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FUKUOKA, Japan (Reuters) -French youngster Leon Marchand produced a dazzling performance to shatter American great Michael Phelps' long-standing 400 metres

Brian Harman took a commanding lead at The Open Championship on Friday... and then never let go. Golf Twitter had to celebrate a dominant showing.Some of the best players in the world were in the mix atop the leaderboard at The Open Championship. Jon Rahm, Jason Day, Tom Kim and a red-hot Sepp S...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defended a hard-right school curriculum that went into effect in his state this week while on the campaign trail for the Republican presidential nomination. At an event in Utah, Governor DeSantis defended how slavery will now be taught in Florida middle schools. Children will now be taught that enslaved persons picked up skills that they later “parlayed” into profitable crafts after slavery was abolished. “They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” Mr DeSantis told reporters on Friday. However at the same press conference, the GOP candidate also appeared to back away from the specific assertions of the teachings, saying of the curriculum: “I didn’t do it. I wasn’t involved in it.” He went on to say that the curriculum was “rooted in whatever is factual”. “It was not anything that was done politically,” he added. The Florida governor’s hard-right record will likely be a key talking point on the 2024 campaign trail - potentially presenting both a boon for Mr DeSantis in the GOP primary but also a challenge as he seeks to woo moderates in a general election. Florida Department of Education’s social studies standards for the 2023-2024 school year provide lesson topics for teachers including a “benchmark clarification” which instructs educators to teach students that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”. It isn’t clear what “their personal benefit” would be in this scenario. The line is included as part of a broader lesson entitled: “Examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agriculturalwork, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation).” The majority of polling puts Mr DeSantis second in the crowded GOP primary field, though he trails former president Donald Trump by a wide margin and faces a number of rivals closing in on his position including Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley. Read More Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teen lynched in Mississippi Southern California school board OKs curriculum after Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened a $1.5M fine Florida man pleads guilty over Jan 6 riot as state’s governor Ron DeSantis insists there was no insurrection Trump outstrips nearest Republican rival DeSantis by 30 points in latest poll - live Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till, the Black teen lynched in Mississippi Southern California school board OKs curriculum after Gov. Gavin Newsom threatened a $1.5M fine

BUENOS AIRES The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should in the coming days finalize the basis for a staff

Atlanta is going to buy at the trade deadline and we're ranking the 12 best (and realistic) trade targets for the Braves before Aug. 1.The MLB Trade Deadline on Aug. 1 is now just over a week away, and all eyes in the National League are at least glancing at the Atlanta Braves. Owners of th...

The New England Patriots' cautious approach in pursuing DeAndre Hopkins cost them dearly.Had the New England Patriots been more aggressive, they could have landed DeAndre Hopkins.The former Houston Texans and Arizona Cardinals star wide receiver just joined his third NFL franchise by si...

Fulham manager Marco Silva has rejected a lucrative move to Saudi Pro League outfit Al-Ahli.

Jamie Foxx on Friday spoke out for the first time since he was hospitalized in April in a video shared to his Instagram page, and support from many of the Oscar-winner's famous friends poured in.

After six months of street protests, parliamentary maneuvering, compromise talks and increasingly urgent pleas from Washington DC, Israeli lawmakers Sunday morning began debating the first judicial reform bill to come up for a final vote.

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES The new "Barbie" movie starring Margot Robbie as the iconic doll ruled theaters

Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was "playing politics" with the idea of expunging former President Donald Trump's two impeachments.

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON The United States said on Sunday it was deeply concerned by reports of viral