As England return to action after a memorable World Cup, manager Gareth Southgate is gearing up to face a number of big issues.

Is the time right to start bringing through some promising members of the next generation? Who could be the team’s crucial creative midfield player? Who should support Harry Kane in attack? And how can England get the very best out of Raheem Sterling?

Following the disappointment of defeat by Croatia in England’s first World Cup semi-final for 28 years, Southgate is set for his first two chances to build on the warmth and goodwill generated by their displays in Russia.

He names his squad on Thursday for their first two post-World Cup matches – as they host Spain in the new Uefa Nations league at Wembley on 8 September and Switzerland in a friendly at Leicester’s King Power Stadium three days later.

How seriously will Southgate approach these games?

Very.

The new Uefa Nations League is designed to elevate international breaks above the normal level of friendlies – but Southgate is still sure to experiment.

He has a good base to build on. England’s public feel genuine affection for Southgate and his modest, humble squad thanks to the way they went about their business on and off the field in Russia.

By getting to within 90 minutes of a first World Cup final since 1966, England regained the popularity lost after failures at South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014, not to mention Euro 2016.

Southgate will want to demonstrate that he can continue that development against an elite country such as Spain. So do not expect him – or England – to take these games lightly.

Who could be England’s next generation?

England were fielding a settled team by the World Cup’s conclusion. Yet there is room for fresh faces, with Chelsea defender Gary Cahill and Leicester striker Jamie Vardy retiring from international duty in recent days.

In addition, some players are reaching the later stages of their career, such as Manchester United’s Ashley Young, a regular on the left-side in Russia, who is now 33.

This gives Southgate the chance to bring England’s next generation into his senior plans.

Fulham’s Ryan Sessegnon, at just 18, is a glittering young talent who is surely earmarked to take that left-flank slot occupied by Young.

Further forward, attention will focus on two teenagers from Manchester City’s present and past, Phil Foden and Jadon Sancho.

Foden, player of the tournament when England won the under-17 World Cup in October 2017, may have had limited opportunities so far at City but manager Pep Guardiola fully appreciates his value and talent, as do those of influence within the international set-up.

Sancho, a former City youth team-mate of Foden, is on the same path to a full England career.

Vardy’s decision to retire leaves an attacking vacancy for the 18-year-old – even though he is more of a wide player.

Sancho, another member of that successful England Under-17 side, has shown he has ambition and single-mindedness, having left the Etihad Stadium in August 2017 for Borussia Dortmund.

That move is paying off. He won high praise for his contribution from the bench in Dortmund’s 4-1 win over RB Leipzig at the weekend.

Everton’s Ademola Lookman has also been on Southgate’s radar for some time but his career has stalled because of his apparent determination to return to RB Leipzig, where he had a successful loan spell last season.

This, plus the arrival of Richarlison and the rejuvenation of Theo Walcott, means he has been marginalised under new Everton manager Marco Silva.

One player who looks certain to return to the England frame, with Cahill having departed the scene, is Liverpool defender Joe Gomez.

Gomez would have been a World Cup contender but for an ankle injury sustained playing for England against the Netherlands in March.

The 21-year-old has been in outstanding form alongside Virgil van Dijk at the heart of a Liverpool defence yet to concede this season.

He has looked comfortable in an England shirt, and is adaptable, having played with some distinction at right-back.

Not all of this young brigade will surface in England’s squad on Thursday. But all add to the growing feeling around St George’s Park that the senior side’s future is one of rich promise.

Southgate’s other big questions

England lack a crucial creative midfielder; that was clear as Luka Modric and Ivan Rakitic helped Croatia take July’s World Cup semi-final away from Southgate’s men in Moscow.

There must be great frustration at the manner in which Ruben Loftus-Cheek, impressive in short spells in Russia, is sidelined once more at Chelsea, after a fine season on loan at Crystal Palace.

Jack Wilshere, having left Arsenal for West Ham, is surely facing a fight to revive his England career. Ross Barkley, who played all three of England’s games at Brazil 2014 but did not make the squad for Russia, is still in the early throes of rebuilding his career at Chelsea.

Bournemouth’s Lewis Cook is highly regarded and Southgate will be pleased to see Harry Winks working his way back at Tottenham after a long injury absence.

Southgate made do and mended in Russia by using Jordan Henderson as the pivot with Dele Alli and Jesse Lingard working around him – but is this really a long-term solution?

Southgate must also decide whether to persevere with Kyle Walker on the right side of a three-man central defence. Walker looked a work in progress, understandably, in that unaccustomed position at the World Cup but he has been ousted at right-back by Kieran Trippier, one of England’s real stars in Russia.

Then there are the goalkeeping possibilities. Everton’s Jordan Pickford is the established first choice after a brilliant World Cup but his deputy Jack Butland has started the new season in the Championship, with Stoke City not selling him during the summer.

Will this count against him? Unlikely, as Southgate is an ardent admirer.

Joe Hart may yet find his way back into contention after joining Burnley, stepping in for the injured Nick Pope – Southgate’s third choice in Russia – and playing ahead of Tom Heaton, a keeper who would have had England ambitions of his own.

In attack, England are reliant on captain and World Cup Golden Boot winner Harry Kane, so who will Southgate choose in support?

Marcus Rashford and Danny Welbeck are options, but Bournemouth’s Callum Wilson has made a fine start to the season.

Danny Ings, whose attempts to carve out an England career were cut short by serious knee injuries, has also started to flourish at Southampton.

Can Sterling finally find the spark?

The debate surrounding Raheem Sterling’s effectiveness provided the backdrop to England’s World Cup campaign.

Sterling’s many supporters rightly lauded his work-rate, clever running, pace and resilience. His detractors, with equal justification, pointed to his acute lack of end product.

He has started the season in outstanding form at Manchester City and the feeling persists that he just needs one spark to ignite for England.

Sterling does need to change a narrative shaped by two goals in 44 England appearances and none in his past 26. He had one shot on target and one assist in Russia.

This is not criticism. It is a statement of fact.

Southgate has huge faith in a player whose ability, attitude and place in the squad is beyond question – but England will hope those statistics improve, starting against Spain at Wembley.

Congressman Ron DeSantis, the Republican nominee for Governor, warned Floridians on Fox News not to “monkey this up” by embracing the agenda of Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee.

“The last thing we need to do is monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state,” DeSantis said in an interview this morning about running against the Tallahassee mayor.

The Florida Democratic Party responded immediately.

A historic win and a fiery beginning:

“It’s disgusting that Ron DeSantis is launching his general election campaign with racist dog whistles,” FDP Chairwoman Terrie Rizzo said in a news release.

Gillum spokesman Geoff Burgan said the campaign was letting the FDP respond. “DeSantis’ comments speak for themselves,” Burgan said.

Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist and political consultant who frequently contributes to Telemundo, took to Twitter to criticize DeSantis.

“As a Floridian, it was my hope this Governor’s race would be about the pressing issues facing our state -rising tides, algae outbreak, trade, economy, jobs,” Navarro said. “I had hoped it would not be one were racism was front and center. That hope lasted all of 10 hours.”

Stephen Lawson, communications director for the DeSantis campaign, said in an email that “Ron DeSantis was obviously talking about Florida not making the wrong decision to embrace the socialist policies that Andrew Gillum espouses. To characterize it as anything else is absurd.”

Contact Schweers at jschweers@tallahassee.com.

 

 

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Participants of the Memory and Aging Project at Washington University’s Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center found out they had an increased chance of developing Alzheimer’s after an analysis of the condition of their eyes. Now researchers think a simple eye exam could help detect the deadly disease, and save lives in the future. 

Britain’s Andy Murray faces big-hitting Fernando Verdasco as he attempts to reach the third round of the US Open on Wednesday.

The 31-year-old plays the Spanish 31st seed in the second match on Arthur Ashe Stadium at about 19:00 BST.

Murray beat James Duckworth on Monday in his first Grand Slam match in 14 months after hip surgery.

British number two Cameron Norrie faces Serb Dusan Lajovic in the third match on court 10 at approximately 20:00.

Murray said: “Fernando is a great shot-maker and someone, that when he’s on his game, is really tough to beat.”

Verdasco said: “I need to treat it like any other meeting, it won’t change just because he has been injured. Hopefully, Wednesday is going to be a good day for me.”

Murray, the 2012 US Open champion, has won 13 of his 14 meetings with Verdasco but had to come from two sets down to beat him in the 2013 Wimbledon quarter-finals.

Norrie wants bigger prizes for London home

Norrie, who beat Jordan Thompson in his opening match, has enjoyed a rapid rise up the rankings since turning professional in spring 2017 and is now up to 67 in the world.

To date, the 23-year-old has earned £522,000 in prize money, with at least an extra £42,000 from this year’s US Open.

Norrie, who is based at his former college in Texas, USA, is hoping use his prize money to buy a London flat.

He joked of the property prices: “I’ll probably have to make the semis here. Maybe [I’ll need to] win it for Putney or Wimbledon.”

Serena Williams and Nadal headline night session

As they did on Monday, defending men’s champion Rafael Nadal and six-time women’s champion Serena Williams feature in the night session on Arthur Ashe Stadium.

American Williams, seeded 17th, faces German Carina Witthoeft at 00:00 and will be followed by Nadal’s match against Canadian Vasek Pospisil.

Defending women’s champion Sloane Stephens opens proceedings on the main court at 16:00 against Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalinina, with Murray straight after.

Women’s seventh seed Elina Svitolina, two-time champion Venus Williams and men’s third seed Juan Martin del Potro are all in action on the Louis Armstrong Stadium.

If both Williams sisters win, they will meet in the third round.

WASHINGTON – White House counsel Don McGahn, who had extraordinary access to President Donald Trump during some of his most controversial dealings and decisions, will leave his post this fall, the president said Wednesday.

Trump announced McGahn’s departure on Twitter hours after a report by Axios broke the news that the lawyer planned to leave.

Trump thanked McGahn for his service and confirmed his counsel would leave in the fall after the Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. 

“White House Counsel Don McGahn will be leaving his position in the fall, shortly after the confirmation (hopefully) of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court,” Trump tweeted. “I have worked with Don for a long time and truly appreciate his service!”

McGahn’s lawyer did not immediately return a request for comment.

In announcing the departure, Trump did not name McGahn’s successor.

Axios reported McGahn wants Emmet Flood to replace him. Flood represented former President Bill Clinton during his impeachment and was hired by the Trump White House to deal with the Russia investigation. Flood also worked for former President George W. Bush.

The news of McGahn’s departure comes less than two weeks after his cooperation with special counsel Robert Mueller was publicized. McGahn sat down with Mueller’s team for interviews that spanned about 30 hours in total, a person familiar with McGahn’s contact with the special counsel’s office told USA TODAY. 

Trump railed against the news media after the scope of McGahn’s interviews with federal prosecutors was published. Trump said he wanted McGahn to cooperate with Mueller’s team in hopes that the transparency would quicken the pace of the investigation, which has dogged his presidency since it began.

More: Trump confirms that White House counsel interviewed with Mueller

More: White House lawyer Don McGahn: 5 things to know about his cooperation with Russia probe

More: President Trump: Special counsel Robert Mueller is just ‘looking for trouble’

The New York Times reported McGahn took Mueller’s team through Trump’s comments and actions in some of the most controversial topics that have surrounded the White House. 

McGahn reportedly told investigators what he knew about the president’s role in the firing of former FBI director James Comey. He also discussed Trump’s repeated criticism of Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe.

Additionally, McGahn talked about his role with the Russia investigation before the president hired outside counsel to deal with the matter, the Times reported.

McGahn reportedly felt the president’s willingness for him to cooperate with Mueller could be a trick. He feared the president and his team of lawyers might be setting him up to take the blame for any possible criminal charges that arise. 

This was the partially the case during Richard Nixon’s presidency. Former White House Counsel John Dean ended up cooperating with investigators, becoming a star witness after fearing Nixon was setting him up to be a scapegoat in the Watergate scandal. 

McGahn reportedly threatened to quit when Trump proposed firing Mueller last year. He and others convinced the president that firing Mueller would be a bad idea and eventually Trump pledged to work with the special counsel’s office. Officials also told USA TODAY at the time that Trump was well aware of the political fallout from a dismissal of the special counsel.

McGahn and other Trump administration officials also had unsuccessfully sought to persuade Attorney General Jeff Sessions to remain in control of the investigation into Russia’s election interference, even as the attorney general faced mounting pressure to recuse himself, two officials familiar with the matter told USA TODAY in January.  

Contributing: Kevin Johnson

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The latest in the division two games so far today…

After a late start because of rain, Middlesex have slumped to 100-6 against Sussex at Lord’s after being 27-0 earlier in the day. Eoin Morgan defended gamely for 78 balls but he’s been dislodged by Chris Jordan, who had him caught by Ollie Robinson for 6. James Harris has just been dismissed for a duck, caught by Philip Salt off the bowling of Ollie Robinson for a duck.

Leicestershire are making inroads into the Gloucestershire batting at Bristol where the hosts are struggling on 105-3 after a steady opening partnership of 50 in 22 overs. Miles Hammond, Chris Dent and Benny Howell were all out for 35 runs between them and Mohammed Abbas has two wickets to date.

Graham Wagg and Chris Cooke are at the crease for Glamorgan, where the hosts are struggling on 157-7 against Warwickshire at Colwyn Bay – with two wickets each for Keith Barker, Ollie Stone and Jeetan Patel.

Northants are firmly on top at the Riverside where Durham have been dismissed for 129. Luke Procter took a career best 5-33. The visitors are 24-0 in reply.

Derbyshire have just the two wickets so far, where Kent are 192-2 at Derby. Zak Crawley was prized out agonizingly short of a maiden century first class century, falling lbw to Tony Palladino for 96 and Sean Dickson fell early in the day, lbw to Hardus Viljoen for 4.

Joe Denly remains unbeaten on 72.

What happens to your Facebook account after you die? Well, that largely depends on who reports your death to Facebook first.

In 2015, Facebook announced in a press release that users would be able to name a “legacy contact,” or a person responsible for managing your account after you die. 

Legacy contacts can memorialize accounts and download all of an account’s data. They can even delete accounts completely. However, users can set preferences to have accounts memorialized or deleted after they pass away, and a legacy contact must abide by those specifications.

Image: screenshot/facebook

A lot of social media platforms don’t seem to take into account users’ deaths, artist and researcher Caroline Sinders argued in a 2016 essay for Splinter, in which she wrote about the process of planning for her own online death. 

Sinders cites the language social networking websites use for the accounts of the deceased as an example to back up her argument. They’re typically referred to as “inactive” or a “legacy account” after a user has passed away, and sometimes they are simply “shut down.”

“For Google, you’re not deceased, you’re just away from your computer for a very long, long time,” Sinders writes.

There’s also practically no mention of the word “death” anywhere on social media sites, Sinders explains. It’s difficult to gauge whether or not a person on social media is dead or alive, except on Facebook, where the word “Remembering” denotes who is deceased — something that occurs automatically once the account has been memorialized — on the platform. 

Death on social media is still in many ways a mystery. 

Nearly all social media platforms offer some way users can report that an account belongs to a deceased person, but these options are not widely known. Often, reporting a deceased person’s account merely results in its removal, which is not ideal for those who’d like access to the user’s content.

Instagram has quietly begun allowing users to memorialize accounts, preserving the deceased’s account as they left it at the time of their passing. Like memorialized Facebook profiles, once these Instagram accounts are memorialized, no one can log into the account, and it is impossible for them to be altered. But unlike Facebook accounts that signify deceased members with the word “Remembering,” it’s impossible to tell which accounts on Instagram have been memorialized.

Facebook is one of the few social media platforms to outwardly acknowledge death. However, the memorialization process still leaves much room for improvement. 

How to memorialize a loved one’s account

Locating information on memorialization proved difficult for me. After a couple of searches on Facebook itself, I decided to Google the process. 

My first search result brought me to Facebook’s Help Center page about memorialization, which provides answers to questions about the memorialization process, deleting accounts, and appointing legacy contacts. 

To memorialize an account on Facebook, a request needs to be sent naming the deceased and providing their date of passing and proof of their death, such as an obituary or death certificate. Eventually, if it all checks out, Facebook will memorialize the account.

Image: Screenshot/facebook

Facebook user Kari Driskell — who wrote a blog post about the process — also found it difficult to locate information on Facebook memorialization back when her husband Eric died in 2017. 

Driskell told Mashable it wasn’t until she changed her marital status on Facebook to “widowed” that she even knew you could memorialize someone’s Facebook account. After a series of Google searches, and seeking out advice in a Facebook group for widows, Kari figured it out. 

Kari made herself Eric’s legacy contact by accessing his account on his phone (where he was still logged into Facebook); then she made the request to memorialize the account. 

Once her husband’s account had been converted, she became extremely active on it. “I would share quotes, share other posts, phrases, share our story,” Driskell said. “I would change cover pages, add photos, and things like that.”

Now she checks in on it every two weeks or so.

Driskell feels strongly that Facebook should make more people aware of its legacy contact feature: “Someone should ask, ‘What do you want to happen to your Facebook account when you die?’ Like, when they ask, ‘How do you want to be buried?’ It should also be, ‘What do you want to do with your social media contents?’”

Image: Eric driskell/facebook

For Karen Marcus, who lost her husband Steve in 2011, the process was a little different. 

Prior to 2015 and the invention of the legacy contact, if anyone saw the Facebook profile of someone they knew had passed away, all they needed to do was report it to Facebook and request that the account either be memorialized or deleted. The only other way people could manage someone’s account after they passed away was if they had their password. 

Luckily, Marcus had her husband’s Facebook password. The first thing she did, she told Mashable, was download all of Steve’s data, afraid she might get locked out of his account if someone else reported him deceased before she had a chance to access it. 

“For me that was the biggest thing I did, I just didn’t want to lose the electronic part of Steve,” Marcus said.

Marcus shared information on Steve’s account (such as his funeral arrangements), accepted friend requests, and posted pictures for about a year after his passing. Then she memorialized the account.

For Marcus, keeping the memorial account alive ended up becoming too difficult for her. No one was posting on it, and she felt she was the only one left remembering Steve. She deleted it after a year.

Facebook needs to address this glaring issue

Both Driskell and Marcus felt that the most frustrating part of Facebook’s memorialization process is that anyone can memorialize an account. A friend, a stranger, an ex-girlfriend, a camp buddy, an acquaintance — anyone.

Only legacy contacts that have been predetermined can access the accounts after they’ve been memorialized, according to Facebook, but that doesn’t mean they’re the only ones who can memorialize the account. 

Marcus said she heard horror stories of people locked out of their loved one’s accounts despite having their passwords because someone else had memorialized it first.

“A total stranger can do it. All they have to do is send something to Facebook saying, ‘This person is dead, here’s the obituary.’”

“Even now anyone can memorialize an account,” Marcus said. “A total stranger can do it. All they have to do is send something to Facebook saying, ‘This person is dead, here’s the obituary,’ and Facebook will automatically memorialize it.” 

“I think that in the memorializing application, you should have to provide proof, and write how you are connected,” Driskell suggested. “[Driskell’s late-husband Eric] was a high school teacher. One of his students could have easily memorialized the account before me.”

This issue is unfortunately nothing new. 

Facebook has been receiving complaints about the lack of verification required for memorialization for years. Yet little headway has been made in remedying this massive flaw.

In 2013, it became popular for Facebook users to prank their living friends by memorializing their accounts and locking them out of their accounts permanently, according to a HuffPost report. 

In 2012, a German 15-year-old was hit by a train in an apparent suicide. When her mother tried to access her Facebook account, she was unable to, because it had already been memorialized, Reuters reported in 2017. 

Locked out of the account, she was forced to go to court to try to gain access to her daughter’s profile. The court in Germany initially sided with her, but a ruling in an appeals court dictated that the right to private data outweighed any parental inheritance of information.

In 2017, Lisa Menzo Santoro was murdered by her live-in boyfriend. After Facebook was made aware of her death, her account became a perfectly preserved memorial — which became problematic for her family, SJTV News reported in April. 

Pictures of Santoro and the boyfriend who murdered her were still uploaded onto her account. Her family tried reporting the photos as offensive and reached out to Facebook directly to have the photos removed, but the pictures have remained on Santoro’s page despite all efforts.

The list of complaints goes on.

What can social media sites do to improve the grieving process?

In a story for Quartz earlier this month, Jo Bell wrote that “social networking sites are replacing traditional mourning objects — such as items of jewelry, clothing, or gravestones — that are imbued with particular emotional resonance and which subsequently take on additional significance after death.”  

This rings true, as online memorialization becomes more prevalent, and other methods of grieving online grow in popularity.

David Kessler, the founder of Grief.com, told Mashable that he finds social media to be incredibly helpful when it comes to coping with grief. 

“I often think of social media as the new town square,” Kessler said. “It’s where we meet now, and the wonderful thing about social media and grief is that you really get to connect with people who really feel like you do.” 

If we are to embrace this notion, shouldn’t efforts be made to provide social media users the same kind of support online that we have in the waking world? 

Facebook will never be able to hold your hand at a funeral service or bring a casserole to your house, but it can support its users by addressing these long overlooked memorialization issues. Then hopefully other social networking sites will follow suit.

Jonny Bairstow has been included in England’s squad for the fourth Test against India despite breaking his finger in the third-Test defeat.

He broke the middle finger of his left hand keeping wicket at Trent Bridge.

He will play as a specialist batsman and Jos Buttler will keep wicket as England, leading 2-1, look to seal victory in the five-match series.

Sam Curran replaces the injured Chris Woakes while Moeen Ali, who will bat at seven, comes in for Ollie Pope.

Woakes had been suffering with tightness in his right quad and the 29-year-old missed training on Tuesday.

Pope, 20, is left out after two Tests in which he has made 54 runs with a highest score of 28.

The reshuffle is the latest attempt to reinforce England’s batting after a first-innings collapse in Nottingham set them on the way to a 203-run defeat.

That dragged India’s series deficit in the five-match series back to 2-1 after England won at Edgbaston and Lord’s.

England have not lost back-to-back home Tests for 10 years and a continuation of that run would ensure they cannot lose this series, extending their unbeaten record in home series to nine.

India, the top-ranked Test side, must avoid defeat in Southampton to keep the contest alive going into the final match at The Oval.

Bairstow sustained his fracture when attempting to take a delivery from James Anderson on 20 August, the match’s third day.

England one-day keeper Buttler took the gloves for the remainder of the match, while Bairstow fell for a first-ball duck in the fourth innings.

Speaking before Wednesday’s announcement, Bairstow said he was “protective and proud” of being England keeper and did not want to give up the role in the longer term, adding that he would want to keep in the fifth Test at The Oval if ruled out this week.

England squad for fourth Test

Alastair Cook, Keaton Jennings, Joe Root (capt), Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Adil Rashid, James Anderson, Stuart Broad.