Max Verstappen’s father Jos has launched a remarkable attack on Red Bull boss Christian Horner, saying the team is “in danger of being torn apart” if he stays with the team. The post Verstappen's dad calls for Horner's Red Bull exit appeared first on Buy It At A Bargain – Deals And Reviews.
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Verstappen's dad calls for Horner's Red Bull exit
Max Verstappen’s father Jos has launched a remarkable attack on Red Bull boss Christian Horner, saying the team is “in danger of being torn apart” if he stays with the team.
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Riley Gaines blasts NCAA as 'cowards' over trans athlete policies amid calls for change: 'Disheartening'
Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines is holding strong to her criticism of the NCAA for its leaders’ reluctance to meet with female athletes who say they have been adversely affected by policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports, and for taking a more passive approach to the issue than she believes is essential.
“In 2010, they implemented a blanket policy for all sports. [Saying that after] 12 months of HRT hormone replacement therapy, you could compete in the category that aligns with your gender identity. Now, what the NCAA is doing is they’re in a phase-out approach. Essentially, they want nothing to do with the policy, which shows how cowardly, really they are,” Gaines told “Fox & Friends Weekend” co-host Will Cain on Sunday.
“It shows they know this is wrong, and now they’re leaving it up to each specific sport to make rules for that sport.”
Gaines, along with Olympians, coaches and other NCAA athletes, met with organizational officials at the 2024 NCAA Convention in Phoenix to hand-deliver a demand letter urging the officials to meet with female athletes said to be affected by trans athletes participating in women’s sports.
The group also handed over a related petition said to have over 70,000 signatures.
Gaines told Cain the group of protesters at the convention made the same demands last year.
“We went back this year to do the exact same thing, because, over the course of this past year, the NCAA hasn’t changed their policies and, as mentioned, women continue to be discriminated against on the basis of our sex,” she said.
“The people I delivered, the people on the governing board who had delivered the petition and the letter to me, even look me in the eyes, which is pretty disheartening as a female athlete…”
Gaines previously noted her hope to meet with NCAA President Charlie Baker, who assumed the role in March 2023, to have discussions surrounding the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s events.
“I know President Baker testified before the Senate a few weeks ago that changes are being made and that changes have been made, but that’s not what we’re seeing. We’re still seeing the NCAA continue to discriminate against women on the basis of our sex. It’s happening in just about every sport, every level, every division, every state — that’s why we’re here,” she said last week.
Baker testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in October and was pressed on the issue of transgender athletes being allowed in women’s locker rooms.
“I’m not going to defend what happened in 2022,” he said. “I wasn’t there. I was still governor of the commonwealth. What I will say is, we have very specific rules and standards around the safety and security of all our student athletes, and anyone who hosts one of our national championships has to accept that they know what they are and then abide by them accordingly.”
“I don’t believe that policy would be the policy we would use today,” he added.
“Fox & Friends Weekend” reached out to the NCAA for a statement, but did not receive a response in time for the segment.
Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.
Trump calls out immigration crisis during Iowa caucus rally, says he will keep world peaceful, safe
Former President Donald Trump rallied voters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, during a “Commit to Caucus” campaign event Saturday, focusing on his agenda and calling out “the worst, most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America.”
“We don’t like corrupt politicians like Joe Biden. Without question, this is the worst president, most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America without question,” Trump exclaimed, in anticipation of next month’s Iowa GOP presidential caucuses. “And I promise you this, if you put me back in the White House there, rain will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”
When speaking about keeping America safe, Trump said he would immediately implement travel restrictions on terror-plagued countries.
“I will immediately restore and expand the Trump travel ban on entry from terror-plagued countries and I will implement strong ideological screening on all immigrants as we have no choice,” he said. “If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you sympathize with jihad[ists], then we don’t want you in our country, and you’re not going to come into our country.”
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Adding to his remarks on a travel ban and current unrest in the Middle East, Trump pointed to the historic Abraham Accords, and described how he would make sure there was worldwide peace once again if elected.
“So for four straight years, I kept America safe. I kept Ukraine safe. None of this stuff would have happened. And I kept the entire world safe,” Trump said.
Trump added he would do everything in his power to keep the United States out of a war.
“I will prevent World War III. I will prevent it. On my first day back in the White House, I will terminate every open-border policy of the Biden administration, stop the invasion on our southern border, and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” Trump said.
“We are a nation that has lost its way, but we are not going to allow this horror to continue. Three years ago, we were a great nation, and we will soon be a great nation again,” he said.
Wolff calls Mercedes Brazil race 'inexcusable'
Toto Wolff has described Mercedes’ performance at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix as “inexcusable” after both drivers plummeted down the order over the course of the 71-lap race at Interlagos.
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Riley Gaines says Penn State canceled her Real Women's Day speech, calls out school's hypocrisy
Riley Gaines was set to speak at Penn State University on Tuesday for what she’s dubbed “Real Women’s Day.” Gaines has made a movement on social media to make Oct. 10 “Real Women’s Day” – the date, in Roman numerals, is X/X, which is the chromosome pairing of biological females. However, Gaines posted on X, … Continue reading Riley Gaines says Penn State canceled her Real Women's Day speech, calls out school's hypocrisy
Tucker denies claims, calls MSU hearing 'a sham'
Suspended Michigan State coach Mel Tucker adamantly denied claims that he sexually harassed noted sexual assault awareness speaker Brenda Tracy in a statement on Monday, and called an upcoming hearing about the claims “a sham” and “ridiculously flawed.”
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Paul holds off Diaz rally, calls for MMA rematch
Jake Paul dropped Nate Diaz in the fifth round and went on to score a unanimous-decision win in their boxing showdown Saturday night, then challenged him afterward to an MMA fight.
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Supreme Court rulings likely to intensify calls from the left to 'pack' the Court
The ruling Thursday on affirmative action, the rulings Friday for a web designer to refuse to design same-sex websites and the decision to strike down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan will likely ignite calls by the left to expand or “pack” the composition of the High Court and impose terms for Supreme Court justices.
Calls to change the makeup of the Supreme Court have come from the left following appointments of more conservative justices under former President Trump. Though Congress has taken no concrete steps to dilute the power of justices appointed by Republican presidents, recent high profile rulings against the Biden administration have already inspired renewed calls to add more justices to the bench.
“People don’t have to live under constant fear of the Supreme Court. We can’t sit on our hands while these justices carry out the bidding of right wing organizations,” wrote Democratic Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith in a tweet Friday. “Expand the Court.”
Biden has not endorsed the idea of expanding the court, even after establishing a commission to study the proposal. He told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace Thursday that expanding the court would “politicize it, maybe forever, in a way that’s not healthy.”
However, he also stated his view that the current court is “too young and too conservative,” and could harm the country with its rulings.
The left’s grievances against the makeup of the Supreme Court have roots in recent and distant history. Liberals accuse conservatives and Trump of “stealing” at least two seats and perhaps the Supreme Court, tipping the balance of power among the nine justices.
When Trump surprised Democrats with his 2016 election win, the stage was set to change the ideological makeup of the high court.
Senate Minority Leader — then Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — had refused to allow former President Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court to even have a hearing in 2016 after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Obama had nominated current Attorney General Merrick Garland to succeed Scalia, but McConnell and then-Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, blocked Garland.
McConnell argued that the Senate should not confirm a justice in a presidential election year.
After Trump won in 2016, McConnell then shepherded to confirmation Justice Neil Gorsuch to succeed Scalia in the spring of 2017. In fact, McConnell used the “nuclear option” in the Senate to avoid a Democratic filibuster of Gorsuch. Democrats first used the nuclear option to sidestep filibusters for nominations besides Supreme Court justices in 2013. However, McConnell then detonated the nuclear option, just to muscle Gorsuch onto the High Court. Otherwise, Democrats — still smarting from the Garland experience — could have filibustered Gorsuch’s nomination.
The Senate had never filibustered a Supreme Court nomination. However, the Senate did filibuster the promotion of late Justice Abe Fortas from Associate Justice to U.S. Chief Justice in the late 1960s.
McConnell again relied on the nuclear option to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the fall of 2018.
After the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, McConnell ignored what he said in 2016 about confirming justices in a presidential election year, and pushed through the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett days before the 2020 presidential election.
So, liberals are livid over the composition of the Supreme Court and thus the rulings. That is why they are pushing for changing the fundamental makeup of the Court. The size of the Supreme Court is set by statute, not the Constitution, and theoretically could be expanded.
Liberals are still upset that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of former President George W. Bush over Democratic nominee Al Gore in the disputed election of 2000. Because of that, Bush was able to secure two seats on the Supreme Court: U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005 and Justice Samuel Alito in 2006.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created a Supreme Court comprised of six justices. Congress added a seventh justice in 1807. The Court grew to nine justices in 1837.
The size of the Supreme Court has always been political. In 1863, Congress added a 10th seat to the Supreme Court for President Lincoln. Lincoln never filled that seat, but there was fear that President Johnson may alter the court. So, Congress shrunk the size of the Supreme Court to seven justices in 1867. Once Johnson was gone, Congress switched the number back to nine for President Grant.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to “pack” the Court in 1937 — adding justices for every member of the Supreme Court who was over the age of 70. Thus, FDR hoped to install six of his own justices on the Court, but the public was opposed, and the Senate Judiciary Committee emphatically torpedoed the plan.
Broncos field Chubb calls; no plans to trade WRs
The Broncos have received multiple trade inquiries on Bradley Chubb and could eventually deal away the star pass rusher, but they don’t plan to trade receivers Jerry Jeudy or KJ Hamler, according to sources. The post Broncos field Chubb calls; no plans to trade WRs appeared first on Buy It At A Bargain – Deals … Continue reading Broncos field Chubb calls; no plans to trade WRs