Former U.S. women's soccer star Hope Solo says that the reason the U.S. national team did not make the World Cup, is because the game has become a "rich, white kid sport" in America
The two-time Olympic gold medalist and World Cup champion exclaimed that soccer is too expensive in the U
S. and has driven middle class and lower income families out of the sport, Sporting News reported
Solo made her comments during an onstage interview at the Hashtag Sports conference where she said that the expense of the game has robbed the U
S. Soccer Federation of new talent by pricing Hispanics and blacks out of the sport
"My family would not have been able to afford to put me in soccer if I was a young kid today" – @hopesolo #HS18 pic
twitter.com/vR6sV1qLDA — Hashtag Sports (@HashtagSports) June 26, 2018 "We have alienated the Hispanic communities
We have alienated our black communities. We have alienated the underrepresented communities, even rural communities, so soccer in America right now is a rich white-kid sport," Solo told moderator Bonnie Bernstein
"Then we have to ask ourselves: Well, no wonder why we are not qualifying for the World Cup when we have alienated a huge population of really talented youth soccer players
And that's the state of the game right now." Solo is no stranger to controversial comments
With her failed bid for president of the USSF, Solo charged Carlos Cordeiro for failing to help U
S. women players. She also charged former FIFA chief Sepp Blatter with sexual harassment, was accused of drunkenly insulting police and attacking a teenager in 2015, and in 2016 took criticism from her own former teammates for calling the Swedish women's team a bunch of "cowards
" The former goalkeeper was suspended for six months over the latter incident. Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston
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Toys 'R' Us Closes Remaining 200 Stores Nationwide On Friday - Duration: 0:28.
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Market Movers: 6/29 U.S. Jobs Report - Duration: 3:40.
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End of an era: Toys R' Us closes last remaining storefronts - Duration: 0:28.
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CAVING to Trump's demands? US President says EU want trade talks after tariff hike threat - Duration: 3:16.
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"Us and them" Eagle House Play - Duration: 20:30.
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U.S. intelligence believes N Korea is ramping up nuclear production - 247 news - Duration: 5:44.
U.S. intelligence agencies believe North Korea has increased production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites in recent months and may try to hide these while seeking concessions in nuclear talks with the United States, NBC news quoted U
S. officials as saying.In a report on Friday, the network said what it described as the latest U
S. intelligence assessment appeared to go counter to sentiments expressed by President Donald Trump, who tweeted after an unprecedented June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that 'there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea
'NBC quoted five unidentified U.S. officials as saying that in recent months North Korea had stepped up production of enriched uranium for nuclear weapons, even as it engaged in diplomacy with the United States
The network cited U.S. officials as saying that the intelligence assessment concludes that North Korea has more than one secret nuclear site in addition to its known nuclear fuel production facility at Yongbyon
'There is absolutely unequivocal evidence that they are trying to deceive the U
S.,' NBC quoted one official as saying.The CIA declined to comment on the NBC report
The State Department said it could not confirm it and did not comment on matters of intelligence
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.The NBC report raises further questions about North Korea's readiness to enter serious negotiations about giving up a weapons program that now threatens the United States, in spite of Trump's enthusiastic portrayal of the summit outcome
NBC quoted one senior U.S. intelligence official as saying that North Korea's decision ahead of the summit to suspend nuclear and missile tests was unexpected and the fact that the two sides were talking was a positive step
Share this article Share However, he added: 'Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles
We are watching closely.'Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at California's Middlebury Institute of International Studies, said there were two 'bombshells' in the report
He said it had long been understood that North Korea had at least one undeclared facility to enrich nuclear fuel aside from Yongbyon
'This assessment says there is more than one secret site. That means there are at least three, if not more sites,' he said
Lewis said the report also implied that U.S. intelligence had reporting to suggest North Korea did not intend to disclose one or more of the enrichment sites
'Together, these two things would imply that North Korea intended to disclose some sites as part of the denuclearization process, while retaining others,' he said
North Korea agreed at the summit to 'work toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,' but the joint statement signed by Kim and Trump gave no details on how or when Pyongyang might surrender its nuclear weapons
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week he would likely go back to North Korea before long to try to flesh out commitments made at the Trump-Kim meeting
On Thursday, the Financial Times quoted U.S. officials as saying that Pompeo plans to travel to North Korea next week, but the State Department has declined to confirm this
Ahead of the summit, North Korea rejected unilaterally abandoning an arsenal it has called an essential deterrent against U
S. aggression.Trump said last week North Korea was blowing up four of its big test sites and that a process of 'total denuclearization
has already started,' but officials said there had been no such evidence since the summit
This week, Washington-based North Korean monitoring project 38 North said recent satellite imagery showed North Korea had made rapid improvements to facilities at Yongbyon since May 6, but it could not say if such work had continued after June 12
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U.S. urges China to maintain high level of sanctions pressure on North Korea - Duration: 2:09.
The United States is urging China to continue implementing tough sanctions on North Korea
so the regime feels the pressure to denuclearize.
There are concerns in Washington that that Beijing might be backsliding on its commitment
to keep turning the screw on Pyongyang.
Kim Hyesung reports.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is pressing China on the need to enforce sanctions on
North Korea.
The State Department says Pompeo spoke with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi this week
and emphasized the importance of full enforcement of all relevant UN Security Council resolutions
related to the North until it achieves complete denuclearization.
It said preventing North Korea's illegal export of coal and ship-to-ship transfers of oil
is particularly critical.
At a Senate hearing this week, Pompeo also warned he had seen modest backsliding from
Beijing, saying China is not enforcing control over their cross border areas as vigorously
as they were six or twelve months ago.
Pompeo also spoke with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha on Friday to discuss
the next steps on engagement with North Korea, and agreed on the need to maintain pressure
on the North.
China is North Korea's number one trading partner that accounts for around 90 percent
of its total trade.
Washington's pressure on Beijing to enforce sanctions comes as Pompeo plans to travel
to North Korea in the coming days to discuss detailed denuclearization plans, according
to the Financial Times.
There are concerns on the U.S. side that China's move to soften sanctions on the North could
affect its attitude to commit to denuclearization.
In fact, China and Russia have presented a proposal in the UN Security Council that would
ease pressure on North Korea.
Diplomatic sources linked to the council say U.S. officials refused to back the draft press
statement, saying North Korea's denuclearization must come first.
In a statement Friday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang suggested sanctions should
be modified to reflect the North's efforts to denuclearize.
He also urged the UN to mediate talks with North Korea, and called for the Security Council
to facilitate a "political settlement."
Kim Hyesung, Arirang News.
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Goodbye, Geoffrey: Toys R Us closes its last stores today - Duration: 2:40.
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This is Us || The Way You See Me - Duration: 4:27.
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Reminaing Toys "R" Us Stores Closing Friday - Duration: 0:36.
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Human Trafficking Documentary - Help Us Stop Child Sex Trafficking O.U.R - Duration: 3:45.
(intense music)
- I never dreamed that I would work in Haiti.
I didn't know anything really about Haiti,
until I learned about a little boy
who was born in Utah,
U.S. citizen and was kidnapped in Haiti
from his church where his father was the pastor.
I read about it in the local newspaper.
I thought that I could make it into a U.S. case,
and I couldn't because it wasn't.
We had to leave our jobs,
I had to leave my job because I just had
to do something about it.
We went to Haiti to look for his son.
- [Officer] Yeah, it's right here--
- [Officer 2] It's right here, right here.
(intense music)
- And we never found him.
- People weren't talking about human trafficking
like they are now, and really it's because
of the work and efforts by organizations
like Operation Underground Railroad.
- It's a subject that nobody wants
to think about or talk about.
It's the worst part of humanity.
- Two virgins, 13 and 14 years old.
- Wow.
- And yet, you've got to do something about it.
- Police, get on the ground, right now.
- Don't move around! - Get on the ground.
Get on the ground, right now!
- [Suspect] No problem.
- [Officer] Get on the ground, put that down right now.
- [Officer 2] Get on the ground.
- Every thirty seconds a child is sold,
they're sold for sex, they're sold for labor, they're sold
for organ harvesting, which is something
we're now getting into.
There's six million children that are forced
into one of those three categories right now.
And the world doesn't know.
(intense music)
- Not a lot of people know, but the profile
for men who travel abroad to have sex with kids
are American citizens.
- [Tim] The U.S. creates the demand.
The highest produced and consumer
of child pornography is right here in the United States.
- Well, if you lost one of your children
to one of these evil people, you'd do anything
to get even and get your child back.
- I had a knock on my door one day,
Tim said listen, I really feel
like I can do better leaving the government.
- I find a group of kids in Guatemala
or Colombia and I couldn't do anything about it,
because it wasn't a U.S. case.
It's outside of the jurisdiction, and I understood that.
However, that doesn't mean that we couldn't be doing more.
- Tim Ballard left his law enforcement career,
everything that he knew, his pension, his security,
to start a non-profit called Operation Underground Railroad.
They've done jumps everywhere throughout the world,
rescued kids and then helped them get to a safe place
with their aftercare programs.
- He had a way that we could really make an impact,
but they needed a million dollars to start.
And I said, I'm in.
(intense music)
- I like little girls.
- [Offscreen] You like little girls?
(officers yelling)
- We had set up this operation
that looked like it went flawless.
- We unfortunately got some very frustrating news.
- The traffickers were being released,
and that all the girls were released.
- They paid money to the right people, to the judges.
The job's not quite done, but it's almost done,
because now we need to go back
and we need to re-arrest every single one
of these traffickers.
It will be a message to Haiti, to America,
to the whole world that there are good people
everywhere who will stand up for this.
(intense music)
(shouting in foreign language)
(intense music)
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Toys R Us closing its last stores - Duration: 0:58.
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John Driskell Hopkins of Zac Brown Band shows us his studio! - Duration: 13:33.
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Goodbye Toys"R"Us 🦒😢 - Duration: 1:54.
One of my friends put this up on her Facebook timeline this morning and if
this is not one of the most depressing things I done seen in a cool minute.
Toy "R" Us is going out of ... has gone out of ... is going out of business. I don't know
where she got the picture from but I'm gonna assume that Toys "R" Us put it up to
tell us that they have finally kicked the bucket, it's kaput, it's over. Y'all know
Toys "R" Us -- I don't want to grow up, I'm a Toys "R" Us kid, there's a million games at
Toys "R" Us that we could play with -- okay that whole thing. It's like our entire
childhood has just been flushed down the toilet. Michael's gone, Whitney's gone,
Prince is dead, Uncle Phil gone, Tommy from Martin gone,
Joe Jackson just died, and apparently The Electric Slide is about of sex toy. I
feel like the marketing team knew what they were doing because they know we're
all indoctrinated with that song ... like a guilt trip type of thing ... we let them down we
grew up and now there's no more Toys "R" Us because here go Geoffrey with his
little suitcase and his lil sad look on his face. Listen ok Toys "R" Us you're
not about to manipulate me! You are not about to make me have no trauma! And you
can't trick me Toys "R" Us I'm onto you. Just because Geoffrey got
on a little vacation outfit you think I think he's gonna go sip margaritas in
Cabo San Lucas someplace?! We are 37, we are 42 years old, we know what happened
when that goldfish died and our mom told us that it hadn't died and she
replaced it ... we know what happened when the pets disappeared! They are not going
on vacation in the Mexican Riviera ... no it's over for Geoffrey! I don't want to
grow up because if I did I wouldn't be at Toys "R" Us kid. Okay listen we get it
Toys "R" Us we let you down and now we can't be Toys "R" Us kids. We have mortgages,
we got little people at the house calling us "mommy" and "daddy" now, we are
overly concerned about our fiber intake, our knees hurt, and we have to go to bed
a lot earlier ...so we know Geoffrey's not going on vacation!!
I guess per the song we can't be Toys "R" Us kids anymore you guys because
we grew up. Bye Geoffrey.
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Comcast recovers from outage of TV, broadband services across U.S. - Duration: 11:52.
Comcast recovers from outage of video, broadband services across parts of U.S.Comcast, the nation's largest broadband provider and one of the largest pay-TV providers, had a nationwide outage of some services Friday
The Philadelphia-based company said it was aware Friday afternoon some of its TV, broadband and telephone customers across the U
S.were affected.The apparent cause? A pair of cuts in vital fiber at its network partners
"We identified two, separate and unrelated fiber cuts to our network backbone providers," Comcast said in a statement provided to USA TODAY just before 5 p
m.ET."Our engineers worked to address the issue immediately and services are now being restored to business and residential internet, video and voice customers
We again apologize to anyone who was impacted."Initially, Comcast had said a single "fiber cut" had been affecting its customers, as well as other providers
Customers in Philadelpha, Baltimore and elsewhere on the east coast reported outages of Internet and video service on Twitter and on Internet monitoring site Downdetector
com, where outage reports began arriving just after 12:30 p.m.ET.Other reports of outages from Comcast customers were from Seattle, San Francisco and Atlanta, according to Downdetector
com.CNBC, a network within Comcast-owned NBC Universal, first reported the outage
Comcast is one of the nation's largest pay-TV providers with more than 22 million subscribers, and the largest broadband provider with more than 26 million subscribers, according to Leichtman Research Group
The company also provides broadband and video to more than 2 million businesses.San Francisco-based Network monitoring and intelligence firm ThousandEyes began seeing network issues across the Net beginning about 12:15 p
m.ET.By about 4:30 p.m.ET, network issues were appearing to be resolved, the firm said
Many internet users beyond Comcast's own 25 million subscriber base were affected, too, according to ThousandEyes
That's because other traffic travels across the provider's network, because it serves as part of the backbone connecting various regions of the nation
"This is a really good illustration of how interconnected a lot of these networks are," said Angelique Medina, senior product marketing manager at ThousandEyes
"It is kind of like a domino effect.Any one provider can potentially have a big impact on a number of users," she said
"In this case, because it was Comcast, the blast radius was just massive."Follow USA TODAY reporter Mike Snider on Twitter: @MikeSnider
said Friday that the hours-long interruption of its internet, video and voice services, was caused two separate and unrelated fiber cuts to the company's large network providers
The company is working to restore services."We identified two, separate and unrelated fiber cuts to our network backbone providers
Our engineers worked to address the issue immediately and services are now being restored to business and residential internet, video and voice customers
We again apologize to anyone who was impacted.".The company did not specify which providers were impacted
A source told CNBC that one of the cuts occurred in CenturyLink's network.CenturyLink said its network is operating normally, but said there were fiber cuts in its network Friday
"While the CenturyLink network continues to operate normally, on June 29, we experienced two isolated fiber cuts in North Carolina affecting some customers that by themselves did not cause the issues experienced by other providers
At this time, our technicians are working to restore the services," the company said in a statement
Comcast reported last quarter it serves 29.6 million total business and residential customers
It is the second largest U.S. pay TV provider, behind AT&T, since its DirecTV acquisition,
FRIDAY'S MASSIVE COMCAST OUTAGE SHOWS HOW FRAGILE THE INTERNET IS.WIDESPREAD INTERNET OUTAGES around the United States on Friday afternoon quelled productivity and sent irate customers to Twitter to complain
Comcast and Xfinity suffered the biggest service interruptions across its internet, cable, and landline products
The company, which has more than 29 million business and individual customers, said on Friday that the outages stemmed from fiber optic cables at two internet infrastructure companies that were cut or otherwise disrupted
Like virtually all internet providers, Comcast relies on a combination of its own fiber optic infrastructure and that of other partner companies to seamlessly route data around the world
"We identified two, separate and unrelated fiber cuts to our network backbone providers," Comcast said in a statement to WIRED
"Our engineers worked to address the issue immediately and services are now being restored to business and residential internet, video and voice customers
".Comcast says the two internet infrastructure companies involved are Level 3 (now owned by CenturyLink) and Zayo, a fiber company headquartered in Colorado
Throughout the afternoon, the outage-tracking site Down Detector showed service interruptions at CenturyLink, Zayo, and Comcast, but the latter suffered the most severe consequences
"While the CenturyLink network continues to operate normally, on June 29 we experienced two isolated fiber cuts in North Carolina affecting some customers," CenturyLink said in a statement
"At this time, our technicians are working to restore the services.".CenturyLink noted that its two fiber cuts would not have been enough on their own to cause the outage, indicating that another also occurred, as Comcast said
"Earlier today, Zayo experienced a fiber cut in the New York area," said a Zayo spokesperson in a statement
"We immediately dispatched our local team who quickly restored the cut. All impacted services in the area have been restored
".Fiber cuts aren't necessarily malicious, and can happen as the result of incidents like severe weather or construction mistakes
They're also not terribly uncommon; when they do happen, the internet infrastructure community works to implement redundancies and traffic rerouting tactics so physical disruptions don't cause digital ones
In this case, the combination of disruptions in New York and North Carolina were enough to turn off the internet for millions of people
The underlying physical backbone of the internet is surprisingly fragile, and failsafes don't always work
For example, in November, a tiny misconfiguration error at Level 3 caused outages around the US
And a digital attack on the internet infrastructure company Dyn famously caused major outages in 2016 because they were targeted at destabilizing one of the internet's underlying routing protocols
"We are profoundly and globally dependent on a fundamentally fragile infrastructure," says Roland Dobbins, a principal engineer at the DDoS and network-security firm Arbor Networks, which monitors global internet operations
"Some redundancies exist, but many times they don't.".By Friday evening, Comcast service had come back for many customers
But the underlying message should resonate: The internet can be more frail than you'd think, and sometimes all it takes to shut it down is a couple of cuts
Comcast had said a single "fiber cut" had been affecting its customers, as well as other providers
Customers in Philadelpha, Baltimore and elsewhere on the east coast reported outages of Internet and video service on Twitter and on Internet monitoring site Downdetector
com, where outage reports began arriving just after 12:30 p.m.ET.Other reports of outages from Comcast customers were from Seattle, San Francisco and Atlanta, according to Downdetector
com.CNBC, a network within Comcast-owned NBC Universal, first reported the outage
Comcast is one of the nation's largest pay-TV providers with more than 22 million subscribers, and the largest broadband provider with more than 26 million subscribers, according to Leichtman Research Group
The company also provides broadband and video to more than 2 million businesses.San Francisco-based Network monitoring and intelligence firm ThousandEyes began seeing network issues across the Net beginning about 12:15 p
m.ET.By about 4:30 p.m.ET, network issues were appearing to be resolved, the firm said
Many internet users beyond Comcast's own 25 million subscriber base were affected, too, according to ThousandEyes
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