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BEIJING (AP) — The Beijing Olympics have been watched closely for snow — the artificial kind, made by machines, up in the mountains outside the city. On Sunday morning, though, a more natural variety coated the Chinese capital for the first time since the Games began.
The world’s athletes — and Beijingers, of course — awakened to a rather vigorous snowfall that cast a placid silence over Olympic Park. The aggregate effect: For the first time in the heart of their urban headquarters, the Winter Games looked like, well, the Winter Games.
In this photo from Associated Press photographer Natacha Pisarenko, a woman crosses a lonely street on Sunday morning near the heart of Olympic Park.
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HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met his Japanese and South Korean counterparts Saturday in Hawaii to discuss the threat posed by nuclear-armed North Korea after Pyongyang began the year with a series of missile tests.
Blinken said at a news conference after the meeting that North Korea was “in a phase of provocation” and the three countries condemned the recent missile launches.
“We are absolutely united in our approach, in our determination,” Blinken said after his talks with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong.
He said the countries were “very closely consulting” on further steps they may take in response to North Korea, but didn’t offer specifics.
The three released a joint statement calling on North Korea to engage in dialogue and cease its “unlawful activities.” They said they had no hostile intent toward North Korea and were open to meeting Pyongyang without preconditions.
Hayashi later told Japanese reporters the three ministers had “very fruitful” discussion on the North. He declined to give details on additional measures they may take.
North Korea has a long history of using provocations such as missile or nuclear tests to seek international concessions. The latest tests come as the North’s economy, already battered by decades of mismanagement and crippling U.S.-led sanctions, is hit hard by pandemic border closures.
Many see the tests as an attempt to pressure President Joe Biden’s administration into easing the sanctions. The Biden administration has shown no willingness to do so without meaningful cuts to the North’s nuclear program, but it has offered open-ended talks.
North Korea has rebuffed U.S. offers to resume diplomacy, saying it won’t return to talks unless Washington drops what it says are hostile polices. The North bristles at both the sanctions and regular military exercises the U.S. holds with South Korea.
The tests also have a technical component, allowing North Korea to hone its weapons arsenal. One of the missiles recently tested — the Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile — is capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam. It was the longest-distance weapon the North has tested since 2017.
North Korea appears to be pausing its tests during the Winter Olympics in China, its most important ally and economic lifeline. But analysts believe North Korea will dramatically increase its weapons testing after the Olympics.
The recent tests have rattled Pyongyang’s neighbors in South Korea and Japan. South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who helped set up the historic talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and former President Donald Trump in 2018 and 2019, said last month that the tests were a violation UN Security Council resolutions and urged the North to cease “actions that create tensions and pressure.”
The Security Council initially imposed sanctions on North Korea after its first nuclear test in 2006. It made them tougher in response to further nuclear tests and the country’s increasingly sophisticated nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
China and Russia, citing the North’s economic difficulties, have called for lifting sanctions like those banning seafood exports and prohibitions on its citizens working overseas and sending home their earnings.
Blinken arrived in Hawaii from Fiji, where he met with Acting Prime Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and other Pacific leaders to talk about regional issues, especially the existential risk posed by climate change. It was the first visit by a U.S. secretary of state to Fiji since 1985.
He started his Pacific tour in Australia, where he met his counterparts from Australia, India and Japan. The four nations form the “Quad,” a bloc of Indo-Pacific democracies that was created to counter China’s regional influence.
Hayashi and Chung held a separate bilateral meeting Saturday for about 40 minutes before seeing Blinken. Japan’s Foreign Ministry said they reaffirmed the importance of cooperating together and with the United States to respond to North Korea and to achieve regional stability.
The ministry said they also “frankly” exchanged views on ongoing disputes between the two countries, including wartime Korean laborers and sexual abuse of Korean women forced into sexual servitude by Japan’s imperial army.
Chung proposed the two countries accelerate diplomacy to find solutions to the disagreements, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Blinken also met separately with Chung. He met Hayashi earlier this week in Australia.
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Associated Press writers Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul contributed to this report.
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BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the Beijing Winter Olympics:
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The United States has clinched the top seed in the Olympic men’s hockey tournament.
The young Americans beat Germany 3-2 on Sunday to finish the preliminary round a perfect 3-0-0. The U.S is the only team to win all three of its group stage games in regulation.
The U.S. moves directly to the quarterfinals Wednesday along with second-seeded Finland, the third-seeded Russians and fourth-seeded Sweden. Canada is seeded fifth and will again play host China in the qualification round Tuesday.
The U.S. has the youngest team in the tournament with an average age of 25 and eight players under 21.
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Erin Jackson has become the first Black woman to win a speedskating medal at the Winter Olympics. And a gold one, at that.
Jackson won the 500 meters with a time of 37.04 seconds Sunday, giving the Americans their first speedskating medal of the Beijing Games.
This one carried much more than national pride. The 29-year-old Jackson joins fellow American Shani Davis as the only Black athletes to win speedskating medals at the Olympics. Davis won gold in the men’s 1,000 meters and silver in the 1,500 meters at the 2006 Olympics in Turin.
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Defending Olympic champion Norway has advanced to the semifinals of team pursuit speedskating along with the United States, Russian Olympic Committee and the Netherlands.
The Norwegian trio of Hallgeir Engebraaten, Peder Kongshaug and Sverre Lunde Pedersen posted the fastest time in the quarterfinals Sunday at 3 minutes, 37.47 seconds.
Ethan Cepuran, Casey Dawson and Emery Lehman put up the second-fastest time of 3:37.50 for the Americans, who came into the event as the world-record holders.
The Russians were third at 3:38.67, and the Dutch also advanced in 3:38.90. The semifinals and medal races are set for Tuesday.
Canada and South Korea were relegated to the C final. Italy and Japan will meet in the D final.
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Liu Shaoang of Hungary has won Olympic gold in 500-meter short track speedskating.
He led all the way and crossed the line in 40.338 seconds at Capital Indoor Stadium on Sunday. Liu had earned bronze medals in the 1,000 and the mixed team relay.
Russian Konstantin Ivliev took silver. Steven Dubois of Canada earned bronze.
The A final was missing some of the biggest names. Defending champion Wu Dajing of China was relegated to the B final, which he won. Ren Ziwei of China and Liu Shaoang’s brother Liu Shaolin Sandor of Hungary were eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Hwang Daeheon of South Korea went out in the semifinals after getting a penalty for a late pass that caused contact with Dubois. The Canadian was advanced to the A final and won his second medal in Beijing. He took silver in the 1,500.
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Led by Suzanne Schulting, the Netherlands won Olympic gold in the 3,000-meter relay in short track speedskating.
Schulting collected her second gold and third medal overall in Beijing. She earned silver in the 500 and gold in the 1,000.
The Dutch team of Schulting, Selma Poutsma, Xandra Velzeboer and Yana van Kerkhof lowered its own Olympic record with a time of 4 minutes, 3.40 seconds at Capital Indoor Stadium.
South Korea rallied to take silver. China earned bronze.
Schulting screamed and raised her arms in triumph after crossing the finish line.
There were no crashes in the four-team final. Canada finished fourth.
In the B final, Italy won with Arianna Fontana skating. The Russians were penalized and the U.S. team was penalized for a lane change that caused an obstruction.
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There will be a new Olympic champion in men’s 500-meter short track speedskating.
Defending champion Wu Dajing of China failed to advance to the A final. He’ll skate in the B final against three others.
Liu Shaoang of Hungary won his semifinal that included Wu, Steven Dubois of Canada and Hwang Daeheon of South Korea.
Hwang was penalized for a late pass that caused contact with Dubois, who was advanced to the A final by the referee. Hwang ended up in the rinkside padding and was eliminated.
Also making the A final are Konstantin Ivliev of ROC, Pietro Sighel of Italy and Abzal Azhgaliyev of Kazakhstan.
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Quentin Fillon Maillet of France hit all 20 of his targets despite howling wind, and he skied to his second gold and fourth medal of the Beijing Games, winning the 12.5-kilometer biathlon pursuit.
Johannes Tingnes Boe of Norway had started off first after winning gold in the sprint, but he missed two targets in his first standing shooting. Fillon Maillet passed him and stayed out front.
Tarjei Boe of Norway was second in the sprint and went off second Sunday. He missed only one target and finished 28.6 seconds behind the Frenchman for the silver medal.
Russian Eduard Latypov also only missed one target and won the bronze.
Fillon Maillet also won gold in the individual race and two silvers, one in the mixed relay and one in the sprint.
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Ren Ziwei of China is out of the men’s 500 meters in Olympic short track speedskating.
Ren finished third in his quarterfinal on Sunday night, and that wasn’t enough to advance to the semifinals. He earlier won the 1,000 in Beijing.
Most of the other big names moved on: defending champion Wu Dajing of China, 2018 silver medalist Hwang Daeheon of South Korea, 1,500 silver medalist Steven Dubois of Canada and Liu Shaoang of Hungary.
American Ryan Pivirotto was eliminated, along with John-Henry Krueger of Hungary and Liu’s older brother, Liu Shaolin Sandor.
There was just one crash in the quarterfinals, with Jordan Pierre-Gilles of Canada going down.
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Marte Olsbu Roeiseland earned her third gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, and fourth medal overall, by winning the women’s biathlon 10-kilometer pursuit race Sunday.
The Norwegian started the race with a lead because of her win in the sprint race and hit 19 of her 20 targets. Despite strong winds and blowing snow, Roeiseland held her focus and shot cleanly in the last standing stop to win in 34 minutes, 46.9 seconds.
Elvira Oeberg of Sweden, who was second in the sprint race and started 31 seconds behind Roeiseland, had three misses in her second and third shooting bouts, but cleaned the last standing to finish 1:36.5 behind for silver.
Tiril Eckhoff of Norway also missed three targets but came in 1:48.7 behind her teammate for the bronze medal.
Roeiseland previously won gold in the mixed relay as well as the sprint. She also won bronze in the individual race.
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Just like in the women’s cross-country ski race, the Russian team opened a lead on the first leg of the men’s relay on Sunday and then held on for the Olympic gold medal.
Sergey Ustiugov maintained more than a minute lead on the last lap over the two-man chasing group of Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo of Norway and Maurice Manificat of France.
Ustiugov grabbed a flag on his way to the finish line and won the 10-kilometer relay in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 50.7 seconds. Klaebo pulled away from Manificat for the silver, 1:07.2 back. France took third, 1:16.4 behind the Russians.
Snowy conditions made the ski tracks slow, especially on the first two classic ski legs. Leaf-blowers were used to clear the snow out of the ski tracks. By contrast, the winning time in the four-man relay at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics was more than 20 minutes quicker.
Alexey Chervotkin led off for the Russians, with Alexander Bolshunov skiing the second classic leg. Denis Spitsov and Ustiugov took the two freestyle legs.
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Ukraine’s Olympic team has issued a statement calling for peace against the backdrop of a Russian military build-up on the border between the countries.
So far no other athletes have followed the lead of slider Vladyslav Heraskevych. He held up a sign with the Ukrainian flag and the message “No War in Ukraine” after finishing a run in the skeleton competition.
The Ukrainian team issued a statement Saturday night Beijing time expanding on his gesture.
“The Olympic Team of Ukraine that is competing at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing expresses a unanimous call for peace together with the native country,” the Ukrainian Olympic Committee wrote on social media.
“Being thousands of kilometers away from the Motherland, mentally we are with our families and friends.” The statement doesn’t mention Russia or the military situation.
The International Olympic Committee bans most protest gestures at the Games. It isn’t taking action against Heraskevych because “‘No war’ is a message we can all relate to,” executive director of the Olympic Games Christophe Dubi said Sunday.
But IOC spokesman Mark Adams says that doesn’t mean the IOC wants other athletes to join in.
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Marco Odermatt of Switzerland has won gold in the men’s giant slalom at the Beijing Olympics.
The 24-year-old Swiss skier plowed through snow and poor visibility Sunday to win.
It was the first time snow fell during an Alpine skiing race at this year’s Olympics and the bad weather conditions caused the second run to be postponed by 1 hour, 15 minutes.
Odermatt coped with the conditions and the delay — and a first-run mistake — to post an unofficial combined time of 2 minutes, 09.35 seconds.
Zan Kranjec of Slovenia took silver, 0.19 seconds behind, and world champion Mathieu Faivre of France earned bronze, 1.34 behind.
The skiers had been racing and training on artificial snow until the real thing started to fall on Saturday at the Yanqing Alpine Skiing Center. A second women’s downhill training run was canceled because of the conditions on Sunday.
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Slalom gold medalist Petra Vlhova is leaving the Beijing Olympics early due to an inflamed left ankle tendon. She’ll miss the Alpine combined event in which she would have been a challenger to Mikaela Shiffrin, the favorite in the race.
Mauro Pini, Vlhova’s coach, tells The Associated Press that they didn’t want to risk making things worse by trying for a medal in the combined.
By winning the slalom four days ago, Vlhova becameSlovakia’s first Olympic medalist in Alpine skiing.
Pini added that Vlhova also wants to make sure she has time “to go home and share this medal with those closest to her.”
Vlhova had already sat out the super-G and the opening downhill training session.
The Alpine combined is scheduled for Thursday. Vlhova finished second behind Shiffrin in the combined at last season’s world championships in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
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The second run of the men’s giant slalom has been postponed amid heavy snowfall and low visibility at the Yanqing Alpine Skiing Center.
Marco Odermatt of Switzerland has a lead of 0.04 seconds over Stefan Brennsteiner of Austria and 0.08 over world champion Mathieu Faivre of France after the first run.
It is the first time snow has fallen during an Alpine skiing race at the Beijing Olympics.
Snow has been falling since Saturday at the Yanqing Alpine Skiing Center, where athletes had been racing and training on artificial snow. A second women’s downhill training run scheduled for Sunday was canceled.
The skiers say it is tough to see but good enough to race in.
Fourth-placed Henrik Kristoffersen of Norway says “the light is more than skiable” but adds “it just makes it difficult.”
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The women’s Olympic skiing slopestyle qualifying event has been moved to Monday with the final the following day.
The competition was postponed Sunday due to wind, snow and low visibility.
The men’s slopestyle qualification has switched from Monday to Tuesday. The final will now be Wednesday.
Eileen Gu, who lives in the United States and represents China, will be going for a second gold medal. She won big air last Tuesday.
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Kaillie Humphries has a big lead in the first part of the monobob competitionat the Beijing Olympics.
Humphries is competing for the first time as an American citizen. It’s also the first time monobob, a one-woman bobsled, has been an Olympic event.
The reigning world monobob champion finished two runs Sunday in 2 minutes, 9.10 seconds, giving her a massive lead of 1.04 seconds over second-place Christine de Bruin of Canada. De Bruin’s time was 2:10.14.
Laura Nolte of Germany was third in 2:10.32, and three-time Olympic medalist Elana Meyers Taylor of the U.S. is right in the medal hunt — her time of 2:10.42 putting her fourth.
Barring a big mistake by somebody, it looks like four women remain in the mix for the three medals. They’ll be decided on Monday morning in Beijing, late Sunday night in the United States. The gap between Meyers Taylor and fifth-place Huai Mingming of China is nearly a half-second.
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Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva remains on the preliminary start list for the short program at the Olympic Games, drawing a spot in the final group among 30 figure skaters due on the ice Tuesday night at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing.
Valieva will start 26th if the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which is meeting later Sunday, allows her to perform. Valieva’s status was thrown into question this past week following a flagged drug test taken in December. She’s favored to win if she’s allowed to compete.
The starting order for the short program is determined by splitting the field in half according to world rankings. The lowest-ranked skaters then draw for the first 15 starting positions and the highest-ranked skaters draw for the second 15, meaning those who have legitimate medal chances will be last to take the ice.
Young You of Korea will follow Valieva before her two Russian teammates, Alexandra Trusova and world champion Anna Shcherbakova. Kaori Sakamota of Japan drew the final starting number.
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Marco Odermatt of Switzerland is leading the first run of the Olympic men’s giant slalom with only lower-ranked skiers remaining.
It’s the first time snow has fallen on an Alpine ski race at the Beijing Games and visibility has been an issue for skiers.
Stefan Brennsteiner of Austria is 0.04 seconds behind in second and world champion Mathieu Faivre of France is 0.08 behind in third.
The 24-year-old Odermatt is a favorite for the victory, having won four of the five giant slalom races this season in the World Cup. It would be his first gold medal in his first Olympics.
Snow has been falling since Saturday at the Yanqing Alpine Skiing Center, where athletes have been racing and training on artificial snow until now. A second women’s downhill training run scheduled for Sunday has been cancelled.
Italian Luca de Aliprandini said “you can’t see anything” after his first run.
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The Olympic skiing slopestyle qualifying event at the Beijing Olympics has been postponed due to high wind, snow and low visibility.
With the flags of different countries whipping in the wind at Genting Snow Park, the organizers made the decision to postpone the qualifying round. They did not immediately announce a plan for rescheduling. The final is currently set for Monday.
Eileen Gu, who lives in the United States and represents China, will be going for a second gold medal. She won big air last Tuesday.
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Standout Eileen Gu and the rest of the slopestyle skiers at the Beijing Olympics will have to wait a little bit longer to start qualifying with the competition delayed by weather.
The wind was blowing and the snow falling at Genting Snow Park. The diminishing visibility made performing tricks off the jumps difficult as well. The competition is delayed at least two hours.
Gu, who was born in the U.S. and is competing for China, is trying to win her second gold medal at the Beijing Games. She’s already won big air, which was held in Beijing.
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The second women’s downhill training run for American Mikaela Shiffrin, Italian Sofia Goggia and other Alpine skiers has been canceled because of snowfall.
The men’s giant slalom race is still supposed to take place Sunday Beijing time.
A downhill has faster speeds than the giant slalom and so is more dangerous to ski when visibility is poor
Snow began falling Saturday at the Yanqing Alpine Skiing Center during the first women’s downhill practice session and continued into Sunday morning.
There is another downhill training scheduled for Monday ahead of Tuesday’s race.
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Russian figure skating superstar Kamila Valieva was at a practice session Sunday, hours before the Court of Arbitration for Sportwas scheduled to meet to decide whether she’ll be allowed to compete.
The meeting of CAS is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Sunday and a decision is expected sometime Monday, less than 24 hours before Valieva is scheduled to skate in the women’s short program at the Beijing Games.
Valieva has been allowed to practice since Monday, when a drug test she took in December was flagged for traces of a banned heart medication. That was the same day Valieva helped Russia win the team gold medal with a dynamic free skate in which she became the first woman to land a quad lutz in Olympic competition.
The practices have become increasingly uncomfortable, though, as Valieva continues to prepare with dozens of reporters and camera crews watching her every move. She briefly broke down in tears during her Friday session.
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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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YANQING, China (AP) — Bus, bus, train, bus, bus, gondola, gondola, gondola.
The journey from the heart of Beijing to the alpine ski venue is only about 120 kilometers (75 miles), but getting there via the Olympic transit system — hermetically sealed against COVID-19 — makes for a rather epic journey. And on Sunday, amid uncharacteristically heavy snowfall, a scenic one too.
Along the way, you pass from the flat urban sprawl of the capital into the steep, craggy mountains to its north, through numerous tunnels and past about a million signs bearing the ever-present Olympic panda mascot, Bing Dwen Dwen.
The trip begins with a bus ride from your hotel in central Beijing to the Main Media Center’s bus depot, and from there on another bus to the Qinghe railway station, where you board a high-speed train. This silky ride passes suburbs, farms and endless orderly rows of newly planted trees, and lasts only about 25 minutes before arriving at Yanqing’s modern train station. Not seen during Sunday’s whiteout: a section of the Badaling Great Wall reportedly visible from the train on clearer days.
The station may be called Yanqing, but your journey at this point has really only just begun. Another bus deposits you at a forlorn parking lot on the side of a highway, where you wait for the next and final bus, which climbs into the mountains, through brightly lit tunnels and over vertiginous ravines before finally arriving at the National Alpine Ski Center.
Though one of the signature images of these Olympics has been the ribbons of white artificial snow contrasted against the area’s brown, scrubby mountainsides, Sunday’s natural snowfall transformed the whole area into a much more traditional alpine scene.
For a ski area purpose-built for these Games, the infrastructure is astounding, from the expansive base village to four gleaming gondolas, three of which are required to finally reach the finish of Sunday’s men’s giant slalom.
Despite all this investment, the ski area itself is unlikely to ever become a destination resort. This is because of the steep pitches of its slopes that are unsuitable for novice skiers, and its meager annual snowfall of around 5 centimeters (2 inches).
Sunday’s storm, however, easily exceeded that amount, making for a race that was high on drama … and low on visibility.
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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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Seattle-based AP journalist Sally Ho is on assignment at the Beijing Olympics, covering figure skating. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/_sallyho
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DALLAS (AP) — Reilly Opelka won the longest tiebreaker in ATP Tour history to finish a straight-sets win over John Isner and advance to the final of the inaugural Dallas Open on Saturday night.
The second-seeded Opelka sent a winner down the line for a 24-22 tiebreaker victory in the second set to secure the 7-6 (7), 7-6 (22) win over Isner, the No. 3 seed and de facto tournament host at the SMU tennis facility about a mile from his house.
No. 4 seed Jenson Brooksby played Marcos Giron in the other semifinal Saturday night. It’s the first time since 2004 that all four semifinalists have been Americans.
The 24-year-old Opelka, a two-time winner on tour, now has four straight wins over Isner. All 10 of the sets he has won against the 16-time ATP Tour champion have gone to a tiebreaker.
The pair combined for 60 aces on Saturday and have now held 98 straight service games against the other, including 12 straight tiebreakers.
Isner was playing again Saturday night in the doubles with fellow American Jack Sock.
Opelka is ranked No. 23 in the world and is 2-1 all-time in ATP Tour finals. He won New York in 2019 and Delray Beach in 2020.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Sam Ryder brought down the house with a hole-in-one on the stadium 16th hole Saturday in the WM Phoenix Open, where newcomer Sahith Theegala topped a leaderboard as crowded as the course.
Ryder’s wedge shot on the 124-yard hole landed just right and short, bounced a couple of times, spun left and tumbled in. The rowdy fans on the 17,000-seat hole threw drinks in the air in celebration and littered the turf with bottles, cans and cups, leading to about a 15-minute delay.
“I don’t know how I could pick a hole over this one,” said Ryder, eight strokes behind Theegala after an even-par 71. “I don’t think there’s any hole that has the electricity that this one has.”
Ryder’s first tour ace was the 10th at No. 16 since the tournament moved to the course in 1997 and first since Francesco Molinari in the third round in 2015. Tiger Woods did it in 1997 before grandstands ringed the hole.
“It just ended up being a perfect 54-degree wedge,” Ryder said. “Everything always plays a little shorter in there, adrenaline or whatever it is.”
With around 200,000 fans packing firm and fast TPC Scottsdale on another sunny, 80-degree day in the Valley of the Sun, Theegala overcame a double bogey on the par-4 second to shoot a 69.
“What a day,” Theegala said. “So many ups and downs. I mean, it was wild.”
Making his event debut on a sponsor exemption, Theegala had a 14-under 199 total for a one-stroke lead over defending champion Brooks Koepka. FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler and Talor Gooch were another stroke back.
“I’m really exhausted right now,” Theegala said. “Probably, I hit it in the desert five times. I got my ball stepped on twice, got my ball picked up twice. Very draining, for sure.”
Theegala is trying to become the first player to win on a sponsor exemption since Martin Laird in the 2020 Shriners Children’s Open. The 24-year-old Indian-American grew up in Chino Hills, California, and starred at Pepperdine. In 2020, he swept the three major college player of the year awards.
He’s playing for the fifth straight week, with his parents and some family members attending the last four in California and Arizona.
“It was hard to see them,” Theegala said. “Just engulfed in the sea of people.”
After hitting the lip of a fairway bunker en route to the double bogey on No. 2, Theegala rallied with birdies on Nos, 6, 7 and 8. He dropped a shot on the 11th, birdied the par-5 13th and holed a 15-footer on the par-4 17th.
“Obviously, really bad start and proud of the way I fought back there,” Theegala said. “But still trying to take it all in. There’s just is so much going on there, too. Which is a good thing. I really enjoyed the fans out there.”
Koepka had a 68. The four-time major champion is the last player to win the event in his first appearance, doing it in 2015.
“I’m playing solid, so just go out and go play a good round tomorrow and see what happens,” Koepka said. “Just need to keep putting it the way I did. I feel confident. I like where my game’s at, and we’ll see.”
Scheffler flirted with his second 59 before settling for a 62. Seeking his first tour victory, he began the day nine strokes behind Theegala.
“I think it’s a fun event,” Scheffler said. “I think it would be a little bit draining if it was like this every week, but one week a year is pretty special.”
Scheffler played his first nine in 7-under 27, and added two birdies on his second nine. He was the last player on the tour to shoot 59, doing it in the 2020 Northern Trust. Jim Furyk is the only player to break 60 twice in the PGA Tour, shooting 58 and 59.
The fourth-ranked Cantlay, also making his first start in the event, had a 68. Gooch birdied the last three holes for a 67, making a 40-footer on 18.
Schauffele, the leader at 14 under at the turn, shot 69. He made a double bogey after driving into the water on the par-4 11th.
Hideki Matsuyama (66) was 11 under with Tom Hoge (67), Max Homa (68), Alex Noren (67) and Adam Hadwin (68).
Matsuyama, the Masters champion who won in Scottsdale in 2016 and 2017, is making his first start since winning the Sony Open a month ago in Hawaii. Hoge won at Pebble Beach last week for his first PGA Tour title.
DIVOTS: Space City Gym in Humble, Texas, won $1 million for Ryder’s ace through “WM’s Million Dollar Shot” contest. Space City Gym was one of 20 WM small-business customers randomly selected as a contest finalist, with each of the 20 finalists randomly assigned a threesome of players. … Top-ranked Jon Rahm was 8 under after a 68. The former Arizona State star lives a few miles from the course.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — When 19-year old Maggie Lee fell on her first run down the slope and missed one of the early gates, it looked like the abrupt end of her first Olympics.
The teenager from Taiwan, who is competing under her Chinese name, Lee Wen-Yi, was already an unlikely candidate for the Winter Olympics. Taiwan is a subtropical island that only sees snow in its high mountains — and then only sporadically. So the only times Lee could ski were during school holidays when she would travel to Japan with her ski-instructor parents.
She later trained in Europe, and her father would drive her to competitions, zigzagging between countries.
Standing on top of the hill in Yanqing on Wednesday morning, on the biggest stage in her career, she thought something could go wrong. But she still didn’t expect to actually fall.
“I actually didn’t think I would fall so quickly. It was only the third target on my first run,” she said. “I’ve worked so hard for so long. I thought this was not OK.
“So I decided to stand up and climb back up.”
And she did.
Lee scooted up on the hill, in full ski gear, one step at a time, until she reached the gate she missed, which she then hit with her body.
And then she finished her run.
And then she went for the second leg, hitting all the gates.
“I did think, is it okay for me to climb like this at the Olympics?” she said.
Many other competitors were disqualified after missing gates in Wednesday’s competition, including U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin, who was among the favorite to win multiple medals at this Olympics.
Lee’s assessment: Most of the competitive athletes would not choose to climb because they are focused on their times and medals. Lee, though, is the first female slalom skier to represent Taiwan at the Games, competing under the name of Chinese Taipei. She never set out to win a medal, she said, but just to “ski beautifully.”
Since Wednesday, she’s been overwhelmed by the positive response on the Chinese- and English-language internet, after Eurosport, a media outlet, posted a video of her fall and climb on social media, calling it an example of the “Olympic Spirit.” The video went viral, with more than 20,000 people liking the post. It was quickly picked up by Taiwanese media as well.
“Sheer tenacity! This is what makes the Olympics special,” wrote one Facebook user.
“With this type of spirit, even if she doesn’t win, I still feel very, very proud,” wrote another.
And was she satisfied with the result? It added about 15 seconds to her time, and she finished in 50th place.
“I’ve been made famous by one fall,” she joked. But she was satisfied.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Klay Thompson scored 16 of his season-high 33 points in the fourth quarter, Stephen Curry made a clutch layup with 46 seconds remaining, and the Golden State Warriors held off the Los Angeles Lakers 117-115 on Saturday night, spoiling another scoring milestone by LeBron James.
Curry finished with 24 points and eight assists, while Andrew Wiggins scored 19 points to help the Warriors end a two-game losing streak. Golden State has not lost three in a row all season.
Thompson’s big night came in front of his father, former NBA player Mychal Thompson, who works on the Lakers radio broadcast.
“It meant something special to do it for my dad,” Thompson said. “I don’t think he’s seen me play for a few years. I know he was proud of me, and that’s always fun.”
James had 26 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists, but missed the first free throw after Curry fouled him attempting a 3-pointer with 2.4 seconds left. He made the second and missed the third intentionally but couldn’t chase down the rebound in time to get a shot off.
“This one hurts,” Lakers coach Frank Vogel said. “We were up six with a few minutes to play. Just one of those nights where a lot of bad bounces didn’t go our way.”
Earlier in the night, James extended his streak of 25 points or more to 22 games and passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for most points scored in the NBA combining the regular season and postseason with 44,157. James tied Abdul-Jabbar’s mark of 44,149 in the first half, then surpassed it with a 3-pointer early in the third quarter.
Abdul-Jabbar still owns the career record for regular-season games with 38,387 points, considered the more prestigious of the two scoring milestones. James, with 36,526, is closing in on that one, too.
“We had an opportunity to win a big game tonight,” James said. “But in all my career, any time I’ve been linked with some of the greats, I’ve always just been in awe.”
Thompson, who returned this season after missing 941 days with a pair of serious leg injuries, shot 12 of 22 and made four 3s, three in the fourth quarter.
“Just took over the game at a time when we desperately needed him,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “With our offense kind of struggling to find a groove he got hot and took over the game. Klay is special. It goes beyond making shots. He brings an electricity to the building that’s hard to quantify.”
It was Thompson’s most points since putting up 43 against the Knicks on Jan. 8, 2019.
The Warriors needed it on a night when Curry struggled from the perimeter. The NBA’s 3-point king was 1 of 8 beyond the arc but made up for it by going 9 for 9 on free throws.
Jonathan Kuminga added 18 points and nine rebounds for the Warriors.
Russell Westbrook returned after missing a game and broke out of his scoring slump with 19 points, seven rebounds and five assists for the Lakers.
The Warriors led by 15 on Thompson’s corner 3 and Otto Porter Jr.’s layup before the Lakers closed the gap and got within 65-62 at the half following Avery Bradley’s 3-pointer.
Curry and Kuminga combined for 33 points in the first half on 12-of-19 shooting.
BLOCK OF THE GAME
Austin Reaves chased Thompson down from behind and blocked a potential layup during the Lakers’ run to open the fourth quarter. It’s the ninth block of the season for the 6-foot-5 rookie guard.
QUOTABLE
“He just has a look on his face, a bounce in his step and you can feel it coming.” – Kerr on watching Thompson during his fourth-quarter spree
TIP-INS
Lakers: Vogel was given a technical foul in the fourth quarter. Assistant coach Phil Handy received one during a timeout following a thunderous one-hand dunk by James in the first quarter.
Warriors: Curry needs four steals to tie Chris Mullin for the franchise record for steals. Curry has 1,356. … Andre Iguodala (lower back tightness) missed his third consecutive game.
UP NEXT
Lakers: Face the Jazz in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The Lakers lost the season series last year but beat Utah 101-95 in January.
Warriors: Go on the road to play the Clippers on Monday. Golden State has won three of the last four against the Clippers including twice this season.
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BEIJING (AP) — 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.
Just 30 minutes ahead of the hearing’s scheduled 8:30 p.m. start in Beijing, 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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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kevin Fiala and Frederick Gaudreau each had a goal and an assist for the Minnesota Wild, who held on for a 3-2 victory over Carolina after consecutive goals by Hurricanes star Andrei Svechnikov tightend the game in the third period on Saturday night.
Kirill Kaprizov also scored and Cam Talbot made 37 saves for the Wild, who are 10-1-1 in their last 12 games. Talbot has won four straight starts, with a total of five goals allowed.
“It just continues to grow our confidence, to know that we can hang in there with one of the best teams in the league and come out on top,” Talbot said. “They were relentless all over the ice.”
Svechnikov has 11 goals in his last 17 games. He scored 1:21 apart, giving the Hurricanes more than two-thirds of the final frame to tie it, but Talbot was up to the task.
“When you play a pretty good game and create enough to win, those are tough,” coach Rod Brind’Amour said.
The Hurricanes and Wild brought two of the top six records in the NHL into this game, and the pace of play was on par with their lofty perches in the standings.
“If they’re contenders, so are we. That’s what we feel like,” said Fiala, who has 10 goals and eight assists in his last 14 games.
Frederik Andersen stopped 24 shots for the Hurricanes, who fell to 17-5-2 in their last 24 games. Andersen is 14-2-1 in his last 17 starts, with just 34 goals allowed in that stretch, but the Metropolitan Division-leading Hurricanes went 1-2-1 on this four-game road trip.
“It’s a playoff type feel to the game. A real physical team, good team,” said defenseman Tony DeAngelo, who had two assists. “If we keep playing like that — we’ve just got to do it for 60 minutes — I’m not too worried.”
The game was scoreless until the 10:14 mark of the second period.
After Gaudreau maneuvered around Hurricanes defenseman Brady Skjei as they chased a loose puck along the boards, Gaudreau’s centering pass to Matt Blody was poked away by Brett Pesce. Fiala snagged it in the slot, drifted to his left and snapped a shot past Andersen’s right shoulder that scraped the underside of the crossbar.
That was the first goal against the Hurricanes, who have given up the fewest goals per game in the league, in a span of 127 minutes and 20 seconds.
Following the second intermission, the teams let loose. Kaprizov knocked in his own rebound for his 20th goal of the season to give the Wild a 2-0 lead at 1:16 of the third period. Gaudreau followed him just 78 seconds later, set up by a slick drop pass from a pivoting Fiala, and the fans fired up the “Sieve! Sieve! Sieve!” chant to taunt Andersen.
Then Svechnikov, the second overall pick in 2018 who is still just 21, single-handedly brought the Hurricanes back by finally solving the All-Star Talbot with a rocket from deep in the slot. Svechnikov tacked on another one, his 20th goal of the season, with a one-timer on the power play at the 6:23 mark.
The Hurricanes, who were coming off a 6-0 win at Boston on Thursday, allowed only one third-period goal over their previous three games and have the NHL’s best goal differential in the final 20 minutes of regulation.
“It is as good a team as we’ve seen. They do everything well. Their depth is great. Their sticks are great. They play fast. They compete. They’re heavy. It’s a real good hockey club,” Wild coach Dean Evason said.
The game was postponed from Dec. 14, when six Hurricanes players were placed in the COVID-19 protocols in a 24-hour period. As that wave of cases washed over the league, the NHL backed out of the Beijing Olympics and used the space on the schedule this month to make up the 98 games that were called off between mid-November and mid-January.
HURRICANE HOMECOMING
Carolina right wing Derek Stepan (Hastings) and Skjei (Lakeville) are both natives of the Twin Cities area who had plenty of family and friends in attendance. This was their first game at Minnesota as a member of the Hurricanes, whose last visit to Xcel Energy Center was on Nov. 16, 2019.
GAME NOTES
Minnesota played without Marcus Foligno, who served the first game of a two-game suspension for kneeing Winnipeg’s Adam Lowry against the Jets on Tuesday. Brandon Duhaime replaced Foligno on the second line. … Jesperi Kotkaniemi cleared COVID-19 protocols and returned to Carolina’s lineup after missing the last three games.
UP NEXT
The Hurricanes host the Florida Panthers on Wednesday night, their first home game in 17 days.
The Wild host the Detroit Red Wings on Monday night.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Jalen Wilson had 22 points and No. 8 Kansas used a late run to beat Oklahoma 71-69 on Saturday.
The Jayhawks (20-4, 9-2 Big 12) scored 11 straight points during a 15-2 burst to take the lead in the final minutes.
The Sooners closed to 70-69 before Wilson hit a free throw. Jordan Goldwire’s jumper in the last seconds caromed away for Oklahoma (14-11, 4-8).
“How about that? We had to win it about three times and then almost lost it,” Kansas coach Bill Self said. “We had one timeout left and I probably should have called it. I thought I’d save it in case something bad happened.”
“Just don’t let them shoot a 3 and fortunately they had to shoot a hard two and missed. I thought we defended the last possession pretty well,” he said.
Christian Braun had 18 points for Kansas. Ochai Agbaji and David McCormack each added 11.
Agbaji was held nearly 10 points below his season average of 20.3, best in the Big 12. Wilson and Braun knew they had to step up, especially in the second half.
“There was so much more energy,” Wilson said. “We were dead at the start of the game. The thing we do best is run. When we do that, it ignites everyone and gets the crowd going.”
Goldwire had 20 and Tanner Groves 19 for the Sooners. Elijah Harless had 12 points and Jalen Hill had 10.
Groves hit four of his first eight 3-point attempts, but Kansas freshman Zach Clemence, who had missed six weeks with a broken toe, caused him to miss his last three attempts.
“He was the only big who could hedge a ball screen and get back to Groves,” Self said. “I thought our best chance to win was with Zach. I think he played a big role in us winning.”
Neither team got much production from its bench. Oklahoma had just eight points for its reserves while Kansas had only three.
McCormack’s hook shot from the baseline with 14:23 left in the second half gave the Jayhawks a 46-45 edge, their first lead since 11-9. Oklahoma pulled away again by five points, but Clemence hit a 3 with 7:01 left to give Kansas the lead — those were the only points off the KU bench.
Braun’s basket moments later gave Kansas a three-point lead. Agbaji hit the front end of a one-and-one and Braun hit a layup late in the shot clock, capping an 11-0 run and giving the Jayhawks their largest lead of the game at 63-57 with 3:50 left in the game. Oklahoma went nearly seven minutes without scoring a point.
Kansas was intent early on getting the ball into the low post. McCormack, who touched the ball on each of the team’s first six possessions, responded by scoring seven of the team’s first nine points.
Oklahoma took an eight-point lead and was up 34-31 at halftime.
BIG PICTURE
Oklahoma: The Sooners had trouble with Kansas’ size. The Sooners were outrebounded 32-26.
Kansas: The Jayhawks maintained their half-game lead over Baylor at the top of the Big 12.
UP NEXT
Oklahoma hosts No. 20 Texas on Wednesday night.
Kansas hosts Oklahoma State on Monday night.
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Kellam junior Mia Suero helped lead the Knights to the Class 6 Region A girls indoor track and field title at Boo Williams Sportsplex in Hampton on Saturday.
The junior won the long jump (18 feet, 3½ inches) and 55-meter dash (7.23 seconds). She also placed second in the 300, fourth in the pole vault and fifth in the triple jump.
The Knights also got victories from Alexis McCue in the pole vault. Lily Hoffman was the runner-up in both the 1,600 and 3,200 meters.
Hoffman, Alyssa Campbell, Jane Phillips and Alexa Estes helped the Knights finish as runners-up in the 4x800 relay, and Madison Beale was third in the 300 meters.
Western Branch’s boys won the Class 6 Region A title. The Bruins were led by seniors Tyler Morris and Derek Montgomery.
Morris won the triple jump (44-3 ¼) and placed runner-up in the 55-meter hurdles. Montgomery won the 500 meters (1:08.28) and was the runner-up in the 300.
Teammate Micah Hinton won the 55 hurdles (7.84) and Antonio Smith was third in the 300 meters.
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Norview seniors Emmani Shaw and Jaelynn Wynder-Hill helped lead the Pilots to the Class 5 Region B girls title.
Shaw won the triple jump (37-1) and high jump (5-2). She also placed second in the long jump and 55 hurdles, and was fifth in the shot put and 300.
Wynder-Hill won the long jump (17-6) and placed third in the 55 hurdles, third in the high jump, fourth in the shot put and sixth in the 55 meters.
The Pilots also got help from Essence Shaw, who was third in the triple jump, fourth in the long jump and sixth in the high jump. Teammates Ciera Johnson and Nessiah Ayala placed first and third, respectively, in the pole vault.
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In boys competition, Nansemond River senior Deondre Hardy won the long jump (22-7¼) and was the runner-up in the triple jump and 55 meters to lead the Warriors to the title.
He also ran — along with Savion Wingate, Joshua Creque and Charles Wall-Davis — on the victorious 4x400 relay.
Wall-Davis won the 55 hurdles and was third in the long jump. Creque won the high jump (5-10) and was third in the triple jump and eighth in the 300. Wingate placed second in the long jump.
Granby senior Ryan Harris won the 1,000 (2:38.51), 1,600 (4:30.73) and pole vault (11-6).
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RICHMOND — Richmond-based Dominion Energy says it’s selling its gas utility in West Virginia for $690 million.
Dominion Energy West Virginia — also known as Hope Gas, Inc. — serves about 111,000 customers in West Virginia and employs about 300 people. It’s based in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
In a news release Friday, Dominion said it’s selling the utility to Ullico Inc.’s infrastructure fund.
Ullico plans to integrate Hope Gas into its Hearthstone Utilities holding company, which provides natural gas to about 80,000 customers in Indiana, Maine, Montana, North Carolina, and Ohio.
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As part of the deal, Hearthstone will move its headquarters to West Virginia. It is currently headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, according to its website.
Dominion said Hearthstone will honor the collective bargaining agreement in in place for affected workers.
The companies hope to close the sale late this year.
Ullico’s core business provides financial services and insurance to meet the needs of union employers and employees. In 2010, it launched an investment fund to assist in the construction, maintenance, and refurbishment of America’s infrastructure.
Dominion Energy serves about 7 million customers in 13 states.
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WASHINGTON — 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,” said Earle-Sears, who unseated Norfolk Del. Billy Robinson Jr. in her first run for office about 20 years ago. “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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MANTEO, N.C. — Park rangers are hosting a volunteer cleanup event Monday on North Carolina’s Outer Banks in response to debris from a collapsed home.
The National Park Service said the cleanup on Cape Hatteras National Seashore will take place from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Monday.
Volunteers can obtain gloves, garbage bags and trash pickup sticks from rangers at two locations Monday morning.
The Park Service says debris has spread up to 15 miles from the site of the collapsed home in the Rodanthe area. The beach in the immediate vicinity of the collapse has been closed due to unsafe conditions.
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The prices at the pumps in the Toronto area continue to break records and one industry analyst said further hikes are coming due to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.
On Sunday, the price of gas went up 4 cents in the GTA, bringing the average to a record high of $1.60 per litre. At the beginning of 2022, the gas price in Toronto was at $1.39 per litre.
Dan McTeague, the president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, warned drivers of more gas price hikes in the coming weeks.
In addition to surging post-COVID demand for fuel, McTeague said the tense situation in Eastern Europe, with many fearing a Russian invasion of Ukraine, is also contributing to soaring prices.
"If we, in fact, see some kind of activity in Eastern Europe, then all bets are off," he said.
"That's because there would be a risk, a war premium at a time in which Russia is still the third largest producer of oil in the world behind the United States and Saudi Arabia. So this creates a very tense situation, notwithstanding what we're doing here in Canada."
On Friday, U.S. officials said a possible Russian invasion could happen at any moment.
If a war breaks out in Europe, he said, "We would see a scenario where we'd easily go to $1.75, perhaps even $2 a litre."
"Anything's possible in a world in which there is less supply in far more demand."
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Mississippi could rethink a Medicaid managed care contract
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi House has voted to make the state’s Medicaid program end a contract with health care giant Centene.
But, that plan could change later as lawmakers continue to debate issues. Centene last year agreed to a $55.5 million lawsuit settlement.
The suit accused one of the company’s subsidiaries of overcharging the Mississippi Division of Medicaid millions of dollars for pharmacy benefits management. Centene did not admit fault.
The House voted Thursday to prohibit Medicaid from having contracts with any company that has paid more than a $50 million settlement to the state. The bill will get more debate.
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The latest developments on ongoing protests against COVID-19 restrictions and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, in Ottawa and various locations across Canada. All times Eastern:
3:45 p.m
The mayor of Ottawa says the city has struck a deal with protesters who have jammed downtown streets for more than two weeks that will see them move out of residential areas in the next 24 hours.
Jim Watson's office says Freedom Convoy organizers have agreed to the city's demands to confine their protest activities to an area around Parliament Hill.
A letter to convoy board president Tamara Lich says Watson will agree to meet with demonstrators if trucks and other vehicles taking part in the ongoing protests are out of residential neighbourhoods by noon on Monday.
A response from Lich indicates protesters will comply and begin moving to their new locations on Monday.
The letter says organizers will spend the next 24 hours “working hard ... to get buy-in from the truckers” who flooded the capital to voice their opposition to public health measures put in place to combat COVID-19.
Watson's letter to protesters says residents are “exhausted” and “on edge” due to the demonstrations and warns that some businesses teetering on the brink of permanent closure because of the disruptions.
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2:50 p.m.
Surrey RCMP says drivers should expect traffic congestion as the main route to the Pacific Highway crossing over the Canada-U.S. border remains closed.
Police say there is no access to 176 Street from 8th Avenue, 0 Avenue is blocked at 184 Street to westbound traffic and 172 Street is blocked at 8th Avenue to southbound traffic.
They're advising drivers and pedestrians to avoid the area and use other border crossings, but say officers are working with residents to keep the neighbourhood near the border accessible for local traffic only.
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2:30 p.m.
Police are starting to march down Tecumseh Road in Windsor in an attempt to move protesters out of the area near the Ambassador Bridge.
Protesters are confronting police, shouting the words “Shame on you!” and honking from their vehicles.
Police have made some arrests, though there was no immediate word on how many people were taken into custody.
Some are also singing O' Canada.
Police officers on foot and in cruisers are still blocking access to Huron Church Road, where a stretch of the roadway was the site of a protest that shuttered the U.S.-Canada border crossing for nearly a week.
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens has indicatd the border will reopen to traffic when police and border officials decide it's safe to do so.
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12:45 p.m.
The main route to the Pacific Highway border crossing in Surrey, B.C., remains closed following Saturday's protest against COVID-19 mandates.
Saturday's demonstration saw some vehicles break through RCMP barricades and begin driving the wrong way down the road.
Highway cameras showed a line of RCMP vehicles blocking the highway near the border today, though protesters appear to have dispersed for now.
The Canadian Border Services Agency says the Pacific Highway port of entry remains open, but travellers are being advised there may be delays due to blockades in the area.
It is encouraging people to use other border crossings if possible.
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12 p.m.
Police in Fredericton say they dealt with a few minor offences as the protest near the provincial legislature moved into a third day, though things were largely uneventful.
Public Information Officer Alycia Bartlett issued a statement this morning saying police made one arrest for breach of the peace and issued a by-law ticket for fireworks.
She says police also intervened with a personal drone flying around the protest site yesterday.
At 10:30 pm local time last night, Transport Canada issued a notice for a 4.8-kilometre radius around the area, restricting personal, remotely piloted aircraft from flying around the protest site.
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11:20 a.m.
The mayor of Windsor says the blockade that shuttered the Ambassador Bridge border crossing for nearly a week is over.
Drew Dilkens issued a statement saying the crossing that links Windsor and Detroit will reopen as soon as it's safe to do so, noting police and border agencies will be tasked with making that call.
Police cleared several protesters from the site earlier in the morning.
They say they arrested nearly a dozen people and laid several charges, mostly on counts of mischief.
Dilkens offered thanks to law enforcement officials for their help in ending what he described as a “national economic crisis” caused by the border closure.
READ MORE: Windsor, Ont. mayor says protest over at Canada-U.S. border crossing
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9:40 a.m.
Police are telling people gathered in a gas station parking lot near the intersection of Huron Church Road and Tecumseh Road to leave or they will be arrested and ticketed for trespassing.
The intersection is currently blocked off by several officers, two armoured vehicles, a transit bus and City of Windsor vehicles as police respond to the so-called freedom convoy protest near the Ambassador Bridge border crossing between Canada and the U.S.
This comes after police made some arrests in relation to the protest, though details were not immediately available.
Police are telling the public to avoid the area.
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8:30 a.m.
Windsor police say enforcement actions are underway once again at the site of an ongoing protest against COVID-19 public health measures at the Ambassador Bridge, where traffic between Canada and the U.S. has been halted for days.
There is a heavy police presence on Huron Church Road, near the entrance to the bridge.
Police are not letting anyone else near the stretch of the road where the protest was taking place.
They say vehicles are being towed.
A drone is rapidly flying above and honking horns can be heard in the distance.
Police have started marching down Huron Church Road away from the protest site, with two armoured vehicles and some other vehicles behind them.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 13, 2022
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Mississippi county offering hotspot devices for free
LAUREL, Miss. - A Mississippi county is working to bridge the digital divide by making access to the internet more available.
The Laurel-Jones County Library received 2,000 hotspot devices that will be available for checkout to residents beginning next week through the use of their library card.
WDAM-TV reports the hotspots were bought through a $1 million grant from the American Rescue Plan Act’s Emergency Connectivity Fund program.
T-Mobile is sponsoring the program by donating free airtime to the mobile hotspots through the end of June. Additional funding and/or sponsorships are being sought to sustain the program for another year.
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Three people have been seriously injured in a shooting in Scarborough’s Oakridge neighbourhood, Toronto police say.
It happened in the area of Leyton Avenue and Prairie Drive, north of Danforth Avenue.
Police said they located three victims suffering from serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
There is no immediate word on their condition.
Police said they do not have suspect information at this time.
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University of Southern Mississippi opens new veterans center
Published: Feb. 13, 2022 at 2:56 PM CST|Updated: 22 minutes ago
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - The University of Southern Mississippi is opening a new building with the aim of supporting military veterans.
Jeff Hammond, director of the university’s veterans program, tells WDAM-TV that the new facility is about supporting those who served the nation.
The new home of the Center for Military Veterans, Service Members and Families held its opening ceremony on Friday.
The center’s website says that its staff provides guidance and support to military students as they move through the admission process, on to graduation and career placement.
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HOUSTON — The condition of the 9-year-old girl that was shot in the head during an apparent road rage incident Tuesday night is improving, her family says.
9-year-old Ashanti Grant is still in the hospital in a medically-induced coma.
"This is the first time we saw a change for the better. The swelling on her brain is reduced a great deal," said Elaine Grant Williams, Ashanti's grandmother.
Her grandmother says the prayers are working.
"She is not completely out of the woods yet, but for us, we will take anything we can get," she said.
Ashanti was in the car headed to a grocery store with her family when police say a man in a white GMC Denali shot at their vehicle in an apparent road rage incident.
"It’s just senseless there is no meaning to it," said Elaine Grant Williams.
A senseless act that is not only hard for adults to cope with, but also her friends.
"I was devastated I was just super shocked about what happened," said one of her classmates, 10-year-old Mikensie Wilson. "Praying for her and we know she will get through it."
Friends and family hope that Ashanti will get out of the hospital and once again be the helpful, energetic little girl everyone loves so much.
"She will recover," said Elaine Grant Williams.
Police are still searching for the person responsible for this shooting.
If you have any information you are asked to contact Houston Crime Stoppers at 713-521-4600 or the Houston Police Department. There is currently a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest.
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CLINTON, Md. — Every year, Valentine's Day is a happy reminder of April and Bobby Parlett's love for one another. They got engaged on the holiday in 2006. The couple later married and had a son, but the last few years have been full of health scares for them both.
"Through the grace of God and amazing doctors, we're both still here," said April.
Several years ago, April was diagnosed with breast cancer. During her treatment, she pushed her husband to get a checkup himself, because it had been a while since he had last seen a doctor.
During that routine checkup, doctors diagnosed him with prostate cancer. He went through 38 sessions of radiation on his prostate before going into remission.
"I tease him that my breasts saved his life," said April.
After years of being in and out of the hospital for treatment, the two thought that was the end of their health problems. Unfortunately, last May, those health scares continued.
"I thought I had a sinus infection. Turns out I had a mass in my brain. The breast cancer had traveled to my brain," said April.
The brain tumor was removed during surgery and seven other lesions were removed by a tool known as the Zap-X machine. MedStar Health's Dr. Andrew Satinsky treated both April and Bobby. Although not a common occurrence, it's not the first time he has treated family members.
"Just having the support and certainly with both of them going through this there's a lot of empathy as well," said Dr. Satinsky.
Today, April and Bobby are finally in remission, making the holiday this year, that much more special.
"This will be a special Valentine's Day. We made it, even though 2021 was a little tough," said April.
The couple said it was their love for each other, and their sense of humor, that got them through this.
"We value every single day. We don't take any day for granted, but we live our lives too," said Bobby.
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PORT NECHES, Texas — An investigation is underway after a body was recovered from the Neches River on Sunday morning.
The body was found by deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office Marine Division shortly after 11 a.m.
The body was transported to the Port Neches Park boat ramp where Judge Marc DeRouen ordered an autopsy. The identity of the deceased has not been confirmed at this time.
This is a developing story. We will update with more if and when we receive more confirmed information.
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From a Jefferson County Sheriff's Office release:
This morning around 11:15 am, Deputies with the Jefferson County Sheriffs Office Marine Division discovered a body floating in the Neches River.
The body was secured and taken to the Port Neches Park boat ramp where Judge DeRouen responded and ordered an autopsy.
The body was transported to the Jefferson County morgue. Identification has not been made at this time.
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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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AUSTIN, Texas — Early voting in the March primary election starts om Monday, Feb.14. Three Democrats are running for lieutenant governor: State Rep. Michelle Beckley (D-Carrollton), former Vice Chair of the Texas Democratic Party Carla Brailey, Ph.D., and Mike Collier, who was the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor in 2018.
State Rep. Michelle Beckley
Ashley Goudeau: First, tell our viewers why you want to be the next lieutenant governor of Texas.
State Rep. Michelle Beckley: "You know, I really am just a small business owner that got sick of the drama in Austin and wanted to go to Austin and focus on health care, fixing our grid and making it better for the people of Texas. I flipped a State House seat in 2018, beating the Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick version [in] the State House, improving my margin in 2020. The voters, you know, appreciate what I stand for and they understand what we continue on. And I am, you know, a very good Democratic candidate, and I think the values of the Democratic Party represents what I take to Austin with me. And I also have the experience that the other candidates don't have.
Goudeau: What do you believe makes you the best choice for voters over those other candidates, Mike Collier and Dr. Carla Brailey?
Rep. Beckley: "Sure. Well, you know, I am guaranteed not to be a Manchin-like or Sinema-like candidate. I have a voting record. You can go look in the Texas State House and look in the Texas Legislature and see how I voted. I voted to protect women's rights. I've carried bills to improve voting. In fact, just yesterday or this week, I contacted my office and the, the provision within the elections bill is making it easier for voters to vote on Election Day in Liberty County, which we worked with during the session, has already applied and they will be doing Election Day vote centers for the primary starting on Feb. 14. So I'm excited that, you know, legislation that I carried, that made my priority, is going to help Texans. And people know what they're getting when they vote for me. I'm not just a politician that's never won an election. I've won twice. I went to Austin, I did what I said I was going to do."
Goudeau: How are you selling that message about your record to the rest of Texas? You know, Democrats have been unable to secure a statewide seat in a very, very long time. Yes, you won elections, but they've been, you know, for your House [district] and not for the entire state.
Rep. Beckley: Yeah. But I flipped the State House seat in a conservative county, in Denton County, which represents the values of the entire state. I'm a proven winner, and so therefore I have traveled to the valley, I have done everything. The Republicans cracked 13 precincts to get me out of the State House seat I represent. They know I'm a winning candidate."
Goudeau: If you are elected, what's going to be your top priority for the state?
Rep. Beckley: "Sure, we need to take the Medicaid expansion and reduce medical costs for all Texans, and we need to start focusing on fixing our infrastructure. It's not just the grid that is broken. We could barely get through this pandemic. Our TWC is run on COBOL. I mean, it has not been updated. We need to get broadband. We need to update our inland ports. There are so many things that need to happen to help the everyday lives and socioeconomic of the everyday Texan."
Carla Brailey, Ph.D.
Ashley Goudeau: Begin by telling our viewers a little bit about yourself and why you want to be the next lieutenant governor of Texas.
Carla Brailey, Ph.D.: "Oh, well, thank you. I am a mother. I'm an educator. I'm a lifelong Democrat. And more than anything, I'm a fearless fighter for all people. My entire life I have enjoyed just serving people. I always tell people public service is not an option for me; it's a way of life. It's what my family has done. That's all I know. For the past three-and-a-half years, I've served the state as the vice chair of the Texas Democratic Party, and we know that we have a very large state, but I have attempted to really travel all over … I realized that the state that we're in and state in Texas, it's pretty bad in terms of our voting rights or women's rights being directly challenged, trans rights being challenged. At the end of the day, you know, as a 25-year-plus teacher, or educator, I also realized that we're not having the highest quality of education that we can have, inclusive education and. And so for me, I thought there was a lot on the line. And why, why not run? You know, that was the real question that I had to really face."
Goudeau: The other candidates in this race feel they are better suited to face off against Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Rep. Michele Beckley says she has won campaigns and has a voting record in the Texas Legislature. Mike Collier points to his experience running two previous statewide campaigns, coming about five points away from beating Patrick in 2018. What would you say makes you the better candidate in this field?
Brailey: "Well, thanks for the question. You know, quite frankly, I've traveled this state. I've worked with people on the ground to be able to have those relationships that I spoke earlier. That matters. People that, that know that you're not coming to just their areas during political season, and that's something that we have to be able to do on. It doesn't matter the party – whether it's Democrat, whether it's Republican, whether it's independent, people want to know that, that you are authentically care about their issues. We have to get the messaging right and quite frankly, it has to be the right messenger. And for me, I've done that. I've already been doing that work as vice chair. I served as executive director of media affairs for the District of Columbia. I understand what it means to put constituents first, and right now that has not happened … Quite frankly, you know, I'm a Black woman, and I really believe that, you know, we have to have the most diverse statewide ticket that we can. I'm the first African-American woman to run as a Democratic candidate at the top of the ticket, but also I'm the only Black woman on the statewide ticket. And so we have to make sure that we give people reasons to vote and vote in terms of where they can relate to all of the candidates on the Democratic side."
Goudeau: If you are elected, tell us what will be your top priority for the state.
Brailey: "Well, you know, top priority is we have a lot of things that we're going to have to address, whether it be education, health care, whether it be the power grid, whether it be increasing the living wage, whether it's even dealing with gun safety. Top priority, I also believe that education ties to all of those things. One of my late, great sheroes is Barbara Jordan. She would say that education is the key, is the key essential to both economic and political empowerment. So I definitely think that we have to have a high quality, inclusive education that provides students an education regardless of their ZIP code, that exposes them to opportunities to be able to have a pipeline from the school to the workforce so that they have a choice if they're going to go either to college, to a two-year institution or even vocational trade, and they have to be able to have that exposure."
Mike Collier
Ashley Goudeau: I would say most Texas Democratic voters are familiar with you. You were the candidate for comptroller, then lieutenant governor in 2018. Why should voters back you again in 2022?
Mike Collier: "Well, I'll tell you, it's a big state and it takes a lot of effort to put together an infrastructure and all the contacts and experience to win. Democrats haven't won a statewide race in 30 years, and there's a lot of reasons for that. But one of it is it's a big state and, which is why I've been working on this for so long. And so in terms of having familiarity with the issues around the state, relationships, surrogates, champions, infrastructure – that's all in place from previous efforts. And now we must win, and that is so important."
Goudeau: You know, in 2018, you lost to Dan Patrick by nearly 5 percentage points. Another candidate in this race, Rep. Michelle Berkley, says she knows how to win elections and that she has experience at the Capitol. The other candidate, Dr. Carla Brailey, brings diversity that we haven't traditionally seen in this field. So what makes you the best candidate among them?
Collier: "Well, first of all, it's good to be campaigning in the company of Democrats. So I feel wonderful about this primary. We're not running against each other, we're running with each other to do something which is very, very important, which is to make sure that the next lieutenant governor is a Democrat. The key difference, in my judgment, is do we have the infrastructure and the resources and the campaign operation and the expertise to win? It is such a large state and the issues that matter to Texans in the Panhandle, not the same as the issues that matter to folks in Central Texas, not the same as how people feel in South Texas or up in Texarkana and you name it. And I've been all around the state with folks helping me in these places and have the resources and the campaign operation to beat Dan Patrick. If we don't beat Dan Patrick, then this just isn't good. We've got to beat Dan Patrick."
Goudeau: If you are elected, what will be your top priority for the state?
Collier: "Well, there are some things that we have to unwind from the last legislative session. For example, this canceling Roe v. Wade in this vigilante type approach is absolutely wrong. Texans are very unhappy about that. Canceling license to carry is a terrible mistake. We have a real problem with gun violence in this state and canceling permit to carry is really just putting gasoline on that fire. We have to fix the damn grid. I'm also very worried about the future of public education. You know, with redistricting in a Legislature that may think of themselves as not accountable to us, then we must elect a Democrat lieutenant governor. Otherwise, I don't think that public education will make it through another four years of Dan Patrick. And that's just the start of the issues. There's so many other things … I mean, we're still in real peril because the grid has not been fixed. And the cold snap was nothing more than a cold snap. There's no time to slap ourselves on the back and say this grid is repaired. We would not survive another Uri, and that could happen. So there's a lot. It's hard to say that there's one most important thing, but there's a lot of important things we have to do."
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LOS ANGELES — Ahead of Super Bowl LVI between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams, the big question is how many athletes playing in the big game are from Texas?
Editors note: The video above is from a previous story where KHOU 11 News talked to several Cincinnati Bengals players from Houston
Texas will be flexing its muscles on Sunday with a number of players from across the state playing on the NFL's biggest stage.
The Lone Star State is one of only three states with double-digit athletes representing them in the Super Bowl. California (13) and Florida (12) are the only other states that come close, according to Max Preps.
Rams players representing Texas
Los Angeles wins the head-to-head match up for number of athletes from Texas.
Nine Rams players come from our state with quarterback Matthew Stafford (Highland Park, though he was born in Tampa and spend a lot of his childhood in Georgia) and linebacker Von Miller (DeSoto) being the most notable.
Other Texas athletes for the Rams are Ogbonnia Okoronkwo (Alief Taylor), Bobby Evans (Allen), A'Shawn Robinson (Arlington Heights), Bobby Brown (Arlington Lamar), Travin Howard (Longview), Justin Hollins (Arlington Martin) and Joseph Noteboom (Plano).
Bengals players representing Texas
Cincinnati may have less players from Texas than Los Angeles, but the Bengals have heavy Houston representation on their roster.
Safety Michael Thomas (Nimitz) headlines their roster along with cornerback Tre Flowers (Converse Judson). Out of the eight Bengals, four hail from H-Town.
Damion Square (Yates), Hakeem Adeniji (Garland), Samaje Perine (Pflugerville), Trayveon Williams (King), Trey Hopkins (North Shore) and Clay Johnston (Abilene Wylie) round out Texas connection.
But wait, there's more!
KHOU 11 News has their very own connections to the Super Bowl as well!
Reporter Ugochi Iloka's brother, George, was a starting safety for the Bengals from 2012 to 2017.
Meanwhile, meteorologist Chita Craft's uncle, Bob Johnson, was drafted second overall by the Bengals in 1968.
Johnson's #54 was retied by the Bengals.
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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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LOS ANGELES — Super Bowl LVI is expected to be one of the three most blistering in NFL history – and it could actually break the record for hottest of them all, according to CBS Sports.
The Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Rams kick off at 3:30 p.m. PT – around when the sun will still feel most intense. While it’ll already be past sunset here in Tampa, the west coast time difference means it’ll be a scorcher at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, which sits in southwestern LA County.
Our sister-station WCNC says California has been feeling above-average heat all week. There’s even a heat advisory stretching from LA to the US-Mexico border.
CBS says temperatures are forecast to hit 84 degrees Fahrenheit by kickoff. If that happens, it’ll tie the record for most searing Super Bowl. It was another LA Super Bowl – the one in 1973 – that last reached the 84-degree mark. The 2003 big game in San Diego made it to 81.
And those inside will feel that heat. While SoFi Stadium technically has a roof, it’s not exactly an indoor venue – which fans were reminded of during a lightning delay in October.
The Athletic describes the venue design like this: There’s basically a big canopy over the field, but the sides of the stadium are open. Together, the sun and the turf can make it feel pretty toasty at field-level when it’s hot out.
And, don’t count on air conditioning. As, the Washington Post points out, there’s no large-scale AC at SoFi. Rather, the newspaper says panels can be opened up to cool the stadium down – but only by four degrees or so.
The designers tried to be smart. CBS says they designed the roof to help with temperature regulation and developed the sides in a way that lets the breeze flow. But, Sunday will be the big test – as temperatures soar well above normal for this time of year.
Temperatures aside, the state-of-the-art SoFi is something to behold. In all, it’s an astounding 3.1 million-square-foot mammoth that sits next to a six-acre lake, writes CNN.
When the $5 billion stadium opened in 2020 and became the joint home to the Rams and Charges, the cable network says it became the first hybrid “indoor-outdoor” stadium in the NFL.
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LOS ANGELES — Will Joe Burrow or Matthew Stafford throw for more yards? Will the Super Bowl MVP be a quarterback or a player from another position? Will an offensive lineman score a TD and what color Gatorade will be thrown on the winning coach?
When it comes to the Super Bowl fans can bet on just about anything, including whether the game will be a “Scorigami” with a final score that has never happened before in an NFL game or whether either coach will use all six timeouts in regulation to more standard bets such as how many yards receiving will Cooper Kupp have or who will win MVP.
Here's a look at some of the more intriguing prop bets with the odds from FanDuel Sportsbook:
MVP
Predictably the top two choices for MVP are Stafford at 5-4 and Burrow at just more than 2-1. That makes sense considering 11 of the past 15 winners have been quarterbacks.
The last non-QB to win it came three years ago when New England receiver Julian Edelman took the prize. The last defender to win was Denver's Von Miller six years ago and the last running back to do it was Denver's Terrell Davis 24 years ago.
Kupp has the best odds of the non-quarterbacks this year at 11-2, followed by Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald (15-1), Bengals receiver Ja'Marr Chase (25-1), Rams receiver Odell Beckham Jr. (27-1) and Rams running back Cam Akers (27-1).
A couple of intriguing longer shots are Bengals running back Joe Mixon (40-1) and receiver Tee Higgins (60-1).
There are 1-3 odds that a QB will win the MVP compared to just over 2-1 that it will be a non-quarterback.
SCORING TIME
Teams have traditionally started slow in Super Bowls with only three teams in the past 21 years scoring a TD the first time they had possession.
The Ravens did it against the 49ers in the game played in 2013, the Patriots did it against the Giants in the game played in 2008 and the Bears did it the year before that on Devin Hester's opening kick return for the Bears against the Colts. The odds of a team doing it Sunday are a little more than even and it's about 11-1 that both teams do it.
The over-under on the yards for the longest TD is 42 1/2 yards with the shortest at 1 1/2. There has been a TD of at least 40 yards scored in 14 of the past 30 Super Bowls.
There are even odds on whether the final score will be a “Scorigami” — a score that hasn't ever happened in an NFL game. There have been 1,072 unique scores in NFL history with the last time it happened in the Super Bowl coming eight years ago when the Seahawks beat the Broncos 43-8.
The odds of a Scorigami happening this year are 12-1 compared to 1-35 odds of a repeat score.
PLAYER PROPS
There are more traditional player prop bets in regards to yardage gained, touchdowns and other stats.
The over-under for yards passing is set at 281 1/2 for Stafford and 276 1/2 for Burrow. Stafford topped that mark 12 times in 20 games, while Burrow beat his number nine times in 19 games.
The highest over-under for receivers belongs to Kupp at 105.5 compared to 78.5 for Chase. Kupp topped his number 13 times in 20 games, while Chase did it eight times in 20 games.
For rushing, the over-under for yards is set at 64.5 for Akers and 60.5 for Mixon. Akers' high in four games this season is just 55 yards, while Mixon has topped his number 10 times in 19 games.
BIG MAN TD
This was a record-setting season for offensive linemen catching TD passes with seven players doing it, including two in the postseason. But it's never happened in a Super Bowl, leading to a hefty 20-1 payout if it happens Sunday.
It's been a while since either the Rams or Bengals throwing a TD pass to an offensive lineman with the Bengals last doing it in 2010 on a throw to current Rams tackle Andrew Whitworth and the Rams in 1999 when Ryan Tucker caught two.
SHOWER TIME
Ever since the Giants players doused coach Bill Parcells with a Gatorade shower following a Super Bowl win 36 years ago, it has become a near annual tradition for the winning coach.
The question for Sunday is what color liquid will be used if it happens on Sunday to either Sean McVay or Zac Taylor. Orange is the leading contender with odds of about 2-1, followed by yellow, green or lime (about 3-1), blue (about 4-1), clear or water (about 5-1) and red or pink (about 8-1).
That bet is only valid if the shower is shown on the broadcast.
CALLING TIME
Rams fans frustrated by McVay's liberal use of timeouts early in halves can try to capitalize on it during the Super Bowl.
The odds that McVay will use all six timeouts in regulation are just less than 3-1. The odds have Taylor as less likely to use all his timeouts at about 3 1/2-1.
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SAN ANTONIO — As fans prepare to cheer on their favorite team playing in Sunday’s Super Bowl game, one Converse family will be rooting for their son on the Cincinnati Bengals.
Tre Flowers is a former Judson High School football standout, and now plays for the NFL team as a cornerback. His mom Crystal Flowers said her son began playing football at 7 years old. The football player is now 26.
“I still think I’m at one of his little pee wee games and I’m just in the stands. I mean, I get choked up about it. I just see him and he said, ‘Mom you got to be here. I need you here when we win’. He’s just so humble and puts us first,” said Crystal Flowers, his mom.
His mom said Tre purchased his parents tickets after the Bengals won the AFC Championship Game on January 30. Their excitement over the thrilling win against the Kansas City Chiefs still hasn’t worn off.
“When Tre stopped {Chiefs Travis] Kelce from getting that ball, that pass break up, it was quiet. All you heard was ‘That’s my baby!’ and they all [the Chiefs fans] turned around so I had my moment,” said his mom.
They are memories the entire family won’t forget. Tre’s girlfriend Shae Monroe and their 4-year-old daughter Bailey also attended the game.
His parents favorite part of the game came at the end when their son ran over to the stands to find the family.
“He jumped in the stands with us and he’s like, ‘Pop, we did it!’ Then he put his hat on me and I shed a tear, I’m not going to lie. It was an amazing feeling,” said Rodney Flowers Sr., his dad.
It’s proud emotions they will likely feel again on Sunday as the team takes on the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium, even if the outcome isn’t what they hope for.
“Win or lose, we will just cherish the moment,” said Rodney.
Their son’s journey to the big game didn’t come without blood, sweat and tears. In 2021, Tre suffered a hamstring injury, but his parents said that didn’t stop him.
“That one set back really opened up his eyes to lot. It even matured him, I think,” said his father.
With the Flowers, family is everything, and with God, all things are possible. For now, they’ll pray for Tre, pack their bags and get ready to watch him play.
“Tre’s not nervous. He told us ‘I’ve played the Rams before. I’ve seen them before. I know what I got to do,'” said his parents.
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George Clooney has a surefire way for staying out of trouble as a public figure in the age of social media: stay off of it.
In a profile for the Washington Post published on Friday, the Oscar-winning actor said he manages to avoid too much exposure to today’s 24/7 media cycle by not engaging on those platforms, which he acknowledges would be problematic “if I have three drinks at night.”
He also shared, “I don’t think you can be a star and be that available.”
It was part of a larger conversation in which Clooney identified how certain movie stars that came before him like Gregory Peck and Paul Newman – both of whom were friends of his before they died – exemplified how to carry oneself in the spotlight.
“It doesn’t mean you can’t be goofy and do stupid things, but it means stand up for the things you believe in, carry yourself with a little bit of dignity,” the “Ticket to Paradise” star said. “And both of them had great humor about themselves.”
Clooney, who is being honored at the Kennedy Center this month alongside Gladys Knight and U2, among others, is active in humanitarian efforts in addition to his pursuits as an actor, producer and director.
Ethan Hawke, who directed Clooney in a voice role as Newman in this year’s HBO documentary “The Last Movie Stars,” observed that it’s no surprise he’s getting such a prestigious honor. (CNN and HBO Max are both part of the same parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.)
“It’s interesting that he’s getting the Kennedy Center Honors this year because Newman got it too. They fit in a long line of really responsible artists, people who make a contribution to American culture and are civic leaders,” Hawke told the Post. “Whether you like George’s politics, or admire where he gives his money and time, you have to admire his willingness to lead, and his willingness to care.”
Steven Soderbergh, whose 1998 masterpiece “Out of Sight” starred Clooney opposite Jennifer Lopez, said the actor is unique for not caring that his politics might compromise the reach of his stardom.
“The default mode really doesn’t lead you to a place of thinking about fairness, or defending people who can’t defend themselves. It’s great when people use that juice for those purposes, but that’s not the way the stream flows,” Soderbergh said of Clooney’s efforts through his Clooney Foundation for Justice alongside wife Amal, a human rights attorney.
“The stream flows in the direction of self-orientation and being in a mode of extracting whatever you can from this business, and whatever you can from the world at large. … He’s one of the few people who punches upward. That’s rare.”
Clooney will be featured as part of the Kennedy Center Honors on December 28 at 8 p.m. on CBS.
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Editor’s Note: Laura Belin is the primary author at the website Bleeding Heartland. She has been covering Iowa politics since 2007. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN.
The Democratic National Committee’s overhaul of the presidential nominating calendar will create many challenges for Iowa Democrats, who are already at a low point following another disappointing election cycle.
The DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee voted Friday to recommend a schedule that removes Iowa from the small group of early primary states. The full DNC will vote on the calendar in January; while some tweaks are possible, it’s nearly certain the Iowa caucuses won’t be in the mix.
I grew up in Iowa with the luxury of seeing presidential candidates up close and have enjoyed attending precinct caucuses since I was 18 years old in 1988. But as painful as it is for fans of the caucuses to accept, the DNC has valid reasons to start the presidential campaign elsewhere.
Although Iowa was a bellwether state for six straight presidential elections and voted twice to elect Barack Obama, five of the last seven general elections have been Republican landslides here.
It’s one thing to experience a red wave when the same thing is happening nationwide, as in 2010 and 2014. It’s another for Iowa Democrats to lose up and down the ballot last month — including in many onetime strongholds — when the party’s candidates exceeded expectations in many other states.
Next year, Iowa will have no Democrats in our congressional delegation for the first time since 1956, only one Democratic statewide elected official for the first time since 1982 and the smallest Democratic state legislative caucuses in decades.
Granted, South Carolina (which would supplant Iowa on the DNC’s new calendar) is not a swing state either. But moving that state ahead will give Black Democrats a bigger role in choosing a nominee, which is overdue.
As critics of the current calendar have noted for years, the electorates of Iowa and New Hampshire are much less diverse than the US population and bear little resemblance to the Democratic Party’s base.
Moreover, President Joe Biden and others, notably former presidential candidate Julián Castro, have rightly pointed out that it is much more difficult to participate in a caucus than a primary election.
Iowa Democrats didn’t do enough to make our caucus system more accessible and transparent before the last couple of presidential election cycles. Party leaders dismissed most calls for serious reform, instead choosing a united front with New Hampshire.
The party altered the system in 2020, creating a paper trail and reporting raw supporter totals for the first time. But Iowans who wanted to help select a presidential nominee still needed to be in a specific place and time for an hour or more on a cold winter night. No early voting, no absentee voting, no proxy voting.
The massive problems with reporting the 2020 caucus results after a mobile app malfunctioned further damaged Iowa’s case for remaining first.
Iowa Democratic leaders proposed bigger changes this year, including “presidential preference cards” that could be mailed before caucus night. The complicated “realignment” process, which sometimes produced screwy delegate math, would have been eliminated as each caucusgoer selected one presidential contender. It was too little, too late.
The likely fallout
Losing the early state slot will make it harder for Iowa Democrats to rebuild. For decades, presidential candidates have helped the party identify supporters and recruit volunteers. Old-timers will tell you Tom Harkin’s first US Senate campaign in 1984 got a big boost from the organizing that preceded that year’s Democratic caucuses.
Presidential candidates have headlined fundraisers for numerous down-ballot candidates and local party groups in the early states. Their campaigns have paid large sums directly to the Iowa Democratic Party for access to the voter file or tickets to large “cattle call” events. All of that is going away now.
Financial considerations aside, Iowa’s 2024 Democratic candidates will find it harder to qualify for the ballot without thousands of caucusgoers signing their nominating petitions as they attend their neighborhood caucuses.
Meanwhile, Iowa GOP candidates and party organizations will continue to enjoy the old ways as presidential hopefuls generate local enthusiasm and boost attendance at events throughout the coming year.
Republicans, including Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, already are portraying the DNC’s decision as an insult not only to all Iowans but also to all Americans outside urban areas. Gov. Kim Reynolds tweeted, “Democrats have abandoned rural America and denied everyday Iowans a voice in the presidential nominating process.”
What next?
Iowa law requires our state’s precinct caucuses to take place “at least eight days earlier” than the scheduled date for any other state’s caucus or primary in the presidential nominating process. Republicans who control the Iowa Legislature have no interest in changing that law, especially since the GOP is preserving our state’s first-in-the-nation status.
Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn confirmed last week that Democrats will follow state law “and address compliance with DNC rules” later. So the party will hold caucuses in early 2024 to select delegates to county conventions and members of various party committees.
But those caucuses will have no broader significance. While more than 100,000 Republicans show up to support their favorite presidential candidate, only hard-core Democratic activists will attend.
Serious presidential candidates will avoid campaigning here, so as not to lose delegates under the DNC’s new rules, which would penalize contenders who have staff, run ads or give speeches in unsanctioned early states. Iowa will lose half the state’s delegates to the Democratic National Convention as well.
As Iowa Democrats prepare for life after the caucuses as we know them, they should seek inspiration from state parties that never received the money and attention that comes with being first.
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Voters in Ojai will have to wait a while longer before learning if there will be “Happy Days” in the future for mayoral candidate, Anson Williams.
The actor confirmed with a thumbs-up emoji in a text message to the Ojai Valley News that he was planning to request a recount. Meanwhile, incumbent Mayor Betsy Stix told the paper she is withholding comment until the Ventura County Clerk-Recorder’s Office certifies the vote on Dec. 7.
The latest tally shows Stix with 1,816 votes to Williams 1,778 votes. The county will be notified when the recount begins, at which time it is open to public observers.
Williams, 72, ran on a platform heavily dosed with sustainable environmental policies as well as basic quality-of-life issues for the city.
The number one priority listed on his campaign website is a pledge to “Incentivize climate-change resilience and mitigation” in Ojai, with the creation of a commission to find the “best practices and policies to lower Ojai’s carbon footprint,” and “promote incentives to encourage the use of conservation and renewable energy.”
Williams told reporters even if he loses the race, his campaign has drawn needed public awareness to the mayor’s office and city council on important local issues.
After announcing his candidacy at an Ojai City Council meeting in July, Williams received immediate support from his acting buddy Henry “The Fonz” Winkler, who posted “You have my vote” on Twitter.
On his website, Williams said he was running because of his love for the city.
“The heart of this healing community saved my life when I was recovering from cancer and blessed me with the love of my soulmate. But in the last couple of years, I’ve sensed a troubling change. Divisiveness and conflict are tearing us apart at a time when we need to pull together. It’s time for new leadership,” he said. “Let’s bring back the spirit of Ojai and protect the community we love.”
Changing the world is in Williams’ DNA. His uncle, Dr. Henry Judah Heimlich, invented the “Heimlich Maneuver” to save choking victims.
Williams is able to claim substantial experience in impacting the world from his directing/producing career.
“My life skills as a director and producer have prepared me to be a highly effective mayor. Called on to lead large groups of people with conflicting ideas and different points of view, I’ve learned the power of collaboration, working together for the greater good,” he said.
He continued: “Combining this skill with my interest in public service, I convinced Merv Griffin to introduce my uncle’s life-saving Heimlich Maneuver to the world. Ron Howard and I cast the first disabled actress in a film that was instrumental in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. An ABC special I directed, ‘No Greater Gift,’ helped double organ donors in the United States. And I was proud to serve three years on the board of the USO as Director of Entertainment for our troops overseas.”
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AMC+ has canceled its sci-fi series “Moonhaven,” with the subscription video streaming service reversing its decision just four months ago to renew it for a second season.
The second season from creator and showrunner Peter Ocko was set to span six episodes and return to AMC+ in 2023. The cancellation comes amid programming write-downs and “large-scale layoff” at AMC Networks.
Upon its renewal in July, Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, said in a statement, “This is such an engaging and entertaining series, brilliantly conceived and run by Peter. The story is suspenseful, provocative and prescient, and features a phenomenal cast that delivers mesmerizing performances. What Peter and the team are crafting for Season 2 is next level, and the fans will be thrilled.”
AMC Networks Renews ‘Moonhaven’ for Season 2
Although AMC Networks grew streaming subscribers by 44% in the third quarter, it saw revenue decline as advertising slumped by 10%, causing profit to fall sharply. Advertising sales had dropped to $180 million from $200 million in the year-ago quarter, due to lower rates, fewer original hours during the quarter. The timing of content licensing revenue also contributed. And international revenue slid 24% to $99 million, weighed down in part by the strong dollar impacting foreign exchange translation.
An internal memo that circulated a week ago penned by chairman James Dolan AMC Networks, revealed a planned “large-scale layoff” amid CEO Christina Spade’s abrupt departure from the company after less than three months. In the note to staff, Dolan said that the company has “directed the executive leadership of AMC Networks to undergo significant cutbacks in operations.”
AMC’s national networks include AMC, WE tv, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. Its subscriber-video-on-demand services include AMC+, Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now, ALLBLK (formerly UMC) and Sentai-owned HIDIVE.
“Moonhaven” starred Emma McDonald, Dominic Monaghan, Amara Karan, Ayelet Zurer, Joe Manganiello, Kadeem Hardison and Yazzmin Newell.
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Sweet Caroline, can we call a moratorium on bio-musicals about pop-rock legends. Ever since 2015 Tony winner “Jersey Boys” offered a live behind-the-music look at The Four Seasons, Broadway has seen a parade of similar shows retelling the lives of various music legends with their song books shoehorned into the narrative.
Now Neil Diamond is getting a similar treatment in “A Beautiful Noise,” a new two-act production opening Sunday at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre. Treatment is the operative word here because the one innovation of Anthony McCarten’s script is to frame the narrative around an older Diamond (Mark Jacoby) and his psychoanalytic sessions with a doctor (Linda Powell), whom Diamond even names in the Playbill.
Seems that the veteran songwriter and performer, legendary for dozens of worldwide tours where his sequined outfits could outsparkle Cher’s, was actually a painfully shy introvert from Brooklyn whose best friend growing up was a figment of his imagination. Armed only with a book of the lyrics of his hit songs (39 albums, 40 Top 40 hits — as we’re reminded more than once), Powell’s doc manages to coax the older Diamond into sharing a lifetime of insecurities despite an enviable catalog of tangible worldly success.
We get a series of familiar biographical set pieces, with Jacoby and Powell plunked in their leather armchairs at the side of the stage like Statler and Waldorf from “The Muppet Show” balcony. There’s the auditioning at the Brill Building, where Diamond actually tries to change his name to sound more Jewish; the recording-studio realization that he should perform his own songs; the dubious contract he signs with a Mob-owned record label; the abandoning of his high school sweetheart (Jessie Fisher, who makes no impression in a thankless role) while she’s pregnant with their second child; and the wooing of his soulmate of a second wife (Robyn Hurder, a belting sensation who deserves a show built around her) — until he estranges himself from her as well for the adoration of concert crowds.
Will Swenson (“Hair,” “Les Misérables”) performs a bit of a vocal magic act as the younger Diamond, transforming his naturally Broadway-ish singing voice into a reasonable simulacrum of the star’s distinctive “gravel wrapped in velvet” vocalizing. He manages to convey both the swagger and the inherent discomfort with swagger that are at the root of Diamond’s persona. He also seems comfortable in Emilio Sosa’s bedazzled costumes (the same cannot be said of the series of period wigs he dons throughout the show).
Even with the therapy framing device, though, the story beats will feel familiar to anyone who’s ever seen a documentary about a music act in the last 50 years — and Diamond’s life is decidedly lacking in debauchery and excess compared to his peers. (Curiously, we never even meet Wife No. 3, the one who encouraged him to go to therapy in the first place.)
As with many bio-musicals, the lyrics to the biggest hits don’t always fit snugly into the narrative. Hurder’s Marcia, frustrated by her hubby’s constant touring, gets to sing “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” naturally, and then belts the hell out of “Forever in Blue Jeans” — but why in the world is this on-her-own Malibu housewife longing for denim when she’s busy lunching with Robert Redford and his wife?
More puzzling is Steven Hoggett’s choreography, which sometimes seems to have been inspired by middle-school pageants in its awkward, literal simplicity — the hand motions for the bum-bum-bummmm of “Sweet Caroline” are particularly underwhelming. The hard-working chorus has a commendable mix of backgrounds and body types but too often they seem like an unnecessary intrusion, given far little to do.
The real draw here are the tunes, from familiar hits like “Sweet Caroline” and “America” (which gets three separate versions) to I-didn’t-know-he-wrote-that surprises like The Monkees’ “I’m a Believer” and the reggae standard “Red, Red Wine.” And director Michael Mayer rightly keeps the focus on the Diamond songbook — and the lyric complexity that can often be found just under the surface of his infectious melodies.
Given the advances in technology, you can imagine a future in which coders will be able to re-create the Neil Diamond concert experience in hologram form. (The star, now 81, retired from touring four years ago due to a battle with Parkinson’s.) For now, though, Swenson & Co. offer a reasonable facsimile of Diamond in the flesh for fans to soak up. Or, to paraphrase that quintessential Diamond hit “Sweet Caroline,” they try so hard, so hard, so hard.
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If you’re looking for new movies to watch on Netflix this month, you’ve come to the right place. The streaming service is closing out 2022 with a bang, releasing a slew of Oscar-contending features throughout the month in addition to your standard new arrivals. Below you’ll find a mix of those high-profile Netflix new releases as well as worthy library titles that might hit the sweet spot when you’re struggling to figure out what to watch. Whether it’s an action-thriller, comedic murder mystery or emotional documentary, we’ve got you covered.
Check out our list of some of the best new movies on Netflix in December 2022 below.
The 55 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now
Sr.
Robert Downey Jr. hasn’t appeared onscreen much since his final goodbye as Iron Man in “Avengers: Endgame,” but the new Netflix documentary “Sr.” offers an introspective and personal look at the actor’s relationship with this filmmaker father Robert Downey Sr. The film is a loving chronicle of Sr.’s life and rebellious spirit when he came of age as a director, but also expands its lens to examine his relationship with his son through times both good and bad. It’s all the more emotional given that during the three-year production, it became clear that the documentary would be capturing Sr.’s final days – he died in July of 2021.
Bullet Train
If you missed this Brad Pitt actioner in theaters earlier this year, now’s your chance to stream “Bullet Train” on Netflix. Pitt plays an American operative suffering from anxiety who finds himself on a bullet train full of colorful characters and assassins who want to kill him. The action-comedy is packed with familiar faces (Sandra Bullock, Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Shannon, Zazie Beetz, Joey King, Bad Bunny, Hiroyuki Sanada and Andrew Koji all co-star) and eye-popping fight sequences courtesy of director David Leitch, who used to be Pitt’s stuntman and is now a director in his own right (he also helmed “Deadpool 2,” “Atomic Blonde” and co-directed the first “John Wick”). If you’re looking for a good time, this is the ticket.
Emily the Criminal
Starting on Dec. 7 you can stream “Emily the Criminal,” a compelling indie thriller featuring another stellar performance from Aubrey Plaza. The “Parks and Recreation” alum has become an indie darling of sorts as of late, and stars here as a woman deeply in debt who’s struggling to pay her student loans due to a felony conviction on her record. She then slowly gets caught up in being a scammer, and things unravel from there.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Guillermo del Toro’s first stop-motion feature film arrives on Netflix on Dec. 9, and this is “Pinocchio” like you’ve never seen the story before. Co-written and directed by del Toro, this adaptation features the voices of Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Burn Gorman, Cate Blanchett, Finn Wolfhard, Ron Perlman and Tilda Swinton and offers up a fantastical twist on the Carlo Collodi Italian classic. Emotional and awe-inspiring in equal measure, make this one a priority.
Prisoners
If it’s hard-boiled thrillers you’re looking for, “Prisoners” is streaming on Dec. 10 is a pretty taut (and handsomely crafted) entry in the genre. Directed by Denis Villeneuve of “Arrival” and “Dune” fame, the film stars Hugh Jackman as a man whose daughter is abducted and decides to take matters into his own hands when he identifies a suspicious suspect (played by Paul Dano). Jake Gyllenhaal plays the detective trying to crack the case, but this one’s less about plot and more about the toll the case takes on these individuals, with an all-star cast rounded out by Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard and Melissa Leo. It also features stellar cinematography by Roger Deakins and a haunting score by the late Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
You simply must, must, must watch “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” when it hits the streamer on Dec. 23. This “Knives Out” sequel (once again written and directed by Rian Johnson) is a brand new mystery, with Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc as the only returning character from the original film. This time, he’s invited to a secluded island by a tech billionaire (played by Edward Norton), who has gathered a group of his closest friends – played by Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr. and Janelle Monae – in Greece to play an elaborate murder mystery game. To say more would spoil the surprises, but suffice it to say this is just as thrilling, hilarious and surprising as the first “Knives Out” and you’ll want to watch it again immediately once it’s over.
White Noise
Filmmaker Noah Baumbach is back on Dec. 30 with his first film since his Oscar-winning “Marriage Story,” but this time he’s tackling something completely different. The 1990s-set “White Noise” is based on the Don DeLillo novel of the same name and stars Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig as parents navigating the fallout of an “Airborne Toxic Event” that’s the result of a train accident that threatens their entire town. The A24-produced film has drawn comparisons to Steven Spielberg’s “1941” so hold on to your butts.
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Former CNN anchor Brian Stelter says the demise of live programming on HLN marks the end of companionship TV in an op-ed published in The Atlantic Friday.
“The demise of HLN, CNN’s 40-year-old sister station, which will stop airing original newscasts next week, deserves attention not just because it marks the end of an era but because it’s a reminder of how eras in media actually end. Before death comes obsolescence,” Stelter wrote. “Viewers tuning in for companionship may find only the faintest echo of what once was. The TV will still be on, but all the warmth is gone.”
Though Stelter notes that “Media Winter” consistently brings layoffs and cost-cutting measures across the industry — this year that list includes CNN, who recently laid off hundreds of staffers, The Washington Post, NPR and Gannett newspaper chain — he sees cutting HLN’s live programming as “fixture of cable television [that went] belly up.”
Created by Ted Turner, HLN (Headline News, as it was formerly known) was launched in 1982, just 19 months after CNN was founded, and provided headlines and quick bursts of news throughout the day that kept up with news in a way CNN’s in-depth interviews were unable to maintain.
However, as the iPhone and Twitter snatched up the concept of short-form news, the network evolved to house talk shows hosted by the likes of Glenn Beck, Joy Behar and Drew Pinsky, among others, while Nancy Grace’s crime show launched the network into popularity.
“The ground was shifting dramatically, and HLN was trying to find a way to stay standing,” Stelter wrote. “Here’s the problem with obsolescence, though: It isn’t just the ground that shifts. It’s the whole media universe.”
As HLN found its footing, Robin Meade, weekday-morning host and the “longest-tenured morning hosts in history,” emerged as the face of the network — a figure Stelter says “TikTok’s emerging stars could learn a thing or two from” in terms of “connecting all the way through the camera lens to the person on the other side.”
“Television news, the way I see it, is about consistency and companionship,” the former “Reliable Sources” host, whose show was canceled in August, continued. “Or it was, anyway. TV journalists break big stories and speak truth to power the same way journalists in every other medium do—but the thing that sets TV apart is the relationship forged between the people on either side of the screen. Viewers form emotional bonds with the anchors they watch and stream.”
Though Stelter said no one who he spoke to at HLN seemed surprised at the announcement since “it seemed inevitable that the news on HLN would stop altogether at some point,” he lamented Meade’s substantial fan base that “your average podcast host or Substack writer could only dream of.”
“Meade’s fans are right to feel a sense of loss,” he concluded. “This strained moment for TV news has no small number of anchors and hosts questioning what they thought they knew about the medium—and how much shelf space will exist for them in the future.”
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Arizona state officials will meet on Monday to conduct the state’s vote canvass and officially declare winners from last month’s elections, a once low-profile step that this year is expected to spark lawsuits from multiple Republicans.
GOP figures have seized on printer malfunctions in the most populous jurisdiction of Maricopa County, contesting election officials’ insistence that no voter was disenfranchised and vowing to fight back in court when the state moves ahead.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s and Republican attorney general candidate Abraham Hamadeh’s campaigns have both signaled they will take legal action after tomorrow’s meeting, and the certification is also expected to spark recounts in multiple close races.
Republicans have also criticized Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs (D) for declining to recuse herself from signing Monday’s paperwork given that she is now governor-elect, having defeated Lake last month.
Hobbs’s office has pushed back on those criticisms, portraying it as a ministerial act and noting that Gov. Doug Ducey (R), state Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) and the state supreme court’s chief justice are also expected to be in attendance.
The standoff echoes two years ago, when Ducey ignored a call from former President Trump to overturn President Biden’s victory in the state.
Here’s what to expect after Arizona certifies the vote tomorrow at 10 a.m. local time:
Automatic recounts
Under state law, election officials conduct recounts of races in which the vote difference between candidates is less than 0.5 percent following the state canvass.
Sophia Solis, a spokeswoman for Hobbs’s office, said that means Monday’s meeting will spark recounts for the contests for attorney general, state superintendent and a state legislative seat near Phoenix.
In the attorney general’s race, Hamadeh, the Republican candidate, trails Democrat Kris Mayes by just 510 votes out of more than 2.5 million ballots cast — a margin of just 0.02 percent.
That razor-thin margin would have gone to an automatic recount in years past as well, but a new law passed by the state legislature earlier this year increased the threshold from 0.1 percent to 0.5 percent.
That will cause Republican Tom Horne and Democrat Kathy Hoffman’s race for state superintendent to also go to a recount. Horne currently leads Hoffman by 0.36 percentage points, or about 9,000 raw votes.
New GOP lawsuits
Hamadeh’s and Lake’s campaigns have both indicated they will contest the results after the state canvass on Monday. Under state law, they have five days to do so after the meeting.
Hamadeh had already formally contested his election result in court, but a state judge dismissed the case as premature, saying Hamadeh must wait until the state canvass takes place.
Democrats had asked the judge to dismiss the case with prejudice so that Hamadeh wouldn’t be able to refile it after Monday, but the judge declined to do so.
“Plaintiffs’ lawsuit is premature,” the judge ruled. “That does not mean Plaintiffs must wait to file suit until after a recount, which everyone agrees will be needed for this race.”
A spokesperson for Hamadeh said last week he planned to refile the case after the state meeting, adding that “the merits of the lawsuit still stand.”
Hamadeh’s suit largely focuses on the printer malfunctions in Maricopa County — which includes Phoenix and roughly 60 percent of Arizona’s population — that printed ballots too light for tabulators to read.
County election officials have insisted voters could use one of multiple backup options, but Hamadeh’s now-dismissed lawsuit accuses them of misconduct and contests statistics they published about the issues.
Lake’s campaign has yet to formally contest her election result, but the Trump ally has conducted a series of interviews in recent days signaling she will do so.
“We’re going to be bringing our lawsuit after it is certified at the state level,” Lake told conservative radio host Joe Pags last week. “And we believe we have an excellent lawsuit. We have great attorneys working on it.”
Continuation of existing lawsuits
Although Lake has not formally contested her election result, she and others have filed other lawsuits in the wake of the election.
Lake’s campaign last month sued over public records requests it filed asking for additional data on the Maricopa County malfunctions, asking a state judge to delay the county’s certification until it completed the request.
Maricopa’s GOP-controlled board unanimously certified its vote canvass last week after responding to a separate information request from Arizona’s attorney general.
The judge has now expedited the case, scheduling a hearing for Wednesday afternoon.
“The Court hopes that the parties will resolve this dispute prior to the hearing, in which case the hearing will not be necessary,” the judge wrote in announcing the timeline.
Other Arizona Republicans have filed a series of lawsuits that have also been unsuccessful so far, but it is possible they could still appeal.
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“Emancipation” producer Joey McFarland apologized Sunday for bringing a graphic photo of the enslaved laborer who inspired the film to the Los Angeles premiere last week.
“I wholeheartedly apologize to everyone I have offended by bringing a photograph of Peter to the ‘Emancipation’ premiere,” McFarland wrote in a statement posted on his Instagram. “My intent was to honor this remarkable man and to remind the general public that his image not only brought about change in 1863 but still resonates and promotes change today.”
The producer was criticized for bringing the image, known as “Whipped Peter,” to the premiere after telling Variety in a red carpet interview that he “wanted a piece of Peter to be here tonight.” The 1863 photo, which depicts the abused back of an enslaved laborer named Gordon and contributed to the growing public sentiment to end enslavement, was the jumping off point for “Emancipation,” which takes inspiration from Gordon’s life for a character played by Will Smith.
“I hope my actions didn’t distract from the film’s message, Peter’s story and just how much impact he had on the world,” he continued, adding that after uncovering Peter’s origin story with the help of historians, he worked with the film’s creative team to platform the story “so worldwide audiences would have an opportunity to appreciate his heroism.”
McFarland also addressed his growing collection of “photographs of overlooked and historically important individuals whose stories also needed to be told,” noting that a photograph of Martin Delaney is currently on loan to the National Portrait Gallery.
“My plan was always to donate the photographs to the appropriate institution, in consultation with the community, and I believe there is no better time to begin that process than now,” he wrote, less than a week after telling Variety the collection would be donated “at the end of [his] life for educational purposes.”
“These photographs, which existed before me, will be around long after I am gone; they belong to the world,” he concluded. “My goal has always been to find the right permanent home and make sure they are accessible, to honor their significance. And most importantly, that the individuals depicted in the photographs are remembered and their stories are told with the greatest dignity and respect.”
“Emancipation” follows an enslaved laborer named Peter, played by Smith, as he escapes the clutches of abusive plantation owners to reunite with his family. The treacherous journey tests Peter’s persistence as he trudges through the brutal Louisiana swamps and eventually joins the Union army.
Antoine Fuqua directed the film, which is currently playing in limited theatrical release before streaming on Apple TV+.
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Community shaken by 7-year-old' Athena Strand's killing
Pastor Charles Pugh of First Baptist Cottondale was brought to tears early Saturday morning when he showed up to his church to see a tiara dropped off by a stranger for killed 7-year-old Athena Strand.
On Saturday, one day after Athena's body was found, Mark Strand posted his thoughts on his loss and his journey to forgiving Horner.
"This man I am, is angry and I want 5 minutes alone in a cell with the psycho that took our Athena away from us, but there's a soft gentle voice in the back of my head telling me I need to forgive him," Strand writes.
Strand goes on to say he believes that voice is God.
"If I allow this hate to consume me, that voice will fade and eventually be silenced. Then that ugly spirit of hate will have succeeded and that’s why this gentle voice persists to tell me I need to forgive this man," he writes.
Leaning on his faith, Strand eventually says he forgives Horner.
"There’s not one ounce of my flesh that wants to do this or say this, but my spirit has heard God’s voice and right now, while tears flood my eyes, I declare publicly that I forgive this man!" said Strand.
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Wise County officials are asking the community to wear Athena's favorite color, pink, on Monday.
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Bentley-driving accused cult leader has 20 wives as young as age 9, possibly married own daughter, FBI alleges
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - The FBI is accusing a 46-year-old Arizona alleged polygamist cult leader of having 20 wives, many of whom were underage — as young as 9 years old — and of possibly marrying his own daughter.
The wives were allegedly trafficked across state lines in a trailer — forced to use a bucket as a toilet — while the self-proclaimed prophet drove two Bentleys while pushing failed business ventures in real estate and goal coaching.
Samuel Rappylee Bateman — as well as his coconspirators and aiders and abettors — is accused of engaging in the transportation of minors in interstate commerce to engage in criminal sexual activity and travel interstate commerce to engage in illicit sexual conduct with minors, between May 2020 and November 2021, between Arizona, Utah, Nevada and Nebraska. He was first indicted by a federal grand jury on Sept. 6.
The investigation revealed that on August 28, 2022, Bateman, with aiders and abettors, committed obstruction of justice by destroying records of their illegal actions, according to federal prosecutors.
Bateman is a self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a subset of the fundamentalist Mormon denominations whose members practice polygamy.
It was revealed that Bateman allegedly "has approximately 50 followers and over 20 wives, many of whom are minors, mostly under the age of 15," according to a new FBI affidavit included in a criminal complaint against three newly charged co-conspirators. "Bateman allegedly has ‘impressions of Heavenly Father's will’ to encourage his followers, including the minor children, to engage in sexual acts and relies on that submission to do his own will."
The probable-cause affidavit was filed in federal court on Friday by FBI Agent Dawn A. Martin.
Some of Bateman’s wives were the wives or daughters of Bateman’s male followers.
Bateman is also accused of trying to take his own daughter as a wife. According to the affidavit, Martin spoke with a couple familiar with Bateman who were filming a documentary about the community.
In about November or December 2020, Bateman drove to the couple’s house in Colorado City, Arizona, in a large SUV packed with women and girls, according to the affidavit. Bateman introduced everyone as his wives. The youngest of the girls was born in 2011, meaning she was at the oldest, age 9.
The affidavit also describes video calls on which Bateman and everyone else on the call were reportedly naked and performed group sex acts. In a so-called "Binding of Brothers" ritual, Bateman allegedly would often have sex with the wives of his male followers often while other men and underage girls watched.
Bateman, who has failed business ventures in real estate and goal coaching, had been attending MasterMind conferences in Cancun, Mexico. The affidavit says Bateman drove two Bentleys.
Meanwhile, his underage wives were reportedly transported in a trailer with a bucket and trash bag as a makeshift toilet.
On November 1, 2021, Bateman allegedly claimed the "Heavenly Father" told him to "give the most precious thing he has, his girls' virtue," to three of his male followers in a group sex act, according to audio and video recordings cited in the affidavit. One of the girls involved was just 12 years old.
"The girls, who were crying on the recording, said they hurt but there was not darkness. Bateman said the girls have sacrificed their virtue for the Lord," the affidavit says. "Bateman said, ‘God will fix their bodies and put the membrane back in their body. I've never had more confidence in doing his will. It's all out of love.’ The girls ended with ‘It's a privilege to hurt for someone else so they can rise.'"
In 2019, Bateman began to proclaim he was a prophet, translated from Warren Jeffs, whom Bateman and his followers often refer to as "Uncle Warren." Jeffs was the former leader of the FLDS church. He was reported to have up to 78 wives, including minors.
In 2006, Jeffs was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List for his flight from charges that he arranged illegal marriages between his adult male followers and underage girls in Utah. Jeffs was charged with multiple crimes involving the sexual assault of minors in three states and is currently serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting some of his underage wives.
Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, of Colorado City, Arizona, is accused of the transportation of minors in interstate commerce to engage in criminal sexual activity. (Coconino County Sheriff's Office)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Performers such as Gladys Knight or the Irish band U2 usually would be headlining a concert for thousands but at Sunday's Kennedy Center Honors the tables will be turned as they and other artists will be the ones feted for their lifetime of artistic contributions.
Actor, director, producer and human rights activist George Clooney, groundbreaking composer and conductor Tania León, and contemporary Christian singer Amy Grant will join Knight and the entire crew of U2 in being honored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The organization honors a select group of people every year for their artistic influences on American culture. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their respective spouses are slated to attend.
Biden paid tribute to the honorees before the ceremony at the White House Sunday afternoon, praising them before a star-studded East Room crowd as an “exceptional group of artists.”
“Thank you for showing us the power of the arts and ‘We the People,’” Biden said.
He highlighted Clooney’s on-camera work and off-screen charity endeavors, from helping 9/11 victims’ families to supporting a gun control campaign led by the survivors of the Parkland school shooting.
“He is unrelenting and undaunted,” Biden said. “That is character in real life. And that is George Clooney.”
Biden hailed Grant’s voice as “a true gift from God that she shares with everyone,” thanked León for ’breathing new sounds into the soul of the nation,” and said he has all of Knight’s songs on his iPhone.
“We’re going to get on that midnight train,” Biden said of Knight. “Because I speak for all Americans when I say we we’d rather live in your world than be without you in ours.”
Biden, noting his love of Irish poets, called U2 “four sons of Ireland, poets in their own right” whose music “has changed the world.”
“We would do well to remember today at a moment when there’s too much hate, too much anger, too much division here in America, and quite frankly, around the world,” Biden said. “We have to remember today, as their song goes: ‘We are one but we’re not the same. We get to carry each other.’”
The 61-year-old Clooney has television credits going back into the late 1970s but became a household name with the role of Doug Ross on the television show “ER.”
From there he starred in movies such as “Three Kings," “Ocean's Eleven" (and “Twelve” and “Thirteen”), “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and his most recent film, “Ticket to Paradise." He also has extensive directing and producing credits including “Good Night, and Good Luck." He and his wife, humanitarian rights lawyer Amal Clooney, created the Clooney Foundation for Justice, and he's produced telethons to raise money for various causes.
Knight, 78, said in a statement that she was “humbled beyond words” at receiving the Kennedy honor. The Georgia-born Knight began singing gospel music at the age of 4 and went on to a career that has spanned decades.
Knight and family members started a band that would later be known as Gladys Knight & The Pips and produced their first album in 1960 when Knight was just 16. Since then she's recorded dozens of albums with such classic hits as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “Midnight Train to Georgia.” Along the way she's acted in television shows and movies. When Knight and the band were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Mariah Carey described Knight as "a textbook you learn from.”
U2's strong connection to America goes back decades. They performed in Washington during their first trip to America in 1980. In a statement the band — made up of Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. — said they originally came to America with big dreams “fueled in part by the commonly held belief at home that America smiles on Ireland.”
“And it turned out to be true, yet again,” read the statement. “It has been a four-decade love affair with the country and its people, its artists, and culture.”
U2 has sold 170 million albums and been honored with 22 Grammys. The band’s epic singles include “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” “Pride (In the Name of Love)” and “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” Lead singer Bono has also become known for his philanthropic work to eradicate poverty and to raise awareness about AIDS.
Grant is well known for crossover pop hits like “Baby, Baby,” “Every Heartbeat” and “That’s What Love is For.” She’s sold more than 30 million albums, including her 1991 record “Heart in Motion,” which introduced her to a larger pop audience.
León said during an interview when the honorees were announced that she wasn't expecting “anything spectacular” when the Kennedy Center initially reached out to her. After all, she's worked with the Kennedy Center numerous times over the years going back to 1980, when she was commissioned to compose music for a play.
But the 79-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner said she was stunned to learn that this time the ceremony was going to be for her.
León left Cuba as a refugee in 1967 and eventually settled in New York City. She's a founding member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem and instituted the Brooklyn Philharmonic Community Concert Series.
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A pair of golden performances elevates the standard entertainment biopic in “George & Tammy,” a six-part limited series airing on Showtime.
The story behind George & Tammy plays out like a real-life “Star Is Born:” king of his respective entertainment genre takes a young upstart under his wing and falls in love with her – but his substance abuse issues only get worse when her star starts to eclipse his. Of course, the real-life romance of king of country music George Jones (played by Michael Shannon) and his queen Tammy Wynette (played by Jessica Chastain) takes some extensive detours. But at this point in the music biopic era, we’ve already seen a multitude of missed gigs, dressing room arguments, and bottles hurled against a wall, preferably smashing a mirror (although Jones driving drunk on a riding mower is the stuff of alcoholic legend).
Fortunately for “George & Tammy,” its two leads rise up to meet – and even surpass – their source material (the memoir “The Three of Us: Growing Up with Tammy and George” by the pair’s only child, Georgette Jones), building on the marital chemistry they displayed in 2011’s “Take Shelter.”
Much has been made of Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain traveling to Nashville to learn how to embody the country sound that made Jones and Wynette such legends, and that effort has certainly paid off. As each episode is named after a popular song by the pair, we get to see the events leading up to the crafting of hits like “We’re Gonna Hold On” and “Two-Story Home.” This makes their eventual performance that much more poignant, as when a shaken-but-still-standing Tammy sings “Stand By Your Man” after a horrifying experience with a drunkenly abusive Jones.
Michael Shannon has deserved a legendary main role like this one for quite a while, and his fearlessness in embracing all of Jones, from his hypnotic charm to his all-consuming demons, is mesmerizing. (The scenes where George is on one of his alcohol-fueled tirades are appropriately shot and scored like a horror movie.) The musically gifted actor (who has his own band, Corporal), admirably dares to take on one of the greatest performances in all of country music – Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today.” And his heartrending delivery of George’s divorce song “The Grand Tour” is nearly as devastating as Jones’ own.
Yes, Chastain is playing another real-life Tammy, (after winning an Oscar for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” which was also written by “George & Tammy” creator Abe Silvia), and again, she is less portraying the character than possessing her completely. We can’t help but pull for Chastain’s Tammy as the stronger, stabilizing force in the relationship, which makes it all the more devastating when she also falls prey to addiction, abusing pain medication after a problematic hysterectomy. Tammy is dynamic enough to save herself from some perils, but unfortunately, not all of them.
But if your name isn’t George or Tammy in this series, there isn’t a whole hell of a lot for you to do. Stellar character actors like Walton Goggins and Katy Mixon are wasted in the roles of George’s bandmate/drinking buddy Peanutt and Tammy’s pal/hairdresser Jan, respectively. At least the usually-impossible-to-dislike Steve Zahn gets to dive deep into the villainous role of Tammy’s fifth and final husband, George Richey. But even with all that extra time, “George & Tammy” fails to explain why she even married Richey (alluding to a combination of blackmail and intravenous drug addiction), let alone stayed married to him for 20 years until her death in 1998.
As enjoyable as “George & Tammy” can be at times, especially when its two main players are adorably flirting onstage or melding two singing voices that seem born to fit together, there’s a definite feeling that six episodes was at least two too many. The first few episodes herald the speedy momentum of the pair falling in love (George overturning the dinner table of Tammy’s about-to-be ex-husband is especially explosive), which just makes the ones that come afterward appear to drag, especially after the two have broken up and are on wildly different paths. After all, if the legendary love story of Johnny Cash and June Carter could be told in a two-hour movie, why do George & Tammy merit around triple that time?
Still, the Showtime limited series — directed by John Hillcoat — is able to miraculously capture that feeling when you connect with someone who’s going to be in your life forever, never minding your past, and no matter what your divorce papers and current marital status may indicate. For all their musical success, the love of Tammy and George was also at greater risk due to the public spectacle of their romance – fans couldn’t get enough of them, which was good for business, not so much for the relationship. George pleads with Tammy, “This thing that’s just ours, it shouldn’t be for everybody else,” but managers, record labels, magazine interviews, and chart positions were bound to get in the way.
Throughout the series, if Tammy is in the room, George can’t look at anyone else, because for him there isn’t anyone else. One of the series’ brighter and most unexpected moments shows Shannon and Chastain portraying Tammy and George much later in life, obviously still enjoying each other immensely. George worries in the series that the couple would eventually lose their fire. But the brave, emotionally vulnerable performances of “George & Tammy” indicate that the pair’s unbridled chemistry was able to withstand everything that life threw at them, even if the marriage didn’t last.
“George & Tammy” premieres on Showtime on Sunday, Dec. 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, and the first episode will be simulcast behind “Yellowstone” on Paramount Network.
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Commanders tie Giants at 20 after New York's game winning kick falls short
NEW YORK - Giants kicker Graham Gano came up well short on a 58-yard field goal attempt as time expired in overtime, leaving New York and the Washington Commanders tied at 20 Sunday in a deadlock between teams on the periphery of the NFC playoff picture.
Taylor Heinicke threw two touchdown passes for Washington and hit a crucial fourth-down pass on a tying 90-yard touchdown drive late in the fourth quarter.
The Giants (7-4-1) ended a two-game losing streak, while the Commanders (7-5-1) are unbeaten in four (3-0-1) and have only one loss in their last eight games. The teams held the final two NFC postseason spots as the standings stood at the final whistle.
EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - DECEMBER 04: Taylor Heinicke #4 of the Washington Commanders throws a pass in the second half of a game against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on December 04, 2022 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Al Bel
Heinicke was 27 of 41 for 275 yards and threw touchdown passes of 19 yards to Terry McLaurin (8 catches, 105 yards) and 28 to Johan Dotson that tied it with 1:45 to play. That drive featured Heinicke rolling to his left to hit Curtis Samuel for 20 yards on a fourth-and-4 play from his own 27 with less than three minutes to play.
Daniel Jones threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Isaiah Hodgins, and Saquon Barkley scored on a 13-yard run. Gano kicked two field goals for the Giants, who are trying to make the playoffs for the first time since 2016.
EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - DECEMBER 04: Brian Robinson Jr. #8 of the Washington Commanders runs with the ball as Jaylon Smith #54 of the New York Giants defends in the first quarter at MetLife Stadium on December 04, 2022 in East Rutherford, New J
The Giants’ defense set up Hodgins’ first NFL touchdown early in the second half for a 20-13 lead. Linebacker Azeez Ojulari, who came off injured reserve for the game, sacked Heinicke and forced a fumble. Oshane Ximines recovered, fumbled and Ojulari recovered at the 20-yard line.
Washington took leads of 10-0 and 13-10 only to see the Giants tie it just before halftime on Gano’s second field goal. Joey Slye kicked two field goals for the Commanders.
EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - DECEMBER 04: Jahan Dotson #1 of the Washington Commanders scores a touchdown in the fourth quarter of a game against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on December 04, 2022 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by A
McLaurin scored after breaking a tackle by Fabian Moreau on a short pass from Heinicke.
Barkley tallied on a 13-yard run through a gapping hole for New York’s TD.
EAST RUTHERFORD, NEW JERSEY - DECEMBER 04: Terry McLaurin #17 of the Washington Commanders celebrates after scoring a touchdown in the first quarter of a game against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium on December 04, 2022 in East Rutherford, New
The Commanders have a bye week next week, before hosting the Giants for a rematch on December 18.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has dismissed felony wage theft and fraud charges against 48 Highway Patrol Officers who were accused in an overtime fraud scheme.
The Sacramento Bee reports the dismissals last Thursday ended most of the criminal cases against 54 CHP officers in East Los Angeles who were suspected of fraudulently obtaining pay for unworked overtime on Caltrans protective details in the area.
LA County Superior Court Judge Ronald Coen last month said he would reduce the felonies to misdemeanors and then dismiss them if the officers agreed to pay back the money the CHP accused them of improperly receiving. The deal did not require the officers to admit guilt.
Fifty-two officers took the deal, and 48 of them had satisfied its conditions in time for the charges to be dismissed Thursday, according to the Bee.
Two rejected the deal, and a preliminary hearing will be scheduled for them in February, according to state Attorney General Rob Bonta's office.
“Over our objection, the judge offered to reduce the felonies and allow the officers to complete a misdemeanor diversion program by paying restitution,” the attorney general's office said in an email to the Bee.
The CHP announced in 2019 that it had identified about $360,000 in fraudulent overtime pay at the East LA station through an investigation begun a year earlier. Chief Mark Garrett called the station’s overtime practices “abhorrent” and anomalistic among the department’s 103 offices around the state.
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Community rallies after 'racist, hateful' graffiti found in Loudoun County; Sheriff's office investigating
SOUTH RIDING, Va. - Loudoun County residents rallied against hateful and racist graffiti that was found in the South Riding area of the county.
The "racist, anti-semitic, and homophobic graffiti" was found painted near the Food Lion in the South Riding Town Center on Friday, according to local group Loudoun4All, a community organization that supports equity.
About 50 local residents joined the rally, which took place along Tall Cedars Parkway, near where the graffiti was found.
"Hate has no home here in Loudoun County," said a press released from Loudoun4All. According to the event's Facebook page, the idea behind the rally was to show that the South Riding community won't tolerate the hateful rhetoric, while also showing "support for our diverse, inclusive community."
The graffiti was removed thanks to the help of community members and Timbers Landscaping Care LLC, after the Loudoun County Sheriff's office informed them that they could not remove the hateful message because they were on private, commercial property. In a Facebook post, Timbers Landscaping Care LLC called the move "erasing hate."
The Sheriff's Office said they are investigating the vandalism, adding that "there is no place in society for this behavior."
The Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney released the following statement about the graffiti:
"Without a doubt, Loudoun County is made better and stronger by the diversity of our residents. This weekend, our community was attacked by individuals who chose to graffiti the South Riding shopping center with vile and hateful markings. This public display of hate speech is sadly another reminder that there are some who will choose to try and divide our community, or worse threaten our safety. The intentional attack on specific, marginalized groups within our county will not be tolerated. We are a united community of one, and as such we must remain vigilant to protect our values and freedoms as Loudouners. If you have information on this incident and those responsible, please reach out to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office at 703-777-1919 and assist us in bringing them to justice. My office is committed to protecting our diverse communities and will continue to fight against racial, ethnic and religious hate wherever it rears its poisonous head."
Authorities have not released information about a possible suspect or suspects in the vandalism.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call 703-777-1021.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Jurors in the capital murder trial of a former U.S. Border Patrol agent have heard a taped interview in which he confesses to the 2018 killings of four sex workers in South Texas.
If convicted of capital murder, Juan David Ortiz, 39, faces life in prison without parole because prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty. The trial started on Nov. 28 and is set to continue on Monday.
Ortiz, a Navy veteran, was a Border Patrol intelligence supervisor at the time of his arrest in September 2018. Ortiz, who officials have said wasn’t on duty during the killings and wore civilian clothes, is accused of killing Melissa Ramirez, 29; Claudine Anne Luera, 42; Guiselda Alicia Cantu, 35; and Janelle Ortiz, 28.
Each woman was shot in the head and left along roads on the outskirts of Laredo in September. One died of blunt force trauma after being shot.
Juan David Ortiz told detectives in the video played in court last week that as he drove along a stretch of road that the women frequented, “the monster would come out,” the San Antonio Express-News reported. He told investigators he wanted to “clean up the streets,” and referred to the women as “trash” and “so dirty.”
Ortiz’s attorney, Joel Perez, argued in opening statements that investigators had jumped to conclusions, and that his client’s confession was “coerced.” He said his client was “broken” and “suicidal” when he made the confession and told investigators he'd had blackouts. Perez said that Ortiz told the investigators that he was a war veteran who'd been experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder and was unable to sleep and was having nightmares. Perez said Ortiz had been put on “a bunch of psychotic pills."
The ex-agent's arrest was set in motion when a woman, Erika Pena, escaped from him when he pointed a gun at her while they were in his truck at a gas station on Sept. 14, 2018. Pena, now 31, testified that Ortiz would give her money for drugs, drive her to buy them and then they would have sex.
Normally, she said, he was “nice, smart, funny, a normal guy,” but on Sept. 14, 2018, she got a bad feeling after he told her he was the “next to last person” to have sex with Ramirez, who was found slain the week earlier. She testified that he was worried investigators would find his DNA.
“It made me think that he was the one who might have been murdering,” Pena told the jury.
Luera had been fatally shot on Sept. 13, 2018.
After Pena escaped, Ortiz fled from the gas station but was later arrested when authorities tracked him to a hotel parking garage.
In the interview with investigators, Ortiz said that after Ramirez had injected the drugs he's bought for her, she'd passed out and that “angered” him. He said that when she regained consciousness, she became belligerent. Ortiz said that when he stopped so that she could use the restroom, he shot her in the back of the head.
Ortiz told investigators that after picking up Luera and taking her to get “a fix," he told her they should check out where Ramirez's body was found. He said she “started freaking out.” She died at a hospital after being shot in the head.
Capt. Federico Calderon of the Webb County Sheriff’s Department testified that officers who arrested Ortiz knew about the slayings of Ramirez and Luera, and while chasing him after Pena's escape learned that a third body — later identified as that of Cantu — had been found.
Calderon said it wasn't until Ortiz's confession that they learned about a fourth slain woman — later identified as Janelle Ortiz.
Calderon told jurors that the information about a fourth victim was “volunteered” by Ortiz and “surprised us completely.”
Both Janelle Ortiz and Cantu were killed in the hours before Juan David Ortiz's arrest.
Ortiz said on the tape that he’d planned to kill himself that night and that Cantu told him: "Don’t do it. God loves you.” Then, he said, he shot her in the neck.
The trial is being held in San Antonio, in Bexar County, following a defense request to move the trial from Webb County due to extensive media coverage.
The Border Patrol placed Ortiz on indefinite, unpaid suspension after his arrest. When asked last week for an update on his current employment status, a Border Patrol official said the agency doesn’t comment on “pending litigation.”
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George Clooney, Gladys Knight and U2 among Kennedy Center honorees
WASHINGTON - Performers such as Gladys Knight or the Irish band U2 usually would be headlining a concert for thousands but at Sunday’s Kennedy Center Honors the tables will be turned as they and other artists will be the ones feted for their lifetime of artistic contributions.
Actor, director, producer and human rights activist George Clooney, groundbreaking composer and conductor Tania León, and contemporary Christian singer Amy Grant will join Knight and the entire crew of U2 in being honored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The organization honors a select group of people every year for their artistic influences on American culture. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their respective spouses are slated to attend.
The 61-year-old Clooney — the actor among this year’s musically leaning group of honorees — has television credits going back into the late 1970s but became a household name with the role of Doug Ross on the television show "ER."
US President Joe Biden shakes hands with Kennedy Center honoree US singer Gladys Knight during a reception for the Kennedy Center Honorees in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 4, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo b
From there he starred in movies such as "Three Kings," "Ocean’s Eleven" (and "Twelve" and "Thirteen"), "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and his most recent film, "Ticket to Paradise." He also has extensive directing and producing credits including "Good Night, and Good Luck." He and his wife, humanitarian rights lawyer Amal Clooney, created the Clooney Foundation for Justice, and he’s produced telethons to raise money for various causes.
"To be mentioned in the same breath with the rest of these incredible artists is an honor. This is a genuinely exciting surprise for the whole Clooney family," said Clooney in a statement on the Center’s website.
Knight, 78, said in a statement that she was "humbled beyond words" at receiving the Kennedy honor. The Georgia-born Knight began singing gospel music at the age of 4 and went on to a career that has spanned decades.
Knight and family members started a band that would later be known as Gladys Knight & The Pips and produced their first album in 1960 when Knight was just 16. Since then she’s recorded dozens of albums with such classic hits as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight Train to Georgia." Along the way she’s acted in television shows and movies. When Knight and the band were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Mariah Carey described Knight as "a textbook you learn from."
Sometimes the Kennedy Center honors not just individuals but groups; "Sesame Street" once got the nod.
This year it’s the band U2. The group’s strong connection to America goes back decades. They performed in Washington during their first trip to America in 1980. In a statement the band — made up of Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. — said they originally came to America with big dreams "fueled in part by the commonly held belief at home that America smiles on Ireland."
"And it turned out to be true, yet again," read the statement. "It has been a four-decade love affair with the country and its people, its artists, and culture."
U2 has sold 170 million albums and been honored with 22 Grammys. The band’s epic singles include "I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For," "Pride (In the Name of Love)" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday." Lead singer Bono has also become known for his philanthropic work to eradicate poverty and to raise awareness about AIDS.
Christian music performer Amy Grant said in an interview with The Associated Press that she’d never even been to the Kennedy Center Honors even though her husband, country musician Vince Gill, has performed during previous ceremonies. Grammy winner Grant is well known for crossover pop hits like "Baby, Baby," "Every Heartbeat" and "That’s What Love is For." She’s sold more than 30 million albums, including her 1991 record "Heart in Motion," which introduced her to a larger pop audience.
Composer and conductor León said during an interview when the honorees were announced that she wasn’t expecting "anything spectacular" when the Kennedy Center initially reached out to her. After all, she’s worked with the Kennedy Center numerous times over the years going back to 1980, when she was commissioned to compose music for a play.
But the 79-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner said she was stunned to learn that this time the ceremony was going to be for her.
León left Cuba as a refugee in 1967 and eventually settled in New York City. She’s a founding member of the Dance Theatre of Harlem and instituted the Brooklyn Philharmonic Community Concert Series.
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Iran's morality police may be shut down, top official suggests
An Iranian lawmaker said Sunday that Iran's government is "paying attention to the people’s real demands," state media reported, a day after a top official suggested that the country’s morality police whose conduct helped trigger months of protests has been shut down.
The role of the morality police, which enforces veiling laws, came under scrutiny after a detainee, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, died in its custody in mid-September. Amini had been held for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress codes. Her death unleashed a wave of unrest that has grown into calls for the downfall of Iran's clerical rulers.
Iran's chief prosecutor Mohamed Jafar Montazeri said on Saturday the morality police "had been closed," the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The agency did not provide details, and state media hasn't reported such a purported decision.
In a report carried by ISNA on Sunday, lawmaker Nezamoddin Mousavi signaled a less confrontational approach toward the protests.
READ MORE: Iranian government issues first known death sentence linked to recent protests over headscarf law
"Both the administration and parliament insisted that paying attention to the people’s demand that is mainly economic is the best way for achieving stability and confronting the riots," he said, following a closed meeting with several senior Iranian officials, including President Ebrahim Raisi.
Mousavi did not address the reported closure of the morality police.
The Associated Press has been unable to confirm the current status of the force, established in 2005 with the task of arresting people who violate the country’s Islamic dress code.
Since September, there has been a reported decline in the number of morality police officers across Iranian cities and an increase in women walking in public without headscarves, contrary to Iranian law.
Montazeri, the chief prosecutor, provided no further details about the future of the morality police or if its closure was nationwide and permanent. However he added that Iran’s judiciary will ‘‘continue to monitor behavior at the community level.’’
In a report by ISNA on Friday, Montazeri was quoted as saying that the government was reviewing the mandatory hijab law. "We are working fast on the issue of hijab and we are doing our best to come up with a thoughtful solution to deal with this phenomenon that hurts everyone’s heart," said Montazeri, without offering details.
Saturday's announcement could signal an attempt to appease the public and find a way to end the protests in which, according to rights groups, at least 470 people were killed. More than 18,000 people have been arrested in the protests and the violent security force crackdown that followed, according to Human Rights Activists in Iran, a group monitoring the demonstrations.
Ali Alfoneh, a senior fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, said Montazeri’s statement about closing the morality police could be an attempt to pacify domestic unrest without making real concessions to protesters.
Iranian pro-government protesters burn flags of the US, Israel and Britain during a rally against the recent anti-government protests in Iran, in Tehran, on September 25, 2022. - (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
‘‘The secular middle class loathes the organization (morality police) for restricting personal freedoms," said Alfoneh. On the other hand, the "underprivileged and socially conservative class resents how they conveniently keep away from enforcing the hijab legislation" in wealthier areas of Iran's cities.
When asked about Montazeri's statement, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian gave no direct answer. ‘‘Be sure that in Iran, within the framework of democracy and freedom, which very clearly exists in Iran, everything is going very well,’’ Amirabdollahian said, speaking during a visit to Belgrade, Serbia.
The anti-government demonstrations, now in their third month, have shown no sign of stopping despite a violent crackdown. Protesters say they are fed up after decades of social and political repression, including a strict dress code imposed on women. Young women continue to play a leading role in the protests, stripping off the mandatory Islamic headscarf to express their rejection of clerical rule.
After the outbreak of the protests, the Iranian government hadn't appeared willing to heed the protesters' demands. It has continued to crack down on protesters, including sentencing at least seven arrested protesters to death. Authorities continue to blame the unrest on hostile foreign powers, without providing evidence.
But in recent days, Iranian state media platforms seemed to be adopting a more conciliatory tone, expressing a desire to engage with the problems of the Iranian people.
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Keke Palmer reveals she’s pregnant during ‘SNL’ debut
Nope star Keke Palmer is pregnant, she revealed during her "Saturday Night Live" debut.
The 29-year-old actor and former child star shared the good news in her opening monologue.
"There’s some rumors going around. People have been in my comments, saying Keke’s having a baby, Keke’s pregnant, and I want to set the record straight: I am," she said as she showed the world her baby bump.
Palmer, who starred in the Nickelodeon series True Jackson, VP from 2008-2011, said she tried to keep the news "on the down low," but the internet had other plans.
"It is bad when people on the internet spread rumors about you, but it’s even worse when they’re correct!" she said.
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According to E! News, Palmer has been "Instagram official" with boyfriend Darius Jackson, brother of Insecure actor Sarunas Jackson, since last year.
"Honestly guys this has been an awesome year for me, I was in Jordan Peele’s Nope, and I was nominated for an Academy Award!" she joked. "That part’s not true! But it’s not lying if I’m manifesting!"
Palmer talked about her excitement on becoming a mom and shrugged off fans who "feel a little weird about me having a baby because I was a child actor."
"When I first got into comedy and I dreamed of standing on this stage, I asked myself, Keke, who will you be? Will you be like a Maya Rudolph, Eddie Murphy, a Kristen Wiig type? And now that I’m here I can tell you exactly who I am. Baby, I’m Keke Palmer."
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Welcome back, Neymar, at just the right time at the World Cup.
Neymar seemed healthy in training before Monday's game against South Korea in the round of 16. The forward missed the final two matches of the group stage after injuring his right ankle in the opening game win over Serbia.
Brazil easily moved into the next round without Neymar. No longer bothered by his ankle, Neymar was expected to start — and not come off the bench as a precautionary measure — if he plays against South Korea.
“I prefer to use my best player from the start,” Brazil coach Tite said. “It’s the coach who has to make that decision and take on that responsibility.”
In footage released by the Brazilian soccer federation, he appeared to be in good condition, doing drills with the ball and taking shots on goal without signs of his injury.
“Obviously we won’t say that it’s better to face Brazil when Neymar is playing, but I always prefer when the best players are there,” South Korea coach Paulo Bento said.
Bento hasn't been pleased with the three-day rest period between games from the group stage to the knockout round. Brazil advanced with a game to spare and was able to rest the team's stars in its final match, but South Korea had to claw its way into the knockout round with a win over Portugal.
“It’s not fair,” Bento said. “I think that it has to do with the new FIFA reality, which is to create worse conditions for the less-favored teams and probably better conditions for the more-favored ones.”
Even after the surprise win over Portugal, South Korea had to wait for over nine agonizing minutes of extra time for a game across Qatar to end. The outcome of Uruguay against Ghana determined if the South Korean's advanced into the round of 16.
When Uruguay failed to score the goals it needed to best South Korea for the final spot in Group H, the South Korean players who had formed a circle on the field to watch the game on phones erupted into joyous celebration.
South Korean captain Son Heung-min even began to cry.
South Korea is now trying to advance past the round of 16 for the first time since the Asian team's historic run as a co-host in 2002, when it reached the semifinals and finished fourth. South Korea was eliminated in the group stage in 2014 and 2018.
South Korea advanced by beating Portugal 2-1 with a dramatic stoppage-time goal by Hwang Hee-chan, who was a second-half substitute. He's expected to be in the starting lineup again against Brazil after missing the team’s first two games because of a hamstring injury.
“In the first match it was impossible for me to play and the pain got worse. I did a little running, but I thought I could play the second match, but they held me out," Hwang said, adding that playing against Portugal "was a little bit of a risk. But I didn’t care what happened to me personally. I just wanted to contribute.”
It will be the first official meeting between Brazil and South Korea, with the South Americans winning six of seven friendlies. South Korea was victorious in 1999.
“We can’t think it’s going to be an easy game like it was in that friendly,” Brazil captain Thiago Silva said. “Now it’s the World Cup and they’ve advanced in a very tough group. We have a lot of respect for them.”
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Japan and Croatia meet for the first time in the knockout round of the World Cup after the teams squared off two previous times in group play. Croatia won in 1998 and the teams finished with a goalless draw eight years later.
This time, Japan won Group E after come-from-behind 2-1 victories over Germany and Spain and is in the knockout round for back-to-back tournaments for the first time in team history.
At stake for Japan is its first trip to the quarterfinals in four tries.
“Japan is a team that doesn't quit,” Croatia coach Zlatko Dalić said. “They conceded goals at the beginning of the match both against Germany and Spain, but they came back. They had a lot of faith in themselves, and that is a great virtue of the Japan national team.”
Croatia, the runner-up to France in the 2018 World Cup, is making its third appearance in the knockout round. Croatia beat Romania in 1998 to advance to the semifinals and defeated Denmark 3-2 on penalties in 2018 en route to the final game — a 4-2 loss to reigning World Cup champion France.
It is the first time Croatia will play an Asian team in a World Cup knockout match after eight previous games against European teams.
“For us, it will be key that we are also disciplined and patient,” Dalić said. "We cannot make mistakes because Japan has the quality to punish those mistakes. We need to be good at falling back if we lose the ball.”
Croatia advanced despite two goalless draws in group play — equaling the number of scoreless games it had in the 2006, 2014 and 2018 tournaments, a span of 13 games.
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With the release of the first trailer for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” speculation and theories are already in high gear. But director James Mangold is already getting tired of where some of that “Indiana Jones 5” speculation has been going.
In a since deleted Twitter thread, Mangold — who took over directing duties from Steven Spielberg on the new “Indiana Jones” film — responded to a fan asking about rumors that Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who plays Indiana Jones’ goddaughter Helena in the upcoming summer blockbuster, would be replacing Harrison Ford as the lead in the franchise with “Dial of Destiny” serving as a passing of the torch (or hat and whip, as it would be).
The “Logan” and “Ford v. Ferrari” filmmaker’s response was swift and sharp: “One more time. No one is ‘taking over’ or replacing Indy or donning his hat nor is he being ‘erased’ thru some contrivance,” Mangold wrote. “And he never was, not not in any cut or script — but trolls will troll — that’s how they get their clicks.”
The director went further, calling out bad faith tweeters who spread rumors based on nothing but conjecture to gin up outrage.
“Please don’t exhaust me pointing out how once in a while a troll is ‘right.’ Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now & then. All one has to do is look at set photos & interviews & you get enough info to make wild guesses about a movie plot,” he wrote. “The diff between trolling a-holes & everyone else is they are trying to make [money] off your feelings about other films & culture war politics.”
“Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” is set to be the 80-year-old Ford’s final turn in his most famous leading role, and the first time he will do so without Steven Spielberg directing or George Lucas having story credit.
Mangold is director and co-writer on the film, which is set in 1969 as Indy teams up with Helena to take on Jurgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen) an ex-Nazi now employed by NASA who wishes to use the moon landing and a mysterious artifact to shape the world as he sees fit. The film will also have a score from legendary composer John Williams, who scored all four previous “Indiana Jones” films.
“Indiana Jones 5” is set for release in theaters on June 30, 2023.
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Metro to increase Red Line service during peak times starting December 5
Metro riders along the Red Line will have shorter wait times to catch a train during peak times starting on Monday, December 5.
According to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the new schedule will keep operating every eight minutes during the peak travel hours of 6 to 9 a.m. and 3 to 7 p.m.
Outside of peak times, trains will operate on their normal 10-minute schedule.
READ MORE: Metro safety commission approves 7000-series return to service plan
The move comes as the transit agency continues to bring more 7000-series trains into service.
"The Red Line service improvements are the next step toward restoring Metrorail service to budgeted levels following pandemic service reductions and the railcar shortage caused by the removal of 7000-series trains from the tracks last year," said a press release from WMATA.
The move comes after the transit agency released a return to service plan for the 7000-series trains in October.
The plan will have Metro introduce cars to multiple lines with different axle setups. Crews will then track how those setups interact with the tracks in order to determine which setups to use going forward.
Metro has been working to get more 7000-series trains back on the tracks following a derailment in October 2021.
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Starbucks fans furious over new 'awkward' tipping system
Starbucks recently rolled out a new tipping system that allows customers who are paying with card to leave the barista a tip. The new system is ruffling feathers, with baristas saying that it is awkward to ask customer's if they are choosing to leave a tip.
The new tipping feature getting rolled out across North America prompts customers who paid by card to have the option to leave a $1, $2, "other amount" or "no tip" after they have inserted their card to pay for their beverage or baked good.
The logo of the coffee shop chain Starbucks. Customers and employees of the coffee shop are frustrated with the chain after they released their new tipping system in September 2022. (Davide Bonaldo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Not everyone is happy about the new tip system, including employees, who took to TikTok to express how uncomfortable it makes them feel.
TikTok user @greenfanclub posted a now removed video on Nov. 21 showing herself working at the Starbucks drive-thru window and hiding the card machine with the tipping display open.
"When the new tipping system comes out" the video reads. She captioned the video with "social anxiety #baristaproblems."
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With more than 6.7 million views, the viral video prompted a discussion on tipping food service workers.
In another viral social media post, a Reddit user and Starbucks barista shared why the new tipping system is "awkward" for employees and customers.
"I hate the new tipping on the credit card thing… drive thrus are the worst. It’s awkward putting my hand out and waiting for them to realize what it says on the screen…" Reddit user, Swimming_Ad_2163 wrote. "I get it might be more convenient for people who don’t carry cash, but it’s just awkward…"
Starbucks reveals its new holiday cups and beverages which hit stores on Nov. 3, 2022. (Starbucks / Fox News)
Many claimed that Starbucks should simply pay their employees more rather than rely on customers for tips.
"Did Starbucks really add a tipping service?!?! They just need to pay their employees more via their ridiculously expensive products," one user wrote.
"I'm all for this tipping system as long as it’s a small business. Definitely slapping the no tip for a Starbucks," another added.
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"Here's a tip - you're charging 6 bucks for caffeine and sugar. Your employer has your tip," another wrote.
Some disagreed, sharing that they would happily leave the barista a tip.
"FINALLY! I'm so happy you guys take those now—I always feel so bad when I don't have cash," one user wrote.
"Also let me tip you! I will 100% tip because I don’t know how to make a fancy coffee," one person said.
A Starbucks barista handing out coffee through a drive thru window. (Starbucks / Fox News)
A spokesperson for Starbucks said that the popular coffee shop is "rolling out" card tipping across the U.S.
"Starbucks is rolling out the ability for customers to tip for credit card transactions at the register in the café and drive-thru. This capability began at select stores in the U.S. in September 2022 and will continue to roll out to all stores where this can apply through the end of the year." Starbucks said in a statement. "It's our goal to allow our customers to recognize baristas no matter what payment method they use, and we're excited to bring this new enhancement to stores."
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Deandre Ayton had 25 points and 10 rebounds, and the Phoenix Suns overwhelmed San Antonio 133-95 on Sunday, handing the Spurs their 11th straight loss.
San Antonio fell behind by 30 points in the second quarter and is now two losses shy of the franchise’s worst skid set in 1989.
Devin Booker and Mikal Bridges each had 20 points as Phoenix won for the seventh time in eight games.
Keldon Johnson has 27 points for the Spurs, who have not won since Nov. 11.
San Antonio was without coach Gregg Popovich for the second straight game with what the team termed a minor medical procedure. Popovich is expected to return Thursday in a home game against Houston.
Popovich is not texting San Antonio assistant coach Brett Brown with coaching advice.
“It hasn’t gotten to that,” Brown said.
Not that it would have helped the beleaguered Spurs against the Suns.
San Antonio was without starters Jakob Poeltl and Jeremy Sochan and key reserves Doug McDermott and Josh Richardson.
The matchup went as expected between the Western Conference’s best record and its worst.
Phoenix shot 52% from the field and was 19 for 37 on 3-pointers.
San Antonio’s 11 points in the second quarter were a season low for any period. The Spurs committed seven turnovers and were 5 for 20 from the field in the period.
The Spurs tied a season low with 41 points in the first half. Phoenix’s 71 points were the most given up by San Antonio in the first half this season.
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Suns: PG Chris Paul missed his 13th straight game with a sore right heel. … F Torrey Craig missed the game with a strained right groin.
Spurs: San Antonio is just 1-16 since starting the season 5-2. … G Romeo Langford, who was listed as questions with lower back tightness, played eight minutes. He had three points and made his only field goal attempt.
UP NEXT
Suns: At Dallas on Monday.
Spurs: Host Houston on Thursday.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Cole Bajema and Braxton Meah scored 16 points each and Washington held off Colorado 73-63 on Sunday.
Keion Brooks added 14 points, seven rebounds and four assists for the Huskies (7-2, 1-1 Pac-12) and Jamal Bey had 12 points and five steals.
A three-point play by PJ Fuller and a 3-pointer from Cole Bajema helped the Huskies build a 62-56 lead with a little less than two minutes remaining. Javon Ruffin hit a 3-pointer for Colorado, then the Huskies got a layup from Brooks and a dunk and free throw from Meah for a 67-59 lead with 45 seconds remaining. Colorado scored the next four points but a dunk by Fuller with 22 seconds left helped the Huskies seal it.
J’Vonne Hadley led Colorado with 15 points. KJ Simpson and Tristan da Silva scored 13 each for the Buffaloes (4-5, 0-2).
A layup by Brooks gave the Huskies a 54-40 lead near the 10-minute mark of the second half before Colorado scored the next nine points highlighted by back-to-back jumpers by da Silva and a three-point play by Simpson. Colorado got within 56-54 near the four-minute mark but was outscored 17-9 the rest of the way.
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Bob McGrath, a member of the original cast of “Sesame Street” and who was on the beloved children’s show for 47 seasons, has died at the age of 90, according to a Facebook post from his family.
McGrath appeared as himself on the show’s pilot in 1969 and remained on the show until his retirement in 2017. During his run on the show, McGrath performed many of its most famous songs, including “People In Your Neighborhood” and “If You’re Happy and You Know It.”
Born in Ottawa, Illinois, McGrath earned a music degree from the University of Michigan, where he sang in the university’s glee club. Prior to joining “Sesame Street,” he performed alongside Mitch Miller on the NBC TV series “Sing Along With Mitch” and became a best-selling recording artist in Japan by singing folk songs in Japanese. His work overseas led to appearances on the game shows “To Tell the Truth” and “I’ve Got a Secret.”
Along with the main PBS series, McGrath appeared in various “Sesame Street” computer games, movies and specials, including the feature film “Follow That Bird.” Even after leaving the show, he continued to appear at events held by Sesame Workshop to promote children’s education.
McGrath is survived by his wife, Ann, along with five children and eight grandchildren.
Bob McGrath, Original ‘Sesame Street’ Star, Dies at 90
Actor appeared alongside Big Bird and friends for 47 seasons
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STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Gonzaga may be rolling out an injury-depleted roster, but the Bulldogs nevertheless left a lasting impression on their West Coast rival in Stanford.
And that leads the Cardinal to wonder if the two power programs might meet again on college basketball’s biggest stage come March.
“This is a team that is a Top-25 team,” Hall of Fame Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. “I think if we can do it, they’re going to be in Seattle (for the NCAA Tournament).”
Cameron Brink had 14 points and a season-high 16 rebounds and Brooke Demetre made a career-high five 3s and scored 17 points, leading second-ranked Stanford past No. 23 Gonzaga 84-63 on Sunday.
The Cardinal (10-1) have now won five straight games after falling to top-ranked South Carolina in overtime on Nov. 20.
“I kind of call Brooke my secret weapon,” VanDerveer said. “She is a really special young lady, and when you have both Cam out there and Brooke, it’s a two-headed monster.”
“She has one of the highest releases I’ve ever seen, one of the quickest releases,” Brink said of Demetre. “She can shoot it, and we’ve always had confidence in her.”
Hannah Jump hit four 3s and scored 14 points, and Haley Jones had 12 points for Stanford.
Short-handed Gonzaga (7-2), limited to seven players because of illness and injuries, had won three in a row.
The Zags kept the pressure on Stanford early in the game, thanks to a 20-point first half from Kaylynne Truong.
Truong shot 4 of 9 from deep and finished with a career-high 22 points.
Brynna Maxwell contributed 19 points. Yvonne Ejim, Gonzaga’s leading scorer, was held to two points in the first three quarters but added six points in the fourth.
“We try to focus on a leading scorer and try to limit them,” VanDerveer said. “But you can’t just focus on (Ejim) because they’ve got Truong, they’ve got Maxwell. … I think we did a much better job (on defense) in the second half.”
STAT OF THE GAME
The Cardinal were able to pull away due to a strong game from beyond the arc, making 15 3-pointers on 15 of 28 (53.6%) shooting. A season-high eight different Stanford players made a 3, led by Demetre’s five and Jump’s four.
BIG PICTURE
Gonzaga: Lost its fourth straight in the series with Stanford and dropped to 1-7 on the Cardinal’s home floor. The Zags haven’t won any matchups since a 79-73 victory at home on Dec. 2, 2018. ... Despite playing short-handed, Gonzaga did not yield an easy win to its higher-ranked opponent, trailing by just one point after the first quarter before fading in the second half.
Stanford: Held a 37-23 rebounding advantage. ... This win marked the beginning of a crucial stretch in the Cardinal’s season. Stanford’s next two games come against Tennessee — receiving votes in The Associated Press Top 25 poll — and No. 13 Creighton, followed by the start of Pac-12 Conference play against rival California on Dec. 23.
UP NEXT
Gonzaga: The Bulldogs return to McCarthey Athletic Center to start a five-game homestand, starting with a Tuesday matchup vs. Queens University of Charlotte.
Stanford: After a two-week break for final exams, the Cardinal will continue their seven-game homestand vs. Tennessee on Dec. 18.
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Paramount+ revealed the official trailer for its upcoming film “Teen Wolf: The Movie,” during Brazil’s Comic Con Experience (CCXP).
The film, which was written and produced by Jeff Davis, is set to premiere on Jan. 26, 2023 on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Canada.
“A full moon resizes in Beacon Hills, and with it, a terrifying evil has emerged,” reads a description of the movie via a press release. “The wolves are howling once again, calling for the return of banshees, werecoyotes, hellhounds, kitsunes and every other shapeshifter in the night. But only a werewolf like Scott McCall (Tyler Posey), no longer a teenager yet still an alpha, can both gather new allies and reunite trusted friends to fight back against what could be the most powerful and deadliest enemy they’ve ever faced.”
As TheWrap previously reported, Tyler Hoechlin is set to reprise his role as Derek Hale. He will be joining castmates Posey, Holland Roden, Shelley Hennig, Crystal Reed, Orny Adams, Linden Ashby, JR Bourne, Colton Haynes, Ryan Kelley, Melissa Ponzio, Ian Bohen, Vince Mattis, Nobi Nakanishi, Khylin Rhambo, Amy Workman and Dylan Sprayberry.
In addition, the trailer’s debut was coupled with a clip of “Wolf Pack,” a new original series based on the book series by Edo Van Belkom. The series will tell the stories of a “teenage boy and girl whose lives are changed forever when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature and drives it to attack a highway traffic jam beneath the burning hills,” per a press release. Wounded in the chaos, the boy and girl are inexplicably drawn to each other and to two other teenagers who were adopted sixteen years earlier by a park ranger after another mysterious wildfire. As the full moon rises, all four teens come together to unravel the secret that connects them — the bite and blood of a werewolf.
Both the trailer for “Teen Wolf: The Movie” and “Wolfpack” were both revealed during a joint panel for the shows.
The series will star Armani Jackson, Bella Shepard, Chloe Rose Robertson, Tyler Lawrence Gray, Rodrigo Santoro, and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Additional cast includes Bailey Stender, Chase Liefeld, Hollie Bahar, Lanny Joon, Rio Mangini, Stella Smith, Zack Nelson, James Martinez, Amy Pietz, Bria Brimmer, John L. Adams and Sean Philip Glasgow.
Both the trailer and clip for “Teen Wolf: The Movie” and “Wolfpack” were both revealed during a joint panel for the shows.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Caitlin Clark scored 22 points, Monika Cziano added 18 and No. 10 Iowa beat Wisconsin 102-71 on Sunday in the Big Ten Conference opener for both teams.
Iowa (6-3) stopped a two-game skid and beat the Badgers (3-7) for the 26th straight time.
Clark, a preseason All-American who came into the game as the nation’s scoring leader at 29 points per game, reached double figures in the first quarter with 12 points.
Clark had 10 rebounds to post her second double-double of the season. McKenna Warnock scored 18 points and Molly Davis had 13 for Iowa.
The Hawkeyes used a 21-2 run to race to a 57-34 halftime lead. They shot 68% (21 of 31) in the opening 20 minutes and finished at 63% (39 of 62).
Serah Williams scored 14 points, Maty Wilke 13 and Sydney Hilliard 11 for the Badgers, who have lost six games in a row. The one highlight for Wisconsin was its free-throw shooting — the Badgers made 22 of 23 from the foul line.
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Iowa: The sharp-shooting Hawkeyes dominated inside with 52 points in the paint. They got 39 points from the bench, including 10 points from Hannah Stuelke.
Wisconsin: Williams and Hilliard will make a decent scoring tandem, once Williams gains more confidence.
Williams, a 6-foot-4 freshman forward, scored 9 points in the second half. She entered the game as the team’s second-leading scorer at 13.9 points per game.
Hilliard was playing in her second game of the season on Sunday. She missed the first eight games with an injury.
UP NEXT
Iowa: Hosts Iowa State on Wednesday in the Corn Cy-Hawk Series game.
Wisconsin: Faces Nebraska on Wednesday in Lincoln, Neb.
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