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Russia challenges Trump to say what he would do about Syria

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Russia has been sharply criticised by other world powers at the UN Security Council in New York over the chemical weapons deaths in northern Syria.

Moscow's suggestions that civilians were poisoned by rebel weapons on the ground have been widely rejected.

The UK's foreign secretary, a rebel commander and a weapons expert all said evidence pointed to an attack by the Syrian government, Russia's ally.

International donors have pledged $6bn (£4.8bn) in aid for Syria this year.

Seventy donor nations discussed aid efforts in the war-ravaged country in the Belgian capital, Brussels.
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What happened?

According to UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 20 children and 52 adults were killed in the chemical incident in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province, on Tuesday.

Footage following the incident shows civilians, many of them children, choking and foaming at the mouth.

Witnesses say clinics treating the injured were then targeted by air strikes.

Aftermath of attack in pictures (Warning: graphic images)

The spectre of nerve agents in Syria - again

Media outrage at Syria chemical attack

Some of the victims were treated across the border in Turkey. One woman in hospital said: "We were affected by the gas. We couldn't stand up. I felt dizzy and sick. I suffer from shortness of breath. I couldn't breathe."

The World Health Organization said some of the victims had symptoms consistent with exposure to nerve agents.

A team from medical charity MSF treating victims in Idlib found patients' symptoms were "consistent with exposure to a neurotoxic agent such as sarin gas", the charity said in a statement.

Sonia Khush, Syria director of the charity Save the Children, said victims had travelled far and wide to get treatment, making it difficult to estimate how many had been affected.

What do the Russians say?

The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denies its forces launched a chemical weapons attack.

Russia has acknowledged that Syrian planes did attack Khan Sheikhoun but says the aircraft struck a depot producing chemical weapons, for use by militants in Iraq.

"Yesterday [Tuesday], from 11:30am to 12:30pm local time, Syrian aviation made a strike on a large terrorist ammunition depot and a concentration of military hardware in the eastern outskirts of Khan Sheikhoun town," Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konoshenkov said.

"On the territory of the depot there were workshops which produced chemical warfare munitions."

What did they say at the UN?

Matthew Rycroft, the UK's ambassador to the UN, told the Security Council that Mr Assad had "humiliated" Russia by "making a mockery" of the peace process it had brokered with some rebel groups.

"What is your plan?" he asked. "What is your plan to stop these horrific senseless attacks? We had a plan and we had the support and you rejected it to protect Assad."

Russia and China have blocked attempts to impose sanctions on Syria.

Russia's deputy ambassador to the UN, Vladimir Safronkov, hit back by accusing the UK of being "obsessed" with overthrowing President Assad instead of seeking peace.

He said his country - which can veto any UN Security Council resolution - saw no need for a new resolution and called for a "full, objective" international investigation. Much of the video evidence of the attack had, he argued, been "staged".

The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said Syrian chemical attacks would continue if nothing was done.

"Time and time again Russia uses the same false narrative to deflect attention from their ally in Damascus," she said.

Hinting at possible unilateral action by the US, she added: "When the United Nations consistently fails in its duty to act collectively, there are times in the life of states that we are compelled to take our own action."

French UN envoy Francois Delattre blamed the Assad government for the attack, accusing it of "destructive madness". He said the world needed an "America that is seriously committed to a solution in Syria".

What do others say to the Russian version?

Hasan Haj Ali, commander of the Free Idlib Army rebel group, told Reuters news agency: "Everyone saw the plane while it was bombing with gas."

Local journalists say there are no military positions in the town itself but an array of broadly aligned rebel groups controlling the area surrounding it.

Critics of the Russian statement say reports of the release of gas came hours before the times stated by Mr Konoshenkov.
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A chemical weapons expert, Col Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, told the BBC that the Russian version of events was "pretty fanciful".

The idea that a nerve gas like Sarin could spread after a weapons manufacturing process had been bombed was "unsustainable", he added.

US President Donald Trump called the deaths a "terrible affront to humanity".

Has Assad used chemical weapons before?

The Syrian government was accused by Western powers of firing rockets filled with Sarin at Ghouta.

President Assad denied the charge, blaming rebel fighters, but he did subsequently agree to destroy Syria's chemical arsenal.

Despite that, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has continued to document the use of toxic chemicals in attacks in Syria.

How bloody is Syria's civil war?

More than 250,000 people have been killed and, after more than six years, no political solution to the fighting is in sight.

Nearly five million Syrians have fled the country and more than six million are internally displaced, the UN says.

"This is the most complex and the most violent conflict in our times," EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said at the conference in Brussels.
Why is there a war in Syria?

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Krispy Kreme owner is in the process of buying Panera for 7.5 billion.

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Talk about carb loading. Sandwich chain Panera has agreed to sell itself to JAB, a German conglomerate that owns Krispy Kreme and the Einstein and Noah bagel chains, for $7.5 billion.

Shares of Panera surged nearly 15% in early trading Wednesday. The stock soared on Monday as rumors surfaced that Panera was in merger talks.

In a statement Wednesday, Panera and JAB said they hope the deal would close in the third quarter of this year.

Panera founder and CEO Ron Shaich said in the statement that selling to JAB would allow Panera to increase its investments in its digital and mobile ordering technology as well as increase its focus on using healthier ingredients.

JAB partner and CEO Olivier Goudet added that he and the rest of his team "strongly support Panera's vision for the future, strategic initiatives, culture of innovation, and balanced company versus franchise store mix."

So fans of Panera's soup and sandwiches probably shouldn't expect any major menu changes as a result of the deal.

Related: Is your favorite restaurant about to get taken over?

Panera has been a star of the so-called fast casual restaurant industry over the past few years, reporting strong sales and profits.

To that end, the company also said Wednesday that same-store sales at its restaurants (although Panera calls them "bakery-cafes") rose a healthy 5.3% in the first quarter from the same period a year ago.

Some have argued that Panera, which now has more than 2,300 restaurants in the United States and Canada, has even taken over the title as the leader of the rapidly growing fast casual segment from Chipotle .

The burrito chain stumbled due to an outbreak of E. coli at its restaurants in 2015. Chipotle's sales still haven't fully recovered.

It is interesting that Panera is agreeing to be taken over since it's doing well. But the company has picked a partner that is rapidly emerging as a big player in the U.S. food industry.

In addition to Krispy Kreme and the Einstein Noah bagel chains, JAB also owns K-cup coffee king Keurig Green Mountain, the Gevalia brand of coffee as well as coffee chains Caribou, Peet's and Stumptown.

JAB also owns a big stake in a fair number of non-food brands, such as shoe and handbag company Jimmy Choo, beauty products maker Coty and Reckitt Benckiser, the company behind Lysol, Woolite and the Durex brand of condoms.

Related: Chipotle's E, coli woes might not be over

The Panera-JAB deal may also put more pressure on other restaurant chains to look for bigger partners as well. If Panera, which actually has been thriving, decided to sell out, then how can less successful restaurant chains continue to go it alone?

There already has been a flurry of restaurant mergers lately. Burger King and Tim Hortons owner Restaurant Brands -- which is backed by Warren Buffett -- bought Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen earlier this year.

Bob Evans Farms sold its restaurant business to private equity firm Golden Gate Capital for $565 million in January. Golden Gate acquired Red Lobster from Olive Garden owner Darden Restaurants in 2014.

And Darden just announced last week it was buying casual dining chain Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen for $780 million.

Popular sandwich chain Jimmy John's sold a majority stake last September to investment company Roark Capital too.

CNNMoney (New York) First published April 5, 2017: 8:27 AM ET

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ISIS kills 33 execution-style in Syria; 22 people in Iraq attack

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The 730-foot-tall bridge is the highest in California and one of the highest in the United States.

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The message was posted on the Placer County Sheriff's Office Facebook page after a woman fell 60 feet off the Foresthill Bridge on Tuesday. The 730-foot-tall bridge is the highest in California and one of the highest in the United States.

The Sheriff's Office said the unidentified woman from Sacramento and a group of friends were walking on the bridge's girders when she "attempted to take a selfie and fell. Landing on a trail below."

The woman had to be airlifted to a nearby hospital. Paul Goncharuk, a friend, told CNN affiliate KOVR that "she was knocked unconscious, suffered a deep gash to her arm and fractured bones that will require surgery."

Goncharuk, who told KOVR that he was there, also confirmed the police information, telling the affiliate that "they were taking a picture on the bridge, and then the big bolts that are holding the beams together, she stepped on them kind of weirdly and lost balance and fell backwards."

The bridge's off-limits underbelly seems to be a popular, but dangerous spot for social media posting.

Police have started patrolling the area after a series of pictures and videos of people dangling from walkways under the bridge.

"It's a cool place to take pictures, but obviously not worth the risk," Goncharuk told KOVR.

Trespassers found on any closed portion of the bridge will be arrested, police said.

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Avery Antill - Texas school bus crash: 23 kids, driver hospitalized after multi-vehicle accident

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Twenty-four people - 23 of them fourth-graders - were sent to Southeast Texas hospitals after an accident involving their school bus, a pickup truck and an 18-wheeler.

The Wednesday afternoon crash happened on U.S. 69 in Lumberton, about 15 miles north of Beaumont, as the Beaumont school district bus was taking 44 Charlton-Pollard Elementary School students and four adults back to school from a Big Thicket field trip.

Beaumont school district spokeswoman Nakisha Burns says one student was airlifted to a trauma hospital in Houston. A hospital spokeswoman says most of the others went to Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital for examination. A nursing supervisor said none were admitted.

Police haven't explained what caused the crash.

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Friday-Monday, May 25-28

Memorial Day Weekend

Admission to the Museum and Memorial is free for veterans and active duty military personnel, while general admission for the public is half-price all weekend. The Museum and Memorial offers several events during the course of the weekend for people of all ages and interests, including a free public ceremony at 10 a.m. on Memorial Day featuring a keynote address from former astronaut/space shuttle commander Jon McBride.

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Currently Open

Posters as Munitions

Soon after the outset of World War I, the poster was recognized as a means of spreading national propaganda with unlimited possibilities. Posters as Munitions showcases the depth and breadth of the collection through a series of works on exhibition for the first time at the Museum. Posters from France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the United States and more are featured, providing a sense of the global nature of this form of communication. Exhibition currently open in Memory Hall.

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Open Nov. 9, 2017 - May 13, 2018

Images of the Great War: America Crosses the Atlantic

Focusing on the final two years of the Great War with the emphasis on American involvement, Images of the Great War: America Crosses the Atlantic features works by French, British, German and American artists who attempted to capture the harsh realities of the incredibly brutal war. The exhibition was organized by Brown University Library and The President Woodrow Wilson House. Open Nov. 9, 2017 - May 13, 2018 in the Ellis Gallery.

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Open April 3, 2018 - March 10, 2019

Crucible Life and Death 1918

For the Doughboys on the Western Front, 1918 was their year. It was the crucible where the American land forces forged their fighting force. They fought alongside their main allies from Cantigny to Belleau Wood to the Champagne Region, the Piave River to the Marne to St. Mihiel to the Meuse Argonne to Vladivostok. This exhibition is not an illustration or timeline of how the 1918 battles were fought, rather it focuses on individuals and their lives and deaths in the crucible of 1918. Exhibition open April 3, 2018 - March 10, 2019 in Exhibit Hall.

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Open Feb. 23 - June 3, 2018

John Singer Sargent Gassed

John Singer Sargent's incredible masterpiece Gassed is truly one of the giants of the art world at more than nine feet tall by 21 feet long. The landmark painting is the focal point in this special centennial exhibition that also includes original maps of the dressing station where Sargent witnessed the scene he depicted and reproductions of many of his study drawings and featuring historical and contemporary objects on detection and protection from chemical warfare. Exhibition open Feb. 23 - June 3, 2018 in the Wylie Gallery.

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Open Feb. 1 - May 20, 2018

Insight: Modern Impressions of Hemingway's WWI

History beats with the human impulse to create art in response to war and in turn, this art inspires others, creating a collective cultural memory. Art helps us interpret, reinterpret and remember our history. A young Ernest Hemingway left Kansas City in 1918 to volunteer in Italy during WWI. His wartime experiences shaped his writing that then went on to inspire contemporary Italian artists in creating this global digital media project, Insight. Come take a listen. On the Research Level Feb. 1 - May 20, 2018.

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Hands-on History

History is brought to life in this family‑friendly program in which kids of all ages are invited to handle Great War artifacts. FREE to the public | Near Paul Sunderland Glass Bridge

Thursdays at 2:30 p.m.

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Museum Tour

Explore the Main Gallery with one of our knowledgeable Museum Guides on a tour. Space is limited on a first come, first serve basis. Sign-up on Thursdays at the Museum ticketing window.
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Saturdays at 1 p.m.

Gassed Hands-on History

Join us for our Gassed-edition Hands-on History where an Education staff member will lead an interactive viewing of the work, where guests will see how Sargent used his observational skills to create his masterpiece. Discover your inner art historian at this family-friendly exploration! Complimentary with Wylie Gallery Admission | Wylie Gallery

Saturday, May 5, 10:30 a.m.

Story Time: Fly, Cher Ami, Fly!: The Pigeon Who Saved the Lost Battalion

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Tuesday, May 8, 6:30 p.m.

The American in Paris: The True Story of the American Hospital of Paris

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Saturday, May 12, 1 p.m.

Sketch like Sargent

To create Gassed, John Singer Sargent completed multiple sketches in preparation to paint his monumental work. Join us for an afternoon of drawing from our collection and in the Wylie Gallery where guests will use observational skills, learn compositional and drawing techniques, and discuss the processes Sargent used to create his masterpiece. Presented in partnership with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Class is appropriate for ages 12-adult. RSVP soon-spots are limited! $20 (includes supplies) but guests should bring their own sketchbook | Wylie Gallery

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Saturday-Sunday, May 12-13

WW1USA Amateur Radio Station

Wednesday, May 16, 6:30 p.m.

Women at War: Served Like a Girl

Since the advent of the modern American military, women have actively served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Join Kansas City PBS for a free screening of a new documentary, Served Like a Girl, which chronicles the lives of female veterans as they harness humor to adapt to the emotional, social and economic challenges of transitioning from solider to civilian and compete for the crown of Ms. Veteran America. A local veterans panel will address the contemporary issues in the film for our community and how women's service has changed since WWI. Presented in partnership with KCPT and the National Archives at Kansas City. Reception begins at 6 p.m. FREE with RSVP | J. C. Nichols Auditorium

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Friday, May 25, 5:30 p.m.

Museum Insider: Curator Happy Hour

Join Stephanie Fox Knappe, Samuel Sosland Curator of American Art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, for a 30-minute conversation on the stories behind John Singer Sargent's painting Gassed. Get an up-close look with this informal in-gallery chat with the contributing art historian for the exhibition John Singer Sargent Gassed. Cocktails begin at 5:30 p.m. outside Wylie Gallery. Tickets are $10 and include two drinks | Wylie Gallery

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Sunday, May 27, 3 p.m.

Bank of America Celebration at the Station

Kick off your summer with the largest free Memorial Day weekend event in the Midwest. The Kansas City Symphony, led by Music Director Michael Stern, performs patriotic favorites against the backdrop of Kansas City's historic Union Station. Celebration at the Station concludes with a fireworks display over the Liberty Memorial at the National WWI Museum and Memorial. The event site opens at 3 p.m. Concert begins at 8 p.m. FREE to the public | Museum and Memorial North Lawn

Monday, May 28, Open

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The Museum is open 7 days a week beginning on Memorial Day.

10 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Sunday - Friday)
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Monday, May 28, 12 p.m.

Centenary: A WWI Memorial in Song

This Memorial Day, revisit the hauntingly beautiful songs and poetry of the Great War with internationally acclaimed performers operatic baritone John Brancy and pianist Peter Dugan. An exploration of the timeless themes of longing and the search for meaning and peace, this 45-minute program features music by WWI veterans including New York natives Alan Seeger and Irving Berlin, alongside classics by Vaughan Williams, Schubert Rachmaninov, and more. CD signing to follow. FREE to the public | J.C. Nichols Auditorium

Thursday, May 31, 5:30 p.m.

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Mr. Kohl- Yesterday, US Soccer shook on a new deal to give the US women’s national team better pay and benefits. Last year, the US women’s team filed a complaint against US Soccer for seriously shortchanging them compared to the men’s team.

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Mr. Kohl- Yesterday, US Soccer shook on a new deal to give the US women’s national team better pay and benefits. Last year, the US women’s team filed a complaint against US Soccer for seriously shortchanging them compared to the men’s team.

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"We tried to completely change the methodology for how to define our value, and we made progress in that regard, and it changes the equation for the future," said Becca Roux, the union's executive director.

Sunil Gulati, the president of U.S. Soccer, portrayed the agreement as a shared victory, an "equitable" deal that he said recognized the team's achievements and kept U.S. Soccer at the forefront of the continuing fight for gender equity in soccer worldwide.

"We've always had the most highly compensated women's team in the world, and this puts them at even higher level," Gulati said. "Their performance over all over the last quarter-century has put them at the top of their game. Financially the agreement gives the players security in a way that they haven't had before and adds a number of other things that were very important to them.

"So we're very pleased to continue being at the forefront of the women's game internationally."

Happy an agreement has been reached. https://t.co/roXWP5YInh
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Gulati noted that the deal's five-year term, through 2021, ensured that the next negotiation would not become an issue for the team in its next major competitions, the 2019 World Cup in France and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He also revealed that U.S. Soccer had agreed to pay the players for two years' worth of unequal per-diem payments, the result of improvements in the men's C.B.A. that were not accounted for in the women's version.

But while the deal was completed this week, it was forged over the past four months, during which the players took active control of their side of the negotiations with a team of U.S. Soccer negotiators - including Gulati - who had long been eager to do what they called an equitable deal but had bristled at the way the union went about it.

Initially, the talks had been framed as a simple equal-pay debate, a powerful wedge issue that hung over the talks from the start. It resulted in a lawsuit against the players' union by the federation to enforce the old collective bargaining agreement but also in a federal wage-discrimination complaint signed by five top players that will continue even with the new C.B.A. complete.

Those legal fights were the most public salvos in what the top women's players had come to view as a yearslong fight for respect and equal treatment. After the United States won the Women's World Cup in 2015, in the richest year in team history, a group of players fueled by simmering resentments - artificial turf fields, travel in coach class, unequal per-diem payments - demanded that the union fight to win the richer contracts the group felt the players had earned.

The cause of equal pay seemed a successful strategy; it put U.S. Soccer in the awkward position of defending what was effectively unequal pay for the same work, and it received wide news media coverage as well as the support of athletes and celebrities and even Hillary Clinton, who tweeted her support during the 2016 presidential campaign. But the tactic also proved divisive, forcing fans of the national teams to take sides in an increasingly nasty fight, and it hurt feelings inside the close-knit world of U.S. Soccer, especially after some women's players - riding high after their World Cup title - denigrated the on-field record of the men's team while pushing their cause.

With the union's negotiators and U.S. Soccer barely on speaking terms late last year, the women's players fired their lawyer and restructured the union's leadership. The goal was to change the tone of the talks and, with the players more involved, to pivot toward a solution that veteran voices on the team soon came to call "equitable and fair" pay - a subtle but important shift.

Gulati, in a telephone interview on Wednesday morning, said the change in leadership, and in tone, had quickly opened the door to the discussions that produced a deal.

An amazing photo on multiple levels: inside the USWNT labor talks Saturday (from team's since deleted Instagram story): pic.twitter.com/hjU5QPJ9Uf
- Andrew Das (@AndrewDasNYT) April 5, 2017

In addition to seeking improved, but not necessarily equal, pay, the players began to press for changes that they saw as vital to the long-term growth of their game. Those changes, they argued in detailed slide presentations during increasingly frequent negotiating sessions, would improve the game outside the narrow ecosystem of the national team and also establish a structure to support both their careers and those of the next generation of American women.

As a result, the new agreement includes commitments from U.S. Soccer for its continued support of the domestic professional league, the N.W.S.L., as well as requirements that the federation improve standards in the league and - through sizable increases in camp and roster bonuses for players not under contract with U.S. Soccer - transfer money to players who exist on the periphery of the more established national team pool.

The agreement also reinforces the national team players' commitment to the N.W.S.L. through their league salaries, while at the same time establishing a mechanism for them to pursue opportunities abroad, as players like Carli Lloyd and Crystal Dunn (in England) and Morgan (in France) have done in recent months.

The final breakthrough came last weekend in Dallas, when as many as 16 players - dressed in matching team gear in a row of chairs only feet from the negotiating table - took part in two days of marathon discussions with Gulati and U.S. Soccer representatives. Helpful timing - the players were together in camp ahead of two friendlies against Russia this week - and the looming start of the N.W.S.L. season provided another needed nudge.

On Tuesday night, the players gathered in a drab conference room to hear the details of the agreement from their lawyers, including some benefits that had come to pass only in the final days. "Oh, we got that, too," one player remarked, according to Roux. Then the completed document was shared electronically with all 22 voting members for ratification, while U.S. Soccer's board met on a conference call to give its assent.

"I am incredibly proud of this team and the commitment we have shown through this entire process," Rapinoe, a player and a member of the union's C.B.A. committee, said in a statement provided by the union. "While I think there is still much progress to be made for us and for women more broadly, I think the W.N.T.P.A. should be very proud of this deal and feel empowered moving forward."

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Long Days, Google Docs and Anonymous Surveys: How the U.S. Soccer Team Forged a Deal

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"We tried to completely change the methodology for how to define our value, and we made progress in that regard, and it changes the equation for the future," said Becca Roux, the union's executive director. Sunil Gulati, the president of U.S.