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ITF resumes tennis in China with no word on Peng Shuai

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — The International Tennis Federation will play tournaments this year in China with no word of a resolution to the case of Chinese doubles player Peng Shuai. Peng disappeared from pubic view shortly after accusing a former high-ranking Communist Party official — in a web posting in November of 2021 — of sexual assault.The ITF, which conducts tournaments below the elite level in its World Tennis Tour, lists its first tournament in China on June 5-11 at Luzhou. The ITF’s last full season in China was 2019, prior to COVID-19.“The ITF anticipates a resumption of tournament activity within China for each of the ITF Tours later this year,” the ITF said in a statement.The WTA, which runs the sport’s top-tier women’s events, hasn’t announced if it will resume staging tournaments in China.In late 2021, WTA Chairman and CEO Steve Simon announced that the WTA would be suspending all of its tournaments — including the season-ending WTA Finals — that were held ...

¿Qué ganó? Stormy Daniels debe pagar $122,000 en gastos legales de Trump

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

LOS ÁNGELES — Stormy Daniels debe pagar aproximadamente $122,000 de los honorarios de los abogados de Donald Trump que se acumularon con relación a la fallida demanda por difamación que presentó la actriz porno, dictaminó el martes un tribunal de apelaciones.La decisión en California se produjo casi al mismo tiempo en que Trump se convertía en el único expresidente en ser encausado. Trump se declaró inocente en un tribunal de la ciudad de Nueva York de un acta acusatoria con 34 cargos de delito grave por falsificación de registros contables en un plan para silenciar las acusaciones de relaciones extramatrimoniales con Daniels y la modelo de Playboy Karen McDougal que estallaron durante su primera candidatura a la Casa Blanca.Daniels, cuyo nombre real es Stephanie Clifford, asegura que tuvo un amorío con Trump en 2006 y que se le pagaron $130,000 como parte de un acuerdo de confidencialidad días antes de las elecciones presidenciales de 2016.Daniels demandó a Trump por difamación lue...

El magnate de medios Rupert Murdoch cancela su compromiso con Ann Lesley Smith

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

(CNN) — La boda mediática del verano ya no será.El multimillonario magnate de los medios de comunicación Rupert Murdoch y Ann Lesley Smith cancelaron su compromiso apenas unas semanas después de anunciar que se casarían, según informó a CNN una persona familiarizada con el asunto.La revista Vanity Fair, que fue el primer medio en informar de la noticia este martes, señaló que “la ruptura pone fin a un romance relámpago que generó titulares en todo el mundo”.Rupert Murdoch le propuso matrimonio a Ann Lesley Smith en Nueva York, el Día de San Patricio.La relación de Murdoch y Smith se hizo pública a principios de este año cuando fueron fotografiados de vacaciones en la isla caribeña de Barbados.El 20 de marzo, Cindy Adams, que escribe una columna de cotilleos para el tabloide New York Post de Murdoch, informó de que ambos se habían comprometido.“Temía enamorarme, pero sabía que éste sería el último”, dijo Murdoch a Adams. “Más vale que lo sea. Soy f...

Cardinals look to avoid series sweep against the Braves

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

Atlanta Braves (4-1) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (2-3)St. Louis; Wednesday, 1:15 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Bryce Elder (0-0); Cardinals: Miles Mikolas (0-0)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Cardinals -123, Braves +105; over/under is 9 runsBOTTOM LINE: The Atlanta Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals square off in the last game of a three-game series. The Braves will sweep the series with a win.St. Louis went 93-69 overall and 53-28 at home a season ago. The Cardinals scored 4.8 runs per game while giving up 3.9 last season.Atlanta had a 101-61 record overall and a 46-35 record in road games last season. The Braves scored 4.9 runs per game in the 2022 season while allowing 3.8.INJURIES: Cardinals: Lars Nootbaar: 10-Day IL (thumb), Paul DeJong: 10-Day IL (back), Wilking Rodriguez: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Adam Wainwright: 15-Day IL (groin)Braves: Max Fried: 15-Day IL (left hamstring), Huascar Ynoa: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kolby Allard: 60-Day IL (oblique), Tyler Matzek: 60-Day IL (elbow), Kyle...

Reds and Cubs play with series tied 1-1

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

Chicago Cubs (2-3) vs. Cincinnati Reds (3-2)Cincinnati; Wednesday, 12:35 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Cubs: Marcus Stroman (0-0); Reds: Hunter Greene (0-0)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Cubs -110, Reds -109; over/under is 8 runsBOTTOM LINE: The Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs play on Wednesday with the winner claiming the three-game series.Cincinnati went 62-100 overall and 33-48 at home a season ago. The Reds pitching staff had a collective 4.86 ERA while averaging 9.0 strikeouts per nine innings in the 2022 season.Chicago had a 74-88 record overall and a 37-44 record in road games last season. The Cubs scored 4.1 runs per game while allowing 4.5 in the 2022 season.INJURIES: Reds: Jose Garcia: day-to-day (hamstring), Joey Votto: 10-Day IL (bicep/shoulder), Nick Senzel: 10-Day IL (toe), Tony Santillan: 15-Day IL (back), Justin Dunn: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Tejay Antone: 60-Day IL (elbow), Lucas Sims: 15-Day IL (back), Luke Weaver: 15-Day IL (forearm), Vladimir Gutierrez: 60-Day IL (elbo...

Brewers look to sweep 3-game series over the Mets

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

New York Mets (3-3) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (4-1)Milwaukee; Wednesday, 1:40 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: David Peterson (0-0); Brewers: Corbin Burnes (0-0)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Brewers -136, Mets +115; over/under is 7 1/2 runsBOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Brewers face the New York Mets looking to sweep their three-game series.Milwaukee went 86-76 overall and 46-35 at home a season ago. The Brewers scored 4.5 runs per game while giving up 4.2 last season.New York went 101-61 overall and 47-34 in road games last season. The Mets slugged .412 as a team in the 2022 season while hitting 1.1 home runs per game.INJURIES: Brewers: Justin Wilson: 60-Day IL (elbow), Luis Urias: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Aaron Ashby: 15-Day IL (labrum), Adrian Houser: 15-Day IL (groin), Tyrone Taylor: 10-Day IL (elbow), Jason Alexander: 60-Day IL (shoulder)Mets: Tommy Hunter: 15-Day IL (back), Justin Verlander: 15-Day IL (teres major), Stephen Ridings: 15-Day IL (lat), Edwin Diaz: 60-Day IL (knee), Elieser...

Sanna Marin to step down as leader of Finland’s Social Democrats

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

Outgoing Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said Wednesday she would resign as Social Democrat party leader. “Now it’s time to join the ranks again and step down from the party chair’s position,” Marin announced at a press conference, according to Finnish public broadcaster Yle.Marin, whose Social Democrats were defeated in a national election on Sunday, will be replaced by a new party leader at the next party congress, she added. She will continue to sit as a Social Democrat parliamentarian.Marin became prime minister in 2019 and has been a star of the European left since coming to power.But faced with concerns at home over Finland’s economic situation, her Social Democrats only came in third in the election, behind the center-right National Coalition Party and the anti-immigration Finns Party.

Zelenskyy visits Polish President Duda in Warsaw

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Warsaw on Wednesday, where he will meet his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda in his second trip to Poland since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine.Their talks will focus on security issues, economic cooperation and historical matters, Duda’s office said in a statement.“We want to conduct these talks in the spirit of thinking about the future,” presidential foreign policy adviser Marcin Przydacz said.This will be Zelenskyy’s second visit to Poland since the beginning of the war — but his first “official” one, according to the Polish presidential office.The Ukrainian president has only been outside of the country twice since February 2022. He first traveled to the U.S. last December, before heading to London, Paris and Brussels in a tour of allied European capitals in February. He then briefly stopped in Rzeszów, Poland, on his way back from Brussels, where he met with Duda.Duda has visit...

Editorial: A case Tony Soprano would like

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

There’s a big difference between prosecution and persecution.The 34-count indictment against former President Donald Trump is a political hatchet job years in the making. The timing is glaring.Alleged hush-money payments to a porn star — who is now feeding off the renewed notoriety like a shark in the summer — just adds to this Big Apple circus. It is clear these charges will hurt Trump among middle-aged women. That’s a voting bloc he’ll need — if he can survive the legal onslaught that has just been unleashed.Other cases are percolating, and we’ll weigh those on their merits. But this one?The legal foundation of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s case is that Trump allegedly conspired to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush money payments. Porn stars and extramarital affairs make for spicy reading. But this case has been stewing for so long it is just overcooked.Bragg was just the right progressive prosecutor to come...

Cargo ship sinks off Turkish coast, 9 crew members missing

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:12:29 GMT

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A Guinea-Bissau flagged cargo ship with 14 crew members on board sank off Turkey’s Mediterranean coast on Wednesday, Turkish officials said. Five crew members were rescued while efforts to find nine others were underway.The Joe 2 sank off the coast of Kumluca, in Antalya province, while heading to Ukraine from the Turkish port of Iskenderun, the state-run Anadolu Agency quoted Gov. Ersin Yazici as saying. The cause of the ship sinking was not immediately clear.The Turkish Coast Guard Command said it received a distress call at 3:47 a.m. and dispatched a vessel, several boats and two helicopters. Two crew members were rescued by the coast guard helicopters while three others were saved by other vessels in the area, it said.All of the crew were Syrian nationals.The coast guard said an investigation has been launched by the chief prosecutor’s office for Kumluca. The Associated Press