Diego Maradona (centre during the 1986 World Cup) is widely considered one of the greatest footballers in history. BUENOS AIRES: Eight medical personnel will stand trial for alleged criminal negligence in the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, according to a court ruling made public on Wednesday. No date has been set for the trial of the staff over Maradona's death in 2020, which prosecutors say was due to "omissions" by his caregivers who abandoned him "to his fate" during home hospitalization. Maradona died aged 60 while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot, and after decades of battles with cocaine and alcohol addictions. He was found dead in bed two weeks after going under the knife, in a rented house in an exclusive Buenos Aires neighborhood to where he was brought after being discharged from hospital. He was found to have died of a heart attack. A panel of 20 medical experts convened by Argentina's public prosecutor concluded last year that … [Read more...] about Medical staff to be tried for Maradona death
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The thread of Title IX can be traced through a coach and her mother
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 By the time Marsha Lake's daughter was 6 years old, her mother could describe her as "one big muscle." Shea Ralph was born rambunctious, endlessly energetic and with a devilish competitive streak that meant mom put her in as many sports as she could handle, plus dance and piano, which didn't stick. When sometime in the mid-80s their local North Carolina YMCA started offering girls basketball, Lake was elated. She loved the sport, and besides, it was too convenient to pass up - the gym sat right behind Fayetteville Tech, where Lake taught math. "I dropped her off and when I come back the guy running it goes, 'She's really, really good,' " Lake said, her vowels bowing with a Southern twang. "And I just look at him and I go, 'Well. She ought to be.' " Ralph, who decades after her rec-league introduction to basketball is entering her second year as the head coach of the Vanderbilt … [Read more...] about The thread of Title IX can be traced through a coach and her mother
Rep. Scott Perry played key role in promoting false claims of fraud
WASHINGTON - Of all the fantastical false claims of fraud and vote manipulation in the 2020 presidential election, "Italygate" was one of the most extreme. And Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., was at the heart of bringing it to Donald Trump's attention. This particular allegation of fraud centered around what one former Justice Department official described Thursday as an "absurd" claim: that an Italian defense contractor had conspired with senior CIA officials to use military satellites to flip votes from Trump to Joe Biden. As The Washington Post has reported, the theory was pushed by a Virginia horse-country socialite who once gave an extended television interview from a 22-bedroom mansion that she repeatedly described as her own, even though it was not. But as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol demonstrated Thursday, Italygate also made its way to the highest levels of the U.S. government. The committee showed Dec. 31, 2020, text messages between … [Read more...] about Rep. Scott Perry played key role in promoting false claims of fraud
Abortion ruling exposes deep chasm over the issue in the US
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 6 America was convulsed with anger, joy, fear and confusion Friday after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The canyon-like divide across the U.S. over the right to terminate a pregnancy was on full display, with abortion rights supporters calling it a dark day in history, while abortion foes welcomed the ruling as the answer to their prayers. In eliminating the constitutional right to abortion that has stood for a half-century, the high court left the politically charged issue up to the states, about half of which are now likely to ban the procedure. Some states, such as Oklahoma and Louisiana, had bans already on the books that automatically went into effect when Roe fell. Hundreds of people surrounded the barricaded Supreme Court in Washington, some questioning the high court's legitimacy, while others cheered the ruling and proclaimed the dawn of a … [Read more...] about Abortion ruling exposes deep chasm over the issue in the US
Athletes react to the Supreme Court’s abortion decision
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 9 U.S. national soccer team star Megan Rapinoe expressed her anger Friday over the Supreme Court's decision to strip the nation’s constitutional protections for abortion, decrying an erosion of rights that women have had for a generation. “I think the cruelty is the point because this is not pro life by any means,” said Rapinoe, who was close to tears at times as she expressed her outrage. The always outspoken Rapinoe was joined by some of the country's leading sports figures in publicly sharing their dismay, anger and concern after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a woman’s constitutional right to abortion. Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James tweeted that the ruling was about “ power and control,” and he retweeted a couple posts about the effect of the decision on Black women. In a joint statement, NBA Commissioner … [Read more...] about Athletes react to the Supreme Court’s abortion decision
Women of color will be most impacted by the end of Roe, experts say
Her entire life, Christina Mitchell has lived with Roe as the law of the land. On Friday morning, the 23-year-old was on her way out for a run in Houston. As she was about to walk out the door, her mother delivered the news: The Supreme Court had just overturned the fundamental right to an abortion. "My initial reaction was shock," said Mitchell, a law student at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge. This year, Mitchell, who is Black, had traveled to D.C. to celebrate Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court. Among a throng of supporters, she cheered and chanted and held up signs supporting the court's first Black female justice. Now, what Mitchell feels the most is uncertainty in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's HealthOrganization decision. She viewed abortion as the Supreme Court had laid it out in its 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling: a fundamental right giving women the power to exercise control over their bodies. While Mitchell lives in a … [Read more...] about Women of color will be most impacted by the end of Roe, experts say
Demonstrations erupt at Supreme Court, spread nationally as Roe falls
WASHINGTON -- The historic overturning of Roe v. Wade met with an outpouring of joy and rage on Friday, as street demonstrations that began outside the Supreme Court after the decades-old guarantee of abortion access was struck down spread through the nation's capital and to cities across the United States. Thousands of abortion rights supporters gathered in downtown Washington to assail the court's ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, as other marches to protest the decision unfolded in cities including New York, Chicago, Nashville, San Francisco and Los Angeles. After the leak of a draft of the opinion last month, few were surprised. But many were still in shock. The scene outside the court in the immediate wake of the Dobbs ruling captured Americans' wildly divergent reactions to a watershed moment in one of the nation's bitterest debates. Antiabortion activists brimmed with joy at a long-sought legal victory while supporters of abortion rights voiced fury … [Read more...] about Demonstrations erupt at Supreme Court, spread nationally as Roe falls
Rep. Louie Gohmert allegedly asked Trump for a pardon following insurrection
East Texas representative Louie Gohmert allegedly requested a pardon from then-President Donald Trump following the attempted insurrection on January 6, 2021, according to the taped deposition of an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, played Thursday during a congressional hearing. Gohmert is among a group of at least six U.S. congress members who requested pardons for themselves from Trump around the time of the insurrection, according to documents and testimony presented during the House select committee’s fifth hearing on the January 6 attacks. “Mr. Gohmert asked for [a pardon] as well,” said Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked as an executive assistant for Meadows and had previously interned for Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Reps Matt Gaetz of Florida, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Mo Brooks of Alabama, and Andy Biggs of Arizona all asked for personal pardons from Trump, according to Hutchinson’s sworn testimony. Gohmert quickly denied he ever requested the … [Read more...] about Rep. Louie Gohmert allegedly asked Trump for a pardon following insurrection
Woman committed over Slender Man stabbing seeks her release
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — The second of two Wisconsin women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade classmate that they claimed was to appease the horror character Slender Man is petitioning for her release. Morgan Geyser, 20, asked Waukesha County Judge Michael Bohren on June 14 to order her release as he did last year for her co-defendant, Anissa Weier, who spent nearly four years at a mental health facility in Oshkosh. During a hearing Thursday, Bohren appointed three doctors to evaluate Geyser's mental state and to submit their reports by Aug. 26. Prosecutors and defense attorneys will return to court on Sept. 12 to schedule another hearing to review the reports. According to prosecutors, Geyser and Weier lured Payton Leutner to a Waukesha park following a sleepover in May 2014, and Geyser repeatedly stabbed Leutner while Weier urged her on. All three girls were 12 at the time. Geyser and Weier left Leutner for dead, but … [Read more...] about Woman committed over Slender Man stabbing seeks her release