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Guzan secures 50th career clean sheet; Atlanta, LAFC play to scoreless draw

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:28 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brad Guzan made eight saves in the 50th clean sheet of his career to help Atlanta United play LAFC to a scoreless draw on Wednesday night.Atlanta (6-4-8) has not won an away match against a Western Conference opponent since the 2019 season against Portland. LAFC (7-1-6) has yet to lose a match at home this season. The home side had won the three previous meetings between Atlanta and Los Angeles.LAFC goalkeeper John McCarthy earned his fifth clean sheet of the season.Atlanta, which extended its unbeaten streak to five games, hosts D.C. United on Saturday. LAFC plays at the Houston Dynamo on Saturday.___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Slater drives in runs in 7th and 8th, helps Giants rally to 5-4 win over Rockies

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:28 GMT

DENVER (AP) — Austin Slater had a pinch-hit RBI single in a three-run seventh inning and drove in another run in a two-run eighth as the San Francisco Giants rallied to beat the Colorado Rockies 5-4 on Wednesday night after being held hitless into the sixth inning.Taylor Rogers (2-2) picked up the win with a scoreless inning of relief, and Camilo Doval got three outs for his 15th save.Nolan Jones hit a solo homer for the Rockies, who built a four-run lead through six innings and still lost their 10th straight to the Giants.“You’re never out of a game here so you just keep putting pressure on the opposing pitcher and the opposing team and we were able to strap one together,” said Mitch Haniger, who scored the winning run from third on a squeeze bunt laid down by Patrick Bailey. “It was a good comeback win.”Colorado rookie Connor Seabold didn’t allow a hit until LaMonte Wade Jr. singled cleanly to left field with one out in the sixth. The 27-year-old right-hander struck out four and w...

POLITICO Pro Morning Central Banker: Canada hikes — Schnabel coins spiral — Crypto multiplier

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:28 GMT

Our one-stop source for central banking & monetary policy news.View in your browser or listen to audioBy GEOFFREY SMITHwith ANJULI DAVIES, BEN MUNSTER and IZABELLA KAMINSKASNEAK PEEK— Bank of Canada’s surprise rate hike sets the stage for a Commonwealth hat trick as India’s central bank meets.— Isabel Schnabel coins the concept of a “profit-wage-price spiral” as she continues to wait for convincing evidence to pause hikes.— Crypto’s ‘Hodl’ effect is officially modeled by BIS researchers.POLICY TICKERECB 3.75% ⇡ — BOE 4.5% ⇡ — FED 5.35% ⇡— SNB 1.5% ⇡— BOJ -0.10% ⇣— RBA 4.10% ⇡— PBOC 3.65%⇣— CBR 7.5% ⇣ — SARB 8.25% ⇡Good morning, everyone. Do two surprise rate hikes make a pattern? As with the Reserve Bank of Australia on Tuesday, the Bank of Canada’s move (see below) gives the impression that the Anglo-Saxon world, at least, is far from done tightening. Those moves have been an unpleasant reminder that it will take more than a couple of U...

Tee Thursday: Mass Golf elevates player experience

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:28 GMT

I’ve only been officially in the golf world for a little over a year but evidence supports this: I’m already kind of a big deal.I mean look: I can sashay into quite a number of exclusive, private clubs and play a round. I have people who keep files on my scores and help me track my improvement. They arrange fun games for me to play during rounds with friends, and they offer me all kinds of special opportunities, like cool in-person tips and lessons from renowned pros.Yep, that’s me: Kind of a big deal.OK, that’s all true, but here’s the hook: it could be you too. Because while I may have signed on as a member of Mass Golf (https://www.massgolf.org) simply as a way to track my handicap, I found out quickly that the organization, officially Mass Golf since 2018 but out there supporting golfers for over a century, is a golden ticket to the insider golf life.Mass Golf Director of Marketing and Communications Stephen Hanjack told me most of the current 110,000 Mass Golf members (they sur...

Del Mar to add more than 100 affordable housing units over next six years

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:28 GMT

DEL MAR, Calif. -- Del Mar’s long-term plan for housing, including affordable housing, has been officially certified by the state. It’s a process that took two years of revisions before getting to this point.The city of Del Mar is now the 12th in San Diego County to have its housing element certified by the state. Through California’s “regional housing needs allocation” process, each city and unincorporated area in the county is required to provide a certain number of housing over an eight-year cycle. The current cycle runs from 2021 to 2029.For Del Mar that means adding 175 new housing units, including 113 for low-income residents.While the city of Del Mar approved its plans in 2021 and met the deadline, it took two years of back and forth with the state to get the all clear from the State’s Department of Housing and Community Development. San Diego restaurant added to California Michelin Guide Despite that, a spokesperson for the city of Del Mar told FOX 5:“It should be noted th...

Flashpoint in Israel: Divide between religious and secular Jews heats up under Netanyahu’s rule

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:28 GMT

HARISH, Israel (AP) — The sound of children and music echoed down a narrow basement hallway in Israel as they scrambled in a pool of balls, climbed on a jungle gym, munched popcorn and laughed.The atmosphere changed suddenly on that Saturday last month, as at least a dozen religious men appeared and blocked the entrance, accusing the indoor playground of desecrating the Jewish sabbath by opening for business. Angry parents confronted them, scuffles broke out and in an instant, the center in this mixed city had become a flashpoint symbol of a larger battle between secular and religious Jews in Israel.“I think it represents what’s going on in the country,” said Tzipi Brayer Sharabi, a 38-year-old mother who says she was attacked and thrown to the ground during the May 20 incident. “I want my kids to live how they choose to live. I don’t want somebody to tell them how they should eat, how they should dress, what they should do on Shabbat.”Similar incidents have long u...

EU makes fresh attempt to overcome yearslong crisis over migrants

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:28 GMT

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union interior ministers on Thursday made a fresh attempt to overcome one of the bloc’s most intractable political problems as they weighed new measures for sharing out responsibility for migrants entering Europe without authorization.Europe’s asylum system collapsed eight years ago after well over a million people entered — most of them fleeing conflict in Syria — and overwhelmed reception capacities in Greece and Italy, in the process sparking one of the EU’s biggest political crises.The 27 EU nations have bickered ever since over which countries should take responsibility for people arriving without authorization, and whether other members should be obliged to help them cope.Arriving for the meeting in Luxembourg, the EU’s top migration official, Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said it was an “extremely important day” to resolve what has “been a marathon” issue for Europe.“Of this marathon, we have maybe 100 meters left. So, we are so close to ac...

Pope spends first night in hospital after surgery to remove intestinal scar tissue, repair hernia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:28 GMT

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis awoke Thursday after a good first night in the hospital following a three-hour operation to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, problems that developed following previous surgeries.“The night went well,” Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement early Thursday, adding further updates would be released later.Dr. Sergio Alfieri, director of abdominal and endocrine sciences at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, said Wednesday’s operation was successful and there were no complications or other pathologies discovered. Alfieri, who also removed part of Francis’ colon in 2021, told an evening press conference that the pope was awake, alert and even joking.“When will we do the third one?” he quoted Francis as saying.The pontiff was expected to remain in the 10th floor papal suite at Gemelli for several days, and all papal audiences were canceled through June 18. The Vatican was expected to provide a medical update later Thur...

Australian man sentenced to 9 years in prison for gay American’s 1988 manslaughter

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:28 GMT

SYDNEY (AP) — An Australian man who admitted to killing a gay American by punching him off a cliff top in Sydney in 1988 was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in prison.Scott Phillip White, 52, had pleaded guilty in the New South Wales state Supreme Court to Los Angeles-born Scott Johnson’s manslaughter.White had pleaded guilty last year to the then-27-year-old’s murder — a greater crime — and had been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison. But he changed his mind and had the murder conviction overturned on appeal.Manslaughter carries a maximum sentence of 25 years.Having already served part of his sentence, White will be eligible for release on parole in 2026.“Not much is known of the death beyond a punch on a cliff, a fall from a cliff and decades of pain and grief that followed,” Justice Robert Beech-Jones said during sentencing on Thursday.On Dec. 10, 1988, White met Johnson at a pub and the pair went for a walk around North Head, which was known at the time to be a popula...

Israel demolishes home of Palestinian suspect in Jerusalem attacks that killed 2

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:54:28 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli army said on Thursday that it demolished the West Bank home of a Palestinian involved in twin bombings in Jerusalem that killed two and wounded at least 18 others in November.Israeli authorities arrested Islam Faroukh in December on suspicion of carrying out the bombings, part of a more than year-long surge in violence in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.The army released video footage showing troops closing off the area and carrying out small controlled explosions, destroying an apartment in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah early on Tuesday. The army said people threw rocks and fire bombs at troops, who returned fire. The Palestinian Health Ministry reported one Palestinian was moderately wounded by Israeli gunfire and treated at a local hospital.Israel demolishes the homes of attackers in an attempt to deter others, a tactic critics say amounts to collective punishment.The attack in November came after months of relentless violence in the West B...