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Newsom, Dems flunk Governing 101

Gov. Gavin Newsom has been roaming the country and the halls of Davos telling people he should be promoted from his current job. But after eight years, California cannot afford Newsom’s governance.  Can America? Even though the first presidential primary votes are two years away, voters in other states should heed the warning signs now....

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No increase in Women’s Asian Cup prize money despite player pleas for ‘respect’

  • AFC prize pot stagnates amid global women’s football boom

  • Tournament is now world’s lowest-paying continental competition

It has been billed as the most successful Women’s Asian Cup to date, yet prize money at the upcoming tournament in Australia will not increase from what was offered by the Asian Football Confederation at the last edition four years ago.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the world’s oldest women’s national team competition introduced prize money for the first time in 2022, distributing US$1.8m among the nations who finished in the top four.

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© Photograph: David Gray/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: David Gray/AFP/Getty Images

© Photograph: David Gray/AFP/Getty Images

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Seized review – captivating documentary goes inside a shocking newspaper raid

Sundance film festival: the story of the Marion County Record and the forces that tried to destroy it is expanded for a charming, and concerning, look at freedom of the press

On 11 August 2023, police officers executed a search warrant on the offices of the Marion County Record, a small, family-owned paper in central Kansas. Local law enforcement seized the computers, cell phones and reporting materials from all staff, as well as from the homes of one city council member and paper co-owner Eric Meyer, without incident – though they met the impassioned resistance of Meyer’s 98-year-old mother Joan, the paper’s other co-owner, who threw her walker to the ground and declared the raid “Nazi stuff”.

“This is illegal,” Eric Meyers warns the officers, as seen in a new documentary on the episode. “You’re going to be on national news tonight.”

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© Photograph: Jackson Montemayor

© Photograph: Jackson Montemayor

© Photograph: Jackson Montemayor

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