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LONDON (AP) — A second man has been arrested in relation to abusive social media messages sent to England player Jess Carter at the Women’s European Championship, police said on Thursday. A 30-year-old from Ripley, Derbyshire, was arrested on suspicion of malicious communications and released on bail.It follows the arrest of a 59-year-old man from Great Harwood on Aug. 28 as part of the same investigation, police said.The U.K. Football Policing Unit launched an investigation after reports in July that England defender Carter received “racist and abusive messages.”Carter, who has an African American father and plays her club soccer for…

LONDON (AP) — Fifteen people were hospitalized Thursday after a double-decker bus mounted the sidewalk and crashed outside one of London’s busiest railway stations.Police said another two people were treated by medics at the scene of the crash near Victoria Station. None of the injures is believed to be life-threatening.The driver of the route 24 bus was among the injured in the morning rush-hour collision.Footage showed the bus stopped with a smashed windshield and emergency vehicles including police cars, ambulances and a fire engine in attendance.Witness Emit Suker said the bus “was going really fast and came off the road.”“There…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barely two years ago, Gregory Bovino was relieved of command of the Border Patrol’s El Centro, California, sector and encouraged to retire.Now he leads immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, an assignment that began June 6 when the Trump administration launched its first sustained blitz of a U.S. city with speed and force that broke recent norms, including from President Donald Trump’s first term. His career rebound illustrates how radically immigration policy has changed.A recent August morning was typical. Several unmarked SUVs with tinted windows sped to the curb outside a Home Depot in the Van Nuys…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gregory Bovino’s distinguished Border Patrol career was in a downward spiral. In August 2023, he was relieved of command of the agency’s El Centro, California, sector, where he rose to be one of 20 regional chiefs across the country.Bovino blamed several perceived transgressions, details of which have not been previously reported: an online profile picture of him posing with an M4 assault rifle; social media posts that were considered inappropriate; and sworn congressional testimony that he and other sector chiefs gave on the state of the border during a record surge of migrants.Thirty minutes after his…

Here we go again, the age-old question for every Scotland fan: is this the time we end our exile from the biggest tournament football has to offer?World Cup qualifying is about to begin, and very quickly will we discover if Scotland will be heading to North America next year given the truncated nature of the qualification process. Denmark, Belarus and Greece stand between the national team and their first World Cup since France ’98. Six games in three months in this quickfire group. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Scotland head coach Steve Clarke discusses the…

Emily KeoghSep 4, 2025, 04:00 AM ETCloseBased in London, Emily Keogh is ESPN’s women’s soccer correspondent, specializing in the WSL and UWCLLONDON — Plenty runs through the minds of players when they uproot their lives and move thousands of miles away; a new country brings new teammates, a new culture and countless small adjustments. Yet for Chelsea defender Naomi Girma, one challenge when she landed in London from NWSL side San Diego Wave in a world-record $1.1 million transfer in January wasn’t about football at all; it was about using roundabouts.A staple of British roads but a rarity across the…

Tottenham full-back Djed Spence was both honoured and surprised to learn he is in line to make history as England’s first openly Muslim player.The 25-year-old was one of two new faces included in Thomas Tuchel’s squad as the road to next summer’s World Cup continues with qualifiers against Andorra and Serbia. Spence was surprised to get the call-up having not spoken to the England boss before and amazed to hear he could make history as the first Muslim footballer to represent the senior men’s team. Image: Spence (right) has been a key part of the Spurs defence this season “I’ve…

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds more bodies have been recovered from houses in mountain villages destroyed by a major earthquake in Afghanistan early this week, pushing the death toll to over 2,200, a Taliban government spokesman said Thursday.The shallow, magnitude-6.0 quake struck the mountainous and remote eastern part of the country late Sunday, leveling villages and trapping people under rubble. Most of the casualties have been in Kunar province, where people typically live in wood and mud-brick houses along steep river valleys separated by high mountains.Some 98% percent of the buildings in the province were damaged or destroyed, according to…

China is pressing ahead with low-orbit satellite clusters as regulators lay out a framework to accelerate the technology’s commercialization.  The biggest hurdle facing Beijing’s ambitions remains the lack of reusable launch vehicles, a breakthrough that has enabled Elon Musk’s SpaceX to cut costs and expand Starlink at speed. A new directive from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) underscores the government’s push to transform satellite communications from research into a scalable consumer service.  The guideline calls on telecom carriers to partner with satellite operators, co-build infrastructure and offer high-speed broadband for underserved areas on land, at sea and…

China’s DF-61 rollout reignites the nuclear chess match, spotlighting its mobile missile edge and the US struggle to keep its aging, silo-bound arsenal credible. This month, multiple media outlets reported that China has rolled out what appears to be a new road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the DF-61, during a military parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of its World War II victory. President Xi Jinping oversaw the event attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other foreign dignitaries. Imagery showed 16-wheeled transporter-erector-launchers carrying canisters labeled DF-61, though whether they contained actual missiles…