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Ebobisse’s brace leads Earthquakes over Sporting KC 3-0

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:08:35 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jeremy Ebobisse scored a goal in each half and the San Jose Earthquakes rolled to a 3-0 victory over Sporting Kansas City on Saturday night.The Earthquakes (4-2-2) beat Sporting KC (0-5-3) for just the second time in the last 15 match-ups. San Jose improved to 4-0-1 in its last five matches at home, its best effort since a six-match unbeaten run to begin the 2017 season.Cristian Espinoza staked the Earthquakes to an early lead when he scored in the ninth minute with assists from Cade Cowell and Jamiro Monteiro. Espinzoa has scored the first goal in a match four times this season — tops in the league.Sporting KC was forced to play a man down after Robert Castellanos received a red card in the 38th minute. Ebobisse followed with a penalty-kick goal to make it 2-0.Ebobisse found the net again in the 51st minute with assists from Paul Marie and Cowell to cap the scoring. Sporting KC entered play with just two points through its first seven matches — something onl...

St. Louis City rolls to 5-1 victory over Cincinnati

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:08:35 GMT

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jared Stroud scored three minutes into the match and St. Louis City never let up in a 5-1 victory over FC Cincinnati after tornado warnings forced a lengthy delay at the start of the match on Saturday night.Stroud used assists from João Klauss and Eduard Löwen to give St. Louis City (6-2-0) the lead on its way to ending a two-match losing streak in its first season of play. The win moves St. Louis City back in front of Seattle atop the Western Conference after the Portland Timbers beat the Sounders 4-1.Löwen followed with an unassisted goal in the 39th minute to make it 2-0. Kyle HIebert found the net — with assists from Stroud and Klauss — in the second minute of stoppage time for a 3-0 halftime lead.Nicholas Gioacchini stretched the lead to 4-0, scoring in the 53rd minute with assists from Rasmus Alm and John Nelson. St. Louis City’s final score came on an own-goal by Cincinnati goalkeeper Roman Celentano four minutes later.Cincinnati (5-1-2), which entered ...

Timbers score 4 straight goals to beat Sounders 4-1

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:08:35 GMT

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nathan Fogaca’s go-ahead goal in the 76th minute was among four straight Portland goals in the final 19 minutes, giving the Timbers a 4-1 victory over the rival Seattle Sounders 4-1 in a Cascadia Cup match on Saturday night.Dairon Asprilla, Jaroslaw Niezgoda and Juan Mosquera also scored for the Timbers (2-4-2) in just their second win in eight matches to open the season. Raul Ruidiaz scored for the Sounders (5-2-1), who lost for just the second time this season and snapped a three-game winning streak. The Timbers have struggled this season with a spate of injuries. Among those who were out against Seattle were Yimmi Chara (right hamstring) and Felipe Mora (left knee). The Timbers announced earlier this week that defender Eryk Williamson would miss the rest of the season with a torn ACL in his left knee.Seattle’s Cristian Roldan was unavailable because of a concussion. ruled out of the match because of out with a concussion. The first half was score...

Former Indian lawmaker, his brother fatally shot live on TV

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:08:35 GMT

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A former Indian lawmaker convicted of kidnapping and facing murder and assault charges was shot dead along with his brother in a dramatic attack that was caught live on TV in northern India, officials said Sunday.Atiq Ahmad and his brother, Ashraf Ahmad, were under police escort on their way to a medical checkup at a hospital on Saturday night when three men posing as journalists targeted the two brothers from close range in Prayagraj city in Uttar Pradesh state.The men quickly surrendered to the police after the shooting, with at least one of them chanting “Jai Shri Ram” or “Hail Lord Ram,” a slogan that has become a battle cry for Hindu nationalists in their campaign against Muslims.Uttar Pradesh is governed by India’s ruling Hindu-nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party. Police officer Ramit Sharma said the three assailants came on motorcycles posing as journalists. “They managed to reach close to Atiq and his brother on the pretext of recording a byte and fired a...

Sudan’s army and rival force battle, killing at least 56

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:08:35 GMT

KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary force battled fiercely in the capital and other areas, dealing a new blow to hopes for a transition to democracy and raising fears of a wider conflict. A doctors’ syndicate said Sunday the death toll rose to 56, with at least 595 people wounded.The clashes capped months of heightened tensions between the military and its partner-turned-rival, the Rapid Support Forces group. Those tensions had delayed a deal with political parties to get the country back to its short-lived transition to democracy, which was derailed by an October 2021 military coup.Chaotic scenes unfolded in the capital of Khartoum, where fighters firing from truck-mounted machine guns battled in densely populated neighborhoods. “Fire and explosions are everywhere,” said Amal Mohamed, a doctor in a public hospital in Omdurman. “We haven’t seen such battles in Khartoum before,” said resident Abdel-Hamid Mustafa.By the end of the day, the military issu...

Jimmy Carter and Playboy: How ‘the weirdo factor’ rocked ’76

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:08:35 GMT

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he explained his religious faith to Playboy magazine.Carter was not misquoted. But he was certainly misunderstood, as his thoughts in the wide-ranging interview were reduced in the popular imagination to utterances about “lust” and “adultery.” Nearly a half-century later, as the 98-year-old Carter receives hospice care in the same south-Georgia home where he once spoke with Playboy journalists, interviewer Robert Scheer still believes Carter was treated unfairly. He recalls the former president as a “real” and “serious” figure whose intent was smothered by the intensity of a campaign’s closing stretch. “Jimmy Carter was a thoughtful guy,” Scheer, now 87, told The Associated Press. “But that got lost here. I’ve never seen a story like it. It was worldwide. … It just never went away.”Politi...

Flights out of Taipei delayed after China launches satellite

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:08:35 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Flights out of northern Taiwan were delayed Sunday after China launched a rocket carrying a satellite that dropped debris into waters north of the capital Taipei.While the satellite launch had no obvious military purpose, it comes after China held large-scale military drills in response to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s transit visit to the United States earlier this month, during which she met U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California. Tensions remain high and China sent warplanes flying toward Taiwan more than 200 times last weekend, while its navy ships circled the self-ruled island it claims as Chinese territory to be annexed by force if necessary. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry issued a statement on public media, saying it had monitored the 9:36 a.m. launch from the Jiuquan base in northwestern China. While some rocket parts had landed within Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, they posed no threat to “our nation’s territory,” ...

Louisville shooter fires into park crowd; 2 dead, 4 wounded

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:08:35 GMT

An unidentified suspect fired a gun into a crowd of hundreds in a Kentucky park, leaving two people dead and four wounded Saturday night, police said.Police were called around 9 p.m. to Chickasaw Park in Louisville, authorities said.“Hundreds of people were in the park at the time of the shooting, when someone started shooting into the crowd, hitting at least six people,” Louisville Metro Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said.There were no suspects in custody immediately after the shooting and police asked anyone with information to contact investigators. “As of right now we have no witnesses,” Humphrey said.“This has been an unspeakable week of tragedy for our city,” Mayor Craig Greenberg said at the scene Saturday night, referring to a shooting on Monday in which a gunman killed five Louisville bank employees while livestreaming the attack on Instagram. “On Monday, we lost five of our fellow citizens to a horrific act of workplace gun violence,” Greenberg said. “And no...

6 soldiers killed in attack in Indonesia’s restive Papua

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:08:35 GMT

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Separatist gunmen opened fire on a military post in Indonesia’s restive Papua province, killing at least six soldiers and leaving dozens of others missing, the army and the rebels said Sunday.Attackers from the West Papua Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Free Papua Movement, carried out the assault against Indonesian soldiers on Saturday in the hilly district of Nduga, a stronghold of separatists who have battled Indonesian rule in the mineral-rich but impoverished region since the early 1960s.Papua military spokesperson Col. Herman Taryaman said the soldiers at the Mugi army post were part of a group deployed to search for Phillip Mark Mehrtens, a New Zealand pilot for the Indonesian aviation company Susi Air who was abducted by the rebels in February.He said authorities are still searching for about 30 other soldiers still missing after the attack, including nine believed to be held by the rebels.“It’s still unknown exactly how many Indonesian army...

Young people drive bullfighting’s resurrection in Spain

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:08:35 GMT

MADRID (AP) — Álvaro Alarcón plays out the moment when he will enter Madrid’s Las Ventas bullring for his final challenge as a “novillero,” or apprentice bullfighter.The 24-year-old has been training in the dusty countryside outside the Spanish capital, and his skintight suit, delicately woven with beads and gold embroidery, is back from the tailor. If he can triumph this last time, he will be considered for the highest rank of “matador” — bullfighters who take on beasts weighing more than half a ton.“From the moment you get up until you go to bed, and even when you are asleep, you are dreaming about what you want to do in the bullring,” he said. “Being a bullfighter is a way of life.”The death of Spanish bullfighting has been declared many times, but the number of bullfights in the country is at its highest level in seven years, and the young are the most consistent presence as older groups of spectators drop away.On a Sunday afternoon, Alarcón must kill two young bulls...