By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) — Brian Flores is back in the NFL. The Pittsburgh Steelers have hired the former Miami Dolphins coach to serve as a senior defensive assistant. The hiring comes less than three weeks after Flores sued the NFL and three teams over alleged racist hiring practices. Flores, who
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Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelensky, dijo este sábado que las sanciones a Rusia deberían hacerse públicas antes de que ocurra una posible invasión de Ucrania, ya que las tensiones entre las naciones occidentales y Rusia continúan intensificándose. Zelensky le dijo a Christiane Amanpour, presentadora internacional de CNN, en una entrevista
Continue Reading By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Runaway leader Paris Saint-Germain slipped to only its second French league defeat of the season after losing 3-1 at an inspired Nantes. PSG still has a big lead and will be 10 points clear even if second-place Marseille wins on Sunday yet the manner of the
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By Homero De La Fuente, CNN Elana Meyers Taylor became the most decorated Black athlete in Winter Olympics history after she won the bronze medal in the two-woman bobsleigh at Beijing 2022 on Saturday — and one of the American bobsledder’s initial emotions was a sense of being overwhelmed by her achievement. The medal is
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Second-half goals from Emile Smith Rowe and Bukayo Saka have helped Arsenal beat Brentford 2-1 to strengthen its bid for a top-four finish in the Premier League. Smith Rowe’s solo effort in the 48th minute broke the deadlock and Saka doubled the lead in the 79th before Christian Norgaard scored in stoppage
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While officials are hoping for diplomacy, it appears a Russian invasion of Ukraine is imminent.
Continue Reading By AARON BEARD AP Basketball Writer Gonzaga, Auburn, Arizona and Kansas hold No. 1 seeds in the initial rankings for the committee that will select the field for next month’s 68-team men’s NCAA Tournament. The Bulldogs were the top overall seed ahead of the Tigers in rankings released Saturday by the NCAA Division I Men’s
Continue Reading BRIGHTON, England (AP) — Netherlands striker Wout Weghorst has scored his first Premier League goal as Burnley moved off the bottom of the standings with an emphatic 3-0 win at Brighton. Sean Dyche’s side went above last-place Norwich on goal difference. Burnley trails 17th-place Newcastle by five points but has two games in hand. Weghorst
Continue Reading LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska has suspended associate women’s basketball coach Chuck Love with pay. No reason for the suspension was given in a two-sentence statement released by the athletic department. The department declined further comment. Love is in his sixth season at Nebraska under coach Amy Williams. He previously worked on Williams’ staff at
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn has been fined $5,000 by the NHL for unsportsmanlike conduct after squirting water from the bench toward an opponent. The fine was announced Saturday, a day after Benn squirted water into the face of Blackhawks wing MacKenzie Entwistle as he skated past the Dallas bench late
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn has been fined $5,000 by the NHL for unsportsmanlike conduct after squirting water from the bench toward an opponent. The fine was announced Saturday, a day after Benn squirted water into the face of Blackhawks wing MacKenzie Entwistle as he skated past the Dallas bench late
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN Español) — El exaspirante presidencial y exdiplomático Arturo Cruz Sequeira, de 68 años, el excanciller Francisco Aguirre Sacasa, de 77 años, y el jurista y exdiputado liberal José Benard Pallais, de 68 años, continuarán su proceso judicial bajo ” detención domiciliaria con custodia policial”, según informó el Ministerio Público de Nicaragua a
Continue Reading By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Atlético Madrid has earned its most convincing win in months and it comes just days before it hosts Manchester United. João Félix scored and assisted Luis Suárez in Atlético’s 3-0 win at Osasuna in the Spanish league on Saturday. The victory gives the struggling defending champions
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos Londres (CNN) — Mientras el mundo observa y espera con nerviosismo saber si el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, ordenará a sus fuerzas que invadan Ucrania, los diplomáticos europeos encuentran un pequeño lado positivo de la crisis que se desarrolla en Europa del Este. La Unión Europea (UE) y la OTAN han estado
Continue Reading SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP) — Stuart Armstrong and Shane Long struck rare Premier League goals as Southampton overwhelmed Everton in a 2-0 win on the south coast. If Armstrong was ecstatic to end a drought running from April 4 last year, Long stepped off the bench to top that sense of relief with his first touch.
Continue Reading LONDON (AP) — Hakim Ziyech volleyed in an 89th-minute winner as Chelsea beat Crystal Palace 1-0 on its return to Premier League action after triumphing at the Club World Cup. The Morocco winger was lurking at the far post to meet Marcos Alonso’s cross with a cushioned volley into the net, allowing Chelsea to consolidate
Continue Reading NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal prosecutors in New Orleans say an area resident has pleaded guilty to playing a part in what prosecutors described last year as a scheme to defraud airlines of $550,000 in lost baggage claims. A news release on Thursday said Donmonick Martin of Chalmette pleaded guilty on Feb. 9 to conspiracy
Continue Reading Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that Ukraine is familiar with Russia and its “provocations” and needs to remain steady.
Continue Reading BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Emmanuel Dennis has ended Watford’s scoring drought and helped boost the club’s hopes of Premier League survival with a late header in a 1-0 victory over Aston Villa. Ismaila Sarr chipped a cross to the center of the area where Dennis headed the ball into the net in the 78th minute
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By Harry Enten, CNN Most polls you’re looking at right now are likely underestimating Republicans’ position heading into the midterm election cycle. It’s not that the polls are “wrong.” Rather, it’s that most polls at this point are asking all registered voters who they’re going to vote for in November, when it’s likely only a
Continue Reading ODESSA, Texas (AP) — Police in Odessa say an officer fatally shot a man who had opened fire and shot at the officer at a local business. A police statement on Friday says 45-year-old John Michael Humphries died in the shooting Thursday. The statement says officers were responding to reports of a gunman at the
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State officials say a strain of avian flu has been found at a fourth commercial turkey farm in southern Indiana. The Indiana State Board of Animal Health said Saturday that laboratory testing of a second commercial flock of turkeys in Greene County has come back as presumptively positive for the virus. The
Continue Reading Alejandra Ramos (CNN) — Arlene Alvarez, de nueve años, estaba sentada en el asiento trasero del auto de sus padres y usaba audífonos para ver una película camino a un restaurante de Houston para la cena del Día de San Valentín. El padre de la niña, Armando Alvarez, hizo una parada en un cajero automático
Continue Reading LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Sadio Mane scored a brilliant overhead kick and Mohamed Salah added his 150th goal for the team as Liverpool came from behind to beat Norwich 3-1 and keep the pressure on Manchester City in the Premier League title race. Luis Diaz grabbed the third for Liverpool for his first since joining
Continue Reading By CIARÁN FAHEY AP Sports Writer BERLIN (AP) — Anthony Modeste has returned from the sick bay to shoot Cologne to a 1-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga. Cologne is now sixth in the league. Relegation-threatened Stuttgart was on the verge of claiming its first league win since December when it conceded a
Continue Reading By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Harrison Burton was fastest in the final practice for NASCAR’s season-opening Daytona 500. Burton led a charge of Ford drivers who swept the top eight spots in Saturday’s practice. Only 20 drivers decided to take NASCAR’s new car on the track. Burton posted a
Continue Reading By Wayne Sterling, CNN China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong won gold in pairs figure skating at the 2022 Beijing Games on Saturday. The duo finished with a world record total score of 239.88 — 84.41 for short program and 155.47 for free skating — to capture their first-ever Olympic gold. The pair skated to
Continue Reading IOC chief asks China to avoid politics after a spokesperson denies minorities are mistreated, but China featuring a Uyghur athlete strikes some as brazen.
Continue Reading By Emmet Lyons and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday sanctions on Russia should be made public before a possible invasion of Ukraine occurs, as tensions between western nations and Russia continue to intensify. Zelensky told CNN’s Chief International Anchor Christiane Amanpour in a one-on-one interview at the Munich Security Conference that
Continue Reading By Emma Tucker, Melissa Alonso and Chuck Johnston, CNN As the number of new Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations slowly falls, cities and states are loosening vaccine and mask requirements. Boston lifted the city’s proof of vaccine policy which required patrons and staff of indoor spaces to show proof of vaccination, Mayor Michelle Wu announced Friday.
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