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Raiders coach Jon Gruden resigns over his hateful emails; vaccine inequities and supply chain disruptions are slowing global economic recovery.

Tonight's Sentences was written by Jariel Arvin.

Jon Gruden resigns as Las Vegas Raiders coach

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• Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden resigned just hours after the release of racist, misogynistic, and homophobic emails on Monday — a rapid departure for a man who led his team a Super Bowl victory and spent years as an ESPN commentator. [NYT /  Ken Belson and Katherine Rosman]

• The emails were discovered during an NFL investigation into workplace culture at the Washington Football Team. Gruden sent the emails before returning to coach the Raiders in 2018. [LA Times / Sam Farmer]

• In his emails, the coach regularly used homophobic slurs, put down female referees, sent topless photos of league cheerleaders, and said players who kneel in protest should be fired. [The Ringer / Rodger Sherman]

• The NFL has important questions to answer about the results of the investigation into the Washington Football Team and its owner Dan Snyder. Snyder and members of the team have been accused of sexual harassment by dozens of women. [Boston Globe / Ben Volin]

• Gruden’s emails are at odds with efforts the NFL is taking to be more inclusive. While discussing Monday night’s announcement, a commercial supporting the Trevor Project, an organization that seeks to end suicide among LGBT youth, aired with the phrase “football is for everyone.” [NPR / Rachel Martin and Tom Goldman]

IMF forecasts uneven growth

• The International Monetary Fund slashed its global growth forecast as overburdened supply chains and inflation have stalled the economic recovery caused by the coronavirus pandemic. [Reuters / David Lawder]

• On Tuesday, the IMF’s World Economic Outlook projected a slightly lower growth of 5.9 percent compared to figures from July. However, the US saw the biggest dip of any G7 country, a full percentage point to 6 percent over the same period, due to lingering effects of the delta variant. [CNN / Hanna Ziady]

• The world’s advanced economies will see 5.2 percent growth while developing countries are expected to see a dismal 3 percent, driven by inequalities in access to vaccines between rich and poor countries. [AP / Martin Crutsinger]

• The IMF said the delta variant raised uncertainties about how quickly the global economy could recover from the pandemic. “Policy choices have become more difficult, confronting multidimensional challenges — subdued employment growth, rising inflation, food insecurity, the setback to human capital accumulation, and climate change — with limited room to maneuver.” [VOA / Ken Bredemeier]

• Inflation could affect countries like the US and the UK for months to come, so governments must toe the line between jump-starting economies with stimulus and responding to inflation. The IMF expects growth for advanced economies to return to normal sometime next year. [BBC / Daniel Thomas]

Doctors should stop prescribing regular low doses of aspirin to patients at risk of a first heart attack or stroke, according to draft guidelines from a panel of US experts. [NYT / Roni Caryn Rabin]

• Gabby Petito’s cause of death was ruled to be strangulation, Wyoming's coroner announced, as the search for Petito's fiancé, a prime suspect in her disappearance and murder, continues. [NBC / David K. Li and Pei-Sze Cheng]

• During an emergency summit, the G20 promises humanitarian aid for Afghanistan but draws a line at acknowledging the Taliban government. [Guardian / Patrick Wintour]

• A nonprofit shows what 180 locations across the globe will look like if sea level rise continues unchecked. [Guardian / Aliya Uteuova]

“I think the next step that the league needs to take is being proactive in making sure that the coaches that they hire, the players that they draft, the organization that they form are being inclusive, are being supportive and are held to that standard not when things come to light but all the time.”

[Former NFL player Ryan Russell, who came out as bisexual in 2019, tells CNN why he thinks Jon Gruden’s resignation isn’t enough]

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