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Pro Picks: Josh Allen and the Bills will slow down Dallas and edge the Cowboys in a shootout

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:26 GMT

Pro Picks is a weekly column where AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi shares his picks for upcoming games. For all previous Pro Picks, head here.___Josh Allen put Buffalo back in the division race. Dak Prescott has Dallas in the chase for the No. 1 seed.Sunday’s Cowboys-Bills game is the marquee matchup of Week 15. After upsetting Kansas City on the road and getting help when Miami collapsed against Tennessee, the Bills (7-6) suddenly have a shot to play for the AFC East title if they can make up one game in the standings heading into Week 18 against the Dolphins (9-4).They have to find a way to slow Prescott and the streaking Cowboys (10-3). Dallas has won five straight games by an average margin of 23.2 points. The Cowboys begin a difficult stretch that’ll determine whether they will win the NFC East or enter the playoffs as a wild-card team. The Bills are 1 1/2-point favorites, according to FanDuel Sportsbook. Pro Picks likes Allen in a shootout because Buffalo is more...

Live updates | Palestinian prime minister says US must seek a 2-state solution. Israel vows to fight

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:26 GMT

Israeli soldiers prepare to enter the Gaza Strip, at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)(AP/Ohad Zwigenberg) Israeli soldiers prepare to enter the Gaza Strip, at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)(AP/Ohad Zwigenberg) The Palestinian prime minister said in an interview Thursday that the Biden administration must now “walk the walk” and...

Rocket Lab launches a Japanese satellite from the space company’s complex in New Zealand

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:26 GMT

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — California-based Rocket Lab, which specializes in putting small satellites into orbit, launched a Japanese satellite on Friday from the space company’s complex on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula.The mission, named “The Moon God Awakens,” was initially scheduled for Wednesday but was postponed due to forecast strong winds. The Electron rocket launched at 5:06 p.m. local time (0406 GMT).The rocket is carrying a TSUKUYOMI-I satellite into orbit on behalf of Japanese start-up Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space Inc.Rocket Lab is to release a statement on the mission’s progress after the satellite reaches its orbit around an hour after takeoff.The synthetic-aperture radar satellite, named after a Japanese god of the moon, will collect images of the Earth, Rocket Lab said.The mission is Rocket Lab’s 10th for 2023, exceeding its annual record of nine set last year.It is the 42nd Electron launch from Mahia or from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spacepor...

In first news conference with Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani dodges questions about Tommy John surgery

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:26 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani opened his first news conference with the Los Angeles Dodgers by dodging questions about whether he had a second Tommy John surgery.“At the time of the announcement, we didn’t know which way we were going to go. That’s why I never said what type of procedure was going to be done,” Ohtani said through a translator Thursday during his introduction after receiving a record $700 million, 10-year contract.It was Ohtani’s first time speaking with the media since Aug. 9, two weeks before a pitching injury that required surgery with Dodgers head team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache on Sept. 19 and will keep him off the mound until 2025. Ohtani had Tommy John surgery performed by ElAttrache on Oct. 1, 2018.“I’m not obviously an expert in the medical field, but it was a procedure,” Ohtani said. “I’m not sure what it’s called. I know it was completely different from my first time, so I don’t know what you want to call it. You could probabl...

Wild say they took ‘appropriate steps’ after 2 investigations into possible conduct violations

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:26 GMT

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Wild recently concluded two investigations into their code of conduct, and the organization said Thursday night it took “appropriate steps” to address the matters that were brought to its attention.The Athletic reported that Bill Guerin was the focus of an investigation following a complaint by an employee who accused the team’s president of hockey operations and general manager of verbal abuse. The Athletic’s report was based on anonymous sourcing, and the team statement made no mention of Guerin.NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said in an email to the Star Tribune that the league was satisfied with how the Wild handled the situation. The Wild said they would have no further comment.It has been a rough start to the season for Minnesota, which improved to 11-12-4 with a 3-2 shootout win over Calgary on Thursday night. It fired coach Dean Evason on Nov. 27 and replaced him with John Hynes. Assistant general manager Chris O’Hearn left ...

Wizard’s star Kyle Kuzma gives back to DC families this holiday season

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:26 GMT

Washington Wizard’s forward Kyle Kuzma made some D.C. kids’ holiday season a little brighter on Thursday.He visited King-Greenleaf Recreation Center in Ward 6 for his inaugural Golden Ticket Holiday Family Drive where families were able to pick up clothes, blankets and toys.“My purpose is just to do good and put smiles on people’s faces, and give them hope and inspire them,” Kuzma said.According to organizers, Kuzma donated thousands of items for the drive. The event was hosted by the Kyle Kuzma Family Foundation which is dedicated to supporting single mothers and their children.Kuzma was raised by a single mom in Flint, Michigan. Thursday’s event is a part of a larger effort by the player’s foundation to get essential goods to families in need throughout his hometown and in D.C. toggle audio on and off change volume ...

Oso Ighodaro scores 21 as No. 7 Marquette outlasts huge underdog St. Thomas 84-79

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:26 GMT

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Marquette coach Shaka Smart reminded his team before its game against unheralded St. Thomas (Minnesota) about the unusual results involving AP Top 25 teams a night earlier.His seventh-ranked Golden Eagles barely avoided becoming the latest upset victim.Oso Ighodaro scored 21 points, Tyler Kolek had 12 points and 10 assists, and Marquette hung on to beat St. Thomas 84-79 on Thursday night in the Golden Eagles’ final game before opening Big East competition.The Golden Eagles, who were 25 1/2-point favorites according to FanDuel Sportsbook, led by one point with three minutes left, and the Tommies (6-5) kept it competitive until the final seconds.“We’d seen all the teams around the world, around the country losing games like this,” said Marquette’s David Joplin, who scored 10 points. “Our connectivity showed.”One night after UNLV upset No. 8 Creighton and Chicago State shocked No. 25 Northwestern, Marquette (9-2) got all it could handle from a Summit ...

Todos familia: los nativos americanos proceden de una única ola migratoria asiática

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:26 GMT

BURGOS – Un estudio internacional, en el que participó el Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (Cenieh) de Burgos, en el norte de España, desvela que la población nativa de América procede de una única ola migratoria asiática.Es la conclusión a la que se llegó después de analizar la variación dental y detectar un grado similar de afinidad entre nativos americanos y poblaciones de Asia Oriental, según informó el Cenieh en nota de prensa.La investigación, publicada en la revista American Journal of Biological Anthropology, intenta dar respuesta a las preguntas relativas al origen de las poblaciones que ocupan América del Norte y del Sur, que llegaron como consecuencia de la última gran migración continental de hace unos 16,000 años, a través de nuevos enfoques en el estudio de la variación dental humana.Los antropólogos dentales llevan más de 50 años estudiando las variaciones en la forma de los dientes para definir patrones de migración humana. Sin embargo...

Rishi Sunak loves Big Tech. Why does he keep scaring them away?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:26 GMT

LONDON — Sitting forward, his eager schoolboy grin flashing as he laughed too hard at Elon Musk’s jokes, the message from Britain’s Prime Minister was clear: We love you.Rishi Sunak’s one-on-one with the enfant terrible of technology at a glitzy venue on a cold November night in central London drew the curtain on a week that had cemented his credentials as a Big Tech advocate. He had spent the previous day rubbing shoulders with leading tech executives like OpenAI’s Sam Altman at his landmark AI safety summit in Bletchley Park, even posing for a family portrait with them. But for a man seemingly intent on courting Big Tech and pitching Britain as the next Silicon Valley, his government has sometimes seemed intent on ruining the love-in.This week, lawmakers in the U.K.’s second chamber have debated updates to the country’s Investigatory Powers Act — a sweeping digital surveillance regime dubbed the snoopers’ charter — that have Silicon Valley heavyweights up in arms.Apple, which...

Howie Carr: Mayor dreaming of a non-white Christmas

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:13:26 GMT

The most important question about Mayor Michelle Wu’s no-whites-allowed Christmas party at the Parkman House Wednesday night is obvious:What if the reverse had happened – what if a white mayor had held a whites-only party at a city-owned building, after specifically disinviting all the non-white members of the City Council?Related ArticlesOpinion Columnists | Poll: What’s your opinion of Boston’s ‘electeds of color’ party? We all know the answer to that question. It would have been the end of the world, a national story for days if not weeks on end. On the night of the party, there would have been rioting, or looting and violence. Or should I say, more looting and violence than usual.And if it had been a white Republican mayor who had hosted it, every GOP politician in the nation down to the candidate for tree warden in Athol would have been asked to denounce it.But since it was Wu Klux Klan gathering, we were told, as always, nothing to see h...