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Women's flag football explodes in US as 2028 Olympics beckon

Flag football, a non-contact version of American football, is spreading like wildfire among US girls drawn by the prospect of its inclusion in the 2028 Olympics, its popularity even sparking plans for a professional league.

"It's the youth version of pickleball, the fastest growing adult sport," says Michael Colt, comparing flag football to the racquet sport that's all the rage among the over-30s. "It's crazy."

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Kim Kardashian's next star turn is in a Paris courtroom

Kim Kardashian is due to testify in the Paris trial that begins Monday of the "grandpa robbers" accused of stealing $10 million worth of jewellery from the billionaire high priestess of social media.

The ageing French underworld figures accused of tying her up and threatening her with a gun in the heist during Paris Fashion Week in 2016 reportedly did not know who she really was.

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Analyst frantic about future delivers ruthless takedown of 'indifferent' president

Donald Trump exploited voters’ nostalgia for pre-pandemic America and, in 100 days, exchanged it for economic crisis. Then he showed how ‘indifferent” he was to people’s suffering by taking off to play golf.

That’s the opinion of a CNN analyst running through a whirlwind 100 days that he wrote took the USA from “an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear among voters who’ve lost confidence in his leadership.”

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'Gutless': Republicans hit out at speaker over budget they fear could make US 'bankrupt'

Republicans will embark on a ‘legislative sprint’ this week to finalize President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” domestic policy bill, according to a Politico report.

And key disputes must be settled. They include the size of spending cuts needed to pay for their plans and how dramatically they will reshape Medicaid and other safety-net programs.

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'I run the country — and the world': Inside Trump's bombshell sit-down with The Atlantic

President Donald Trump admitted he was enjoying his second presidency more than his first during a lengthy, sit-down interview.

The president agreed to an interview with The Atlantic, whose editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently involved in a war planning group chat that has plunged the administration into scandal. But correspondents Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer found him eager to strike a bargain with them.

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'Better get his act together': Trump hints he's ready to 'make a move' against Hegseth

President Donald Trump sat down for a lengthy interview with The Atlantic, where he gave a hint that he's troubled by his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's job performance so far.

The Pentagon chief has been embroiled in scandal for weeks over his usage of the non-secure Signal app to plan military operations with individuals outside of government, including The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who the president invited to the interview along with two correspondents for the magazine.

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60 Minutes star launches blistering on-air attack on bosses for bending to Trump

60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley accused the show's parent company, Paramount, of interfering with their editorial process in a blistering on-air attack Sunday evening.

“Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways,” Pelley said in ‘The Last Minute’ segment of the show.

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'They are sick!' Raging Trump demands criminal probes into reports of his bad poll numbers

President Donald Trump highlighted findings by a Republican pollster to attack media organizations that found his approval rating was lagging.

A survey conducted by ABCNews and the Washington Post found just 39 percent of Americans approve of his performance as president while 55 percent disapprove, while a New York Times poll found 44 percent approval and 53 percent disapproval. But Trump pointed to claims by GOP pollster John McLaughlin that the polls were rigged against him.

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'This is our shot': Dems believe MTG's new job gives 'golden opportunity' to destroy GOP

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Party’s path back to power runs through Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her made-for-TV Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) oversight subcommittee — or so Democrats increasingly hope.

To many on the left, MTG is the right’s slightly disjointed answer to AOC, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). They believe the two women represent the future of their parties.

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Cardinals set to pick conclave date to elect new pope

by Ella IDE

Red-hatted cardinals were expected to pick a date Monday for the conclave to elect a new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, following the death of Pope Francis.

Dozens of so-called "Princes of the Church" from across the world have been gathering at the Vatican since the 88-year-old Argentine pontiff died on April 21.

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'A failed administration': Leaked texts from powerful Republicans reveal souring on Trump

Leaked texts from a group chat for ultra-wealthy and powerful people has revealed that Donald Trump is losing support even among those tech leaders who voted for him in 2024.

Ben Smith, the former media columnist of the New York Times and co-founder of Semafor, wrote for Semafor on Sunday a deep-dive about "Chatham House," described as "a giant and raucous Signal group that forms part of the sprawling network of influential private chats that began during the fervid early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and which have fueled a new alliance of tech and the US right."

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'It's costing the President': GOP pollster puts Trump on notice over major drop in support

Donald Trump is bleeding support among independents and swing voters, and one Republican pollster says he is concerned.

GOP pollster and communications strategist Frank Luntz appeared on CNN on Sunday, where he was asked about the outlet's polling showing Trump's falling numbers.

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'I did the right thing': How one judge is fighting back in support of arrested colleague

Sawyer County, WI Judge Monica Isham on Saturday announced she’ll “refuse to hold court” following the arrest of Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan “if there is no guidance for … and no support for” judges in the state.

Isham sent the letter Saturday to her fellow Wisconsin judges, insisting she has “no intention of allowing anyone be taken out of [her] courtroom by [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and sent to a concentration camp, especially without due process.”

The judge’s announcement comes after Dugan, first elected to the Milwaukee County Circuit Court in 2016, was arrested on Friday by the FBI for “allegedly obstructing federal authorities who were seeking to detain an undocumented immigrant,” NBC News reports.

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Dugan was described by NBC News as “a longtime social justice advocate before she took the bench.”

Isham, in her letter to fellow judges, argued Dugan “stood on her Oath” and “was arrested and charged with felonies for it.”

“I no longer feel protected or respected as a Judge in this administration,” Isham wrote.

Isham also described multiple instances of “racial attacks in [her] court” since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, writing she’s been “called an ‘immigrant,’” was told she has “no jurisdiction over while people in [her] county” and “had a juror loudly proclaim” they would not follow orders “from a brown or black person.”

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As Isham noted, she was “elected as the first woman, first Native American, first minority all together to serve as circuit court judge” in her county.

"If this costs me my job or gets me arrested then at least I know I did the right thing," Isham wrote.

Isham’s colleague “Dugan was arrested and charged with obstruction of an official proceeding on Friday after evidence came to light that she had shielded the migrant from ICE agents, according to a criminal complaint,” Fox News reports. “She was also charged with concealing an individual to prevent discovery and arrest.”

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