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FIFA says Women’s World Cup will greet its 1 millionth fan as ticket sales surpass 1.68 million

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:44:43 GMT

SYDNEY (AP) — FIFA says ticket sales for the Women’s World Cup have reached 1.678 million over the first 38 matches of the tournament in Australia and New Zealand.It said in a statement Tuesday that total attendance across those matches had reached 982,975 and it would surpass the 1 million mark for spectators at Tuesday’s final Group E match between the United States and Portugal at the 50,000-capacity Eden Park stadium at Auckland, New Zealand.The tournament has already broken attendance records for a Women’s World Cup.The previous record was around 1.35 million who attended a 52-game tournament in Canada in 2015. The 2023 edition has been expanded to 32 teams and will include 64 matches.The opening games on July 20 set records for women’s soccer matches in both co-host countries. The crowd at New Zealand’s upset win over Norway set a new national mark of 42,137. Australia’s 1-0 over Ireland later that day attracted 75,784 at Stadium Australia.A week later, more ...

Cincinnati Reds acquire lefty reliever Sam Moll in a trade with the Oakland Athletics

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:44:43 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — The Cincinnati Reds acquired reliever Sam Moll in a trade with the Oakland Athletics on Monday.The addition of Moll puts another left-hander in Cincinnati’s bullpen as it tries to become the first team to win a division after losing at least 100 games in the previous season. The Reds led the NL Central by a half-game over Milwaukee heading into play on Monday.Moll, a third-round pick in the 2013 amateur draft, is 0-3 with a 4.54 ERA in 45 appearances this year. He has held lefty hitters to a .197 batting average.“It’s a nice extra guy in the bullpen. He’s left-handed, obviously, gets lefties out,” Reds general manager Nick Krall said. “He also has options and control as well.”The Reds got Moll and international cap space from Oakland for minor league right-hander Joe Boyle. The 6-foot-7 Boyle was selected by Cincinnati in the fifth round of the 2020 amateur draft.To make room for Moll on the 40-man roster, the Reds transferred right-hander Hunter Gre...

Tennis fans in DC are warned that Ukraine’s Svitolina and Belarus’ Azarenka won’t shake hands

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:44:43 GMT

Defending champion Liudmila Samsonova of Russia serves against Danielle Collins in a first-round match at the DC Open tennis tournament in Washington on Monday, July 31, 2023. Samsonova won 6-1, 6-3. (AP Photo/Howard Fendrich)(AP/Howard Fendrich) Defending champion Liudmila Samsonova of Russia serves against Danielle Collins in a first-round match at the DC Open tennis tournament in Washington on Monday, July 31, 2023. Samsonova won 6-1, 6-3. (AP Photo/Howard Fendrich)(AP/Howard Fendrich) WASHINGTON (AP) — Spectators at the DC Open were told before Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina defeated Belarus’ Victoria Azarenka 7-6 (2), 6-4 on Monday night that the players would not shake hands when their first-round mat...

Copa Mundial 2023: China vs. Inglaterra; aquí todos los detalles

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:44:43 GMT

China se enfrenta a Inglaterra en el estadio de Hindmarsh, por el Grupo D de la Copa Mundial Femenina de la FIFA 2023. La patada inicial de este encuentro de la Copa del Mundo se dará a la 7:00 a.m. ET / 4 a.m. PT.  La cobertura de Telemundo arranca a partir de las 6:30 a.m. ET / 3:30 a.m. PT.   Puedes ver el partido en vivo sintonizando Telemundo en tu TV, o para verlo por streaming desde tu computadora o dispositivo móvil a través de la app de Peacock, haz clic aquí.Source

Video: Lightning, hail and flooding around metro Denver

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:44:43 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Heavy storms moved into the Denver metro Monday which brought lightning and hail and caused flooding. The Pinpoint Weather team said showers and thunderstorms were possible on Monday evening for Denver and may not end until around midnight. The storms will be slowly moving which could lead to heavy rain in some spots.One video shows a series of lightning in northeast Denver, while another shows hail in Castle Rock.Daniel and Laura Raymond's son, Hudson, decided to make a street in Castle Rock into a water park and floated down it like a lazy river on a tube. Streets in Douglas and Larimer counties were flooded, and police were warning drivers not to proceed through deep water. "Four cars underwater, no one is trapped. DO NOT try to drive through standing water, it is extremely dangerous," the Douglas County Sheriff's Office posted on the X platform. FOX31 viewer Monty Williams captured a photo of a funnel cloud near Nunn. The Pinpoint Weather team said skies will cl...

Pressure to crack down on exposure to PFAs mounts

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:44:43 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Forever chemicals are back in headlines in Colorado after news broke of the chemicals showing up in the metro.Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances – known as PFAS -- present in Colorado's waters are gaining attention but experts will tell you that's not the only place these substances are lurking."It's nearly indestructible and it's labeled forever chemicals. When these PFAS get into our communities, it could take hundreds of years for them to break down if they ever do," Danny Katz of CoPIRG said. He said Colorado is leading the way when it comes to controlling PFAS or forever chemicals, but there is more work to be done."The number one thing we need to do is that we just need to stop it at the source. Once PFAs get out there, they are really, really hard to do anything with. The best thing we can do right now is kind of control them and put them in an isolated place," Katz said. Report: Suncor had some of the highest numbers of tail gas and acid flares PFAS can b...

Exclusive body cam footage captures crash and arrest of reckless driver on Ocean Drive

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:44:43 GMT

A man fled police after losing control behind the wheel, then making a run for it. The guy took off from a traffic stop but ended up being taken down at gunpoint.“Crawl out. Keep your hands where I can see them. Crawl on your f***ing knees,” said a cop, caught on body cam video. Officers pointed their guns at 26-year-old Antonio Moton, who they said led them on chases across town before hiding in the bushes of a hotel pool area, as seen on body camera video obtained exclusively by 7news.“Don’t move, don’t move,” officers said, heard in the footage.Police said that prior to the arrest, Moton, who’s from Jackson, Mississippi, first smashed into one of the lift barriers on Ocean Drive before running and being caught. It happened on June 23rd.Miami Beach police said it all began with an attempted traffic stop of a driver who had windows that were too dark and who wore his seatbelt improperly.Officers shouted multiple times for the driver to stop...

Scooter rider hospitalized after Miami Beach hit-and-run; Police searching for driver

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:44:43 GMT

A scooter went up in flames after a hit-and-run on the streets of Miami Beach, sending the rider to the hospital. The search is on for the person who slammed into him. Just feet from Miami Beach’s famous Lincoln Road, a fiery crash has police trying to track down the driver who left a scooter rider to die.A witness reacted to the incident moments after the wreck happened around 7 p.m. on Monday night.“I tell you, in today’s accident, people don’t stop.”A couple of witnesses tell 7News that a red BMW hit the scooter on 16th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, sending the rider straight to the ground. “He was going to turn to the right, and the red car t-boned him and he flew,” said witness Carlos Farreyo. Minutes later, first responders arrived, quickly loading the victim into the back of an ambulance. He was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital, wheeled in wearing a neck brace.Firefighters doused the scooter with water, becoming just a charred...

Kyiv’s Motherland monument gets a makeover — but at what cost?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:44:43 GMT

KYIV — Ukrainians are always looking for ways to give the middle finger to Russia. But many locals are now asking if radically altering the iconic Motherland monument to remove a hammer and sickle is the best way of using the country’s wartime resources.The 62-meter-tall statue of a woman — affectionally known locally as Baba — has stood atop a hill on the right bank of Kyiv since 1981. Sternly looking east, she holds a 16-meter-long sword in her right hand and an eight-meter-long shield in her left. But there’s a problem for a country at war: on the shield are the hammer and sickle, the symbols of the industrial worker and the peasant used as the emblem of the former Soviet Union.On Sunday, workers started dismantling the Soviet emblem — piece by piece.“We wanted to watch, but they did not allow us to come close for security reasons,” Viktoria Andrienko, a Ukrainian woman who arrived to watch the dismantling process with her family on Monday, told PO...

Ukraine’s plan if Russia assassinates Zelenskyy

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:44:43 GMT

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. WASHINGTON — When Volodymyr Zelenskyy was asked whether he was worried by Russian attempts to kill him, he answered he couldn’t afford to be.“If I were thinking about it constantly, I would just shut myself down, very much like Putin now who doesn’t leave his bunker,” the Ukrainian leader said in an interview with CNN last month. “Of course, my bodyguards should think how to prevent this from happening, and this is their task. I don’t think about it.”While it’s a question Zelenskyy understandably isn’t eager to contemplate, it’s also one his supporters at home and abroad can’t afford to ignore. Ever since he rebuffed an evacuation offer by telling his would-be American rescuers “I need ammunition, not a ride,” the Ukrainian president has played a key role in mustering international support for the fight against Russia.No wonder Russian lawmakers and ultra-nationalist military bloggers have formed a chorus demanding he be targe...