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Carl Nassib came out last offseason via a brief social media video. It made him the first openly gay NFL player. There were criticisms this wasn’t important or something no one needed to know. Some even accused him of using his announcement to ensure he wouldn’t be cut this year by the Las Vegas Raiders. Nassib, however, has said little since that day. He’s just done his job, and done it pretty well. It’s been far more important than that. Consider that until Monday, Nassib’s head coach was Jon Gruden, who in emails uncovered during a tangential NFL investigation freely...

President Biden on Tuesday praised Carl Nassib and Kumi Yokoyama, two professional athletes who recently came out to the public, saying that their decision means that “countless kids around the world are seeing themselves in a new light today.” “I’m so proud of your courage,” Biden tweeted.

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib on Monday became the first active NFL player to come out as gay. “What’s up people,” Nassib said in a video posted to Instagram on Monday. “I’m at my house in West Chester, Pennsylvania. I just wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now but finally feel comfortable getting it off my chest. I really have the best life, the best family, friends and job a guy can ask for. “I’m a pretty private person so I hope you guys...

SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni government official has confirmed that security forces have arrested a top al Qaeda operative, adding that he had survived a 2002 CIA attempt to kill him. On Wednesday, Yemeni security forces arrested a man believed to be a local leader of Osama bin Laden's network during a raid on suspected militant hideouts in a remote mountainous region. The official named the detainee as Abdul Raouf Nassib, also known as Abu Mihjim, and said he was a henchman of al Qaeda's Yemen leader Mohammed al-Ahdal, who was arrested last year. He said Nassib was with top...