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The entrenched polarization of our political landscape, though not unique in history, is nevertheless ominous and unsettling.Everyone seems to have a different read on the causes.Is the biggest problem Christian versus other?Wealth versus poverty?Republican versus Democrat?Pro-abortion rights versus anti-abortion rights?

Two masks of the Indigenous community of the Kogi from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia are displayed at the presidential palace in Berlin on June 16, 2023.Markus Schreiber/AP BERLIN Germany handed over to Colombia on Friday two masks made by the Indigenous Kogi people that had been in a Berlin museum's collection for more than a century, another step in the country's restitution of cultural artifacts as European nations reappraise their colonial-era past.

Jeff Carlisle, U.S. soccer correspondentJun 16, 2023, 06:59 PM ET

CloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.LAS VEGAS -- Reappointed U.S. men's national team coach Gregg Berhalter admitted "there's work to do" in terms of repairing his relationship with midfielder Gio Reyna.

Rob Dawson, CorrespondentJun 2, 2023, 07:00 AM ET


Erik ten Hag has set high standards at Manchester United this season, but Bruno Fernandes might be even more demanding.After watching his team beat Chelsea 4-1 to add a top-four finish to the Carabao Cup, Ten Hag declared his first year at Old Trafford as a success.

Finland's main conservative party announced a new coalition government on Friday after weeks of negotiations, in a deal that moves the country firmly to the right and follows a pattern of similar political shifts elsewhere in Europe.Petteri Orpo, leader of the center-right National Coalition Party, would become prime minister under the coalition, which includes the right-wing nationalist Finns Party.

Throngs of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan have been arrested.Media columnists considered sympathetic to him have been intimidated.Key allies have resigned from his party, saying they had been threatened with criminal charges and arrests.As political tensions between Mr. Khan and the Pakistani government have flared in recent weeks and sparked violent nationwide protests, the country's powerful military has responded by launching a chilling campaign against Mr. Khan's supporters that aims to hollow out his political party ahead of general elections this fall.

BERLIN Germany is expected to introduce its first comprehensive national security strategy on Wednesday, an effort to address Germany's priorities and ambitions in a Europe transformed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.The announcement is a key part of the coalition agreement of the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, but it comes as the war in Ukraine has heightened Germany's sense that it has become vulnerable to new military, economic and geopolitical threats, including climate change.

Facing a ruinous economic crisis, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi recently decided it was time to hold talks with what was left of Egypt's political opposition, giving them a seat at the table after nearly a decade of repression, prison and exile.But to an authoritarian leader like Mr. el-Sisi, reconciliation only goes so far.

Four Colombian children who survived in the Colombian jungle for 40 days after their plane crashed were eager to play and asked for books to read, officials said on Saturday, one day after the group was rescued.The siblings, aged 1 to 13, were recuperating at a military hospital in Bogota, the capital, and were said to be in good health and spirits on Saturday, when they were visited by President Gustavo Petro and other officials.

After 40 days in the Colombian rainforest, all four children who had been missing since the plane they were traveling in crashed on May 1 have been found alive, according to Colombia's president.They achieved an example of total survival that will go down in history, President Gustavo Petro said in a news conference on Friday night.

Top Justice Department officials on Friday are expected to announce the findings of a two-year long investigation of the policing practices of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, people briefed on the matter said.The pattern or practice review followed the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in Floyd's murder.

It will at once be a routine matter for a federal courthouse and an extraordinary one.Former President Donald J. Trump is expected to appear at a federal courthouse on Tuesday afternoon in South Florida over charges related to his handling of government documents after he left office.Federal cases are arraigned every day, but this will be the first in American history against a former president.

In his first public appearance since officials in California accused him of orchestrating recent charter flights that carried groups of migrants from Texas to Sacramento, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida did not address whether his state was responsible for the transports.Instead, at what his office had billed as a news conference in Wildwood, Fla., Mr. DeSantis signed a bill on Tuesday morning that he said would give consumers more control over their online presence and then walked off the stage without taking questions from reporters.

Scott Israel, Broward's former sheriff who most recently accepted a job as chief in Opa-locka, said he'll keep his options open after resigning from that agency.Israel took the Opa-locka police chief position in May 2022 and his resignation, announced this week, is effective in July.His current salary is $125,000 a year.

Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie has officially registered as a candidate in the 2023 Ontario Liberal leadership race.According to the Elections Ontario website, Crombie registered her name on Tuesday."Every day I speak with people across Ontario, and I hear how they are facing the challenges of living in our province," Crombie said in a statement this week.

Changing the Toronto Raptors' culture will be an everyday project, with every player and member of the organization having to buy in.New head coach Darko Rajakovic knows that level of commitment has to start with him.Rajakovic was officially named the 10th head coach in the Raptors' history on Tuesday, ending days of speculation that the former Memphis Grizzlies assistant coach was coming to Toronto.

With just over two weeks to go before election day, the top candidates to become Toronto's next mayor see one obstacle in their way: Olivia Chow.The race front-runner appears to have a significant lead, if the polls are to be believed (more on that here).She has a pile of lawn signs up around the city and her voice is on the radio and TV.

The federal government will provide $1.5 million in emergency funding to ensure Pride festivals across the country remain safe, a cabinet minister said on Monday.Marci Ien, minister for women and gender equality and youth, said in Ottawa that the money will be provided to Fierte Canada Pride, a national association that represents Pride organizations in Canada.

Toronto police say they have charged a man who allegedly threatened to shoot mayoral candidates on Thursday, which prompted some leading contenders to pause their campaigns and was followed by the cancellation of a debate.Investigators say 29-year-old Junior Francois Lavagesse of Toronto has been arrested and charged with two counts of weapons dangerous, carrying a concealed weapon, uttering threats and failing to comply with a recognizance.

The new law will make it next to impossible to protect workers and consumers at the local level, city officials say.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference at the Texas State Capitol on June 8, 2023, in Austin, Texas.Brandon Bell / Getty Images Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a bill that restricts local governments in the state from enacting and enforcing their own ordinances on a wide variety of issues.

From the debt ceiling to their latest tax plan, the GOP has been taking pot shots at the climate movement at every turn.House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, second from right, talks with an energy industry worker as Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy conducts a news conference after the House passed the Lower Energy Costs Act in the U.S. Capitol on March 30, 2023.

"The best thing to be said about the current deal on the debt ceiling is that it could have been much worse."Sen. Bernie Sanders (left) and Sen. Jeff Merkley leave after a news conference on debt limit at the U.S. Capitol on May 18, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong / Getty Images Five members of the Senate Democratic caucus voted against the debt ceiling package negotiated between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and the White House on Thursday, condemning cruel provisions in the bill aimed at harming the nation's most economically vulnerable populations.

Sheldon Whitehouse, chair of the Senate Budget Committee, pointed out that the cuts will add $19 billion to the deficit.Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy holds a news conference after the House passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the U.S. Capitol on May 31, 2023, in Washington, D.C.Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images A preliminary analysis from the Congressional Budget Office released Thursday estimates that the $21.4 billion in IRS funding cuts that Republicans and the Biden White House agreed to enact as part of their debt ceiling agreement would result in $40.4 billion in lost tax revenue - adding to the federal budget deficit.

Ukraine's counteroffensive against formidable Russian defenses has been grueling and bloody, Ukrainian and American officials acknowledged on Thursday, but they insisted that it was making gains and that any verdict on its success was extremely premature.Last week, Kyiv began a multipronged assault into territory in southeastern Ukraine that Moscow's forces had seized, hunting for weaknesses to exploit in hopes of punching through the deep network of minefields, trenches, bunkers, tank obstacles and artillery that the Russians built.

Skip to content Continue reading the main story Washington June 5, 6:43 a.m.Members of the 93rd Mechanized Brigade firing an 82mm mortar at Russian positions, outside of Bakhmut last month.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York Times Ukrainian ground forces tried to break through Russian defenses in eastern Ukraine, in an area of the front that had not shifted significantly for months, and staged large-scale assaults across much of the frontline, Russian authorities and military bloggers aligned with the Kremlin said Monday.

The body of one of three men missing after the partial collapse of an apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, has been recovered a week after a section of the six-story structure collapsed, a spokeswoman for the city said on Sunday.The spokeswoman, Sarah Ott, said in an email that the body of Branden Colvin Sr., 42, was found on Saturday.

It's becoming a familiar playbook.Two months after exhaustively covering former President Donald J. Trump's arraignment in a Manhattan courtroom in a separate case, the national television news media was back in force in Miami on Tuesday afternoon.Three of the major broadcast networks ABC, NBC and CBS interrupted their usual afternoon programming to cover the news.

Ukraine and its allies will be at the whim of American voters once again next year if the winner of the US election is not as enthusiastic about defending democracy on the European continent as President Joe Biden has been over the last fifteen months.Former President Donald Trump, the GOP frontrunner, has refused to say whether he believes Ukraine should win the war against Russia, and his main challenger, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has hedged on the conflict, describing Russia's unprovoked invasion as a territorial dispute.

Here's a look at the life of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.Birth date: September 6, 1962 Birth place: Newark, New Jersey Birth name: Christopher James Christie Father: Wilbur Bill Christie, an accountant Mother: Sondra (Grasso) Christie Marriage: Mary Pat (Foster) Christie (1986-present) Children: Bridget, Patrick, Sarah and Andrew Education: University of Delaware, B.A., 1984; Seton Hall University, J.D., 1987 Religion: Roman Catholic While serving as the US attorney for New Jersey, Christie prosecuted more than 130 public officials for corruption.

President Biden hosted Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark at the White House on Monday to discuss security initiatives, including providing military support to Ukraine, amid reports that Kyiv may be stepping up its long-planned counteroffensive against Russian forces.One of the main discussion topics between Mr. Biden and Ms. Frederiksen, according to the White House, involved Ukraine's demand for American-made F-16 warplanes.

Arizona state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, a Democrat and Presbyterian minister, speaks at a news conference in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico on May 27, 2022.Daniel Becerril/Reuters PHOENIX Arizona House Republicans tried, but failed, to expel a Democratic lawmaker who admitted to a Bible-hiding prank caught on hidden camera.

Drag artist Vidalia Anne Gentry speaks during a Feb. 14 news conference held by the Human Rights Campaign to draw attention to anti-drag bills in the Tennessee legislature.John Amis/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign NASHVILLE, Tenn.Tennessee's first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional, a federal judge says.

In the days leading up to his arraignment in Miami, former President Donald J. Trump and several of his allies called on supporters to rally to his side.Roger J. Stone Jr., Mr. Trump's longtime political adviser, called for protests, insisting that they should be peaceful.A Miami chapter of the Proud Boys long associated with Mr. Stone echoed the invitation, posting a flier on its Telegram page last week advertising an event at the federal courthouse on Tuesday morning.

After a week of mostly silence about its newly launched campaign to drive Russian occupying forces from Ukrainian territory, Ukraine's military on Sunday claimed its first small gains as fighting raged in at least three sectors of the front.The military operation is expected to be vast, but for the moment it appears to consist mostly of probing attacks and feints.

CHICAGO - The family of an Illinois woman killed in a 2022 crash while she and two children were parasailing in the Florida Keys filed a second lawsuit connected to her death this week and reflected on the tragic end to a family vacation about a year ago.Supraja Alaparthi, 33, was killed after being dragged across the water and slamming into a bridge last June while strapped into a parasail.

A woman in Florida who was accused of fatally shooting her neighbor after a dispute involving the victim's children was arrested on Tuesday, the authorities said.The woman, Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, was charged with manslaughter with a firearm in the shooting death of Ajike Owens, 35, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said in a statement early Wednesday.

RICHMOND, Va.Seven people were shot, and three of them were left with life-threatening wounds, when gunfire rang out near Virginia Commonwealth University in downtown Richmond following a high school graduation ceremony Tuesday, according to police and school district officials.Two suspects were taken into custody after the incident, Interim Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards said at a news conference.

City leaders in Long Beach last week announced plans to purchase a building near the Los Angeles River for use as a permanent homeless shelter with 85 beds.Mayor Rex Richardson said Long Beach leased the property in April as a temporary winter shelter, and community members asked the city to purchase it.

Responding to a surge of catalytic converter thefts, the Los Angeles Police Department has unveiled new technology that will make it harder for thieves to steal the valuable emission control device.The Los Angeles police have already held events for people to have their cars' vehicle identification numbers etched by hand onto their catalytic converters to make it easier to track the car parts if they get stolen.

(John G. Mabanglo / Associated Press)

It's hard to take Gov. Gavin Newsom's construction streamlining proposals seriously.Last month, the governor convened a splashy news conference on the site of a future solar farm in the Central Valley to unveil the state's "most ambitious permitting and project review reforms in a half-century."

First, the Temecula Valley Unified School District board president called Harvey Milk a "pedophile" while attempting to ban from the district's curriculum a book that mentioned the gay activist and onetime San Francisco supervisor.Joseph Komrosky's efforts were successful, and the material was removed from the district's social studies curriculum last month.

After months of speculation about when Ukraine's long-anticipated counteroffensive will begin, we now have an answer: right now.Tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, many of them trained at military bases in Europe and outfitted with heavy Western armor, are now launching simultaneous operations at several points along the 600-mile-long front line in the country's east and south.

A woman in Ocala, Fla., who confronted a neighbor who had thrown an object at her children, was shot and killed through the door of the residence, the local sheriff said, in a case that is complicated by the state's stand your ground law after days without a decision on possible charges.Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said his deputies had initially responded to a trespassing call on Friday at about 9 p.m., but by the time they had arrived, they found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound.

Jump to content Sign up to our newslettersSubscribe News Sports Voices Culture Lifestyle Travel Premium NewsUKHome News Maryam Zakir-Hussain,Matt Mathers Tuesday 06 June 2023 07:28 Close Boy, 17, and girl, 12, die following incident off Bournemouth beach The two youngsters who died in the Bournemouth beach tragedy drowned, an opening inquest has heard.

The 12-year-old girl who died in the Bournemouth beach tragedy was chest-deep in the sea when she was pulled underwater, it has emerged as her heartbroken mother paid tribute to her well-loved daughter.Sunnah Khan, 12, from High Wycombe, was standing chest-deep in the sea before the incident unfolded beside Bournemouth Pier, according to The Sun.

A section of I-95 in Philadelphia collapsed on Sunday after a fiery crash involving a tanker loaded with gasoline.Officials warned that it could take months to replace the elevated stretch of road, further complicating traffic problems in one of the nation's largest cities this summer.The crash on I-95, which runs the length of the East Coast from Maine to South Florida, left a section of the northbound side of the highway in a heap of ruins and the southbound section so badly damaged that it will be demolished this week.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and JOSHUA GOODMAN (Associated Press)
MIAMI (AP) - Florida's shift to the right is perhaps nowhere more notable than in this vibrant swath of the state's southeast coast where the latest Donald Trump drama is unfolding.Republicans have made steady inroads in this former Democratic stronghold in recent years, culminating in the GOP carrying Miami-Dade County in last year's midterm elections.

Edward Stack, who as the president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame conceived the eligibility rule that continues to prevent the election of Pete Rose, the prolific hitter who had been banned from Major League Baseball for gambling, died on Sunday in Port Washington, N.Y., on Long Island.He was 88.

He sat in the audience watching it all, like a proud grandfather at a college graduation.Fred Wilpon, 86, had owned the Mets when their new class of Hall of Famers Howard Johnson, Al Leiter and the broadcasters Gary Cohen and Howie Rose made their marks with the team.At a news conference before the ceremony on Saturday, Wilpon beamed.

A homeless Syrian man in his 30s was charged with attempted murder and detained in France on Saturday in connection with a violent stabbing attack this past week that injured two adults and four young children, a prosecutor said.There was no indication that the attack was an act of terrorism, said Line Bonnet-Mathis, the public prosecutor in Annecy, the southeastern French city where the attack unfolded on Thursday.

A homeless Syrian man in his 30s was charged with attempted murder and detained in France on Saturday in connection with a violent stabbing attack earlier this week that injured two adults and four young children, a prosecutor said.There was no indication that the attack was an act of terrorism, said Line Bonnet-Mathis, the public prosecutor in Annecy, the southeastern French city where the attack unfolded on Thursday.

President of Monumental Basketball Michael Winger shakes hands with Monumental Sports & Entertainment CEO Ted Leonsis.(Craig Hudson for The Washington Post) The news conference to introduce the Washington Wizards' new president of Monumental Basketball had started and there was a very important person missing: Michael Winger, the new president of Monumental Basketball.

PRAGUE -- West Ham United manager David Moyes said winning the Europa Conference League on Wednesday stands as the best moment in his career.The east London club clinched their first trophy in 46 years -- and first European title in 58 years -- in a dramatic 2-1 win over Fiorentina thanks to a 90th minute goal from Jarrod Bowen.

The world's most endangered marine mammal, a small porpoise called the vaquita, is hanging onto existence and appears to be benefiting from new conservation measures, according to the results of a new scientific survey of the species that was made public on Wednesday.An international team of scientists estimated that at least 10 vaquitas remain in the Gulf of California, the waters that separate Baja California from the Mexican mainland.

(Mackenzie Mays / Los Angeles Times)

On the same day that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration took responsibility for sending dozens of migrants seeking asylum to California, the volunteers and organizers inside the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral of Sacramento refused to say the Republican politican's name.

Dozens of wildfires are burning in the Canadian province of Quebec, and the smoke is so bad that it's causing air quality problems across large swaths of the U.S. The National Weather Service said air quality has "plummeted" across the Northeast.Officials from the Midwest to the East Coast and as far south as North Carolina are warning residents to take precautions as the hazy smoke floats south and poses a risk to public health.

In hindsight, this French Open was probably destined to come down to a moment like the one that unfolded Tuesday.For 10 days in Paris, and for months on the women's professional tennis tour, Ukrainian players have made it clear that they will not shake hands with players from Russia or Belarus after their matches.

Rob Refsnyder questioned whether or not his Major League Baseball career was over last year, but on Saturday, he extended his future with the Red Sox.The 32-year-old agreed to a one-year extension through the 2024 season with Boston that includes a $2 million club option for 2025.The deal reportedly is worth $1.85 million and includes multiple performance bonuses and escalators.

The News The search for seven missing employees of a call center led Mexican authorities to a gruesome discovery earlier this week, when at least 45 trash bags with several human remains were recovered from the bottom of a ravine on the outskirts of Guadalajara, in the state of Jalisco.Part of the investigation and the proceedings bring us precisely to this area, the Jalisco state prosecutor, Luis Joaquin Mendez Ruiz, told reporters on Wednesday, adding that both male and female body parts had been found in the bags.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Friday took the stage in NATO's newest member, Finland, to say that further strengthening Ukraine's defenses against Russia was a prerequisite for diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine and to warn against short-term cease-fires that might play to Moscow's advantage.

Rob Dawson, CorrespondentJun 2, 2023, 09:43 AM ET


Manchester City's second-choice goalkeeper Stefan Ortega will start the FA Cup final against Manchester United, manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed.Ortega has played in every round during City's run to Wembley and will keep his place in the team against United at the expense of usual No. 1 Ederson, who is set to return to the XI for the Champions League final against Inter Milan in Istanbul on June 10.

As Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke on Friday in the capital of NATO's newest member, Finland, he made the case for sustained Western aid to Ukraine and warned against the allure of cease-fires that might play into Russian hands.In an address at Helsinki's City Hall that was billed as an important overview of Washington's thinking about the war in Ukraine, Mr. Blinken also cataloged what he called the many strategic failures that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has suffered since launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.