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LeBron James leads Lakers to the In-Season Tournament semifinals with a 106-103 win over Suns

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:50 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James scored 15 of his 31 points in the fourth quarter, and the Los Angeles Lakers secured the last semifinal spot in the inaugural NBA In-Season Tournament with a 106-103 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday night.Anthony Davis had 27 points and 15 rebounds and Austin Reaves scored 20 points for the top-seeded Lakers, who will face New Orleans on Thursday in Las Vegas. Milwaukee faces Indiana in the East semifinal.James put on a masterful shooting performance down the stretch while also racking up 11 assists, eight rebounds and five steals. The 21-year veteran scored 15 of the Lakers’ first 19 points in the final period and got the assists on his teammates’ other two baskets while Los Angeles pulled ahead.Kevin Durant scored 31 points, but he badly missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer for the Suns. Phoenix had won eight of 10 before losing to Los Angeles for the third time already this season.Devin Booker cut the Lakers’ lead to 102...

Higgins’ 22 lead CSU Bakersfield past D-III Whittier 106-58

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:50 GMT

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Kaleb Higgins scored 22 points as CSU Bakersfield beat Division-III Whittier 106-58 on Tuesday.Higgins added five rebounds, seven assists, and five steals for the Roadrunners (4-4). Jaden Alexander scored 17 points, going 7 of 10 and 3 of 4 from the free-throw line. Corey Stephenson was 6-of-12 shooting (2 for 3 from 3-point range) to finish with 14 points.Roy Kalu led the way for the Poets with 23 points. Nick Manor-Hall added 11 points and two blocks for Whittier. Kunal Bagga also had nine points.___The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.Source

Sinclair ends her storied 23-year career with the Canadian women

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:50 GMT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Christine Sinclair, the world’s top international goal scorer among both women and men, played her final match with the Canadian national team on Tuesday night. Sinclair, 40, ended her 23-year national team career with a 1-0 victory against Australia at Vancouver’s BC Place — renamed Christine Sinclair Place for the occasion.Sinclair has scored 190 goals since she made her national team debut in 2000. Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, the game’s top scorer among men, has 128 international goals.It was Sinclair’s 331st appearance for Canada, second only in international soccer to retired U.S. star Kristine Lilly, who played in 354 games. “To see the growth of the game, see where it’s at now, and the opportunities that are available, whether it’s in the national team or playing pro. Honestly I never thought in my career that this was going to happen. And I just feel fortunate to be a part of that growth and it’s ...

Agbo, Degenhart lead Boise State over North Texas 69-64

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:50 GMT

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Chibuzo Agbo scored 27 points to lead Boise State to a 69-64 victory over North Texas on Tuesday night.Agbo shot 7 for 11 (6 for 9 from 3-point range) and 7 of 9 from the free throw line for the Broncos (5-3). Tyson Degenhart scored 19 points and added three steals. Max Rice had seven points and was 1 of 8 shooting, including 1 for 5 from 3-point range, and went 4 for 4 from the line.Jason Edwards led the way for the Mean Green (5-3) with 20 points and three steals. Rubin Jones added 16 points for North Texas. In addition, C.J. Noland had 12 points and four steals.___The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.Source

Oil tankers, golf buddies and explosives: Qatargate suspect’s side hustle

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:50 GMT

Oil tankers, golf buddies and explosives: Qatargate suspect’s side hustleEven as he allegedly worked for Qatar and Morocco, Francesco Giorgi was looking for other options.By ELISA BRAUN, GIAN VOLPICELLI and EDDY WAXin BrusselsBRUSSELS — As a business deal, it was liable to blow up.Literally.One of the key suspects in the Qatargate corruption scandal tried to source explosive materials for Mauritania’s national mining company in the hope of getting a cut of the transaction. Details of the venture appear in a cache of leaked documents from the police investigation into the biggest corruption case to hit the EU in decades. They show how, even as Francesco Giorgi — the parliamentary aide at the heart of the cash-for-influence probe — worked in the European Parliament, he was laying the foundations for a career as a consultant with the help of his partner, the European Parliament’s then-Vice President Eva Kaili. Giorgi planned to leave parliament in 2024, according to not...

Editorial: Stop being cowards on campus

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:50 GMT

Congresswoman Lucy McBath, a Democrat from Georgia, said yesterday it is “up to all of us to learn more” about the roots of antisemitism and the brutality of Hamas terrorists.She urged the college presidents who came before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce to reflect on the horrific Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas. Republicans and Democrats on the committee echoed her impassioned appeal.Any debate about the war in Israel and Gaza must start with this heartless ambush.The Herald has learned that 300-plus Harvard University students, deans, and professors attended a 46-minute Israel Defense Forces showing of footage of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack Monday evening on the Cambridge campus.It’s the same gruesome compilation of rapes and murders of women, children, elderly and young adults the Herald viewed early last month after being invited by Ambassador Meron Reuben, consulate general of Israel in Boston, to bear witness to.Seeing that must be the beginning...

Chula Vista councilmember Andrea Cardenas shows up to first meeting since being criminally charged

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:50 GMT

CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- Chula Vista councilmember Andrea Cardenas showed up to her first city council meeting Monday since being charged with several felonies."Do not be an obstacle for the city to conduct its business. Take care of yourself and your business allow the city to move on," Delia Dominguez Cervantes said.Residents were able to give their public comments this time with the embattled Cardenas in attendance.Cardenas had been absent for the last month, missing back-to-back city council meetings, after being criminally charged with fraud, grand theft and money laundering.There have since been consistent calls for her to step down.Council has limited ways to remove a sitting councilmember, but one way would be if Cardenas had four unexcused absences.Mayor John McCann and Councilmember Jose Preciado have been the only two colleagues to publicly call for Cardenas to resign. However, when it came time to vote on whether to excuse her absence from the last meeting, Preciado once a...

Arizona man charged over online posts that allegedly incited Australian attack in which 6 died

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:50 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A U.S. citizen has been charged in Arizona over online comments that allegedly incited what police describe as a “religiously motivated terrorist attack” in Australia a year ago in which six people died, officials said Wednesday.Queensland state police officers Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold and innocent bystander Alan Dare were fatally shot by Gareth Train, his brother Nathaniel Train and Nathanial’s wife Stacey Train in an ambush at the Trains’ remote property in the rural community of Wieambilla last Dec. 12, investigators say.Four officers had arrived at the property to investigate reports of a missing person. They walked into a hail of gunfire, police said at the time. Two officers managed to escape and raise the alarm. Police killed the three Trains, who have been described as conspiracy theorists, during a six-hour siege.FBI agents arrested a 58-year-old man near Heber Overgaard, Arizona, last week on a U.S. charge that alleged he incited the viol...

Heavy fighting across Gaza halts most aid delivery, leaves civilians with few places to seek safety

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:50 GMT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli forces battled Hamas militants across Gaza on Wednesday after expanding their ground offensive to its second-largest city, further shrinking the area where Palestinians can seek safety and halting the distribution of vital aid across most of the territory.The assault on the south threatens further mass displacement within the besieged coastal enclave, where the U.N. says some 1.87 million people — over 80% of the population — have already fled their homes.Much of the north, including large parts of Gaza City, has been completely destroyed, and Palestinians fear the rest of Gaza could suffer a similar fate as Israel tries to dismantle Hamas, which has deep roots in the territory it has ruled for 16 years.Israel says it can no longer accept a Hamas military presence in Gaza after the Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will maintain open-ended security control over the territory, something...

Six people dead after shooting spree in Austin, double homicide in Bexar Co.

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:11:50 GMT

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- A man was arrested and booked on a charge of capital murder on Tuesday in connection to several homicides and two separate shootings involving an Austin Independent School District officer and an Austin police officer, Austin Police said early Wednesday morning. Additionally, the Bexar County Sheriff's Office said in a media briefing that the suspect involved in the shooting spree may also be connected to a double homicide in Bexar County, which is near San Antonio. Sheriff: Suspect in Austin shooting spree tied to possible double homicide in Bexar County Shortly before 7:30 p.m., APD said a police officer was shot in southwest Austin. That officer was injured but is expected to survive. Austin ISD officer shot at Northeast ECHS Law enforcement sources tell KXAN the suspect in the southwest Austin shooting is the same person who is accused of killing two people on Shadywood Drive in south Austin and shooting an Austin Independent School District officer at Nort...