☕️ Matildas head coach steps down

All I can talk about is the Olympics, so here we are again.

Yesterday, watching the 20km walk event, I couldn’t stop thinking about how they don’t wear headphones.

What… do they think about? Especially during training?

So many hours… so much head noise.

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Matildas head coach Tony Gustavsson has stood down from his role following the team’s “disappointing” Olympic performance.

According to Football Australia, Gustavsson and the sporting body reached a “mutual agreement” to end his contract.

It comes after the team failed to progress beyond the group stage of the women’s football competition at the Paris Olympics after last night’s defeat against the U.S.

Gustavsson called his time at the Matildas “a great honour and privilege”.

In a social media post, the Matildas thanked Gustavsson “for his strong contribution, passion and commitment” to the team over the past four years.

“We wish him every success for the future,” they said.

Football Australia will begin recruiting a new head coach immediately.

“This journey with the team has had many incredible moments and memories that I will forever treasure,” Gustavsson said.

Reporting by Chloe Christie.

The alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks will plead guilty in U.S. offshore prison Guantánamo Bay.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and two of his alleged accomplices have been detained since 2003 over their suspected involvement in the attacks.

After agreeing to a plea deal to avoid the death penalty, the three men are expected to be handed life sentences.

On 11 September 2001, terrorists from the Islamist extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial U.S. flights.

Two were deliberately crashed into New York’s World Trade Centre (the Twin Towers) killing 2,977 people.

One of the planes crashed into the U.S. Department of Defense in Virginia (the Pentagon), killing 184 people.

Passengers and crew successfully diverted the fourth plane from its planned target, Washington, D.C. It crashed in a field in Pennsylvania, killing all 44 people on board.

In the wake of the attacks, then-President George Bush signed new U.S. military powers into law.

The legislation gave officials protections to use “all necessary and appropriate force” against any person, organisation, or country responsible for the attacks.

The Bush administration declared a ‘Global War on Terror’ and the U.S. invaded Iraq.

The CIA led a decade-long manhunt for al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan in 2011. Dozens of others were arrested during this time over suspected ties to the terrorist group.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Pakistan in 2003.

Mohammad’s two alleged accomplices, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, were also arrested in 2003.

The three men were transferred to the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba in 2006, where they have been held ever since.

In 2007, Mohammad admitted to authorities he was the architect of the 9/11 attacks.

The 9/11 suspects were expected to eventually face trial at Guantánamo Bay.

Originally a U.S. naval station, it was first used as an offshore detention facility for suspected war criminals in 2002. Around 800 people have been detained in Guantánamo Bay since then. 30 remain.

Human rights groups including Amnesty International have repeatedly accused the CIA of using Guantánamo Bay as a site to torture and abuse prisoners.

These groups have also raised concerns over the ongoing detention of several prisoners without fair trials.

A U.S. Senate report released in 2014 revealed evidence the CIA had tortured Mohammad extensively after he was captured, waterboarding him “at least 183 times”, and keeping him awake for seven and a half days.

The report found that torture – which the CIA called "enhanced interrogation techniques" – led to poor quality information from detainees, including lies.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi are are charged with 3000 counts of murder by the U.S. Military Commission at Guantánamo Bay, a body tasked with trying and sentencing detainees there.

According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the three prisoners struck a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. They’re expected to formally enter their guilty pleas by October, possibly earlier.

In a letter to families of 9/11 victims, the Pentagon confirmed the prisoners will plead guilty, and will be sentenced to life in jail.

Two support groups, ‘9/11 Families United’ and ‘9/11 Justice’, have expressed their disappointment about the “closed-door agreements” of the plea deal.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson called the arrangement “unthinkable”.

“The families of those murdered by these terrorists have waited for justice. This plea deal is a slap in the face of those families,” Johnson said.

Reporting by Harry Sekulich.

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The program aims to safely build patients’ tolerance by gradually exposing them to small traces of peanuts over two years. About three in every 100 Australian children are allergic to peanuts.

The new Government-funded treatment will be available in ten children’s hospitals across Australia. Professor Kirsten Perrett from the National Allergy Centre of Excellence, says the program will help “change the trajectory” of peanut allergies “so that more children can go to school without the risk of a life-threatening” reaction.

Reporting by Chloe Christie.

Have you heard about the controversy surrounding the Ballerina Farm?

American entrepreneur Hannah Neeleman has a huge online following (@ballerinafarm) for documenting her life with her eight children on a farm in the U.S. state of Utah. Neeleman’s husband Daniel is the son of a billionaire airline founder. The pair say they do not have child care.

Her posts, often showing her baking bread from scratch with a baby at her hip, have led to her being called a ‘tradwife’ (internet shorthand for ‘traditional wife’).

Earlier this month, Neeleman was interviewed by journalist Megan Agnew for The Sunday Times. In the article, Agnew quotes Neeleman as saying she gave birth to all of her children unmedicated, except for one: “[My husband] wasn’t with me… So I got an epidural. And it was an amazing experience.”

Agnew also reports Neeleman’s husband insisted they get married within two months of getting together, despite her wanting to get married only after finishing her ballet training at prestigious NYC school Juilliard.

Now, Neeleman has spoken out about the article, describing it as “an attack on our family, and my marriage. Portraying me as oppressed, with my husband being the culprit.”

Reporting by Lucy Tassell.

It is nearly time for Kamala Harris to pick her Vice Presidential candidate.

What exactly is Harris looking for, and what kind of difference to her campaign is she hoping a vice presidential pick could make?

In today's deep dive, we cover off on all the VP hopefuls, why they could be a strategic pick for Harris and what comes next.