A federal judge refused on Friday to stop the White House from staging a UFC show this weekend in an elaborate ring already built on the South Lawn to celebrate the nations 250th anniversary on President Donald Trumps 80th birthday.U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta's ruling allows organizers to use the White House lawn as the venue for Sundays planned UFC mixed martial arts event. Mehta concluded that the plaintiffs likely dont have legal standing to challenge the event and have failed to prove that they would suffer irreparable harm by the event going forward as planned. The judge also cited the plaintiffs unreasonable delay in suing to challenge an event thats been in the works for months.In the context of an emergency application and coupled with the fact that the UFC fight date was long ago known it is fair to say Plaintiffs unreasonably delayed bringing suit, undercutting their claims of irreparable harm, Mehta wrote.Attorneys from the nonprofit Public Integrity Project sued to challenge Trumps UFC Freedom 250 event on behalf of an activist and a Vietnam War veteran. The two plaintiffs also asked the court to block organizers from building anything for the event on White House grounds, including a 92-foot-tall, 600-ton steel structure called The Claw.The plaintiffs alleged aesthetic harms, the judge noted, are temporary since The Claw will be disassembled starting Monday morning and staging equipment at the Lincoln Memorial must be removed before then. The Presidents musings about permanency of the Claw does not move the dial in the face of a White House officials clear representation, the judge wrote.The White House called the lawsuit is a baseless attempt to prevent Trump from hosting an event thats no different from many others routinely hosted at public forums in the nations capital.Trump's administration cant issue permits for sporting events on the South Lawn or at the Lincoln Memorial, where UFC fighters planned to hold a press conference in front of fans on Friday, according to plaintiffs attorneys. They noted that the event is a privately organized, for-profit business venture, with VIP packages costing millions of dollars. The Presidents administration is granting the UFC an extraordinary business opportunity it may not lawfully grant, and in exchange the UFC is throwing an event at which its leadership, fighters, advertisers, and various celebrities will all pay tribute to the President on his birthday, plaintiffs attorneys wrote.The National Park Service and the Interior Department are named as defendants in the lawsuit. In 2019, during his first term in office, Trump became the first sitting president to attend a UFC show. Trump, a Republican, is a friend of UFC president and CEO Dana White.Mehta was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Mehta has presided over other Trump-related cases, including civil litigation accusing Trump of inciting a mob of his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, a Democrat.

The opening lyrics couldn't be plainer: I am from Bosnia; take me to America. But by rewriting its classic USA, the Bosnian band Dubioza Kolektiv has transformed a song about disillusionment with the American Dream into a viral anthem powering Bosnia-Herzegovina's own World Cup dreams.On the eve of Friday's match between Bosnia and Canada, members of the genre-bending rock group met The Associated Press in the Sarajevo neighborhood where they filmed the new music video for the accordion-heavy earworm, now titled I Am From Bosnia, Take Me to America. In less than three weeks, the video celebrating soccer's working-class roots has notched nearly 2 million views on YouTube on top of the 26 million views the original USA, released in 2011, has amassed over the years. Its an interesting story how this song got its second and third and fourth incarnation in these 15 years, muses Vedran Mujagi, bassist for the band that has woven political and social causes into its identity. It evolved from this satirical take on immigration and (the) American Dream and it was translated into (an) American football dream for the entire nation.Bosnia-Herzegovina is making only its second appearance at a World Cup, a goal that once seemed improbable as more traditional soccer powers stood in the way of qualification. At the end of April, though, Bosnia's late goal against Wales propelled the team to a victorious penalty shootout, a feat it would replicate days later against Italy. The band members were surprised when fans unfurled a banner emblazoned with their lyrics, singing them as a rallying cry.First, it was working as a joke, but what I like the most is the supporters kind of loaded completely new meaning to the old song, and this is the best thing for the band or for the song: when people take over and load new meaning and then it becomes theirs, keyboardist Brano Jakubovi says. Its not ours anymore. An own goal lament turns joyous The original USA is as up-tempo and catchy it's hard not to wander around muttering, I can no longer wait, take me to United States / Take me to Golden Gate, I will assimilate but its protagonist's eagerness to flee slides quickly to disenchantment with life outside the Balkans. The band decided to deliver an updated version of what Jakubovi describes as a typical immigrant song, writing new lyrics befitting a soccer anthem. While USA is in English, this version is mostly in Bosnian so people will understand, he says and mostly about the sport. The language switch has done nothing to lessen its global appeal, as a quick perusal of the YouTube comments suggests, though there are some jokes Jakubovi acknowledges would be inscrutable outside Bosnia. (See: burek without cheese.)Jakubovis favorite new line is a chance to excise something that has haunted the country since the 2014 World Cup: And that goal against Nigeria, that was never offside. So this is like a big national trauma in Bosnia, so I used the song and lyrics to kind of release this trauma, he says.He's being wry there, but trauma has been a mainstay since Bosnia's independence amid the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 1992. Interethnic war almost immediately broke out, leading to genocide. More than 30 years after the Srebrenica massacre, deep division between Bosnian Serbs and Bosniak Muslims persist. Football in this moment is much more than just a game, it's a hope and its very basically (a) political thing because it brought all the people from Bosnia together, which is usually not the case, Jakubovi says.I am from Bosnia, take me to ... Canada?Bosnia's first match is in Canada, but the team will indeed be taken to America. Their base camp is in Sandy, Utah, and the other group stage matches against Switzerland and Qatar are in the States. And, as Mujagi points out, many of the players were born in the U.S. or elsewhere in the diaspora. They are children of those people who went outside in search of a better life or as refugees or whatever their story was. And they kind of see and hear these lyrics and this song entirely differently from us, he says.Mujagi thinks the original message of USA endures as Bosnians still emigrate. Once they leave, he finds, they encounter this hostility of the locals, right-wingers, and they just dont want them there.So its this schizophrenic situation in which you want to go there, but you somehow know that you wont have it good on the other side as well, he concludes. So in that sense, this song still works perfectly well as it worked before.In St. Louis, home to a thriving Bosnian community, Admir Hodzic is one of the founders of the supporter group BH Loyals. The 40-year-old business owner was born in Bosnia and has moved back and forth between his homeland and the U.S., not unlike the protagonist of USA. I think every Bosnian that lives here and understands how the system works and everything else, I think they will find the truth in that song, and that song is honestly nothing but the truth, he says. There are more opportunities in the U.S. than elsewhere, he says, but it's a matter of biting your teeth and pulling through the worst times possible. He and his fellow supporters are big fans of Dubioza Kolektiv and sing their anthem at matches and watch parties. More often than not, though, it's the original USA.Its engraved in their brain and their hearts, he says, and no matter what, they just go back to the old lyrics, you know?___Sen reported from New York.___AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/fifa-world-cup

It took just 45 minutes for Gary Neville and Roy Keane to have their first bust-up of the World Cup.The former Manchester United teammates clashed during ITV's coverage of Mexico's opening match against South Africa, and it's fair to say things got a bit heated in the New York studio.Julian Quinones netted the tournament's first goal, but the pundits couldn't agree on who was at fault for the South African defensive mix-up that led to it.Presenter Mark Pougatch could only watch on as his colleagues went back and forth over the controversial moment.The goal came after goalkeeper Ronwen Williams played a pass straight to midfielder Yaya Sithole, who was immediately caught out by Mexico's pressing game.Keane was adamant the keeper was entirely to blame. "It's 100% on the goalkeeper," he insisted, pointing out Williams had better options to his left and right.Neville saw it differently, arguing that receiving and playing a simple pass should be second nature for any midfielder."I think that's the simplest thing in the world for any midfield player just to take a touch and play it out to the right centre-back," he said.Ian Wright backed Keane's position, suggesting the goalkeeper took an unnecessary risk so early in a World Cup match.But the Mexico goal wasn't the only thing the pair locked horns over.Neville had been singing the praises of Scotland's John McGinn, declaring his love for the Aston Villa man and suggesting he could play for any top Premier League club."He's technically excellent, takes the ball, understands his role in the team and he is adaptable," Neville gushed.Keane wasn't having it though, accusing his former teammate of going over the top."I think it's a bit of an exaggeration from Gary, I wouldn't go that far," he fired back. "Are we putting him in the bracket of all these top midfielders in the Premier League? I am still not convinced."With six weeks of World Cup coverage still to come, Pougatch couldn't resist a wry observation about the studio atmosphere."We've got six more weeks of this. Don't go too early," he quipped.Meanwhile, McGinn himself has been reflecting on what this tournament means for Scottish football.The midfielder urged his teammates to inspire young fans back home, noting that a whole generation missed out on seeing Scotland at a World Cup."It's amazing that they've got people to look up to from their own country, who are on the world's biggest stage again, and that's to be celebrated, definitely," he said.Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

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