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The US Open is filled with players making comebacks from retirement, pregnancy or injury

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Comebacks are nothing new in tennis. There’s quite a history of that sort of thing, including by stars such as Martina Navratilova, John McEnroe, Martina Hingis, Bjorn Borg, Kim Clijsters and Andy Murray.Perhaps that’s why so many fans of Serena Williams hold out hope she’ll return after playing her last match a year ago at the U.S. Open.Williams recently gave birth to her second child so she will not be at Flushing Meadows, but this year’s tournament features several players who left the tour for a significant amount of time and now are back. The Day 1 schedule included Ajla Tomljanovic — who beat Williams in the 23-time Grand Slam champion’s farewell contest last September but has been sidelined by injury since November — and 2021 Australian Open finalist Jennifer Brady (injured) in the afternoon. Then 2016 Wimbledon runner-up Milos Raonic (injured) and 2018 Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki (retirement) were scheduled to appear at Louis Armstrong Stadium...

Stock market today: US futures inch slightly higher with more earnings, economic data on tap

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

Wall Street is poised for a modestly higher open Monday as attention shifts from the Federal Reserve to more corporate earnings and new economic data that could provide clues about the health of the U.S. economy.Futures for the Dow Jones industrials rose 0.3% and the S&P 500 inched up 0.2% before the opening bell.Wall Street appeared to break out of a slump Friday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the nation’s central bank will “proceed carefully” on interest rates. “The muted reaction of treasury yields to the rhetoric from Jackson Hole shows that U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell probably hit the right tone when it comes to keeping further policy tightening on the table but at the same time not rattling market confidence,” said Tim Waterer, chief market analyst at KCM Trade.In a highly anticipated speech, Powell said Friday that the Federal Reserve will base upcoming interest rate decisions on the latest data about inflation and the economy. He sa...

La madre de Luis Rubiales se encierra en una iglesia y se declara en huelga de hambre, según medios españoles

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

(CNN) — La madre del suspendido presidente de la Federación Española de Fútbol, Luis Rubiales, se encerró en una iglesia y se declaró este lunes en huelga de hambre para protestar contra la “caza inhumana y sanguinaria” de su hijo, informaron este lunes los medios españoles.Ángeles Béjar se encerró en la iglesia de la ciudad española de Motril, cerca de Granada, y dijo que permanecería allí “indefinidamente, día y noche” hasta que se hiciera justicia, informaron los medios españoles.Noticia en desarrollo.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.Source

A historic day for African basketball, with South Sudan, Cape Verde getting World Cup wins

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — South Sudan is the world’s youngest nation, only gaining its independence 12 years ago. Cape Verde is one of the world’s least-populated nations, with fewer residents than any country that qualified for the Basketball World Cup.They stood tall on Monday at the World Cup — both nations winning games at FIBA’s biggest tournament for the first time.It was a double-dose of history for African basketball: South Sudan beat China 89-69 at Manila and Cape Verde beat Venezuela 81-75 at Okinawa, Japan. The wins kept both teams in contention for berths in the second round of the World Cup, and they remain very much in the race to be Africa’s automatic qualifier for next summer’s Paris Olympics.“I’m still speechless,” said Cape Verde’s Will Tavares, a Rhode Island-born forward who scored 20 points in Monday’s win. “I feel like I’m in a dream right now, but the win was so big for us and our country and our families. We ma...

South Sudan’s 7-foot-1 Khaman Maluach becomes one of the youngest to play in World Cup at only 16

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

South Sudan’s 16-year-old Khaman Maluach scored one point and played 16 minutes in his team’s 89-69 victory over China on Monday to become one of the youngest to ever play in the basketball World Cup.The 7-foot-1 Maluach, who is widely considered a 2025 NBA draft prospect, turns 17 next month. The only players younger than Maluach in World Cup history were Ivory Coast’s Georges Lath (16 years, 3 months in 1986) and China’s Gao Ailun (16 years, 9 months in 2010).Underdogs like South Sudan and Cape Verde picked up wins Monday to stay in contention for the second round. New Zealand and Ivory Coast also stayed alive.Five teams have already advanced to the second round: Latvia, Canada, Germany, Montenegro, and Lithuania. Eleven places are still open while Tokyo Olympic silver medalist France was knocked out on Sunday.GROUP B — SOUTH SUDAN 89, CHINA 69At Manila, Chicago Bulls guard Carlik Jones scored 21 points as South Sudan beat China to record its first-ever World Cup victo...

4 hospitalized after BSO Fire Rescue helicopter crashes in Pompano Beach triplex

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

Police responded to an aircraft emergency after a Broward Sheriff’s Fire Rescue (BSFR) helicopter went down. Officials said at least two people onboard have been hospitalized and a family said two of their loved ones were hospitalized after the chopper crashed on a triplex building. The incident happened around 8:45 a.m. in the area of 1201 NW 6th Ave. where video footage showed a trail of smoke coming off the chopper that went down fast. The chopper ultimately landed on a triplex apartment building. Live video footage from 7SkyForce showed several fire rescue trucks on the scene as they worked to manage the blaze as it is believed the helicopter did go up in flames when it crashed into the residential building. A family who lives in the building said the helicopter landed right in their living room where two family members were staying. Their family said they were rushed to the hospital. “My brother was in my mom’s house,” said the family member. “They...

2 injured when a fire rescue helicopter crashes in Pompano Beach, Florida

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

(CNN) — A Broward County, Florida, sheriff’s fire rescue helicopter crashed Monday morning, sending two people to the hospital, local authorities said.The crash occurred near an airfield just north of Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.“At approximately 8:46 a.m., emergency personnel responded to a call of an aircraft alert located southwest of the Pompano Beach Airpark. The helicopter involved in the crash is a BSO Fire Rescue helicopter. Pompano Beach Fire Rescue transported two people to an area hospital,” the Broward County Sheriff’s department said in a news release.Video posted to CNN affiliate WPLG appeared to show the chopper just before it crashed, the aircraft was smoking and on fire near the rear.Authorities did not disclose the condition of the two people taken to the hospital.

Singer Florence Welch reveals she had life-saving emergency surgery

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

(CNN) — Florence Welch, the lead singer of Florence and the Machine, has revealed she underwent life-saving emergency surgery, forcing her to cancel live shows.“I had to have emergency surgery for reasons I don’t really feel strong enough to go into yet, but it saved my life,” the 37-year-old wrote in an Instagram post on Sunday. She apologized for canceling the band’s “last couple of shows.”“I will be back to close out the Dance Fever tour in Lisbon and Malaga (maybe not jumping so much but you can do that for me),” she added, confirming her return to performing on September 1 and September 2.“Suffice to say I wish the songs were less accurate in their predictions,” she said. “But creativity is a way of coping, mythology is [a] way of making sense. And the dark fairytale of Dance Fever, with all its strange prophecies, will provide me with much-needed strength and catharsis right now.”British indie rock group Florence and the Machine has been nominated for ...

Officers assaulted by juveniles during response to South Bay disturbance, police say

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

Police responding to a massive disturbance at the South Bay shopping center Sunday were assaulted by juveniles at the scene, and ultimately arrested eight teens amid the mayhem.Police responded to the unruly group at about 4:52 p.m. near the movie theaters at South Bay,  calling in officers from districts across the city and state police in an effort to disperse the crowd.Officers originally responded to the area for a report of a fight. Upon arrival, and in response to police efforts to get the crowd to disperse, members of the crowd became “confrontational” and multiple teens assaulted police, according to BPD.In total, eight juveniles were arrested. They include a 12-year-old-girl for assault, a 12-year-old boy for assault on a police officer and disorderly conduct; a 14-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy  for assault on a police officer and disorderly conduct; another 14-year-old boy for assault on a  police officer, disturbing the police and resisting arrest, another 14-year old...

Poland, Baltic states warn they could seal borders with Belarus if military, migrant tensions grow

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:50:14 GMT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — NATO members Poland and the Baltic states will seal off their borders with Russia’s ally Belarus in the event of any military incidents or a massive migrant push by Minsk, the interior ministers warned Monday.The ministers said they were seeing growing tensions on NATO’s and the European Union’s borders with Belarus, which has taken in thousands of Russia’s military mercenaries and is pushing Middle East and African migrants into Europe, despite various forms of barriers having been put up.They warned of swift and concerted response in the case of a military incident or large migrant push.The ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia addressed the media following their talks in Warsaw. In a joint statement they demanded that the government of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko immediately remove from its territory the Wagner Group mercenaries. They also demanded the removal of migrants from border areas and their return to their h...