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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…

The 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 NYPD officers stormed the campus of Columbia University to take back control of a building seized by pro-Palestine protesters.Dozens of student protesters are thought to have been detained after police were seen entering an upper storey of Hamilton Hall — renamed Hind Hall by protesters in memory of a six-year-old Palestinian girl killed in Gaza in January.The protests at the New York university have been going on for weeks, sparking similar demonstrations at some 50…

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 Any attempt at resurrecting plans to stage Premier League fixtures outside of England and Wales will be met with vehement opposition by the Football Supporters’ Association.Premier League chief executive Richard Masters revealed last week the “door looks ajar” for English top-flight matches to be played overseas – although there are no plans in the pipeline currently.However, a high-ranking executive at NBC Sports, which holds the rights to screen the Premier League in the United States, told the…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USProsecutors in Indiana have sought to have theories that an “Odinist pagan cult” was responsible for the deaths of two young girls dismissed ahead of the trial of the man accused of their murders.Richard Allen previously confessed to the murders of Abby Williams, 13, and 14-year-old Libby German in 2022. Their bodies were discovered on 14 February 2017, a day after they had gone for a walk on abandoned train tracks near their homes in Delphi,…

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 Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane said their 2-2 draw with Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final is “a little disappointing” but has full belief they can qualify next week.Madrid hit the front against the run of play in the 24th minute when Toni Kroos’ magnificent through-ball found Vinicius Jr, who tucked home coolly to give the away side a half-time lead.Munich scored twice in four second-half minutes, firstly through Leroy Sane before…

A terrifying shoot-out between police and two gunmen in Charlotte, North Carolina, was caught on video by a neighbour.Footage shared by Saing Chhoeun on Facebook shows two heavily armed officers taking cover behind a car as gunfire is heard around them on Monday 29 April.The incident unfolded as police served a fugitive arrest warrant at a house in Charlotte.Terry Clark Hughes Jr, 39, opened fire on officers as they approached. He was wanted for possession of a firearm by felon and felony flee to elude out of Lincoln County, North Carolina.Hughes was fatally shot during the exchange, in which four…