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Watch live coverage as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a press briefing.



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Sept. 22, 2025, 11:20 AM EDTBy Edwin Flores, Morgan Radford and Aaron FrancoYou’ve heard of pickleball, the wildly popular sport that’s gone mainstream. But now there’s padel — another racket sport that’s surging in popularity and one that has strong Latino roots.“It’s a sport that always keeps you on your toes,” said Roy Tabet, a professional padel player and a coach at Reserve Padel, one of the biggest luxury padel brands in the U.S., with clubs in Miami and New York. Tabet said he had played tennis his whole life but started finding it repetitive.“I started playing padel and I immediately felt the passion. The hype for the game was real,” he said in an interview with the “TODAY” show’s Morgan Radford.Morgan Radford and Santiago Gomez at Padel Haus in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y.NBC NewsPadel got its start in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1969 when Enrique Corcuera, a Mexican businessman, was trying to build a makeshift tennis court in his backyard. He didn’t have enough space and chose to make a smaller version — the very first padel court — with a distinguishing feature: It was surrounded by an almost 10-foot wall.The sport would eventually grow and spread internationally. It’s now described as the fastest-growing sport worldwide. The International Padel Federation says padel is played in more than 140 countries around the world with about 30 million amateur players.Currently in the U.S., there are over 100,000 amateur players, according to PadelUSA, an online marketplace for padel equipment, but the number of padel courts has been increasing.The sport’s growing popularity has even captured the attention of athletes and celebrities like Eva Longoria, Derek Jeter, Jimmy Butler and Adam Levine.“It’s like pickleball but kind of a little cooler,” Levine told Jimmy Fallon in April on “The Tonight Show.” “It’s super fun,” the singer added, explaining he was first introduced to the sport by Michael Bublé, his fellow coach on “The Voice,” when they were vacationing together in Mexico.Padel differs from other racket sports in that the court is about one-third the size of a tennis court and is typically surrounded by a glass or mesh wall. The ball can be hit off the walls and even from outside the court, as players can exit the court through a door to return the ball. Players must have a teammate, as the sport can only be played in doubles.A big draw, fans say, is the community it fosters as well as the game’s fast pace.“What got me hooked is the community. I feel like I met a lot of my best friends here, so coming to see them specifically turned into my love for playing padel,” Rachel Kuan, who’s now a customer experiences employee at Reserve Padel, told “TODAY.” Santiago Gomez, who fell in love with the game while growing up in Acapulco, founded Padel Haus, a sprawling padel social and cultural hub located in New York City — and among the first dedicated padel courts in the U.S. Padel Haus has since opened more courts across the New York City area as well as in Atlanta, Nashville and Denver.“A lot of Latinos were first — they were the first ones to come because they play the sport at home,” Gomez said.“Americans didn’t know about the sport when we first opened in 2022,” he said. “And then after that, a lot of tennis players, former tennis players, former squash players — Americans — came and tried it for the first time and they fully converted to padel.”Gomez estimates that about 70% of Padel Haus’ members are from the U.S. while the remaining 30% hail from other countries. The growth has increased so significantly that there’s now a waitlist for people looking to sign up.Fast pace ‘keeps you hooked’In addition to the social aspect of the game, Gomez said it’s addictive because of how fast-paced it can get compared to other racket sports.“[In tennis], a ball passes you, your mind is wired to think that the point is over. But here, given the wall’s in the back, you can still save the point. So you feel like a hero when you’re catching a ball that you couldn’t catch in tennis,” Gomez said.“You’re still in the game, and that gives you [a] big dopamine rush and that’s what keeps you hooked.”Mexican tennis player Yola Ramirez competing in the women’s singles tournament at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, on July 1,1959.Evening Standard / Hulton Archive/Getty Images fileThe International Padel Federation is working on getting the sport included in the 2032 Olympics. But for some like Marnie Perez-Ochoa, whose grandmother Yola Ramirez was a former professional tennis player from Mexico and grandfather built Padel courts for professional tournaments in Acapulco, the game has also become a point of cultural pride.“The power of sport is so prevalent — it’s just now getting started in the States. You see it in Mexico. It already boomed in Europe — Spain in particular. So I’m really excited to see where it’s going to go in the States. And I think it’s really beautiful that it started in Mexico,” Perez-Ochoa said.Edwin FloresEdwin Flores was a former reporter and video producer based in Anaheim, California. Morgan RadfordAaron Franco
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That’s not American, that is un-American, and it’s so dangerous,” he said.The events that led to Kimmel’s suspension began Sept. 15, five days after a gunman fatally shot Kirk, a popular activist on the right, as Kirk was at a public event at Utah Valley University in Orem.Kimmel’s comments came at a time when investigators had not released details about the suspect’s potential motives.Jimmy Kimmel on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in Los Angeles on Tuesday.Randy Holmes / Disney“We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said in the monologue.Tyler Robinson, 22, was charged the next day with Kirk’s murder. In charging documents, prosecutors released text messages in which, they said, Robinson said he targeted Kirk because he had “had enough of his hatred.”During his monologue Tuesday, Kimmel praised Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, for saying at a memorial Sunday that she has forgiven her husband’s killer.“She forgave him. That is an example we should follow,” Kimmel said, emotion in his voice. “If you believe in the teachings of Jesus, as I do, there it was. That, that’s it. A selfless act of grace. Forgiveness from a grieving widow.”“It touched me deeply, and I hope it touches many,” Kimmel said. “And if there’s anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that.”Dandidi outside the taping of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Tuesday.Alex Welsh for NBC NewsOn Tuesday outside the El Capitan Entertainment Centre in Hollywood, where “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” is taped, ticket holders were eager to file in to be in the audience. Gabriela De Vries, who is from Germany, said she was shocked when the show got pulled off the air just as she had flown in to see Kimmel. Dressed head to toe in a star-spangled outfit and matching face paint, a man who goes by Dandidi applauded those who “pressured [Disney] by taking action — no thoughts and prayers, action — by canceling their Disney, putting that heat under them.”ABC suspended Kimmel’s show after FCC Chair Brendan Carr described his monologue jokes as “the sickest conduct possible” in an interview with conservative commentator Benny Johnson. Carr threatened regulatory action. Hours later, Nexstar Media Group said it would pre-empt Kimmel’s show for the “foreseeable future” on all its ABC-affiliated channels. Carr thanked Nexstar for “doing the right thing” on X and encouraged other local broadcasters to follow its lead. Sinclair, another broadcast ownership group, quickly followed Nexstar in saying it, too, would pre-empt Kimmel’s show on its 30 ABC-affiliated stations. The companies reiterated this week that they would continue to do so. Both companies have pending business before the FCC. Nexstar said last month it intends to put in a bid to buy another broadcast company, Tegna, which would most likely require the FCC to loosen its 39% cap on national television audience reach. Sinclair is exploring merger options for its broadcast business, according to CNBC.Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday wrote to the corporate heads of both Nexstar and Sinclair, asking how their decisions to pre-empt Kimmel’s show “may relate to regulatory issues pending with the Trump administration.”Guillermo Rodriguez and Jimmy Kimmel hug on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Tuesday.Randy Holmes / DisneyA spokesperson for ABC had initially said Kimmel’s show would be “pre-empted indefinitely,” sparking immediate backlash, with many decrying what they described as an infringement on his constitutional right to free speech and others calling for a boycott of the Disney-owned streaming services Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN. Comedian, actor and podcaster Marc Maron called on free speech advocates to speak out against pulling Kimmel’s show.”If you have any concern or belief in real freedom or the Constitution and free speech, this is it,” Maron said in a video on his Instagram account. “This is the deciding moment; this is what authoritarianism looks like in this country. It’s happening.”Hollywood rallies behind Kimmel, while Trump and supporters cheer suspension03:08Even some Republicans took issue with the matter. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Friday on his podcast that while he thought what Kimmel said was wrong, what Carr was doing was “unbelievably dangerous.” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., called Carr’s comments about Kimmel “absolutely inappropriate” in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday.Carr later denied that he threatened the stations, saying Monday that he was referring to the FCC’s ability to review a license because of a “news distortion complaint.” He said Disney made its own “business decision” to pre-empt Kimmel’s show.”What I’ve been very clear in the context of the Kimmel episode is the FCC, and myself in particular, have expressed no view on the ultimate merits had something like that been filed, what our take would be one way or another,” Carr said.After days of mounting pressure, Disney said Monday that Kimmel would return to the air in a statement that did not address the freedom-of-speech concerns or the calls for a boycott.Kimmel said in Tuesday’s monologue that Trump has targeted his critics on late-night television to intimidate them and to bully corporations to remove them. “The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke,” Kimmel said.“We have to speak out against this,” he said.Phil HelselPhil Helsel is a reporter for NBC News.Angela YangAngela Yang is a culture and trends reporter for NBC News.Doha MadaniDoha Madani is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News. Pronouns: she/her.Rebecca Cohen contributed.
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