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Fueled by Trump’s Tweets, Anthem Protests Grow to a Nationwide Rebuke Members of the Detroit Lions knelt and held hands during the national anthem before their home game against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday. CreditRey Del Rio/Getty Images https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/sports/trump-national-anthem-nfl.html Belson, K. (2017, September 24). Fueled by Trump’s Tweets, Anthem Protests Grow to a Nationwide Rebuke. Retrieved September 25, 2017, from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/sports/trump-national-anthem-nfl.html (APA) On three teams, nearly all the football players skipped the national anthem altogether. Dozens of others, from London to Los Angeles, knelt or locked arms on the sidelines, joined by several team owners in a league normally friendly to President Trump. Some of the sport’s biggest stars joined the kind of demonstration they have steadfastly avoided. It was an unusual, sweeping wave of protest and defiance on the sidelines of the country’s most pop...

Hurricane Irma After tearing through the Florida Keys and making landfall along the state’s southwest coast, Hurricane Irma crawled up the middle of Florida late Sunday night, slowly spinning toward the Tampa region. After days of frantic preparations, residents in Tampa were bracing for Irma’s arrival early Monday, weaker than expected but still packing wind gusts of about 100 miles per hour. The storm, which was downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane, continued to lose strength as it pushed inland, but its reach extended from South Florida to Jacksonville. It was expected to remain a hurricane through at least Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center said. The counterclockwise rotation of Irma’s wind pushed water out of the Tampa Bay throughout Sunday. But after the center of the storm passes Tampa early Monday morning, the direction of the winds will reverse and push water back into the bay, adding to the flooding, said Andrew McKaughan, a meteorologist at the National W...