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No handicap: America’s ultracompetitive — and uplifting — blind golfers’ trophy drive is in full swing

Jeremy Poincenot was just 19 when he learned he was going blind thanks to Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, a genetic optic-nerve disease. His father, Lionel, had bought him a new set of golf clubs for Christmas shortly before the diagnosis, but Jeremy had lost his sight by Dec. 25. Undeterred, his dad still handed the...

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Trump announces he will send national guard to Memphis, with Chicago ‘probably next’ – live

US president says deployment will be like the one in Washington DC and also adds St Louis to list of cities

Secretary of state Marco Rubio will travel to Qatar on Tuesday, the Washington Post is reporting, after holding talks with Benjamin Netanyahu today in Israel.

As my colleague Julian Borger writes: “Part of [Rubio’s] mission on this two-day visit is to convey Donald Trump’s irritation at the Israeli missile strike on Doha that was aimed at Hamas leadership but killed their aides and a Qatari security officer.

Common sense dictates that drone technology should be harnessed to scan every elevated structure with a line of sight to a target.

If drones can enable the early detection and prevention of assassination attempts, why not use them? Better to have vigilant eyes in the sky than to remain blind to would-be assassins.

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© Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

© Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

© Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

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