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Dembélé, Kane and Mbappé headline shortlist for Ballon d’Or

(AP) — Last year's winner Ousmane Dembélé, Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappé are among the top contenders for the men's Ballon d'Or. The 30 men's and 30 women's nominees were revealed by France Football magazine on Tuesday, with the winners to be announced at a ceremony in London on Oct. 26. In the women's field, two-time winner Alexia Putellas, Ewa Pajor and Melchie Dumornay are among the favorites. Aitana Bonmatí, the winner of the past three awards, did not make the cut after missing most of the season through injury. She returned at the end of Barcelona's quadruple-winning ...

Pogacar ends season after injury, extends contract

SIERRA DE LA PANDERA, Spain (AP) — Tadej Pogacar has confirmed his season is over after his heavy crash in the Spanish Vuelta and that he extended his contract with UAE Team Emirates-XRG for another two years through 2032. The five-time Tour de France winner's decision to end his season rules out a defense of the world championship title he won in 2024 and 2025. "Of course, this isn't the way I wanted my season to finish. Right now, the most important thing is to recover properly and give my body the time it needs," Pogacar said in a statement issued by his team. "It has been a ...

Into the breach: Global Camps Africa works to rescue Africans’ future

Historians may settle on President Donald Trump's demolition of the United States Agency for International Development as the perfect exemplar of America's precipitous plunge: the nullification of the best and most idealistic of what we have to offer by those whose values are the worst and most cynical we've ever experienced. Founded by John Kennedy in the early days of his administration, it was eliminated by Trump in the first days of his. Its mission, as USAID's former Assistant Administrator Atul Gawande has written in his Foreword to a recent book on the agency, was "ending diseases ...

Trump’s ‘artificially fabricated insanity’ is worsening, but Americans are on to him

I still come across people who believe Trump won the 2020 election, that the attack on the U.S Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was an act of patriotism, that Trump's subsequent indictments and felonies were Biden's work, that most immigrants are criminals, that Democrats are evil, that Jews are trying to replace white Christians born in America, that Muslims can't be trusted, that a significant amount of voting is fraudulent, that we're winning the war against Iran, that the economy has never been as good, that climate change is a hoax, that Canada poses a threat to the United States and it's ...

Wildcats shut down Zeps for 35-0 win

WATERFORD — To say the Waterford Wildcat defensive unit has come to play in 2026 would be a major understatement. In their home opener Friday night against Shenandoah the Wildcats blanked their opponent for the second time in three games with a convincing 35-0 shellacking of the ...