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Youngkin-backed legislators win Virginia Senate nominations

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:43:49 GMT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Two Republican state legislators in Virginia who were endorsed by GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin won their party’s Saturday nominating contests for a state Senate seat, according to results provided by the party. Incumbent Sen. Bryce Reeves won the Republican nomination for the 28th Senate District, according to an email from Republican caucus spokesman Jeffrey Ryer. Del. John McGuire won the nomination in the 10th District. Reeves is an Army veteran and former law enforcement officer who now works in insurance and has served in the General Assembly since 2012. He ran unsuccessfully for the GOP nomination for the 7th Congressional District last year, and in 2017 unsuccessfully sought the party’s nomination for lieutenant governor. On Saturday, he beat Mike Allers, a retired police officer who has also worked as a teacher and positioned himself as a grassroots candidate aligned with former President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement. Reeves’ will be h...

Napoli celebrates title in front of own fans

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:43:49 GMT

NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Naples fans joyfully chanted “It’s us, it’s us, we are the champions of Italy” as the southern team celebrated winning the league title at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.Napoli ended its 33-year wait for the scudetto on Thursday with a 1-1 draw at Udinese. Sunday’s match against Fiorentina was its first game at home since clinching the title.The Fiorentina players gave the Napoli team a guard of honor when it walked out ahead of kickoff.The pre-match choreography at one end of the stadium depicted a giant Italy flag and the number three to signify Napoli’s third Italian championship — and the first since Diego Maradona led the team to two titles in 1987 and 1990.More celebrations — directed by Italian film director Paolo Sorrentino — are planned after the final whistle.Fans were singing and chanting in and around the stadium hours before kickoff, while the team bus was accompanied from the hotel by flag-waving supporters on scooters as it went through streets...

Arsenal keeps pressure on Man City with 2-0 win at Newcastle

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:43:49 GMT

NEWCASTLE, England (AP) — Arsenal kept the pressure on Manchester City in the Premier League title race by beating Newcastle 2-0 in a huge test of its credentials on Sunday.Martin Odegaard’s first-half strike and Fabian Schar’s own-goal, combined with some breathtaking saves by Aaron Ramsdale, saw Arsenal come through the toughest of its final four games with a rare win for a visiting team at St. James’ Park.Arsenal moved back to one point behind City, which has a game in hand but some potentially tricky matches to finish the season as Pep Guardiola’s team goes for a third straight title.Odegaard slammed home a low shot from outside the area to give Arsenal the lead in the 14th minute against the run of play, with third-place Newcastle having already struck the post through Jacob Murphy and had the awarding of a penalty overturned after a VAR check.Before Schar’s own-goal in the 71st, Ramsdale saved brilliantly off Joe Willock and Schar from point-blank range while Alexander Isak he...

Últimas noticias de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania del 7 de mayo: grupo Wagner se retracta y ahora dice que podría permanecer en Bakhmut

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:43:49 GMT

(CNN) — Yevgeny Prigozhin, jefe del grupo mercenario Wagner, dio marcha atrás en su amenaza de retirar sus fuerzas de la ciudad de Bakhmut, en el este de Ucrania, después de que se le prometiera más munición.En tanto, las fuerzas rusas han utilizado diversos misiles y armas lanzadas desde el aire contra varias regiones de Ucrania en las últimas 24 horas, según el ejército ucraniano. Las regiones de Mykolaiv y Jersón, en el sur, y Járkiv, en el norte, fueron atacadas.Ucrania dice que utilizó un sistema Patriot de fabricación estadounidense para interceptar un misil hipersónico rusoEn Moscú, los ensayos para el desfile anual ruso del Día de la Victoria, que conmemora el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, comenzaron este domingo.Estas son las noticias más recientes de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania de este domingo 7 de mayo 2023:Wagner sugiere que sus fuerzas podrían permanecer en BakhmutEl jefe del grupo mercenario Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, durante una ceremonia fúnebre en Mosc...

Meronk makes ‘solid statement’ for Ryder Cup at Italian Open

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:43:49 GMT

GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) — A morning pep talk from European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald in the locker room. Then a trophy ceremony in the afternoon at the Marco Simone club outside Rome.That’s just what Adrian Meronk has been dreaming about, and the Polish golfer’s Ryder Cup ambitions are starting to look like they might become a reality after he won the Italian Open on Sunday less than five months before the sport’s biggest team event is held on the same course.“I think that’s a solid statement, a solid brick into the wall,” Meronk said. “But it’s not over yet. I know that. … I’ll keep pushing, keep doing what I can to get on the team. But I think that should help a little bit.”Meronk finished at 13-under overall with a 2-under 69 for a one-stroke victory over Romain Langasque, with third-round leader Julien Guerrier three strokes behind in third.It’s not the first time that Meronk has performed well at Marco Simone, having finished in a tie for second behind Nicolai...

Ancelotti backed in Madrid after winning yet another trophy

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:43:49 GMT

MADRID (AP) — It wasn’t long after Real Madrid lifted the Copa del Rey that club president Florentino Pérez interrupted an interview by Carlo Ancelotti to congratulate the winning coach.The president and coach embraced and chatted for a few moments on Saturday night before Ancelotti went back in front of the camera to finish the interview.“We are happy,” Ancelotti said. “Like all Madrid fans, we are all happy.”Ancelotti went full circle with Madrid by winning the Copa, nearly a decade after he did it for the first time in his first stint at the helm of the Spanish powerhouse.Pérez later made sure he showed his full backing of the coach and expressed the club’s desire to have Ancelotti continue his successful cycle with Madrid despite Brazil’s push to sign him for the national team.“I don’t even want to hear about this subject anymore,” Pérez said after Madrid’s 2-1 win over Osasuna in the Copa final in Seville. “He has a contract with us and we are happy.”Ancelotti’...

Police: 7 dead, 6 injured after being struck by vehicle in border city of Brownsville, Texas

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:43:49 GMT

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Police: 7 dead, 6 injured after being struck by vehicle in border city of Brownsville, Texas.Source

‘Guardians’ bumps ‘Mario Brothers’ from perch atop box office with $114M open

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:43:49 GMT

There is nothing like the promise of a chapter closing to draw people to the movie theater, especially when tied to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.This weekend, ” Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” which says goodbye to this iteration of the space misfits and its driving creative voice, director James Gunn, earned $114 million in ticket sales from 4,450 locations in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday.Internationally, where the film opened in 52 territories including China, “Vol. 3” earned $168 million, giving it a $282 million global debut.Domestically, it’s both an impressive sum for any movie and slightly less than what we’ve come to expect from a Marvel opening.Last year on the same weekend, “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” riding on the success of “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” raked in $187.4 million in its first three days in North America. And in November, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever...

SUV driver plows into crowd at Texas bus stop near border; 7 dead

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:43:49 GMT

By VALERIE GONZALEZ (Associated Press)Seven people were killed and up to six were injured Sunday after they were struck by a vehicle while waiting at a city bus stop outside of a migrant shelter in the border city of Brownsville, Texas, police said.Brownsville police investigator Martin Sandoval said the crash happened about 8:30 a.m.Shelter director Victor Maldonado of the Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center said he reviewed the shelter’s surveillance video on Sunday morning after receiving a call about the crash.The city bus stop is across the street from the shelter and is not marked. There was no bench, and people waiting there were sitting along the curb, Maldonado said. He said most of the victims were Venezuelan men.“What we see in the video is that this SUV, a Range Rover, just ran the light that was about a 100 feet away and just went through the people who were sitting there in the bus stop,” Maldonado said.He said the SUV flipped after running up on the curb and contin...

Yankees Notebook: Slow rehab brings humor, frustration out of Luis Severino

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:43:49 GMT

ST. PETERSBURG — Luis Severino’s sense of humor — and frustration — was on full display Sunday morning in the Yankees’ clubhouse at Tropicana Field.Severino, working his way back from a lat injury suffered at the end of spring training, will begin a rehab assignment this week with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. That assignment was originally supposed to begin with a start for Low-A Tampa this past week, but the Yankees had him throw three innings and 40 pitches in a simulated game at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Friday instead.That session was closed to reporters even though the Yankees were in Tampa Bay for a series with the Rays.“I think it was unnecessary not to in throw in Low-A,” Severino said, “but I do whatever they tell me to do.”Severino, who has expressed dissatisfaction with how the Yankees have handled his recoveries in the past, added “they tried to” when asked if the team explained why he needed the ...