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Après avoir ouvert la porte à un retour en France, N’Golo Kanté (34 ans) a relancé bien malgré lui des rumeurs d’une arrivée à l’OM au prochain mercato. N’Golo Kanté entretient le suspense. Alors que son contrat avec Al-Ittihad prendra fin en juin 2026, le milieu de terrain tricolore a ouvert la porte à un retour en France, relançant les spéculations autour d’un possible transfert en Ligue 1. Interrogé par Téléfoot sur son avenir, Kanté reste prudent : « On est focus sur la saison à Al-Ittihad. On verra ce qui se présente après. Ce qu’on veut, c’est profiter au maximum des années de foot qui sont devant moi. J’espère que ça sera une année complète à tous les niveaux. » Et quand le sujet du retour en Ligue 1 est évoqué, le champion du monde se montre énigmatique : « On ne sait jamais », répète-t-il, avec son éternel sourire. Paris FC, qui rêve de le faire revenir, n’est pas le seul club sur les rangs. L’OM pourrait également se positionner. Kanté, le milieu qui manque à l’OM ? Canal+ s’intéresse au dossier et le journaliste Sacha Nabet évoque la possible arrivée du Français à Marseille : « Le recrutement d’un milieu est à l’étude. Il nous manque ce profil pour nous faire franchir un cap. Face à l’Ukraine, il a gagné 6 duels sur 8, c’est exactement ce qui nous manque à l’OM. Rejoindre un club qualifié en Ligue des Champions et deuxième de Ligue 1 pour être plus exposé en vue de la Coupe du Monde, pourquoi pas ? » Kanté, qui a fait tomber l’Argentine Lionel Messi à la Coupe du Monde 2018, pourrait-il donc devenir la pièce maîtresse du milieu de l’Olympique de Marseille cet hiver ? Le mercato hivernal s’annonce déjà brûlant sur la Canebière. Voir cette publication sur Instagram Une publication partagée par Sacha Nabet (@sacha_nbt)

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert has dug in her high heels and put her hand on the holster. Despite being put under extraordinary pressure, Boebert will leave her name on the discharge petition to force a vote to release the Epstein files. I applauded Boebert — maybe for the first time ever — when she signed the discharge petition earlier this year. While she did not take center stage in the same way her bombastic colleague U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene did, the Colorado congresswoman nonetheless took a step only a handful of other Republicans were willing to take. At the time, the petition was one signature short of forcing Speaker Mike Johnson’s hand. But a few weeks later, Democrat Adelita Grijalva won a special election in Arizona to replace her father who passed away in March. She promised to add her name to the petition once sworn into office. That last part — the swearing in — proved to be a stumbling block. Johnson refused to admit her to Congress. Due to the government shutdown, Johnson claimed that business in the House could not proceed, including Grijalva’s swearing in ceremony. The longer the shutdown went on, the more ridiculous his intransigence became. Before long it was clear his true reason for delay was to keep her from signing the petition. Given that the Department of Justice had already admitted that President Donald Trump’s name appeared repeatedly throughout the files, it was clear Trump wanted Johnson to do everything possible to deny a public release. But when the shutdown ended, so did Johnson’s cover. Johnson could no longer keep the House from voting to release the Epstein files and, in turn, thousands of documents linking Jeffrey Epstein to Trump. That is probably about the same time Boebert was summoned to the White House. Of the four Republicans who signed, Boebert always appeared to be the most likely to flip. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie made the underlying motion for discharge; Greene had appeared on camera with Epstein’s victims and survivors — the start of a broader break from Trump; and U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace has long touted herself as an advocate for sexually abused women. Consequently, Boebert became the center of a lot of attention. Beyond a mere call from Trump, Boebert ended up in the most secure room in the entire country with Trump and the nation’s top law enforcement officials, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel. It is hard to picture a more intimidating environment. Nonetheless, Boebert walked out unchanged. For the life of me, I cannot understand how that happened. Boebert is above all a political opportunist and survivor. She saw an opportunity to unseat former U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton in a primary and took it. When she barely survived her reelection, she hightailed it across the state to a safer, redder district. She has brushed off verbal faux pas’s, family drama and R-rated theatrics to stay in Congress. None of those compare to the ire of Trump. Not even close. Boebert effectively courted a primary next year, one where Trump may personally oppose her. That has been a death knell for almost every member of the GOP who crossed Trump over the past 10 years. Just ask Liz Cheney or Mitt Romney or Jeff Flake or … you get the point. So, why? Maybe she has been listening to some of the fringiest of right-wing fringe podcasts. Many have been disillusioned by the Trump administration’s failure to follow through on its promise to release the documents. That particular rabbit hole leads to some very weird places, including my personal favorite from last week wherein some MAGA pundits alleged Patel’s girlfriend is a Mossad agent who honeypotted him to cover up for Epstein. Bonkers. But, reports do suggest that when Boebert left the Situation Room she felt even more strongly there was a conspiracy against the release. She may believe that the Trump ship is sinking and sees this as her best chance to secure a seat in a lifeboat. With her frenemy MTG already paddling away, she…

Each week as part of SunLit — The Sun’s literature section — we feature staff recommendations from book stores across Colorado. This week, the staff from Explore Books in Aspen recommends NAMES OF BOOKS HERE. Kafka on the Shore By Haruki MurakamiVintage$18January 2006Purchase From the publisher: From the acclaimed author of “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet 15-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. From Philip Psaledakis, bookseller: This book is a surprising read in terms of plot, aesthetics, and insight. Murakami’s magical realism takes you on a journey through a world of everything from talking cats and ghosts to music theory and philosophy to Freudian sexual encounters and gender relations. If you want to try something different, something you probably haven’t read anything similar to, I can’t recommend this book enough. The Children’s Bach By Helen Garner Vintage$18October 2024Purchase From the publisher: Set in suburban Melbourne in the early 1980s, “The Children’s Bach” centers on Dexter and Athena Fox, their two sons, and the insulated world they’ve built together. Despite the routine challenges of domestic life, they are largely happy. But when a friend from Dexter’s past resurfaces and introduces the couple to the city’s bohemian underground — unbound by routine and driven by desire — Athena begins to wonder if life might hold more for her, and the tenuous bonds that tie the Foxes together start to fray. A literary institution in Australia, Helen Garner’s perfectly formed novels embody the tumultuous 1970s and 1980s. Drawn on a small canvas and with a subtle musical backdrop, “The Children’s Bach” is a beloved work that solidified Garner’s place among the masters of modern letters, a finely etched masterpiece that weighs the burdens of commitment against the costs of liberation. From Clare Pearson, book buyer: Like many others encountering her work for the first time, I was blown away by Helen Garner’s writing. “The Children’s Bach” is somewhat limited in its character scope and plot, but truly grand in the way that it manages to capture the experience of living. I found myself saving so many excellent lines. Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell About It By Brian Murphy, with Toula VlahouGrand Central Publishing$36September 2018Purchase From the publisher: The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a few blankets, some water and biscuits, and 13 souls. Only one would survive. This is his story. From Elizabeth Ridlington, staff: My dad loves outdoor adventure and disaster books; I like books that remind me to marvel at nature’s awesomeness. We both enjoyed this well-researched story. Conditions on ships crossing the Atlantic in 1856 were unpleasant even in good circumstances, and the author describes with sensitivity the horrors experienced by passengers and crew members on one ship that struck an iceberg. I have a new appreciation for the wildness of the Atlantic and the risks faced by anyone who sailed across it before modern technology. THIS WEEK’S BOOK RECS COME FROM: Explore Booksellers 221 E. Main St.,…

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