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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The last inmate caught after an audacious New Orleans jailbreak was sentenced Friday to two life sentences over a 2018 double murder, with the Louisiana judge rebuking him for the disruption caused by his five months on the run.Derrick Groves, 28, wore shackles and an orange jumpsuit in a New Orleans courtroom, two months after investigators tracked him down and captured him beneath a house in Atlanta. Groves and nine other inmates escaped in May by crawling through a hole behind a jail toilet, leaving behind graffiti that read “To Easy LoL.” A jury last year…
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials are plowing ahead with a proposal to roll back certain vaccine mandates for the state’s schoolchildren, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis called for the state to become the first in the nation to eliminate all school vaccination requirements. Pediatricians, infectious disease physicians and teachers have decried the push to undermine vaccines, which for generations have been a cornerstone of public health policy for keeping children and adults safe from potentially deadly — but preventable — diseases. Experts have warned that doing away with the mandates could allow for a dangerous resurgence of…
Every Friday, starting this week, I will pick for you the best or most exciting games not to be missed in the world of football each weekend. From derbies to top of the table clashes, relegation six-pointers to world class players facing each other or other interesting tactical battles, there will be something for everyone to enjoy.This week, we take you to England, Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands for a final, big derbies, managers under pressure, Salah-gate and maybe even a first win of the season!Premier League, Matchday 16Kickoff: Saturday, 10 a.m. ET / 3 p.m. GMTThe eyes of…
NEW YORK (AP) — It may feel like you are surrounded by sniffles and coughs, but flu season activity is still low in many parts of the U.S.New government data posted Friday shows that as of last week, flu activity was high in four states — Colorado, Louisiana, New Jersey and New York — and minimal or low in most others. Severity indicators are increasing but are still within the boundaries of a “mild” season, said officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.A number of diseases tend to peak in the winter, thanks to indoor gatherings that…
Photo released from the Jeffrey Epstein files shows Donald Trump with multiple women. Redactions were done by the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. Date and context is unclear.Source: Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.Nearly 100,000 photos obtained by House Democrats from the estate of notorious sex predator Jeffrey Epstein include images of President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, film director Woody Allen, and former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon and others in social settings.Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, as they made the photos public, urged the Department of Justice…
MANCHESTER, England — Ruben Amorim has revealed he still doesn’t know whether he will have Bryan Mbeumo, Amad Diallo and Noussair Mazraoui available to face Bournemouth on Monday.The trio are set to travel to the Africa Cup of Nations later this month.Amorim said the club are still in negotiations with the federations of Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Morocco about when they have to be released.He’s hoping to get a final decision by Saturday at the latest.FIFA have issued a statement insisting players must be released at least a week before each nation’s first game of the tournament — which kicks…
Marcus Rashford’s reaction to losing his place in the Barcelona team shows he has the right mentality and attitude to succeed at the club, insists his coach Hansi Flick.Rashford, 28, returned to the starting lineup for last weekend’s 5-3 win at Real Betis after four matches out of the side, but was again left on the bench for the 2-1 Champions League victory against Eintracht Frankfurt in midweek.However, Flick was impressed with Rashford’s response to being named among the substitutes for the Eintracht game, with the England forward then delivering when he came on in the second half, setting up…
The conflict in Yemen, a country already ripped apart by a decade of civil war, has taken another turn. Fighters aligned with the Southern Transitional Council (STC), which in turn is backed by the UAE, stormed the province of Hadhramaut in the south of Yemen earlier this month, seizing the city of Seiyun. The STC is part of the UN-recognised Yemeni government but has called for the secession of an independent South Yemen. For much of the past two centuries, Yemen has been broadly divided into the north and the south, although no formal borders have existed. The British controlled…
On 8 December, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized Sudan’s largest oil field in Heglig, halting production at the main processing facility for South Sudan’s exports, which account for nearly all of Juba’s revenue. The field sits in West Kordofan near Sudan’s southern border, an area that rival forces frequently draw into battles over territorial control. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) had previously accused the RSF of launching drone attacks on the site, causing earlier shutdowns as recently as August. Just days earlier, on 4 December, United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric condemned an attack on a World Food Programme…
Ryan O’HanlonDec 12, 2025, 06:00 AM ETCloseRyan O’Hanlon is a staff writer for ESPN.com. He’s also the author of “Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution.”The U.S. men’s national team, it seems, is back to a good place.The Nations League and Gold Cup eliminations for the U.S. have faded into the past. There’s no more feuding between the team’s best players and the manager. The Americans are undefeated in five matches, all against World Cup-qualified opposition. They’ve outscored those opponents 12-4, and there finally seems to be a plan: either a clear back three or a back four that…