Dwain Chambers ran his fastest time of the year to win the 100 metres final at the British Olympic trials Saturday but that still wasn’t enough to get him a spot on the team. The 34-year-old, banned in 2003 after failing a drugs test, recently saw his path to selection for a Games in his native London cleared after the British Olympic Association’s lifetime Olympic ban on drugs cheats was overturned....
The bus, according to ZimEye, was traveling to Victoria Falls from Hawange on Saturday morning. All 18 passengers and the bus crew were left uninjured by the incident. A town and national park share the name Victoria Falls and it’s unclear whether the accident occurred en route to the town or the national park. According to reports, the bus driver swerved left to avoid hitting a first group of elephants on the road, but was unable to avoid subsequently hitting the trio that perished....
The news was first broken by WWE several weeks ago on its official website, which took many fans by surprise. The company revealed the cause of the episode and asserted to fans that Triple H would make a full recovery. The 14-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion took to Twitter to thank fans as well as NXT personnel such as Shawn Michaels and revealed that he’s recovering and doing well....
A lot has changed since then. MORE: Charlotte Flair reflects on busy year, being part of ‘amazing’ Tribute to the Troops event The past five years has seen some of the biggest names in WWE come through NXT which has re-shaped itself as a platform for emerging talent training at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Fla. NXT has become a distinct, third WWE brand along with “RAW” and “SmackDown” with a passionate fan base....
On this week’s RAW, Ziggler produced an impressive performance during his disqualification win over Austin Theory. Following the match, the two-time World Heavyweight Champion was viciously attacked by his opponent. Bully Ray, formerly known as Bubba Ray Dudley in WWE, was full of praise for the match on his Busted Open radio show. The Hall of Famer also explained why Ziggler’s relationship with fans reminds him of WCW legend Arn Anderson....
According to WWE.com, Triple H has suffered a carpal sprain and contusion to his wrist, which is not as serious as a scaphoid fracture but he will have to wear a splint. The WWE confirmed on Twitter that Triple H underwent an MRI on his wrist yesterday. However, according to ‘wrestling inc,’ WWE physician Michael Sampson has said that “Triple H will be able to train with the splint on, but will be cutting it close coming into Extreme Rules, as far as being ready [to compete]....
Trish Stratus was recently a guest on Toronto’s VIBE 105 Sports to talk about a wide variety of subjects. When the idea of one more WWE match was brought up, Trish Stratus brought up the name of Sasha Banks, who has challenged Stratus on multiple occasions over the last couple of years: Trish Stratus has high praise for Sasha Banks Trish Stratus went on to praise Sasha Banks, noting everything she’s done for women’s wrestling in WWE....
Talking about the “disappeared” of Belarus can be dangerous. Last September the notoriously repressive Lukashenko won another five-year term as supreme leader, and lately he’s been threatening moves that would allow him to stay even longer. He’s been helped by the fact that the outside world pays scant attention. But that may be about to change, namely because Belarus is about to get a potentially nosy (and powerful) new neighbor–the European Union....
Aikman on Tuesday responded to the backlash he has received, saying he loved flyovers and supported the military while calling himself “an unwavering patriot.” He ended his message with an American flag emoji. MORE: Aikman, Buck caught mocking stadium flyover The incident Aikman referred to occurred on Sunday ahead of the Packers-Buccaneers game. Aikman and broadcasting partner Joe Buck were heard on a hot mic mocking a flyover that occurred over an empty Raymond James Stadium amid the COVID-19 pandemic....
The proposal, which is open for commenting until October 13, could lead to the vast collection of data, including DNA, iris scans, facial images, palm prints, and voice prints of millions of people each year, including U.S. citizens. Not only would the rule allow for biometric data to be gathered from immigrants, but it could also be requested from non-citizens already in the U.S. and from citizens seeking to bring relatives into the country....
Multiple advisers to President Donald Trump are casting doubt on the official numbers, according to a Thursday report in The Washington Post, citing three White House officials familiar with the situation who remained anonymous due to not being authorized to speak on the matter. The projected death toll was announced during a Tuesday press briefing, with Trump also laying out plans to extend social distancing guidelines until at least April 30....
Mulvaney said the international event hosting foreign leaders will commence at Doral from June 10-12, 2020. The venue was selected by White House officials after shopping around for other potential venues in various states. To avoid Trump profiting from the event, Mulvaney said it will be hosted “at cost” and, as a result, will be “dramatically cheaper” compared to the other dozen sites that were considered in California, Colorado, Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Florida....
“It really gives more firepower to those that are involved in enforcing Title VI,” Dovid Efune, editor of Algemeiner, an American newspaper covering Jewish and Israel-related news, told Newsweek. That firepower from the executive order, Senator Tim Scott said, could prompt federal agencies to open up investigations into claims that previously would have been dismissed for not satisfying requirements of discrimination. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order that broadened what constituted discrimination under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include specific antisemitic acts....
The president himself weighed in Sunday on Twitter, directly calling out the Times for accusing him of ignoring the intelligence. “Nobody briefed or told me,@VP Pence, or Chief of Staff@MarkMeadows about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an “anonymous source” by the Fake News@nytimes. Everybody is denying it & there have not been many attacks on us…..,” he wrote. He continued: “Nobody’s been tougher on Russia than the Trump Administration....
Michael Cembalest, chairman of market and strategy at JPMorgan Asset Management, called the “remote risk” of a Trump victory an “American horror story” that would lead to constitutional mayhem in a new appraisal report of the “Armageddonists.” “Bottom line: a LOT of very unorthodox things have to happen for Trump to be reelected. Even so, I’m not ruling anything out,” Cembalest wrote, adding that the financial armageddon could still happen in early January....
According to Hotels.com, one double occupancy room on the night of August 27, the date scheduled for the speech, start at $795 and range as high as $2,070. In comparison, the hotel booking website shows lower prices for dates one week before and after August 27. According to Hotels.com, one room booked for two adults on August 20 or September 3 ranges in price from $495 to $1,770. While appearing on Fox News’ Fox & Friends Wednesday, Trump suggested that he’d give his speech from the White House....
The GOP representative from New York’s First Congressional District is down 11 points to Hochul, 52 percent to 41 percent, according to a new Siena College poll of likely New York state voters. Zeldin, who is attempting to become the state’s first Republican to win the governor’s seat in two decades, was down 17 points three weeks ago. The newest poll was conducted between October 12 and 14 and surveyed 707 voters by phone....
Lawmakers issued the subpoena Thursday after Navarro, who served as the Trump administration’s trade advisor, allegedly didn’t respond to document requests from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. Representative James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat who chairs the subcommittee, wrote in a memo that Navarro has not complied and failed to communicate with staff on the subcommittee. He wrote that staff members have tried to communicate with Navarro more than a dozen times via phone calls, voicemail messages, emails and text messages....
“We can investigate the crimes of Donald Trump for the next four or five years and if we do, we will be going into a second term,” Painter, who identified as a Republican until he switched his affiliation to become a Democrat in 2018, said in an interview with MSNBC anchor Richard Lui. “This president committed impeachable offenses in 2017. I believe he should have been impeached by the United States House of Representatives in 2017....
“Folks, for too long we’ve seen that trickle-down economics does not work,” President Joe Biden said this month after visiting with students at Tidewater Community College in Virginia. “My fellow Americans, trickle-down economics has never worked, and it’s time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle out,” Biden said during his first public address to a joint session of Congress, which was viewed by millions on television....
