 2017, Warholm now has an Olympic medal to show for his efforts. He inched ahead of Benjamin after the final hurdle and ripped a huge hole down the middle of his sprint suit after crossing the line."The lactic acid is just crazy, I couldn't feel my legs," Warholm told reporters about the end of the race. "I was just running over the line because I didn't take anything for granted today. All respect to Rai for running 46.17 -- that's just crazy."Running in lane six, Warholm quickly caught up with Dos Santos and Qatar's Abderrahman Samba in the lanes outside him.He was leading by the 200-meter mark, but the race was far from won as Benjamin slowly gained ground in the adjacent inside lane. The pair were practically level at the final hurdle, but Warholm summoned an extra ounce of energy to take the gold. "I ran sort of scared, but that's something that I always do," Warholm added. "I knew that with my fast opening, I was up on the side of dos Santos and Samba really early in the race."That was my tactic today, I think I won on tactics. I really went out hard and tried to get the guys with me ... after that I just ran for my life. I would have died for that gold medal."Warholm reacts to his 400m hurdles victory.Kevin Young's 400m hurdles world record from the 1992 Olympics had stood for nearly three decades before Warholm broke it a month ago -- a barrier the 25-year-old has previously likened to the race to get a man on the moon. But this Olympic final has redefined the discipline. The three athletes on the podium can lay claim to being the fastest 400m hurdlers ever; Samba, the fifth-fastest on the all-time list behind Young, finished fifth behind the British Virgin Islands' Kyron McMaster in the final.Fast track, fast times?For silver medalist Benjamin, there was a mixture of frustration and pride."It's a lot to process," he told reporters. "I cried a little bit ... but I am really happy to be a part of history like this and just to show where this event can go. "I don't think even Usain Bolt's 9.58 (at the World Championships in Berlin) topped that. I mean, three guys pretty much broke the world record."The Tokyo Olympics have so far yielded fast times on the track, notably Elaine Thompson-Herah's Olympic record in the women's 100m final.Some have put it down to advancements in shoe technology, while others have credited the favorable track surface. Warholm and Benjamin jump the final hurdle in the 400m hurdles final."It feels like I'm walking on clouds," said US sprinter Ronnie Baker. "It's really smooth out there. It's a beautiful track, one of the nicest I've run on."Accoring to World Athletics and Mondo, the company that prepared the track ahead of the Games, more than 280 world records had been established on Mondo tracks prior to the Tokyo Olympics. However, Benjamin said that, in his race at least, the fast times were more about the athletes themselves."People say it's the track, it's the shoes. I would wear different shoes and still run fast, it doesn't really matter," he said. Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo Olympics Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFireworks explode over Tokyo's National Stadium at the end of the Olympics' closing ceremony on Sunday, August 8. The word "arigato," seen at left, means thank you in Japanese.Hide Caption 1 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Olympic cauldron closes, extinguishing the Olympic flame at the end of the closing ceremony.Hide Caption 2 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDancers perform during the closing ceremony.Hide Caption 3 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe national flags of Japan, Greece and France fly during the closing ceremony. Greece is the birthplace of the Olympic Games. France will host the 2024 Summer Olympics.Hide Caption 4 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Olympic flag is folded after being lowered during the closing ceremony.Hide Caption 5 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsKenya's Eliud Kipchoge, who won the gold medal in the marathon, listens as his country's National Anthem is played during his medal ceremony. The medal ceremonies for both the men's and women's marathon took place during the closing ceremony. And that meant two playings of the Kenyan National Anthem, as Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir won gold in the women's event.Hide Caption 6 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJets conduct a flyover next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. While the closing ceremony was held in Tokyo, a celebration was held in Paris. The French capital will be hosting the next Summer Games in 2024.Hide Caption 7 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, makes a heart gesture as he delivers a speech at the closing ceremony. In his speech, Bach thanked the athletes and the Japanese people for their hard work and sacrifices in staging the most logistically challenging Olympic Games in history. "We did it together," he said.Hide Caption 8 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAthletes watch performers take part in the closing ceremony. Because of Covid-19 protocols, all athletes were required to leave Japan within 48 hours of their competition, so there were fewer athletes at the closing ceremony than there were at the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 9 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsPolish athletes take pictures as they attend the closing ceremony.Hide Caption 10 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe flags of each participating nation are brought into the stadium for the closing ceremony.Hide Caption 11 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDignitaries applaud at the beginning of the closing ceremony.Hide Caption 12 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican athletes show their medals to a video camera at the closing ceremony. The United States finished on top of the medal table for the third straight Summer Olympics, winning 39 gold medals and 113 medals in all. Second-place China finished with 38 golds and 88 medals in all. Host nation Japan had a third-best 27 golds and won a total of 58 medals.Hide Caption 13 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Japanese flag is brought into the stadium at the start of the closing ceremony.Hide Caption 14 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFireworks explode over the National Stadium.Hide Caption 15 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Brittney Griner, right, defends Japan's Maki Takada during the gold-medal basketball game on August 8. Griner scored 30 points as the Americans won 90-75. It is the seventh consecutive gold medal for the US women's basketball team.Hide Caption 16 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsKenya's Eliud Kipchoge crosses the finish line August 8 to win the marathon for the second Olympics in a row. Kipchoge, the world-record holder in the event, finished with a time of 2:08:38.Hide Caption 17 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS basketball player Sue Bird is congratulated by her partner, Megan Rapinoe, after the gold-medal game. Bird and teammate Diana Taurasi had just won their fifth career Olympic golds.Hide Caption 18 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSerbia's Nikola Dedović, Vladimir Vujasinović and Milan Aleksić jump into the pool as they celebrate winning the water polo final against Greece on August 8. Serbia won the match 13-10.Hide Caption 19 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJennifer Valente holds the American flag after winning gold at the Omnium track cycling event on August 8. It is the United States' first gold medal in track cycling since 2000.Hide Caption 20 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Jordyn Poulter, right, sets the ball during the gold-medal volleyball match against Brazil on August 8. The Americans defeated Brazil 3-0. It is the United States' first-ever gold medal in women's volleyball.Hide Caption 21 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsLinoy Ashram, a rhythmic gymnast from Israel, won gold in the individual all-around on Saturday, August 7.Hide Caption 22 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapan's baseball team celebrates with manager Atsunori Inaba after winning the gold-medal game against the United States on August 7.Hide Caption 23 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Allyson Felix runs in the 4x400-meter relay on August 7. The US team won gold, making Felix the most decorated American athlete in Olympic track-and-field history.Hide Caption 24 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBrazil's Hebert Sousa, center, celebrates after he knocked out Ukraine's Oleksandr Khyzhniak to win the middleweight final on August 7. Khyzhniak was leading the first two rounds when Sousa caught him in the chin with a left hook.Hide Caption 25 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Netherlands' Sifan Hassan places a bag of ice on her face after winning gold in the 10,000 meters on August 7. Hassan also won the 5,000 meters in Tokyo and finished third in the 1,500. She's the first person in Olympic history to complete a medley of medals across both the middle- and long-distance events in a single Games.Hide Caption 26 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Nelly Korda, right, is congratulated by her sister, Jessica, after winning the gold medal by one stroke on August 7. Nelly Korda, the world's top-ranked female golfer, took the tournament lead after a second-round 62. Jessica Korda finished tied for 15th.Hide Caption 27 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsKazakhstan's Sergey Ponomaryov, left, crashes with Malaysia's Muhammad Shah Firdaus Sahrom during a keirin race on August 7.Hide Caption 28 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA Russian artistic swimmer competes in the team event on August 7. Russian swimmers won gold in both the team and duet events in Tokyo.Hide Caption 29 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJessica Springsteen, the daughter of rock star Bruce Springsteen, was part of the US equestrian team that won silver in jumping on August 7.Hide Caption 30 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBrazilian defender Dani Alves, left, and Spanish midfielder Carlos Soler react after Brazil defeated Spain 2-1 in the gold-medal football match on August 7. Brazil is the fifth men's team in history to win back-to-back titles at the Olympics.Hide Caption 31 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAshleigh Johnson celebrates after the United States defeated Spain in the water polo final on August 7. It's the third straight gold for the Americans, who won 14-5. That's the largest margin of victory in the history of water polo's gold-medal matches.Hide Caption 32 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsIndia's Neeraj Chopra won the javelin on August 7, becoming the first Indian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field.Hide Caption 33 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS basketball players celebrate after defeating France 87-82 in the gold-medal game on August 7. It's the Americans' fourth straight gold in men's basketball.Hide Caption 34 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChinese diver Cao Yuan competes in the 10-meter platform event on August 7. He won the gold and became the first athlete to win Olympic gold medals in three different diving events. He won gold in the 3-meter springboard in 2016, and he won gold in the 10-meter synchronized event in 2012. Hide Caption 35 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsKenya's Peres Jepchirchir crosses the finish line to win the marathon on August 7. Her countrywoman Brigid Kosgei earned the silver medal.Hide Caption 36 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsItaly's Filippo Tortu, bottom, finishes ahead of Great Britain's Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake by just .01 seconds to win gold in the 4x100-meter relay on Friday, August 6.Hide Caption 37 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGermany's Annika Schleu was leading the modern pentathlon after two events. But in the show jumping event on August 6, her horse, Saint Boy, refused to cooperate with her wishes. The horse just wouldn't jump, and Schleu broke into tears as her medal hopes faded away. In the modern pentathlon, horses are assigned to athletes via a draw.Hide Caption 38 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsTeammates mob Canada's Julia Grosso after she scored the winning penalty in the shootout against Sweden on August 6. The gold-medal match was tied 1-1 after extra time, so a shootout had to decide the winner. It is Canada's first gold medal in women's football.Hide Caption 39 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsCuban boxer Julio César La Cruz poses with his gold medal after winning the heavyweight final on August 6.Hide Caption 40 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChina's Liu Shiying competes in the javelin final on August 6. Her first throw of 66.34 meters was enough to secure the gold medal.Hide Caption 41 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican wrestler Gable Steveson celebrates after a dramatic last-second comeback earned him a gold medal on August 6. Steveson was named after legendary wrestler Dan Gable, who won gold at the Olympics in 1972.Hide Caption 42 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsCanadian footballer Quinn waves during a medal ceremony in Yokohama, Japan. Quinn, who goes by just the one name, is the first trans and the first nonbinary athlete to win a Olympic medal.Hide Caption 43 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAlina Harnasko, a rhythmic gymnast from Belarus, competes in the individual all-around on August 6.Hide Caption 44 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Paul Chelimo dives over the finish line to win a bronze medal in the 5,000 meters on August 6. He finished just ahead of Kenya's Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli.Hide Caption 45 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Netherlands' field hockey team celebrates their 3-1 win over Argentina in the gold-medal match on August 6. The Netherlands became the first country to win four Olympic titles in women's field hockey.Hide Caption 46 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Allyson Felix celebrates after winning the bronze medal in the 400 meters on August 6. She passed Jamaica's Merlene Ottey to become the most decorated woman in Olympic track-and-field history.Hide Caption 47 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsTeam Italy competes in artistic swimming on August 6.Hide Caption 48 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSlovenia's Janja Garnbret reacts after becoming the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal in sport climbing on August 6. At left are bronze medalist Akiyo Noguchi and silver medalist Miho Nonaka, both of Japan.Hide Caption 49 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapan's Ryo Kiyuna holds a photo of his late mother after winning gold in karate's kata event on August 6. Kiyuna is from the island of Okinawa, which is considered the birthplace of karate.Hide Caption 50 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Breanna Stewart plays against Serbia in a basketball semifinal on August 6. The Americans won 79-59.Hide Caption 51 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrom left, American beach volleyball players April Ross and Alix Klineman celebrate after they won their gold-medal match on August 6.Hide Caption 52 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapan's Tomokazu Harimoto, left, celebrates after defeating South Korea's Jang Woo-jin to win a bronze medal in table tennis on August 6.Hide Caption 53 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChinese diver Quan Hongchan competes in the 10-meter platform final on Thursday, August 5. The 14-year-old is the second-youngest female ever to win gold in the event. Two of her dives were perfect 10s.Hide Caption 54 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Megan Rapinoe celebrates with her teammates after scoring the opening goal of the bronze-medal match against Australia on August 5. It was an Olimpico goal, which is a goal straight from a corner kick, and she later added another score as the United States won 4-3.Hide Caption 55 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBelgium's Nafissatou Thiam throws a javelin on her way to winning gold in the heptathlon on August 5. She's just the second woman ever to win back-to-back heptathlon titles.Hide Caption 56 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Czech Republic's Adam Ondra, left, celebrates after he defeated France's Mickael Mawem in the sport climbing speed finals on August 5.Hide Caption 57 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAustralia's Keegan Palmer warms up prior to the park skateboarding competition on August 5. Palmer went on to win gold in the event.Hide Caption 58 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSpain's Sandra Sánchez won gold in karate's kata event on August 5. Hide Caption 59 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBelgium's field hockey team celebrates after winning a dramatic penalty shootout in the gold-medal match against Australia on August 5.Hide Caption 60 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Joe Ryan pitches to South Korea's Park Hae-min during a semifinal baseball game on August 5. The Americans won 7-2 to clinch a spot in the final against Japan.Hide Caption 61 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Bahamas' Steven Gardiner reacts after winning gold in the men's 400 meters on August 5.Hide Caption 62 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Zach LaVine scores against Australia during a basketball semifinal on August 5. The Americans won 97-78 and will play France in the gold-medal game.Hide Caption 63 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Ryan Crouser shows a message for his grandfather after winning gold in the shot put on August 5. Crouser, who also won gold at the 2016 Games, set a new Olympic record with a throw of 23.30 meters. It's the second-longest throw in history.Hide Caption 64 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDecathletes rest on the track following the 1,500 meters on August 5.Hide Caption 65 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGreat Britain's Lois Toulson dives off the 10-meter platform on August 5.Hide Caption 66 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJamaica's Hansle Parchment, third from left, wins the 110-meter hurdles on August 5. He finished with a time of 13.04 seconds, just beating out the United States' Grant Holloway, who ran a 13.09.Hide Caption 67 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsCuba's Cristian Nápoles competes in the triple jump final on August 5.Hide Caption 68 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsTurkey's Eray Samdan, left, takes on Azerbaijan's Firdovsi Farzaliyev as karate made its Olympic debut on August 5. Samdan won 7-1 and went on to earn a silver medal.Hide Caption 69 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Katie Nageotte celebrates after clearing the bar in the pole vault final on August 5. Nageotte cleared a height of 4.90 meters to win the gold.Hide Caption 70 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGreat Britain's Jason Kenny competes in track cycling on Wednesday, August 4.Hide Caption 71 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUkraine's Marta Fiedina competes in artistic swimming's duet final on August 4. She and Anastasiya Savchuk won the bronze. The gold was won by Russians Svetlana Kolesnichenko and Svetlana Romashina.Hide Caption 72 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA statue of a sumo wrestler is seen near an obstacle as Japan's Koki Saito, aboard Chilensky, competes in jumping qualifiers on August 4. Riders said the lifelike statue might have distracted some horses during the competition.Hide Caption 73 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSky Brown competes in the park skateboarding final on August 4. Brown, who at 13 is Great Britain's youngest-ever athlete to compete in the Summer Olympics, won a bronze medal. Japan's Sakura Yosozumi won the gold, and her compatriot Kokona Hiraki won the silver. Hiraki is just 12 years old.Hide Caption 74 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSpanish decathlete Jorge Ureña competes in the high jump on August 4.Hide Caption 75 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSydney McLaughlin finishes just ahead of fellow American Dalilah Muhammad, breaking her own world record to win the 400-meter hurdles on August 4. McLaughlin's time was 51.46 seconds, and Muhammad's was 51.58. Muhammad's time is the second-fastest in history.Hide Caption 76 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrom left, Italy's Simone Consonni and Filippo Ganna celebrate after setting a new world record and winning a gold medal in the team pursuit event on August 4.Hide Caption 77 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsCanadian sprinter Andre De Grasse lies on the track after winning the 200-meter final on August 4. It's the first Olympic gold for De Grasse, who won bronze in the 100 this year and was the silver medalist in the 200 five years ago.Hide Caption 78 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsEmmanuel Korir, left, crosses the finish line just ahead of fellow Kenyan Ferguson Rotich to win gold in the 800 meters on August 4. Kenyan runners have won the 800 at the last four Olympics.Hide Caption 79 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSingaporean swimmer Li-Shan Chantal Liew grabs a drink while competing in the 10-kilometer open-water event on August 4.Hide Caption 80 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS gymnast Simone Biles competes in the balance beam final on Tuesday, August 3. She won the bronze in her much-anticipated return to competition.Hide Caption 81 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSweden's Armand "Mondo" Duplantis competes in the pole vault final on August 3. He would go on to win the gold.Hide Caption 82 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican runners Athing Mu, left, and Raevyn Rogers celebrate after the 800 meters on August 3. Mu, 19, won the gold and is the second-youngest 800-meter champion in history. Rodgers won the bronze.Hide Caption 83 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsPoland's Anita Wlodarczyk celebrates after winning gold in the hammer throw on August 3. Wlodarczyk is the first woman to win a specific individual athletics event three times in a row at the Olympic Games.Hide Caption 84 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSpain's Alberto Ginés López competes in sport climbing on August 3. He would go on to win gold.Hide Caption 85 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah reacts after defending her crown in the 200 meters on August 3. She also won gold in the 100 meters on Saturday. She's the first-ever woman to win the 100 and 200 double at consecutive Olympic Games.Hide Caption 86 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS gymnast Simone Biles is congratulated by coach Cecile Canqueteau-Landi as it became evident that Biles would earn a medal on August 3. Biles now has seven Olympic medals, tying her with Shannon Miller for the most by an American gymnast.Hide Caption 87 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGerman sailors Erik Heil and Thomas Ploessel jump into the water as they celebrate winning bronze in the 49er category on August 3.Hide Caption 88 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAthletes compete in a 400-meter heat on August 3.Hide Caption 89 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsNorway's Karsten Warholm celebrates after winning gold in the 400-meter hurdles on August 3. Warholm finished the race in 45.94 seconds, breaking his own world record.Hide Caption 90 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapan's Sena Irie, right, celebrates after defeating the Philippines's Nesthy Petecio to win the women's featherweight final on August 3.Hide Caption 91 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGermany's Malaika Mihambo won gold in the long jump on August 3. She leapt from third to the top of the leaderboard on her final attempt.Hide Caption 92 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSouth Africa's Kyle Blignaut competes in the shot put on August 3.Hide Caption 93 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDenmark's Viktor Axelsen is applauded after receiving his badminton gold medal on Monday, August 2. He is the first player from outside of Asia to win Olympic gold in men's singles in more than 20 years.Hide Caption 94 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Carli Lloyd leaves the field after the Americans lost to Canada in a semifinal match on August 2. The US team was trying to become the first reigning World Cup champion to win Olympic gold.Hide Caption 95 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsNew Zealand's Laurel Hubbard competes in weightlifting on Monday, August 2. She is the first openly transgender woman to compete in the 125-year history of the Olympics.Hide Caption 96 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThis photo, taken underwater, shows Greece's Evangelia Papazoglou and Evangelia Platanioti competing in artistic swimming on August 2. Artistic swimming used to be called synchronized swimming at the Olympics.Hide Caption 97 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJade Carey, a US gymnast who won gold in the floor exercise, places her medal over the neck of her father and coach, Brian, on August 2.Hide Caption 98 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsRunners compete in the 3,000-meter steeplechase on August 2.Hide Caption 99 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsQatar's Mutaz Essa Barshim, left, and Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi share the podium during a medal ceremony on August 2. They agreed to share the gold medal in high jump after they both cleared 2.37 meters but failed to clear 2.39. Beside them is bronze medalist Maksim Nedasekau of Belarus. No one was given a silver medal.Hide Caption 100 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsKyrgyzstan's Akzhol Makhmudov, top, competes against Tunisia's Lamjed Maafi in Greco-Roman wrestling on August 2. Makhmudov went on to win a silver medal.Hide Caption 101 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsCyclists from New Zealand competes in a team pursuit heat while China's Zhong Tianshi, left, takes a break on August 2.Hide Caption 102 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican Valarie Allman celebrates winning the gold medal in the discus on August 2.Hide Caption 103 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsIndia's Neha Goyal embraces Navneet Kaur after a 1-0 win over Australia in a field hockey quarterfinal on August 2.Hide Caption 104 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDutch runner Sifan Hassan celebrates after winning her 1,500-meter heat on August 2. Hassan won despite falling down at the beginning of the last lap. She tripped over another runner but got up and raced past the field.Hide Caption 105 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsPuerto Rico's Jasmine Camacho-Quinn leads the field on her way to a gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles on August 2. It was Puerto Rico's second-ever gold medal and its first in track.Hide Caption 106 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChile's Humberto Mansilla competes in hammer throw qualifications on August 2.Hide Caption 107 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGreece's Miltiadis Tentoglou competes in the long jump on August 2. Both he and Cuba's Juan Miguel Echevarria had a top jump of 8.41 meters, but Tentoglou won the gold medal because his second-best jump was longer than Echevarria's.Hide Caption 108 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBrazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade poses with her medals on August 2. During these Games, she won gold in the vault and silver in the individual all-around.Hide Caption 109 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsPolish table-tennis player Natalia Partyka, who was born without a right hand and forearm, eyes the ball during a doubles match on August 2. In the foreground is South Korea's Choi Hyo-joo. Partyka has competed in both the Olympics and the Paralympics.Hide Caption 110 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsItalian sprinter Lamont Marcell Jacobs wins the 100-meter final on Sunday, August 1. He finished the race in 9.80 seconds, winning the first 100 final since the retirement of three-time champion Usain Bolt.Hide Caption 111 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrom left, the United States' Caeleb Dressel, Brazil's Bruno Fratus, Great Britain's Benjamin Proud and Italy's Lorenzo Zazzeri swim the 50-meter freestyle final on August 1. Dressel went on to win with an Olympic record time of 21.07 seconds. He won five golds in Tokyo.Hide Caption 112 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBritish diver Tom Daley, who has a whole Instagram account devoted to his hobby of knitting and crochet, works on a new creation while watching the women's 3-meter springboard final on August 1. On his Instagram Stories, he revealed he was making a "jumper," or sweater, for a French bulldog. Daley picked up the hobby during the pandemic.Hide Caption 113 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBrazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade won gold in the vault on August 1.Hide Caption 114 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGermany's Alexander Zverev reacts after winning his gold-medal tennis match on August 1. He defeated Russian Karen Khachanov 6-3, 6-1.Hide Caption 115 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Isaiah Jewett, left, and Botswana's Nijel Amos help each other to their feet after falling during an 800-meter semifinal on August 1. They embraced and went on to finish the race together. Hide Caption 116 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsField hockey players from Spain warm up before their match against Belgium on August 1.Hide Caption 117 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDuring the medal ceremony for the women's shot put, the United States' Raven Saunders lifted her arms above her head and made an X with her wrists. When the silver medalist was asked what the gesture meant, she explained that "it's the intersection of where all people who are oppressed meet." Saunders has been outspoken in the past about her desire to destigmatize mental health. "Shout out to all my Black people. Shout out to all my LGBTQ community. Shout out to all my people dealing with mental health," she said. "At the end of the day, we understand it's bigger than us and it's bigger than the powers that be."Hide Caption 118 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChina's Fan Yilin competes in the uneven bars final on August 1.Hide Caption 119 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDutch sailor Kiran Badloe jumps into the water to celebrate after winning gold in the men's RS:X category on August 1.Hide Caption 120 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsVenezuela's Yulimar Rojas celebrates after setting a new world record in the triple jump on August 1. On her last jump of the night, she jumped 15.67 meters, breaking a record that had stood since 1995. It is Rojas' first Olympic gold medal.Hide Caption 121 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrench boxer Mourad Aliev refused to leave the ring after he was disqualified in his bout against Frazer Clarke on August 1. His protest lasted about an hour. He was disqualified for what the referee determined was an intentional headbutt.Hide Caption 122 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAustralian swimmer Emma McKeon dives into the pool at the start of the 50-meter freestyle final on August 1. She won her third gold in Tokyo and set an Olympic record time of 23.81 seconds.Hide Caption 123 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Raven Saunders competes in the shot put on August 1. Saunders, who stood out with her eye-catching mask and her green and purple hair, won the silver.Hide Caption 124 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGeorgia's Iakobi Kajaia, left, takes on Russian Sergei Semenov in a Greco-Roman wrestling quarterfinal on August 1. Kajaia went on to win a silver medal.Hide Caption 125 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDivers warm up ahead of the women's 3-meter springboard finals on August 1.Hide Caption 126 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrom left, Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri, the United States' Bobby Finke, Ukraine's Mykhailo Romanchuk, Germany's Florian Wellbrock and Great Britain's Daniel Jervis race the 1,500-meter freestyle on August 1. Finke won the gold after racing down Romanchuk and Wellbrock in the final 50 meters. Finke also won gold in the 800-meter freestyle earlier in these Olympics.Hide Caption 127 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS golfer Xander Schauffele hits a tee shot during the third round on Saturday, July 31. He went on to win gold, holding off Slovakia's Rory Sabbatini by one stroke.Hide Caption 128 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsMembers of the Dominican Republic's volleyball team line up before a match against Kenya on July 31.Hide Caption 129 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrom left, Jamaican sprinters Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shericka Jackson celebrate after sweeping the 100 meters on July 31. Thompson-Herah won gold and was followed by Fraser-Pryce and Jackson.Hide Caption 130 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThompson-Herah crosses the finish line first in the 100 meters. Fraser-Pryce, center, won this event in 2008 and 2012.Hide Caption 131 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSwitzerland's Belinda Bencic serves to the Czech Republic's Marketa Vondrousova during the gold-medal tennis match on July 31. Bencic won 7-5, 2-6, 6-3.Hide Caption 132 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsPoland won the Olympics' first-ever mixed relay in the 4x400 meters. From left are Kajetan Duszynski, Natalia Kaczmarek, Justyna Swiety-Ersetic and Karol Zalewski.Hide Caption 133 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS diver Hailey Hernandez competes in the 3-meter springboard on July 31.Hide Caption 134 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapan's Shoichiro Mukai, left, and Germany's Eduard Trippel compete in team judo on July 31.Hide Caption 135 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican swimmer Caeleb Dressel competes in the 100-meter butterfly on July 31. He finished in 49.45 seconds, winning gold and breaking his own world record in the process.Hide Caption 136 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsRussian fencers celebrate after winning gold in the team sabre event on July 31.Hide Caption 137 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSweden's Armand "Mondo" Duplantis competes in the pole vault on July 31. He holds the world record in the event.Hide Caption 138 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDutch field hockey players run from sprinklers after pre-match warmups on July 31.Hide Caption 139 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJamaican sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah celebrates after winning gold in the 100-meter dash on July 31. She set an Olympic record time of 10.61 seconds as she defended her title from 2016.Hide Caption 140 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsKenya's Mercy Moim spikes the ball during a volleyball match against the Dominican Republic on July 31.Hide Caption 141 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSpanish tennis player Pablo Carreño Busta celebrates after he defeated Serbia's Novak Djokovic to win bronze on July 31.Hide Caption 142 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsMembers of New Zealand's rugby team hug after defeating France to win gold on July 31.Hide Caption 143 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS swimmer Simone Manuel leaves the pool after failing to qualify for the 50-meter freestyle final on July 31. In 2016, Manuel became the first African American woman to ever win an individual Olympic gold medal in swimming. Hide Caption 144 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Katie Ledecky leads Australia's Ariarne Titmus during the 800-meter freestyle on July 31. Ledecky won the event for the third straight Olympics. Titmus took the silver.Hide Caption 145 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Keni Harrison races a 100-meter hurdles heat on July 31.Hide Caption 146 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsTeam Israel celebrates winning the bronze in the judo mixed-team event on July 31. France won the gold and Japan won the silver.Hide Caption 147 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsLydia Jacoby's goggles fell off while the American was competing in the mixed 4x100-meter medley relay on July 31. The US team finished fifth in the event. Great Britain won the gold.Hide Caption 148 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGreat Britain's Charlotte Worthington competes in BMX freestyle on July 31. She would go on to win gold.Hide Caption 149 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGreat Britain's Jessica Learmonth competes in the mixed relay triathlon on July 31. Great Britain won gold in the event, which was the first of its kind in Olympics history.Hide Caption 150 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe world's top-ranked tennis player, Serbia's Novak Djokovic, reacts during his semifinal match against Germany's Alexander Zverev on Friday, July 30. Zverev won 1-6, 6-3, 6-1, ending Djokovic's quest for a "Golden Slam." Djokovic has already won the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon this year. He was looking to add an Olympic gold and then a US Open title later in the year. The only person in history to win all five in one calendar year was Steffi Graf in 1988. Hide Caption 151 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS players celebrate after they defeated the Netherlands in a penalty shootout July 30 to advance to the semifinals in women's football.Hide Caption 152 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSwimmers compete in the 1,500-meter freestyle on July 30.Hide Caption 153 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA robot shoots a free throw during halftime of a women's basketball game between Belgium and Puerto Rico on July 30. Hide Caption 154 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDominican baseball players Gustavo Nunez, left, and Julio Rodriguez collide as Rodriguez catches a ball during their 1-0 win over Mexico on July 30.Hide Caption 155 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsEthiopia's Selemon Barega won the 10,000 meters on July 30 after a thrilling sprint on the final lap.Hide Caption 156 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAustralian diver Esther Qin competes in the 3-meter springboard event on July 30.Hide Caption 157 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAthletes compete in the Olympic debut of the 4x400-meter mixed relay on July 30. Hide Caption 158 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsLea Yanitsas, a goalkeeper for Australia's water polo team, tries to block a shot during a match against Spain on July 30.Hide Caption 159 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsRussian rugby player Anna Baranchuk reaches for the ball during a match against New Zealand on July 30.Hide Caption 160 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsMorocco's Mohamed Tindouft falls while competing in the 3,000-meter steeplechase on July 30.Hide Caption 161 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSouth African swimmer Tatjana Schoenmaker is congratulated by some of her fellow competitors — from left, American Lilly King, American Annie Lazor and South African Kaylene Corbett — after winning gold in the 200-meter breaststroke on July 30. She broke the world record, finishing with a time of 2:18.95.Hide Caption 162 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS gymnast Sunisa "Suni" Lee competes on the balance beam during the individual all-around final on Thursday, July 29. Lee is the fifth straight American to win gold in the event going back to the 2004 Olympics.Hide Caption 163 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Czech Republic's Jiri Prskavec reacts after winning gold in the kayak final on July 30. Hide Caption 164 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAustralia's Saya Sakakibara receives medical attention after a crash in the BMX racing semifinal on July 30. She was leading the race when she went down. American BMX racer Connor Fields was also injured in a semifinal race.Hide Caption 165 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsIndonesian badminton players Apriyani Rahayu and Greysia Polii react after winning their quarterfinal match on July 29.Hide Caption 166 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrom left, US gymnasts Grace McCallum, Jordan Chiles, Simone Biles and MyKayla Skinner cheer for teammate Suni Lee after her gold-medal performance on July 29. Biles, the defending champion, withdrew from the event because of mental-health concerns. Correction: This caption has been updated to include Grace McCallum, who was previously misidentified by Getty Images.Hide Caption 167 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBritish field hockey players prepare to defend a penalty corner during a match against the Netherlands on July 29.Hide Caption 168 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican swimmer Caeleb Dressel, top, competes in the 100-meter freestyle final on July 29. With an Olympic record time of 47.02 seconds, he won his fourth career gold medal and his second in Tokyo. He won the race by just .06 seconds.Hide Caption 169 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican gymnast Suni Lee takes a selfie with silver medalist Rebeca Andrade, center, and bronze medalist Angelina Melnikova after winning the individual all-around on July 29. Andrade is the first Brazilian to ever medal in women's gymnastics. Melnikova is Russian.Hide Caption 170 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsTunisia's Mohamed Hammed picks an arrow during archery competition on July 29.Hide Caption 171 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS beach volleyball player Sarah Sponcil stretches out for a ball during a match on July 29.Hide Caption 172 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS swimmer Katie McLaughlin places a silver medal around the neck of teammate Katie Ledecky after the 4x200-meter freestyle relay on July 29. The International Olympic Committee created a contactless medal ceremony, asking athletes to put their medals on themselves. Some athletes have been putting the medal on their teammates.Hide Caption 173 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsCanadian fencer Eleanor Harvey, left, competes against France's Ysaora Thibus in a foil team quarterfinal on July 29.Hide Caption 174 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsItaly's Cristina Chirichella serves the ball during a match against Argentina on July 29.Hide Caption 175 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBrazil's Bruna de Paula is defended by Spain's Lara González Ortega during a preliminary round handball match on July 29.Hide Caption 176 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapanese golfer Rikuya Hoshino tees off to start his first round on July 29. The Olympic golf is taking place at the Kasumigaseki Country Club in Kawagoe, Japan.Hide Caption 177 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrom left, the United States' Bobby Finke, Ukraine's Mykhailo Romanchuk and Germany's Florian Wellbrock dive in the water at the start of the 800-meter freestyle final on July 29. Finke won gold after a late rally.Hide Caption 178 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChina's Sun Yingsha waits for a serve from Japan's Mima Ito during a table-tennis semifinal on July 29. Sun won to advance to the final.Hide Caption 179 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBMX racers compete in the women's quarterfinals on July 29.Hide Caption 180 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSpain's Cristina Ouviña, center, is defended by a group of Serbian players during a preliminary round basketball game on July 29.Hide Caption 181 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapanese badminton player Arisa Higashino, top, hits a shot toward China's Huang Dongping in a mixed-doubles semifinal on July 29.Hide Caption 182 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS swimmer Katie Ledecky celebrates after crushing the field in the 1,500-meter freestyle on Wednesday, July 28. It was her sixth career gold medal and her eighth Olympic medal in all.Hide Caption 183 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsLedecky led the field for most of the 1,500-meter freestyle, and she finished the race more than four seconds ahead of silver medalist Erica Sullivan, a fellow American.Hide Caption 184 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapanese gymnast Daiki Hashimoto competes during the individual all-around on July 28. Hashimoto won the gold.Hide Caption 185 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsRussian tennis player Daniil Medvedev receives medical treatment during his third-round singles match on July 28. Midway through the match, the Russian — known for his dry humor and sarcasm — approached the chair umpire to ask what would happen if he died. Medvedev went on to win the match over Italy's Fabio Fognini.Hide Caption 186 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsPoland's Lukasz Przybytek and Pawel Kolodzinski compete in the 49er sailing competition on July 28.Hide Caption 187 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSerbia's Dusan Domovic Bulut, left, competes for the ball with Belgium's Rafael Bogaerts, center, and Thibaut Vervoort during a 3-on-3 basketball game on July 28. Serbia won the game for a bronze medal.Hide Caption 188 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican divers Michael Hixon, left, and Andrew Capobianco compete in the synchronized 3-meter springboard event on July 28. They won silver. China's Wang Zongyuan and Xie Siyi won gold.Hide Caption 189 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrom left, Jacquelyn Young, Stefanie Dolson, Kelsey Plum and Allisha Gray celebrate after they won gold in 3-on-3 basketball on July 28. This was the first year that 3-on-3 was an Olympic event.Hide Caption 190 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSwiss cyclist Marlen Reusser competes in the time trial event on July 28.Hide Caption 191 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFiji players celebrate after winning gold in rugby sevens on July 28.Hide Caption 192 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsKazakhstan's Bekzad Nurdauletov gets hit by Russian boxer Imam Khataev during their light-heavyweight match on July 28. Khataev won 4-1.Hide Caption 193 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChinese weightlifter Shi Zhiyong celebrates July 28 after winning gold in the 73-kilogram weight class. He lifted 166 kilograms in the snatch and 198 kilograms in the clean-and-jerk, setting a new world record total of 364 kilograms.Hide Caption 194 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapan's Megumi Murakami competes in a beach volleyball match on July 28. Hide Caption 195 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA crowd watches equestrian action on July 28.Hide Caption 196 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAustralia's Ariarne Titmus swims her way to gold in the 200-meter freestyle on July 28. She also set a new Olympic record, finishing in 1:53.50. It is her second gold of these Olympics, as she also won the 400-meter freestyle.Hide Caption 197 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsEgyptian fencer Ziad Elsissy celebrates a team sabre win on July 28.Hide Caption 198 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS gymnast Simone Biles wears her warm-up gear after she pulled out of the team all-around competition on Tuesday, July 27. Biles withdrew after stumbling on the vault, Team USA's first apparatus of the night. She cited mental-health concerns for her withdrawal. "I have to focus on my mental health and not jeopardize my health and well-being," she told reporters.Hide Caption 199 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA tattoo of the Olympic rings is seen on the back of South African swimmer Brad Tandy on July 27. Many of this year's athletes are sporting a wide range of ink.Hide Caption 200 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA man sits among rows of empty seats as he watches table tennis at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium on July 27.Hide Caption 201 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS gymnast Simone Biles performs on the vault during the team all-around event on July 27. She stumbled on the landing and withdrew right after that, saying she wasn't in the right frame of mind to compete. "It just sucks when you're fighting with your own head," she told reporters.Hide Caption 202 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAn underwater view shows the United States' Delaney Schnell, left, and Jessica Parratto after a dive in the the synchronized 10-meter platform event on July 27.Hide Caption 203 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsTurkish archer Yasemin Anagoz competes on July 27.Hide Caption 204 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrench slalom canoeist Marie-Zélia Lafont competes in the K-1 semifinal on July 27.Hide Caption 205 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapan's softball team celebrates with head coach Reika Utsugi after winning the gold-medal game against the United States on July 27. Japan won 2-0.Hide Caption 206 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsRussian gymnast Viktoria Listunova performs on the balance beam during the team all-around competition on July 27. She won the gold medal along with her teammates Vladislava Urazova, Angelina Melnikova and Lilia Akhaimova. Russian athletes at these Olympics are officially recognized as members of ROC, an abbreviation of the Russian Olympic Committee. That's because in 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency banned Russia from all international sporting competitions, including the Olympics, for doping non-compliance. Russian athletes can't compete under their country's name, flag and national anthem until December 2022.Hide Caption 207 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGerman table-tennis player Timo Boll serves during a match on July 27.Hide Caption 208 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsTaiwanese weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun reacts after winning gold in the 59-kilogram category on July 27.Hide Caption 209 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA man in Yokohama, Japan, walks past the Olympic rings lit up at dusk on July 27.Hide Caption 210 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe United States' Carissa Moore celebrates after she won the first-ever Olympic gold medal in surfing on July 27.Hide Caption 211 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican Regan Smith swims the final of the women's 100-meter backstroke on July 27. She won the bronze.Hide Caption 212 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican Haleigh Washington, left, spikes the ball during a volleyball match against China on July 27. The United States won in straight sets, 29-27, 25-22, 25-21.Hide Caption 213 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsNorway's Helene Naess and Marie Ronningen compete in the 49erFX sailing competition on July 27.Hide Caption 214 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS diver Jessica Parratto cries after she and teammate Delaney Schnell won a silver medal in the synchronized 10-meter platform event on July 27.Hide Caption 215 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsEstonian fencer Katrina Lehis, left, squares off against Italy's Mara Navarria in the team epée semifinals on July 27.Hide Caption 216 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsRussian swimmer Evgeny Rylov wears a cat-themed mask as he waits to receive his gold medal on July 27. Rylov won the 100-meter backstroke.Hide Caption 217 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBrazilian surfer Italo Ferreira competes in the gold-medal final on July 27. He won gold despite his board breaking on his first wave.Hide Caption 218 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapanese tennis star Naomi Osaka reacts during her third-round loss to the Czech Republic's Marketa Vondrousova on July 27. Osaka, who lit the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony, had 32 unforced errors in the match. It's the first time she has lost in a hard-court tournament since the 2020 Australian Open.Hide Caption 219 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsLydia Jacoby, left, is congratulated by fellow American swimmer Lilly King after winning the 100-meter breaststroke on July 27. Jacoby, 17, is the first-ever Olympic swimmer from Alaska, and she was not expected to win the event. King, a race favorite who won the event at the 2016 Olympics, finished with the bronze this time.Hide Caption 220 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBrazil's Ana Paula Rodrigues Belo attempts to shoot during a handball match against Hungary on July 27.Hide Caption 221 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBermuda's Flora Duffy celebrates after she won gold in the triathlon on July 27. It's the first-ever Olympic gold medal for an athlete representing Bermuda.Hide Caption 222 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrom left, Hungary's Katinka Hosszú, the United States' Alex Walsh and China's Yu Yiting take part in a semifinal race for the 200-meter individual medley on July 27. Walsh won the race.Hide Caption 223 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrance's Endy Miyem is defended by Japan's Himawari Akaho during a basketball game on July 27. Japan defeated France 74-70.Hide Caption 224 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsRussian swimmer Evgeny Rylov celebrates after winning the 100-meter backstroke on July 27. His countryman Kliment Kolesnikov won the silver.Hide Caption 225 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsMembers of the media are pictured in the foreground as Indonesia's Marcus Fernaldi Gideon, bottom left, and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo play a badminton match against Taiwan's Lee Yang, top left, and Wang Chi-lin on July 27.Hide Caption 226 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSouth Korean fencer Kang Young-mi, right, is congratulated by her teammates after they defeated the United States in the epée quarterfinals on July 27.Hide Caption 227 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS water polo player Johnny Hooper takes a shot during the team's 20-3 win over South Africa on July 27.Hide Caption 228 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrom left, Russian gymnasts David Belyavskiy, Artur Dalaloyan, Nikita Nagornyy and Denis Ablyazin react after winning gold in the team all-around on Monday, July 26.Hide Caption 229 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapanese table-tennis players Jun Mizutani, left, and Mima Ito celebrate their dramatic victory over China in the mixed-doubles final on July 26. Mizutani and Ito came back from two sets down to win 4-3, clinching the final set 11-6. The win ended years of Chinese dominance in the sport. China had won every Olympic title in table tennis since South Korea's Ryu Seung-min triumphed in the men's singles competition at the 2004 Athens Games.Hide Caption 230 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Philippines' Hidilyn Diaz reacts after winning the 55-kilogram weightlifting competition on July 26. It's her country's first-ever Olympic gold medal. Prior to Diaz's gold, the Philippines had claimed three silvers and seven bronzes. Diaz won one of the silvers in the 2016 Olympics.Hide Caption 231 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe sun sets in Tokyo on July 26 as Belgium plays the Netherlands in a men's 3-on-3 basketball game. The event is making its Olympic debut this year.Hide Caption 232 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsVolunteers sit in mostly empty stands during archery competition on July 26.Hide Caption 233 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Czech Republic's Lukas Rohan competes in a canoeing semifinal on July 26.Hide Caption 234 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFencers Sofia Pozdniakova and Sofya Velikaya, both representing the Russian Olympic Committee, compete against each other in the individual sabre final on July 26. Pozdniakova, a two-time world champion and daughter of Russian Olympic Committee President Stanislav Pozdniakov, defeated Velikaya 15-11.Hide Caption 235 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSpain's Adrian Gavira Collado waits for a serve during a beach volleyball match on July 26.Hide Caption 236 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsHong Kong fencer Edgar Cheung looks at his gold medal after beating Italy's Daniele Garozzo in the men's foil final on July 26. It was Hong Kong's first gold at the Summer Olympics in 25 years.Hide Caption 237 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAustralian swimmer Ariarne Titmus edges the United States' Katie Ledecky to win the 400-meter freestyle on July 26. It's the first Olympic medal for Titmus, the defending world champion in the event. Ledecky won the event at the 2016 Olympics, where she set a world record that still stands today.Hide Caption 238 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThree US swimmers — from right, Caeleb Dressel, Blake Pieroni and Bowen Becker — celebrate after winning the 4x100-meter freestyle relay on July 26. Not pictured is teammate Zach Apple, who swam the anchor leg.Hide Caption 239 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapanese skateboarder Momiji Nishiya grinds a rail during the women's street competition on July 26. The 13-year-old won gold in the new event, a day after fellow Japanese skateboarder Yuto Horigome won gold on the men's side. She is one of the youngest gold-medal winners in Olympic history. She is just months older than the current female record-holder, American diver Marjorie Gestring, who was 13 years and 267 days old when she won gold at the Berlin Games in 1936.Hide Caption 240 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsIran's Meisam Salehi spikes the ball during a volleyball match against Venezuela on July 26.Hide Caption 241 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBritish divers Tom Daley, left, and Matty Lee compete in the synchronized 10-meter platform event on July 26. They won the gold.Hide Caption 242 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsNorway's Kristian Blummenfelt lies on the ground wrapped in finish-line tape after he won the triathlon on July 26. On the right, silver medalist Alex Yee of Great Britain hugs bronze medalist Hayden Wilde of New Zealand.Hide Caption 243 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsNorway's Richard Andre Ordemann is kicked in the face by Jordan's Saleh Elsharabaty during a taekwondo bout on July 26. Elsharabaty won 5-4.Hide Caption 244 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe US softball team celebrates its 2-1 win over Japan on July 26. The two teams will meet again in the gold-medal game July 27.Hide Caption 245 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAthletes dive into the water at the start of the men's triathlon on July 26. A broadcast boat prevented all swimmers from starting, forcing a restart. It was the first-ever call of its kind in an Olympic triathlon.Hide Caption 246 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapan's Hifumi Abe celebrates after winning gold in judo on Sunday, July 25.Hide Caption 247 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Tokyo 2020 logo is reflected in the backboard as France's Evan Fournier rises for a shot on July 25. France upset the United States 83-76 in what was both teams' opening games. The US team hadn't lost an Olympic game since 2004.Hide Caption 248 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChinese weightlifter Chen Lijun celebrates on July 25. He won gold in his 67-kilogram weight class after lifting 187 kilograms — an Olympic record — in the clean-and-jerk. His total lift of 332 kilograms edged Colombia's Luis Javier Mosquera Lozano by one kilogram.Hide Caption 249 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten celebrates after completing the road race on July 25. She thought she had won the gold medal, not realizing that Austria's Anna Kiesenhofer had broken away from the pack and finished first. Cyclists race without earpieces at the Olympics, and that played a part in her confusion, she said. But she was still "really proud" of her silver medal.Hide Caption 250 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS equestrian Adrienne Lyle rides Salvino in the dressage competition on July 25.Hide Caption 251 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGreat Britain's Adam Peaty competes in a semifinal of the 100-meter breaststroke on July 25. Peaty, the world-record holder in the event, went on to win gold in the final. He also won the event at the 2016 Olympics.Hide Caption 252 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS gymnast Simone Biles stumbles on a balance beam dismount during the qualification event on July 25. She still qualified for the event finals, and the United States finished second in qualification for the all-around. "Obviously, there are little things we need to work on, so we'll go back and practice and work on that just so we can do our best performance at team finals (on Tuesday), because that's what matters," Biles said.Hide Caption 253 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican Anastasija Zolotic celebrates after winning gold in taekwondo on July 25. She is the first US woman to win Olympic gold in the event.Hide Caption 254 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsStaff members prepare for judo competition at the Budokan arena in Tokyo.Hide Caption 255 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSpanish judoka Alberto Gaitero Martin is bandaged during his bout against Ukraine's Georgii Zantaraia on July 25.Hide Caption 256 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChina's Zhang Changning spikes the ball in a preliminary-round volleyball match against Turkey on July 25.Hide Caption 257 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsMexico's Dallas Escobedo warms up before a softball game against Italy on July 25. Softball is back at the Olympics for the first time since 2008.Hide Caption 258 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican gymnast Simone Biles performs on the vault during the qualification round on July 25. The team all-around final is Tuesday, and the Americans will look to defend the gold they won at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.Hide Caption 259 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAmerican swimmer Chase Kalisz celebrates after winning gold in the 400-meter individual medley on July 25. It was the first medal for the United States in this year's Olympics.Hide Caption 260 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBrazilian surfer Italo Ferreira rides a wave during an early heat on July 25. This is the first year that surfing is in the Olympics.Hide Caption 261 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapan's Naomi Osaka hits a forehand during her first-round match against China's Zheng Saisai on July 25. Osaka won 6-1, 6-4.Hide Caption 262 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsKimia Alizadeh, a taekwondo athlete representing the Olympic Refugee Team, kicks Iran's Nahid Kiyani Chandeh during her first match on July 25. Alizadeh was born in Iran and became the country's first female athlete to win an Olympic medal when she won bronze at the 2016 Games. But she defected last year amid searing criticism of the regime in Tehran. Alizadeh defeated Chandeh 18-9.Hide Caption 263 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsMarina Nekrasova, a gymnast from Azerbaijan, competes on the uneven bars during the qualification round on July 25.Hide Caption 264 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsItaly's Alessandro Velotto moves the ball during a water polo match against South Africa on July 25.Hide Caption 265 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapan's Yuto Horigome competes in street skateboarding on July 25. Horigome went on to win the first-ever Olympic gold medal in skateboarding.Hide Caption 266 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsHungarian fencer Flora Pasztor, left, competes against Algeria's Meriem Mebarki on July 25.Hide Caption 267 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAustralian tennis star Ashleigh Barty, the world's top-ranked player who won Wimbledon earlier this month, reacts during her first-round loss to Spain's Sara Sorribes Tormo on July 25. Sorribes Tormo won 6-4, 6-3.Hide Caption 268 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAustralian swimmers celebrate together after they won gold in the 4x100-meter freestyle relay on July 25. They also set a new world record (3:29.69). Clockwise from left are Meg Harris, Emma McKeon, Bronte Campbell and Cate Campbell.Hide Caption 269 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGerman beach-volleyball players Julia Sude and Karla Borger play Switzerland's Anouk Vergé-Dépré and Joana Heidrich in an empty Shiokaze Park on Saturday, July 24.Hide Caption 270 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsHend Zaza, the youngest Olympian this summer, competes in table tennis on July 24. The 12-year-old Syrian was knocked out in the preliminary round, losing 4-0 to Austrian Jia Liu.Hide Caption 271 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFans wait at the finish of the men's cycling road race on July 24. The Fuji International Speedway, in Oyama, Japan, is one of the five Olympic venues open to fans this year.Hide Caption 272 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsNigerian gymnast Uche Eke competes on the horizontal bar on July 24.Hide Caption 273 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChinese fencer Sun Yiwen celebrates with her coach Hugues Obry after winning gold in the épée on July 24.Hide Caption 274 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChinese weightlifter Hou Zhihui competes on July 24. She set an Olympic record in her 49-kilogram weight class, lifting 94 kilograms in the snatch round and 116 kilograms in the clean-and-jerk.Hide Caption 275 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsChina's Yang Qian, the first gold-medal winner of these Olympics, celebrates on July 24. She finished first in the 10-meter air rifle.Hide Caption 276 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBadminton players compete amid rows of empty seats on July 24.Hide Caption 277 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA staff member picks up the mouthguard of Great Britain's Peter McGrail during a boxing match on July 24.Hide Caption 278 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsCyclists compete in the men's road race on July 24. Ecuador's Richard Carapaz won the race after breaking away in the final 10 kilometers.Hide Caption 279 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDuring a break in his first-round match, Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev cools down with a mobile air conditioner and a towel with ice cubes. "It was some of the worst (heat) I've ever had," he said after he beat Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik.Hide Caption 280 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapanese tennis star Naomi Osaka lights the Olympic cauldron at the end of the opening ceremony on Friday, July 23.Hide Caption 281 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFireworks go off after Osaka lit the Olympic cauldron.Hide Caption 282 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAn overhead view of Osaka lighting the cauldron. The cauldron was designed in the shape of a cherry blossom.Hide Caption 283 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Olympic flag is raised near the end of the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 284 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsLive performers pose as the triathlon pictogram during the opening ceremony. There were 50 sports taking place this year in the Tokyo Olympics, and all of their pictograms were acted out by the performers.Hide Caption 285 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsSeiko Hashimoto, president of the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, makes a speech during the opening ceremony. At left is Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee.Hide Caption 286 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapanese jazz composer Hiromi Uehara plays the piano during the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 287 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Olympic flag is carried toward the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 288 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJapan's Emperor Naruhito delivers a speech and formally opens the Olympic Games.Hide Caption 289 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsMembers of the Refugee Olympic Team march during the parade of nations.Hide Caption 290 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsTongan flag-bearer Pita Taufatofua made headlines for going shirtless at the 2016 and 2018 opening ceremonies, and he was at it again in Tokyo. He would be competing in taekwondo.Hide Caption 291 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAthletes from the United States march during the customary parade of nations.Hide Caption 292 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDuring one portion of the opening ceremony, there were 1,800 drones flying over the stadium to form a globe in the night sky. As the glowing drones soared over the stadium, performers sang "Imagine" by John Lennon.Hide Caption 293 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAthletes from various nations sit during the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 294 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsAthletes from Team Norway take part in the parade of nations.Hide Caption 295 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Olympic teams from every country watch performers on stage.Hide Caption 296 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsUS athletes hold an American flag during the parade of nations.Hide Caption 297 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsRussian athletes pose for a photo during the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 298 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA police officer is seen in the mostly empty stadium on July 23. Organizers said that for the opening ceremony, only 950 VIPs would be present in a stadium that can seat nearly 70,000 people.Hide Caption 299 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFrench athletes march during the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 300 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA member of Egypt's delegation enters the stadium during the parade of nations.Hide Caption 301 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsBritish flag-bearers Hannah Mills and Mohamed Sbihi lead out the team during the opening ceremony's parade of nations. Sbihi, a rower, made history as Great Britain's first Muslim flag-bearer.Hide Caption 302 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsGreece's athletes march into the stadium to kick off the parade of nations.Hide Caption 303 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsDancers take part in the start of the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 304 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsPeople perform during the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 305 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe Japanese flag is carried during the opening ceremony. After the Japanese National Anthem was sung, a moment of silence was called to remember the global victims of the Covid-19 pandemic.Hide Caption 306 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA performer acts during the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 307 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsThe start of the ceremony reflected the isolated training that many athletes had to do during the pandemic.Hide Caption 308 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsJill Biden, the first lady of the United States, takes part in a moment of silence during the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 309 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA lone performer is seen during the start of the opening ceremony.Hide Caption 310 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsA police officer gestures toward a small group of people who were protesting the Olympics outside the stadium on July 23. A significant portion of the Japanese public opposes holding the Olympics in the middle of a pandemic.Hide Caption 311 of 312 Photos: The best photos from the Tokyo OlympicsFireworks explode over the stadium as the opening ceremony got underway.Hide Caption 312 of 312"There's some efficiency in the shoe, don't get me wrong, and it's nice to have a good track. But no one in history's going to go out there and do what we did just now, ever. I don't care who you are."Mihambo's golden jumpBefore the theatrics of the men's 400m hurdles, Germany's Malaika Mihambo delivered drama in the women's long jump when she claimed the gold medal with her final leap of seven meters. It put her ahead of the USA's Brittney Reese and Nigeria's Ese Brume, neither of whom could go beyond the seven-meter mark with their final jumps and took silver and bronze respectively. "I feel overwhelmed. It was, I think, the most exciting women's long jump competition in history," said Mihambo. "It was so exciting to be part of and I am happy I made it at the end."I knew that I could jump farther than 6.95m. I just needed to hit the board. I knew all the time that I could do it. I just knew that I had one last attempt to do it and I am so happy to grab the gold."Those two gold medals to Norway and Germany in the Tuesday morning session mean that the first 15 golds handed in track and field events at the Tokyo Olympics have gone to athletes from 15 different countries.

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(CNN)The English Premier League has reported a record 103 Covid-19 cases in the week leading up to Boxing Day."The League can today confirm that between Monday 20 December and Sunday 26 December, 15,186 COVID-19 tests were administered on players and club staff," the Premier League said in a statement on Monday. "Of these, there were 103 new positive cases."The 103 cases are an increase on the previous week -- Dec 13-19 -- when 90 players and staff tested positive for the novel coronavirus."The safety of everyone is a priority and the Premier League is taking all precautionary steps in response to the impact of the Omicron variant of COVID-19," the statement added."The League has reverted to its Emergency Measures, and has increased testing of players and club staff to daily lateral flow and twice-weekly PCR tests, having previously carried out lateral-flow testing twice a week."Read MoreIn addition to the increased testing, the emergency measures employed by the Premier League include protocols requiring faces masks to be worn indoors, mandatory social distancing and limiting treatment time."The League is continuing to work with clubs to keep people safe by helping mitigate the risks of COVID-19 within their squads," the statement added.READ: Fans left in the lurch by Premier League's Covid crisisGames called offThe League said it was releasing the case numbers in the interest of transparency and competition integrity but added it would not be releasing the names of the players and teams where the diagnoses had taken place.On Sunday, the Premier League announced the postponement of the match between Arsenal and Wolverhampton on December 28 due to a mix of Covid-19 issues and injuries in the Wolves squad.The fixture is the second that Wolves have had postponed after their Boxing Day mach with Watford was also called off due to the virus.Earlier on Sunday, Leeds United's game against Aston Villa match on Tuesday was another postponement confirmed by the Premier League.So far this season, 15 Premier League games have been called off due to Covid-19 issues.The United Kingdom has seen a sharp rise in Covid-19, reporting a record 122,186 cases on Friday, the highest daily number since start of the pandemic, according to government data.Homero De La Fuente contributed to this report

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Story highlightsBoston-born golfer James Driscoll pledges $1,000 for every birdie he makesDriscoll cards seven birdies in his opening two rounds and is lucky to make cutA record-equaling 91 players play the third after Jesper Parnevik's missed puttIt moved 21 players above the cut line as second round is completed on SaturdayA golfer's bid to raise money for the victims of the Boston bombings was given an unlikely boost when a record-equaling 91 players made the halfway cut at the PGA Tour tournament in South Carolina.James Driscoll is pledging $1,000 for each birdie he makes at the RBC Heritage at Hilton Head, but he was in danger of missing the weekend action.However, a missed putt by Jesper Parnevik meant that a group of 21 players -- including Driscoll -- moved above the cut line and went through to Saturday's third round."@JesperParnevik can I buy you a drink or 14 tonight?" Driscoll wrote on Twitter.Driscoll, who was born in Boston, had a big group of friends at the finish line of the marathon when the explosions went off on Monday but none were hurt."I've had tons of players ask if my family is OK and if I knew anybody close by," he said on the PGA Tour website. "The crowds have been good. I can tell they've been pulling for me with what I'm trying to do."JUST WATCHEDGolf win 'more important than world peace'ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHGolf win 'more important than world peace' 01:13JUST WATCHEDBubba Watson on shaping shotsReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHBubba Watson on shaping shots 07:08JUST WATCHEDTop female golfers on male-only coursesReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHTop female golfers on male-only courses 03:05Read: There's more to life than winning, says golf starDriscoll carded seven birdies in 36 holes across Thursday and Friday, having set up a pledge site for donations.One of the bombing suspects was killed by police early Friday, while the other was taken into custody in the evening."Before the round I was glued to the TV and the news," Driscoll said. "It's crazy when you watch the news, it's like you're watching a movie. It doesn't seem real."Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs has pledged to donate $100,000 on behalf of the baseball franchise to the One Fund Boston charity, while the owner of its home venue, the T.D. Garden — shared with the city's NBA team the Celtics -- will put in $50,000. The Celtics announced Saturday that the team will seek to raise $200,00 through multiple initiatives.Read: Guan, 14, invited to PGA Tour event"I think that's where it gets its reputation as a crazy sports town; people rally so hard around the local teams that it's such a tight-knit community," Driscoll said. "People are quick to support one another and that's what I'm trying to do."Usually around half of the 140-strong field at a tournament will be cut at the halfway stage, but Parnevik's 18th-hole miss meant that the weekend ranks were swelled to a number not seen since the 1981 Travelers Championship."Everybody in the field at +2, put your envelopes in my locker..." tweeted Parnevik, who was one of 17 players to complete their second rounds on Saturday.Driscoll did not make the third-round cut, which is the top 70 players, having carded one birdie and two double-bogeys in his opening nine holes.He added another birdie to take his pledge total to $9,000 but was left in a tie for 88th after recording a 76.Driscoll was 18 shots behind leader Charley Hoffman, who will take a two-stroke advantage over 2012 U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson into Sunday's final round.

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(CNN)The Senate race is settled, but the House playing field in Texas will take two more months to sort out.After an unprecedented set of jam-packed primaries left the leaders of several key primaries below the 50% mark, runoffs are set for May 22. Here's a look at what we know -- and what we don't -- as Texas tallies the results of Tuesday's primaries:1. It's O'Rourke vs. Cruz Democratic Rep. Beto O'Rourke got through the Senate primary without a runoff, CNN projected, and is now set to take on Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. Read MoreWith O'Rourke and Cruz set to square off, Cruz's campaign quickly released a 60-second radio ad featuring a country music jingle in which O'Rourke is mocked for going by "Beto" rather than his given name, "Robert." Left unmentioned: The Republican senator, whose given name is Rafael Edward Cruz, also shortened his, to "Ted." "My parents have called me Beto from day one, and it's just -- it's kind of a nickname for Robert in El Paso. It just stuck," O'Rourke said in a brief phone interview Tuesday night. CNN has rated the race Likely Republican.2. Six more weeks of drama in three House racesDemocrats look to be headed to runoffs in three races for Republican-held seats that Hillary Clinton won in 2016 and the party has targeted to flip in November's midterms. National eyes were on Republican Rep. John Culberson's 7th District in the Houston area, and specifically Laura Moser -- the candidate the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee attacked as incapable of winning a general election over comments in articles the journalist and activist had written while living in Washington. She was locked in a close race with Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, Jason Westin and Alex Triantaphyllis. Pannill Fletcher was the highest vote-getter at 31% at midnight Eastern time, with 40% of precincts counted. In the 32nd District contest to take on GOP Rep. Pete Sessions for his Dallas-area seat, former NFL player Colin Allred led the way with 40%, and three other candidates battling in the mid-teens to make the runoff. And in Republican Rep. Will Hurd's 23rd District, former Air Force intelligence officer Gina Ortiz Jones was the clear Democratic leader with 40%, with four other competitors battling for a spot in the party's runoff. Hurd, the incumbent, will face off against the runoff winner in November.3. A Democratic gubernatorial runoff Former Dallas County sheriff Lupe Valdez and Andrew White, the son of former Gov. Mark White, were the two clear frontrunners in a nine-person field to become the Democratic nominee to take on Republican Gov. Greg Abbott this fall. But with such a divided field, neither could top 50%, according to a CNN projection, and the race is headed for a runoff. Still, what looms over this year's gubernatorial race is the big-name Democrats who didn't run -- including twin brothers Rep. Joaquin Castro and former Housing and Urban Development secretary Julian Castro.

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Story highlightsMaria Sharapova beat Italy's Sara Errani in straight sets to win opening match in White GroupDefending champion Petra Kvitova makes 41 unforced errors as she is beaten by Agnieszka Radwanska for first timeSerena Williams returns to action for first time since U.S. Open win, beating Germany's Angelique KerberMaria Sharapova kept alive her hopes of finishing the year as world No. 1 when beating Italy's Sara Errani 6-3 6-2 in her opening match of the WTA Tour Championships in Istanbul. The Russian, who won the event in 2004, has called attaining the status her 'biggest priority this week' at the season-ending tournament. The 25-year-old needs to win at least two matches in Istanbul while hoping that Victoria Azarenka, the Belarusian who currently holds the title of the world's best, slips up in the Red Group if she is to finish the year on top. Sharapova, whose victory margin was identical to her only previous meeting with Errani, who she beat in the final of this year's French Open, was delighted to make an impact at the WTA Championships after injury forced her early withdrawal last year. Read: Sharapova overpowers Errani to win French Open"This is such a great feeling, not only to make it here but to feel good physically," the World No.2 told the WTA's official website. JUST WATCHEDMaria Sharapova's greatest hits ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHMaria Sharapova's greatest hits 05:02JUST WATCHEDGraf excited about German tennisReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHGraf excited about German tennis 02:58"When you're out here and feeling good it's such a big motivation, and it's the last tournament of the year too, so while I'm going to enjoy some time off after this, right now it's all business."Sharapova is competing in the White Group, where Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska earned her first career win against Petra Kvitova at the fourth attempt as the defending champion lost the opening match of the championships. The Wimbledon runner-up won 6-3 6-2 in a match where the Czech, looking to become the first woman to win back-to-back titles since Belgium's Justine Henin in 2007, produced 41 unforced errors in contrast to just five from her opponent. "I was not very comfortable on court and I didn't feel pretty well," said Kvitova, who cut a dejected figure afterwards.The only Red Group game of the day found Serena Williams playing her first match since winning the U.S. Open in August and she maintained her winning run as she beat Angelique Kerber, the German making her debut at the event for the world's top eight players. The Wimbledon, U.S. Open and Olympic champion won 6-4 6-1 against the left-hander who had inflicted Williams' only defeat in her 27 matches preceding the tie, with Kerber winning in Cincinnati in August. The victory, which quickly reached its conclusion once Williams broke for 3-1 in the second set, was greeted with huge enthusiasm by those watching inside Istanbul's Sinan Erdem Dome. "I've never been here but I never knew I had so many Turkish supporters," Williams told wtatennis.com. "It was really an honor to hear the fans go crazy and be really loud when I walked out. It made me have this smile on my face, and an even bigger smile inside." On Wednesday, Williams is scheduled to play first against Li Na, the former French Open champion from China, while Azarenka enters the action when taking on Kerber, who broke into the top five in the rankings for the first time this week. "Every match here will be tough - I obviously have great champions in the group," said Azarenka. "It's challenging, definitely, but I'm looking forward to it."

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(CNN)Despite an abundance of coastline, long stretches of beach and swell on both sides of the country, India has traditionally been a surf-shy nation. But over the past decade, the tide has gradually started to turn. Ishita Malaviya, India's first professional female surfer and one of the early pioneers of the sport in her country, remembers googling "surfing in India" back in 2007, only for nothing to show up. When she took up the sport at university on the advice of a German exchange student, Malaviya estimates that there were only 13 professional surfers in India -- a drop in the ocean amid what was then a population of 1.2 billion. Hooked by the sport from the moment she caught her first wave, she and her partner Tushar Pathiyan started the Shaka Surf Club while studying at university in Manipal."I remember smiling on my first wave, all the way to shore and all the way back home from the beach," Malaviya tells CNN Sport. Read MoreIn the early days, she and Pathiyan shared one board between them before they started to fix up broken boards from traveling surfers passing through the country. Ishita Malaviya became a surfing pioneer in India after taking up the sport in 2007. Back home in Mumbai, their friends and family had doubts about their new pastime."People we grew up with, our friend circle, were like, 'What are you guys doing? You're wasting your life, you've become beach bums.' They thought we'd lost the plot," says Malaviya."We didn't have any money. Our parents were like, 'You can surf but don't expect us to buy you a board.'"'Cursed place'Malaviya finished her degree in journalism and moved to the coast to focus her efforts on expanding the Shaka Surf Club, which provides lessons, board rentals and accommodation for people of all ages. Over the years, she has not only seen the sport grow in India -- estimating there are now a couple hundred people surfing competitively -- but has also witnessed a shift in attitude towards the ocean, particularly among the fishing communities that have taken up surfing. "They come from generations of people who look at the ocean as just a place of hard work, struggle, income -- it's very transactional," says Malaviya. "This is probably the first generation of fishermen in India that are going to the ocean and actually having fun."She points to the number of drowning deaths in India -- close to 33,000 last year, according to a report released by the government's National Crime Records Buereau -- as a reason people have been reluctant to regard the sea as a place of leisure. "There's a major fear of the ocean," adds Malaviya. "Most of the people don't know how to swim ... for us it was like, they're living in paradise (but) they look at the ocean like this cursed place, you know?"Malaviya has been hooked to surfing and its lifestyle ever since she rode her first wave. At Shaka Surf Club, located in the fishing village of Kodi Bengre on India's west coast, surfing and skateboarding is free for kids from the village. Club volunteers also teach activities like yoga, breakdancing, art or theater at the local school -- an initiative that started when teachers at the Kannada-speaking school noticed that pupils who had been surfing spoke better English than their peers. "We would talk to them in sign language and smiles and shakas," says Malaviya, a "shaka" being a goodwill gesture among surfers meaning "hang loose" or "take it easy.""The kids that were learning to surf with us, they picked up English just by speaking to us."Boosting representationMalaviya has gained recognition beyond India's shores and last year featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list, alongside the likes of tennis star Naomi Osaka and Chelsea soccer star Samantha Kerr. "It's all pretty surreal," she says. "I live a very unglamorous life, I live in a village, a very simple, peaceful life. But I'm really grateful doing what I do with the story that I have."Her story forms part of "She Surf," a book authored by fellow surfer Lauren Hill celebrating female surfers around the world. For Hill, who traveled the globe to recount the tales of the most influential female surfers, figures like Malaviya are overdue a spot in the sport's literary cannon."Most of the women I profiled are just women that I respect, admire and have built some sort of relationship with over the last many years," Hill tells CNN Sport.Lauren Hill first took up surfing when she was growing up in Florida. "Mostly they're women that I've surfed with and I just admire their technical proficiency and want to see them recognized for the great athletes and contributors to the culture that they really are."It's still quite rare for women to be included in the fold of endemic surf media. If you consider the fact that women make up around 30 percent of surfers in somewhere like the US, representation looks nothing like 30 percent of surf imagery."Especially if you look at the cover of a surfing magazine it's still incredibly rare to see even one woman land a cover of a mainstream magazine."'Importance of play'Surfing will take an historic leap next year as it makes its Olympic debut on the Pacific coast of Chiba, Japan. For competitive surfers, it will be a chance to showcase their sport on a global stage. But it will come with challenges, too. "You can't guarantee that you're going to have surf, that's just not how it works," says Hill, who surfed competitively before forging a career as a free surfer -- writing and documenting on surf culture and its intersection with topics like feminism and the environment."The challenge of surfing, but it's also the beauty of surfing, is you have to wake up and respond to the happenings in the living world around you. It's not like almost every other aspect of modern life where you can plan into an uncertain infinity."The introduction of wave pools that produce regular, predictable waves away from the ocean have been part of a drive to make surfing easier to schedule."A lot of surfers would say something is left out when you have a perfectly mechanized version of a sport or an art that relies on spontaneity and the wildness of the ocean," notes Hill."It's wave riding ... It's a different discipline, which is interesting too. I don't think it's bad, I just think it's a different expression." JUST WATCHEDBethany Hamilton is 'Unstoppable'ReplayMore Videos ...MUST WATCHBethany Hamilton is 'Unstoppable' 04:25As the sport seeks to evolve competitively, for someone like Hill it is the simple impulse of deriving enjoyment from nature that will always be surfing's greatest pull. "It's reminded me of the absolute importance of play and how we tend to lose a sense of play in our adult lives," she says."It just helps remind me not to take myself so seriously. You're in the surf, you're definitely going to fall down, you're definitely going to be humbled by the ocean; it's a powerful force and it is so good at humbling us at every stage of our surfing lives."Thousands of miles from the Florida coast where Hill learned to surf, it is the same joy that gripped Malaviya as she caught her first wave 13 years ago."Growing up in India, there's so much pressure put on you generally because the population is just super competitive. And then being a woman, I feel like you are kind of forced to grow up too soon. "Because of all this pressure -- to study and do well at school -- that idea of playtime kind of disappeared from my life."When I came here and I started surfing, for the first time in a long time I just felt like a kid again."

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(CNN)The hacking collective Anonymous last week claimed to have stolen and leaked reams of data held by Epik, a website hosting firm popular with far-right organizations like the Proud Boys. The more than 150 gigabytes of data swept up in the breach shine a light on years of online activities from far-right groups, including those who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election. While researchers are still sifting through the data, Epik has historically provided web hosting services to an array of conspiracy theorists, and for conservative media networks like Parler and Gab. The breach also undercuts Epik's pledge to customers that it can safeguard their anonymity, no matter what dangerous conspiracy theories they spread online. For that reason, experts told CNN the hack could have repercussions for how far-right groups organize and try to protect themselves online. "A breach like this will force some of these actors to find security providers outside of North America to possibly step up their security game," Gabriella Coleman, a professor of anthropology at Harvard University, told CNN. Coleman said the data dump "confirmed a lot of the details of the far-right ecosystem."Emily Crose, a cybersecurity analyst who studies online extremism, said the breach "will be another factor causing paranoia among far-right communities online." Crose said those groups already feel like they're under surveillance, given their violent attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Read MoreEmma Best, co-founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets, a non-profit that itself has published hacktivist data, said researchers could be poring over the Epik leaks for months for clues into how different people and far-right organizations are linked.The breach was first reported by freelance journalist Steven Monacelli.In a statement to CNN on Tuesday night, Epik said the information that Anonymous released included data on 15 million people that was already public. "Epik has been a trusted resource for many years and our highest priority will always be security and privacy," the firm said. Epik said in a statement last week that it had "deployed multiple cyber security teams" to remediate the breach. The company, which is based in the Seattle area, tried to assure customers that "our highest priority will always be your security and privacy." Troy Hunt, an Australian cybersecurity consultant, said numerous people who are not Epik customers also had their data compromised in the hack. That's because Epik has apparently been collecting third-party data that is publicly available on the internet, according to Hunt. Hunt, who runs a service that informs people if their email addresses have been exposed in data breaches, told CNN that about 100,000 of his subscribers had been affected by the Epik hack. "It's a very salacious, messy situation," Hunt said. "Amongst all this, there's a whole bunch of people" who still haven't been notified that their information was compromised, he added. This story has been updated with a statement from Epik.CORRECTION: This story has been corrected to accurately reflect a quote from Gabriella Coleman.

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