Blair suspected a trap and drew a line in the sand. On Aug. 31 he invited The Times of London in for an interview. He refused repeatedly–“at least eight times,” according to the paper–to say when he would step down. He told Labour Party leaders to “stop obsessing,” and let his frustration show. “Look, what is the difficulty here? … If you start laying down timetables, then what you do is you just provide for another endless bout of speculation, and the authority of the prime minister’s position becomes difficult in those circumstances....

What all of this means is that Bush isn’t done with his role as fundraiser in chief. While SMU and its supporters have promised to raise millions on behalf of the project, the grunt work will be on Bush. But he won’t be stuck doing $500-a head fundraisers, as he did during the 2006 campaign. Donations to the library foundation are unregulated and can be raised from anyone, including foreign donors....

Denver's Quincy Miller found out the hard way. That's nasty.

McCutchen was hurt on a swing Sunday in Arizona, one day after the Diamondbacks’ Randall Delgado drilled him in the back with a fastball MORE: Time for Bucs to panic after quiet deadline? The defending NL MVP is hitting .311/.411/.536 with 17 homers and 17 stolen bases.

For the first time in decades, the Pirates have a face of the franchise. While McCutchen is rarely mentioned in the same breath as Bryce Harper or Mike Trout (although an argument could be made that he should be,) he doesn’t need to ascend to that level of greatness to have an impact in Pittsburgh and beyond. MORE: Potential first-time All-Stars | MLB stars off to awful starts When Barry Bonds and Andy Van Slyke departed from the organization in the early 90s, the Pirates lost their soul and their identity....

“Given the President’s latest actions I think impeachment is the right path forward,” Yang tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. “Asking foreign leaders for political help in return for aid and then suppressing your own agency’s inquiry is egregious. There have to be limits and Congress is right to act.” According to unnamed officials, Pelosi’s announcement will come after a closed-door meeting with the Democratic caucus. The House Speaker has previously been hesitant in impeachment talks but in recent days has appeared to change her mind after the emergence of the whistleblower scandal....

In his new book, Forward, the former Democratic presidential candidate wrote that he saw Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential election as a nationwide cry for help and urged people not to dismiss his supporters. Although Trump lost to Joe Biden four years later, he earned a whopping 74 million votes, and Yang saw Trump’s increase in support from 2016 as a warning to Democrats. “It was likely that he might even have won if not for the coronavirus, which had killed 230,000 Americans by the time of the election,” Yang wrote....

Argentina goalkeeper Andujar leapt to the defence of his team-mate, who has been criticised following his four-match ban for abusing a linesman after last week’s win over Chile in World Cup qualifying. Klopp: Brazil want to play like Liverpool Andujar feels five-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi - Argentina’s all-time leading goalscorer who temporarily retired after Copa America Centenario last year - is being unfairly treated in the South American country....

His undefeated team was playing in prime time at home against a two-win, in-state rival that was missing three players in its secondary. Oh, and it was National Redhead Day. MORE: Top photos from Thursday’s game | Five things we learned from Bengals’ win Dalton and the Bengals capitalized with a 31-10 victory over the Browns on Thursday night at Paul Brown Stadium. Dalton threw for 234 yards and three touchdowns, each of which went to tight end Tyler Eifert....

With 150,729 cases, Germany has had the fifth largest outbreak worldwide, according to a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University. The country’s managed to keep its death toll comparatively low at 5,315 people and had the most recoveries of any country. But Merkel warned returning to normal life too soon will erase the progress they’ve made. “We are on thin ice, the thinnest ice even,” Merkel told the Bundestag lower house of parliament, according to Reuters....

The Los Angeles superstar and his wife are expecting the birth of their first child in August, and being asked to play baseball in the middle of a pandemic is a difficult concept to handle. To that end, Trout seems uncertain as to whether he’ll cleat up and play this year after speaking with reporters on Friday. MORE: Complete list of MLB players who have opted out for 2020...

Gillaspie is hitting .237/.276/.364 with three homers and 15 RBIs in 173 at bats. Wilk is 4-7 with a 5.52 in the PCL this season. He was DFA’d to make room on the 40-man roster for Gillaspie. The Angels expect to be without Freese for at least three weeks.

Here’s how, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Bill Plaschke: MORE: These are the worst MLB alternate uniforms Angels owner Arte Moreno “allowed a cultural rift between tradition-bound manager Mike Scioscia and analytics-minded general manager Jerry Dipoto to escalate into Dipoto’s departure” in the middle of a possible playoff season. “All around, a weird year in the front office with what’s going on with Jerry and then what happened with Josh (Hamilton),” Angels pitcher Hector Santiago said Wednesday....

That is, unless they mean the F words these cops, grifters and slinky, treacherous broads are now allowed to snarl into the smoke of their unfiltered cigarettes. But surely the characters in such film-noir classics as “Gun Crazy” would have told each other to “take a flying f- at a rolling doughnut” (as Gary Busey tells James Woods in one “Fallen Angels” episode) if some so-and-so censor hadn’t nixed it....

In a post shared on Mumsnet last Tuesday, the mom, who goes by the username Knitwit101, said that she and her neighbor have lived next door for years and that they know each other “well enough to say hi and put bins out on holiday” but they are not friends by any means. While the mom and her family were on holiday, her neighbor made some new arrangements for his house....

In the latest incident on Thursday, Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder was accused of racism after making a joke about Asian food when asked when the trial would break for lunch. “Let’s hope for one o’clock,” Schroeder said. “I hope the Asian food isn’t on one of those boats in Long Beach harbor,” he added, apparently in reference to the logjam of boats in California ports. The comments were heavily criticized online given they were made in a trial which is already racially charged....

What Does Angioimmunoblastic Mean? The term angio refers to blood vessels. This lymphoma has certain unusual features including an increase in the number of small abnormal blood vessels in the body parts that are affected. ‘Immunoblast’ is a term used for an immature immune cell (or lymph cell). They are the cells that normally mature into lymphocytes, but a certain number of them normally live in the bone marrow, ready to proliferate when more lymphocytes are needed....

Crystal Urban Rose posted the photo of two gators locked onto each other with wide mouths, drawing blood with sharp teeth and laser locking their cold eyes in the Ritch Grissom Memorial Wetlands in Brevard County. The alligators didn’t just snap at each other, grab a bite and leave. They gnawed on the other for at least an hour, Rose posted to her Facebook page and reported by other local outlets....

Kraft discussed at length his perspective on Deflategate, and how he views the commissioner’s office and the resulting harsh punishment his team received following the Wells Report. MORE: Tom Brady goes golfing with Michael Jordan | SNL spoofs Brady | Suspensions shorter than Brady’s “This whole thing has been very disturbing,” Kraft the MMQB. “I’m still thinking things out very carefully. But when you work for something your whole life …...