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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailWarning: the following livestream has not been independently fact-checked and may contain misinformation.The Independent strives to counteract misinformation across its platforms.Watch again as Donald Trump’s hush money trial continued on Tuesday, 30 April, with the banker for former Trump fixer Michael Cohen giving further testimony after taking the stand at the end of last week.Gary Farro, a banker assigned to Cohen at First Republic Bank, told the New York court that Cohen urgently asked for his assistance setting…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter It’s the sort of image you can see being brought up in the future, maybe even this summer. England captain Harry Kane was sizing up a penalty, and there was the England captain-in-waiting muttering in his ear. They just happened to be on different teams in the Champions League semi-final first leg of course. Whatever Jude Bellingham said, it didn’t matter. Kane wasn’t paying any attention.“I don’t know what he was saying. I saw him mumbling something.…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USAn emergency slide that fell off a Delta flight shortly after takeoff from the JFK Airport on Friday reportedly washed up outside the beach house of a lawyer whose firm is suing Boeing over safety issues.Jake Bissell-Linsk, a New York attorney whose firm is taking legal action against Boeing after an Alaska Airlines plane lost a door plug midair in January, said he was surprised when he saw the slide outside his oceanfront home in Belle…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter As Borussia Dortmund prepare for their biggest European game in 11 years, they’re also thinking about next year. There is increasing talk around the club about bringing former manager Jurgen Klopp back as head of football in 2025. For some at Dortmund, this is the inevitable end point of a long period harking back to the 2010-13 glory era, with the club constantly rehiring familiar figures. This isn’t necessarily seen as a good thing, either. There is…

This new video shows what happened when NYPD entered Hamilton Hall to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University.Police, wearing helmets and carrying zip ties and riot shields, massed at the Ivy League university’s entrance, before storming the buildings shortly after 9pm on Tuesday (30 April).The demonstrators had occupied Hamilton Hall more than 12 hours earlier, spreading their reach from an encampment elsewhere on the grounds that’s been there for nearly two weeks.Columbia’s protests earlier this month kicked off demonstrations that now span from California to Massachusetts. Source link

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter What the papers sayParis St Germain have lost interest in Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford with the 26-year-old no longer figuring on their shortlist of targets, according to the i. Instead, the French club will focus on other options this summer as they backed away from meeting United’s £70million valuation for Rashford.If West Ham decide to part ways with manager David Moyes, the Daily Mail says German club Spartak Moscow are interested in his services, while West…

Trump complains about temperature of courthouse: ‘An ice box’Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailDonald Trump’s hush money trial got back underway on Tuesday with Judge Juan Merchan ruling that he found the former president in contempt of court on nine of the first ten violations of the gag order, fining him $1,000 for each. Further violations may result in “an incarceratory punishment”, he warned.The judge did say he would give the court a day off to allow Mr Trump to attend his son…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Howard Webb has admitted Nottingham Forest should have been awarded at least one penalty in their recent highly-charged fixture against Premier League relegation rivals Everton.Everton claimed a 2-0 win at Goodison Park on April 21 but Forest were incandescent that three separate penalty appeals were ignored by referee Anthony Taylor, with VAR Stuart Attwell not interfering.Webb, the chief refereeing officer of Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), believes Ashley Young’s challenge on Giovanni Reyna and his potential…

Columbia protesters detained by police as NYPD move to clear campusThe latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USHundreds of New York police officers stormed into the Columbia University grounds on Tuesday night, where campus protesters had occupied Hamilton Hall since Monday night, tying doors shut with ropes and blocking entrances with furniture. Live footage of the event, broadcast by CNN, showed the helmeted officers met by angry protesters, shouting and chanting, outside Hamilton Hall.Officers later used a SWAT ramp, attached to the roof…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Wolves boss Gary O’Neil has been handed a one-match touchline ban and fined £8,000 for his outburst at a referee following a 2-1 defeat by West Ham on April 6.O’Neil described the decision to disallow Maximilian Kilman’s stoppage-time goal as “possibly the worst decision I’ve ever seen” and was hit with a Football Association charge for improper conduct.It related to his behaviour towards referee Tony Harrington, who was advised by the VAR to check the monitor as…