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Legacy Church and Calvary Church, each located in Albuquerque, were levied five figure fines for failing to follow restrictions despite the virus having recently surged in the area. Both churches reportedly held services that ignored the state’s requirement of limiting services to 25 percent capacity, while also eschewing a statewide mask mandate. Tripp Stelnicki, director of communications for Democratic New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, issued a strongly-worded condemnation of the “pro-virus” churches for endangering public health....

Rapinoe scored as she co-captained the United States women’s soccer team to victory in the World Cup final in France, while also taking home the awards for the tournament’s best player and top goal scorer. For Rapinoe, it was not only a testament to her skill on the soccer field but her ability to handle the weight of outside pressures, having carried the weight of the team’s fight for equal pay and been the subject of attacks from the president of the United States....

Rapinoe was an outspoken critic of U.S. President Donald Trump before, during and after the USWNT’s Women’s World Cup triumph in France this summer. The winger stated before the tournament that she would not partake in the customary trip to the White House should the U.S. win, prompting Trump to hit back by saying the USWNT should think about winning before any sort of celebration . Rapinoe, who said the president should have better things to do , helped the U....

Posters of Rapinoe were defaced with derogatory slurs in the NYC subway system in midtown Manhattan, which has prompted an investigation by the city’s Hate Crime Task Force, according to ESPN . Rapinoe, who is openly gay, has been vocal in her support of the LGBTQ community and the need for gender equality. She hasn’t publicly commented on the messages on the posters, which have since been cleaned up....

The discussion between chief royal correspondent Jack Royston and royal commentator Kristen Meinzer about the review comes after reports claimed in June that the palace had decided not to make its findings available to the public. The bullying allegations made against Meghan by former Kensington Palace staff members were initiated following the leaking of an email exchange between former palace press secretary Jason Knauf and Prince William’s private secretary. The leak came in the days leading up to the broadcast of Meghan and Prince Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey....

GB News host Dan Wootton posted a video of himself leaving a bouquet at Buckingham Palace on Saturday, September 10, two days after Elizabeth died. However, footage later emerged of Wootton appearing to pick the flowers up and re-record the segment while another Twitter user described seeing him do four separate takes. It comes four months after he criticized Meghan for visiting Uvalde to pay tribute to the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting and almost two years after he mocked her and Prince Harry over a photo shoot at a cemetery on Remembrance Sunday....

Newsweek revealed last week how Heather Wong had stepped down as executive director of Travalyst, having worked for Prince Harry for five years. And yesterday it emerged Catherine St-Laurent had stepped back as executive director of the Archewell Foundation. She had listed a second role as chief of staff to the couple, but a spokesperson for Harry and Meghan would only confirm she currently holds the executive director position and is stepping away from it....

The letter, released by the People’s Vaccine Alliance, a group working for vaccines to be made available free to everyone, calls the current approach by world governments “immoral, entirely self-defeating and also an ethical, economic and epidemiological failure”. It has been signed by over 130 public figures to mark the second anniversary of the World Health Organization’s announcement that the COVID-19 outbreak had become a pandemic. Prince Harry signed the letter alongside his wife Meghan Markle and James Holt, the executive director of the couple’s Archewell Foundation....

Knauf, as a trustee, has been appointed to offer “globally diverse perspectives and drive the Prize forward as it continues to scale up and achieve its ambition to repair our planet in this decisive decade,” an Earthshot Prize press release said. The environmental prize was formerly run by William and Kate Middleton’s Royal Foundation, but after two successful years has become an independent charity. From 2019 to 2022, Knauf was CEO of the Royal Foundation but left his position six months ago announcing a move to India and has since become a Leadership Fellow with Conservation International, an organization based in the U....

Kardashian, 42, broke her silence on Sunday saying she felt “disgusted” and “shaken” by images in a Balenciaga campaign showing children posing alongside teddy bear bags which were dressed in bondage gear. She finished her statement saying she was “reevaluating” her relationship with the brand for which she has served as ambassador. But McCain, who labelled the controversy as “epically revolting”, claimed this was not good enough and celebrities such as Kardashian needed to take decisive action on the matter....

The Duchess of Sussex attended the funeral alongside her husband, Prince Harry, and her royal in-laws. Among them were the Princess of Wales (with her two eldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte) and King Charles III with his wife, Camilla, the Queen Consort. Meghan was dressed in traditional royal mourning attire: a black dress that covered her shoulders and a large black, wide-brimmed hat. Her nails were painted in a pale pink hue that was known to be a favorite of the late queen’s....

Melania shared pictures of herself posing with a shovel in the grounds of the White House announcing the start of construction on the project—but was blasted by some for being tone deaf amid larger controversies in Washington and across the country. “Exciting to break ground on the new tennis pavilion project at the White House today. Thank you to all who will help in making this legacy piece possible for future first families to gather at and enjoy for years to come,” she said in a series of tweets....

Lucio, 53, a Mexican-American woman from the Rio Grande Valley, is scheduled to be executed on April 27. In a filing on Tuesday, her attorneys said police disregarded forensic and eyewitness evidence pointing to Lucio’s daughter, Mariah, having died from a head injury sustained in a fall, and that she was coerced into giving a false confession. According to the filing, Lucio was moving her family to a new apartment on February 15, 2007, when Mariah fell down a flight of outdoor stairs....

A man, who calls himself Warren Harden, filmed his two buddies pulling off the dangerous stunt. The short TikTok clip starts with Warren saying “these waters are clearly gator infested”, as he zooms in on two large reptiles just visible above the water line. “But the boys want to go swimming,” he jokes. He then pans the camera over to the edge of the pond, showing his two friends running straight into the water....

Video has emerged showing the moment protesters from both sides came together to jeer and chant against the men who showed up at the demonstration in Fallon on Monday. The clip shows one officer arriving to talk to the men in white hoods while at least one protester chants: “No Trump, No KKK, no racist, fascist USA.” The footage ends with both men appearing to turn and walk away from the crowd after being spoken to by the officer....

Dr. Ryan Flannigan, assistant professor and director of the male infertility and sexual medicine research program at the University of British Columbia, said in a statement that between 75 to 100 men complaining of scrotal pain have visited him in the past six months. “In many cases, it’s very debilitating,” Flannigan said in a statement. “People have to avoid certain activities such as walking, running and cycling. Even sitting or wearing form-fitting clothing can trigger pain, as well as intercourse and ejaculation....

A regular menses occurs, on average, every 28 days or about 14 days after regular ovulation. When the body does not function properly to cause ovulation, menstruation does not come regularly. Believe it or not, the uterus is more of a bystander in this monthly process. The main players are two structures in the brain—the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland—along with the ovaries. Technically, this is referred to as the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis....

The San Paolo club are in pole position in a tightly contested Scudetto race after winning 10 of their opening 12 league games this season. Napoli’s only defeats have come in the Champions League, but Sarri has made clear that domestic glory is at the forefront of the club’s ambitions this season. One of Sarri’s many great innovations at Napoli has been the transformation of Mertens from tricky winger to devastating finisher – the Belgium international has 42 goals in 53 games since being converted last October....

Record-breaking exploits on either side of the Clasico divide with Barcelona and Real Madrid lie at the heart of a collective body of work that has yielded more than 1,500 career goals and 12 Ballons d’Or between them, plus dozens of major honours and records. From the Premier League to La Liga and Ligue 1, through clean sweeps of domestic cup competitions, nine Champions Leagues and belated respective Copa America and European Championship success, Messi and Ronaldo have won everything there is to win....

Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez? Click here to see the countdown of the 50 best players in the world in the 2016 Goal 50 It did not get that bad for Brazil, but a 7-1 defeat to Germany in the 2014 World Cup semifinal was undoubtedly one of the most crushing losses in the history of sport, not just football. The confidence of the most successful footballing nation was destroyed in the space of 90 minutes in Belo Horizonte....