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Javier Hernandez send his penalty over the bar on Sunday. Agustin Cuevas/Getty ImagesFormer Manchester United and Real Madrid striker Javier “Chicharito” Hernández suffered the unenviable fate of missing a crucial penalty in the game that saw his side’s Liga MX campaign end on Sunday.Hernández, who made 103 appearances for United, scoring 37 times before a loan spell at Madrid, was tasked with the all-important penalty that would put Guadalajara ahead late on in their quarterfinal second leg tie against Cruz Azul.He couldn’t convert it, with his spot kick — that would have given Chivas the lead — sailing high and wide…

And then there were two, as Inter Miami CF will take on the Vancouver Whitecaps in the 2025 MLS Cup final on Saturday.Eastern Conference champion Miami booked its place in the MLS decider with a sumptuous 5-1 win over New York City FC. Not to be outdone, Thomas Müller’s Whitecaps beat expansion side San Diego FC 3-1 to win the Western Conference for the very first time.But what to make of it all? ESPN turned to Cesar Hernandez and Joseph Lowery to sum up the best and worst of the conference finals.Talk of the roundInter Miami’s defense stays on a…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia National Guard member who was shot last week in a brazen daytime attack in Washington, D.C., remains in serious condition but showed positive signs by giving a thumbs-up that he could hear a nurse’s question and wiggling his toes, Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Monday.Morrisey said the family of 24-year-old U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe has asked the public to pray for him. Another member of the West Virginia National Guard, U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, was killed in the shooting.“Andrew is still fighting for his life,” Morrisey said. “Andrew needs…

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Babson College has instructed faculty and staff to provide “academic and community support” to a student who was deported to Honduras when she tried to fly home to visit family for Thanksgiving. Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 when she tried to board a flight to surprise her family in Texas. She was sent to Honduras two days later despite a court order prohibiting the government from moving her out of Massachusetts or the United States, according to her attorney.Lopez Belloza, whose family emigrated from Honduras when…

Mustafa Hatipoglu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesArtificial intelligence startup Runway on Monday announced Gen 4.5, a new video model that outperforms similar models from Google and OpenAI in an independent benchmark.Gen 4.5 allows users to generate high-definition videos based on written prompts that describe the motion and action they want. Runway said the model is good at understanding physics, human motion, camera movements and cause and effect.The model holds the No. 1 spot on the Video Arena leaderboard, which is maintained by the independent AI benchmarking and analysis company Artificial Analysis. To determine the text-to-video model rankings, people compare two different…

Check out the companies making headlines before the bell. Synopsys — The developer of design automation models and software jumped 8% after Nvidia invested $2 billion in Synopsys common stock at $414.79 per share as part of a broad strategic partnership. Leggett & Platt — Shares rose 14% after the furniture component manufacturer received an unsolicited, all-stock buyout proposal from Somnigroup International valued at $12 per share. Wynn Resorts — The hotel and casino chain added almost 2% after Goldman Sachs included Wynn on its conviction buy list. Goldman said the company has a “best-in-class” Las Vegas business, while improvement…

David Solomon, chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGoldmans Sachs on Monday said it agreed to buy Innovator Capital Management, a provider of defined-outcome ETFs, for about $2 billion in its latest deal to bolster the firm’s asset management division.Goldman said the acquisition, expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, will boost its ETF offerings in a fast-growing corner of the investing world.Defined-outcome ETFs use contracts including options to buffer downside risks or offer targeted gains over set time periods. Innovator had $28 billion of assets under supervision across 159 ETFs as of Sept.…

Sturti | E+ | Getty ImagesSome workers with health flexible spending accounts may be on the verge of giving their employers an unintentional gift this holiday season.Each year, the share of employees who miss the typical Dec. 31 deadline to spend their FSA money and end up forfeiting it to their companies is between 40% and 50%, according to ongoing research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, which began tracking FSA data in 2019. Although some companies give account holders an extension, most — about two-thirds — employ a use-it-or-lose-it rule.”People tell us one of the main reasons they forfeit…

What a weekend of soccer fun across Europe’s top five leagues! The Premier League’s big game involved two title-chasing London sides and it played out to a fiery, tempestuous 1-1 draw that should leave Chelsea and Arsenal fans happy … even though it won’t. In Spain, Xabi Alonso continues to make heavy work of evolving Real Madrid into his style, as they dropped yet more points in a draw with Girona that slides them out of first place.In Europe, Paris Saint-Germain’s casual approach to Ligue 1 could come back to hurt them after another disappointing result — a 1-0 defeat…

As thousands streamed into Liverpool’s Exhibition Centre this weekend, Zarah Sultana chose to stand outside in the biting wind and cold. The Your Party founding conference had already begun and Jeremy Corbyn was giving his opening speech. But Sultana, supposedly co-leading the founding process with him, appeared instead as a Trotsky-esque leader in exile. Fittingly, she was dressed in a bright red suit. It began raining and I suggested that we stand closer to the conference building, where there was some shade, but the 32-year-old continued talking.  She told me she was confident the UK’s newest political party could still pull through.  New…