Pep Guardiola’s team failed to increase the gap between themselves and Manchester United in Thursday night’s derby but retain a one-point advantage over their rivals and are only a point behind Liverpool with a game in hand. Guardiola laments City old guard Boro’s return to the top flight, however, looks set to be a brief one. The Teessiders are six points adrift of safety with four games to play in the 2016-17 campaign despite their win over bottom side Sunderland in midweek....

Sneh’s position is shaped more by pragmatism than principle: now that Hamas is in control of Gaza, Israelis are left with few good policy options. For the moment, they believe their best hope lies in trying to strengthen secular leaders like President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. If daily life improves for Palestinians in the West Bank, the thinking goes, then the territory can be held up as a model for the Gazans who remain isolated under Hamas rule....

But usually, by late January, the outline of awards season takes shape, and only rarely — usually because of injury — will votes be flipped in the final two-plus months of the year. Thus, we present the NBA’s midseason awards, knowing they are very likely close to how the end-of-the-season awards will pan out: Most improved: Lance Stephenson, Pacers There is much that can change between now and the middle of April, when the NBA will come around to those of us in the media, asking for its awards ballots to be filed....

On Sunday evening, a spokesperson for the Guatemalan Health Ministry confirmed to both Al Jazeera and BuzzFeed News that a 29-year-old man from Momostenango, Totonicapán, had tested positive for the virus just days after the deportation flight on March 26. While the man had not shown signs of the virus upon arrival in Guatemala, it is believed to take several days for symptoms of COVID-19 to develop, which means it is possible that he caught the virus while still in the U....

The third baseman, who tore the labrum in his right shoulder in a game March 31, came off the IL May 4 but has only three hits in 34 at-bats since his return. “We do feel feel like the injury is certainly a contributing factor to some of the struggles,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said (via the New York Post). “The IL is something we might do real quickly and just give it a little timeout to declare itself a little bit more and reevaluate it....

In a thread posted on Twitter yesterday afternoon, Tim O’Brien described President Donald Trump as a “flagrantly hateful racist” and said his boss Bloomberg was not “in the same category” as the commander-in-chief. He went on to list examples of Trump being “racist” to people of color on Capitol Hill and elsewhere in the world, both before and during his presidency. The senior adviser’s criticism of the president came shortly after a 2015 clip of Bloomberg defending stop and frisk and putting “all the cops” in minority neighborhoods surfaced on social media, causing the hashtag #BloombergIsRacist to trend....

Belichick came on to “Mike & Mike” on ESPN Radio as they broadcasted outside the Patriots’ Gillette Stadium on Friday morning, and jokingly called the pair “morons” while criticising Golic’s portrayal. MORE: Best athlete Halloween costumes Then again, Golic’s costume didn’t take much to put together. A hoodie pulled up with the sleeves cut off doesn’t take much thought, and is visually underwhelming. Huh. Now that I think about it, that’s exactly how to describe the unassuming Belichick each Sunday....

Robbie retold the story from the set in a recent interview, but it’s been met with anger by many online who are claiming that an impromptu kiss is “assault” and if she were a man, she would have been “canceled.” Babylon is the latest movie from La La Land filmmaker Damien Chazelle, which co-stars Robbie and Pitt as character living in 1920s Hollywood as they transition from silent movies to talkies....

Marian Hossa suffered an unspecified injury — two weeks before breaking training camp with the Blackhawks — during an exhibition game between his Team Europe and Team North America in Quebec City on Thursday. According to the Journal de Montreal, the injury was serious enough to send Hossa to a local hospital for X-rays. MORE: The best hockey hair Team Europe coach Ralph Krueger did not offer an update on the Slovak’s condition after the game....

Former New York Yankees relief ace Mariano Rivera criticized former teammate Robinson Cano while praising Cano's longtime rival, Dustin Pedroia of the Boston Red Sox. The comments come in Rivera's new book, "The Closer," portions of which were excerpted in the New York Daily News. – SN selects MLB’s top 50 players About Cano, who left the Yankees this offseason to sign a lucrative contract with the Seattle Mariners, Rivera writes: "“This guy has so much talent I don’t know where to start....

This is true especially in Oregon, which just had one of its driest springs in almost a century. While water politics have long existed in the region, illegal marijuana farms continue to expand in Western states, straining the supply. California, which legalized recreational marijuana in 2016, is seeing more illicit cannabis farms than licensed ones, according to the Cannabis Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. “Because peak water demand for cannabis occurs in the dry season, when streamflow is at its lowest levels, even small diversions can dry streams and harm aquatic plants and animals,” a study from the center said....

The Louisiana state legislature was considering a bill that would have taxed cannabis as lawmakers there pushed for legalization. But that legislation was rejected in the state House on Tuesday, making it unlikely that cannabis will be legalized in the southern state this year. However, Edwards suggested in a live radio interview on Wednesday that he believes marijuana will be legalized in the near future. “In the past, as a legislator and as governor, I’ve been opposed to legalizing recreational marijuana,” he said on the monthly program Ask the Governor broadcast on local radio....

As afternoon gave way to evening and Rafael Nadal prepared for a prime-time match, men’s competition at Flushing Meadows was getting more intense by the hour. MORE: Friday’s women’s matches | Open champions | Roger Federer pooh-poohs heat fears Third-round play started Friday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. On the women’s side, Venus Williams won and Serena Williams headed for her latest test. Other results in the men’s draw: No....

Sixteen people were aboard a seafaring assault vehicle on July 30, 2020, off the coast of California for a training exercise in rough waters when it turned deadly. It took 45 minutes for the vehicle to sink in 385 feet (117 meters) of choppy water. Of the 16 people on board at the time of the incident, only seven were rescued. According to a Marine Corps investigation, the tank started to fill with water and the emergency lights did not work....

He did this in his Age 20 season, playing against players two, three and four years older. There’s a reason Baseball America ranked him as the No. 2 prospect in all of baseball, and MLB.com has him slotted in at No. 3. Baseball already has a wealth of young superstars — Juan Soto, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Fernando Tatis Jr, and others — but there’s no such thing as too many talented and marketable players....

Of course, Balotelli, or someone close to him, thought better of the post and deleted it quickly. Source: BuzzFeed LATEST NEWS: Luis Suarez transfer agreement reached | Alexi Sanchez, too

The mascots are dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” with a group of children and are recreating Jackson’s iconic moves: Sonic the Hedgehog moonwalks while Nintendo’s Mario grabs his crotch. Twitter user @jaay_cool shared the video and said: “I got tears man. Look at Mario.” At the time of writing, the clip has been viewed six million times, shared more than 120,000 times, and has amassed more than 600,000 likes....

The clip of Greene making the claim while speaking at a Paulding County Town Hall meeting has started to go viral on social media and the video has so far been viewed over 200,000 times. While being critical of Zelensky, Greene did say she felt sorry for Ukrainian civilians and has repeatedly called for an end to the war in Ukraine on her Twitter page. Greene was reading a note that asked whether she agreed with the comments of North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorn....

“I had a GREAT call with my all time favorite POTUS, President Trump!” Taylor Greene claimed Saturday in a tweet. “I’m so grateful for his support and more importantly the people of this country are absolutely 100% loyal to him because he is 100% loyal to the people and America First,” she added. Taylor Greene’s tweet comes as she faces bipartisan criticism and growing calls for her to be removed from office, after past social media posts revealed that she touted conspiracy theories and supported violence against Democrats....

U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was addressing the hecklers, at least one of whom was overheard blowing a whistle as others held signs and yelled, when the press briefing abruptly concluded. “To the guy that’s blowing the whistle: We are not deterred,” Greene said before she and her fellow briefing attendees were escorted away from the protesters. “For anyone that’s here being an activist and yelling today, here’s the statement that I need everyone to understand: We will not back down....