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A New Jersey stadium went wild on Sunday when a 96-year-old played a touching rendition of the National Anthem on his harmonica ahead of Memorial Day.
Pete DuPre played the tune at halftime during the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s USWNT match against Mexico at Red Bull Arena in Harrington.
DuPre, whose musical abilities have earned him the nickname “Harmonica Pete,” has reportedly played the national anthem live before.
SUBSTITUTE SINGER APOLOGIZES AFTER ‘WORST RENDITION’ OF NATIONAL ANTHEM GOES VIRAL
The 96-year-old served as a medic in the 114th General Hospital Unit in Kidderminster, England where he treated wounded service members from across Europe during World War II, USWNT told nj.com.
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USWNT — coming into the match unbeaten in their last eight games — capped of their send-off series with a 3-0 win over Mexico. Their next tournament is slated for June 7 in Paris.
Fox News’ Lucia I. Suarez Sang contributed to this report.
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RIO DE JANEIRO – Not even five months into his four-year term, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is struggling so much to push forward with his agenda despite a big election victory that many of the far-right leader’s staunchest supporters felt the need to get out into the streets to give him a boost.
Sunday’s demonstrations in over 100 cities sought to counter large protests on May 15 against Bolsonaro’s plan for deep cuts in spending on public education, an area he thinks is politicized and poorly run.
With pressure mounting to deal with the government’s huge budget deficit and poor performance by Latin America’s biggest economy, the dueling rallies underscore Bolsonaro’s problems: sagging approval ratings, a crashing currency, infighting within his administration and sniping even from conservatives.
There is no immediate threat to his hold on power, yet Brazilian politics in recent years hold warning signs for the president.
Fury over the largest corruption scandal in the history of Latin America, angst about an economy that has yet to fully recover from recession and a litany of other complaints have made Brazil a hostile environment for politicians. Consider the fate of the last three presidents: In 2016, Dilma Rousseff was impeached and ousted for illegally managing the federal budget. Last year, her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, began serving a 12-year sentence for a corruption conviction. And this year, the man succeeded by Bolsonaro, Michel Temer, has twice been arrested and is facing several graft allegations.
All three situations are different, of course, and Bolsonaro is not facing corruption allegations himself, although his son, a federal senator, is. Rather, the common thread is that in today’s Brazil nobody is untouchable.
That Bolsonaro’s administration is wounded is largely his own fault. He campaigned on the need to curtail the country’s overburdened pension system and to combat rising violence and crime, yet instead of building coalitions to push for major reforms, he has used much of his early political capital on cultural wars, bashing the press and expanding gun rights, the latter of which polls say is opposed by a majority of Brazilians. Instead of working with Congress in the capital of Brasilia, the former legislator has made trips to Chile, Israel and Switzerland and gone to the United States twice.
Bolsonaro’s list of provocative and unnecessary moves is already long: He tweeted a video of a man peeing on the head of another to warn about debauchery during Carnival, posted fake stories about reporters, declared Brazil should not be allowed to become “a gay paradise” and frequently insulted other politicians, even supposed allies. He has also done little to stop social media attacks by his politician sons on military leaders, including Vice President Hamilton Mourão, a former general.
The infighting and theatrics prompted Janaina Paschoal, a state lawmaker from Bolsonaro’s Social Liberal Party, who he considered for vice president, to openly campaign against Sunday’s rallies. “Wake up! If the streets are empty on the 26th, Bolsonaro will realize that he will have to stop causing drama and get to work,” she said on Twitter.
Bolsonaro has received similar admonishments from Rodrigo Maia, whose role as speaker of Congress’ lower house makes him a key player in whether the president’s agenda can move forward. In March, Maia said if Bolsonaro didn’t do the work to persuade legislators to approve a controversial pension overhaul, it wasn’t going to happen, sending shivers through the markets.
In a series of extraordinary public barbs, Maia admonished Bolsonaro for spending so much time on Twitter and so little time in Congress. Bolsonaro brushed Maia off.
Bolsonaro and many of his hardcore supporters argue that the administration is struggling because he refuses to engage in business as usual, such as trading government projects or positions for votes on key legislation. Sunday’s demonstrations were “a message” to “those who stay with the old ways,” Bolsonaro said after participating in a religious service in Rio de Janeiro.
Still, Bolsonaro’s popularity is sagging. Several polls say his approval rating is down about 15 points since taking office, currently hovering around 34%. The Brazilian real has declined sharply against the U.S. dollar in recent months on worries that major economic changes are at risk, the unemployment rate has edged up to under 13%, and Paulo Guedes, the University of Chicago-trained finance minister who was key to Bolsonaro’s election victory, has said he won’t stick around if pension reform isn’t passed.
None of that is insurmountable. The divisive impeachment process against Rousseff, followed by the scandal-prone administration of Temer, the least popular president in modern Brazilian history, and the jailing da Silva, has all left many Brazilians tired of the fighting. Regardless of political stripes, they want the economy improve, to feel safer on the streets and to live under a functioning government.
Bolsonaro will have to bring together disparate groups in one of the world’s most diverse countries, including those who are clearly out to get him. The question is whether he can do that, or will he continue to be consumed by schoolyard fights and the settling of scores.
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Peter Prengaman has been Brazil’s bureau chief since early 2016. On Twitter: twitter.com/peterprengaman
Source: Fox News World
BRUSSELS – The traditional centrist leaders of Europe have been assailed from the nationalist, anti-immigration far-right and the environmental activist left in polarized, continentwide elections that will force pro-European moderates into forging new alliances.
Right now, the main issue uniting those occupying Europe’s center ground is their refusal to work with far-right groups whose ranks are made up of nationalist parties led by the likes of Matteo Salvini in Italy and Marine Le Pen in France, whose parties celebrated landmark triumphs as results emerged Sunday night and into Monday morning from four days of voting for the 751-seat European Parliament.
Manfred Weber, leader of the center-right EPP, which was forecast to lose 36 seats but remain the largest group in the legislature, said that “from now on those who want to have a strong European Union have to join forces.” He said his group would not cooperate “with any party that doesn’t believe in the future of the European Union.”
With most votes counted across the continent of a half billion people, Salvini’s hardline League party emerged as the largest in Italy, while Le Pen inflicted a painful defeat on pro-European French President Emmanuel Macron. The party of longtime German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a European Union stalwart, also lost ground, although it was the Greens and not the far-right Alternative for Germany that made big gains in her country .
Salvini, who has turned himself into a figurehead of the nationalist far-right movement in Europe, told RAI state television that his League, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and Nigel Farrage’s Brexit Party together should control 90 seats and that other populist parties could bring the number to at least 150.
Negotiations will start Monday between groups in the parliament that sits in Brussels and Strasbourg to find a coalition with a workable majority. On Tuesday night, European leaders shuttle into Brussels to discuss carving up the bloc’s top jobs for the next five years.
Perhaps sensing that the 28-nation EU was at a historic tipping point, voters went to the ballot boxes in force, with the turnout of 50.95% the highest in 20 years.
Despite making gains, the vote was hardly the watershed anticipated by Europe’s far-right populists, who have vowed to dilute the European Union from within in favor of national sovereignty. Pro-EU parties still were expected to win about two-thirds of the legislature’s seats, according to the projections released by the parliament and based on the results rolling in overnight.
The fallout from the continentwide vote spread well beyond the EU headquarters in Brussels. Le Pen exulted that the expected result “confirms the new nationalist-globalist division” in France and beyond. Greece’s governing party called early national elections after losing ground. Salvini, Italy’s interior minister, is expected to capitalize on the outcome to boost his power at home.
Britons voted because their country still hasn’t been able to approve an EU divorce deal. They punished parties seen as responsible for the stalemate — the ruling Conservatives and main opposition Labour Party — while parties that are fiercely pro-Brexit or pro-Europe won big. The newly founded Brexit Party led by the anti-EU campaigner Nigel Farage and the strongly pro-European Liberal Democrats both profited from the country’s Brexit chaos. The European Parliament projected in the early hours of Monday that Farage’s party would be the biggest party in Britain with 31 percent of the vote and 29 seats.
Riding a wave of popular protests in recent months calling for urgent action to tackle climate change, Greens were forecast to increase their holding in the parliament from 52 to 70 seats, making the group potential kingmakers in negotiations to form a new majority grouping.
Frans Timmermans of the Socialists and Democrats group, another of the traditional European powerhouses, said he wants to work together with other progressive parties to convince voters that Europe can benefit them — a message deliberately opposed to populist and nationalist claims that the bloc is a cumbersome, meddlesome waste of money.
Timmermans, a candidate to become the next president of the EU’s executive commission, said he wants to “try and build a program that addresses the aspirations the dreams and also sometimes the fears” of Europeans.
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For more news from The Associated Press on the European Parliament elections go to https://www.apnews.com/EuropeanParliament
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FILE PHOTO: Golf – Women’s British Open – Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham Saint Annes, Britain – August 2, 2018 England’s Bronte Law in action during the first round Action Images via Reuters/Jason Cairnduff
May 27, 2019
(Reuters) – On course for her maiden LPGA Tour victory on Sunday, Bronte Law’s final round at the Pure Silk Championship started to go pear-shaped at the turn as searing heat sapped her strength and her swing started to fail her.
Thankfully, crackers saved the day.
“I honestly don’t think that I ate enough on the front nine,” said Law after sealing a two-stroke win in Williamsburg, Virginia.
“I would’ve kicked myself had that been the issue, but I could feel myself getting a little tired. When I get tired I swing a little under the plane and start losing those shots out right.”
The 24-year-old had picked up four shots in her first eight holes on Sunday to grab the outright lead but the first signs of trouble came at the ninth where she pushed her drive right and ran up a bogey.
The next two holes saw her leak drives to the right again, and while she managed to save par the Englishwoman was in danger of letting the round get away from her.
“On hole 11 I think it was I told my caddie, I need some food. I was kind of getting so caught up in the moment that I really didn’t eat enough.
“I think I had a crackers or something.
“I don’t really like to eat when it’s that hot. I managed to force some food down my throat and I was fine after that.”
Law had been on the brink of her first LPGA Tour title three weeks ago in San Francisco but lost out in a playoff at the Mediheal Championship to Kim Sei-young.
Bouncing back from that disappointment so quickly, and holding it together on Sunday when the heat was on, proved she had what it takes to compete on the elite women’s circuit, Law added.
“So that’s something that I’m going to carry forward for
the coming weeks. Obviously have a big one next week. This was kind of the perfect way to prepare, I guess.”
The “big one” is the biggest of all — the U.S. Women’s Open. She failed to make the cut in 2017 and did not play last year but hopes to be vying for the title at next week’s tournament in South Carolina.
“I don’t think you have to change anything just because the title of the event changes,” she said. “I’ll go out there and I’ll prepare as I did this week.
“It’s golf, so hopefully I can carry on this momentum into
next week and play some more solid golf and kind of be in contention again.
“That’s what I live for. The feeling when you have a shot at winning is exactly why I play the game.”
(Reporting by Peter Rutherford; Editing by Greg Stutchbury)
Source: OANN
FILE PHOTO: Tennis – French Open – Roland Garros, Paris, France – June 10, 2018 Spain’s Rafael Nadal celebrates by biting the trophy after winning the final against Austria’s Dominic Thiem REUTERS/Charles Platiau/File Photo
May 27, 2019
(Reuters) – Defending champion Rafa Nadal begins his French Open campaign on Monday, seeking his 12th title and 18th Grand Slam while looking to dismiss any doubts about his form after three consecutive semi-final exits in the run-up to Roland Garros.
Three different players ousted the Spaniard in clay court tournaments in Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Madrid before he roared back to his best to beat world number one Novak Djokovic in the final in Rome.
Nadal, a known stickler for routine and order, arrives at a revamped court Philippe Chatrier which has been 80% rebuilt for this year’s tournament, but the 32-year-old said he will not be affected by the changes.
He is generally a slow starter but should not have any problem getting past his first-round opponent, Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann.
The 27-year-old, who turned professional only four years ago, has never advanced past the opening round of a Grand Slam but he feels no pressure facing the championship favorite.
“I’ll know a lot about him and maybe he doesn’t know as much about me,” he said in an interview on the Roland Garros website.
“I’ve been playing well. I’ve got a big game… So if my serve and return works, I can definitely do some damage.”
While the crowd may be overwhelmingly in favor of Nadal, it is not something that affects Hanfmann, who has a hearing impairment.
“It’s an advantage on court,” he added. “Maybe on Chatrier, it’ll be an advantage because I don’t hear that much that’s going on.”
In the other half of the draw, Djokovic begins his quest to hold all four Grand Slam titles for the second time in his career when he takes on Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz.
Djokovic became the first man since Australia’s Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slams in 2016 when he won his only French Open title.
Three-times Roland Garros champion Serena Williams is looking to win her 24th Grand Slam singles title and she takes on Vitalia Diatchenko who has never progressed to the third round.
Dominic Thiem, who comes into the tournament having won titles in Barcelona and Indian Wells this year, will be in action on court Suzanne-Lenglen against American Tommy Paul.
Stan Wawrinka, a winner in 2015, will be the star attraction on court Simonne-Mathieu when he takes on Jozef Kovalik while French veteran Richard Gasquet faces Mischa Zverev.
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Toby Davis)
Source: OANN
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