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PSG fires coach Galtier after disappointing season and replaces him with Luis Enrique

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:51 GMT

PARIS (AP) — Former Spain and Barcelona manager Luis Enrique was hired as Paris Saint-Germain’s new coach on Wednesday, tasked with the mission to finally deliver the Champions League title but without guarantees that Kylian Mbappe will still be at the club after the summer. Enrique, who signed a two-year contract, was introduced at a news conference hours after previous coach Christophe Galtier was dismissed following a disappointing season.Club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi said his arrival will mark the start of a “new cycle, with a new style of play.”PSG in an earlier statement thanked Galtier, who had one year left to run on his contract, “for his professionalism and commitment.” Galtier’s assistants Thierry Oleksiak and João Sacramento were also fired.In addition to his star-studded team’s mediocre performances, Galtier was destabilized by allegations he made racist and anti-Muslim comments when he was in charge of French club Nice. He has been summoned to stand tri...

Grains mixed, Livstock mixed.

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:51 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mixed Wednesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Jul. was up 3.50 cents at $6.4575 a bushel; Jul. corn fell 9.50 cents at $5.5325 a bushel; Sep. oats rose 14.25 cents at $4.05 a bushel; while Jul. soybeans was off 4 cents at $15.75 a bushel.Beef was lower and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.Aug. live cattle was off .27 cent at $1.7625 a pound; Aug. feeder cattle fell .85 cent at $2.4767 a pound; Jul. lean hogs rose 2.60 cents at $.9952 a pound.Source

David Beckham sits in Royal Box at Wimbledon a day after Princess Kate made an appearance

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:51 GMT

WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Soccer royalty made its way into the Royal Box at Wimbledon on Wednesday when David Beckham took his place on Centre Court.Beckham, one of the most famous players in soccer history for both his ability on the field and his persona off it, attended Day 3 of the grass-court tournament a day after Kate, the Princess of Wales, was in the stands.Beckham, sitting with his mother, has been a regular over the years at the All England Club.On the soccer field, Beckham became a superstar while playing for Manchester United and helping the team win the Champions League, the Premier League and the FA Cup in 1999. That feat was matched by rival Manchester City this season.Beckham also played for England’s national soccer team, but World Cup success eluded him despite some deep runs in the tournament.Beckham is married to the former Victoria Adams, also known as Posh Spice of the British pop group the Spice Girls.British adventurer Bear Grylls was also in the Royal...

Former Giro champion Hindley wins Tour mountain stage in Pyrenees, claims yellow jersey

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:51 GMT

Former Giro d’Italia champion Jai Hindley seized the Tour de France’s yellow jersey on Wednesday after claiming the first mountain stage of this year’s race during an eventful ride in the Pyrenees. Hindley was part of an early breakaway and became the first Australian leader of the race since Rohan Dennis back in 2015.Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard showed his great form in the last climb of the day when he dropped two-time winner Tadej Pogacar with a sharp attack.Vingegaard moved into second place, 47 seconds behind Hindley, according to provisional results.___AP sports: https://apnews.com/hub/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_SportsSource

Colorado Parks and Wildlife rescues bald eagle on 4th of July

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — There are few symbols more patriotic than the bald eagle. And on the day of America's independence, officers with Colorado Parks and Wildlife were able to rescue an injured fledging."Can you get more patriotic than a bald eagle rescue on July 4th?" asked CPW in a tweet. On Tuesday, wildlife officers were called to a fledging bald eagle that was found injured in Douglas County. ‘Nuisance’ mountain lion relocated after multiple incidents in Pagosa Springs Visitors to the area had reported that the eaglet had been acting strange for a few days.CPW was able to carefully capture the fledging and take it to Birds of Prey, a foundation that works to rehabilitate and release injured birds. The eaglet is currently being treated for a possible injury. However, CPW said "no foul (or fowl)" play was suspected. On June 20, 1782, the Second Continental Congress selected the bald eagle as the national symbol of the U.S. Person wanted for killing, dumping body of large bull elk ...

Colorado inflation to continue, but recession less likely, experts say

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Inflation will continue through the end of the year, experts believe, but fewer think a recession will happen than previously thought three months ago. State business leaders still aren't too thrilled about the nation's economic outlooks entering the third quarter of the year, according to the quarterly survey of state business leaders conducted by the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder.Inflation in the Denver-Aurora-Lakewood metro is projected to increase by 4.3% in 2023, according to the Business Research Division’s forecasting model. Colorado high on the list of places people want to move from The index polls the business community on their feelings about six issues: the state economy, national economy, industry sales, industry profits, industry hiring and capital expenditures. This quarter they have negative feelings about each - in particular about the national economy, which has the lowest confidence of any of the six ite...

Miami man charged with aggravated battery and burglary after allegedly beating man 7 times with metal bat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:51 GMT

A Miami man, identified as Kristopher Exile, 35, is facing serious charges of second-degree murder with a deadly weapon and aggravated battery, along with burglary to an unoccupied conveyance, following a brutal attack on a victim.According to the arrest report, on April 4, North Miami Beach Police officers responded to a distress call reporting a violent assault with a bat. The victim had parked at a friend’s residence, awaiting Exile’s arrival to discuss a delay with his car engine repair. However, a heated argument escalated into a physical altercation when Exile arrived on the scene.During the confrontation, Exile retrieved a metal bat from his dark-colored Infiniti SUV and struck the victim approximately seven times. The victim suffered blows to the head, neck, leg, and back. A witness tried to intervene, eventually stopping Exile, but not before the victim lost consciousness briefly. After regaining consciousness, the victim managed to escape and seek help from the...

EU court rules Catalan separatists in European Parliament should lose immunity

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:51 GMT

BRUSSELS — The thorny issue of Catalan separatism reared its head again on Wednesday when a top EU court stripped the legal immunity of three members of the European Parliament.The EU’s General Court ruled that the Spanish region’s former president, Carles Puigdemont, along with two other separatist MEPs — Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí — should lose their parliamentary immunity amid a long-running legal battle over the way the European Parliament responded to requests from the Spanish Supreme Court.Spain has been pushing to remove the MEPs’ immunity in order to prosecute them for their roles in an unlawful Catalan independence referendum held in 2017. Puigdemont, Comín and Ponsatí fled Spain in the immediate aftermath of the vote and were later elected to the European Parliament.In Brussels, Puigdemont said he would appeal the ruling to the Court of Justice of the European Union.“This doesn’t end here; on the contrary, everything continues...

Prosecutors investigate man’s death during riots in Marseille

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:51 GMT

PARIS — French authorities are investigating police involvement in the death of a 27-year-old man during protests in the southern city of Marseille at the weekend.The man died of cardiac arrest after he took “a violent shock to the chest” that was “probabl[y]” caused by a projectile known as a “flashball” used by the police, said Marseille prosecutor Dominique Laurens.The man’s body was found on Saturday not far from the area where riots broke out in the coastal city in response to the police shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M. as he fled a police stop in a suburb of Paris last Tuesday. The police shooting and his subsequent death sparked a wave of riots in major French cities.In Marseille, the unrest was particularly violent, with rioters setting fire to a supermarket and a car dealership, and almost 400 shops vandalized, according to local media.According to the prosecutor’s office, it is not clear whether the victim, who was driving a scooter at the time of his death, wa...

Nigel Farage and the great anti-Brexit unbanking plot

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:16:51 GMT

LONDON — Like most banks these days, the Strand offices of Coutts, one of the U.K.’s most prestigious private banks known for banking British royalty, are open plan and mostly devoid of custom. Real-life engagement with its wealthy clientele, if it happens, is by appointment only. Standing inside the bank’s inner atrium on Tuesday its privileged customer base would be forgiven for having little idea the centuries-old institution was at the time being embroiled in a larger than life political scandal that could soon undermine its hard earned reputation for offering elites with complex finances white glove services.  “Haven’t heard about it,” one female cashier told POLITICO by a desk bearing an ice bucket flanked by bottles of champers.  The online storm began on Friday when former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage took to Twitter to reveal he had been unbanked by a prestigious subsidiary of a large banking group he had banked with since 1980. He didn’t name t...