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Cole Palmer has broken a toe in an accident at home and will miss the next three Chelsea games against Burnley, Barcelona and Arsenal.Palmer stubbed his little toe on his left foot against a door. The forward had been set to return to the field after being out since September with a groin injury. Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca says “for sure” Palmer will be unavailable for the games with Burnley, Barcelona and Arsenal.”Unfortunately, he had an accident at home where he hit his toe but it is nothing important – but he won’t be back in the next week,”…

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV fixed a technical glitch on Friday in a Vatican law that became problematic after Pope Francis named the first-ever woman to head the Vatican City State administration.Leo amended the 2023 law to remove a reference that had said the president of the Vatican City State administration must be a cardinal.Francis in February appointed Sister Raffaella Petrini, a 56-year-old Italian nun, as president of the city state. The appointment was one of many Francis made during his 12-year papacy to elevate women to top decision-making jobs in the Vatican, and it marked the first time…

PARIS (AP) — France’s government is taking action against artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, which was launched by a company owned by billionaire Elon Musk, after it generated French-language posts that questioned the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz and listed Jewish public figures, officials said.Grok, built by Musk company xAI and integrated into his social media platform X, said in a widely shared post in French that gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp were designed for “disinfection with Zyklon B against typhus” rather than for mass murder — language long associated with Holocaust denial.The Auschwitz Memorial highlighted the exchange…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine police will arrest 18 suspects in a corruption scandal involving flood control projects that has sparked huge protests and forced implicated congressional leaders to step down, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced Friday.Marcos has been scrambling to quell public outrage over the massive corruption, which has been blamed for substandard, defective or non-existent flood control projects in a poverty-stricken country, long prone to deadly typhoons, floodings and extreme weather in tropical Asia.The president said the arrests were only the beginning.The warrants were issued by the Sandiganbayan, a special anti-corruption court, against former lawmaker Zaldy Co,…

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent a recent Wednesday showered in praise from the vice president and health technology CEOs at a glitzy “Make America Healthy Again” event in Washington, designed to celebrate the health secretary’s successes and the movement he has built.Yet online, a different narrative of his tenure was playing out as a small but vocal group of Kennedy’s supporters and former employees assailed top Trump administration advisers, claiming they were sabotaging him and redirecting MAHA away from its original goals.“MAHA is not MAHA anymore,” Gray Delany, a former Department of Health and Human Services…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — World leaders arrived Friday for a historic first Group of 20 summit in Africa that aims to put the problems of poor countries at the top of the global agenda. But the talks have been undermined by a rift between host South Africa and the United States over a Trump administration boycott.The weekend summit in Johannesburg will be attended by delegations from 18 of the world’s richest and top developing economies — minus the U.S., which has branded South Africa’s hosting a “disgrace ” and won’t participate in the talks.The boycott by the world’s biggest economy and…

Americans are not very happy with Donald Trump’s second term in office. Trump’s approval has trended downward since he returned to power and has recently fallen again. Here are some numbers from Nate Silver: Source: Nate Silver Even Fox News admits how bad it’s getting: Unhappy with the economy. Pain with prices. Unsure about Trump administration policies. It adds up to high disapproval among the president’s loyal constituencies… Some 76% of voters view the economy negatively. That’s worse than the 67% who felt that way in July and the 70% who said the same at the end of former President Biden’s term…Large numbers, overall…

LEVEA, Greece (AP) — It was a shocking sight for the farmer — three of his sheep lying dead on the ground, signs of their mauling unmistakable. The large paw prints in the earth left no doubt they had been killed by a bear, a once rare but now increasingly frequent visitor in this part of northwestern Greece. “It was a bear, a very big one, and they come often now. I wasn’t the only one, it struck elsewhere too,” said Anastasios Kasparidis, adding that another farmer had lost some chickens and pigs. He decided to move the rest of…

WHY THIS MATTERS: When Poland’s voters brought Donald Tusk’s government to power two years ago, it was seen as a retreat from the populism embraced by its predecessors. But reversing the politicization of the justice system has proved difficult. As one expert told AP, “Political polarization makes protecting the rule of law harder, as voters will accept anything the party they support pursues — including the takeover of courts — and will reject anything that the opposite side proposes.” It’s a struggle that holds lessons for other countries with political divides, including Hungary and the United States. WARSAW, Poland (AP)…

BANGKOK (AP) — Fátima Bosch Fernández of Mexico was crowned Miss Universe 2025 on Friday, a dramatic victory for a 25-year-old at the center of the turbulent 74th staging of the popular beauty pageant in Bangkok who stood up to public bullying from one of the hosts.The first runner-up was 29-year old Praveenar Singh of Thailand and 25-year-old Stephany Adriana Abasali Nasser of Venezuela placed third.Rounding up the finishers were Ahtisa Manalo, 28, of the Philippines, and 27-year-old Olivia Yacé of Ivory Coast who came fifth.The bad vibes at this year’s event sprang from a sharp-tongued scolding of the Mexican…