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Viral toddler soccer story raises questions; Pritzker and SPLC

Police records reviewed by the Guardian complicate the parents' account of the Florida three-year-old whom Ms Rachel and Roc Nation's fans embraced online; the internet moves faster than its paperwork.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThe Guardian reports on a three-year-old Florida boy whose soccer skills went viral, and says police records complicate the story his parents told.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe paper's columnist argues the real tragedy is not where the outrage cycle wants you to look, and asks how adults treat young talent.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorFrom Ms Rachel to Roc Nation, the internet embraced him fast. The records, the Guardian says, raise troubling questions.

  4. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPolitics now. Illinois Governor JB Pritzker said on MS NOW that right-thinking Republicans will likely vote for Democrats in the midterms.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHe says President Trump gives him so much material, and that everything has become almost ridiculous. Breitbart carried the clip.

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPritzker says he wants Democrats to control at least one house of Congress, and his political action committee was seeded with at least twenty million dollars.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorTwenty million dollars to find the right-thinking ones. That's a big net.

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