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With Donald Trump just a few feet away, a potential juror in the criminal case against him summed up the experience in just three words. “This is bizarre,” she said, with just a slight hint of a seasoned New York accent.Bizarre it was. There was a potential juror who once spent the night at one of Trump’s lawyers’ homes more than a decade ago (Trump’s team used one of its pre-emptory strikes to remove the juror). The microphones didn’t work. The proceedings had to start over when Judge Juan Merchan realized that a court reporter hadn’t been present first thing.…

The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay about $100 million to settle claims from 100 people who say they were victimized by disgraced doctor Larry Nassar, a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press. Sexual assault by Larry Nassar. The deal has not been finalized and no payment has been made, sources said.An internal investigation found that FBI agents mishandled abuse allegations against women more than a year before Nassar was arrested in 2016.The settlement was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.Nassar is a sports physician at…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature50 min There are lots of ways to describe how football works and these days we use lots of complex technical terms and evidence. But the simple things remain true, and Graeme Souness’ line – “the team that gets to the ball first wins” – tell us exactly why this game is going as it is.Share49 min Xkaha gives it straight to Bowen and though nothing comes of it, the early signs suggest Leverkusen still aren’t at it.Share49 min Stanisic to Frimpong … and he lets the ball roll…

Arsenal’s hopes of reaching a first Champions League semi-final since 2009 were ended by Bayern Munich, who are looking to strengthen Mikel Arteta’s squad with a striker and winger in the summer.Back-to-back defeats to Aston Villa and Bayern have left Arsenal with little hope of winning the title this season, while Manchester City are mired in the Premier League title race with six games remaining after Arteta’s side finished runners-up last year. Dilemma. There have been signs of progress since spending more than £200m on Declan Rice, Kai Havertz and Jurriën Timber last summer, but the boss Kroenke Sports and…

There’s an innocent optimism to transport visionaries. They really thought they could change the world! They absolutely couldn’t! But all respect to them for trying: someone got lucky with the wheel once, didn’t they?Being a transport visionary must have been more interesting back before technological progress and grotesque wealth allowed billionaires to “disrupt” the boring A-to-B-ness of conventional travel and blast a car into space, just because. Imagine conceiving of human flight back when your only model was birds and some gossip about a guy called Icarus. Or looking at a horse and thinking: “Hmmm, that’s fast, muscular and terrifying;…

DDesigning competition equipment for Olympic and Paralympic athletes is no easy task. It caters to the needs of a number of very different sports with comfort, performance and a somewhat unified aesthetic that shows gymnasts, sprinters and breakdancers are on the same team. It’s no surprise, then, that this level of juggling often results in Team GB wearing jerseys like Adidas at the Paris Olympics – which feel a bit generic and “designed by committee”. If you asked Midjourney to design a British Olympic outfit, it might look something like this.News photos include kickboxers Bianca Cooke and Kaden Cunningham, long…

I have a close friend of 15 years. When I met her, she was fun-loving and positive but in the last few years she has gradually got more negative. We live in different countries and speak regularly, and every time I talk to her all she does is complain about her life and paint herself as the victim. She is a fellow therapist and I have encouraged her to get support to work through the patterns she is in, but she never does. It gets to the point where I get fed up with the moaning and frustrated that she…

IIf Tuesday night’s Champions League second leg tilted first to one side and then to the other with attacking flair, then Wednesday was a night where courage was needed to win and English football to be the underdog. This also brought about the restoration of the old order, with Bayern and Real Madrid meeting in the semi-finals.Goalkeeper: Andre Lunin, Real MadridLunin saved two City penalties, although one was essentially passed to him by Bernardo Silva. There are now 180 minutes left before becoming the goalkeeper of Real Madrid’s 15th Champions League title. Mateo Kovacic’s save down low on the right…

Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving Stormy Daniels a subpoena as she arrived for an event at a bar in Brooklyn last month, but the adult movie actor, who is expected to be a witness at the former president’s criminal trial, refused to take it and walked away.A process server working for Trump’s lawyers said he approached Daniels with papers demanding information related to a documentary recently released about her life and involvement with Trump, but was forced to “leave them at her feet”, according to a court filing made public on Wednesday.“I stated she was served as…

Rate, comment and share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On today’s podcast: You can never ignore Real Madrid. City dominated them for almost the entire 120 minutes, but they held on and eventually exorcised the demons of last year’s collapse at the Etihad Stadium with a penalty shootout. Elsewhere, Arsenal never really got going in Munich. Eric Dier’s man-of-the-match performance and Joshua Kimmich’s ferocious header meant Bayern will face Madrid in the semi-finals. Plus: Can Coventry pull off an upset in the FA Cup? There are some…