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Champions League final: Man City could begin new era of European dominance

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:37 GMT

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — If, as many expect, Manchester City wins the Champions League title on Saturday, it will be mission complete for the Abu Dhabi-backed club. European soccer finally conquered. The last barrier to the game’s traditional elite broken.To City, the Champions League trophy represents more than just the silverware on offer if it can beat Inter Milan in Istanbul’s Ataturk Olimpiyat Stadium. It would be a statement to the long-standing powerhouses of soccer that the team once dismissed by former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as “noisy neighbors,” has truly arrived. “So many clubs have destroyed projects and ideas because they weren’t able to win this competition, and so many have become big clubs because they were able to win it,” Pep Guardiola said this week. For all the success City has achieved over a dizzying 15-year period when it suddenly became one of the richest soccer teams in the world, the pinnacle of the European game has remained jus...

ANÁLISIS | El dos veces procesado Trump se enfrenta ahora a su segunda acusación penal mientras busca recuperar la Casa Blanca

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:37 GMT

(CNN) — Donald Trump, que a menudo miente, sin duda dijo la verdad cuando afirmó que este jueves era un “día oscuro” para Estados Unidos.La publicación en redes sociales del expresidente describió correctamente la magnitud de su acusación por el presunto mal manejo de documentos clasificados, aunque ignoró por completo cualquier culpabilidad personal en el caso.Pero la primera imputación de un expresidente por un jurado investigador federal empujó al país a un momento sin precedentes y peligroso de su historia, en un contexto en el que la política ya ha provocado un distanciamiento interno.Lo que hay que saber sobre la acusación a Trump en el caso de los documentos clasificadosLas investigaciones penales de expresidentes y actuales candidatos presidenciales pueden ser habituales en los tambaleantes países en desarrollo. Pero en Estados Unidos no existe ningún paralelismo con un ex comandante en jefe que se enfrente a cargos federales, y mucho menos con alguien que ...

Arlington Public Schools updates student grading policy with retakes, late assignment options

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:37 GMT

Superintendent Francisco Durán said he has signed off on changes to the middle and high school grading policy at Arlington Public Schools that will allow students to retake or redo assignments and reduce the weight of quizzes or homework on a student’s overall grade.Under the new policy, which is scheduled to go into effect July 1, according to school board documents, students will have the opportunity to retake or revise class assignments like tests, projects or essays.School system teachers will be responsible for determining how the assignment is changed, how long students have and how a retake is implemented. Only the higher score, the policy says, will be used to calculate the student’s grade.The changes come as part of the school system’s new approach to grading that emphasizes equity. It has worked to pilot and implement equitable grading processes across the division in recent months. As part of the policy revision process, Durán said, he formed a working g...

Denver weather: Warmer Friday with afternoon thunderstorms

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:37 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver weather will stay in the pattern of dry mornings followed by afternoon thunderstorms Friday. The chance for showers and thunderstorms will increase through the weekend.Weather Friday: Warmer, afternoon thunderstorms Thanks to a sunny start to the day, high temperatures will climb to around 80 degrees, which is right in line with normal for this time of year.Pinpoint Weather: Morning sunshine June 9 brings warm temperatures to the state.However, mid-day clouds will start to build in ahead of Friday afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Pinpoint Weather: Marginal chance for severe thunderstorms June 9.There is a marginal chance for thunderstorms to become strong to severe east of Denver and in the southeast corner of Colorado into Kansas. Weather tonight: Showers ending, mild temperaturesShowers and thunderstorms will stick around through Friday evening and then wrap up overnight. Denver will be left with a partly cloudy sky and low temperatu...

Mask and air filter sales spike on Amazon as Northeast still lives with smoke

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:37 GMT

New York (CNN) — Some of the worst air quality levels on record on the East Coast are impacting consumer shopping patterns and driving air purifier stocks higher.People are rushing to buy air filters, humidifiers and high-quality masks on Amazon amid Canadian wildfires that have smothered large swaths of the United States in a thick plume of toxic smoke, leading to orange skies, a burnt taste in the air and advisories to stay inside.Fine particles from the smoke can make their way indoors. Air purifiers can be helpful with filtering out the pollution.As of Thursday morning, air filters were the top gainers in sales for tools and home improvement products on Amazon over the past 24 hours. A Levoit humidifier was the third biggest sales gainer. N95 and KN95 masks also spiked in Amazon sales rankings.Searches on Google for air purifiers have increased 16 fold since Monday, according to Google trends. It’s still unclear when the smoke will dissipate over the United States overall, as pr...

FDA advisers endorse antibody to protect against RSV in infants and some young toddlers

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:37 GMT

(CNN) — Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted Thursday to endorse a monoclonal antibody designed to protect infants and some young toddlers from RSV.Members of the agency’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee voted 21-0 that the benefit-risk profile of nirsevimab was favorable in infants and 19-2 that it was favorable in children up to 24 months who are vulnerable to severe respiratory syncytial virus.Next, the FDA will consider the advice of the advisers and decide whether to approve the treatment.The monoclonal antibody, nirsevimab, was developed by AstraZeneca and Sanofi. It’s designed to be given to infants in a single shot at birth or just before the start of a baby’s first RSV season, or as a larger dose in a second RSV season in children who are highly vulnerable.If approved, it will be the first single-dose preventative treatment for all infants against RSV. Unlike with a vaccine, with which the body builds up its immunity in reaction over time, a monoclon...

The Huawei phone call that ‘appalled’ Thierry Breton

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:37 GMT

BRUSSELS — It was the kind of screwup that went straight to the C-suite of Chinese technology giant Huawei. The firm, under heavy fire across the European Union over security concerns that it was subject to Chinese state control, was fighting tooth and nail in 2020 to avoid all-out bans on its 5G telecommunications equipment when it secured a coveted meeting with powerful Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton. On December 3, 2020, its Rotating Chairman Ken Hu met with the Frenchman on a video call to plead the firm’s case. But shortly after the meeting, what felt like a PR victory turned into a calamity. A senior lobbyist for Huawei who arranged the meeting called Commissioner Breton on his personal mobile number in a state of euphoria that same day, three people with direct knowledge of the incident told POLITICO. The lobbyist, who works in Huawei’s EU public affairs office, was “screaming down the phone and celebrating” that the tête-à-tête had taken place, one o...

Paris needs to learn to live with rats, mayor concedes

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:37 GMT

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has a message for the rats overrunning the City of Light: Why can’t we be friends?After years spent battling vermin, this week Hidalgo’s administration announced it intends to take a different approach and attempt to achieve a more peaceful state of coexistence with the rodents.“With guidance from the mayor, we have decided to form a committee on the question of cohabitation,” announced Anne Souyris, the city’s deputy mayor for public health, during Thursday’s meeting of the Council of Paris. She added that the group would be tasked with finding the method of dealing with the rats that proved to be both “effective” and “not unbearable” for Parisians.The announcement implies a departure from the city’s 2017 anti-rat plan, a €1.7 million strategy that involved the installation of airtight trash bins throughout the city and extensive use of rat poison in thousands of aggressive extermination oper...

Mission on the Bay in Swampscott to reopen after closure due to sea wall collapse

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:37 GMT

Mission on the Bay in Swampscott is reopening Friday after a sea wall collapse prompted officials to close the restaurantPatrons were dining inside the restaurant when the collapse occurred earlier this year. The grand reopening will include a party to celebrate the return to business.

‘We’ve got to be more accountable to our at-bats.’ Finding the right offensive balance is proving to be elusive for Chicago Cubs.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:18:37 GMT

Plate patience and an approach that yields walks can be an indicator of a healthy offense.For the Chicago Cubs, it’s been a frustrating trend of putting runners on base at a high rate who are then consistently stranded. Finding a balance between working counts and seeking out moments to go into a more aggressive swing mode is a work in progress for an offense that has too often been a weakness.Two days after president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer expressed the need for the team to not only win series but produce some series sweeps, the Los Angeles Angels completed the sweep with the Cubs’ 3-1 loss Thursday.The Cubs (26-36) begin the final leg of the 10-game West Coast trip in San Francisco Friday night with the sixth-worst winning percentage in Major League Baseball. Only four teams have more losses than the Cubs: St. Louis Cardinals (37), Colorado Rockies (38), Kansas City Royals (44) and Oakland A’s (50).“As a whole, we’ve got to be more accountab...