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No. 6 Stanford tops Duke 82-79 in overtime

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:32:21 GMT

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Cameron Brink scored nine of her career-high 29 points in overtime, including a pair of clutch free throws with 11.9 seconds remaining, and No, 6 Stanford held off Duke 82-79 on Sunday.The reigning two-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year added 11 rebounds and six blocked shots to keep the Cardinal (4-0) unbeaten.Kiki Iriafen had a career 27 points with nine rebounds for Stanford. Hannah Jump added 15 points with five 3-pointers.Ashlon Jackson made six 3s and scored 22 points for Duke (3-2).No. 2 IOWA 113, DRAKE 90IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Caitlin Clark had 35 points and 10 assists and Kate Martin had a career-high 25 points as Iowa responded from its first loss of the season, beating Drake.The Hawkeyes (4-1), coming off a 65-58 loss to Kansas State on Thursday night, scored a program-record 64 points in the first half, shooting 75% in the first quarter and 65% in the first half.Grace Berg led Drake (3-1) with 19 points.No. 11 TEXAS 96, LOUISIANA TECH 44AUST...

Alex Nedeljkovic helps Penguins shut out Golden Knights, 3-0

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:32:21 GMT

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 37 shots in his return from injury and the Pittsburgh Penguins shut out the Vegas Golden Knights 3-0 on Sunday night.Nedeljkovic recorded his first shutout of the season and the eighth of his career. It was his first shutout since April 24, 2022, when he was a member of the Detroit Red Wings.Ryan Graves and Noel Acciari both scored their first of the season and first goal with Pittsburgh. Evgeni Malkin added a late empty-net goal to seal the win. Jake Guentzel continued an eight-game point streak with an assist on the goal, as Pittsburgh snapped a brief two-game skid.Sidney Crosby and Erik Karlsson both saw lengthy point streaks end.Crosby was on an 11-game point streak, which was the third-longest active in the league. Karlsson was on an eight-game point streak, the longest among NHL defensemen. Crosby has been held without a point twice in 17 games this season.Nedeljkovic missed 10 games with a lower-body injury and was activated off long...

Clark, No. 2 Iowa bounce back from first loss with 113-90 win over Drake

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:32:21 GMT

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Caitlin Clark had 35 points and 10 assists and Kate Martin had a career-high 25 points as No. 2 Iowa responded from its first loss of the season, beating Drake 113-90 on Sunday.The Hawkeyes (4-1), coming off a 65-58 loss to Kansas State on Thursday night, scored a program-record 64 points in the first half, shooting 75% in the first quarter and 65% in the first half.Clark, the reigning national player of the year and unanimous Associated Press preseason All-American, bounced back from one of the worst shooting nights of her college career, making 14 of 22 shots, including 5 of 11 3-pointers. Clark was just 9 of 32 from the field, 2 of 16 in 3-pointers, in Thursday’s game.Martin had an even bigger turnaround. She went scoreless in Thursday’s game, but was 10 of 12 from the field in this game.Sharon Goodman had 15 points and Molly Davis added 10 points for the Hawkeyes.The Hawkeyes shot 64% for the game.Grace Berg led Drake (3-1) with 19 points. Katie Dinnebier ...

7-year-old donating Thanksgiving turkeys to those in need

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:32:21 GMT

THORNTON, Colo (KDVR) -- A 7-year-old in Thornton is working to make sure those in need have a Thanksgiving meal for the holiday.  Olive Diaz tells FOX31 she is raising money to buy turkeys for the homeless.   Do you need to cook a turkey longer in Colorado? Last year, she said they filled a whole truck with turkeys to donate to homeless shelters in the Denver area.  Growing up near the city and seeing the need, Diaz said she wants to make sure no one is left out this holiday season.  "When I walk, sometimes I see people walking around with no food and I feel really sad, so that’s why I am trying to help them," Diaz said. This year, Diaz said she will be donating the turkeys to Catholic Charities of Denver, an organization that offers shelter, affordable housing and other services to those in crisis.  A GoFundMe has been set up to help Diaz reach her goal. 

Q&A: How to create a sustainable lithium supply chain for a carbon neutral world?

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:32:21 GMT

Chile’s Atacama Desert hides a precious secret—salt flats packed with lithium, a key component in the batteries that power electric vehicles and other gamechanging green technologies. Striving to meet this demand, mining companies are converging on the “lithium triangle” spanning Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. Deposits are abundant, but extracting them sustainably remains a challenge. The possible impact of lithium production on the local environment and neighboring communities are relevant concerns that must be taken into consideration.SQM, the world’s largest lithium producer by volume with more than 25 years of experience in lithium production in Chile’s Salar de Atacama region, has continuously improved production processes, adapted technologies and strengthened its cooperation with local communities in order to respond to those concerns.As production scales, to support the planet’s transition to a low carbon mobility, pushing toward the highest standards of min...

Western air defenses turn Kyiv into a rare safe spot in war-torn Ukraine

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:32:21 GMT

KYIV — Inna Kozich, a communications specialist from Kyiv, still cries when she remembers the first weeks of last year’s Russian siege of the Ukrainian capital. “At one moment my kids and I slept in a corridor for three weeks. I was going to bed, not sure if we all wake up the next day,” Kozich remembers.But the air defenses now protecting the capital make her feel safer in Kyiv than anywhere else in Ukraine — so much so that she’s afraid of venturing beyond the city. “I was even afraid to take my kids for a summer vacation because I knew other regions unfortunately do not have as strong air defense as we now do. And I feel so much pain for Ukrainians from other regions, who are still forced to live under daily Russian bombardment,” Kozich said.When the full-scale Russian invasion launched on February 24, 2022, a desperate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the West to close Ukraine’s skies to Russian aviation and missiles. That didn’t happen, but Ukrai...

Party like it’s 2010? Rishi Sunak takes Tories back to the future

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:32:21 GMT

LONDON — David Cameron called it a “hammock idea” — a policy dreamt up during a lazy summer holiday in 2007 that would electrify his opposition Conservative Party’s ailing fortunes and put him on the path to power.The idea in question was a radical cut to inheritance tax, allowing people to pass on far more wealth to their children whey they die.“It was deeply Conservative, rewarding people who worked hard, saved and wanted to pass something on,” Cameron wrote in his memoir, For the Record.When George Osborne — Cameron’s shadow Chancellor, who devised the policy while on vacation — announced the inheritance tax pledge that fall, it was an instant hit.Prime Minister Gordon Brown was spooked, and cancelled plans for a snap election. His reputation never recovered.The policy, however, wasn’t introduced when Cameron and Osborne won power in 2010, after the 2008 financial crisis blew a huge hole in Britain’s national finances. But 16 years later, Cameron is back in Cabi...

Who wants what out of COP28

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:32:21 GMT

This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.Should countries move quickly to phase out their fossil fuel production or opt for a more gradual “phase-down”? Will wealthy governments like the U.S. cough up tens of billions of dollars for poorer nations’ climate damage — and should China pay too?When more than 70,000 people from nearly 200 countries descend on Dubai starting next week to negotiate over the fate of the planet, the talks will become the scene for a host of competing national agendas.The annual U.N. climate summits have drawn criticism for having grown unwieldy since they started in 1995, thronging with corporate lobbyists and marked more by non-binding pledges and squabbles over grammar than their ability to deliver change. But they have a real-world impact, sending signals to markets about governments’ coming policies and reflecting real-world trends. And supporters are quick to point out that they remain the one forum where e...

For Israel to beat Hamas quickly, Arab neighbors should admit Gazans

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:32:21 GMT

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. TEL AVIV — How would the world have reacted if Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia had turned their backs on Ukrainian families seeking refuge from war over the past 18 months? It isn’t hard to imagine the likely outcry.But when it comes to the Middle East, the refusal of Israel’s Arab neighbors to open their doors to Palestinians and offer them temporary sanctuary hasn’t produced a similar reaction.Neither Egypt nor Jordan, which flank Israel and share borders with Gaza and the occupied West Bank, respectively, have offered refuge. Quite the opposite: Both have adamantly refused to accept Gazans. “No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt,” Jordan’s King Abdullah II declared last month.Moreover, both countries argue they have justifiable grounds for keeping their doors firmly bolted — hence the absence of Western outrage over their refusal to accept Gaza’s Palestinians. Jordan already has a large Palestinian populat...

How to watch the Dutch elections like a pro

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:32:21 GMT

THE HAGUE — The Dutch on Wednesday will vote to choose a new parliament in a knife-edge election with three major groupings vying to propose the next prime minister.After 13 years as leader of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte is leaving The Hague after his fourth cabinet resigned last summer over a migration row. Dilan Yeşilgöz, Rutte’s successor as head of the conservative-liberal People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), is leading the field — and a win would make her the first woman to be Dutch prime minister. But she is closely followed in the polls by centrist Pieter Omtzigt, who’s riding a wave of popularity after starting a party just three months ago.Here’s what you need to know:Who’s in the running?Even though it’s been only two years since the last Dutch election, many of the contenders are new, including the two front-runners.Yeşilgöz became the VVD’s new leader after Rutte’s July announcement that he was leaving Dutch politics. Although a da...