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Serena Williams gains support of WTA and USTA chiefs after umpire row

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  • WTA’s Steve Simon: double standards applied by Carlos Ramos
  • USTA president hails Williams’s ‘class’ and ‘sportsmanship’

The Women’s Tennis Association has backed up Serena Williams’ claims of sexism regarding the way she was treated by umpire Carlos Ramos during Saturday’s US Open final.

Williams was given a warning for coaching, then docked a point for smashing a racket before being penalised a game by Ramos after she called him a “liar” and a “thief”. That left the 23-times grand slam singles champion one game from defeat and in tears, with Naomi Osaka clinching her first slam title shortly afterwards.

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New Italian government plans to curb Sunday shopping: Di Maio

Huh? Fake tradition of the rightists! Tradition of last 50 years is to go out and go shopping, eat, see a movie and now watch your favorite movie on your laptop or phone. Fake Il Duce fascist wannabes! The new Italian government will introduce a ban on Sunday shopping in large commercial centers before the end of the year as it seeks to defend family traditions, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Sunday.

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Italy’s Matteo Salvini links with Bannon’s far-right ‘Movement’ ahead of EU vote

The man who would be king or at least Il Duce should be locked up as dangerous fascist enabler just to make money and be his version of murderous cool!

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Italy’s far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has joined with similar European elements in US former-presidential adviser Steve Bannon’s Brussels-based Movement. Their focus is on next year’s European elections.

Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea

Amazon is a classic monopoly operator – using market position to control who can stay in business and on what terms. AT&T, American Standard Oil, Sears, A&P, Walmart, MG and US Steel all “fixed/rigged” the market until anti-trust broke them up or self-stupidity made them miss the next boat or wave. With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law.

Italy’s Matteo Salvini joins Bannon’s European populist group

Wannabe Il Duce! and A-hole of Italy!

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Interior minister pledges support to the Movement after meeting in Rome

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister and populist leader, has met Steve Bannon and joined the anti-European establishment group, the Movement, founded by Donald Trump’s former chief strategist.

“He is in!” tweeted Mischaël Modrikamen, the Belgian politician and co-founder of the People’s party, who is also a member of Bannon’s group which unites Euroscepticand populist forces.

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Trump inauguration crowd photos were edited after he intervened

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Exclusive: documents released to Guardian reveal government photographer cropped space ‘where crowd ended’

A government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump’s inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger following a personal intervention from the president, according to newly released documents.

The photographer cropped out empty space “where the crowd ended” for a new set of pictures requested by Trump on the first morning of his presidency, after he was angered by images showing his audience was smaller than Barack Obama’s in 2009.

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