Pink’s husband is showing the not so “glamorous” life on tour.
Former motocross star Carey Hart took to Instagram Tuesday to document a day with his sick children: “Wanna know how glamorous tour can be? Jameson has hand, foot, and mouth; and Willow has a 102 temp. Both kids laid up and mama @pink still has to push through and do shows.”
The post featured pictures of 20-month-old Jameson covered in a rash and 7-year-old Willow in the bathtub, while Hart hangs out on the sideline. Hart added the hashtag #NoRestForTheWicked and #LifeInHotels.
Hart’s candor earned a scolding from some, who accused the father-of-two of unknowingly exposing others to his contagious son.
In the caption, Hart said “a vile woman” he encountered while eating with his ill toddler “kept staring.”
“I had Jameson at breakfast yesterday and this vile woman at the table next to us kept staring at him with a (expletive) look on her face,” he wrote. “I told her it was bed bugs.”
That’s all it took for critics to start weighing in. Hundreds of social media users hopped into Hart’s comments to offer their opinion on his parenting.
One Instagram user said, “What’s vile is exposing other children to a virus that can cause painful blisters in their throat. Shame on you.”
Another chided, “As a mom of 3 whose kids have had HFM (Hand, foot, mouth) a few times, I say that you made a mistake. HFM is super contagious and it’s not fair to knowingly expose others.”
The backlash didn’t seem to bother Hart, who shared another Instagram snapshot with his 850,000 followers of him and son on the go: “Jameson and I out infecting the world ” He added that the “pediatrician says he is good.”
Mama Pink is all too familiar with feeling under the weather. The pop superstar postponed four Australian shows earlier this month after battling a stomach virus and dehydration.
SAN FRANCISCO — A small group of Facebook staffers say their fellow employees are intolerant of right-leaning political views and voices, creating an internal “political monoculture.”
A senior engineer with the social media giant created an internal group called FB’ers for Political Diversity.
“We claim to welcome all perspectives, but are quick to attack — often in mobs — anyone who presents a view that appears to be in opposition to left-leaning ideology,” Brian Amerige, a senior Facebook engineer, wrote in a post obtained by The New York Times.
The allegation comes as tech companies come under fire from President Trump and conservatives.
The internal Facebook group has just over 100 members — a small group for a company which employs more than 25,000 people. According to the newspaper, minorities at Facebook have complained the group’s posts are offensive to them but were told it had not broken any company rules.
When they join the Silicon Valley company, employees are given training on how to engage in respectful conversations about politics and diversity. Political bias training is part of the company’s course on managing bias.
“On Day 1 of Facebook’s new hire orientation in Menlo Park, everyone hears from our chief diversity officer about the importance of diversity and how to have respectful conversations with people who have different viewpoints,” the company said in a statement.
Allegations that tech companies are biased against conservatives gained steam after James Damore was fired from Google for an internal memo that suggested gender differences could explain why most of Google’s engineers and leaders are men. He attacked the internet giant in the press and claimed in a lawsuit that Google discriminates against white men and conservatives.
The newspaper report on the internal Facebook group comes one week before Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is slated to testify at a Senate hearing where she’s expected to field questions about social media bias.
On Tuesday, Trump also criticized Facebook and Twitter in the Oval Office.
“I think that Google and Twitter and Facebook, they are really treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful,” Trump said.
The comment came on the heels of Trump’s allegations that Google manipulates its search results to prioritize negative stories about him. “Trump News” were “RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD,” he wrote on Twitter.
Conservative claims that Facebook’s liberal staff treats them unfairly have been simmering for years but are gaining momentum as Facebook concedes it made missteps in moderating the vast amount of content that streams through its platform.
In 2016, Facebook came under fire for reports that its moderators suppressed conservative voices, leading to an inquiry by the Senate Commerce Committee. Facebook said its investigation found no evidence of bias but held a meeting with big names from conservative political and media circles that seemed to mend fences for a time.
The catalyst for Facebook’s latest pledge to address possible conservative bias were Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s appearances in April on Capitol Hill.
Rather than grill Zuckerberg on privacy, Republican lawmakers used some of their allotted time to accuse Facebook and other tech companies of left-wing favoritism.
“There are a great many Americans who I think are deeply concerned that Facebook and other tech companies are engaged in a pervasive pattern of bias and political censorship,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas said at the time.
Zuckerberg acknowledged that staffers at his company, headquartered in the liberal San Francisco Bay Area, have politics that lean left, but said Facebook’s policies do not favor any political ideology.
In May, Facebook announced it was bringing in conservative advisers to probe whether it suppresses right-leaning voices.
Hampden or Murrayfield? West or East? History or a new start?
The Scottish FA’s board will meet on Wednesday to determine where Scotland will play their fixtures from 2020.
Proposals were submitted last month by Queen’s Park – the amateur League Two club who own Hampden – and by Scottish Rugby, which wants to lure the matches from Glasgow to Edinburgh once the existing lease expires.
Scotland manager Alex McLeish, who won 77 caps for his country, has described it as a “business” decision and said he will “go with the flow if it’s in the name of progress”.
But how will the verdict be reached? What are the pros and cons of each venue? And what has the reaction been?
How will the decision be taken?
BBC Scotland’s senior football reporter Chris McLaughlin
All seven members of the Scottish FA board met on Tuesday and had final tours of both Hampden and Murrayfield, having spent the past few days poring over thick dossiers on each bid.
They will sit down again on Wednesday morning and attempt to reach a consensus but, failing that, a simple majority would be sufficient to determine where Scotland will play from 2020.
However, a third option remains very much on the table: the board could decide they still need more time to reach a verdict.
Once an outcome is reached, the Scottish FA will first tell staff, stakeholders, the government, then make it public with a statement, likely followed by a media conference.
How have we reached this point?
The Scottish FA has an option to renew their lease on Hampden – the national team’s home since 1906 – but they commissioned a feasibility study to assess all the options.
After rejecting a proposal in January from Celtic and Rangers to share hosting of internationals and domestic cup matches, the choice boiled down to remaining at Hampden beyond 2020 or moving to Murrayfield.
League Two club Queen’s Park, the owners of the national stadium, agreed in principle in March to sell Hampden to the Scottish FA – a development thought to make it more likely the governing body would keep hosting games at the national stadium.
But various hurdles – including the cost of such a deal – do not make it a foregone conclusion.
Hampden – the pros and cons
Will the Scottish FA retain its “spiritual home” of Hampden, which has hosted Scotland matches for 112 years?
The stadium in Glasgow’s south side has been hosting Scotland’s matches since 1906, as well as the majority of Scottish League Cup and Scottish Cup finals – and latterly semi-finals too – since 1903.
It is regarded by many, including a majority of former players and managers, as the “spiritual home” of Scottish football.
But that emotional attachment is partially offset by complaints from fans about poor infrastructure and transport links, and a distance between the stands and the action when seated behind the goals.
Not everyone agrees, though. Darryl Broadfoot, a former Scottish FA communications director, says “there is a mythology over Hampden’s transport problems”.
“There are actually three train stations in the vicinity,” he says. “The problem is enough trains going there, which is a conversation, or at least a demand, that has to be placed on the rail provider.”
Hampden’s current capacity is just under 52,000, but it is rarely full for Scotland games and some domestic cup semi-finals.
Some have suggested reducing the capacity to about 35,000 and bringing the two stands behind the goals closer to the pitch.
If the Scottish FA opts to buy the stadium from Queen’s Park, it would not only incur the reported £2m cost but also a potential redevelopment bill, which could have knock-on effects on the funding member clubs receive.
Stewart McDonald, the SNP MP for Glasgow South, says: “There is absolutely no reason, with the right commitment from all of those interested, why we can’t modernise the Hampden experience and keep Scottish football in its rightful home.”
Murrayfield – the pros and cons
Murrayfield before Scotland’s recent Six Nations win against England
The Scottish Rugby Union (SRU), which owns Murrayfield, says it is the “largest and best stadium in Scotland”.
It is certainly the largest – with a capacity of 67,144 – and the organisation says that extra capacity and the extra ticket receipts it could yield would allow the Scottish FA to generate “significant sums for the betterment of the Scottish game”.
Murrayfield boasts good tram and bus links from Edinburgh airport, the city centre and the capital’s two train stations – Waverley and Haymarket – with the stadium a 20-minute walk from the latter.
It has staged football before, with Celtic playing European fixtures there in 2014 while Celtic Park was in use for the Commonwealth Games, and Hearts staging four Premiership matches at the ground last autumn while Tynecastle was being redeveloped.
Edinburgh Council leader Adam McVey says the stadium has put together a “comprehensive and compelling bid” and that it is an opportunity to “embrace a new era”.
However, critics will point to similar problems in terms of some fans being far away from the pitch and a lack of trains at peak times.
Some, too, rail against the idea of Scottish football’s governing body effectively putting money into rugby, rather than keeping it in their own sport.
What do the pundits think?
Former Scotland midfielder Michael Stewart
This is the perfect scenario: you redevelop Hampden into a tighter 35,000-seater stadium and you utilise Murrayfield for the big games. Then for games against Albania, for example, you go to other stadia – Pittodrie or Easter Road or Tynecastle – because you wouldn’t even get 35,000.
Ayr United boss and ex-Queen’s Park and Rangers player Ian McCall:
It is unthinkable we move from Hampden. Most Scottish people would be devastated – it is our spiritual home. There would be an enormous emotional backlash. Some things in this day and age have got to be sacred. Some things are emotive, and have to stay emotive – that is what Scottish football is.
BBC Scotland chief sports writer Tom English
I would move it around the country but, given the two options, I would go for a redeveloped Hampden. It would be a seismic call to leave Hampden and for the life of me I cannot see this board exposing themselves to the kind of backlash that would follow if they picked Murrayfield.
The internet is invested in the tale of Johny, Papa, and their sugary deceit.
“Johny Johny Yes Papa” is probably one of the more terrible things to curse your timeline recently. The nightmarish nursery rhyme went viral over the past week, drawing hundreds of thousands of new people into its lore.
In the most shared version, a child with an absurdly large head sneaks out of bed to gorge on sugar cubes when his father — known only as “Papa” — sternly calls out “Johny” and breaks into a Gangnam Style-type dance.
When Johny denies eating sugar, Papa asks if he’s “telling lies” while emphatically doing the wave. Johny denies telling lies, so Papa orders Johny to open his mouth and then absolutely nails Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies” footwork as he confronts his deceitful son.
Caught in the lie, Johny belts out in deranged laughter and lifts his hands, spinning around like he’s performing some sort of playful demonic possession.
Since that tweet, Johny, Papa, and their fixation on sugar inspired memes about their strange storyline.
papa: omg why is there no sugar in the house….wtf???? johnny: OMG KING that’s so sad go off!! find that liar!!! papa: vague// i literally saw oomf with sugar in his mouth but go off i guess
The video is one of many “Johnny Johnny” spin offs — sometimes spelled “Johny Johny” — which are often paired with bad claymation, strange animation, and absolutely awful singing. One of the first versions of the nursery rhyme was uploaded in 2009, according to Know Your Meme. Three years later, another children’s channel posted a version of “Johnny Johnny,” where the father looked oddly similar to Peter Griffin from Family Guy. The song took off (as much as a nursery rhyme could) with ChuChuTV’s 2013 rendition, which portrayed a young boy named Johny who crawls out of the bed he shares with his father to eat spoonfuls of pure sugar. It now has more than 480 million views.
In 2014, YouTube channel EdukayFUN posted this hellish version featuring terribly 3D animation and absurd body modifications. The corrupted version of the song was briefly taken down, and then reposted this year. Since then, increasingly bizarre versions of the kid’s song have flooded YouTube — some of which are available on YouTube Kids, the child-friendly version of YouTube which has been scrutinized in the last year for inappropriate content.
Although this hellish version of Johny Johny isn’t available on the kids app, reaction videos that show clips or mirrors of EdukayFUN’s disturbing animations are accessible to kids on the app.
Some, like the version from WOA Teddo Channel embedded below, have blatant rip offs of popular characters. The Hulk and Batman make an appearance in what appears to be a cautionary tale about getting teeth pulled after eating too much candy. Later in the video, a clay Spiderman nearly kills the Hulk by squeezing him through a French fry cutter before a horrified Elsa stops them both and demonstrates the tool brutally shredding a potato.
The videos don’t always include that haunting nursery rhyme. Instead, videos with “Johnny” or “Papa” in the title appear to be an SEO grab for nonsensical videos geared toward kids.
This video posted by YouTube channel Vlad Bibabo, for example, is titled “johnny johnny rhymes” but tells a completely different story.
A green woman and child — presumably the Hulk’s wife and son — gorge on bright orange cheese puffs. They take the sleeping Hulk’s cheese puffs, fill a bathtub with the carb-loaded snacks, and have the time of their lives in the makeshift ball pit. Their shenanigans wake up the Hulk, who storms into the bathroom and threatens to pummel them in a cheese-driven rage. Using a magic wand, the Hulk manages to turn her abusive husband into a stuffed toy and then triumphantly buries him in puffs.
The sketch shows just how weird YouTube content for kids can be — many of the videos made for children are educational and have some sort of moral to pass on, but have perplexing ways of doing so.
In the series produced by Billion Surprise Toys, the same channel whose dancing Johny video took over Twitter, Johny’s family appears with a sentient refrigerator who inexplicably calls Johny’s parents “Papa” and “Mommy.”
Instead of asking the refrigerator if it’s eating sugar, various characters ask it for food and drinks. The fridge appears to have no agency over the contents of its body: despite denying that it contains water, sauces, and ice cream, its human family members demand that it open its door. The fridge does so without any hesitation and hands over the snacks.
The video takes a questionable turn at 1:32 when the fridge sees a character named Chiya approaching and hunches over, defeated. When the refrigerator backs away from him and refuses his request for chocolate, Chiya forces the refrigerator open and chocolate bars spill from its shelves.
While kids behaving badly is a common theme in these videos, there’s just something weird about a 3D-rendered child violating a talking fridge.
The videos produced by Billion Surprise Toys are scattered with uncomfortable situations that aren’t explained at all. In another video about getting ready for the day, Johny shares a bed with an adult-sized being named “Ice Cream Man.” According to the character bio on Billion Surprise Toy’s website, Ice Cream Man “loves to give hugs and cuddle.”
At the end of the “getting ready” video, Johny and Ice Cream Man smuggle lollipops in bed before falling asleep together.
And in this version, Johny is a child-size pink bus who shares a bed with the child we’ve previously known as Johny. The song is identical to the previous video, but in this animation, everyone except the original Johny is a bus. The bus-creature even has bus arms and unsettling bus hands to eat forbidden snacks, and boards a bigger bus to ride to school.
The carrier bus does not appear to be sentient.
Billion Surprise Toys also produced this educational video to teach children about colors which shows crying babies being fed gum balls. When a floating green gum ball is placed in the infant’s mouth, the baby’s skin tone morphs into a sickly shade of green. It repeats for every corresponding color.
Last year, Mashable reported that graphic, violent videos managed to slip past YouTube Kids’ moderation and could be easily accessed by young kids. Although none of the Johny Johny videos are explicitly harmful toward children, they do present uncomfortable scenarios. It shows that there’s something still off about the content aimed at kids on YouTube.
The YouTube Kids app is a sort of an atonement for its previous lack of moderation. In April, BuzzFeed reported that YouTube planned to keep creepy videos away from children with a team of actual humans who would hand-curate appropriate videos. It appears that some still slip through the cracks.
And moderating videos on the app alone may not be enough. While not all of the videos featured here are accessible through YouTube Kids, it’s clear that they were still targeted at a young audience. Between animations that fall right in the uncanny valley and disturbing storylines, YouTube’s early childhood videos should concern you.
If you want to ensure that your kids are watching appropriate content, maybe YouTube isn’t the place. After all, would you trust an anonymous stranger on the internet to teach your children?
On the bright side, we’re getting some fucking weird memes from this nightmare fuel.
Costas, who has served at the network for nearly 40 years, is in talks to leave, according to multiple reports.
USA Todayreports that Costas, 66, and his reps have had discussions with NBC about ending his contract, which runs through 2021, early.
“There was a very long period of time when NBC’s programming suited my interests and abilities very well, from [late-night talk show] Later, to the news magazines, to baseball, the NBA and the Olympics,” Costas told the outlet in a pair of phone calls. “And after deciding on my own to leave the Olympics after having done a dozen of them, you just look around and say, ‘What was once a perfect fit no longer fits that description.’”
Speaking with New York Post, Costas said, “Sometimes you get to a point where it is not a fit anymore,” and added, “It doesn’t mean that anyone is angry or upset.”
The longtime journalist, who joined NBC in 1979, is in a multimillion dollar contract, the Post reports.
According to the Post, the longtime Olympics host wants a journalism TV show that would feature a critical look at the sports world.
NBC Sports had no comment.
Costas, “a 28-time Emmy Award-winning journalist, is one of the most respected and honored broadcasters of his generation, and has handled a wide array of assignments, including play-by-play, studio hosting and reporting,” his NBC Sports profile reads.
“He served as NBC’s primetime host for a U.S.-television record 11 Olympics — every Olympics on NBC since 1992, including the 2012 London Games, which is the most-watched television event in U.S. history, reaching 217 million viewers — before passing the torch to Mike Tirico on Feb. 9, 2017,” it continues.
Though Mike Tirico now helms the Olympic coverage, Costas has continued to work for NBC Sports and NBC News.
Costas, who attended Syracuse University, “served as host for six NBC Super Bowls, including Super Bowl XLIX – the most-watched program in U.S. television history (114.4 million viewers),” NBC Sports writes.
Ron DeSantis, a three-term Republican congressman backed by President Donald Trump, will face Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, a progressive black Democrat, in a nationally-watched November general election that will test the president’s influence.
Republican primary voters overwhelmingly supported DeSantis in Tuesday’s election over Adam Putnam, a 20-year political veteran once considered the front-runner until Trump interjected.
Democrats backed Gillum, who received the support of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and other progressives across the country despite the shadow cast over his administration by a federal investigation.
With the race called for DeSantis minutes after polls closed, Putnam addressed supporters just before 8:20 p.m.
“When one door closes another one opens,” Putnam said. “Let’s not dwell on the closed one tonight but instead on putting Florida first.”
While Florida Republicans handed Trump a victory by nominating his pick U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, the biggest upset of the night was Democrats electing Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who is the state’s first African-American party nominee.
The 39-year-old was the only candidate in the five-person Democratic primary to repeatedly call for Trump’s impeachment, an attack that is likely to set an early tone to the general election race against DeSantis, who’s gubernatorial bid has so far been based on a platform built by Trump’s endorsement.
Gillum’s neck-to-neck surprise victory over former Congresswoman Gwen Graham, who was the first Democrat to jump in the race and early on was considered the front-runner, shocked the political world—and even some of his supporters.
“If you had told me six months ago that we would be here right now, I would not have believed it,” said Tallahassee City Commissioner Curtis Richardson.
What catapulted him to the top toward the end of the race was the endorsement of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who first tweeted his support for the underdog candidate and then rallied alongside him in Tampa and Orlando.
“To make sure Florida moves in a different direction—a progressive direction—we need to make him the next governor in the state,” Sanders told Floridians a couple of week before the primary election.
DeSantis stands opposite to that ideology. As he took the stage in an Orlando hotel conference room, he made sure to thank Trump for his support as well as the crew of celebrities that helped him on the campaign trail like Fox News political commentator Sean Hannity.
In the crowded Democratic primary for governor, voters also considered former Congresswoman Gwen Graham, who was considered the early front-runner; former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine; Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene; and Orlando businessman Chris King.
Graham, who represented a conservative north Florida district in Congress, had been in the race the longest, and early on was considered the front-runner. That status was challenged over the summer by Levine, who used nearly $27 million of his personal money to swamp Florida’s 10 expensive media markets starting in November, far earlier than any other candidate on TV.
The 55-year-old’s primary rivals have poked holes in her congressional voting record and criticized her for being too conservative and not progressive enough to be the Democratic nominee.
While in Congress, for example, Graham voted for the Keystone XL pipeline and her primary foes have attacked her for not voting often enough with President Barack Obama . She also has been hit for denying taking political contributions from the sugar industry, which is a central focus for many Florida voters concerned about toxic algae.
As her male opponents attacked her in debates, Graham coined the phrase “Gwen and the men” in the race.
Graham and Levine later were challenged with the entrance in the race of Greene, a brash Democrat who made a failed U.S. Senate bid in 2010. He quickly spent $37 million from his own wealth for television ads, a move that cut into voters supporting Levine, and again gave Graham her front-runner status.
Previously:
Greene and Levine are both wealthy South Florida Jewish candidates, and from the first moment Greene entered the race, most observers believed he and Levine would fight for the same pool of voters.
Greene attacked Levine in television ads, most notably one called “Levine Latrine” which used stock video footage from other countries in an attempt to poke holes on the former mayor’s environmental record.
Greene’s campaign, though, unexpectedly pulled nearly all of his television ads last week, which was viewed as a white flag. Across the vast state of Florida, it’s important to be on TV to reach voters in the final days of the campaign. Greene also canceled his election night party, another sign he didn’t see the likelihood of a win.
Gillum has been perceived as the most progressive Democrat in the race. The 39-year-old had the backing of longtime national Democratic donors Tom Steyer and George Soros, and a long list of liberal Hollywood celebrities. His campaign has been pushing the message of a late “surge” in recent weeks, but most public polling had him behind the top tier candidates.
For Republicans, the story has been Trump. As soon as he formally endorsed DeSantis, Putnam’s double-digit polling lead and money advantage evaporated. DeSantis became the favorite in the race even though the Iraq war veteran is fairly new to Florida’s political scene.
But not Putnam, whose plans to become Florida’s next governor have been decades in the making.
The 44-year-old started his career as an elected official at the age of 22 as a state House representative. The fifth-generation Floridian then went on to serve five years in Congress representing the Central Florida-based 12th congressional district.
With decades of experience in public office, he came into the governor’s race and quickly out-raised all candidates. But spending nearly $30 million against DeSantis seemed not enough to blunt his rise with the power of Trump. DeSantis only spent $16 million in an eight-month period.
Toward the end of the race, Putnam’s fundraising dried up and money from Florida’s political players shifted to DeSantis. This also came after mistakes made by Putnam’s state agency since 2012 were made public. Some errors that haunted his candidacy included lapses in background checks needed to issue concealed weapon permits.
The workshop, sponsored by the Ford Fund, helps people deal with feelings and emotions in relation to the trauma experienced after Hurricane Maria. Detroit Free Press
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump supports “full accountability” in assessing the death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria, a top aide said Tuesday, but the White House did not directly address a new estimate that pegs that number in the thousands.
Responding to a George Washington University study that found nearly 3,000 people died in last year’s storm, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the Trump administration supports “ensure a full accountability and transparency of fatalities.”
“The American people, including those grieving the loss of a loved one, deserve no less,” Sanders said in a statement.
From September 2017 to February 2018, 2,975 people died, according to the study by George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, which was commissioned by the Puerto Rican government. That is a stunning increase over the 64 deaths counted by Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello’s administration.
Sanders did not comment directly on whether the White House agrees with the study’s findings. Trump’s administration faced criticism at the time for its response to the storm.
…The fact is that Puerto Rico has been destroyed by two hurricanes. Big decisions will have to be made as to the cost of its rebuilding!
A senior White House official described the study as taking a more expansive view of how mortality is counted following a disaster and said the Trump administration had already adopted recommendations made in an after action report from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
“The devastating back-to-back hurricanes were met with the largest domestic disaster response mission in history,” Sanders said in the statement. “We are focused on Puerto Rico’s recovery and preparedness for the current Hurricane season.”
USA TODAY first met Michelle Rebollo collecting water on a mountainside days after Maria. The small business owner struggles to pay bills since tourism has dwindled. She and her family now have power, but every day or two they have to manage outages. USA TODAY
Roger Federer won the US Open five consecutive times from 2004 to 2008
2018 US Open
Venue: Flushing Meadows, New York Dates: 27 August-9 September Coverage: Live radio coverage on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra; live text commentaries on the BBC Sport website
Five-time champion Roger Federer breezed into the US Open second round with a routine victory over Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka at Flushing Meadows.
Federer, 37, needed one hour and 52 minutes to win 6-2 6-2 6-4 in the night session on Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The Swiss great hit 56 winners compared to just 17 from his 177th-ranked opponent.
The 20-time Grand Slam winner will play France’s Benoit Paire in the second round in New York.
“I’m very happy with how I played tonight. It is particularly tough for us Europeans because we don’t get this type of humidity. You are sweating so much you don’t know what has hit you,” Federer said.
“It is tough so you are happy when you survive a day like this.”
Federer looks to regain US Open dominance
Federer, playing in the US Open main draw for the 18th time, is bidding for an eighth men’s final in New York – which would equal the record set by Pete Sampras and Ivan Lendl.
The Swiss dominated the tournament between 2004 and 2009, winning 41 successive matches before losing to Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro in the final nine years ago.
Since then he has only reached one final – when he lost to Novak Djokovic in 2015 – and says claiming the US Open trophy again this year is a “bigger priority”.
And the second seed started his quest by despatching Nishioka with his usual effortless grace in what was largely a straightforward win.
Federer broke his opponent’s serve in the first game of the match, then again in the fifth, while allowing Nishioka to win just seven receiving points in the first set.
The onslaught continued in the second set as Federer raced 3-0 ahead, before he clinically turned three break points for Nishioka into a hold with the help of three aces.
Understandably Nishioka’s spirit diminished further as the Australian Open champion, enjoying himself with a full repertoire of shots, continued to dominate.
After wrapping up the second set, Federer continued to be aggressive in the third and again grabbed a double break to lead 4-0.
Sloppiness surprisingly crept into his game as Nishioka saved a match point at 5-2, before Federer missed an overhead volley at deuce which was wrongly called in and not challenged by his opponent.
Federer conceded the game amid confusion among the crowd on Ashe, and then was broken for the first time in the following game when Nishioka converted his sixth break point of the set.
But he regained his composure to wrap up victory and continue his flawless first-round record at Flushing Meadows.
Kathryn Burcham with Boston 25 news was reporting live from the scene of a plane crash at Cranland Airport in Hanson, Massachusetts, when it appears she accidentally made a Back to the Future reference. In the clip, Burcham claims that Jacob Haselden, the 20-year-old pilot who crash-landed the plane, told her a “defective flux capacitator” was the possible cause of the crash.
Great Scott! We may have a troll on our hands.
As many of you know, a “flux capacitor” is a component in Doc Brown’s time machine from the Back to the Future franchise. It’s unclear if the plane was a time machine.
While it’s possible that Haselden actually blamed the crash on a fluxgate compass, a magnetic instrument used to help pilots keep their craft level with the earth, it was hard to miss the flub.
I am guessing that the pilot really said flux gate compass (HSI, directional gyro slave etc). But with my involvement with the press as a volunteer supporting Pickering airport ( see https://t.co/PMtyP60BpA ) I have been amazed by reporters ability to hear what they want to hear.
Boston 25 and Burcham did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment or correction, and there’s no mention of the fictional instrument on the story on its website.
According to 7 News Boston, the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the crash. Haselden was piloting the plane for Go SkyDive Boston, and was the only person aboard when the incident occurred. He escaped with minor injuries.
“We flew up. I had difficulties with the engine. I managed to get everyone out and came back in for a landing, but couldn’t make it,” Haselden told 7 News. “The flipping (of the plane) was me running out of runway. I was coming in too fast due to difficulties with my engine, the flaps, and various plane issues.”
On Friday, another crash occurred at the same airport, injuring one person critically and leaving another dead.
Well this is probably gonna be a real awkward family reunion.
American Horror Story co-creator Ryan Murphy revealed on his Instagram that Evan Peters will be reprising his Murder House character of high school shooter and ghost Tate on American Horror Story: Apocalypse.
While dressed up like Rubber Man, Tate also raped Vivien (Connie Britton) who then gave birth to a child, Michael (Cody Fern), believed to be the Antichrist. Needless to say, this could get super tense.
Britton, Dylan McDermott, and Taissa Farmiga are all returning as the Harmon family who ended up dying and living in the house with Tate and the other ghosts.
Peters is reportedly playing another character who is the grandson to Joan Collins’ character but it’s unknown if he’s also portraying Coven‘s Frankenstein frat boy Kyle.
” He added that the “pediatrician says he is good.”
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