Almost a year later, the two-time champions of Europe are still savouring the sensational run of form that almost took them to automatic promotion, making it little surprise when they subsequently completed their mission via the Championship playoffs. The appointment of former England youth coach Steve Cooper has proved a masterstroke, and it would be another superb achievement if the Welshman can steer Forest to safety at the end of the 2022/23 Premier League season....

Djokovic wants to defend his Australian Open title but must now deal with problems regarding a travel form. The Federal Circuit Court said he checked “no” on the Australian Travel Declaration form question that asks if he’s traveled in the past two weeks before his flight to Australia. However, he was seen in two countries during that 14-day period. Djokovic was seen playing tennis in Serbia on Christmas and training in Spain on December 31....

Colon shut out the Mets over six innings in his return to Citi Field. Six innings after he left, Mets reliever Rafael Montero served up a tiebreaking two-run double to Matt Kemp that gave the Braves a 3-1 win. STATS: Braves-Mets Game Center But forget about Montero (Mets fans want to, after watching him stumble his way to a loss); the night was all about Big Sexy. Mets fans let Colon know they still love him for it....

Russia already escalated the conflict when its forces failed to make quick work of the Ukrainian military with intense and indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets. If Russia’s campaign stalls again, nuclear weapons could wind up being a fallback option for Putin. “If the Russian campaign starts to feel like it’s a military catastrophe, that’s where escalation to nuclear weapons comes into play,” says Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT....

Lawson finished the night with 20 points and 12 assists, but his crossover of Kirk Hinrich will remain as the lasting image from the Nuggets’ 114-109 win over the Chicago Bulls. MORE: ‘Tired’ Rose sits out second half | Pierce signs Celtics gear at Wiz game | Malice in the Palace Handling the ball in a screen-and-roll set in the third quarter, Lawson faked a pass and Hinrich bit — hard....

Victor Ortiz called a potential bout between Floyd Mayweather and Andre Berto “embarrassing” and “not even a fight” last week, and at least one Las Vegas sports book feels a similar way based on the price it’s hung. The South Point has opened Mayweather as a -900 favorite over Berto, who is available at +650. The limit bet is $1,000 right now, and the fight must happen by Sept. 30, 2015, or it will be ruled “no action” and all wagers will be returned....

User @kimilupes posted the video, which can be seen here, earlier this month and it has since amassed more than 700,000 views. Jumping on a trend that has become a popular way for TikTok users to tell stories, she sings along to a Sarah Cothran recording of the song “Grace Kelly” by Mika while removing her personal protective gear, as captions reveal her story part by part. “Spent 4 years in undergraduate school studying health sciences,” the first caption says as the woman removes her mask to reveal another one underneath....

The two-hour premiere will be split between USA and the WWE Network, but both halves will have Takeover-level matches, including two title matches that may leave the Undisputed Era draped in gold. The first title match will feature Velveteen Dream, the NXT North American Champion, taking on Roderick Strong. Dream escaped with his title recently during the triple threat bout at Takeover: Toronto against Strong and Peter Dunne. Strong wants a one-on-one match with Dream, and he’s finally getting one....

The Supreme Court’s Wednesday ruling sided with the Brooklyn diocese and other religious organizations that felt that the restrictions violated the First Amendment and were too harsh. In his op-ed published in The New York Times on Thursday, Pope Francis said that most governments had responded to the pandemic well in making public health a priority. He then turned his attention to anti-lockdown protests, saying that protesters took the idea of personal freedom and turned it “into an ideology, creating a prism through which they judge everything....

Since April, Texas has bused more than 5,200 foreign migrants to major cities across the country, with a further 1,100 being sent from Arizona, according to KXAN News. Abbott and Arizona Governor Doug Ducey have characterized this system as a voluntary offer to help migrants reach family in other cities. It has also been characterized as a political maneuver by the Republican state leaders in response to President Joe Biden’s handling of U....

The statement was issued on Twitter in what appeared to be a screenshot from a notes app. The board initially released new figures from the election that showed Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ lead in the Democratic mayoral primary had narrowed to just two points in the first tabulated set of results from the new ranked-choice voting (RCV) system, according to CNN. However, BOE later took to Twitter to announce that images of test ballots were not cleared from the Election Management System (EMS), meaning an additional 135,000 ballots were included in results released on Tuesday....

“The NYPD has seen a surge in the number of officers filing for retirement. While the decision to retire is a personal one and can be attributed to a range of factors, it is a troubling trend that we are closely monitoring,” the department told Newsweek in a statement. The New York Post earlier reported that the NYPD has even taken steps to limit retirement applications, as they have surged 411 percent, compared with the same period last year....

That translates into the occasional brawls in Manhattan taverns and hockey games. It boiled over during a charity football game in Brooklyn between the country’s largest fire and police departments. MORE: Sports’ greatest brawls that you won’t forget The two sides engaged in a bloody brawl after a cop wiped out a firefighter near the NYPD sideline. That did it. As the saying goes, there were wigs on the green at the ironically named “Fun City Bowl” in Coney Island....

The panel subpoenaed Verizon to turn over all call and text message records related to the cell phones of Kelly Meggs’ wife, Connie Meggs, from November 1, 2020, to January 31, 2021. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, Connie Meggs argued the subpoena violated her constitutional right to a fair trial by tainting the jury pool and breaching marital communications privilege since conversations she had with her husband would be uncovered....

With a Pueblo, Colorado synagogue bombing just recently averted by the FBI, mere weeks after the one-year anniversary of the massacre of 11 Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburg, Ohio, the state of our union is less strong and more divided. Emotionally and empirically, America is in a state of hate. Hate crime rose three years in a row, and hate crime violence is now at a 16 year high....

Barack Obama, whose critics relentlessly throw barbs his way, has largely upheld that standard when dealing with his successor, President Donald Trump. In the run-up to the 2020 election, however, his critiques have become more pointed. Trump’s attacks on Obama go back to before his Republican political career began, beginning with his pushing of a conspiracy theory that the former president was born in Kenya. In the political realm, Trump put an end to Obama’s hopes of a continuation of his vision under Hillary Clinton in 2016, and he has tried hard to undo the legacy left by his predecessor, such as the attempt to repeal Obamacare....

It was the sign that follows him to every event, stuck to the front of every podium, or propped on a bookcase behind him in every TV interview. The one that bears his campaign slogan: “Change We Can Believe In.” Maybe that’s because this wasn’t supposed to look or sound like a campaign event—even though the speech was one of the defining moments of his presidential run, rivaling his widely heralded victory addresses following his wins in Iowa and South Carolina....

The event in Flint marked the first time both Obama and Biden campaigned together this year, according to CNBC. Speaking from a podium with the message, “Battle for the Soul of the Nation,” Obama said Trump’s behavior as president of the United States would not be accepted among every day friends, family members, neighbors or co-workers. Trump’s White House predecessor told drive-in rallygoers in Flint Saturday afternoon the president’s “strutting, showing off” has taught children and young Americans a warped view of what it means to “be a man,” or even just a good person....

“There is nothing weak about kindness and compassion. There is nothing weak about looking out for others. There is nothing weak about being honorable. You are not a sucker to have integrity and to treat others with respect,” Obama said during his remarks. The former president added that while the official title “honorable” is conferred on “all kinds of people” who get elected to public office, Cummings was different because he was honorable before serving in Congress....