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Denny Hamlin wins pole for NASCAR race at Watkins Glen, his 3rd at road course this season

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:48 GMT

Denny Hamlin will start from the pole at Watkins Glen International on Sunday, the third time the NASCAR driver will lead the Cup Series field to the green flag at a road course this season.Hamlin turned the two fastest laps in the final round of qualifying Saturday to edge William Byron for the top spot. Hamlin covered the 14-turn course in 70.392 seconds and reached a top speed of 125.298 mph. Byron was second at 124.961 mph.“There were a few spots where I feel like I still could have got a little but more,” said Hamlin, who earned the 40th pole of his Cup career. “But you can’t nitpick when you’re that good.”Starting near the front is usually advantageous on road courses, where passing can be difficult. Hamlin, though, is 0 for 2 from the prime sport on NASCAR’s serpentine courses this season. He started from the pole in Sonoma and finished 36th, and he started first at Chicago and came home 11th.Michael McDowell, one of the best drivers on road courses th...

Lyon loses to Montpellier to extend poor start to Ligue 1 with Lacazette sent off

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:48 GMT

LYON, France (AP) — Lyon has two losses and no points to start the French league after falling to Montpellier 4-1 on Saturday. Lyon striker Lacazette was so overwhelmed with frustration that he was sent off in the 80th minute for a bad foul on Teji Savanier.Montpellier earned its first win after drawing with Le Havre 2-2 on the opening weekend. Winger Arnaud Nordin capitalized on a blunder from Remy Riou to open the scoring in the 20th. Riou attempted to play the ball out from the back but gave it away to Nordin, who shot past the Lyon goalkeeper.Mousa Al-Tamari doubled the lead on a counterattack in the 39th. The Jordan winger started a run from his own half and dribbled past Duje Caleta-Car before beating Riou with a low strike. Al-Tamari, who joined Montpellier from Belgian club Leuven this summer on a free transfer, made it 3-0 by chasing a long kick from goalkeeper Benjamin Lecomte to slip the ball under Riou in the 66th.Lacazette cut the deficit in the 69th then Nigerian strik...

Md. state police shoot man after they say he attacked a trooper with a knife

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:48 GMT

Maryland State Police are investigating a shooting involving state troopers that left a man hospitalized Friday evening in St. Mary’s County.Just before 11 p.m. on Friday, Maryland State Police said two troopers responded to a report of a possible suicidal person at a home in the 44000 block of West Mervell Court in Hollywood, Maryland.Police said the responding troopers were met at the home by 22-year-old Anthony Oliveras Jr., of Hollywood, Maryland, who they said was armed with a knife. According to police, Oliveras lunged toward one of the troopers, attempting to stab the trooper, and that Oliveras “pierced the trooper’s uniform and ballistic vest.”Both troopers fired their weapons, striking Oliveras, police said. Another trooper and a deputy from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office arrived after the shooting, and police said the initial troopers and additional responding law enforcement officers “immediately rendered aid until emergency medical service...

Tottenham beats Man United 2-0 in EPL to give manager Ange Postecoglou a winning home debut

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:48 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Perhaps Tottenham will be just fine without Harry Kane. Pape Matar Sarr scored early in the second half and Lisandro Martinez added an own goal to give Tottenham a 2-0 win over Manchester United in the English Premier League on Saturday. It was just the kind of result manager Ange Postecoglou needed in his first home game to build a sense of belief as the club — and the fan base — move on from the departure of Kane to Bayern Munich.After a lively first half, Sarr put Spurs ahead in the 49th minute after Dejan Kulusevski made a good run down the right and broke into the area. The Swede’s low cross was deflected into the path of Sarr, who slotted it into the roof of the net from close range.The game had been wide open in the first half and the goal turned up the tempo even more, with chances flowing at both ends.United nearly responded immediately; Antony hit the post with a left-footed curler at the other end and Tottenham goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario made a diving one-...

Brown and Cowley take leads into final round of ISPS Handa World Invitational seeking 1st pro titles

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:48 GMT

BALLYMENA, Northern Ireland (AP) — Seeking their first top-tier professional titles, English golfers Daniel Brown and Gabriella Cowley will take leads into the final round of the ISPS Handa World Invitational, which is co-sanctioned by the European tour and LPGA Tour.Brown started the third round with a six-shot lead on Saturday and maintained that advantage after making birdie on two of his last three holes for a 3-under 67. His nearest challengers are Alex Fitzpatrick (67) and Wilco Nienaber (63), with Adrian Otageui (66) a stroke further back.The No. 384-ranked Brown, who tied for seventh in the Barbasol Championship on the European tour and PGA Tour, has never won a European tour event.“Obviously, there’s still a good way to go yet,” he said. “But yes, it’s nice to play well and keep that lead and make it a little bit more comfortable than I suppose what it might be.“I’ve driven it really well, which tends to be my strength anyway. But I’ve seen around here the rough...

Colorado West Nile virus survivor shares warning with others

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:48 GMT

DENVER, (KDVR) -- Auriel Piscani was a perfectly healthy 49-year-old until a mosquito bite changed her life forever.The year was 2006, and Auriel woke up one morning in her Fort Collins home to a bizarre sight.“I just woke up one day and was getting ready to go to work, and I looked in the mirror and went wow, and the whites of my eyes were really bright yellow.”Piscani went to the doctor, who quickly sent her to Poudre Valley Hospital for more tests. 19 Coloradans hospitalized with West Nile as of Monday “They ran a couple tests, they admitted me into the hospital, and within 48 hours I was in a coma,” she said.She said doctors knew she was dying from sudden liver and kidney failure, but they couldn't figure out why.After months and months in the hospital, she was placed into hospice, as doctors prepared her husband for the worst."The doctors told him there’s no recovering from this, she’s going to die,” said Piscani.Eventually, blood work revealed Piscani had West Nile virus.&nb...

Marlins slug 5 homers, snap the Dodgers’ 11-game winning streak with 11-3 victory

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:48 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jorge Soler hit two of the Marlins’ season-high five homers off Tony Gonsolin, and Miami snapped the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 11-game winning streak with an 11-3 victory Friday night.Jake Burger hit a three-run homer and Jacob Stallings added a two-run shot while the Marlins scored six runs on three homers in the third.Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s three-run shot in the fourth finally chased Gonsolin (8-5), who gave up a career-worst 10 runs while getting only 10 outs.“An 11-game winning streak can be broken any day,” Chisholm said. “We had an 11-game winning streak, and it got broken. We just came in with the mentality we were going to bust their stuff.”Mookie Betts set a franchise record with his 11th leadoff homer of the season for the NL West-leading Dodgers, who lost for only the second time in 17 games in August. Max Muncy and James Outman also homered in a two-team power surge that surprised Miami manager Skip Schumaker, a Southern California native who got to know...

Ukraine foreign minister pushes back against counteroffensive doubters

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:48 GMT

Paul Ronzheimer is the deputy editor-in-chief of BILD and a senior journalist reporting for Axel Springer, the parent company of POLITICO.Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Saturday pushed back against growing doubts about the prospects for the counteroffensive that Kyiv is waging against Russia’s all-out invasion of his country. At the same time, Kuleba urged Kyiv’s allies to continue supplying Ukrainian armed forces with the assistance needed to make its military push succeed. His remarks in an interview with Axel Springer, POLITICO’s parent company, come as the counteroffensive struggles to achieve a major breakthrough. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that the U.S. intelligence community assesses that the Ukrainian push will fail to achieve a key goal: the southeastern city of Melitopol, a strategic Russian logistics hub. “We take such remarks in stride,” Kuleba said in the interview. “According to unnamed officials, genera...

James Buckley, conservative ex-senator and brother of late writer William F. Buckley, dies at 100

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:48 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former New York Sen. James Buckley, an early agitator for then-President Richard Nixon’s resignation and winner of a landmark lawsuit challenging campaign spending limits, died Friday at age 100.Buckley died at a hospital in Washington, D.C., according to his son David Buckley of Arlington, Virginia.Buckley was the fourth of 10 children of a millionaire oilman and older brother of conservative commentator William F. Buckley Jr., who died in February 2008. He was the last survivor of the 10 siblings.Buckley was the sole Conservative Party candidate to win statewide office in New York, elected to the U.S. Senate in 1970 in a three-way race with 39% of the vote. Republican Sen. Charles Goodell, who was appointed to the job in 1968 after the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Democratic Rep. Richard Ottinger split the moderate vote, allowing Buckley to capture the seat.His younger brother called his win “the crystallization of counterrevolutionary...

Emerging economies are pushing to end the US dollar’s dominance

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:15:48 GMT

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Business has vanished at Kingsley Odafe’s clothing shop in Nigeria’s capital, forcing him to lay off three employees.One culprit for his troubles stands out: The U.S. dollar’s strength against the Nigerian currency, the naira, has pushed the price of garments and other foreign goods beyond the reach of local consumers. A bag of imported clothes costs three times what it did two years ago. The price these days is running around 350,000 naira, or $450.“There are no sales anymore because people have to eat first before thinking of buying clothes,” Odafe said.Across the developing world, many countries are fed up with America’s dominance of the global financial system — especially the power of the dollar. They will air their grievances next week as the BRICS bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa meet with other emerging market countries in Johannesburg, South Africa.But griping about King Dollar is easier than actually deposing the de facto wo...