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Stewart leads New York against Phoenix after 20-point performance

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:33:17 GMT

Phoenix Mercury (3-12, 1-9 Western Conference) at New York Liberty (11-4, 7-3 Eastern Conference)New York; Wednesday, 7 p.m. EDTBOTTOM LINE: New York plays the Phoenix Mercury after Breanna Stewart scored 20 points in the New York Liberty’s 81-66 win over the Seattle Storm.The Liberty have gone 5-2 in home games. New York ranks seventh in the WNBA with 36.3 points in the paint led by Stewart averaging 8.3.The Mercury are 1-6 on the road. Phoenix is sixth in the Western Conference scoring 76.6 points per game and is shooting 44.9%.The teams square off for the second time this season. The Liberty won 89-71 in the last meeting on June 18. Stewart led the Liberty with 28 points, and Sophie Cunningham led the Mercury with 27 points.TOP PERFORMERS: Stewart is averaging 22 points, 9.8 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 1.7 steals and 1.5 blocks for the Liberty.Brittney Griner is scoring 19.8 points per game and averaging 6.1 rebounds for the Mercury.LAST 10 GAMES: Liberty: 7-3, averaging 90.8 po...

Howard leads Atlanta against Los Angeles after 43-point showing

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:33:17 GMT

Atlanta Dream (7-8, 5-5 Eastern Conference) at Los Angeles Sparks (7-10, 6-6 Western Conference)Los Angeles; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDTBOTTOM LINE: Atlanta visits the Los Angeles Sparks after Rhyne Howard scored 43 points in the Dream’s 112-84 win against the Los Angeles Sparks.The Sparks have gone 5-4 at home. Los Angeles is 1-1 in games decided by less than 4 points.The Dream are 4-3 on the road. Atlanta averages 15.1 turnovers per game and is 2- when turning the ball over less than opponents.The teams play for the second time this season. In the last meeting on July 2 the Dream won 112-84 led by 43 points from Howard, while Nneka Ogwumike scored 25 points for the Sparks.TOP PERFORMERS: Ogwumike is averaging 19.9 points, 9.2 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.8 steals for the Sparks.Howard is averaging 18.2 points and 3.3 assists for the Dream.LAST 10 GAMES: Sparks: 3-7, averaging 76.6 points, 31.5 rebounds, 18.3 assists, 7.7 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 42.3% from the...

Dallas plays Las Vegas following Sabally’s 27-point outing

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:33:17 GMT

Dallas Wings (8-8, 5-4 Western Conference) at Las Vegas Aces (15-1, 7-0 Western Conference)Las Vegas; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDTBOTTOM LINE: Dallas visits the Las Vegas Aces after Satou Sabally scored 27 points in the Wings’ 89-72 victory against the Washington Mystics.The Aces’ record in Western Conference games is 7-0. Las Vegas averages 22.7 assists per game to lead the Western Conference, paced by Chelsea Gray with 6.4.The Wings are 5-4 in Western Conference play. Dallas is second in the Western Conference scoring 84.3 points per game and is shooting 41.3%.The teams square off Wednesday for the first time this season.TOP PERFORMERS: A’ja Wilson is averaging 19.6 points, 9.3 rebounds and two blocks for the Aces.Arike Ogunbowale is averaging 22.1 points, 4.4 assists and 1.6 steals for the Wings.LAST 10 GAMES: Aces: 9-1, averaging 93.7 points, 33.7 rebounds, 23.5 assists, 7.6 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 51.6% from the field. Their opponents have aver...

Indiana faces Minnesota on 4-game skid

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:33:17 GMT

Indiana Fever (5-11, 3-6 Eastern Conference) at Minnesota Lynx (7-9, 6-4 Western Conference)Minneapolis; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EDTBOTTOM LINE: Indiana is looking to break its four-game slide with a win against Minnesota.The Lynx have gone 2-5 in home games. Minnesota is 3-6 against opponents with a winning record.The Fever are 4-6 in road games. Indiana is fifth in the Eastern Conference with 26.4 defensive rebounds per game led by NaLyssa Smith averaging 7.8.The teams play for the second time this season. The Fever won the last matchup 71-69 on June 10, with Kelsey Mitchell scoring 22 points in the win.TOP PERFORMERS: Napheesa Collier is averaging 22 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.8 steals for the Lynx.Smith is averaging 15.2 points and 10.1 rebounds for the Fever.LAST 10 GAMES: Lynx: 7-3, averaging 80.3 points, 36.2 rebounds, 19.2 assists, 6.8 steals and 2.9 blocks per game while shooting 42.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 81.6 points per game.Fever: 4-6, averaging 82.4 p...

Miami Police report battery after suspect attacks Tactical Robbery Unit officer

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:33:17 GMT

The City of Miami Police reported a battery on one of their Tactical Robbery Unit officers. The suspect is possibly contained within the perimeter of North Miami Avenue to 71 Street.Police officers and the Miami-Dade Police Department Skyforce team are present at the scene of the incident in search of the suspect.Officials said they are looking for a male subject who is jumping fences from yard to yard. Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this Breaking story.

Flights grounded at a Moscow airport after drone attack

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:33:17 GMT

Russia blamed Ukraine for a drone attack on the outskirts of Moscow on Tuesday morning, which grounded flights at an airport.“An attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack by five unmanned aerial vehicles against facilities in Moscow region and New Moscow was foiled this morning,” Russia’s defense ministry claimed in a statement.Four drones were destroyed over the Russian capital, and another was taken down over the city of Odintsovo, in the Moscow region, the statement said. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said no one was injured.Flights from Moscow’s international Vnukovo Airport were “temporarily rerouted” for “security reasons” on Tuesday morning, Sobyanin said, adding that all restrictions had been lifted as of 8 a.m. local time (7 a.m. CET).Ukraine doesn’t usually confirm or deny its responsibility for such attacks.“As we are always saying in these cases, all such things happening in Russia are the conseq...

Israel presses on with hunt for West Bank militants. The death toll rises to 10 and civilians flee

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:33:17 GMT

JENIN, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops pressed ahead with their hunt for Palestinian militants and weapons in a West Bank refugee camp Tuesday, after military bulldozers tore through alleys and thousands of residents fled to safety. The two-day Palestinian death toll rose to 10.The large-scale raid of the Jenin camp, which began Monday, is one of the most intense military operation in the occupied West Bank in nearly two decades. It bore hallmarks of Israeli military tactics during the second Palestinian uprising in the early 2000s and came as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces growing pressure from his ultranationalist political allies for a tough response to recent attacks on Israeli settlers, including a shooting last month that killed four people.On Tuesday morning, rubble littered the streets of Jenin and there were reports of damage to shops. Columns of black smoke periodically punctuated the skyline over the camp in the northern West Bank city, long a Palestinian militan...

A man who attacked 2 girls with a knife in Germany and killed 1 is sentenced to life in prison

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:33:17 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — A man who attacked two girls and killed one of them in Germany last year was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reported.The 27-year-old Eritrean, who came to Germany as an asylum seeker, was found guilty of murder and attempted murder with dangerous bodily injury, a regional court in the Bavarian city of Ulm ruled.The man attacked with a knife the two girls on their way to school last December in the southwestern town of Illerkirchberg. A 14-year-old girl died and her 13-year-old friend was able to escape.The morning attack on the girls as they were walking to catch a school bus caused widespread shock and anger in Germany.The court also determined the man’s “special gravity of the guilt,” meaning that his early release from prison after 15 years, which is often the case in Germany when people are sentenced to life in prison, is almost impossible. The Associated Press

Masked assailants attack journalist and lawyer in Russia’s Chechnya province

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:33:17 GMT

MOSCOW (AP) — Unidentified masked assailants in the Russian province of Chechnya attacked and beat a journalist and a lawyer on Tuesday, a violent incident that continued a pattern of rampant human rights abuses in the region.Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov had just arrived in Chechnya to attend the trial of Zarema Musayeva, the mother of two local activists who have challenged Chechen authorities.Just outside the airport, their vehicle was blocked by several cars and they were beaten by several masked assailants, who put guns to their heads and broke their equipment.Novaya Gazeta said that Milashina sustained a brain injury and had several fingers broken and Nemov had a deep cut on his leg. They were taken to a hospital in Chechnya’s main city, Grozny, where Milashina repeatedly lost consciousness, according to her newspaper.Milashina has long exposed human rights violations in Chechnya and has faced threats, intimidation and attacks. In 20...

Modi uses speech to Russia-China-led group to swipe at Pakistan, avoids mentioning Ukraine

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 15:33:17 GMT

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s prime minister on Tuesday took a veiled swipe at rival neighbor Pakistan and avoided mentioning the war in Ukraine while addressing a group of Asian countries led by China and Russia.In his opening speech to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the group should not hesitate to criticize countries that are “using terrorism as an instrument of its state policy.”“Terrorism poses a threat to regional peace and we need to take up a joint fight,” Modi said without naming Pakistan. India regularly accuses Pakistan of training and arming insurgent groups, a charge Islamabad denies.Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistan Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif are scheduled to address the day-long virtual summit.Modi also warned of global challenges to food, fuel and fertilizer supplies. Trade in all three has been disrupted by Russia’s 14-month-long war in Ukraine, but SCO members h...