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The defeat of the U.S. national team in the Women’s World Cup was blamed on leftist ideology.

When the U.S. national team, which tried to win the FIFA Women’s World Cup three times in a row, lost in the round of 16, former President Donald Trump criticized the national team, citing leftist ideology as the background.

“The U.S. women’s national soccer team’s shocking and completely unexpected loss to Sweden symbolizes what is happening under corrupt Joe Biden,” former President Trump wrote on his social media account TruthSocial.

“Most of our players have been openly hostile to the United States, and no other country has done anything like it,” he said. “Woke equals failure.” Walk, which means ‘awakening’ or ‘awareness’, originally meant awakening to racial inequality in the black community.

However, former President Trump and the Republican Party are criticizing the work as a ‘leftist agenda’ that imposes a progressive identity throughout society while pursuing excessive political correctness.

Former President Trump’s attack on the women’s World Cup team seems to have played a part in the past.

Former President Trump had a war of words over inviting them to the White House when the US national team won the Women’s World Cup in 2019, when he was in office.

LGBTQ activist and national team captain Megan Rapinoe criticized the Trump administration at the time, saying, “We will not be invited, and we will not go to the White House.” Former President Trump also criticized Rapinoe by directly mentioning him in a social media post that day.

In May 2020, an additional prison sentence was handed down to a former police officer involved in an incident in which a white police officer arrested and killed a black man, George Floyd, by crushing him with his knee.

According to US media including the New York Times (NYT) on the 7th, Judge Peter Cahill of the Hennepin County Court in Minnesota sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Tu Tao to four years and nine months in prison for aiding and abetting murder.

Thao pleaded not guilty, claiming that Derek Chauvin was merely controlling the onlookers at the scene during the nine-and-a-half minutes when former police officer Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd’s neck, but the judge did not accept it.

Judge Cahill determined that Thao’s conduct isolated Chauvin and two other officers from the crowd, allowing Chauvin to continue overpowering Floyd. He also concluded that he had even blocked access by first responders, rendering him unable to receive medical attention.

“There is evidence that Thao’s actions are objectively unreasonable from the point of view of a reasonable police officer,” Judge Cahill said.

Tao was sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a federal court in July of last year for allegedly violating Floyd’s constitutional rights and is currently serving his sentence. The state court’s prison sentence against Thao will be executed concurrently with the federal court’s sentence.

Unlike other police officers who abetted the case who admitted guilt and chose to receive a reduced sentence, Thao chose a formal trial, saying, “To admit guilt is to make a false confession and sin.”

With the sentencing of Tao on this day, all first-instance trials related to the police involved in the Floyd case were concluded. Derek Chauvin, the senior officer who had previously choked Floyd by choking him, was found guilty by a Hennepin County jury in April 2021 on all counts of second-degree murder, second-degree manslaughter, and third-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 22 years in prison.

The George Floyd case is an incident in May 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where Floyd, a black man, was crushed to death while being arrested by the police.

Controversy over the excessive suppression arose, triggering large-scale racist protests and riots across the United States.

Despite successive prosecutions, former President Donald Trump, who received overwhelming support in the race for the Republican Party’s internal presidential election, tied with Democratic President Joe Biden in a virtual bilateral confrontation.

It was investigated that support within the Democratic Party for President Biden, his senior, is also expanding. In the absence of a clear alternative candidate ahead of the 2024 presidential election, supporters of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are mobilizing in support of President Biden and former President Trump, respectively.

As a result, the 2024 US presidential election is likely to be held as a return match between President Biden and former President Trump.

According to a poll conducted by the New York Times (NYT) and Siena University, 1,329 voters released on the 1^st, respondents who would support President Biden or former President Trump in the 2024 presidential election 43% of each 4% said they would choose another candidate, and 10% did not respond.

Compared to the survey conducted by the NYT and the University of Siena on July 5-7 last year, the approval ratings of President Biden and former President Trump decreased by 1 percentage point for President Biden and increased by 3 percentage points for former President Trump.

In the case of former President Trump, it was found that he maintained his competitiveness in the finals despite being indicted one after another this year on charges of keeping the sex scandal quiet and leaking confidential information. It is analysed that this is due to the overwhelming support of Republican supporters for former President Trump.

In a survey released the day before by the NYT and the University of Siena, 54% of Republican-leaning voters supported former President Trump. President Biden is also gaining solid support in the Democratic Party. 64% of voters with a propensity to support the Democratic Party chose President Biden as their next candidate. Furthermore, when asked whether the Democratic Party should elect the incumbent President Biden as its presidential candidate regardless of competing candidates, 45% of Democratic-leaning voters answered yes. Compared to the survey a year ago (26%), support within the party for President Biden’s re-election has risen significantly.

The New York Times (NYT) cited economic policies such as the Supreme Court’s decision to abolish abortion rights, the Democratic Party’s midterm elections, and slowing inflation as the reasons for this ‘change in voter sentiment’. However, 50% of the answer was that someone other than President Biden should be nominated. Although it has decreased from 64% in July last year, it is still a high figure.

In a situation where conservatives, including the Republican Party, were criticized for a looser refugee policy than the previous Trump administration, they took out a knife for a firm response, but the legislative body raised the hand of human rights groups and President Biden was put in a difficult situation.

On the 25th, California Federal Judge John Tiger ruled against the government in a lawsuit filed by human rights groups against the Biden administration’s refugee policy, which strengthened punishment for illegal immigrants and increased the number of legal immigrants to receive applications through the app.

The court also accepted the government’s request to delay the effect of the ruling for two weeks in preparation for an appeal. Accordingly, in two weeks, the strong refugee policy of the Biden administration is expected to lose its effect. It seems difficult to rule out the possibility that many refugees, who have been suppressed, will flock to the border.

Unlike former President Donald Trump, who has been heavily criticized for putting up a “drug prescription” on the refugee issue, including building a huge barrier on the border with Mexico, President Biden has maintained a relatively prudent stance on the refugee issue. However, public support was not great. He was cited as an item that lost public sentiment as much as economic policy.

Reflecting these concerns, President Biden abolished ‘No. 42’, an immediate deportation policy for illegal immigrants introduced during the Trump administration under the pretext of preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), in May.

Contrary to concerns, the number of illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican border has decreased significantly since the implementation of the policy, which includes strong punishment provisions such as banning entry to the United States for the next five years and enabling criminal punishment if caught illegally entering the country. The number of illegal entrants crossing the Mexican border fell by 42% in June, according to government figures.

The number of illegal entrants arrested last month was 99,545, the lowest figure since the inauguration of the Biden administration. However, in this ruling, Judge Tiger raised the hand of the refugee group, saying that the Biden administration’s policy violated the immigration law that anyone on US soil could seek asylum regardless of their entry route. The government plans to appeal.

At the same time, we plan to file a request for suspension of the validity of this ruling. CNN said, “As the federal court suspends President Biden’s controversial refugee policy, the administration is expected to suffer a blow.”

Police have been alerted to an incident in Westwood where an attempt was made to break into a business pretending to be a firefighter or police officer and attempt a theft.

Over the past few weeks, a suspect has attempted to enter a tennis store in Westwood several times, each time wearing a different disguise. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the affected store was a tennis supply store located on Gayley Avenue in the Thousand Blocks. According to the business owner, the store’s CCTV camera captured the suspect attempting to enter the store several times in disguise wearing police officer Sheriff’s and fire department officers’ clothes.

The suspect attempted to enter the store at least seven times, and the suspect broke the store lock with a screwdriver, causing the owner to replace the store lock at least five or six times.

To date, the suspect’s identity has not been revealed.

The investigation into the murder of American hip-hop legend Tupac Shaker, which remained unsolved for nearly 30 years, is gaining momentum after a long time.

Attention is focusing on whether the truth of the murder case of Tupac Shakur and his rival Notorious BIG, which has been full of doubts, will be revealed. According to the Associated Press and Reuters on the 18th, the Las Vegas Nevada Police Department announced that it searched a house outside Las Vegas the day before in connection with the 1996 Tupac murder case.

It is the first time in years that the police have publicly stated that they are actively pursuing an investigation into the Tupac murder. The police did not disclose whose house was the place where the search was conducted, why the house was searched, and whether the suspect was identified.

Police Department spokeswoman Aden Ocampo-Gomez declined to comment on a phone call with The Associated Press, saying “as this is an ongoing investigation, we cannot provide further details.”

Tupac was called America’s living hip-hop legend in the 1990s. On September 7, 1996, he was shot and killed while driving to a club in Las Vegas after watching a boxing match at a hotel in Las Vegas.

Immediately, rumours circulated that Notorious B.I.G, who was called the two great mountains of American hip-hop together with him, was behind the Tupac murder case. Tupac and B.I.G, who were the leaders of hip-hop in the western and eastern U.S., respectively, engaged in a sharp war of nerves by releasing songs targeting each other, and the observation that the conflict between the two would have led to a terrible murder case was weighted. However, the police investigated dozens of people involved, but the investigation ended without results.

Six months after that, on March 9, 1997, B.I.G attended a party held at a museum in Los Angeles and was shot dead in the middle of the road on the way back. Rumors circulated that the murder was in retaliation for Tupac’s death. However, the suspect in this case is also still in the labyrinth.

At one time, police were investigating famous gang member Orlando Anderson as a suspect in the murder of Tupac, but he was killed in a drug-related shootout in 1998. Even after that, the police have been investigating behind the scenes, such as setting up an investigation team to handle the unsolved case, but so far, no significant results have been publicly revealed.

Tupac is one of the prolific figures in the hip-hop scene, and despite only five years of his professional music career, hits such as ‘California Love (Remix)’ and ‘How Do U Want It’ have sold more than 75 million records worldwide. He has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. Last month, he was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s leading presidential candidate, faces a crisis of indictment by a special prosecutor behind the January 6 intrusion into the Congress.

On the 18th, former President Trump posted a post on his social media ‘TruthSocial’, saying, “‘Crazy’ Jack Smith, special prosecutor of the Department of Justice Joe Biden, sent me a letter on Sunday night.” Former President Trump claimed, “I was given only a short period of four days to report to the grand jury,” and “this almost always means arrest and prosecution.”

The Washington Post (WP) pointed out that “this letter shows that former President Trump, a leading Republican candidate, is likely to face another prosecution crisis.” Prosecutor Smith, appointed in November last year, has conducted a long-term investigation focusing on former President Trump’s role in the invasion of Congress. It is known that the investigation focused on various meetings held by former President Trump from the end of 2020 right before the US presidential election to January 2021, and what discussions were held to overturn the results of the presidential election here.

In fact, the fact that the official investigation letter was delivered to former President Trump means that prosecutors have secured enough evidence to prove the crime, and it can be interpreted as a sign of imminent prosecution, the WP said.

A patient shot and killed a doctor at a hospital in Tennessee.

According to local media, NBC and USA Today on the 12th, Dr Benjamin Mock (43), a senior orthopaedic surgeon, was shot by a patient at around 2:00 pm the previous day at the Campbell Clinic in Collierville, Tennessee.

Police identified the suspect as Memphis resident Larry Pickins, 29. Pickins is a patient at the Campbell Clinic and was confirmed to have been in the hospital hours before the incident. Local police said, “The motive for the crime has not yet been confirmed, but the shooting appears to have been intentional.”

A witness told local broadcaster WREG that “Suspect Pekins had been threatening Dr Mock for at least a week.” However, Collierville Police said, “no reports have been received in this regard” and “we are looking to see if there are any reports from other jurisdictions.”

Pickins was arrested by police within five minutes of the crime, charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault, and held in custody on $1.2 million bail by the court. Police explained that at the time of Pickins’ arrest, he had a handgun on his body.

The Campbell Clinic said that Dr Mock has been treating the hospital since 2012 and specializes in elbow, hand, and wrist surgery. The hospital side expressed shock and condolences, saying that Dr Mock was a respected and loved doctor in the community, and asked to “pray for Dr Mock’s family.” Dr Mock had two young children and a wife.

NBC Broadcasting said that Dr Mock was named on the list of ‘2023 Memphis Best Doctors’ in ‘Memphis Magazine’ published last week, saying, “He was a prestigious doctor who received a rating of 4.9 out of 5 stars from about 700 patients.”  It is known that Dr Mock has also served as the general manager of the ‘Congenital Hand Deformity Clinic’ affiliated with ‘Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital’ in Memphis.

In 1982, the only suspect in the ‘Tylenol poison murder case’ that shook the whole of the United States in fear died before the full-scale investigation was resumed.

American media, including the Chicago Tribune and the Associated Press, cited the announcement of the judicial authorities on the 10th that James Lewis (76), a suspect in the 1982 Tylenol capsule poisoning case that took the lives of seven Chicago residents, died at his home in Cambridge, a suburb of Boston, around 4:00 pm the previous day.

The police estimated that there was no possibility of murder, saying, “Louise’s wife, who is on a long-distance trip, asked to check her condition, saying, ‘I can’t reach her husband.’

The Tribune reported that Lewis had a history of heart disease and had recently been in poor health. Lewis is accused of injecting potassium cyanide, commonly called cyanide, into Tylenol distributed in the Chicago area between late September and early October 1982, killing seven people.

After taking two Tylenol Tablets, a 12-year-old girl in a suburb of Chicago collapsed to death in 1982. Investigative authorities estimated that someone opened the Tylenol capsules in the bottle, filled them with cyanide, and brought them to the store shelf.

Regarding the fact that Lewis’ only daughter, Tony, died of a suture break after undergoing heart surgery in 1974 when she was five years old, the prosecution said, “Lewis is the parent company of ‘Ethicon’, a maker of sutures, and ‘Johnson & Johnson,’ a maker of Tylenol.” (J&J) with a grudge and demanded financial compensation.”

On October 1, 1982, Lewis sent a letter of complaint to J&J regarding the death of his daughter and was charged with attempted extortion and mail fraud. However, Lewis denied the charges of lethal injection and murder, and he has been on the line for more than 40 years but has never been charged. Lewis explained to investigators how to open a Tylenol capsule and inject cyanide into it, pointing out that “the authorities shouldn’t have left the investigation of the case to J&J itself.” He also opened and operated a website claiming his innocence.

According to CBS Chicago, the investigative authorities said, “We resumed the closed investigation in September of last year, which marked the 40th anniversary of the incident, secured sufficient circumstantial evidence, and planned to indict Lewis on charges of lethal injection and murder in September.” When Louis died, all plans were scrapped. Meanwhile, due to this incident, J&J recalled all 31 million bottles of Tylenol that were circulating across the United States at the time and took measures to close capsule type production lines and stop advertising.

Since then, the packaging, distribution, and consumption methods of over-the-counter drugs, which can be easily purchased from drugstore shelves without a prescription, have changed. However, the full picture of the incident that has sent chills to many people’s spines so far remains a mystery.

NASCAR, an American car racing competition, held a competition on a special track installed in downtown Chicago.

According to the Chicago Sun-Times on the 2nd, NASCA held a two-day race on the roads around Grant Park in Chicago the day before. However, the Xfinity Series held on the first day was cancelled due to bad weather during the game. NASCAR tried to continue the suspended game on the morning of the 2nd, but when the weather conditions did not improve, the player who had been leading until the previous day was announced as the winner.

The Cup Series, originally scheduled for the afternoon, has also been delayed. In the case of F-1, an international car racing competition, competitions are often held on special tracks installed in the city centre in addition to dedicated tracks, but this is the first time that NASCAR has held a competition in the city centre.