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FIFA suspends Spain soccer chief Luis Rubiales amid row over kiss with Women’s World Cup winner

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:57:36 GMT

(CNN) — FIFA has provisionally suspended Luis Rubiales, the president of the Spanish soccer federation, from “all football-related activities” over his kiss with Women’s World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso.Rubiales has been refusing to stand down over the incident, in which he kissed Hermoso on the lips last Sunday after Spain won the tournament for the first time, despite fierce criticism from Hermoso, her teammates and the Spanish government.Hermoso said the kiss was unwanted and she and the entire World Cup-winning squad have refused to play while Rubiales remains president.Rubiales said the kiss was consensual and the federation has been sticking by him, threatening legal action against Hermoso and others.World soccer’s governing body FIFA said Rubiales was initially suspended for 90 days and banned Rubiales and the Spanish football federation from contacting Hermoso, who described refusing requests to issue a statement to “alleviate the pressure” on Rubiales.FIFA said further i...

Shooting during Chicago White Sox game leaves 2 women wounded

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:57:36 GMT

Two women were wounded during a shooting at a White Sox baseball game in Chicago Friday night.The violence unfolded just before 9 p.m. at Guaranteed Rate Field on Friday during a game between the White Sox and the Oakland Athletics, according to authorities.A 42-year-old woman sustained a gunshot wound to the leg, and a 26-year-old woman suffered a graze wound to her abdomen. The older of the two was hospitalized at University of Chicago Medical Center in fair condition while the latter refused medical attention, according to the police statement.Both women were seated midway up Section 161 in left-center field, police said, according to NBC Chicago.“Upon receiving notification of this incident, CPD responded immediately and deployed additional resources while coordinating with White Sox security to maintain the safety of those who were in attendance or working at the game,” the police said in its statement. “At no time was it believed there was an active threat.&#...

Isiah Kiner-Falefa talks impending free agency, taking back seat to Yankees’ youth

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:57:36 GMT

TAMPA — When the Yankees called up Everson Pereira and Oswald Peraza earlier this week, Aaron Boone spoke with some veterans whose playing time would be impacted by the promotions.Isiah Kiner-Falefa was one of those veterans.With Pereira and Peraza expected to mostly play left field and third base, respectively, the versatile Kiner-Falefa figured to lose as much playing time as any roster incumbent. The Yanks are in last place, so their focus is on the future.“It’s just part of it,” Kiner-Falefa told the Daily News. “When you’re not winning, you got to give the other guys opportunities, and it just so happens to be me. So it is what it is.”Kiner-Falefa played for the first time since the promotions on Friday. He went 1-for-5 with a double while roaming centerfield in the Yankees’ series-opening win over Tampa Bay.“Kiner’s done a really nice job, and with some guys coming up, it’s cut into his playing time,” Boon...

Yankees’ Gerrit Cole doesn’t want to be ‘distracted’ by chasing 1st career Cy Young

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:57:36 GMT

TAMPA — Shortly after Gerrit Cole exited his Friday start against the Rays, Aaron Boone showered him with praise.“I said to him afterwards, ‘That’s about as good as I’ve seen you right there,’” Boone said after Cole struck out 11 and walked none while holding Tampa Bay to two earned runs in a 6-2 win. “That’s what it looked like to me against, obviously, a really good offense that’s familiar with him.”The performance — a bounce-back after a clunker against Boston on Aug. 19 — saw Cole lower his ERA to 2.95. He is also 11-4 with 181 strikeouts over 168 innings this season.“He’s doing something special out there this year,” DJ LeMahieu said.While the last-place Yankees are all but officially out of the playoff race, their ace’s Cy Young candidacy has given fans a reason to pay attention over the last month or so of the season. Cole, however, doesn’t want to look too far ahead.&#...

7 people shot at Boston’s Caribbean Carnival; Council prez calls for 2nd parade to be canceled

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:57:36 GMT

Seven people have been shot, all with non-life threatening injuries, at today’s Caribbean Carnival as City Council President Ed Flynn urges the day’s second parade to be called off.Police are on the scene in force in Dorchester and the wounded have been taken to the hospital. Firearms have been recovered, police added.The call came in at 7:44 a.m. for an active shooting on Blue Hill Avenue and Talbot Avenue, according to police.“We’re praying for the recovery of the victims, and grateful to the police and first responders who were on the scene,” At-large City Councilor Erin Murphy told the Herald. “This is an event for children, on a Saturday morning, and it’s appalling that bad actors would visit violence and evil on it.”Flynn said this morning police have been “confiscating guns” in the neighborhoods but a more “comprehensive plan” is needed to address gun violence.He’s also calling for the city to cance...

Man, 35, facing murder charge in death of Richmond Hill woman

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:57:36 GMT

A 35-year-old Toronto man is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of a woman in Richmond Hill.York Region police say just after 6:30 p.m. on August 25 they were called to check on the welfare of the residents at a home on Taylor Mills Drive South. When they arrived they found a man needing medical attention and a woman, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The man was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police have charged a 35-year-old with second-degree murder. Police did not release the suspect’s name or relationship to the dead woman.

Bare electrical wire and leaning poles on Maui were possible cause of deadly fires

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:57:36 GMT

In the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the dry grass below, there was a reason the flames erupted all at once in long, neat rows — those wires were bare, uninsulated metal that could spark on contact.Videos and images analyzed by The Associated Press confirmed those wires were among miles of line that Hawaiian Electric Company. left naked to the weather and often-thick foliage, despite a recent push by utilities in other wildfire- and hurricane-prone areas to cover up their lines or bury them.Compounding the problem is that many of the utility’s 60,000, mostly wooden power poles, which its own documents described as built to “an obsolete 1960s standard,” were leaning and near the end of their projected lifespan. They were nowhere close to meeting a 2002 national standard that key components of Hawaii’s electrical grid be able to withstand 105 mile per hour winds. A 2019 filing said it had fallen behind in...

Coroner: Toddler died in hot car parked outside South Carolina high school

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:57:36 GMT

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A toddler died inside a hot car on Friday after her mother forgot that she left the girl in the vehicle parked outside a South Carolina high school, according to a county coroner.Berkeley County Coroner Darnell Hartwell told The Post and Courier that he believes the 16-month-old girl died due to heat, although an autopsy will be performed. The temperature inside the car likely exceeded 100 degrees F (about 38 degrees C), the coroner said.The child’s mother works at Bishop England High School, in Charleston, and had parked her sport utility vehicle in front of the private school on Friday morning. A passerby found the child in a car seat roughly six hours later and called 911, according to the coroner.Hartwell said the child could have survived only minutes inside the car.“I definitely feel confident that it was triple digits within that car at peak time of today,” he said.Bishop England canceled its Friday night football game and classes on Monday.“We a...

Volunteer hunters join a new search for the mythical Loch Ness Monster

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:57:36 GMT

Mystery hunters converged on a Scottish lake on Saturday to look for signs of the mythical Loch Ness Monster.The Loch Ness Center said researchers would try to seek evidence of Nessie using thermal-imaging drones, infrared cameras and a hydrophone to detect underwater sounds in the lake’s murky waters. The two-day event is being billed as the biggest survey of the lake for 50 years, and includes people from around the world watching the waters remotely on webcams.Alan McKenna of the Loch Ness Center said the aim was “to inspire a new generation of Loch Ness enthusiasts.”McKenna told BBC radio the searchers were “looking for breaks in the surface and asking volunteers to record all manner of natural behavior on the loch.”“Not every ripple or wave is a beastie. Some of those can be explained, but there are handful that cannot,” he said.The Loch Ness Center is located at the former Drumnadrochit Hotel, where the modern-day Nessie legend began. In 1933, manager Aldie Mackay reported spo...

Gas prices set to soar across the GTA at midnight

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:57:36 GMT

Gas prices are set to soar overnight, climbing to one of the highest levels of the year across the GTA on Sunday. The price at the pump is set to rise four cents to 171.9 cents/litre, just two cents shy of the highest prices seen this month. It’s the third time in August prices have risen three cents or more and the fifth time prices have eclipsed the $1.70 mark. The average price of a litre of gasoline across Canada on Saturday was 164.8 cents, according to CAA. The month of August has seen some of the highest prices at the pumps this year and some experts have warned the situation is likely to get worse this fall.“$1.90 or $1.85 is very possible, and more importantly, we’re going to stay there,” Dan McTeague, President of Canadians for Affordable Energy, told CityNews earlier this month. Last June, gas prices peaked at $2.15 a litre as COVID-19 restrictions started to lift.Supply issues, the weak Canadian dollar and OPEC cutbacks on production have all been mentioned as cont...