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No. 24 UNC survives 2OT thriller to beat rival Duke 47-45 in home finale

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:34:01 GMT

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — No. 24 North Carolina stopped Duke’s 2-point conversion attempt to tie the game in the second overtime, sending the Tar Heels to a 47-45 win against the rival Blue Devils in a thriller Saturday night.Duke’s Grayson Loftis couldn’t connect with Jalon Calhoun in the back of the end zone, capping a game that had seen the teams combine for 39 fourth-quarter points before pushing into extra periods that ended with UNC fans running onto the field to celebrate in their home finale.Star quarterback Drake Maye provided the winning margin for the Tar Heels (8-2, 4-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), running around the right side and spinning through hits near the goal line to extend the ball for a 5-yard keeper.Then he made a play on the fly for the conversion, breaking off a keeper attempt as Duke’s defense converged and flipping the ball ahead to John Copenhaver in the end zone for the 47-39 lead.Loftis got the Blue Devils (6-4, 3-3) to answer by f...

ANÁLISIS | Cómo Robert F. Kennedy Jr. podría cambiar el resultado de las elecciones de 2024

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:34:01 GMT

(CNN) — Hay pocas cosas de las que se puede estar más seguro en la vida que del hecho de que un demócrata o un republicano ganará siempre las elecciones presidenciales en Estados Unidos. En este país no suele haber terceros partidos ni independientes. Lo más probable es que el demócrata Joe Biden o el republicano Donald Trump sean elegidos dentro de un año.Pero sería una tontería descartar lo que nos dicen las encuestas actuales: el independiente Robert F. Kennedy Jr. está obteniendo mejores resultados en las encuestas que cualquier otro candidato independiente o de terceros partidos en toda una generación. Él, junto con otros candidatos de partidos no mayoritarios, tiene una oportunidad real de influir en el resultado de las elecciones de 2024.Los números de Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Echa un vistazo a una encuesta reciente de la Universidad de Quinnipiac: Kennedy alcanzó el 22% entre los votantes registrados. Esa cifra me pareció muy alta, así que fue a revisar entre encuestas his...

QB Ewers back for No. 7 Texas, who also get big games from Brooks and Worthy in 29-26 win at TCU

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:34:01 GMT

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Quinn Ewers threw for 317 yards and a touchdown in his return from a shoulder injury, helping No. 7 Texas edge TCU 29-26 on Saturday night.The Longhorns also got a big lift from Jonathon Brooks, who rushed for 104 yards and two TDs and set up another score with a 73-yard gain on a short pass before getting hurt late. Ewers, a sophomore quarterback who missed two games after he got hurt on Oct. 21, completed 22 of 33 passes. He had 244 yards by halftime, and his biggest play of the second half was a 35-yard completion to Adonai Mitchell on third-and-12 from the Texas 13 in the final 2 minutes.“Quinn, coming off of an injury, I don’t know if I could have asked for much more,” Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian said. “I thought he stood in the pocket. I thought he made some throws in some critical moments. … I’m happy that he was able to play the way he did.”Xavier Worthy had 10 catches for 137 yards for the Longhorns (9-1, 6-1 Big 12), who got outscored 20-...

Harrison’s 98 KOR, Ali’s 3 rushing TDs help Marshall beat Georgia Southern 38-33, snap 5-game skid

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:34:01 GMT

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Jayden Harrison returned the opening kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown, Rasheen Ali had 163 yards rushing and ran for three second-half TDs and Marshall beat Georgia Southern 38-33 Saturday night to snap a five-game losing streak.After a short punt gave Marshall possession at the its own 45, Ali ripped off a 55-yard scoring run that gave Marshall (5-5, 2-4 Sun Belt Conference) the lead for good with 10:51 to play. The teams traded punts before Georgia Southern failed to convert a fourth-and-3 from its own 9 and Ali scored from there to make it 38-26 with 2:41 left. Davis Brin threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to Jaylon Barden and a 47-yarder to Dalen Cobb in the second quarter and Michael Lantz, who earlier kicked field goals of 35, 38 and 40 yards, made a 21-yarder with 1:56 left in the third quarter to give Georgia Southern (6-4, 3-3) a 26-24 lead. Brin was 29-of-54 passing for 307 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions and Barden finished with six re...

Suits accounts for 3 TDs, Valenzuela runs for 171 yards to lead Houston Christian over McNeese 35-24

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:34:01 GMT

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Colby Suits accounted for three touchdowns, Jesse Valenzuela ran for 171 yards and another score and Houston Christian beat McNeese 35-24 on Saturday night. Suits tossed a 49-yard touchdown pass to Karl Reynolds that gave Houston Christian a 21-17 lead early in the third quarter. McNeese regained the lead on D’Angelo Durham’s 3-yard touchdown run with 4:19 to play in the third. Suits added a 21-yard touchdown run with 11:26 remaining in the game and Valenzuela broke loose on a 17-yard touchdown run to cap and 11-play, 80-yard drive with 1:24 left. Suits also had a 1-yard TD run in the first quarter and finished with 135 yards on 10-of-22 passing and 50 yards rushing. Jordan Oliver returned an interception 53 yards into the end zone for Houston Christian (5-4, 4-2 Southland Conference) on McNeese’s opening drive. Kamden Sixkiller was 19-of-34 passing for 249 yards and threw a touchdown and interception for McNeese (0-9, 1-5). Joshon Barbie had 84 ...

Millions of Indians set a new world record celebrating Diwali as worries about air pollution rise

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:34:01 GMT

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Millions of Indians celebrated Diwali on Sunday with a new Guinness World Record number of bright earthen oil lamps as concerns about air pollution soared in the South Asian country. Across the country, dazzling multi-colored lights decked homes and streets as devotees celebrated the annual Hindu festival of light symbolizing the victory of light over darkness. But the spectacular and much-awaited massive lighting of the oil lamps took place — as usual —at Saryu River, in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh state, the birthplace of their most revered deity, the god Ram. At dusk on Saturday, devotees lit over 2.22 million lamps and kept them burning for 45 minutes as Hindu religious hymns filled the air at the banks of the river, setting a new world Record. Last year, over 1.5 million earthen lamps were lit.After counting the lamps, Guinness Book of World Records representatives presented a record certificate to the state’s top elected official Yogi Adityanath.Over 24,000 ...

Dutch election candidates make migration a key campaign issue in the crowded Netherlands

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:34:01 GMT

TER APEL, Netherlands (AP) — It is a familiar sight in this remote rural town: a migrant in a headscarf and thick winter coat carrying her belongings to the overcrowded reception center as a storm brews over the flat landscape.For many here and across this nation once known as a beacon of tolerance, it is too familiar.“Immigration is spiraling out of control,” Henk Tapper said while visiting his daughter in Ter Apel two weeks before the Netherlands votes in parliamentary elections on Nov. 22.Candidates across the political spectrum are campaigning on pledges to tackle migration problems that are crystallized in Ter Apel, just over 200 kilometers (120 miles) northeast of Amsterdam. Once mostly known for its monastery, the town has now become synonymous with Dutch struggles to accommodate large numbers of asylum-seekers.In the summer of 2022, hundreds of migrants were forced to sleep outside because the reception center was full. The Dutch branch of Doctors Without Borders sent a team...

Long walk to school: 30 years into freedom, many kids in South Africa still walk miles to class

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:34:01 GMT

DUNDEE, South Africa (AP) — On weekdays, 14-year-old Luyanda Hlali gets up before dawn to fetch firewood and cow dung to start a fire and boil some water before her four siblings and parents wake up. The mornings are a hive of activity in the Nhlangothi home, in the tiny village of Stratford in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. Once her chores are done, Luyanda embarks on a 10-kilometer (6-mile) walk to her school.There are no school buses. There is only the long, dusty road where thieves and bad men can accost her. Luyanda is one of tens of thousands of children in South Africa’s poorest and most remote rural communities who still face long walks to the nearest public school, nearly 30 years after the nation ushered in democratic change. The hardships underscore the children’s unequal access to education; the lack of government-funded school transportation has exacerbated myriad dangers. Girls face the threat of assault and robberies are rampant. Parents, local leaders a...

A fragile global economy is at stake as US and China seek to cool tensions at APEC summit

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:34:01 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and China are the two global economic heavyweights. Combined, they produce more than 40% of the world’s goods and services. So when Washington and Beijing do economic battle, as they have for five years running, the rest of the world suffers, too. And when they hold a rare high-level summit, as Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping will this week, it can have global consequences.The world’s economy could surely benefit from a U.S.-China détente. Since 2020, it has suffered one crisis after another — the COVID-19 pandemic, soaring inflation, surging interest rates, violent conflicts in Ukraine and now Gaza. The global economy is expected to grow a lackluster 3% this year and 2.9% in 2024, according to the International Monetary Fund.“Having the world’s two largest economies at loggerheads at such a fraught moment,” said Eswar Prasad, senior professor of trade policy at Cornell University, “exacerbates the negative impact of various ...

Gusty Sunday makes raking leaves rather tricky; sunshine prevails as temps rise into the 60s in the days ahead

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:34:01 GMT

Raking those backyard leaves into a pile might be a little tricky Sunday, thanks to south winds of 10-20 mph. Sunday won't be one of those really windy days in Chicago when some of us find it harder to walk around.  In our part of the country, it's not uncommon to see winds strong enough to give us a push, however.  We're not immune to dangerously highs winds, either.  The kind that can move the average size car.  To view the interactive criteria map click here