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Booker scores 47, leads Suns past Clippers to win series

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:42:44 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored 47 points, including 25 in a spectacular third quarter, to lead the Phoenix Suns past the Los Angeles Clippers 136-130 on Tuesday night and win the Western Conference first-round playoff series in five games.The Clippers didn’t go quietly, nearly coming back from a 20-point deficit early in the fourth. Los Angeles had multiple chances to tie in the final three minutes, but could never convert. Durant made a layup to push Phoenix’s lead to 134-130 and then made two free throws to put the Suns up six with 31.3 seconds left.Durant finished with 31 points while Deandre Ayton had 21 points and 11 rebounds. Booker shot 19 of 27 from the field.Durant’s final free throws capped a wild back-and-forth second half that saw the Clippers take a 71-61 lead early in the third.But the Suns — led by Booker’s stellar shot making — unleashed a powerful wave of offense, pouring in 50 points in the third quarter to take a 111-94 lead into the fo...

Blake Sabol’s 2-run homer sends Giants past Cardinals 5-4

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:42:44 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Blake Sabol hit a game-ending two-run homer in the ninth inning, and the San Francisco Giants rallied past the St. Louis Cardinals 5-4 on Tuesday night.With two outs and a runner on second, Sabol sent Ryan Helsley’s 1-2 offering over the wall in center field for his first career walk-off homer. Helsley (0-2) blew his third save of the year.San Francisco trailed 4-2 entering the ninth. Joc Pederson reached on a fielding error by second baseman Tommy Edman, and Mike Yastrzemski followed with an RBI double to bring the Giants within one.Yastrzemski homered earlier in the game as San Francisco won its fourth in a row.Paul Goldschmidt broke a 2-2 tie with a two-run single in the eighth inning to give the Cardinals their first lead of the night.Edman homered in the third for the Cardinals.Sean Hjelle (1-0) pitched a scoreless ninth. San Francisco used eight pitchers, with opener John Brebbia pitching the first 1 1/3 innings.The Giants took an early lead in the bottom ...

Drury, Angels ride 4-run first to 5-3 win over Athletics

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:42:44 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Brandon Drury had a two-run triple, and the Los Angeles Angels used a four-run first inning to beat the Oakland Athletics 5-3 on Tuesday night.Mike Trout went 2-for-4 with a double, Shohei Ohtani had two stolen bases, and the Angels have alternated wins and losses over their past five games.Griffin Canning (1-0) allowed three runs in five innings while striking out seven. Shea Langeliers hit a home run, Mason Miller (0-1) gave up four runs in four innings, and the A’s lost for the 10th time in their past 12 games.Coming off a 11-10 extra-innings loss on Monday, the Angels’ bats carried over from that wild defeat by getting four runs in the first.Drury tripled to center, scoring Trout and Anthony Rendon to give Anaheim a 2-1 lead and giving him six RBIs through the first 11 innings of the four-game series.Drury was driven in on Luis Rengifo’s single, and Gio Urshela wrapped up the productive beginning with his own RBI single. It seemed like Miller wasn’t going ...

Kim Kardashian revela la “magia” del éxito de su empresa Skims a Poppy Harlow de CNN

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:42:44 GMT

Nueva York (CNN) — Hace sólo unos años, Kim Kardashian teñía sus propias prendas moldeadoras en un fregadero con bolsitas de té. La idea se ha convertido en Skims, una marca de US$ 3.200 millones que ha catapultado a la estrella de la telerrealidad a la categoría de titán empresarial.“En mi caso, simplemente buscaba una solución al hecho de que me encanta llevar ropa moldeadora y no había ningún color que se adaptara a mi tono de piel, por no hablar de la mayoría de mis amigas”, declaró este martes a Poppy Harlow, presentadora de CNN This Morning, en la Cumbre Time 100. Añadió que en aquel momento “no había nada intermedio” entre el color pálido y el negro en ropa moldeadora.María Herrera y Salma Hayek, entre las 100 personas más influyentes del mundo de la lista de la revista TIMESkims está valorada en unos US$ 3.200 millones y fue nombrada una de las empresas más influyentes de Time para 2023. Para Kardashian, el objetivo de la marca era cubrir una ne...

City of San Diego approves renters' protection rules

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:42:44 GMT

SAN DIEGO -- Leaders in the City of San Diego Tuesday evening voted in favor of new protections for tenants across America's Finest City.City council voted 8 to 1 following hours of debates at City Hall. It now updates a 19-year-old policy, which is critical to keep people in their rental units to try to prevent homelessness.The ordinance becomes law in 30 days. Protections will now start the day a renters lease begins.A financial assistance amount, which still needs to be determined by the housing commission, would also be given to renters if landlords evict them through no fault of their own. And accountability measures will be in place to keep landlords from violating the provisions. Here is where home prices are rising the fastest in California Many landlords say the new law will scare away new development while tenant union members say it will give landlords a loophole for evicting people by making the claims of substantial renovation and the changes don't go far enough.Last ...

Ukraine launching tech cluster to boost military capability

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:42:44 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian government is launching an initiative Wednesday to streamline and promote innovation in the development of drones and other technologies that have been critical during Russia’s war in Ukraine. As part of the initiative dubbed BRAVE1, the government hopes to bring state, military, and private sector developers working on defense issues together into a tech cluster that would give Ukraine a battlefield advantage.“Considering the enemy that is right next to us and its scale, we definitely need to develop the military tech so that we can defend ourselves,” Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s minister of digital transformation, said. Fedorov told The Associated Press ahead of Wednesday’s official announcement that the government had earmarked more than 100 million hryvnias (about $2.7 million) to fund projects that have the potential to help Ukraine win the 14-month conflict. “There are many people on the battlefield now of the young generation that...

One winning ticket sold for Tuesday’s $55 million Lotto Max jackpot

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:42:44 GMT

TORONTO — Someone in the Prairies is waking up $55 million dollars richer.One winning ticket was drawn for Tuesday’s Lotto Max jackpot.There was also one Maxmillion winner from Quebec out of four available $1 million prizes.The jackpot for the next draw on April 28 will be an estimated $13 million.The Canadian Press

China opposes Taiwan-US defense and military exchanges

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:42:44 GMT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China warned against continued U.S.-Taiwan cooperation Wednesday, responding to reports that the U.S. military was sending officers to help train Taiwan’s counterparts and that a delegation of defense contractors would visiting the self-ruled island next week. “We resolutely oppose the U.S. having any form of official or military contact with China’s Taiwan region,” Zhu Fenglian, spokeswoman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said at a weekly press briefing in Beijing. Taiwan and China split in 1949 after a civil war. Taiwan never has been part of the People’s Republic of China, but the Communist Party says it is obliged to unite with the mainland, by force if necessary. President Xi Jinping’s government has flown fighter jets and bombers near Taiwan in increasing numbers and fired missiles into the sea in an attempt to intimidate the island.Taiwanese media reported this month that the U.S. had sent 200 military personnel, mostly Marines, to h...

After learning of Kishida attack, safety chief kept eating

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:42:44 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s public safety chief has come under fire for his remark that he enjoyed eel rice so much that he kept eating after his agency informed him of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s narrow escape from a pipe bomb attack two weeks ago.Koichi Tani, chair of the National Public Safety Commission for Kishida’s Cabinet, told a governing party gathering Tuesday that he had the local delicacy in front of him for lunch when the phone rang. “I was told that we can eat delicious unagi (eel) rice bowl there, and I was really looking forward to it,” Tani told party lawmakers. “Just as I was going to dig into it, I got a call from the National Police Agency saying something was thrown at the prime minister in Wakayama,” Tani said. “But I fully savored and finished … my unadon (eel rice bowl),” he said, beaming. Tani was in the Shimanto area in the southwestern prefecture of Kochi during the attack — about 250 kilometers (150 miles) southwest of Wakayama, ...

New Zealand plants tree to mark coronation of King Charles

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 06:42:44 GMT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins planted a native totara tree Wednesday in Parliament’s grounds to mark the upcoming coronation of Britain’s King Charles III.The ceremony was an early start to a campaign to plant 100,000 native trees around New Zealand. The government has donated 1 million New Zealand dollars ($613,000) to the effort.Hipkins said his office liaised with the British palace over the best way to mark the coronation. “King Charles being an avid environmentalist and a keen gardener, we thought it was appropriate that we recognize his coronation in a way that leaves a lasting legacy that recognizes his passions and his interests,” Hipkins said. New Zealand is a former British colony and under its constitutional arrangements, Charles remains New Zealand’s king and head of state. However, his role is largely ceremonial. King Charles’s coronation May 6 at Westminster Abbey in London will mark the official start of the ...