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Whitewater. Starr’s prosecutors have long believed the story first told five years ago by Little Rock businessman David Hale: that, in 1986, Clinton pressured Hale to make a fraudulent $300,000 loan to Clinton’s business partner Susan McDougal. Clinton flatly denied the charge when he testified at the 1996 trial of Susan and Jim McDougal, and Starr’s prosecutors considered accusing the president of perjury. But the idea of including Whitewater perjury in the Lewinsky report was rejected because there were no credible witnesses to finger the president....

Such milestones are special. What makes them distinct and noteworthy is to understand the circumstances under which these runs were scored and to analyse how it helped the team. Here’s a statistical analysis of Kohli’s tons and a look at how impactful they have been. ODIs It is no secret that ODIs are Kohli’s bread and butter. He thrives in this format and would already be among the top 5 batsmen to have played ODI cricket....

In the past, anti-Americans saved their bile for two separate areas of U.S. misconduct. They were appalled, first, by America’s antics abroad. They were disgusted, second, by the way Americans behaved inside their own country. Intellectuals would inveigh against a society apparently riddled with crime, riven by race and obsessed with money. Now, thanks to globalization, the two older forms of hostility have converged: America’s external and internal conduct have become one and the same thing....

This kind of well-intentioned but ultimately empty virtue signaling seems to always end up substitute for genuine action to uncover and address real issues, and I warned at the time that these expressions of white “allyship” might lead the next generation of Americans to grow up believing that the entire destiny of one race—black Americans—is reliant upon the voluntary largesse of another—white Americans. But if this were the case, it would trap blacks and whites in the roles of oppressed and oppressor, robbing both of a sense of personal agency....

Chirac denied all the charges, denouncing the “abracadabra history” in which “a dead man is made to talk after a year, and holds forth about events from 14 years ago.” He suggested the affair was concocted by his political enemies. The pro-Gaullist newspaper Le Figaro called the accusations “the first stink bombs” in the campaign for presidential elections next year. In fact, the stench from this posthumous confession taints French politicians of every stripe....

Twenty-one years ago, an explosives-filled guitar case slung across the shoulder of a male in his 20s erupted with a ferocious roar and decapitated him. A photo of the head in the debris was snapped by someone but never, as far as I know, appeared on any news platform. The gruesome image was sent to me much later. By then, the impact of what happened that hot school-vacation afternoon in a bustling, child-filled Sbarro pizzeria in the center of Israel’s capital city had receded into the distance....

These days, the rising cost of everyday goods and services is forcing more people to face difficult decisions and ask themselves: How can I pay for utilities, the groceries, or the medicine that’s keeping me alive? Now imagine that someone offers you financial assistance for the express purpose of paying for your medicine—problem apparently solved. But in a cruel twist, your health insurer pockets that assistance, without counting it toward your annual deductible or out-of-pocket maximum....

In Safire’s close, personal reading of the Biblical text, Job is not the pillar of patience, as conventional piety portrays him. Rather, he is the irreverent, even blasphemous Blakean figure who demands that God explain himself or stand guilty of abusing his own authority. He is the righteous rebel who insists on his own moral integrity despite his friends’ counsel that he fess up to unacknowledged sins. He is, in short, the original political contrarian, a fellow who, in another era, might just find work as a brave, truth-telling columnist....

The recommendation smacked of Solomon. Breast implants have not been proven safe, said the panel. But neither are they clearly harmful. Therefore, the panel suggested that only women with clear medical needs should be automatically eligible for the implants. Women undergoing reconstructive surgery after mastectomies belong to this group; so do those disfigured due to medical trauma or birth defects. All others would take their chances on admission into clinical trial programs....

It wasn’t until much later that police, after interrogating his former girlfriends, would conclude that fun-loving Majid was actually Khaled Shaikh Mohammad, a radical jihadist on a mission to destroy America. His “friend” Basit was in fact his nephew–Ramzi Yousef–then wanted for his part in planning deadly attacks on the United States. Together, U.S. officials say, the two men may have plotted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and drew up an even more ambitious plan to blow up commercial airliners....

A search using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) located the plane on the seabed off Guernsey on Sunday. “Tragically, in video footage from the ROV, one occupant is visible amidst the wreckage,” a statement from AAIB read. Following consultation with the families of Cardiff City striker Sala and pilot Ibbotson and police, it has been decided a recovery operation will be carried out. A spokesperson for AAIB said: “We are attempting to recover the body....

Finch scored a run-a-ball 107 and posted an opening partnership of 187 runs with David Warner (93) to lay the foundation of a big total. Steven Smith (51) also posted a useful contribution in the middle order before Glenn Maxwell (41) came up with the fireworks towards the end to give the Australian innings a superb finish. Pacers Ishant Sharma (4/77) and Umesh Yadav (3/67) came up with a flurry of late wickets to keep the Australian total below the 350-run mark....

At stake: potentially damning evidence from exchanges he made in jail regarding the death of Odin Lloyd. UPDATE: A judge rejected efforts by prosecutors to obtain Hernandez’s jailhouse recordings. Calling Friday's decision a "big win for Hernandez," NFL.com's Albert Breer reported the news. "Proof of the identity of the shooter is also not essential to proof that the defendant committed a murder," Breer wrote in quoting the judge. Also from Breer's Twitter account: "Prosecution emphasized that it didn't have to decipher whether it was an individual or group act yet, just that Hernandez was a part of it....

“I have a major problem with the way it goes down, to be honest with you,” Rodgers said Tuesday on his ESPN Milwaukee radio show. “The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.” MORE: Ravens suspect under-inflated balls | Colts react to Pats act Rodgers, with his secure grip and sizable hands, said he prefers a fully inflated football....

Appearing on “Inside the NBA” with Tom Brady over the weekend, Rodgers had plenty of trash talk for the next generation to Charles Barkley and the crew. “Charles, I’ve done my scouting report and I heard that Josh was terrible in Pebble (Beach) and Pat has played the last couple of years in Tahoe and hasn’t broken 80 yet,” Rodgers said on the show. “I think he was closer to being in a group with you – no offense, Charles – than maybe with me in Tahoe....

The Packers were, once again, deafeningly quiet prior to the 2022 NFL trade deadline, despite having their sights set on a player that was moved. That’s not great news for Aaron Rodgers, who needs just a bit more wide receiver help this year. Chase Claypool was reportedly a target of the Packers, and the team offered the Steelers a second-round pick for the wideout. Pittsburgh, though, shipped him off to Green Bay’s NFC North rival Chicago for that second-round pick price....

Green Bay is set to play five of its next six games at Lambeau Field and Rodgers has a request for the home crowd. “My only ask is that we don’t do the wave when we’re on offense,” Rodgers said Wednesday, via The Athletic. Green Bay came away with a victory against the Bears in Chicago in Week 1 but only managed to score 10 points in its first game under new coach Matt LaFleur....

It doesn’t appear that the feeling is mutual. IYER: Ranking the NFL’s new coaching hires ESPN’s Turron Davenport reports that the Titans are not considering trading for Rodgers. Why? Because they want to keep rolling with Ryan Tannehill. Tannehill, 33, has spent the last three seasons with the Titans. He has led them to a 30-13 regular-season record as a starter and helped Tennessee reach the AFC championship game during the 2020 NFL playoffs....