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For a few years now, Keira Walsh has been one of the world’s best defensive midfielders. Chelsea and England function better with her in the engine room, pulling the strings and breaking the lines.But even with multiple winners’ medals – likely found on her mum’s mantlepiece – she is still learning all the time, as any good footballer should. This season alone has seen a shift in Walsh’s play. She is operating further forward than she did in her WSL games for Chelsea last season, and is registering better numbers in many attacking metrics.That shift is perhaps illustrated best by…

Jeff KassoufNov 14, 2025, 12:32 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.The four most recent NWSL champions are also the 2025 semifinalists. If that sounds predictable, it isn’t — at least, not entirely.NJ/NY Gotham FC (the 2023 champions) arrive in Sunday’s semifinal against the reigning champion Orlando Pride (3 p.m. ET, ABC / ESPN Deportes / ESPN+) as the No. 8 seed that just pulled off the biggest upset in…

Columbus Crew have granted permission for their boss, Wilfried Nancy, to speak to Celtic over their managerial vacancy.It’s understood the Hoops have already held talks with his representatives and believe he is open to joining the Scottish champions. Nancy, 48, is due to have direct discussions with the Celtic hierarchy over the weekend.Sky Sports News revealed on Wednesday that Celtic officials had been holding talks in London with a number of targets and their representatives, after drawing up their shortlist.Principal shareholder Dermot Desmond was meeting interim boss Martin O’Neill in London on Friday to discuss whether he would stay on…

Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Scholar Rock — The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotech jumped 23% after saying it ” completed constructive and collaborative in-person Type A meeting ” with the FDA on Wednesday for a biologics license application for apitegromab, a spinal muscular atrophy treatment. Officials from Novo Nordisk’s Catalent Indiana joined the meeting and said the facility will be ready for reinspection by the end of 2025. Strategy — The crypto stock was down about 1%, well off the lows seen earlier in the day. CEO Michael Saylor said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that the bitcoin…

HOUSTON (AP) — Fans of the Buddy Holly crosswalk in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, with a painted depiction of the rock and roll legend’s iconic glasses, will soon have to say goodbye to it. That day will possibly make them cry.Lubbock City Council members said this week they have no choice but to remove it, to comply with a directive from the Trump administration and Republicans to rid the public roadways of any political messages or artwork.Laredo, in South Texas, removed a mural in October that protested the border wall along the southern border with Mexico. In August, Florida…

NEW YORK (AP) — Acceding to President Donald Trump’s demands, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that she has ordered a top federal prosecutor to investigate sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump political foes, including former President Bill Clinton.Bondi posted on X that she was assigning Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to lead the probe, capping an eventful week in which congressional Republicans released nearly 23,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate and House Democrats seized on emails mentioning Trump.Trump, who was friends with Epstein for years, didn’t explain what supposed crimes he wanted the Justice Department to…

Jeff KassoufNov 14, 2025, 11:37 AM 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.Vlatko Andonovski has relinquished his head coaching role with the Kansas City Current to shift solely into his role as sporting director, creating a head-coaching vacancy at the NWSL’s top overall team for the 2025 regular season.In a wider reorganization, Kansas City has also promoted Ryan Dell to general manager, replacing incumbent GM Caitlin Carducci.Andonovski held the dual role…

Yvonne Almond was supposed to be in court to face one of 233 charges she has been hit with in the past year for being homeless in Honolulu. But when the judge in Courtroom 7D called her name, she was nowhere to be seen.The judge promptly dismissed her case anyway, for lack of evidence. In barely a minute and with a few key strokes by the court clerk, the case was closed and Almond’s latest charges — sitting or lying on a public sidewalk and littering — went away. That had been the outcome for Almond dozens of times already…

Job seekers wait to enter the SacJobs Career job fair in Sacramento, California, US, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe first economic data report that went unreleased due to the government shutdown will be released next week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday.As the U.S. government reopens for business, Wall Street’s attention now turns toward when critical data on employment, inflation and other economic signposts will be released.The first such report, on September nonfarm payrolls, will come out Thursday at 8:30 a.m., according to a BLS update posted on its website.A day…

At least seven people remained hospitalized Friday from injuries they suffered from an ammonia leak in a small Oklahoma town as authorities focused on how the potentially deadly gas began spewing out of the tanker truck carrying it.The leak Wednesday night from a truck outside a hotel in Weatherford forced at least 500 to 600 people to evacuate their homes early Thursday while others were ordered to remain inside theirs for several hours. Firefighters went door-to-door to tell those who needed to leave. The truck was carrying 25,000 pounds (11,340 kilograms) of ammonia, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has…