The Open Championship's second round is wrapping up at Royal Portrush and a familiar name is atop the leaderboard after Friday's action. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler surged into sole possession of first place heading into the weekend at golf's final major of 2025, putting together the best round of the day (7-under 64) to wind up one shot ahead of 2022 U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick at 10-under overall for the tournament. USA TODAY Sports had complete Round 2 coverage from Royal Portrush. Here's a recap of what happened, including the leaderboard after Friday's golf was complete and highlights from the course of the day: Read more:
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Jenn Tran on why a 'Love Island' star's slur 'struck a nerve' with Asian Americans
When evidence of a "Love Island USA" cast member using a racist slur against Asian people started circulating on social media, it reopened old wounds for Jenn Tran.
Tran, a 27-year-old physician assistant student who is also the most recent "Bachelorette," quickly took to TikTok to explain why the word was "demeaning and demoralizing." Tran’s video has since accumulated 1.8 million views.
Cierra Ortega, 25, a front-runner removed from the show, had used the epithet as recently as 2024 to describe the shape of her eyes – a look she had gone to a medical spa to fix with "a mini brow lift to open up my eyes."
"For me, it was more upsetting in which the context (the word) was used," Tran tells USA TODAY in a conversation about her reaction to Ortega's post.
"For someone to be using that word and being like, 'I am doing this to my eyes because I don't like the way that it looks' and the word that she used (refers to) Asian people – that struck a nerve with me because growing up, it was really, really hard to learn to love my features."
"A lot of people made fun of me, the way that I looked, the way my eyes are, the way I brought smelly lunches to school, the way I speak a different language. So obviously that led into a bit of an identity crisis," she says.
She internalized this messaging and briefly considered blepharoplasty, one of the most common cosmetic procedures in the United States. Among East Asian people, the "double eyelid surgery" creates a crease in the upper lid and achieves the appearance of wider eyes.
The Open Championship's second round is wrapping up at Royal Portrush and a familiar name is atop the leaderboard after Friday's action. World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler surged into sole possession of first place heading into the weekend at golf's final major of 2025, putting together the best round of the day (7-under 64) to wind up one shot ahead of 2022 U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick at 10-under overall for the tournament. USA TODAY Sports had complete Round 2 coverage from Royal Portrush. Here's a recap of what happened, including the leaderboard after Friday's golf was complete and highlights from the course of the day: Read more:
Follow live reaction to England’s extraordinary penalty shootout victory over Sweden, in a game they trailed 2-0 Gerhardsson also spoke about Smilla Holmberg, Sweden's 18-year-old who missed the decisive penalty: "Everyone supports her, and not only her. The sadness is not because you are 18, others are just as sad at 27 or 30. What you saw after the shootout was support, everyone supported one another. It will be difficult to deal with later, but us in the coaching team made the choice of players, and we have never been cowardly to make a decision, but sometimes things do not go your way.” Read more:
A federal judge in Texas has thrown a wrench into the financial lives of nearly 15 million Americans by reversing a Biden administration rule that aimed to wipe $50 million in medical debt from credit reports. The decision, handed down on July 11, 2025, by U.S. District Judge Sean Jordan, strikes at a policy finalised by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in January, just before Joe Biden left office. Jordan ruled that the Fair Credit Reporting Act does not grant the CFPB authority to remove medical debt, effectively halting a measure that could have boosted credit scores by an average of 20 points and enabled 22,000 additional mortgages annually. For millions, this reversal could mean higher borrowing costs and limited access to loans, raising urgent questions about personal financial stability.
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