“Cherry-picking!” “Fearmongering!” “Gaslighting!” To which we (a former NYPD crime analyst and an historical criminologist) can add only, “Oh my!” Using crime as political football may be a time-honored tradition, but the game’s intensity has quickened lately amid reform efforts and changing crime patterns. Compared to before the pandemic, we’re still very much in a rise in crime — just not your grandfather’s from the 1970s: it’s more rural, more geographically and demographically concentrated, and involves more of those suffering from mental illness....

The catalyst: the arrest of three senior Bosnian Muslim Army officers for war crimes, committed mainly against Croats in 1993. All three had been applauded by their countrymen as heroes in the defense of Bosnia during the war against the Serbs. Yet within days of their secret indictment two weeks ago, they were seized and, on Friday, shipped off to the Netherlands, where they joined Slobodan Milosevic and 42 others awaiting trial....

The fight will take place inside Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Brazil. Cyborg, a two-time World Jiu-Jitsu Championship gold medalist, made her pro-MMA debut in 2005. Cyborg has won featherweight gold with Strikeforce, Invicta FC, the UFC, and Bellator. She is currently on a six-fight win streak, having won the Bellator featherweight title in 2020 against Julia Budd. Cyborg has defended the Bellator title four times. Her last bout was a unanimous decision win in April over Arlene Blencowe....

The Portuguese superstar was at his talismanic best for the Blancos as they secured a commanding 3-0 lead over cross-city rivals Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final tie. Ronaldo’s seventh treble in Europe’s premier club competition carried them to victory, with the current holder of the Ballon d’Or breaking the 50-goal mark in the knockout stages. Ronaldo matches Messi’s CL record Ferdinand worked alongside the 32-year-old during his time at Manchester United and believes that he continues to raise the bar when it comes to mind-boggling consistency....

Ronaldo became Real Madrid’s all-time leading goal scorer after finding the net five times in a 6-0 rout of Espanyol in La Liga on Saturday. MORE: Ronaldo’s rise, in images | Your team could get Ronaldo … for a price After notching a first-half hat-trick, the Portuguese star turned home Gareth Bale’s cross in the 61st minute to score his fourth and take his tally to 229 goals, moving him past previous record-holder Raul on the club’s scoring charts....

Having failed to find the net in either of Portugal’s opening matches in France, and with qualification for the round of 16 yet to be secured, Ronaldo appears to be feeling the weight of expectation. And it appeared to all boil over for Ronaldo on Wednesday. MORE: Team USA in Copa America | Things learned in USMNT-Argentina match When approached by a reporter from Portuguese station CMTV while out for a walk with his Portugal teammates, the captain took the microphone and hurled it into a nearby lake....

The spot kick was awarded after Julian Alvarez poked the ball beyond Dominik Livakovic and the two collided in the Croatia box. Lionel Messi subsequently converted from 12 yards to give Argentina the lead. “The first goal was very suspicious, to be honest,” Dalic said post-match. “First, we had the situation with the corner. Apparently [we should have had] a corner, according to the reaction of our players. Then we had the situation with the penalty…it was a little bit too cheap and easy....

This setup suggests that “Fresh” is a slice of violent urban realism. Not quite. As Fresh witnesses the destruction of those he loves, he decides to fight back, using his analytical chess-whiz mind. Pitting bad guy against bad guy in a disinformation campaign as elaborate as Dashiell Hammett’s “Red Harvest,” Fresh becomes a pint-size combo of Superfly, Bobby Fischer and Dirty Harry. Suddenly we’re in an action-movie fantasy, and it’s not easy to swallow....

Lifestyle blog EV Grieve shared a video of the group that gathered along St. Mark’s Place, an area popular for its nightlife offerings, to Twitter at around 8 p.m. ET Friday evening. The video showed a fairly dense crowd of people sitting and standing in close quarters while listening to performers play live music outside a nearby venue. Other New York City residents expressed frustration about crowds in individual tweets....

But that was the 1970s and this is now, right? Not according to David Goodstein. Saudi princes and SUV drivers may do well to read his new book, “Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil” (W.W. Norton), in which Goodstein argues that our oil-dependent civilization is in for a crude awakening when the world’s oil supply really begins to run out-possibly within a few decades. “As we learned in 1973, the effects of an oil shortage can be immediate and drastic, while it may take years, perhaps decades, to replace the vast infrastructure that supports the manufacture, distribution, and consumption of the products of the 20 million barrels of oil we Americans alone gobble up each day,” he writes....

The language may be new, but that tossed elbow and ersatz menace can mean only one thing: Roller Derby is back. Immortalized in song by Jim Croce, and by Raquel Welch in the film ““Kansas City Bomber,’’ Roller Derby all but disappeared during the early 1970s. But with the recent success of pro wrestling, the stage was set. This Friday, Jan. 15, TNN introduces ““RollerJam,’’ the first nationally televised weekly dose of rolling thunder in 25 years....

Key Highlights BTC is consolidating after a massive jump of more than $10,000 in the past two weeks. It has gone from around $37,800 on March 13 to over $47,900 on March 29. The bullish run could maintain momentum if it breaks $48,250. Technical Analysis Intraday trend - Bullish On the daily chart, the pair is trading above Tenken-Sen ($44,375), Kijun-sen ($42,701), and Ichimoku Kumo cloud ($39,957). It hit an intraday high of $47,603 and is currently trading around $47,451....

Baseball is returning to the Olympics after 13 years, and the Cuban team has been practicing for months ahead of the qualifying tournament. However, U.S. sanctions on Cuba currently in place made it impossible for the team to apply for visas in Havana. “We do not have the pre-Olympic visas at the moment. Huge efforts have been made. We tried in Mexico, we tried in Panama, we tried to do it in Guyana,” the treasurer of the Cuban Baseball Federation, Luis Daniel Del Risco, said to the Associated Press....

Fans got a kick out of the 30-second show, giving him a hearty applause. NBC Sports Chicago’s broadcast had fun with the moment, too. “It feels really wonderful,” Yogi said in a TV interview afterward. “I feel so famous already. Ooh-wee.” MORE: Keep an eye on Twins starter Jose Berrios As he was being interviewed, the crowd chanted his name. Yogi said he’d been doing various had tricks since 2005, when he participated in a circus show....

It’s not much of a possibility, but it’s greater than zero, and not too many observers were expecting that. MORE: Full stats from Yankees-Cubs marathon The assumption was the world champs would club their division rivals the same way the Nationals are working over their foes in the East. Instead, the North Siders are 16-15 and a game behind the first-place Reds(!) following a 5-4, 18-inning loss to the Yankees on Sunday night/Monday morning at frigid Wrigley Field....

In eight innings that night, deGrom struck out 10 Cubs batters and walked just one while giving up one run. The Mets wound up losing 2-1. MORE: Watch ‘ChangeUp,’ a new MLB live whiparound show on DAZN Modern baseball is covered extensively and intensely, and the players are almost perpetually under a cacophony of feedback. TV, radio, newspapers, websites, blogs, their social media feeds — there is almost no escape from someone opining on their play....

“We need more touch in our lives. Period,” Mihalko says. Since 2004, his answer to this problem has come in the form of Cuddle Party, a company devoted to throwing self-described “affectionate play events for adults.” This February, the University of Southern California invited them to join its Gender and Sexuality week. In Cuddle Party’s campus debut, 20 students in pajamas transformed a regular dorm common room into the site of nuzzling, spooning, backrubs and the signature Cuddle Party puppy pile finale....

Curative or Aggressive Care Curative care may take many different forms, but all have the same goals. Aggressive care is a form of curative care and represents a proactive approach to medical treatment. This care aggressively aims to eliminate medical issues, rather than simply minimizing their impact. A patient that is receiving aggressive care will typically receive medication, have access to technology, undergo surgery, and take any other measures that could be considered effective approaches to treat an illness....

This particular day of Golden State’s training camp closed with a free-throw shooting contest between Kerr and Curry. While they both shot lights out from the stripe, Curry finished with a slight edge and added a dunk as the exclamation mark.