After taking the lead at the end of her second 50-meter stretch in the women’s 400-meter freestyle final Sunday night, Ledecky had built a decent advantage, nearly a full body length at one point. But then, it happened. Australian Ariarne Titmus, who stunned the world with a victory over Ledecky in the 400 free at the 2019 world championships, made her move. Just before the final turn, Titmus passed Ledecky and built up a lead of her own heading toward the wall....

“They’ve had to reassign some of our federal Border Patrol to other areas to help their influx, which leaves, of course, my area vulnerable,” Huish told Newsweek. “I try to be as positive as I can and that’s my nature. But I am worried that [the migrants] may see this as a weak spot now,” he added. “I think what’s going to end up happening is that these fires will pop up everywhere....

Legendary coach Lute Olson’s declining health led to the team twice going through seasons under interim coaches, which undermined recruiting for the latter half of the decade. The design of the program’s practice facility had been given a half-hearted effort. The McKale Center itself needed a bit of a spit-shine. Miller interviewed in Albuquerque, at what basketball folks might call a “neutral site” and didn’t visit campus until he’d been hired....

Michael Curtis Robinson was taken into custody without incident on Monday following the stabbing in Fort Smith on Friday evening, 40/29 News reported. Robinson is currently being held on a charge of battery in the first degree on a $100,000 bond, a spokesman for the Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to Newsweek. The Fort Smith Police Department said officers had responded to the fast food restaurant located in the 5000 block of Rogers Avenue....

Stone Mountain State Park officials said the Black militia group was peaceful, orderly and escorted by police as they called for the removal of the country’s largest Confederate monument near Atlanta. Videos posted to social media show the group, the “Not F**king Around Coalition” (NFAC), meeting at the massive nine-story quartz sculpting that depicts former Confederate president Jefferson Davis and Southern generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. NFAC Founder Grand Master Jay told Newsweek via phone Sunday that the militia members at Stone Mountain on Saturday were “100 percent Black” and they are not affiliated with Black Lives Matter....

Ronaldo double downs Bayern The 23-year-old has been watched by Arsenal scouts since the start of last season and his performances for the Gelsenkirchen side throughout the current campiagn have seen Chelsea and Juventus both keep tabs on him. A Bosnian international who is able to play at left-back, centre-back or in defensive midfield, Kolasinac’s versatility is likely to be the main reason why Arsene Wenger feels he’d be a worthy addition to the first team squad....

Sanchez and Ozil are yet to re-sign with the Premier League giants despite coming out of contract at the end of the season. Sánchez 11/4 to score first vs. Swansea It has led to speculation over both of their futures, with Manchester City and United linked to the duo. But Kroenke is eager to keep Sanchez and Ozil, who impressed in Arsenal’s 5-2 win over Everton on Sunday. “We want to attract top players, keep top players and those guys are top players,” he told The Telegraph....

Now back at Goodison Park as part of the coaching staff, Jeffers was considered to be a hot prospect when the Gunners acquired him from the Toffees for £8 million. Arsene Wenger billed him as “the fox in the box” Arsenal needed to complement a star-studded array of attacking talent. Why Reus would be perfect for Arsenal Jeffers, though, struggled to make an impact as he competed with the likes of Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Sylvain Wiltord and Nwankwo Kane for regular game time....

Two months later, Wenger backtracked on his “box-to-box” comments and revealed that Xhaka is more of a passer than bustling central attacking midfielder. Wenger finally ends Mourinho hoodoo “Granit is more a deep playmaker I think than a box-to-box player,” said Wenger. “He does not get in the final third of the opposition half a lot. He is more a guy who has a fantastic pass to play through the lines....

The 28-year-old forward has wanted to leave the club for several months in pursuit of regular time after finding his opportunites limited at Emirates Stadium last season. Arsenal 7/1 to win Europa League Perez wants to be selected for Spain at the 2018 World Cup and believes his best chance of doing so would be to join his former club Deportivo. Depor have made a respectable loan offer of €3 million and are prepared to pay the player’s full salary....

The Gunners have been repeatedly in the headlines over the past week with Theo Walcott having left for Everton, while Alexis Sanchez looks likely to sign for Manchester United. Arsenal have been linked with moves for Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, and Arsene Wenger will no doubt welcome the distraction of the game when Crystal Palace visit. TV CHANNEL & LIVE STREAM In the United States (US), the game can be watched live on NBC Sports and streamed online through their website....

Ramsey, 27, has been named in the startling line-up for the Gunners but Sterling, 23, has not been included in City’s squad due to a hamstring problem. Gabriel Jesus has been named amongst the substitutes for Pep Guardiola’s side alongside Ederson with Claudio Bravo starting in goal. David Ospina starts between the sticks for Arsenal, who are lining up in a back three for the Wembley showpiece, while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang features up top for the Gunners....

The hosts started in lightning fashion, with Eddie Nketiah opening the scoring at the five-minute mark after a dreadful mistake by Leeds goalkeeper Illan Meslier. Receiving a routine backpass, the French stopper then proceeded to take a poor touch which enabled striker Nketiah to capitalise and bundle the ball in for the opening goal. It wasn’t long before the Gunners had a second, as Nketiah once again proved why calls are increasing for him to be given guarantees of a long-term future at Arsenal amidst his contractual situation....

The photographers we use regularly are a wonderful, charismatic, unpredictable bunch, based all over the world–people like Nina Berman from New York, Andy Hernandez in Hong Kong, Mark Peters in Cape Town. In the pages that follow, we showcase recent work for NEWSWEEK from four of the team: Turnley and Luc Delahaye, both based in Paris (the world capital of photojournalism); Gary Knight, who works out of London, and Katharina Hesse, who makes her home in Beijing....

“I’ve been in it 38 years, and I’ve done, you know, lived the right way for 60 years of my life,” Briles told reporters Tuesday while visiting Texans training camp. “I’ve never done anything illegal, immoral, unethical.” MORE: NCAA should make example of Baylor | Bender: Give Grobe a chance to fix program Briles was filed after the school’s independent Pepper Hamilton investigation concluded that the athletic department had ignored and, in some cases, covered up several allegations of sexual assault against football players....

But not everybody thought that Sheen should play a guy who lets drugs ruin his life. The big opponent was his father, actor Martin Sheen, who asked a judge to issue an arrest warrant for his son in 1998 to force him into rehab. “He was terrified I was going to lead Charlie down the path again into madness and darkness,” says Emilio Estevez, who directed “Rated X” and costars with his brother....

That was what Arthur Ashe said early one morning when he was 6 years old, and his father woke him up and told him that his mother had died. And now it was many years later, last Wednesday, and Ashes own little child was watching all the commotion in their apartment. Her name is Camera, and she’s 5-almost as old as her father was that sad morning in Richmond, Va....

After being selected by the Panthers in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL Draft, the SEC’s leading rusher from a year ago is settling down in Charlotte, N.C. MORE: Oher fitting well with Panthers | Did Carolina find diamond in the rough? “I’m still staying at the team-issued hotel, but right now I’m looking around at a bunch of different places,” Artis-Payne told Sporting News. “I like the area so far — it’s a big city, but it still has that small-town feel....

Take the current imbroglio involving Christoph Büchel, a Swiss installation artist, and that capacious reclamation of derelict industrial space, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (a.k.a. MASS MoCA) in North Adams, in the western part of the state. MASS MoCA invited him to do a large installation piece called “Training Ground for Democracy.” The artist accepted, apparently on a handshake, and promptly asked the museum to fetch him, among a long list of things, a police car, a voting booth and a two-story house that could be disassembled....

Butler is right about one thing. He’s in the fight of his life–a potentially bankrupting trial set to begin in Idaho this week. Butler and his organization are defendants in a civil suit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Morris Dees, an attorney with a long history of using civil litigation to combat hate groups. The suit stems from an incident in 1998, when an armed Aryan Nations security squad chased down and terrorized a mother and son who happened to be driving by the compound, shooting at their car with an assault rifle....