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Aston Villa’s match-winner, Rachel Daly, paid tribute to her team’s grit as they bounced back from their FA Cup disappointment to win at Leicester on their return to Women’s Super League action.The England striker’s 16th-minute goal secured a 1-0 win at the Pirelli Stadium, but Villa had the full-back Sarah Mayling to thank for a late goalline clearance on a night when the keeper Daphne van Domselaar also shone.From new signings to the title race: what to look out for as WSL restartsRead moreThat proved the perfect response to last Saturday’s 3-0 cup defeat by Everton as a fourth win of the season eased Carla Ward’s side into seventh place in the table.Asked by the club’s official X account to review her fifth league goal of the campaign, Daly said: “It was all right, to be fair. I’ll take that.“Honestly though, what a performance from everyone. That’s character tonight. We knew we had to come and turn the game around from the performance last week, and that’s everyone, from the blocks on the line to the grit throughout the whole game. Obviously scoring a goal was nice, but what a win.”Villa enjoyed the better of the first half and might have gone in at the break more than a single goal to the good. However, Leicester finished strongly and looked destined to snatch a point at the last only for Mayling to block the substitute Ava Baker’s goalbound 87th-minute shot on the line.The Leicester manager, Willie Kirk, whose ninth-placed side has not won a league game since October, admitted his team had to adopt a different mindset to the one that served them so well in last season’s successful fight to stay in the top flight.skip past newsletter promotionSign up to Moving the GoalpostsFree weekly newsletterNo topic is too small or too big for us to cover as we deliver a weekly roundup of the wonderful world of women’s footballEnter your email address Enter your email address Sign upPrivacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.after newsletter promotionHe told BBC Leicester: “We want to be a top-half team. People compare us to last year, but we’re not in last year, we want to feel the pressure. Last year, everyone had us relegated and it can be easy to deal with those pressures. But we’ve got to learn to live with the new expectations, and that comes with a mindset change.”

While Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are planning a cascade of ads and events to coincide with the 51st anniversary of Roe v Wade, hundreds of anti-abortion activists gathered on the National Mall in Washington DC on Friday in hopes of re-energizing a movement that has repeatedly stumbled since Roe’s overturning.The fight for abortion rights: what to know going into 2024Read moreOriginally organized around the goal of overturning the Roe precedent that established federal abortion rights, the March for Life has seen what was once its greatest victory become a political liability. In the 18 months since Roe’s demise, abortion rights supporters have trounced anti-abortion activists in state-level ballot referendums. Yet the march’s message was largely similar to past years: speakers and attendees alike talked about the need to make abortion “unthinkable” rather than just illegal – with scant details on how to make that happen.“We don’t want to just go in and be the bad guys,” said Elijah Persinger, a 19-year-old from Fort Wayne, Indiana. “We want to make make people understand and help them understand the science behind things and the logic that we’re going by as well.”As in years past, march attendees skewed young. Schools and universities organize trips for students to attend the march, and groups often carry banners and flags with their schools’ names. Some groups all wear bright-colored, matching hats in order to keep from getting lost in the crowd.Persinger took a 12-hour, overnight bus ride to attend Friday’s March for Life. His group planned to leave DC after the event.But the crowd on Friday seemed relatively sparse. When the US House speaker, Mike Johnson, stood on a podium to speak, he was met with only muted applause – despite being a high-profile attendee for the march. The greatest response came when he mentioned Biden: when he said that the president’s administration planned to restrict funding to crisis pregnancy centers, the crowd booed loudly.Organizers also spoke from the stage about the need to support maternity homes and crisis pregnancy centers, facilities that aim to convince people to keep their pregnancies.“Christians don’t mean to impose what we believe on anyone. But this nation was founded as a Christian nation,” said Laurel Brooks, a march attendee from North Carolina.Brooks works for an organization called My Faith Votes, which aims to mobilize Christian voters, but she clarified that she was sharing her own views, not her organization’s.“The foundation of America is truly Christian,” Brooks remarked. “That doesn’t mean we reject, hate, dislike anyone who does not believe as we do. That’s not who Christians are. We accept people for their free will. God honors free will.”A man carries a cross as he participates in the annual March for Life. Photograph: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/ReutersAfter the speakers finished, marchers spent three hours slowly walking from the National Mall to the steps of the US supreme court. The weather was unusually wintry, with marchers braving wind and several inches of snow.To keep from getting cold, some marchers danced to the Cha Cha Slide. Others started a call-and-response chant of, “We are pro-life, marching for life, saving the babies, one at a time!”Icons of fetuses and babies dominated the march. Many carried signs with ultrasound images above phrases such as “Future Doctor”, “Future Dancer”, and “Future Wife”. Others had signs with images of babies above the conservative slogan “Don’t Tread on Me”.“There are no mistakes, just happy accidents,” read another sign, complete with a hand-drawn beaming baby and portrait of the painter Bob Ross. One young woman even carried a baby made out of snow.At least one man was trying to sell Trump 2024 merchandise to marchers. But overall, Donald Trump had a minimal presence at the march despite being the frontrunner for the Republican White House nomination as he seeks a second presidency.Trump has waffled on his stance on abortion: while he has taken credit for installing supreme court justices who helped overturn Roe, he has also suggested that hardline stances on abortion can backfire on Republicans.“I’m not voting for Trump, I know that much,” said Ali Mumbach, 26. She carried a sign listing police brutality, gun violence and other issues that should matter to anti-abortion activists who call themselves “pro-life”.Many Republicans support abortion. Are they switching parties because of it?Read more“Trump is anti-life, especially in regards to Black lives and the lives of immigrants. So, yeah, I don’t think that he is pro-life. I don’t think that he cares about people who live in poverty. I don’t think he has the best interests of the American people,” Mumbach said.Democrats, meanwhile, are hoping sustained outrage over Roe will propel them to victory up and down the general election ballot.The Biden campaign is now launching a paid media campaign, timed to Roe’s anniversary, to target women and swing voters in battleground states.Harris plans to appear on Monday in Wisconsin to spotlight post-Roe attacks on reproductive rights before holding a campaign rally alongside Biden in Virginia.In the November 2023 state elections, Virginia Republicans tried to take control of the state legislature by promising to enact a “reasonable” ban on terminating pregnancies that were 15 weeks or beyond – an effort that failed.

The Home Office has made a significant U-turn on the rights of EU citizens who were in the UK before Brexit, allowing those who missed the deadline to apply for post-Brexit permanent residency cards to remain in the country.However, campaigners say the decision must be backed by more explicit wording in guidance to case workers – or EU citizens will end up having to “beg” for their rights to be recognised.The change follows a series of stories of EU citizens facing devastating consequences, highlighted by the Guardian.EU citizens living in the UK and Britons living in the EU before Brexit have the lifelong right to remain in the country they were living in under the Brexit withdrawal agreement.The government launched the EU settlement scheme to document the near 6 million EU citizens in the country. The scheme closed in June 2021, but late applications were considered on “reasonable grounds”.Problems arose last August in a Home Office crackdown. New rules removed “lack of awareness” of the settlement scheme as a reasonable ground for a late application.The decision caused significant difficulties for EU citizens, including one Italian restaurateur who had been paying tax in the UK for 21 years but overnight found his bank account frozen by Santander, forcing him to close his business as he could not pay staff or suppliers.Massimo, an EU citizen in the UK, had his bank account frozen mistakenly.“I’ve done nothing wrong and they just say one day ‘bye, bye’, no explanation, nothing. It’s been horrible,” Massimo told the Guardian.Campaigners estimate that potentially tens of thousands of EU citizens applied for permanent residency cards after 2016.Silvana, an Italian tech investor, discovered her permanent residency card was useless when she went to renew the European health insurance card for her daughter before a holiday, only to be told her permanent residency card meant nothing.Under the Home Office’s August rules, she could have faced removal from the country because a lack of awareness of the EU settlement scheme was no longer a reasonable ground for a late application.After succumbing to pressure from campaigners and EU citizens, the Home Office has published new guidance to case workers, telling them late applications from those with permanent residency cards “are reasonable grounds” for delays in application to the scheme.Silvana said: “I’m very happy that they are changing the guidelines and that they essentially realising it was a mistake to do this to good citizens who have been here a long time and are contributing to society.”However, the campaign group the3million described the change as a partial victory, as the updated guidance is not as explicit as it could be.Instead of stating that late applications from EU citizens with permanent residency cards are allowable, the Home Office gives a convoluted example of someone in such a situation.skip past newsletter promotionSign up to This is EuropeFree weekly newsletterThe most pressing stories and debates for Europeans – from identity to economics to the environmentEnter your email address Enter your email address Sign upPrivacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.after newsletter promotion“We’re disappointed that the Home Office still does not accept that having an EEA permanent residence card in itself is sufficient evidence for reasonable grounds for applying late, and it also expects people to beg, bend their knee and show remorse for not knowing,” said the interim co-chief executive of the3million Andreea Dumitrache.Home Office guidance notes to EU settlement scheme case workers from 16 January 2024 Photograph: Home Office“Politicians promised EU citizens would retain their rights after Brexit. This government needs to take responsibility for changes brought in and change this culture of disbelief in the Home Office.”A Home Office spokesperson said: “More than two years have passed since the main deadline for applying to the EU settlement scheme, which was widely publicised. In line with the citizens’ rights agreements, we continue to accept and consider late applications from those with reasonable grounds for their delay in applying.”Separately, concerns about the Home Office have been raised in relation to its response to a high court ruling on the EU settlement scheme.The high court had sided with the statutory body set up to protect EU citizens’ rights, the Independent Monitoring Authority, which claimed it was wrong to remove the employment, residency and healthcare rights of those with pre-settled status (for those in the UK for less than five years before Brexit) if they had forgotten to apply to upgrade to settled status once they were eligible.In response, the Home Office has given a two-year extension to those with pre-settled status in the belief this would cover any gap for those who forgot to reapply.Campaigners say this means employers and landlords or banks could interpret this extension as a legally risky temporary status and remove an individual’s rights.“While the Home Office has been effective in many cases, some citizens face uncertainty, impacting their ability to live, work and raise families in the UK,” said Miranda Biddle, the chief executive of the Independent Monitoring Authority.

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