GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alberta (AP) — A quick-moving wildfire within the Canadian Rockies that had prompted 25,000 individuals to flee roared into the near-deserted city of Jasper in a single day with flames increased than treetops, devastating as much as half of its buildings, officers stated Thursday.

There have been no instant experiences of accidents, following a mass evacuation of the picturesque resort and a neighboring nationwide park earlier within the week, however Jasper Mayor Richard Eire stated in a letter in town’s web site that the wildfire “ravaged our beloved neighborhood.”

“The destruction and loss that many you might be dealing with and feeling is past description and comprehension, my deepest sympathies exit to every of you,” he stated.

Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta province, stated from 30% to 50% of the city’s buildings are doubtlessly broken or destroyed, saying “that’s going to be a big rebuild and important displacement.”

Smith teared up speaking about the fantastic thing about Jasper, noting that many households from the province commonly go to. A postcard-perfect mountain city, Jasper is legendary for mountain climbing, snowboarding, kayaking and biking. Additionally it is dwelling to dozens of species resembling elk, mountain goats, cougars, lynx, black bears and grizzly bears.

“We share the sense of loss with all who stay on the town,” Smith stated at a information convention in Edmonton, Alberta, whereas pledging her authorities’s help for the neighborhood to rebuild.

Parks Canada officers later stated all important infrastructure was protected together with the hospital, colleges and the wastewater remedy plant. They stated probably the most important structural harm is targeting the west facet of city. Some bridges round city and all through the park have been broken.

Jasper and the neighboring Jasper Nationwide Park had been menaced by fires from each the north and south, and the city’s 5,000 full-time residents — together with 20,000 guests — fled on brief discover late Monday and Tuesday when the fires flared up.

One of many fires raced into the southern fringe of the neighborhood Wednesday night as firefighters tried to restrict the harm.

Alberta Public Security Minister Mike Ellis stated a wind gust moved the wildfire about 5 kilometers (about 3 miles) in most likely lower than half-hour towards the city with a wall of fireside that he estimated was 100 meters excessive.

“Individuals have to image what these wildfire people have been experiencing at the moment. Any firefighter will inform you there may be little to nothing you are able to do when a wall of fireside like that’s coming at you,” Ellis stated. “No person anticipated the hearth to come back so quick, so giant.”

Pierre Martel, director of fireside administration at Parks Canada, stated lightning, winds and drought made the hearth develop quickly on Monday and that flames have been above the treetops when it entered the city Wednesday.

“It’s only a monster at that time. There aren’t any instruments we have now in our device field to cope with that at that time. You get out of the best way, you retreat,” he stated.

Parks Canada stated in a submit on X that there had been “no reported accidents,” including that “Roughly 25,000 individuals have been safely evacuated from the city of Jasper and Jasper Nationwide Park. All residents, guests and responders are secure.”

Annelies Lagger, who has owned and lived within the Austrian Haven B&B for 30 years, stated she’s ready to listen to if it’s been destroyed however isn’t optimistic as a result of all the homes close by are gone. She stated she fled along with her 13 cats and canine.

“I’ve no clue the place I’m going now. Heaven or hell. It was my life. You’ll be able to think about how a lot work it was,” she stated. “I’m suppose I’m in shock.”

She stated relations together with her daughter and son-in-law had their properties destroyed. “It was the warmth that dried all the pieces out. And now the city is gone,” she stated.

Lagger was sheltering with a sort stranger in Valemount, British Columbia, however stated she finally might want to discover new properties for her members of the family and “for my critters.”

“I’m a really powerful ladies. No matter occurs I begin once more although I’m 82 years previous,” she stated.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated his administration has accredited Alberta’s request for federal help, together with navy assets.

Jasper Nationwide Park is taken into account a nationwide treasure. The United Nations designated the parks that make up the Canadian Rockies, together with Jasper, a World Heritage Website in 1984 for its putting mountain panorama.

Alberta has been baking underneath scorching temperatures which have already compelled one other 7,500 individuals out of distant communities. About 176 wildfires have been burning throughout the province, together with 54 which are burning uncontrolled.

Alberta Forestry and Parks Minister Todd Loewen stated most of the fires are attributable to lightning, and Alberta Wildfire spokesperson Christie Tucker stated firefighters count on winds will elevate the hazard.

Tucker stated tons of firefighters from Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and South Africa are arriving to assist combat the wildfires all through the province.

A file variety of wildfires in 2023 compelled greater than 235,000 individuals throughout Canada to evacuate and despatched thick smoke into elements of the U.S., resulting in hazy skies and well being advisories in a number of U.S. cities.

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Related Press Author Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.

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The Bob Dylan world is buzzing with anticipation, bated breath, and maybe some pleasure upon the discharge earlier this week of the primary official “teaser trailer” for the upcoming Dylan biopic, A Full Unknown, directed by James Mangold (Stroll the Line, Ford v. Ferrari) and starring Timothée Chalamet (Dune, Name Me By Your Title) because the younger Dylan. Filming solely simply ended earlier this month; the film is anticipated to get a theatrical launch towards the top of this yr or early in 2025.

The biopic isn’t an entire life story, however quite hones in on Dylan’s early years, from his arrival in New York Metropolis’s Greenwich Village in 1961 by means of his well-known — or notorious, relying upon your viewpoint — look on the 1965 Newport People Pageant. There, he carried out with a plugged-in rock band for the very first time, surprising the viewers, his followers, and the world at giant, which till that second had thought of Dylan an acoustic-folk artist. 

Whereas the discharge of the brief, two-minute trailer doesn’t reveal a lot concerning the tone of the movie, it definitely succeeds in “teasing” viewers with strategies about the way it intends to inform Dylan’s story. It apparently recounts Dylan’s journey from an entire unknown Midwesterner, newly arrived within the Village, to worldwide fame as “the voice of a era” who married a classy poetic strategy to songwriting with a social and political consciousness in songs that made their approach to the highest of the pop charts, together with “Blowin’ within the Wind,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,” and “Like a Rolling Stone.”

Brief clips within the trailer embody a number of scenes that includes actor Edward Norton enjoying Pete Seeger. Then it cuts to a scene that includes Chalamet/Dylan onstage, shot from the rear for max dramatic impact, with a highlight casting a glow upon the actor, seen largely in silhouette. Chalamet, who does his personal singing within the film, is performing “A Onerous Rain’s a-Gonna Fall,” in a fairly convincing imitation of Dylan. 

Brief, out-of-sequence photographs of Dylan discover him strolling the streets of Greenwich Village carrying his guitar, adopted by scenes capturing the budding romance between Dylan and Suze Rotolo, right here given the title Sylvie Russo and performed by Ellie Fanning, with no try made to make the ginger-haired Fanning seem like the real-life, brunette Rotolo. Reduce to scenes of Dylan watching a younger Joan Baez (performed by Monica Barbaro), who was already well-known as “the Queen of People,” and the 2 of them stealing kisses backstage. Quickly, Dylan joins Baez onstage as a particular visitor, the 2 enjoying out their very own incipient romance for all of the world to see, a teary-eyed Fanning, now simply one other member of the viewers.

The trailer raises extra questions than it solutions. How a lot of the narrative goes to deal with Dylan’s relationship with the Suze Rotolo character and Joan Baez on the expense of portraying Dylan’s inventive improvement? These sorts of biographical motion pictures usually forefront the romantic dramas on the expense of exploring the internal workings of the principle character. (See Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic, Maestro.) The trailer additionally supplies no clue as to the relative wit of the film dialogue. 

Maybe most significantly, how will the film (and Chalamet) painting Dylan himself? Will it forged its hero as a divinely impressed prophet, or will it emphasize his blind ambition and his human foibles? Given how little we actually find out about Dylan the person — regardless of his being the topic of a number of hundred books and dozens of  motion pictures — how would one even go about making such choices?

One newly revealed clue is that Bob Dylan is listed as an government producer of the movie, and in a latest interview in Rolling Stone, director Mangold says he was in frequent contact with the Nobel Prize-winner. If that’s the case, how a lot stress will Dylan exert on the best way he’s portrayed within the ultimate lower? And does it actually matter?

On the planet of ardent Dylan followers and so-called Dylanologists, there has at all times been nice skepticism about this movie, courting again 4 years to the earliest studies of its manufacturing. This skepticism ranged from grumbling concerning the suitability of Chalamet for the position to grumbling about Mangold’s monitor document as a maker of biopics. Whereas his Johnny Money movie, Stroll the Line, was a lot lauded, the movie’s emphasis was not on Money the musician, however as a substitute on Money’s private struggles. 

There’s additionally the query of why. Why even make this film? There isn’t any dearth of Dylan on movie, particularly in documentaries overlaying the identical period, together with D.A. Pennebaker’s Dont Look Again and Murray Lerner’s Pageant, which incorporates footage of Dylan’s infamous efficiency on the 1965 Newport People Pageant. Dylan turned the digital camera on himself a number of instances all through his profession, in movies together with Eat the Doc, Renaldo and Clara, and Masked and Nameless. 

The query stays, how can one seize the essence of Bob Dylan in a traditional Hollywood drama? Dylan has at all times been so elusive and enigmatic that such an effort appears certain to fail. The one profitable try at portraying Dylan in all his multitudes was Todd Haynes’s 2007 movie, I’m Not There, through which six totally different actors portrayed Dylan — most memorably Cate Blanchett, who portrayed the 1965/1966-era Dylan. The film’s non-linear narrative and its shifting factors of view echoed a few of Dylan’s personal narrative methods in music. Additionally, the movie was co-written by Haynes and filmmaker Oren Moverman, and between the 2 they appear to have watched each body of each Dylan look and skim each interview Dylan ever gave; that authenticity is baked into the movie. 

Based mostly on a two-minute trailer of a movie that hasn’t even but been accomplished, it’s too quickly to render judgment on the hassle. The trailer definitely has sparked curiosity amongst many and helped prime most people for what is going to seemingly be a very talked-about film when it’s launched. Chalamet and Fanning are fairly good bets for Oscar nominations; that’s simply the best way Hollywood works. 

As for shining a light-weight on Bob Dylan, we are able to count on a slew of tales about his early years to accompany the discharge of the movie. And we are able to solely hope that we don’t go away film theaters muttering beneath our breath, like Dylan in his music “Frankie Lee and Judas Priest,” that “nothing is revealed.”

In the course of the opening ceremonies for the Paris Olympics, on July 26, athletes from the world over will cross the town’s heart, gliding alongside the Seine in a parade of boats. And amongst them might be a robust contingent of Yalies — together with 16 present or former Yale rowers, the most important displaying from the Ivy League in that sport.

These Yale rowers, lots of whom are showing on the Olympics for the second time, will characterize 9 nations and in eight occasions; they embrace two present Yale Faculty college students who will compete within the girls’s occasions and 4 Yale alums who will compete towards one another within the males’s pair.

The presence of such a sturdy Yale crew has particular historic resonance this 12 months. 100 years in the past, Yale’s heavyweight varsity eight — which included Benjamin Spock ’25, who later grew to become a famend pediatrician and creator — represented the USA on the 1924 Summer time Olympics (additionally in Paris). “Yale’s eight stalwart sons raised the Stars and Stripes to the masthead on the Seine banks this afternoon,” The New York Instances reported after the boat’s four-length victory, which “proved them unquestionably the best rowing eight at current on the earth.”

Since then, present and former Yale rowers have recurrently appeared — and positioned — on the Olympics.

In collegiate competitors, each the boys’s and girls’s crews persistently compete on the highest ranges. This 12 months marked the 50^th anniversary of the Yale girls’s crew program, which has despatched boats to the NCAA Championship 25 occasions — with 2024 marking the staff’s sixth straight high 10 placement. Since 2017, the boys’s heavyweight varsity crew has received three Intercollegiate Rowing Affiliation’s nationwide championships and, in 2022, the Yale males’s program captured the general nationwide championship.

The enduring power of the Yale program, Michael Gennaro, the Craig W. Johnson ’68 Head Coach of Heavyweight Crew, stated, comes from the eagerness the athletes convey with them.

“I’m not stunned they’re competing at this elite stage, merely due to who they intrinsically are,” stated Gennaro. “These people are extremely motivated and pushed, and plenty of of them arrived at Yale with their eyes already set on competing within the Olympics.”

“Yale student-athletes are dynamic human beings,” stated Will Porter, the Mates of YWC Head Coach for Girls’s Rowing. “The quantity of self-discipline, focus, and power it takes to check on the highest stage and be an athlete on the highest stage is extremely distinctive. Understanding them as individuals and fascinating them within the technique of their improvement, assembly them the place they’re after which pushing them with grace to the subsequent stage is essential.”

Olympic rowers compete on a 2,000-meter course, both in sculls (every rower dealing with two oars) or sweeps (every rower utilizing two arms to drag a single oar). Sweep occasions embrace groups of two, 4, and eight rowers; sculls are single, double, or quadruple. The eight-person crews even have a coxswain to steer and name cadence. Rowing occasions happen over the primary week of competitors, ending on Saturday, Aug. 3.

Six girls from Yale will race in Paris, together with Kristi Wagner ’15, within the U.S. girls’s double (the identical occasion through which she competed in the course of the 2020 Tokyo Summer time Olympics); Daisy Mazzio-Manson ’20, within the U.S. girls’s 4; Sophie Oestergaard ’22, coxswain for Denmark’s girls’s eight; and Margaret Hedeman ’23, within the U.S. girls’s eight. Hedeman, a Massachusetts native who was a first-team All American throughout her senior 12 months at Yale, lately advised The Harmony Bridge, in Harmony, Mass., that rowing at Yale gave her “construction, friendships, and goal.”

Coaching with Wagner and Hedeman on Workforce USA “brings a lot levity and camaraderie,” stated Mazzio-Manson. Her mom, Mary Mazzio, rowed within the 1992 Barcelona Summer time Olympics, and made a well-received documentary concerning the famed 1976 Yale girls’s crew staff lengthy earlier than her daughter determined to attend the college.

At Yale, Mazzio-Manson stated, “I discovered compete, be a constant racer, take pleasure in not simply the races however the on a regular basis practices. I learnt be teammate, be a robust and assured lady, and steadiness rowing and the remainder of life. Rowing at Yale made me the athlete and person who I’m right this moment.”

Two present Yalies are additionally rowing within the girls’s occasions. Christina Bourmpou, who has rowed for 2 years on the Yale staff, might be a part of the ladies’s pair for Greece; she rowed the identical occasion in Tokyo, simply earlier than arriving at Yale. Maya Meschkuleit, heading into her ultimate 12 months at Yale, will row within the Canadian girls’s eight. (“Feeling blessed, grateful and pumped,” Meschkuleit reported on Instagram, posing with an outsized Air Canada ticket to Paris.)

Dan Williamson ’23 was nonetheless a scholar at Yale Faculty when he competed on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (which, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, had been held over the summer time in 2021). He received gold there, with the New Zealand males’s eight — a consequence, he stated, that grew immediately out of his expertise coaching along with his Yale teammates. “These had been the fellows and women that had pushed me each day to be a greater athlete.”

“It’s a reasonably distinctive sport in school, I feel, within the sense that you just do actually have the perfect on the earth for that age in school,” he added. “It truly is an all-star staff type of scenario.”

This 12 months, rowing within the males’s pair, he’ll take the water with three acquainted faces. Competing once more for New Zealand, he’ll face off towards Ollie Wynne-Griffith ’17, who’s rowing for Nice Britain; Andrin Gulich ’22, for Switzerland; and Simon Keenan ’15, for Australia.

The foremost rowing occasions “at all times type of really feel like a Yale reunion,” stated Gulich, who additionally competed in Tokyo.

“I’ve loads of private connections with guys who I’m immediately racing, which I take pleasure in rather a lot,” stated Wynne-Griffith, who received bronze in Tokyo with the Nice Britain males’s eight. “After which I additionally discover it fairly troublesome — racing associates is more durable than racing strangers.”

Different former Yale rowers in Paris embrace three on the Nice Britain males’s eight: Tom Digby ’20, and two who additionally raced within the Tokyo Olympics, Sholto Carnegie ’18 and Charlie Elwes ’19. Nick Rusher ’23 will row within the U.S. males’s eight; Daire Lynch ’22 will row for Eire within the males’s double; and Fergus Hamilton ’23 might be within the males’s 4 for Australia.

“It’s very particular to soak in that entire Olympic expertise and notice that that is larger than simply you, and it’s larger than your sport, and it’s larger than every other occasion you are ever going to be part of,” stated Wynne-Griffith. “In order that’s one thing that I’m very, very enthusiastic about.”

For Williamson, the lasting lesson he took from Yale: have enjoyable.

“It sounds type of foolish, as a result of how does enjoyable make you go quick? Actually, it is a type of intangible issues,” stated Williamson. “Yale actually simply confirmed me you’ll be able to row at a excessive stage and revel in different components of your life, too.”

Taylor Swift is throwing all of her assist behind “Deadpool & Wolverine.”

The singer shared a photograph of her, Hugh Jackman, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Vigorous and Shawn Levy with a prolonged film endorsement. The 5 buddies in October attended the Chiefs vs. Jets sport, the second sport Swift publicly confirmed assist for her boyfriend Travis Kelce.

“Over the previous few years I’ve watched certainly one of my finest buddies on this planet pour each little bit of his coronary heart, soul, sweat, time, vitality, jokes, ache, pleasure, insurrection, darkness, and magic into this movie,” she wrote. “He is created one of the best work of his life, and this movie looks like an precise pleasure portal, a wild escape from actuality, and an abs sandwich. I do not understand how he did it.”

Though she was referring to Reynolds, the author, producer and essential actor, she quipped, “However that is simply Hugh for you! These different randoms crashed the photograph and we have been too well mannered to ask them to go away.”

She made one other playful jab at Reynolds, who performs “Wade Wilson, aka my godkids’ sperm donor!”

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Reynolds and Vigorous have 4 children. Three of their kids — Betty, Inez and James — are included as characters in Swift’s tune “Betty.” There was quite a lot of hypothesis about whether or not Swift sneakily introduced the title of the couple’s fourth youngster in a “Tortured Poets” tune, till Reynolds revealed his son’s title on the “Deadpool & Wolverine” film premiere in New York. It is Olin.

Swift ended the Instagram story with a Fandango ticket hyperlink. She could not attend the film’s premiere on Tuesday as a result of she was performing her Eras Tour in Hamburg, Germany.

“Deadpool and Wolverine is out TOMORROW! Here is the place to purchase tickets for those who like issues which are unspeakably superior,” she wrote.

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Mohegan Solar is planning a celebration of Taylor Swift and it’s going to incorporate a Southeastern Connecticut-based tribute band, meals vans, themed cocktails, a friendship bracelet station and extra.

“Are You Prepared For It? A Musical Tribute Occasion” is occurring on Saturday, Sept. 28 on the Solar Patio.

Mohegan Solar stated the “Solar Patio at Mohegan Solar will remodel into an enchanted wonderland for a particular Taylor Swift celebration like no different.”

There may also be a themed picture prop station.

The musical tribute occasion is open to company of all ages and wristbands will likely be offered for company who’re 21 years outdated and up.

Doorways open at 5 p.m. and the present begins at  6 p.m.

Tickets are on sale by way of ticketmaster.com.

Mohegan Solar stated seating is offered by the hearth pits on a first-come, first-served foundation.

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Welcome to Thursday — however wait a minute, there’s a VAR verify going down to see if Wednesday remains to be occurring. That’s been the excessive drama on the Olympics… Additionally developing:

👓  Spygate 3.0? A brand new controversy

🔄 Two large Arsenal transfers (and a brand new package)

👬 Locker-room dynamics defined

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Olympic-Sized Chaos 

What occurred in Argentina vs Morocco?

Boy oh boy, the Olympics haven’t waited to ship drama. The ending of Wednesday’s match between Argentina and Morocco was totally/gloriously/embarrassingly chaotic (delete relying in your private feeling).

Briefly, the group was on the pitch, a aim was controversially dominated out, and a two-hour delay ensued — fortunately, The Athletic had Ali Rampling to clarify.

Pre-match, Argentina’s anthem was booed — after final week’s Copa America win, Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez live-streamed his team-mates chanting a music with derogatory references to France internationals of African descent. Morocco have a number of French-born gamers of their squad.

Till stoppage time, this had been a reasonably regular match — not less than so far as Argentina video games go. However with quarter-hour of stoppage time ordered, and Morocco main 2-1, Argentina appeared to attain a late, late equaliser within the 106th minute, with Cristian Medina heading in after successive photographs hit the bar.

Improbably, this was solely the beginning of the drama.

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Why was the sport stopped?

Because the Argentinians celebrated, cups and bottles had been thrown at them, flares had been set off, whereas a number of Morocco followers ran onto the pitch and had been chased by stewards. Gamers swiftly left the pitch with riot police close by.

The sport appeared to have ended at 4.10pm BST/11.10am ET, with the official Olympics match weblog stating the sport had ended. The massive display screen stated it had been suspended.

Nevertheless, 90 minutes later, information broke that Argentina’s equaliser had been dominated out for an offside (see beneath). Gamers returned to the pitch shortly after 6pm BST/1pm ET. Three minutes of added time had been performed in an empty stadium earlier than the ultimate whistle was blown, almost two hours after many thought the match was over.

On the decision-making course of, FIFA referred The Athletic to Paris 2024, which stated the sport “was suspended as a result of a pitch invasion by a small variety of spectators… Paris 2024 is working with the related stakeholders to know the causes and establish applicable actions”.

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What was the response? 

Confusion — adopted by anger or reduction, relying in your persuasion. Argentina head coach Javier Mascherano could possibly be heard shouting “circus” from the touchline, saying he was by no means informed a couple of VAR evaluation — he insisted the match was suspended due to safety.

“The referee by no means got here, he by no means gave us a proof,” he stated. “What occurred on the pitch was scandalous. It’s not an area event, it’s the Olympic Video games.”

Lionel Messi, watching on, posted “Insolito” on his Instagram account — translating to “unbelievable”. It actually was that.

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Information Spherical-Up 

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Michael Olise makes it 2-0! 💥 💥

Lacazette turns supplier this time because the Bayern Munich new boy curls house France’s second. They’re nicely on their manner at #Paris2024 of their opener v USA.#BBCOlympics pic.twitter.com/dyprovlKZt

— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) July 24, 2024

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What a strike by Michael Olise! 💥

France double their lead and the house followers are loving it. #ParisOlympics

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— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) July 24, 2024

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Spying: A Historical past 

Canada, New Zealand, what’s occurring?

You thought we had been achieved on Olympic drama? Suppose once more! The previous few days have been dominated by a spying scandal involving the Canadian girls’s soccer group — which re-erupted on Wednesday.

One other controversy — one other helpful explainer, courtesy of Mark Puleo and Meg Linehan.

Canada are reigning gold medallists however, on Tuesday, forward of their opening sport in opposition to New Zealand, a drone was seen over their opponent’s coaching session.

On-site legislation enforcement traced the drone, and located its controller held within the arms of (duh, duh, duh) Joseph Lombardi, who labored as an “unaccredited analyst” with the Canadian girls’s group.

The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) apologised, nevertheless it subsequently got here to mild that one other coaching session had been recorded on July 19 — this was severe.

Lombardi and Jasmine Mander, an assistant coach who oversees Lombardi, had been despatched house from the Olympics, whereas head coach Bev Priestman voluntarily stepped apart from teaching immediately’s sport, citing her “dedication to integrity”.

She was unable to explicitly state whether or not she knew concerning the drone. FIFA stated it will examine all doubtlessly concerned events.

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Has this occurred earlier than?

Sure! I spent a while writing about this on Wednesday afternoon — spying is sort of as outdated because the offside rule.

Right here’s a potted historical past of sporting espionage, that includes interns in bushes, package males within the roof, and even references to the New England Patriots and Michigan Soccer. Take pleasure in.

🎙 The ladies’s Olympic event begins immediately — get the Full Time podcast after each U.S. match and the publication the following day

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Arsenal’s Africa-Themed Equipment 

What’s the story behind their away package?

Arsenal drew 1-1 with Bournemouth in Los Angeles final night time — and also you might need observed their new away package.

Primarily black, with purple and inexperienced particulars to imitate the Pan-African flag, the strip is meant to spotlight Arsenal’s reference to Black tradition.

The Athletic’s Dan Barnes explains right here why Arsenal have a singular historical past — from the black heroes who’ve performed at Highbury and the Emirates, to the Black communities in London which have gravitated in the direction of supporting the membership.

Created by Black-founded menswear model Labrum, and produced by Adidas, its producers boast it was “designed by an immigrant”, with black-and-white zigzag panels additionally meant to symbolize emigration from African nations within the Twenties and the artwork that got here with them.

“Speaking to Arsenal and Adidas, they’ve each all the time pioneered Black tradition, Black historical past,” says designer Foday Dumbuya. “We thought it’s a relationship and collaboration that was sure to occur.”

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Locker-Room Dynamics

How will Mbappe slot in at Actual Madrid?

As European champions, Actual Madrid are arguably the perfect membership facet on the earth — and this summer season, presumably the world’s greatest participant arrives on the Bernabeu.

Kylian Mbappe shall be strolling right into a dressing room which already options the star energy of Vinicius Jr, Jude Bellingham, and Luka Modric. The 25-year-old, who was king of Paris, now has new environment.

Madrid might have excellent gamers — and The Athletic has lined their ways intimately right here and in video type (see above) — however even excellent gamers solely win as many video games as Madrid do if they’re a tight-knit group prepared to battle for one another.

That is how their dressing room operates, from car-pooling, to player-led barbecues, to the affect of head coach Carlo Ancelotti’s son Davide. Mario Cortegana stories on how Mbappe will settle in.

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Catch A Match

Olympics, girls’s soccer: Canada vs New Zealand (11am ET / 4pm BST) — Peacock / Eurosport; This needs to be a tasty one (see above).

Olympics, girls’s soccer: United States vs Zambia (3pm ET / 8pm BST) — USA Community / Eurosport; This shall be Emma Hayes’ first aggressive match in command of the USWNT — right here’s our preview of the problem she’s dealing with.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been transferred from a New York Metropolis jail to a hospital to bear therapy for quite a lot of well being issues together with COVID-19 and pneumonia in each lungs, his representatives stated Thursday.

Weinstein, who’s awaiting trial in New York on rape and sexual assault expenses, was moved from town’s Rikers Island jail complicated to a locked ward at Bellevue Hospital. The opposite circumstances he was to be handled for included diabetes, hypertension, spinal stenosis, and fluid on his coronary heart and lungs, in accordance with a press release launched by Weinstein’s publicist that attributed the well being info to Craig Rothfeld, Weinstein’s jail guide.

“We proceed to precise our gratitude to the officers, docs and nurses” within the metropolis’s corrections and public hospital programs “who noticed to it that Mr. Weinstein was instantly transferred to the Bellevue Hospital Jail Ward,” stated the publicist, Juda Engelmayer.

Weinstein has had a minimum of one stint at Bellevue earlier than, after he was first dropped at New York Metropolis for authorized proceedings associated to his rape case.

Weinstein, 72, was discovered responsible in 2020 of rape and sexual assault. The conviction was tossed out by appeals judges who stated jurors shouldn’t have heard testimony from girls who had accused the movie producer of misconduct however whose allegations weren’t a part of the case.

A retrial has been scheduled for November.

Whereas his conviction was thrown out, Weinstein has remained behind bars partly as a result of he was sentenced to 16 years in jail in California after he was convicted in a rape case in Los Angeles in 2022.

Weinstein has denied that he raped or sexually assaulted anybody.

At a current courtroom listening to, Weinstein’s attorneys had stated he was unwell and requested for him to be transferred from the jail to the hospital.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Joe Biden on the White Home on Thursday to debate the U.S.-Israeli relationship amid tensions over the continuing battle in Gaza and a altering political panorama in america.

“Welcome again, Mr. Prime Minister. We bought loads to speak about,” Biden stated in short remarks shortly earlier than cameras left the room.

Vice President Kamala Harris — who’s searching for to succeed Biden — met with Netanyahu later within the day and took the lead in addressing the general public about their discussions.

She has been extra outspoken than Biden about killed Palestinian civilians and referred to as on Israel to permit extra humanitarian assist in, and later harassed the significance for Israel to keep away from extra civilian casualties in Gaza.

“We can not look away within the face of those tragedies. We can not permit ourselves to grow to be numb to the struggling. And I cannot be silent,” Harris stated following her assembly.

The conferences got here simply hours after Biden, in an Oval Workplace handle, instructed Individuals that getting peace in Gaza — ending the combating between Israel and Hamas and liberating hostages — is certainly one of his prime objectives in his remaining six months in workplace. Netanyahu to date has resisted Biden’s efforts, rejecting his requires a cease-fire.

Netanyahu introduced up their lengthy relationship and different Israeli leaders Biden has identified all through his profession.

“From a proud Jew Zionist to a proud Irish American Zionist, I need to thanks for 50 years of public service and 50 years of help for the state of Israel. And I look ahead to discussing with you at the moment and dealing with you within the months forward on the good points earlier than us,” Netanyahu stated.

Biden mirrored on that first assembly, joking, “I used to be solely 12 then.”

Different U.S. officers attending included Secretary of State Antony Blinken and White Home nationwide safety adviser Jake Sullivan.

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby instructed reporters that the president was going to press Netanyahu to assist “shut the gaps” with the peace deal that will return the Israeli hostages.

“We’re nearer now than we’ve got ever been earlier than,” he stated.

The assembly between Netanyahu and the president lasted for about an hour and a half, the Israeli prime minister’s workplace stated.

It was the primary time the leaders have come face-to-face since Biden introduced he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsed Harris’ run.

Each leaders met with American households of Israeli hostages, based on the White Home.

Jonathan Dekel-Chen, one of many members of the family, instructed reporters following their assembly that they felt “extra optimistic than we’ve got because the first spherical of the releases in late November, early December.”

“We bought absolute dedication from the Biden administration and from Prime Minister Netanyahu that they perceive the urgency of this second now, to waste no time, and to finish this deal because it presently stands,” he stated.

The households additionally disregarded considerations that Biden not searching for a second time period may damage the possibilities of a deal coming collectively, arguing it may truly assist.

“I truly assume it permits the president to be laser-focused on the issues which are true priorities to him, and saving human beings, cherished human beings,” Rachel Goldberg, the mom of hostage Hersch Goldberg-Polin, stated.

Kirby wouldn’t touch upon why Harris was assembly with Netanyahu later however famous that she had marketing campaign occasions whereas Biden met with the prime minister.

Harris and Netanyahu shook arms earlier than U.S. and Israeli flags round 5:10 p.m. in her ceremonial workplace.

Solely Harris spoke to reporters following the conferences and reiterated that Israel has the precise to defend itself however added, “the way it does so issues.”

“I’ve met with the households of those American hostages a number of occasions now, and I’ve instructed them every time they don’t seem to be alone, and I stand with them. And President Biden and I are working on daily basis to convey them house,” she stated.

Harris stated that she talked to Netanyahu about her “severe concern” concerning the collateral harm and struggling of Gazan civilians.

“With over 2 million folks going through excessive ranges of meals insecurity, and half 1,000,000 folks going through catastrophic ranges of acute meals insecurity. What has occurred in Gaza over the previous 9 months is devastating; the pictures of lifeless kids and determined, hungry folks fleeing for security, typically displaced for the second, third or fourth time,” she stated.

Harris addressed the teams who’ve been calling for a cease-fire and peace within the Center East, and pushed for a two-state resolution saying “I see you, I hear you.”

“Allow us to all condemn terrorism and violence. Allow us to all do what we are able to to stop the struggling of harmless civilians. And allow us to condemn antisemitism, Islamophobia and hate of any sort. And allow us to work to unite our nation,” she stated.

The White Home assembly comes a day after Netanyahu addressed a joint assembly of Congress, which Harris didn’t attend, holding a beforehand scheduled marketing campaign occasion as an alternative.

The prime minister has praised Biden for “half century of friendship to Israel” and U.S. help following the Oct. 7 assaults.

“He rightly referred to as Hamas ‘sheer evil.’ He dispatched two plane carriers to the Center East to discourage a wider conflict. And he got here to Israel to face with us throughout our darkest hour — a go to that may by no means be forgotten,” Netanyahu stated in his speech to lawmakers on Wednesday.

The prime minister didn’t point out Harris. However he did laud former President Donald Trump for his help of Israel throughout his 4 years in workplace.

Netanyahu is scheduled to satisfy with Trump Friday at Mar-a-Lago.

The prime minister has referred to as on the U.S. to supply bipartisan help for Israel in the course of the battle and urged leaders to, “Give us the instruments sooner and we’ll end the job sooner.”

“Israel will struggle till we destroy Hamas’ navy capabilities and its position in Gaza and convey all our hostages house. That is what whole victory means. And we’ll accept nothing much less.”

In Could, Biden paused a cargo to Israel of unguided bombs citing considerations that they may very well be used on civilians.

Congress despatched $26 billion in assist to Israel and offered humanitarian aid for folks in Gaza in April as a part of a international assist bundle.

About $4 billion of that was devoted to replenishing Israel’s missile protection methods. Greater than $9 billion of the overall went towards humanitarian help in Gaza.