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Michael Cheika speaks about his pride in the Wallabies after they held off waves of Welsh attacks to ensure a quarter final against Scotland rather than South Africa.
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After years of battling Sjogren's Syndrome and consequent loss of form, many tennis players in their mid-30s would be eyeing retirement -- but a resurgent Venus Williams says she's not ready to hang up her racquet yet.
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WASHINGTON The job of leading House Republicans may have gone from difficult to impossible. After two tumultuous weeks that saw the current speaker announce his resignation and his heir apparent abruptly pull out of the running, House Republicans are in disarray as they confront a leadership vacuum. And the only person widely deemed fit to fill it is a lawmaker who says he doesn't want to, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the party's 2012 vice presidential nominee. Even as they plead with Ryan to reconsider, Republicans are left asking themselves whether anyone can lead them. And even if Ryan does yield to their entreaties, some question whether even he could tame a House GOP that seems fractured beyond repair, with a "hell no" caucus ready to risk crises and government shutdowns to achieve its goals and establishment-minded lawmakers seemingly powerless to do anything about it. "It is bad," said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. "We cannot allow 35 or 40 people to hijack the party and blackmail the Congress. We have to get things done." On Friday, lawmakers left Washington in confusion and discord to head home to their districts for a weeklong recess. Ryan returned to Janesville, Wisconsin, to his wife and young family to turn over his options, with leading Republicans inside Congress and out urging him to step up for the good of the party. Before the House adjourned, outgoing Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, who'd intended to leave Congress Oct. 30, assured lawmakers he would stay on until a replacement can be selected. When that will happen is uncertain, but Boehner urged Republicans to find a way out of their turmoil together. "This institution cannot grind to a halt," he said at a closed-door meeting according to an account provided by someone in the room. "It's up to the people in this room to listen to each other, come together and figure this out. Time for us to take the walls down, open up our ears and listen to each other." Yet by announcing he would resign rather than face a tea party-backed floor vote to depose him, Boehner conceded that the fight to lead the House was one he could not win. And within days of his announcement, the same bloc of compromise-averse hardliners who'd pushed him out derailed his No. 2, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy withdrew from the speaker's race at the last possible moment on Thursday, as it became clear he would struggle for the needed majority on the House floor. Lawmakers were left to fret that whoever becomes speaker next whether Ryan or someone else could simply end up the latest victim of a corrosive dynamic that forced a government shutdown two years ago in a failed attempt to end President Barack Obama's health care law. That dynamic has caused crisis after crisis ever since. Major challenges await whoever does move into the job, including a fight over raising the debt ceiling and must-pass spending legislation in early December that hardliners hope to use to cut funding for Planned Parenthood, which would risk another shutdown. "No matter who we put in that chair is going to have to figure out a way to change the political dynamic," said Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa. "That is a much harder question." It's all happening at a moment when House Republicans enjoy their biggest majority in 80 years and control of the Senate, platforms they hoped to use to set out a responsible governing agenda to show voters the GOP deserves to be returned to the White House. Yet amid the muddle, some members of the rank-and-file saw signs of hope that the leadership collapse and attendant soul-searching could somehow result in a more open House GOP with a bigger role for all. Hardliners routinely complain loudly about being shut out of the process, but those are complaints that some of the more establishment-minded lawmakers share. Third-term Rep. Scott Rigell of Virginia offered one example, complaining that he had proposed instituting an hourlong annual ethics training for lawmakers but could not get agreement, even though such a policy is routine at major corporations. "There's just this reluctance to change anything, and so I think this is cathartic in a way," Rigell said. "I really think we'll get through this."
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Conakry, Guinea - After two days of deadly clashes, Guineans will vote on Sunday in their country's second presidential election since the end of military dictatorship in 2009. The vote is seen as a key test of the impoverished West African nation's transition to democracy following decades of strongman rule. Pitched battles broke out on Thursday and continued throughout Friday after President Alpha Conde refused an opposition demand to postpone the election, which critics say is rigged heavily in his favour. Conde is widely tipped to win a second term in office, beating his main challenger Cellou Dalein Diallo and six other presidential hopefuls. But opposition parties have announced they will not accept the results while alleging widespread voting irregularities. Youths from both sides of the political divide hurled rocks at each other in several parts of the capital Conakry leaving two dead and many wounded, according to police. Another five people were killed elsewhere in the country on Thursday. In Conakry's market neighbourhood of Madina, rioters looted shops and set fire to property as police and soldiers fired tear gas to disperse the rampaging crowd. Elsewhere, young people armed with clubs and knives chanted "Allahu Akbar" - God is great - as they barricaded roads in the opposition stronghold of Bambeto. In the upmarket neighbourhood of Dixinn, mobs roamed the streets attacking those suspected of being in favour of the wrong party. "He is supporting the government," one opposition protester told Al Jazeera as a man was led away bleeding heavily from the head. "This is democracy," shouted another before launching a rock at yellow-shirted supporters of President Conde. RELATED: Ethnic violence simmers in Guinea Violence and democratic participation in Guinea have occurred before. Conflict has accompanied every vote the country has had since its troubled return to civilian rule, including legislative elections in 2013, which saw dozens of people killed. With political affiliation largely following ethnic lines, electoral contests have tended to pit the ethnic Peuhl - who form the country's largest group and mostly align themselves with the opposition Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG) - against the Malinke, who are for the most part loyal Conde and his Rally for the Guinean People party (RPG). Despite comprising about 40 percent of the population, Guinea has never had a president from the Peuhl ethnic group, and many say they feel excluded from the political process. "Even the gendarmes [police] are against us," said Amedou Bah, who told Al Jazeera his shop in Madina had been burned down in Friday's violence. "They [Conde's supporters] destroyed it just because I am a Peuhl. The gendarmes are bandits, they support the ruling party. Everything is against us." The sprawling Madina market, where both ethnic groups work and trade in close proximity, is a flashpoint for tensions and both communities have suffered tit-for-tat attacks. On Saturday the situation appeared to have calmed down, although tensions remained high with opposition parties claiming the electoral commission was biased towards Conde - and that the vote had already been rigged. Among other grievances the opposition says minors have been issued with voter cards in pro-Conde areas, and many areas in opposition strongholds are located too far from polling stations. "I'm voting for [ex-prime minister] Sidya Toure, said one Conakry taxi driver, but Alpa [Conde] will win. Democracy is different here," he said. The imbalance is plain in the leafy streets of downtown Conakry, where yellow ribbons crisscross the streets and the president's billboards far outnumber those of his opponents. "Progress marches on," read one, while others show a smiling Conde superimposed beside a recently opened Chinese-built hydroelectric dam. RELATED: Arrests in Guinea of Ebola-related murders Conde's supporters say he deserves a second term on the back of advances in infrastructure and the decline of the deadly Ebola disease in the country. The new dam that has boosted the electricity supply in the capital is the jewel in the crown of his campaign. His rivals see Ebola's continuing presence almost two years after the outbreak as inexcusable, and point at the endemic poverty that grips much of the population. Despite staggering mineral wealth - including rich reserves of bauxite and some of the world's largest untapped deposits of iron ore - Guinea is among the 10 least-developed countries in the world, according to the United Nations. Nearly half the population lives on less than $1.25 a day. Youth unemployment is endemic and many young voters who spoke to Al Jazeera cited the lack of jobs as their most immediate concern. "Everyone you see around you is unemployed," said 29-year-old Mohamaed Kake at a rally for Conde's main rival Diallo on Thursday. "I graduated two years ago with a degree in engineering but still I have no job. There is no justice here." For some, however, the result of the election doesn't matter. Cowering under the shelter of his carpentry workshop in the Dixinn area on Friday as rocks thrown by protesters rained down on the flimsy corrugated-iron roof above, Abdulai Sillah said he just wants the vote to be over. "I don't care who wins," he said. "I'm just afraid for my business."
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Scotland coach Vern Cotter and captain Greig Laidlaw express their delight at beating Samoa to reach the WEorld Cup quarter finals.
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DUBLIN Ten people from two Irish Gypsy families, half of them children, died Saturday when their mobile homes caught fire before dawn. Detectives said it was too early to determine a cause for Ireland's deadliest fire in 34 years. The death toll highlighted the often crowded, ramshackle living conditions for the homegrown Gypsy minority, who in Ireland are called Travellers. Police said the dead included two married couples, an adult relative and five children, including a 6-month-old, who were living in neighboring caravans in the Dublin Mountain foothills south of the capital. The council-run site, located on a country lane between rugby and soccer fields, provides places for nomadic Traveller people to park their mobile homes and to use fixed shelters with kitchens, bathrooms and washing facilities. Dublin Fire Brigade spokesman Gerry Stanley said the fire appeared to have started in one home and spread to the second. The leader of Dublin's 1.2 million Catholics, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, called on worshippers to pray for the dead at all weekend Masses. The city priest dedicated to the Traveller community, the Rev. Derek Farrell, traveled to the scene to console survivors. Ireland's leaders offered their condolences. "This is a most dreadful tragedy," said President Michael D. Higgins. The death toll is the worst from a blaze in Ireland since Valentine's Day 1981, when 48 people died in a Dublin dance hall.
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Backed by powerful but graft-tainted politicians, the son of the late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos vowed to fight corruption Saturday as he launched his election bid for the vice presidency. About 2,000 red-clad supporters cheered and chanted his name as Ferdinand Marcos Jr took to the stage in the mid-afternoon Manila heat on his first campaign rally ahead of the May 2016 vote. "There are corrupt Filipinos... within and outside the government who are killing our economy and keeping us poor," Senator Marcos, 58, said. "With your help, I will lead a revolution of the heart, of ideas and of action toward real and meaningful change." The younger Marcos announced his plan to contest the Asian nation's second-highest post on Tuesday, nearly three decades after a bloodless popular revolt chased his family into US exile. Marcos Snr was accused of large-scale corruption and massive human rights abuses during his 20 years in power, but his son, popularly known as "Bongbong", has said voters would not be swayed by these allegations. Poverty, joblessness, a high crime rate and abysmal public transport and other basic infrastructure are what preoccupy the electorate now, he said Saturday. People from the family's northern powerbase, members of the urban poor, some of whom benefited from state help during the Marcos years, as well as first-time voters, showed up for the Manila rally. - 'You should not believe everything' - James Penuliar, a 19-year-old who will be voting for the first time next year, said he has heard of the corruption allegations against the elder Marcos but was unfamiliar with the allegations of human rights abuses against the ex-president. "They're mere hearsay, you should not believe everything you hear," the university student told AFP as he sat on the grass with friends. Luvizminda Alvarez, a jobless 56-year-old widow from Manila's Parola seaside slum, defended Senator Marcos. "He is a helpful person, while his father was a great president," she told AFP. Though running as an independent, Marcos Jr made an early statement of his intent by getting some of the opposition's most influential power brokers to his camp. Former president Joseph Estrada, Senate minority leader Juan Ponce Enrile and the dictator's flamboyant widow Imelda Marcos all showed up for the hour-long political rally in a leafy garden in Manila's old walled city, known as Intramuros. Estrada was convicted of large-scale corruption and sent to prison six years after a bloodless military revolt unseated him in 2001, halfway into his presidency. But he was pardoned by President Benigno Aquino's predecessor Gloria Arroyo just 44 days later and in 2013 was elected mayor of Manila. "Many other candidates have sought my endorsement, but when Senator Bongbong called I did not hesitate," Estrada told the crowd Saturday, citing the 37,000 units of housing built for the urban poor ordered by Imelda Marcos in Manila in the 1970s. "Manila residents owe them a debt of gratitude. They will make sure you (Marcos Jr) will be number one," Estrada added. Enrile, the elder Marcos's long-time defence minister, led the 1986 revolt, but the two families have since reconciled. Enrile is out on bail pending trial for allegedly plundering the equivalent of about $3.7 million in state funds. Marcos' heirs returned to the Philippines in the 1990s and rebuilt their political base. Imelda Marcos now represents the northern province of Ilocos Norte in the House of Representatives, while her eldest daughter Imee Marcos is the provincial governor.
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Israeli soldiers have shot and killed two Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip during confrontations, less than 24 hours after six people were shot dead while protesting along the border with Israel. The Palestinian Health Ministry on Saturday said 13-year-old Marwan Barbakh and 15-year-old Omar Othman were shot with live ammunition in eastern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources confirmed to Al Jazeera that at least 23 people had been injured in clashes with Israelis across Gaza on Saturday. The ministry said in a post on Facebook that the total number of Palestinians killed since the start of October now stood at 20, with nine killed in the Gaza Strip, and 11 in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem. The killings come a day after Israeli soldiers killed six Palestinians protestesting along the border separating the territory from Israel. Among those killed on Friday was a 15-year-old boy who was fatally shot at a demonstration in the al-Faraheen village, southeast of Gaza City. The Israeli army claimed there had been "multiple violent attempts to storm the border fence" and "a 1,000 rioters infiltrated the buffer zone", throwing a "grenade, rocks and rolled burning tyres" at the soldiers". IN PICTURES: Jerusalem unrest spills over to West Bank East Jerusalem deaths The deaths of the two teenagers in Gaza came shortly after three Palestinians were killed in separate incidents in East Jerusalem after reportedly attacking Israelis. The dead included a 16-year-old who was shot dead by Israeli police after stabbing two men, and a member of Hamas who opened fire on Israeli paramilitary police during a clash in the Shuafat refugee camp. Another Palestinian was shot dead after a stabbing attack against Israeli police officers. The incident left three Israeli police officers injured, one seriously after a possible 'friendly fire' incident. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said two Palestinians were being treated for head injuries in Bethlehem after being hit by teargas cannisters fired by Israelis during protests there. Al-Aqsa tensions The recent violence has been fueled by Palestinian fears that Israeli hardliners are trying to take control of the al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem, one of Islam's holiest sites. Those fears have grown after visits by Jewish groups, including politicians, to the site. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted Israel is committed to maintaining the status-quo and has banned his ministers from visiting the site. Under the current arrangements Jews are allowed to visit the site but non-Muslim prayer is banned.
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ISTANBUL Two devastating explosions struck Saturday morning in the heart of Ankara, the Turkish capital, killing more than 90 people who had gathered for a peace rally and heightening tensions just three weeks before snap parliamentary elections. The blasts, which officials called the deadliest terrorist attack in modern Turkey's history, occurred near Ankara's main train station just as Kurds and leftists planned to march to protest the recent resumption of armed conflict between the Turkish state and Kurdish militants. It is a conflict that has been waged for nearly three decades, but in recent times the two sides had seemed to be on the path to peace. The prime minister's office said late Saturday that 246 people were wounded in addition to those who had been killed. "We were expecting an attack in Ankara before the elections, but nothing to this extent," said Sedat Kartal, an Ankara resident reached by phone, who rushed to the scene after hearing the first explosion. "There's so much hate and polarization, nothing is surprising anymore." Turkey is facing a number of destabilizing forces: violence related to conflicts with Kurdish rebels and the Islamic State group; political instability; economic uncertainty; and a growing flow of refugees from the civil war in Syria. All together, the currents buffeting Turkey have evoked memories of the 1990s, when it was also gripped by violence and political uncertainty, shattering Turks' image of their country as a haven of stability and prosperity next to a Middle East upended by wars and chaos. Sign Up For NYT Now's Morning Briefing Newsletter The current instability has become increasingly intertwined with the broader unrest in the Middle East, an area whose fortunes Turkey has sought to shape in recent years by holding itself out as an example of a healthy democracy in the heart of the Muslim world. One consequence of the wars convulsing the Middle East is that the Kurds, an ethnic group spread across four countries Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey have used the chaos to secure more rights and autonomy. In Iraq, the fight against the Islamic State has given the Kurds more leverage over the government in Baghdad, and perhaps a road to independence. In Syria, Kurds have carved out an autonomous enclave, and in Turkey, they have gained more political influence by appealing to liberals and other minorities disenchanted with the government. But Saturday's attack highlighted the difficult road ahead as the Kurds try to preserve their gains. On Saturday, images on social media showed the bloodshed in Ankara, bodies covered in the yellow, purple and green banners of the Kurdish political group, the Peoples' Democratic Party, or H.D.P. A video shared on social media and by the Turkish news media showed a group of demonstrators holding hands and chanting just before the first blast goes off in the background, sending the crowd running toward the train station. A witness, Oya Barlas, a Kurdish activist, said: "After the first explosion, I just ran. When I went back to help there were bodies on the floor and blood spattered everywhere." Turkish authorities were investigating claims that the attacks were carried out by suicide bombers. A similar bombing in July at a cultural center in Suruc, in southeastern Turkey, killed 32 Kurdish activists. No group claimed responsibility for that attack, but the authorities blamed the Islamic State, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. Kurdish leaders, though, directed their anger at the Turkish state, accusing the government of supporting the Islamic State in the group's attack last year on the Syrian Kurdish border town of Kobani. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a statement posted online, said, "I strongly condemn this heinous attack on our unity and our country's peace." Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, whose office issued a ban on news coverage of the attack that was widely ignored, declared three days of national mourning. In a televised news conference, he said that "the attack in Ankara targets our unity, democracy, peace" and called it "the most painful incident in the history of the Turkish republic." President Obama expressed his condolences to Mr. Erdogan in a telephone call and "affirmed that the American people stand in solidarity with the people of Turkey in the fight against terrorism and shared security challenges in the region," a statement from the White House said. Selahattin Demirtas, the leader of the H.D.P., which faced several attacks during the election campaign ahead of the elections in June, spoke to reporters on Saturday in Istanbul, making comments that seemed to allude to political rallies in support of Mr. Erdogan and his Islamist Justice and Development Party, known as the A.K.P. "Gang leaders can hold safe rallies in this country, but those who want peace are murdered," Mr. Demirtas said. He also lashed out at the Turkish state, saying: "We are faced with a murderous mob state. How is it possible that a state with such a strong intelligence network did not have prior information on the attack?" While Turkey faces legitimate threats from the Islamic State, which has threatened the country as it has increased its cooperation with an American-led coalition fighting the terrorist group, much of the violence is related to an old war: the conflict between the state and the militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or P.K.K., which since the 1980s has claimed nearly 40,000 lives. The two sides had been working through a peace process in recent years, but those talks collapsed this year as the P.K.K. stepped up attacks, and the military began bombing the group's hide-outs in the mountains of northern Iraq and in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast. Amid the carnage on Saturday there was one hopeful sign for peace: The P.K.K. announced, as expected, a cease-fire in advance of the elections, saying it would halt offensive operations and act only in self-defense, according to the Firat News Agency, an outlet close to the group. Whether that will lead to a drop in violence is uncertain, given that the Turkish government seems intent on continuing its military operations against the group. The renewed hostilities came just after a historic electoral performance by the Kurdish movement when the H.D.P., for the first time, met a 10 percent threshold in June's election to earn seats in Parliament. The Kurdish electoral gains came at the expense of Mr. Erdogan's party, which for the first time since rising to power in 2002 lost its majority in Parliament. The A.K.P. still controls the most seats, but after weeks of fruitless coalition talks, Mr. Erdogan called for snap elections, which are scheduled for Nov. 1. The period before the elections has coincided with the renewed violence in the Kurdish southeast. While the P.K.K. has seemed eager to return to violence, critics of Mr. Erdogan have accused him of using war as a political strategy to attract nationalist voters opposed to the peace process to win back a parliamentary majority. Turkey's war with Kurdish militants has been linked to its decision over the summer to join the American-led coalition against the Islamic State, after months of lobbying by the United States. But just after agreeing to open up its air bases to coalition warplanes, Turkey increased its attacks against the P.K.K., a group whose Syrian offshoot had become an important American ally against the Islamic State in Syria. The attacks on the P.K.K. have coincided with a crackdown on Kurdish activists, through arrests, and an effort by government officials to tar the H.D.P. with the taint of terrorism by linking it to P.K.K. violence. Emek Karakilic, an adviser to the H.D.P. who was at the march on Saturday, echoed the sentiments of many Kurds when he blamed the state for the attack. "As Mr. Demirtas said in his statement, I think it's obvious who was behind this," he said. Mr. Karakilic said he was lucky to be alive. He was in front of an H.D.P. van when the first blast struck. "We fell to the floor and there was blood and flesh splattered everywhere," he said. "I stood up and started running. There was about one second between each explosion. When I turned around I saw a lake of blood and bodies. I couldn't tell who was dead or alive."
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A former staffer with the House Select Committee on Benghazi says the panel's probe has become a politically motivated inquiry targeting Hillary Clinton.
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A 25-year-old surfer was bitten by a shark off the famed North Shore on Hawaii's island of Oahu on Friday, and the man was rushed to a hospital where he was listed in critical condition. According to officials with Honolulu Emergency Medical Services the shark measured between 10 and 12 feet. The man, after he was bitten on the left leg, was helped ashore by another surfer and paddle boarder and a kayaker who towed them in. It was believed to be the fifth shark attack in Hawaii this year.
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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- No. 14 Mississippi overpowered another non-conference opponent with points and yards galore. The final result was a lopsided 52-3 victory over New Mexico State that included Chad Kelly's 384 yards passing and an acrobatic one-handed touchdown grab by Laquon Treadwell. The highlights were certainly a welcome sight for the Rebels after last week's sobering 38-10 loss to Florida. But there wasn't a whole lot of celebrating considering they still had sloppy moments -- including three turnovers -- and much tougher games coming up. "We can get so much better," Treadwell said. BOX SCORE: NO. 14 MISSISSIPPI 52, NEW MEXICO STATE 3 Ole Miss continued its trend of putting up huge offensive numbers against weaker non-conference opponents. The Rebels have averaged 67 points per game in victories over UT Martin, Fresno State and the Aggies. The Ole Miss defense kept New Mexico State out of the end zone. Trae Elston and Mike Hilton both grabbed interceptions. "This one was important," Hilton said. "We didn't want to keep a bad taste in our mouths from a loss and this helps get rid of that." Kelly, who came into the day leading the Southeastern Conference in passing, has topped 300 yards in four of six games this season. He completed 24 of 33 throws as his uncle -- Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Kelly -- watched for the first time in Oxford. Treadwell caught eight passes for 136 yards and two touchdowns. The Rebels (5-1) finished with 665 yards of total offense. Eugene Brazley ran for a team-high 98 yards, including a 78-yard touchdown. New Mexico State (0-5) couldn't convert a few good opportunities after Ole Miss turnovers. The Aggies missed on two field goal attempts. Redshirt freshman Nick Jeanty completed 11 of 22 passes for 74 yards. "We played an elite football team and they have more weapons that we do right now," New Mexico State coach Doug Martin said. Kelly was accurate most of the afternoon and the highlight was his 37-yard touchdown to Treadwell. The junior receiver ran an awkward route before Kelly let it fly. Treadwell recovered and then reached out with his right hand, grabbing the ball and cradling it against his body before gliding into the end zone. "I knew he would get it," Kelly said. "If you give `Quan a chance, he's going to get it and it was a fantastic catch." The Rebels had four sacks, including one by junior linebacker Terry Caldwell, who started his first game in place of the injured C.J. Johnson. The running game averaged nearly eight yards per carry. But there were also some bad moments. The Rebels quickly drove down the field on their first possession, but bogged down on first-and-goal at the 9 and settled for a field goal. The punt return unit had two turnovers. Carlos Davis fumbled twice, recovering one while New Mexico State recovered the other. On another punt, the Rebels' D.K. Buford lost sight of a bouncing ball and let it hit his foot. It was recovered by the New Mexico State. "We did a lot of good things today," Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze said. "But there are still critical moments in the game when we don't execute properly." The mistakes didn't matter on Saturday because the gulf in talent was so wide. But Ole Miss will need a cleaner performance next weekend when it goes on the road to face a much-improved Memphis team that has won 12 straight. ---------- Follow David Brandt on Twitter: www.twitter.com/davidbrandtAP ------ AP college football website: collegefootball.ap.org
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Urban Meyer doesn't mind talking about his No. 1 team, flawed as some believe it is. However, he could do without the never-ending discussion around his two quarterbacks. "I'm exhausted from it," he said. It's not going to stop. BOX SCORE: NO. 1 OHIO STATE 49, MARYLAND 28 Meyer used Cardale Jones to start drives and J.T. Barrett to finish them as Ohio State -- still unbeaten and mostly underwhelming -- shook off Maryland in the second half for a 49-28 win on Saturday. Jones threw two touchdown passes, Barrett scored three times and the top-ranked Buckeyes (6-0, 2-0 Big Ten), who haven't met enormous expectations this season, scored 28 unanswered points in the second half to put away the Terrapins in what may have been Maryland coach Randy Edsall's final game. Ezekiel Elliott had two short TD runs, Joey Bosa recorded a sack and several pressures and the Buckeyes extended the nation's longest winning streak to 19. Ohio State has won 26 straight regular-season conference games, but again struggled against a huge underdog. And once again, Meyer shook things up with his two QBs. After naming Jones his starter the past two weeks, Meyer decided to bring in Barrett once Ohio State moved the ball deep into Maryland territory. The results were startling: Ohio State scored a touchdown on all six trips inside the Terrapins' 20-yard line. "I'm very happy with it," Meyer said of the two-QB, red-zone scheme which is reminiscent of what he used at Florida with Chris Leak and Tim Tebow. "It's a unique situation." Jones, who replaced an injured Barrett last season and led the Buckeyes to three postseason wins and the national title, threw a 19-yard TD pass to Braxton Miller and connected on a 48-yarder to Jalin Marshall. He finished 21 of 28 for 291 yards -- not bad for a part-timer. "It was great," Jones said of the dual-quarterback attack employed by Meyer. "It was all in the coach's plan to win. He felt like J.T. would be an extra element to the game down in the red zone, and certain things we wanted to do in the running game and he proved to be right once again." The Buckeyes had scored just six TDs on 16 trips into the red zone before Meyer changed things. "I think the red-zone package they put in for J.T. was perfect," Elliott said. "I think they complemented each other perfectly. They both got into a rhythm and it worked out really well for us." Outscored 73-6 the past two weeks, the Terrapins put up a fight amid speculation about Edsall's future. Maryland quarterback Perry Hills ran for 170 yards and two TDs, but threw two picks in the fourth as the Terrapins tried to mount a comeback. Edsall was proud of his team's performance and side-stepped questions about whether he thinks he'll be on the sideline when Maryland hosts Penn State on Oct. 24. "I'm going on the bus," said Edsall, in his fifth season with the Terps. "I'll watch the film. All I'm going to do is get these kids to be the best that they can be. As long as I'm the coach, all I'm going to do is do my job." Edsall angrily left the podium from his postgame news conference to a smattering of applause from some Maryland boosters. After needing a last-second defensive stop to survive a scare in their conference opener at Indiana last week, the Buckeyes figured to get themselves straightened out against the Terrapins, who were coming off a shutout at home against Michigan and were having to address Edsall's status. But Ohio State showed some familiar flaws: a defense susceptible to big plays, an inconsistent offensive line and a two-QB system that grows more complicated as the season progresses. For three quarters, the Buckeyes didn't look like the nation's best team before a homecoming crowd expecting better. The defending national champs began the season as a unanimous No. 1 in the AP poll, but the Buckeyes have steadily lost first-place votes and could drop a few more. Still, Meyer came away pleased with his squad's performance, though he'd prefer not to spend any more time dwelling on who is lining up behind center. He was asked if Barrett is the right guy in the red zone, why isn't he the right guy all the time? "We just won, man," Meyer said, offering a slight smile. "They're both very good quarterbacks."
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Growing opposition in Germany to the proposed TTIP trade deal has caught the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel by surprise. Mana Rabiee reports.
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SAN FRANCISCO Of all the states, California has set the most ambitious targets for cutting emissions in coming decades, and an important pillar of its plan to reach those goals is encouraging the spread of electric vehicles . But the push to make the state greener is creating an unintended side effect: It is making some people meaner. The bad moods stem from the challenges drivers face finding recharging spots for their battery-powered cars. Unlike gas stations, charging stations are not yet in great supply, and that has led to sharp-elbowed competition. Electric-vehicle owners are unplugging one another's cars, trading insults, and creating black markets and side deals to trade spots in corporate parking lots. The too-few-outlets problem is a familiar one in crowded cafes and airports, where people want to charge their phones or laptops. But the need can be more acute with cars will their owners have enough juice to make it home? and manners often go out the window. Sign Up For NYT Now's Morning Briefing Newsletter In the moments after Don Han plugged in his Nissan Leaf at a public charging station near his Silicon Valley office one day this summer, he noticed another Leaf pull up as he was walking away. The driver got out and pulled the charger out of Mr. Han's car and started to plug it into his own. Mr. Han stormed back. "I said, 'Hey, buddy, what do you think you're doing?' And he said, 'Well, your car is done charging,' " Mr. Han recalled. He told him that was not the case, put the charger back in his own car and left "after saying a couple of curse words, of course." Such incidents are not uncommon, according to interviews with drivers and electric vehicle advocates, as well as posts from people sharing frustrations on social media. Tensions over getting a spot are "growing and growing," said Maureen Blanc, the director of Charge Across Town , a San Francisco nonprofit that works to spread the adoption of electric vehicles. She owns an electric BMW and recently had a testy run-in over a charging station with a Tesla driver. "It's high time," she said, "for somebody to tackle the electric-vehicle etiquette problem." Some people are working on short-term fixes. A Google computer manager said he had sold 9,000 of the EV Etiquette Survival Packs that he created. For $15.99, a pack includes hang tags for vehicles that urge fellow drivers not to unplug others' cars while charging. More public chargers are the obvious long-term solution. About half of the 330,000 electric vehicles in this country are registered in California, and Gov. Jerry Brown wants to increase that number to 1.5 million by 2025. He has pledged a sharp increase in charging stations. Right now, there is roughly one public charger for every 10 electric vehicles about 15,000 in California and 33,000 across the country, according to ChargePoint, one of the biggest charging-station companies. (There are thousands of other, unofficial charging spots that are essentially wall outlets that businesses or homeowners have made available for public plug-in). The larger public charging stations tend to look like high-tech gas pumps and often are in parking lots. But they can vary widely in cost and charging power. Some take half an hour for a charge and others four hours or more; many are free or subsidized, and others cost $1 an hour or more. Public charging stations and lights on many vehicles indicate when a car battery is full. Most people charge at home (using an electrical outlet) but also want to use public chargers, in part because the cars have a limited range typically 80 miles. On top of this "range anxiety," as it is called, drivers like the idea of getting a free or low-cost charge at a public station. "Imagine going to a gas station that says, 'Here's free gas.' Who wouldn't want to muscle in and say, 'I'll take some free gas'?" said Ollie Danner, the founder of EVPerks, a California company that works with local and national businesses to offer coupons and other incentives to electric vehicle drivers. The rudeness is not just among drivers of electric cars. By many accounts, owners of gas-powered cars often take up desirable parking and charging spots that companies and cities reserve for electric cars. This habit has inspired the spread of a nickname: ICE Holes. (ICE stands for internal combustion engine.) "Some people say, 'I just wish I could key their cars,' " said Jack Brown, who created the EV Etiquette Survival Packs and a Facebook page devoted to complaining about the interlopers. Mr. Brown, who works in Google's driverless car division and used to work at Tesla, includes in his survival packs a notice to put on gasoline-engine cars. It reads, "EV charging spaces are functional reserve spaces, just like disabled drivers spaces." The tag goes on to say that blocking the spaces "is not only inconsiderate, it is illegal in many areas." But it also includes stickers that inform other drivers that it is all right to unplug a car if it is fully charged, and others that ask, "Can you plug me in when you're done?" The competition has led people to judge one another's cars and which ones deserve charging priority. Owners of all-electric cars see themselves as most entitled to the chargers, since they have no Plan B. One rung down are "plug-in hybrids," which use electricity but also can use gas, followed by hybrids, and then two groups for which the owners of pure electric cars reserve particular disdain: gas cars and, perhaps surprisingly, Teslas. (The $100,000 Teslas, as much as three times the cost of other plug-ins, have a range of several hundred miles and so, theoretically, do not need the charge spots.) Jamie Hull, who drives an electric Fiat, grew apoplectic recently when she discovered herself nearly out of a charge, unable to get home to Palo Alto. She found a charging station, but a Tesla was parked in it and not charging. She ordered a coffee, waited for the driver to return and, when he did, asked why he was taking a spot when he was not charging. She said the man had told her that he was going to run one more errand and walked off. "I seriously considered keying his car," she said. Among its own customers, Tesla has faced similar issues. In fact, some Tesla drivers reported having received a letter in August from the company saying that they were overusing its network of superfast charging stations meant to aid long-distance travel and that they should unplug once charged. Ms. Hull, an executive at Evernote, a software company where electric vehicles outnumber chargers 60 to 12, the scramble for chargers leads to curious behavior. The company does have a sign-up sheet for reserving charging time. But it is not uncommon for people to leave their cars too long, or for members of the public to take the spots or even, Ms. Hull said, for people to work outside deals. "There's an entire black market for trading spots," she said. For example, employees will give their spots to friends or managers as favors, Ms. Hull said. At some other Silicon Valley companies where workers own a lot of electric vehicles, employees will get a note from someone in their department when someone is about to unplug and open up a spot. The legal department might band together, for instance, or the communications department, creating little sharing fiefs. To Ms. Hull, the culture stems in part from the way electric car owners have grown used to perks, like getting state and federal subsidies for buying green cars, or permission to use the car pool lane. So when it comes to unplugging someone, well, they feel deserving. "They're not bad people, necessarily," she said. "They may have some amount of entitlement."
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In what had to be a welcome relief to investors, the stock market posted one of its best weeks of 2015 over the past five trading days, and now all the focus turns to third-quarter earnings. While insider buying remained consistent, it does appear that the windows for executives and 10% owners to buy and sell are starting to shut as earnings will start fast and furious come Monday. We cover insider buying every week at 24/7 Wall St., and we like to remind readers that while insider buying is usually a very positive sign, it is not in of itself a reason to run out and buy a stock. Sometimes insiders and 10% owners have stock purchase plans set up at intervals to add to their holdings. That aside, it still remains a positive indicator. Here are some of the companies that reported notable insider buying last week. Sprint Corp. (NYSE: S) continues to look more and more like a slow but sure buyout candidate as Japanese telecommunications and Internet giant Softbank, which is already a 10% owner of the company, continued with gigantic purchases of the carrier's shares. Softbank purchased an additional 14,527,720 shares of the stock at prices that ranged from $3.89 to $4.49. The total for this week's buy came to a whopping $60.6 million. Sprint shares were trading on Friday's close at $4.47. ALSO READ: 3 Top Jefferies Hidden Value Stocks to Buy Now Lands' End Inc. (NASDAQ: LE) had a high-profile 10% owner buying more stock this week. Edward Lampert, who is becoming a regular member of the 24/7 Wall Street insider report, purchased 260,426 shares of the retailer at prices that ranged from $26.45 to $26.90 per share. The total for the purchase came to an even $7 million. The shares closed trading on Friday at $27.04. Amicus Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: FOLD) had a 10% owner adding to a position this week. Perspective Advisors bought a 750,000 share block of the company's stock at prices between $6.34 and $6.85 apiece. The total for the buy came to an even $5 million. This biopharmaceutical company develops and commercializes therapeutic products for rare and orphan diseases. The stock ended the week at $7.58, so it appears to be a well-timed buy. West Corp. (NASDAQ: WSTC) had owners Gary and Mary West purchasing shares of the company this week. The pair bought a total of 132,112 shares at prices that ranged from $20.60 to $22.32. That cost them a tidy $3.2 million. The company provides technology-enabled communication services in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Latin America and South America. The stock closed trading on Friday at $24.24, so here too a well-timed purchase. Aircastle Ltd. (NYSE: AYR) makes another appearance on our insider trading screens. 10% owner Marubeni Corp. bought an additional 25,183 shares of the stock at $20.37 apiece. The total for the buy came to $513,000. Aircastle acquires, leases and sells commercial jet aircraft to airlines worldwide. The company also makes investments in various aviation assets, such as debt investments secured by commercial jet aircraft. Shares were trading on Friday's close at $22.82, so another well-timed purchase. ALSO READ: 2 High-Yielding MLPs Upgraded Despite Ugly Sector View These companies also reported insider buying last week: Conn's Inc. (NASDAQ: CONN), Dorian LPG Ltd. (NYSE: LPG), Lawson Products Inc. (NASDAQ: LAWS), Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) and Support.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SPRT). The usual earnings trend is getting ready to set in, and that means very subdued insider transactions as the windows to buy and sell are closed. The trend of very little selling is still in place, but a positive earnings season could change that if the market makes a substantial move higher.
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Sixth-grader Iris Gupta wants to change how we treat one of our most annoying problems: allergies. The 12-year-old Maryland native is one of the 10 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge finalists for her work with nanoparticles and allergies. The challenge is the "ultimate middle school science competition" for kids in Grades 5 to 8 across the US. This year's finalists worked on projects ranging from new ways to keep people from driving while intoxicated to devices that measure car temperatures. Allergies are your immune system's response to a substance that's not harmful to other people. They're the sixth leading cause of chronic disease in the US. How Gupta's project works Typically, people treat the symptoms of allergies with antihistamines like Benadryl or Claritin. The medication inhibits histamines, the compounds our bodies release in response to an injury or allergen. But Gupta wanted to figure out if there was a way to treat allergies before they ramp up. She started looking into gold nanoparticles, which could block allergens from binding to the body's Immunoglobulin E antibodies , a part of the blood responsible for fighting off allergens. The nanoparticles, relatively inexpensive, could be injected or inhaled at the beginning of allergy season, and could stave off the inflammation and discomfort we experience when our IgE response gets initiated. Scientists have looked into the idea of using nanoparticles to stop allergies before, but more work needs to be done before they're put into use. Before she could really run with her idea, though, Gupta needed to figure out the right size of nanoparticle to use. She found that the best results came from those that were 20 nanometers in size. The 20-nanometer nanoparticles matched up well with IgE, Gupta explains in her project video , preventing the IgE from acting up when an allergen entered the body.
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Russia's ruble is done with the 70s, according to the Central Bank governor Elvira Nabiullina . While she didn't give a target range for the ruble, she said this weekend on Rossiya-24 TV that the ruble would not devalue much in the near-term. Much of this depends on oil's direction. With oil futures pushing into the $50s of late, the ruble has gone from the high 60s to 61 rubles to the dollar on Friday's close. A stronger ruble is good for Russian local currency bond holders who get the high yield plus a pop in the currency as it strengthens against the greenback. Those who believe the ruble will strengthen may want to consider Russian fixed income. Over the last two weeks, fund flows have returned to emerging markets. But Russia is the laggard for capital flow due to Western sanctions, a negative political perception, and more importantly, the loss of investment grade status which keeps funds that are mandated to buy investment grade debt only far from Russia's bond market. Last week, Barclays said that it expects the Russian Central Bank to lower interest rates next year. This is potentially good news for equities, and for current fixed income holders. Investors holding onto higher yielding Russian debt today will see their bond prices rise as yields compress. BarCap said it expects inflation to fall by more than 50% next year from 15% now to 7% in 2016. Then on Saturday, Nabiullina told reporters during a trip to Lima that inflation will fall another 50% by 2017. Crazy Putin Pix From The Internet "We are retaining our goal at 4% for 2017. For the following year our [inflation] forecast is 5.5-6%. We think that this goal is achievable without excessive downward pressure on the economy," Nabiullina told reporters. Her goal is still not on par with the official numbers released on Wednesday by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development. They reduced the baseline forecasts for inflation for 2016 and 2017 to 6.4% and 6% respectively. The Russian economy has been in recession all year, expected to contract by 3.5% in 2015. Global oil prices and sanctions have not helped. The ruble has lost over half its value over the last 10 months and consumer sentiment is near an all time low.
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Italy confirmed its place at Euro 2016 with a 3-1 win over Group H rival Azerbaijan at the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium on Saturday. The group leader needed one win from its final two qualifiers and goals from Eder, Stephan El Shaarawy and Matteo Darmian ensured Italy goes into Tuesday's qualification finale with Norway assured of its spot in France next year. Antonio Conte - without Domenico Berardi, Andrea Pirlo and Lorenzo Insigne due to injury - saw his side lead early on courtesy of Eder's second international goal as he finished off a Pirlo-esque pass from Marco Verratti. Dima Nazarov leveled for Robert Prosinecki's Azerbaijan, which had demonstrated solidity in qualification with three straight draws, but El Shaarawy put Italy back in front before halftime. Italy's bold formation resembled a 4-2-4 at times, Antonio Candreva and El Shaarawy often occupying advanced roles on the flanks, but it was fullback Darmian who sealed the result with his first international goal shortly after the hour. The away side was spared a nervy finale as Badavi Huseynov was sent off for a challenge on Sebastian Giovinco, and Italy is now able to focus on preparations for Conte's first competition in charge. Italy was bright early on as Conte's attacking formation showed promise, but Rahid Amirguliyev had the first effort on target when his deflected shot was gathered by Gianluigi Buffon. Amirguliyev's curled shot from distance also tested the Italy goalkeeper before Eder's 11th-minute opener. The Sampdoria man timed his run to beat the offside trap and collect Verratti's expert pass before prodding the ball past Kamran Agayev to settle any Italian nerves. Eder almost turned provider for strike partner Graziano Pelle soon after - Agayev was equal to the Southampton forward's close-range effort - but Prosinecki's men remained disciplined in possession and got their reward on the half-hour. After Giorgio Chiellini sliced an attempted clearance, Leonardo Bonucci could only head the ball back towards his own goal, with Nazarov able to coolly slide the ball past Buffon. However, after El Shaarawy had twice gone close to restoring Italy's lead, the Monaco man tapped into an open net following Candreva's pass to give the visitors a halftime advantage. Buoyed by El Shaarawy's finish prior to the break, Italy started the second half on the front foot and Eder came close to a second when he clipped an effort over the onrushing Agayev only for captain Rashad Sadygov to clear off the line. Italy eventually got its third courtesy of defender Darmian 25 minutes from time, as the Manchester United man shrugged Nazarov off the ball before producing a finish from distance. Giovinco almost made the result more flattering for Italy when his free kick hit the crossbar, having been hauled down by last man Huseynov, with Conte's men now looking to wrap up an unbeaten qualification campaign against Norway in Rome next week.
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The Netherlands kept its hopes of reaching Euro 2016 alive after goals from Georginio Wijnaldum and Wesley Sneijder gave it a 2-1 win in Kazakhstan. The Oranje were in desperate need of three points to maintain their quest for a playoff spot in Group A and were rarely threatened in a professional display. Impressive debutant Anwar El Ghazi set up Wijnaldum for the opener after 33 minutes and Sneijder added a wonderfully worked second to hand some much-needed cheer to coach Danny Blind. The hosts scored with virtually the last kick of the match through Islambek Kuat, but it mattered little. It was also a night of celebration for Robin van Persie, who was introduced late to win his 100th cap for his country. El Ghazi threatened first for the Dutch after seven minutes, cutting inside from the right before unleashing a left-footed shot that failed to trouble Kazakhstan goalkeeper Stas Pokatilov. The Ajax winger got another chance shortly after following a sublime cross from Memphis Depay, but aimed his header from 5 yards out wide of the target. Wijnaldum came close to breaking the deadlock in the 27th minute after a fine cross from El Ghazi but the Newcastle man's header went over the crossbar. Depay should have opened the scoring just minutes later following a sublime through ball from Daley Blind, but the winger shot wide after ignoring the unmarked Klaas-Jan Huntelaar to his right. Danny Blind's men did take the lead shortly after the half-hour mark, though. El Ghazi set up Wijnaldum with a clever layoff and the midfielder found the net with a low left-footed shot. El Ghazi should have capped a fine first Netherlands outing with a goal in the dying seconds of the opening period after another superb cross from Depay, but his timing let him down as he volleyed it wide for a goal kick. The Netherlands made a superb start to the second half and doubled its lead in the 50th minute. Huntelaar set up Sneijder after a fine team move and the Galatasaray star hammered home from a narrow angle. El Ghazi nearly made it three after some good work from Virgil van Dijk minutes later, but his attempt was cleared off the line. Wijnaldum got the chance to double his tally midway through the second half but blasted his shot from a narrow angle over the crossbar. Timur Dosmagambetov shot wide from inside the area in the 67th minute as Kazakhstan finally threatened. Yuri Logvinenko then nodded wide of a gaping goal shortly afterward. They did halve the deficit deep into injury time as Kuat turned home Sergei Khizhnichenko's header back across the face of goal but there was no time for an equalizer.
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25 year-old Colin Cook loses left leg, in critical condition
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Anti-government protests broke out in front of Ankara's hospitals and at the sites where twin bombings killed at least 95 people earlier on Saturday. Nearly 10,000 people chanted "Murderer Erdogan" referring to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who many accused of increasing tensions with the Kurds. Protesters also carried placards saying "the state is a killer" and "we know the murderers." Demonstrations also took place in several other cities including Istanbul, Izmir on the Aegean Sea and the southeastern cities of Batman and Diyarbakir, the Dogan news agency reported. Turkey's government imposed a temporary ban on news that showed images of where the blasts occurred, or "images that create a feeling of panic." The government warned media organizations that they could face a "full blackout" if they defied the rules. Citizens also reported not being able to access Twitter and other social media websites shortly after the blasts, the Associated Press reported. 'IS or PKK responsible' At least 95 people died and 246 were wounded in an attack that targeted a peace rally in Ankara's central area on Saturday. No organization claimed responsibility for the explosions, but Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said there were "strong signs" the two blasts were carried out by Kurdish militants or members of the group calling itself "Islamic State" (IS). "For some time, we have been receiving intelligence information based on some [Kurdish rebel] and Daesh statements that certain suicide attackers would be sent to Turkey… and that through these attackers chaos would be created in Turkey," the prime minister said in a statement, referring to IS by its Arabic acronym. Authorities had detained at least two suspects in recent days in Ankara and Istanbul, Davutoglu said. Fighting between Turkish forces and Kurdish rebels has intensified in Turkey's southeast since July this year, killing at least 150 police officers and soldiers and hundreds of Kurdish rebels of the PKK. Critics have accused the president of using the enmity for electoral gains. Erdogan has condemned the explosions, saying "The greatest and most meaningful response to this attack is the solidarity and determination we will show against it." mg/jm (AP, AFP, Reuters, dpa)
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Belgium cruised to a 4-1 away victory over Andorra on Saturday, sealing qualification for Euro 2016. Radja Nainggolan's deflected effort gave Marc Wilmots' men the lead, before Kevin De Bruyne struck with a stunning free kick just before halftime. Alarm bells were briefly ringing after the break when Andorra's record goal-scorer Ildefons Lima netted a penalty, but Belgium quickly responded with a spot kick of its own, scored by stand-in captain Eden Hazard. Laurent Depoitre made it four with a close-range finish, before Hazard missed a chance to net his second penalty of the match as his effort was saved in the closing stages. After reaching the World Cup quarterfinals in 2014, Belgium will now play in the Euros for the first time in four tournaments as its international resurgence continues. The visitors were quickly piling on the pressure, with Hazard drifting inside and smashing a left-footed effort narrowly wide. In another opportunity, Dries Mertens dribbled infield at pace from the right and Ferran Pol did well to push his effort over the crossbar. The breakthrough was coming for Belgium and it arrived through Nainggolan. The Roma midfielder picked up a pass from Jordan Lukaku outside the box and let fly, with his effort taking a wicked deflection off Marc Rebes on its way in. Marcio Vieira fired a tame free kick straight at Simon Mignolet for the hosts, while De Bruyne could only clip the outside of the post from close range after being cleverly slipped through by Hazard. But the Manchester City star found his range superbly moments later. After Hazard had won a free kick 25 yards from goal, De Bruyne dispatched a perfect effort in off the post. Andorra made a stunning impact five minutes into the second half, with Victor Moreira drawing a reckless foul by Jan Vertonghen in the box and Lima sending Mignolet the wrong way from the spot for his 10th international goal. But the hosts shot themselves in the foot almost immediately when captain Oscar Sonejee foolishly jumped up to handle Mertens' corner. Hazard calmly rolled home the spot kick - his fifth goal in seven internationals. It was four for the visitors on 64 minutes. Mertens raced down the right and whipped in a perfect cross for Depoitre, who applied the finishing touch to mark his international debut with a goal. Another handball in the penalty area - this time from Gabriel Riera as he attempted to block Vertonghen's header - gave Hazard another opportunity from the spot, but this time Pol got down to save what was a poor effort from the Chelsea man. That was not enough to break Belgian spirits, though, as the team celebrated booking its ticket to France with its large traveling support after the final whistle.
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INCHEON CITY, South Korea Internationals captain Nick Price got most of the changes he wanted in the Presidents Cup so the matches would at least be competitive, most notably a drop from 34 to 30 points. Well, he has himself a match this go around. The Internationals trail the U.S. by just one point, 9½-8½, heading into Sunday's singles action at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea. In an event that has been dominated by the Americans they are 8-1-1 and have won the last five matches by at least three points it's the smallest deficit heading into the final day since 2005, when the teams were tied 11-11 after three days. "This is what we all came here for, for it to be exciting tomorrow," Price said. "And obviously doing the singles, the setup for the singles is very difficult. But I'm going to go and ask my team to go and play golf tomorrow. Each and every one of them has to play golf tomorrow and play to the very best of their ability. That's all we can do. But I think it's been a phenomenally exciting week and I think tomorrow is going to be no different." Patrick Reed will lead things off for the U.S. against Louis Oosthuizen, who was unbeaten in four team's matches. In the second match, Rickie Fowler of the U.S. will face Adam Scott. The U.S. will then send out six bombers, led by Dustin Johnson, who will face Danny Lee. J.B. Holmes faces Hideki Matsuyama in the fifth match, and Bubba Watson goes against Thongchai Jaidee in the sixth match. Jimmy Walker is next in line for the Americans against Steven Bowditch, and Phil Mickelson faces Charl Schwartzel in the following match. The USA's Chris Kirk meets Anirban Lahiri in the eighth match. World No. 1 Jordan Spieth is against Marc Leishman in the ninth match. Price held three of his big guns for the final three matches world No. 2 Jason Day, Branden Grace, who went 4-0 with Oosthuizen in team play, and Sangmoon Bae, the local hero. Zach Johnson meets Day, Matt Kuchar faces Grace and Bill Haas is in the anchor match against Bae. "We're motivated," Oosthuizen said. "We need to win a Presidents Cup. I think that everyone on the team feels that way. We want to win one for Adam, we want to win one for Pricey, and we want to win one for ourselves. "It's been a long time since it happened (1998), and we came into this week with pretty good form, all of us. We believe we can do it."
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Ben Zobrist hit a go-ahead single in the seventh inning, reliever Wade Davis got replay help for a key pickoff in the ninth and the Kansas City Royals rallied from a three-run hole to beat the Houston Astros 5-4 on Friday evening to level their AL Division Series at a game apiece. Kansas City took the lead when Alcides Escobar tripled off Will Harris (0-1) to open the seventh and Zobrist followed with his single through the left side.
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The U.S. Department of Defense will seek to make "condolence payments" to families of victims of a U.S. air strike that mistakenly hit a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 22 people, the Pentagon said on Saturday. "The Department of Defense believes it is important to address the consequences of the tragic incident at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan," spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement, adding the United States would also pay to repair the charity hospital. "U.S. Forces-Afghanistan has the authority to make condolence payments and payments toward repair of the hospital. USFOR-A will work with those affected to determine appropriate payments. If necessary and appropriate, the administration will seek additional authority from the Congress," he said. President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologized to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) for the bombing of its hospital. The medical charity is pressing for an international commission to investigate what it calls a war crime. Among those killed were 12 MSF staff. On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the U.S. military deeply regretted the loss of life and was acknowledging its mistake and working to understand what went wrong. "The U.S. military takes the greatest care in our operations to prevent the loss of innocent life, and when we make mistakes, we own up to them. That's exactly what we're doing right now," Carter said in a statement. (Reporting by Sandra Maler Editing by W Simon and David Gregorio)
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Seeing the two leading Democratic contenders on the campaign trail is a vastly different experience.
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People are uniting in Washington to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March.
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Two explosions targeted a Turkish peace rally in Ankara Saturday, killing at least 95 people and wounding more than 240 others. Authorities suspect the blasts were suicide bombings. (Oct. 10)
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Wales qualified for Euro 2016 despite suffering a 2-0 defeat to Bosnia-Herzegovina at the Stadion Bilino Polje. Chris Coleman's side would have secured its place in France with a point, but Israel's loss to Cyprus secured progression from Group B regardless, as well as moving Bosnia third in the pool. Bosnia set about its task immediately and dominated possession from the early exchanges, though Edin Visca was unable to convert its first, and best, opening of the first half. Wales threatened on the break but was unable to take the chances it forged, and it proved costly as substitute Filip Djuric headed Bosnia ahead with less than 20 minutes remaining. Bosnia then made sure its destiny was in its own hands going into its final fixture against Cyprus, as Vedad Ibisevic turned home Djuric's shot at the back post in the final minute of normal time. With three points crucial to the ambitions of Bosnia, the game began in an open manner with Wales looking to play on the counterattack. As Bosnia assumed control of possession, Aaron Ramsey almost caught Asmir Begovic out of position with an ambitious 35-yard free kick that flew narrowly wide of the target four minutes later. The hosts were finding it difficult to break down Wales' five-man defense and, six minutes later, Begovic became the first keeper to be forced into a save, but Bale's skidding set-piece effort required little movement to deny. In the last action of the first half, Hal Robson-Kanu released Ramsey in behind the defense, but the Arsenal man dallied on the ball and Neil Taylor was unable to slide home as Begovic smothered it. Gaps continued to show in the Bosnia defesce and one such opening presented Bale with a great chance to open the scoring 11 minutes after the restart. After being released by Joe Ledley, though, he skewed a wild shot wide of the near post. It proved a costly miss in the 71st minute as Bosnia finally broke the deadlock. Ibisevic stopped Ashley Williams from getting his head to Pjanic's free kick from deep, and substitute Djuric looped a header beyond Wayne Hennessey and into the back of the net. Ramsey missed a chance to draw Wales level and Mehmed Bazdarevic's men rounded off the scoring in the 90th minute as Ibisevic was in the right place at the right time to tap home from Djuric's cross following a corner. Although Wales' place in France was secured despite the defeat, it slipped to second as Belgium triumphed over Andorra 4-1. Bosnia, meanwhile, just needs to match or better Israel's result in its final outing against Cyprus.
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Bill Cosby testified under oath for about seven hours on Friday in response to a civil suit brought by a woman who accuses the veteran comedian of sexually abusing her when she was 15, a lawyer for the plaintiff said on Saturday. It was the first time Cosby, 78, testified under oath since dozens of women came forward over the past year with accusations of sexual misconduct, some of which date back to the 1960s. He has never faced criminal charges over the allegations.
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If our beauty team stands for anything, it's that we don't believe in rules. Your look should never be dictated by someone else's dos and don'ts especially when it comes to your hair. Whether it means getting extensions down to your booty or shaving your head, you do you. The days when a long face could work only with this haircut, or a heart-shaped one could never get away with that, are done. Still, we always welcome a little guidance before getting a chop. So, with the help of a couple of top industry experts, we call bullshit on some seriously dated dictations. Ahead, 10 face-shape rules that should be thrown out the window, as well as tips to help you (gorgeously) prove them wrong on their way down. For some reason, people have been of the mindset that these two rights make a wrong. Those angular faces and the straight hair some people pay good money for somehow don't work together too many hard lines or something. But Mirza Batanovic, Eufora global educator and stylist at Ammon Carver Studio, says that's a bunch of you-know-what. "It's never that you can't have something," he says. "It's about finding balance for it on your particular face." . "Jennifer Aniston has a very square face, but she wears her hair straight most of the time," points out Batanovic. "Why does it work? Because of the framing layers directly around her face. Soft, wispy layers can soften sharp angles and square faces. So can long sideswept fringe or layers that start at the cheekbone and taper down." . "Not true! Short haircuts are great for heart-shaped faces," says Batanovic. A certain Dawnson's Creek alum and face of Louis Vuitton may come to mind….Famed hairstylist and R+Co co-founder Garren echoes this sentiment, saying there are plenty of hairstyles that complement the lovehead. He says, "[They can go] shaggy in the back, or a close gamine, or asymmetrical cut." . "A flipped-out bob like Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama can work because the ends of the hair are flipped out, thus directing attention away from a small chin," says Batanovic. "In the same regard, a pixie cut à la Michelle Williams a few years back can draw attention [up] to the eyes." . Fringe is one of the hardest looks to pull off no matter your face shape simply because of the dedication needed to keep it from looking like a stringy and/or frizzy mess. But if you're willing to put in the work, or just go with your hair's natural flow, anyone can bang. "Asymmetrical or 'pixie-ish' textured bangs work great [for heart-shaped faces]," says Garren. . If you're apprehensive, just check out Reese Witherspoon, again, when she rocks sideswept bangs just below the eyebrow level. "This essentially balances the face by diagonally sweeping across one side, thus reducing the visual intensity of the heart shape," says Batanovic. . Another group of people who are often told to steer clear of fringe are those with wide or round faces. But we stand by our word (and so do our pros): If you want bangs, go for it. (And we're sure this won't be the only time you take the plunge.) . Both Garren and Batanovic advise cutting bangs that are longer on the sides and shorter in the middle. "Having longer sides of the bangs, also, a shaggy haircut, will break up the wideness of the face," Garren explains.If you're set on having the straight-across kind of bangs, Batanovic suggests taking inspiration from another iconic beauty: Baby bangs à la Bettie Page (or Beyoncé circa 2014) will work for you, too. . Blunt, straight-across haircuts are super-chic. (Hello, Gwyneth Paltrow.) But women with longer faces are often deterred from going for the sleek look to that we say screw it! . If you have straight hair, and you're worried about accentuating your long face, and are adverse to layers (see rule #1), go for a cut that falls at your collarbone or above. "A long bob that's blunt, or a bob at chin level, will create width to balance the face," says Batanovic. "Long bangs also pair with blunt haircuts really well," adds Garren. . No matter what you may have heard, those with long or square faces should totally get in on the '70s moment we've been living for the past few seasons. So the next time you slip into that suede A-line skirt you just bought, slide a comb down the middle of your hair, and up the Farrah Fawcett volume. "Add fullness to the style, so it doesn't hang flat to the head," says Garren. "Layers near the eyes will help to create some movement, too." . "Simply adding face-framing chunky-ish layers will soften a long/square face by creating wider points of interest," says Batanovic. "The layers can start at chin level, or just below, to create some width." . You may remember reports on this rule making the rounds in your Facebook feed a while back. Well, Garren has some words for whoever came up with this nonsense: "If your stylist tells you this, you need to find another stylist," he says. "Women can pull off a variety of hairstyles, as long as they own their personal style. There are so many more styles out there than 'short versus long.'" . "Everyone can have short hair if it is balanced for their face essentially leaving longer versus shorter pieces where needed," says Batanovic. When getting a major chop, your confidence is so much more of a factor than your face shape. Lots of women use long hair as a security blanket, but if you want to go short, it's all about finding a great hairstylist and owning your lewk. . The-bigger-the-better hair is making a major comeback (along with its '80s makeup counterpart, blue eyeshadow). But should those with round faces bypass the trend? "So false this one is a hard false," says Batanovic. "People with round faces should have volume to draw attention upward, which will balance the width of the face. Flat hair only amplifies its roundness." . When creating volume with your styling tools or products (like mousse), or even by teasing, Garren suggests looking to Adele for inspiration. "Think '60s volume," he says. "Height, not width." . This is another "hard false," says Batanovic. "A side part completely helps a round face due to drawing the eye diagonally upward and softening the face," he adds. "By sweeping the hair over to one side, [you're] essentially hiding one cheekbone and exposing the other. Makes for a great balance!" . Garren agrees that it is truly all about balance such is life. "You can pull off a side part as long as it's not flat to the head," he says. "Also, having a textured part that falls across your face, and not totally solid, can help." . "Not true," says Garren. "[Just be sure] the haircut directs attention to your eye area if you have a triangular face. Try flirty bangs and a sexy cut, potentially partnered with two-tone hair." . In the end, it's all about making the haircut you're most drawn to work for you and no matter what it is, there is a way to do it. "Everyone is unique, so no haircut works exactly the same on every person," says Batanovic. "It's like this: Whatever your most prominent feature, we find a haircut that would balance it. A great hairdresser will know what to do. We spend years perfecting this." So ask for recommendations from friends with hair you love, read reviews, check out Instagram, and find someone your trust no matter the haircut you're going for, no matter your face shape. . Like this post? There's more. Get tons of beauty tips, tutorials, and news on the Refinery29 Beauty Facebook page. Like us on Facebook we'll see you there! .
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Two Michigan farmers made an unexpected discovery in a wheat field last week: the ice-age bones of a mammoth that was likely slaughtered by ancient humans. An excavation and analysis of the bones suggest they come from an adult male mammoth that had an unlucky end. "We think that humans were here and may have butchered and stashed the meat [in a pond] so that they could come back later for it," Daniel Fisher, a University of Michigan paleontologist who led the excavation, said in a statement . Once researchers date the bones, the discovery may help determine when early humans lived in the area, Fisher said. [ See Photos of the Mammoth Unearthed in Michigan ] Farmer and property owner James Bristle found the mammoth on Sept. 28 while he was installing a drainage pipe at his farm near Ann Arbor with his neighbor Trent Satterthwaite, according to the Detroit Free Press . As Bristle dug a trench with a backhoe, he uncovered a bone about 3 feet (1 meter) long, which researchers later recognized as part of a mammoth pelvis. "We didn't know what it was, but we knew it was certainly a lot bigger than a cow bone," Bristle said in the statement. Bristle contacted the University of Michigan, and soon had a team of about 15 paleontologists and university students excavating the bones. However, the farming season is busy, so Bristle could only give the scientists one day to uncover the bones. The paleontologists got right to work. They uncovered about 20 percent of the mammoth's bones , including the skull and two tusks, multiple vertebrae and ribs, the pelvis, and both shoulder blades. They estimate the mammoth likely lived 11,700 to 15,000 years ago, but the remains still have to be dated, Fisher said. Other bones, such as the feet, are missing, and it's unclear what happened to them for instance, they could be buried somewhere else, or maybe ancient humans removed them, Fisher said. As the team excavated the bones, they noticed "excellent evidence of human activity" associated with the mammoth remains , Fisher said. Ancient humans didn't have refrigerators, of course, so it's possible they stored the mammoth's carcass in a pond for safekeeping, he said. Fisher has encountered this "pond strategy" at other sites in the region, he noted. The team also found three basketball-size boulders next to the mammoth's bones. Perhaps ancient people placed these boulders on the mammoth to weigh down the creature's remains in the pond, Fisher said. Moreover, the researchers also found a small stone flake near one of the tusks. Ancient people may have used the stone flake as a cutting tool, Fisher said. The neck vertebrae are also arranged in anatomical sequence, almost as if someone had "chopped a big chunk out of the body and placed it in the pond for storage," Fisher said. (If the mammoth had died naturally, its vertebrae would be scattered randomly, he said.) [ Image Gallery: Stunning Mammoth Unearthed ] The scientists plan to wash the bones and look for cut marks, which would support their hypothesis that humans butchered and stored the animal, Fisher said. An analysis may also determine whether it is a woolly mammoth or a "Jeffersonian mammoth," which is a hybrid between a woolly mammoth and a Columbian mammoth, Fisher told the Detroit Free Press. The new finding is one of about 300 mammoths and 30 mastodons discovered in Michigan, Fisher said. These prehistoric creatures once roamed North America, before going extinct about 11,700 years ago. Bristle said the discovery may have interrupted his farming work, but the excavation was worth it in the end. "When my 5-year-old grandson came over and saw the pelvis, he just stood there with his jaw wide open and stared. He was in awe," Bristle said. "So I think this was the right thing to do." Follow Laura Geggel on Twitter @LauraGeggel . Follow Live Science @livescience , Facebook & Google+ . Original article on Live Science . Image Gallery: 25 Amazing Ancient Beasts Skin and Bones: Inside Baby Mammoths Photos: A 40,000-Year-Old Mammoth Autopsy
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10 Cars More Practical Than Their Crossovers/SUV Counterparts 10 Jacks-Of-All-Trades You Should Consider Crossovers continue to gain popularity because they're perceived as more practical vehicles than smaller cars. However, that's not always true a handful of crossovers are less practical than wagons and hatchbacks. Not everyone wants a jacked-up, car-based crossover. Some buyers prefer not to sacrifice fuel economy and handling. Additionally, some cars have a more useful interior layout than their crossover counterparts, and their load floors are much lower, making it less of a hassle to load your Ikea purchases into your vehicle. Sure, wagons and hatchback are not popular, but they continue to exist for a reason. Here are 10 crossovers and SUVs with less practicality than you'd guess at first glance and 10 jacks-of-all-trades you should consider instead. Nissan Juke The Nissan Juke is fun to drive and compact enough that it's easy to zip around city streets. But this mini crossover sacrifices everything to the gods of driving fun, so it doesn't have a lot of space for gear. Cargo space is limited to 10.5 cubic feet with the rear seats up and 35.9 cubic feet with them down. Passengers seated in the second row are essentially crammed in a claustrophobic space with small rear windows and a low roofline. Mazda3 If you don't like the Juke's resemblance to a robotic frog, consider the Mazda3 in the hatchback body style. It offers more useful space for people and gear than the Juke despite its swoopy exterior styling. The Mazda3's handling is also at the top of its class, and the optional 184-hp, 2.5-liter inline-four doesn't sacrifice fuel economy in the name of driving fun. Fiat 500X Evoking the same adorable cuteness as the 500 hatch, the Fiat 500X offers a higher ride height and more room than the city car that inspired its exterior design. There's a good deal of space inside 18.5 cubic feet behind the rear seats and up to 50.8 cubic feet with the seats folded and a false cargo floor with hidden storage. However, that's about as much space as in compact hatchbacks, and it's merely mid-pack in the small crossover segment. Additionally, rear-seat passengers won't have much space, especially when the 500X is equipped with the optional panoramic sunroof, and the second row doesn't fold completely flat. Fiat 500L For maximum usable cargo and passenger space combined with the Fiat brand's quirky Italian charm, the 500L is the right car for the job. Essentially a tall hatchback, the 500L offers up to 68 cubic feet of cargo space, which is more than in larger crossovers such as the Ford Escape and Mazda CX-5. The 500L also offers an adjustable false floor, like the 500X, and even more flexibility than its crossover sibling thanks to its taller height and boxier shape. Audi Q3 Essentially a hatchback on stilts, the Audi Q3 has less cargo space and flexibility than compact hatchbacks. At 16.7 cubic feet with the rear seats up and 48.2 with them down, the Q3 doesn't have much of an advantage over a conventional hatchback, let alone a wagon, when it comes to hauling gear or people. Volkswagen Golf SportWagen Forget #Dieselgate for now and realize that even without the torquey diesel engine, the Volkswagen Golf SportWagen is an excellent car. Featuring a crossover-slaying 66.5 cubic feet of cargo space with the rear seats folded, the long-roof Golf breaks the mold, giving you an expansive interior for the family, up to 36 mpg on the highway, and plenty of smiles from behind the wheel. Should you need all-wheel drive, a ruggedized version called the Alltrack will also arrive in 2016 as a 2017 model, giving you more space than that Q3 ever will along with four-season traction. BMW X4 Another example of a vehicle created to fill a niche, the BMW X4 is a called a Sports Activity Coupe because of its sloping roofline. That swooping, turtlelike exterior also means there's not much space in there: only 17.7 cubic feet of cargo space behind the second row and 49.4 cubic feet with the seats folded. BMW 3 Series Sports Wagon Although smaller in stature, the 3 Series Sports Wagon is more practical than the similarly priced X4 thanks to it having a more traditional shape. Behind those rear seats is 17.4 cubic feet of cargo space that's expandable to 52.9 cubic feet, giving the 3 Series Sports Wagon comparable space in a more usable interior package. Add to that the car's engaging driving dynamics, excellent handling, and good fuel economy, and you get a well-rounded package that's perfect for family duty, road trips, and tearing up canyon roads. Chevrolet Trax A latecomer to the mini crossover game, the Chevrolet Trax's diminutive size makes it great for the city. However, its interior space isn't the most efficient; you only have up to 48.4 cubic feet of cargo space. Additionally, the Trax is relatively narrow, diminishing its practicality even more and giving you less space for your gear. Subaru Impreza Subarus, with the exception of the BRZ, are built with sensibility and practicality in mind, and the Impreza especially in hatchback form is no different. Offering 22.5 cubic feet behind the rear seats and up to 52.4 cubic feet with them folded, the Impreza has one of the most generous interiors in the compact class, giving it the ability to haul more than some small crossovers. Additionally, the standard all-wheel-drive system means all-weather capability isn't an extra-cost option. Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe Following BMW's lead in the crossover coupe niche, Mercedes-Benz introduced the GLE Coupe for those who think the CLS-Class needs to get jacked up and look like an attack armadillo. Although it has up to 60 cubic feet of cargo space, the GLE Coupe's shape renders that moot because that sloping roofline cuts into rear visibility and interior capacity. Mercedes-Benz E-Class Wagon Despite having less maximum cargo capacity than the GLE Coupe at 57.4 cubic feet, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class Wagon has more usable space because it doesn't have a swoopy roofline and its body is a little bit boxier at the back. Should you need to haul on the road and take the family along, there's the completely bonkers E63 AMG S Wagon with its 577-hp, twin-turbo V-8 to turn your car into a family-hauling, luggage-carrying cruise missile. Just be sure to strap your loved ones in tight, and don't scare the children. Jeep Renegade Retro-styled and filled with character, the Jeep Renegade offers a lot of funk and some mild off-road capability (this is a Jeep after all) in the Trailhawk variant. However, despite its boxy shape, the Renegade doesn't have the most space in its class, and it's only able swallow up to 50.8 cubic feet of gear, less than some compact hatchbacks and wagons. Kia Forte5 Among compact hatchbacks, the Kia Forte5 offers the most space for passengers and cargo thanks to its expansive interior. With up to 56.4 cubic feet of space for gear, the Forte5 makes some crossovers especially the new breed of fun-size ones seem impractical. Add to that an available 201-hp, turbo inline-four, and you've got the power to haul an impressive payload of shopping and flat-pack furniture. Mitsubishi Outlander Sport One of the first small crossovers to hit the U.S. market, the Mitsubishi Outlander Sport is now one of the oldest and least spacious in its class. Although it has a maximum cargo capacity of 49.5 cubic feet, the Outlander Sport can't compete with class rivals and some compact hatchbacks, meaning you don't really get much for the puffed-up appearance. Honda Fit Think of the Honda Fit as the subcompact hatchback that's mastered interior space sorcery. It's more spacious than any other car of its size and small crossovers such as the Outlander Sport. With up to 52.7 cubic feet of cargo space and the flexibility of the Magic Seats, you have plenty of options for carrying your gear, friends, or both. Add to that the Fit's fun-to-drive personality, and you have an excellent all-around vehicle. Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class Even though it's marketed as a crossover, consider the Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class as a tall hatchback with sporting pretentions. Despite that hatch in the rear, the GLA isn't very good at carrying gear or people because of its cramped interior. Sure, it has up to 43.6 cubic feet of cargo space, but that room is less usable than in a traditional hatchback. Volkswagen Golf GTI Instead of picking a crossover with sporting pretension, consider the original hot hatch, the Volkswagen Golf GTI, over the GLA-Class. The GTI offers an excellent blend of practicality, fuel economy, a well-built interior, and world-class driving dynamics, plus up to 52.7 cubic feet of cargo space, for the price of an entry-level GLA. Should you need your hatchback to be even quicker, consider the 292-hp Golf R, which is the most powerful Golf to date. Mini Countryman As the first Mini with four doors, the Countryman offers more practicality without sacrificing the quirkiness and character that's part of the brand's identity. However, with each new Mini model growing larger, the Countryman has become less viable, and compared with similarly sized crossovers, it has less space even with the rear seats down. In fact, even the new four-door hatchback nearly matches the Countryman's maximum cargo capacity of 42.2 cubic feet. Mini Clubman There's no reason to call the Mini Clubman a small hatchback anymore; instead, it should be known as the Mini of wagons because it essentially is one now that it has four actual doors and is 14 feet long. In comparison to the Countryman, the new Clubman offers up to 47.9 cubic feet of space, so it offers more room for all your gear and then some.
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Welcome to the free edition of the daily fantasy hockey Playbook for Saturday, Oct. 10, courtesy of Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Every day, the experts at FantasyAlarm.com will publish their top daily fantasy hockey picks at each position across various DFS sites in the Playbook. It's a great place to start your NHL DFS research for the day, but there's much more with Playbook PRO. Playbook PRO members get even more daily fantasy hockey picks, along with detailed analysis and strategies, suggested team "stacks" and optimal daily fantasy lineups. Also, PRO members get access to all the DFS Playbooks and tools for every sport, including NFL, college football and NBA (coming soon), with one subscription. So, check out tonight's free daily fantasy hockey plays below, and check out FantasyAlarm.com's premium product when you're ready to go PRO! MORE DFS: NFL Playbook | College football Playbook | Play FanDuel NHL! Daily Fantasy Hockey Playbook Pos Player Team Opp FanDuel DK BreakDown C Evgeni Malkin Penguins ARI $8400 $7000 GO PRO ! C Kyle Turris Senators TOR $5900 $5700 GO PRO ! C Mika Zibanejad Senators TOR $4700 $4600 GO PRO ! C Derick Brassard Rangers CBJ $6300 $4900 GO PRO ! C Brad Richards Red Wings CAR $5400 $4400 GO PRO ! C GO PRO ! LW Johnny Gaudreau Flames VAN $6500 $5800 GO PRO ! LW Tomas Tatar Red Wings CAR $5700 $5300 GO PRO ! LW Chris Kunitz Penguins ARI $6200 $5200 GO PRO ! LW GO PRO ! RW Patric Hornqvist Penguins ARI $7300 $6100 GO PRO ! RW GO PRO ! RW Mark Stone Senators TOR $5000 $5300 GO PRO ! RW Phil Kessel Penguins ARI $7900 $7200 GO PRO ! RW Radim Vrbata Canucks CGY $6600 $6000 GO PRO ! D Kris Letang Penguins ARI $6100 $6000 GO PRO ! D Erik Karlsson Hurricanes DET $7200 $6900 GO PRO ! D Dougie Hamilton Flames VAN $4700 $4700 GO PRO ! D Mike Green Red Wings CAR $4900 $5100 GO PRO ! D Jakub Kindl Red Wings CAR $3600 $2600 GO PRO ! G Petr Mrazek Red Wings CAR $8100 $7000 GO PRO ! G Marc-Andre Fleury Penguins ARI $9000 $7900 GO PRO ! G GO PRO !
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Xbox Head Phil Spencer made headlines this week where in an interview with VideoGamer , he admitted that he was uncertain if the Xbox One will ever catch up to the PS4 this console generation. "You know, I don't know. You know, the length of the generation… They have a huge lead and they have a good product. I love the content, the games line-up that we have." In truth, this is just reality catching up with him. Looking at the numbers and the overall trajectory of this console race, despite that fact that we're only two years in, it seems as if it's almost impossible that Xbox One will ever be able to catch PS4. The best data I've seen that makes this pretty damn clear was published by Ars Technica a few months back . The highlights? Sony has 50% of the worldwide console market, it shipped triple the number of PS4s in Q2 of this year, and by last count, has shipped 25.3 million PS4s to ~14.3 Xbox Ones (Microsoft is often purposefully confusing about sales of "Xbox" which can include both Ones and 360s). Right now, the best case scenario is for Microsoft to pull even with the current rate of sales for PS4, meaning Sony is no longer outselling them two or three to one. To actually surpass them in sales is a feat so monumental it's almost unthinkable. I've previously argued that if there was ever a period of time where Microsoft was going to gain ground on Sony , it was this holiday season where Microsoft has big name exclusives like Halo, Forza and Tomb Raider coming out, while Sony has no AAA equivalent, as Uncharted 4 was delayed to 2016. And yet, that narrative is already slipping away. Sony has scored big hits with smaller games like Rocket League, Until Dawn and SOMA , and has managed to combat Xbox's exclusives and bundles with a flat $50 price cut for the PS4 just in time for the holiday. And on top of that, Sony still enjoys the position of being the "default" console for so many of the top multiplatform games of the fall. They have deals in place to secure them extra Destiny content and early Call of Duty access. And because they're simply such a huge chunk of the market, the majority of players are probably going to be buying games like Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Fallout 4 and Just Cause 3 on PS4. That's already been the case with Metal Gear Solid 5 and Mad Max . Everyone can trace back the Xbox One's problems to E3 2013 where the hottest buzzwords in the industry were "always on" and "disc-based gaming." Xbox One promised to be the former, and to do away with the later, both of which were concepts consumers, and Sony, rejected wholeheartedly. Though Xbox One walked back the majority of those two issues before release, they still went ahead with their worst decision of all, the bundling of Kinect with the Xbox One which took a console that consumers were already unsure of and made it cost $100 more than its competition. Eventually, the Kinect was cut and the price was dropped, but it took far, far too long, and it should have never happened in the first place. In my mind, Kinect is nearly the entire reason for the One's current inability to catch the PS4, a mistake so massive it will reverberate for all 6-10 years of this console generation. But if the Kinect was such a big problem and was eventually cut, shouldn't things be turning around now? The problem is that several snowball effects happen when one console gets such a big early lead over the others. 1) Players want to (almost have to) buy consoles their friends own. Whichever console is in the lead will spawn more sales because of this. 2) Publishers will cater toward the market leader (which is why Sony is getting so many of these "exclusive content" deals as of late) 3) The perception problem lasts like a stain. "The Xbox One is consumer unfriendly. The Xbox One doesn't play used games. The Xbox One has worse graphics." And so on. Even if there's only a kernel of truth buried in a mountain of exaggeration, the labels stick. Honestly, it's probably good that if one console had to dominate the other, it played out this way. Microsoft can survive Xbox One losing to PS4 as sales aren't even that bad compared to past generations of Xbox, and the company is absolutely massive with gaming one of its smaller subsets. Sony, on the other hand, is a less stable company, and gaming is one of its only divisions that's performing well beyond expectations. It could have damaged Sony permanently if this had played out the other way. Everyone says this is the last console generation, but from what I've seen from Steam Machines and Apple TV and VR so far, I've seen nothing to indicate that's going to be the case. But when this generation does end, it seems almost certain that PS4 will still be on top with the Xbox One a distant second and the Wii U a distant memory. Follow me on Twitter , on Facebook , and on Tumblr . Pick up a copy of my first sci-fi novel, The Last Exodus , which is now in print and online. What should Destiny do with its $500M budget? Watch below:
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Jack Dorsey is already pushing Twitter to be more relevant, which might mean a slimming down of the staff is in order.
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Joakim Noah is feeling much better physically this season, after spending time this summer doing training and conditioning work at P3 Sports Science Academy in Santa Barbara, CA. But that fact hasn't helped him on the offensive end of the floor yet during the preseason. "Overall, I'm happy with the work I put in this summer. I just need to translate it a little better on the court," Noah said. "I'm moving well, trying to be patient and learn a new system, see where I'm going to get opportunities and just be a good leader for this team." Thus far, Noah's movement has passed the eye test. His production has failed to meet standards. He's 1-for-8 and his timing on putbacks has been off. He also has missed several shots from in close. "After going back and watching the film, Jo did so many little things that didn't show up in the stat sheet setting a random flair in transition to set up a 3-pointer, spacing the floor," Hoiberg said. "He was really good as far as relocating, staying under the basket, not flashing in to disrupt spacing. "If you ask him, he probably wishes he would have finished better. But he gave us great energy. He did a lot of little things. And he's moving better. He'll probably be the first to tell you from a physical standpoint that his body feels a lot better than it did a year ago." Even if Noah continues to struggle with put-backs and finishing around the rim, his value on the defensive end of the floor will ensure he'll get plenty of minutes. The Bulls have enough firepower offensively, so they can afford to be patient as Noah works to find his way when the ball ends up in his hands. MORE NEWS: Want stories delivered to you? Sign up for our NBA newsletters.
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Man may be connected to other thefts in Texas
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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- With its unbeaten season in peril, Iowa put the ball in Jordan Canzeri's hands. Canzeri delivered with one of the best days a Hawkeye has ever had, helping his team hold off a furious challenge from Illinois. Canzeri ran for 256 yards on a school-record 43 carries -- including 11 straight on a crucial fourth-quarter drive -- and No. 22 Iowa beat Illini 29-20 on Saturday for its sixth straight win. "I thought what he did was really special," said coach Kirk Ferentz, who is 6-0 for just the second time in 17 seasons at Iowa. "Certainly in the fourth quarter. That was just a special effort." BOX SCORE: NO. 22 IOWA 29, ILLINOIS 20 C.J. Beathard had 200 yards passing and two TD for the Hawkeyes (6-0, 2-0 Big Ten). They've already taken down four Power Five opponents heading into next week's West division game against No. 13 Northwestern. Canzeri's 75-yard touchdown run put Iowa ahead 23-13 late in the third quarter. Geronimo Allison pulled Illinois back within three on a 53-yard TD reception, but freshman Ke'Shawn Vaughn's fumble with 3:09 left doomed the Illini. Wes Lunt threw for 317 yards and a touchdown and Allison had 148 yards receiving for Illinois (4-2, 1-1). "Sometimes we're going to have a little bit of stage fright at times because it's a big stage, but you look at Wes and Geronimo and what they did out there," interim Illinois coach Bill Cubit said. "Defensively, I saw a lot of good things from those guys." Canzeri gave the reeling Hawks some breathing room with the longest run of his career. Canzeri cut back, hit a hole and went essentially untouched to put Iowa back in front 23-13. Allison, who was picked off on a double-reverse pass earlier in the second half, took it away with his long TD grab with 10:13 left. But Iowa responded by handing off to Canzeri nearly a dozen times, setting up Marshall Koehn's 34-yard field goal and a 26-20 lead with 3:20 left. "It was just the adrenaline going. I knew I needed to do something for my team, just needed to fight and continue to push and make those plays," said Canzeri, whose 256 yards were the third-most in Iowa history. Illinois had won twice already in 2015 with fourth-quarter comebacks. But Vaughn's fumble, which came on the first play following Koehn's field goal, led to another Koehn field goal, this time from 40 yards with 2:11 left, to make it 29-20. Vaughn, in for the injured Josh Ferguson, rushed for 67 yards on 19 carries. "You just got to keep this thing positive. If you get down on the kid at that point there you end up losing them," Cubit said. The Hawkeyes could have made it easier on themselves if they hadn't come away with just three points on two of their red zone trips in the first half. Still, Iowa led 16-7 at the break thanks in part to a 17-yard TD catch from Canzeri. Canzeri somehow survived his long afternoon. But Iowa might head to Evanston missing a few more players. Star defensive end Drew Ott spent the fourth quarter on crutches and with his right knee wrapped. Tackle Ike Boettger went to the locker room with a left ankle injury early in the second half. Ferentz didn't have an immediate update on Ott or Boettger after the game. "It was tough sledding for us," said Ferentz. "We've got some guys nicked up and some guys jumping in." ------ AP college football website: collegefootball.ap.org ------ Follow Luke Meredith on Twitter at www.twitter.com/LukeMeredithAP and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LukeMeredithAP
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Jahad Thomas and Ryquell Armstead scored two touchdowns apiece and Temple remained unbeaten with a 49-10 victory over Tulane on Saturday. The Owls (5-0, 2-0 American) are off to their first 5-0 start since 1974 after ending a two-game win streak for the Green Wave (2-3, 1-1). Thomas ran 10 yards to give Temple a 14-10 lead in the second quarter and added 16-yard scoring catch from P.J. Walker for a 21-10 halftime lead. Ryquell Armstead added a pair of 16-yard touchdown runs in the third quarter, sandwiched around Sean Chandler's 22-yard interception return for a score. Walker hit 11 of 15 passes for 183 yards. His other scoring pass of 22 yards went to Robby Anderson in the first quarter. Backup quarterback Frank Nutile threw a 10-yard score to David Hood in the final quarter. Tanner Lee was 16-of-29 passing for only 95 yards, one TD and two interceptions.
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Superbirds in barns are the stuff dreams are made of. Well, quit dreaming, this one has a Hemi with 10,000 original miles and only one-owner. Roland Cassidy, owner of Carroll Street Auto in New Hampshire, was the treasure hunter who found the Plymouth stored in a Massachusetts' barn. Roland found his Hemi, but the buy was not an easy one, so often the case with original owners (there's a reason they've owned their cars so long). In this case, it was decades. Cars in barns have come a long way. Gone are the days when a stranger buys a '32 Deuce coupe for twenty bucks from an unsuspecting farmer. Roland thought the story sounded too good to be true. The owner built up the Superbird as "10,000 mile, original, untouched . . . you should see this thing." The price, however, was not negotiable and not cheap. The seller might have bought the car brand-new, but he still knew about collector prices from watching the Barrett-Jackson classic car auction on television. Roland remembers challenging him on the high price, "It sounds beautiful and all, but sitting all that time, I'm sure it needs some work." Roland didn't want to pay the big price, but he agreed to go see the Superbird and give his honest opinion. He was in the business and did appraisals. The car was in a barn that was old, but structurally sound with a wooden floor, good for absorbing moisture. Follow MSN Autos on Facebook Just the sight of an original Hemi Superbird in a barn is enough to make a Mopar person's heart skip a beat. The barn was clean, but cluttered with engines and parts. The 'Bird has been parked since 1990 and not started since. The owner explained the Hemi is just too expensive to even think about putting on the road and driving. He'd rather cash out now. Roland made several offers, but the owner had a firm price. He kept saying, "I won't sell it for any less." Roland finally agreed to the terms, but got the owner to throw in a couple of parts that were laying around in the barn: a '70 Road Runner lift-off hood and a NASCAR cross-ram intake from the mid-'60s. The car had one flat tire on the driver side. They were original F60x14 raised white letter Goodyear Polyglas tires. The owner had every piece of paper since the car was brand-new. Roland even received the 20-day plate and the registration from the 20-day tag when the owner took delivery of it. The car also came with the contract, the insurance, the bill of sale, and the title. The original owner bought the car on February 21, 1971. It had sat unsold on a dealership lot in Maine for about a year. The B5 Blue Bird looked great in the light of day. In addition to the 426 Hemi, the car came with the Performance axle package, tachometer, AM radio, automatic transmission, Rallye wheels, and the raised white letter tires. It sold brand-new for $5,263.60. That's your Hemi Superbird in a barn story. Top it if you can. Editor's note: This article originally stated that the Plymouth Road Runner Superbird was a 1969, but has been changed. There was no winged Road Runner derivative until 1970. Any winged cars in 1969 would be a Dodge Daytona based on the Charger. Do you have a Rare Find story to share? Contact Jerry Heasley at [email protected] or on Twitter @JerryHeasley .
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PASADENA, Calif. The United States lost its first key battle against Mexico on Saturday, as the Rose Bowl crowd quickly filled with an overwhelmingly majority of "away" fans. Tickets for the CONCACAF Cup, a one-off showdown to determine the region's participant in the 2017 Confederations Cup, were allocated in a manner to try to ensure an even number of supporters for each team. However, a conservative estimate of the split at kickoff was that around 80 percent of the 92,000 sellout crowd were backing Mexico, with their predominantly green colors blanketing the stadium. "Where are the U.S. fans?" said Henry Diaz, a 33-year-old Mexico fan from Los Angeles, in the golf course parking lot where most fans congregated in the hours before the match. "I have been looking for some of them to have a bit of banter but it is all (Mexico)." US Soccer had optimistically hoped for at least a third of the seats to be taken by home supporters. Several players had lower expectations. "We have amazing support pretty much wherever we go in the country now," goalkeeper Tim Howard told USA TODAY Sports last week. "But I don't hold out much hope for L.A. We will prepare for a road game." When Mexico defeated the U.S. 4-2 at the same venue in the 2011 Gold Cup final, there was a miniscule number of U.S. fans, perhaps below 10 per cent of the total crowd. Thanks to the efforts of fan groups such as the noisy, raucous and wildly entertaining American Outlaws, things have improved. One end of the Rose Bowl on Saturday was almost entirely red, white and blue and was determined to make itself heard. "We are outnumbered," said college student Marlon Crump. "But we knew that was going to happen. We are going to make up for it with our voices and our passion."
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A four-goal first period powered the Panthers past the Flyers 6-1 on Saturday. Jaromir Jagr scored a pair of goals, while Roberto Luongo made an excellent save in the win.
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Highlights of LSU's win over South Carolina.
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The Jacksonville Jaguars are headed to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and this custom suit is looking clean.
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Thousands have protested in the German capital Berlin against a planned free-trade deal between the EU and US. Organisers said 250,000 people took part in the rally; police put the figure at around 100,000. Opponents of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) say it is undemocratic and threatens consumer and worker rights. But supporters of the deal, which lowers trade barriers, say it would boost economies and create jobs. Hundreds of buses shuttled protesters to Saturday's demonstration in the German capital. "We are here because we do not want to leave the future to markets, but on the contrary to save democracy," Michael Mueller, president of the ecological organisation German Friends of Nature, told AFP. The German government supports the trade pact, with Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel warning of "scaremongering" in a letter published in several German newspapers. Talks on the TTIP are due to finish next year. If agreed it would be the biggest trade deal of its kind.
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After going back and forth, the NCAA will allow LSU RB Leonard Fournette to auction his jersey for flood relief efforts in South Carolina.
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President Obama was dispensing Oval Office advice Saturday to a candidate with White House aspirations. Donald Trump? Hillary Clinton? Think someone a little more fresh. "In a little while you are going to hear from a guy who is thinking about getting into politics," Obama said to a packed house at San Francisco's historic Warfield Theater, where Kanye West was set to perform. "In case Kanye's serious about this whole POTUS thing, or as he calls it, Peezy, I do have advice for him," Obama quipped. "You've got to deal with strange characters who behave as if they are on a reality TV show." Obama went on. "Saying you have a beautiful dark twisted fantasy that's what's known as off-message in politics," he joked, referring to West's blockbuster 2010 album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy." Obama also joked that West was running for Speaker of the House, a reference to the leadership turmoil in Congress. Deadpan, the comedian-in-chief saved his best joke for last. "Do you really think this country is going to elect a black guy from the south side of Chicago with a funny name to be president of the U.S.?" he said. West, in a rambling speech at MTV's Video Music Awards in August, said he plans to run for president in 2020. In 2009, Obama in an offhanded remark, called West a "jackass" for stealing Taylor Swift's thunder at the MTV Music Video Awards that year. Potential future First Lady Kim Kardashian acknowledged Obama's shout-out to her husband with an Instagram picture of two pairs of West's Yeezy Boost 350 sneakers, priced at $200 each and marked special delivery for Obama.
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Atlanta Hawks shooting guard Thabo Sefolosha, who was found not guilty on Friday of charges stemming from his April arrest, is likely to play in Wednesday's preseason game against the Spurs, coach Mike Budenholzer said . Sefolosha, 31, was left with a broken leg and ligament damage in his ankle following the incident, which involved a scuffle with police, and said he is still not at 100 percent, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was cleared of misdemeanor charges for resisting arrest and "obstructing governmental administration" outside New York City nightclub 1 Oak after then-Pacers forward Chris Copeland was stabbed. Also arrested was then-teammate Pero Antic. Budenholzer said the team will take a wait-and-see approach with Sefolosha, and was hopeful he could get the veteran guard some minutes Wednesday against the Spurs. Sefolosha's verdict could spark a civil rights lawsuit against the New York Police Department. • McCANN: Sefolosha takes risk, reaps reward with not guilty verdict - Kenny Ducey
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An Ohio girl who was accidentally shot by a cop trying to subdue a charging dog in June continually cried out "Mommy, am I gonna die?" while medics saved her life, the girl's mother told Inside Edition . Ava Ellis, of Whitehall, who is now 5 years old but was 4 at the time of the incident, suffered a gunshot wound that "shattered the bone" in her right leg after a Columbus police officer, who The Columbus Dispatch identified as Jonathan Thomas, pulled the trigger on June 19. "They had started to cut her pants off her and I just see blood everywhere," her mom Andrea Ellis said of the aftermath. Police told Inside Edition they are "grateful to learn that healing is under way," but Ellis believes the incident was been wrongfully handled by police. Last month on a Facebook page titled " Prayers for Ava ," which is run by one of the victim's aunts, Ellis alleged that Thomas prematurely left the scene. "Officer Thomas never said sorry, never said it was an accident, never said that he called for help or was going to call for help, never asked if Ava was OK, and never asked if he could check on Ava," Ellis said. Thomas was responding to a different call in the Ellis' neighborhood when Andrea Ellis accidentally cut herself. In an account of the incident of the "Prayers for Ava" Facebook page, Ellis says her sister, Brandie Kelly, first called 911. "She's bleeding all over the place!" Kelly told the 911 dispatcher. "I need a paramedic!" Kelly then noticed Thomas and cried out for help. As Thomas approached the home, one of the two family dogs ran at him. After the shot was fired, another resident of the neighborhood called 911. "My neighbor across the street had an officer at her door and she's screaming that he shot a child," the neighbor told police. Both of the animals wear shock collars, a different neighbor, Carrie Britton, told the paper . Thomas was not injured in the incident. The Columbus Police Department did not respond to the Daily News' request for comment Saturday.
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DALLAS -- Texas changed offensive coordinators one game into 2015 giving the impression coach Charlie Strong was lost. The Longhorns changed quarterbacks, too. They were pitiful against Notre Dame, a circus against Oklahoma and embarrassed against TCU. Scheduling Rice seemed to be the best decision the Longhorns made all year. Texas had players tweeting at halftime after being opened up for 30 points in the first quarter of the 50-7 loss to TCU, and later that week had other players sniping at each other like a ladies' sewing circle. But something about the Cotton Bowl has agreed with Texas recently and something about Texas doesn't agree with Oklahoma. This loss, this 24-17 embarrassment is a different kind of awful. Not because Bob Stoops and the Sooners came in to the Cotton Bowl as a double-digit favorite and lost for the second time in three seasons, but because Stoops and the Sooners weren't surprised, they were just woefully unprepared. Everywhere you looked, Texas was better than Oklahoma. Oh, Texas ran some misdirection, and they passed once when it looked like quarterback Tyrone Swoopes gave the appearance of a run, but Texas didn't trick the Sooners.They just beat Oklahoma, doing it with a far inferior team, a defense that was leaking and an offense that lacked imagination, identity and punch. And you want to know the worst part of it? Oklahoma couldn't find its way against Texas Saturday, so the idea that somehow OU discovers a magic potion against teams with real identity, punch and talent is unlikely as winning a national title. Texas is now 2-4 but the distance between now 4-1 Oklahoma and the Longhorns doesn't seem light years apart. Who's spinning in what direction now? What's the answer that would make an OU fan happy? The Longhorns came into Saturday ranked last in the Big 12 in offense and eighth in defense. Oklahoma came in with a win on the road against an SEC team and a win at home against a Big 12 team, but those statements of nonfiction only seem to make the future more cloudy for Oklahoma. There was no reason for Oklahoma take a punch to the privates. Texas threw for just 55 yards, but it was pretty much a known commodity that the Longhorns couldn't pass, so the fact a team that managed seven points a week ago against TCU could run for 313 against the Sooners is more baffling than anything else. Meanwhile, OU ran for just 67 yards. Huh? Quarterback Baker Mayfield was sacked six times and was pressured as soon as ran out of the Cotton Bowl tunnel. Oklahoma had a season-low 278 yards against a team that was allowing more than 500. Huh? All questions. No answers. Oklahoma center Ty Darlington said the 2013 loss to Texas was motivation enough for this year's team to be interested. Stoops and receiver Sterling Shepard said they didn't take Texas lightly, but if true it only adds to the confusion. Defensive back Steven Parker said the team didn't prepare for Swoopes to run the ball. Fullback Dimitri Flowers said Texas came out with an edge that the Sooners didn't have and it was all about OU's mentality. More? Mayfield said the team too long to adjust to the corner blitz. None of it makes sense, and it's completely appropriate to worry about what's next for this Oklahoma team. "They kicked us," Stoops said. Great win for Oklahoma earlier this season at Tennessee, but perhaps this 2015, 4-0 start shows us something. Stoops is now just 66 in the last 12 games against Power Five teams and Saturday he and his team said they were prepared. Oh, wow. If this is prepared, no one has any idea what's going to happen next. Oklahoma knew Texas was going to run the ball. It also knew Texas was vulnerable. None of that seemed to matter, so what's Oklahoma know now? Follow Andrew Gilman on Twitter: @andrewgilmanOK
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Thousands of protestors flooded into the main streets of Istanbul on Saturday, shouting slogans condemning the twin bombings in the nation's capital. (Oct. 10)
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Mike Leach has established himself as one of the unique characters in college football. He's also apparently a bit of a history buff. As his Washington State team prepared to take on Oregon in Eugene on Saturday, Leach was asked for his thoughts on the Ducks' Lewis and Clark-inspired uniforms. As only Leach could, he called Oregon's "Pioneers" uniforms "irrelevant" before explaining what intrigued him about the exploration of the western United States. Mike Leach: @WSUCougFB coach and...history buff? WATCH: http://t.co/gYJLh3r18m #WSUvsUO Pac-12 Networks (@Pac12Networks) October 10, 2015 Never change, Mike Leach. Never change.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Leonard Fournette's least productive game this season was still too much for South Carolina, particularly with the seventh-ranked Tigers improving through the air. Leonard Fournette's least productive game this season was still good enough to make LSU history. It was also too much for South Carolina, particularly with the seventh-ranked Tigers improving through the air. Fournette ran 87 yards for a touchdown, Brandon Harris passed for a career-best 228 yards, and LSU defeated South Carolina 45-24 on Saturday in a game moved to Tiger Stadium because of catastrophic flooding in the Gamecocks' home state. Fournette finished with a season-low 158 yards on 20 carries in three quarters. The Heisman Trophy candidate is now the fastest to 1,000 yards in a season at LSU, which has played football since 1893. BOX SCORE: LSU 45, SOUTH CAROLINA 24 "It doesn't really excite me. I'm just doing my job," Fournette said of his latest milestone. "You expect so much out of yourself, just to make plays for the team. It's never about me. As you've seen with that (touchdown) run, they block for me. My job is to make one or two guys miss and get up the field." The purple No. 7 jersey Fournette wore to make history apparently will be used to help at least some of the Gamecocks fans. He said he'd give up the jersey for action with all proceeds donated to flood victims if permitted. The NCAA said on its verified Twitter account that Fournette would be permitted to offer the jersey for charity. "I just wanted to help out the families or people out there, that's all," said Fournette, a New Orleans native whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina a decade ago. Fournette surpassed the 1,000-yard mark with the long touchdown up the middle, during which he burst through the line untouched, cut slightly to his right to make one tackler whiff, then veered back to his left as he outsprinted a pair of defenders. It his 116th carry this season, early in the third quarter of LSU's fifth game. Previously, LSU's fastest to 1,000 yards rushing was Charles Alexander, who hit the mark on his 175th carry, in the seventh game of 1977. In this game, LSU had two 100-yard rushers. Freshman Derrius Guice had 161 yards and a TD. Fellow running back Darrel Williams scored twice as the Tigers (5-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) piled up 396 yards rushing. For South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier, the punishing styles of LSU's rushers exemplified the differences between the two teams. "I just get frustrated watching our guys," Spurrier said. "Their guys must have broken eight tackles on their big runs. Our guys go in there and just fall on the ground. Nobody tackles them." Travin Dural had 109 yards receiving for LSU, highlighted by his 62-yard TD on a deflected pass. Malachi Dupre had a 10-yard touchdown catch. Yet Harris bristled when asked how important it was for LSU, which came in averaging an SEC-worst 95.5 yards passing per game, to improve through the air. "This is the winning formula. We're 5-0 and people are complaining," said Harris, who had a career-high 18 completions on 28 attempts. "We've got four great backs and six great receivers and I'm just trying to do my part." Perry Orth, starting for injured Lorenzo Nunez (shoulder) passed for 200 yards and two TDs for South Carolina (2-4, 0-4). He was intercepted once. South Carolina freshman Rashad Fenton returned a kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown. Pharoh Cooper caught seven passes for 105 yards, highlighted by his 43-yard touchdown. Jerell Adams had a 36-yard touchdown catch for South Carolina, but the Gamecocks managed only 74 yards rushing. The relocated game was like none seen before at LSU; the Gamecocks were technically the home team in Death Valley. With the decision to move the game coming on Wednesday, there were barely three days to sell tickets, and attendance at 102,000-seat Tiger Stadium was 42,058. The LSU band played South Carolina's alma mater before and after the game. And Tigers fans, who normally boo visiting teams as they enter the stadium, applauded the Gamecocks as they took and left the field. "Everyone in this area kind of understands what we're going through," Orth said, referring to devastation in south Louisiana from Hurricane Katrina a decade ago. "It was nice to see the fans cheering us on. At the same time though, it felt like an away game." South Carolina athletic director Ray Tanner said the hospitality offered by LSU and its fans was "truly moving." That, however, ended inside the lines, where LSU dominated time of possession (39:53 to 20:07) and net yards (624-283). With the loss, South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier fell to 0-4 in the SEC for the first time in his career, which includes 23 seasons at Florida and South Carolina. ------ AP college football website: collegefootball.ap.org
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How important is Texas' win over Oklahoma to Charlie Strong? Brian Hamilton joins the gang to discuss.
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The Pentagon is to make "condolence payments" to families of victims of a US air strike that mistakenly hit a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 22 people. "The Department of Defence believes it is important to address the consequences of the tragic incident at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan," spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement on Saturday, adding the US would also pay to repair the charity hospital. "US Forces-Afghanistan has the authority to make condolence payments and payments toward repair of the hospital," Cook said. "USFOR-A will work with those affected to determine appropriate payments. If necessary and appropriate, the administration will seek additional authority from the Congress." US President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologised to Doctors Without Borders for the bombing of its hospital. The medical charity, which lost 12 of its staff and 10 patients, is pressing for an international commission to investigate what it calls a war crime. Afghan investigation Earlier on Saturday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appointed a team of investigators to look into the air strike as well as the circumstances that led to the Taliban's brief capture of Kunduz. The five-man delegation, appointed by presidential decree, will leave soon for the northern city to conduct a province-wide probe into how the Taliban were able to overrun the city on September 28 and hold it for three days, before government troops launched a counter offensive, Ghani's office said. The team will be led by the former head of the national intelligence agency, Amrullah Saleh, and will report to the president. Representatives of Doctors Without Borders met with Ghani and his national security adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar on Friday, his office said in a statement. Ghani told them he had ordered Afghan security forces to ensure the protection of humanitarian organizations. The statement quoted him as saying investigations were needed "so that we know what happened in the incident, how information was collected, and how the incident happened based on that information". 'Loss of innocent life' Doctors Without Borders has called for an independent probe of the incident by the Swiss-based International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission. The commission is made up of diplomats, legal experts, doctors and some former military officials from nine European countries, including Britain and Russia. It was created after the Gulf War in 1991, and has never deployed a fact-finding mission. The air strike was requested by Afghan ground forces, according to the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, General John F Campbell, but mistakenly hit the hospital. On Tuesday, Defence Secretary Ash Carter said the US military deeply regretted the loss of life and was acknowledging its mistake and working to understand what went wrong. "The US military takes the greatest care in our operations to prevent the loss of innocent life, and when we make mistakes, we own up to them. That's exactly what we're doing right now," Carter said in a statement.
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BOSTON (AP) -- The Montreal Canadiens were in the lead just 85 seconds in and in command for nearly all 60 minutes. Lars Eller scored twice and Alex Galchenyuk had three assists as the Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 4-2 on Saturday night. Alexander Semin added two assists and David Desharnais had a goal for Montreal, which scored the first three goals of the game and stifled the scarce attempts by the Bruins to rally. "We were pretty effective when we had our chances and we could've even had a few more," Eller said. BOX SCORE: CANADIENS 4, BRUINS 2 They certainly could have. Montreal outshot Boston 38-21 while beating the rival Bruins for the sixth straight time -- a streak that dates to the end of the 2013-14 season. Carey Price finished with 19 saves for the Canadiens and Tomas Plekanec picked up his 500th career point with an empty-net goal in the final minute. Boston's frustration built throughout the game and showed with nine penalties before it was over. Both teams lost a player to a game misconduct during one of the many scrums between the historic rivals. "I liked the way we stuck up for each other," Montreal coach Michel Therrien said. "Nothing new about the rivalry between the Habs and the Bruins, so we were ready for that." Tuukka Rask kept the Bruins from getting routed with 34 saves. Matt Beleskey's goal late in the second period was the only offense for Boston until Patrice Bergeron scored with 31 seconds to play. "We were giving them too much room and teams like that are going to make you pay," Bergeron said. "Any chance they get they're going to find a way to create something out of it, so we really have to bear down in our zone more." The Bruins are off to their first 0-2 start in 10 years. Boston played again without captain Zdeno Chara, who sat with an undisclosed upper-body injury. The Bruins clearly missed their supersized defenseman, especially against Montreal's top line of Eller, Semin and Galchenyuk. Desharnais scored a power-play goal 1:25 into the game and Montreal scored again when Eller connected on a one-timer 2:15 into the second. The Bruins felt they pulled within 2-1 with 13:20 left in the second when Loui Eriksson beat Price on a high backhand with 13:20 left in the second, but the goal was immediately waved off by one of the referees, who said Bergeron made contact with the Montreal goalie at the edge of the crease. Boston coach Claude Julien challenged, but the call stood after a video review and disgruntled Bruins fans let loose with a loud chorus of boos. The Canadiens quickly quieted the crowd 1:07 later when Eller scored on another one-timer to put Montreal up 3-0. "That goal gets disallowed and then the next shift you get scored on again. It definitely hurts but, again, it's from our own doing," Bergeron said. "We have to realize that and don't put the blame on the refs." Beleskey cut the lead to 3-1 with 5:34 left in the second on a shot that deflected off a defender and bounced between Price's pads. Notes: Boston has allowed three straight goals three times already this season. ... Although the two clubs play four more times this season, Saturday was the only meeting in Boston. The Bruins host the Canadiens again Jan. 1 in the Winter Classic at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. ... Boston C Ryan Spooner received a boarding major and game misconduct for a hit on Semin 3:30 into the third period.
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Just in case you thought the rivalry between Miami and Florida State had simmered down, here's a good reminder that it remains as heated as ever. Prior to Saturday's contest in Tallahassee, Seminoles kicker Roberto Aguayo apparently crossed over into Hurricanes territory during warmups. Miami was quick to show him he was somewhere he didn't belong, and one player even got physical with the kicker: Oh boy. #Canes not happy #FSU kicker Aguayo was on their side of the field warming up. They let him know it. pic.twitter.com/UngYp6gEW5 Will Manso (@WillManso) October 10, 2015 The 'Noles have won the last five meetings between the teams, including eight of the last ten. You better believe they won't allow themselves to be pushed around during the actual game. And after seeing that, we're guessing FSU fans are going to act out on Twitter again .
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We might want to hold off on the changing-of-the-guard stories. You know, Peyton Manning on his way down, Derek Carr showing growth in his second season. Sunday's AFC West showdown in Oakland may show a tilt in the balance of the AFC West, but judging from history, it probably won't. While Manning is off to a slow start his passer rating of 80.8 is his lowest since his rookie year of 1998, and he has five interceptions in four games he is showing signs of his old self as the Broncos use the 39-year-old more in the shotgun. After going 0-for-8 on throws that traveled more than 20 yards the first two games, Manning is 4-of-6 for 146 yards and a touchdown the past two weeks. Raiders defensive coordinator Ken Norton Jr. was asked if he has seen any slippage in watching film of Manning this season. "It's hard to say," Norton said. "He's still pretty good, he still knows how to win ballgames. Manning still knows how to get the ball to the right person at the right time. Very smart on the field, very impressed by watching him on film." Thanks to his defense, Manning is 4-0 heading into a matchup with a 2-2 Raiders team that he has owned. He is 6-0 with Denver against Oakland, and the average margin of victory has been 23 points. Last year, Manning and Co. put up 88 points in the two wins … and this year the Raiders are 31st in the NFL in passing yards allowed, giving up 311 a game. (And that was with TJ Carrie, the safety/cornerback who is questionable for Sunday with a chest injury.) "He's still doing the same things, watching on film," Raiders safety Charles Woodson said. "He's still getting the ball out of his hands fairly well, reading defenses as good as any quarterback in the game. He has some great weapons around him, and he's getting them the ball. He really hasn't changed too much at all." The biggest weapon is 6-foot-3, 229-pound wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, who has 361 yards on the season and had 223 in two games against the Raiders last season. One would have to think he's pretty confident about the matchup against Oakland cornerbacks David Amerson, Neiko Thorpe and DJ Hayden. "He can go up and elevate and catch what's supposed to be a 50-50 ball," said Raiders coach Jack Del Rio, who was the Broncos' defensive coordinator last season. "Looks more like 90-10 when he's over there. Then he's a monster on those tunnel screens that they run." The Raiders' best bet to slow Manning and Thomas may be to keep their offense off the field. The hope is that Carr can build off his early-season success completing 62.6 percent of his passes for 922 yards with seven touchdowns and two interceptions and erase last year's memories against Denver, when he threw for a total of 350 yards with three touchdowns and three interceptions in the two games. "He played, I believe, all 16 games last year, and that just plays a huge role when you have that experience," Manning said. "And just learning how fast guys are and getting on the same page as your receivers in game speed, game experience. It looks like he's certainly using last year's experience to his advantage." The Broncos' top-rated defense has 18 sacks and thinks it knows what it takes to stop Carr and receivers Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree. "He's developing into a big-time quarterback," Denver linebacker Von Miller said. "It's going to be our job to take away those quick throws, make them hold the ball a little bit, get a rush, stop the run and just play the same Broncos defense that we've been playing." Vic Tafur is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @VicTafur
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Thanks to early bunts from Kyle Hendricks and Addison Russell and a Jorge Soler homer run, the Cubs rattled off five runs in the second inning en route to a 6-3 win over the Cardinals. The NLDS is tied 1-1.
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Thousands of Australians today joined rallies calling for the closure of Pacific island camps for asylum-seekers, just days after the government confirmed it was in talks with the Philippines to resettle detained refugees. Under Canberra's tough immigration policy, asylum-seekers attempting to reach the island continent by boat are turned back or sent to camps on Nauru or Papua New Guinea and barred from resettling in Australia even if found to be refugees. Chanting "free, free the refugees", the protesters in Sydney, Melbourne and other cities said the government and new Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull should close the Pacific detention centres, which have been harshly criticised by rights groups. With Australia set to resettle 12,000 Syrian refugees amid the crisis in Europe, some demonstrators waved Syrian and Kurdish flags and said the government should move those held in the camps to the mainland. One asylum seeker, "Adbi", who has reportedly been held on Manus Island for more than two years, called on Turnbull - who came into power in mid-September after replacing Tony Abbott in a party coup - to help the detainees. "They are traumatising us," Abdi said on a phone call broadcast to the Sydney crowd, adding that conditions at the Papua New Guinea facility were "indescribable". Medical professionals at the rallies also expressed fears a new law could block their colleagues working at the camps from speaking out if they had allegations asylum-seekers being abused. "The government is using the Border Force Act to intimidate people from speaking out," refugee advocate and rally organiser Ian Rintoul told AFP in Sydney. "It's being used as a form of censorship." UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants Francois Crepeau last month postponed a visit to Australia due to restrictions on his access to detention centres and fears that people who spoke to him could face legal reprisals. The rallies came as doctors from the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne told the Sunday Herald Sun newspaper that children should be removed from the camps, in a move supported by lobby group the Australian Medical Association (AMA). "The detention centres are not suitable environments for the health of all detainees, but the effects on children are far worse," AMA president Brian Owler said in a statement. Some 1,589 asylum-seekers - 1,382 men, 114 women and 93 children - are held on Manus Island and Nauru, according to immigration figures ending August 31. Canberra has struck a deal with Cambodia to accept refugees in exchange for millions of dollars in aid over the next four years, although only four asylum-seekers have so far opted to take up the offer. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said on Friday that Australia was in talks with other countries, including the Philippines, to settle the refugees. The government has declared its hardline policy to deter boat arrivals a success, saying that it has been more than a year since a vessel carrying asylum-seekers has arrived in the country. Before the policy was introduced, boats were arriving almost daily, with hundreds drowning en route.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Chase Utley's aggressive base-running broke Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada's right leg in a takeout slide, reviving the Los Angeles Dodgers and angering the New York players. Utley's slide flipped Tejada during a four-run rally in the seventh inning that helped the Dodgers win 5-2 Saturday night and tie their NL Division Series at one game apiece. "I feel terrible that he was injured. I had no intent to hurt him whatsoever," said Utley, who had reached with a pinch-hit single. "Any time there's a double play you should do your best to break it up." BOX SCORE: DODGERS 5, METS 2 The Mets were leading 2-1 when the Dodgers put runners at the corners with one out against Noah Syndergaard. Bartolo Colon came on in his first career postseason relief appearance after 10 starts, and Howie Kendrick hit a grounder up the middle. "I tried to put a body on him to break up the double play," Utley said of Tejada. "You have to try and break up the double play. That's winning baseball." Murphy flipped to Tejada, who took the throw awkwardly for an apparent force as Utley slid maybe a foot outside of the base and past the bag and slammed into the shortstop with Tejada's back turned to the play. That caused Tejada to flip over as the tying run scored from third. Mets infielder Kelly Johnson called it a "tackle." Asked about the play, second baseman Daniel Murphy said, "Slide would be generous." "Only Chase knows going in there what the intent was," third baseman David Wright said. "I have a problem with the play on a number of different levels, one being the slide itself. In my opinion, he wasn't anywhere close to the bag. With that being said, he never touched the bag. And I think the `neighborhood play' is there to protect players. ... It definitely seemed like after that play we lost the momentum and they came up with some big hits." Joe Torre, MLB's chief baseball officer, will examine the play to determine whether anything "excessive" occurred. "I'd hate to think that Utley tried to hurt somebody," Torre said. "It certainly was late. That concerns me. The lateness of the slide." Tejada was put on a flatbed vehicle after an air cast was placed on his leg. The Mets said Tejada sustained a fractured right fibula. Utley was ruled safe on a video review, which determined Tejada's foot missed the bag. Utley also appeared not to touch the base. "Tejada showed that he didn't touch the bag and Utley never touched second base," Torre said. "The fact that he was called out meant he's not required to touch second base once he's called out. So when the play was overturned, he gets awarded second base on that." Mets manager Terry Collins wouldn't say whether he thought the slide was clean or not. He said the umpires were "great" in how they handled the review. "They thought that it's pretty hard to rule that he didn't touch the bag when he hit the shortstop and nobody was tagged, so they have no other call," he said, "so they handled it right." Adrian Gonzalez followed with a two-run double off Addison Reed and scored on Justin Turner's double "Every single guy on the field on both sides, both dugouts, would have done the same thing," Gonzalez said. "It was huge. Got the game tied, and after the replay, gave us a rally." There was some history between Utley and Tejada. The Mets were angered during a takeout slide by Utley when he played for Philadelphia against them in September 2010. "Yeah, they're angry," Collins said of his players. "You lose in a playoff series to that serious of an injury, yeah, they're not very happy about it." Dodgers manager Don Mattingly defended Utley. "I know Chase is not trying to hurt anybody," he said. "He's just playing the game the way he plays it. He plays it hard, he's aggressive." Turner called Utley "old-school," saying, "He's a guy that plays balls to the wall and goes in hard. If you're not protecting yourself or you're not in good position when they come in hard like that, you have a chance of getting hurt." Collins said Wilmer Flores will replace Tejada at shortstop for the rest of the series. The action shifts to Citi Field in New York for Game 3 Monday, when Brett Anderson starts for the Dodgers against the Mets' Matt Harvey in the best-of-five series. The Dodgers' Zack Greinke (1-0) allowed two runs and five hits in seven innings. He struck out eight and walked none a night after teammate Clayton Kershaw fanned 11 while losing his fifth straight postseason game. Kenley Jansen pitched the ninth for the save, completing a five-hitter. Yoenis Cespedes and Michael Conforto hit solo homers in the second, the latter off the right-field pole. Andre Ethier had an RBI double in the fourth. Syndergaard (0-1) gave up three runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings of his first career postseason start. He struck out nine and walked four in following up Jacob deGrom's 13-strikeout performance in winning Game 1. Eight of Syndergaard's first 36 pitches reached 100 mph or more over the first two innings on an unseasonable 90-degree evening. "Anytime you can go 1-1 against Kershaw and Greinke in their house, I guess we'll take it," Wright said. "But we wanted to get greedy and head back to New York with a 2-0 lead."
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It smells like gasoline⦠like that part of Disneyland.
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Living a rags-to-riches story, Lyca Gairanod lifts her family out of poverty by winning the Philippine version of "The Voice". Michaela Cabrera reports.
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TEHRAN, Iran Iran's parliament on Sunday approved an outline of a bill that would allow the government to implement a historic nuclear deal reached with world powers, the official IRNA news agency said. State TV meanwhile announced that Iran had successfully test-fired a new long-range ballistic missile, the first such test since the nuclear deal was reached in July. The bill allows the government to withdraw from implementing the agreement if world powers do not lift sanctions, IRNA said. Final approval of the bill is expected later this week after further discussions. The landmark deal would curb Iran's nuclear program in return for the lifting of international sanctions. Western nations have long suspected Iran of secretly pursuing nuclear arms, allegations denied by Tehran, which says its nuclear program is for purely peaceful purposes. "The government should stop its voluntary cooperation in implementation of the deal if the other side fails to remain committed to lifting sanctions," the bill says. It says the response should be the same if new sanctions are imposed or previous ones restored. IRNA said 139 lawmakers out of 253 present voted for the bill. The chamber has 290 seats. The session was unusually tense, with hard-liners repeatedly trying to prevent a vote on the deal. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who makes all final decisions on key policies, has said it is up to parliament to approve or reject the deal. Lawmaker Ruhollah Hosseinian, an opponent of the deal, said parliament needs to discuss it in detail. Until now, it has only been reviewed by a special parliamentary committee. "Every (international) agreement must be approved and passed by the parliament. Otherwise, it won't be legal," Hosseinian said. Hard-liners hope to stall approval of the deal in order to weaken President Hassan Rouhani's moderate administration ahead of February's parliamentary elections. Iran's Defense Minister Gen. Hossein Dehghan meanwhile hailed the new surface-to-surface missile, saying it "will obviously boost the strategic deterrence capability of our armed forces." He said the missile, named Emad or pillar in Farsi, was a technological achievement for Iran. He said it can be guided until the moment of impact and hit targets "with high precision." State TV showed footage of the huge missile being launched in a desert area, but did not elaborate on its range or the specifics of the test. The U.N. resolution endorsing the nuclear deal called on Iran not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons. Iran says none of its missiles are designed for that purpose. Since 1992, Iran has boasted an indigenous military industry, producing missiles, tanks and light submarines. The government frequently announces military advances which cannot be independently verified. The Islamic Republic already claims to have surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) that can hit Israel and U.S. military bases in the region.
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Spoiler alert: Money is no object in Trump's world. From his ventures in real estate to his modes of transportation, here's a look at how The Donald lives and how much it costs.
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The trade deal agreed on this month by the U.S. and 11 other Pacific-rim nations is likely to go ahead even if Hillary Clinton is elected U.S. president next year, according to Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb. While nations that make up about 40 percent of the global economy last week struck an accord on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it still needs to be ratified by domestic lawmakers in each of the countries and could face obstacles. One of those might be Clinton, who is battling to secure the Democratic Party's presidential nomination and last week voiced opposition to the pact. The agreement, which was announced after final talks in Atlanta, includes provisions to guarantee intellectual property rights for drugmakers and reduce tariffs on goods from food to cars. While it doesn't include some large Pacific nations such as China and Indonesia, it does encompass economies including Japan, Australia, Canada and Singapore. "In the end this deal is so significant, not only from a commercial but from a strategic point of view to the United States, that in the end no matter who's in government, who's president, I think this thing will go through," Robb said in an interview on Sunday with Sky News. Tightening Race Clinton, who had been generally supportive of the TPP when she was secretary of state under President Barack Obama, said in an interview with PBS last week that she didn't believe the accord would meet the "high bar" she has set for it and that she wasn't in favor of what she'd learned about it so far. Her conditional opposition to the deal comes as opinion polls indicate a tightening race within the Democratic Party, with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders boosting his presence and Vice President Joe Biden yet to indicate whether he will get into the contest for America's top job. Both Sanders and former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, another contender for the nomination, have been outspoken in their opposition to the TPP. In the U.S., resistance to the plan also comes from companies and industries that aren't getting the protections they sought, as well as labor groups who say the accord will safeguard corporate profits at the expense of workers. Selling the Deal "We all had an eye all through the negotiations on what we could sell back home," said Robb. "This has got to be acceptable to your own community otherwise there's not much point going through it all." He said that negotiators, including those from the U.S., came to an agreement last week because they judged that ultimately local lawmakers will approve the deal. "If we had not settled at this meeting in Atlanta, the chances are with elections and the rest that are really upon us as a group of countries, I suspect this would have been punted off to a year or two," said Robb. "If you miss the opportunity, sometimes it never comes back." For Australia, the deal follows a series of separate free trade agreements with Japan, South Korea and China under the current Liberal-National government. "We have, I think, started to put some real architecture in place which will help us move, steer our way from the dominant last 15 years of resource-based economy, and help us diversify in a very material way," Robb said.
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CHICAGO (AP) -- The second line for the Chicago Blackhawks is off to a fast start. Patrick Kane and rookie Artemi Panarin each had a goal and two assists, and the Blackhawks beat the New York Islanders 4-1 on Saturday night. Defenseman Trevor van Riemsdyk added his first career NHL goal as the Blackhawks cruised to their first home win of the season. Chicago also beat New York 3-2 in overtime on Friday night, spoiling the Islanders' Brooklyn debut. BOX SCORE: BLACKHAWKS 4, ISLANDERS 1 Coach Joel Quenneville put Panarin, Artem Anisimov and Kane together for the Blackhawks' final preseason game and has been delighted with the results so far. "The one line was pretty amazing to watch tonight," Quenneville said. "Call it Artie's line. Very effective." The 6-foot-4 Anisimov was acquired in the June 30 trade that sent Brandon Saad to Columbus. He scored his first goal with Chicago in Friday night's road win. "Oh man, it's something special," van Riemsdyk said. "Kaner and his skill set, he's one of the most skilled guys in the world. And Panarin and Artie, they're unbelievable. "They just know where the other one is going to be and they can put the puck wherever they want. It looks like they've been playing together a real long time." Kane, who has three goals and three assists in Chicago's first three games, is the subject of a sexual assault investigation in western New York. He hasn't been charged, and has said he expects to be exonerated. Scott Darling made 28 saves for the reigning Stanley Cup champions in his first start of the season. He was working on a shutout before Cal Clutterbuck got a short-handed goal with 1:05 left in the third. Kane, who had two goals in the victory at New York on Friday night, assisted on van Riemsdyk's opening score in the first period, and set up Panarin at 5:53 of the second. Kane then tipped a pass from van Riemsdyk by Islanders goalie Jean-Francois Berube for a 3-0 lead. Chicago defenseman Brent Seabrook added a 5-on-3 power-play goal late in the third period. It was his first of the season. Berube had 30 stops for New York in his NHL debut. No. 1 goalie Jaroslav Halak remains out with an upper-body injury, and the 24-year-old Berube was claimed off waivers from the Kings last Tuesday. "I was maybe a little too excited at the beginning, a couple of rebounds went away from me," Berube said. "For sure I would have liked to have had the win for the guys but I'll watch the tape and get better. "I know it's a different level, but I have total confidence in my skills and know I can play at this level." Darling, from suburban Lemont, Illinois, got the start after No. 1 goalie Corey Crawford played in each of the Blackhawks' first two games. Chicago jumped in front when van Riemsdyk glided down the slot and backhanded in a loose puck at 4:07 of the first. Kane set up the chance with a wrist shot from just inside the blue line. And there was no question about this goal for van Riemsdyk. It looked as if the defenseman had his first NHL goal last season in a 5-2 win over San Jose on Nov. 9, 2014. But the league ruled the next day that van Riemsdyk's slap shot had been deflected in by teammate Kris Versteeg. The Islanders showed last season they have ample scoring punch, but coach Jack Capuano was baffled that it disappeared on Saturday. "We shot puck early, we were grinding it out and all of a sudden we got away from it and turned pucks over," Capuano said. "We can play better offensively." NOTES: Berube was drafted 95th overall by the Kings in 2009. ... After a solid start as a rookie last year, van Riemsdyk's left kneecap was shattered on Nov. 16. He returned for four games of the Stanley Cup Final. ... In addition to Halak, F Steve Bernier and rookie D Ryan Pulock were scratches for the Islanders. ... D David Rundblad and RW Kyle Baun sat out again for the Blackhawks.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) Two people were killed when a single-engine plane crashed next to a house in Northern California shortly after takeoff, authorities said Sunday. The four-seater Beech 35 Bonanza sparked a fire on a side of the house in South Lake Tahoe, but it was quickly extinguished Saturday. The two-story house is less than a mile from the airport, in a semi-rural neighborhood surrounded by pine trees. The crash occurred about 5:40 p.m. Maja Smith, an aviation accident investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, said the plane contained only the two people. She said she didn't know the identities of the victims and the plane's destination wasn't immediately known. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office did not return calls for comment. Ginger Nicolay-Davis, a real estate agent who manages the house as a vacation rental, said two people and a dog inside the house got out safely. No one on the ground was hurt. "They were sitting there relaxing in the living room and they heard what sounded like a tree had fallen," she said. "They assumed a tree had taken out a power line." She said fire damage to the house is significant, but it could have been worse given the woodsy location. She said the pair inside the home, which included San Francisco playwright Rod McFadden, rushed outside without shoes and headed back to San Francisco. McFadden was in town for a three-day word and performance festival on the shores of South Lake Tahoe. The Federal Aviation Administration is also investigating the crash, along with the national transportation board.
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I expected the worst. I suspect many in the announced crowd of 45,237 Saturday at Heinz Field felt the same way. There even were those on the Pitt sideline with doubts. Virginia scored on a late 32-yard touchdown pass to pull within seven points of Pitt and quickly got the ball back at its 28 with 3:44 left. Who didn't think about the past? About a Pitt program that has broken hearts at Heinz Field time and time again? About a Pitt defense that was one of the worst in school history last season? A defense that couldn't protect a 31-6 fourth-quarter lead against Houston in the Armed Forces Bowl? A defense that gave up 56, 51 and 40 points in losses to Georgia Tech, Duke and North Carolina? First-year coach Pat Narduzzi sensed the apprehension. "They had a pass on us and, all of a sudden, our kids start to go, 'Oh, no, here we go again,' " he said. "As coaches, it's our job to make sure they don't say [that]. We've talked about that. We're not going back that way. We're not taking that route." Pitt didn't. The defense gave up a 32-yard pass play on fourth-and-23 on Virginia's final drive. Then, it stiffened. Impressively. Four consecutive incompletions from the Pitt 42 left Pitt with a 26-19 win. "Two weeks in a row," Narduzzi said of his defense, which closed out a 17-13 win at Virginia Tech the previous Saturday. "They did a heck of a job." Narduzzi came to Pitt from Michigan State, where he was regarded as a terrific defensive coordinator. His work with the Pitt defense has been nothing short of phenomenal. It's the biggest reason Pitt is 4-1 for the first time since 2009 and 2-0 in the ACC. It has put itself in position to compete for the conference's Coastal Division championship. "Our kids keep fighting," Narduzzi said. "I think they've learned how to win." Pitt's offense still needs plenty of work. It made this game unnecessarily close. Wide receiver Jester Weah dropped what should have been a 19-yard touchdown pass. Quarterback Nate Peterman was sacked and lost a fumble that Virginia turned into a defensive touchdown. Peterman fumbled a snap on third-and-1. Running back Qadree Ollison lost a fumble at the Virginia 1. Peterman had a 40-yard run wiped out by a holding penalty on tackle Adam Bisnowaty. The offense lamely went three-and-out, giving the ball back to Virginia for one final opportunity. "We'll eventually figure out a way we can do it a little easier," Narduzzi said. "That's the next step." Pitt's defense played virtually the entire game without top linebacker Nicholas Grigsby, who left with a neck injury after Virginia's first offensive play. It still did its part and more despite allowing a 71-yard run early and that touchdown pass late. The defense set up a third-quarter touchdown when linebacker Matt Galambos intercepted a pass and returned it 51 yards. "That's just something we coach," Narduzzi said. "It's one of our zone pressures. He did a great job reading it." The defense also produced a fourth-quarter safety on a sack by linebacker Mike Caprara, who filled in for Grigsby. "He's just such an intelligent kid," Narduzzi said. "He's smart. He asks great questions on the sideline. He understands the game. You win with those smart guys." Caprara's sack was one of four by Pitt Galambos had two and gave it 21 in five games. The defense had just 19 sacks in 13 games a year ago. Freshman safety Jordan Whitehead was credited with 12 tackles. Defensive end Ejuan Price had two tackles for a loss and shared a sack with cornerback Avonte Maddox. Price set the tone early; his quarterback hurries forced two incompletions after Virginia had a second-and-goal at the Pitt 6. "Our kids keep fighting," Narduzzi said. "They fight through adversity. They believe." Clearly, that is the Narduzzi effect. Next up is a game at Georgia Tech, which is a disappointing 2-4 0-3 in the conference after getting whacked Saturday at Clemson. The Pitt defense can't wait to get there. A year ago, in a 56-28 loss to Georgia Tech at Heinz Field, it gave up 612 yards, including 465 on the ground. Sure, six lost fumbles doomed Pitt, but its defense still was atrocious. That was then. This is now. "We're three points and a 57-yard field goal from being undefeated," Narduzzi said of Pitt's 27-24 loss Sept. 19 against an Iowa team that is now 6-0. "Our kids find a way to win." Again, the Narduzzi effect. Ron Cook: [email protected]. Ron Cook can be heard on the "Cook and Poni" show weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on 93.7 The Fan.
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Patrick Kane scored for Chicago, but did he do enough to be Saturday's Top Performer on the ice?
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Chase Utley could face punishment over the slide that left New York Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada with a fractured fibula. The incident came during the seventh inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers' win over the Mets, when Utley slid into Tejada at second base while trying to break up a double play. The incident provoked widespread criticism with some suggesting that Utley had focused on crashing into Tejada, whose back was turned, rather than going for base.
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Relive Saturday's top stories, which includes the Cubs and Dodgers picking up wins in the NLDS, TCU staying perfect at Kansas State and Michigan shutting out Northwestern.
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TOKYO (AP) -- French Open champion Stan Wawrinka defeated Benoit Paire 6-2, 6-4 on Sunday to win the Japan Open for his career-best fourth title of the season. The top-seeded Wawrinka was in control from the outset and secured the win in 65 minutes when the unseeded Paire double-faulted on match point. "I was playing my best game today," said Wawrinka, who has won all four finals he's appeared in this year. "I was feeling the ball well and playing really aggressively so I'm very happy with the way I played." In addition to Roland Garros, Wawrinka has won titles this season at Chennai and Rotterdam. He improved to 5-1 against Paire, who upset local favorite Kei Nishikori in the semifinals. Paire, who struggled with a sore left ankle, was broken four times and committed 12 unforced errors in the match. "When I woke up this morning I couldn't walk," Paire said. "One hour before the match it was very painful so I said `what can we do?' I spoke with the physiotherapist and we got an anesthesia for my foot. I couldn't feel anything in my foot and it's tough to move when you don't feel your foot." Wawrinka is the first Swiss winner in Tokyo since Roger Federer in 2006. In winning the Japan Open he adds his name to a list of champions that includes Rafael Nadal, Pete Sampras and John McEnroe. "It's a big tournament for me," Wawrinka said. "You've had some amazing winners here over the past. I got a lot of support here all this week and to add this title is very important for me."
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Thomas Muller has suggested he could leave Bayern Munich in favor of a move to the Premier League if a big-money offer comes in. Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge recently revealed that Manchester United attempted to sign the Germany international during the most recent transfer window, before stressing that the Bundesliga champion has no intention of selling the 26-year-old. However, Muller has refused to rule out a move to England in the future. "In the end, we should not forget that playing football is our job," Muller told Welt am Sonntag. "So people should accept that wages will always play a role in a player's decision-making. Of course, the wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that. "You have to look at the complete package to determine whether something is right for you. What's good for you one day will not necessarily still be good for you the day after. I know that a lot of German clubs are unhappy with the Premier League clubs' spending, but I think it is something good for all clubs in the end. It can only be a good thing for football when clubs invest so much money." Muller has a contract with Bayern until June 2019.
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Thousands gather to remember victims in Ankara a day after nearly 100 people were killed in twin blasts. Julie Noce reports.
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After defeating Oregon on Saturday, Washington State taunted the Ducks with a tweet containing a picture from the Oregon Trail. The guys weigh in on the playful jab.
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New data indicates that our planet's innermost core is much younger than we originally thought. The inner core, the Earth's deepest layer, is a ball of solid iron surrounded by a liquid outer core of similar composition. Scientists have disagreed on its age, with recent models yielding estimates ranging from 0.5 to 2 billion years ago. Now, an international team of scientists say they can narrow that range. They analyzed the magnetic signature of ancient igneous rocks and found that there was a sharp increase in the strength of the Earth's magnetic field between one billion and 1.5 billion years ago. That jump in field strength corresponds to the first occurrence of solid iron at Earth's center, they argue, the point in Earth history when solid iron first started to "freeze" out from what had been an all-molten core. "This finding could change our understanding of the Earth's interior and its history," said lead author Andy Biggin in a press release. "The timing of the first appearance of solid iron or 'nucleation' of the inner core is highly controversial but is crucial for determining the properties and history of the Earth's interior," he explained. The age "has strong implications for how the Earth's magnetic field which acts as a shield against harmful radiation from the sun, as well as a useful navigational aid is generated." Currents in the liquid outer core create a dynamo that powers the planet's magnetic field. Many factors contribute to the shape and strength of those currents, but one is convection, the circular movement of hot material rising, giving up heat to the overlying mantle, and then falling again. Once the inner core started to freeze, this convection received a strong boost in power, argue the researchers, because light, non-metallic elements remained molten in the outer core and were buoyant relative to the overlying mantle. "The results suggest that the Earth's core is cooling down less quickly than previously thought, which has implications for the whole of Earth Sciences," said Dr. Biggin. "It also suggests an average growth rate of the solid inner core of approximately 1 millimeter per year, which affects our understanding of the Earth's magnetic field." Besides offering a more precise birthdate for Earth's inner core, the new analysis, published in the journal Nature, suggests Earth's core-fueled magnetic field will remain strong for a long time. "The theoretical model which best fits our data indicates that the core is losing heat more slowly than at any point in the last 4.5 billion years and that this flow of energy should keep the Earth's magnetic field going for another billion years or more," Biggin said. "This contrasts sharply with Mars," he noted," which had a strong magnetic field early in its history which then appears to have died after half a billion years." This article was written by Beatrice Gitau Staff from Christian Science Monitor and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.
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On paper, Jeb Bush's 2016 campaign mirrors Mitt Romney's 2012 efforts, but Bush faces a far steeper climb to the nomination, political watchers say. With three popular outsider candidates leading the race, rising establishment contenders and the failure to lock down any of the early-voting states so far, Bush is beset by burdens that never weighed on Romney. "Without hesitation, I'd say I'd much rather be Romney in 2011 than Bush in 2015 at this point," said former Iowa Republican Party political director Craig Robinson. Bush and Romney both entered their races well-funded, with strong campaign organizations and deep support from the Republican establishment. Their struggles are also similar. Neither has been a favorite of grass-roots conservatives eager to see change in Washington come from a non-ordained candidate, and both have policy stances that are non-starters for some base voters. For Romney, the issue was RomneyCare; for Bush, it's Common Core and immigration. And Bush now faces serious challenges from a host of insurgent candidates, as Romney did on his way to the nomination in 2012. But this time around, Republican voters have shown no indication that they'll be willing back someone with Bush's pedigree for the nomination. Many still believe Bush, the self-described "joyful tortoise," is well-positioned to ride out this year's insurgent wave. Like Romney in 2012, some Republicans believe Bush's institutional advantages will deliver a victory for him in a key early-voting state as others falter and Republicans flock behind a steady candidate with general election appeal. But that's where Bush's path diverges from Romney. Bush's struggle starts in the polls, where the huge field of candidates has fractured support across a spectrum of alternatives. Donald Trump and Ben Carson are in the top tier of candidates, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls, while Bush is scrapping with Carly Fiorina, and Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz in the second tier. In 2012, even as Romney had to beat back repeated challenges from upstart candidates, he always maintained a high floor of support and remained within reach of the top spot. Romney had no competition for the establishment mantle, giving him an air of inevitability. Bush is in a dogfight just to win in his own lane. He faces a threat from fellow Floridian Rubio, who has moved past him in many polls, and even former CEO Fiorina, who is picking up support from lawmakers, has drawn the attention of the Koch Brothers and is increasingly viewed by many as the most refined outsider candidate with potential to scoop up establishment support. Bush's struggle to maintain his grip amid this pack of contenders can be traced to a major fundamental difference between this cycle and the last. In 2012, the insurgent candidates needed Romney, the establishment frontrunner, so they could play the foil: They were the "anyone but Romney" candidates. In 2016, the insurgents are not Bush alternatives, said Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray. Worse, they're indifferent to him. "If there's a sense that you're the person that they need to pit someone against, that suggests you have a strong base of underlying support," Murray said. "But Donald Trump and Ben Carson aren't 'anyone but Bush' candidates. They're tapping into an entirely different mindset in which Bush is irrelevant. In 2012, it was always Romney and someone who is not Romney. We're not having that conversation about Jeb, and that speaks volumes." And Romney always had an ace-in-the-hole. "Romney had New Hampshire in his back pocket the whole time," Robinson said. Romney, from neighboring Massachusetts, held a double-digit lead in New Hampshire throughout. He was guaranteed at least one victory in a carve-out state. Bush has no such guarantees. He is in sixth place in Iowa and fourth place in New Hampshire, which many believe is a must-win state for him. Even if he could wait it out to Florida's primary on March 15, he's behind in the polls Trump and Carson in his home state. Still, Bush has considerable advantages over many in the field, and his advisers routinely say there's no candidate they'd trade places with. Bush's campaign is likely to end the third quarter as one of the best-funded, along with Carson and Cruz. Bush's supporting super-PAC, Right to Rise, is light-years ahead of every other outside group, thanks to an enormous early-year haul of over $100 million. The campaign and super-PAC are blanketing the airwaves in early voting states with ads, and the next few weeks will be critical in assessing whether that spending contributes to lifting Bush out of his polling stagnation. Bush also has one of the most comprehensive campaign infrastructures, including the biggest field operation of anyone in Iowa, where analysts say an establishment candidate can still win, as Romney nearly did in 2012. Bush also has scores of endorsements from key activists, and state and federal lawmakers, who will be working on his behalf. That's the profile of a winner, says Eric Fehrnstrom, a top adviser to Romney's campaign in 2012. "Romney won the nomination because of the discipline he showed on the campaign trail, the money he amassed through his impressive donor networks, and the strength of the organization he put together," Fehrnstrom said. "Bush has those things too, so it would be a mistake to count him out. He has the ability to persevere."
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Iran issued a verdict Sunday in the espionage trial of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, according to local media reports. However the reports, including on state TV, did not give any details on the verdict. "The ruling on this case has been issued. There is still the possibility of this ruling being appealed, and it is not final," said judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, according to Reuters, which cited the ISNA news agency. Rezaian, an Iranian-American Washington Post correspondent in Tehran, was detained by the Iranian government, along with his wife and two others on July 22, 2014. The 39-year old Californian, now held in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, has been in an Iranian jail longer than any other Western journalist on charges of espionage and other crimes. His Iranian wife and journalist, Yeganeh Salehi, and the others detained with him have been released. Rezaian's lawyer, his family and The Washington Post have repeatedly denied the charges and U.S. officials, international organizations and press advocates have called for his release. Contributing: Roger Yu
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Scotland lost out on a spot in the Euro 2016 finals when they were knocked out of the qualifier in stunning fashion as Poland scored an equalizer on the final kick of the match. The loss was a bitter one for the Scottish side, and now supporters are blaming one young fan as the game-tying goal may have never happened if he had not run on to the field, causing a delay. The incident came in the 88th minute when the fan can be seen running on to the pitch during a stoppage in play. The next shot of the fan on the Fox Sports 2 broadcast was him being escorted off the field by security as the players waited to resume the match. In between, the fan stopped to take a selfie with Poland's star captain, Robert Lewandowski, who made news recently when he scored five goals in nine minutes for his German club team . The selfie was later uploaded to Instagram. It has since been taken down but can still be seen at the UK Daiy Record . That photo is now being blamed for Scotland's loss. The score at the time was 2-1 Scotland. A win, and they are in the Euro 2016 finals. As regulation time ended, it was announced that four minutes of stoppage time would be added. Scotland just needed to hang on for four more minutes. This is where the controversy picks up steam. Scottish fans, and some UK media outlets, believe that only three minutes of stoppage time should have been added. Here is the reasoning from the Daily Record (emphasis ours): A total of six substitutions were made in the second half of the game. FIFA rules state that the referee must add 30 seconds for each change, meaning an extra three minutes were due ... With no stoppages for treatment , it appears referee Viktor Kassai added an extra minute to account for the fan-cam incident. The problem with this is, there was a stoppage for treatment in the second half. In the 54th minute, Arkadiusz Milik of Poland went down after a hard tackle and the referee called for the trainers. The game was delayed for approximately 80 seconds, slightly more than one minute. Of course, that moment had long been forgotten, when in the 94th minute, and on the final kick of the game, Lewandowski knocked home a fluke loose ball in front of the net for the equalizer. Scotland's Euro 2016 dream was over. The poor lad is being skewered in the UK today. But three minutes for substitutions and one minute for the injury and it sure looks like the young fan actually had a better chance of helping Scotland by taking away precious seconds from Poland's comeback attempt. Unfortunately for Scotland, he needed to take a few more. NOW WATCH: Here's what real NFL agents think about HBO's 'Ballers'
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Crowds gather in Ankara for a memorial as Turkey mourns the deaths of almost 100 people in bomb blasts at a peace rally.
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Shaun Norris overcame swirling winds with a four-under-par 68 to win the weather-shortened Yeangder Tournament Players Championship by two shots on Sunday, pipping overnight leader Miguel Tabuena. The 33-year-old Asian Tour rookie from South Africa shot five birdies in his opening seven holes and finished with a winning total of 12-under-par 204, after Friday's second round was washed out by rain. "I always joke with my family and friends that I play better in the worst conditions. I think it makes me concentrate more. I probably focus more," said Norris. "I only realised how the scoreboard looked after 17. I was a little bit nervous heading into 18." AFP
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) -- TCU's players spent the week laughing in practice, joking in team meetings, and coach Gary Patterson kept warning them about overlooking a trip to Kansas State. They finally listened to him at halftime Saturday night. After digging a big hole over the first 30 minutes, the second-ranked Horned Frogs responded to their coach's pleas with a spirited comeback. Trevone Boykin threw for 301 yards and two touchdowns, the second a 55-yard strike to Josh Doctson with 1:10 remaining in the game, and TCU nipped the Wildcats 52-45 to remain in the national championship hunt. BOX SCORE: TCU 52, KANSAS STATE 45 "The first half they kicked our butts, to be honest with you," Patterson said. "I told our guys what it's like to come here and play and they didn't believe me. Now they believe me." The Horned Frogs (6-0, 3-0 Big 12) trailed 35-17 at the break, but Boykin showed the poise of a Heisman Trophy candidate. He added 124 yards and two TDs on the ground, while Aaron Green ran for 121 yards and two more scores and Doctson caught eight passes for 155 yards and two touchdowns. None was bigger than his catch-and-run less than a minute after Jack Cantele had connected on a 37-yard field goal, helping Kansas State (3-2, 0-2) knot the game 45-all. "If you want to win in this conference, you have to win on the road," Boykin said. "Coming from behind shows the kind of fight we have in this team." The Wildcats had won 49 straight games when leading at halftime before last week's loss at Oklahoma State. Now, coach Bill Snyder's crew has lost two in a row. "They just played very well," Snyder said. "They played better defensively than we did offensively in the second half. We got a few plays, but not very many." Joe Hubener ran for 111 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Wildcats. But he also threw an interception that was returned 60 yards for a score early in the second half, then fumbled in the final minute, when Kansas State was trying to drive for another tying touchdown. Charles Jones finished with 75 yards rushing and two scores for Kansas State. "It's pretty painful to have one of the top teams in the nation on the ropes and not be able to finish," Wildcats defensive end Jordan Willis said. "You can't allow big plays, especially when you have a team that can score quick." The Horned Frogs got off to the explosive start they wanted when Green took the opening handoff 86 yards for a touchdown. It was the fourth-longest run in TCU history, and the longest since LaDainian Tomlinson's 89-yard run against UTEP in 2000. Kansas State marched 64 yards for an answering touchdown, the first of Hubener's scoring runs, before TCU regained the lead on Boykin's 32-yard toss to Doctson in the end zone. The Wildcats refused to be rattled, though. Hubener calmly led them the other way, twice converting third downs, before scampering in from 17 yards out. And after the Horned Frogs got a field goal from Jaden Oberkrom, Kansas State struck for two more touchdowns: Jones sprinted 28 yards up the middle for the first, and after Elijah Lee picked off Boykin, Hubener sneaked in from a yard out for a 35-17 halftime lead. It was the most points TCU had allowed in a half since 2004. Needing a spark to silence the third-largest crowd in Kansas State history, the Horned Frogs got it immediately out of the half. Derrick Kindred stepped in front of Hubener's pass and ran untouched for a touchdown, quieting what had been a roaring mob of 53,671 purple-clad fans. "I felt like it brought a spark to our sideline," Kindred said. "It gave us hope." The Horned Frogs trimmed the lead to 35-31 on Green's touchdown run, and 42-37 on Boykin's 14-yard run. After forcing a punt, they finally pulled ahead when Boykin took a read-option over the right side and raced untouched 69 yards for a touchdown with 6:07 left in the game. The Wildcats quickly marched the other way, and TCU's defense was again on the ropes. But the drive stalled, and Cantele's 37-yard field goal knotted the game 45-all with 1:52 left. Plenty of time for Boykin and Doctson to do their thing. "The options were run, throw it or kick the field goal," Snyder said. "Obviously the field goal was the wrong thing to do. That's one of those choices."
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Each Sunday we'll provide you with the top story lines from the day's action, beginning with the top plays of the day, and look ahead to the next week's matchups. If Georgia fans thought a matchup with Tennessee would help them forget about last week's beating at the hand of Alabama, they were wrong. Heisman candidate Nick Chubb suffered a gruesome left knee injury on his first carry of the game for the Bulldogs and was carted off. It's unlikely he'll wear a Georgia uniform again in 2015. The next three hours weren't much better for the Bulldogs as they were outscored by the Volunteers 21-7 in the second half and lost 38-31. MORE: SN's Dirty Dozen | Week 6 cheerleaders "I'm optimistic that it won't require surgery, but I can't say that 100 percent," Georgia head coach Mark Richt told reporters after the game . "We've got to get some confirmation here tomorrow." While Georgia lost its star running back and likely its spot in the top 25, No. 18 Michigan thumped No. 13 Northwestern 38-0. Michigan served up its third consecutive shutout and held Northwestern to just 168 yards of total offense. The Wolverines had a pick-6 and returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown in the win, while QB Jake Rudock led an efficient Michigan attack. "The fellas came out balling and they played that way for four quarters. It was some really good play and I'm happy with our team," Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh told Michigan IMG Sports Network after the win . "We'll move on with humble hearts, we've got a big one next week but we look forward to a great week of preparation, and it'll be needed. We've got a heck of an opponent next week." That opponent Michigan State will either serve as another statement win for Harbaugh and the Wolverines, or as a humble reminder that 2015 is still a rebuilding season for the boys in Ann Arbor. Strong and steady No. 3 Baylor remained perfect with an absolute waxing of Kansas, 66-7. Bears QB Seth Russell continued his remarkable 2015 campaign going 18 of 27 for 246 yards and three touchdowns. The win could vault Baylor to No. 1 in the AP Poll after Ohio State started slow against Maryland before eventually pulling away. WHAT WE LEARNED: Baylor | Clemson | Notre Dame No. 6 Clemson cleared another hurdle Saturday upending Georgia Tech 43-24. Tigers QB Deshaun Watson completed 21 passes for 265 yards and two touchdowns. The Yellow Jackets have lost four straight after starting the season 2-0. Leonard Fournette rushed for 158 yards in No. 7 LSU's win against South Carolina, including an 87-yard touchdown . He has 1,022 rushing yards in just five games. But his most impressive move of the day was his prepared statement after the game where he announced his plans to auction off his game jersey to raise money for flood relief efforts in South Carolina. Leonard Fournette 87-yard TD http://t.co/zvEMRv9LWM pic.twitter.com/TbgdfbzX9F gifdsports (@gifdsports) October 10, 2015 No one was more excited about Fournette's score than this LSU cheerleader. THIS LSU CHEERLEADER pic.twitter.com/j4EVYjaP1g Mark Feder (@mark_feder) October 10, 2015 The unexpected Texas is well on its way to repairing its wayward season after it shocked No. 10 Oklahoma at home 24-17. The Longhorns had 370 total yards, compared to the Sooners' 272. Since 1989, Texas is 6-2 when unranked and facing a ranked Oklahoma squad. Texas is now 2-4. CHARLIE STRONG CROWD SURF pic.twitter.com/3lIUnCRH5S Dr. Saturday (@YahooDrSaturday) October 10, 2015 BENDER: Strong gets statement win | Five things we learned No. 8 Alabama had its hands full with Arkansas. The Tide trailed 7-3 at the half, but pulled away in the second half for a 27-14 home victory. No. 12 Florida State wasn't even sure Dalvin Cook would suit up Saturday, but he put on the pads and led the Seminoles to a 29-24 win over Miami with 22 carries for 222 yards and two touchdowns. Florida State's Nov. 7 matchup with No. 6 Clemson will arguably be the biggest matchup for both teams this season. No. 23 Cal rolled into Utah with one big advantage late Saturday QB Jared Goff, who is widely considered the best in college football. However, Goff imploded with four interceptions in the first half (five total) as the Golden Bears eventually fell to the Utes 30-24. Did you see that? Rutgers nearly upset No. 4 Michigan State, but a mental misfire resulted in a fourth-down spike by Rutgers QB Chris Laviano gave the ball back to Spartans with four seconds left in the game. Michigan State held on for a 31-24 win. You can't do that, my guy. pic.twitter.com/KhmTBrCFKK Dr. Saturday (@YahooDrSaturday) October 11, 2015 Michigan's Jehu Chesson returned the opening kickoff against Northwestern 96 yards for a touchdown to set the tone for a big day at the Big House. Low scoring game? Not so fast! Jehu Chesson takes the opening kickoff to the house! Watch! http://t.co/HlTzME9ucx Sean Merriman (@BTNSean) October 10, 2015 LaQuan McGowan, No. 3 Baylor's 410-pound tight end, chugged into the endzone for his first touchdown of the season . This pick-6 by Michigan defensive back Jourdan Lewis turned an exciting play for Northwestern into a catastrophic miscue for the Wildcats. The reaction by the Northwestern assistant on the sideline tells the whole story. Ole Miss wide receiver Laquon Treadwell made a ridiculous one-handed catch, which resulted in a touchdown for the No. 14 Rebels. Western Kentucky accidently converted an onside kick. How a team converts an accidental onside kick is a mystery, but it worked out for the Hilltoppers. Western Kentucky recovered a wacky accidental onside kick off a defender's back. VIDEO: http://t.co/Z3zxWLk8OT pic.twitter.com/dEmzUOWAIw Dr. Saturday (@YahooDrSaturday) October 10, 2015 Tennessee fudged a huge opportunity during first-and-goal by turning over the ball to Georgia, which returned it for a touchdown . South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier has been in the game a very long time, but even the most seasoned veterans get tangled up sometimes. Amazing RT @JimmyTraina : Steve Spurrier vs. headset wire = LOL. pic.twitter.com/6OCxpnnjil Erin Andrews (@ErinAndrews) October 10, 2015 Next week's highlights (All times Eastern) Alabama at Texas A&M, 3:30 p.m.: The Aggies have an extra week to prepare for Alabama, and expect them to be ready to reclaim the SEC West. Texas A&M barely escaped Arkansas the last time it took the field in Week 4. Michigan State at Michigan, 3:30 p.m.: In one of college football's oldest rivalries that dates back to 1898, Michigan State is looking to keep the Paul Bunyan Trophy for the third year in a row. With Jim Harbaugh's Wolverines climbing up the ranks each week, the Spartans will need play its best football this season. Michigan leads the series 68 34 5. MORE: Big Ten's best rivalry trophies Florida at LSU: 7 p.m.: Last year, LSU barely squeaked by unranked Florida 30-27. This year, Jim McElwain leads a fresher and meaner Gator team looking to break into the top 10 for the first time since the 2013 preseason. LSU has defeated Florida four times out in the past five years.
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Chase Utley put himself squarely in the middle of the NLDS rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets with a controversial takeout slide on Saturday night that injured Ruben Tejada. The Dodgers had runners on the corners down 2-1 to the Mets in the 7th inning of Game 2 of the series when Howie Kendrick hit into a fielder's choice. Second baseman Daniel Murphy flipped to shortstop Ruben Tejada, who was taken out by Utley on what seemed like more of a tackle than slide at second. Not only did the Dodgers tie the game on the play, but Utley was ruled safe at second after umpires decided Tejada did not touch the bag when he caught the ball. Tejada left the game and was replaced by Wilmer Flores after Utley's slide. X-rays revealed that Tejada suffered a broken fibula on the play that will keep him out the remainder of the season. The Dodgers opened up the game with three more runs and hung on to win 5-2 to tie the series at 1-1. Saturday's affairs may be familiar for NL East fans. Five years ago, Utley, then with the Phillies, caused a controversy with another takeout slide on Tejada. "Chase, he plays the game hard. He plays the game passionately. But there's a thin line between going out there and playing the game hard and going out there trying to get somebody hurt," Mets third baseman David Wright said at the time . "That's a thin line. Nobody is going to push us around. We're going to have our teammate's back. I think cooler heads prevailed, but we've got to let them know that over on our side we didn't appreciate it and that we're going to go out there and have our teammates' backs." The Mets will probably be looking for revenge on Utley. The only problem is the veteran is a bench player for the Dodgers and New York might not get a chance at payback.
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Halloween is almost here, and if you need a costume pronto, social media will help you brew up some ideas! Krystin Goodwin (@Krystingoodwin) has the best pop culture Halloween costumes posted to Instagram.
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One man was killed and at least nine others were wounded in shootings since Saturday night, police said. The fatal shooting occurred at 4:20 a.m. Sunday in the Washington Park neighborhood on the South Side. Three men were in a parked car in the 5400 block of South Prairie Avenue when another vehicle drove up and someone inside fired shots, said Chicago police spokesman Officer Hector Alfaro. A 35-year-old man was shot in the head and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A 40-year-old man was shot in the back and listed in serious condition, and a 24-year-old man was grazed in the head. His condition was stabilized. Both men were being treated at Stroger Hospital. At about 5 a.m. Sunday, a 31-year-old man was shot in the South Austin neighborhood on the West Side, said Chicago police spokesman Officer Jose Estrada. He was at a gas station in the 5100 block of West Chicago Avenue when he got in an argument with someone, Estrada said. The person he was arguing with got in a car and began driving away, then started shooting in the man's direction. He was hit in the left shoulder. Friends on the scene took him to West Suburban Hospital, where he was listed in serious condition. At about 3 a.m. Sunday, three people were shot after a fight on a party bus in the South Loop, police said. The bus driver had stopped for cigarettes at a gas station in the 1100 block of South Jefferson Street when people on the bus started arguing, according to authorities. People started getting out of the bus, continuing to fight, when someone outside turned around and began shooting into the bus. Witnesses were being uncooperative. A 22-year-old man was shot in the leg and the side of his body and a 21-year-old man was shot in the leg. Both went to Stroger Hospital. In addition, a 22-year-old man was shot in the hand. He went to Rush University Medical Center. The conditions of all three men had been stabilized. At 12:55 a.m. Sunday, a 48-year-old man was shot in the South Chicago neighborhood, Alfaro said. He was on the sidewalk in the 7900 block of South Yates Avenue when someone walked up and fired shots, Alfaro said. He was hit in the arm and foot and taken to South Shore Hospital, then transferred to Stroger Hospital. His condition was stabilized. At 11:10 p.m. Saturday, a 20-year-old man was shot in the Golden Gate neighborhood on the Far South Side. He was standing in a parking lot in the 600 block of East 133rd Street when someone exited a green sedan and fired shots, police said. He was struck in the calf and taken to Roseland Community Hospital. His condition was stabilized. At 10:55 p.m. Friday, a 30-year-old man was shot in the Gresham neighborhood on the South Side. He was on the sidewalk in the 7900 block of South Lowe Avenue when shots were fired as a dark sedan drove past. Alfaro said. He was hit in the leg and taken to Saint Bernard Hospital. His condition had been stabilized.
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Two independent firms have data that indicate Apple's iPhone 6s is experiencing a slower uptake than last year's iPhone 6 models. This isn't too surprising since this is the second year with the same form factor iPhone. However since Apple has a larger install base this will help mitigate a slower uptake. (Note that I own Apple shares). The slower uptake will be viewed negatively by Apple's Bears but can be spun positively by Apple's Bulls . One factor to take into account is that Fiksu's and Localytic's don't capture all the iPhones in usage especially in foreign markets. While they may not correctly capture Apple's actual sales I do believe they give a decent indication of iPhone trends. I think it is also important to keep track of China Mobile's 4G growth as this is a worthwhile data point for Apple's iPhone business. Also a larger trade-in trend as seen by Gazelle should help iPhone 6s sales. Larger install base helps offset lower adoption One mitigating factor is that Apple's iPhone install base is larger than a year ago. While its not quite an apples to apples comparison since not all iPhones are still in use a year ago Apple had sold 551 million iPhones by June 2014. As of June 2015 that number had grown to almost 774 million or 40% higher. Fiksu has tracked iPhone usage for multiple iPhone cycles As can seen in the graph below the iPhone 6s is 2.6% of iPhones in usage vs. at the same time post launch last year when the iPhone 6 was at 3.9%. The iPhone 6s Plus is not trailing the iPhone 6 Plus uptake as much from a year ago. This year's 6s Plus is at 0.8% vs. last year's 1.0% for the 6 Plus. In total the two 6s' models are at 3.4% vs. 4.9% for the iPhone 6. Localytics' data mirrors Fiksu's Localytics is showing similar trends for the iPhone 6s compared to the iPhone 6 a year ago. It has Apple's iPhone 6s at 2.1% of iPhones in usage vs. 3.4% for the iPhone 6 a year ago. Localytic's data has the iPhone 6s Plus at 0.5% vs. 0.6% for the iPhone 6 Plus. In total it has Apple's 6s models at 2.6% vs. 4.0% a year ago. The difference of 1.4% is very close to Fiksu's 1.5% difference.
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WASHINGTON A push to overhaul criminal sentencing is prompting the early release of thousands of federal drug prisoners, including some whom prosecutors once described as threats to society, according to an Associated Press review of court records. About 6,000 inmates are due to be freed from custody in the coming month, the result of changes made last year to guidelines that provide judges with recommended sentences for specific crimes. Federal officials say roughly 40,000 inmates could be eligible for reduced sentences in coming years. Many of them are small-time drug dealers targeted by an approach to drug enforcement now condemned by many as overly harsh and expensive. But an AP analysis of nearly 100 court cases also identified defendants who carried semi-automatic weapons, had past convictions for robbery and other crimes, moved cocaine shipments across states, and participated in international heroin smuggling. Supporters of lighter drug sentences say there's no evidence that longer punishment protects public safety. Studies show that inmates released early aren't more likely to reoffend than those who serve their entire sentences. Still, the broad spectrum of defendants granted early release including some about whom prosecutors not long ago raised dire warnings underscores the complex decisions confronting the government as it pursues an overhaul of drug sentencing. "I'm a career prosecutor. I'm a law-and-order girl, and I believe that you need to send dangerous people to prison for a very long time," said Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. "But I think that we need to be smart about deciding who are those dangerous people." Willie Best, a one-time District of Columbia drug dealer whose sentence was already slashed under past crack guideline changes, had an additional month taken off and is due out in 2016. Prosecutors in 2008 said Best helped run a drug-dealing organization, shot at someone he believed had stolen from him and, after fleeing as warrants were served, was found in a stolen car with an assault rifle and other guns. His lawyer described him as the product of a troubled, impoverished upbringing. And Best, in an interview from prison, called himself a loving father who bears no resemblance to his past self. "It's been a long time coming. Eight years is a long time," he said. "I came in one way. I'm coming out another." Guidelines set by the U.S. Sentencing Commission offer recommended minimum and maximum terms for federal crimes. The independent commission voted last year to reduce ranges for drug offenses, then applied those changes to already-imprisoned convicts. Since then, prisoners have sought relief from judges, who can reject those they consider to be public safety threats. About three-quarters of requests had been granted as of August. The first wave is due around Nov. 1, and most of those getting early release are already in halfway houses or under home confinement. Others will be released to immigration authorities for eventual deportation. Though the commission has repeatedly tinkered with the guidelines, including narrowing the disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences that resulted in disproportionately long penalties for blacks defendants, the latest revision is its most sweeping because it covers all drug types. The commission delayed implementation by a year to allow judges time to review requests and weed out inappropriate candidates and to arrange for defendants to be moved to halfway houses. "Nothing to date comes close to what this shift is likely to produce over the next decade or so, starting this year," said Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project, an advocacy group. The action, along with an Obama administration clemency initiative and directives against mandatory minimum sentences, is part of a national effort to rethink punishments for a drug offender population that comprises roughly half the federal inmate count. New bipartisan legislation in the Senate aimed at reducing spending on a prison system that sucks up nearly one-third of the Justice Department budget would give judges greater sentencing discretion and ease penalties for nonviolent criminals. House lawmakers are also expected to unveil criminal justice legislation this week. Supporters call the commission's move, which would on average pare two years from sentences and in many cases just months, a modest dialing-back of punishments that were too harsh to begin with and wouldn't be imposed today. Research shows "longer lengths of stay cost taxpayers a tremendous amount but don't add any additional crime-control value," said Adam Gelb, a Pew Charitable Trusts criminal justice expert. But absent foolproof formulas, judges are grappling with balancing cost against public safety. The issue arose last month in Washington, D.C., where a judge rejected early release bids from two organizers of a 1980s-era cocaine trafficking operation. Though both were sentenced in 1990, the judge declared them to be continuing threats and chastised prosecutors for appearing to dismiss the pair's involvement in violent and calculating crime. Others with shortened sentences are defendants whom prosecutors said had squandered repeated opportunities. Regis Payne is due out in 2017 after his 82-month sentence for selling PCP in the District of Columbia was cut to 60 months. Before his 2012 sentencing, prosecutors called him a "calamity waiting to happen," undeterred by past convictions. Roscoe Minns was cleared for release in November, though prosecutors in 2012 highlighted prior assault and theft convictions in pursuing stiff punishment. Though some released early will reoffend, most will not, statistically speaking, said Ohio State law professor Doug Berman. "Mark my words: The sky will not fall," said Julie Stewart of Families Against Mandatory Minimums. Tuan Evans, who sold pistols and cocaine to undercover officers, had 11 months shaved off his 108-month sentence. He wrote from prison that he's acquired haircutting skills and hopes to start a landscaping business and mentor children once he's freed. Records show a 2018 release date. "You don't have to lock us up and throw away the key when we make a mistake," he said.
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) -- While there is no doubt No. 4 Michigan State has been dealing with injuries and mistakes this season, one thing hasn't changed, the Spartans continue to win. Freshman LJ Scott scored on a 3-yard run with 43 seconds to play and Michigan State won ugly for the second straight week with a 31-24 victory over Rutgers on Saturday night. The win came just a week after the Spartans (6-0, 2-0 Big East) hung on for a 24-21 victory over a Purdue team that is struggling, and it saw them drop two spots in the poll. BOX SCORE: NO. 4 MICHIGAN STATE 24, RUTGERS 21 This one isn't going to help. "We're Michigan State and we are No. 4 in the country," said Spartans receiver Aaron Burbridge, who had a season-best nine catches for 146 yards. "That doesn't mean anything but every team is going to give us their best shot. A win is a win. They all count." The Spartans had a lot of heroes in getting this one. Connor Cook completed 23 of 38 passes for a season-high 357 yards -- one less than his career best -- and two touchdowns. He came up with a monster 29-yard third-down pass to R.J. Shelton on the winning 76-yard drive. Scott, who did not play in the first half because of a sore knee, also scored on a 1-yard run as the Spartans won their 10th straight game and overcame an impressive return by suspended Rutgers senior receiver Leonte Carroo, who caught three touchdown passes. "We're a 6-0 football team, and I keep saying across the country, you watch what goes on every week, there are tough games out there and people are struggling," Spartans coach Mark Dantonio said. "I do believe we are getting everybody's best shot, but I'm sure next week will be a great football game." Next week, the opponent will be No. 18 Michigan, which beat No. 13 Northwestern 38-0 for its third straight shutout. Rutgers (2-3, 0-2) gave Michigan State everything it could handle. Chris Laviano and Carroo, who was reinstated Wednesday after simple assault charges were dropped from a Sept. 12 incident outside the stadium, combined on TD passes of 5, 39 and 28. "We got to come back in on Sunday and lock in and have more attention to details because at the end of the day that's how you get beat in this league," said Carroo, who had seven catches for 134 yards. "Obviously we proved today it's not a talent thing. It's just who can play with better details longer." Laviano finished 15 of 24 for 208, but he capped the night by spiking the ball on fourth down, securing the win. "At the end of the game, the clock management is 100 percent on the guy in charge and I'm the guy in charge," said Rutgers interim head coach Norries Wilson, who has coached the team that past three games with Kyle Flood suspended. "So I mismanaged the situation. Chris Laviano did what he was told to do and I told him the wrong thing. Michigan State also got an 8-yard TD catch by Macgarrett Kings Jr. Scott had nine rushes for 42 yards and two touchdowns. Trailing 24-14 with less than 6 minutes left in the third quarter, Rutgers rallied and eventually tied the game with 4:21 left in regulation in a 22-yard field goal by Kyle Federico that capped a 16-play, 91-yard drive that featured a big third-down scramble by Laviano on third-and-5 and passes of 26 yards to Carrroo and an 18-yard to Justin Goodwin on fourth down at the Spartans 44. On the play before the field goal, Spartans cornerback Arjen Colquhoun knocked a pass out of Carroo's hands to force the field goal. The 10-play winning drive featured the pass to Shelton on third-and-9 from the Spartans 25. Scott also had runs of 10, 9 and 16 yards before scoring two plays later. Carroo had closed the gap to three points with his third touchdown catch, a 28-yarder on which he was wide open. After an error-prone first half by Michigan State, Cook steadied things in the third quarter leading them on scoring drives of 73 and 51 yards. Scott, who did not play in the first half, capped the first drive with a 1-yard run and Cook found DeAnthony Arnett from 25-yards out for a 24-14 lead with 5:46 left in the half. Michigan State struggled in the first half. Burbridge dropped a touchdown on the first series and Michael Geiger had a 35-yard field goal blocked. A punt was shanked setting up a touchdown drive and Cook also was intercepted by Kiy Hester late in the half on a first-and-goal from the 7. "We left a lot of points out there," Dantonio said. This was the final game of a three-game suspension being served by Flood, who was penalized for trying to influence a professor on a player's grade. ------ AP college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org
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#12 Florida State held off Miami's second half push to capture its sixth-consecutive win over the Hurricanes, 29-24. Seminoles running back Dalvin Cook dazzled in the contest, gaining 269 total yards and scoring a trio of touchdowns to help the Noles remain unbeaten on the season.
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The mountain lions of California's Santa Monica Mountains are prematurely dying in the harshness of the urban environment.
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An outbreak of a deadly bacteria in the Bronx left 12 dead and 120 sick earlier this summer. And now, it looks like at least some of the cooling towers that had been disinfected during the first outbreak are now responsible for another outbreak that's killed one and sickened 12. That time, in late July and early August, the bacteria had been found in the Opera House Hotel . Now, officials have found it in 15 out of 35 tested cooling towers in the Morris Park section of the Bronx, northeast of the original outbreak. The contaminated towers were in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, the Bronx State Psychiatric, and Calvary Hospital, along with a few other locations. At the time of the initial outbreak, New York City health officials mandated that all cooling towers in the South Bronx be disinfected to stop the spread of Legionella bacteria, the cause of Legionnaires' disease. But when they re-tested after the most recent outbreak in late September, they found that the bacteria had regrown. According to at least one expert, this sort of thing is rare, but not unheard of. "Nine out of 10 times, the disinfection will be effective," Tim Keane, a consulting engineer at Legionella Risk Management Inc. told the New York Times . "But if the treatment program and risk management program isn't in place after the disinfection, nine out of 10 times the bacteria will regrow again if it was there before." Legionnaires' is not spread by person-to-person contact; the bacteria thrive in infected water, and especially in mist. In recent cases, researchers have linked the outbreak to the cooling towers used in the air-conditioning systems of hospitals, along with whirlpool spas and grocery-store misters. It can be treated with antibiotics. People with existing health conditions are more susceptible to Legionnaires'. All of the people who have died from the first outbreak were older adults who were sick before picking up the bacteria. This time around, all of the people who have fallen ill thus far have had pre-existing health conditions.
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The best political team on television discusses Clinton's change of position on the TPP and how it will affect her in the upcoming debate.
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Alabama beat Arkansas 27-14 on Saturday. Jake Coker found Calvin Ridley for an 81-yard touchdown to give Alabama the lead for good in the win.
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The tone of Theresa May's party conference speech on immigration was "all, all wrong" according to Conservative heavyweight MP Ken Clarke.
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Mobile Internet sites face a new threat as millions download ad-blockers to their phones and tablets, removing pesky adverts but potentially wiping out billions of dollars in advertising revenue. There were close to 200 million downloads of ad-blocking software by mid-2015, according to research firm PageFair, but only 1.6 percent of the blocking was done on mobile devices rather than computers. That could be changing as mobile ad-blocking software becomes increasingly popular across the globe, particularly after the high-profile move by Apple to incorporate it directly into its latest iPhone and iPad operating system iOS9. The software tends to be cheap and effective. Quickly installed, it reduces the clutter on web pages, speeds up performance and spares users from some of the click-bait that many find hard to stomach. "When people are even willing to pay to stop adverts, it gives you an idea of how fed up they are," said Hicham Berrada, head of France de Teads, a video advertising firm. While the Chinese government trawls websites for politically sensitive content, they remain littered with pop-up advertising, forcing millions to buy apps such as "360 Mobilephone Guard". In Hong Kong, mobile ad-blockers "Purify Blocker" and "Crystal" recently entered the top 30 paid-for iPhone apps. A study by Adobe and PageFair in August said the losses for websites that rely on advertising could be huge -- totalling an estimated $21.8 billion (19.3 billion euros) this year and rising to $41 billion in 2016. But few mourn the loss of nuisance publicities, with Hong Kong tech site Unwire.hk recently promoting the blocking apps even though the magazine itself relies on advertising revenue. "As an employee of Unwire, writing this tutorial does not do good to the boss's livelihood, but I also understand some people do not have unlimited data plans and it's a pain to be receiving data-consuming ad banners," said reviewer Tim Yan. - 'Squawk with concerns' - There is particular concern that Apple's promotion of ad-blocking may bring it into the mainstream, where once it was reserved for more tech-savvy users. "It's dangerous because it democratises ad-blocking and we know how good Apple is at making these things simple for users," said Berrada. Apple has little to lose, given that it does not rely on advertising revenue in the same way as digital competitors like Google and Facebook. As a result, Google has been more reluctant to embrace ad-blocking apps, although some third-party developers are offering them for Google's Android mobiles, with one app boasting more than half a million downloads. "Google doesn't make it easy because it makes most of its money from advertising," Silicon Valley analyst Rob Enderle told AFP. "If advertisers get the sense everyone is blocking ads, they are going to stop funding content," he said. "There is a big concern. A lot of publishers can't take another re-adjustment in ad revenue. The folks who make the primary money on advertising are starting to squawk with concerns." Digital media advertising had been forecast to grow 15.7 percent in 2015, according to analysis agency Carat, but that could soon look like a peak. - Like private TV - "We were in an extremely favourable situation because mobile opened up a huge range of functions that were not available on the web," said Sophie Poncin, head of an Internet advertisers' union in France, highlighting the particular value of GPS positioning for advertisers. In an industry in which creative destruction is the norm, the ad-men are already reacting to the new environment and calling for change. Berrada's firm recently published a manifesto urging less-annoying ads: an end to pop-up videos that fill the whole screen and give users the option to skip ones they don't like. They are also appealing to users to recognise the importance of advertising in keeping the Internet free. "With television, people understand perfectly well that advertising finances private channels," said Poncin. "We never took the time to explain to a user how everything works."
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A convoy of UK military vehicles has been attacked while on patrol in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the UK's Ministry of Defence has said. The attack, which took place in a residential area near a market on Sunday morning, injured seven people. There were no British casualties, the MoD said, adding the convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device. The Taliban claimed the attack in retaliation for air strikes in Kunduz which killed civilians and doctors. However, the group did not mention Medecins Sans Frontieres whose hospital was hit by US airstrikes eight days ago. There have been conflicting reports about the cause of the explosion. The MoD said it was an IED, while officials in Kabul said it was a suicide bombing. A statement from the MoD said: "We can confirm that at approximately 9:10 this morning a convoy of UK military vehicles on a routine road move as part of the NATO Resolute Support Mission in Kabul was struck by an Improvised Explosive Device. There were no UK casualties." It is the latest in a series of attacks recently carried out by the Taliban. The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil, in Kabul, says that a military vehicle was immobilised in the Sunday morning rush-hour attack. A witness to the attack said: "We were passing by and suddenly there was an explosion. As you can see, it threw one of their vehicles - one of the Americans' vehicles - far away, and their other vehicle was thrown onto this side." The US-led Resolute Support military coalition in Kabul confirmed that one of its convoys had been attacked. "No casualties are reported at this time," spokesman Col Brian Tribus told the AP news agency. The bombing follows the Taliban's assault on the city of Kunduz in September. Its fall was a major embarrassment to the government, which now says it has regained control. Fighting is also reported to have intensified in the provinces of Badakhshan, Takhar and Baghlan as the Taliban pursue a bolder strategy to strengthen its hold across the north of the country. Earlier in August, a Taliban suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the entrance to the international airport in Kabul, killing five people. Before that, there were three deadly attacks in the city - on a police academy, a Nato base and an Afghan army base that killed at least 50 people.
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