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In case you didn’t know: Emre Can is a Bayern Munich academy product who was signed in 2014 from Bayer Leverkusen. He is a versatile player who can play in quite a few positions but is primarily an attack-minded midfielder. The 24-year-old has already played more than 200 times at club level and has 20 international caps to his name. Over the years, he has become a key cog in Liverpool’s set-up but is now reportedly demanding a big pay rise to stay at the club....

In case you didn’t know… The 22-year-old midfielder has been a vital cog in Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid in his debut season for the Rojiblancos. The young Spaniard has really impressed this campaign and has been a consistent performer in Atletico Madrid’s side since arriving in 2018 for just €25 million. Pundits and critics alike have compared Rodri with Barcelona icon Sergio Busquets due to their similar traits. Like Busquets, Rodri is versatile and likes to dictate proceedings from the middle of the park....

The Serbian youngster has a contract in the Italian capital until 2022 and as per his agent, he does not have a release clause in his deal. It is believed that Lazio will set an asking price in excess of €50 million. In case you didn’t know Milinkovic-Savic is a versatile midfielder who has the ability to play both in the heart of midfield and as a No.10. Having joined Lazio in the summer of 2015 aged just 20, it didn’t take him much time to get straight into the first team....

Brandon Williams broke into the Manchester United senior team last season and made over 30 appearances for the Red Devils after Luke Shaw was sidelined with a hamstring injury. However, with the return of Luke Shaw to full fitness and the arrival of Alex Telles, the 20-year-old has struggled for regular game time this season. The Englishman has dropped down the pecking order at the Manchester club and has featured for just six minutes in five league appearances....

The Ligue 1 side suffered a narrow 1-0 defeat to the newly promoted Reims, and his team looked weak without the Italian, but he said after the match that it is important for the team to let go of their unhappy players, and move forward with only those who have the desire to stay with the club. In case you didn’t know Balotelli previously played for Serie A side Internazionale before his transfer to Manchester City in the Premier League....

But it appears that Lee could be returning to WWE programming very soon, as early as tonight’s edition of RAW. According to Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select over the weekend, WWE had plans for Lee to return on RAW tonight with “a match in the middle of the card.” While this doesn’t sound particularly exciting, getting Lee back on RAW now could bode well for finding him an important match on the card at this year’s WrestleMania....

Ricardo was involved with NXT as he was wrestling as El Local in Kalitso. But following an injury, his spot was given to Sin Cara. His weight issues were also a concern as it didn’t meet the requirements of WWE’s standards. Wrestling Observer reports that WWE had set a weight goal for Ricardo and they wanted him to attain a certain physique but he had problems keeping up to it....

Trump released the remarks after a statue of Lee—who led the Confederacy in the failed rebellion against the United States during the Civil War—was taken down in Richmond, Virginia. The former president claimed Lee is considered by many to be “the greatest strategist of them all,” despite the fact that he lost the war for the South. “If only we had Robert E. Lee to command our troops in Afghanistan, that disaster would have ended in complete and total victory many years ago,” Trump said....

Bennet, a senator from Colorado, shared his take on how some Republican lawmakers are feeling about Trump in an interview on CNN Newsroom on Monday. The show’s co-anchor Jim Scuitto said that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has said he is open to the possibility of impeaching Trump and that Republican Senator Mitt Romney has said Trump’s interactions with Ukraine are not acceptable. Scuitto continued that Bennet has conversations with Republicans and “I’m not going to ask you to break any confidence you have with them, but I’m curious, are you hearing more private expressions of support for removing this president than we hear publicly from the Republican side?...

GOP lawmakers from various factions of the party made several complaints about the plan, ranging from concerns about the impact a higher minimum wage could have on small businesses, to the size of the proposed bailout fund. The criticisms set the stage for a potential battle to pass the measures through Congress, and particularly the Senate, which the Democrats now control with a narrow tiebreaker vote majority thanks to victories in the Georgia Senate runoff elections....

Late on September 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya, members of the Islamic militant organization, Ansar al-Sharia, launched attacks on a U.S. diplomatic building and a CIA annex that led to an armed conflict throughout the night. Investigations later found that the attack was premeditated for the most part, with a smattering of people joining the attack from a nearby protest. A total of four Americans were killed in the attacks, including J....

As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced him, loud cheers and applause erupted among the jubilant Republican side, which led into the chant calling for a second Trump term after the November election. Democrats branded the address a Trump rally. During her introduction, Pelosi omitted the usual “I have the high privilege and distinct honor” words to present the president to Congress. Moments earlier, Trump appeared to snub Pelosi’s offer of a handshake....

The rally, organized on Facebook by the Take Back Kentucky group, was created “to celebrate freedom and fight back against the unconstitutional shutdown over the Coronavirus.” A model dressed in a blue shirt, white pants, gloves, shoes and a photo of Gov. Andy Beshear hung with the words “sic semper tyrannis.” The phrase, Latin for “thus always to tyrants,” was the same phrase John Wilkes Booth allegedly shouted before assassinating President Abraham Lincoln....

Though most Republicans have no appetite for refighting a culture war over gay rights that was lost long ago, they need to stand their ground on the question of religious freedom. Democrats are pushing the gay marriage bill because of what Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision. The Justice expressed a willingness to uphold the actual meaning of the text of the Constitution—as opposed to the liberal belief that the Constitution can be used to validate any policy goal—that also calls into question the 2015 Obergefell decision in which the Court established a national right to gay marriage....

The danger is, with all the distractions and trivialities of Washington, that effort could be reduced to the usual surface-level review. Too often, hard problems and facts that challenge the institutional culture of Republican professionals are avoided. The bias against dealing with them is great because they seem impossible to solve. That scenario would be a disaster for Republicans moving forward. What Republicans need is a profoundly deep, challenging examination of the party—and a thorough study of where American politics and government actually are....

That was the message from some members of the outgoing president’s own party on Wednesday in the wake of poor performances in two Senate runoff elections Tuesday night in the once ruby red state of Georgia that will determine control of the upper chamber. “Well, it turns out that telling the voters that the election is rigged is not a great way to turn out your voters,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said....

The experience of the pandemic revealed many things about our society, not least the bifurcated nature of our family support system. Take Americans’ unequal access to paid leave: While paid leave of various sorts has become a standard employee benefit for white collar professionals, the same cannot be said for the majority of working class Americans. That includes nearly a quarter of workers without paid sick leave—a fact that forced Congress to set up a hasty system of employer reimbursements in recognition that going to work when you’re sick with a highly contagious and deadly virus is, well, not good for anyone....

One way to understand the asymmetry between America’s two political parties is to look at the responses to Hurricane Sandy versus Hurricane Ian. Sandy struck the East Coast days before the 2012 election, causing unprecedented flooding and damage in coastal New Jersey and New York City in particular, killing 160 people in the United States and causing a staggering $65 billion in property damage. What did then-Rep. Ron DeSantis have to say?...

The Texas law bans abortions once a heartbeat can be detected, which is can be early as five to six weeks into a pregnancy and before many people realize that they’re pregnant. It also enables people to sue abortion providers or or anyone else who helps someone attain an in-state abortion after this stage. The law remains in effect despite a number of legal challenges, and two new studies highlight that abortion restrictions do not work to reduce the need for abortion care—they simply force people to travel further and spend more money do so....

But everything changed when she developed breasts and got her period. She couldn’t go outside unless she was covered head-to-toe in a burka and accompanied by a man. She had a burning desire to learn but was forbidden to attend school or read and write. Her father kept a locked chest containing reading material and treats like dried nuts and fruit. When he arrived home from work, he’d hand her the keys to fetch him these snacks and she’d nervously smuggle out a book or magazine....