KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs trimmed their preseason roster on Tuesday as they put together for his or her season opener on Sept. 5.

The back-to-back defending Tremendous Bowl champions launched extensive receiver Kadarius Toney, in accordance with NFL Community insider Ian Rapoport.

Within the offseason, the Chiefs had declined to choose up Toney’s fifth-year possibility. Toney performed a major position within the Chiefs Tremendous Bowl LVII win over Philadelphia with a receiving landing and a Tremendous Bowl report 65-yard punt return to arrange one other rating. However his manufacturing declined in 2023 and he was left off the Tremendous Bowl LVIII lively roster as a wholesome scratch.

Dianna Russini with The Athletic reported the Chiefs tried to commerce Toney, however ended up releasing him.

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Broad receiver Justyn Ross was additionally waived on Tuesday, in accordance with Bleacher Report’s Jordan Schultz. Ross had six catches for 53 yards in six video games over the 2023 season. He signed a three-year, $2.56 million contract with the Chiefs on Could 6, 2022. He didn’t play in 2022 whereas recovering from an harm.

The Chiefs additionally launched working again Louis Rees-Zammit, Schultz reported. Rees-Zammit, a rugby star from Gloucester, signed with the Chiefs in March via the NFL’s Worldwide Participant Pathway program.

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The Chiefs mentioned they positioned defensive finish Charles Omenihu on the Bodily Unable to Carry out Checklist — which means he can’t return for at the very least the primary 4 video games of the 2024 season. Omenihu tore his ACL throughout Kansas Metropolis’s AFC Championship Sport in January.

After struggling a cardiac arrest throughout a staff assembly in June, defensive finish BJ Thompson stays on the Non-Soccer Harm Checklist coming into the season.

In all, Kansas Metropolis waived the next gamers:

• Operating again Emani Bailey
• Linebacker Swayze Bozeman
• Tight finish Baylor Cupp
• Defensive deal with Neil Farrell
• Sort out Chukwuebuka Godrick
• Cornerback Kamal Hadden
• Operating again Keaontay Ingram
• Linebacker Curtis Jacobs
• Defensive finish Truman Jones
• Defensive deal with Fabien Lovett
• Cornerback D.J. Miller
• Offensive deal with Lucas Niang
• Quarterback Chris Oladokun
• Broad receiver Cornell Powell
• Operating again Deneric Prince
• Operating again Louis-Rees-Zammit
• Broad receiver Nikko Remigio
• Broad receiver Justyn Ross
• Cornerback Keith Taylor
• Broad receiver Kadarius Toney
• Broad receiver Montrell Washington

The Chiefs launched the next veterans:

• Security Deon Bush
• Linebacker Cole Christiansen
• Defensive deal with Matt Dickerson
• Tight finish Irv Smith

And former Mizzou security Tyree Gillespie was waived with an harm designation.

NFL groups needed to trim their rosters to 53 gamers by Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m. CT.

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‘Sloth Fever’ Virus Is Spreading. Right here’s What You Must Learn about Oropouche

By Mariana Lenharo & Nature Information

As soon as confined to the Amazon area, the mysterious insect-borne virus that causes Oropouche fever has been increasing its vary since late 2023, elevating worldwide concern. There have been greater than 8,000 confirmed human infections within the Americas up to now this yr, most of them in Brazil, however Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Cuba have additionally been affected.

In July, authorities in Brazil reported the deaths of two adults from the illness — the primary fatalities recorded because the virus was recognized nearly 70 years in the past. Brazilian officers are additionally investigating circumstances of fetal deaths and malformations which may have been attributable to the virus, which investigations have proven can unfold from a pregnant individual to the fetus. There are not any vaccines or remedies for the illness.

Earlier this month, the Pan American Well being Group upgraded its danger stage for Oropouche from average to excessive, citing the virus’s geographical unfold and the prevalence of deadly circumstances, that are notable for a illness that has traditionally been identified to trigger delicate to average signs. On 23 August, the World Well being Group revealed a notice stating that the public-health danger posed by the virus is excessive on the regional stage and low on the world stage. The US Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention has suggested shut surveillance of individuals coming back from affected areas. Circumstances of Oropouche an infection have been recognized in individuals who have travelled to the USA, Spain, Italy and Germany from Brazil and Cuba, together with 20 vacationers from Cuba to the U.S. that the CDC reported on 27 August.

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Nature spoke to Gonzalo Bello, a public-health specialist on the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who has studied the lineage of the Oropouche virus at the moment spreading within the Americas.

What’s Oropouche?

Oropouche is a virus of the genus Orthobunyavirus. It differs from different better-known vector-borne viruses like dengue, Zika, yellow fever or Chikungunya as a result of it’s sometimes transmitted to people by a midge, Culicoides paraensis, quite than by mosquitoes. However we can not rule out the chance that different vectors is perhaps concerned. [The virus has been found in other insects, including the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus.]

For a way lengthy has this virus been round?

It was found in 1955 in Trinidad and Tobago, within the Caribbean. In 1960, it was first detected in Brazil from a blood pattern taken from a sloth. Because the Sixties, it has been recognized in outbreaks in people kind of intermittently within the Amazon area [a vast area that spans nine countries in South America]. That’s why we are saying it’s a re-emerging virus, as a result of it has been circulating for a lot of a long time at the very least within the Amazon, which is taken into account an endemic area.

Why are we solely listening to about it now? Is the present outbreak the largest up to now?

In terms of the Amazon area, it’s troublesome to say whether or not the present outbreak is bigger than in earlier a long time. For the primary time, a molecular surveillance diagnostic system is being carried out, one thing that did not exist in previous epidemics.

The geographic extension of the outbreak does signify a change. The variety of municipalities and states affected is way larger. Moreover, the virus has unfold exterior the Amazon area. Once more, we don’t know whether or not that is the primary time as a result of there was no surveillance of Oropouche exterior the Amazon earlier than.

What additionally raises concern is the discovering of native transmission in Cuba for the primary time. and imported circumstances in Europe and in the USA. Because the Culicoides paraensis midge is discovered all through the Americas, from the USA to Argentina, at any time when there are contaminated folks and there are vectors, there could also be native transmission occasions. So, any contaminated particular person can generate a neighborhood epidemic, that’s the primary concern.

What are the signs?

The signs are much like these of different arboviruses similar to dengue: fever, headache, muscle or joint ache, ache behind the eyes, vomiting and nausea. So it’s very troublesome to diagnose an Oropouche an infection solely from signs, you actually need to have a molecular laboratory prognosis. A couple of circumstances might evolve into extra extreme types, with neurological or hemorrhagic manifestations, however most circumstances are delicate and resolve after seven or eight days.

Is the virus changing into extra harmful? And may it trigger microcephaly, an abnormally small head, in infants?

For the primary time, the presence of antibodies in opposition to Oropouche, indicative of a current an infection, was present in newborns with microcephaly. This implies an affiliation, however due to the research’s limitations, it wasn’t potential to ascertain a causal relationship between an infection throughout intrauterine life and the neurological malformations.

Nevertheless it was potential to ascertain proof of mother-to-child transmission in circumstances of fetal and new child dying. In a single case, a pregnant lady had signs of Oropouche and, weeks later, fetal dying was confirmed. The Oropouche genome was detected in a number of organs of the fetus. In one other current case, a pregnant lady examined optimistic for Oropouche. The newborn was born however died [weeks] later. Put up-mortem examination recognized the virus genome in numerous tissues, together with the mind.

There have been additionally two deaths of beforehand wholesome younger girls who had signs much like extreme dengue. They weren’t pregnant. These have been the primary circumstances within the literature categorised as deaths related to Oropouche an infection.

It isn’t but potential to ascertain how continuously these deadly circumstances can be occurring, both in adults or fetuses. Up to now, there is no such thing as a proof that the signs have modified in contrast with earlier outbreaks.

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A Florida choose on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to demise for the random 2019 killings of two Southwest Florida ladies.

Wade Steven Wilson, reportedly tied to a white supremist gang, was discovered responsible this summer season of costs together with first-degree homicide within the slayings of Kristine Melton, 35, and Diane Ruiz, 43, of Cape Coral. A 12-member Lee County jury beforehand advisable he obtain the demise penalty for his crimes.

In Florida, juries suggest whether or not a convict ought to obtain the demise sentence, however the choice is in the end as much as a choose.

On Tuesday, twentieth Judicial Circuit Courtroom Decide Nicholas Thompson imposed the capitol sentence – one for every murders.

“The proof confirmed each murders had been heinous, atrocious and merciless, and that the second homicide was chilly, calculated and premeditated,” Thompson mentioned throughout Wilson’s sentencing listening to.

The defendant inflicted “critical bodily and emotion ache to the victims” whereas on probation for felony convictions, the choose mentioned.

Here is what to know in regards to the Wilson’s case:

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Who’s convicted felon Wade Wilson?

Wilson, of Fort Myers, was born to underage mother and father and given up for adoption. He grew up within the Tallahassee space earlier than shifting to Lee County.

He has voluminous tattoos on his face, together with stitches, a swastika, and one which reads, ‘glory’ in cursive.

Wilson shares the shares his title with the alter ego of the Marvel character Deadpool.

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When was Wade Wilson convicted of homicide?

Wilson’s weeks-long trial started June 1 with jury choice, and happened on the the Lee County Courthouse in Fort Myers.

The jury convicted him of six costs together with two counts of first-degree homicide June 12.

On June 25, 10 of the 12 jurors voted Wilson needs to be executed for killing Ruiz. Jurors voted 9 to a few in favor of the demise penalty for Melton’s slaying.

Till April 2023, Florida juries had been required to unanimously vote for a demise sentence suggestion. Final yr Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into legislation a invoice permitting the jury to suggest demise with as few as eight votes.

Who had been Kristine Melton and Diane Ruiz?

In line with trial testimony, Wilson met Melton, and a pal Oct. 7, 2019, at a Fort Myers bar and later within the night, the trio visited Melton’s Cape Coral house. After Melton’s pal left, Wilson strangled Melton to demise as she slept, stole her automotive, after which drove to satisfy his girlfriend, Melissa Montanez. After his girlfriend refused to get into the automotive, he assaulted her, however she managed to flee.

Not lengthy after he drove again to Cape Coral, Wilson noticed Ruiz strolling to work alongside a avenue, pretended to ask her for instructions, lured her into the automotive then tried to strangle her. He then drove to an empty lot and attacked. When she tried to flee, Wilson attacked her, strangled then pushed her out of the automotive and operating her over 10 to twenty occasions.

Her physique was present in a area three days later, as vultures circled overhead, the Information-Press, a part of the USA TODAY Community reported, and after the murders, Wilson referred to as his father Steven Testasecca a number of occasions and mentioned he killed the lady. Testasecca contacted police and Wilson was arrested Oct. 8, 2019.

“He was excited,” Testasecca testified in court docket, including Wilson mentioned he needed to make Ruiz “appear like spaghetti.”

What was Wade Wilson convicted of?

Wilson discovered responsible of the next costs:

• First-degree homicide (two counts)
• Grand theft
• Battery
• Housebreaking
• Petty theft

The condemned man additionally faces costs in unrelated crimes, together with tried escape from jail and drug costs.

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Wilson’s alleged ties to white supremacist gang

In line with court docket paperwork present, Wilson is linked to a white supremacy jail gang.

The jail gang was based within the late 80s within the Florida jail system, based on the Anti-Defamation League, and is the biggest within the state,

How many individuals are on demise row in Florida?

Wilson now joins 279 individuals together with two ladies on Florida’s demise row.

The newest execution in The Sunshine State happened in October when the state executed Michael Zach for a lady’s 1996 slaying.

When is Florida’s subsequent execution?

Florida’s is ready to execute 57-year-old Loran Cole by deadly injection on Thursday for the 1994 homicide of an 18-year-old school scholar and rape of the sufferer’s sister throughout a tenting journey at Ocala Nationwide Forest in north central Florida.

A Marion County jury convicted Cole of killing John Edwards, a freshman at Florida State College and sexually assaulting Edward’s then 21-year-old sister.

If Cole is put to demise, it should mark the seventh time Florida executed a person since Aug. 8, 2019. Cole may even turn out to be the first inmate executed in Florida this yr and the thirteenth within the nation if his deadly injection takes place.

Contributing: Stacey Henson, Tomas Rodriguez and Kim Luciani

Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Attain her at nalund@usatoday.com and comply with her on X @nataliealund.

Barcelona continued their good La Liga begin with a hard-fought 2-1 victory at Rayo Vallecano — after Dani Olmo’s introduction modified the sport.

Rayo had been in a position to management Barca within the opening interval and the house aspect went forward via Unai Lopez’s end within the ninth minute.

However the steadiness of play shifted after Olmo’s introduction on the break. Barcelona’s €60million (£50.5m; $66.8m at present charges) summer time signing has needed to look ahead to his debut after points together with his registration. When he lastly took to the sector, he led the comeback.

Pedri scored the equaliser and Robert Lewandowski had a objective disallowed, but it surely was Olmo who, within the 83rd minute of the sport, transformed a sensible low end contained in the field to consolidate Barca’s place on the prime of the desk. After three matches, they’re the one group with 9 factors.

Let’s dive into the speaking factors.

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Olmo’s dream debut

After all of the frustrations, struggles and turnarounds in getting his registration authorised, Olmo’s profession at Barcelona lastly began with a bang.

Olmo had missed the primary two video games of the season, with Barca unable so as to add him to their squad as they weren’t in compliance with La Liga’s wage restrict — a scenario that left the participant’s camp annoyed. Barca nonetheless have issues in that regard and Olmo solely turned obtainable to play after Andreas Christensen’s newest damage.

The Danish defender has an Achilles downside that La Liga, after receiving a medical report from Barcelona, accepted as a long-term damage. This allowed Barca to benefit from a rule enabling golf equipment to briefly register new gamers within the place of injured ones.

When January comes round, Olmo will once more be ineligible to play — until Barca discover a strategy to absolutely conform with La Liga’s spending guidelines earlier than then and register him completely. However after final night time’s efficiency, not many followers will care about that for now.

Olmo was merely distinctive. He revitalised an uninspired Barca, combining in mesmerising vogue together with his worldwide team-mates Pedri and Lamine Yamal, earlier than placing the icing on the cake with a late left-footed winner.

Olmo changed an underwhelming Ferran Torres and performed as a No 10, which appears to be the function by which new supervisor Hansi Flick prefers him. Along with his first contact of the ball, he obtained into the field and almost received a penalty. Minutes later, he hit the crossbar with a formidable long-range effort. He touched the ball 39 occasions, accomplished 21 passes with 84 per cent accuracy and made two profitable dribbles.

If there have been any doubts over his signing, this was a debut to place them to mattress.

“When he got here in, you noticed that we had extra management with the ball,” Flick mentioned after the match. “His ball possession is admittedly secure and in entrance of objective, he is aware of the right way to rating. For a midfield participant (that) just isn’t regular, however he is excellent at this.”

Pedri and Yamal stepping up

It’s unattainable to not affiliate Barcelona’s good begin to the season with the contributions of these two younger star gamers.

Pedri accomplished a fast restoration from damage to characteristic instead in Barca’s opening La Liga fixture at Valencia (a 2-1 win) and has not appeared again since. He began final weekend’s 2-1 house victory over Athletic Bilbao and shone in a means he has not for months. On Tuesday night time at Rayo, Flick gave him the reins in midfield, putting him simply in entrance of a positional holding midfielder in Marc Bernal, and once more the 21-year-old unleashed his finest model.

Pedri controls the timing. He gives the pausa (pause) when Barca’s construction is vulnerable to breaking. However he has additionally been excellent at studying the moments when he can set foot within the opposition’s field.

Pedri scored Barca’s equaliser, ending a counter-attack he began when studying completely the right way to launch a move to Raphinha on the run. He was changed close to the top of the sport having taken a knock however confirmed after the sport he was in good situation.

There once more ought to be reward for Yamal. Now, it’s not simply the affect he has in matches, turning into the most important attacking risk Barcelona have. This season, he’s additionally including numbers into his sport. In three matches, he has scored one objective and assisted 3 times (he supplied the move for Olmo’s winner). His development is heading in the right direction.

Marc Bernal’s nightmare

On an evening this promising, the 17-year-old midfielder put in one other efficiency to recollect, one which confirmed his readiness to take over Barcelona’s holding midfielder function. However an unlucky sort out in stoppage time tore his dream to items.

Marc Bernal suffered a knee damage within the dying minutes of the sport. He left the pitch in tears, helped by backroom workers members. Two hours later, he was leaving the stadium on crutches together with his left knee absolutely bandaged.

“Marc’s damage doesn’t look good,” Flick mentioned. “All of the dressing room was round him after the ultimate whistle. It hurts rather a lot and it’s a unhappy victory for us”.

Extra assessments and scans are anticipated on Wednesday on the membership’s coaching amenities, however dressing room sources concern this may very well be a season-ending downside.

There are a couple of days remaining of the switch window, but it surely seems to be unlikely as of now that Barcelona can attempt to substitute him with a brand new signing given their difficulties with registering new gamers.

“The damage continues to be very current to know the scenario we now have,” Flick mentioned. “However on the finish, we now have many gamers that may carry out as a holding midfielder. After the break, we hope to get well one or two gamers from the damage listing that may assist in that division.”

(Prime picture: Rico Brouwer/Soccrates/Getty Pictures)

BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — ESPN is taking a look at utilizing synthetic intelligence to create personalised “SportsCenter” reveals for subscribers to its Flagship streaming service that’s anticipated to launch in fall 2025, the community’s chief government stated Wednesday.

The concept is one among a number of within the works that had been mentioned at a information convention by ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro, together with a “The place to Watch” information that debuted on Wednesday on ESPN.com and the ESPN app.

The personalised “SportsCenter” can be harking back to a well-liked wrinkle that NBC Sports activities supplied by its Peacock streaming service through the Olympics, the place the voice of broadcaster Al Michaels was used to create highlights packages tailor-made to particular person pursuits.

ESPN had few different particulars of how it’s working to do one thing related for its signature highlights present. The Flagship streaming service is predicted to incorporate a lot of the programming on ESPN’s most important channel and another offshoots, marketed to individuals who have deserted cable or satellite tv for pc TV subscriptions.

The “The place to Watch” characteristic is billed as an easy-to-use information for sports activities followers to search out the place to observe any sports activities occasion on ESPN platforms and past, together with broadcast, cable and regional sports activities networks and streaming companies.

“Simplifying discovery of sporting occasions and the place a fan can watch has change into more and more necessary as sports activities viewing has change into fragmented throughout networks and platforms,” stated Brian Marshall, vp for sports activities product and know-how for Disney Leisure and ESPN.

ESPN stated it’s designed for followers to customise searches to prioritize their favourite groups and sports activities. Followers will be capable of use the service to click on to occasions, if they’re pay tv or ESPN+ subscribers. Some companion networks, together with NESN and Monumental Sports activities, may also be included.

Pitaro stated that ESPN has talked to varied leagues and commissioners about how ESPN streaming is usually a potential answer for troubled regional sports activities networks in getting a selected workforce’s video games to its followers.

“We wish to be not less than a part of the answer right here,” Pitaro stated.

Venu Sports activities, ESPN’s streaming partnership with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery that was set to start providing stay sports activities occasions this fall has been placed on maintain after a federal decide earlier this month granted a preliminary injunction after a problem by FuboTV. Venu Sports activities operators have been accused of violating antitrust legal guidelines.

“We respectfully disagree with the courtroom determination,” Pitaro stated, including ESPN believes it’s giving one other choice to customers.

ESPN additionally introduced Wednesday that it has prolonged a rights settlement with the U.S. Tennis Affiliation that may preserve U.S. Open protection on the community, on ABC and streaming companies by 2037.

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Barcelona continued their good begin to the Hansi Flick period in opposition to Rayo Vallecano, making it three out of three wings in La Liga. It wasn’t all plain crusing for the group although who struggled within the first half after going behind within the recreation.

Flick modified issues at half-time by bringing on Dani Olmo for Ferran Torres. Buoyed by the debutant’s spectacular efficiency, the group took their recreation up a notch and managed to make a comeback due to targets from Pedri and Olmo himself.

Rayo had probabilities to equalize late on with Barcelona taking part in with 10 males following Marc Bernal’s unlucky harm. Nonetheless, the protection held robust with Pau Cubarsi and Inigo Martinez clearing each ball that got here their method to safe Flick his third win.

There have been many speaking factors this week and we at BNN carry to you the three main ones from the 2-1 win in opposition to Rayo.

1. What time is it? It’s Dani Olmo time!

It’s been a while coming however the wait is price it. After lacking out on Barcelona’s first two video games resulting from registration points, Olmo was on the bench for the sport in opposition to Rayo and needed to watch the group meander via the primary half.

Flick opted to alter issues up, bringing the 26-year-old for his debut instantly after half-time and giving him his favored #10 position. To say that Olmo modified the complexion of the sport can be an understatement.

From his very first contact as a Barcelona participant, Olmo oozed class. Each transfer he made with the ball was crammed with objective. He was unfortunate to not win a penalty together with his first involvement minutes into the second half. He additionally had an effort from vary that skimmed the highest of the bar.

In the end, Olmo received what he deserved when Lamine Yamal discovered him in area contained in the field. The ex-RB Leipzig man took a contact onto his left foot and unleashed an excellent end that might have made Lionel Messi proud.

Olmo even pulled out the ‘Dame Time’ celebration alongside the assist-provider Lamine Yamal. We coated a narrative explaining the explanation behind such a celebration after what was a memorable second for the followers. Hopefully the primary of many.

2. Soto Grado disasterclass

When it was introduced that Cesar Soto Grado would referee the sport in opposition to Rayo, a number of the Barcelona followers had been already fearing the worst. It’s honest to say that the 44-year-old lived as much as his popularity.

Listed below are Soto Grado’s highlights from the sport. He failed to present a penalty after a reckless problem on Olmo contained in the penalty field minutes into the second half. VAR didn’t intervene in what was a joke of a choice.

He didn’t reprimand a Rayo participant who actually used his hand to defend the ball contained in the Barcelona penalty field. He dominated out Robert Lewandowski’s aim for some of the innocuous fouls by Jules Kounde (at the least that is debatable).

He didn’t red-card a Rayo participant who went together with his studs into Pedri’s shin in what can solely be described as an outrageous problem. The 21-year-old was lucky to flee with out an harm and was rapidly taken off by Flick.

The icing on the cake nevertheless needed to be his reluctance to blow the full-time whistle even after the 10-added minutes on the finish of the 90 elapsed. It virtually felt just like the referee wouldn’t blow the whistle till Rayo scored. Absolute shambles. Effectively tried, Mr. Cesar Soto Grado!

3. A devastating harm

It’s not typically {that a} hard-fought win appears like a loss however that’s precisely how Barcelona’s 2-1 win over Rayo felt. After the sport, Marc Bernal’s horror harm was all anybody might consider and Barcelona’s worst fears have been confirmed.

Medical assessments as we speak have revealed that the 17-year-old prodigy had torn the ACL on his left knee. Not simply that, he has additionally broken the meniscus on the knee, very similar to Gavi which successfully signifies that his complete season is over.

Marc Bernal had an unbelievable recreation in opposition to Rayo and it’s a disgrace that his season needed to finish this fashion. The teenage La Masia prodigy was simply getting began within the senior group and Barcelona have now been dealt a crushing blow.

Bernal regarded like the subsequent Golden Boy within the making. He’s nonetheless younger and can absolutely recuperate and return stronger from this setback. Nonetheless, Hansi Flick has been handed a direct blow and must discover a alternative.

Barcelona shouldn’t have a pure positional pivot alternative within the squad and Flick will now be compelled to innovate. It stays to be seen how he makes up for the lack of {the teenager}. One can solely hope Bernal makes a powerful restoration and returns higher than ever.

The New York Jets signed former first-round security Lewis Cine to their follow squad on Wednesday, at some point after he was launched by the Minnesota Vikings, in line with a number of reviews. Cine, 24, was waived by the Vikings after efforts to commerce him had been unsuccessful, per the reviews. It is anticipated the Jets will add Cine to their 53-man roster as soon as he is snug with the playbook. The Vikings chosen Cine No. 32 general within the 2022 NFL Draft out of Georgia. He suffered a compound leg fracture in Week 4 of his rookie season. He returned in 2023 and performed in seven video games, totally on particular groups. He has performed simply 10 defensive snaps in 10 video games (zero begins) throughout two seasons. Additionally Wednesday, the Jets claimed former Chicago Bears tight finish Brenden Bates off waivers. –Subject Degree Media

Including depth at security, the New York Jets signed former Minnesota Vikings first-round decide Lewis Cine to their follow squad on Wednesday, a supply instructed ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.

Cine, drafted thirty second general in 2022, was waived Tuesday after efforts to commerce him have been unsuccessful. After clearing waivers, he signed with the Jets with the expectation that he can be elevated to the 53-man roster as quickly as he is snug with the playbook.

Cine, who suffered a leg fracture in Week 4 of his rookie season, has performed solely 10 defensive snaps over his first two seasons (one deal with). Within the preseason, he performed a team-high 150 snaps, recording 13 tackles and one sack.

The Jets’ present starters are Tony Adams and Chuck Clark, with Ashtyn Davis and Isaiah Oliver backing them up. Oliver, a pure cornerback, was moved to security within the offseason. Cine’s arrival means a return to his earlier place, nickelback.

Additionally Wednesday, the Jets claimed former Chicago Bears tight finish Brenden Bates on waivers.

The Vikings minimize Cine on Tuesday, closing the door on one of many least productive first-round picks in latest reminiscence.

Cine, 24, suffered a compound fracture of his left leg within the third recreation of his rookie season in 2022.

When he returned in spring 2023, he was already a step behind the scheme put in by new defensive coordinator Brian Flores. Cine performed in solely 10 video games over that stretch, ending his second season because the workforce’s sixth security.

He misplaced any probability he needed to transfer up the depth chart this summer season when he was slowed by a lower-body damage.

ESPN’s Kevin Seifert contributed to this report.

A union making an attempt to prepare Delta Air Traces floor employees, the Worldwide Affiliation of Machinists (IAM), referred to as on Delta and authorities to research a reported tire explosion at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Worldwide Airport that has left two Delta workers useless and one injured.

“As a union devoted to the well-being and security of our members and the broader group, we are going to provide our assets to all these impacted by this tragic occasion. We stand in unity with Delta employees throughout this tough time and we name on Delta and the related authorities to shortly launch a radical investigation into how this occurred,” IAM mentioned in an announcement.

The IAM represents 100,000 airline employees throughout North America — however whereas most U.S. carriers are extremely unionized, Delta is just not. The IAM is pushing to unionize Delta’s ramp employees, tower employees, and baggage handlers, whereas the Teamsters union has pushed to unionize mechanics. 

Simply final month, IAM organizers held a small rally with Delta employees close to the airport in assist of unionization.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, in a put up on X, supplied his “deepest condolences” to the households and family members of the deceased, and his ideas to these injured. The mayor mentioned police, hearth, and airport officers have been on the scene.

Delta TechOps Chief of Operations John Laughter mentioned in a memo to TechOps workers shared with Atlanta Civic Circle that he’s “deeply saddened to share that three TechOps group members have been concerned in an accident that happened early this morning in Atlanta TOC 3, Dept. 391 – Wheel & Brake Store. Tragically, two of our group members concerned handed away and one different group member was severely injured.”

“We’re extending our full assist to their households at this tough time and conducting an investigation to find out what occurred,” Laughter’s memo said.

A Delta spokesperson mentioned in an announcement that “We are actually working with native authorities and conducting a full investigation to find out what occurred.”

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rio de Janeiro — already infamous for road muggings, corrupt politicians, ruthless militias and Kalashnikov-toting drug traffickers — has a brand new public enemy: plushies. Or, extra particularly, the joystick-controlled claw machines that dispense them.

On Wednesday, Rio police had been finishing up 16 search warrants focusing on the machines that elicit exhilaration among the many metropolis’s kids and adults alike. However police stated in a press release that claw machines defraud customers who imagine scoring stuffed animals to be a take a look at of ability. Actually, they’re video games of likelihood — identical to slot machines — and due to this fact unlawful, based on their press workplace.

Officers seized claw machines, laptops, tablets, cell telephones, a firearm and — sure — furry pals. They’re investigating whether or not organized crime teams stands out as the invisible hand behind the claw as a result of they already run slot machines and a preferred lottery referred to as “Animal Recreation” throughout the town. Police in Brazil’s southern Santa Catarina state carried out an extra three search warrants Wednesday as a part of the identical operation.

It marked the second such police crackdown, following one other in Could throughout which officers apprehended 80 machines. Not solely had been these machines stocked with counterfeit plushies, however subsequent evaluation of their programming discovered profitable pulls had been permitted solely after a pre-set variety of makes an attempt, police stated of their assertion Wednesday. Facilitating such sporadic, profitable snags is {an electrical} present to the in any other case enfeebled claw so it holds quick to its prize, the assertion stated.

That programming isn’t disclosed to naive customers, together with kids liable to blow their pocket cash on what’s successfully a crap shoot. Claw machines will be present in Rio’s buying malls, subway stations, supermarkets, arcades and toy shops.

Amongst Rio’s claw aficionados is Alessandra Libonatti, 41, who has performed for almost three many years. She remembers the machines inflicting a stir once they first appeared within the metropolis; she had solely seen them earlier than in motion pictures. Nowadays she tends to play as soon as per week, whether or not alone or on the mall with pals who share her “peculiar” interest.

She likes the low-investment adrenaline rush and, by her personal account, she’s a proficient clawmaster who has honed her strategies to maximise success, from scouting the stuffed animal panorama to specific positioning of the claw. She treasures a manatee with jaguar spots that she pulled in on a visit to the nation’s capital with pals.

“Once I cross by a machine, I give it a glance to see if there’s a stuffed animal that makes it price it to play,” she instructed The Related Press. “As a result of it’s not at all times price it; generally it’s clearly a waste of cash.”

Claw machines might have been feats of ability in many years previous, however most fashionable machines have built-in programming permitting operators to predetermine their profitability, stated Jeremy Hambly, a claw recreation aficionado from the Milwaukee space. His ClawStruck YouTube channel reveals what number of totally different fashions work, he beforehand instructed the AP. He stated odds needs to be posted prominently on machines for customers to evaluate.

Most U.S. states think about claw machines video games of likelihood and particularly exempt them from playing statutes, so long as they adjust to sure guidelines particular to these states. In keeping with business officers, it’s in arcades’ finest pursuits to have clients win. They are saying that’s the one solution to preserve them coming again.

However currently it’s powerful going for Rio’s claw connoisseurs, Libonatti stated. And she or he chalks that as much as modifications made to the machines that didn’t escape her exacting eye.

“The present machines are crap. The claws are weaker,” she wrote in a textual content message to a pal in April, reviewed by the AP.

“Amiga, yessssss!” her pal replied. “I went again to the machines the place I at all times bought (stuffed animals) in current weeks they usually’re soooooo weak!”

Native on-line media outlet G1 dubbed the phenomenon the “weak claw rip-off.”

The almost 13,000 stuffed animals police detained of their Could operation had been initially destined for destruction, however a request from state lawmakers discovered favor with a neighborhood decide, who spared them from their doom. As an alternative, police donated the plushies to households who misplaced their houses within the huge floods of southern Rio Grande do Sul state, notably kids in shelters.

The destiny of the stuffed animals seized Wednesday was nonetheless unclear late within the day.

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Related Press author Bruce Shipkowski contributed from Trenton, New Jersey.