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It wasn’t a ‘woke’ decision to change the Washington football team’s name. It was a business call

By Christine Brennan, CNN Washington (CNN) — When President Donald Trump reopened a long-closed conversation about the name of the Washington NFL team, he and others implied that liberal thinking forced the venerable franchise to change its name from Redskins to Commanders in 2022. It wasn’t “wokeness” that led to that moment. It was capitalism.

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‘I didn’t see it move’: Shane Lowry accepts controversial two-shot Open penalty to avoid social media ‘slaughter’

By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Irish golfer Shane Lowry said he feared being “slaughtered” on social media if he did not accept the two-stroke penalty he received at The Open Championship on Friday. The 38-year-old triumphed the last time the major was hosted at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland but saw his hopes of

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