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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
13-19-31-35-38
(thirteen, nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-five, thirty-eight)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
13-19-31-35-38
(thirteen, nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-five, thirty-eight)
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| 2022-02-13T20:56:46
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Kanye West, also known simply as Ye, took to his Instagram Saturday night and let loose against his former collaborator Kid Cudi, uploading memes pitting himself against Pete Davidson as two opponents in a Marvel-style civil war. Sunday morning he deleted nearly everything from his account, leaving only one image, a collage of his kids with Kim Kardashian with the caption "GOD PLEASE BRING OUR FAMILY BACK TOGETHER."
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[Note: since the first publication of this article, Kanye has uploaded new aggressive images to his Instagram. Updates to this story are made at the end.]
The night of immature social media use began with the internationally known recording artist and potential presidential candidate informing his followers that Kid Cudi would not be heard on his forthcoming album Donda 2.
“Just so everyone knows Cudi will not be on Donda because he’s friends with you know who,” West wrote (in all-caps in what looked like black marker on an index card) in the since-deleted post. He continued, “We all speak in Billie language now,” a reference to Billie Eilish, another artist on the receiving end of West’s current ire. (We’ll get to that in a moment.)
As spotted by the @commentsbycelebs Instagram account (the wind beneath all our wings), Kid Cudi responded to Kanye’s message with strong words of his own.
“Too bad i don’t wanna be on ur album u fuckin dinosaur hahaha [crying-laughing emoji] everyone knows ive been the best thing about ur albums since i met u. Ima pray for u brother. [two-fingers peace emoji.]
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The “you know who” that Kanye refers to is most certainly Pete Davidson, the SNL star and current boyfriend of West’s soon-to-be-officially-ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. Cudi and Davidson have been pals for years, and were photographed with West (and Timothée Chalamet) by Kim Kardashian at Cudi’s 35th birthday party at Nobu Malibu. (A happy image from this event was repurposed into one of wrath, turned black-and-white with a harsh red X, during West's angry uploading spree.).
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| 2022-02-13T20:56:49
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Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM) candidate from Mohali Assembly constituency Ravneet Singh Brar released his election manifesto which he termed ‘Ikrarnama’. It provides an 11-point programme for Mohali.
Brar said that active public participation in governance, education, industrial development, and a clean, green and healthy Mohali, village ecosystem, sports, household waste management, handing over of private sector to GMADA, healthcare, agricultural renewal and improvement, family and women’s welfare are among his top priorities. Stating further he said that the Sanyukt Samaj Morcha would take all sections of the society along with it. He added that there will be uniform development in urban and as well as rural areas. Villages will be given the same facilities as the cities.
“It is not like the manifesto of traditional parties in which more than half of the issues are forgotten by political leaders, but it is my agreement with the people of Mohali which will be fulfilled in every case,” Brar added.
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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| 2022-02-13T20:56:50
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
0-0-7-7
(zero, zero, seven, seven)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
0-0-7-7
(zero, zero, seven, seven)
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| 2022-02-13T20:56:52
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The winter sun bathes the pristine glasses of Moti Masjid as locals begin to gather for afternoon prayers. The mosque is situated on the Asmoli-Sambhal road, which is busier than usual with large convoys constantly on the move of candidates making poll promises.
Mohd Faheem (60), who lives in the lane next to the mosque and has seen many elections, says now more than ever there is a need to defeat the communal forces. “The Hindu-Muslim card is a political ploy. You place it on the table and you get a certain section on your side. There are only a few Hindu families that live in this area. They have never faced any issue and never will. But on your televisions, leaders will make you believe there is enmity all the time. The public is smarter than what everyone likes to believe. The mandate will make it clear,” says Faheem.
The Muslim-majority Sambhal district has four Assembly seats in total. While the BJP had won Gannaur and Chandausi (SC) last time, the Samajwadi Party had won Asmoli and Sambhal City.
The SP-RLD candidate in Sambhal City again is Iqbal Mahmood, who has won the seat for the SP the last four times.
Even if locals wish Mahmood had paid more attention to development, he has their “trust”. There is also hope that the rising tempo of communalism will cool down should the BJP be dislodged from power.
Mohd Areeb, a resident of Deepa Sarai, argues that even the SP paid price last time for similar politics. “People do not want to live in a state of conflict and eventually get tired of communal rhetoric. When the SP built boundary walls for graveyards, they should have done the same for temples and cremation grounds. It was communal on their part and the public showed them the door. If the ruling party continues this narrative, it will anger people.”
The Congress candidate in Sambhal City is former News Nation journalist Nida Ahmad. The party has made tickets and promises to women the centrepiece of its campaign, and campaigning door to door, Ahmad tells voters she is ‘Sambhal Ki Beti’.
Mahmood, on the other hand, goes by the title ‘Sambhal ka Badshah’, and Ahmad admits the contest is tough. However, she has worked to a plan. “There are no degree colleges in many areas, no parks… I am a journalist and even in this role, I will continue to question the status quo till there is change,” she says.
Also in the fray is BSP’s Shakeel Ahmad, who owns a meat company and is believed to a strong contender for Muslim votes.
The BJP candidate, Rajesh Singhal, starts from a position of disadvantage given the numerical majority of Muslims. However, says a supporter, Anoop Sharma, there is much to recommend in the Yogi Adityanath government. “Law and order is in place, electricity supply has become regular. The Hindus are less in number but our entire vote is for Yogi ji. We are also hoping that our Muslim brothers will see the good since this government cares about everyone,” says Sharma.
A similar divide is visible in Moradabad, nearly 30 km from Sambhal. The six Assembly seats here are also Muslim-dominated. The SP had won four of the seats last time, against the BJP’s two.
The buzz is missing from the iconic brass market of Moradabad Sadar. With prices of raw materials up by nearly 100%, retail has been heavily impacted.
Moradabad Sadar was one of the seats won by the BJP last time. The party has fielded its sitting MLA, Ritesh Kumar Gupta. The SP has fielded Mohd Yunus Ansari while the BSP candidate is Irshad Hussain.
BJP supporters, however, argue that the government alone can’t be blamed for rising prices. Trader Bhushan Gupta lists reasons such as law and order, saying “the present government has done a lot”.
However, even his appeal for votes for the BJP comes down to a simple math. “We must come out and vote in large numbers because Muslims will support in one direction… Elections are a true test for us all.”
- The Indian Express website has been rated GREEN for its credibility and trustworthiness by Newsguard, a global service that rates news sources for their journalistic standards.
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Applications are being accepted for grants to support after-school and summer programs, according to Gov. Phil Scott and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The new, $4.8 million grant program is for the summer of 2022 and 2023 and the 2022-2023 school year.
The application for grant funds are for a variety of organizations, including non-profits, municipalities, and licensed and regulated providers of school age childcare.
The funds will create 31,650 new summer program slots over the course of the summer.
Additionally, 55 of the grant recipients will offer transportation; 100 will offer low or no cost programming for eligible students and 90 are ensuring access for all kids, including those with disabilities or unique needs.
“Offering universal afterschool and summer programs is a key strategy for prevention and healthy development, and a priority for my Administration,” Scott said in a statement.
Sanders said the last few years have been challenging for all Vermonters.
“The goal here is that all Vermont students – regardless of their income – have the opportunities that make summer fun and enriching," Sanders said.
More information can be found on the website of Vermont After School.
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| 2022-02-13T20:57:04
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Archivists and volunteers will soon begin combing through decades of artifacts from a Tuscaloosa barbershop central to the city's civil rights history with the goal of determining which pieces in the vast collection should be included in a future museum.
Rev. Thomas Linton died in 2020 but before his death he collected a gigantic array of historical items such as newspaper clippings or artifacts related to the civil rights fight as well as other materials such as dozens of spittoons, a collection of shaving mugs and three wooden hand-crank telephones, the Tuscaloosa News reported.
Next week, archivists and volunteers from the Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History and Reconciliation Foundation will start combing through the collection. The team will make an inventory and catalogue of the treasure trove.
Tim Lewis is the foundation’s co-president. He is coordinating the preservation effort and has brought in people who have experience in preservation work. Tom Wilson, who's retired from the University of Alabama libraries and Bill Bomar, executive director of the University of Alabama museums are both part of the effort as well as Ph.D. students and other volunteers.
“We’re just starting the process of going through, to inventory what’s in the boxes,” Lewis told the newspaper, “to tag, label, take pictures, and put together a database."
During the struggle for civil rights, the barbershop was often a gathering place for people involved in the struggle. Autherine Lucy, who became the first Black student at the University of Alabama, went to the shop to clean up after racists threw food and garbage on her. On June 9, 1964 activists protesting a segregated courthouse ducked into the shop as opponents attacked them outside. Linton was in contact with U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to arrange hospital care and bail money for those beaten and arrested.
One of the artifacts gathered from the barbershop is the receipt from the poll tax Linton paid to vote in 1954. Poll taxes were one of the many ways that segregationists used to try to keep Black people from voting. Linton framed his receipt and hung it on the wall.
The archival work was originally going to be done at the barbershop but after mold and a leaky roof were discovered officials decided to gather the materials and bring them to a separate location.
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| 2022-02-13T20:57:10
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A woman has been arrested after a weekend shooting at a mall in Champaign that left a man injured, authorities said.
Police were called just after 2 p.m. Saturday to Market Place Mall after learning a man and woman had been in a dispute inside the building near the food court and moved to the parking lot. The woman allegedly fired one shot and hit the man in the leg and he was hospitalized.
The woman was taken to the county jail. Authorities have asked Champaign police to do further investigation before deciding to file charges.
No other injuries were reported in the shooting.
State’s Attorney Julia Rietz said the woman has a firearm owner’s identification card and a concealed-carry license and told police that she was acting in self-defense after a dispute.
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| 2022-02-13T20:57:17
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — An affordable housing plan initiated months before tornadoes struck Bowling Green in December is moving forward at the right time to help dozens of residents displaced by the storms.
Warren Fiscal Court on Friday approved an agreement with the Housing Authority of Bowling Green to use $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act money to finance infrastructure for a 40-unit housing complex, the Daily News reports.
The ARPA funds will be funneled through the Housing Authority’s Live the Dream nonprofit arm, established to help low-income families achieve home ownership.
Magistrate Doug Gorman, who has been working with the housing authority for several months to get the affordable housing community started, said the need was there before the storms destroyed dozens of homes.
“The issue is the land prices are so high that it’s hard to build homes that are affordable," he said. “The Housing Authority has this property, so we worked with them to find a way to offset the infrastructure cost. It will allow them to discount the lot prices.”
Warren County Judge-Executive Mike Buchanon said the December tornadoes increased the need for new homes.
“We need affordable housing now more than ever," he said.
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| 2022-02-13T20:57:23
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WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — Canadians who have occupied downtown Ottawa, disrupted travel and trade with the U.S. and inspired copycat protests from New Zealand to the Netherlands sound a common note when asked about their motivation: Decisions about their health shouldn't be made by the government.
“We stand for freedom,” said Karen Driedger, 40, who home-schools her kids and attended protests in Ottawa and Windsor. “We believe that it should be everyone’s personal decision what they inject into their bodies.”
The refrain isn't new to a pandemic-weary world, two years after the COVID-19 virus prompted curfews and closures, mask mandates, and debates over vaccine requirements. Still, the timing of the protests has raised some eyebrows, since they began just as many of the toughest pandemic-era restrictions were being lifted across Canada, the U.S. and Europe; experts say antipathy toward Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a significant underlying force.
The in-your-face protests that have fueled frustrations around the country and world have been aided by publicity and support from far-right and anti-vaccine groups. And influential Americans such as former U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk have rallied behind the protesters.
Most Canadians have been supportive of the pandemic restrictions, which health officials have stressed are necessary to protect the public from a virus that has killed at least 5.8 million people globally. The vast majority of Canadians are vaccinated, and the COVID-19 death rate is one-third that of the United States.
Trudeau has labeled the protesters a “fringe,” and authorities have braced for violence because some have expressed hope that the rally will become the Canadian equivalent of last January's riot at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.
The Canadian “freedom convoy” was announced last month by a group founded by a QAnon conspiracy theory supporter and other organizers, and includes the ex-leader of Alberta's far-right Maverick Party.
Protesters who spoke to The Associated Press this week defended their actions and argued that they represent many more frustrated residents.
Don Stephens, a 65-year-old retired graphic designer, said he’s come into Ottawa twice to show support for protesters there. He views them as representatives of a “silent majority that had been longing to have their voice heard.”
Mat Mackenzie, a 36-year-old trucker from Ontario, said he’s been among the protesters in Ottawa for 15 days, feeling “a duty” to show his opposition. Citizens should be in charge of making decisions around masks, vaccines and other COVID mitigation efforts, not government officials, he said.
“I can tell you 90% of truckers here are likely vaccinated. We’re here for freedom of choice," Mackenzie said. "And that’s what we’re here to fight for.”
Michael Kempa, a criminology professor at the University of Ottawa, said there are two faces of the protest. It isn't just about vaccine mandates and other COVID restrictions; organizers have said they want to oust Trudeau’s Liberal government and be part of forming a new one, he said.
“In many ways, the friendly face protesters are acting as the foot soldiers of the organizers,” Kempa said. “We are seeing a huge amount of misinformation. People who are legitimately angry are being manipulated by the protest leadership.”
Many Canadians have been outraged over the crude behavior of some demonstrators. Some urinated on the National War Memorial and danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, while others carried signs and flags with swastikas and used the statue of Canadian hero Terry Fox to display an anti-vaccine statement, sparking widespread condemnation.
The images of protests across Canada have ignited copycats elsewhere.
In Paris, police prevented a threatened blockade of the French capital on Saturday. But a few dozen vehicles were able to disrupt traffic on the famed Champs-Elysees, prompting police to fire tear gas to disperse the crowd.
"The convoys are for the restoring of our liberties,” said Pierre-Louis Garnier, a 64-year-old who attended a protest in Paris on Friday to welcome an anticipated convoy that never materialized.
In the Netherlands, dozens of trucks and other vehicles, some waving Canadian flags, have descended on The Hague, the historic Dutch parliamentary complex.
“We are living now in police state,” said Hans Evenstain, a 76-year-old protester said Sunday. “That’s not a good life anymore. We want to move freely and that’s why we are here for us and for our children and our grandchildren.”
In Belgium, federal police were urging people to avoid Brussels on Monday, when a convoy is expected to gather in the country's capital, and the headquarters of the 27-nation European Union.
In the New Zealand capital of Wellington, authorities have turned to blasting Barry Manilow songs and the 90s dance hit “Macarena” on loop to break up a convoy of protesters encamped outside Parliament this week.
In Windsor, where protesters had blocked the entrance to the Ambassador Bridge that is a crucial conduit for the auto industry in both the U.S. and Canada, police moved to end the demonstration Sunday, arresting about a dozen protesters and beginning to tow vehicles.
Before Sunday's crackdown, the shutdown often had the feel of a block party.
Protesters milled about, carrying Canadian flags affixed to the ends of hockey sticks while music blared and food was handed out. They put up signs bearing slogans such as “Freedom Is Essential,” “Say No To Mandatory Vaccines” and “End Mandates.”
Troy Holman, a 32-year-old Windsor resident who has been at the protest every day since its start on Monday, said he believes the government overreached with its COVID-19 restrictions, which negatively impacted his wife’s small business.
“If we weren’t doing something such as this, no one would pay attention to us,” he said Friday. “Unfortunately, we have to be here, because this is what’s going to get the attention of the government.”
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Shaffrey reported from Ottawa and Foody reported from Chicago. Associated Press reporters Rob Gillies in Toronto, Elaine Ganley in Paris, Thomas Adamson in The Hague and Nick Perry in Wellington, New Zealand, contributed to this story.
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| 2022-02-13T20:57:29
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is blaming President Joe Biden for a sense of lawlessness across the country, but declined to criticize him for saying he'll appoint a Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Earle-Sears, a Republican and the first Black woman in Virginia elected to statewide office, spoke Sunday on Fox News' “Sunday Morning Futures.”
When host Maria Bartiromo asked about lawlessness in the form of unconstitutional mandates and street crime, Earle-Sears said it starts with the president, a Democrat.
“There is no leadership,” she said. “They follow the polls. And they don’t have a righteous bone in their body.”
Later in the interview, Bartiromo asked if it was racist of Biden to say he plans to nominate a Black woman to replace the retiring Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. Earle-Sears declined to characterize it that way.
“It really isn’t unheard of for America to pick certain people to be on the Supreme Court,” she said “We clamored for a female judge. And we got Sandra Day O’Connor. That was a good thing. We clamored for a black judge. And we got Thurgood Marshall. That was a good thing.”
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| 2022-02-13T20:57:35
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan is calling for an investigation into whether some student loan providers mislead millions of borrowers about their rights if they declare bankruptcy.
The New Hampshire Democrat said Saturday that she's signed onto a letter with her Senate colleagues seeking a review by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
She cited a recent report from the non-profit Student Borrower Protection Center that found that some lenders offering “non-qualified” loans have misstated the details about how different loans can be discharged through bankruptcy. While qualified student loans can only be discharged due to undue hardship, non-qualified private loans do not carry that requirement.
More than 2 million borrowers with non-qualified loans may not have understood their rights under bankruptcy, according to the senator's letter.
"Private student loan lenders took advantage of the widespread belief that all private student loans are non-dischargeable in bankruptcy and that lenders marketed their non-qualified education loans under this false pretense,” the Senators wrote in their letter.
The letter urges the CFPB to review the center's findings and take appropriate action against lenders who aren't being transparent with borrowers.
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| 2022-02-13T20:57:41
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján, who is recovering from a stroke in January, says he plans to be back at work in “just a few short weeks” to vote on President Joe Biden's forthcoming Supreme Court nominee.
In a video released Sunday by his office, the New Mexico senator said he is at the University of New Mexico Hospital after surgery to relieve pressure on his brain and soon will go to an inpatient rehabilitation facility for "a few more weeks.”
“I’m doing well. I’m strong. I’m back on the road to recovery, and I’m going to make a full recovery,” the 49-year-old Luján said in the video, which showed him seated next to two of his doctors. “I’m going to walk out of here, I’m going to beat this, and I’m going to be stronger once I come out.”
"Now I’m proud to report, then I’ll be back on the floor of the United States Senate in just a few short weeks to vote on important legislation and to consider a Supreme Court nominee,” he added.
According to his office, the Luján began experiencing dizziness and fatigue on Jan. 27 and checked himself into a hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Luján was transferred to the hospital in Albuquerque for further evaluation and treatment.
His absence from the Senate came as Biden considers a nominee to replace the retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer. Biden has said he wants to announce a pick by the end of February.
In a 50-50 Senate, Luján's vote would be critical if Democrats wanted to confirm Biden's nominee without the help of Republicans.
“Rest assured, New Mexicans can know they will have a voice and a vote during this process,” Luján said in the video. “That has never changed.”
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https://www.chron.com/news/article/Luj-n-plans-return-to-Senate-in-weeks-for-16915111.php
| 2022-02-13T20:57:47
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police were searching Sunday for a gunman who shot four people after a brawl erupted outside a Los Angeles restaurant hosting a party that followed a Justin Bieber concert, authorities said.
Detectives are asking witnesses to come forward to help them identify the suspect in the shooting early Saturday outside The Nice Guy restaurant.
The victims' names were not released, but NBC News reported rapper Kodak Black was among the wounded. Four men ages 60, 24, 22 and 19 were hospitalized in stable condition, LA police Officer Mike Lopez said.
Videos posted on TMZ.com and on social media show Black, 24, posing for photos with a group of people outside the restaurant when the brawl broke out. Black is among several people involved in the fight before shots rang out, sending everyone running for cover.
Law enforcement sources told NBC News that Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, was among the people shot. A message to his publicist at Atlantic Records has not been returned.
The party followed Bieber’s private concert at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood as part of a Super Bowl-week party dubbed “Homecoming Weekend.” The guests at the star-studded event included Jeff Bezos, TV host Lauren Sánchez, “Hamilton” actor Anthony Ramos and NFL Hall-of-Famer Tony Gonzalez.
Bieber and his wife Hailey Baldwin, Drake, Khloe Kardashian and Tobey Maguire were also among the celebrities seen entering the afterparty, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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| 2022-02-13T20:58:00
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Bus driver shot, killed on the job in Charlotte
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV/Gray News) - Police said a Charlotte Area Transit System bus driver that was shot in uptown Charlotte Friday night has died from his injuries.
The shooting happened on West Trade Street near South Graham Street around 9:35 p.m., WBTV reported.
Police said a suspect fired shots at Rivera from an SUV.
There were four passengers on the bus, but none of them were injured.
When officers arrived at the scene, they said the bus had traveled off of the roadway.
Charlotte Area Transit System identified the driver as 41-year-old Ethan Rivera.
Medics took Rivera to the hospital, but he died on Saturday. The shooting is now being investigated as a homicide.
A motive for the shooting wasn’t specified.
In a statement Sunday, CATS called the shooting “a senseless act of violence,” adding, “Ethan was a public servant and valued member of the Charlotte community. We grieve with his family during this time.”
Charlotte Meckenburg Police Department said information on the suspect vehicle is coming soon.
Copyright 2022 WBTV via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I. (AP) — Congress has approved legislation to name a Rhode Island post office after a fallen soldier.
The legislation to name the facility in the Slatersville section of North Smithfield after Spc. Matthew R. Turcotte, which previously passed the U.S. Senate in July, now goes to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law, according to a statement from Rhode Island's congressional delegation.
Turcotte, a lifelong resident of North Smithfield, was serving with the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division when he was killed in August 2017 during a live ammunition training exercise at Fort Carson in Colorado. He was 20 years old. He is survived by his wife, parents and two sisters.
Turcotte joined the Army in 2015 after graduating from North Smithfield High School where he was co-captain of the football team. He was deployed to Kosovo while in the Army.
“We are forever grateful for Matthew’s devoted service to the nation. He died in the line of duty and naming this post office after him is a way to honor and remember him," U.S. Jack Reed said in a statement.
A formal dedication ceremony at the post office will be scheduled for the spring.
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| 2022-02-13T20:58:12
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the Super Bowl:
The Cincinnati Bengals are the home team Sunday in the Super Bowl — technically. The home-field advantage belongs all to the Los Angeles Rams.
The NFC champions (15-5) will dress and work out of their usual locker room after spending the night before the big game in their usual hotel. The Rams’ logo is plastered all around and inside SoFi Stadium even with the banners making it clear this is the Super Bowl.
Yes, the Bengals (13-7) are represented inside the stadium with their name and “Who Dey!” mantra opposite the Rams.
This is the second straight Super Bowl where the home team has gotten to play on its own field after Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a championship a year ago in Raymond James Stadium. Before that, the NFL went 54 years without a team playing a Super Bowl in its home stadium.
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More AP Super Bowl coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/super-bowl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL
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| 2022-02-13T20:58:18
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The owners of a business in Forest Lake said a thief broke into their game shop and stole Pokémon merchandise they estimate was worth $250,000.
The Star Tribune reports the thief avoided the store’s extensive security system Thursday morning by breaking into a vacant business next door and then busting through the wall to enter the gaming store’s storage areas.
Security footage shows the intruder crawling through the hole, noticing the camera and then covering it up with tape, leaving fingerprints in the process. The thief removed two room’s worth of inventory without entering the main store, which would have triggered an alarm.
Twin brothers Eric and Mike Johnson are co-owners of Punch-Out Gaming. Eric Johnson said the thief focused on Pokémon, leaving behind a brand-new X-Box One gaming system as well as their bank cash bag.
Pokémon are a hot commodity these days. The value of some trading cards has skyrocketed, in part due to speculators who buy new cards as soon as they arrive at stores and then resell them online for hundreds of dollars.
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First Period_1, Buffalo, Skinner 17 (Fitzgerald, Tuch), 3:41. Penalties_Dahlin, BUF (Tripping), 13:48; Gallagher, MTL (Interference), 14:08.
Second Period_2, Montreal, Hoffman 8 (Schueneman, Byron), 1:11. 3, Buffalo, Skinner 18 (Dahlin), 10:15. 4, Montreal, Petry 2 (Pitlick, Evans ), 11:13. 5, Montreal, Armia 2 (Poehling, Kulak), 16:09. 6, Buffalo, Thompson 15 (Krebs, Skinner), 18:24 (pp). Penalties_Krebs, BUF (Hooking), 7:23; Montreal bench, served by Pitlick (Too Many Men on the Ice), 17:52.
Third Period_7, Buffalo, Skinner 19, 8:16 (pp). 8, Buffalo, Skinner 20 (Tuch), 18:14 (pp). Penalties_Clague, MTL (Tripping), 13:21; Okposo, BUF (Slashing), 14:59.
Shots on Goal_Buffalo 12-12-7_31. Montreal 8-11-13_32.
Power-play opportunities_Buffalo 1 of 3; Montreal 0 of 3.
Goalies_Buffalo, Anderson 6-3-0 (32 shots-29 saves). Montreal, Montembeault 2-10-4 (31-26).
A_500 (21,288). T_2:19.
Referees_Gord Dwyer, Chris Rooney. Linesmen_Ryan Galloway, Travis Toomey.
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BEIJING (AP) — Erin Jackson bolted off the line, her powerful legs attacking the ice, her destiny awaiting at the end of a frenetic dash around Beijing's magnificent speedskating oval.
She didn't view herself as some sort of trailblazer. She didn't think about the slip that could've snatched away her spot on the U.S. Olympic team. She simply wanted to go faster than everyone else.
“I came here to win,” the 29-year-old said.
Mission accomplished.
Jackson became first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Olympics — and it was the best color of them all.
Gold.
“A lot of shock, a lot of relief and a lot of happiness,” Jackson said after her victory in the 500 meters.
It was an immensely personal moment for an inline skating champion from balmy Ocala, Florida, who traded her wheels for blades in order to chase an improbable Olympic dream.
But it meant so much more than that.
Jackson's skin color makes her an anomaly at the speedskating oval. She joined fellow American Shani Davis as the only Black athletes to win long-track medals at the Olympics.
“I just hope that it will do something for the sport,” Jackson said of her groundbreaking victory. “Hopefully, more people will see this and be like, ‘Ohhh, maybe I should try some of these winter sports.’"
Back in Florida, Jackson's longtime inline coach, Renee Hildebrand, cheered her on at an early-morning watch party thrown by one of her roller sport sponsors, Bont.
Hildebrand, too, hopes that Jackson's victory will bring some much-needed diversity to skating — no matter if it's wheels or blades.
“She's such a fantastic role model,” Hildebrand said in a telephone interview. “Maybe little girls and little boys who are not all about roller skating or ice skating will see her and say, ‘Hey, people my color are there. She looks like me.’”
The coach noted the impressive accomplishments of Davis, who won two golds and two silvers at the Olympics, and now Jackson.
“There's not a lot of African Americans in speedskating, but the ones who are have been are really, really good,” Hildebrand said. “If others will come, they'll be good.”
Jackson won with a time of 37.04 seconds, giving the American speedskating program its first medal of the Beijing Games, its first individual medal since 2010, and its first victory in the women's 500 since Bonnie Blair in 1994.
Jackson’s gold came after she slipped at the U.S. trials and shockingly finished third, putting her spot on the Olympic team in jeopardy.
But teammate Brittany Bowe, another Ocala skater who finished first at the trials, gave up her spot in the 500 to ensure Jackson would get to compete in Beijing.
“She made a really big sacrifice for me,” Jackson said. “I’ll be grateful to her forever.”
As it turned out, the Americans received a third slot in the 500 when the final allocations were made, so Bowe got to skate as well. She finished 16th.
The two close friends embraced after Jackson clinched the gold.
“She hugged me and we cried,” the winner said. “She said she’s really proud of me and I said a lot of thank-yous.”
Jackson skated in the next-to-last of 15 pairs with the time of 37.12 — set about a half-hour earlier in the fourth pairing by Japan's Miho Takagi — in her sights.
She didn’t think at all about that slip at the U.S. trials.
“It’s not something to really focus on,” Jackson said. “That was a fluke.”
Jackson darted off the line and and essentially won the gold in the first 100 meters, before she negotiated the first turn. Her opening split was 10.33 seconds, compared to 10.41 for Takagi.
That was the margin at the end, too.
“When it comes to the 500, it's a matter of hundredths and sometimes thousandths of a second,” said Ryan Shimabukuro, Jackson's coach when she's on ice. “I knew she had the speed and it was going to come down to the opener. When I saw she opened in 10.3, which is pretty much the fastest she's ever done, I knew we had a chance for the gold.”
Jackson kept up her speed through the first turn, down the crossing straight and on through the final turn, even though every stride brought more and more pain. Both arms were swinging furiously as she came down the final straightaway of speedskating’s shortest race.
As soon as her skates crossed the line, Jackson’s head turned toward the scoreboard.
She broke into a big smile when she saw the “1” beside her name, her time a scant 0.08 faster than Takagi's. Shimabukuro pumped his arms and slapped hands with Jackson as she glided by.
There was still one pair left to skate, but Jackson knew she could do no worse than bronze.
A few minutes later, the gold was hers.
“You’re an Olympic champion,” Shimabukuro told her.
Jackson sat on the padding along the infield, shedding a few tears with her head bowed.
She was no doubt reflecting, as well, on her remarkable journey.
Making the switch from inline to ice just months before the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, Jackson was such a fast study that she earned a spot on the U.S. team. She finished 24th in the 500, but it was clear that she had barely tapped into her potential.
During the current World Cup season, Jackson suddenly emerged as one of the world’s best sprinters. She won four of eight 500 races — the first Black woman to earn one of those titles, as well — and came to the Olympics as one of the favorites.
“When I won the first World Cup, I was like, ‘OK that’s strange. Let’s see where it goes,’” Jackson recalled. “Then I won another and I was like, ‘Well, maybe I can do this.’”
She lived up to the billing in Beijing, becoming the first American woman to win an individual speedskating medal since 2002.
“Words cannot explain how proud I am of her,” Bowe said. “I knew she had the chance to do something really special, and she just showed the world why she deserved to be here.”
Jackson grabbed an American flag and did a victory lap around the Ice Ribbon oval, the stars and stripes fluttering above her head.
“It’s been a wild ride,” she said, “but that makes it even sweeter.”
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Jordan Horston had 16 points and 13 rebounds and No. 13 Tennessee used a strong second half to defeat Vanderbilt 66-52 on Sunday in a Play4Kay game.
Tennessee opened the fourth quarter with a 14-1 run that put the game well in hand. The lead peaked at 62-40 when Horston hit a 3-pointer near the six-minute mark of the period.
After leading by five at halftime, a 10-0 run to open the third quarter gave the Lady Vols a 41-26 lead. Vanderbilt drew within single digits only one more time, when Brinae Alexander hit a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to 48-39 entering the fourth.
Rae Burrell added 15 points for the Lady Vols. Tennessee shot 43% from the field but just 5 of 19 (26%) from 3-point distance. Tennessee had a 48-29 rebounding advantage.
Alexander led Vanderbilt with 19 points and Iyana Moore added 17. The rest of the team scored 16 points. The Commodores shot 31% from the field and made only 6 of 27 3-pointers (22%).
Tennessee (20-4, 10-2 SEC) swept the regular-season series and defeated Vanderbilt (12-14, 3-9) for the fourth consecutive time and 14th in the last 15 matchups. Tennessee leads 76-10 all-time.
The game was a matchup of coaches who won NCAA championships as players. Third-year Lady Vols coach Kellie (Jolly) Harper won two championships as a player at Tennessee (1997 and ’98). First-year Vanderbilt coach Shea Ralph won a title as a player at Connecticut in 2000. They faced each other as players four times, with Tennessee winning three of the four.
Tennessee, which remains one game behind top-ranked South Carolina in the SEC standings, plays at Alabama on Thursday.
Vanderbilt plays at Kentucky on Thursday.
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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) — Elijah Joiner had 15 points, seven assists and six rebounds as Iona stretched its home win streak to 10 games with a 70-62 victory over Monmouth on Sunday.
Tyson Jolly had 13 points for the Gaels (20-5, 12-2 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference). Quinn Slazinski added 12 points, while Ryan Myers scored 11.
Iona scored 28 second-half points, a season low for the team.
Jarvis Vaughan had 11 points for the Hawks (16-9, 8-6). Samuel Chaput added six assists. Nikkei Rutty had nine rebounds. George Papas had five points and 10 rebounds.
George Papas, who led the Hawks in scoring entering the matchup with 16 points per game, scored five points on 1-of-12 shooting. Walker Miller, whose 15 points per game heading into the matchup ranked second on the Hawks, made just 1 of 8 shots and scored seven.
The Gaels improve to 2-0 against the Hawks this season. Iona defeated Monmouth 86-85 on Jan. 18.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Eylia Love scored a career-high 26 points — offsetting a career-best 40 points by Clemson's Delicia Washington — and No. 11 Georgia Tech survived an upset bid, defeating the Tigers 92-84 in overtime on Sunday.
Love sank 10 of 16 shots as the Yellow Jackets (19-6, 10-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) ended a two-game skid by beating the Tigers (9-17, 3-12) for the ninth straight time.
Sarah Bates had 15 points and Love scored 13 to guide Georgia Tech to a 40-32 lead at halftime.
Washington, who had 16 points in the first half, scored 12 points on 4-of-4 shooting with two 3-pointers in the third quarter and Daisha Bradford added nine points as Clemson battled back to take a 62-59 lead into the final period after falling behind 9-0 to begin the game.
Love opened the fourth quarter with a three-point play to pull Georgia Tech even, and after a basket by Washington, Lorela Cubaj's three-point play gave the Yellow Jackets a 65-64 lead with 7:43 remaining. It remained a one-possession game the whole fourth quarter.
Lotta-Maj Lahtinen buried a jumper with 3 seconds left to put Georgia Tech on top 77-75, but Washington scored in the paint at the buzzer to send the game to overtime.
Georgia Tech never trailed in the extra period after Nerea Hermosa and Lahtinen had back-to-back layups to open the scoring.
Cubaj finished with 22 points and seven assists for the Yellow Jackets. Hermosa added 19 points and nine rebounds. Bates scored 17.
Washington did her damage on 16-of-23 shooting with three 3-pointers for Clemson. Bradford added 18 points.
The Clemson single-game scoring record is 45 set by Barbara Kennedy against Claflin in 1979. Kennedy owned nine of the Tigers' top 10 scoring efforts until Washington cracked the list.
The Yellow Jackets have won 12 of the last 13 match-ups with Clemson to grab a 46-45 lead in the all-time series.
Georgia Tech will host No. 18 Notre Dame on Thursday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tyrese Martin scored all 17 of his points in the second half and No. 24 Connecticut rallied past St. John's 63-60 on Sunday at Madison Square Garden.
R.J. Cole added 14 points and Andre Jackson grabbed 16 rebounds to help the weary Huskies (17-7, 8-5 Big East) win despite shooting only 36% from the field. They swept the season series from St. John's and moved into sole possession of third place in the conference standings behind Villanova and first-place Providence.
Montez Mathis had 14 points off the bench to spark the Red Storm (13-11, 5-8), who played without Posh Alexander for the second consecutive game. The star point guard, last season's Big East freshman of the year, is sidelined with a sprained ankle.
Julian Champagnie and Aaron Wheeler each had 13 points for St. John's. Dylan Addae-Wusu scored all 12 of his points in the first half.
Cheers for both schools echoed back and forth around Madison Square Garden coming down the stretch.
Left out of the starting lineup for the first time all season, Mathis scored six points in an 11-0 run for St. John's that was capped by Stef Smith's 3-pointer with 7:46 remaining. That gave the Red Storm a 55-48 lead — the largest for either team.
But the Huskies responded immediately with an 11-0 surge of their own. Isaiah Whaley was fouled on a putback and converted the three-point play to put UConn back in front with 3:46 left. Adama Sanogo banked in a shot off a pass from Cole to extend UConn's lead to 59-55 with 2:19 to go.
A drive by Mathis with 2:10 left ended the Red Storm's scoring drought at 5:36, but he missed a free throw that could have made it a three-point play.
Champagnie missed the front end of a 1-and-1, and Martin scored on a putback to make it 61-57 with 20.6 seconds left.
Wheeler drained a 3 with 14.3 seconds remaining to cut the margin to one before Cole sank two free throws to make it 63-60.
Guarded closely on the right wing, Wheeler missed a 3 just before the final horn that could have tied it.
BIG PICTURE
UConn: It was the second road game in 41 hours for Connecticut, capping a rugged stretch of three games in six days and four in nine — three away from home. The Huskies are still looking to hit their stride and really get on a roll. But they have the talent to be dangerous in March — they beat Auburn in double overtime on a neutral floor in November before the Tigers ascended to No. 1 in the nation.
St. John's: Dropped to 0-6 against Top 25 teams in a frustrating season that was expected to yield more success. St. John's went 1-4 in five regular-season games at Madison Square Garden, with the only win coming against last-place Georgetown.
WATCH WHAT YOU SAY
The Big East issued a statement Saturday night scolding UConn coach Dan Hurley for criticizing some of the officiating in Friday night's loss at Xavier.
Hurley said certain calls were “brutal” and “a joke.”
“Big East sportsmanship rules prohibit our coaches from public criticism of our game officials,” the release read. “We have established protocols in place for feedback by our schools regarding any officiating matter, and while we understand that tensions run high during the season, we expect these protocols to be honored.”
LINEUP CARD
UConn forward Akok Akok missed his fourth straight game with a tendon injury in his foot. He is day-to-day, the team said. ... Mathis, who shot 1 for 14 in Tuesday’s loss to No. 15 Villanova, was replaced in the starting lineup by Smith.
UP NEXT
UConn: Returns home to face Seton Hall (15-8, 6-7) on Wednesday night. The Huskies lost 90-87 in overtime at then-No. 24 Seton Hall on Jan. 8 despite 18 points and 16 rebounds from Sanogo.
St. John’s: Plays at No. 25 Xavier (17-7, 7-6) on Wednesday night, the first of two meetings in two weeks. The Musketeers snapped a two-game skid Friday night with their 74-68 win over UConn.
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SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The city of Santa Fe is showcasing its “Felt During COVID” community art show in person for the first time this month. The project, started back in late 2020, encouraged artists to pick up a free supply kit from the Santa Fe Public Library and then create a piece of artwork showcasing their COVID experience.
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The artwork was then auctioned off to raise money for the Navajo Nation COVID Relief Fund, which raised $2,000. You can check out the artwork at the Santa Fe Public Main LIbrary’s Satin-Reichmann Art Gallery.
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WEST LAFAYTTE, Ind. (AP) — Trevion Williams blocked a layup try in the final seconds and No. 3 Purdue, boosted by Jaden Ivey's go-ahead three-point play, held off Maryland 62-61 Sunday.
Maryland's Donta Scott drove hard to the basket from the right baseline, but Williams rejected the shot with five seconds left. The Boilermakers (22-4, 11-4 Big Ten) corralled the loose ball, completing a rally from a 12-point deficit midway through the second half.
It was 59-all when Ivey shook loose down the lane for his three-point play with 13.1 seconds left. Fatts Russell then was fouled and hit both free throws for the Terrapins with 8.1 seconds remaining.
Purdue committed a turnover on the inbound pass, giving the Terrapins a shot. Russell led the Terrapins (11-14, 3-11) with 24 points.
Sasha Stefanovic scored 17 points, Williams added 12 and Ivey had 11 for Purude. Zach Edey contributed 10 points and 11 rebounds.
Trailing 26-23 at halftime, the Terrapins regained the lead by scoring the first 12 points on the second half.
After Maryland took its largest lead at 48-36 with 11 minutes left, Purdue responded with 14 straight points for a 50-48 edge with 7:42 remaining.
The Terrapins played without leading scorer Eric Ayala, who was out with a wrist injury. Ayala, a starting guard, is averaging 15.1 points. Xavier Green started in his place.
BIG PICTURE
Maryland: The Terrapins gave the Boilermakers all they could handle, but came up short in losing for the fourth time in five games.
Purdue: The Boilermakers found a way to win, but it was a rugged showing against a struggling Maryland team without its leading scorer in Ayala.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
The No. 3 Boilermakers will likely slide in the rankings with an up-and-down week. After registering an impressive 84-68 victory over No. 13 Illinois at home on Tuesday night, the Boilermakers fell flat in an 82-58 loss at Michigan on Thursday night.
UP NEXT
Maryland: Hosts Nebraska on Friday night.
Purdue: At Nebraska on Wednesday night.
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BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Anthony Roberts had a career-high 40 points as Stony Brook beat Maine 85-74 on Sunday.
Roberts made 9 of 12 3-pointers. He added six rebounds and six assists.
Tykei Greene had 15 points and 10 rebounds for Stony Brook (15-10, 7-5 America East Conference). Frankie Policelli added 10 rebounds and five assists.
Maks Klanjscek had 24 points for the Black Bears (5-19, 2-11). Vukasin Masic added 14 points. Ja'Shonte Wright-McLeish had six rebounds.
The Seawolves improve to 2-0 against the Black Bears on the season. Stony Brook defeated Maine 80-72 on Jan. 8.
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Ottawa Senators forward Austin Watson has been suspended two games for a hit on Boston's Jack Ahcan.
The NHL announced the suspension on Sunday.
Watson leveled Ahcan along the end boards midway through the first period of Ottawa’s 2-0 loss to the Bruins on Saturday. He was given a 2-minute minor penalty for interference.
The league’s department of player safety added the two-game ban after reviewing the play and determining the hit was high and late, and that Watson made “significant contact” with Ahcan’s head.
The 30-year-old Watson will forfeit $15,000 in salary, with the money going to the players' emergency fund.
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MONTREAL (AP) — Jeff Skinner scored four goals in a game for the first time in his career, and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-3 on Saturday to snap a three-game winless streak.
Tage Thompson also scored for Buffalo, his fourth goal of the season against the Habs.
Mike Hoffman, Jeff Petry and Joel Armia scored for NHL-worst Montreal, which lost its third straight since firing coach Dominique Ducharme and naming Martin St. Louis interim coach. The Canadiens' overall winless streak extended to 10 games, their worst skid since 1926.
Skinner's third goal put the Sabres ahead for good, 4-3, with 11:44 remaining, and his fourth with 1:46 left ended the Canadiens' chances.
Craig Anderson made 28 saves to collect his 297th NHL win, passing Ron Hextall for 40th on the league's all-time list.
Montreal’s Samuel Montembeault stopped 26 of 31 shots in his second start in two days.
Skinner got the Sabres on the board early, redirecting a shot by Casey Fitzgerald for his first goal 3:41 into the game.
Montreal tied it early in the second period when Corey Schueneman sent the puck to Hoffman for a one-timer from the right faceoff circle.
Skinner got his second midway through the period when his shot from the top of the the faceoff circle beat Montembeault just under the crossbar.
The Canadiens tied it 2-2 58 seconds later on Petry's shot from the point, which deflected off John Hayden.
Montreal took the lead 16:09 into the second when Armia, well-positioned in front of the goal, received Ryan Poehling’s pass and beat Anderson with a short-side shot.
The Sabres tied it again on a power play late in the second. Peyton Krebs sent a cross-ice pass to Thompson, whose shot was too much for Montembeault.
Skinner completed the hat trick after he was tripped by Petry on a breakaway. The puck ended up in the back of the net after deflecting off his skate.
His fourth goal came when Alex Tuch found him in the slot, Tuch's third assist of the game.
NOTES: Montreal placed Ben Chiarot on injured reserve before the game and recalled Schueneman from the AHL's Laval Rocket. Sunday marked the 26-year-old defenseman’s third game in three days, following back-to-back outings in the AHL.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Kahliel Spear scored 27 points to lead four in double figures and Robert Morris defeated Youngstown State 73-68 on Sunday.
Spear had a near-perfect shooting game, making 10 of 11 from the field, all three of his 3-pointers, and 4 of 5 free throws. He also had seven rebounds.
Michael Green III scored 14 points for the Colonials (7-19, 5-12 Colonial). Matt Mayers added 11 points and seven rebounds. Kam Farris scored 10 points.
Dwayne Cohill scored 18 points for Youngstown State (16-11, 10-7). Myles Hunter added 14 points, Tevin Olison 12 and Michael Akuchie 11. Akuchie had 11 rebounds for the Penguins.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Brady Tkachuk scored his team-leading 15th goal and added an assist, Connor Brown also had a goal and an assist and the Ottawa Senators completed a long-awaited 4-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
Alex Formenton and Adam Gaudette added early goals as the Senators jumped to a 2-0 lead after the first period, en route to snapping a 10-game losing skid against the Capitals overall and a nine-game slide in Washington.
Chris Tierney had two assists. Anton Forsberg made 33 saves in Ottawa's first victory in Washington since Jan. 21, 2014.
Nicklas Backstrom scored in the second period for the Capitals, who have now lost five straight in regulation at home and 11 of 17 overall.
Ilya Samsonov stopped 22 of the 26 shots he faced for Washington, which is not yet in jeopardy of missing the postseason despite their recent struggles.
The Capitals hold an 11-point lead over Detroit for the second Eastern Conference wild-card payoff berth and are three points back of the New York Rangers for the third automatic berth in the Metropolitan division.
STILL SHORT ON POWER
Despite the victory, the Senators went a sixth consecutive game without scoring on the power play (14 opportunities, this time despite playing a total of 1:50 of 5-on-3 hockey across two separate chances.
It's Ottawa's longest such drought in terms of games this season.
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Senators: RW Austin Watson served the first half of a two-game suspension issued for his hit on Boston defenseman Jack Ahcan, which resulted in an interference minor in Saturday's 2-0 loss to the Bruins. ... Brown recorded his 200th and 201st career points. ... RW Parker Kelly was recalled from AHL Belleville before the game and played on the fourth line.
Capitals: RW Tom Wilson received a 5-minute fighting major for grappling with Ottawa C Nick Paul after he leveled D Thomas Chabot behind the Ottawa goal. ... LW Alex Ovechkin picked up his 31st assist on Backstrom's goal and is on pace to reach the 50-assist threshold for the first time since the 2010-11 season. ... Ovechkin has gone eight games since adding to his team-leading total of 29 goals.
UP NEXT
Senators: Host St. Louis on Tuesday night.
Capitals: Begin a four-game road trip at Nashville on Tuesday night.
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Sam Vinson had 20 points as Northern Kentucky turned back Wright State 75-71 on Sunday.
Marques Warrick had 16 points and sank two foul shots with 10 seconds remaining to help the Norse (15-10, 11-5 Horizon League) notch their fifth straight win on the road. Bryson Langdon added 12 points and six assists, while Adrian Nelson scored 10.
Wright State scored 49 points in the second half, a season high for the team.
Grant Basile had 25 points and nine rebounds to pace the Raiders (15-12, 12-6). Trey Calvin had 13 points, six rebounds and five steals. Tanner Holden added 13 points.
The Norse improve to 2-0 against the Raiders on the season. Northern Kentucky defeated Wright State 73-63 on Jan. 25.
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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Georgia Amoore put up 17 points and Virginia Tech posted a second straight win over a nationally-ranked opponent for the first time in program history, knocking off No. 23 North Carolina, 66-61 on Sunday afternoon.
Virginia Tech picked up its 11th Atlantic Coast Conference win of the season — also a first for the program.
The Hokies (19-6, 11-3) knocked off No. 11 Georgia Tech, 73-63, Thursday and entered the game tied with No. 18 Notre Dame for third place in the ACC. The top four teams receive a bye into the quarterfinal round of the conference tournament.
North Carolina (19-5, 9-5) beat Virginia Tech by 25 points January 9 in Chapel Hill, and the Tar Heels opened the game with an eye on a repeat performance, roaring to a 21-9 lead after one quarter. But the Hokies rallied in the second behind a pair of 3-pointers from Amoore to take a 31-28 lead at intermission and carried that momentum into the second half. Amoore and Aisha Sheppard hit back-to-back 3s to end the third quarter for a 52-43 lead.
Amoore's fifth 3-pointer of the game gave Virginia Tech a 55-43 lead with just over eight minutes to play. North Carolina regrouped behind a Destiny Adams jumper and a trey and layup by Eva Hodgson to get within five, 55-50. After a put-back from Elizabeth Kitley, Alyssa Ustby turned in a three-point play to make it 57-53, but the Hokies got back-to-back 3s from Cayla King and Sheppard to take a 63-53 lead with 3:10 left. Kitley added a three-point play with 1:20 to go to put the game out of reach.
Amoore finished with four rebounds, three assists and a pair of steals. Kitley had 15 points and five blocked shots and Sheppard was 4 of 8 from behind the arc and finished with 14 points and three assists.
Deja Kelly finished with 17 points to lead North Carolina. Ustby posted 12 points and 12 rebounds and Carlie Littlefield added 10 points.
The Hokies have four games remaining in their regular-season schedule, starting with road trips to Syracuse on Thursday and No. 3 Louisville on Sunday.
North Carolina plays host to Louisville on Thursday.
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LEICESTER, England (AP) — West Ham’s week of controversy ended with some relief after Craig Dawson scored a late equalizer off his shoulder to earn a 2-2 draw against Leicester in the Premier League after Kurt Zouma pulled out in the warmup at King Power Stadium on Sunday.
Dawson salvaged a point in the first minute of second-half stoppage time after Jarrod Bowen put the Hammers ahead in the 10th.
Youri Tielemans’ 45th-minute penalty made it 1-1 before Ricardo Pereira’s header appeared to clinch Leicester’s first win in five matches in all competitions.
Zouma was named in the team but reported to be feeling sick with problems with his vision, so substitute Issa Diop started instead with goalkeeper Darren Randolph making up the bench.
Zouma's withdrawal came at the end of a week that saw him fined two weeks’ wages and lose Adidas as a sponsor after he was filmed kicking and slapping his cat. Two cats have been removed from his property and an animal charity has launched an investigation.
West Ham seemed unaffected by the late change to the team and settled quickly before taking the lead.
Diop lofted the ball forward and Leicester’s defense was caught napping as Bowen controlled before firing a left-footed drive across Kasper Schmeichel for his ninth league goal of the season.
It was Bowen’s seventh goal in as many games, making it 12 in all competitions this season.
Leicester, short of confidence after three defeats in its last four including a hammering at second-tier Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup, struggled early on and its supporters were quick to show their frustration with pockets of boos around the stadium.
The home side gradually improved, with Tielemans and Harvey Barnes both off target with angled shots from distance.
The equalizer came in the 45th minute after Leicester was awarded a penalty as Aaron Cresswell handled as he tried to head away James Maddison’s corner on the edge of the six-yard box.
Tielemans confidently drove the spot kick low to the right of Lukasz Fabianski, who guessed correctly but was beaten by the power and accuracy of the shot.
Leicester began the second half with much more purpose than the first and soon put West Ham under pressure.
Barnes was the dangerman, with one of his several crosses leading to Leicester’s second goal. Ricardo beat Cresswell to plant a bullet header into the top corner of the net.
Tielemans flashed a rising shot just wide as Leicester sought a third goal but, after Hammers substitute Said Benrahma produced two efforts, the visitors salvaged a point when Bowen’s corner went in off Dawson’s upper arm, looping high into the net.
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Owl photos are flooding the internet ahead of the Super Bowl. Here's why
Superb Owl. No wait, Super Bowl.
Too late.
Instead of Super Bowl information, one small typo later and your search results are filled with owl content instead. And we'd like to encourage you to lean into the error. Because owls truly are "superb."
These birds are a far cry from football, but over the years the trend has gained significant popularity. So much so, that many people flood the internet with photos of owls before the Super Bowl each year. (And you know what a gathering of owls is called, right? A parliament.)
This internet phenomenon puts these feathery creatures in the spotlight, which ultimately aids awareness, said Matt Williams, director of conservation with the Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
"I say anything that helps get the message out about the importance of conservation is a good thing," he said.
A stone-cold predator
Owls are quite interesting. Some people think they are innocent balls of fluff, but that couldn't be further from the truth, Williams said.
"Owls are voracious predators that hunt mostly at night using a very keen sense of hearing to help locate their prey," he said in an email.
Their disc-shaped face directs sound to their ears, which allows them to hear the quietest noises, Williams explained. Their feathers are designed to make them almost completely silent when they fly, a useful trick for sneaking up on their prey, he added.
Most owls are content to feast on small mammals like mice and shrews, said Seth Magle, director of the Urban Wildlife Institute at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.
Some larger owls like the great horned owl can snatch up rabbits, skunks or even other owls, Williams said.
Super Bowl owl mascots
The Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals may already have their own mascots, but there's no harm in adding some owls into the mix.
Williams thought the barred owl could represent the Bengals because the birds share a similar stripe pattern to the team's helmets.
"For the Rams, I'd have to say the snowy owl of Harry Potter fame because their quarterback Matthew Stafford has been a wizard during their playoff run so far," he explained.
Magle assigned the Eastern screech owl to the Bengals because it's found in Ohio and shares a similar color to the team.
The California spotted owl would fit quite nicely with the Rams, he added.
"It has a four-note call sometimes described as 'hup, hoo-hoo, hooo,' which seems like it could be an audible called at the line of scrimmage," Magle said.
See an owl in the wild
Your experience with owls doesn't have be limited to the internet. Communities around the United States are hosting educational events about the nocturnal animals that include a nature walk.
Shaver's Creek Environmental Center in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, offered a special Superb Owl event on Saturday of Super Bowl weekend.
The Leslie Science & Nature Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will host an owl event on Sunday morning. The center will have resident owls on display, and people can dissect owl pellets, which are the undigested parts of their meal that they regurgitate.
Why not venture outdoors this weekend so you can get to know these fascinating creatures? It'll be a hoot.
Now meet some superb owls
There are over 250 owl species, and we'd like to introduce you to some of our favorites.
Many people think all owls make a hooting noise, but that is not the case. The great gray owl does not hoot, Williams said, but rather makes a series of "hoos" in a low pitch.
The short-eared owl can be found in prairies and wetlands, unlike most other owls who live in forests, Williams said.
Barred owls are very vocal birds that can often be heard making the traditional hooting noise, said Charles Eldermire, Bird Cams project leader at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Great horned owls are known for their iconic ear tufts and catlike eyes, Eldermire said. You can watch the goings-on at a great horned owl pair's nest near Savannah, Georgia, on a live cam.
The burrowing owl lives its life the opposite of most owls. Rather than being active at night and living in trees, this bird spends the day awake and makes its home on the ground, Magle said.
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This year. The cost for 30 seconds of airtime in the Super Bowl can cost as much as $7 million. Mhm. Okay. Mhm. There are very few places where people are actually still paying attention to commercials and this is a place where they are not only able to watch the ads, but they're actually excited to watch the ads. Uh really this year, after the past two years and how there's so much fatigue really out there, brands really are looking to entertain football viewers. They really want to create more of a party atmosphere. So we're seeing more lighthearted, adds more humorous ads. There are very few that have been released so far that take a serious tone. So I think that will be another, you know, prevalent trend this year is just making viewers laugh, step on you. I got this feeling down deep in my soul that I just can't crypto brands for one are coming to the Super Bowl for the first time and we are seeing brands start to play around and test things like N. F. T. S in their Super Bowl commercials, Bud Light Next has a cameo and N. F. T. Cameo in its Super Bowl ad. There are references to the metaverse in various ads. So these new forms of innovation are starting to get some play in Super Bowl commercials
The must-see moments of the 2022 Super Bowl
Updated: 3:45 PM EST Feb 13, 2022
Football is just a part of what makes the Super Bowl the biggest game of the year. Aside from the NFL's top two teams going head to head for four quarters, there's never a shortage of viral moments happening before and during the main event. From the commercials everyone looks forward to, celebrity sightings and a star-studded halftime show, here are all of the moments everyone is talking about during the 2022 Super Bowl.Stars fill Super Bowl eve festivities At the Super Bowl eve party dubbed "Homecoming Weekend" Saturday night, the crowd included celebrities like Issa Rae, Mike Tyson, Lil Wayne, Paul Pierce, Derrick Henry, Riccky Gervais, Jon Hamm, Nicole Scherzinger, Cedric the Entertainer, Karrueche Tran and Flava Flav. And that was just the audience. Justin Bieber was amongst several performers during a weeklong series of entertainment leading up to the 2022 Super Bowl, which is being held in Los Angeles for the first time in nearly three decades. Drake performed on the final night of those events, while Miley Cyrus and Green Day closed out the Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest across town at the Crypto.com Arena.The annual festival also featured performances by Halsey, Machine Gun Kelly, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton and Mickey Guyton, the four-time Grammy-nominated country artist who will sing the National Anthem before the Super Bowl begins. The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Football is just a part of what makes the Super Bowl the biggest game of the year.
Aside from the NFL's top two teams going head to head for four quarters, there's never a shortage of viral moments happening before and during the main event.
From the commercials everyone looks forward to, celebrity sightings and a star-studded halftime show, here are all of the moments everyone is talking about during the 2022 Super Bowl.
Stars fill Super Bowl eve festivities
At the Super Bowl eve party dubbed "Homecoming Weekend" Saturday night, the crowd included celebrities like Issa Rae, Mike Tyson, Lil Wayne, Paul Pierce, Derrick Henry, Riccky Gervais, Jon Hamm, Nicole Scherzinger, Cedric the Entertainer, Karrueche Tran and Flava Flav.
And that was just the audience.
Justin Bieber was amongst several performers during a weeklong series of entertainment leading up to the 2022 Super Bowl, which is being held in Los Angeles for the first time in nearly three decades. Drake performed on the final night of those events, while Miley Cyrus and Green Day closed out the Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest across town at the Crypto.com Arena.
The annual festival also featured performances by Halsey, Machine Gun Kelly, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton and Mickey Guyton, the four-time Grammy-nominated country artist who will sing the National Anthem before the Super Bowl begins.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Olympic court: Valieva will testify in doping case hearing
Figure skater Kamila Valieva will testify by video at an appeal hearing Sunday that will decide if the 15-year-old Russian star can still compete at the Beijing OIympics despite an ongoing doping case.
Court of Arbitration for Sport director general Matthieu Reeb said Valieva was scheduled to speak by video to the panel in a case that has caused havoc with a marquee sport at the Olympics.
“The athlete will be online and she will testify," Reeb said. "We suppose she will speak in Russian, and we have an interpreter.”
Three CAS judges are hearing arguments in a closed-door session in a conference room at a Beijing hotel. Lawyers and officials for the parties are connecting to the case in the Winter Games host city and from Switzerland. Reeb said witnesses and experts would also be involved.
The International Olympic Committee, World Anti-Doping Agency and International Skating Union have challenged a decision by the Russian anti-doping agency to lift an interim ban and try so Valieva can compete in her main event.
Valieva's positive test for a banned heart medication was flagged on Monday — after she helped the Russians win the team event — by a laboratory in Sweden six weeks after the sample was taken in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Reeb said the verdict is expect to be announced in Beijing on Monday afternoon.
That is just over 24 hours ahead of Valieva's scheduled next Olympic event — the women's individual competition. She will be the strong favorite if cleared to skate, and her main challengers will be two Russian teammates.
Earlier Sunday, the teenager at the center of Russia’s latest doping scandal seemed to be the only person without a word to say about it.
Valieva continued to practice amid a sea of media and camera crews as the court prepared the expedited hearing expected to go deep into the night.
Valieva has yet to miss a scheduled practice since word of her positive drug test emerged. On Monday, the reigning European champion helped the Russian skaters win team gold with a dynamic free skate in which she became the first woman to land a quad jump in Olympic competition.
On several occasions, the stress appeared to have rattled Valieva, including during Saturday's practice when she fell and tearfully hugged her embattled coach, Eteri Tutberidze.
“Kamila is a strong girl,” offered Russian ice dancer Nikita Katsalapov, who along with her partner, Victoria Sinitsina, have tried to provide Valieva some much-needed support.
On Sunday, Valieva drew the 26th starting spot among the 30 competitors.
“Victoria had a few minutes to share some words with her,” Katsalapov said. “(Victoria) asked her to, like, calm down just a little bit, even if it's a hard situation around her right now.”
Valieva has yet to speak to the media since the news conference following the Russians' team gold, when the seemingly unbeatable star looked every bit the precocious teenager. Between questions, she was snapping photos and texting, while squeezing the plush mascot given to each medalist.
“We all did such a good job,” she gushed. "I’m very proud of my team.”
Now, all their gold medals hang in the balance, unlikely to be decided until long after the Olympics end.
Most critics taking to social media have largely supported Valieva, leveling their ire instead at Russian coaches and administrators responsible for her well-being. That includes Tutberidze, who also coaches teammates Alexandra Trusova and Anna Shcherbakova, and who has earned a reputation for using up and discarding her young athletes.
“Let's be kind to the 15-year-old who produced a positive drug test because she lives in an institutionalized system where she was most likely guided and trusted the adults around her,” tweeted Mirai Nagasu, a member of the U.S. figure skating team four years ago at the Pyeongchang Games.
Ashley Wagner, another American figure skater who competed at the 2014 Sochi Games, was appalled that Russia is at the center of another doping scandal yet seems to continually get a pass from the International Olympic Committee.
Wagner also took aim at a skating culture that often champions teenagers with little regard for their long-term health.
“Yes, a 15-year-old can be mature, and have a life that is already full of incredible experiences, but still, she is a kid," Wagner said. "She’s not the first kid put in this position and she won’t be the last unless we start taking this seriously.”
At the center of the firestorm is Valieva, a high schooler with fuzzy pink skate guards and a beloved Pomeranian puppy back home. She did a perfect run-through of her record-setting short program during Sunday's early practice at the main rink, then returned for a second session at the nearby practice rink a few hours later.
At one point, as dozens of cameras clicked for pictures, Valieva reached down and touched the ice.
The wait is on to see whether she can again at the Olympics.
“It’s always bad when something like that happens, so we’re very sorry for any athlete," Russian ice dancer Gleb Smolkin said. "I think like everyone else, we are just waiting for the results of this story. We wish Kamila all the best. She’s a great athlete, she’s a great skater. She has a bright future.”
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Associated Press writer Sally Ho and AP Sports Writer Graham Dunbar contributed to this report.
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The Tricity reports 125 new Covid-19 cases and two deaths on Sunday. Currently, there are 1,422 cases active here.
Chandigarh: 42 new cases, one death
The city reported 42 new cases and one death on Sunday, taking the total tally in the UT to 91,338 and the toll to 1,152. Currently, there are 623 cases active here. The positivity rate was 1.94 per cent. A total of 2,161 samples have been tested in the last 24 while 1,153 people were vaccinated. As many as 104 people recovered from the infection on Sunday.
Mohali: 51 new cases, no deaths
As many as 51 positive Covid-19 cases were reported in the district on Sunday, increasing the total number of cases to 95,159. No deaths were reported. Currently, there are 613 active cases here. As many as 122 patients also recovered from the infection on Sunday.
According to the officials, a maximum of 27 cases were reported from Mohali, followed by six from Dhakoli, five each from Kharar and Dera Bassi, four from Gharuan and one each from Banur and Kurali.
Panchkula: 32 new cases, one death
The district reported a total of 32 new Covid cases and one death on Sunday.
A total of 57,752 cases have so far been reported from the district, of which 43,837 hail from Panchkula, while the rest have come from neighbouring districts. As many as 412 people have succumbed to the virus here. The positivity rate on Sunday was recorded at 2.5 per cent.
The active case tally currently stands at 186, of which 170 are under home isolation while 16 have had to be hospitalised.
The district has conducted 586,030 tests so far, with 996 samples being collected on Saturday.
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Former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat has hit back at Union Home Minister Amit Shah for using a Hindi idiom alluding to the Congress leader’s “helpless” state within his party, and said that the statement showed the “mentality” of the BJP.
At a rally in Raipur on Saturday, Shah said the Congress is unable to decide the role of Rawat in the coming state Assembly elections, adding his situation was similar to ‘dhobi ka… na ghar ka na ghaat ka’. The full Hindi idiom makes a reference to the word dog, and Shah said he did not want to use it.
“Ye bechare Harish Rawat ko neta banayenge, nahi banayenge, banayenge, nahi banayenge, ticket denge, nahi denge, yahan se denge, wahan se denge (The Congress cannot decide whether to make Harish Rawat their leader or not, whether to give him a ticket or not, and from where)… “Yeh dhobi ka… aage nahi bolna chahta… na ghar ka ghaat ka,” said Shah.
Rawat reacted to the statement on Sunday, saying that even if the Home Minister wants to refer to him as a dog, he will continue to stand up for Uttarakhand, and “bark” and “bite” for the state.
“Your words have shown the low mentality of BJP for people of Uttarakhand… I will do whatever I need for the security of Uttarakhand and Uttarakha-ndiyat,” Rawat wrote on Twitter.
The former CM also said in a video statement: “Thank you, (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi-ji, and thank you, respected Amit Shah-ji. You all are coming to Uttarakhand and attacking this small worker of the Congress party. Yesterday, Amit Shah said… that Harish Rawat is dhobi ka, blank, na ghar ka na ghaat ka… Even if I am a dog in his eyes, at least I am of Uttarakhand. I will talk for Uttarakhand. If I will bark, as per him, then it will be for Uttarakhand. But also remember that if the interests of Uttarakhand are hurt, then along with barking, I will bite too.”
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Among the stars, Drake still shined the brightest.
In an all-white outfit, the multi-Grammy winner had many concertgoers jostling for position to watch him perform at the Super Bowl eve party dubbed “Homecoming Weekend” on Saturday night. He made a dramatic entrance, darting down an aisle before performing center stage under an airy tent at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California.
The crowd included many entertainers and athletes: Issa Rae, a mask-wearing Mike Tyson, Lil Wayne, Paul Pierce, Derrick Henry, Ricky Gervais, Jon Hamm, Nicole Scherzinger, Cedric the Entertainer, Karrueche Tran and Flava Flav.
While waiting for Drake, attendees mingled for a couple hours. Once he arrived, many flocked toward the stage and pulled out their phones to capture his 45-minute set.
Drake told the crowd that he was initially asked to deliver around five songs, but felt compelled to triple that amount because of where he traveled from.
“They flew me out of like three feet of snow for this, so I got to perform for you,” said Drake, who went on to perform bangers including “No Friends in the Industry” and “Girls Want Girls” from his recent album “Certified Lover Boy.”
The rap star talked about being able to perform in person and showed appreciation to everyone in attendance.
“I’m sure at one point we’re all sitting at home – maybe a little depressed, maybe a little frustrated, maybe a little confused,” he said. “I want to make a toast to how grateful I am for being in this (expletive) room with each and every one of you. I wasn’t sure how and when we would be able to do this again. But cheers to each and everyone of you. More life.”
Drake went on to perform hits including “Controlla,” “God’s Plan,” “Too Much” and “Passionfruit.” He surprised the crowd with a guest appearance by Future, who performed “Way 2 Sexy” with Drake before his uber-popular “March Madness.”
At the end, Drake paid homage to Lil Wayne – who watched from a VIP section – before closing out his set by playing “I Will Always Love You,” the Dolly Parton song that Whitney Houston made famous. He sang every word along with many in the crowd.
Proof of vaccination was required of the 1,500 guests. Only a few wore masks, including Tyson.
The “Homecoming Weekend” show helped cap a full week of entertainment events leading up to Sunday’s Super Bowl at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, the first in the Los Angeles area in nearly three decades, with the hometown Rams facing off against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Justin Bieber sang and danced on the first night of the event, presented by The h.wood Group, REVOLVE, PLACES.CO and Uncommon Entertainment.
Staffers were dressed in football uniforms, making the rounds with fancified versions of stadium food, including plant-based chicken bites, garlic fries and tiny pizzas.
Miley Cyrus and Green Day performed across town at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
01-05-06-07-08-09-11-13-14-17-18
(one, five, six, seven, eight, nine, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, eighteen)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
01-05-06-07-08-09-11-13-14-17-18
(one, five, six, seven, eight, nine, eleven, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, eighteen)
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
2-1-3
(two, one, three)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Midday" game were:
2-1-3
(two, one, three)
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
8-8-3
(eight, eight, three)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 3 Day" game were:
8-8-3
(eight, eight, three)
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-0-5
(zero, zero, five)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 3 Midday" game were:
0-0-5
(zero, zero, five)
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
2-3-2-3
(two, three, two, three)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New Mexico Lottery's "Pick 4 Day" game were:
2-3-2-3
(two, three, two, three)
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WEST LAFAYTTE, Ind. (AP) — Trevion Williams blocked a layup try in the final seconds and No. 3 Purdue, boosted by Jaden Ivey's go-ahead three-point play, held off Maryland 62-61 Sunday.
Maryland's Donta Scott drove hard to the basket from the right baseline, but Williams rejected the shot with five seconds left. The Boilermakers (22-4, 11-4 Big Ten) corralled the loose ball, completing a rally from a 12-point deficit midway through the second half.
It was 59-all when Ivey shook loose down the lane for his three-point play with 13.1 seconds left. Fatts Russell then was fouled and hit both free throws for the Terrapins with 8.1 seconds remaining.
Purdue committed a turnover on the inbound pass, giving the Terrapins a shot. Russell led the Terrapins (11-14, 3-11) with 24 points.
Sasha Stefanovic scored 17 points, Williams added 12 and Ivey had 11 for Purdue. Zach Edey contributed 10 points and 11 rebounds.
Trailing 26-23 at halftime, the Terrapins regained the lead by scoring the first 12 points on the second half.
After Maryland took its largest lead at 48-36 with 11 minutes left, Purdue responded with 14 straight points for a 50-48 edge with 7:42 remaining.
The Terrapins played without leading scorer Eric Ayala, who was out with a wrist injury. Ayala, a starting guard, is averaging 15.1 points. Xavier Green started in his place.
BIG PICTURE
Maryland: The Terrapins gave the Boilermakers all they could handle, but came up short in losing for the fourth time in five games.
Purdue: The Boilermakers found a way to win, but it was a rugged showing against a struggling Maryland team without its leading scorer in Ayala.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
The No. 3 Boilermakers will likely slide in the rankings with an up-and-down week. After registering an impressive 84-68 victory over No. 13 Illinois at home on Tuesday night, the Boilermakers fell flat in an 82-58 loss at Michigan on Thursday night.
UP NEXT
Maryland: Hosts Nebraska on Friday night.
Purdue: At Nebraska on Wednesday night.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-1-7-4
(three, one, seven, four)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "Pick 4 Midday" game were:
3-1-7-4
(three, one, seven, four)
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| 2022-02-13T21:05:10
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the Super Bowl:
The Cincinnati Bengals are the home team Sunday in the Super Bowl — technically. The home-field advantage belongs all to the Los Angeles Rams.
The NFC champions (15-5) will dress and work out of their usual locker room after spending the night before the big game in their usual hotel. The Rams’ logo is plastered all around and inside SoFi Stadium even with the banners making it clear this is the Super Bowl.
Yes, the Bengals (13-7) are represented inside the stadium with their name and “Who Dey!” mantra opposite the Rams.
This is the second straight Super Bowl where the home team has gotten to play on its own field after Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a championship a year ago in Raymond James Stadium. Before that, the NFL went 54 years without a team playing a Super Bowl in its home stadium.
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More AP Super Bowl coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/super-bowl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
3-2-5, WB: 7
(three, two, five; WB: seven)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play3 Day" game were:
3-2-5, WB: 7
(three, two, five; WB: seven)
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Kahliel Spear scored 27 points to lead four in double figures and Robert Morris defeated Youngstown State 73-68 on Sunday.
Spear had a near-perfect shooting game, making 10 of 11 from the field, all three of his 3-pointers, and 4 of 5 free throws. He also had seven rebounds.
Michael Green III scored 14 points for the Colonials (7-19, 5-12 Colonial). Matt Mayers added 11 points and seven rebounds. Kam Farris scored 10 points.
Dwayne Cohill scored 18 points for Youngstown State (16-11, 10-7). Myles Hunter added 14 points, Tevin Olison 12 and Michael Akuchie 11. Akuchie had 11 rebounds for the Penguins.
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| 2022-02-13T21:05:18
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ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
8-6-6-6, WB: 4
(eight, six, six, six; WB: four)
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Play4 Day" game were:
8-6-6-6, WB: 4
(eight, six, six, six; WB: four)
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| 2022-02-13T21:05:22
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
13-19-31-35-38
(thirteen, nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-five, thirty-eight)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Take 5 Midday" game were:
13-19-31-35-38
(thirteen, nineteen, thirty-one, thirty-five, thirty-eight)
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| 2022-02-13T21:05:29
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
0-0-7-7
(zero, zero, seven, seven)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Win 4 Midday" game were:
0-0-7-7
(zero, zero, seven, seven)
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| 2022-02-13T21:05:35
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Applications are being accepted for grants to support after-school and summer programs, according to Gov. Phil Scott and independent Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The new, $4.8 million grant program is for the summer of 2022 and 2023 and the 2022-2023 school year.
The application for grant funds are for a variety of organizations, including non-profits, municipalities, and licensed and regulated providers of school age childcare.
The funds will create 31,650 new summer program slots over the course of the summer.
Additionally, 55 of the grant recipients will offer transportation; 100 will offer low or no cost programming for eligible students and 90 are ensuring access for all kids, including those with disabilities or unique needs.
“Offering universal afterschool and summer programs is a key strategy for prevention and healthy development, and a priority for my Administration,” Scott said in a statement.
Sanders said the last few years have been challenging for all Vermonters.
“The goal here is that all Vermont students – regardless of their income – have the opportunities that make summer fun and enriching," Sanders said.
More information can be found on the website of Vermont After School.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Archivists and volunteers will soon begin combing through decades of artifacts from a Tuscaloosa barbershop central to the city's civil rights history with the goal of determining which pieces in the vast collection should be included in a future museum.
Rev. Thomas Linton died in 2020 but before his death he collected a gigantic array of historical items such as newspaper clippings or artifacts related to the civil rights fight as well as other materials such as dozens of spittoons, a collection of shaving mugs and three wooden hand-crank telephones, the Tuscaloosa News reported.
Next week, archivists and volunteers from the Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History and Reconciliation Foundation will start combing through the collection. The team will make an inventory and catalogue of the treasure trove.
Tim Lewis is the foundation’s co-president. He is coordinating the preservation effort and has brought in people who have experience in preservation work. Tom Wilson, who's retired from the University of Alabama libraries and Bill Bomar, executive director of the University of Alabama museums are both part of the effort as well as Ph.D. students and other volunteers.
“We’re just starting the process of going through, to inventory what’s in the boxes,” Lewis told the newspaper, “to tag, label, take pictures, and put together a database."
During the struggle for civil rights, the barbershop was often a gathering place for people involved in the struggle. Autherine Lucy, who became the first Black student at the University of Alabama, went to the shop to clean up after racists threw food and garbage on her. On June 9, 1964 activists protesting a segregated courthouse ducked into the shop as opponents attacked them outside. Linton was in contact with U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to arrange hospital care and bail money for those beaten and arrested.
One of the artifacts gathered from the barbershop is the receipt from the poll tax Linton paid to vote in 1954. Poll taxes were one of the many ways that segregationists used to try to keep Black people from voting. Linton framed his receipt and hung it on the wall.
The archival work was originally going to be done at the barbershop but after mold and a leaky roof were discovered officials decided to gather the materials and bring them to a separate location.
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| 2022-02-13T21:05:54
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A woman has been arrested after a weekend shooting at a mall in Champaign that left a man injured, authorities said.
Police were called just after 2 p.m. Saturday to Market Place Mall after learning a man and woman had been in a dispute inside the building near the food court and moved to the parking lot. The woman allegedly fired one shot and hit the man in the leg and he was hospitalized.
The woman was taken to the county jail. Authorities have asked Champaign police to do further investigation before deciding to file charges.
No other injuries were reported in the shooting.
State’s Attorney Julia Rietz said the woman has a firearm owner’s identification card and a concealed-carry license and told police that she was acting in self-defense after a dispute.
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| 2022-02-13T21:06:00
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — An affordable housing plan initiated months before tornadoes struck Bowling Green in December is moving forward at the right time to help dozens of residents displaced by the storms.
Warren Fiscal Court on Friday approved an agreement with the Housing Authority of Bowling Green to use $1 million in American Rescue Plan Act money to finance infrastructure for a 40-unit housing complex, the Daily News reports.
The ARPA funds will be funneled through the Housing Authority’s Live the Dream nonprofit arm, established to help low-income families achieve home ownership.
Magistrate Doug Gorman, who has been working with the housing authority for several months to get the affordable housing community started, said the need was there before the storms destroyed dozens of homes.
“The issue is the land prices are so high that it’s hard to build homes that are affordable," he said. “The Housing Authority has this property, so we worked with them to find a way to offset the infrastructure cost. It will allow them to discount the lot prices.”
Warren County Judge-Executive Mike Buchanon said the December tornadoes increased the need for new homes.
“We need affordable housing now more than ever," he said.
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| 2022-02-13T21:06:06
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WINDSOR, Ontario (AP) — Canadians who have occupied downtown Ottawa, disrupted travel and trade with the U.S. and inspired copycat protests from New Zealand to the Netherlands sound a common note when asked about their motivation: Decisions about their health shouldn't be made by the government.
“We stand for freedom,” said Karen Driedger, 40, who home-schools her kids and attended protests in Ottawa and Windsor. “We believe that it should be everyone’s personal decision what they inject into their bodies.”
The refrain isn't new to a pandemic-weary world, two years after the COVID-19 virus prompted curfews and closures, mask mandates, and debates over vaccine requirements. Still, the timing of the protests has raised some eyebrows, since they began just as many of the toughest pandemic-era restrictions were being lifted across Canada, the U.S. and Europe; experts say antipathy toward Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a significant underlying force.
The in-your-face protests that have fueled frustrations around the country and world have been aided by publicity and support from far-right and anti-vaccine groups. And influential Americans such as former U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk have rallied behind the protesters.
Most Canadians have been supportive of the pandemic restrictions, which health officials have stressed are necessary to protect the public from a virus that has killed at least 5.8 million people globally. The vast majority of Canadians are vaccinated, and the COVID-19 death rate is one-third that of the United States.
Trudeau has labeled the protesters a “fringe,” and authorities have braced for violence because some have expressed hope that the rally will become the Canadian equivalent of last January's riot at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.
The Canadian “freedom convoy” was announced last month by a group founded by a QAnon conspiracy theory supporter and other organizers, and includes the ex-leader of Alberta's far-right Maverick Party.
Protesters who spoke to The Associated Press this week defended their actions and argued that they represent many more frustrated residents.
Don Stephens, a 65-year-old retired graphic designer, said he’s come into Ottawa twice to show support for protesters there. He views them as representatives of a “silent majority that had been longing to have their voice heard.”
Mat Mackenzie, a 36-year-old trucker from Ontario, said he’s been among the protesters in Ottawa for 15 days, feeling “a duty” to show his opposition. Citizens should be in charge of making decisions around masks, vaccines and other COVID mitigation efforts, not government officials, he said.
“I can tell you 90% of truckers here are likely vaccinated. We’re here for freedom of choice," Mackenzie said. "And that’s what we’re here to fight for.”
Michael Kempa, a criminology professor at the University of Ottawa, said there are two faces of the protest. It isn't just about vaccine mandates and other COVID restrictions; organizers have said they want to oust Trudeau’s Liberal government and be part of forming a new one, he said.
“In many ways, the friendly face protesters are acting as the foot soldiers of the organizers,” Kempa said. “We are seeing a huge amount of misinformation. People who are legitimately angry are being manipulated by the protest leadership.”
Many Canadians have been outraged over the crude behavior of some demonstrators. Some urinated on the National War Memorial and danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, while others carried signs and flags with swastikas and used the statue of Canadian hero Terry Fox to display an anti-vaccine statement, sparking widespread condemnation.
The images of protests across Canada have ignited copycats elsewhere.
In Paris, police prevented a threatened blockade of the French capital on Saturday. But a few dozen vehicles were able to disrupt traffic on the famed Champs-Elysees, prompting police to fire tear gas to disperse the crowd.
"The convoys are for the restoring of our liberties,” said Pierre-Louis Garnier, a 64-year-old who attended a protest in Paris on Friday to welcome an anticipated convoy that never materialized.
In the Netherlands, dozens of trucks and other vehicles, some waving Canadian flags, have descended on The Hague, the historic Dutch parliamentary complex.
“We are living now in police state,” said Hans Evenstain, a 76-year-old protester said Sunday. “That’s not a good life anymore. We want to move freely and that’s why we are here for us and for our children and our grandchildren.”
In Belgium, federal police were urging people to avoid Brussels on Monday, when a convoy is expected to gather in the country's capital, and the headquarters of the 27-nation European Union.
In the New Zealand capital of Wellington, authorities have turned to blasting Barry Manilow songs and the 90s dance hit “Macarena” on loop to break up a convoy of protesters encamped outside Parliament this week.
In Windsor, where protesters had blocked the entrance to the Ambassador Bridge that is a crucial conduit for the auto industry in both the U.S. and Canada, police moved to end the demonstration Sunday, arresting about a dozen protesters and beginning to tow vehicles.
Before Sunday's crackdown, the shutdown often had the feel of a block party.
Protesters milled about, carrying Canadian flags affixed to the ends of hockey sticks while music blared and food was handed out. They put up signs bearing slogans such as “Freedom Is Essential,” “Say No To Mandatory Vaccines” and “End Mandates.”
Troy Holman, a 32-year-old Windsor resident who has been at the protest every day since its start on Monday, said he believes the government overreached with its COVID-19 restrictions, which negatively impacted his wife’s small business.
“If we weren’t doing something such as this, no one would pay attention to us,” he said Friday. “Unfortunately, we have to be here, because this is what’s going to get the attention of the government.”
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Shaffrey reported from Ottawa and Foody reported from Chicago. Associated Press reporters Rob Gillies in Toronto, Elaine Ganley in Paris, Thomas Adamson in The Hague and Nick Perry in Wellington, New Zealand, contributed to this story.
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan is calling for an investigation into whether some student loan providers mislead millions of borrowers about their rights if they declare bankruptcy.
The New Hampshire Democrat said Saturday that she's signed onto a letter with her Senate colleagues seeking a review by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
She cited a recent report from the non-profit Student Borrower Protection Center that found that some lenders offering “non-qualified” loans have misstated the details about how different loans can be discharged through bankruptcy. While qualified student loans can only be discharged due to undue hardship, non-qualified private loans do not carry that requirement.
More than 2 million borrowers with non-qualified loans may not have understood their rights under bankruptcy, according to the senator's letter.
"Private student loan lenders took advantage of the widespread belief that all private student loans are non-dischargeable in bankruptcy and that lenders marketed their non-qualified education loans under this false pretense,” the Senators wrote in their letter.
The letter urges the CFPB to review the center's findings and take appropriate action against lenders who aren't being transparent with borrowers.
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| 2022-02-13T21:06:18
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján, who is recovering from a stroke in January, says he plans to be back at work in “just a few short weeks” to vote on President Joe Biden's forthcoming Supreme Court nominee.
In a video released Sunday by his office, the New Mexico senator said he is at the University of New Mexico Hospital after surgery to relieve pressure on his brain and soon will go to an inpatient rehabilitation facility for "a few more weeks.”
“I’m doing well. I’m strong. I’m back on the road to recovery, and I’m going to make a full recovery,” the 49-year-old Luján said in the video, which showed him seated next to two of his doctors. “I’m going to walk out of here, I’m going to beat this, and I’m going to be stronger once I come out.”
"Now I’m proud to report, then I’ll be back on the floor of the United States Senate in just a few short weeks to vote on important legislation and to consider a Supreme Court nominee,” he added.
According to his office, the Luján began experiencing dizziness and fatigue on Jan. 27 and checked himself into a hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Luján was transferred to the hospital in Albuquerque for further evaluation and treatment.
His absence from the Senate came as Biden considers a nominee to replace the retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer. Biden has said he wants to announce a pick by the end of February.
In a 50-50 Senate, Luján's vote would be critical if Democrats wanted to confirm Biden's nominee without the help of Republicans.
“Rest assured, New Mexicans can know they will have a voice and a vote during this process,” Luján said in the video. “That has never changed.”
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| 2022-02-13T21:06:25
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police were searching Sunday for a gunman who shot four people after a brawl erupted outside a Los Angeles restaurant hosting a party that followed a Justin Bieber concert, authorities said.
Detectives are asking witnesses to come forward to help them identify the suspect in the shooting early Saturday outside The Nice Guy restaurant.
The victims' names were not released, but NBC News reported rapper Kodak Black was among the wounded. Four men ages 60, 24, 22 and 19 were hospitalized in stable condition, LA police Officer Mike Lopez said.
Videos posted on TMZ.com and on social media show Black, 24, posing for photos with a group of people outside the restaurant when the brawl broke out. Black is among several people involved in the fight before shots rang out, sending everyone running for cover.
Law enforcement sources told NBC News that Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, was among the people shot. A message to his publicist at Atlantic Records has not been returned.
The party followed Bieber’s private concert at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood as part of a Super Bowl-week party dubbed “Homecoming Weekend.” The guests at the star-studded event included Jeff Bezos, TV host Lauren Sánchez, “Hamilton” actor Anthony Ramos and NFL Hall-of-Famer Tony Gonzalez.
Bieber and his wife Hailey Baldwin, Drake, Khloe Kardashian and Tobey Maguire were also among the celebrities seen entering the afterparty, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I. (AP) — Congress has approved legislation to name a Rhode Island post office after a fallen soldier.
The legislation to name the facility in the Slatersville section of North Smithfield after Spc. Matthew R. Turcotte, which previously passed the U.S. Senate in July, now goes to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law, according to a statement from Rhode Island's congressional delegation.
Turcotte, a lifelong resident of North Smithfield, was serving with the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division when he was killed in August 2017 during a live ammunition training exercise at Fort Carson in Colorado. He was 20 years old. He is survived by his wife, parents and two sisters.
Turcotte joined the Army in 2015 after graduating from North Smithfield High School where he was co-captain of the football team. He was deployed to Kosovo while in the Army.
“We are forever grateful for Matthew’s devoted service to the nation. He died in the line of duty and naming this post office after him is a way to honor and remember him," U.S. Jack Reed said in a statement.
A formal dedication ceremony at the post office will be scheduled for the spring.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A U.S. Navy sailor killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been identified after 80 years thanks to advances in DNA and forensic analysis, military officials said
The Department of Defense announced on Thursday that the remains of Navy StoreKeeper 1st Class Harry E. Walker were identified last spring, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Walker, a San Diego native, will be buried in California next month, the newspaper said Sunday.
The 36-year-old was assigned to the USS Oklahoma when he died in the Dec. 7, 1941 aerial attack on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii. More than 400 of the battleship’s crew were killed.
It took several years to recover and bury the remains. The military identified 35 of them in 1947, but new forensic technology became available in 2015 and other remains were tested.
In total, more than 2,300 U.S. troops stationed at Pearl Harbor lost their lives during the attack which led to the United States entry into World War II.
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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the Super Bowl:
The Cincinnati Bengals are the home team Sunday in the Super Bowl — technically. The home-field advantage belongs all to the Los Angeles Rams.
The NFC champions (15-5) will dress and work out of their usual locker room after spending the night before the big game in their usual hotel. The Rams’ logo is plastered all around and inside SoFi Stadium even with the banners making it clear this is the Super Bowl.
Yes, the Bengals (13-7) are represented inside the stadium with their name and “Who Dey!” mantra opposite the Rams.
This is the second straight Super Bowl where the home team has gotten to play on its own field after Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a championship a year ago in Raymond James Stadium. Before that, the NFL went 54 years without a team playing a Super Bowl in its home stadium.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The owners of a business in Forest Lake said a thief broke into their game shop and stole Pokémon merchandise they estimate was worth $250,000.
The Star Tribune reports the thief avoided the store’s extensive security system Thursday morning by breaking into a vacant business next door and then busting through the wall to enter the gaming store’s storage areas.
Security footage shows the intruder crawling through the hole, noticing the camera and then covering it up with tape, leaving fingerprints in the process. The thief removed two room’s worth of inventory without entering the main store, which would have triggered an alarm.
Twin brothers Eric and Mike Johnson are co-owners of Punch-Out Gaming. Eric Johnson said the thief focused on Pokémon, leaving behind a brand-new X-Box One gaming system as well as their bank cash bag.
Pokémon are a hot commodity these days. The value of some trading cards has skyrocketed, in part due to speculators who buy new cards as soon as they arrive at stores and then resell them online for hundreds of dollars.
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First Period_1, Buffalo, Skinner 17 (Fitzgerald, Tuch), 3:41. Penalties_Dahlin, BUF (Tripping), 13:48; Gallagher, MTL (Interference), 14:08.
Second Period_2, Montreal, Hoffman 8 (Schueneman, Byron), 1:11. 3, Buffalo, Skinner 18 (Dahlin), 10:15. 4, Montreal, Petry 2 (Pitlick, Evans ), 11:13. 5, Montreal, Armia 2 (Poehling, Kulak), 16:09. 6, Buffalo, Thompson 15 (Krebs, Skinner), 18:24 (pp). Penalties_Krebs, BUF (Hooking), 7:23; Montreal bench, served by Pitlick (Too Many Men on the Ice), 17:52.
Third Period_7, Buffalo, Skinner 19, 8:16 (pp). 8, Buffalo, Skinner 20 (Tuch), 18:14 (pp). Penalties_Clague, MTL (Tripping), 13:21; Okposo, BUF (Slashing), 14:59.
Shots on Goal_Buffalo 12-12-7_31. Montreal 8-11-13_32.
Power-play opportunities_Buffalo 1 of 3; Montreal 0 of 3.
Goalies_Buffalo, Anderson 6-3-0 (32 shots-29 saves). Montreal, Montembeault 2-10-4 (31-26).
A_500 (21,288). T_2:19.
Referees_Gord Dwyer, Chris Rooney. Linesmen_Ryan Galloway, Travis Toomey.
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LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Anthony Gaines recorded 17 points and 11 rebounds and his two free throws with six seconds left in overtime was enough to lift Siena past Rider 76-75 on Sunday. Jared Billups added 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Saints.
Colby Rogers had 13 points for Siena (12-9, 9-4 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference). Jackson Stormo added 10 points and seven rebounds.
Siena scored 40 first-half points, a season best for the team.
Mervin James had 15 points for the Broncs (10-14, 6-8), whose four-game winning streak was snapped. Allen Powell added 14 points. Jeremiah Pope had 12 points.
The Saints evened the season series against the Broncs. Rider defeated Siena 74-60 on Feb. 4.
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BEIJING (AP) — Erin Jackson bolted off the line, her powerful legs attacking the ice, her destiny awaiting at the end of a frenetic dash around Beijing's magnificent speedskating oval.
She didn't view herself as some sort of trailblazer. She didn't think about the slip that could've snatched away her spot on the U.S. Olympic team. She simply wanted to go faster than everyone else.
“I came here to win,” the 29-year-old said.
Mission accomplished.
Jackson became first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Olympics — and it was the best color of them all.
Gold.
“A lot of shock, a lot of relief and a lot of happiness,” Jackson said after her victory in the 500 meters.
It was an immensely personal moment for an inline skating champion from balmy Ocala, Florida, who traded her wheels for blades in order to chase an improbable Olympic dream.
But it meant so much more than that.
Jackson's skin color makes her an anomaly at the speedskating oval. She joined fellow American Shani Davis as the only Black athletes to win long-track medals at the Olympics.
“I just hope that it will do something for the sport,” Jackson said of her groundbreaking victory. “Hopefully, more people will see this and be like, ‘Ohhh, maybe I should try some of these winter sports.’"
Back in Florida, Jackson's longtime inline coach, Renee Hildebrand, cheered her on at an early-morning watch party thrown by one of her roller sport sponsors, Bont.
Hildebrand, too, hopes that Jackson's victory will bring some much-needed diversity to skating — no matter if it's wheels or blades.
“She's such a fantastic role model,” Hildebrand said in a telephone interview. “Maybe little girls and little boys who are not all about roller skating or ice skating will see her and say, ‘Hey, people my color are there. She looks like me.’”
The coach noted the impressive accomplishments of Davis, who won two golds and two silvers at the Olympics, and now Jackson.
“There's not a lot of African Americans in speedskating, but the ones who are have been are really, really good,” Hildebrand said. “If others will come, they'll be good.”
Jackson won with a time of 37.04 seconds, giving the American speedskating program its first medal of the Beijing Games, its first individual medal since 2010, and its first victory in the women's 500 since Bonnie Blair in 1994.
Jackson’s gold came after she slipped at the U.S. trials and shockingly finished third, putting her spot on the Olympic team in jeopardy.
But teammate Brittany Bowe, another Ocala skater who finished first at the trials, gave up her spot in the 500 to ensure Jackson would get to compete in Beijing.
“She made a really big sacrifice for me,” Jackson said. “I’ll be grateful to her forever.”
As it turned out, the Americans received a third slot in the 500 when the final allocations were made, so Bowe got to skate as well. She finished 16th.
The two close friends embraced after Jackson clinched the gold.
“She hugged me and we cried,” the winner said. “She said she’s really proud of me and I said a lot of thank-yous.”
Jackson skated in the next-to-last of 15 pairs with the time of 37.12 — set about a half-hour earlier in the fourth pairing by Japan's Miho Takagi — in her sights.
She didn’t think at all about that slip at the U.S. trials.
“It’s not something to really focus on,” Jackson said. “That was a fluke.”
Jackson darted off the line and and essentially won the gold in the first 100 meters, before she negotiated the first turn. Her opening split was 10.33 seconds, compared to 10.41 for Takagi.
That was the margin at the end, too.
“When it comes to the 500, it's a matter of hundredths and sometimes thousandths of a second,” said Ryan Shimabukuro, Jackson's coach when she's on ice. “I knew she had the speed and it was going to come down to the opener. When I saw she opened in 10.3, which is pretty much the fastest she's ever done, I knew we had a chance for the gold.”
Jackson kept up her speed through the first turn, down the crossing straight and on through the final turn, even though every stride brought more and more pain. Both arms were swinging furiously as she came down the final straightaway of speedskating’s shortest race.
As soon as her skates crossed the line, Jackson’s head turned toward the scoreboard.
She broke into a big smile when she saw the “1” beside her name, her time a scant 0.08 faster than Takagi's. Shimabukuro pumped his arms and slapped hands with Jackson as she glided by.
There was still one pair left to skate, but Jackson knew she could do no worse than bronze.
A few minutes later, the gold was hers.
“You’re an Olympic champion,” Shimabukuro told her.
Jackson sat on the padding along the infield, shedding a few tears with her head bowed.
She was no doubt reflecting, as well, on her remarkable journey.
Making the switch from inline to ice just months before the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, Jackson was such a fast study that she earned a spot on the U.S. team. She finished 24th in the 500, but it was clear that she had barely tapped into her potential.
During the current World Cup season, Jackson suddenly emerged as one of the world’s best sprinters. She won four of eight 500 races — the first Black woman to earn one of those titles, as well — and came to the Olympics as one of the favorites.
“When I won the first World Cup, I was like, ‘OK that’s strange. Let’s see where it goes,’” Jackson recalled. “Then I won another and I was like, ‘Well, maybe I can do this.’”
She lived up to the billing in Beijing, becoming the first American woman to win an individual speedskating medal since 2002.
“Words cannot explain how proud I am of her,” Bowe said. “I knew she had the chance to do something really special, and she just showed the world why she deserved to be here.”
Jackson grabbed an American flag and did a victory lap around the Ice Ribbon oval, the stars and stripes fluttering above her head.
“It’s been a wild ride,” she said, “but that makes it even sweeter.”
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —
Jordan Horston had 16 points and 13 rebounds and No. 13 Tennessee used a strong second half to defeat Vanderbilt 66-52 on Sunday in a Play4Kay game.
Tennessee opened the fourth quarter with a 14-1 run that put the game well in hand. The lead peaked at 62-40 when Horston hit a 3-pointer near the six-minute mark of the period.
After leading by five at halftime, a 10-0 run to open the third quarter gave the Lady Vols a 41-26 lead. Vanderbilt drew within single digits only one more time, when Brinae Alexander hit a 3-pointer to cut the deficit to 48-39 entering the fourth.
Rae Burrell added 15 points for the Lady Vols. Tennessee shot 43% from the field but just 5 of 19 (26%) from 3-point distance. Tennessee had a 48-29 rebounding advantage.
Alexander led Vanderbilt with 19 points and Iyana Moore added 17. The rest of the team scored 16 points. The Commodores shot 31% from the field and made only 6 of 27 3-pointers (22%).
Tennessee (20-4, 10-2 SEC) swept the regular-season series and defeated Vanderbilt (12-14, 3-9) for the fourth consecutive time and 14th in the last 15 matchups. Tennessee leads 76-10 all-time.
The game was a matchup of coaches who won NCAA championships as players. Third-year Lady Vols coach Kellie (Jolly) Harper won two championships as a player at Tennessee (1997 and ’98). First-year Vanderbilt coach Shea Ralph won a title as a player at Connecticut in 2000. They faced each other as players four times, with Tennessee winning three of the four.
Tennessee, which remains one game behind top-ranked South Carolina in the SEC standings, plays at Alabama on Thursday.
Vanderbilt plays at Kentucky on Thursday.
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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) — Elijah Joiner had 15 points, seven assists and six rebounds as Iona stretched its home win streak to 10 games with a 70-62 victory over Monmouth on Sunday.
Tyson Jolly had 13 points for the Gaels (20-5, 12-2 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference). Quinn Slazinski added 12 points, while Ryan Myers scored 11.
Iona scored 28 second-half points, a season low for the team.
Jarvis Vaughan had 11 points for the Hawks (16-9, 8-6). Samuel Chaput added six assists. Nikkei Rutty had nine rebounds. George Papas had five points and 10 rebounds.
George Papas, who led the Hawks in scoring entering the matchup with 16 points per game, scored five points on 1-of-12 shooting. Walker Miller, whose 15 points per game heading into the matchup ranked second on the Hawks, made just 1 of 8 shots and scored seven.
The Gaels improve to 2-0 against the Hawks this season. Iona defeated Monmouth 86-85 on Jan. 18.
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The United States will "respond swiftly and decisively" to further Russian aggression against Ukraine, President Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday, as U.S. officials continue to warn that a Russian invasion could happen any day.
Tensions remain sky-high over the situation along Ukraine's borders, where the U.S. says that a buildup of Russian forces and equipment along the country's east, north and south has now reached a point where an attack could begin this week.
On Sunday, Biden and Zelenskyy spoke by phone for about 50 minutes and "agreed on the importance of continuing to pursue diplomacy and deterrence," according to a White House readout of the call.
The conversation followed Biden's call on Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which the two men spoke for over an hour.
Afterward, a senior Biden administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, described the conversation with Putin as "professional and substantive," but added that "no fundamental change" was made to the tense dynamic that has unfolded over the past month.
Western leaders worry the window for diplomacy may be closing
French President Emmanuel Macron, who has taken a prominent role in the effort to find a diplomatic way out of the crisis, also spoke at length by phone with Putin on Saturday, according to Macron's office. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will visit both Kyiv and Moscow this coming week.
The calls and visits come amid fears that the window to find a diplomatic way out of the crisis may be closing as Russia readies its forces for a possible invasion.
"An invasion, a major military action could begin by Russia in Ukraine any day now. That includes this coming week, before the end of the Olympics," said Jake Sullivan, the White House's National Security Adviser, in an interview Sunday with CNN. The Olympics, which are being held in Beijing, end on February 20.
U.S. officials have cited an acceleration of the military buildup, along with the movement of troops closer to the border with Ukraine, as reasons for the heightened worries. Roughly a dozen countries have urged their citizens to leave Ukraine, including the U.S., U.K. and Germany.
"We have good sources of intelligence, and they're telling us that things are building now to some sort of crescendo opportunity for Mr. Putin," said John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesperson, speaking in an interview with Fox News Sunday. "We recognize that the time component here seems to be shrinking, and that gives us all cause for concern."
Russian forces now surround Ukraine on three sides
Russia has stationed well over 100,000 troops around Ukraine's borders, including some 30,000 troops stationed in Belarus to Ukraine's north, where the border is just about a 100-mile drive from the Ukrainian capital. In the south, the Russian navy is conducting major exercises in the Black Sea. And to its east, more tanks and military equipment have headed to Russia's border in recent days.
Russia has repeatedly characterized concerns about an invasion as Western "hysteria."
Yuri Ushakov, an adviser to Putin, said the Biden-Putin call Saturday was "businesslike," but he repeated previous statements by Putin that the U.S. has ignored key Russian demands – including that Ukraine be barred from ever joining NATO, and that NATO withdraw its forces from eastern European countries.
Russia has also criticized what it calls a Western "militarization" of Ukraine. The U.S. and its allies have sent billions of dollars' worth of military aid to Ukraine since 2014, including Javelin anti-tank missiles and counter-mortar radars.
Russian officials have sought to paint a scenario in which those arms embolden Ukraine to forcibly retake the territories in the eastern Donbas region that have been held by Russia-backed separatists since 2014. That violence could kick off a larger conflict, Russia has suggested.
Meanwhile, American officials have warned of the possibility of a Russian "false flag" operation meant to create a false pretext for an invasion of Russian troops.
Despite the growing urgency in the warnings from American officials, officials and analysts continue to caution that a Russian invasion is still not a certainty.
"I think Moscow sees this as a long process. And we might be moving from stage one to stage two, and there might be a stage three, but they're not necessarily a full-scale invasion of Ukraine," said Harun Yilmaz, a Ukraine specialist and academic editor at Routledge, in an interview with NPR.
In Ukraine, Zelenskyy has mixed gratitude for American support with occasional frustration over Washington's dire warnings. Speaking to reporters Saturday, Zelenskyy said that the West's pronouncements of imminent invasion were playing into Moscow's hands.
"The best friend of our enemies is panic in our country," said Zelenskyy.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Eylia Love scored a career-high 26 points — offsetting a career-best 40 points by Clemson's Delicia Washington — and No. 11 Georgia Tech survived an upset bid, defeating the Tigers 92-84 in overtime on Sunday.
Love sank 10 of 16 shots as the Yellow Jackets (19-6, 10-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) ended a two-game skid by beating the Tigers (9-17, 3-12) for the ninth straight time.
Sarah Bates had 15 points and Love scored 13 to guide Georgia Tech to a 40-32 lead at halftime.
Washington, who had 16 points in the first half, scored 12 points on 4-of-4 shooting with two 3-pointers in the third quarter and Daisha Bradford added nine points as Clemson battled back to take a 62-59 lead into the final period after falling behind 9-0 to begin the game.
Love opened the fourth quarter with a three-point play to pull Georgia Tech even, and after a basket by Washington, Lorela Cubaj's three-point play gave the Yellow Jackets a 65-64 lead with 7:43 remaining. It remained a one-possession game the whole fourth quarter.
Lotta-Maj Lahtinen buried a jumper with 3 seconds left to put Georgia Tech on top 77-75, but Washington scored in the paint at the buzzer to send the game to overtime.
Georgia Tech never trailed in the extra period after Nerea Hermosa and Lahtinen had back-to-back layups to open the scoring.
Cubaj finished with 22 points and seven assists for the Yellow Jackets. Hermosa added 19 points and nine rebounds. Bates scored 17.
Washington did her damage on 16-of-23 shooting with three 3-pointers for Clemson. Bradford added 18 points.
The Clemson single-game scoring record is 45 set by Barbara Kennedy against Claflin in 1979. Kennedy owned nine of the Tigers' top 10 scoring efforts until Washington cracked the list.
The Yellow Jackets have won 12 of the last 13 match-ups with Clemson to grab a 46-45 lead in the all-time series.
Georgia Tech will host No. 18 Notre Dame on Thursday.
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KYIV, Ukraine — In 1912, my great-grandfather Jacob Estrin said goodbye to his family in Ukraine, landed at Ellis Island, and eight days later, the Titanic sank. The family legend is that his mother thought he had been on board, and died of heartbreak before his first letter could reach home.
One hundred and 10 years later, I board a rickety elevator in a Kyiv apartment building to visit the family that my father's father's father left behind. Our family, separated and reunited through decades of wars, now unexpectedly straddles a new conflict in Ukraine.
"Your hair turned gray over these ten years. I remember a boy without gray hair," Lusia Kuznetsova, 81, teases me in Russian. I had been here just once before, in 2011. Lusia's mother, Fanya Estrin, was my great-grandfather Jacob's youngest sister, which makes Lusia my grandfather's first cousin.
Lusia's son, Sergey Kuznetsov, a 45-year-old photo editor at a Ukrainian magazine, is here too. He offers me slippers and leads me into his mother's living room, to a table set with homemade sauerkraut and cherry varenyky.
"Is your grandfather still alive?" Lusia asks. I tell her Grandpa Paul is 101 years old and still lives in Minneapolis, where his father Jacob had moved from Ukraine.
Lusia's modest 1970s Kyiv apartment hasn't changed much since Soviet times. The old wallpaper remains. In the foyer, a vintage Soviet refrigerator stores her shoes. She and my family share a particular gene: We throw away nothing.
She opens a cabinet and takes out the old Soviet photo ID of my great-great-grandfather David Estrin, born in 1863. Under the beard, he looks like my father.
Sergey lifts the top of the sofa and pulls out a down comforter. The feathers inside were plucked by my great-great-grandfather from his own geese. The fabric was shipped here from Minneapolis by his son Jacob around a century ago. I squeeze the soft bedding, touching what they touched.
The family was separated and reunited after more than four decades
My great-grandfather Jacob and his siblings were raised in a one-room home with no floor in Verbychi, a village near Chernihiv, north of Kyiv. Jacob, the eldest, was the only one who left for America, in search of a new life.
We still have the letters they wrote each other. Jacob in Minneapolis would mail them photos of his son, my Grandpa Paul, and his siblings would write back with tales from Ukraine. Over the years, some of Jacob's siblings settled in present-day Russia and Belarus, while his youngest sister Fanya moved to Kyiv.
In 1941, Fanya's husband, a Red Army officer, told her to escape the city with their baby daughter, Lusia. Weeks later, the Germans occupied Kyiv, rounded up the city's remaining Jews and killed most of them in the ravine of Babi Yar, in one of the largest mass shootings of World War II.
Fanya and Lusia were on the run for two years, first to the south Ural Mountains, then on to Siberia. When the war ended, they returned to Kyiv by train, and Fanya got a job in a Soviet factory.
Then the Cold War began, and Soviet officials summoned Fanya. In one employment record, she wrote she had relatives abroad. In another, she said she had none. Which was it? None, Fanya said. "It was dangerous. You could be considered an enemy of the state," Lusia says.
So Fanya cut contact with our family in the U.S.
More than four decades later, as the Cold War was ending in 1989, my grandmother opened a Minneapolis newspaper and spotted a notice: a new Soviet immigrant in Brooklyn was looking for the Estrin family.
She was a relative we did not know existed: Roza, the daughter of Jacob Estrin's sister, and another first cousin of Lusia and my Grandpa Paul. Roza presented copies of the photos my great-grandfather Jacob had mailed his family decades ago, photos Lusia had held onto all those years. Our long-lost family was reunited.
Decades later, a new war is ongoing
Sergey pours tea, and I turn to a newer chapter of our family history: In 2015, a few years after I met Sergey, I saw him post a picture on Facebook inside an armored personnel carrier.
"Facebook had reminded me," Sergey says. "Today is seven years" since he was drafted into the Ukrainian army.
Fighters backed by Russia had launched a war in eastern Ukraine, and at age 38, Sergey was assigned to an elite paratrooper brigade, sleeping in a tent with a loaded rifle. "What is the most important? I didn't fight. I [wasn't] in action," Sergey says.
It is Sergey's turn to ask questions. He wants to know about my reporting in Ukraine. "Tell us, please, Daniel. What is coming to us?" he asks.
His mother fetches a checklist she scribbled on the back of a toilet paper package, what to pack in case of war: Documents, medicine, cash, flashlight, cellphone, charger, notebook, pen, warm clothes, blankets, water, food.
"You're going to carry all of that?" Sergey asks her in Russian.
"It's not that much," she says.
"Where will you run?" he asks. Then he recalled the last time his mom was on the run — from the Germans in World War II.
The unexpected ripples of history
In Kyiv, the past feels very present now. Should my cousins run away again? Should they have left for America like my great-grandfather did a century ago? What would I do in their place?
"Sometimes I think about this," I tell Sergey. "What if I would have been born here?"
"You would be Ukrainian," he laughs. "People live here. All of us, we are people. We are humans."
Over the years, the Ukrainian and Russian sides of our family fell out of touch with each other. But I've maintained contact with both sides. I tell Sergey I'm going to call our Russian cousin in Moscow — what would he like to know?
"If you ask me to tell him something? Well, here live humans. We are people. We are human humans," he says. "If propaganda shows us like devils, yes? But we are humans."
I text my cousin Eugene in Moscow a picture of our mutual great-great-grandfather's Soviet ID. "Wow!" he replies.
He tells me people in Russia are anxious.
"I believe it would be insane to start the war," he says in a voice memo. "No one would support it."
He reads American media about Russia's moves and sees hysteria. He thinks Russians are portrayed as devils.
"Russians and Ukrainians because of propaganda look at each other as enemies. In fact it's not the case," he said. "I'm really keeping fingers crossed that the war won't commence ... and it will become obvious that we can live as good neighbors."
Then he wished my family in America, and our family in Ukraine, to "stay healthy and positive."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Tyrese Martin scored all 17 of his points in the second half and No. 24 Connecticut rallied past St. John's 63-60 on Sunday at Madison Square Garden.
R.J. Cole added 14 points and Andre Jackson grabbed 16 rebounds to help the weary Huskies (17-7, 8-5 Big East) win despite shooting only 36% from the field. They swept the season series from St. John's and moved into sole possession of third place in the conference standings behind Villanova and first-place Providence.
Montez Mathis had 14 points off the bench to spark the Red Storm (13-11, 5-8), who played without Posh Alexander for the second consecutive game. The star point guard, last season's Big East freshman of the year, is sidelined with a sprained ankle.
Julian Champagnie and Aaron Wheeler each had 13 points for St. John's. Dylan Addae-Wusu scored all 12 of his points in the first half.
Cheers for both schools echoed back and forth around Madison Square Garden coming down the stretch.
Left out of the starting lineup for the first time all season, Mathis scored six points in an 11-0 run for St. John's that was capped by Stef Smith's 3-pointer with 7:46 remaining. That gave the Red Storm a 55-48 lead — the largest for either team.
But the Huskies responded immediately with an 11-0 surge of their own. Isaiah Whaley was fouled on a putback and converted the three-point play to put UConn back in front with 3:46 left. Adama Sanogo banked in a shot off a pass from Cole to extend UConn's lead to 59-55 with 2:19 to go.
A drive by Mathis with 2:10 left ended the Red Storm's scoring drought at 5:36, but he missed a free throw that could have made it a three-point play.
Champagnie missed the front end of a 1-and-1, and Martin scored on a putback to make it 61-57 with 20.6 seconds left.
Wheeler drained a 3 with 14.3 seconds remaining to cut the margin to one before Cole sank two free throws to make it 63-60.
Guarded closely on the right wing, Wheeler missed a 3 just before the final horn that could have tied it.
BIG PICTURE
UConn: It was the second road game in 41 hours for Connecticut, capping a rugged stretch of three games in six days and four in nine — three away from home. The Huskies are still looking to hit their stride and really get on a roll. But they have the talent to be dangerous in March — they beat Auburn in double overtime on a neutral floor in November before the Tigers ascended to No. 1 in the nation.
St. John's: Dropped to 0-6 against Top 25 teams in a frustrating season that was expected to yield more success. St. John's went 1-4 in five regular-season games at Madison Square Garden, with the only win coming against last-place Georgetown.
WATCH WHAT YOU SAY
The Big East issued a statement Saturday night scolding UConn coach Dan Hurley for criticizing some of the officiating in Friday night's loss at Xavier.
Hurley said certain calls were “brutal” and “a joke.”
“Big East sportsmanship rules prohibit our coaches from public criticism of our game officials,” the release read. “We have established protocols in place for feedback by our schools regarding any officiating matter, and while we understand that tensions run high during the season, we expect these protocols to be honored.”
LINEUP CARD
UConn forward Akok Akok missed his fourth straight game with a tendon injury in his foot. He is day-to-day, the team said. ... Mathis, who shot 1 for 14 in Tuesday’s loss to No. 15 Villanova, was replaced in the starting lineup by Smith.
UP NEXT
UConn: Returns home to face Seton Hall (15-8, 6-7) on Wednesday night. The Huskies lost 90-87 in overtime at then-No. 24 Seton Hall on Jan. 8 despite 18 points and 16 rebounds from Sanogo.
St. John’s: Plays at No. 25 Xavier (17-7, 7-6) on Wednesday night, the first of two meetings in two weeks. The Musketeers snapped a two-game skid Friday night with their 74-68 win over UConn.
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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — An infant has died following a multi-vehicle crash in west Harris County, according to Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
The crash was reported in a tweet by Sheriff Gonzalez late Sunday morning.
One vehicle was overturned in the crash that happened in the 6600 block of Cunningham Road near W. Little York.
Roads in the area are shut down as the HCSO's Vehicular Crimes Division investigates the scene.
No other injuries have been reported and authorities have not said what led up to the crash.
This is a developing story, please check back for updates.
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What does the future of the Texas Democratic Party look like?
At their state convention in Dallas this summer, Democrats will decide who should lead the party, one that has struggled with organization and with messaging and has not elected anyone to a statewide office in 28 years. That’s one of the reasons the race for Texas Democratic Party Chair is being closely watched.
Three candidates want the top job: Carroll Robinson, Colonel Kim Olson, and the incumbent Gilberto Hinojosa.
Inside Texas Politics spoke to all three candidates. Hinojosa is first because his name is first alphabetically.
Gilberto Hinojosa
Gilberto Hinojosa says turning Texas blue is not an event – it’s a process. He’s been chair of the Texas Democratic Party for nearly a decade, and no Democrats have won statewide office during his tenure. But he said his success as chair can be measured in other ways.
Kim Olson
Kim Olson says the Texas Democratic Party needs a course correction after the party failed to score wins as it had hoped. The blue wave has yet to materialize, and Col. Kim Olson – a U.S. Air Force veteran – says she can fix it because she's run for statewide office before.
Carroll Robinson
This summer, Texas Democrats will consider one more person to lead their party: Carroll Robinson. Right now, he chairs the Texas Coalition of Black Democrats, and has served on the Houston City Council.
He said he’s running because he believes he has a better solution. And Robinson describes his approach as rebuilding the party from the bottom up.
Push to unseat fellow Democrats
Two Democratic state lawmakers face their own fights from inside the party. A group called the Texans for Better Democrats Coalition is trying to unseat state Rep. Harold Dutton from Houston and state Rep. Art Fierro of El Paso.
The Texas Organizing Project, Communications Workers of America, and the Working Families Party make up the coalition. Why don't progressives like Harold Dutton and Art Fierro? Patrick Svitek from the Texas Tribune in Austin said there are unique reasons.
Dutton, he said, is a more of an independent on certain issues, especially when it comes to education. Dutton, Svitek said, supports expanding charter schools, which is not a view typically embraced by Democrats. He also upset some within the party when, as the chairman of the House education committee, he helped revive restrictions on transgender student athletes.
Fierro, meanwhile, was one of the first to break with Democrats and return to the Texas Legislature while the party was in Washington, D.C. to block the Republican election bill, which later passed.
2022 Texas Primary election
Early voting begins Monday, Feb. 14. Many of these races have been quiet. Are voters fired up to go to the polls? What is turnout expected to look like?
Svitek said although there is not a presidential primary like there was two years ago, he wouldn't discount the potential for high turnout.
"You do have a lot of competitive Democratic and Republican primaries down ballot, partly the result of redistricting, which caused members to retire, creating a bunch of open seats and crowded fields for those primaries, so I would be on alert," he predicted.
Candidates dodge questions
Some leading candidates are avoiding interviews – and tough questions. Why is that? Is it part of their strategy? What's the most important way to reach voters this year?
Svitek said the better question to ask would be, is it the right strategy for Democracy and voters, or the right strategy for the candidate?
"If you're the candidate and you're ahead and have a good chance of winning, you don't want to expose yourself to any opportunity to elevate your opponents or where you could make a mistake of your own," he said. "Whether it's good for Democracy and the voters is a totally separate question, and the answer there is no, it's not good."
Bud Kennedy with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram agreed, adding that now that candidates are also dealing with a paper shortage impacting the number of mailers that can be sent, some candidates are having to recalibrate their strategy.
"Originally some of the candidates said, 'well, we don't want the endorsements of the "liberal media,"' but some of those candidates have come back to us now that there is a paper shortage, they can't get their mailers out ... so they're looking for another way to get their face and name out."
Watch the full episode of Inside Texas Politics below:
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BEIJING, China — Shaun White's next big contest — the Super Bowl.
Less than 24 hours after snowboarding's global icon took his final competitive halfpipe ride at the Olympics, he was bound for the airport. The destination: Los Angeles to watch his first Super Bowl in person.
White said his girlfriend, actress Nina Dobrev, has been suggesting he get busy making a list of things he wants to do in retirement “so I'm not sitting around twiddling my thumbs.”
“I’ve been to the house parties and stuff. Never been to the game, so I’m excited to check that off the list,” White said in a phone interview with The Associated Press, as he rode to Beijing on Saturday to catch a late-night flight.
After that, he'll take some time to relax.
The build-up to his last contest, then the tear-stained aftermath of his fourth-place finish, have been an emotional roller coaster for the three-time champion.
“I woke up this morning and I just felt this peacefulness,” White said. “It was amazing to know I have so much ahead of me.”
White said his phone has been blowing up — all of it supportive. And though no single athlete has meant more to the sport of snowboarding than the 35-year-old Californian, he conceded he had been nervous about what kind of reaction he'd get.
“As a competitor, I always wanted to be on the podium and I didn’t know if people would still respect my legacy,” he said.
He put down a solid run to get into medal contention, but with a chance to move up one spot and land on the podium, his legs grew weak and he fell as he tried the second of back-to-back 1440s — one of the toughest combinations in the sport.
The less-than-perfect performance, his emotional reaction to it, and even his worries about what others would think — all of that revealed the softer side of White, who grew from “The Flying Tomato” to a multi-platform sports and business icon in front of the world's eyes. The past week in the mountains above Beijing have triggered an outpouring of feelings along every step of the way.
Any second thoughts about his decision to hang it up?
“The initial competitive reaction was, ‘Oh, I almost had the podium and I want to come back and try that again,’” White said. “It’s one of the things that’s driven me to be one of the best in sports. But I think I’m going to enjoy this new lifestyle much better.”
Dobrev took to social media and praised her boyfriend, saying: “You will forever be the G.O.A.T. of snowboarding. Not to mention you are also the G.(B).O.A.T. = Greatest Boyfriend Of All Time.”
“I couldn’t be more proud. Of everything you have accomplished over the last 20 years as a competitor and the man you have become,” she wrote.
White's next chapter will include a dive back into business.
He has combined with his brother, Jesse, to launch a new snowboard brand, Whitespace. He said a first run of snowboards sold out online in 15 minutes. White is also owner of a music-and-competition event, Air & Style, which could get fresh legs if COVID-19 subsides.
White said one of his realizations as he weighed whether to retire was that “instead of beating these guys out here, I want to start sponsoring them.”
He's still figuring that part out. He said offering advice and helping a few young riders find their way in the sport is intriguing. A dip into coaching — at least in the way that his buddy and coach, 2002 bronze medalist J.J. Thomas is doing it — might take a little longer.
“I would need time before I did something like that, and it would have to be a very special situation,” White said. “But definitely supporting in some capacity would be very enjoyable, I think.”
But before that, some rest.
Even for a megastar used to traveling the globe, the last four months have been a lot. There was a long stretch in Europe for training, which also led to the decision to retire.
There was a hectic swing through qualifying events, which were hampered by an ankle injury, a bout with COVID-19, a broken binding in one contest, then a quick unexpected trip to Switzerland to secure his spot on the team.
And then China. It was not an easy trip for anyone, and for White, it was made all the more hectic — and emotional — because the spotlight was shining on the final performance of his one-of-a-kind career.
“Advice I've got from others is ‘Just take a second,'" White said. “I just want to take a pause and really soak in this moment, everything I've done and earned and enjoyed, and then see what sparks my interest.”
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WEST LAFAYTTE, Ind. (AP) — Trevion Williams blocked a layup try in the final seconds and No. 3 Purdue, boosted by Jaden Ivey's go-ahead three-point play, held off Maryland 62-61 Sunday.
Maryland's Donta Scott drove hard to the basket from the right baseline, but Williams rejected the shot with five seconds left. The Boilermakers (22-4, 11-4 Big Ten) corralled the loose ball, completing a rally from a 12-point deficit midway through the second half.
It was 59-all when Ivey shook loose down the lane for his three-point play with 13.1 seconds left. Fatts Russell then was fouled and hit both free throws for the Terrapins with 8.1 seconds remaining.
Purdue committed a turnover on the inbound pass, giving the Terrapins a shot. Russell led the Terrapins (11-14, 3-11) with 24 points.
Sasha Stefanovic scored 17 points, Williams added 12 and Ivey had 11 for Purude. Zach Edey contributed 10 points and 11 rebounds.
Trailing 26-23 at halftime, the Terrapins regained the lead by scoring the first 12 points on the second half.
After Maryland took its largest lead at 48-36 with 11 minutes left, Purdue responded with 14 straight points for a 50-48 edge with 7:42 remaining.
The Terrapins played without leading scorer Eric Ayala, who was out with a wrist injury. Ayala, a starting guard, is averaging 15.1 points. Xavier Green started in his place.
BIG PICTURE
Maryland: The Terrapins gave the Boilermakers all they could handle, but came up short in losing for the fourth time in five games.
Purdue: The Boilermakers found a way to win, but it was a rugged showing against a struggling Maryland team without its leading scorer in Ayala.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
The No. 3 Boilermakers will likely slide in the rankings with an up-and-down week. After registering an impressive 84-68 victory over No. 13 Illinois at home on Tuesday night, the Boilermakers fell flat in an 82-58 loss at Michigan on Thursday night.
UP NEXT
Maryland: Hosts Nebraska on Friday night.
Purdue: At Nebraska on Wednesday night.
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BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Anthony Roberts had a career-high 40 points as Stony Brook beat Maine 85-74 on Sunday.
Roberts made 9 of 12 3-pointers. He added six rebounds and six assists.
Tykei Greene had 15 points and 10 rebounds for Stony Brook (15-10, 7-5 America East Conference). Frankie Policelli added 10 rebounds and five assists.
Maks Klanjscek had 24 points for the Black Bears (5-19, 2-11). Vukasin Masic added 14 points. Ja'Shonte Wright-McLeish had six rebounds.
The Seawolves improve to 2-0 against the Black Bears on the season. Stony Brook defeated Maine 80-72 on Jan. 8.
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Ottawa Senators forward Austin Watson has been suspended two games for a hit on Boston's Jack Ahcan.
The NHL announced the suspension on Sunday.
Watson leveled Ahcan along the end boards midway through the first period of Ottawa’s 2-0 loss to the Bruins on Saturday. He was given a 2-minute minor penalty for interference.
The league’s department of player safety added the two-game ban after reviewing the play and determining the hit was high and late, and that Watson made “significant contact” with Ahcan’s head.
The 30-year-old Watson will forfeit $15,000 in salary, with the money going to the players' emergency fund.
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MONTREAL (AP) — Jeff Skinner scored four goals in a game for the first time in his career, and the Buffalo Sabres beat the Montreal Canadiens 5-3 on Saturday to snap a three-game winless streak.
Tage Thompson also scored for Buffalo, his fourth goal of the season against the Habs.
Mike Hoffman, Jeff Petry and Joel Armia scored for NHL-worst Montreal, which lost its third straight since firing coach Dominique Ducharme and naming Martin St. Louis interim coach. The Canadiens' overall winless streak extended to 10 games, their worst skid since 1926.
Skinner's third goal put the Sabres ahead for good, 4-3, with 11:44 remaining, and his fourth with 1:46 left ended the Canadiens' chances.
Craig Anderson made 28 saves to collect his 297th NHL win, passing Ron Hextall for 40th on the league's all-time list.
Montreal’s Samuel Montembeault stopped 26 of 31 shots in his second start in two days.
Skinner got the Sabres on the board early, redirecting a shot by Casey Fitzgerald for his first goal 3:41 into the game.
Montreal tied it early in the second period when Corey Schueneman sent the puck to Hoffman for a one-timer from the right faceoff circle.
Skinner got his second midway through the period when his shot from the top of the the faceoff circle beat Montembeault just under the crossbar.
The Canadiens tied it 2-2 58 seconds later on Petry's shot from the point, which deflected off John Hayden.
Montreal took the lead 16:09 into the second when Armia, well-positioned in front of the goal, received Ryan Poehling’s pass and beat Anderson with a short-side shot.
The Sabres tied it again on a power play late in the second. Peyton Krebs sent a cross-ice pass to Thompson, whose shot was too much for Montembeault.
Skinner completed the hat trick after he was tripped by Petry on a breakaway. The puck ended up in the back of the net after deflecting off his skate.
His fourth goal came when Alex Tuch found him in the slot, Tuch's third assist of the game.
NOTES: Montreal placed Ben Chiarot on injured reserve before the game and recalled Schueneman from the AHL's Laval Rocket. Sunday marked the 26-year-old defenseman’s third game in three days, following back-to-back outings in the AHL.
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Kahliel Spear scored 27 points to lead four in double figures and Robert Morris defeated Youngstown State 73-68 on Sunday.
Spear had a near-perfect shooting game, making 10 of 11 from the field, all three of his 3-pointers, and 4 of 5 free throws. He also had seven rebounds.
Michael Green III scored 14 points for the Colonials (7-19, 5-12 Colonial). Matt Mayers added 11 points and seven rebounds. Kam Farris scored 10 points.
Dwayne Cohill scored 18 points for Youngstown State (16-11, 10-7). Myles Hunter added 14 points, Tevin Olison 12 and Michael Akuchie 11. Akuchie had 11 rebounds for the Penguins.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Brady Tkachuk scored his team-leading 15th goal and added an assist, Connor Brown also had a goal and an assist and the Ottawa Senators completed a long-awaited 4-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
Alex Formenton and Adam Gaudette added early goals as the Senators jumped to a 2-0 lead after the first period, en route to snapping a 10-game losing skid against the Capitals overall and a nine-game slide in Washington.
Chris Tierney had two assists. Anton Forsberg made 33 saves in Ottawa's first victory in Washington since Jan. 21, 2014.
Nicklas Backstrom scored in the second period for the Capitals, who have now lost five straight in regulation at home and 11 of 17 overall.
Ilya Samsonov stopped 22 of the 26 shots he faced for Washington, which is not yet in jeopardy of missing the postseason despite their recent struggles.
The Capitals hold an 11-point lead over Detroit for the second Eastern Conference wild-card payoff berth and are three points back of the New York Rangers for the third automatic berth in the Metropolitan division.
STILL SHORT ON POWER
Despite the victory, the Senators went a sixth consecutive game without scoring on the power play (14 opportunities, this time despite playing a total of 1:50 of 5-on-3 hockey across two separate chances.
It's Ottawa's longest such drought in terms of games this season.
NOTES
Senators: RW Austin Watson served the first half of a two-game suspension issued for his hit on Boston defenseman Jack Ahcan, which resulted in an interference minor in Saturday's 2-0 loss to the Bruins. ... Brown recorded his 200th and 201st career points. ... RW Parker Kelly was recalled from AHL Belleville before the game and played on the fourth line.
Capitals: RW Tom Wilson received a 5-minute fighting major for grappling with Ottawa C Nick Paul after he leveled D Thomas Chabot behind the Ottawa goal. ... LW Alex Ovechkin picked up his 31st assist on Backstrom's goal and is on pace to reach the 50-assist threshold for the first time since the 2010-11 season. ... Ovechkin has gone eight games since adding to his team-leading total of 29 goals.
UP NEXT
Senators: Host St. Louis on Tuesday night.
Capitals: Begin a four-game road trip at Nashville on Tuesday night.
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Sam Vinson had 20 points as Northern Kentucky turned back Wright State 75-71 on Sunday.
Marques Warrick had 16 points and sank two foul shots with 10 seconds remaining to help the Norse (15-10, 11-5 Horizon League) notch their fifth straight win on the road. Bryson Langdon added 12 points and six assists, while Adrian Nelson scored 10.
Wright State scored 49 points in the second half, a season high for the team.
Grant Basile had 25 points and nine rebounds to pace the Raiders (15-12, 12-6). Trey Calvin had 13 points, six rebounds and five steals. Tanner Holden added 13 points.
The Norse improve to 2-0 against the Raiders on the season. Northern Kentucky defeated Wright State 73-63 on Jan. 25.
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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Georgia Amoore put up 17 points and Virginia Tech posted a second straight win over a nationally-ranked opponent for the first time in program history, knocking off No. 23 North Carolina, 66-61 on Sunday afternoon.
Virginia Tech picked up its 11th Atlantic Coast Conference win of the season — also a first for the program.
The Hokies (19-6, 11-3) knocked off No. 11 Georgia Tech, 73-63, Thursday and entered the game tied with No. 18 Notre Dame for third place in the ACC. The top four teams receive a bye into the quarterfinal round of the conference tournament.
North Carolina (19-5, 9-5) beat Virginia Tech by 25 points January 9 in Chapel Hill, and the Tar Heels opened the game with an eye on a repeat performance, roaring to a 21-9 lead after one quarter. But the Hokies rallied in the second behind a pair of 3-pointers from Amoore to take a 31-28 lead at intermission and carried that momentum into the second half. Amoore and Aisha Sheppard hit back-to-back 3s to end the third quarter for a 52-43 lead.
Amoore's fifth 3-pointer of the game gave Virginia Tech a 55-43 lead with just over eight minutes to play. North Carolina regrouped behind a Destiny Adams jumper and a trey and layup by Eva Hodgson to get within five, 55-50. After a put-back from Elizabeth Kitley, Alyssa Ustby turned in a three-point play to make it 57-53, but the Hokies got back-to-back 3s from Cayla King and Sheppard to take a 63-53 lead with 3:10 left. Kitley added a three-point play with 1:20 to go to put the game out of reach.
Amoore finished with four rebounds, three assists and a pair of steals. Kitley had 15 points and five blocked shots and Sheppard was 4 of 8 from behind the arc and finished with 14 points and three assists.
Deja Kelly finished with 17 points to lead North Carolina. Ustby posted 12 points and 12 rebounds and Carlie Littlefield added 10 points.
The Hokies have four games remaining in their regular-season schedule, starting with road trips to Syracuse on Thursday and No. 3 Louisville on Sunday.
North Carolina plays host to Louisville on Thursday.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida government buildings, parks and other facilities will fly their flags at half-staff in honor of the 14 students and three staff members killed in the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas massacre.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said in his proclamation Monday's fourth-anniversary observance will "honor the memory of the innocent Floridians lost on that tragic day” at the Parkland school.
“We continue to convey our deepest sympathies to the families, loved ones and Parkland community for their loss,” he said, The Associated Press reports.
DeSantis asks for all Floridians to pause for a moment of silence at 3 p.m. Monday, according to AP.
Those killed in the attack were students Alyssa Alhadeff, Martin Duque, Nicholas Dworet, Jaime Guttenberg, Luke Hoyer, Cara Loughran, Gina Montalto, Joaquin Oliver, Alaina Petty, Meadow Pollack, Helena Ramsay, Alex Schachter, Carmen Schentrup and Peter Wang.
Teacher Scott Beigel, athletic director Chris Hixon and assistant football coach and security guard Aaron Feis were also killed in the shooting.
Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty in October to the 2018 killings and is now set to have a penalty trial in April.
10 Tampa Bay's Courtney Holland contributed to this report.
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LOS ANGELES — Sometimes the Super Bowl halftime show is wilder than the actual game. From wardrobe malfunctions and uncoordinated dancers dressed as sharks to superstars jumping from the roof and surprise celebrity appearances, a lot can go down in the short break between halves. In one notable show, even mother nature added apropos ambiance for the performer.
This year, some of the biggest names in hip-hop will perform on the biggest stage in the world. The lineup includes Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar. Plus, deaf stars Warren “Wawa” Snipe and Sean Forbes will perform American Sign Language during the show.
Last year, The Weeknd headlined the halftime show in Tampa Bay to the smallest in-person crowd in the game's history -- just 22,000 fans due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here’s a look back at some of the most memorable halftime shows in Super Bowl history.
Michael Jackson 1993 show changes halftime forever
We have to thank the King of Pop for making halftime shows the over-the-top productions that we expect today. During his 1993 performance at the Super Bowl in Pasadena, California, Michael Jackson immediately grabbed the audience’s attention by standing completely still in silence on stage for nearly two minutes. He then performed a mashup of his hits, including “Billie Jean,” and ended the show with “Heal the World” alongside hundreds of children who rushed on stage.
Prince sings “Purple Rain” in a rain storm
As rain poured down on Miami’s stadium in 2007, Prince commanded the stage, dancing around on the slick surface and playing four different electric guitars. Before the show, he reportedly asked the production crew if they could “make it rain harder.” Prince not only performed his beloved hits – including “Purple Rain” – but also played covers of Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” “Proud Mary” by Creedence Clearwater Revival, a medley of “All Along the Watchtower” by Bob Dylan and Foo Fighters’ “Best of You.”
Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction”
It has become the most infamous halftime show of all time.
We all know the story: 2004. Houston, Texas. Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson. An exposed breast. 144 million television viewers. A whole lot of controversy. Fourteen years later, Timberlake returned to headline the Super Bowl LII halftime show, but without Jackson.
Fifteen years later, fans wanted to know why Maroon 5's Adam Levine was allowed to run around with his shirt off during the band's Super Bowl LIII halftime performance.
Left shark steals Katy Perry’s show
As Katy Perry performed her hit song “Teenage Dream” on the Super Bowl stage in 2015, she was joined by two dancing sharks.
The shark on the right clearly knew all the dance moves. The shark on the left… not so much. “Left shark,” as he was called in viral, online memes, flailed his flippers and seemed to forget that he was dancing next to a pop star and being watched by millions of people worldwide. Turns out, the seemingly random moves were all planned. One of Perry’s dancers, Bryan Gaw, finally fessed up to being left shark.
He told NPR in 2018 that he was playing a character – “I'm in a 7-foot blue shark costume. There's no cool in that.” So he decided to be a little goofy, and his movements turned out looking extra-goofy on the huge stage.
Beyoncé and Bruno Mars crash Coldplay’s performance
For Super Bowl 50, there had to be an epic halftime.
It was supposed to be Coldplay’s show. But then Beyoncé and Bruno Mars showed up. Bruno Mars kicked off his performance during the 2016 Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California, with his hit “Uptown Funk.” Then Beyoncé entered the stadium with an entourage of backup dancers dressed in black and gold, singing “Formation.” Beyoncé and her crew had a dance-off with Bruno Mars, and if you watch the video, it’s clear Queen Bey won.
Lady Gaga jumps from the roof
After singing a medley of “God Bless America” and “This Land is Your Land” with hundreds of drones creating an American flag behind her, Lady Gaga appeared to jump from the roof of NRG Stadium in Houston at Super Bowl LI. She then floated into the stadium and started singing “Poker Face.” The whole performance was impressive, but she didn’t actually jump from the roof. The beginning segment with the drones was prerecorded and, during the live set, she was lowered down from the roof by harnesses.
JLo, Shakira bring the heat
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira brought serious girl power to the Super Bowl halftime show. The ladies came with the heat performing some of their biggest hit songs.
Shakira kicked off the festivities in a red sequined outfit, singing a medley of her best songs, including "She Wolf," "Whenever, Wherever" and "Hips Don't Lie." She was joined by Bad Bunny for a cover of Cardi B's "I Like It."
Lopez followed with a rendition of her classic "Jenny From The Block" before launching into a mix that included "Ain't It Funny," "Waiting for Tonight" and "On the Floor." J Balvin joined the 50-year-old for a rendition of "Mi Gente." The singer had two stunning outfits, one black leather and one silver beaded. Lopez also showed off the pole dance moves she learned for her role in the movie "Hustlers."
Lopez's daughter, Emme, made a surprise appearance, belting a rendition of "Let's Get Loud" with her mother.
The show was a little too caliente for some. The FCC received more than 1,300 complaints, mostly saying the show was too sexy.
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BEIJING (AP) — Across two pandemic Olympics set in Asian countries, Asian American women fronting the Games have encountered a whiplashing duality — prized on the global stage for their medal-winning talent, buffeted by the escalating crisis of racist abuse at home.
The world’s most elite and international sporting event, which pits athletes and countries against each other, underscores along the way the crude reality that many Asian women face: of only being seen when they have something to offer.
“It’s like Asian American women can’t win,” says Jeff Yang, an author and cultural critic. “Asian American female athletes, like most Asian American women in many other spaces, are seen as worthy when they can deliver … and then disposed of otherwise.”
The issue is playing out at the Beijing Winter Games, the third straight Olympics set in Asia and the second held during the unrelenting global coronavirus crisis — and playing out, too, during a rise in hate crimes against Asian Americans.
Here, U.S. snowboarder Chloe Kim and China’s freestyle skier Eileen Gu are the latest additions to the list of American women of Asian descent who have been “It Girls” of the Winter Games, joining icons like American figure skaters Kristi Yamaguchi and Michelle Kwan.
When Kim and Gu earned their gold medals in Beijing, it was the perfect bow on professional narratives that have been covered incessantly leading up to the actual event. Their star power and talent made them two of the de facto spokeswomen for the Olympics.
Meanwhile, other Asian American women like figure skaters Karen Chen and Alysa Liu of the U.S. team and Zhu Yi of the China team have also been promoted by their national teams and scrutinized — sometimes harshly — by Olympic fans.
Commentators have mocked Yi for falling in the team event, as if she deserved the mistake after giving up her U.S. citizenship to compete for her ancestral homeland. Others are angry that she “stole” the Olympic spot from an actual China-born athlete.
Even the winners struggle to feel fully embraced in America.
Kim, who won the halfpipe at the Beijing and Pyeongchang Olympics, has revealed she was tormented online daily. She says she was consumed by fear that her parents could be killed whenever she heard news about another brutal assault on an Asian person.
There have been more than 10,000 reported anti-Asian incidents — from taunts to outright assaults – between March 2020 and September 2021, according to Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that gathers data on racially motivated attacks related to the pandemic.
“The experience of hate is withering, and it takes a huge mental health toll,” says Cynthia Choi, the coalition’s co-founder. “When we think about the Olympics, it’s really incredibly powerful to have taken place in Asia three times in a row. That context is very significant, and to have Asian Americans and Asians representing the United States in these games is more than symbolic.”
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the country have endured racist verbal, physical and sometimes deadly attacks for two years now, fueled by the pandemic.
Some perpetrators have based their hate on the fact that the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China. Adding to the mix: former President Donald Trump, who regularly talked about COVID-19 in racial terms.
Gu, the daredevil freestyle skier who placed first in the big air competition, said she’d never been as scared as when a man directed a tirade about the coronavirus’ Chinese origins against her and her immigrant grandmother at a San Francisco pharmacy.
The San Francisco native, fashion model and social media figure has also been criticized with anti-China rhetoric for switching from the U.S. team to the China team. Conservative Fox News personalities Tucker Carlson and Will Cain even dedicated a segment to berating Gu, saying she was “ungrateful” and is “betraying her country.”
Those racially charged denunciations have been called out on social media for being hypocritical. Phil Yu, who runs the popular Angry Asian Man blog, tweeted succinctly: “Oh sure, it’s always ‘go back to your country’ but not ‘go back to your country and win a gold medal.’”
The dichotomy of the Asian American woman’s existence is not limited to Winter Olympians, though. In October, Hmong American gymnast Sunisa Lee said she was pepper sprayed by someone shouting racist slurs while driving by in a car. At the time, she was standing outside with a group of Asian American friends in Los Angeles while filming the “Dancing with the Stars” TV show.
Lesser-profile Olympians from the Tokyo Games like golfer Danielle Kang and karateka Sukura Kokumai spoke about their experiences with anti-Asian hate last summer.
Kang said she’s fought racism all her life and urged for a broader social studies curriculum that could better capture today’s multicultural America.
“I’ve been told to go back to China. I don’t know why they think China is the only Asian country,” said the Korean American athlete. “I also have heard, ‘Do you eat dogs for dinner?’ It’s nothing new to me. However, the violence was very upsetting. But the violence also has been around. I’ve gotten into fist fights. I’ve grown up like this.”
Kokumai, who is Japanese American, was angry to discover that the same man who had harassed her in April with racist slurs also assaulted an elderly Asian American couple.
Equally painful: colleagues’ silence when the incident was reported. She said Japan’s coach called her about it before members of her U.S. team did.
“It was really hurtful that it took so long for my side of the federation to address it,” Kokumai said last summer.
In July, when Lee became the surprise breakout star of the Tokyo Olympics by winning gold in the all-around event and bronze on uneven bars, Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, said she felt conflicted about seeing Lee on a pedestal given the way Hmongs have been marginalized.
“I’m really wrestling with this idea that we’re all ‘American’ only when it comes to us being excellent and winning medals for the country,” Choimorrow said. “Asian American women are hyper-visible in ways that dehumanize us and completely invisible in the ways that humanize us.”
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BEIJING (AP) — Sunday is a sports bonanza for NBC, which is airing the Super Bowl in addition to the Winter Olympics. It’s the first time those two events are happening at the same time, and the chance to air them both is part of the reason NBC switched Super Bowl spots with CBS and took this year’s game.
The football game is obviously forcing some changes in NBC’s Olympic schedule. Instead of its usual afternoon and prime time slots, NBC will have coverage from 8 a.m. ET until Super Bowl pregame coverage at noon. Olympic coverage picks up again after the game, when NBC plans to show live coverage of ice dancing’s free dance.
For those uninterested in the football game, USA Network will also carry the ice dancing live, starting at 8:15 p.m.
Here are some things to watch (all times Eastern):
ICE DANCING
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron of France lead after the rhythm dance, with world champions Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov of Russia second. The American duos of Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue and Madison Chock and Evan Bates are third and fourth.
Papadakis and Cizeron finished second at the 2018 Olympics to the now-retired Canadian team of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.
“These Olympics are so different from four years ago. We are in a very different place,” Cizeron said. “I think with all the experience we’ve gained we have become more mature. We know better what we are doing, so we are enjoying it better.”
SPEEDSKATING
Erin Jackson is a favorite in the 500 meters, although she nearly missed out on competing. She slipped at the U.S. trials in this event and didn’t make the team, but Brittany Bowe gave up her spot in the 500. Bowe ended up in the event anyway because the U.S. received a third quota spot.
The 500 is supposed to start just before 9 a.m. NBC plans to carry it live, with an encore presentation after the Super Bowl. USA Network will also have coverage of it at 7:30 p.m.
BOBSLED
Monobob gives women’s bobsledders a second medal event at the Olympics, along with the two-woman competition. U.S. standouts Kaillie Humphries and Elana Meyers Taylor were hoping four-man would be added on the women’s side, but many nations lack depth among female bobsledders, so monobob is in the Olympics instead.
“Nothing’s a given here,” Meyers Taylor said. “I think some good things can happen, but it’s going to take everything I have and I’m going to give it everything I have.”
NBC plans to show the final monobob run live after the Super Bowl.
TWO FOR GU?
Eileen Gu, already an Olympic champion this year in freestyle Big Air, has a chance to win another gold medal in slopestyle. The California native, who competes for China, was the 2021 world champion in that event.
NBC plans to show slopestyle during its late-night coverage.
ALSO OF NOTE
The U.S. men’s hockey team faces Germany live on USA Network at 8 a.m. NBC will also have live coverage of that game. … China has another good chance for a gold medal in the men’s 500 in short track speedskating. The final is scheduled to start at 7:14 a.m. and will be shown live on USA Network. The final of the women’s 3,000 relay is a half-hour earlier, also live on USA Network. NBC will air both those events in the morning as well, and USA Network will show them at night.
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BERGEN, Norway (StudyFinds.org) — Switching to a healthier diet of nuts, beans, and whole grains as a young adult can help you live a decade longer, a new study on longevity reveals. A team from the University of Bergen says that healthy diet changes actually benefit people of all ages, but the earlier someone moves away from red and processed meat, the better it is in the long run.
Researcher Lars Fadnes says dietary risk factors contribute to 11 deaths and an additional 255 million years of life disrupted by disability every single year. In the new study, researchers used data from the Global Burden of Diseases study to create a model estimating the benefits to life expectancy from eating certain foods. The team has made this tool — the Food4HealthyLife calculator — publicly available online.
A longer life can boil down to your diet
The results show that if young adults in the United States move away from the traditional Western diet and start eating more healthy options, they’ll add more than a decade to their life expectancy. Specifically, starting at the age of 20, young women gained 10.7 years by avoiding the typical Western diet, which is notorious for containing high amounts of red meat, saturated fats, and refined grains. Young men gained an extra 13 years by making this dietary change!
“Understanding the relative health potential of different food groups could enable people to make feasible and significant health gains,” the study authors say in a media release. “The Food4HealthyLife calculator could be a useful tool for clinicians, policy makers, and lay-people to understand the health impact of dietary choices.”
Nuts and legumes provide the biggest boost
The team found eating more legumes (such as beans and peas) added more than two years of life to young adults, while whole grains and nuts also boosted life expectancy by similar amounts.
Eating less red meat also contributed to this healthy shift, adding 1.6 years to a woman’s lifespan and 1.9 years to a man’s average life expectancy. The results were exactly the same when adults gave up processed meat at a young age.
For older adults, the study finds it’s never too late to make a positive change. For people over 60, switching from a Western diet to an optimized healthy diet added eight years to a woman’s lifespan and 8.8 years for men. At 80 years-old, both men and women gained an extra 3.4 years of life on average.
“Research until now have shown health benefits associated with separate food group or specific diet patterns but given limited information on the health impact of other diet changes. Our modeling methodology has bridged this gap,” Fadnes adds.
The findings are published in the journal PLOS Medicine.
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EUGENE, Ore. (KOIN) — Police in Eugene, Oregon, have solved a serial killer cold case from the 1980s involving three murdered women, thanks to genetic genealogy.
Police say John Charles Bolsinger, born Sept. 17, 1957, is suspected in the murder of Gladys May Hensley, 62. Hensley’s body was discovered during a welfare check on June 5, 1986, by an apartment building employee after she had not been seen for several days. The investigation revealed that she had been killed the previous day.
Bolsinger was identified using the new technology – along with extensive follow-up and additional evidence, according to Eugene Police.
“Police were unable to locate the … suspect, however, similarities in the murder and evidence at the scene connected the suspect with two additional murders, one that occurred in the same month and the other in February 1988,” said Eugene Police.
Hensley’s murder was linked to the June 19, 1986, murder of Janice Marie Dickinson.
Dickinson, a 33-year-old white female, was found murdered behind a car dealership.
“She was naked and had been sexually assaulted,” added investigators. “Her death was attributed to brutal homicidal violence.”
Bolsinger was also involved in the February 28, 1988, murder of Geraldine Spencer Toohey, investigated by the Oregon State Police. Toohey, a 73-year-old white female, was found in her residence in Eugene, where evidence of forced entry into the residence was discovered.
Police say Toohey was also sexually assaulted with her death attributed to “brutal homicidal violence.”
Law enforcement officials added that several persons of interest were developed and thoroughly investigated over the years and were excluded through DNA comparison. All three cases lacked any strong leads.
In 2016, a new technology came to market, from Parabon Nano Labs, allowing the inference of physical characteristics of individuals based on DNA information, according to EPD officials.
“This service, snapshot phenotyping, was employed in this case and in September, 2017, Eugene Police investigators received the results. The detailed snapshot report was released by EPD in 2018 and detectives were hopeful it would generate new leads in the cases,” recalled law enforcement. “The Eugene Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit established a dedicated tip line for the cases. More than 100 tips were received and followed up on by VCU detectives, but all of the names provided were eliminated as suspects.”
In May 2018, Parabon Nano Labs began offering genetic genealogy, according to police.
The service was used by violent crime unit detectives, which lead to four potential suspects, including Bolsinger. Detectives said they learned Bolsinger died by suicide in Springfield, Oregon on March 23, 1988.
“VCU detectives were able to establish a timeline for John Bolsinger from 1975-1988. While establishing this timeline, VCU Detectives learned John Bolsinger was arrested for murder in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1980 and ultimately served a five-year prison sentence before being paroled to Springfield, Oregon on March 7, 1986,” police said. “Approximately three months later, Gladys Hensley was discovered (murdered). Two weeks later, Janice Dickinson was discovered murdered.”
Detectives also learned that Bolsinger was arrested for a burglary by the Springfield Police Department on Sept. 26, 1986. Upon arrival, officers said they heard a woman screaming and learned the suspect had fled. The victim told officers she was at home and having trouble sleeping.
“She heard her dog making strange noises in the kitchen, so she went to investigate. All of the interior lights were off. There was a light on outside, at the rear sliding door. She saw a suspect peering through her kitchen window,” said police. “She saw the window slide open and then the suspect reached inside and removed a brace in the slider. She ran back to the living room and called 911. While on the phone, she saw the suspect walk into the living room.”
Detectives added, “He stood still for a moment and then approached her. She started screaming as the suspect tried to pull the phone from her hand. She started striking the suspect with the phone and a flashlight.”
The suspect, later identified as Bolsinger, fled through the kitchen window. He left behind a down vest and paring knife.
EPD said Bolsinger ran from police, but he was captured by an SPD K9 Officer and his K9. Bolsinger claimed he knocked at the door a couple of times and then walked away when he didn’t get an answer.
(Pictured above: Bolsinger’s three murder victims, courtesy of the Eugene Police Department.)
He claimed to have memory loss when questioned further.
Bolsinger was later convicted and sentenced to five years prison in the Oregon Department of Corrections. He was then transferred from the Oregon Department of Corrections to Utah State Prison on August 4, 1987.
Police said Bolsinger remained in Utah State Prison on a parole violation until December 8, 1987. Three days later, he enrolled at Lane Community College for the 1988 winter term.
On February 28, 1988, Toohey was discovered murdered in her residence.
Less than a month later, Bolsinger was discovered dead at his apartment in Springfield.
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(NEXSTAR) – Are you footballed out? While everyone else may but tuning in for Super Bowl LVI on Sunday, there’s still plenty else to watch while the Bengals and the Rams battle it out.
Here’s what’s new on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Peacock and Disney+ this weekend.
Netflix
“Inventing Anna” (limited series)
Created by “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal” mastermind Shonda Rhimes, “Inventing Anna” follows a journalist (“Veep” actress Anna Chlumsky) tracking down Anna Delvey, who pretended to be a German heiress — and fooled a lot of people. All nine episodes of the campy based-on-a-true-story series are now available.
“Bigbug” (movie)
The sci-fi film directed by the French auteur behind “Amélie” follows an artificial intelligence takeover in the future. But can the main character’s androids save her?
“Tall Girl 2” (movie)
The sequel to Netflix’s original 2019 rom-com follows the 6’1″ titular character — get it? She’s tall! — as she navigates love and a new role in a school play. Suitable for children and families.
“Love is Blind” (series)
Hosts Nick and Vanessa Lachey return for the second season of Netflix’s original dating show, where contestants get engaged before meeting in-person and hope for the best. Several episodes of the new season are currently available.
Older movies/TV shows just added: “New Year’s Eve” (2011), “Anaconda” (1997), “The Other Boleyn Girl” (2008) and “The Dark Knight” (2008).
Hulu
“No Exit” (film)
Strangers are stuck at a bus stop in a blizzard — one of them is a kidnapper. Based on a 2017 novel by Taylor Adams and directed by Damien Power of “Killing Ground.”
“Pam and Tommy” (limited series)
British actress Lily James transformed into 90s bombshell Pamela Anderson for this biographical drama centering on the theft and release of Anderson and then-husband Tommy Lee’s (Sebastian Stan) unauthorized sex tape. Four episodes have aired so far. Despite Anderson declining to be involved, creators say they attempted to portray her compassionately.
“Nightmare Alley” (film)
The recently released thriller, directed by Guillermo del Toro, stars Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper, in addition to a stacked roster of others. The 1930s-set noir film is nominated for Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards. Catch up now before the big show!
Older movies/TV shows just added: “Charlie’s Angels” (2000), “First Daughter” (2004), “Lake Placid” (1999) and “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968).
HBO Max
“KIMI” (film)
Acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh directs “Pretty Little Lies” star Zoë Kravitz in this 89-minute tech thriller set amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Kravitz, who will appear as the latest Catwoman in next month’s “The Batman,” plays an agoraphobe who must face her fears to bring down corruption.
“The Girl Before” (limited series)
This four-part thriller series from the U.K., based on the 2016 novel of the same name, follows lead character Jane (Gugu Mbatha-Raw of Disney+’s “Loki”) as she moves into a new house where things are not what they seem.
“Just Call Out My Name” (concert film)
Legendary singer-songwriters Carole King and James Taylor discuss their collaborations and friendship over the past 50 years. Featuring live concert footage of some of the duo’s greatest hits.
“Nightmare Alley” is also available on HBO Max.
Older movies/TV shows just added: “Chinatown” (1974), “Rabbit Hole” (2010), “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (2007) and “West Side Story” (1961).
Peacock
“Marry Me” (film)
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, rom-com queen Jennifer Lopez returns to the genre with “Marry Me” — now in theaters and streaming exclusively on Peacock. The film, also starring Owen Wilson and Columbian singer Maluma, isn’t faring well with all critics — but that may be part of the fun.
“The Real Housewives of Miami” (series)
Revived exclusively on Peacock after an eight-year hiatus from Bravo, the lush reboot follows several returning favorites and several newbies, including the wife of tennis great Martina Navratilova. The 10th episode is now available.
“Bel-Air” (series)
“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” the iconic Will Smith sitcom, gets a dramatic revamp in this Smith-produced project. The first three episodes premiere Super Bowl Sunday.
“Beijing 2022: Winter Olympics” (sports events)
Even though most of America will be watching the big football game, the Olympic Games continue in China. Peacock is the only streaming service providing coverage of every event.
Older movies/TV shows just added: “The Breakfast Club” (1985), “This Means War” (2012), “Uncle Buck” (1989) and “Miss Congeniality” (2000).
Amazon Prime
“I Want You Back” (film)
This Amazon original stars comedians Jenny Slate and Charlie Day as two recent dumpees who team up to break up their exes’ new relationships.
“Reacher” (series)
Author Lee Child’s famous Jack Reacher gets a new TV series and a new look with star and sentient pair of biceps Alan Ritchson, who takes on the role played by Tom Cruise in the “Jack Reacher” films. All episodes are currently available and “Reacher” has already been renewed for a second season.
Older movies/TV shows just added: “(500) Days of Summer” (2009), “Bride Wars” (2009), “Little Miss Sunshine” (2006) and “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” (2005).
Disney+
“The Book of Boba Fett” (series)
Disney’s second live-action “Star Wars” TV series comes to a close with its seventh episode. Catch up ahead of “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” the next spin-off set to premiere in May.
Older movies/TV shows just added: “Never Been Kissed” (1999) and “Snow Dogs” (2002).
To Rent
Plenty of Oscar-buzz films are also available for rental ahead of the ceremony on March 27, including Best Picture nominees “Dune,” “Belfast,” and “King Richard.”
If none of the above selections jump out at you, go read a book.
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(NEXSTAR) — Super Bowl Sunday is upon us, which can only mean one thing: It’s nearly time for the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Five hip hop stars will take the stage during halftime at SoFi Stadium: Dr. Dre, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, and Snoop Dogg. Pepsi, the main sponsor of the performance, is already referring to it as “what could be the greatest 12 minutes in music entertainment the world has ever seen.”
While this will be the first-ever halftime performance with rap at its center, according to the New York Times, it isn’t the first to include rap music. Rappers Nelly, P. Diddy, Missy Elliott, Will.i.am., Nicki Minaj, Travis Scott and M.I.A. have all made appearances during recent halftime shows.
Here are three more things you should know about this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show:
Who’s performing during the Super Bowl Halftime Show?
Combined, the five artists performing during Sunday’s show have 44 Grammys. Eminem has the most at 15.
Blige is the only to have performed during the big game before. She was part of an ensemble cast that featured Aerosmith, NSYNC, Britney Spears and Nelly back in 2001.
Dre emerged from the West Coast rap scene alongside Eazy-E and Ice Cube to help form the group N.W.A., which made a major mark in the music industry in the late 1980s. Dre is responsible for promoting rap stars such as Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent and Lamar. Dre also produced Blige’s No. 1 hit song “Family Affair.”
Dre, Snoop, Eminem, Blige and Lamar join a list of celebrated musicians who have played during Super Bowl halftime shows, including Beyoncé, Madonna, Coldplay, Katy Perry, U2, Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira and most recently The Weeknd.
It’s been a few years since we’ve had this many performers during the Super Bowl Halftime Show. In 2016, five acts captured our attention – Coldplay, Beyonce, Bruno Mars, Mark Ronson, and the University of California marching band. Four years prior, six artists took the stage – Madonna, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A., Cee Lo Green, and L.M.F.A.O. (the duo comprised of Redfoo and Sky Blu).
In 2004, Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Kid Rock, P. Diddy, Jessica Simpson, and Nelly performed with the University of Houston and Texas Southern University marching bands.
When does the Super Bowl Halftime Show start?
If you aren’t a football fan, saying the halftime show is at halftime may not really answer your question. So let’s break it down.
The NFL plays four 15-minute quarters – two before halftime and two after. At the end of the first and third quarters, there are two-minute breaks as each team changes ends of the field.
But this doesn’t include the play clock stopping, teams taking timeouts or commercial breaks. With all of this, the average NFL game takes about three hours and 12 minutes.
Super Bowl LVI kicks off at 6:30 p.m. ET and is scheduled to last until about 10:15 p.m. ET, according to local TV listings. Subtracting the time allotted for the halftime show, post-game coverage, and commercial breaks, that leaves slightly more than three hours for the game.
By dividing that in two, the first half of the game should take about an hour and a half. So, if you’re planning to tune in just for the halftime show, you might expect it to begin between 8 and 8:30 p.m. ET.
What songs will be performed?
With five individual artists performing, it’s hard to predict which of their countless songs will be performed.
If the full trailer for the show is any indicator, we could see:
- “Rap God” by Eminem
- “The One and Only” by Snoop Dogg
- “The Next Episode” by Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, and Nate Dogg
- “Family Affair” by Mary J. Blige
- “HUMBLE.” by Kendrick Lamar
- “Still Dre” by Dr. Dre ft. Snoop Dogg
- “California Love” by Tupac ft. Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog
Because of the location of Super Bowl LVI – Los Angeles – there’s a pretty good chance we’ll hear “California Love.” As one of the many songs featuring Snoop Dog and Dr. Dre, they could easily cover Tupac’s portion.
There are a few fan-favorite songs that could be performed as well, the L.A. Times reports. Among those are “Drop It Like It’s Hot” by Snoop Dogg, Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” and “Nuthin’ But a ‘G’ Thang” by Dr. Dre featuring – you guess it – Snoop Dogg.
The halftime show is only slated to be 12 minutes, so you can expect to see about six to 12 songs, depending how much of each song we actually hear. Last year, for example, The Weeknd performed nine songs.
Super Bowl LVI kicks off at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBC.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Hard work definitely paid off for father-daughter duo Paul and Sarah Miracle. The pair is in Los Angeles to watch the Cincinnati Bengals play Super Bowl 56 — all thanks to generous donors.
“I don’t know, I might just lose my mind. I might just lose complete control. When they come out on the field it’s gonna be something,” said Paul.
Paul Miracle was diagnosed with ALS in 2019. He is a die-hard Bengals super fan. His daughter Sarah successfully launched GoFundMe pages for her dad this football season, which ultimately got her dad to multiple playoff games. Now Sarah has done it again, raising enough money to send she and her dad to the Super Bowl.
“Very thankful. I appreciate all of the support. People are like excited. Even now that it’s done, they’re like pumped. They’re like are you packed? They wanna know all the details. They’re just pumped. They wanna take the journey with us,” said Sarah.
The original goal to get Sarah and Paul to the Super Bowl was $30,000. However, their GoFundMe page blew up and is now sitting at nearly $38,000. Sarah says Delta Airlines is also flying the pair to and from LA in first class free of charge.
“It’s quite quite amazing to me how people have reacted for our journey with ALS. How many people have been touched by it and made aware of the disease,” said Paul.
Something else that’s amazing to Paul is his daughter’s dedication which has gotten them this far.
“I never would’ve ever been able to afford to go to this without my daughters ambition or help. There really is no words. No words…that I can explain how important that is,” said Paul.
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The Cincinnati Bengals are the home team Sunday in the Super Bowl — technically. The home-field advantage belongs all to the Los Angeles Rams.
The NFC champions (15-5) will dress and work out of their usual locker room after spending the night before the big game in their usual hotel. The Rams’ logo is plastered all around and inside SoFi Stadium even with the banners making it clear this is the Super Bowl.
Yes, the Bengals (13-7) are represented inside the stadium with their name and “Who Dey!” mantra opposite the Rams.
This is the second straight Super Bowl where the home team has gotten to play on its own field after Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a championship a year ago in Raymond James Stadium. Before that, the NFL went 54 years without a team playing a Super Bowl in its home stadium.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico has acknowledged that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat.
The surprise suspension was confirmed late Saturday on the eve of the Super Bowl, the biggest sales opportunity of the year for Mexican avocado growers.
Avocado exports are the latest victim of the drug cartel turf battles and extortion of avocado growers in the western state of Michoacan, the only state in Mexico fully authorized to export to the U.S. market.
The U.S. government suspended all imports of Mexican avocados “until further notice” after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threatening message, Mexico’s Agriculture Department said in a statement.
“U.S. health authorities … made the decision after one of their officials, who was carrying out inspections in Uruapan, Michoacan, received a threatening message on his official cellphone,” the department wrote.
The import ban came on the day that the Mexican avocado growers and packers association unveiled its Super Bowl ad for this year. Mexican exporters have taken out the pricey ads for almost a decade in a bid to associate guacamole as a Super Bowl tradition.
This year’s ad shows Julius Caesar and a rough bunch of gladiator fans outside what appears to be the Colosseum, soothing their apparently violent differences by enjoying guacamole and avocados.
The association did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the ban, which hits an industry with almost $3 billion in annual exports. However, avocados for this year’s Super Bowl had already been exported in the weeks prior to the event.
Because the United States also grows avocados, U.S. inspectors work in Mexico to ensure exported avocados don’t carry diseases that could hurt U.S. crops.
It was only in 1997 that the U.S. lifted a ban on Mexican avocados that had been in place since 1914 to prevent a range of weevils, scabs and pests from entering U.S. orchards.
The inspectors work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services.
It is not the first time that the violence in Michoacan — where the Jalisco cartel is fighting turf wars against a collection of local gangs known as the United Cartels — has threatened avocados, the state’s most lucrative crop.
After a previous incident in 2019, the USDA had warned about the possible consequences of attacking or threatening U.S. inspectors.
In August 2019, a U.S. Department of Agriculture team of inspectors was “directly threatened” in Ziracuaretiro, a town just west of Uruapan. While the agency didn’t specify what happened, local authorities say a gang robbed the truck the inspectors were traveling in at gunpoint.
The USDA wrote in a letter at the time that, “For future situations that result in a security breach, or demonstrate an imminent physical threat to the well-being of APHIS personnel, we will immediately suspend program activities.”
Many avocado growers in Michoacan say drug gangs threaten them or their family members with kidnapping or death unless they pay protection money, sometimes amounting to thousands of dollars per acre.
On September 30, 2020, a Mexican employee of APHIS was killed near the northern border city of Tijuana.
Mexican prosecutors said Edgar Flores Santos was killed by drug traffickers who may have mistaken him for a policeman and a suspect was arrested. The U.S. State Department said investigations “concluded this unfortunate incident was a case of Mr. Flores being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The avocado ban was just the latest threat to Mexico’s export trade stemming from the government’s inability to rein in illegal activities.
On Thursday, the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office filed an environmental complaint against Mexico for failing to stop illegal fishing to protect the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise.
The office said it had asked for “environment consultations” with Mexico, the first such case it has filed under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade pact. Consultations are the first step in the dispute resolution process under the trade agreement, which entered into force in 2020. If not resolved, it could eventually lead to trade sanctions.
Mexico’s government has largely abandoned attempts to enforce a fishing-free zone around an area where the last few vaquitas are believed to live in the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. Nets set illegally for another fish, the totoaba, drown vaquitas.
And on Monday, Mexican fishing boats in the Gulf of Mexico were “prohibited from entering U.S. ports, will be denied port access and services,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said, in response to years of Mexican boats illegally poaching red snapper in U.S. waters in the Gulf.
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New baseball bobbleheads featuring legends of the Negro Leagues were officially revealed this afternoon by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum.
The museum partnered with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, where the unveiling was held, and NegroLeaguesHistory.com to release the limited edition bobbleheads. They depict the iconic bronze statues of Negro League players on display at different positions on the diamond at the museum's Field of Legends exhibit. Each bobblehead is a replica of each statue in its bronze state.
Of the 13 bobbleheads, some of the most popular players featured in this collection include Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, Josh Gibson, Rube Foster and Buck O'Neil. All five men are in the National Baseball Hall of Fame (O'Neil will be inducted this summer).
Both Paige and Bell spent time in St. Louis during their careers. Paige pitched for the St. Louis Browns in the 1950s before the team left for Baltimore, and Bell was a standout for the Negro League's St. Louis Stars. He is best known for his ability to round the bases in 12 seconds. Bell is laid to rest in St. Louis' St. Peter's Cemetery along with fellow Negro Leagues star Cowan "Bubba" Hyde.
“The Field of Legends is the centerpiece of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and is one of the most amazing displays in any museum anywhere in the world,” said Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. “We’re thrilled to partner with the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum and NegroLeaguesHistory.com to give fans an opportunity to have this collectible replica of this amazing display.”
Bobbleheads can be purchased individually or as an entire puzzle set.
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The Cincinnati Bengals are the home team Sunday in the Super Bowl — technically. The home-field advantage belongs all to the Los Angeles Rams.
The NFC champions (15-5) will dress and work out of their usual locker room after spending the night before the big game in their usual hotel. The Rams’ logo is plastered all around and inside SoFi Stadium even with the banners making it clear this is the Super Bowl.
Yes, the Bengals (13-7) are represented inside the stadium with their name and “Who Dey!” mantra opposite the Rams.
This is the second straight Super Bowl where the home team has gotten to play on its own field after Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won a championship a year ago in Raymond James Stadium. Before that, the NFL went 54 years without a team playing a Super Bowl in its home stadium.
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NEW YORK (AP) — What is reality anymore?
Christian Siriano’s New York Fashion Week runway Saturday was part space age, part centuries gone by and part in the moment with a special guest: Social media’s star Italian greyhound Tika the Iggy.
In the bowels of the Empire State Building, on a bare concrete floor, Siriano rolled out his huge, signature ballgowns in a variety of colors and textures, including one in a gray tweed with a huge hood and another in shiny, steel blue with sleeves that formed spikes worthy of the Jetsons. Before that came a range of looks in the experimental collection he calls “Victorian Matrix.”
“I feel like that’s what we’ve been living in. Like, are we living in Victorian times? Are we living in this alternate world? Like, what is it? So I guess that’s kind of how I approached the collection,” he told The Associated Press. “I felt like I wanted it to be that kind of dream fantasy world. And hopefully we escape when we come underground, under the Empire State Building.”
His buyers would be prepared for escape in one of his long, cozy quilted coats in a blue and white swirl design. Others would be fleeing in baby-blue dresses or a brighter blue in a sheer ruffled pantsuit. Maybe they’d don his sheer black dotted off-shoulder corset dress with the structured ball skirt.
For fall-winter, there was plenty to choose from as the world sorts itself out, some outfits more wearer-friendly than others.
The “Project Runway” mentor and host who launched his eponymous womenswear brand in 2008 included a series of looks in a bold black and taupe check. There was a belled trouser outfit with a flouncy strapless top that would require a bold fashion confidence. He sent one model out in a mini dress version of the check with a huge round statement head topper that’s as conspicuous as fashion gets.
His latest ballgown offerings also came in the check, one with a full skirt paired with a long-sleeve, midriff-baring top with a cutout back.
“The pandemic is ongoing and we can’t seem to get away from it, so I can’t help but question what our world will look like after,” Siriano said in his show notes. “What will happen to the fashion industry? And how will our customers shop?”
When they decide, Siriano will be ready with a soft pink corset with a ruffled neck he showed with a slinky cream skirt that skimmed the ground, kicking up dust as other looks did as his models took to the barren, underground catwalk.
Some of his guests cheered on his models as the show progressed. Hannah Waddingham of “Ted Lasso” fame, Susan Sarandon and Siriano mainstays Danielle Brooks (who wore him at her recent wedding) and Alicia Silverstone sat on his front row with Drew Barrymore and Candace Bushnell.
Thank goodness Iggy was on hand as therapy dog before Siriano put on this dream show. Waddingham posed for photos holding the tiny TikTok and Instagram star, a huge smile on her face.
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This story has been updated to correct the name of the Christian Siriano’s Italian greyhound Tika the Iggy.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A former Sandinista guerrilla leader who once led a raid that helped free then rebel and now President Daniel Ortega from prison has died, his family announced Saturday, eight months after Ortega’s government arrested him and dozens of other Nicaraguan opposition leaders.
Hugo Torres died at age 73, relatives said.
Torres was the first of a large group of opposition leaders rounded up in a 2021 crackdown to die. It was unclear if his death was hastened by conditions in prison. He died at a hospital in Managua, the capital, “of illnesses he had,” according to a statement by government prosecutors.
Torres was a leading commander of the 1970s Sandinista revolution who broke with Ortega more than 20 years ago to found the Sandinista Renovation Movement.
Torres was one of 46 opposition figures and presidential hopefuls jailed by Ortega in May and June, to clear the way for his almost unopposed re-election on Nov. 7.
Three of Torres’ children issued a statement announcing their father’s death. They did not give a cause, and said that, in accordance with their father’s wishes there would no public funeral or ceremony.
The prosecutors office said that when it learned Torres was seriously ill, the office “asked judicial authorities to suspend the start of his oral public trial for humanitarian reasons.”
The trials in fact are not public and are held in prison, in many cases with only the defendant’s lawyer allowed to be present. Some trials last only a few hours.
Prosecutors had justified Torres’ arrest by charging him, along with most of the other imprisoned opposition leaders, with “conspiracy to undermine national integrity.”
On June 13 last year, Torres predicted his own arrest in an interview with The Associated Press after seeing drones flying around his home. “This interview may be the last one I give,” Torres said. “I am here, waiting for them to come for me.”
“It’s not just potential candidates any more, it’s political leaders,” Torres said of those being arrested. “This is not a transition to dictatorship; it is a dictatorship in every way.”
Torres was a guerrilla commander who fought alongside Ortega during Nicaragua’s civil war and later a general with the Nicaraguan army. He was part of the effort to transform the Sandinista Popular Army created after the rebels’ 1979 victory into a professional Nicaraguan Army in the 1990s.
His death may prove to be a major embarrassment to Ortega; Torres got Ortega sprung from jail in 1974 by raiding the home of a close ally of then-dictator Anastasio Somoza. Ortega had been jailed for a botched bank robbery in Managua, the capital, years before.
In a video he posted hours before his arrest in June, Torres said “46 years ago I risked my life to get Daniel Ortega and other political-prisoner colleagues out of prison.”
“I am 73, and I never thought that at this stage of my life I was going to be fighting against another dictatorship, now more brutal, more unscrupulous, more irrational and more autocratic than the Somoza dictatorship,” Torres said.
After leading a revolutionary government following the guerrilla’s victory, Ortega served as president from 1985 to 1990 and was reelected to power in 2007.
He has not relinquished power since then, and his rule has become increasingly harsh, crushing any demonstration or opposition with police and soldiers. International organizations have called the November 2021 elections a farce.
Ortega’s Sandinista Front and its allies control Nicaragua’s congress and all government institutions.
A string of recent trials of opposition figures has been carried out in the infamous Chipote prison. The defendants have only been permitted to have their lawyers present. All the trials so far have resulted in convictions and sentences of 13 to 15 years.
Relatives of jailed opposition activists have said prisoners have been subjected to isolation, constant interrogations and insufficient food, affecting their health.
The families complained they were not allowed to bring the prisoners blankets and said some were kept in cells with lights on 24 hours a day, while others were kept in darkness. They said most of the cells were small, with concrete bed slabs covered by worn-out mattresses.
Thousands have fled into exile since Nicaraguan security forces violently put down antigovernment protests in 2018. Ortega says the protests were actually an attempted coup with foreign backing, and many of those on trial have been accused of working with foreign powers for his overthrow or encouraging foreign nations to apply sanctions on members of his family and government.
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