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Voting has opened for the highly anticipated New York City mayoral elections, with a large turnout expected as polls suggest the city will elect its first Muslim mayor.  Over 735,000 votes were already cast during nine days of early in person voting, which is four times the number of early ballots cast during the 2021 election.  Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old assembly member who describes himself as a democratic socialist, has been leading opinion polls for several months.  In June, Mamdani defeated former New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary by nearly 13 percent points.  Cuomo is now running…

Erik ten Hag is one of the names being considered as the next Wolverhampton Wanderers manager, sources have told ESPN.Wolves are looking for a new boss after parting company with Vitor Pereira on Sunday following the 3-0 defeat to Fulham.Former manager Gary O’Neill has held talks over a return to the club, but no deal has been agreed.Erik ten Hag considered for vacant Wolves job Erwin Spek/Soccrates/Getty ImagesTen Hag, who left Bayer Leverkusen after just two league matches earlier this season, is another name in the frame.Sources have told ESPN that the Dutchman is interested in talking to Wolves despite having…

Portugal will honor legendary striker Eusébio, who scored more than 700 goals in his career, by playing in a special jersey. PumaNot many players have been deemed legendary enough to warrant a bespoke, special-edition international kit, but Portugal have decided to do exactly that with a wonderful tribute to the late, great striker Eusébio. who passed away in 2014.Nicknamed the “Pantera Negra” (Black Panther), Eusébio was the figurehead of Portugal’s national team of the 1960s and early ’70s. The striker, who died in 2014, also inspired Benfica to 11 league titles, a swathe of domestic cups, and to European Cup glory…

CHICAGO (AP) — Left-hander Shota Imanaga became eligible for free agency when the Chicago Cubs declined an option to keep his contract by guaranteeing $57 million for the 2026-28 seasons and he turned down a $15.25 million option for 2026, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the team had not announced the decisions.Imanaga agreed in January 2024 to a contract guaranteeing $53 million. He wound up earning $23.25 million over two seasons, including a $250,000 escalator for 2025 by finishing fourth in 2024 NL Cy Young Award voting.Chicago…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurling a sandwich at a federal agent was an act of protest for Washington, D.C., resident Sean Charles Dunn. A jury must decide if it was also a federal crime.“No matter who you are, you can’t just go around throwing stuff at people because you’re mad,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Parron told jurors on Tuesday at the start of Dunn’s trial on a misdemeanor assault charge.Dunn doesn’t dispute that he threw his submarine-style sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent outside a nightclub on the night of Aug. 10. It was an “exclamation point” for…

BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday he will personally call Donald Trump if negotiations on U.S tariffs do not make progress in the near future.The U.S. government has increased tariffs on many Brazilian goods by more than 50%, but Lula and Trump discussed reaching a potential deal during a meeting in Malaysia in October.“I have his number, he has mine. I have no trouble in calling him,” Lula told reporters ahead of the United Nations’ climate summit known as COP. Its 30th edition starts this week in Belem, a Brazilian city in…

DARAYA, Syria (AP) — In the war-ravaged town of Daraya, on the outskirts of Damascus, a group of young Syrian artists has turned the ruins of a bombed-out house into a canvas of remembrance. On the collapsed ceiling, they painted a colorful graffiti mural honoring families lost during years of conflict.The project was led by Bilal Shoraba, seen in a yellow T-shirt, who was an activist and graffiti artist during the Syrian army’s siege of Daraya between 2012 and 2016. During that time, when the city became a center of resistance to then-President Bashar Assad’s rule, Shoraba created about 30…

Thousands are feared dead after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a Sudanese paramilitary group, seized control of the city of el-Fasher last week.  Video shows RSF fighters conducting mass executions and killings, while satellite images have detected substantial and persistent patches of blood on the ground, in what Nathaniel Raymond at Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab described as a “Rwanda-level mass extermination”.  The massacre is the latest atrocity in the civil war between the RSF and the country’s army, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which has displaced an estimated 13m people since fighting began in April 2023.  Throughout, RSF fighters have…

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville insists senior players including Bruno Fernandes, Casemiro and Harry Maguire “should be doing a lot better” for the club.United appear to have turned a corner in recent weeks, having won three successive matches for the first time under Ruben Amorim before Saturday’s 2-2 draw at Nottingham Forest.However, Neville appeared on The Overlap and Betfair’s Stick to Cricket show and had some criticism for the team’s “ageing” spine.He said: “I think your spine of a football team is critical. When I first came into Man United, our spine was [Peter] Schmeichel, [Steve] Bruce, [Gary] Pallister,…

A far-right Israeli lawmaker who sponsored a bill imposing a death penalty for “terrorists”, has said that it will only apply to “those who harm the State of Israel” and will exclude Jews. When asked whether the law would apply to Jewish attackers, MK Limor Son Har-Melech said that “there’s no such thing as a Jewish terrorist”. On Monday, an Israeli panel approved the bill which introduces the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, paving the way for its first reading in parliament. The proposal, tabled by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s far-right Jewish Power party, would allow Israeli courts to impose…