The 20-year-old forward only completed a move to Germany in January, having first caught the eye in Belgium with Genk. Manchester United were reported to be among those keen on doing a deal at that stage, and a number of other Premier League sides have since been alerted to Bailey’s potential. Leverkusen, though, have no intention of parting with a prized asset and are prepared to resist any bids which may be tabled in the winter transfer window....

The four-time European champions appointed head coach Keizer as a replacement for Peter Bosz in June, agreeing terms on a two-year deal with an option for one additional season. But that contract looks set to be ripped up just six months in after it was confirmed on Thursday that the club had, for the time being at least, relieved Keizer, his assistant Spijkerman and club legend Bergkamp of their roles....

It was reported early on Tuesday that Italian Football Federation commissioner Roberto Fabbricini, along with vice-commissioner Costacurta, spoke with Ancelotti at a Rome hotel. The former Real Madrid and Bayern Munich boss has been linked with replacing Arsene Wenger at Arsenal as well as taking over the Italy national team, who have been led by interim coach Luigi Di Biagio since February. Costacurta says they did speak with Ancelotti but claims it was purely coincidence that they were in the same hotel at the same time....

Wilshere is at Bournemouth on a season-long loan deal from the Gunners, with AC Milan and West Ham among the clubs reportedly keen to move for him if he opts not to extend his contract at Emirates Stadium, which expires in 2018. Wilshere quiet on future plans The 25-year-old has played 24 Premier League games this season, but has been left out of Howe’s starting line-up for four consecutive matches, including Saturday’s 0-0 derby draw against Southampton....

The Czech smashed home a superb strike, after good work from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, in just the second minute to seal victory and pour more misery on Tim Sherwood's men. It represented a worst-case scenario for a Spurs team which came into the game on the back of moral-sapping defeats to Chelsea and Benfica, along with a pre-match fan protest against chairman Daniel Levy. The superb Oxlade-Chamberlain and Lukas Podolski passed up chances to increase Tottenham's misery and, although the home side enjoyed the better of a frantic second period, Spurs could find no way through....

How Barca must rebuild this summer The non-league club are preparing to entertain an Arsenal side that suffered a humiliating 5-1 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Wednesday and Doswell has warned Arsene Wenger’s side not to expect state-of-the-art facilities at Gander Green Lane Under-pressure Arsenal boss Wenger is in dire need of a positive result after receiving a barrage of criticism for his side’s display in Munich, but Doswell said his club simply could not afford to provide the standard of facilities the Gunners are accustomed to off the pitch....

The publishers are no help. Whenever I’m convinced that no one can possibly think up another excuse for another biography or another collection of letters or another volume from the Library of America, someone always finds a new way to repackage the stuff. The latest collection is called “The Raymond Chandler Papers” (Atlantic Monthly Press). It’s a high-class rebottling scheme, with excellent headnotes to the entries and a lucid introduction by Chandler biographers Tom Hiney and the late Frank MacShane....

Senators this week fired off letters to major airlines and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg calling on them to protect consumers who’ve complained of disrupted airlines. The pressure on the aviation industry comes at it continues to struggle with staffing shortages, skyrocketing fuel prices and lingering supply-chain issues. Online flight tracker Flight Aware reported as of Wednesday afternoon there were over 600 cancellations and more than 4,000 delayed flights within the U....

Nearly three years after the country emerged from recession, it finally looks like a real recovery is underway. Every statistic seems to confirm an upswing: employment is rising, consumer spending is up, housing starts are strong. In expectation of even greater things to come, the stock market last week hit new highs, while Vice President Al Gore traveled to Boston to brag of the Clinton administration’s economic achievements. If you’re still waiting for the roar of jets straining for takeoff, however, you might wish to revise your expectations: the noise you’re now hearing may be as loud as it gets....

Harris, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants, made headlines in August after being selected as Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s running mate, making her not only the first Black women to be on a major party’s ticket, but the first Asian American woman, too. For many women who share the same cultural identity, Harris has been able to close the gap between societal expectations of Asian American women and the women many of them were raised by....

Biden enjoyed several months with an approval rating above 50 percent, though it has sunk underwater of late, pushed down in particular by the messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and waning support for his handling of the pandemic. According to recent polling, the Democratic Party has similarly seen a decline in favorability. Gallup polling put the Democratic Party’s favorability rating at 43 percent, down from 48 percent in January. The party’s unfavorability rating, from polling conducted September 1 to 17, has increased to 55 percent from 48 percent in January....

But before all that, the regular season still has some big storylines of its own — and plenty still undecided. As MLB begins its final calendar week of the 2022 campaign, here are the five biggest questions that remain. MORE: Latest MLB playoff bracket, magic numbers Will the Mets or Braves win the NL East? This has been the most compelling postseason race for several months. The Mets, one of baseball’s elite teams, once led by 10....

According to the most recent genomic surveillance data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Mu, or B.1.621, accounted for just 0.2 percent of sequenced samples in the country in the week ending August 28. In that same week, the Delta variant accounted for more than 99 percent of sequenced samples. A few days later the WHO announced that the global prevalence of the Mu variant was less than 0....

Gov. Polis addressed the rollout issues on Saturday during an interview on Fox News, in which the host, Neil Cavuto, questioned why roughly 2.8 million doses of the medication had been administered in the U.S. despite 12 million reportedly being distributed. The governor said Colorado enacted a “firm hand” approach to ensure that doses could be administered as quickly as possible, noting state hospitals and clinics were told they needed to use every dose given within 72 hours or they would be reassigned....

The former refers to the workouts in late May. “Mandatory” describes the veteran minicamp teams will hold the first two weeks of June. For help, here’s what merriam-webster.com, the popular dictionary website, says “voluntary” means. It even uses it in a sentence: “Participation in the program is completely voluntary.” It’s as if they know what time of year it is. Or, it’s as if they know some player, coach, executive, reporter, commentator or fan is about throw a full-scale tantrum over a player missing a “voluntary” workout....

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday that the U.S. and other countries need to step up and give Haiti the kind of investment and support it requires. “We are looking at every possible option for how to go about doing that,” Sullivan said. “But these things operate and have operated in Haiti historically on different timetables, under different circumstances. And so we need to manage this situation as carefully as possible so that at the end of the day, we achieve our objective, which is the safe return of every single one of those [abducted]....

Cornyn and Cruz are the first- and third-most prolific Twitter users among Republicans in the national Congress, according to an April 2021 analysis of each federal Congress member’s Twitter use conducted by D.C.–based public affairs consulting firm Hamilton Place Strategies. In the first three months of 2021, Cornyn tweeted 2,200 times and Cruz tweeted 800 times. But on September 1, the day the Texas law went into effect, and the following day, Cruz didn’t mention the law on Twitter, despite tweeting 19 times....

Having slumped from 170-3 to 271-8 on Day 1, England added just 23 to their overnight total at The Oval. Archer, however, condemned Australia to a first-innings deficit with a magnificent bowling display, while Chris Woakes ensured Australia’s talisman Steve Smith did not post his fourth three-figure score of an incredible series. David Warner’s miserable run of form continued as he went for five to Archer, who then dismissed Marcus Harris (3) in a blistering start....

The deadly virus, first identified in Wuhan city in the Hubei province of China, has now infected 74,280 people and killed 2,006 in China as of February 19, according to the latest report by World Health Organization (WHO). The virus also spread to 25 countries outside China, with 924 confirmed cases and 3 deaths. Several U.S. airlines, including United, Delta, and American Airlines, have temporarily suspended flights to China amid the ongoing outbreak and have offered travel waivers for those affected, including those traveling on flights to Beijing and Shanghai....