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Masters only big show in town as other tours take week off

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:23:27 GMT

AUGUSTA NATIONAL GOLF CLUBSite: Augusta, Georgia.Course: Augusta National GC. Yardage: 7,545. Par: 72.Prize money: TBA. Last year: $15 million (Winner’s share: $2.7 million).Television: Thursday-Friday, 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (ESPN); Saturday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. (CBS); Sunday, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. (CBS).Defending champion: Scottie Scheffler.Last year: Scottie Scheffler capped off an incredible 56-day stretch by winning the Masters for his fourth victory of the year. He four-putted the final hole for double bogey and shot 1-under 71 to win by three shots over Rory McIlroy.Notes: Scottie Scheffler will try to join Tiger Woods, Nick Faldo and Jack Nicklaus as the only back-to-back winners of the Masters. … Woods is making only his second start of the year. This is his fourth tournament against elite competition since last year’s Masters. He has never missed the cut at Augusta National as a pro. … This is the fifth time in the last eight years the field has been fewer tha...

Switzerland to host Women’s Euro 2025 soccer tournament

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:23:27 GMT

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Switzerland was chosen Tuesday to host soccer’s Women’s European Championship in 2025.UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said the executive committee chose the Swiss bid over three other candidates after the maximum three rounds of voting. The other candidates were France, Poland and the expected favorite, a four-nation Nordic project with Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.The 2025 tournament will have 16 teams playing 31 games over about three weeks.Switzerland plans to use stadiums in eight different cities all connected by train. They include Basel, Bern, Geneva and Zurich, which also hosted games when the men’s Euro 2008 was held in Switzerland and Austria.Two of the eight stadiums, in Bern and Thun, have artificial turf surfaces that should be converted to grass for the tournament. England won the last European Championship as host in 2022, which had been postponed for one year during the COVID-19 pandemic. The men’s Euro 2020, which was pla...

Arrestan a una de las parejas más buscadas de EEUU en México: los acusan de torturar a sus hijos

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:23:27 GMT

Cinco niños fueron rescatados tras el arresto de sus padres en México, una pareja hispana que hacía parte de la lista de los más buscados por las autoridades de Estados Unidos después de haber estado prófugos durante casi dos años.Edgar Salvador Casian Garcia, de 34 años, y su novia, Araceli Medina, de 38, fueron acusados de asesinato y múltiples cargos de abuso sexual infantil en el condado de Franklin, Washington. La pareja era considerada una de las 15 más buscadas por los alguaciles en febrero, la primera vez que una pareja figuraba en la lista.Dos de las hijas de Casian García fueron encontradas abandonadas en una gasolinera en Tijuana, México, a finales del 2020, y ambas presuntamente mostraban signos de “grave abuso físico y sexual”, según las autoridades. Las niñas tenían 8 y 3 años en ese momento. Declaran culpables a la madre de Anthony Ávalos y a su novio por la tortura y muerte del pequeño Confiesan la tortura y asesin...

AUTO RACING: Dirt racing next as NASCAR moves to Bristol

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:23:27 GMT

All Times Eastern NASCAR CUP SERIES Food City Dirt RaceSite: Bristol, Tennessee.Schedule: Friday, practice, 6:35 p.m. and 8:32 p.m.; Saturday, qualifying, 6 p.m.-7 p.m. in four heats; Sunday, race, 7 p.m. (FOX).Track: Bristol Motor Speedway.Race distance: 250 laps, 125.5 miles.Last year: Kyle Busch won after starting 11th.Last race: Kyle Larson pulled away from Hendrick Motorsports teammate Josh Berry on a restart with 14 laps to go and won at Richmond for his first victory of the season.Fast facts: Larson’s victory was the 20th of his career, half of them coming in his 2021 championship season. It was also the fifth for Chevrolet in seven races and the third for Hendrick drivers. … Berry’s finish was his career best. He is filling in for injured driver Chase Elliott. … Denny Hamlin overcame an early pit road penalty to get back into contention, but a second one took him out of the mix at his home track. … Hendrick driver Alex Bowman has six top-10 fini...

McLean candy giant Mars makes $1.3 billion veterinary acquisition

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:23:27 GMT

McLean, Virginia-based Mars, best known for its candy empire including M&Ms and Snickers bars, also owns a large pet care business, and it’s adding to it with a $1.3 billion acquisition of veterinary diagnostic company Heska.Mars’ pet care business is one of the largest in the country. Its pet food brands include Pedigree, Royal Canin and Whiskas. It also owns a growing chain of pet hospitals and pet diagnostic services.Heska will become part of Mars’ Science and Diagnostics division of Mars Petcare.More Business and Finance NewsMore Consumer NewsLoveland, Colorado-based Heska was founded in 1988. It manufactures, markets and supports diagnostic and specialty solutions for veterinary practitioners.Heska had $257.3 million in revenue for 2022. The acquisition is expected to close in the second half of 2023.Mars is the largest privately-held company in the D.C. region, with annual sales of $45 billion.Source

Walmart lays off 2,000 warehouse workers

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:23:27 GMT

Walmart is laying off more than 2,000 workers at five US warehouses that fulfill website orders, weeks after America’s largest private employer warned it’s in for a tough year ahead.The retail giant is cutting more than 1,000 jobs in Texas, 600 jobs in Pennsylvania, 400 in Florida and 200 in New Jersey, according to Worker Adjustment Retraining Notification (WARN) filings. Reuters first reported last month that the job cuts were because of reductions and elimination in evening and weekend shifts.Walmart didn’t immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment. It’s unclear whether this is just the beginning or end of layoffs that have been affecting many large companies.In the company’s most recent earnings, Walmart told investors to expect slower sales and profit growth. It also recently announced that it will raise its average minimum wage from $12 to $14 an hour as it tries to retain store workers in a tight labor market for lower-wage industrie...

Terror convict back in prison after meetings with Lindh

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:23:27 GMT

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia man convicted on terrorism charges as a teenager has been sent back to prison for a year after violating conditions of his release by meeting with convicted Taliban supporter John Walker Lindh and others linked to terrorism.Prosecutors had sought a two-year term at a hearing last week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria for Ali Shukri Amin of Dumfries, citing a wealth of evidence that Amin immediately began meeting and corresponding with convicted terrorists after he was released from prison in 2020. The terms of Amin’s release barred him from meeting with known extremists.Amin was just 17 years old when he pleaded guilty in 2015 to helping the Islamic State group by using social media to support them. He also admitted helping a classmate, 18-year-old Reza Niknejad, travel to Syria to join the Islamic State.Prosecutions of minors are rare in federal courts.He was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison but later had his sentence ...

Wall Street drifts lower following weaker reports on economy

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:23:27 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are drifting lower on Wall Street Tuesday after two reports on the economy came in weaker than expected. The S&P 500 was 0.2% lower in morning trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 112 points, or 0.3%, at 33,489, as of 10:40 a.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.2% lower. Investors are still split on whether the U.S. economy will fall into a recession and how badly corporate profits are set to fall. The biggest question remains what the Federal Reserve will do next with interest rates after hiking them furiously over the last year to get high inflation under control. The reports on job openings and factory orders released Tuesday may have heightened recession fears. But they may also give the Fed reason to hold rates steady at its next meeting in May for the first time in more than a year, offering a possible upside for markets.One report showed employers advertised 9.9 million job openings in February, a sharper fall-off than...

Trump indictment live coverage: Former president set to be arraigned in NY

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:23:27 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — An extraordinary moment in U.S. history will unfold in a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday: Former President Donald Trump, who faces multiple election-related investigations, will surrender and be arraigned on criminal charges stemming from 2016 hush money payments.The booking and appearance before Judge Juan Merchan should be relatively brief — though hardly routine — as Trump is fingerprinted, learns the charges against him and pleads, as expected, not guilty. Merchan has ruled that TV cameras won't be allowed in the courtroom.Trump, who was impeached twice by the U.S. House but was never convicted in the U.S. Senate, will become the first former president to face criminal charges. The nation's 45th commander-in-chief will be escorted from Trump Tower to the courthouse by the Secret Service and may have his mug shot taken.Protesters argue at the Collect Pond Park across the street from the Manhattan District Attorney's off...

‘Inseparable’ dog, goat duo find forever home

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 06:23:27 GMT

WAKE COUNTY, North Carolina (WSVN) – A pair of furry friends that went viral because of their unsuspected friendship have found their forever home. Cinnamon the goat and Felix the dog are practically inseparable: they play, sleep and eat together. That’s why the Wake County Animal Center in North Carolina was searching for a home where the two could live out their lives together. The Animal Center reached out to a long-time national rescue partner and a local foster family they’d previously worked with, and now, these four-legged friends have found their forever home at a farm, the Animal Center said in a news release. “I’m so excited they will be living their dream life in Johnston County with their new family,” said Shinica Thomas, chair, Wake County Board of Commissioners. “The Wake County Animal Center has a fantastic rescue network and they focused on the best solution for this pair after getting custody of them. This was the best outcome we could hope for...