Thousands of demonstrators surrounded the perimeter of the White House in a sea of ‘ fabric Saturday, saying they were drawing a red line for President Biden and calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Washington, D.C
DC attorney general sues NFL, Washington Commenders and Dan Snyder
Washington, D.C., Legal professional Basic Karl Racine (D) introduced on Thursday that his workplace has filed a civil swimsuit in opposition to the Washington Commanders and crew proprietor Daniel Snyder, the NFL and league Commissioner Roger Goodell amid a number of investigations in opposition to Snyder and his NFL franchise.
At a information convention on Thursday, Racine, who is because of step down from his function in January, alleged that the 4 defendants within the lawsuit colluded to deceive metropolis residents concerning the league’s preliminary investigation into the crew, which was carried out by team-appointed legal professional Beth Wilkinson.
Racine additionally stated on the information convention that the crew and the league violated the town’s shopper rights, alleging that Snyder lied about his data of the investigation into his crew.
The most recent lawsuit stems from Wilkinson’s preliminary investigation into the Commanders, which resulted within the league penalizing the crew final July for a file $10 million and requiring crew executives to be skilled in subjects resembling bullying and unconscious bias.
“The Commanders and Dan Snyder lied to D.C. residents about what they knew a few poisonous tradition of sexual harassment, after which they entered right into a secret settlement with the NFL and Commissioner Goodell that saved the reality from D.C. residents — all in an effort to guard their income,” Racine stated.
“In D.C., you possibly can’t deceive shoppers to complement your self and get away with it. That’s what this lawsuit is about: standing up for D.C. residents who have been deceived and misled. Nobody — not even Mr. Snyder — is above the legislation.”
The D.C. Legal professional’s Workplace is looking for monetary penalties below the town’s Client Safety Procedures Act for every incident the defendants lied to metropolis residents courting again to July 2020, and all defendants might face monetary penalties of as much as $1 million. Racine’s workplace additionally requested the NFL to launch Wilkinson’s full investigation into the crew as nicely.
The lawsuit comes per week after Snyder and his spouse, co-CEO Tanya Snyder, introduced that that they had employed the Financial institution of America to discover “potential transactions” of the crew, signaling a possible sale of the franchise the Snyders have owned since 1999.
The Snyders lately gained full management of the Commanders franchise final yr after shopping for out his minority companions’ stake within the franchise.
“Dan and Tanya Snyder and the Washington Commanders introduced at present that they’ve employed BofA Securities to contemplate potential transactions,” the couple stated in its assertion by means of the crew, including that they’ll “stay dedicated to the crew, all of its workers and its numerous followers to placing its greatest product on the sphere and persevering with the work to set the gold commonplace for workplaces within the NFL.”
The Washington, D.C.-based NFL franchise has suffered a collection of controversies below Snyder’s watch, together with claims of sexual harassment by former workers. The Home Oversight and Reform Committee has been conducting its personal investigation of the crew.
The Home panel launched its probe after emails between former crew president Bruce Allen and former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden leaked to the general public. The emails included racist, misogynistic and homophobic feedback.
The league launched its second investigation into Snyder and his group earlier this yr after former crew cheerleader and advertising and marketing supervisor Tiffani Johnston accused Snyder of sexually harassing her at a work-related dinner in 2004.
Snyder testified earlier than the Home panel in a closed-door deposition in July in accordance with their investigation into the crew.
“Right this moment’s civil criticism filed by the DC Legal professional Basic in opposition to the Washington Commanders, Dan Snyder, the NFL, and Commissioner Roger Goodell is additional proof of what we’ve lengthy recognized: that each the Commanders and the NFL have engaged in deception and lies designed to hide the crew’s many years of sexual harassment and abuse, which has impacted not solely the victims of that abuse, but in addition shoppers within the District of Columbia,” Lisa Banks and Debra Katz, the attorneys representing the greater than 40 former Commanders workers concerned within the a number of investigations into the crew, stated in an announcement to The Hill.
They’re additionally urging the league to publicly launch the findings from Wilkinson’s investigation.
“The submitting of this criticism additionally marks an necessary step in validating the experiences of the courageous ladies and men who got here ahead and in attaining, for the primary time, a degree of transparency into the scope of the misconduct.”
The authorized counsel for the Washington Commanders additionally made an announcement to The Hill concerning the lawsuit.
“Over two years in the past, Dan and Tanya Snyder acknowledged that an unacceptable office tradition had existed inside their group for a number of years they usually have apologized many instances for permitting that to occur,” the assertion learn. “We agree with AG Racine on one factor: the general public must know the reality. Though the lawsuit repeats quite a lot of innuendo, half-truths and lies, we welcome this chance to defend the group — for the primary time — in a courtroom of legislation and to determine, as soon as and for all, what’s reality and what’s fiction.”
NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy had an announcement for The Hill concerning the investigation, as nicely.
“The unbiased investigation into office misconduct on the Washington Commanders was totally and comprehensively carried out by Beth Wilkinson and her legislation agency. Following the completion of the investigation, the NFL made public a abstract of Ms. Wilkinson’s findings and imposed a record-setting high quality in opposition to the membership and its possession,” McCarthy stated.
“We reject the legally unsound and factually baseless allegations made at present by the D.C. Legal professional Basic in opposition to the NFL and Commissioner Goodell and can vigorously defend in opposition to these claims,” he concluded.
Biden said last month that he would suspend delivery of offensive weapons to Israel if it went into population centers in Rafah. But the White House has so far said Israel had not crossed Biden’s “red line” with its campaign there, infuriating Saturday’s demonstrators.
“If Joe Biden’s red line was a fiction … and it was designed to make us become quiet, instead of that, we are going to become louder,” said Brian Becker, a leader of the ANSWER Coalition, one of the organizers of the march. “Only we can be the red line against genocide.”
For Mohammad, a leader in the Palestinian Youth Movement who addressed the demonstrators before the march, it’s personal.
His aunts and uncles are in Rafah, not far from where an Israeli strike killed dozens of people at a tent camp. His parents and other family are in North Gaza. He remembers the first call he got from his family members after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that ignited the deadly war.
“They told me, ‘We go to sleep knowing we might not wake up in the morning. The sun rises and we hope Gaza is still there,’ ” recalled Mohammad, who did not share his last name for safety reasons.
Palestinian authorities have estimated more than 36,000 civilians, many of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, drawing escalating international condemnation. Those who were driven to join the march said they felt they could not be silent as civilian Palestinians and children continued to die, and as U.S. aid to Israel continued.
Many who came were students.
Aiya, a George Washington University student and a leader of GW Students for Justice in Palestine, said the student activism has “really lit a fire under the Free Palestine movement, because it has pushed the bounds of what we here in the United States and the diaspora are willing to sacrifice.” Before police shut it down last month, hundreds of GWU students set up a pro-Palestinian encampment — one of numerous throughout the country.
Aiya, who did not share a last name for privacy reasons, said students wanted Gazans to know they are “not alone.”
“We say at campus protests, ‘We will not rest till you divest,’ and we mean that. We have been out here tirelessly,” Aiya said. “I mean, how could we tire when we see the people of Gaza endure through literally hell on Earth?”
Shafi Goodwin, 36, a demonstrator who was holding the red line during the march, said he found the student activism at campuses nationwide “tremendously inspiring” — moving him to leave home in Durham, N.C., at 7:30 a.m. to get on a bus and join the protest in Washington.
“Seeing how the students experienced backlash for standing up for the innocent, it struck a deep nerve with me,” Goodwin said.
Many demonstrators expressed conflicted emotions or disillusionment about Biden and the presidential election. In states including Michigan and Minnesota, thousands of voters selected “uncommitted” in their vote for president in the Democratic primaries to send a message of disapproval to Biden.
“He chooses to keep silent to please Israel,” said Arianna Streeter-Floyd, who took a 20-hour bus ride from Des Moines to join the march.
Leo Delgiacco, 22, who came to the demonstration with her sister Jonna, said it was “discouraging knowing there’s no good option.”
“I’m not going to vote someone in who’s committing genocide,” added Jonna, 25. “I don’t want to pick one evil over another evil.”
A spokesperson for the White House did not respond to a request for comment in response to the messages demonstrators blared outside the executive mansion Saturday.
The demonstration and march remained largely peaceful. A D.C. police spokesperson said the agency had not made any arrests, while the U.S. Park Police did not respond to an inquiry on arrests.
Mohammad, the Palestinian Youth Movement leader, told the demonstrators he did not want them to feel their persistent activism has been “for naught,” noting how demonstrators have shut down streets and bridges throughout the country. Members of his family who have fled Gaza are asking, “When shall we go home? When can I return to Gaza, my dear Gaza?” he said.
Some of his relatives relocated to Rafah, only for Rafah to fall under Israeli assault, he said. He goes days without hearing from family members in Gaza as they lose internet and phone connections, he said, with many fearing they may not see tomorrow.
“We’re not ready for them to be gone,” he said.
Kyle Swenson contributed to this report.
Washington, D.C. – Thousands of people turned out in Washington, D.C., on Saturday as part of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage in a public display of faith and devotion to Jesus Christ.
The pilgrimage was one of four from across the country that will converge in Indianapolis, Indiana, in July, ahead of the National Eucharistic Congress.
Pilgrims along the “Seton Route,” which began in New Haven, Connecticut, on May 17, reached Washington on June 8.
THE EUCHARIST IS A ‘MIRACLE OF LOVE, HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT,’ SAYS RHODE ISLAND PRIEST
They will remain in Washington on the morning of June 9, then continue their pilgrimage in Loretto, Pennsylvania, on Monday, June 10.
More than 2,500 people registered in advance to attend a Mass celebrated at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception before the start of Saturday’s procession, an employee of the Archdiocese of Washington told Fox News Digital.
“It’s just a great time with the Lord,” one deacon told Fox News Digital on Saturday during the pilgrimage. (Christine Rousselle/Fox News Digital)
One of those was Sherri Sarcemo from Rockland, Maryland. She served as a volunteer at the procession and walked the day’s route, she said. Volunteers were there to keep things orderly, make sure people followed directions and push the loudspeaker, through which the praying of the Rosary could be heard.
The Catholic Church believes the “whole Christ is truly present — body, blood, soul and divinity — under the appearances of bread and wine” in the Eucharist, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
SOUTH CAROLINA PRIEST SAYS FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI IS A REMINDER THAT GOD WANTS ‘TO BE WITH US’
As a result, the consecrated host becomes an object of devotion — and the pilgrims believe they are traveling with Jesus throughout the procession along the streets of various cities.
It’s “a great way to interact and share faith with others here.”
Eucharistic adoration is “a very beautiful way to honor and give glory to our Lord Jesus Christ,” said Sarcemo.
She volunteered during the pilgrimage as a “a great way to interact and share faith with others here,” she said.
Volunteers pose outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception ahead of the Eucharistic pilgrimage on Saturday, June 8. (Christine Rousselle/Fox News Digital)
The Catholic faith, she said, emphasizes prayer and penance.
A pilgrimage, especially one on a hot day in June in Washington, D.C., provides the opportunity for someone to “offer the discomfort as reparation for the sins of the world,” she said.
Throughout Saturday’s event, the pilgrimage made several stops around Washington’s Brookland neighborhood, where attendees had the chance to listen to lessons about Jesus Christ and sit in Eucharistic adoration.
POPE FRANCIS PAVES WAY FOR CANONIZATION OF CARLO ACUTIS, FIRST MILLENNIAL SAINT
The procession was led by a priest holding a “monstrance” — a special container that displays the Eucharist.
Deacon Steve Nash, assigned to a parish in Largo, Maryland, told Fox News Digital that this was the first time he’s participated in a Eucharistic procession of this magnitude.
Thousands of people turned out on Saturday morning, June 8, to partake in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s stop in Washington, D.C. (Christine Rousselle/Fox News Digital)
“Jesus needs to be brought to the whole world,” he said. “We’re all sinners. So it’s good that we are here.”
Said Nash, “There’s no better place to be than here in the whole wide universe — being with the Eucharist and being with others, and preparing for the Eucharistic Congress in July as well. It’s just a great time with the Lord.”
He added, “This is awesome.”
“It’s so special to be able to bring Him to others. I’ve been looking forward to this since I heard about it.”
Elle Rush from Arlington, Virginia, was beaming as she spoke to Fox News Digital about her excitement ahead of the pilgrimage’s start.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR LIFESTYLE NEWSLETTER
“Jesus is here,” she said. “We get to walk around, we get to follow Him through the streets.”
Her friend, Flanigen Phillips of Nashville, said, “It’s so special to be able to bring Him to others. I’ve been looking forward to this since I heard about it.”
Some of those in attendance in Washington, D.C., told Fox News Digital they believed it was important to bring Jesus to the cities. (Christine Rousselle/Fox News Digital)
Among the crowd assembled were several “perpetual pilgrims.” These young adults will be following the pilgrimage full time from its beginning in May to its conclusion in July.
One person who did not initially plan on attending the pilgrimage on Saturday was Ethan Strohmetz.
A student at the Catholic University of America in Washington, he was unaware the pilgrimage was happening until he bumped into it while getting coffee.
“I just stepped outside and watched it go by,” he said.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Strohmetz said he had previously participated in Eucharistic adoration but was surprised to see such a large procession.
“A good start to the morning,” he told Fox News Digital.
There have been nine previous instances of the National Eucharistic Congress; this year’s is the first since 1941.
For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle
The Associated Press contributed reporting.
Shakespeare is the great wordsmith of the English language, creator of “To be or not to be” and “Kiss me, Kate.”
He’s the most performed playwright in American history.
We call him “the Bard.”
But, we are told, we shouldn’t use that term.
“Bard” has racial undertones, Prof. Farah Karim-Cooper explains in her 2022 essay “Shakespeare through Decolonization.”
To raise Shakespeare so highly, she says, is to make him “an icon of white heritage and excellence: the conception of the man as Bard is, I argue, endemic to coloniality.”
If these allegations of supposed white guilt came from a professor of no distinction, we might ignore it.
But Karim-Cooper has been made head of the most renowned Shakespeare center in the world, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
Opened in 1932, the Folger contains 200,000 items from the Renaissance period, including the largest collection of Shakespeare materials in existence.
The Folger’s announcement praises Karim-Cooper as “a field leader in examining Shakespearean plays through the lens of social justice.”
She leads the Antiracist Shakespeare Webinar, too — a set of videos showing scholars finding race matters in every play in the corpus.
She has labored to stop the Renaissance field from suppressing racial topics and ghettoizing scholars of color.
It’s a bizarre situation, but one we see often across academia.
Individuals take the reins of cultural institutions with the intent of denigrating their prized mission.
Karim-Cooper likes Shakespeare, but wants to pull him down a few pegs.
We must “Interrogate the canon and Shakespeare’s primacy within it,” she insists.
She also insists “the Bard has a race problem,” as a Washington Post profile of her put it.
Teach Othello, she says, but set it alongside Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Keith Hamilton Cobb’s play American Moor.
Stop making Shakespeare so special.
The founder of the Folger Library had other intentions.
Henry Folger idolized Shakespeare and believed America had a marvelous relationship with him.
His wife Emily stated that Henry saw Shakespeare as “one of the wells from which we Americans draw our national thought, our faith and our hope.”
That’s why he located the library just behind the U.S. Capitol.
The Library was not to be an Ivory Tower only. It was to bring Hamlet and Caesar to Americans of all kinds.
The race obsessions of the new director, however, are an elite matter.
People who saw Ralph Fiennes in Macbeth in DC this year aren’t interested in anti-racist catechisms. They want electric acting and eloquence for the ages.
Kids in DC schools who read Romeo and Juliet in 9th Grade and Hamlet in 10th won’t necessarily appreciate those masterpieces more if their teachers apply a “lens of social justice.”
That the stewards of Henry Folger’s creation believe antiracist Shakespeare will excite the public only shows how clueless they are about common tastes.
They want a scholar-activist who will propel the Folger into the multicultural 21st century, but their action illustrates something else: the divorce of elite institutions from the American people.
This withdrawal is especially regrettable at the present time.
In 1970, 1-in-13 bachelor’s degrees were in English.
Today, it’s less than 1-in-60.
The field is marginal, and with good reason.
Will an undergrad who enjoyed Henry IV in high school want to take a class with a teacher who trades in white guilt?
A few years ago, a pack of angry students at Penn pulled down a portrait of Shakespeare in the English department and replaced it with one of contemporary poet Audre Lorde.
Faculty didn’t stop them.
Why select a field that its own practitioners don’t respect?
Leisure habits are declining as well.
Twenty years ago the National Endowment for the Arts reported that 43% of 18-24-year-olds had not read a single poem, play, novel, or short story in the preceding 12 months.
Since then, with every successive iPhone, literary reading has diminished ever more.
This is a terrible loss.
We need the Folger and other institutions to maintain Shakespeare, Whitman etc. in the lives of ordinary Americans.
Make it fun and illuminating, not troubling and culpable.
The director of the Folger regrets that people consider Shakespeare a unique “source of wisdom and humanity,” but that faith is what keeps the legacy going.
People like Karim-Cooper who traffic in identity politics are righteous scolds.
They dislike our laughter at Falstaff’s raillery and fascination with Iago’s deviltry.
These leaders will pass away, just as the Puritans who closed the theaters did in the 17th century.
Unfortunately, the damage they do will outlive them.
Utah1 min ago
Utah Athletes Claim Bellin Run Titles
Vermont7 mins ago
Grand Isle festival celebrates free fishing day
Virginia9 mins ago
Conspiracy theorist blew up his Virginia home on purpose — while still inside, shocking new body cam footage shows
Washington13 mins ago
Opinion | Raising taxes this much in D.C. will backfire
Wisconsin16 mins ago
At least 10 people were injured in a Wisconsin rooftop party shooting, police say | CNN
Midwest2 years ago
See it: Tesla crashes into Columbus convention center at 70 mph
Colorado2 years ago
Colorado Rockies game no. 116 thread: Zac Gallen vs José Ureña
South2 years ago
Fox News Politics: Georgia the whole day through
South2 years ago
Death of missing Oregon girl found in stream ruled homicide
South2 years ago
At least 2 dead as tornadoes hit Alabama, damage homes across Southeast
Politics2 hours ago
Thousands of anti-Israel protesters gathered outside White House as Israel conducted hostage rescue mission
World2 hours ago
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 835
News2 hours ago
Creating a throw-away culture: How companies ingrained plastics in modern life
Politics8 hours ago
Gun group vows to 'defend' Trump's concealed carry license after conviction
World9 hours ago
German chancellor Olaf Scholz heckled by pro-Palestinian protesters at SPD rally
-
Movie Reviews1 week agoSummer Camp (2024) – Movie Review
-
Movie Reviews1 week ago‘Atlas’ movie review: Jennifer Lopez carries Netflix’s AI sci-fi, but the script is dead weight
-
World1 week agoRight-wing violence in Germany reaches record highs over past decade
-
News1 week agoChad Daybell found guilty of murder in deaths of two kids and ex-wife
-
World1 week agoBiden eases ban on Ukraine’s use of US weapons inside Russia
-
News1 week agoIn a historic verdict, Trump found guilty on 34 felony counts in “hush money” trial : Consider This from NPR
-
Politics1 week agoDe Niro says Trump guilty verdict means 'justice was served'
-
Politics1 week agoTrump turns conviction into cash, spotlights record fundraising in wake of guilty verdict