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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenians on Sunday voted in a referendum on a law to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives. Parliament in the small European Union nation passed the law in July after voters had backed it in a nonbinding referendum last year. Opponents, however, have forced another vote on the divisive issue after collecting more than 40,000 signatures.The law envisages that mentally competent people, who have no chance of recovery or are facing unbearable pain have the right to assisted dying. This means that patients administer the lethal medication themselves after approval from two doctors and…

Jeff KassoufNov 22, 2025, 11:57 PM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.Gotham FC claimed the NWSL championship on Saturday, defeating the Washington Spirit 1-0. Elsa/NWSL via Getty ImagesSAN JOSE, Calif — The week leading into Saturday’s NWSL Championship was dominated by distress over the future of Washington Spirit forward Trinity Rodman, and the league’s inability to retain its biggest star due to the limitations of the salary cap.But as the final…

Jeff CarlisleNov 22, 2025, 10:27 PM ETCloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.SAN JOSE, Calif. — Gotham FC claimed the NWSL Championship on Saturday, defeating the Washington Spirit 1-0.Gotham midfielder Rose Lavelle scored the winner in the 80th minute in front of an announced sellout crowd of 18,000 at PayPal Park. Substitute Bruninha’s centering feed across the top of the box set up the goal for Lavelle, who was named the game’s MVP.It was the second goal in an NWSL final for Lavelle, who also scored while playing for the Seattle Reign in their 2-1…

The US has proposed a 21-point peace plan for Ukraine. The administration has informed Ukraine that it has until Thanksgiving (November 27) to accept the plan. There is little likelihood that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will accept the plan as it is, but he may offer various amendments to sow confusion and force delays. The US has threatened to pull all its support from Ukraine if it disagrees, though Trump said Saturday the framework was not necessarily his final offer to Ukraine. The Russians initially said they never saw the 21-point plan. Now Moscow is saying they have the text…

Defender Mathías Laborda scored a first-half goal before delivering the winner in a penalty-kick shootout and the Vancouver Whitecaps beat LAFC 6-5 in a Western Conference semifinal on Saturday night before a club-record crowd of 53,957 at BC Place.The second-seeded Whitecaps advance to their first Western Conference final after the two clubs played to a 2-2 draw through regulation and 30 minutes of extra time.Son Heung-Min, who scored twice in the second half to pull LAFC even, banged his shot off the post to open the penalty shootout while Sebastian Berhalter scored on the Whitecaps’ first attempt. LAFC’s Denis Bouanga…

NABUMALI, Uganda (AP) — Among the most sensitive family disputes Moses Kutoi mediates are those involving upset men questioning why some of their children don’t resemble them.For the Ugandan clan leader attuned to the wisdom of his ancestors, the matter is taboo, never to be discussed with others. Yet Kutoi feels compelled to intervene in the hope of saving marriages that sometimes turn violent and are on the verge of breaking. “Even me, I don’t resemble my father,” the clan leader recently told one disbelieving man he was helping. Paternity has become a key test of faith in this east…

PARIS (AP) — The date was May 7, 2017. Addressing cheering supporters, the newly elected leader of France, Emmanuel Macron, made a promise that now, in his waning 18 months as president, lies in tatters. The rival that Macron defeated that day, Marine Le Pen, had secured 10,638,475 votes. They were nowhere near enough for the far-right leader to win. But they were too numerous for Macron to ignore, a best-ever watershed at the ballot box for Le Pen’s once-ostracized National Front party that she inherited from her Holocaust-denying father.Gazing out over a sea of French flags, Macron acknowledged “anger”…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican artistic director Jorge Díaz used to have a unique selection of bedtime stories for his son. Setting aside well-known books like “Pinocchio,” they read tales closer to home. Among their favorites was the Popol Vuh, a compendium of sacred Maya myths.“Recalling those stories is important,” said Díaz, whose grandmother told him legends from her Indigenous lineage as a child. “We have plenty of beautiful, pre-Hispanic tales. But we sometimes forget.”The one he enjoyed with his son recounts the story of hero twins Ixbalanqué and Hunahpú.In the Popol Vuh, the brothers embark on a perilous journey…

With a runway of smoking-hot coals laid out before them, residents in San Pedro Manrique, Spain, steel themselves as thousands of onlookers cheer them on. The crowd roars when they walk across the fire, sometimes carrying another person on their back.Although the walkers and the crowd perform very different roles during the annual June ritual, they report similar feelings: an ineffable feeling of togetherness, as if the entire group becomes one, said Dimitris Xygalatas, a cognitive anthropologist at the University of Connecticut, who witnessed the Spanish ritual years ago as a researcher.He has experienced similar feelings in a stadium while…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Simone Guimarães, a retired 52-year-old teacher in Rio de Janeiro, lost at least five relatives to COVID-19: her husband, sister, two brothers-in-law and the godfather of her grandchild. She also lost friends and neighbors.She woke to the news on Saturday that Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the preemptive arrest of former President Jair Bolsonaro, whom she blames for her losses. A judge claimed Bolsonaro was intent on escaping days before he was set to begin a 27-year prison sentence for attempting a coup after losing the 2022 presidential election to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.“It’s a small…