Sevilla were dumped out in the round of 16 on Tuesday as Leicester won 2-0 at the King Power Stadium to overturn a 2-1 first-leg deficit. Jorge Sampaoli’s side were guilty of spurning a host of chances in that opening leg at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan - including a missed penalty - and there was more woe in the return as Steven N’Zonzi wasted a golden opportunity to force extra time when his weak spot-kick was saved by Kasper Schmeichel....

Clinical Atletico dominated the match, winning their fourth home game in five to leave Eibar facing an uphill battle to qualify for the semi-finals. After a slow start and a goal disallowed for offside, Griezmann - clearly unaffected by increasing speculation linking him with a move to Manchester United - put Atletico ahead by taking advantage of poor goalkeeping from Yoel Rodriguez to guide home a simple header. Eibar should have prevented the second goal too, when Correa reacted first to a scramble in the box and poked home Atleti’s 500th goal in all competitions under Diego Simeone....

Having emphatically beaten Bayern Munich 3-0 on Tuesday, Jurgen Klopp’s side set up a meeting with the Liga outfit, who defeated Napoli in the other semi-final. What is the Audi Cup? The game against Atletico is the Reds’ second last friendly outing ahead of the Premier League kick-off, with a game against Athletic Bilbao to come at the Aviva Stadium on August 5. Atletico, meanwhile, close out their schedule with a trip to England to face Premier League newcomers Brighton....

The Ghanaian spent four weeks on the sidelines after straining a muscle while attempting a shot in a league fixture with Bournemouth on November 4. With the injury initially not thought to be serious, the 25-year-old headed for international duty after the game but a relapse while training with Ghana sent him off the pitch until his club’s December 9 encounter with Leicester City. “I was really frustrated when I got injured,” Atsu said, as reported by The Shields Gazette....

Cryptic references to the White House efforts are contained in a new Senate Intelligence Committee report released last Friday that debunked purported links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. However, attempts by committee Democrats to make public a more explicit account of White House interest in the anecdote were thwarted when the “intelligence community” refused to declassify a CIA cable that lays out the controversy, according to congressional sources. Democrats charged in a written statement that intelligence officials had failed to demonstrate “that disclosing the [cable] … would reveal sources and methods or otherwise harm national security....

The Nickelodeon star’s court-appointed arrangement may soon be terminated after the judge overseeing her case ruled on Monday that it was “no longer required.” Bynes has been under her conservatorship since 2013 and her mother Lynn Organ became her personal conservator after the actress was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold, while dealing with substance abuse issues. Now the 35-year-old’s legal team has shared that she and her family are excited about the end of the conservatorship and what the future holds....

Gorman, who was named the first youth poet laureate of the United States in 2017, was widely praised after delivering her poem “The Hill We Climb” on Wednesday. And while her achievements in poetry are impressive, the recent Harvard graduate has an even bigger aspiration: to occupy the same White House where she was invited to perform only several years ago. She has shared her plan with both her alma mater’s college paper and The New York Times....

The 34-year-old, who is playing professional basketball in Israel, was asked by Walla Sport whether he would have a problem with a gay teammate. “I’m going to shower across the street, make sure my change of clothes are around the corner,” Stoudemire said. “And I’m going to drive [and] take a different route to the gym.” MORE: Warriors will be without Kevin Durant for at least a month When asked by a reporter whether he really meant what he said, Stoudemire replied, “There’s always a truth within a joke....

The MORE Act, which was reintroduced to the House last month by Democrat Jerry Nadler from New York, would not only make recreational cannabis use legal in the entire United States, and work to release inmates incarcerated because of non-violent marijuana-related offenses, it would also attempt to address racial inequities in the way existing marijuana laws have been enforced. “It is truly a sign of marijuana legalization’s near universal mainstream acceptance when even one of America’s largest corporations is willing to publicly declare that our prohibition has been a failure and that we need for our country to move towards a new approach,” Erik Altieri, the Executive Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, told Newsweek....

Hicks was described as a white female with blonde hair and blue eyes, about 4'11’’ and 120 pounds, last seen at her residence in Bumpass, Virginia, late at night on Sunday, October 20. Police warn potential passerby to contact law enforcement immediately rather than approaching either Lynch or her abductor. Louisa County Police said they believe Hicks was taken by 33-year old white male Bruce Lynch, whom they believe armed with a 9-millimeter handgun and may have had recent suicidal ideations....

Kyiv insiders told Newsweek that the U.S. is expected to cover between one third and one half of the 2023 budget gap: a contribution of between $18 and $28 billion. On Capitol Hill, that proposal could irk Republicans who pushed back on expanded financial aid, and progressive Democrats who called for more dialogue with Moscow. The U.S. has already contributed more than $52 billion to help Ukraine—about $15 billion in financial assistance, $27 billion in military aid, and $9 billion in humanitarian support, according to Statista—making it by far the most generous nation backing Kyiv, though several European nations have contributed more as a proportion of GDP....

The immediate headline grabber is the disaster in Afghanistan. The lack of planning and professionalism, and the daily briefings that communicate ignorance, weakness and confusion are shocking. Our officials don’t seem to know how many Americans are still in Afghanistan, where they are or how they are going to get to the airport to be evacuated. With each appearance, President Joe Biden seems more out of touch with reality. Whether it is cognitive decline or simply arrogance is impossible to say....

If you believe half of what you hear in this election year, the U.S. economy is a world-class laggard. In Washington an entire industry, including at least three “competitiveness” councils, thrives on worries about how well U.S. business measures up. Calls for industrial policy-a concerted government effort to aid key sectors of the economy-are growing louder. U.S.-Japan relations are at a low, due to Americans’ belief that Japan plays unfairly in international trade, and “America First” is proving a potent campaign slogan....

Captain Tom Watson and his dozen players posed for pictures during the introductions. They and Watson’s assistants also showed off their American beauties when their wives and girlfriends joined them for a group photo. Not too shabby.

The world’s busiest airline has cited a combination of heavy winds at two major hubs and staffing shortages for the travel chaos. American Airlines has confirmed to Newsweek some 338 flights were canceled today, representing 6 percent of its total schedule. This is compared to 1,060 flights grounded on Sunday, 548 on Saturday and 343 on Friday—meaning 2,289 flights have been disrupted in the past four days. David Seymour, the airline’s chief operating officer, said in a note to employees seen by CNN: “With additional weather throughout the system, our staffing begins to run tight as crew members end up out of their regular flight sequences....

Flight AA052 from Miami to Tel Aviv landed successfully at Ben Gurion Airport after a state of emergency was declared following the malfunction on Monday. The flight, with 167 passengers and 12 crew members on board, managed to land safely at around 2:50 p.m. local time. Emergency service vehicles were filmed rushing to Israel’s main airport amid fears the plane would crash. American Airlines confirmed that there have been no reported injuries to passengers or crew following the landing....

Consider all that has happened recently: The Supreme Court ruled that states couldn’t make gay sex illegal. New York City is setting up a full-fledged high school for gay students (to prevent abuse of homosexual teens, city officials said, not to give a select group of students a way to honor the Supreme Court ruling). The openly conservative New York Post put a gay couple on the front page–and applauded their union–after they got married in Toronto....

The neighborhood was hardly the ex-president’s first choice. In fact, Harlem became something of a safe port in the storm created after Clinton announced plans to rent luxury space in a midtown Manhattan building that would’ve cost weary taxpayers nearly $1 million a year in rent. Harlem’s 125th Street–the so-called Main Street of black America–offered the former president a way out: unconditional love at an unbelievable rent. When I heard earlier this year that Clinton was really moving to Harlem, I must admit I reacted like most New Yorkers: Good, keep him and his motorcades out of midtown!...

Or, in this case, a Martini glass. As I write this, I am guzzling something called a Nicotini, which, as the name suggests, is a cocktail with a smoker’s cough–an ethereal blend of vanilla-flavored vodka, the coffee liqueur Kahlua and a splash of tobacco juice. And later, when I looked back on my increasingly seismic handwriting, it appeared I enjoyed it. According to my notes, the Nicotini had a pleasing taste, which I described as either like a Maryland crabcake or a vanilla cupcake that had been sitting near an ashtray for an hour or so....

At 15 years and 122 days, Gauff secured her place not only in the first-round draw at the All England Club by beating Belgian Greet Minnen, 6-1, 6-1, but also a place in the venerable Grand Slam tournament’s record books. “I’m still in shock that I’m going to be playing main draw Wimbledon,” Gauff said. “I think my first memory was watching Serena playing Wimbledon, and I think she won — I don’t remember which year, she’s won so many times....