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When competition got underway at the VIVO Rio Pro today, the Championship Tour was missing a goat-sized hole in the competitive field: Kelly Slater was absent. Then, in a social media post on the opening day of the competition, the World Surf League revealed that Slater had withdrawn from the competition due to illness. Captioning the post, the WSL wrote: “BREAKING NEWS 🚨@kellyslater has withdrawn from @vivo #RioPro due to an ongoing illness. As the 2nd highest ranked Brazilian surfer in the Challenger Series, @jadsonandre will take his place.” Days before the WSL announcement, Slater posted a picture of his…

When Chien Li-ying co-wrote the script for a pivotal scene in the Netflix show Wave Makers, she never expected to spark Taiwan’s dormant #MeToo movement. Key points: Wave Makers screenwriter Chien Li-ying shared her own #MeToo allegationA complaint has been filed against famous Chinese activist Wang Dan in a Taiwanese courtTaiwanese political parties are grappling with the fallout ahead of January elections True to its name, the Taiwanese political drama has made waves, triggering a series of sexual assault allegations involving political figures and spilling over into other areas, with some allegations rocking Taiwan’s entertainment industry . “It’s very, very…

A group of California-based lawmakers has introduced a resolution to honor one of their own: former state legislator Gloria Molina. The resolution is led by Senator Alex Padilla in the upper house, and Representatives Linda Sánchez, Judy Chu and Tony Cárdenas in the lower house. What you need to know California-based lawmakers have introduced a resolution to honor pioneering Mexican-American lawmaker Gloria Molina, who died in May Molina was the first Latina elected to the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He came of age in the midst of the…

In early June, I drove from Johnstown to a concert in Cleveland. Along for the trip was one of my closest friends (we’ll call him John), who, for various reasons, I had been in contact with less frequently over the past few years. Before the trip, I suffered from some anxiety about engaging with John over politics, which has served as one of the mainstays of our friendship. One of the reasons for the anxiety was that my political positions have changed quite substantially over the past few years and have diverged from John’s. Fearful of being treated as a…

A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To receive it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — Former President Barack Obama has dropped out of the daily news conversation, but he’s clearly still connected. Sitting down with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour this week, he contrasted the media frenzy over wealthy explorers who died trying to see the wreckage of the Titanic on the seabed with the relatively limited attention given to the hundreds of migrants who died in the Mediterranean while trying to find a better life. RELATED: CNN investigation raises questions about Greek…

washington dc – Be careful what you wish for, goes the old adage. A year after US conservatives fulfilled their decades-long goal of overturning the constitutional right to abortion, Republican politicians are facing setbacks on the issue. Abortion bans and restrictions are unpopular with Americans, and those who defend them are paying electorally. Public opinion polls and numerous election contests, even in Republican strongholds, have suggested over the past year that most American voters want to protect due process. Even former President Donald Trump, who prides himself on appointing three justices to the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v Wade,…

Jonathan Capehart: When we talked about this earlier, I was asked the question, is this justice? How do you define it? What does that mean in this Hunter Biden case? For me, look, a special adviser was appointed. This person is someone who was appointed by President Trump and given incredible power in terms of investigating, in terms of doing all kinds of things. And that’s what he came up with, two minor tax charges and then something that involved: a weapons charge. And meanwhile, you have House Republicans, Speaker Comer, Speaker Comer, who keeps talking about whistleblowers, but he…

That was the title of a recent article in the Financial Times that caught my eye. We see this word a lot these days, but there are also many words similar to what I would call political “slang” that are launched, and I often wonder what exactly they mean. I had assumed it, for example “he woke up” it actually referred to people who used to be called each other “liberals” or “reformers”. These people typically looked to the government for various kinds of social change. However, this article defines “he woke up” how “The number one nonsense word used…