Pentagon officials on Wednesday claimed they have uncovered classified documents that were "hidden away in safes where they would not be found" that shed new light on the chaotic end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan five years ago — but declined to offer public details of the revelations.
The claim comes hours before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to participate in a Pentagon ceremony to upgrade the valor awards for service members who served at the Kabul International Airport during the final days of the conflict.
The end of the war — and the final days of the U.S. occupation, when 13 American service members were killed guarding the airport — have been a focal point of Republican criticism of former President Joe Biden's foreign policy decisions while in office.
GOP lawmakers have accused Biden of too abruptly ending military operations in Afghanistan, endangering American troops and handing over control of the country to the Taliban. Democratic supporters argue Biden's move brought to an end two decades of open-ended military missions that did little to improve national security.
The White House has labeled the final days of the war "one of the most shameful and heartbreaking moments in our nation's collective memory." Pentagon leaders established a new Afghanistan Withdrawal Special Review Panel to examine the decisions leading up to the American exit from Kabul and determine who deserves blame for the U.S. deaths there.

#american #airport #members #decisions

Hayden Panettiere's estranged mother, Lesley Vogel, has hit back at Gayle King after the CBS Mornings host criticized her response to her daughter's death.
The Heroes star died August 16 after being found in cardiac arrest at a Greenville, South Carolina, apartment. She was 36.
"I was very, very hurt and deeply disappointed in the lack of professionalism, the lack of compassion in slamming someone who's lost two children, without even a modicum of consideration," Vogel told the Daily Mail about King's criticism of her.
"No one reached out to me before," she added. "It's shameful. It's unconscionable to me."
The Independent has contacted King's representatives for comment.

#hayden #gayle #king

Fast bowler Mark Wood said he looks back on his performance in England's dismal Ashes campaign with "shame".
Wood was battling to overcome a knee injury in the run-up to the tour, but played in the series opener against Australia.
England suffered a calamitous defeat in Perth. From leading by 105 runs with nine second-innings wickets in hand on the second afternoon, the tourists were beaten before the day ended.
Wood was subsequently ruled out of the tour with the same knee issue and has not played since.
"I look back on it shamefully," the 36-year-old told Test Match Special. "We should have won that first game. The whole tour is different if we win in Perth."

#wood #played #second

GENEVA (AP) — A collection of soccer fan groups from around the world launched a petition Thursday calling for Gianni Infantino to resign as FIFA president after he tried to sell future World Cup profits to private investors.
The petition with the hashtag InfantinOut also calls for "FIFA to be rebuilt so that the current debacle can never happen again."
"The shameful attempt by one individual — the FIFA President himself — to sell off the World Cup to private investors exposed a betrayal football will never forget," the petition said about Infantino's plan for a commercial spinoff, which he dropped amid a furious backlash.
The fan groups include Football Supporters Europe, Football Supporters Africa and, in North America, the Independent Supporters Council, plus about 40 national fan groups worldwide.
Infantino has resisted calls to leave office despite European soccer body UEFA saying it has no confidence in him. He has also been criticized by the leadership of North America's CONCACAF and the Asian Football Confederation.

#groups #petition #north

Fans' groups worldwide have launched a petition calling for the resignation of Gianni Infantino as FIFA president and for wholesale reform of the organization.
Infantino is under pressure after being forced to abandon plans to seek private investment in a company to run FIFA tournaments, including the men's and women's World Cups.
Three continental confederations accused Infantino of "deception" in an open letter last week over the manner in which the plan was devised and presented, with European football's governing body UEFA still intent on boycotting FIFA events having "lost confidence" in Infantino's leadership.
The Swiss does still retain support, notably in Africa and South America, but now fans' organizations have called on him to step down, with a petition being launched on the change.org website.
"The shameful attempt by one individual – the FIFA president himself – to sell off the World Cup to private investors exposed a betrayal football will never forget," a statement on behalf of the fan organizations said.

#fifa #World #launched

Last year, no one knew how much of a disaster year two of the DeShaun Foster era was going to be. Expectations were too high for the UCLA Bruins in 2025 and could the same mistake be being made in 2026 with a new head coach in place?Bob Chesney has earned his sterling reputation but it's fair to question if the Big Ten Conference will come with a learning curve. While many projections have UCLA returning to above .500 for the first time in the Big Ten, one model projects a third-straight losing season for the Bruins.
College Football Zone has UCLA going just 4-8 in Chesney's first season, improving just one game from last year's shameful season. College Football Zone has UCLA defeating San Diego State, Purdue, Michigan State and Nevada.
Winning fewer Big Ten games in 2026 than the team did in 2025 would be quite the surprise. Interim head coach Tim Skipper rattled off three wins in a row against Penn State, Michigan State and Maryland before losing five-straight to end the season.
College Football Zone has UCLA losing to Cal, Maryland, Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan and USC. Even with an easier schedule in 2026, the projection has the Bruins enduring another losing season.
UCLA's 2027 recruiting class will help build depth within the program but the Bruins brought in over 40 new transfers this offseason to begin to turn things around in 2026, meaning a 4-8 season would be a bitter pill to swallow for the program.

#season #state #college #zone

Piers Morgan calls Saltburn CC's 'Clicky Ponting' 'biggest cheat in cricket history', brands alleged click-gate 'shameful scam' originally appeared on Cricket News. Add Cricket News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Piers Morgan branded the Saltburn CC fielder the biggest cheat in cricket history.
The broadcaster called the alleged finger-clicking a shameful scam spanning years.
The North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League has launched a formal investigation.
The club cricket cheating row that erupted over the weekend has escalated into a global talking point, and it has now drawn the attention of one of Britain's most prominent broadcasters. Piers Morgan has weighed in forcefully on the Saltburn Cricket Club controversy, adding considerable heat to an already viral scandal.

#Cricket #shameful

A woman praised her neighborhood on the West Coast and wondered why life couldn't be the same on the East Coast. Her experience and thoughts also sparked appreciation and love from her followers, who also claimed to be from the East Coast.
marilynthrower shared her experience on TikTok after relocating to a new neighborhood on the West Coast. She highlighted the parts she appreciated since moving in.
The woman said, "It is quiet, clean, peaceful, ain't no ******* interruptions, disturbances or discrepancies…" After highlighting the features she most enjoyed about her new neighborhood, she wondered why life couldn't be the same in the West.
She said it was a shame she had to move across the country to find such peace.
Rather, she claimed it was shameful that she had to relocate just to live life the way it was meant to be lived. The woman concluded her TikTok video with a final comment about her new neighborhood: "It's very pleasurable…"

Folarin Balogun never, ever should have been given a red card against Bosnia and Herzegovina. The 64th-minute red card given to the USA’s star player was an utter joke, and everyone knows it. A situation that started with a bad call on the pitch turned into something entirely different as FIFA president Gianni Infantino proved, once more, what a ******* less leader he is by allowing the World Cup to be blatantly interfered with by U.S. President Donald Trump.
We’re left with one of the most staggering, shameful, corrupt situations playing out in broad daylight — and it’s effectively tainted the entire World Cup as a result. It’s a case where the ends don’t justify the means, and even though the correct decision was reached, how that decision was reached is worthy of global condemnation.
If you somehow haven’t seen the initial red card, here’s the play in question which kicked this all off.
If we break this moment down into its parts there’s simply no understanding how any professional referee would see this as a red. Balogun has his hands on defender Tarik Muharemović, but his eyes are locked on the ball. There’s no way to really intuit that Muharemović was going to slow down, which initiated the contact, and Balogun’s right leg only goes behind the defender because he’s trying to play the ball.
You can watch every single game at the World Cup and see 20 incidents like this in a game. A foul is going to be called the vast majority of the time, and it’s certainly justifiable to give Balogun a yellow card as a warning to be in control of his play. The idea that this warranted a red card, typically reserved for a clearly dangerous or reckless play is simply laughable. The idea that the decision was rendered by VAR made it even worse, because now we had a room of people making the same idiotic decision. Fans had a right to be mad, commentators had a right to criticize, and the USMNT should have had the right to appeal the card, considering it resulted in Balogun being suspended in the quarter-finals.

Former India captain Krishnamachari Srikkanth criticised Tilak Varma following India's shocking one-run defeat to Ireland in the second T20I in Belfast on June 28.

Chasing 155 to level the two-match series, India were reduced to 19/3 in the third over when Tilak Varma walked in to bat. The 23-year-old tried to steady the innings but managed only a slow-paced 55 off 46 ******* . The rest of the batting line-up also struggled as India fell one run short, suffering a 0-2 series defeat.

Criticising Tilak and the other batters on his YouTube channel, Srikkanth said, "Tilak Varma tried to take it till the end and become the hero. He thought of winning it in the end and celebrate by lifting his jersey. These targets have to be chased down with an over to spare and not go till the end.

"You can't play the way India did in the middle phase, especially Tilak Varma, Dube and Axar. All their strike rates were poor. You have to stabilize a bit and then start attacking in the middle phase. Otherwise, you'll be finished if you fail in the middle phase. India lost the game in the middle phase. Tilak Varma was just playing for himself by sneaking in ones and twos. Axar Patel was the same."

Tilak had also struggled in the first T20I, scoring 21 off 19 ******* as India lost by 34 runs.

Srikkanth also criticised India's approach during the middle overs of the second T20I. The visitors went seven overs without hitting a single boundary, with Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube and Axar Patel unable to score freely.

"There was a stage when there were 45 ******* without a boundary in the middle phase. How can you win a T20 match like that? It's shameful that a medicore Ireland bowling has finished this Indian batting lineup. Even in the IPL, look at how many of these top Indian batters scored in Lucknow? Because in Lucknow, the wicket helped the swing and seam bowlers. Very few Indian batters scored in Lucknow. India needed to attack in the middle and not take it till the end," said Srikkanth.

Before this series, India had won all eight of their previous T20Is against Ireland. The 0-2 defeat marked India's first-ever series loss to Ireland in the format.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing swift backlash after declining to condemn a local coffee chain that told a Jewish congressman with pro-Israel views that he was not welcome.
Mamdani has remained silent after the Williamsburg, Brooklyn-based Poetica coffee shop posted — and later deleted — a message on social media telling Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., not to return after he stopped by the shop with his daughter Monday. The mayor declined to comment through a spokesman when contacted by The New York Times on Monday.
"Shameful," Fox News Radio ***** yst Josh Kraushaar wrote on social media in response to a section of The Times story detailing that Mamdani declined to comment.
"Well folks, we've reached the stage of antisemitism where Jews are being publicly barred from businesses," the CEO and co-founder of the antisemitism-focused nonprofit Boundless Israel said on X. "A coffee shop in Mamdani's New York City told Jewish Congressman Dan Goldman he wasn't welcome in their store."
Mamdani Skips Israel Day Parade Despite Joining Other Cultural Celebrations

Still awaiting said lunge. Shameful behavior and we're an international joke.