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Raiders squander 14-point lead, lose second straight under interim coach Antonio Pierce

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:16:22 GMT

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas cornerback Amik Robertson had one game circled on the calendar.Turns out, this wasn’t the Raiders’ day. Las Vegas squandered a 14-point lead and head into their bye week after a disappointing 31-17 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.“We had a lot of losses this year man, and for me, that’s just the one I wanted the most,” Robertson said. “Unfortunately we came up short.”Short, as in Las Vegas (5-7) was outscored 31-3 after taking an early 14-0 lead. The Chiefs (8-3) scored 21 straight points to seize control.“You knew at some point, world champs, Patrick (Mahomes) and those guys are going to start making plays, and they did,” Las Vegas interim coach Antonio Pierce said.The loss dropped the Raiders to 2-2 under Pierce since taking over for fired Josh McDaniels.Las Vegas won its first two games, against the sub-.500 Giants and Jets, but has now lost consecutive games against first-place teams, including Miami last week.So, even with a re-energized lo...

Washington, Taylor help No. 12 Texas A&M rally from 21-point deficit to beat Iowa State 73-69

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:16:22 GMT

KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Solomon Washington had 18 points, Wade Taylor IV scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half and No. 12 Texas A&M rallied from a 21-point deficit to beat Iowa State 73-69 in the third-place game at the ESPN Events Invitational on Sunday night.Taylor, who averaged 29 points in the first two games of the tourney, hit a jumper from the foul line to make it 66-60 with 1:18 to play.Texas A&M (6-1) forward Henry Coleman III, who left Friday’s loss to No. 19 Florida Atlantic late in the first half with an ankle injury, didn’t play. Guard Tyrece Radford, limited to 18 minutes against the Owls due to breathing issues, also sat out.Iowa State (5-2) got 15 points from Milan Momcilovic. Keshon Gilbert scored 14 points and Tamin Lipsey had 10 points, 14 rebounds and four assists.NO. 15 TEXAS 86, WYOMING 63AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Max Abmas scored a season-best 23 points to lead Texas past Wyoming for its fifth win in six games.Abmas, a former star at Oral Roberts, sh...

Clark scores 32, No. 5 Iowa beats No. 16 Kansas State 77-70 for Gulf Coast Showcase title

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:16:22 GMT

ESTERO, Fla. (AP) — Caitlin Clark scored 32 points, and No. 5 Iowa survived wasting a pair of double-digit leads before rallying to finally beat No. 16 Kansas State 77-70 in the championship game of the Gulf Coast Showcase on Sunday night.Clark made seven 3-pointers, the last coming with 47 seconds left, to help ensure the Hawkeyes (7-1) would win and avenge a Nov. 16 loss to Kansas State. The Wildcats also beat Iowa last season.Molly Davis added 13, while Kate Martin had 11 points and 10 rebounds for Iowa.Serena Sundell and Ayoka Lee each scored 18 for Kansas State (6-1), and Zyanna Walker finished with 11. The Wildcats — who didn’t trail by more than 12 in either of their two wins over Iowa in the last two seasons — got themselves into a 13-point hole early, but used a 19-7 run to pull into a tie late in the half.And then Kansas State had to rally again, this time from 11 points down after Clark made a 3-pointer late in the third. Sundell threw up a beat-the-clock prayer tha...

Driver says she's 'very lucky' after pole smashes her windshield on I-25

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:16:22 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- It was a close call for a Denver woman who said as she was merging onto Interstate 25, a pole flew toward her car and smashed into her windshield. Fortunately, she wasn't hurt, but knows this could have been avoided if drivers hauling items secured their loads properly. Police searching for driver in deadly crash in Aurora “I really didn’t know what to do," said Jessica Valov. "I was pretty shaken up.”It's hard for Valov to look at the pictures of her damaged car. She knows things could have ended so much worse. “I got really lucky that it didn’t go through my windshield. I’ve heard horror stories," she said. Valov told FOX31 she was traveling on Kalamath Street merging onto I-25 around 6 a.m. Wednesday.“Within like a split two seconds, I just saw the pole hurling at my window and I literally ducked to avoid it," Valov said. She is still trying to figure out how the freak accident happened. “It was a pole, like a foot-and-a-half pole that may be like 3-4 inches i...

Family members ID 3-year-old girl shot and killed in Tamarac hotel amid investigation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:16:22 GMT

Loved ones have identified the 3-year-old girl who, police said, was shot and killed in a hotel in Tamarac, as detectives continue to piece together what led to the tragedy.Family members said D’Yonnie Cleveland lost her life in a room at the Extended Stay America on West Commercial Boulevard, near U.S. 441, Saturday morning.Speaking with 7News Sunday night, the child’s aunt, Connie Hafley, said her family is still reeling from the devastating and sudden loss.“We’re just doing the best we can,” she said.Hafley described the moment she learned about the shooting.“I got the call that my niece is gone, but [a family member] called me screaming,” she said.Since then, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies have guarded the first-floor room. The door was taped off after investigators spent hours searching for evidence inside the unit and throughout the parking lot.Neighbors said they heard a single gunshot that echoed through the hotel at around ...

Q&A: Ending HIV in the EU

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:16:22 GMT

European countries are pioneering techniques to end the HIV epidemic by 2030. Yet progress varies widely between countries–and even among communities within the same country.POLITICO Studio sat down with Neil Mulcock, Vice President International Government Affairs at Gilead Sciences, to learn more about the latest best practices for testing, prevention and treatment, and how Europe can move forward to end the epidemic, once and for all.This Q&A is part of POLITICO Telescope: The New AIDS Epidemic, an ongoing exploration of the disease today.Neil Mulcock, vice president international government affairs at Gilead Sciences | via Gilead SciencesQ: What success have we had so far in reducing the spread of HIV?A: We have already made huge advances in fighting this disease. HIV is now a manageable condition instead of a death sentence. People living with HIV who are diagnosed early after infection and start treatment can now live long and healthy lives. And, because medication reduces...

Stalemate best describes the state of war in Ukraine

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:16:22 GMT

Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.”As Russia’s war on Ukraine rages on, neither country is likely to achieve a breakthrough this year — or even next. But that doesn’t mean it will be over soon. Moscow and Kyiv aren’t interested in negotiating an end to the war, or even settling for a frozen conflict.The fighting is bound to continue for a long time.This means the reality of the current stalemate must now inform the West’s strategy toward the conflict. And rather than counting on Ukraine to regain most or all its territory through military means, focus must shift to securing Ukraine’s future in the West.Over the past 11 months, during which both Russia and Ukraine launched major offensives, little more than 500 square miles of territory has changed hands — that’s less than one-fifth of 1 percent of Ukraine’s territory.Debates are now brewing about why this has happ...

A football star, caviar and a water show: Inside Saudi Arabia’s campaign to host the 2030 Expo

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:16:22 GMT

PARIS — Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been throwing everything into winning the race to host the glitzy 2030 World Exhibition event as a centerpiece of his sweeping reforms to overhaul the Kingdom’s reputation as a repressive oil exporter. For anyone strolling around Paris, it’s impossible not to run into giant billboards or buses and taxis plastered with advertisements for the Expo. After all, it is in the French capital that Riyadh will face off against Italy and South Korea in a vote on Tuesday. Far from being simply a belle époque legacy — the Eiffel tower was built for the Paris exposition of 1889 — Expos are still big-money opportunities to showcase nations, while generating cash, jobs and a global buzz. MBS’ goal is to convince the world he is pushing an absolute monarchy run by Islamic law in a more socially progressive direction, embracing cutting-edge sectors such as green technology and healthcare. Delegates from 182 countries ...

Israel’s trauma was compounded by talk of an existential threat

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:16:22 GMT

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. TEL AVIV — “Benjamin Netanyahu is not a brave leader,” says Tamir Pardo, a former director of the Mossad intelligence agency. “To make hard decisions for war or for peace, you have to be brave, and he isn’t, and he panics.”That’s how Pardo views his former boss’ reaction to October 7 — as fitting a pattern of behavior he observed first-hand from 2011 to 2016, when Pardo led Israel’s vaunted external intelligence agency.In the days after October 7, “Netanyahu was in a state of panic and heightened alarm by comparing the Hamas attack, however bestial, to the Holocaust,” Pardo says. He faults the Israeli PM for giving the false impression that the country’s very existence was at stake, when in fact it was not.Pardo also blames U.S. President Joe Biden for fueling apprehensions that Israel was facing an existential crisis. Biden did so, the former spy boss claims, by dispatching aircraft carriers to the region, and by tellin...

Germany chokes on its own austerity medicine

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:16:22 GMT

BERLIN — Germans gave the world schadenfreude for a reason. And southern Europe couldn’t be more pleased.For countries that spent years on the receiving end of Europe’s German-inspired fiscal Inquisition, there’s no sweeter sight than to see Germany splayed on the high altar of Teutonic parsimony. The irony is that Germany put itself there on purpose and has no clue how it will find redemption.Last week’s jaw-dropping constitutional court ruling that effectively rendered the core of the German government’s legislative agenda null and void has left the country in a collective shock. In order to circumvent Germany’s self-imposed deficit strictures, which give governments little room to spend more than they collect in taxes, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition relied on a network of “special funds” outside the main budget. Scholz was convinced the government could tap the money without violating the so-called debt brake. The court, in ...