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Zion Williamson, Brandon Ingram each score 26 points, Pelicans top Lakers 129-109

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:19:01 GMT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Zion Williamson and Brandon Ingram each scored 26 points and the New Orleans Pelicans beat the road-weary Los Angeles Lakers 129-109 on Sunday night.Los Angeles was coming off a 108-106 loss at Minnesota on Saturday night, while New Orleans was off two days after beating Utah at home Thursday night.LeBron James scored 34 points and former Pelican Anthony Davis added 20 points and 10 rebounds, but they didn’t get enough help as the Lakers lost for the seventh time in nine games. CJ McCollum added 22 points for the Pelicans, who led by 19 points and responded to each comeback bid with the help of 50% 3-point shooting (17 of 34) as a team and crafty 6-foot guard Jose “Grand Theft” Alvarado’s four steals and and two blocks.The meeting was the first since the Lakers dismantled New Orleans 133-89 in the In-Season Tournament semifinal in Las Vegas on Dec. 7. And the Pelicans had the look of a team seeking redemption in front of a packed and festive New Year’s...

Celtics extend winning streak to 6 games with a 134-101 rout of the Spurs

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:19:01 GMT

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Jayson Tatum scored 25 points, Jaylen Brown added 24 and the Boston Celtics extended their winning streak to six games with a 134-101 win over the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night.Derrick White scored 17 points against his former team, and Kristaps Porzingis added 14 points and nine rebounds in his return after missing one game due to a calf injury.Devin Vassell scored 22 points and Victor Wembanyama had 21 points and seven rebounds for San Antonio. The Spurs have lost seven of eight.Boston closed out the month of December with a 12-2 record.The matchup between the top team in the Eastern Conference and the last-place team in the West played out as expected.Boston led by as many as 37 points and sat its starters for most of the fourth quarter. San Antonio never led and trailed by 35 points or more in a game for the sixth time this season.Wembanyama and Vassell scored San Antonio’s first 17 points. The pair combined to shoot 5 for 20 from the field in the opening ...

Alex Nedeljkovic and Lars Eller carry the Penguins to a 3-1 win over the Islanders

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:19:01 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Alex Nedeljkovic made 36 saves, Lars Eller scored twice and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New York Islanders 3-1 on Sunday night.Nedeljkovic was spectacular at times to help the Penguins win for the fifth time in six games following a blowout loss to Toronto on Dec. 16. Eller scored early in the first period and added an empty-netter in the final minute as Pittsburgh beat the Islanders for the second time in five days. Noel Acciari added his third of the season for Pittsburgh.Samuel Bolduc drew the Islanders within one with 6:09 left with the third goal of his career, but New York could get no closer. Ilya Sorokin made 35 saves.Pittsburgh has at least a point in each of its last six games and is 7-1-1 over its last nine to climb into wild-card contention as the season’s midway point nears following an iffy start.SENATORS 5, SABRES 1OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Anton Forsberg made 45 saves and Ottawa beat Buffalo in Senators interim coach Jacques Martin’s 1,300th NHL g...

Bengals eliminated from playoff contention with loss to Chiefs

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:19:01 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — One year after Kansas City ended Cincinnati’s season in a dramatic AFC championship game at Arrowhead Stadium, the Chiefs ended the Bengals’ postseason hopes entirely in the exact same place on a cold New Year’s Eve.Applying relentless pressure on Jake Browning, including four sacks on the final possession as he was trying to rally the Bengals for the tying score, the Chiefs held one of their biggest conference nemeses without a point over their final seven possessions in a 25-17 victory Sunday that clinched their eighth consecutive AFC West title.The Chiefs will be the No. 3 seed in the playoffs. The Bengals will be sitting it out after next week’s regular-season finale against the playoff-bound Cleveland Browns.“That was not our goal,” Bengals coach Zac Taylor said, “to be out of contention.”Indeed, it was a bitter finish to a roller-coaster year for Cincinnati that included the loss of franchise quarterback Joe Burrow to a season-en...

Amtrak announces repair plans for rails, bridges across Va., DC-Boston corridor

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:19:01 GMT

Amtrak got billions from President Joe Biden’s infrastructure law to improve and expand passenger rail services across the country. In 2024, Amtrak said, much of that money will be used to repair rail lines and aging bridges on the crowded Northeast Corridor between D.C. and Boston.“Amtrak ridership is soaring and we’re advancing plans to further enhance and expand our services across the United States with our various partners, thanks to these grants,” Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner said in a statement.The Frederick Douglass Tunnel in Baltimore, Maryland, is slated to get more than $4.5 billion for repairs, with another $2 billion going to replace the Susquehanna River Bridge in Maryland.Baltimore tunnel, when updated, will allow trains to travel up to 110 miles per hour and cut travel time between D.C. and New York by 30 minutes, making the tracks safer and allowing for more Amtrak and MARC train service on the lines.“The MTA is working with Amtrak in close par...

Swinney: Clemson RB Shipley has no structural damage in left leg, no surgery necessary

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:19:01 GMT

CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Clemson running back Will Shipley has no structural damage and won’t need surgery after a scary injury late in the team’s Gator Bowl win over Kentucky on Friday. Tigers coach Dabo Swinney confirmed details of Shipley’s MRI through a spokesman Sunday. Shipley looked to be seriously hurt after a 60-yard, fourth-quarter kickoff return in which he stumbled and somersaulted before hitting the ground. He came up holding his left leg and was carted off the field with a towel over his head. But, a short time after, Shipley returned to the field with crutches to celebrate the Tigers’ 38-35 victory with his teammates. Swinney said during his postgame session that the injury did not appear serious, but he would need an MRI to be sure. Shipley, the 5-foot-11, 210-pound junior tailback from Weddington, North Carolina, has not yet announced whether he will enter the NFL draft or return to Clemson for his senior year. Shipley finished with 827 yards rus...

México y Venezuela retoman vuelos de repatriación ante presión para frenar flujos migratorios a EEUU

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:19:01 GMT

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO – México y Venezuela anunciaron el sábado la reanudación de vuelos de repatriación de migrantes venezolanos que se encuentran en México. Se trata de la medida más reciente que adoptan los países de la región para hacer frente a una avalancha de personas que viajan hacia Estados Unidos.Como parte del proceso, las autoridades venezolanas recibieron la madrugada del sábado en Caracas a un grupo de 207 connacionales provenientes de México, anunció el gobierno de Nicolás Maduro.También se produce cuando una caravana integrada por miles de personas de toda la región en su mayoría venezolanos ha atravesado el sur de México esta semana. Asciende a 8 el número de muertos por un tiroteo en una fiesta de quinceañeros en México EEUU y México se reunirán en enero en Washington para hacer frente al creciente flujo de migrantes Los vuelos de repatriación forman parte de un acuerdo alcanzado entre los gobiernos regionales d...

Revelers ring in 2024 with fireworks, live performances in Miami, Fort Lauderdale

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:19:01 GMT

People of all ages, visitors and locals alike, flocked to downtown Miami and downtown Fort Lauderdale to give a festive welcome to 2024.The Magic City brought the heat on New Year’s Eve. Bayfront Park is hosting a big bash.“Only us could bring this Latin flavor of so many people together,” said a woman wearing a party hat that said “Happy New Year.”Hours before the stroke of midnight, more than 20 artists took the stage.“It’s my first time in this big event in Miami, and we are very honored to be here,” said one of the performers.“Beautiful,” said a woman.“We decided to come here just to feel the emotion,” said a man.The celebration kicked off at 6 p.m. on Sunday.“It’s our first New Year’s here, so we decided to do it here in Bayside,” said a man.Another reveler couldn’t resist the opportunity to greet 7News reporter Elitsa Bizios while the camera was rolling.“I’m here w...

What is home in the age of exile?

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:19:01 GMT

Tatyana Margolin is co-founder of STROIKA, with a mission to reverse the tide of rising authoritarianism by building, resourcing and connecting resistance movements around the globe.One can reliably gauge the latest geopolitical upheaval by who is sleeping on the red pullout couch in my New York apartment.In the summer of 2021, I was hosting an independent Russian journalist facing criminal persecution in his home country. In the spring of 2022, it was a Ukrainian mom seeking refuge from war. And earlier this year in October, it was my Israeli friend with her family, who left after the horrific attacks and ensuing war.Now is the time of year when we often hear the phrase “home for the holidays.” But what exactly is “home” for those like my house guests, who have left and can never go back? What does it mean when your home exists but is unrecognizable?I left my native Belarus in 1994 and have never returned since. My own story mirrors the millions living in a perpetual state of exile...

Democracy is in peril in the world’s bonanza year of elections

Published Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:19:01 GMT

Is 2024 the year when democracy hits a tipping point and slides toward autocracy?It may seem like an odd question to ask at a time when countries representing nearly half the world’s population, or an estimated 3.8 billion people, are sending their voters to the polls in some form of election.Indeed, from the United States to the U.K. and European Union, from India to Mexico, and from Taiwan to Indonesia, some of the world’s most strategically important countries will hold elections this year.Yet even amid this bonanza of balloting and voting, experts warn that dēmokratía — the form of government pioneered by aristocrats in 6th-century B.C. Athens — is entering a danger zone. Not only are dictators such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expected to try to exploit the trappings of democracy to prop up their own rule and stifle opposition, but democracy is also at risk in the West, they argue. U.S. President Donald T...