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Lens starts league campaign with 3-2 loss at Brest. Rennes and Monaco win

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:07 GMT

PARIS (AP) — After an impressive second-place finish in the French league last season, Lens opened the new campaign by losing 3-2 at Brest after leading 2-0 on Sunday.The northern side was in command thanks to goals from forward Florian Sotoca and defender Deiver Machado, but Brest replied with a penalty from Romain Del Castillo just before halftime. After defender Kenny Lala equalized in the 56th, Del Castillo scored with another penalty in the 87th.Lens finished only one point behind champion Paris Saint-Germain last season, but sold club top scorer Lois Openda to German club Leipzig and midfield captain Seko Fofana to Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr.Elsewhere, striker Wissam Ben Yedder scored twice as Monaco won 4-2 at Clermont and Danish defender Rasmus Nicolaisen grabbed a stoppage-time winner for Toulouse in a 2-1 win at Nantes.Winger Ibrahim Salah came off the bench to score two late goals as Rennes routed promoted Metz 5-1 at home. Forwards Arnaud Kalimuendo, Amine Gouiri and Je...

Déjà Vu: American golfer Lilia Vu captures 2nd major in 2023 at Women’s British Open

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:07 GMT

WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England (AP) — American golfer Lilia Vu won the Women’s British Open to claim her second major title of 2023, taking any potential drama out of the final round by shooting 5-under 67 for a six-stroke victory on Sunday.The 25-year-old Californian, who also won the Chevron Championship in April, became the first female player to win two majors in the same year since Jin Young Ko in 2019, and the first American woman since Juli Inkster in 1999.Three of the five women’s majors have been won by American this year — Allisen Corpuz won the Women’s U.S. Open title at Pebble Beach — and that’s not happened since 2014. Vu began the final round tied for the lead with Charley Hull, with 11 players within five shots of them. After 10 holes, Vu led by five as all of her rivals faltered and the American stayed out of trouble at Walton Heath.Hull holed out from a greenside bunker for eagle at the par-5 11th to trim the lead to three shots, but Vu responded with...

Chelsea draws 1-1 with Liverpool in high-octane Premier League opener

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:07 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Chelsea came from behind to earn a 1-1 draw against Liverpool on Sunday in a Premier League opener that showed the Blues have already made progress under new manager Mauricio Pochettino.In the marquee matchup of the Premier League’s opening round, Luis Diaz put Liverpool ahead after a lightning counterattack in the 18th minute and defender Axel Disasi marked his Chelsea debut by scoring the equalizer from close range in the 37th.Both teams also had goals disallowed by VAR checks in an open and chance-filled first half that highlighted just why the two rivals are trying to spend more than 110 million pounds ($140 million) on bringing in defensive midfielder Moises Caicedo from Brighton.Caicedo has reportedly chosen to join Chelsea over Liverpool, which could prove a more important result than the draw as it was evident that both sides badly need a ball-winning midfielder of the Ecuadorian’s caliber. Chelsea already looked a different team under Pochettino, though, playi...

American golfer Lilia Vu wins the Women’s British Open for her second major title of 2023

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:07 GMT

WALTON-ON-THE-HILL, England (AP) — American golfer Lilia Vu wins the Women’s British Open for her second major title of 2023.Source

Shippers warned to steer clear of Iranian waters

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:07 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Western-backed maritime forces in the Middle East warned shippers traveling through the strategic Strait of Hormuz to stay as far away from Iranian territorial waters as possible to avoid being seized, a stark advisory amid heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S.A similar warning went out to shippers earlier this year ahead of Iran seizing two tankers traveling near the strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of the world’s oil passes.While Iran and the U.S. now near an apparent deal that would see billions of Iranian assets held in South Korea unfrozen in exchange for the release of five Iranian-Americans detained in Tehran, the warning issued this weekend shows that the tensions remain high at sea.Already, the U.S. is exploring plans to put armed troops on commercial ships in the strait to deter Iran amid a buildup of troops, ships and aircraft in the region.U.S. Navy Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a spokesman for the Mideas...

6 new pitchers — including Jake Eder and Ky Bush — settling into minor-league locations after being traded to the Chicago White Sox

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:07 GMT

Jake Eder was heading out to shag fly balls when he heard his name on television.“I turned around and saw that and then got a bunch of calls from the Marlins, from the White Sox, telling me what was going on,” Eder said during a video conference Wednesday.The left-handed minor-league pitcher learned he had been traded from the Miami Marlins organization to the Chicago White Sox in exchange for infielder Jake Burger on Aug. 1.“The immediate reaction, I was just kind of fired up to join a new team and just pick up where I left off there,” Eder said.Eder was one of six pitchers the Sox acquired in moves by the Aug. 1 trade deadline. He joined right-hander Nick Nastrini and lefty Ky Bush at Double-A Birmingham.Nastrini, right-hander Jordan Leasure and veteran outfielder Trayce Thompson were acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers for pitchers Lance Lynn and Joe Kelly on July 28. Leasure is at Triple-A Charlotte.Bush and switch-hitting catcher Edgar Quero were the r...

‘Barbie’ has legs: Greta Gerwig’s film tops box office again and gives industry a midsummer surge

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:07 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Barbie” has legs. Director Greta Gerwig ‘s film phenomenon remained a runaway No. 1 at the box office in its fourth week, bringing in $33.7 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.The Margot Robbie-led and produced film from Warner Bros., still in 4,137 theaters, refused to drop off as most box-office toppers have this year, surpassing $500 million in North America overall a week after it crossed the $1 billion mark globally — a record for a female director.The second half of the “Barbenheimer” duo, “Oppenheimer,” returned to the No. 2 spot in its own fourth week after a week at No. 3 overall. The Christopher Nolan-directed film from Universal Pictures brought in $18.8 million from 3,761 locations for an overall domestic total of $264.3 million.The top pair had thin competition. The week’s only major wide release, Universal’s “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” finished fifth with a $6.5 million opening weekend.“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:...

2 Nigerian men extradited to US to face sexual extortion charges after death of Michigan teenager

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:07 GMT

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Two Nigerian men have been extradited to the U.S. after they were indicted for allegedly sexually extorting teenage boys and young men in Michigan and across the country, a prosecutor said Sunday. Samuel Ogoshi, 22, and Samson Ogoshi, 20, of Lagos, Nigeria, are due to be arraigned Monday at the federal courthouse in Grand Rapids, U.S. Attorney Mark Totten said. They are accused of running an international sextortion ring in which they posed as a woman and which resulted in the death of 17-year-old Jordan DeMay of Marquette, in the Upper Peninsula, from a self-inflicted gunshot on March 25, 2022.The two men each face single counts of conspiracy to sexually exploit minors, conspiracy to distribute child pornography and conspiracy to commit stalking through the internet. Samuel Ogoshi also faces single charges of sexual exploitation of a minor resulting in death and attempted sexual exploitation of a minor resulting in death. The men were indicted in May.Sexu...

Police questioned over legality of Kansas newspaper raid in which computers, phones seized

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:07 GMT

MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a firestorm of criticism after it raided the offices of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher and owner — a move deemed by several press freedom watchdogs as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protection of a free press. The Marion County Record said in its own published reports that police raided the newspaper’s office on Friday, seizing the newspaper’s computers, phones and file server and the personal cellphones of staff, based on a search warrant. One Record reporter said one of her fingers was injured when Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody wrested her cellphone out of her hand, according to the report.Police simultaneously raided the home of Eric Meyer, the newspaper’s publisher and co-owner, seizing computers, his cellphone and the home’s internet router, Meyer said. Meyer’s 98-year-old mother — Record co-owner Joan Meyer who lives in the home with her son — collapsed and die...

Larry Snelling named CPD Superintendent

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:03:07 GMT

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson has selected Larry Snelling to be Chicago's next top cop.After the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA) confirmed its three candidates to be the Chicago Police Department's next superintendent back on July 13, a 30-day clock started ticking for Johnson, who had until Sunday to make the appointment.Here's some background information on the man in charge of helping revitalize one of the country's largest police forces. MORE COVERAGE: Community leaders hope Chicago’s next top cop is within CPD ranks Before his appointment, Snelling was operating as CPD's Deputy Chief of Counterterrorism, a position he was promoted to back in Oct. 2022 after the surprise resignation of Ernest Cato III.As deputy chief of counterterrorism, Snelling oversaw CPD's gang and narcotics units, as well as the department's SWAT teams.Snelling was also the architect behind CPD's use-of-force policy, implemented as a part of the consent decree under the...