In New York, it's illegal to use a hand-held mobile phone or portable electronic device while you drive. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles, using a portable electronic device while driving   except to call 911 or medical, fire or police personnel about an emergency   can net you a traffic ticket and make you subject to a fine. The state defines the use of a portable electronic device to include talking on a cellphone, sending or checking email, texting, browsing the internet, taking photos and playing games. Penalties include a traffic ticket, fine, surcharge and points being added to your driving record. You get enough points and your license may be suspended. Recently, a bill was introduced in the state Senate that would make it illegal to cross streets while staring at a smartphone. Sen. John Liu, a Queens Democrat, and Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, a Brooklyn Democrat, are sponsors of bills in their respective chambers that would prohibit "a pedestrian from using a portable electronic device while crossing a roadway." The intent of the law is to protect both people walking and those driving "from serious and even fatal consequences due to distraction while using a mobile device," according to information on the state Senate website. The Senate bill is S5746 ; the Assembly, A1516 . Neither bill has advanced beyond being in committee. The first violation   that is, if you aren't calling for an emergency or aren't a first responder in an official capacity   could yield a fine of not less than $25 or more than $50. A second conviction within 18 months sees the fine go up to $50-$100. The third time is definitely not the charm, because a third or subsequent violation raises the fine up to $250. Liu said it's all about common sense, but Marco Conner, of the nonprofit Transportation Alternative, said the bill is ill-informed and could lead to discretionary policing , citylab.com said. New York wouldn't be alone in having such a law on the books. Similar legislation has passed in smaller cities in Hawaii and California, abc7ny.com said. The New York version of the law may not go anywhere, because the person who runs the Senate Transportation Committee   Tim Kennedy, a Democrat from Buffalo   said it's not going to clear his committee. He said he's all for pedestrian safety reform, but he thinks prohibiting people from looking at smartphones while crossing the street is " overreach ," the New York Post said. Kennedy did add that he was open to discussing common-sense solutions that would be in New Yorkers' best interests.


Speaking on The Warriors Insider Podcast this week, Warriors coach Steve Kerr went full-court press on the idea of players forcing trades from their teams while still under contract. Talking specifically about Anthony Davis' demand to be traded from the New Orleans Pelicans to the Los Angeles Lakers, Kerr called it a "groundbreaking" event that is "bad for the league" - even going a step further in saying players "owe [their] effort and [their] play to that team, to that city, the fans." Outspoken retired NBA champion Kendrick Perkins took issue with Kerr's stance and shared his perspective on Twitter. When a NBA organization trades a player with no warning and do what's best for the team nobody say anything and everyone tells the player things like it's a business and don't take it personal but when a player "Superstar" wants to go in another direction it's a big problem. SMH - Kendrick Perkins (@KendrickPerkins) July 25, 2019 Perkins then was invited onto an ESPN broadcast to discuss his views further and immediately slammed Kerr's stance as "hypocritical," considering the Warriors' three-year superteam status followed the acquisition of Kevin Durant. "When an organization is done with a player, they trade the player," Perkins said. Asserting that the trade dynamic "works both ways" between organizations and players, he cited as an example Chris Paul's recent trade from the Houston Rockets to what some fans now deem a basketball wasteland in Oklahoma City. "Nobody felt bad for Chris Paul," Perkins said. "Nobody had sympathy for Chris Paul. Nobody has sympathy for the players." "To me, it works both ways," he continued. "The team have a commitment to the player the same way a player have a commitment to the team." In essence, he's calling out the teams' governors for claiming to be wronged by players who take their talents to other teams, on their own terms, while the nature of the business requires players to pack their bags whenever a team decides to send them elsewhere, without warning. On Anthony Davis' situation specifically, Perkins said: If you take a guy like Anthony Davis, who gave seven great years to the city of New Orleans and to that organization, and each year that organization didn't know which direction they was going in. What is AD supposed to do - waste his whole [career]? No. So what's the problem with him asking for a trade after he gave his heart and soul to the team, because he wanted to go in another direction? The same could be said about Durant, Perkins' former Thunder teammate, who toiled with the organization for nine years before departing for a championship-winning team. With the Warriors, Durant won back-to-back titles in 2017 and 2018, claiming Finals MVP honors in both years. Unlike team governors and front-office personnel who can work well past the age of legal retirement, players have no such good fortune. A professional basketball career happens against a ticking clock. Athletes must build their legacies and their money before the hands of Father Time strike midnight. MORE: UFC's Thiago Santos shares brutal update on injuries suffered in loss to Jon Jones Instant observations from Day 1 of Patriots training camp Watch: Erik Schlitt recaps Lions training camp, Day 1 3 takeaways from Day 1 of Bills training camp Ranking the NBA's Top 10 Big Threes Related slideshow: Best of 2019 NBA playoffs (provided by imagn)


Greg Murphy edged out Joan Perry in the Republican primary runoff in North Carolina's 3rd congressional district on Tuesday, securing his spot in the special election to replace the late Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.). With 56 percent of precincts reporting, The Associated Press called the race for Murphy, who carried more than 63 percent of the vote to Perry's more than 36 percent. Murphy's win means that he will face off against Democrat Allen Thomas, Libertarian Tim Harris and Constitution Party candidate Greg Holt in a special election on Sept. 10. Whoever wins that contest will replace Jones, who died in February after representing North Carolina's 3rd District in the House for more than 20 years. The 3rd District has traditionally been friendly territory for Republicans. Not only did Jones represent the district for decades, but President Trump carried it in 2016 by more than 20 points. Murphy and Perry emerged as the two top vote getters in a crowded Republican field when the initial primary was held in April. Neither candidate, however, managed to secure the 30 percent necessary to secure the nomination, sending the two contenders to a runoff. Murphy's victory in the runoff is a let down for some Republicans who have grown increasingly concerned with the shrinking number of women in their caucus. Following the 2018 midterm elections, when Democrats picked up some 40 seats in the House, the number of Republican women in the chamber dropped from 23 to 13. By comparison, 89 Democratic members are women. Perry, a pediatrician, won the support of all 13 female members of the House Republican caucus. Meanwhile, Murphy, a state representative and urological surgeon, was backed by prominent male conservatives, including Reps. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), two founders of the House Freedom Caucus who gravitated towards Murphy after he vowed to join the group if elected. The runoff campaign attracted more than $1.3 million in outside spending, including from House Freedom Action, the Freedom Caucus' political arm, which has dropped $236,000 opposing Perry in the contest. Another group, WFW Action Fund, which backs female Republican candidates, spent more than $680,000 supporting Perry and opposing Murphy in the runoff.


The Baltimore Ravens have signed former Eagles defensive tackle Elijah Qualls to a one-year deal according to the teams official Twitter page. We have signed DT Elijah Qualls. - Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) August 10, 2019 The Eagles selected Qualls in the sixth round (214th overall) of the 2017 NFL Draft. Qualls ended his rookie season with a Super Bowl ring but was waived last summer right before the start of the 2018 season. Qualls was then signed to the Carolina Panthers practice squad and waived at the start of the 2019 training camp. MORE: Four potential Carmelo Anthony landing spots in free agency Yankees' Brett Gardner gets ejected while sitting quietly, erupts on umpire Packers training camp practice roundup: August 10 Cris Carter: Daniel Jones' first TD pass was ugly, should have been intercepted Studs and duds from Saints preseason opener vs. Vikings


Nature, time, neglect and millions of footsteps have taken their toll on the Great Wall of China leaving much of it crumbling, but repairing it can be painstaking -- and controversial -- work. After public outcry when a 700-year-old section of the monument was 'fixed' by covering it with cement -- authorities insisted on more authentic restoration using traditional methods: so now labourers, aided by mules, use reclaimed stones and mortar. "They are all the bricks that collapsed from the original wall. The bricks are used to mend these places," said Li Jingdong, one of the workers restoring the Jiankou section. Around him, labourers use an electric hoist to put a large stone that had fallen from the wall back in place, while mules traverse the steep mountainside bringing water and lime mortar for workers to mix and bind the stones with. It is physically demanding work -- placing one rock can take around 45 minutes and for their efforts, they are paid 150 yuan ($22) per day. The plan to use traditional methods was implemented earlier this year in a bid to preserve the original look of China's famous landmark, which is split into sections that altogether stretch for thousands of kilometres from China's east coast to the edge of the Gobi desert. Engineer Cheng Yongmao, who has led operations in Jiankou for 15 years, said the latest restoration plan is meant to make "people feel that it has not been repaired". Construction of the Great Wall first began in the third century BC and continued for centuries. Nearly 6,300 kilometres, including the Jiankou section, were built in the Ming Dynasty of 1368-1644. Today it attracts around 10 million tourists per year -- but the swell of visitors, combined with age and weathering, has left swathes of it in ruins. In places it is so dilapidated that estimates of its total length vary from 9,000 to 21,000 kilometres, depending on whether missing sections are included. To protect the relic, authorities in the heavily-visited Badaling section of the wall decided to cap visits to 65,000 people per day from June 1. - 'It will break' - In 2016, a section of the Great Wall in northeast Liaoning province was covered in cement, turning the uneven path -- originally built in 1381 -- into a flat surface which some compared to an ordinary pavement. Images of the restoration work went viral, causing a social media uproar, with people leaving comments such as "it's heartbreaking" and "poor Great Wall". In response to that and other less high-profile cases, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism released a new conservation plan earlier this year based on the principle of minimum intervention to restore the wall. Song Xinchao, deputy director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration said some of those tasked with preserving the wall have "stereotyped ideas" that every portion should look like Beijing's Badaling section, a heavily visited site that includes cable cars. "They confuse restoration of the wall with the development of a tourist attraction," Xinchiao was quoted as saying the state-run China Daily earlier this year. But on the ground, some workers view the new method with scepticism. "In the past, we repaired the entire ground. Now the idea is to repair less and keep more of the original things intact," said Li Jingdong. While the new regulation will accomplish the goal of keeping the aesthetic of the old wall, Li fears that such repairs will not last and the structure will keep falling apart. He explained: "The idea is right, but I personally think that it still looks tattered after being repaired. Especially in the slopes, it will break in less a year under the feet (of tourists)."


VIRGINIA BEACH   The man who shot and killed 12 people at a municipal building here Friday was identified as a 15-year employee of the city Department of Public Utilities, and all but one of his victims were city employees, authorities announced Saturday. DeWayne Craddock, 40, of Virginia Beach, was an engineer who served as a project manager and contact for a number of utility projects, according to posts on the Virginia Beach website. Virginia Beach City Manager Dave Hansen solemnly read the names of each of the victims at the outset of a news conference Saturday morning, saying all, except for one person who was a contractor seeking a permit, worked for the Department of Public Works and the Department of Public Utilities. Subscribe to the Post Most newsletter: Today's most popular stories on The Washington Post They were listed as Virginia Beach residents Tara Welch Gallagher, Mary Louise Gayle, Alexander Mikhail Gusev, Katherine A. Nixon, Ryan Keith Cox, Joshua A. Hardy, Michelle "Missy" Langer and Herbert "Bert" Snelling; Chesapeake residents Laquita C. Brown and Robert "Bobby" Williams; Norfolk resident Richard H. Nettleton; and Powhatan resident Christopher Kelly Rapp. "They leave a void we will never be able to fill," Hansen said. Four wounded victims remained hospitalized in serious condition as of Saturday morning. Police Chief James A. Cervera then named Craddock, vowing it would be the only time he would speak his name publicly. Cervera declined to discuss a motive for the spree at the news conference but said Craddock used a city-issued badge to gain entry to a public works building in the sprawling municipal complex. He shot people on all three floors of the building and shot one person in a car outside, police said. Cervera said city officers, along with the FBI and Virginia State Police, worked through the night to identify the victims of the shooting. "This is a horrific crime scene," Cervera said. "It took a physical, emotional and psychological toll on everyone who spent the night in that building." Cervera said investigators found weapons at the scene of the shooting, as well as at Craddock's home, in addition to the .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun outfitted with a sound suppressor and extended magazines that is believed to have carried out the shooting. Cervera declined to say what the additional weapons are. The gunfire erupted shortly after 4 p.m. in Building 2 of the complex, Cervera said. Slideshow by photo services Four officers arrived on the scene within minutes of the shooting, since the police department is located less than 150 yards from the center, Cervera said. Two detective supervisors and K-9 handlers quickly found Craddock. The gunman opened fire on the officers and the officers shot back. Craddock did not say anything to the officers. "This was a long-term, large gunfight," Cervera said. Cervera said one of the officers was hit by a bullet, but a bulletproof vest saved his life. Cervara said Saturday morning that the officer was "doing well." Craddock was eventually shot and the officers rendered aid, Cevera said. Craddock later died. The shooting sent employees fleeing the building. Robin Morse, a permit service coordinator in the planning department, said in an interview that she was on the building's first floor when she suddenly heard a commotion from the story above. When loud bangs boomed down the stairwell, she didn't know what it was. "I thought someone had fallen down the steps," she said. "Then, someone yelled, 'There's an active shooter in the building,' and they told us to get out." Morse and others quickly left the building, stayed outside for a short while, and then went home. She said she knew Craddock, but only barely. "This has been devastating for so many people. These people were murdered and didn't deserve this," Morse said. Shelia Cook, 49, who works for the city, watched the response to the shooting unfold Friday. "We could kind of hear what was going on. . . . We heard like popping   poom, poom, like that   and then we saw the ambulance," Cook said. "And we saw the police. We saw all these things going on. So then we were like, oh, it must be really big." Afterward, Cervera said officers methodically checked every room, closet and desk in the building before determining it was free of danger. The building is workplace to roughly 400 employees for Public Works, Public Utilities and other city agencies. Amanda Archer, 22, and Cassetty Howerin, 23, said they were shocked to learn that the man who lived in their cul-de-sac had allegedly committed the mass shooting. They described Craddock as a quiet, reserved man who rarely said much to them when they passed outside the gray duplex they shared with him. "He was just to himself," said Archer. "He just seemed like the kind of person who was just to himself and didn't mess with the outside world much." Craddock seemed to play an active role in the Department of Public Utilities. A 2015 post by the city of Virginia Beach said Craddock was a project manager for the installation of a water main along a city road. In 2018, he was listed as a contact person for a utilities project on the city website. He gave members of a local chamber of commerce a tour of a water pumping station project in 2015, according to an article from the time in the Lake Gaston Gazette. Court records show only a single traffic offense on his record in Virginia Beach. Old Dominion University officials said he was a 2002 graduate with a degree in civil engineering. Family and friends began to mourn the victims Saturday in private moments and public vigils. One had not yet finished his first year on the job, while another had spent more than four decades there. They were engineers, account clerks and administrative assistants. Christopher Rapp, a public works engineer, had a passion for Scottish music, friends said. The engineer from Powhatan had been working for the Virginia Beach public works department for the past 11 months, officials said. In his spare time, he enjoyed putting on a kilt and playing his pipes, friends said. Tidewater Pipes & Drums, a bagpipe band in southeastern Virginia, said on social media that Rapp was a member of their group. "We are heartbroken to share the news that our bandmate, Chris Rapp, was one of the victims of Friday's senseless shooting," the group said Saturday morning in a Facebook post. At the Virginia Beach home of Herbert "Bert" Snelling, neighbors keep arriving, some with flowers. "Bert was a great guy. He'd do anything for you," said one man who lives on the street who didn't want to give his name. Hansen said the city has received an outpouring of support and would be providing assistance to employees. Building 2 will remain closed and the city services housed there will be transferred elsewhere. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) said Saturday morning that he ordered flags to fly at half-staff on government buildings. President Trump tweeted he had been in contact with local and state officials. "The Federal Government is there, and will be, for whatever they may need. God bless the families and all!" Trump tweeted. Friday's mass shooting was the deadliest rampage in the United States this year. It was the worst since a gunman opened fire at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif., killing 12 before fatally shooting himself. Cook returned to the complex Saturday with five members of her church, Mount Olive Baptist Church. They usually gather Saturday mornings from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. for an "intercessory prayer" meeting, where they call out the names of people who need God's help. Their pastor, the Rev. Jason Knight, decided they should hold the meeting at the complex instead, although he did not make it. His car would not start. "Our pastor called for us to come out and pray on the grounds, because our colleagues and our neighborhoods and our city need God. We need God right now. And we want to be able to be that light in a dark world," Cook said. Lindsey Bever, Michael E. Miller, Jim Morrison, Justin Wm. Moyer and Julie Zauzmer contributed to this report.


We've found 12 inventive twists on chicken salad to spice up sometimes literally the traditional summer recipe. Avocado Chicken Salad This chicken salad recipe is full of healthy fats, thanks to our good friend avocado. Plus, thanks to the creaminess of our favorite veggie (um, fruit?), you can go extra light on the mayo. Get the Recipe Cashew Cream Ginger Dukkah Spice Chicken Salad This non-traditional chicken salad from Coterie member Carlene Thomas is about to be your new lunch staple. It's all about the dukkah spice blend, a combo of cumin, sesame seeds, coriander and peanuts. Get the Recipe Everything Bagel Chicken Salad Why top a bagel with chicken salad when you can just add the bagel seasonings to the chicken? (And it's gluten-free if you serve it on a slice of sweet potato.) Get the Recipe Whole30 Chicken Salad Chicken salad is no longer off-limits on the Whole30 diet. (This version gets its creaminess from a quarter cup of tahini.) Get the Recipe Indonesian Chicken Salad Forget the mayo. This chicken salad's dressing is a delicious combo of peanut butter, soy sauce, sriracha, ginger and rice wine vinegar. Get the Recipe Meal Prep Friendly Tofu Tahini Lunch Salad For your meatless Monday lunch, try this chicken-less tofu salad with classics like grapes and celery. Get the Recipe Greek Yogurt Chicken Salad Stuffed Peppers This is totally going to be a thing: vibrant bell peppers stuffed with chicken salad. The colors! The flavors! The Insta-worthy photos! Get the Recipe RELATED: 10 Clean-Eating Sandwich Recipes That Are Actually Filling Healthy Pumpkin Seed and Avocado Pesto Chicken Salad Sandwiches Just because chicken salad has mayo doesn't mean you can't add more condiments when you make a sandwich. Case in point: This pumpkin seed pesto from Coterie member Monique Volz . Get the Recipe Orange Poppyseed Chicken Salad Lighten up the classic chicken salad with a citrus-based dressing, red grapes and chunks of cashews. Get the Recipe Curried Chicken Salad with Spiralized Cucumbers Curry powder adds a kick to this chicken salad packed with raisins, celery and almonds. Plus, there's another modern twist no pun intended thanks to spiralized cucumbers. Get the Recipe Skinny Southwest Chicken Salad Toss in your favorite southwestern ingredients, like corn, black beans and green onions. Along with taco seasoning and tortilla chips, this is one tasty chicken salad we can get behind. Get the Recipe Chicken Salad Sandwich with Rhubarb-Raspberry Preserves Celebrate rhubarb season and add the fruity preserves to a chicken salad sandwich. And if you really want to splurge, swap the wheat bread for a croissant. Brunch will never be the same. Get the Recipe RELATED: 14 Easy Tuna Salad Recipes You've Never Tried


Long days at the beach . Road trips to a weekend getaway. Happy hours after work. Summer activities have the tendency to throw off your usually banal schedule in the best way. But sometimes this fun and excitement can interfere with your health routine , including when and what you eat. Some people say your appetite actually decreases in the summer months because you spend more time in warm weather. While you might've spent all winter hibernating and cooking stew , in the summer, you tend to just eat less and do more. But is that just a side effect of having a busy summer schedule , or is there a scientific reason why this happens? Well, maybe both. Research from way back in the '90s points to a concept called " thermoregulation ," or body heat regulation, to explain your fluctuating appetite. On an incredibly basic level, we know that eating food provides energy . With this energy, we can create heat to help regulate our body temperature. In cold weather, some hypothesize that you increase your food intake because your body needs to make more heat. And, on the flip side, when it's warmer outside, you need to make less heat, so you theoretically turn to less food. But this only tells half the story   after all, we don't exist in a vacuum, especially in the summertime. There are tons of other outside factors that can affect your appetite, cravings, and feelings of satiety . For example, you might crave lighter, more hydrating foods over heavier or saltier ones in the summer because they taste refreshing when you're hanging outside in the sun. Or you might not have time to eat a full meal when you're on a summer hike or sitting on the beach all day, so you opt for a few smaller meals over larger ones. On top of this, you might receive lots of messaging from diet culture telling you that you need to be eating lighter or less food in general in the summer. (Which, quick reminder, is wrong.) While a little bit of a reduced appetite might be somewhat expected in the heat, in some cases, it can be a sign of something more serious. People who experience seasonal affective disorder , a.k.a. SAD, in the summer (totally a thing) might notice that they have a decreased appetite as well as trouble sleeping, weight gain, and anxiety. Heat illness or stroke is another condition that's marked by change in appetite. If you've been exercising in the extreme heat , that can put you at an increased risk of developing heat stroke, so you shouldn't discount those symptoms. For all of these various reasons, it's extra-important that you listen to your body's natural hunger cues in the summertime, and ensure that you're getting enough macronutrients to suit your needs. Remembering to hydrate is also key to keeping your body temperature in check and replenishing fluids you lose from sweat . After all, your body is going to need energy to check off all your fun summer plans. Gallery: 6 Healthy Things You Can Grill at Your Summer BBQ That Aren't Meat (Provided by Mediafeed)


McDonald's has reportedly admitted that its new paper straws, rolled out last year to help "protect the environment," can't be recycled   unlike the plastic versions they replaced. The straws were introduced to all 1,361 McDonald's restaurants in the United Kingdom and Ireland after a trial last year. But the fast food giant acknowledged on Monday that the new versions are too thick to be processed by its recyclers. "While the materials are recyclable, their current thickness makes it difficult for them to be processed by our waste solution providers, who also help us recycle our paper cups," a McDonald's spokesman told the UK's Press Association news agency. McDonald's UK and Ireland has not yet responded to CNN's requests for comment. The issue was first revealed by The Sun newspaper, which published an internal McDonald's memo saying that the company's paper straws "are not yet recyclable and should be disposed of in general waste until further notice." When the firm announced the introduction of paper straws in June 2018, it said the move was "part of wider efforts to protect the environment." "The government's ambitious plans, combined with strong customer opinion, has helped to accelerate the move away from plastic and I'm proud that we've been able to play our part in helping to achieve this societal change," Paul Pomroy, CEO of McDonald's UK and Ireland, said in a press release at the time. The plastic straws previously used could be recycled, but the British government has moved to ban plastic straws by 2020 and encouraged chains to ditch the products. Then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove congratulated McDonald's on "making this significant contribution to help our natural environment" when the initial move was made last year. But the new straws were unpopular even before the latest revelation. Numerous social media users complained that they became soggy in drinks, and a petition calling on the firm to bring back their old straws has been signed more than 50,000 times.


Real Madrid will double Eden Hazard's wages to £400,000-a-week when his long-awaited move to the Spanish capital comes to fruition - and it could all be confirmed within the next 24 hours. Hazard is out of contract at Chelsea next summer, and his pending move to Real has been one of football's worst-kept secrets in recent months, as Zinedine Zidane is keen to make the forward a centre-piece of his new-look side next season. Any hopes Chelsea had of retaining the 28-year-old were well and truly buried when he said his goodbyes after lifting the Europa League , and a new report from the Evening Standard indicates that the countdown is now on. They claim that Real have offered the player a five-year deal worth £400,000-a-week - double what he is now earning in London - and it will see him become one of their best paid players. It is believed to have taken Hazard just a few hours to agree to the deal on the table, after the Belgian met with his legal team while on international duty to run the rule over the offer. The deal will cost Los Blancos an initial fee of £88m , plus substantial add-ons that could take the fee up to as much as £130m. The add-ons are reported to be more than achievable over the course of Hazard's contract, and it's expected that they will be triggered after appearance milestones, club trophies and individual prizes - such as the Ballon d'Or - that Hazard may The Blues will be hoping to use a chunk of that fee to seek out a replacement, but whether or not they can do so will depend on the Court of Arbitration for Sport, who registered their appeal against a FIFA-imposed transfer ban this week.


Looking for a sublime African meal near you? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top African spots around Washington, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of the best spots to fill the bill. 1. Keren Restaurant Topping the list is Keren Restaurant . Located at 1780 Florida Ave. NW (between 18th and U streets NW) in Adams Morgan, the African spot, which offers coffee, tea and more, is the most popular African restaurant in Washington, boasting 4.5 stars out of 1,028 reviews on Yelp. Menu items include tibsi, a veggie combo and fish dulet. 2. Maydan Next up is the U Street Corridor's Maydan , situated at 1346 Florida Ave. NW (between 13th and 14th streets NW). With 4.5 stars out of 610 reviews on Yelp, the Moroccan and Lebanese spot has proved to be a local favorite. On the menu you'll find barramundi, duck breast kebabs and shanklish. 3. Zenebech Restaurant Adams Morgan's Zenebech Restaurant , located at 2420 18th St. NW (between Columbia and Adams Mill roads NW), is another top choice, with Yelpers giving the wine bar, Ethiopian and African spot 4.5 stars out of 481 reviews. Menu items include veggie sambusas, tibs ferfer and curry goat. 4. Chercher Ethiopian Restaurant & Mart Chercher Ethiopian Restaurant & Mart , an Ethiopian spot in Shaw, is another much-loved go-to, with 4.5 stars out of 371 Yelp reviews. Head over to 1334 Ninth St. NW (between O St. NW and North Street NW) to see for yourself. On the menu, you'll find kitfo, beef tibs and vegan specials. 5. Habesha Market and Carry-Out Over in Shaw, check out Habesha Market and Carry-out , which has earned 4.5 stars out of 210 reviews on Yelp. You can find the Ethiopian and traditional American spot at 1919 Ninth St. NW (between U Street NW and Florida Avenue NW). On the menu, you'll find alicha wot, tripa and kitfo. This story was created automatically using local business data, then reviewed and augmented by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


LE HAVRE, France   The U.S. women's next opponent is a budding powerhouse. Ranked No. 13 in the world, Spain has reached the knockout round in only its second World Cup appearance by finishing second in Group B. But its round-of-16 game against the United States on Monday comes four years before La Roja will be a major factor   and threat   on the biggest stage. The teams play Monday evening   noon Eastern   in Reims, the same city where the Americans opened the tournament. Should the Americans win that game, they would move onto a quarterfinal match in Paris, likely against host France. It will be only the second game between the teams, following a friendly in January in Alicante, Spain, that the Americans won 1-0. The U.S. played its regular starting lineup with the exception of Kelley O'Hara, who was still recovering from ankle surgery. Christen Press, who came on as a sub at halftime, scored the game-winner in the 54th minute. "Playing against the best team in the world for the first time made us understand what playing against players with great technique in a well-learned system would mean," Spain coach Jorge Vilda said. "This is a game where any small detail can change things. We've got to look at what we've done and correct our mistakes. "We'll try and do what we do best." Spain's rise is a perfect example of the growth of the women's game. While the men's team is one of the world's best, winning its World Cup in 2010, the women's team was, for decades, basically nonexistent. It did not qualify for the World Cup until 2015 and has never qualified for an Olympics. But a little over three years ago, La Liga, which operates the men's professional league in Spain, decided to create a department dedicated solely to the development of the women's game. With 12 of the 16 men's clubs already having women's teams, La Liga was able to coordinate efforts to professionalize the game. La Liga tapped into existing sponsors, and "encouraged" broadcasters to take an interest in the game. Clubs have signed their senior players to contracts, allowing them to be full-time professionals, and are taking the blueprint they've used for decades to develop their men's players and applying it to the women. The results have been impressive. Barcelona, which has gone all-in with its women's team, reached the Champions League final last month. In March, more than 60,000 people attended a game between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid. And as Spain's women's league gets stronger, so does its national team. Last year, the Under-17 team won the World Cup while the U-20 team reached the final before losing to Japan. The senior team won all of its World Cup qualifying games, scoring 25 goals while allowing just two. But Spain's inexperience has been evident in France, with La Roja quick to fall apart under pressure and, often, being too tentative when it has a shot available. Spain finished with four points in Group B, the same as China. Both teams lost to Germany and beat South Africa, and they played to a scoreless draw in their game. But Spain took second place because of a better goal differential. It scored three goals while allowing two, while China scored one goal and also allowed one. "We know what the situation is," Vilda said about facing the U.S. women. "They're the best team in the world. This will always be a positive experience." This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: US women face emerging power in Spain in next World Cup game Related Slideshow: Best of the 2019 Women's World Cup (Provided by imagn)


NEW HAVEN   The message they carried was clear: Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello should resign and the island needs a better government About 125 demonstrators turned out on the New Haven Green Friday to demand that Rossello resign, joining from Connecticut in the call in Puerto Rico that drew hundreds to a march on Rosello's residence and and smaller events across the island. The New Haven rally was organized by Giovanna Guerrero-Medina... Miguel Vega and Marla Berrios, New Haven residents, showing solidarity with their native Puerto Rico during a rally on the New Haven Green. Miguel Vega and Marla Berrios, New Haven residents, showing solidarity with their native Puerto Rico during a rally on the New Haven Green. Demonstrators protest against governor Ricardo Rossello, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, July 19, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti) A demonstrator with a Trump mask participates in a protest against governor Ricardo Rossello, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, July 19, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti) Demonstrators protest against governor Ricardo Rossello, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, July 19, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti) Police officers walk down Fortaleza street to do a rotation at a barricade during a protest against governor Ricardo Rossello, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, July 19, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti) Demonstrators on horseback gather to protest against Governor Ricardo Rossello, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, July 19, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/ Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo) Demonstrators on horse back protest against governor Ricardo Rossello, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, July 19, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/Dennis M. Rivera Pichardoi) Demonstrators protest against governor Ricardo Rossello, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, July 19, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti) A demonstrator bangs on a pot that has a cartoon drawing of Governor Ricardo Rossello and text the reads in Spanish "Quit Ricky" as people gather to protest against Gov. Rossello, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, July 19, 2019. Protesters are demanding Rossello step down for his involvement in a private chat in which he used profanities to describe an ex-New York City councilwoman and a federal control board overseeing the island's finance. (AP Photo/ Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)


Kansas City Chiefs football is finally here! Kickoff is coming up at 7:00 p.m. CT as the Chiefs face the Bengals in Week 1 of the 2019 NFL preseason. You can find all the important details about how to watch the game and more here. Looking for live scoring updates? We'll update those in the chart below. Chiefs vs. Bengals score Quarter Chiefs Bengals First - - Second - - Third - - Fourth - - 90-man player guide Follow along as the Chiefs Wire staff and other media members tweet during the game. Get the absolute latest updates on our twitter list down below. A Twitter List by TheChiefsWire Chiefs' 2019 preseason schedule Week Opponent Time (CT) | Date (2019) Channel 1 vs. Cincinnati Bengals 7:00 p.m. Sat, Aug. 10th KCTV5 2 at Pittsburgh Steelers 6:30 p.m. Sat, Aug. 17th KCTV5 3 vs. San Francisco 49ers 7:00 p.m. Sat, Aug 24th KCTV5 4 at. Green Bay Packers 7:00 p.m. Thu , Aug 29th KCTV5 MORE: Four potential Carmelo Anthony landing spots in free agency NXT TakeOver: Toronto start time and match card Funniest Antonio Brown Helmet Controversy Memes and Tweets Packers begin crafting backup plan behind Bryan Bulaga at right tackle Chiefs vs. Bengals preseason Week 1: Important details, TV schedule and how to stream online


Ajax defender Matthijs de Ligt will soon complete his blockbuster move to Juventus, despite Barcelona making one final attempt to recruit the Dutchman. The Blaugrana have been chasing De Ligt for months but found themselves falling well behind Juventus in the race for his signature, with the Serie A champions prepared to better Barcelona's contract offer. Ajax captain Matthijs de Ligt is set to fly to Turin to complete his move to Juventus. More here  https://t.co/9sQRVwjaf6 pic.twitter.com/FLUXWwHZ4n   BBC Sport (@BBCSport) July 16, 2019 Juventus appear close to sealing the deal, with BBC Sport claiming De Ligt will fly to Turin on Tuesday to complete the move, which is worth around £67.5m. The 19-year-old, who captained Ajax to the Champions League semi final last season, opted to reject interest from Barcelona , Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United in order to finalise a switch to Maurizio Sarri's side. In fact, Barcelona decided to make a late appeal to De Ligt. Mundo Deportivo claim club officials were prepared to fly to Amsterdam to plead with the defender, while they even reached out to agent Mino Raiola to try and negotiate a late deal. However, Raiola simply brought up Juventus' huge contract offer, insisting that, whilst they were happy to meet with Barcelona, the club needed to at least match the terms if they were to have any hope of convincing De Ligt to reject the Bianconeri. The Serie A giants are believed to have offered De Ligt up to €10m per season, whilst they will also pay €11m in agency fees, and Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu was completely unwilling to match such an offer. He believes a 19-year-old with such little experience in a top league should not be demanding the kind of money Juventus have agreed to pay, and he will instead look to pursue other targets. As a result, De Ligt will now head to Juventus to finalise the deal, which will make him one of the most expensive defenders of all time.


A Windsor man has been indicted in Denver's federal court on numerous gun-smuggling charges after prosecutors allege he hid gun parts for assault rifles in toy cars and shipped them to buyers around the world including in Saudi Arabia and Cambodia. In one such deal, Michael John Suppes, 45, is accused of agreeing to sell 30 AR-15 rifles and 20 AK-47 rifles with illegal 10-inch barrels to a federal agent posing as a Juarez, Mexico, gun buyer, according to U.S. District Court records. Most of the guns were shipped by Suppes' Fort Collins company, Toy Liquidators, , to locals in South Africa, Cambodia, Mexico, India and Australia, the records show. The eight-count indictment filed in the Denver federal court Tuesday accuses Suppes of illegally exporting gun parts around the world in violation of the U.S. Arms Export Control Act. Suppes is also accused of illegally manufacturing and dealing firearms and possessing banned short-stock barrels for automatic weapons. Suppes was arrested on Interstate 25 near Firestone on the morning of May 30 while carrying 50 boxes of AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles and ammunition in his white Toyota pickup truck worth $82,000, according to the indictment filed by U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn's office. He told an undercover agent he could make gun parts in a large shop in his home, according to court records. One of the guns was customized with the colors of the Mexican flag, the records said.in Aligarh, India, containing remote-controlled toy cars with Glock handgun parts tightly packed inside them, according to court records. Over the next eight months, agents from the San Francisco Anti-Terrorism/Contraband Enforcement Team to investigators with Homeland Security in New York City carried on an undercover operation in which they seized scores of toy packages filled with gun parts. Through Stamps.com, agents identified more than 1,200 domestic and international shipments linked to Suppes' email addresses between January 2015 and November 2018, the records show. He allegedly shipped the items through fictitious, unlicensed business names including 1st Strike Tactical and Toys-N-Games, the court records said. Related Articles Colorado man gets 42 years for death of single mother of 4 Adams County deputy arrested by Thornton police on suspicion of DUI, handgun found in truck Coal Creek wife exonerated of attempted murder charges; husband accused of lying to police Public procession, funeral for fallen Colorado State Trooper William Modén set for Friday Ex-employee accused of stealing $49,000 in comics from Mile High Comics in Denver Suppes also had sold more than 6,000 items on eBay to buyers from around the world, including firearm parts such as the Glock Lower Parts Kit, court records said. One parcel bearing a Fort Collins return address from Suppes' office under the fictitious business name Clothing Warehouse Inc. contained three .223-caliber rifle barrels concealed in metal shoe racks bound for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, according to court records. Federal agents used X-ray machines to confirm gun parts were concealed in toys, the records said. Posing as an illegal gun buyer, a federal agent told Suppes that he wanted to buy and smuggle firearm parts in bulk to Guadalajara, Mexico. Payments would be made through Money Gram, the court records said. Agents intercepted numerous parcels containing weapons parts concealed in remote-controlled cars from Suppes to buyers around the world, including to a pharmacy in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Seventy parcels linked to Suppes were shipped from Long Beach, Calif. to a Mr. You Samnang in Cambodia, the records said.


Here's the most recent top news you may have missed in Boston. Boston Marathon bomber to appeal death sentence Lawyers representing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will face an appellate court in December. Read the full story on WCVB . Police investigate shooting on Parker Street Police said one person was rushed to the hospital after being shot in the 900 block of Parker Street near Heath Square on Wednesday night. Read the full story on WCVB . Boston Herald readers give House Speaker DeLeo a bellyful over Chinese takeout The Herald's report on House Speaker Robert DeLeo's $4,745 Chinese takeout order and the legislature's exemption from public records laws is resonating with readers, watchdogs and other media. Read the full story on Boston Herald . Man faces manslaughter charge in death of teen who died after being pushed Isaias Plaza of Boston was held without bail at his arraignment Tuesday in connection with the death last July of 15-year-old Richelle Robinson of Cambridge. Read the full story on Houston Chronicle . This story was created automatically using data about news stories on social media from CrowdTangle , then reviewed by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


When Hue Jackson was fired eight games into the 2018 season by the Cleveland Browns, he wasted little time in shifting the blame to the front office. Now, one of his former players is speaking out about Jackson's comments and how they were received by the team. "Well, obviously we weren't happy with what Hue said about us after he left. It is what it is," Browns tight end David Njoku said on The Rich Eisen Show . "Baker [Mayfield] didn't appreciate it. We came together after Hue left and took it upon ourselves to work extra hard to finish the year off strong." The Browns rattled off five wins in its final eight games to finish the season season 7-8-1, good for third in the AFC North division. Jackson criticized front office and decisions made Just a few days after being let go following the Browns' Week 8 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers , Jackson called the decision "premature." Jackson criticized the front office's decision to have Todd Haley call the plays saying, "You look at our numbers with me calling the offense [in 2016, 2017) with less talent. Our numbers this year were the same or worse than our numbers last year with better players on offense." He also believed that if he were allowed to coach and do things the way he wanted to from the start, things would have been different. "Had we been doing in year one what I was able to get us to do in year three, there's no question we would already be a winning football team," he said. Shortly after, Jackson joined the Cincinnati Bengals staff as a special assistant. Quarterback Baker Mayfield later snubbed Jackson when the two teams played against each other drawing criticism. Hue Jackson went for the hug and Baker hit him with the "we're just friends" handshake 😂 pic.twitter.com/khycq8Vhik   Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) November 25, 2018 Mayfield defended his actions in the postgame saying, "It's just somebody that was in our locker room, asking for us to play for him and then goes to a different team we play twice a year." He added then, "Everybody can have their spin on it, but that's how I feel." Njoku defended Mayfield's actions and thoughts, citing how the team felt about what Jackson had done. "Baker has a voice, as we all do, and he didn't appreciate what happened. It's not like we're robots," He said. "We felt, in a way, disrespected. It is what it is." Unless Jackson becomes a late season hire to a rival team, it's unlikely that the Browns will ever see him again. Still, the feelings that Njoku described will likely carry on into the new season. More from Yahoo Sports: What kept Rapinoe on the bench in USWNT's win Twitter celebrates Morgan's epic troll of England Tracing the timeline of KD and Kyrie's plan to join Nets Root for the USWNT in style with our favorite apparel


BALTIMORE (AP) The calendar says late June. For Mike Clevinger, it's still early March. Admittedly rusty and out of synch, Clevinger struggled in his return from the injured list Friday night and made an early exit in the Cleveland Indians' 13-0 loss to the Baltimore Orioles Chance Sisco homered and had a career-high five RBIs for the Orioles, who built an 8-0 lead in the second inning and cruised to only their second win in 15 games. It was the most runs scored by Baltimore this season and its most lopsided shutout win since Aug. 13, 2006, a 15-0 win over Toronto. ''We have not had many of these,'' Orioles first-year manager Brandon Hyde said. ''We were definitely due for one.'' With a victory on Saturday, struggling Baltimore will have its first winning streak since May 4-6 and capture its first series since April 22-24. .After notching a total of 25 wins over the past two seasons, Clevinger (1-2) was making his fourth start this year following two separate stints on the injured list with back and ankle problems. This appeared to be the perfect scenario for his return, given the plight of the Orioles and Clevinger's 4-0 career record against them. The right-hander couldn't get past the second inning. He managed to get five outs around allowing seven runs, five hits and three walks. ''It wasn't fun, it wasn't easy,'' Clevinger said. ''It's kind of like spring training. I'm throwing some pitches that are coming out good, they're spinning good, but they're not going exactly where I want it to. It's just a matter of getting back and getting the reps.'' After walking the first batter he faced, Clevinger got two outs before Sisco hit a fastball far over the right-field wall - the 99th homer to reach Eutaw Street in the 27-year history of Camden Yards. Two walks and a two-run double by Hanser Alberto followed. Clevinger gave up three more hits before being pulled in the second inning, and Anthony Santander greeted Tyler Olson with a two-run homer . ''It's been 2 1/2 months off, and I'm going against guys who have been in the flow of the game,'' Clevinger lamented. ''It's a lot to pick up. I've got to figure it out myself.'' Manager Terry Francona won't lose patience waiting for it to happen. ''The good side of it is he looked extremely healthy,'' Francona said. ''With repetition, with side days, with work in between, he'll be fine.'' Like Clevenger, Baltimore starter John Means (7-4) was activated from the injured list (shoulder) to pitch in this game. Means, however, was far more successful : The lefty allowed one hit and one walk with five strikeouts in five innings. ''Actually I felt a lot better than I thought,'' he said. Pitched pretty well, too. ''John Means was fantastic,'' Hyde said. After getting 10 wins in 13 games, the Indians managed only five hits in their sixth shutout loss of the season. Their most notable play came on defense, when center fielder Oscar Mercado made a leaping catch in the fourth inning to rob Sisco of a second home run. Sisco rebounded to hit a two-run double during a four-run eighth. CHANG DEBUT Yu Chang became the second Taiwanese-born player in Indians history, starting at third base and going 0 for 3 in his major league debut after being recalled from Triple-A Columbus. Summoned from the minors Friday after Jose Ramirez went on paternity leave, Chang became the 16th player in big league history born in Taiwan. The 23-year-old batted .151 before going on the injured list with a knuckle injury from April 17-June 17 and returned to hit .320 in six games. ''They say he's really looked like a different player, kind of like Chang, instead of Chang with a bad finger,'' Francona said. ROSTER SHUFFLE Ramirez will be gone ''two or three days,'' according to Francona. In addition to recalling Chang and activating Clevinger, Cleveland optioned RHP Jon Edwards to Columbus. TRAINER'S ROOM Indians: RHP Corey Kluber (broken arm) is finally playing catch after going on injured list on May 3. ''He's basically got to start over again, his throwing program,'' Francona said. ''But the fact that he's throwing, the fact that it's healing so well, it's really good news.'' Orioles: OF DJ Stewart (ankle) is playing in the Gulf Coast League and will soon be ready to continue his rehab in the minors, Hyde said. UP NEXT Indians: Zach Plesac (3-2, 2.33 ERA) faces the Orioles on Saturday after limiting Detroit to one run over seven innings on Sunday. Orioles: Andrew Cashner (7-3, 4.37) tries again to beat the Indians. In three career starts against Cleveland, the right-hander is 0-3 with an 8.44 ERA. --- More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports


The week has come to a close and it is time to go around the NFC West to see what has been going on with the Arizona Cardinals' division rivals. Let us begin with the San Francisco 49ers. What are the stories from the last week that Cardinals fans should know about? Here are a few. Training camp start date announced for 49ers Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports The Cardinals barely announced their training camp schedule last Monday. The 49ers still have not yet released their specific practice schedule but their report date has been announced. Rookies and veterans will report on July 26 . View embedded content 49ers fans still very good fans Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports It's been a while since the 49ers were good. Ever since Jim Harbaugh left, it has been a struggle. That has not changed the quality of the fan base. According to one ranking, using a number of metrics, 49ers fans are still a top-10 group . View embedded content Marquise Goodwin wins speed tournament Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports It is well known that receiver Marquise Goodwin is fast. He proved how fast, winning the 40 Yards of Gold tournament . He defeated Donte Jackson for the $1 million prize. View embedded content Focus on trenches to improve Sergio Estrada-USA TODAY Sports The 49ers have made several moves in the offseason to improve up front offensively and defensively. Niners Wire's Kyle Madson breaks down why it is important . View embedded content Shuffles in secondary could pay off Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports Another injury to Jimmie Ward has put Tarvarius Moore back at his natural position at safety. They wanted to make him a cornerback. Madson writes that shift back to safety for Moore might pay off for the Niners . Listen to the latest from Cards Wire's Jess Root on his podcast, Rise Up, See Red. Subscribe on Apple podcasts or Stitcher Radio . View embedded content MORE: NBA Free Agency 2019: The top players Giants' Darius Slayton already considered a Draft-day steal? NBA free agency roundup: The latest updates around the league Report: Celtics will renounce rights to Terry Rozier, Suns interested Heading into training camp: Projecting Graham Glasgow's contract extension


Notre Dame Cathedral held its first mass on June 15 in Paris, France, two months after a devastating fire engulfed the monument on April 15. The Archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit led the mass along with a small congregation wearing safety hats. (Pictured) A view of stained glass consolidation works on the south face of the Cathedral on June 15. The Archbishop of Paris Michel Aupetit leads the first mass in a side chapel of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, on June 15. Worshippers pray as they watch the mass displayed on a cellphone in front of the cathedral, on June 15, during the celebration. Michel Aupetit, Archbishop of Paris, leads the mass in a side chapel of the cathedral, on June 15. A nun and worshippers watch the mass displayed on a cellphone in front of the cathedral, on June 15. People gather in front of the cathedral, on June 15. Archbishop of Paris Mgr Michel Aupetit waves as he leaves after celebrating the first mass, on June 15. People walk by a police car parked in front of the construction area of the cathedral, on June 15. A kid looks at the Notre Dame cathedral during the first mass celebration, on June 15. The Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit speaks to the press in the courtyard of the diocese after leading the first mass, on June 15.


The San Francisco Giants had a bit of a mess to clean up after one of their pitchers publicly blasted them while claiming that the front office had him fake an injury. Pitcher Derek Holland accused the San Francisco front office of having him fake an injury that landed him on the injured list at the end of April in a longer quote about his frustration with roster handling. Holland: "To be honest, I have no idea what they're doing. And I don't mean that by Boch and them, it's more for the front office. We keep changing things. I get a fake injury, so I'm not happy about that. But at the end of the day, I'm going to do whatever they ask me to do." https://t.co/4KVqTtUr2h   Maria I. Guardado (@mi_guardado) May 12, 2019 On Sunday, the Giants did damage control, submitting documents and MRIs to Major League Baseball to prove that Holland's stint on the IL was legitimate. The #SFGiants have provided documented medical reports and MRIs to #MLB today to show evidence that Derek Holland did not go on the injured list earlier this season with a 'fake injury' as Holland described it Saturday night after being told he's being demoted to the bullpen.   Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) May 12, 2019 At 16-23, the Giants are dead last in the NL West, and there is chatter about star players being traded . This is the latest chaotic development in what is quickly shaping up to be a lost and messy season for a team that was once a regular contender every year. Related slideshow: 2019 MLB season (Provided by imagn)


NASCAR no longer will use the standard of an "arm's length" from a crew member to determine if to penalize teams for an uncontrolled tire on pit road, removing that requirement from the rule book after complaints from competitors. Tires will be considered uncontrolled if they create a safety issue or interfere/impede another competitor's pit stop. Safety issues include but are not limited to tires rolling into the traffic lane of pit road. Tires may not be bounced or thrown at any time. Tires may be rolled from the outside half of the pit box to the pit wall, providing they do not create a safety issue or interfere/impede another competitor's pit stop. Once tires are returned to the inside half of the pit box they may not roll back to the outside half of the pit box. Tires, servicing equipment and crew members may not interfere or impede with another team's pit stop. Tires contacting a vehicle while being carried to the outside half of the pit box may be considered a no call. The penalty for an uncontrolled tire under green flag conditions will be a pass through, and starting at the tail end of the field under caution conditions. Click here for diagram on what is a penalty and what is not a penalty for a tire on pit road "After discussions internally and with competitors and teams, NASCAR will adjust how we officiate the uncontrolled tire rule to focus on preventing a safety hazard rather than concentrating on the subjective "arm's length" criteria," said Elton Sawyer, NASCAR vice president of officiating and technical inspection, in a statement. "To be clear, tires must still be returned from the outside of the pit box in a controlled manner. Denny Hamlin was critical of NASCAR's rule for uncontrolled tires after his team was called for its fifth uncontrolled tire penalty this season at Chicagoland Speedway. "I don't know what they can change, but I would like to see a change," Hamlin said the following week at Daytona when asked about his issues with the rule. "I think rules have to evolve and this is not about us in particular. I made a comment and it has 3,000 likes, 500 retweets, 300 comments, so it touches the fan base. These are people that aren't Denny fans; they just don't get it. If they don't get it at home, then it's probably not a rule that needs to be in place in the Cup series because you can't explain it to them. "It's hard to explain when a tire is just sitting there that it's uncontrolled. It's not moving. It is controlled. I don't know the answer, and I don't know how to fix it. They are pretty smart, and I'm sure they can make adjustments to fix it to make it a little more simple. But overall, everyone's arms are a different length. So, what is an arm's length? Do they have some kind of technology that says 'Ok this distance from the tire changer to the tire is more than an arm's length and they can pull a measuring out and they can measure it?' I don't know, but that's just too much rules. Too many things that can change the ultimate outcome of a race. "We had earned our spot up front. That's the crappy part about it. We had earned our position up there. Then, you have to go to the back and in today's racing, it's harder than that ever to be able to come back. It's virtually impossible to be able to come back now, no matter how fast your car is because everyone is running so much wide-open throttle. It changes your race; it changes how you are going to finish. It's up to us to play by the rules that have been given to us, let's be clear about that, but we think we are doing that. Sometimes, that judgement call doesn't go your way and it's been multiple times this year, that we don't know what we could have done differently, and we are going to need that explanation so that we don't do it again." In Wednesday's bulletin to teams, NASCAR also added a rule that states: "When changing all four tires, crew members must change/remove the outside tires first. The penalty for changing/removing the inside tires first will be restarting at the tail end of the field under caution or a pass-through under green." That change comes as NASCAR soon heads to road courses. Xfinity and Cup race next week at Watkins Glen International. Cars pit in the opposite direction there as they do on ovals and there have been times when teams changed the inside tires (those closest to the wall) first. "Additionally, beginning at the Watkins Glen race weekend, we are mandating that outside tires must be changed first during a four-tire stop, to reduce crew members' exposure to adjacent vehicles departing their pit stalls," Sawyer said in a statement. "Our commitment to safety remains unchanged, and these rules adjustments will lessen potential danger for crew members."


Judicael Zaha says his brother's dream is to play for Arsenal, and the North London club has bid nearly $51 million for Crystal Palace star Wilfried . The 26-year-old Palace playmaker would join Aaron Wan-Bissaka in leaving Selhurst Park. Sky Sports reported that Arsenal made its bid for Zaha, who has produced 26 goals and 26 assists across his last three Premier League campaigns. [ MORE: USWNT-England preview ] It's well-documented that Palace expect more than $100 million for Wilfried Zaha, and it's seemingly no coincidence that Zaha's brother is making this statements as the Gunners offer around half that total. Here's Judicael, via Sky Sports : "It's my brother's dream though, to play for Arsenal," he added. "Given all that Wilfried has given to Crystal Palace to help them remain a Premier League club, I hope Palace will be able to see their way to agreeing a deal with Arsenal that allows Wilfried to realise his dream of playing European Football for the club he's supported since childhood." Will they meet halfway? Other reports claim that Zaha is not a priority for the Gunners, who would be in the catbird seat as the player's preferred destination without pushing particularly hard for his services. Do you think Palace will resist the urge to sell for under its price tag? No player was as fouled as Zaha during the last Premier League season, and the player is clearly a producer at the level. What would he mean to Unai Emery and the Emirates Stadium set? Follow @NicholasMendola


The Arizona Cardinals had the worst offensive attack in 2018. By hiring Kliff Kingsbury as coach, drafting quarterback Kyler Murray and three receivers, as well as acquiring two new starters on the offensive line, they hope to be drastically better. However, in Bill Barnwell's rankings of the different offensive arsenals , they have not improved much. Barnwell ranks them only 27th. You certainly can't accuse the Cardinals of standing pat at wide receiver. Kliff Kingsbury is going to use plenty of three- and four-wideout sets in his Air Raid attack, and the Cards added to starters Larry Fitzgerald and Christian Kirk by drafting Andy Isabella, Hakeem Butler and KeeSean Johnson. Former Bears first-round pick Kevin White's here as a flier, too. The moves to sign tight ends Charles Clay and Maxx Williams make less sense given how infrequently this team is likely to use multiple tight ends for anything beyond special-teams plays. Strangely, this is probably the first year in over a decade in which the most important weapon for the Cardinals isn't the guy wearing No. 11. Fitzgerald is going to be a Hall of Famer, but as he turns 36 and enters what is likely to be his final season, the Arizona offense will need to depend more heavily upon Kirk and David Johnson, who never seemed to get going last season. This offense will move fast and should generate a ton of possessions, which will bump up everyone's numbers, but if Johnson doesn't piece together an impressive year, it'll make the 27-year-old's breakout campaign from 2016 look more like an aberration than an indication of what was to come. Despite only ranking 27th, they aren't the last in the division. The Seattle Seahawks are 29th. Listen to the latest from Cards Wire's Jess Root on his podcast, Rise Up, See Red. Subscribe on Apple podcasts or Stitcher Radio . View embedded content MORE: Poker player loses brutal 31 million chip hand with pocket aces at 2019 WSOP Main Event Three Potential Landing Spots for Chris Paul News: Major trade target at safety, levels to Cowboys WRs, NFL's best RB NBA Depth Charts After Packers pass on Jalen Thompson, focus shifts to Natrell Jamerson


Presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson said Sunday that the "Black Lives Matter" controversy is "political correctness going amuck." "Of course all lives matter," Carson, an African American, said on NBC's "Meet the Press." Carson on Sunday defended his remarks during a rally last week, when he reportedly said, "Of course all lives matter. I don't want to get into it, it's so silly." Carson said he does not recall calling the "movement" silly. "What I called silly is political correctness going amuck. That's what's silly," he said. At the same time, Carson said, "of course we should be very concerned about what's going on, particularly in our inner cities." "It's a crime, you know, for a young black man, the most likely cause of death is homicide. That is a huge problem that we need to address in a very serious way," he added. "The vast majority of police are very good people. Are there bad apples? Of course," he continued. "But if you hire a plumber and he does a bad job, do you say all plumbers are bad? Let's go out and kill them? I don't think we do that," he said. "We need to be a little more mature, but certainly in cases where police are doing things that are inappropriate, I think we ought to investigate those promptly and justice should be swift," he said. Carson also addressed illegal immigration, calling it "impractical" to round up 11 million illegal immigrants in the country. He said those who favor that "have no idea what they're talking about and how much that costs and how impractical that is." Carson has come out in favor of giving them a guest worker permits, so they would have to pay back taxes and taxes going forward. "It does not give them voting rights, it does not make them a citizen, and if they want citizenship, they get in the back of the line and go through the same process as everybody else, because we cannot neglect the people who have done it the right way," he said. On whether that was amnesty, Carson said, "They can call it whatever they want to. But we also have to be pragmatic." Carson also said he thought a lack of political experience is helping him as a candidate, and the fact that Donald Trump is also not a politician is helping him as well. "It's a tremendous help. It's a tremendous aid because fewer people are talking about my lack of political experience now," he said. "And that's good because, you know, experience can come from a variety of different places." "And certainly the life that you have led, you know, in my case, you know, solving complex problems, being involved in corporate America, starting a national nonprofit, you get an enormous amount of experience doing these things, particularly in solving problems," he added. "It's an erroneous thought that only political experience is expedient," he said.


ASHEVILLE   Dogwood Health Trust has added to its board. The foundation born from the $1.5 billion sale of Mission Health said it appointed Dawna Goode-Ledbetter of McDowell County to serve on its board of directors. She becomes the 13th member of a board featuring a number of regional leaders such as Biltmore Farms President Jack Cecil and headed by longtime restaurateur and ex-Mission board Chair Janice Brumit. Dogwood has not yet hired its first chief executive. Goode-Ledbetter is the executive treasurer of the McDowell Chamber of Commerce and vice chair of the McDowell County Health Coalition. She was described by Dogwood as a 20-year health equity and community development veteran with roles on several regional boards including the McDowell County Transportation Board. "Dawna has spent more than two decades working to advance health equity and build partnerships between communities and the health care sector in Western North Carolina," Brumit was quoted as saying in a May 22 news release on the appointment. "Her past work aligns perfectly with the purpose of Dogwood Health Trust, which makes her a natural fit to serve as part of our leadership." Goode-Ledbetter added she is honored to be "a part of an organization that is going to make a huge difference in the health and well-being of the people in the Western North Carolina region." MORE: ► Dogwood Health Trust hires Illinois-based recruitment firm to lead CEO search ► Mission releases Dogwood Health Trust board names: See who's on the list ► Dogwood Health chair Brumit: Trust favors 'bold' grant requests in WNC Dogwood was promoted by Mission leaders as a benefit of the sale of the nonprofit six-hospital system to for-profit HCA Healthcare. Once Dogwood is fully operational, the private, nonoperational foundation plans to spend some $70 million annually funding initiatives in 18 counties in Western North Carolina. Brumit told the Council of Independent Business Owners in March the trust favors "bold" grant requests when it opens its first grant cycle in 2020. Want to stay informed about news from around Asheville? Do that, plus support local journalists, by subscribing to the Asheville Citizen Times. Click here to sign up for a digital subscription. The Dogwood board, which meets monthly, previously hired Oak Brook, Illinois-based Witt/Kieffer to assist in its CEO search. A foundation spokesperson said the board has been meeting "regularly" with the Witt/Kieffer team in search of the first executive to shape Dogwood's early strategic planning efforts and fully form its grant strategies. Who's on the Dogwood board? These are the 13 members of the Dogwood Health Trust board, which has been tasked with building the foundation ahead of hiring its first chief executive. Members of the board not including Goode-Ledbetter are: • Chairman Janice Brumit, of Brumit Restaurant Group and formerly of the Mission Health board. • Vice Chair Dr. John Ball, longtime health executive and formerly chairman of Mission's board. • Jack Cecil, president of Biltmore Farms LLC. • George Renfro, retired co-owner and chief operating officer of Coca-Cola Bottling Company Affiliated Inc. • Vivian Bolanos, vice president and business development officer at First Bank. • Jackie Godlock, business relations representative for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. • Michell Hicks, three-term principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. • Sam Lupas, real estate investor, developer and broker. • Robert C. Roberts, regional executive vice president for First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. • Jackie Shropshire Simms, teacher and ethical culture officiant and humanist celebrant with the Ethical Humanist Society of Asheville. • Wyatt Stevens, attorney at Roberts & Stevens, P.A. • Martha Tyner, Tyner Construction Co. Inc. This article originally appeared on Asheville Citizen Times: Dogwood Health Trust adds McDowell health equity veteran to board


Charlie Rehfeld's three-string cigar box guitar, complete with a 1960 black-and-white Texas license plate on the front of the body, is well used and well loved. Maybe not as much as Trigger, Willie Nelson's faithful acoustic guitar. But unlike Willie, Rehfeld built his guitar himself. In fact, over the past six years, Rehfeld has built dozens of cigar box guitars   simple stringed instruments that use an empty cigar box as a resonator   ever since he saw people playing them online. His first one went to his son, a musician, and he's been building and selling them, under the business name Tejas Cigar Box Guitar Company , ever since. "It's almost become a full-time job," the retired electrician said only half jokingly while sitting in the garage workshop of his Live Oak home. Smelling of wood glue and sawdust, the space is filled with power tools and lined with shelves of empty wooden cigar boxes just waiting to make sweet, sweet music. Rehfeld and his wife, Nina, travel to festivals and fairs across Texas, selling his handmade Americana throwbacks for anywhere from $135 to $225, depending on ornamentation (license plate guitars are in high demand), the number of strings and the type of pickup used. One recent morning he was elbow deep in building the 30 or so guitars he'll need when they set up shop at the Texas Folklife Festival , scheduled for June 7-9 at the UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures. He also has a shop on the online retail site Etsy (search tejascbgco ). "I like the satisfaction of building a quality, handmade instrument that is easy to play for children and adults," said Rehfeld, 60. "Many people think they're toys. Then they hear them and realize they're actually great-sounding instruments." He said they're so simple even small children can start playing after only five or 10 minutes of instruction. On ExpressNews.com: Build your dream boat at this Port Aransas shop, Farley's Boat Works Although they look like disheveled cats, cigar box guitars can, in the right hands, make sophisticated music. Players ranging from Bo Diddley and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top to Joe Bonamassa and Paul McCartney all have performed onstage with them. San Antonio area artists such as Samantha Fish , Justin Johnson and Charlie Cruz of Charlie Cruz and the Cool Cats have played or own one or more of Rehfeld's creations. Shane Speal has played them, too, and he calls Rehfeld a "master builder." "Charlie's guitars are Maseratis, beautiful and works of art," said Speal, founder and editor of Cigar Box Nation , an online resource for all things cigar box guitar that has almost 20,000 members. Speal also is the author of " Making Poor Man's Guitars: Cigar Box Guitars, the Frying Pan Banjo, and Other DIY Instruments ." Rehfeld builds his cigar box guitars using red oak ("a nice hardwood") for the necks, wooden cigar boxes he buys from cigar stores for a couple of bucks each, and pickups, volume and tone controls and other electronics purchased online. He can make five or six guitars a week, each one taking 10 to 12 hours to complete   although he makes them in batches on a sort of homemade production line. On ExpressNews.com: Texas company Tellinga turns your life into a comic Cigar box instruments can be traced back at least to the 1860s, when they were hand-crafted by those who could not afford professionally made equipment. A verified etching exists of two Civil War soldiers at a campsite, one playing a cigar box fiddle, for example. Most experts say the classic blues sound also owes much to the diddley bow, a single-string of baling wire tautly hung between two nails on a board, which could be seen as a precursor to cigar box instruments. To play it, a glass bottle is used both as a bridge and as a way to magnify the instrument's sound. Matt Isbell, frontman for the Memphis-based Ghost Town Blues Band , has been building and playing cigar box guitars for about 10 years. Over that span, he said, there's been a resurgence in interest in the instrument. "It started as a poor man's instrument back in the 1800s and it has continued to be a poor man's instrument today," he said. He added that, for many musicians, playing a cigar box guitar is also a good way to stand out from the crowd   even if they can afford to play something fancier. Richard A. Marini is a features writer in the San Antonio and Bexar County area. Read him on our free site , mySA.com, and on our subscriber site , ExpressNews.com. | rmarini@express-news.net | Twitter: @RichardMarini


First-round picks who don't get their fifth-year options picked up respond in different ways. Washington wide receiver Josh Doctson said this week that he's taking no extra motivation from the team's decision to pass on the option. Bills defensive end Shaq Lawson is taking the opposite view. Lawson said this week that he is using the Bills' call on 2020 as fuel for his preparations for the year to come. "No, I ain't concerned. It's motivation. I know what time it is. It's do or die ," Lawson said, via the Buffalo News . "I've been through a situation like this before. It's just a small step. Me, I'm just gonna go out there and ball this year and see where everything falls." Lawson has produced 76 tackles, 10 sacks and four forced fumbles while missing 13 games over his first three seasons. More production and less time on the sideline would be good places to start avoiding the death side of his predicament.


Visiting East Boston, or just looking to better appreciate what it has to offer? Get to know this Boston neighborhood by browsing its most popular local businesses, from pizzerias to a Mexican spot. Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top places to visit in East Boston, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of neighborhood businesses. Read on for the results. 1. Italian Express Pizzeria Topping the list is Italian and pizza spot Italian Express Pizzeria . Located at 336 Sumner St. (between Cottage Street and Wilbur Court), it's the highest-rated business in the neighborhood, boasting 4.5 stars out of 410 reviews on Yelp. On the menu, look for soups, salads, pasta dinners and, of course, pizza. 2. Santarpio's Pizza Next up is pizza spot Santarpio's Pizza , situated at 111 Chelsea St. (between Washington Avenue and Porter Street). With four stars out of 1,151 reviews on Yelp, it's proven to be a local favorite. Santarpio's serves a selection of pizza, meat skewers, beer and wine. 3. Taqueria Jalisco Mexican spot Taqueria Jalisco is another top choice. Yelpers give the business, located at 291 Bennington St. (between Chelsea and Bremen streets), 4.5 stars out of 306 reviews. The business' menu includes tacos, burritos, seafood dishes and more. 4. Rincon Limeño Restaurant Check out Rincon Limeño Restaurant , which has earned 4.5 stars out of 240 reviews on Yelp. You can find the Latin American and Peruvian spot at 409 Chelsea St. On the menu, look for both hot and cold tapas, ceviche, soups, seafood and more. 5. Rino's Place And then there's Rino's Place , a local favorite with four stars out of 794 reviews. Stop by 258 Saratoga St. (between Brooks and Putnam streets) to hit up the Italian spot next time you're in the neighborhood. Rino's Place serves menu items including chicken marsala, gnocchi, calamari and more. This story was created automatically using local business data, then reviewed and augmented by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


Pau Gasol has agreed to a one-year contract with the Trail Blazers, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. He'll receive the veteran's minimum of $2.6M, Bobby Marks of ESPN adds . The veteran big man finished last season with the Bucks, who let him go as an unrestricted free agent. Gasol underwent surgery in May to repair a navicular stress fracture in his left foot. He's expected to make a full recovery in advance of training camp. After being bought out and waived by the Spurs and arriving in Milwaukee in early March, the six-time All-Star appeared in just three games, averaging 1.3 points and 3.3 rebounds in 10.0 minutes per contest. Gasol turned 39 this month but was determined to continue his career for at least another season. Gasol provides insurance with Jusuf Nurkic recovering from a serious leg injury suffered in late March. Hassan Whiteside was acquired from the Heat this offseason to start in his place. Zach Collins can also swing over to the 5 spot. Portland now has 14 players with guaranteed contracts.