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Dawn Staley applauded by Barack Obama, LeBron James, others after South Carolina’s 3rd title win – Yahoo Sports

South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley was doubled over with emotion following the Gamecocks' 87-75 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes in the NCAA women's national championship.

It was a storybook win to beat tough odds, as South Carolina became the 10th Division I team to complete a full season without a single loss (38-0). The Gamecocks also made history as the first team since at least 2000 to win a title without a single returning starter, according to ESPN.

Recovering from her tears, Staley expressed gratitude to Iowa's superstar for the excitement she brought to the game all season.

"I wanna personally thank Caitlin Clark for lifting up our sport, she carried a heavy load, when she's the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft she's gonna lift that league up as well," Staley said. "So Caitlin if you're out there you are one of the GOATs of our game and we appreciate you."

While Staley offered praise and recognition throughout her postgame comments, she and her players drew the same sentiments from major figures in the sports world and beyond.

Staley has now won two championships in three years for South Carolina, leading the team to a 109-3 record over that span. She has three national titles as a coach but she also racked up plenty of accolades as a player. From her two national player of the year awards at Virginia, to her three Olympic gold medals and six WNBA All-Star appearances, Staley is continuing to change women's basketball.

Staley is the first Black coach in Division I college basketball to finish a season undefeated. Angel Reese, incoming WNBA star out of LSU, expressed excitement and gratitude following Staley's most recent accomplishment.

Sunday's win came in an emotionally charged rematch for South Carolina. The Gamecocks, highlighted by reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year Aliyah Boston, were eliminated from last year's Final Four by Clark and the Hawkeyes. Boston was able to experience the completion of the Gamecocks' revenge tour in person, supporting Staley as she cried postgame.

South Carolina and the 1991 Tennessee Lady Volunteers are the only teams to claim victory in the national title game against the team that eliminated them from the previous women's NCAA tournament.

Under Staley, A'ja Wilson led the Gamecocks to their first NCAA championship in 2017. She went on to become a two-time WNBA champion and MVP with the Las Vegas Aces.

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Malia Obama’s Acting Class Outfit Is Sublime ’90s Style – Highsnobiety

Could Malia Obama be any cooler? Or so Chandler Bing might say. In early April, Sasha gave a masterclass in combining statement jewelry with airport sweats and just days later, older sister Malia gave one on the art of layering.

Seen en route to an acting class, Malia Obama, who now professionally goes by Malia Ann, epitomized Y2K streetstyle with a long white shirt under another, equally large green button-up shirt with wide, washed-out jeans, black boots, and a massive black shoulder bag.

Malia's long hair was tossed up in a half up, half down do, with the front strands pulled around to frame her face.

If she wasnt one of the faces of Gen-Z street style, she could have been teleported straight from 1997. In fact, that's exactly why Malia is on the cutting-edge of Gen-Z style.

Also... do you think those are her dads shirts or is Malia Obama thrifting these days?Surely the latter but, hey, you never know. She's definitely tapping into the senior Obama's love of dad jeans.

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Malia and Sasha Obamas everyday styles are somewhat similar in that much of what they wear seems, surface-level, to be picked-up off the floor last minute. But a trained eye can tell that they're actually dressing with intention.

Sashas airport sweatpants, statement silver necklace, and chunky black boots mirror the way that Malia masterfully layers her baggy shirts.

It's all about showcasing interesting patterns, proportions, and silhouettes by way of obviously purposefulness.

The trick is that whereas Sasha leans towards no-brainer day-to-day style, Malia is more of the fashion-forward set you might see her wearing Collina Strada or the clog of the moment.

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Whereas Sasha epitomizes ease, Malia's outfits read a bit more directional; you can read more into the angle Malia's hitting, usually, whereas Sasha is simple consistently comfortable.

President Barack Obama used to famously say that he took the Steve Jobs approach to dressing or, in other words, having very similar basics on hand so as to not have to think too hard about getting dressed.

His daughters seem to have taken the opposite approach, throwing some of the seemingly most disparate basics into a blend of great consequential effect.

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We should all aspire to be so effortlessly cool.

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The Biden-Obama Power Struggle Isn’t Real – theTrumpet.com

What is Barack Obama up to now? On March 18, he walked straight in the front door of No. 10 Downing Street, the residence and office of the prime minister of Britain, for a meeting with Rishi Sunak. Also visiting the leader of the opposition party, Obama portrayed it as a courtesy visit. The two said they discussed international affairs, artificial intelligence and a variety of other issues.

This, of course, is after radical Democrats, led by Obama and Joe Biden, targeted Gen. Michael Flynn for having discussions with foreign leaders when he was a private citizen. They used the obscure, never-enforced Logan Act as a way to target Flynn, even though he was the incoming national security advisor to President-elect Donald Trump at the time. Obama has no official office, current or impending.

But people are finally realizing that he is more powerful than any designee, appointee, prime minister or president-elect.

Is he even more powerful than Joe Biden?

Some in the propaganda media are portraying the answer to that question as debatable. But its not even close.

Obamas visit is especially interesting because it was in London. In his book Ball of Collusion, investigative journalist Andrew McCarthy explains that London was actually the nerve center of Russiagate. Almost all the key players in the effort to convince the public that Trump colluded with Russia were American and British government officials who desperately wanted Hillary Clinton to win the election. In light of Britains efforts to help Obamas Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Security Agency to frame Trump for a crime he did not commit, Obamas visit in the lead-up to the 2024 election is suspicious.

This was Obamas first meeting with Sunak, but Politico reported that the British prime minister has met with the current White House occupant a number of times. Its pretty telling that Politico never refers to Joe Biden by name and never calls him the president. Is the White house occupant a tacit admission that Barack Hussein Obama is the real power behind the Biden administration? Discussing international affairs and artificial intelligence with the head of Britain is not something you do as the head of the Obama administration; it is something you do as the shadow president running the United States.

Recently released transcripts of Bidens interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur show that Biden was wounded when Obama favored Hillary Clinton over him in the 2016 presidential election; former White House aides say Biden often measures himself against the man he served as vice president. In other words, Biden is very insecure about his relationship with his boss because Obama dominates their relationship.

Some news analysts believe that Bidens insecurity indicates there is some sort of rivalry or power struggle between the former president and vice president. But this belief gives Biden too much credit. He may not always like being dominated by Obama, but he is far too senile to put up any sort of fight. The much-hyped Obama-Biden power struggle isnt real. The Biden administration contains so many Obama administration alumni that many analysts believe Obama has more control over it than he had over his own administration (since he actually did have to fight Hillary Clinton for power in the aftermath of 2008).

This shadow presidency is unprecedented in American history, yet it was actually foretold in Bible prophecy. After Obama was reelected to Americas presidency in 2012, my father wrote a startling booklet titled America Under Attack (which has since been greatly expanded). It revealed that Obama was a modern-day type of the Seleucid King Antiochus Epiphanes. Antiochus obtained the throne through lies. He then betrayed the people of Judah who were under his rule, slaughtering them, desecrating the temple in Jerusalem with an idol of himself, and attempting to fundamentally transform Jewishness itself.

Although news about Obama went quiet after he left office, we at the Trumpet have kept an eye on him. In the February 2021 Philadelphia Trumpet issue, my father wrote: Barack Obama was at the epicenter of the election crisis and the radical lefts effort to prevent Donald Trump from being reelected! He based his analysis on 2 Kings 14:23-29, which describe a Satan-led movement in the end time to blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, and Daniel 8:12, which exposes an end-time Antiochus who cast down the truth to the ground, as well as Revelation 12:9, which reveals that God has cast Satan down to Earth.

Read my fathers book America Under Attack. It exposes who is the mastermind behind the vast, elaborate network of lies and lawlessness aimed at destroying America. It also shows that God is still going to save the nation through President Trump, an end-time type of King Jeroboam ii, so that people have one last chance to repent. But things might get a lot worse before they get better.

People have to realize that Americas nation-destroying problems are not the mistakes of a senile president. They are the successes of a malevolent shadow president.

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Former US presidents Barack Obama (L) and Bill Clinton (R) cheer for US President Joe Biden (C) at a high-profile … – The Elkhart Truth

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DOD sued over Obama-era directive on classified documents – Washington Examiner

EXCLUSIVE A legal group headed by ex-Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller accused the Defense Department on Thursday of failing to answer a request for an Obama-era memo that may reveal pertinent information surrounding the 45th presidents classified documents indictment.

America First Legal in January filed a Freedom of Information Act request to compel the DOD to submit information pertaining to a secretive technology committee created in 2014 under then-President Barack Obama in response to foreign cyberattack threats. Millers group argues that the Presidential Information Technology Committeecreates a presumption that the President controls all information he receives and says that it could have sweeping implications for Trumps 40-count indictment of allegedly mishandling classified records.

The Defendant has violated the FOIA by failing to reasonably search for records responsive to AFLs FOIA request and release nonexempt records within the prescribed time limit, lawyers for Millers group wrote, noting the agency only acknowledged the request on March 15 and has not released any responsive records as of Thursday.

In March 2015, a publication of Obamas PITC memorandumestablished the presidents exclusive control over information resources provided to the president, the vice president, and the Executive Office of the President. The memorandum made clear that any records sent to EOP systems or records stemming from those systems are controlled by the president.

Trump has argued that under the Presidential Records Act, he had broad authority to designate documents from his time in office as personal property, and he has argued his decision to take the material to his Mar-a-Lago estate showed that he treated the records as such.

AFLs present FOIA request raises important legal questions, the group wrote in its DOD suit. First, in the superseding indictment by the Special Counsel team against former President Trump, it was alleged that Trump was not authorized to possess or retain those classified documents.'

But AFL contends the PITC memorandum complicates the allegation against Trump because of the presumption the memo created of the presidents exclusive control of information provided to him, or that the former President may have believed that such exclusive control gave him authority to retain certain documents.

Also at issue in AFLs quest for information are the boxes of documents that Trump provided from his Florida home to the National Archives and Records Administration.

Based upon its inspection of those records, the National Archives decided that classified information may have been possessed illegally and made a referral to the Department of Justice, AFL wrote in its nine-page complaint. That referral informed the Special Counsels case in the Southern District of Florida. However, if the originals of those records are in the possession of the Department of Defense (due to PITC), it would mean the records at Mar-a-Lago or at least some of them were mere copies of actual Presidential records and thus excluded from the Presidential Records Act.

Dan Epstein, an attorney for AFL, said the idea that PITC presumes all information received by the president is within his control complicates the indictment, particularly on the question of what President Trump was authorized to access and retain.

If the court finds that the records subject to PITC are indeed agency records and not presidential records and were separately preserved by the DOD, Epstein argues that it still raises serious questions about NARAs decision to refer Trump to the Department of Justice because the referral would be based on a false claim that President Trump removed presidential records, Epstein added.

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DOD general counsel Caroline Krass was not available to respond to theWashington Examiner.

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