Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo smiles as he warms up during the Portugal’s official training on the eve of the group H World Cup soccer match between Portugal and Ghana at the Al Shahaniya SC training site in Al Shahaniya, Qatar, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 10:40 AM PT – Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has mutually terminated his contract with Manchester United. The Portuguese superstar officially parted ways after giving an interview blasting the team.

In a statement on Tuesday, the club announced that Ronaldo is leaving by mutual consent and with immediate effect. The club wished him well with his future endeavors.

Ronaldo made a sensational return to the club in the summer of 2021. However, he quickly understood that United had not made any progress since his 2003–2009 excellent tenure there.

“When I arrived, I thought everything will be different — the technology, the infrastructure, everything,” Ronaldo said. “I was surprised, in a bad way, in that way. I saw everything was the same.” 

Prior to the World Cup, in an interview with Piers Morgan for Talktv, he accused the team of betraying him. Ronaldo clearly stated that he holds no respect for the manager, Erik Ten Hag. He also thinks that the manager does not hold proper respect for the sport in particular.

Ronaldo’s departure from Manchester United comes as he is captaining Portugal’s national team at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. He asserted that the timing of his most recent remarks criticizing United wouldn’t impair his Portuguese colleagues’ focus.

President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally ride in a limousine moments before Kennedy was assassinated, in Dallas, Texas November 22, 1963. Walt Cisco/Dallas Morning News/Handout/File Photo via REUTERS

OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 4:56 PM PT – Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Today marks 53 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States. He was a Massachusetts native who grew up to be the youngest man elected to the highest office in the United States. He was a Navy veteran and a Democrat.

President Kennedy is best known for founding the Peace Corps, advancing the space program to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade and for working with Martin Luther King Jr. to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In 1963, he was spending the better part of November planning his bid for re-election.

On November 22nd, the president was traveling from Fort Worth, Texas to Dallas, Texas with the First Lady Jackie Kennedy. It was their first public appearance together since the death of their son Patrick in August. Political tensions were already high in Dallas, as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. at the time had been physically attacked during a speech a month earlier.

Nevertheless, the Kennedy’s began the ten-mile route in the presidential motorcade with the top down. Kennedy was scheduled to speak at the Trade Mart for a luncheon. But around 12:30 pm the car turned off the main street at Dealey Plaza and the sound of gun shots rang out.

The president was hit in the head, neck and chest. He was rushed to the Parkland Memorial Hospital.
A catholic priest came to administer his last rites. John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1:00 pm.

Meanwhile, police had arrested an employee at the Texas School Book Depository named Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was a former Marine who attempted suicide when Moscow initially rejected his application for citizenship. He eventually defected to the Soviet Union sometime in 1959. He returned to the United States with his wife in 1962.

By the time of Kennedy’s assassination, Oswald was already known for the attempted assassination of Army General Edwin Walker seven months earlier.

On November 24th, Oswald was scheduled to be transferred from police headquarters to a county jail when him and officers were swarmed my television crews and reporters.

Amid the confusion, local club owner Jack Ruby shot Oswald at point blank range on national television. Oswald died two days later in the same hospital the president died in.

250,000 people traveled to the Capitol Rotunda to pay their respects to President Kennedy before he was interred at Arlington National Cemetery.

In the midst of the tragedy and chaos, President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn into office while on Air Force One. He would eventually go on to carry on the legacy of Kennedy’s fight for civil rights.