The Warriors’ 29 turnovers open up bigger questions about the offense

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:03:09 GMT

The Warriors’ 29 turnovers open up bigger questions about the offense The Warriors will have three days in Phoenix to help bond as a team and recover from their latest meltdown in Oklahoma City. They may watch some college hoops together. They will practice. Perhaps have a team dinner.Written in stone on the schedule, though, is to gather and watch a horror film together.That horror film: All 29 turnovers they committed Friday in a 138-136 overtime loss to the Thunder.“We will watch all 29 as a team,” coach Steve Kerr told reporters on Friday. “I can tell you that. We will watch all 29 turnovers.”What they’ll see is a well-rounded comedy of errors. Of the 10 Warriors that took the court, only Cory Joseph had a zero in the turnover column. Only Brandin Podziemski had one turnover and everyone else committed at least two. The full turnover breakdown:Andrew Wiggins: 6Draymond Green: 4Klay Thompson: 4Jonathan Kuminga: 3Steph Curry: 3Dario Šarić: 3Kevon Looney: 2Moses Moody: 2Green, the facilitator, is often the one who shoulders the most...

Troubled retailer Sears quietly reopens two stores. What is behind the comeback?

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:03:09 GMT

Troubled retailer Sears quietly reopens two stores. What is behind the comeback? By Samantha Delouya | CNNLos Angeles  — To the casual shopper, Sears, one of America’s oldest retailers, may appear to be on life support. The department store chain that once reinvented how Americans shopped now barely has a brick-and-mortar footprint after a 2018 bankruptcy and hundreds of store closures.But talk of Sears’ demise may be premature: just two months ago, a previously shuttered Sears in Burbank, California, quietly turned the lights back on. Two weeks after that, another reopened in Union Gap, Washington.I visited the newly opened Burbank store several times last month, including on Black Friday, retail’s busiest shopping day, to explore the storied brand. The new Sears looks much like the old one, a vestige from a time when department stores ruled America’s shopping landscape. While the store remained mostly devoid of shoppers when I visited, those who did drop in, along with some store associates, expressed hope and excitement of a new age for Sears.Inside Sears’ re...

Haaland injured and misses Manchester City’s match at Luton in Premier League

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:03:09 GMT

Haaland injured and misses Manchester City’s match at Luton in Premier League LUTON, England (AP) — Erling Haaland will miss Manchester City’s away match against Luton in the Premier League on Sunday with a foot injury.It wasn’t immediately clear for how long Haaland will be sidelined.The Norway striker is the top scorer in the league with 14 goals in 15 games.___AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccerSource

Iran bans Mahsa Amini’s family from traveling to accept the European Union’s top human rights prize

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:03:09 GMT

Iran bans Mahsa Amini’s family from traveling to accept  the European Union’s top human rights prize DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian authorities banned members of the late Mahsa Amini’s family from traveling to accept the European Union’s top human rights prize on her behalf, a civil rights monitor reported. Amini’s death while in police custody in 2022 sparked nationwide protests that rocked the Islamic Republic.The U.S.-based HRANA said late Saturday that authorities have refused to allow Amini’s father, Amjad, and two of her brothers to fly out to Strasbourg, France, to receive the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Reports said only the family’s lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, would be able to travel to be handed the award on their behalf. The EU award, named for Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov, was created in 1988 to honor individuals or groups who defend human rights and fundamental freedoms. It is “the highest tribute paid by the European Union to human rights work,” as per the EU Parliament website.Earlier in Se...

Salami Bites / Belkys

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:03:09 GMT

Salami Bites / Belkys Ingredients:20-25 pieces of your favorite salamiA jar of antipastiMethod of Preparation:Heat oven to 400 degrees.Press salami into muffin tin pressing down to make little cups. (You can use a small cup to do this.)Bake in the oven until salami gets crisp- about 4-5 minutes.Remove them and let cool on a rack.Scoop the antipasti mixture into each cup.Serve and enjoy!!!Note: You can also make your own antipasti with:1/3 cup feta cheese1/3 cup chopped cherry tomatoes1/3 cup chopped kalamata olives1/4 cup chopped fresh basil1 tbsp olive oil

Building wind power, canceling coal — it’s all drowning under borrowing costs

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:03:09 GMT

Building wind power, canceling coal — it’s all drowning under borrowing costs DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Plans to push South Africa and Indonesia off coal sputtered. So have offshore wind farms on the New Jersey and British coasts, and a green hydrogen project in an Italian port city.Climate projects around the world are sinking because of high borrowing costs driven by interest rates — jeopardizing a major plank of the international effort to prevent the most catastrophic damage from warming temperatures.Many of the nations gathered at this month’s COP28 climate summit in Dubai, including the United States, have set a goal of tripling global renewable energy capacity by the end of this decade. Such a pledge could be one of a handful of substantial climate actions coming out of the talks, which are embroiled in a standoff over whether governments should commit to phasing out fossil fuels.But rising interest rates have imperiled these goals.Interest rates were one reason developers gave for canceling major offshore wind projects in recent months, including ...

Gaza health system collapsing, half the people are starving: UN

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:03:09 GMT

Gaza health system collapsing, half the people are starving: UN Gaza’s health system “is on its knees and collapsing,” the head of the World Health Organization said on Sunday, as Israel pressed ahead with its military offensive in the Palestinian enclave. With more than 46,000 injuries, over 17,000 reported deaths and 1.9 million people displaced, the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip has led to “signals of epidemic diseases including bloody diarrhea and jaundice,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told WHO member countries on Sunday. The WHO is also getting reports of high levels of diarrhea-like diseases and respiratory infections. The situation is only expected to worsen as fighting continues, he said. Half of Gaza’s population is also starving, the Deputy Director of the U.N. World Food Program Carl Skau, according to the BBC. Despite the war, patients continue to need routine health care, with over 180 women giving birth every day and 2,000 patients on cancer therapy. But with just 14 hospitals ou...

Trump defends dictator comments at NYC soiree full of MAGA diehards

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:03:09 GMT

Trump defends dictator comments at NYC soiree full of MAGA diehards NEW YORK — The chairman of an Austrian political party founded by ex-Nazis, the conservative Twitter star behind the anti-trans Bud Light backlash and former President Donald Trump all walked into a bar.Seriously.On Saturday night in Manhattan, amid butler-delivered bellinis, sequined ball gowns and a five-course French service meal, characters from all corners of the Republican Party’s MAGA faction gathered for “a night of dinner, drinking, and love of country.”Donald Trump, the club’s 111th Annual Gala Keynote speaker, delivered.“We want to liberate America because we’re in a country that’s in a lot of pain right now, a lot of hurt,” Trump told the crowd, during his 80-minute long speech. “This campaign is on a righteous crusade to rescue our nation from a very corrupt political class.”On the heels of a reaffirmed gag order, a debate of largely deferential Republican opponents and near slam-dunk poll numbers for the Iowa caucuses just weeks away,...

Police investigating rollover crash in Waltham that left 1 dead, 2 injured

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:03:09 GMT

Police investigating rollover crash in Waltham that left 1 dead, 2 injured Waltham police are investigating a crash late Saturday night that left one person dead and two others hospitalized, officials said.Officers responding to a reported crash in the area of 211 Moody St. around midnight found the three occupants injured, according to Waltham police.One person was pronounced dead at the scene. Their name has not been released.Two other people were taken to a nearby hospital and later released.No additional information was immediately available.If you have any information about the crash you are urged to call Waltham police at 781-314-3600.https://twitter.com/WalthamMAPolice/status/1733846847347663058This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

Cleanup, power restoration continues in Tennessee after officials say six died in severe storms

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:03:09 GMT

Cleanup, power restoration continues in Tennessee after officials say six died in severe storms NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Central Tennessee residents and emergency workers cleaned up Sunday from severe weekend storms that killed six people and sent more to the hospital while damaging buildings, turning over vehicles and knocking out power to tens of thousands.Officials confirmed that three people, including a toddler, died after an apparent tornado struck Montgomery County 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Nashville near the Kentucky state line on Saturday afternoon. Some 23 people were treated for injuries at hospitals in the county, officials said in a news release.In a neighborhood just north of downtown Nashville, three people were killed Saturday as a result of the storms, the city’s Emergency Operation Center said in a social media post.Photos posted by the Clarksville fire department on social media showed damaged houses with debris strewn in the lawns, a tractor-trailer flipped on its side on a highway and insulation ripped out of building walls. Vide...