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Chicago Sky trying to squeeze into playoffs after undergoing major changes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:36:47 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Sky were on their way to their first WNBA championship two years ago and were in the playoffs this time last season after tying for the league’s best record.They’ve undergone major changes since then, with big stars exiting in free agency and their coach and general manager leaving last month.“Now, it’s time,” interim coach and general manager Emre Vatansever said. “It’s time to turn it around. And the team knows that.”The Sky are tied for eighth with the Los Angeles Sparks at 12-18 and are 5-9 since Vatansever took over. They’ve lost three straight after winning three in a row. With 10 games remaining, they have some work to do if they’re going to grab one of eight postseason spots and make the playoffs for the fifth year in a row.“There’s definitely been some ups and downs with the coaching change, injuries early in the season, people coming and going,” forward Morgan Bertsch said. “We definitely hit some adversi...

49ers cornerback Ambry Thomas bounces back from disappointing second season

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:36:47 GMT

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Ambry Thomas’ first regular season in the NFL ended with an interception that sent the San Francisco 49ers to the playoffs. His second season ended with four straight healthy scratches as the once-promising cornerback struggled to find a role in the NFL after prematurely thinking he had arrived.“I just felt like mentally I wasn’t prepared, physically I wasn’t prepared,” Thomas said of his disappointing second season. “I kind of feel like it was given to me because I came off a playoff run my rookie year. But this year, anybody’s job is up for grabs. That’s how I look at it and that’s the mentality I took going into work.”Thomas has done just that so far in training camp and the exhibition opener, going from a player fighting for a roster spot to a potential starter on what is projected as one of the NFL’s top defenses.Thomas has been getting time at outside cornerback with the first-string defense this summer with Emmanuel Moseley moving ...

Montgomery Co. police release videos of deadly police shooting of teenager suspected of multiple stabbings

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:36:47 GMT

Police are investigating the scene of an officer-involved shooting in Silver Spring. (WTOP/Matt Kaufax) Police are investigating the scene of an officer-involved shooting in Silver Spring. (WTOP/Matt Kaufax) More details are emerging from a deadly police shooting of a teenager accused of stabbing four people in Montgomery County, Maryland, last month.The Maryland Attorney General’s Office on Thursday released body and dashboard camera footage from the fatal shooting of Franklin Castro Ordonez, 19, of Gaithersburg, who is accused of the stabbings that happened on July 22.Police said the stabbings began at 10:30 a.m., when a woman was stabbed at the Unique Thrift Store in Aspen Hill. A short time later, two ot...

Se termina el tiempo para reclamar a Facebook parte de los US$ 725 millones de un acuerdo de privacidad de datos

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:36:47 GMT

Nueva York (CNN) — Cualquier persona en Estados Unidos que haya tenido una cuenta de Facebook durante los últimos 16 años tiene aproximadamente una semana para solicitar su pago en el caso de un acuerdo sobre privacidad de datos.En diciembre pasado, la empresa matriz de Facebook, Meta, aceptó pagar US$ 725 millones para resolver una serie de demandas colectivas relacionadas a la privacidad, la cuales entre otras cosas acusaban a Facebook de permitir que terceros accedieran a los datos privados de sus usuarios y a los de sus amigos sin su permiso.¿Eres o fuiste usuario de Facebook? Ahora puedes pedir parte de los US$ 725 millones de un acuerdo por privacidad de datos en escándalo de Cambridge AnalyticaEso incluye aproximadamente los datos privados de 70 millones de usuarios de Facebook radicados en Estados Unidos, a los que tuvo acceso la consultora política Cambridge Analytica, que trabajó para la campaña presidencial de Trump en 2016.Esa información privada puede haber inclui...

La salud de los niños latinos se deteriora en los estados con actitudes y políticas en contra de la inmigración, revela un nuevo estudio

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:36:47 GMT

Nota del editor: Edith Bracho-Sánchez es pediatra de atención primaria, directora de telemedicina pediátrica y profesora adjunta de Pediatría en el Centro Médico Irving de la Universidad de Columbia. Es presentadora del podcast “The Stuff that Matters for Kids’ Health” de Columbia Children’s Health.(CNN) — Los menores latinos que viven en estados con leyes más estrictas hacia los inmigrantes con y prejuicios sistémicos contra ellos son más propensos a sufrir problemas de salud mental o trastornos físicos crónicos, según un nuevo estudio.Para el estudio, publicado este martes en la revista Pediatrics, los investigadores utilizaron datos representativos a nivel nacional de 17.855 niños latinos, de entre 3 y 17 años, de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud Infantil realizada entre 2016 y 2020. Los cuidadores fueron encuestados sobre tres áreas de la salud de los menores: dificultades de salud en el último año; condiciones físicas crónicas diagnosticadas por un pr...

Tiny homes to help unhoused veterans in Colorado

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:36:47 GMT

LONGMONT, Colo. (KDVR) -- A village of tiny homes in Longmont will help veterans who are experiencing homelessness. The community, just off Mountain Brook Drive, is made possible by the organization Veterans Community Project."This was founded in 2016 by a group of combat vets," Jennifer Seybold, the executive director of VCP Longmont, said. "They came together in Kansas City to solve some of the community challenges they were seeing for their fellow brothers and sisters." What makes a tiny home a legal residence in Colorado? Since then, the project has expanded to other cities across the country, including Longmont."The success rate they were seeing with vets moving from the villages into permanent housing was 85%, which is more than double the national average," Seybold said.The village will be made up of 26 tiny homes. Single residency homes will be 240 square feet and family homes that can sleep up to seven people will be 340 square feet. Each home is designed specifically for...

Pembroke Park Commissioner Geoffrey Jacobs created toxic work environment, independent probe finds

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:36:47 GMT

A Pembroke Park commissioner is at the center of controversy after an independent investigation found his behavior created a toxic and hostile work environment.Pembroke Park Commissioner Geoffrey Jacobs is likely to be on the hot seat when the commission meets, Thursday night.“Since I’ve been here, I’ve been attacked nonstop,” he said during a recent commission meeting.Pembroke Park Mayor Ashira Mohammad did not hold back when she addressed the matter.“It’s been told that we are violating his human rights, or his First Amendment rights to free speech,” she said, “which is not, when you’re sitting here yelling at employees, hindering them from doing their jobs.”Speaking with 7News on Thursday, former tow attorney Melissa Anderson detailed Jacobs’ conduct while she was working for Pembroke Park.“He went after me like I have never, in my 35-year career had anybody. I mean, it was shocking,” she said. “I...

Trump lawyers seek April 2026 trial date in federal election subversion case

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:36:47 GMT

WASHINGON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a federal judge in Washington to push back until years after the election a trial in Washington on charges that the former president conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election.The suggested April 2026 date is a dramatic counter to the Justice Department’s recommendation last week that the trial should begin Jan. 2, 2024. The question is ultimately up to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is expected to set at least a tentative trial date during an Aug. 28 court hearing.In a filing, Trump’s lawyers say the years-long delay is necessary both because of the unprecedented nature of the case and the “massive” amount of information — 11.5 million pages — that they have to review. They said they would have to review about 100,000 pages per day in order to meet the Justice Department’s proposed trial date.“If we were to print and stack 11.5 million pages of documents, with no gap between pages, ...

Jahlani Tavai urges fans to support Hawaii after Patriots lend help

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:36:47 GMT

GREEN BAY, Wisc. — Patriots linebacker Jahlani Tavai is using football as a distraction as the wildfires ravaging Hawaii occupy his mind.Tavai played for the University of Hawaii and has friends and family from the islands. He encouraged fans to donate to families affected by fires that destroyed parts of Maui using a link in his Instagram bio during an impassioned media session Thursday after a joint practice with the Packers.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Patriots extra points: Robert Kraft denied Hall of Fame entry again, when will he get in? New England Patriots | Patriots-Packers joint practices Day 1: Ezekiel Elliott debuts, offense hobbled by 13 sacks in Green Bay New England Patriots | How Patriots’ Ezekiel Elliott can earn max value of one-year contract New England Patriots | Patriots left tackle Trent Brown feeling ‘great’ in return to practice field New England Patriots | ...

Want to cage dive with sharks? There’s a new expedition at a great white shark hotspot in the Atlantic

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:36:47 GMT

With more and more great white sharks flocking north to hunt for seals, there are new opportunities to get up close and personal with the toothy apex predators.The latest ecotourism expedition in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean involves cage diving with sharks at a growing great white shark hotspot.Atlantic Shark Expeditions off of Nova Scotia, Canada has openings for its 7-hour trips this fall. People on the expeditions can view sharks from the boat, or get cozy with great whites in the water from the shark cage.“It’s really great to engage the public in science and conservation, and it’s a cool opportunity for them to see these rare and special animals that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to,” Neil Hammerschlag, founder of Atlantic Shark Expeditions, told the Herald.The cage diving can totally change peoples’ perspectives of the apex predators, added Hammerschlag, who used to be the director of the Shark Research and Conservation Program at the Uni...