Democrats whiff again as Lewandowski makes a mockery of oversight

It was meant to be the moment when Democrats started to knit a narrative of presidential malfeasance that many of them hope will trigger impeachment.

But it turned into an iconic Trump-era spectacle that served instead to show how the White House and its acolytes have made a mockery of the checks and balances of the Washington system

A farcical House Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday featuring Corey Lewandowski, President Donald Trump's ex-campaign manager, emphasized how Democrats are struggling to hold Trump to account.

Party leaders were left to explain why they had not been more nimble in questioning a witness loaded for bear, since everyone knew Lewandowski would show up with the intention of causing havoc.

After hours of frustrating cross-examination that one of their number, Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia, compared to "a fish being cleaned with a spoon," Democrats were left with a conundrum: how to use televised hearings to tease out damning passages of the Mueller report when Trump and his gang are determined to turn them into a circus.

Their broader strategy of using their House majority to slowly build a pattern of presidential abuse of power and obstruction of justice has yet to reach a critical mass. On the evidence of Tuesday, it may never do so.

It was a great day for the White House, however.

Its strategy of curtailing Lewandowski's testimony by foreshadowing controversial executive privilege claims appeared to be an attempt to goad Democrats into another protracted court battle that could delay a day of reckoning.

By sunset, Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-New York, warned that Lewandowski risked being held in contempt, for helping a White House "desperate for the American people not to hear the truth."

Trump's army of Republican committee members, meanwhile, more eager to catch his eye as he watched on Air Force One than to honor their lawmakers' duty to constrain the executive, played along with Lewandowski, relishing the chance to grandstand.

"You had a pretty good candidate," said Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican who's one of Trump's closest allies in Congress.

"The best," the ex-campaign manager replied.

A rare look inside Samsung's secretive ideas lab

I’m standing inside Samsung Digital City, where some 35,000 employees work, eat, play, and work some more in Suwon, South Korea. It feels like auniversity campus with green parks, throngs of young people, social clubs and coffee shops. There’s also a massive cafeteria where everything, from pizza to kimchi, is free.

In other words, it seems like a fun place to work.

But Samsung, the world’s largest maker of smartphones, TVs and memory chips, is perpetually in crisis mode. In part, that’s by design: Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee once wrote that a successful company needs to maintain a “heightened sense of crisis,” meaning even in the good times, it must anticipate change ahead.

That couldn’t be more true, now. Global smartphone sales are declining, pressuring Samsung Electronics’ largest business line. (Exploding phones in 2016 didn’t help.) An escalating trade war between South Korea and Japan threatens to raise the company’s costs. And Samsung’s de-facto leader Lee Jae-yong, the chairman’s son, is also facing a retrial on bribery charges

Under pressure on multiple fronts, Samsung is eager to find the next big thing beyond smartphones or memory chips to power the company’s future growth. It’s pouring some $22 billion over three years into areas like 5G and automotive electronics, led primarily by investments in Samsung Electronics. (The conglomerate’s other business lines include shipbuilding, construction and insurance.) Much of that innovation and experimentation is coming out of secretive research and development labs at Digital City.

In July, CNN was granted rare access to tour those labs.

Here’s what we saw.

 

Crisis culture and constant creation

On my way to Samsung’s top secret R&D labs, I pass through the company’s Innovation Museum, an area that’s open to the public. It’s not just Samsung products on display: It’s the big names in consumer tech history. I spot a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a classic Sony Trinitron TV and early semiconductors by Intel. It’s a walk through a timeline of human ingenuity, from the discovery of electricity to the first, brick-sized, mobile phone — and it’s a symbol of how Samsung sees its rightful place in the unfolding history of invention.

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski testifies

What to know about today's hearing

• What happened: Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowskitestified before the House Judiciary Committee in the panel's first official "impeachment hearing."
• Key questions left unanswered: Lewandowski refused to answer key questions about potential obstruction by President Trump and repeatedly argued with Democrats.
• Lewandowski took a combative tone:He slammed committee Democrats, criticized Obama-era intelligence officials, praised Trump's successful presidential campaign and jabbed at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Lewandowski said the Mueller report accurately described his private discussions with Trump about pressuring then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to curtail the Russia investigation in 2017.
• Our live coverage has ended, but scroll through the posts to read more.

Asked by CNN's Manu Raju if it would be OK if a Democratic president sought to limit an investigation into his or her campaign, Corey Lewandowski responded with a question.

"Would you be OK if a Republican president did that to a Democratic nominee?" Lewandowski said.

As Lewandowski exited the House of Representatives' office building this evening, an ABC photographer shooting his departure tripped badly and fell backward into a table. 

Lewandowski turned but did not stop and continued to exit the building. 

Tekashi 6ix9ine testifies for prosecution: 'I got my career' thanks to Brooklyn gang

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine testified on Tuesday against two alleged members of a Brooklyn street gang, describing how he discovered a formula for success with the crew before betraying it by becoming a prosecution witness.

6ix9ine - his rainbow-colored hair gone but trademark "69" tattoo on his forehead visible to anyone in the courtroom - explained that his role in the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods was to "just keep making hits and be the financial support for the gang ... so they could buy guns and stuff like that."

Asked what he got in return, the 23-year-old rapper responded: "My career. I got the street credibility. The videos, the music, the protection - all of the above."

The testimony in federal court in Manhattan was a dramatic turnabout for a performer who had gone out of his way to portray himself as a legitimate gang member. He told the jury he decided to cooperate only a day after his arrest last year on a racketeering indictment naming him as a member of the gang - a move that has put him at risk behind bars and prompted rap icon Snoop Dogg to label him a "snitch" in a recent Instagram post.

On trial are Aljermiah Mack and Anthony Ellison, described by prosecutors as two high-ranking members of a gang that terrorized city streets with drug-dealing and gunfire. They say that after a falling out with 6ix9ine, Ellison took revenge by abducting and robbing the rapper.

Both defendants have denied the charges, with an attorney for Ellison portraying the alleged kidnapping as a publicity stunt

Pittsburgh Pirates' closer Felipe Vázquez accused of sex crimes in Florida and Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh Pirates' all-star closer Felipe Vázquez was arrested Tuesday on a felony count of soliciting a child for unlawful sexual conduct using computer services or devices, and also faces serious charges in Pennsylvania, according to statements from authorities and court documents.

Vázquez, 28, a two-time All-Star who's among the National League leaders in saves this season, was arrested in Pittsburgh on a felony warrant from Lee County, Florida, according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement statement.

He also faces one count of giving obscene material to a minor, the statement said.

He did not enter a plea in court, according to Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Stephen J. Limani.

Vázquez was also accused Tuesday in Pennsylvania of statutory sexual assault of a person who is under the age of 16 by someone who is at least 11 years older, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of a minor by a defendant who is 18 years old or older, and indecent assault on a person less than 16 years old. The first two charges are first degree felonies.

Attorneys for Vazquez provided the following comment to CNN:

"We are in the process of reviewing both the Pennsylvania and Florida charging documents, as well as the underlying facts of the matter," attorney Jay K. Reisinger and attorney Michael A. Comber said. "At this time, any comment would be premature."

Vázquez was denied bail, according to a spokesperson for the arraignment court in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Pirates President Frank Coonelly said the Major League Baseball commissioner's office has placed Vázquez on administrative leave.

"We take this matter, and these charges in particular, extremely seriously," Coonelly said in a statement. "We need to be respectful to all involved and the ongoing legal proceeding. As a result, the organization, our staff and players cannot comment any further at this time."

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Chris Archer called the allegations "very, very serious" on Tuesday.

"Right now, as far as we know, they're just allegations," he said. "There's not a whole lot that we can say. But I do have a 14-year-old sister so it's something that hits home."

The team "talked about a lot of different emotions that were stirred up today in a lot of different places," manager Clint Hurdle added. They also discussed ways they can hold themselves accountable on and off the field, he said.

Vázquez's locker in PNC Park in Pittsburgh has been cleaned out, a Pirates spokesman told CNN Sports Tuesday. Signs featuring the left-handed pitcher at the ballpark have also been removed.

Tropical Depression Imelda Drenching the Upper Texas Coast, Poses Flooding Risk

Tropical Depression Imelda will deliver rounds of heavy rain to parts Texas and Louisiana through late-week, triggering potential flash flooding, including in the Houston metro area.

More than four inches of rain has already fallen in Houston and Galveston, and up to 6.56 inches has fallen in Turkey Creek, Texas.

Imelda is moving northward through Houston following a landfall near Freeport, Texas, Tuesday afternoon as a tropical storm.

(LATEST NEWS: Imelda Closes Schools in Galveston)

Projected Path

Happening Now

Bands of heavy rain are wrapping into the upper Texas coast and southern Louisiana. Localized flash flooding cannot be ruled out in this area overnight.

Current Radar, Watches and Warnings

(Watches and warnings are issued by the National Weather Service.)

Flash flood watches have been issued by the National Weather Service for much of the upper Texas coast, including Houston and Galveston, and for a portion of southwestern Louisiana.

Christie Brinkley Breaks Arm During ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Rehearsal, Will Be Replaced by Her Daughter

Christie Brinkley will be watching the new season ofDancing with the Stars from the comfort of her couch. This morning, ABC announced that the 65-year-old model and actress will no longer be competing on DWTS Season 28 after she fell and broke her arm. In order to keep things in the family, Brinkley’s youngest daughter Sailor Brinkley-Cook will be dancing her place. “We wish Christie a full and speedy recovery and look forward to seeing her in the audience, whenever possible, proudly supporting Sailor,” said ABC and BBC Studios in a statement.

On Monday morning, Good Morning America revealed that Brinkley broke her arm and will no longer be competing on DWTS. In a video of the injury, the model can be seen tripping over her partner’s foot and landing hard on her arm. Brinkley told GMA about the accident, saying via statement, “Showbiz is all about getting a break, and Sailor and I both got one on Dancing with the Stars this season. Sailor joined the cast when I got mine … ouch somebody stop me, it hurts to laugh!”

In an official statement, ABC and BBC Studios addressed Brinkley’s fall and the the casting change. “While rehearsing for the premiere of Dancing with the Stars, Christie Brinkley suffered injuries which required surgery to her wrist and arm. She is unable to continue her planned participation on the show,” the statement reads. “Keeping it all in the family, her daughter Sailor Brinkley-Cook, a Sports Illustrated model, has chosen to quickly step in with hours to learn the entire routine and will compete in her mother’s place for the remainder of the season. We wish Christie a full and speedy recovery and look forward to seeing her in the audience, whenever possible, proudly supporting Sailor.”

Ex-football player gets more than 50 years behind bars for murdering classmate

A Maine man who used to play football at West Virginia University and in Europe will spend the next 58 years behind bars for murdering a 19-year-old former classmate.

Jalique Keene, a stand-out running back, was sentenced Wednesday by a judge in Bar Harbor.

He had been convicted in May of killing Mikaela Conley — whom he went to high school with — just after returning home from Europe in 2018. Her body was found that June by a state police K-9 unit.

Keene, 22, told jurors that he couldn’t remember what happened that day, even though he admitted in court to being caught on surveillance tape carrying Conley’s dead body. The young man claimed that a fight broke out between him and Conley after the two of them had consensual sex.  He allegedly raped, beat and strangled the fellow Mount Desert High School alum and then ditched her body on a local road.

Prosecutors had been seeking a life sentence for Conley’s murder. Keene was sentenced to 58 years for the slaying and 30 years for the rape. The prison terms will be served concurrently.

Now You Can Communicate 40+ Languages Instantly With This Genius Device

Translaty is a genius high-tech invention that is changing the way people from different countries communicate.

This pocket-size device allows you to communicate to almost anyone on the planet in their own language without even learning a word! Until now, Translaty was only used by the world leaders, but as of today it’s finally available to anyone! The best part? Now everyone can afford to communicate multiple languages without spending hundreds on language courses!

Have you ever tried to imagine the world where you could communicate any language you want? Have you ever experienced any inconvenience caused by “language barrier” while travelling? Have you ever thought how awesome would those language courses be if they didn’t cost so much money and require so much time? Which made you wonder how great it would be to be able to communicate in any foreign language in seconds? Well, now you can actually do it!

Translaty was created by Japanese to serve this purpose – without wasting your money and time on language courses, you can instantly become “fluent” in more than 40 languages with this genius device! Forget everything that made you feel insecure about your language skills in the past – Translaty is your confident future!

What is Translaty?

Translaty is a simple yet life-changing Japanese invention that helps you to overcome any obstacles caused by foreign languages, whether you’re in a business meeting with an international client or chilling somewhere on a Spanish beach. This small but ingenious device is able to instantly recognize and translate over 40 different languages, making intercultural communication completely effortless! WithTranslaty you are able to communicate to almost anyone in the world in seconds!

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Science proves toned bodies are now sexier than skinny ones

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it seems all the fitness influencers on Instagram have triggered a cultural shift.

The University of Missouri-Kansas City asked 78 female undergraduate students to rate the winners of the Miss USA beauty pageant, and the researchers discovered that women with toned or muscular figures are now seen as sexier as women who are very thin.

The students were asked to study photos of the women who were crowned Miss USA between 1999 and 2013 and rate them according to how muscular, thin and attractive they were.

The study found more of the recent winners were muscular and toned rather than thin, which showed that attitudes toward physical beauty have shifted.

Head researcher Frances Bozsik published the study’s findings in the journal Sex Roles, explaining: “There is a shift in the thin ideal female figure to one that now includes the appearance of physical fitness via muscularity.”

She added that this was connected to the explosion of “fitspo” on social media channels.

Frances also noted that both muscularity and thinness were commonly found among female celebrities.

Referring to sites such as Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest, she explained how being able to curate collections of fit and healthy idols can also encourage eating disorders.

She said: “These websites allow individuals to collect images of women with whom they identify or admire, essentially allowing them to cultivate their own media repertoire of highly salient thin and fit media.

‘This process of selecting preferred images and then narrowing the media focus by placing these images on their ‘boards’ may inadvertently increase the risk of developing higher levels of body dissatisfaction, as well as subsequent disordered-eating behaviors that are linked to it.”

A second study carried out by the university saw 64 students presented with pictures of 14 different women.

Each shot was paired up to show the woman with and without muscle definition — a combination that saw the pictures both deemed equally attractive.

But when one of the photos was left untouched, the results showed that the subjects found the more muscular version more attractive.

The Bahamas and the Caribbean Have Withstood Hurricanes for Centuries

Europeans came to the islands unprepared for the destructive storms, even as indigenous people understood their massive power

the Bahamas were spared this past weekend when Tropical Storm Humberto's 70 mph winds just brushed by the islands. Only two weeks earlier, they were not so fortunate as Hurricane Dorian caused such havoc to the country that the full extent of the damage has yet to be accounted. The Category 5 behemoth rampaged through the upper Bahamas with record-setting windspeeds, then lethally paused its forward motion over Grand Bahama for more than a day, allowing its destructive eyewall to spin in place. The storm's 185 miles-per-hour winds splintered homes and whipped up a storm surge that swallowed the land. An international effort is searching for the 1,300 people (as of this writing) still missing.

The level of destruction is reminiscent of Hurricane Maria's landfall on Dominica in 2017, which killed 65, damaged or destroyed 90 percent of the island's structures, and prompted a fifth of the island to migrate in its aftermath. Maria also tore through Puerto Rico, causing flash floods, destroying homes and completely crashing the power grid for months. The initial death toll of 64 was later expanded to nearly 3,000 as people died from the lingering effects the storm caused. An estimated 130,000 Puerto Ricans left the island in its aftermath.

In the past four Atlantic hurricane seasons, five Category 5 hurricanes have formed; the vulnerability of these islands has never seemed more stark. Can these communities recover and survive such an uncertain future? If history is any guide, they will, as many times as they need to.

Hurricanes have ravaged the Caribbean for millennia. The cycles of activity have varied, but the massive storms have always presented a threat. Centuries ago, long before the advent of weather forecasting, the storms in and around the Caribbean inflicted so much catastrophic damage that it seems remarkable people remained. But they did, and they rebuilt. Now, as we enter an uncertain era marked by a warming planet, the resilience of these communities will be tested again and again.

For the indigenous Taíno and Carib people who populated the Caribbean islands in the pre-Columbian exchange years, the storms were part of the cycle of their seasons—feared, but expected. The Carib, from the Lesser Antilles, were skilled navigators on the water and scheduled the launch of their raiding party canoes for early winter, past what is recognized today as the June-to-November hurricane season, notes Yale history professor Stuart Schwartz in Sea of Storms, his history of Caribbean hurricanes.

“There's even evidence Europeans relied on Indians to tell them when hurricanes were coming,” Schwartz said. The indigenous islanders read signs in the way birds and fish behaved, the color of the sun, and abrupt shifts in the breeze. “The Indians are so skillful that they know two or three or four days beforehand the coming of it,” one Englishman wrote in 1638.

Scientists still marvel at a Taíno statuette, believed to be the god Huracán—from which we get the word hurricane—found in Cuba by scholar Fernando Ortiz. The ceramic sculpture depicts a head with two arms sweeping in counterclockwise direction, mimicking a hurricane's spiral winds. “How they may have made this deduction remains mysterious,” writes MIT hurricane scientist Kerry Emanuel in his history of hurricanes Divine Wind. The storms are far too big for humans to perceive from the ground. It wasn't until much later that Europeans deduced the storm's counterclockwise circular wind pattern. Perhaps they inferred this from the pattern of destruction, or from observing small funnel clouds over the water called windspouts, he suggests.

While the hurricane's fearsome vortex winds may have been well known to the Taíno and Caribs, they were new to the colonizing Europeans in the 16th century. Because the early colonists had no name for them, researchers scouring diaries and records look for the telltale description of winds “coming from all points on the compass,” according to Schwartz.'

More often than not, the storms caught the European colonizers off-guard, with cataclysmic results. Christopher Columbus had experienced a hurricane or tropical storm in 1495 near Hispaniola, the first known recorded. Seven years later, on his fourth voyage from Spain, Columbus stopped in what is now the Dominican Republic.

Eli Manning Takes a Seat After Years as the Giants’ Great Catch

For Daniel Jones and the franchise, there are lessons to be taken from Manning’s arrival 15 years ago and his development into a Super Bowl M.V.P.

With the Eli Manning era in Giants football apparently ending on Tuesday, fans might want to recall just how fortunate they were that Manning ever wore the team’s uniform.

The exit of a fading hero is always sport’s version of tragedy, and there was, fittingly, a considerable amount of melancholy enveloping Giants-land on Tuesday.

But Manning’s story is also laced with a healthy dose of kismet. That should be remembered now as well.

Manning turned out to have everything he needed to become the ideal quarterback for New York’s most stately franchise after he arrived in 2004 — from the quirky, quizzical look that came over his face in times of duress on the field to his unswerving resilience when battered physically to his clever ability to avoid the celebritymaelstrom in the country’s biggest market.

Trump on Cokie Roberts' death: 'She never treated me nicely. But I would like to wish her family well'

President Donald Trump on Tuesday reacted to the death of veteran journalist Cokie Roberts by saying "she never treated me nicely" before extending his well wishes to her family.

"I never met her. She never treated me nicely. But I would like to wish her family well. She was a professional, and I respect professionals," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to California. "I respect you guys a lot, you people a lot. She was a real professional. Never treated me well, but I certainly respect her as a professional."

Trump's tense relationship with the press has become a cornerstone of his administration, with the President repeatedly admonishing journalists as "the enemy of the people." His comments on Tuesday -- and, notably, his complaint that Roberts "never treated me nicely" -- stood in stark contrast to the praise Roberts' memory received elsewhere as a trailblazer in journalism.

Trump's predecessor, former President Barack Obama, released a statement Tuesday calling Roberts "a role model to young women at a time when the profession was still dominated by men; a constant over forty years of a shifting media landscape and changing world, informing voters about the issues of our time and mentoring young journalists every step of the way." And former Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner who served under Obama for eight years, echoed that sentiment in a tweet, calling Roberts "a pioneer."

"Relentless in her pursuit of the truth and steadfast in her commitment to breaking down barriers for women in journalism—our country is better because of it," Biden said.

Former President George W. Bush memorialized Roberts in his own statement Tuesday, celebrating her as "a talented, tough, and fair reporter."

"We respected her drive and appreciated her humor," the nation's 43rd President said. "She became a friend."

Roberts died at age 75 "due to complications from breast cancer," her family said in a statement Tuesday.

She worked in television, public radio and publishing for more than 40 years, beginning her tenure at ABC as a contributor for "This Week with David Brinkley" and later becoming ABC's chief congressional analyst.

In a memo to staffers announcing Cokie's death Tuesday, ABC News president James Goldston said her "kindness, generosity, sharp intellect and thoughtful take on the big issues of the day made ABC a better place and all of us better journalists. Please take a moment today to remember an exceptional reporter and remarkable friend.

Champions League will be won by Man City, Liverpool or Barcelona. Sorry, everyone else

For the past decade or so, every single Champions League campaign has begun with a kind of unspoken agreement among everyone watching. We tune into the qualification playoffs as if the fourth-best team from Italy or England could actually make some noise come the knockout rounds. We watch the group stage draw to see who ended up in the Impossible Group and to complain about whatever other group Manchester City inevitably receive. We watch the group stages themselves to figure out whether this was the year Napoli, or Porto, or Arsenal, could finally put a real scare into one of the contenders.

But deep down, we all knew that either Barcelona, Bayern Munich or Real Madrid were going to win and for the most part, and we were right.

In the 10 editions of the tournament before 2018-19, that trio of teams won 80% of the European Cups. Bayern nabbed one, Barca won three and Madrid took home four. Perhaps more incredibly, one of those three teams were in every final and in the years where Bayern, Barca and Madrid didn't win, it required either a historic outlier or a literal volcanic eruption to prevent them from doing so. The title changed each year, but the natural order of things was for either Bayern, or Barcelona, or Real Madrid to be the best team in the world.

However, that all changed last year.

Madrid, the three-time defending champs, got uppercut into outer space by Ajax in the round of 16 while the eventual winners, Liverpool, took out Bayern in the same round and then Barca in the semis. Liverpool's victory marked the first time since 2012 that someone outside of the Bayern-Barca-Madrid triumvirate lifted the European Cup. And the final itself, with Tottenham finishing runner-up, marked the first time that none of the three continental superpowers appeared in the final since 2008, which, coincidentally, was also an all-English matchup between Manchester United and Chelsea.

Liverpool have now been to back-to-back finals, imposing their own kind of short-term dominance over the world's premier club competition. Except, as they've done so, they've only been the second best back home. Manchester City have established themselves as the best Premier League team of all time and the most consistent club in the world right now. If Liverpool are the best team in Europe, then City are the best team on the planet, which raises the question: How many teams realistically have a shot at the Champions League this season?

Europe's old Big Three is dead. The only one preventing Liverpool and City from turning it into a Big Two is the greatest soccer player we've ever seen. This season, City will win their first title, Lionel Messi will snag his fifth Champions League trophy or Liverpool will take home their second European Cup in a row.

Here's why anything else will be a surprise.

Christie Brinkley Sobs as She Reveals Her Arm 'Shattered Into a Thousand Little Pieces' in DWTS Fall

Christie Brinkley's daughter, Sailor, will replace her on season 28 ofDancing with the Stars
Christie Brinkley knew as soon as she hit the studio floor that she was never going to be able to step out on the Dancing with the Stars stage and show off all her hard work

In fact, the model told PEOPLE exclusively in an emotional interview on Monday that she knew immediately that her arm was broken.

“The second I landed, I felt the shards in my arm,” Christie, 65, told PEOPLE in between sobs. “Like, I literally felt it in my wrist, and I just instantly looked up and said, ‘I’m so sorry, I broke my arm.'”

“There’s a little bone at the thumb that usually posts one way,” she added. “Mine was in the opposite direction. Then there was bone, just it, it was just shattered into a thousand little pieces, just a million of little pieces.”

Christie has a long road to recovery after falling during a DWTS rehearsal on Thursday. The fall left the supermodel with multiple broken bones, which required surgery to insert a plate and screws to repair her shattered arm. She also dislocated her wrist and, on top of that, had already twisted her ankle earlier in practice.

After undergoing surgery on Friday, the star — who has previously survived a horrific helicopter crash and also a serious horse and car accident —  remains on heavy pain killers.

Aside from the physical injury, Christie is also dealing with the emotional fallout of not being able to compete.

“I’m telling you I was having the time of my life,” she told PEOPLE.

“So it was really, really a crushing, crushing disappointment in every way. Literally, figuratively everything that happened. And one of the worst feelings is to feel like you’re letting anybody down, you know?”

Napoli vs Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp eager to right wrong of 2018 Champions League ‘off-day’

If last season’s Champions League provided the highlight of Jurgen Klopp’s career, he has been precise in pinpointing the low point of a glorious campaign. Napoli away, the same test as confronts Liverpool at the San Paolo on Tuesday. It is a reunion with a team who almost eliminated Liverpool in the group stage and who Klopp semi-affectionately called “the cheeky bastards”. 

Liverpool lost 1-0 in Italy last October. “The manager said it was probably our worst game of the season,” Trent Alexander-Arnold underlined on Saturday. Klopp elaborated on that with a frank admission that it was a failure of organisation; not so much on his part, as by the players who failed to heed his advice that Carlo Ancelotti was fielding both Allan and Marek Hamsik at the base of the midfield and then failed to adapt.

“We talk a lot about intensity,” Klopp said. “The Napoli game last season was not intensity, Napoli was an organisation problem. All the things we tell the boys, it is all about intensity and how much we have to invest, but before that it is all about information. What do you have to do in these moments? 

“And Napoli play a specific style. To make it very simple, we played against them in our defending like they had one No. 6 but they had two No. 6s, the cheeky bastards. We knew before. We told them [that] they had two No. 6s but then everyone came too late. We tried to change it in the game and nobody listened and nobody could change and in the end, we were lucky it was only 1-0. It was really this kind of day off.”

If it represented a rare off-day in a season when Liverpool only lost seven games, three were away from home in their Champions League group. They took a perilous path to glory, but Klopp is adamant that Liverpool’s sixth European Cup does not change their status against a team who he has admired under first Maurizio Sarri and now Ancelotti. Liverpool have not won in Italy for a decade and Klopp feels the Champions League is so strong it doubles up as a European Super League.

Australia refuses to rule out handing over Sydney lawyer who advocates for West Papuans to Indonesia

Dfat says Interpol red notice for arrest of Veronica Koman is a matter for Australian federal police

The Australian government has refused to rule out handing over a Sydney-based lawyer who advocates for West Papuans to Indonesian authorities.

Veronica Koman, an Indonesian human rights lawyer who currently lives in Australia, is being pursued by Indonesian police for disseminating evidence of police- and military-backed violence in West Papua.

Koman has been a credible source of eyewitness accounts, photos and footage of protests that have swept across West Papua and other Indonesian provinces in recent weeks.

Several people have reportedly died and dozens of others injured in violent clashes with Indonesian police, military and military-backed militia, which were sparked by the racist abuse of Papuan students in Java but have morphed into a demand for a referendum on West Papuan independence.

Koman faces charges under the country’s controversial electronic information and transactions law, and faces up to six years in jail if found guilty.

East Java police spokesman Frans Barung Mangera told the Guardian that if Koman did not report to Indonesian authorities by 18 September, a red notice would be issued through Interpol for her arrest. “After that we will work with the international police,” he said.

When asked whether the Australian federal police would act on an Interpol red notice for the arrest of Koman, a spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was a matter for the AFP. A spokesperson for the AFP said: “Any questions regarding this matter should be directed to Indonesian authorities.”

Koman said in a statement that there was a “surprisingly wide [Indonesian] government campaign to pressure me into silence”, including police intimidation of her family in Jakarta and threats to revoke her Indonesian passport and block her bank accounts.

“For years, the Indonesian government has allocated more time and energy to waging a propaganda war than it has to investigating and ending human rights abuses in West Papua,” she said. “Now we are seeing a clear example of ‘shoot the messenger’ in the state’s effort to persecute those, including me, who draw attention to abuses it is unwilling or unable to address.”

The Interpol “red notice” system – ostensibly used to “seek the location and arrest of wanted persons wanted for prosecution or to serve a sentence” – is regularly abused by authoritarian governments to pursue dissidents or political opponents who have left the country’s territory.

Globally, there are about 58,000 current valid red notices, of which only about 7,000 are public.

Article 3 of Interpol’s constitution forbids Interpol from undertaking “any intervention or activities of a political, military, religious or racial character”.

Indonesia issued a red notice for West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda in 2011 but was forced to rescind it in 2012 after it was found to be politically motivated, and without genuine criminal basis.

Australia has detained at least one person on the basis of a flawed red notice.

Egypt issued a red notice for its national Sayed Abdellatif, who arrived in Australia by boat as an asylum seeker in 2012.

A Guardian investigation revealed that several charges listed against his name had never been brought against him at his trial-in-absentia and that other convictions were based on evidence obtained “under severe torture”. The Australian government had known for 18 months the red notice was invalid but had not acted to release him.

Abdellatif’s family members received visas and were released into the community. But he remains in high security at Sydney’s Villawood detention centre after more than seven years, despite recommendations from the United Nations human rights council that he be released and compensated for his “clearly disproportionate … deprivation of liberty”.

Fair Trials took up Abdellatif’s case, campaigning for the red notice to be withdrawn, and it was finally removed in 2018.

On Monday, a group of UN human rights experts issued a statement calling on Indonesia to protect the rights of Koman and others reporting on the West Papua protests.

“We call for immediate measures to ensure the protection of freedom of expression and address acts of harassment, intimidation, interference, undue restriction and threats against those reporting on the protests,” the experts said.