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By Keerthi Ramesh As the 2026 FIFA World Cup draws closer, the sport’s governing body is facing growing criticism on multiple fronts, from internal embarrassment over its newly created “peace prize” awarded to President Donald Trump to urgent reminders that the match tickets do not guarantee entry into the United States amid evolving visa policies. FIFA’s peace prize, introduced at the World Cup draw in Washington, D.C., last December, was intended to honor contributions to global unity and diplomacy. Trump accepted the award amid praise from FIFA President Gianni Infantino for his role in ceasefire efforts and diplomatic engagements. But the decision has sparked disagreements within FIFA ranks and among fans and right groups worldwide. Critics expressed that awarding the prize to a sitting political leader whose recent actions include controversial military decisions and immigration policies, undermines the organization’s stated neutrality and raises questions about its judgment. Several FIFA officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, described a growing sense of embarrassment internally. One senior source characterized the situation as “very delicate,” pointing to tensions between the global football community and political entanglements surrounding the prestigious tournament. The award’s lack of transparent requirements and timing, amid U.S. foreign policy actions that have drawn international scrutiny, has intensified concerns about FIFA’s independence and reputation. READ: Will new US screening, biometric rules impact FIFA World Cup 2026 visitors? (December 11, 2025) Beyond reputational issues, FIFA is also dealing with practical concerns from supporters planning to travel to matches across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. With the tournament less than six months away, the organization has issued repeated warnings that a World Cup ticket alone does not entitle holders to enter the United States. Fans must still secure visas under U.S. immigration law. In late 2025, the Trump administration and FIFA unveiled a new “FIFA Priority Appointment Scheduling System,” commonly being referred to as FIFA Pass meant simplified visa interview appointments for ticket holders. Officials say this prioritized system is designed to help manage what is expected to be a massive influx of international visitors. But State Department and FIFA leaders have stressed that prompted appointments do not guarantee a visa, urging fans to apply early and meet existing requirements. READ: FIFA launches special pass for 2026 World Cup(November 21, 2025) The heightened focus on visas comes against a backdrop of broader U.S. immigration restrictions that have affected citizens of certain nations, prompting some supporters to raise alarms about accessibility to the tournament. While teams, staff and immediate family members typically receive exemptions, ordinary fans from affected countries may find themselves unable to secure travel authorization without careful planning. For FIFA and its global audience, the 2026 World Cup is poised to be one of the most watched and commercially significant tournaments ever. But as preparations continue, the dual pressures of political controversies and logistical challenges serve as stark reminders that staging the world’s premier football event in a complex geopolitical era will require navigating far more than just matches on the pitch The post FIFA faces heat over Trump peace prize, issues visa warning appeared first on The American Bazaar.

Within minutes following the January 7, 2026 ICE shooting tragedy in Minnesota, where an immigration enforcement operation ended in gunfire, casualties, and competing narratives, social networks fractured along predictable partisan lines. Before investigations could establish basic facts, the horrible death of Renee Nicole Good became a Rorschach test: proof of either tyrannical federal overreach or necessary enforcement against violent resistance, depending on which media ecosystem you inhabited. Conservative outlets emphasized officer safety and the dangers of sanctuary policies. Progressive media focused on aggressive enforcement tactics and community trauma. Each side had witnesses, selectively edited video footage, expert commentary confirming priors. It was almost impossible to find shared agreement on what actually happened because we no longer have shared institutions capable of establishing common facts, let alone common ground for negotiating what those facts mean for policy. This tragic incident is no longer just about Renee Good, Minnesota or immigration enforcement. Like so many other issues that divide us daily, this tragic incident exposes the ongoing collapse of a negotiating framework that makes American democracy possible. We once made reasonable assumptions that parties in profound disagreement can nevertheless establish mechanisms for continuing conversation. Today, facts themselves become contested based on tribal affiliation. Every institution, courts, universities, media, even science, is suspected of partisan capture. Negotiations are now almost impossible because there’s no neutral ground on which to stand. In Philadelphia, where I live, we are preparing to mark 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. Over a million tourists are expected to visit Philadelphia this year to celebrate the Semiquincentennial. Perhaps the most relevant commemoration wouldn’t be another parade or fireworks display, but rather a serious reckoning with Philadelphia’s actual origin story. Not a tale of easy consensus but of how people with radically different worldviews, who spoke different languages, held incompatible cosmologies, served different peoples, established frameworks for continuing negotiation across seemingly unbridgeable divides. If they could negotiate then, can we learn to negotiate now? Under the elm: The original compact What if we could time transport ourselves under the Treaty Elm, that massive tree under which William Penn and Lenape Chief Tamanend negotiated the 1682 compact that would make Philadelphia possible. The gulf separating these two men was larger than a canyon. Penn represented European colonial expansion, Christian theology, written law, and proprietary land ownership. Tamanend represented indigenous sovereignty, animist spirituality, oral tradition, and communal relationship to land. They had every reason to view each other as existential threats. But they negotiated. The story actually begins earlier. In 1638, Swedish settlers established New Sweden along the Delaware River. When Dutch forces conquered them in 1655, the Dutch didn’t expel the Swedes but incorporated them, recognizing existing property claims and allowing Swedish legal customs to persist. This established a crucial precedent: governance in this territory would layer rather than replace, would negotiate rather than erase. Multiple peoples with incompatible visions could coexist through negotiated frameworks rather than through domination. William Penn’s arrival in 1682 represented a third iteration. Having received Pennsylvania as payment for debts the Crown owed his father, Penn needed to establish legitimacy with three distinct groups: the English Crown (which granted his charter), the existing European settlers (Swedish and Dutch), and the indigenous Lenape who actually controlled the land. Any one of these groups could have denied Penn his ambitions. Instead, he negotiated with all three. The Treaty of…

<p id="par-1_51">Cardi B has a good relationship <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/why-cardi-b-kept-stefon-diggs-baby-secret-parents-until-big-tv-reveal.html/">with her mother</a> now that she is an adult. They clashed a bit more in her adolescence, though. Cardi said her mother <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/cardi-b-knows-parenting-kids-mad-thinks-worth.html/">wanted to protect he</a>r as much as possible. She pushed back and wanted to be everything her mother didn’t want her to be.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-cardi-b-said-she-wanted-to-be-a-different-person-than-her-mom-wanted-her-to-be">Cardi B said she wanted to be a different person than her mom wanted her to be</h2> <p id="par-2_24">While growing up, Cardi said that though she heard rap music from her neighbors, her mother never let her listen to it at home.</p> <p id="par-3_38">“My mom always wanted to keep me really childlike,” she told Mariah Carey in a conversation for <a href="https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/cardi-b-gets-a-pep-talk-from-mariah-carey" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Interview Magazine</a>. “She wanted me to listen to Barney and Disney music, so I was only interested in Barney and Disney.”</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio" id="emb-1"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <iframe title="Why Cardi B REFUSES to Hire a Nanny" width="925" height="520" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ryboNU3BX5o?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div></figure> <p id="par-4_16">When she discovered other artists, though, she wanted to do everything she could to emulate them. </p> <p id="par-5_75">“We used to go to my grandmother’s house, where they would always play BET and s***,” she said. “When I <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/music/missy-elliott-says-tweets-oops-oh-my-isnt-about-sex.html/">saw Missy Elliott</a> take off her head in a music video, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is so strange. I want to do that when I grow up.’ And then I started seeing girls like Trina, and I was like, ‘She’s so sexy. I want to talk like that when I grow up.’”</p> <p id="par-6_16">Suddenly, she wanted to dress and behave in a way her mother may not have liked.</p> <p id="par-7_30">“I always wanted to be what my mom didn’t let me be,” she said. “I wanted to wear small shirts and have my belly out and wear little kitty heels.”</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-cardi-b-has-come-to-understand-her-mom-s-concerns-for-her">Cardi B has come to understand her mom’s concerns for her</h2> <p id="par-8_30">Cardi said her <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/cardi-b-mom-shamed-wap.html/">mother has accepted</a> her for the way she is now. The rapper understands that her mother’s concerns were for her own good while she was growing up.</p> <p id="par-9_55">“When I told my mom I was a stripper that really bothered her for a minute,” she said. “But now when she hears me saying grown s***, I don’t think she gives a f*** anymore. I think she didn’t want me to grow up so fast, because the kids around my neighborhood grew up fast.”</p> <p id="par-10_14">She wanted to protect her daughter from things she was already being exposed to. </p> <p id="par-11_22">“That’s why my mom was always scared,” she said. “There was teen pregnancy all around us. She was just being a mom.”</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-both-her-parents-have-helped-her-with-her-children">Both her parents have helped her with her…

<p id="par-1_29">After playing his college football for the Oklahoma Sooners and then at the University of Southern California, the Chicago Bears selected quarterback <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/chicago-bears-quarterback-caleb-williams-girlfriend-alina-thyregod.html/">Caleb Williams</a> with the first pick in the 2024 <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/nfl/">NFL</a> draft. </p> <p id="par-2_44">Caleb began his rookie season giving defenses fits and delivered a jolt to a Bears team had been lacking that for some time. Then in the 2025-26 season, <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/celebrity-athletes/">the signal caller</a> led his team to the playoffs for the first time since 2020. </p> <p id="par-3_35">With so much attention on Williams now, fans in the Windy City and beyond want to know all about his life off the field and his family. Here’s more on Caleb and his parents. </p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-who-are-caleb-williams-mother-and-father">Who are Caleb Williams’ mother and father?</h2> <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/DDAxjOQSDxG/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"><div style="padding:16px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DDAxjOQSDxG/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <div style=" display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div></div></div><div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display:block; height:50px; margin:0 auto 12px; width:50px;"><svg width="50px" height="50px" viewbox="0 0 60 60" version="1.1" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"><g transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)" fill="#000000"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899…

<p id="par-1_41">After playing his <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/sports/?swcfpc=1">college football</a> at Stanford, where he tied the record for most touchdowns in a single game for a tight end, Colby Parkinson was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round of the 2020 <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/nfl/?swcfpc=1">NFL</a> Draft. </p> <p id="par-2_53">He spent four seasons with the Seahawks before signing with the division rival Los Angeles Rams in the 2024 offseason. In an NFC Wild Card Game against the Carolina Panthers on Jan. 10, 2026, Colby had two receptions for 34 yards, including a 19-yard game-winning touchdown with 38 seconds remaining on the clock.</p> <p id="par-3_29">With so much attention on him following that victory, fans want to know more about <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/celebrity-athletes/?swcfpc=1">the athlete</a> and his life off the field, including who his wife is. </p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-how-colby-and-melanie-met-and-when-they-got-married">How Colby and Melanie met and when they got married</h2> <blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrCHnYXv-Sy/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;margin: 1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:99.375%;width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px);width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:16px"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrCHnYXv-Sy/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="background:#FFFFFF;line-height:0;padding:0 0;text-align:center;text-decoration:none;width:100%" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <div style="flex-direction: row;align-items: center"> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 40px;margin-right: 14px;width: 40px"></div> <div style="flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center"> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;margin-bottom: 6px;width: 100px"></div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 4px;flex-grow: 0;height: 14px;width: 60px"></div></div></div><div style="padding: 19% 0"></div> <div style="height:50px;margin:0 auto 12px;width:50px"></div><div style="padding-top: 8px"> <div style="color:#3897f0;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:550;line-height:18px">View this post on Instagram</div></div><div style="padding: 12.5% 0"></div> <div style="flex-direction: row;margin-bottom: 14px;align-items: center"><div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px"></div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px;flex-grow: 0;margin-right: 14px;margin-left: 2px"></div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;height: 12.5px;width: 12.5px"></div></div><div style="margin-left: 8px"> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4;border-radius: 50%;flex-grow: 0;height: 20px;width: 20px"></div> <div style="width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 2px solid transparent;border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4;border-bottom: 2px solid transparent"></div></div><div style="margin-left: auto"> <div style="width: 0px;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-right: 8px solid transparent"></div> <div style="background-color: #F4F4F4;flex-grow: 0;height: 12px;width: 16px"></div> <div style="width: 0;height: 0;border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4;border-left: 8px solid transparent"></div></div></div> <div style="flex-direction: column;flex-grow: 1;justify-content: center;margin-bottom:…