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One of the features of Barcelona’s incredible start to the season has been the high-risk defensive style implemented by new manager Hansi Flick, who has stuck to the high line and offside trap that brought him so much success during his 18 months at Bayern Munich but also had mixed results at club level and in his tenure with the German national team at times. Flick’s high line has been undeniably successful at Barça as the Blaugrana have forced the most offsides of any team in Europe, but it has also led to several scary moments as the Catalans have come very close to conceding multiple goals that were denied by perfectly timed offside traps and the help of La Liga and UEFA’s semi-automated offside systems. Barça also haven’t faced truly elite teams that can really exploit their high line so far, but that all changes on Wednesday when Flick’s old team Bayern Munich come to town just three days before El Clásico against Real Madrid. The Blaugrana will face two of the most talented front lines in the world, and there are legitimate questions to be asked about Flick’s defensive strategy ahead of those two games. The coach was indeed asked those questions in a press conference on Tuesday, and chose to remain somewhat coy about his defensive approach while at the same time suggesting there won’t be too much change to the way Barça act without the ball. It’s not a surprise that Flick won’t reveal his gameplan and it also won’t be a surprise if Barça use the same offside trap against Bayern that they’ve done against every other team. At some point we need to know if the Blaugrana can play such a high-risk style, and that point has finally arrived. And guess what? It’s okay if Barça’s defense looks ugly on Wednesday and at the weekend. Defeats teach you lessons, and Flick might need to see things go very wrong to find out what he needs to adjust. Link: https://www.barcablaugranes.com/barcelona-uefa-champions-league/2024/10/22/24276699/hansi-flick-addresses-high-line-concerns-for-barcelona-ahead-of-bayern-munich-clash

Former President Trump said the Republican Party is "the party of common sense" Tuesday during a contentious interview with Bloomberg News in Chicago. Trump sat for an interview with Bloomberg News’ editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club of Chicago. The two discussed Trump’s plans for the economy in a potential second term during a heated interview that lasted nearly an hour. Micklethwait spoke about the economy to start, but later got into the state of the presidential race, asking the former president which state he believed was most critical to deciding the election. "They say Pennsylvania. I think we’re doing very well there. I think you look at Michigan, too, and I’m doing very well," Trump said. "We’re way up in Pennsylvania. We’re way up in Michigan. We’re doing very well in Arizona. In fact, somebody said they’re going to pull the plug in Arizona – they’re going to give it up because it looks like we’re quite a ways ahead." A RealClearPolitics polling average as of Tuesday afternoon showed Trump slightly ahead in Pennsylvania, as well as in Arizona and Michigan. Trump went on to say that the Republican Party is "the party of common sense." "Forget about conservative, liberal. We’re, let’s say, conservative, but we’re really a party of ‘We need borders. We need fair elections. We don’t want men playing in women’s sports. We don’t want transgender operations without parental consent,’" Trump explained. "It is 99.9% common sense. It really is common sense. I say we’re really a party of common sense, and we want to have great people in our country." Trump added: "I have a good heart. I have a heart where I want people to be taken care of. But I don’t want to take in people where millions of people – 21 million people at least have come in the last three and a half years unvetted, unchecked. We don’t know anything about them." Micklethwait began Tuesday's interview by claiming Trump’s economic plan would drive up debt and inflation, with the former president claiming that he served in office without inflation. "Yeah, I had four years – no inflation," Trump said. Micklethwait also hit Trump on his plan for tariffs on foreign goods, but Trump fired back, explaining that foreign countries will pay a "100% tariff on everything sold into the United States." Earlier this year, Trump rolled out a plan to eliminate China's most favored nation trade status and impose universal baseline 10% tariffs on imports. In private, Trump has even floated tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods. Economists have warned that increasing tariffs would also cause an increase in prices for everyday goods due to American companies relying on cheap raw materials from China. Micklethwait said Trump’s plans would "have a serious effect on the overall economy." "It’s going to have a massive effect – positive effect. It’s going to be a positive effect," Trump replied. "It must be hard for you to spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you’re totally wrong." Micklethwait fired back at Trump, saying he could be "plunging America into the biggest trade war." "No, there are no tariffs – all you have to do is build your plant in the United States and you don't have any tariffs," Trump said. "That's what I want." The former president's response was met with applause from the audience. "But I will tell you that if I did, it’s a smart thing," Trump said. "If I’m friendly with people, if I can have a relationship with people, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing, in terms of a country." "President Trump was in his element as he spoke passionately about restoring economic growth, prosperity, and opportunity for all Americans," his campaign wrote in an email to supporters following the interview, adding that he "put on a master class outlining his plan to return American citizens and businesses to the successes they enjoyed during his first term." The campaign added: "Kamala could NEVER." The Trump campaign touted the former president's responses and policies, and added: "President Trump did it once with record success – and he'll do it again." Link: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-gop-party-common-sense-during-contentious-bloomberg-interview

The US has written to Israel, giving it 30 days to boost humanitarian aid access in Gaza or risk having some US military assistance cut off. The letter, sent on Sunday, amounts to the strongest known written warning from the US to its ally and comes amid a new Israeli offensive in northern Gaza that has reportedly caused a large number of civilian casualties. It says the US has deep concerns about the deteriorating humanitarian situation, adding that Israel denied or impeded nearly 90% of humanitarian movements between the north and south last month. Israel is reviewing the letter, an Israeli official was reported as saying, adding the country "takes this matter seriously" and intends to "address the concerns raised" with US counterparts. Israel has previously said it is targeting Hamas operatives in the north and not stopping the entry of humanitarian aid. On Monday, the Israeli military body responsible for managing crossings into Gaza, Cogat, said 30 lorries carrying aid from the World Food Programme had entered northern Gaza through the Erez crossing. That ended a two-week period during which the UN said no food aid was delivered to the north, and supplies essential for survival were running out for the 400,000 Palestinians there. The US is by far the biggest supplier of arms to Israel, and the Israeli military has relied heavily on US-supplied aircraft, guided bombs, missiles and shells to fight the war against Hamas in Gaza over the past year. The US letter to the Israeli government - whose contents have now been confirmed by the state department - was first reported by the Axios website. It is signed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin. “We are now writing to underscore the US government’s deep concern over the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, and seek urgent and sustained actions by your government this month to reverse this trajectory,” it says. It states that Israeli evacuation orders have forced 1.7 million people into the narrow, coastal al-Mawasi area where they are at “high risk of lethal contagion” due to extreme overcrowding, and that humanitarian organisations report that their survival needs cannot be met. “We are particularly concerned that recent actions by the Israeli government - including halting commercial imports, denying or impeding nearly 90% of humanitarian movements between northern and southern Gaza in September, continuing burdensome and excessive dual-use restrictions, and instituting new vetting and onerous liability and customs requirements for humanitarian staff and shipments - together with increased lawlessness and looting - are contributing to an accelerated deterioration in the conditions in Gaza,” it adds. The letter says Israel “must, starting now and within 30 days” act on a series of concrete measures to boost aid supplies, adding that failure may “have implications for US policy”. It cites US laws which can prohibit military assistance to countries that impede delivery of US humanitarian aid. It says Israel must “surge all forms of humanitarian assistance throughout Gaza” before winter, including by enabling a minimum of 350 lorries a day to enter through all four major crossings and a new fifth crossing, as well as allowing people in al-Mawasi to move inland. It also calls on Israel to end the “isolation of northern Gaza” by reaffirming that there will be “no Israeli government policy of forced evacuation of civilians” from north to south. At a news conference in Washington on Tuesday, US state department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters that the letter was “a private diplomatic communication that we did not intend to make public”. “Secretary [Blinken] along with Secretary Austin thought it was appropriate to make clear to the government of Israel that there are changes they need to make again to see the level of assistance making it into Gaza comes back up,” he said. Mr Miller declined to speculate on what consequences there might be for Israel if it did not boost humanitarian aid access. But he noted: “Recipients of US military assistance do not arbitrarily deny or impede provisioning of US humanitarian assistance. That’s just the law and we of course will follow the law. But our hope is that Israel will make the changes that we have outlined.” He also said the 30-day time limit was not linked to the upcoming US presidential election on 5 November, saying it was “appropriate to give them time to work through the different issues”. Israel has previously insisted there are no limits to the amount of aid or humanitarian assistance that can be delivered into and across Gaza, and blames UN agencies for failing to distribute supplies. It also accuses Hamas of stealing aid, which the group denies. Before Israel’s ground offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah in May, President Joe Biden suspended a single consignment of 2,000 and 500lb bombs for the first time as he tried to dissuade it from an all-out assault. But the president immediately faced a backlash from Republicans in Washington and from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who appeared to compare it to an “arms embargo”. The suspension was partially lifted in July and has not been repeated. Earlier on Tuesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned that families in northern Gaza were “facing unimaginable fear, loss of loved ones, confusion, and exhaustion” because of the Israeli offensive that began 10 days ago. The Israeli military says it has sent tanks and troops back into the town of Jabalia and its urban refugee camp for a third time to root out Hamas fighters who have regrouped there. It has ordered residents of Jabalia, as well as neighbouring Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun, to evacuate to the al-Mawasi "humanitarian area". The UN says about 50,000 people have fled to Gaza City and other parts of the north. But for many it is unsafe to leave their homes or they are unable to leave because they are sick or disabled. Khalid, a resident of Jabalia whose accounts of the past year are featured in a new BBC documentary, said in a voice note that he and his family had been living in fear for a week. “We were told to go to the south, but we couldn’t because the Israeli army has surrounded the area, either with dirt barricades or using quadcopter drones. We can’t move, it’s too difficult.” “At the same time, because of the intense bombing we’re living in constant terror. My daughter has become sick and she has a fever. Her entire body is shaking in fear because of the sound of the bombings and I don’t know what to do with her. I can’t even take her to the hospital,” he added. Gaza’s Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said its first responders had recovered the bodies of 42 people killed by Israeli air and artillery strikes in Jabalia and neighbouring areas on Tuesday. They reportedly included 11 members of the same family, nearly all of them women and children, whose home was destroyed in an air strike overnight. The Israeli military said on Tuesday that its troops had killed “dozens of terrorists” in the Jabalia area over the previous day. On Monday, Israeli human rights groups warned of what they called “alarming signs that the Israeli military is beginning to quietly implement the Generals’ Plan”, echoing widespread Palestinian concerns. The controversial plan calls for the forcible transfer of all civilians in the north followed by a siege of the Hamas fighters remaining there to force their surrender and the release of Israeli hostages. The Israeli military denies it is being implemented, saying it is only “getting civilians out of harm's way”. Israel launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. More than 42,340 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wk0e8zey2o

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The amended suit alleges Ye attacked Lauren Pisciotta in a hotel room and once drugged her at a recording studio and that he used foreign work visas and product photo shoots to recruit potential sex partners. Ye’s former assistant filed an amended lawsuit against the rapper last week that accuses him of drugging and sexually assaulting her, trafficking others, using job openings to recruit sex partners and tasking her with delivering him “sex honey.” The suit alleges Ye, who legally changed his name from Kanye West, attacked Lauren Pisciotta in a hotel room, once drugged her at a recording studio, used foreign work visas and product photo shoots to recruit potential sex partners, “overshared” video of sexual encounters, and offered sex partners and others described as those he “trafficked” as gifts to friends and colleagues. The civil complaint, which initially accused Ye of sexual harassment, was amended and filed Oct. 8 in Los Angeles County Superior Court. In one case, the amended suit says, Ye texted Pisciotta for advice about his desire to have sex with the mother of a celebrity model he said he knew intimately. Ye’s representative did not immediately respond to NBC News’ detailed questions about the allegations in both lawsuits. In June, a spokesperson not only denied allegations in the original version of the filing, but alleged the plaintiff had used sexuality in a failed attempt to “to coerce employment and other material benefits” from the rapper. Ultimately, the spokesperson said, the plaintiff “engaged in blackmail and extortion” when sexual advances didn’t get the results she desired. The spokesperson said at the time Ye planned to file a countersuit against Pisciotta. New allegations The amended version adds two alleged incidents of sexual battery, including one at a hotel in San Francisco in 2021, when the plaintiff and defendant were in the city to work on an album that would become “Donda,” according to the filing. It alleges Ye got on top of Pisciotta and attempted to have sex despite her vocal and consistent objections, which ultimately persuaded him to back off, the suit said. The other alleged incident happened previous to the plaintiff’s full-time employment with Ye’s operations, which started in 2021. She was advising Ye on music business and was invited to a studio session in Santa Monica, California, that the suit said included the presence of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Pisciotta states in the lawsuit that she knew she had been drugged and had passed out at the session. Representatives for Combs did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment. Pisciotta alleged that Ye had sex with her while she was unconscious, saying she realized it years later after he boasted of it in text messages saying they “did kind of hook up a little one time,” according to the filing. It alleges Ye “used his extreme wealth, influence, and power to pursue, among other things, sex, his insatiable sexual gratification, desires and fantasies and sexual exploitation of his victims, including but not limited to the attempted sexual exploitation and trafficking of Plaintiff, sexual assault, and the constant sexual harassment and demands of Plaintiff.” Pisciotta did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The San Francisco and Santa Monica police departments did not immediately respond to requests for information about the alleged incidents. The suit said Ye allegedly campaigned for other sex partners by dangling the possibility of employment in front of them and arranging for them to travel with him. At his base of operations in Los Angeles, the suit said, it “was commonly known” by certain guests and employees that Ye ordered the construction of a makeshift bedroom at his offices, the suit alleged. Additionally, it said, Ye used company bathrooms and dressing rooms for sex with social event attendees and women the suit claims he “paid and trafficked.” The first version of Pisciotta’s lawsuit characterized the rapper as a sexual harassment menace in the workplace, alleging he used his businesses and the prospect of potential employment as coercive lures. It alleged that Ye sent the plaintiff sexually graphic text messages, tasked Pisciotta with delivering him sexual enhancement honey, overshared sexual encounter stories, sent her photos of nude women, texted her video of a model performing oral sex on him, asked her for hugs after she declined numerous times, insinuated to business contacts he had sex with the plaintiff, repeated his unrequited sexual desire for her, and masturbated in front of her multiple times. The original version as well as the amended filing allege wrongful termination, breach of contract, sexual harassment and hostile work environment, unlawful retaliation and emotional distress. The amended complaint also emphasized allegations of false imprisonment, sexual battery and infliction of emotional distress. Among the remedies it seeks are compensation, likely to include millions of dollars that Pisciotta said in the filing Ye promised her for her continued dedication to his endeavors, punitive damages, attorney’s fees and any other relief approved by the court. Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/yes-former-assistant-alleges-sex-trafficking-sexual-assault-amended-su-rcna175183