If NASA's going to pull this one off, it needs to get through an enormous to-do list. President Donald Trump wants the United States to "return to Space in a BIG WAY!" And to do so, he's pushing NASA toward a hasty, yet-to-be funded goal: returning to the moon by the year 2024. Under my Administration, we are restoring @NASA to greatness and we are going back to the Moon, then Mars. I am updating my budget to include an additional $1.6 billion so that we can return to Space in a BIG WAY!   Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 13, 2019 The mission is called " Artemis ," after the Greek goddess of hunting and twin sister of Apollo. It's a fitting name, as NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has promised that the mission will deliver the first woman to the moon. (All the Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and '70s were white men. ) Why is this suddenly a priority for the Trump administration? The mission is certainly Trumpian in its grandiosity; the landing would occur during a second term of the Trump administration. And there's a lot about it that seems impractical   the rockets and spacecraft that will be necessary to complete the mission are either over-deadline, unfinished, or nonexistent at the moment. Plus: bureaucratic details remain, like how will this all be paid for? But it's also important to know: The mission has scientific merit. And deadlines and political momentum can be useful. The George W. Bush administration pushed for a mission to the moon . Then, when the Obama administration came in, the directive shifted toward building up capabilities for a journey to Mars . And as we learned in the 1960s, political momentum is critical for space exploration. It makes some sense to complete a moonshot within one administration's reign. The deadline, in itself, isn't a horrible idea. Still, questions remain: Can NASA and its industry partners pull this off? After all, deadlines in human spaceflight have been routinely missed over the last decade by both NASA and the commercial spaceflight industry. And: Will it actually be funded? Let's break down what this mission would entail (if it's funded), and how NASA envisions getting humans to the moon in the next five years. The scientific case for going back to the moon Let's remember, the journey to the moon is, ostensibly, scientific. The moon can help us understand the development of our entire solar system. The surface of the moon is around 3.5 billion years old , and its many craters and scars tell the story of the environment of our solar system from that time onward. When the moon gets a crater, it remains there unchanged for the rest of time (unlike on Earth, where life and plate tectonics slowly erase this natural history). "The moon has recorded impact processes that have gone on throughout the entire solar system," Georgiana Kramer , a planetary scientist who studies the moon, says. The moon rocks brought back from the Apollo missions helped scientists understand that the surface of the moon formed out of an ocean of magma, just like the Earth. And the data lent some evidence to the hypothesis that the moon formed when the Earth was stuck by a massive Mars-sized object. Going back, collecting more samples   and particularly samples from the far side of the moon, which have never been collected   will give scientists like Kramer a more detailed look into the history of the solar system. And we need human hands to do the collecting. "Humans are much more efficient at gathering scientific information compared to rovers or robots," she says. Another reason to go to the moon: to prepare to venture elsewhere. If humans are going to become an interplanetary species, with outposts on the moon and Mars, we're going to have to learn to live in space . The moon, just a three-day's journey away, is a great place to do that. We could also use resources on the moon   like water, trapped in ice , which exists on the moon   to help supply those missions. A more permanent human presence on the moon could be the start of a new spacefaring age of mankind. It's a noble idea. And we can do it. But when? In December 2017, President Trump signed Space Policy Directive 1 , which is basically an executive order outlining NASA's mission priorities. The directive tasked NASA with leading "the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization." However, it didn't set a timeline to do so   until a few months ago. In March, the Trump Administration sped up the timeline With its 2017 directive from the Trump administration, NASA got to work, drafting plans to achieve a long-term human presence on the moon. The centerpiece of the plan was a space station called the Gateway , or lunar Gateway. It's a space station, but instead of orbiting the Earth, it will orbit the moon and serve as a launching ground for missions to the lunar surface. It would be reusable and nimble: NASA could change its orbit to pass over any location on the moon. And like the ISS, the Gateway could be   potentially   continuously occupied by astronauts, establishing a permanent human presence near the moon. The benefit of the Gateway is that is multipurpose. The Gateway could serve as a stepping stone to a permanent base on the surface of the moon, and it would be a decent launching point for missions to Mars or to asteroids. The plan, as of earlier this year, was to build the Gateway (like the space station, it would be assembled piece by piece in prefabricated modules), and put it in orbit around the moon ( maybe by 2026 ). And like the ISS, NASA was hoping for international support and collaboration to build it. NASA drafted these plans with the impression they'd have a decade or so to fulfill them. On this timeline, NASA was eyeing a 2028 crewed mission to the surface of the moon. A few months ago, this all got shaken up. In March, Vice President Mike Pence gave NASA a new deadline: boots on the moon by 2024. Specifically, the vice president called out the lunar South Pole   a region with some very old and scientifically interesting moon rocks   as a place to land. Why did the White House speed up the timeline? "Who knows?" Casey Dreier, the senior space policy adviser at the Planetary Society, says. It's easy to dismiss the rush as a Trumpian move   to prioritize flashy nationalistic rhetoric over substance. And it very well might be. But when it comes to human space exploration, deadlines can be useful, Dreier explains. Recall President Kennedy's plea to go to the moon by the end of the 1960s. That deadline, and the political will to realize it, became a reality. Big missions to the moon and beyond need political momentum, which can wane from administration to administration. If NASA is going to land on the moon in 2024, it has to get through an enormous to-do list The new target of 2024 means the to-do list is very long. It will be very expensive to complete and will require the partnership of the commercial space industry. That's because currently: NASA's rocket to launch people to the moon   the Space Launch System, or SLS   isn't finished and won't be tested until at least next year, perhaps later. The Obama administration was a bit more focused on the long term   planning for a journey to Mars by the year 2030. And to get there, it was prioritizing the development of new multipurpose rockets and spaceships for human missions (to the moon, to Mars, to   potentially   asteroids). This hardware is still in the works and will be key to Artemis. The SLS has been under development since 2011, and the first of them were originally planned to be tested in 2017 (they weren't). When complete, the SLS will be the largest, most powerful rocket ever built. There are three versions of the SLS planned   called Block 1, Block 1B, and Block B   and they each carry a different payload and can be configured to transport either crew or cargo. Due to delays, Bridenstine has hinted it's possible that NASA could launch an uncrewed 2020 test mission to the moon on a commercial rocket. That's because "SLS is struggling to meet its schedule," he said during a March Senate hearing. (The eventual crewed missions would still use the SLS, which is much more powerful than the commercially available rockets and can bring heavy cargo to the moon.) The Space Launch System isn't a single rocket, but a collection of them, each with a different payload capacity. NASA's space capsule for the journey to the Earth to the moon   called Orion   also isn't complete. The Orion is a multipurpose vehicle to sit atop the SLS that will serve as the crew quarters for missions beyond low Earth orbit (i.e. beyond the International Space station). It's designed to accommodate four astronauts. The Orion was also announced in 2011, and has yet to be flown with a crew onboard. NASA is planning to test its launch abort system in July , and maybe fly it robotically to the moon in 2020 (though that test could be delayed , too). It did, however, perform an uncrewed flight test in 2014. NASA still needs to build and launch a lunar Gateway space station. The basic outline for a 2024 moon landing is this: Astronauts would take off aboard the Orion, on the SLS, and fly to the Gateway. Then, they would board a lunar descent craft, go down to the moon, do some moon science, and return to the Gateway before the journey home. But the Gateway needs to be in place for this to happen. Also, NASA doesn't have a lunar lander (or even approved designs for one) to get astronauts down from the Gateway to the moon and back. This lunar lander does not exist. NASA is far along in its development of Orion and the SLS, and it has drafted some plans for the Gateway. But a lunar lander? They don't have one. So, in order to meet the 2024 goal, NASA is turning to industry, asking 11 companies to design prototype landers . Even with the help of industry, this will be no easy task. "The biggest problem is the timeline of developing a new lunar lander for the first time in a half century," Dreier says. It just takes a very long time to design and build a spacecraft that's safe for humans to use. This is something spacecraft manufacturers struggle with in developing crafts to go to the ISS. Elon Musk's SpaceX has been developing a human-rated capsule   called the crew Dragon   to take astronauts to the ISS since 2010. It's still being tested, and in a recent test, the Dragon's parachutes failed . Another recent test resulted in an explosion . The Dragon was first scheduled to fly in 2017 . Again, this isn't easy. And developing a lunar lander won't be easy, either. And, oh, it hasn't secured funding for the eventual total cost of this mission. Which brings us to: So how much is this all going to cost? The plans   and funding   to achieve the ambitious 2024 landing goal are not yet finalized. But it will likely involve downsizing the development of the lunar Gateway in order to prioritize the development of a lunar lander, Dreier says. To get started on these plans, NASA has requested an additional $1.6 billion supplemental to this year's budget. This has to be approved by Congress, and it's not certain it will be. Making matters thorny, the White House has requested the funds be pulled from Pell Grant reserves . That's the pool of money that helps financially stressed students go to college. It's true the fund currently has a surplus . But that extra money is a safeguard: It would need that cash if the country slips into a recession (as the need for Pell grants increases during hard financial times). Still, it's inevitable that shuffling the money from education makes the Artemis mission more politically charged: Do Democrats really want to take money away from education to fund a hurried attempt to give Trump a win during his last years in office? On the other hand, what's nice about the current budget proposal is that it doesn't redirect funding from other NASA missions   like its robotic explorations of the outer planets or its Earth science programs, for example. It's seeking additional money to pay for Artemis. "I have no intent of redirecting funding from other NASA programs, including science, in support of the human lunar return effort," Bridenstine recently told The Verge's Loren Grush. So even if the 2024 moon shot isn't successful, it won't necessarily be at the cost of other programs. The total potential cost estimate of Artemis is unknown, but NASA's going to need a lot more than $1.6 billion. (Bridenstine has characterized the amount as a " down payment .") At ARS Technica, space reporter Eric Berger reports that the mission could cost an additional "$6 billion to $8 billion per year on top of NASA's existing budget of about $20 billion." Where's that money coming from? No one knows at the moment. "At present we have a White House directive to land humans on the Moon in five years, but no plan, and no budget details on how to do so, and no integrated human space exploration roadmap laying out how we can best achieve the horizon goal, Mars," Rep. Kendra Horn, the Oklahoma Democrat who chairs the House's subcommittee on space and aeronautics, said during a recent committee hearing. "In essence, we're flying blind." Correction: This article originally stated the Orion spacecraft has never flown. In fact, a 2014 test launched it into space without a crew onboard.


WASHINGTON   2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, who is from El Paso, Texas   the location of a mass shooting where more than 20 people were killed in an apparent racist attack   said Monday that President Donald Trump is not welcome there. O'Rourke, who has repeatedly labeled Trump a "racist," said that Trump helped create the tragedy in El Paso. "This president, who helped create the hatred that made Saturday's tragedy possible, should not come to El Paso," O'Rourke wrote on Twitter . "We do not need more division. We need to heal. He has no place here." Trump will be visiting El Paso on Wednesday, Mayor Dee Margo said during a press conference on Monday afternoon. Margo said he will meet with the president, as it is not a political visit. Barack Obama: US should reject language from leaders that 'feeds a climate of fear and hatred' More: El Paso congresswoman says Trump 'not welcome' in the city after mass shooting El Paso police have linked the suspected shooter to a "manifesto" he published before the shooting that contains anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric, and authorities are investigating the attack as a potential hate crime. The suspect is a 21-year-old white man from Allen, Texas   part of the Dallas suburbs and nearly nine hours from El Paso. The death toll is 22 people in the shooting, with another 24 injured as of Monday. Since Saturday's shooting, O'Rourke has repeatedly and forcefully slammed Trump's rhetoric, as well as the media's coverage of Trump's language. During an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday, the Texas Democrat and former member of the House of Representatives compared Trump's presidency to the Third Reich   the second such Nazi comparison in as many months. "The only modern Western Democracy I can think of that has said anything close to this is the Third Reich, Nazi Germany," O'Rourke said. "Talking about human beings as though they are animals, making them subhuman, to make it OK to put their kids in cages." "This president, his open racism, is also an invitation to violence," O'Rourke continued. "Though we bore the brunt of this hatred, we're also the best example for [the U.S.] going forward. A city of immigrants that is 1 of if not the safest cities in U.S. today not despite but because we come from the planet over to call this community & country home" -- @BetoORourke pic.twitter.com/1xjI0iuqMJ   Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) August 5, 2019 During his remarks announcing his presidential bid in 2015, Trump labeled Mexican immigrants as "people that have lots of problems," adding that they're bringing "drugs" and "crimes," and calling some "rapists." The president in the past has also repeatedly criticized caravans of migrants mostly from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador headed to the U.S. as an "invasion." While speaking to reporters on Sunday, O'Rourke was asked if there's anything Trump "can do now to make this any better." "What do you think? You know the s*** he's been saying. He's been calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals," O'Rourke responded. "I don't know, like, members of the press, what the f***?" "It's these questions that you know the answers to. I mean, connect the dots about what he's been doing in this country," O'Rourke continued. "He's not tolerating racism, he's promoting racism. He's not tolerating violence, he's inciting racism and violence in this country." More: Mitch McConnell, criticized for inaction after El Paso, Dayton shootings, calls for discussions to address mass murders Red flag laws, mental health concerns: How the GOP is responding to the El Paso, Dayton shootings Earlier this year, Trump held a rally in El Paso to advocate for a border wall. Margo, a Republican, said he did not meet with the president during that visit. "I will fulfill my obligations as mayor of El Paso to meet with the president to discuss whatever our needs are in this community and hope that if we are expressing specifics that we can get him to come through for us," he said of Wednesday's expected visit. When asked whether he understood why some residents of El Paso are against the president's visit, Margo said: "Yes, I understand!" "We're not dealing with that right now, we're dealing with a tragedy of 22 people who have perished by an evil, hateful act of a white supremacist that has no bearing or belong in El Paso," he continued. Trump on Monday condemned "racism, bigotry and white supremacy." "These sinister ideologies must be defeated," Trump said, addressing the nation. "Hate has no place in America." Slideshow by photo services However, he indicated that his administration's response to the shootings would be focused more on mental health and cultural issues than on gun control. More: Did Dayton gunman target his own sister? Idea 'defies believability,' police chief says More: Donald Trump condemns white supremacy and vows action after mass shootings but offers few specifics Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar, who represents El Paso and is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, has also said Trump is "not welcome" in the city . "Words have consequences. The president has made my community and my people the enemy," Escobar said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "He has told the country that we are people to be feared, people to be hated." "I hope that [Trump] has the self-awareness to understand that we are in pain, and we are mourning, and we are doing the very best in our typical, graceful, El Paso way to be resilient," she continued. "And so I would ask his staff and his team to consider the fact that his words and his actions have played a role in this." Contributing: Nicholas Wu Like what you're reading?: Download the USA TODAY app for more This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Beto O'Rourke on Texas shooting: Trump 'has no place' in El Paso


He survived the Columbine High School mass shooting , but a 20-year battle with drug addiction that followed, one that Austin Eubanks had publicly said started with pills given to ease his pain from bullet wounds suffered in the 1999 rampage, has now cost him his life, his family said. Eubanks, 37, was found dead in his home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, on Saturday morning. While an autopsy is being conducted to determine the cause of death, his family says they already know what killed him. He "lost the battle with the very disease he fought so hard to help others face," his family said in a statement. Routt County Coroner Rob Ryg told ABC affiliate station KMGH-TV in Denver that Eubanks died sometime late Friday or early Saturday. He said no evidence of foul play was found in his home. Eubanks had seemed to be in recovery from his addiction, speaking to millions of people across the nation about the ravages of opioids and the "emotional pain" he said doctors were failing to treat. "As you can imagine, we are beyond shocked and saddened," his family's statement reads. On April 20, 1999, Eubanks was in the library at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, with his best friend, Corey DePooter, waiting for other classmates to go to lunch, when teenage gunmen Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, launched what at the time was the worst mass shooting in U.S. history to occur at a high school. "A teacher ran through the same door that we had just entered, yelling for everybody to get under the tables, that somebody had a gun," Eubanks recalled in a 2017 Tedx Mile High Talk . "I remember how I felt: I was confused, I was afraid, I felt sick and I was vulnerable. And just minutes later, I was playing dead underneath a table next to a pool of blood. I had just been shot and I witnessed my best friend murdered right in front of me as we were huddled together waiting for help to come." Eubanks, then 17, was shot in the hand and leg in the rampage that claimed the lives of 12 students and a teacher, and ended with the gunmen taking their own lives. "I often think back to my pain that day," he said in the Tedx Mile High talk. "And if I were to rate it on a pain scale, my physical pain would have been a 3 or a 4, and that was likely the response I offered when I was asked. But my emotional pain was an absolute 10. I was in agony beyond comprehension. But that was never asked, it was never talked about." (MORE: Columbine survivor still battling invisible wounds 20 years on has a quest to help others) Within an hour after fleeing the library, he was given sedatives in a hospital to relieve his pain. "I was addicted before I even knew what was happening," Eubanks said, adding that prior to the day of the attack he had never drank alcohol or smoked marijuana. In a 2016 interview with KMGH, Eubanks said he didn't seek help for his addiction until six years after the Columbine attack, and that it was another six years before he got sober. (MORE: Columbine principal reflects on 'worst nightmare' 19 years after shooting) "I was 29 years old before I found lasting sobriety and I think it took a level of maturity and willingness on my part to do what it takes and, for me, I had to change pretty much everything about my life," he told KMGH. (MORE: 19 years after school shooting, Columbine students join in nationwide walkout for gun control) In numerous speeches and interviews, Eubanks used his story of survival and recovery to inspire others nationwide. "I think that it's really important that -- not as survivors of trauma but survivors of addiction -- speak out and they share their story," Eubanks said. "Just because you never know when your story is going to change the life of somebody else." Eubanks' death follows the apparent suicides of two students who survived the Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the apparent suicide of a father whose young daughter was killed in the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012. Calvin Desir, 16, and Sydney Aiello, 19, who both survived the Parkland shooting that killed 17 people, were found dead within a week of each other in March from apparent suicides, officials said. On March 25, Jeremy Richman, 49, whose 6-year-old daughter, Avielle, was among the 26 children and educators killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook, apparently took his own life. Richman appeared last year on ABC News' "10% Happier" podcast, telling host Dan Harris that losing Avielle was "infinite heartbreak."


A dog in Merrick, New York, has made unexpected friendships in his neighborhood and ran out to greet his new buddies on May 10. Jessica Feldman shared a video, taken by her father, Andrew, of her dog Bo greeting sanitation workers as they collected trash for the garbage truck. Andrew said the footage only shows a small glimpse into the dog's love for the workers. "On our Tuesday and Friday morning walks he gets excited as soon as he hears the truck more than a block away," he told Storyful, "The howling begins and he starts dragging me down the block." The workers also love running into Bo, who even start howling back at the pup. "They told me how they look forward to Bo brightening their day," Feldman said. Credit: Andrew Feldman via Storyful


MIAMI, FL   The Miami Dolphins and Baptist Health South Florida rolled up to Miami Edison Senior High School with a truckload of new football equipment for the Red Raiders football team on Tuesday weeks after a fire destroyed the team's storage room and weeks before the start of the upcoming season. "The only thing we had were five garbage cans that were left, so that's what we've been practicing with for the last few months," explained Edison Senior High School Head Football Coach Luther Campbell. "For the Dolphins to come and make this donation along with Baptist Health, that's a beautiful thing. There's no words that you could put to it. It's just that," said Campbell. "That's what it's all about. It's all about community and community supporting itself and major organization like that coming down to Liberty City and doing this is a great thing." The fire broke out in a storage room of Miami Edison Senior High School on June 23 damaging the team's football equipment. No one was injured in the fire but the equipment was ruined. Dolphins Vice Chairman, President and CEO Tom Garfinkel was joined by Edison alum Nat Moore, wide receiver Reece Horn, linebacker Raekwon McMillan and Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills among others in presenting the equipment to the high school. "I am grateful to the Miami Dolphins and Baptist Health South Florida for teaching our student athletes about passion, compassion and the importance of giving back to one's community," said Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho. "Today's donation will allow the Miami Edison football team to resume practice and focus on the promising year ahead, without having to worry about missing equipment." Capt. Ignatius Carroll of Miami Fire Rescue said earlier that the early afternoon fire was quickly brought under control by firefighters. The equipment donation was part of the Dolphins Huddle for 100 service projects under the NFL's 100th anniversary celebration. The NFL has invited fans, players, clubs and employees to join Huddle for 100 to inspire one million people to volunteer 100 minutes of their time to make meaningful contributions to their communities. Carroll said firefighters kept the fire from spreading to the main school building. "The fire investigator responded and determined the fire was not intentionally set and classified the cause as undetermined," Carroll said earlier. "No evidence was found to indicate arson."


Massimiliano Allegri has offered no assurances over his future with Juventus after I Bianconeri slipped to a disappointing 2-0 defeat to Roma on Sunday evening. Juventus were undone by two late goals from Alessandro Florenzi and Edin Dzeko, which means they have now gone three games without a win in Serie A. Prior to the defeat, vice chairman on the board of directors Pavel Nedved suggested that Allegri's job isn't necessarily secure. Speaking after the game, the Juventus boss appeared to agree with that sentiment, saying (via Calciomercato ): "He [Nedved] was good at putting it that way, he gave another reason for inspiration before I talk to the president on Wednesday. "I still have a year left on my contract, but it is important to evaluate this year and the one that will be the future season. The margin of error will become even smaller and winning will be even more difficult, even in the league. We must have clear ideas. FT: The Bianconeri fall in Rome. #RomaJuve #FinoAllaFine #ForzaJuve pic.twitter.com/cuPikGsTYl   JuventusFC (@juventusfcen) May 12, 2019 "The management will take care of the market, as every year we will have to sit down and understand how to improve the team. This has been an important year, in which we have won two trophies. "The Champions League was unusual, we got to the quarter-finals in poor conditions, important players were missing and we paid for it." Speaking about the defeat itself, Allegri was dismissive of its importance to Juventus' overall season, suggesting that his side's performance was the only thing that mattered - not the result. "Matches like tonight's are worthless. We had a good performance tonight, but we missed too many chances at the last stage. Then it is obvious if the match had meant more, then Chiellini would have fired that ball in the stands."


The Indianapolis Colts have made it clear they are going to pick and choose their spots when it comes to signing players in free agency. They were relatively quiet this offseason, but there are still some interesting options available that could help. Even if solely for depth or insurance at a position, the Colts are likely still keeping an eye on free agents. Anyone they bring in now would likely be on a cheap one-year deal. Not that that matters to the Colts-who have the most salary cap space in the NFL. Here's a look at three available free agents who could still help the Colts: Mandatory Credit: Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Darian Stewart - S - Age: 30 Of all the positions the Colts are most likely to sign a free agent in, the safety room has the highest odds. Given the group's uncertainty outside of Malik Hooker, the Colts are going to keep tabs on the safety market in free agency. They've done that a little bit this offseason as Stewart was one of a pair of visits the Colts hosted. It was likely more to know what Stewart still has in his game in case the Colts have to look at bringing in another body to the secondary. The former Denver Bronco was a regular starter for four years from 2015-18 before being released as a salary cap casualty this offseason. His aggressive mentality works well as a complement to Hooker's range and given his age, he would likely be a cheap addition. Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports Nick Perry - EDGE - Age: 29 It is no secret that the Colts are fond of their pass rushing corps with the addition of Justin Houston this offseason, but bringing in another veteran that has had some success in his career wouldn't be a bad idea for competition purposes. Perry suffered the worst season of his career in 2018 as he played in just nine games en route to recording a career-low 1.5 sacks. He's struggled to stay on the field, failing to play a full 16-game season once in his seven years in the league. However, Perry could be a buy-low candidate for the Colts to work with during training camp or the preseason. He's not too far removed from his strong play both against the run and as a pass rusher. It would simply be a matter of whether he can stay healthy. If he does, great. The Colts would add another contributor to the pass rush. If not, no big deal. They would be able to part ways easily. Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Tre Boston - S - Age: 27 It isn't clear why but Boston has been experiencing some mysterious extended stays as a free agent despite showing what is solid play on the field. The veteran free agent has gone through this for the past two offseasons. The Colts brought him in for a visit during the 2018 offseason, and he could be a potential target given the state of the safety room, which we've already delved into. Boston has solid range and ball skills to work as a deep safety next to Malik Hooker. It would make it extremely difficult for opposing offenses to throw deep on the Colts. He does also have a bit of history with Nick Sirianni as they were both with the San Diego Chargers together for the 2017 season when Boston recorded 79 tackles (56 solo), five interceptions and eight passes defended-a career year for the former fourth-round pick. MORE: This perfect Shaq impersonation at the NBA Awards show had fans in tears NBA Free Agency 2019: The top players 3 adjustments the Raiders should make on offense in 2019 Heading into training camp: How Lions keeping 4th TE impacts roster construction Roundup: Donald Trump on Iran; Bernie Sanders' Proposal; Jussie Smollett; Coffee and Fat Loss


Editor's note: The opinions in this article are the author's, as published by our content partner, and do not necessarily represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. Last week, Georgia passed the nation's most extreme attack on Roe v. Wade , prohibiting abortion after six weeks and granting full legal personhood to fetuses. It is currently set to take effect in 2020. After Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed the law, HB 481 , I explained how it would allow prosecutors to file criminal charges against women who get abortions and even target women who miscarry. A number of prominent figures in politics and law, including Democratic presidential candidates Sens. Kamala Harris and Cory Booker, also described the dangers of this bill, with Harris correctly calling it "a blatant attempt to criminalize a woman's constitutionally protected right to make her own health care decision" that would "threaten women with years of jail time." But others on both sides of the partisan spectrum have suggested that this characterization was alarmist and incorrect. As a technical matter, these criticisms are wrong: The law as written would do exactly what Harris and I described. Those who claim otherwise have either not read and understood the bill's language or have other motivations for downplaying what this law would do if the courts don't strike it down first which is the likely, but not inevitable, outcome. Journalists, though, should resist the temptation to uncritically adopt the narrative, pushed by both sides of this debate, that this bill can't possibly be as horrific as it sounds. As Georgia state Sen. Jen Jordan, an attorney and a Democratic opponent of the bill, told me on Friday , HB 481 is "like a puzzle you have to put together" by looking "at the entire statutory regime." Journalists, scholars, and advocates on both sides cannot rely on the truisms and talking points that dominated the abortion debate for decades. HB 481 is a new and dangerous weapon, and it requires willful naïveté to believe that it won't be used against women. The bill's unprecedented nature has been dismissed by respectable publications for reasons that do not withstand scrutiny. On Saturday, Deanna Paul and Emily Wax-Thibodeaux published a Washington Post article describing my article as "incorrect." Paul and Wax-Thibodeaux's piece is an excellent example of the muddled and credulous reporting over HB 481, and it is worth correcting their erroneous claims to illustrate the extreme nature of the Georgia bill in comparison with earlier abortion restrictions. At the start, it's important to recognize that HB 481 is a radical departure from historical anti-abortion legislation. Before Roe , most laws regulating abortion penalized individuals who performed the procedure. Women were rarely prosecuted, but they were often threatened with imprisonment unless they testified against the provider who terminated their pregnancy. Fetuses were not considered persons, so abortion was not charged as murder; discrete statutes in each state created specific penalties for those found guilty of performing abortions. HB 481 is a different beast, in two major ways. First, the law explicitly expands the definition of abortion to encompass self-termination. Georgia's earlier abortion law defined abortion as something that one person "administers … to" or performs "upon any woman." It was, in other words, something that one person does to another. HB 481 redefines abortion to be "the act of using, prescribing, or administering any instrument, substance, device, or other means with the purpose to terminate a pregnancy." That means abortion includes something one person does to herself . A woman who takes misoprostol to induce miscarriage is "administering" a "substance" to "terminate a pregnancy" and is therefore liable under the law. This change is significant because self-termination is increasingly common : Women can easily purchase misoprostol, a drug designed to treat stomach ulcers that also ends pregnancies, on the internet. In case there were any doubt about the purpose of this revision, HB 481 includes a provision creating a defense for women who might be prosecuted under the law. "It shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution under this article if … [a] woman sought an abortion because she reasonably believed that an abortion was the only way to prevent a medical emergency," it declares. To state what should be obvious, women charged for undergoing abortions would not need an affirmative defense to prosecution if they could not be prosecuted in the first place. Paul and Wax-Thibodeaux do not explain why, exactly, they believe HB 481 immunizes women from prosecution. Instead, they cite Staci Fox, the CEO of Planned Parenthood Southeast, and Carol Sanger, a scholar and reproductive rights advocate, to assert that "HB 481 could not be used to successfully prosecute women." (There is no legal analysis to support this conclusory statement.) Moreover, Paul and Wax-Thibodeaux defer to Sanger's speculation that "if a woman had a miscarriage, she could be pulled into an investigation looking at whether someone performed an illegal abortion on her." Sanger's concern was true of the older generation of abortion restrictions. But it fundamentally misapprehends HB 481, overlooking its direct impact on women. Writing in National Review , David French, meanwhile, mounts a better-informed argument that the Georgia bill would not be used to prosecute women, but his argument fails as well. French points out that in Hillman v. State , the Georgia courts interpreted the abortion law to bar the prosecution of women suspected of self-terminating. True but Hillman involved the old law, which, again, criminalized the act of performing an abortion on someone else . HB 481 revises this definition to criminalize the act of self-termination too. Hillman can no longer be used to block the prosecution of women, because HB 481 supersedes it, redefining criminal abortion to encompass something a woman does to herself. French next cites Georgia's feticide statute , which imposes special penalties on any individual who causes the death of a fetus by injuring a woman. This law, he points out, states that "nothing in this Code section shall be construed to permit the prosecution of … [a]ny woman with respect to her unborn child." French seems to believe that this immunity extends to any woman who ends her own pregnancy. But note the limiting language: "Nothing in this Code section " can be used to punish women "with respect to" her fetus. The law does not grant pregnant women immunity from prosecution under all circumstances ; it grants immunity exclusively with regard to the feticide statute. Other sections of the code can still be used to prosecute women like the newly enacted provisions of HB 481. Now let's turn to the broader consequences of the Georgia law. Fox told the Post that "news headlines … that speculate about the bills' unintended consequences are at the very least not productive. At most, they're harmful." There is, however, a difference between "harmful" and "untrue." And while Planned Parenthood has been in damage control mode since HB 481's passage, downplaying the effects of the bill in an apparent effort to calm Georgians, that does not mean journalists should unquestioningly repeat the organization's claims. The most startling provision of HB 481 grants full legal personhood to fetuses after about six weeks of pregnancy. It states that fetuses must be afforded due process and equal protection, and notes that they "shall be included in population based determinations." The Georgia Office and Legislative Counsel the office that houses the state Legislature's own lawyers  has already acknowledged some of the sweeping ramifications of this shift, writing that the fetuses of undocumented women may be entitled to state benefits that their mothers cannot legally use. But there are other, more dire repercussions of granting personhood to fetuses: If fetuses are humans for the purposes of Georgia law, then abortion, including self-termination, is murder. A woman who plans and carries out the termination of her own fetus has "caused the death of another human being" in violation of Georgia's murder statute . The penalty for this crime is life imprisonment or death. A woman who seeks out an illegal abortion from a provider may be party to a murder ( penalty : life in prison); a woman who causes her own miscarriage from drinking or drugs may have committed second-degree murder ( penalty : 10 to 30 years in prison); a woman who travels out of state to obtain a legal abortion may have engaged in a conspiracy to commit murder ( penalty : 10 years in prison). Absolutely nothing in HB 481 clarifies that the killing of a human being does not constitute murder when that human is a fetus. To the contrary, the law erases the legal distinction between humans and fetuses. The argument that no woman suspected of self-termination would ever be charged with murder seems to assume that no prosecutor would dare use the law this way. This trust is misplaced . In 2015, a Georgia prosecutor charged a woman with malice murder , which is punishable by life in prison or death , after she used black-market misoprostol to induce a miscarriage; he only dropped the charges after deciding that the law on the books did not support the prosecution. At the time, after all, a fetus wasn't a human. Now a fetus will be a human under Georgia law. There is no legal reason why prosecutors cannot charge women who self-terminate with murder, exactly as one tried to do just a few years ago. Finally, let's turn to the Post article's most astounding claim: that HB 481 cannot possibly take effect because Roe v. Wade remains good law and thus cannot be overturned. I happen to agree that the courts will likely block the bill, as does state Sen. Jordan. But it is absurd to say that the bill cannot take effect because the Supreme Court is not permitted to overturn Roe. And yet, that's exactly what the Post incorrectly stated, writing , "According to a doctrine known as stare decisis, judges are bound by precedent. They cannot overturn a case simply because new justices have joined the court." (The sentence was later changed without any noted correction). Ultimately, the belief that the Supreme Court "cannot overturn a case simply because new justices have joined the court" appears to lie at the core of the Post's assertion that HB 481 is really no threat at all to women who self-terminate. (Paul and Wax-Thibodeaux might be surprised to learn that SCOTUS overturned a 40-year-old precedent on Monday simply because new justices have joined the court , as Justice Stephen Breyer noted in dissent.) It's important to ask: Why is the Post piece so riddled with errors? And why is Planned Parenthood taking the same view of HB 481 as David French, a fierce foe of abortion? The problem here seems to be that neither pro-choice or pro-life advocates want to recognize the potential repercussions of the bill, for very different reasons. Pro-life advocates recognize that the prosecution of women for abortion is public relations poison, and many earnestly wish to avoid that outcome. Pro-choice advocates like Planned Parenthood are contending with panicked, terrified patients, and seem to be seeking to soothe their fears. But journalists should not bury their heads in the sand and parrot activists' dubious claims. HB 481 is not a typical abortion ban. The bill marks an effort to overhaul Georgia's legal regime to grant fetuses the same protections as regular humans. It is foolish to pretend that the extreme provisions of this legislation could not lead to extreme results. The Georgia bill means what it says. And what it says opens the door to prosecution and imprisonment of Georgians who dare exercise control over their reproductive rights.


LONDON (AP)   Taken on its own, Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz may seem like a brazen act of aggression, a provocative poke in the nose to both Britain and its ally, the United States. But Iran seems to view the armed takeover of the Stena Impero as a carefully calibrated response to the July 4 taking of an Iranian supertanker off the coast of Gibraltar, an operation in which Britain's Royal Marines played a major role. Though the official reasons for the takeovers differ, it's fairly clear now that the seizure of the British vessel may give Tehran more leverage to get its own ship back. While Britain says it acted near Gibraltar because the Iranian tanker Grace 1 was busting sanctions by delivering oil to Syria, Iran says it intervened because the British-flagged tanker hit an Iranian fishing boat. The current tensions between Iran and the West have been escalating since President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. last year from the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran with world powers and imposed sweeping economic sanctions on Iran, including its oil exports. The 2015 accord, of which Britain was a signatory, was designed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons in return for a lifting of sanctions. Tensions have risen further since May, when the U.S. announced it was dispatching an aircraft carrier and additional troops to the Middle East, citing unspecified threats posed by Iran. With the U.S. sanctions hitting the Iranian economy hard, Tehran is desperate for economic support and has been urging Britain, France and Germany to cobble together a package that will keep the nuclear deal on track. Veteran British diplomat Malcolm Rifkind, who served as British foreign secretary and defense secretary in the 1990s, says Iran sees its action against the Steno Impero as a direct result to the U.K.'s involvement in the takeover of the Grace 1. "From the point of view of the Iranians, there is a direct relationship," he told The Associated Press Saturday. "They were very, very angry at being caught out. But the Royal Navy was not acting against Iran; it was acting against Syria to enforce sanctions. But the Iranians don't see it that way." Rifkind says Iran may carry its "macho" actions too far and make it harder for Britain to continue with efforts to keep the nuclear accord alive. Iran made the link between the two separate seizures this month explicit on Saturday. "The rule of reciprocal action is well-known in international law," the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, a spokesman for Iran's Guardian Council, as saying. He said Iran made the right decision in the face of an "illegitimate economic war and seizure of oil tankers." The precise timing may have been a coincidence, but it's a fact that Iran took action against the Stena Impero only hours after the government of Gibraltar   a British overseas territory   said it would continue to hold the Iranian tanker and its precious crude oil cargo, rejecting Iran's demands for its immediate return. The action against the Stena Impero, carried out by high speed patrol boats with a helicopter overhead, could hardly have been a surprise. Iran's leaders have publicly called Britain's seizure of the Grace 1 an act of "piracy" and warned they were considering taking a British tanker in retaliation. Britain has offered to have the Iranian supertanker released if Iran pledges not to deliver the crude oil to Syria, an approach that has not borne fruit. A Gibraltar government hearing on the matter is set for August 15. The hope has to be that a diplomatic solution   the release of both seized vessels, with cargo and crew intact and unharmed, for example   can defuse this latest escalation in one of the most important sea passages on the planet.


Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports When you have 90 players on a roster to start the preseason, everybody is out there for a different reason. Some guys are looking to prove they deserve to start. Others are fighting for a spot on the 53-man roster. Star players will use it as a time to work themselves back into playing form. On the opposite end of the spectrum, camp bodies with no chance of making the roster will be trying to earn a look from other teams or a spot on the practice squad. For the majority of the roster, the first preseason game is a big deal. It's a time to shine against real NFL players. Even if the best of the best aren't out there, this is where teams work out the fringes of their roster and get a feel for how the depth chart will play itself out. The first preseason game doesn't mean everything record-wise. But it certainly means a lot for plenty of players on the team. Here are five guys who need to prove themselves and shine in Oakland later this week. WR KhaDarel Hodge Injuries led to Hodge being called up from the practice squad to the main roster early last season. A big reason Hodge was even on the practice squad to begin with was his stellar play in the preseason . Hodge was easily the most impressive Ram on the offensive side of the football last August, and his incredible reception on a lofty Sean Mannion deep ball was the play of the summer for the Rams. KhaDarel Hodge with a hell of a catch with a defender draped all over him. Peep the OL doing a great job too. pic.twitter.com/AqOBC9qKsS - Sosa K (@QBsMVP) August 18, 2018 Unfortunately for Hodge, he didn't get much of a chance to prove himself last season, and is right back on the roster bubble again. The Rams are loaded at receiver. With Robert Woods, Brandin Cooks, Cooper Kupp, Josh Reynolds, and return specialist JoJo Natson locked into roster spots, it's likely that the team only keeps one more receiver to round out a six-man core. Fourth-year wideout Mike Thomas seems to be the early favorite after a stellar camp so far. Both Thomas and Hodge will be receivers to watch this preseason. Hodge needs to deliver another incredible summer to force the Rams into a tough decision. It's possible that the team would keep both guys, but it seems unlikely given how strong the top four receivers are. ILB Micah Kiser Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Kiser became the de facto starting inside linebacker after the Rams cut Mark Barron last offseason. While it seemed unlikely that anybody would even challenge for the job, veteran reserve Bryce Hager has been making a push for the job. The Rams have been allowing the two to split first-team reps so far this offseason. FYI on #Rams Mike LB competition: Micah Kiser and Bryce Hager are alternating first-team reps one day to next, which is why Hager got bulk of them today. Rams want to make the competition as fair as possible. At some point, a decision will be made on who the starter is. - Vincent Bonsignore (@VinnyBonsignore) August 3, 2019 Why wouldn't the team want to make it interesting? Kiser has yet to prove much of anything as a Ram. It makes sense to give Hager, a guy who's been with the team since St. Louis, a fair shake at the starting job. Still, the Rams have Kiser locked up for a few more years and it seems like it's his job to lose. He needs to be a tackling machine this preseason. The Rams will be looking to Kiser to be a reliable run-stopping tackler if he's named the starter come September. All he needs to do is prove that he can be. A nice start against Oakland would go a long way. RB Justin Davis Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Davis was able to overcome the odds and make the Rams 53-man roster as an undrafted free agent in 2017. He did it yet again last year, sneaking onto the roster as the team's fourth running back after a stellar preseason. Despite touching the ball just twice last season, Davis was still able to nearly triple the number of games he appeared in thanks to his role on special teams. The odds are once again stacked against Davis to make the roster. The Rams have three stone-cold locks at the position with Darrell Henderson entering the mix. John Kelly seems much more likely to be the team's fourth running back than Davis. If he wants to have a chance to make the roster, Davis is going to have to have one hell of a preseason. His best shot to get work will be against the Raiders. It's unlikely that Malcolm Brown will get much, if any, work in the team's first preseason game, and they're not going to rush right into it with Henderson. This will be Davis's best chance to get a good amount of touches. He needs to, literally and figuratively, take the ball and run with it this week. NT Sebastian Joseph-Day Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Out of the four second-year Rams taking over starting jobs in 2019, Joseph-Day feels like the unlikeliest of the bunch. The 2018 sixth-round pick is slated to fill the void on the defensive line left by Ndamukong Suh and start at nose tackle. Unlike Kiser, who has a veteran special-teamer trying to take his job, Joseph-Day has fourth-round rookie waiting patiently behind him on the depth chart. Many expected Gaines to enter the season as the starting nose tackle. It's still not out of the question. Joseph-Day needs to prove that he deserves to be the starter. If Gaines impresses, the tide will shift quickly in his favor. Joseph-Day needs to show out and prove that he deserves to be the man in the middle on this defensive line. A hot start against Oakland could go a long way. OL Jamil Demby Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Demby was a sixth-round pick for the Rams last season and had an impressive camp. He quickly became a favorite among Rams fans. So much that when he was unceremoniously cut early in the season, you would have thought the Rams season was over based on some of the Twitter reactions . Demby was claimed off waivers by the Lions, who then signed him to the practice squad after waiving him in September. The Rams decided to sign him from Detroit's practice squad, adding him to their active roster. Now, Demby has a chance to earn the role as the first man off the bench in a thin offensive line rotation. He's currently listed as the backup LG on the team's unofficial depth chart. The Rams thought highly enough of Demby to bring him back into the fold, but that doesn't mean he's guaranteed to make the roster. Last season proved that. Demby needs to assert himself with a strong preseason, especially out of the left guard spot. He needs to show the Rams that they made a mistake by cutting him. 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DFW AIRPORT (CBSDFW.COM)   About 2,500 commuters cut through DFW Airport each day, and starting this fall they will have to pay a six dollar "pass-through" fee. The "pass-through" fee was raised from four dollars to alleviate drivers causing airport traffic   making commuters pay more for the convenience of taking a north-south shortcut through DFW. DFW calculates its rates based on the amount of time spent on airport property. Drivers who spend more than eight minutes   up to 30 minutes   are likely picking up or dropping off passengers and are charged two dollars. Drivers say the rate increase just might work. "That is too much," Uber driver Tahir Tahir said. "I don't think it's a good idea." The new increase is scheduled to begin Oct. 1. "It is pretty steep, paying four dollars   raising it two more dollars… Depending how many times they do it a day or a week, that adds up," driver Manny Herrera said. However, the money collected goes right back into the airport roadways and parking garages, to keep them in good condition.


Oakland The weather forecast for Oakland has temperatures in the upper 60s today and Thursday, according to drone-powered weather forecasting service Saildrone . Temperatures will heat up slightly this weekend, with a high of 72 degrees on Saturday. The coming days will also see clear skies, expected to persist through Friday. Some clouds will appear on Saturday, remaining partly cloudy through Tuesday. Winds will remain somewhat calm in the course of the week, with the highest speeds today at only 11 mph. This story was created automatically using Saildrone's local weather forecast data, then reviewed by an editor. We also incorporate historic weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


For the first time in years, Netflix is no longer the top grossing, non-game mobile app. Instead, that title now goes to dating app Tinder. The change in position is not surprising, given Netflix's decision in December to stop paying the so-called "Apple tax." That is, it no longer allows new users to sign up and subscribe to its service through its iOS application. The change was said to cost Apple hundreds of millions in lost revenue per year, given that Netflix's app had been the world's top-earning, non-game app since Q4 2016. Now, instead of giving up its 15 to 30 percent cut of subscription revenue, new users have to sign up through Netflix's website before they can use the app on mobile devices, including both iOS and Android. (Netflix had dropped in-app subscriptions on Android earlier.) App store intelligence firm Sensor Tower estimated Netflix had earned $853 million in 2018 on the iOS App Store. A 30 percent cut would have been around $256 million. However, after the first year, subscription apps only have to pay out 15 percent to Apple. But Netflix had a special deal, according to John Gruber -- it only had to pay 15 percent from the get-go. In any event, it's still a large sum. And one large enough to end Netflix's reign at the top of the revenue charts. In Q1 2019, Sensor Tower estimates Netflix pulled in $216.3 million globally, across both the Apple App Store and Google Play, down 15 percent quarter-over-quarter from $255.7 million in Q4 2018. Meanwhile, Tinder's revenue has climbed. In the first quarter, it saw revenue grow by 42 percent year-over-year, to reach $260.7 million, up from $183 million in Q1 2018. That put it at the top, according to both Sensor Tower and App Annie's estimates. Beyond Tinder, Line, and Line Manga, the rest of the top grossing, non-game apps in Q1 2019 were also focused on streaming, music and video, in Sensor Tower's analysis. This included Tencent Video (No. 3), iQIYI (No. 4), YouTube (No. 5), Pandora (No. 6), Kwai (No. 7), and Youku (No. 10). Meanwhile, the top downloaded, non-game apps in the quarter were largely those focused on social media, messaging and video. This included, in order: WhatsApp, Messenger, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, SHAREit, YouTube, LIKE Video, Netflix and Snapchat. TikTok, notably, has held onto its No. 3 position, having grown its new users 70 percent year-over-year, by adding 188 million in Q1 . The growth was driven by India, where 88.6 million new users joined the app, compared with "just" 13.2 million in the U.S. -- or 181 percent year-over-year growth. To date, Sensor Tower has seen the app installed over 1.1 billion times. (But keep in mind that's not total users -- many people install it on multiple devices. Nor is it monthly active users. On that front, the app has 500 million monthly actives , as of the end of its third quarter 2018.) TikTok also did well on the revenue side thanks to in-app purchases, though not well enough to start ranking in the top charts. User spending was 222 percent higher in Q1 2019 versus Q1 2018, reaching an estimated $18.9 million worldwide. Overall, Apple's App Store accounted for 64 percent of revenue in Q1, with consumer spending reaching $12.4 billion compared to Google Play's $7.1 billion. New app downloads slowed on iOS in Q1, decreasing 4.7 percent year-over-year to 7.4 billion, while Google Play downloads grew 18.8 percent to 20.7 billion.


At a Thursday night community meeting hosted by 44th Ward Alderman Tom Tunney, Lakeview residents got their first glimpse at a plan to turn the site of the former Treasure Island grocery store and parking lot at 3460 N. Broadway into a massive apartment complex. The ambitious proposal comes from Glencoe-based Optima, Inc. which designed, developed, and built a number of Chicago-area projects including rental towers in Evanston, Skokie, and Streeterville . As in previous developments, Optima Lakeview is designed with a glassy, contemporary aesthetic reflecting the company's motto of "forever modern." The eight-story, transit-oriented project calls for a mix of 246 efficiencies, one-, two-, and three-bedroom rental units organized around a central atrium. Under Chicago's Affordable Requirements Ordinance (ARO), 25 apartments must be offered at an affordable rate. Optima plans to build 13 units on-site and pay $1.5 million into the city's Low Income Housing Trust Fund. The building's ground floor will contain 8,880 square feet of retail space fronting Broadway, plus indoor parking for 107 vehicles and 129 bicycles. Amenities include a fitness center, pool deck, game room, and basketball court. The structure's rooftop deck and mechanical penthouse top-out at roughly 105 feet. Treasure Island abruptly closed its last six stores including the North Broadway location in the fall. Optima's proposal is seeking a zoning change from the city (B3-2 to B3-3 and then to a Planned Development). It will need to be approved by Chicago Plan Commission, Committee on Zoning, and the full City Council. "Last night was only the first meeting, and there will be many others to come with the community," Bennett R. Lawson, Alderman Tunney's chief of staff, told Curbed Chicago. Thursday's slideshow presentation can be found on 44th Ward website .


RIDGECREST, Calif. - The tart smell of wine hit customers walking through the doors of the Minit Shop convenience store in Ridgecrest on Thursday afternoon. It had been a few hours since a magnitude 6.4 earthquake - the largest to hit Southern California in nearly two decades - jolted Kern County, and pools of red wine soaked the shop floors. "Oh, God!" yelped one customer who saw collapsed shelves of refrigerated drinks in the back of the store. Photos of scattered goods in several Ridgecrest stores spread rapidly across social media on Thursday as news of the quake spread. Authorities in Ridgecrest received dozens of calls for help on Thursday, responding to requests for medical assistance and help with structure fires. But luckily, local officials said, there were no serious injuries reported, just cuts and bruises. The 10:33 a.m. Independence Day quake was centered 10 miles northeast of Ridgecrest, a city of about 29,000 people. Its epicenter was in the remote Searles Valley area near where Inyo, San Bernardino and Kern counties meet. The sparsely populated location of the Searles Valley quake appeared to help mitigate the damage. Javaid Waseem, who owns the Minit Shop with his brother, said it could take days to clean up the store. He had been tidying up for several hours Thursday afternoon. "This is the first time I've seen this since I moved to California," said Waseem, who moved to the state from New York in 2006. "I've never seen this hard of an earthquake before in this region. I'm glad we are safe, but the damage inside the store - it's going to take time." Waseem, 45, was at home when the earthquake hit but drove to the store after his brother called asking for help. The brothers shut off the gas lines to the pumps outside, closed the store and called in extra employees to help clean up the mess. The store reopened later in the afternoon, and a steady stream of customers came by to fill their tanks, wary of another quake. At 4 p.m. several aisles were still closed. Hairspray cans, diapers, beer cans and pet food kibbles littered the floor. Workers swept up broken glass and wiped off products to see what they could salvage and put back on the shelves. By 6 p.m., a local family had formed an assembly-line system at the back of the store to help clean up the mountains of collapsed shelves and drinks in the refrigerated section of the store. Friends and business partners Warren Cooper and Brandon McDonald posted on Facebook asking the Ridgecrest community who might need help with any fallout from the morning quake. They drove to homes to move furniture and look at water leaks, checked in on their family members and asked local authorities what they could do to help with communication. "Anybody we could see, we asked them if they were OK. People were just shaken," said Cooper, who has lived in Ridgecrest all his life. Cooper, 30, got a call from the owners of the Minit Shop asking for his help cleaning up. He and McDonald looked for reinforcements and reached out to Brandon's mother, Helen McDonald, who Cooper calls his "adopted mom." Helen McDonald, 44, her husband and her several of her sons organized drinks into bins and stacked crates Thursday evening - sidestepping puddles of soda and shards of broken glass at the back of the shop. "The community has to come together because nobody can do all this stuff on their own," Helen McDonald, has lived in Ridgecrest with her family for 12 years, said as she rubbed her cold hands together for warmth. "I feel very blessed that my house was skipped." Cooper said he plans on welding the broken metal shelves back together and reinstalling them on Friday. "That's the blessing of a small town," Waseem said, handing another crate to the family to store drinks that survived the quake. Bonnie Patterson, a lifelong Ridgecrest resident, stopped at the shop to get gas earlier that day after seeing police and news vans in town. She said she was reading at home when the earthquake hit but didn't think anything of it. She's used to tremors shaking her hometown, she said. "Ridgecrest is like an epicenter for earthquakes," said Patterson, 46. "We have little ones all the time, so feeling them - no big deal. But then an aftershock hit and that's when I was like, 'Oh, crap.'" Some dishes in Patterson's cupboards, items her fireplace mantel and pieces of fine china flew to the floor. As she began to clean, she heard sirens and got calls from coworkers warning her to brace for aftershocks. "That's when I was like, 'Oh my gosh - I guess I need to take this a little more seriously.'" When Patterson got to the Minit Shop, where she has been shopping for years, she saw broken bottles all over the floor. "Alcohol was just flooding the aisle," Patterson said. "The brothers who own it are just the most awesome people. (The) store is a mess, everything is drenched and one owner was still behind the counter smiling and welcoming people in." She then drove to Walmart, where employees handed out free cases of Gatorade and water earlier in the day. When she got there at 3 p.m., Walmart had closed and was out of supplies. While there, as Patterson chatted with a Walmart employee about where he was when the quake hit, another aftershock rattled the parking lot. ___ (Times staff writer Hailey Branson-Potts contributed to this report.) Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com


Arizona Rep. Greg Stanton is bragging about getting a bill reauthorizing and expanding the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program moving in a House committee on which he serves. In reality, this bill is a testament to extent to which federalism   the notion that the federal government should stick to national matters and leave local projects to state and local governments   is dead among Democrats. The grant program received $3.2 billion from President Barack Obama's stimulus package, part of the generally futile search for shovel-ready projects. The money took the form of subventions to local governments for things like energy audits, weatherization retrofits for homes and offices, and more energy-efficient traffic lights. Stanton wants to bump funding up to $3.5 billion a year and expand eligible projects to include electric vehicle recharging stations and the like. If local taxpayers want it, they should fund it All of these things are projects of entirely local scope. If they pencil out, the upfront capital should come from local taxpayers or private parties, not money that the federal government has to borrow. But raising the money locally would mean local political accountability, which these block grant programs are designed to evade. ROBB: McSally wants to keep the feds in the electricity business Each year, the federal government dispenses roughly $750 billion in subventions to state and local governments. Most of this money flows through to low-income individuals, with the local governments serving as welfare administrative arms of the federal government. But nearly $200 billion goes to state and local governments for stuff they should be paying for themselves, if local taxpayers truly believe they are worth the money. Meanwhile, the federal government is more than $22 trillion in debt, and adding to that at a rate of $1 trillion a year. So long as members of Congress believes that providing for energy-efficient local traffic lights is their job, that isn't going to change. Reach Robb at robert.robb@arizonarepublic.com . This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Greg Stanton brags about a $3.5 billion bad idea


If there's one thing that we know about Matthew Stafford , it's that he's tough as nails. The first time the city of Detroit fell in love with Stafford was that moment he came back into the game against the Browns with a separated shoulder and threw the game-winning touchdown. Since then, we've seen Stafford play through multiple hand injuries, ankle injuries and, as we just found out this week , a broken back. Feel how you will about the guy, but you can never say that Stafford doesn't care or that he's not tough. With that said, why does this keep happening to the Lions quarterback? And furthermore, how much more can he take? The latter is a question we can't answer. We can all hope that Matthew stays healthy and doesn't take the punishment he's been taking for the past few years anymore. That's all we can do. We can answer the first question. The Lions offensive line has been a mess since Stafford came into the league. He's been sacked 329 times in his career. That may not be the most since 2009 ( Aaron Rodgers holds that distinction with 369 sacks) but it's a lot. The first five years of Staffords career weren't the problem for Stafford. He only took 116 of his sacks in that time. The problem has been going on since 2014. When Jim Caldwell, Jim Bob Cooter and Joe Lombardi came to town. Since then, Stafford has been sacked 40 or more times four of the last five years. All told, he's been sacked 213 times since 2014. That's second to only Russell Wilson, who's been sacked 222 times in that span. It's really hard to make any kind of excuse for the Lions letting this happen. As a matter of fact, there really aren't any excuses outside of some of the injuries the Lions have faced along their offensive line. They've been consistent and the Lions never have a backup plan. Since Bob Quinn arrived the Lions have spent some early draft picks on guys like Frank Ragnow and Taylor Decker. They also went out and got Rick Wagner and rounded things out with third-round pick Graham Glasgow . But the Quinn and the Lions still haven't done enough. After all, Kenny Wiggins may be starting for the team this year, and they're continuing to reshuffle the line around at minicamp. Why did the Lions not go after proven offensive line talent in free agency any of the years that Quinn has been in Detroit? Why haven't the Lions done all they can do to improve depth to protect themselves from injuries? These are questions that need to be answered considering that this is something that happens every single year now. The Lions have done some things this year to help quell the issue. They've gone out and completely revamped the tight end corps, They have grabbed some depth in Oday Aboushi. They've also continued to go all-in on the run game with the addition of offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell and running back C.J. Anderson . But they also completely ignored the guard position in free agency and the draft. Outside of signing UDFA Beau Benzschawel out of Wisconsin, they did nothing to replace Pro Bowler T.J. Lang . Is that enough? Only time will tell, but if we're speculating at this point, I'd have to say that Matthew Stafford could be in trouble once again.


Shaw's third season with the Canadiens was his best. Andrew Shaw 's acquisition happened during a hectic point in time for the Montreal Canadiens . The trade was announced before the first overall pick in the 2016 NHL Draft . It was announced alongside the trade of Lars Eller , and it was made minutes before Montreal drafted ninth overall. Three days later, he signed a six-year contract with the team. Shaw showed glimpses of the player he could have been, but injuries and suspensions kept him out of the lineup. He was never able to put his game together, but there were signs that if he could play disciplined, he could turn things around. After all, he was suspended in his first pre-season game with the Canadiens. The hope that he would return to the player who scored 20 goals with the Chicago Blackhawks looked more and more unlikely. Then last April, it was announced he would be out six months after knee surgery, and was expected to miss the start of this season. He ended up playing in the season opener against the Toronto Maple Leafs after missing the entire pre-season, but scored in his debut and added an assist in the next game against the Washington Capitals playing on the fourth line. He didn't miss a beat. Most of the first two months was with Shaw playing around 8-12 minutes per game and providing value. Then, he went on a nine game streak without any points and Claude Julien promoted him to a line with Max Domi and Jonathan Drouin. Shaw and Domi had instant chemistry, and were barely separated for the rest of the season. The end result was Shaw scoring 19 goals, the second best total of his career, and adding 28 assists. His 47 points   a career high   were only two points fewer than his total from his first two years in Montreal. He did all of this despite missing 19 games to injury. Shaw's injury history can be a concern, especially considering he is signed for three more seasons but that's something that cannot be controlled. The most impressive part of Shaw's season wasn't the point production, or his chemistry with Domi. It was his new-found discipline. The best players who play on the edge, and provide value to a team need to be mindful to not step over the line. The new father found that line, and stayed on the right side of it and that is encouraging. His most value to the Canadiens was always with him on the ice. Whenever a player reaches a new career high in points in his late twenties, there is a question whether it is a new baseline, or a mirage. The benefit for Shaw is that his value goes beyond points. He brings leadership, calling out his team late in the season for their performance and effort. He plays the penalty kill, and gets to the front of the net on the power play. These were all things Shaw did at his best. These were all things Marc Bergevin saw when he was in Chicago and bet on three years ago. This was the first time Shaw put it all together for a full season. At the beginning of the season, Shaw was mostly the forgotten man. Missing the pre-season, and the additions of Jesperi Kotkaniemi , Domi, Joel Armia , and Tomas Tatar made people question where Shaw fit in a full Canadiens lineup. This offseason, with the pending addition of Nick Suzuki , and full season debut for Ryan Poehling , people are once again asking where the room will come from. But unlike a year ago, Shaw's spot shouldn't be up for much debate anymore.


BOSTON (AP) -- Brad Marchand was not on the ice for the Boston Bruins' last full practice before the Stanley Cup Final against the St. Louis Blues. Marchand injured his left hand in the team's intrasquad scrimmage Thursday but practiced Saturday. Karson Kuhlman skated in Marchand's place on the Bruins' top line with Patrice Bergeron and David Pastrnak on Sunday, which could indicate good news about the feisty winger being available for Game 1 Monday night. Marchand is Boston's leading scorer in the playoffs with 18 points on seven goals and 11 assists. He had 100 points on 36 goals and 64 assists during the regular season. Defenseman Kevan Miller remains out with a lower-body injury. --- More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports Related slideshow: Best of 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs (provided by imagn)


A 53-year-old woman was found dead after a fire broke out in north Phoenix condominiums early Monday morning, according to the Phoenix Fire Department. The fire broke out in condos located near 29th Street and Greenway Road. When crews arrived around 5:30 a.m. they found a condo with heavy smoke coming from it. The fire was spreading to surrounding condos, according to Captain Rob McDade of the Phoenix Fire Department. Firefighters sent into the building for search, rescue and fire attack found a woman inside, they provided life support care on the woman, however, she had already died, McDade said. The identity of the woman was not released by the Phoenix Fire Department. A man was treated for minor smoke inhalation and was transported to a hospital as a precaution, McDade said. The man told fire investigators he lived in the condominium with the woman. He said he woke up to find the home on fire and tried to wake up the woman but was unsuccessful, McDade said. The man left the home to find the fire extinguisher that was located next to their barbecue grill, McDade said. He then tried to reenter the home but was unsuccessful due to the intensity of the fire. The fire was contained to the original condominium, but two other homes received smoke damage, McDade said. Six residents living in nearby homes are temporarily displaced due to smoke damage and the power was shut off by APS, McDade said. The cause of the fire is unknown at this time, McDade said, and investigators are on the scene. This is a developing story. Check back with azcentral.com for more updates. For more stories that matter, subscribe to azcentral.com . This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Woman dead after fire breaks out in condominiums in north Phoenix


R ep. John Lewis defended Joe Biden's comments about working with segregationists during his tenure in the Senate. The Democratic congressman from Georgia is a noted civil rights leader who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington and was one of the original "freedom riders." Lewis, 79, said Friday that he didn't find Biden's remarks distasteful. "I don't think the remarks are offensive," Lewis said. "During the height of the civil rights movement we worked with people and got to know people that were members of the [Ku Klux Klan], people who opposed us, even people who beat us, arrested us and jailed us." "We never gave up on our fellow human beings. And I would not give up on any human being," he added. Lewis also said he is not judging other Democrats who have called for Biden to apologize. Biden made the controversial remarks to a room of wealthy donors in New York City on Tuesday. "We got things done. We didn't agree on much of anything," Biden said, naming former segregationist Sens. James O. Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia. "We got things done. We got it finished. But today, you look at the other side and you're the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don't talk to each other anymore."


Country House was named the winner of 145th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday after Maximum Security, who crossed the finish line first, was disqualified.


Defensive tackle Damon Harrison and cornerback Darius Slay didn't take part in offseason work with the Lions, but both players reported to training camp on time on Wednesday. While the players are in camp, they are taking part in the team's first practice on Thursday. Both Harrison and Slay have been placed on the non-football injury list. Head coach Matt Patricia said the team feels both players "need a little more time to before they're thrown into individual drills." There's no note of a specific issue, so it's likely just a matter of acclimating themselves to football work after being away from the team for so long. Defensive tackle Darius Kilgo was also placed on the NFI list. The three players are eligible to be activated at any point.


A woman whose body was discovered over the weekend in a Costco parking lot in Bakersfield had been mauled by three dogs, according to police. The woman was found dead in the parking lot of the Costco store at 3800 Rosedale Highway about 6 a.m. Sunday with traumatic injuries that investigators determined were wounds from a dog attack, said Bakersfield police Sgt. Nathan McCauley. The woman has not been identified, but authorities said she was homeless and was in her late 30s or early 40s. Her exact cause of death has not been determined. "We're not sure if the dogs caused her death or if she had another medical issue," McCauley said. The altercation between the woman and the dogs likely began at an industrial yard near the warehouse store and ended in the parking lot based on paw prints and other evidence at the scene, McCauley said. Two of the dogs involved in the attack   a pit bull terrier and a mixed breed   belonged to a nearby business owner. The third dog, a pit bull terrier, was a stray. One of the dogs has already been euthanized, and the rest are scheduled to be killed, McCauley said. "It's a very unusual occurrence, and without any witnesses or surveillance video, it's hard to know exactly what caused this," he said. hannah.fry@latimes.com Twitter: @Hannahnfry


A fundraising event is being held Saturday to honor fallen Mooresville officer killed in the line of duty in May. In downtown Mooresville, the First Annual K9 Officer K9 Sheldon "Family Fun Day" event will honor Jordan Sheldon. Officer Sheldon was shot and killed on May 4 during a routine traffic stop. RELATED: 'We're hurt, we're sad' | Mooresville community mourning the loss of K9 Officer shot and killed in the line of duty This event is from 4 p.m. -11 p.m. on Broad Street in Mooresville, where you can enjoy food, activities and live music. All fundraising proceeds will go toward the K9 Officer Jordan Sheldon Memorial Scholarship Fund. (Click to find more information on the event page)


SKYWAY, WA   While heavy snow was falling across the region during the first week in early February, a toilet at the VFW Post 9430 in Skyway was running with no one around to turn it off. The post was closed for 12 days after the first big snowstorm hit. The parking lot was buried in a foot or more of snow. Caretakers Emma Gavino and Chad Hassebroek were only able to get in after firefighters from the nearby King County Fire District 20 station pooled their money to rent a snowblower. "After we opened, we started cleaning, and then I said, 'I hear something,'" Gavino recalled. She sent her husband downstairs, and that's when he found the toilet. It had wasted 17,700 cubic feet of water while the post was closed during the storms. When the bill came, Gavino and Hassebroek were floored: $4,400. If the post can't pay, the Skyway Water and Sewer District could shut the water off. Because they serve food and drinks, the post would have to close due to health and safety regulations. That would jeopardize the survival of the entire post, which is already experiencing dwindling membership. "It would cripple the VFW, it would end the building," Gavino said Friday. The post will hold a fundraiser on Saturday pay off that enormous bill. That would save the building, but much more. The post is a hub for the Skyway. Two Boy Scout troops use the space for meetings, and there are frequent fundraisers for local schools and veterans. The building is the de facto city hall for Skyway, an unincorporated area between Seattle and Renton with no local government. Then there are the veterans. Gavino and Hassebroek call 9430 a "destination post." Peope come from as far away as Gig Harbor and Tacoma for events, they said. The post hosts dinners for soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord. It's also home to local veterans spanning World War II to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who come for bowling or $1 taco nights. "We have a lot of members from outside Skyway who transferred to post with all our community activities," Hassebroek, the post's quartermaster, said. "Our post is one of the most active in the state." The water district does offer reimbursement for leaks like this, but only if they happen outside the building, Skyway Water administrative services manager Agnes Hicks said. Hicks said the water district will do all it can to work with the post to take care of the bill. For now, the post has set up a payment plan, but Gavino said even that is too costly. They hope to raise at least $3,000 on Saturday, but are hoping for the whole $4,400. "We're struggling right now to pay our bill," she said. "We have to do everything we can to keep this post going." Pasta Fundraiser for VFW Post 9430 Saturday, May 19, 5 p.m. 7421 S 126th St., Seattle


Duke's Cam Reddish is one of the most polarizing players in this draft. He's a 6'8″ wing with explosive yet fluid athleticism, the kind of player who can turn heads at times, and he seems to fit the NBA game (in style of play the way Paul George does). That is why we at NBCSports.com had him at No. 5 in our new mock draft . The concern is there are questions about his motor, and when Zion Williamson went down with his foot injury and Reddish had the chance to take on a larger role, he didn't. Reddish is going to be a top 10 pick, but he's the kind of player that makes GMs nervous drafting that high. Now it looks like Reddish will be sidelined from basketball activities until after the draft, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic. Sources: Cam Reddish will undergo a minor procedure for a core muscle injury. There is a six-week timetable that will have Reddish fully healthy. The core injury nagged him during the Duke season and will now fully heal.   Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) May 31, 2019 A "core muscle injury" is what we used to call a sports hernia, except it's not really a hernia, so team doctors wisely stopped calling it that. This is minor and he will recover from, it will not impact his draft status. What exactly that draft status is remains the big question.


David Goffin stunned second seed Alexander Zverev, beating the German 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 to reach the Halle Open semi-finals.


The 49ers' pre-practice injury report Sunday had a bit of good news for San Francisco. Star defensive lineman DeForest Buckner is back in practice after missing three sessions with a toe injury. Dee Ford, Joshua Garnett, Jeff Wilson and Ahkello Witherspoon were all out again. Buckner's return is a small sigh of relief for the 49ers after his minor toe injury. His workouts during the practices he missed were a good indicator that he wouldn't be out for a significant amount of time, but that's a potentially lingering injury for one of San Francisco's best players. Missing Buckner in the middle of the defensive line for any amount of time would've been a huge blow for the 49ers defense. The players out of the final day of Week 2 of camp don't come as any surprise. Ford is still working through knee tendinitis. Garnett is out multiple weeks after surgery to repair a dislocated finger. Wilson has been dealing with a calf injury since the first week of camp, and Witherspoon exited early this week with a glute injury. It remains to be seen whether any of those injuries besides Garnett's will carry over into the 49ers' first game on Aug. 10 against the Cowboys. MORE: Antonio Brown's foot issues look absolutely gruesome 2020 aggregate mock draft 1.0: Here are the top NBA prospects to know How Andre Iguodala could still be attainable for Houston Former NFL team doctor weighs in on foot ailment of Raiders WR Antonio Brown Week 1 of NFL preseason will have these 4 games on national television


The Golden State Warriors were on the ropes. They trailed the NBA Finals 3-1 and they lost superstar Kevin Durant in the second quarter after just adding the former Finals MVP back to the lineup. They trailed the Toronto Raptors by six with a little over two minutes left, but Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson showed off their championship hearts and led the Warriors back from the dead and to a 106-105 win in Game 5. Golden State showed off what has made them champions three of the last four seasons and now the team heads back to The Bay for a Game 6 that could keep their dreams of a three-peat alive. After the game was over, Durant made a post on his Instagram story to shout out his Warriors teammates. Please be advised that the post below contains language that some might consider offensive. Kevin Durant on Instagram. pic.twitter.com/rb31OvG6tB - RealGM (@RealGM) June 11, 2019 Game 6 from Oracle Arena is set for Thursday as the Warriors will get one final game there before moving to the Chase Center in San Francisco for the 2019-20 season. MORE: How Kevin Durant's Achilles injury alters Kyrie Irving's free agency Kevin Durant breaks silence on his Game 5 Achilles injury: 'I'm hurting deep in the soul' Watch as jury convicts former NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. of raping homeless woman News: Do Cowboys have best group of QBs across the entire league? Kevin Durant Has a $31.5 Million Player Option; Will Warriors Offer Him Supermax Contract?


The Tennessee Titans made one safety the highest paid in the history of the position on Wednesday, and released another the next day. On Thursday, it was announced the team had released safety Damon Webb. The @Titans released S Damon Webb today. - Jim Wyatt (@jwyattsports) July 25, 2019 The 23-year-old was originally signed by the Titans as an undrafted free agent out of Ohio State in May of last year. He was signed to a three-year, $1.71 million deal before being cut at the beginning of the regular season. He was later re-signed to the practice squad and put under a futures contract in January. MORE: Kendrick Perkins rips Steve Kerr over criticism of Anthony Davis trade Instant observations from Day 1 of Patriots training camp Ranking the NBA's Top 10 Big Threes Packers training camp practice roundup: July 25 Pair of Chargers rookies impress on first day of training camp


Honda Aircraft Company announced plans Monday to expand its global headquarters in Greensboro by investing an additional $15.5 million in a new 82,000-square-foot facility on its campus in Greensboro. The facility is scheduled to break ground in July. The building will house a new wing assembly process for the HondaJet Elite, the fastest, farthest and highest-flying plane in its class. The new facility will allow for more wings to be assembled concurrently, resulting in an increase in production efficiency. The facility is expected to be completed in July 2020. "As the HondaJet's popularity and presence continues to increase around the world, it is necessary for our facility to meet our production and service needs while operating at the highest level of efficiency," said Michimasa Fujino, president and CEO of Honda Aircraft Company. "We are proud that Honda Aircraft Company is expanding its footprint in North Carolina and in the aviation industry." READ MORE: Honda Aircraft announces plans to expand production facility in Greensboro CHECK OUT WXII: Get the latest Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem news of the day. Catch the top stories, sports and weather from the team at WXII12.


Another day, another Derrick Rose update. The Bulls cleared Rose for non-contact activity on Wednesday, although the guard is still experiencing some minor swelling around the fractured left orbital he had surgically repaired on Sept. 30. His vision also continues to create occasional issues, though Rose did go ahead and get fitted for the mask he will wear whenever he returns. On Tuesday, coach Fred Hoiberg said Rose "most likely" will sit out all eight exhibition games. Rose's status for the Oct. 27 regular-season opener against the Cavaliers is in doubt, though clearance to begin conditioning is a step in the right direction. "He still won't do any contact for at least the next several days," Hoiberg said. "But he's cleared to ride the bike and get a sweat going, so I know he's excited about that." The Bulls play their fifth exhibition on Wednesday. Joakim Noah is back after a two-game absence with a bruised left knee and will start in a jumbo lineup featuring Pau Gasol at center and Nikola Mirotic for the injured Tony Snell at small forward. It's the preseason debut for the Gasol/Noah pairing, not to mention Taj Gibson, who will come off the bench after his offseason left ankle surgery. "Just trying to get back in shape," Gibson said. "Just blow it out, however many minutes they give me ... . (The ankle) is completely strong. I'm just having fun. Guys are throwing me lobs all the time. Coach Fred has been great, just monitoring how I'm feeling every day." Jimmy Butler and E'Twaun Moore also will start. Kirk Hinrich is resting with a minor foot issue.


Looking to score quarterfinal tickets at the Women's World Cup? Be prepared to pay for the marquee meeting. Ticket prices for the United States' quarterfinal match against France on Friday have soared since the meeting was set, with one seller on the secondary market listing a pair for more than $15,000. As of Tuesday morning on StubHub.com , the least expensive ticket is listed for $426, while the most expensive is listed at a whopping $17,000, with a number of tickets in the $1,000 to $3,000 range. That's a huge leap from the 2015 tournament, as ESPN.com notes the average resale price of tickets for the USWNT's quarterfinal match against China was $165. What's even more shocking? The USWNT's final match against Japan topped out at $368. To compare, tickets for Thursday's quarterfinal match between England and Norway span from $28 to $170. There is a reason for the price hike though. France is hosting the World Cup and Canada was the host country in 2015, so there is a much higher demand for these tickets and this particular matchup this time around. The U.S. is the No. 1 ranked team in the world, according to the FIFA Women's World Ranking . France is No. 4. In 2015, the U.S. was also No. 1 but China was No. 14. MORE : Women's World Cup 2019: USA's Megan Rapinoe scores twice to advance to France quarterfinal | Women's World Cup 2019: Full bracket, dates, times, TV channels, results for every match | Women's World Cup 2019: USA's Megan Rapinoe predicts match against France will be 'crazy' Megan Rapinoe scored two penalties as the U.S. edged past Spain, 2-1, on Monday to set up the quarterfinal against France. The U.S. has reached the quarterfinal stage in every edition of the Women's World Cup between 1991 and 2019, becoming the second nation to achieve this feat alongside Germany, which has made eight appearances.


SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX)   The half-floor penthouse designed by Jay Jeffers at The Avery is the newest of its kind to debut in San Francisco. The 53rd floor luxury unit features 4 bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms across 4,300 square feet. It reflects a modern design and offers spectacular views of the bay. It is listed at $15.95 million and it's hitting a market that analysts say is still wild. The current median condo sales price in San Francisco is $1.25 million. "It's a big rebound from last year, it's very exciting to see how many condos have sold and it seems like they're not staying on the market very long," said Compass broker associate Diana Nelson. "We always have a pretty small inventory." Nelson specializes in luxury condo sales in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood. The Avery penthouse is part of 118 units and 250 rentals the building is adding to the neighborhood. Its first condo residents will move in July 1. "A good percentage of our renters, as well as our buyers, actually live in the neighborhood or they do work in the neighborhood," said Related's VP of development Jonathan Shum. "So they're already familiar with what the Transbay District is about, the concentration of jobs, they like the access to the freeways to be able to go down south." Condo sales are basically back up to the peak prices they hit last year at this time, according to Nelson. Currently, condos make up the biggest share of sales in San Francisco. "The economy is fantastic right now, especially with all of the excitement about all of the tech companies and how well they're doing as well," Nelson added. The under-construction Four Seasons Residences on Mission Street will bring about 150 condos to the market next year. Luxury high-rise Mira will add nearly 400 new units to the area. Nearby, 181 Fremont has sold more than half its 55 high-end residences. It has already set a record for the highest price per square foot in a San Francisco condo at $4,500. "When we were first selling, people were like I have to have two-car parking, and now people take Ubers," said Nelson. "Or they walk." The full-floor Avery penthouse will debut this summer for $41 million dollars. If it sells at that price, it would be a record for a condo in San Francisco.