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A Michigan man who recently went viral for allegedly driving with a suspended license during a virtual hearing on the matter should have had his license reinstated long beforehand, according to clerical records.The latest update, as first reported by 7 News Detroit, highlights the kind of behind-the-scenes clerical issues that can carry significant implications for people down the line. Corey Harris, 44, ended up in jail through no fault of his own because of the error about his license.Harris made news headlines and gained unflattering social media fame after a clip of his court session spread widely online.During the 15…

World No. 1 and defending champion Novak Djokovic was forced to withdraw from the French Open on Monday with a torn medial meniscus during his dramatic five-set win over Argentina’s 23rd seed Francisco Cerundolo. .”Novak Djokovic, who was scheduled to face Kasper Ruud in the quarter-finals tomorrow, has been forced to play due to a torn medial meniscus in his right knee (discovered during an MRI scan today). Withdrawing from the Roland Garros Championship,” French Open organizers said in a statement.quick guideHow do I sign up for sports breaking news alerts?exhibitDownload the Guardian app from the iOS App Store on…

Name: Pebbling.Age: Gentoo penguins have been doing it pre-social media.Did life on Earth even exist then? And doing what exactly? Waddling? Shivering? Pebbling!Which is? A penguin will pick up a pebble in its beak and carry it to its partner.Why? Well, for a couple of reasons. First, it can help build their nest (penguins often live in places where more traditional nest-building materials, such as twigs, aren’t available). But it also serves as a gift that acknowledges the relationship between them.I saw this pebble and thought of you? Exactly!Because you’ve got a heart of stone. No!I’m guessing we’re not just…

AAt first glance, there are growing reasons for optimism in English rugby. An exciting and entertaining Grand Final will be played at Twickenham on Saturday, with both teams boasting quality homegrown players. The national team are showing real energy and they will hope to show their quality when they take on the All Blacks next month. Both sides also insist relations between rugby league and Premier League clubs are not as tense as they have been for years.But if you dig a little deeper, the reality is less glamorous. Only 10 of the aforementioned Premier League clubs still exist, and…

In the opening scene of Stormy, the documentary about Stormy Daniels’ life, she says: “I have just been tormented for the last five years or so. And here I am, I’m still here.” Probably the worst of the torment has been from Donald Trump’s supporters, though they’ve never got together to explain what they’re angry about. Is it that Daniels claims she had sex with Trump, in 2006? That she accepted $130,000 to keep quiet about it? Surely, if he’s the richest and most virile man America ever produced, you’d think that was no big deal for him, and nice…

Forget the Champions League trophy and the individual awards, Top Trumps has delivered its judgment: Jude Bellingham is the best footballer in the world.The Real Madrid and England midfielder, 20, takes the top spot in a new ranking system, beating the likes of Erling Haaland and Lionel Messi in the game’s World Football Stars Top 200 series.It comes after Bellingham played a starring role in the Champions League final at Wembley on Saturday to help Real win a 15th European title.He capped it off by asking the Spanish club’s former manager José Mourinho to pose for a photo with his…

In the shade of a tree on a warm day in Vilnius, Lithuania, I’m having coffee with the happiest twentysomethings in the world. Given the weather (perfect) and the beverage (cheap), it is hard to feel anything but happy. It is harder still if, like 23-year-old Simona Jurkuvenaite, you have just been handed €21,000 from the Lithuanian government to direct your debut short film about the country’s teenagers.“This is a great place,” she says, gesturing around the manicured square where we’re sitting, on the edge of the city’s new town. “It’s pretty awesome that you can get these kinds of…

Police on Monday arrested pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied the lobby of a San Francisco building that houses the Israeli Consulate.Associated Press journalists saw police zip-tie the hands of about 50 people. Officers then put them in police vans and drove them away. San Francisco police later confirmed that 70 protesters were arrested and cited for trespassing after they “refused to vacate the building”. They have since been released from San Francisco county jail.Police arrest pro-Palestinian protesters after they occupied the lobby of the building housing the Israeli consulate in San Francisco. Photograph: Carlos Barría/ReutersA group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators entered the…

The far-right Epoch Times media company was at the center of a fraudulent money-laundering and cryptocurrency scam involving tens of millions of dollars, the justice department said on Monday as it announced the indictment of its chief financial officer Bill Guan.The 61-year-old executive “conspired with others to participate in a sprawling, transnational scheme to launder at least approximately $67m of illegally obtained funds”, according to a statement from the US attorney’s office of the southern district of New York.Proceeds went to the company, it said, and for the personal enrichment of individuals including Guan, who faces up to 70 years…

The world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma halves the risk of patients dying or the disease returning, according to trial results that doctors described as “extremely impressive”.Melanoma affects more than 150,000 people a year globally, according to 2020 figures from World Cancer Research Fund International.Patients who received the vaccine after having a stage three or four melanoma removed had a 49% lower risk of dying or the disease recurring after three years, data presented at the world’s largest cancer conference showed. The NHS is among the organisations testing the jab.Patients in the phase 2b trial had high-risk melanomas…