Vote on by 5 P.M., April 14 Last Week’s Question Should Elian Gonzalez stay here or go back to Cuba? (6,761 responses) 25% Yes, he deserves to live in a democracy, not a dictatorship. 5% Yes, it would too traumatic to take him from his relatives. 52% No, a boy belongs with his father. 18% No, it’s a matter of law.
Johnson missed the recent U.S. win against Honduras and tie in Panama with a hamstring injury he suffered just before the March qualifiers. At the time the injury didn’t appear to be serious, but he has yet to return to action with Borussia Monchengladbach, and U.S. coach Bruce Arena revealed that Johnson’s injury has not been healing as quickly as expected. “The word from their medical staff is that he hasn’t responded that well (to treatment for the injury)....
A large man in pads came out of nowhere during a performance by the Arizona Rattlers’ dance team, the Sidewinders. The guy crushes it… Breaks it down… Twerks it out. Everything. MORE: Retro NFL cheerleaders | California law makes cheerleaders team employees I looked for him on the Rattlers’ roster, but to no avail. I wondered, “Who is this glorious mystery man?” It turns out he’s a professional choreographer and dancer named Oscar Hernandez....
Goals from Costa, Thiago Alcantara, Iago Aspas and a hat-trick from Isco led La Roja to a comfortable success over opponents who were bereft of their star man due to a slight injury issue. While Messi has been at times criticised for his performances with the national team, Atletico Madrid striker Costa believes that, in reality, he makes a terrific difference to his side. “You have to do an analysis in all aspects,” he said of the man whose hat-trick qualified Argentina for the summer’s World Cup....
Lanzini was in contention for a starting spot in Russia until he sustained a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a training session this week. River Plate midfielder Perez has taken his spot in Jorge Sampaoli’s 23-man squad, having made three appearances at the last World Cup - he started in the semi-final and the final. The 32-year-old has not appeared for Argentina in 2018, but he played the full 90 minutes in October’s decisive qualifying win at Ecuador and was part of Sampaoli’s preliminary group....
The Zenit Saint Petersburg defender damaged his anterior cruciate ligament during his side’s 0-0 draw with Rostov. And according to his club, he will be out of action between six to nine months after undergoing an operation. The youngster made his senior national team debut in Argentina’s 1-0 victory over Brazil in an international friendly played on June 9, 2017 and has gone to rack up five caps. He was on parade for the South Americans in their 4-2 defeat to Nigeria, and his injury will be a huge blow for Jorge Sampaoli’s men....
In the documentary "Schooled: The Price of College Sports" Foster said he was paid during his senior season because he needed food and was in a bad financial situation. Sports Illustrated obtained a clip from the film. "I don't know if this will throw us into an NCAA investigation - my senior year, I was getting money on the side," Foster says. "I really didn't have any money. I had to either pay the rent or buy some food....
According to Reuters on Tuesday, Ariana Grande is suing the retailer for using her name, likeness, and lyrics from “7 Rings” to promote merchandise. Per paperwork filed in Los Angeles federal court, the Thank U, Next singer is seeking $10 million for the alleged misappropriation by Forever 21 and Riley Rose cosmetics company — a brand was started by the daughters of Forever 21’s founders. Some users on Twitter on Tuesday quickly noticed that the model in Forever 21’s ads was a black woman, and they criticized Grande since the complaint said, “the resemblance is uncanny....
Auditors in Arizona found that the county’s election had not been stolen from Donald Trump, as some of his supporters had claimed, and that the former president had lost by more votes than earlier official results declared. The hand count found Trump won 45,469 fewer votes than Biden, whereas earlier county results showed he lost by 45,109—a relatively small discrepancy of 360. It also gave Biden an extra 99 votes—up from 1,040,774 to 1,040,873....
According to local news outlet KTAR, ICU beds reached an 85 percent occupancy on Friday after being at 84 percent occupancy for the two days prior. According to the Arizona Department of Health Services’ COVID dashboard, 1,405 ICU beds are currently in use. The 15 percent not currently occupied equates to 257 beds as of Friday. Of those admitted into the ICU, 546 are COVID-19 patients, according to DHS....
Under the law, which was signed by GOP Arizona Governor Doug Ducey last Friday, students must receive at least two lessons on the Holocaust between grades seven and 12. Ducey said in a statement that the law was “a step in the right direction” to combat rising incidences of antisemitism in the state. The bill was sponsored by Democratic state Rep. Alma Hernandez, who is Jewish and had championed the bill during previous unsuccessful efforts to pass it through the state legislature....
Recently the Michigan Supreme Court rebuffed Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s reliance on an old emergency statute, which it struck down as violating the non-delegation doctrine—the principle that the legislature cannot give away its legislative powers to the executive. But governors in many states continue to rule in violation of this fundamental constitutional principle. That includes my own state of Arizona, where the governor, a Republican, has singled out gyms and a subset of bars for onerous closures and restrictions without legislative approval, notwithstanding several months of decline in infections and more than two months of “minimal” hospitalizations for COVID-like illnesses....
Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Gov. Mike DeWine, both Republicans, have appealed for the FDA to give vaccines full approval, rather than just approval for emergency use, as they feel it will help combat vaccine hesitancy and allow more businesses to require vaccinations. “That is one of the stated reasons that we hear most often from people who are not getting vaccinated,” DeWine said, after speaking to residents across Ohio. “And my concern is that the FDA not moving from emergency use to full approval, some people are not being vaccinated who would be vaccinated and those people are going to die....
The 119th matchup between the teams was mostly in Army’s control; Navy didn’t getting on the scoreboard until the fourth quarter. MORE: College football live and on-demand on fuboTV (7-day free trial) The Knights scored on the first drive of the game with a 10-yard rush from Kelvin Hopkins Jr. and kept the lead from then on. Army’s two interceptions, two fumble recoveries and pass defense (Navy didn’t convert a pass for three quarters) helped the Black Knights dominate the game....
In the span of his 50-year career, Palmer won dozens of PGA titles and became a long-term spokesman for such charitable organizations as the March of Dimes and the Eisenhower Medical Center Foundation (with whom he had a close association through his friendship with Dwight Eisenhower). Just as importantly, Palmer (who died heart disease in 2016 at age 87) became a leading advocate for prostate cancer awareness after experiencing the disease firsthand....
Thunberg told Scandinavian talk show Skavlan, which has filmed in New York this week, that the offer from the Hollywood movie star and former California governor was “one of the funniest” she’d received. Skavlan said it has been confirmed that the climate activist and her father will take Schwarzenegger’s car to Montreal, Canada where she is set to attend the protest against climate change on Friday. Newsweek has contacted Greta Thunberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s teams for further confirmation....
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) estimated that conflict-related imprisonment from April 14, 2014 until April 30, 2021 at 7,900-8,700. As many as 4,000 were detained by the government side of the conflict and between 4,300 and 4,700 by separatists. The conflict in Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland, the Donbas, began in April 2014 following Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula after the removal of Ukraine’s former Moscow-leaning president....
