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Spain awaits results from election that could take the country to the right

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:52 GMT

MADRID (AP) — The majority of polls have closed in Spain’s national election as the country’s left-wing government faces a risk of being ousted by conservatives and the far-right.Polls in Spain’s mainland and the Balearic Islands closed at 6:00 p.m. GMT. Polls on the Canary Islands will remain open for one more hour due to the archipelago falling in a different time zone. Once they close, the first results from Sunday’s election are expected to come out.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is trying to win a third consecutive national election since taking power in 2018. But his Socialists and the other party in his leftist coalition took a beating in regional and local elections in May.The mainstream conservative Popular Party led most polling during the campaign and is hoping that its first national victory since 2016 could let candidate Alberto Núñez Feijóo unseat Sánchez. But it may need the help of the far-right Vox party to do so.Such a coalition would return a far-right...

Abogado: se hizo pasar por alumno de secundaria e intentó traficar a menores

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:52 GMT

Un hombre de 26 años de Nebraska que se hizo pasar por un adolescente de 17 años y asistió a la escuela secundaria durante más de 50 días fue arrestado por delitos sexuales esta semana, dijo la policía de Lincoln.Zachary Scheich se hizo pasar por Zak Hess, un joven de 17 años, para asistir a dos escuelas secundarias en Lincoln durante el año escolar 2022-23, dijo la policía en una conferencia de prensa el jueves.Está acusado de dos cargos de agresión sexual utilizando un dispositivo electrónico y un cargo de tráfico sexual de un menor. La policía lo arrestó el jueves por la tarde en una biblioteca, dijo el subjefe de policía Brian Jackson.“Asistía a la escuela como estudiante, asistía a clase. Esa fue la investigación inicial”, dijo Jackson en una rueda de prensa. “Y a medida que avanzaba la investigación, nos enteramos de contactos adicionales que tuvo con estudiantes menores de edad”.Las acusaciones incluyen mensajes de texto entre Scheich y niñas menores d...

Dodgers back off again on throwing program for injured ace Kershaw, but say no setback

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:52 GMT

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Dodgers are backing off on the throwing program for injured ace Clayton Kershaw, postponing a bullpen session while saying the left-hander hasn’t had any setbacks with his shoulder.Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said Sunday there wasn’t a timetable for when Kershaw would throw in the bullpen or face live hitters. Over three days, the update from Roberts changed from Kershaw throwing to hitters, to instead throwing a bullpen, to doing neither.Kershaw threw on flat ground from the outfield before Sunday’s game at Texas. The three-time NL Cy Young Award winner and 10-time All-Star hasn’t pitched in a game since June 27 because of left shoulder soreness. Roberts has said Kershaw (10-4 with an MLB-best 2.55 ERA) won’t make a rehab start before returning to the active roster.Roberts reiterated that Kershaw will throw a bullpen session before facing live hitters.“I just don’t know when that (bullpen) is going to happen,” Roberts said. “I’m go...

Live updates | Brian Harman to put claret jug to some use after winning British Open

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:52 GMT

HOYLAKE, England (AP) — Brian Harman is ready to put the claret jug to some use after becoming the champion golfer of the year at Hoylake.“First,” Harman said at the ceremony on the 18th green, “I’m going to have a couple of pints out of this here trophy.”Harman said consistency was the key at Royal Liverpool, where he only made six bogeys all week.“I doubled down on my process,” he said, “and I know it’s boring and it is not flashy. But, until hitting that last bunker shot, I have not thought about winning the tournament.”Jon Rahm, who was in a tie for second at the British Open, said there was “nothing any of us could have done.”“He won by six,” Rahm said. “It’s not like he won by two or three.”___WHAT TO KNOW— Harman builds a 5-shot lead at British Open— Jon Rahm sets Hoylake record with 63 to give himself a chance — Younger brother of U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick in the top 10 — Rory McIlroy lets chances slip away with poor putting___HARMAN WINS THE OPEN...

British Open Champions

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:52 GMT

(x-won playoff)2023 — Brian Harman2022 — Cameron Smith2021 — Collin Morikawa2020 — Canceled2019 — Shane Lowry2018 — Francesco Molinari2017 — Jordan Spieth2016 — Henrik Stenson2015 — x-Zach Johnson2014 — Rory McIlroy2013 — Phil Mickelson2012 — Ernie Els2011 — Darren Clarke2010 — Louis Oosthuizen2009 — x-Stewart Cink2008 — Padraig Harrington2007 — x-Padraig Harrington2006 — Tiger Woods2005 — Tiger Woods2004 — x-Todd Hamilton2003 — Ben Curtis2002 — x-Ernie Els2001 — David Duval2000 — Tiger Woods1999 — x-Paul Lawrie1998 — x-Mark O’Meara1997 — Justin Leonard1996 — Tom Lehman1995 — x-John Daly1994 — Nick Price1993 — Greg Norman1992 — Nick Faldo1991 — Ian Baker-Finch1990 — Nick Faldo1989 — x-Mark Calcavecchia1988 — Seve Ballesteros1987 — Nick Faldo1986 — Greg Norman1985 — Sandy Lyle1984 — Seve Ballesteros1983 — Tom Watson1982 — Tom Watson1981 — Bill Rogers1980 — Tom Watson1979 — Seve Ballesteros1978 — Jack Nicklaus1977 — Tom Watson1976 — Johnny Miller1975 — x-Tom Watson1974 — Gary Pl...

Polls close in most of Spain as right challenges Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:52 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Polls close in most of Spain as right challenges Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.Source

Browns’ Nick Chubb among several star running backs to discuss devalued position on Zoom call

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:52 GMT

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — Cleveland Browns star Nick Chubb was one of several NFL running backs to take part in a Zoom call on Saturday night to discuss the current trend of their position being underpaid and devalued by some teams.Chubb is under contract through next season, but said he has already contemplated his future in a market increasingly becoming less friendly to running backs.Chubb said he was on the call with Saquon Barkley of the New York Giants, Derrick Henry of the Tennessee Titans and Christian McCaffrey of the San Francisco 49ers.Barkley has threatened to sit out training camp in protest after he couldn’t come to terms on a long-term contract last week. The Giants signed him to the $10 million franchise tender for running backs.“There’s really nothing we can do,” Chubb said Sunday following practice. “We’re kind of handcuffed with the situation. Our production hurts us the most. If we go out there and run for 2,000 yards with so many carr...

The collapse of a building in Cameroon has killed 16 people and authorities say the toll could rise

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:52 GMT

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — At least 16 people were killed and nearly three dozen injured Sunday when a four-story building collapsed onto a smaller one in Cameroon’s largest city, authorities said.“The casualty figures may be higher, said Samuel Dieudonne Ivaha Diboua, governor of Cameroon’s Littoral region, where the Douala is located. The city is 30 miles (210 km) west of the capital, Yaounde.The governor said that “rescue workers, assisted by Cameroon government troops, are still digging the wreckage to see if more bodies can be recovered.” The military’s fire brigade has been ordered to join the country’s Red Cross and other rescue services in searching for survivors.Residents living in the Ndogbon neighborhood where the incident took place said they are in shock.“We heard people screaming … and struggled to help some out of the wreckage, but could not do it with our spades and (garden) hoes,” said Gaspard Ndoppo, who lives near the collapsed buildings.Building collaps...

German center-right leader mulls cooperation with far right at municipal level

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:52 GMT

The leader of Germany’s center-right opposition, Friedrich Merz, said on Sunday that his party may enter political alliances with the far right at the municipal level — indicating a potentially ground-breaking shift in German politics that immediately attracted sharp criticism.Germany’s established parties have long rejected any cooperation with the far-right, anti-migration and climate change-denying Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), which was founded 10 years ago and has in recent months risen to the second position in national polls.But Merz told public broadcaster ZDF in an interview Sunday evening that his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) may abandon this position, although he argued that this shift only applied at the local level.“Local politics is different from state and federal politics,” Merz said in reaction to recent triumphs of the AfD at the local level in eastern Germany, such as in Sonneberg in Thuringia, where the AfD last month for the first time won a district co...

Ticker: Lawsuit alleges ‘hidden’ fees at Frontier Airlines; Radioactive leak reported near Mississippi River 

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:08:52 GMT

Frontier Airlines markets itself as having the lowest fares, but a new class-action lawsuit alleges the Denver-based carrier makes up the difference with hidden, inflated fees.Florida resident Amira Hamad filed the 21-page lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in late June, seeking a refund of the fees and $100 million in punitive damages for herself and others.A spokesperson for Frontier said the airline doesn’t comment on pending litigation.Hamad said in the lawsuit that she booked a round-trip flight with Frontier after seeing an “attractive” price online and reading on the company’s website that passengers are allowed one free personal item no larger than 14 inches tall, 18 inches wide and 8 inches deep.According to the lawsuit, when Hamad arrived at her gate, Frontier’s bag sizer was smaller than the dimensions advertised on the website. When her bag wouldn’t fit into the allegedly shrunken bag sizer, the airline charged Hamad $100 for her “oversized...