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MLS unveiled its all-league squad Monday, with Giovinco joined up top by 2016 MVP finalists Bradley Wright-Phillips of the New York Red Bulls and David Villa of New York City FC. The third finalist, Red Bulls playmaker Sacha Kljestan, made the cut in midfield alongside Giovani dos Santos, Mauro Diaz and Ignacio Piatti. FC Dallas’ Matt Hedges, the MLS Defender of the Year, anchors a back line that also features Axel Sjoberg and Jelle Van Damme, with Goalkeeper of the Year Andre Blake between the posts....

Lexington, KY: What are all the rich folks in Davos talking about in terms of their investments? Are they selling all their stocks? Dan Gross: People are generally tight-lipped about their portfolios. I was at a lunch yesterday with George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager. One of my fellow reporters asked him where it would be a good place to put money to work at this time. Soros looked at him with a glare that was about as chilly as the air outside....

In the IGTV video posted on Friday afternoon, Cardi called out people defending the ruling. “A lot of y’all are despicable, and nobody stands for st. I’m seeing a lot of fakeness in the comments when it comes to this Breonna Taylor story. A lot of y’all saying, ‘Oh, but her boyfriend shot first. Oh, there was a witness. Oh, well, she was trafficking drugs.’ All of this bullst,” the rapper said....

Qualifying begins at 1:30 p.m. Sunday to set the front row for the race and set the field for next week’s Budweiser Duel qualifying races. The full field will be set through the two qualifying races, with the final spots being determined by owner points and speed from Sunday’s session. Here’s a look at the entry list for the “Great American Race.” Car Driver Team Name Owner Crew Chief 1 1 Jamie McMurray Cessna/McDonald’s Chevrolet Felix Sabates Matt McCall 2 2 Brad Keselowski Miller Lite Ford Roger Penske Paul Wolfe 3 3 Austin Dillon DOW Chevrolet Richard Childress Gil Martin 4 4 Kevin Harvick Budweiser/Jimmy John’s Chevrolet Tony Stewart Rodney Childers 5 5 Kasey Kahne Farmers Insurance Chevrolet Linda Hendrick Keith Rodden 6 6 Trevor Bayne AdvoCare Ford John Henry Bob Osborne 7 7 Alex Bowman Toy State/Nikko Chevrolet Tommy Baldwin, Jr Kevin Manion 8 9 Sam Hornish Jr....

Don’t be surprised if there are a lot more fireworks to come. Sprint Cup teams return to practice Wednesday, with truck teams and the Xfinity Series hitting the track later this week. The Budweiser Duel qualifying races scheduled for Thursday typically bring their own brand of drama. Here’s a look at what we’ve learned so far at Daytona International Speedway: The Daytona 500 could be a crashfest. If the action so far is any indication, the Daytona 500 could feature several wrecks, including a couple of Big Ones....

DC and RSL took to the field at RFK Stadium on Saturday but the match was stopped in the 28th minute due to storms with the game scoreless. Villa sinks struggling Galaxy When the clash resumed the next day, RSL came out on top thanks to Luis Silva’s 64th-minute strike. After a goalless first half, which saw DC’s Kofi Opare rattle the crossbar with a header, Silva pounced on Marcelo Sarvas’ misplaced clearance to unleash a half-volley past Bill Hamid....

Michy Batshuayi and Kevin de Bruyne finished clinically to ensure the hosts remained within three points of the Netherlands and kept alive their chances of winning the group and being in the Nations League finals in June 2023. Romelu Lukaku, who had a minor thigh issue, was not risked in attack. The initial absence of Gareth Bale, who entered as a substitute, was a sensible decision by Page after the captain joined the squad late following an LAFC game on Monday, and it also gave the Wales manager the chance to test his other potentially key goal threats - initially Brennan Johnson, Kieffer Moore and Dan James - in attack....

Tasmanian tigers, or thylacines, were a type of marsupial that went extinct in mainland Australia around 3,000 years ago. They lived on in Tasmania until European settlers wiped them out in the wild through hunting. The last living Tasmanian tiger died in captivity in 1936. Scientists with the University of Melbourne, Australia, have been working on a project to “de-extinct” the animals for years and new funding for a state-of-the-art laboratory has brought them to the brink of resurrecting this lost species....

Despite a difficult start to his United career following his switch from Atletico Madrid back in 2011, De Gea has flourished at Old Trafford and is considered one of the best goalkeepers in world football. Red Devils 9/4 for PL title He did, however, look all set for a return to Madrid to join Real in 2015, although issues over the completion of paperwork on deadline day scuppered that move and he remained in Manchester....

That was the last thing Antonio did. Hidden inside was a homemade bomb. It detonated when Antonio picked it up with an explosive force that investigators say was equivalent to one stick of dynamite. The blast ripped a 12-by-3-inch hole in the Saturn’s roof, as well as another fist-size gap. Shrapnel sprayed surrounding vehicles, with one piece penetrating Antonio’s brain. After he died at University Medical Center at 6:14 a....

The roller coaster of events in Moscow–first the ominous coup, then the return of Gorbachev and the triumph of Yeltsin–has resolved Gorbachev’s dilemma. The Communist Party has been dissolved. The transformation of the Soviet society will now take place under the aegis of democracy. For the first time a new kind of state is coming into view on Soviet soil: less militaristic, loosely confederated and less expansionist. None of this seemed likely while the old establishment backed by Gorbachev and the reformist elements under Yeltsin were threatening to paralyze each other....

What Death Vigil Volunteers Do Death vigil volunteers provide the support and physical presence that patients and families need. The needs and desires of dying patients and their loved ones differ so volunteers will try to tailor their approach to fit each individual family’s unique wants and needs. The vigil process may include any or all of the following: Being a calm presence Sitting with the dying person and their family Talking Listening Shared silence Healing touch Reading of inspirational text or scripture Requested rituals Inspirational music Lighting candles...

Wallace, president of North Central Texas College, spoke about the deaths of four women, softball players on their way home Friday night in Oklahoma. A dozen other people were injured when a tractor-trailer rig veered across the median of Interstate 35 and crashed into their team bus. On its website, the school identified the victims. They are Brooke Deckard, 20, Blue Ridge, Texas; Jaiden Pelton, 20, Telephone, Texas; Meagan Richardson, 19, Wylie, Texas; and Katelynn Woodlee, 18, Windom, Texas....

The new method is called the Economic Impact Payment Card, according to a press release from the Treasury Department, and is a new way to give Americans the stimulus payments allocated by the CARES Act. “Treasury and the [Internal Revenue Service] have been working with unprecedented speed to issue Economic Impact Payments to American families. Prepaid debit cards are secure, easy to use, and allow us to deliver Americans their money quickly....

A team of researchers have investigated ten crocodile mummies found at the site of Qubbat al-Hawā—located on the western bank of the River Nile—revealing new insights into ancient Egyptian burial practices. The findings of their research have been outlined in a paper published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. The ancient Egyptians mummified a huge variety of animals, and numerous specimens have been found at archaeological sites across the country....

Now scientists are beginning a fresh investigation into what is believed to be the biggest mass grave of Napoleonic soldiers ever found in Europe. Their findings are expected to provide fascinating answers into life on the Continent almost 200 years ago. Who joined the Imperial Army and why were there women’s skeletons in the pit as well? How were prisoners of war treated? And, for the historians: was Napoleon correct in blaming the cold for killing thousands during his Army’s disastrous 1812 retreat from Moscow, or was that just a cover-up for his military miscalculations?...

In such a setting, Anderson maintains, violence serves a useful purpose. It’s a way of demanding the respect that mainstream society withholds. It’s the response of isolated, angry people fending for themselves. “Where you’ve got large numbers of alienated people, and the police are dealing with them in disrespectful ways, street justice is the norm,” he observes. In other words, the police are largely to blame, along with a society that provides few jobs and little hope....

But most just wanted him gone. The Senate has not expelled one of its own since the Civil War, and that was for treason against the United States. Packwood was guilty of treason of another kind, against the Senate club. Some senators, particularly the younger ones, were revolted by Packwood’s well-documented lechery, his insistent mouth and wandering hands. Even so, Pack-wood might have survived mere groping; there are a number of lawmakers who have done worse and gotten away with it....