WASHINGTON (AP)   An Army captain who shoved a suicide bomber to the ground and away from his security detail became the nation's newest Medal of Honor recipient Thursday as President Barack Obama credited his actions with preventing a greater catastrophe from occurring. Florent Groberg, 32, is the 10th living service member awarded the nation's highest honor for battlefield bravery in Iraq or Afghanistan. Four people were killed in the attack, and several others were wounded. As families of the victims and some of his former Army colleagues watched, Obama draped the medal around Groberg's neck at a White House ceremony. Groberg fought to keep his emotions in check as he faced the crowd and cameras. Afterward, he dedicated the medal to those killed and their families, saying they were the true heroes. "I am blessed and just grateful to have been given the opportunity to serve my country," Groberg said. Obama recounted the details of the August 2012 attack, which left Groberg badly wounded and requiring nearly three years of recovery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Groberg was helping to lead a military escort in Afghanistan's Kunar Province when his unit approached a bridge. As two motorcyclists caused a diversion, a man dressed in dark clothing spun toward him some 10 feet away. Groberg grabbed the bomber by the vest and kept pushing him backward, with help from fellow soldier, Sgt. Andrew Mahoney. The attacker fell to ground and the bomb detonated. That explosion also caused a second, unseen bomb to detonate before it could be placed closer to the unit. "Had both bombs gone off as planned, who knows how many could have been killed," Obama said. Groberg suffered significant nerve damage and about half the calf muscle in his left leg was blown off. He needed 33 surgeries to save his leg. Obama noted that he had met Groberg about three years ago at Walter Reed. Obama recalled that Groberg likes the Chicago Bears, "so I liked him right away." The Medal of Honor ceremony was somber, but Obama also recounted how Groberg first came to consciousness after the bombing. He thought he was in Germany and that the lead singer from the heavy metal band Korn was at his bedside and talking to him, Obama said. "Flo thought, 'What's going on? Am I hallucinating?" Obama said. "But he wasn't. It was all real. And so, today, Flo, I want to assure you you are not hallucinating. You are actually in the White House. Those cameras are on. I am not the lead singer from Korn," Obama joked. Born in Poissy, France, Groberg became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2001, the same year he graduated from high school in Maryland. He also competed in track and cross country at the University of Maryland before entering the Army in 2008. Obama said that what helped make Groberg a great runner during his student days at the University of Maryland, "training, guts, teamwork," also made him a great soldier. Obama and Groberg worked to ensure that those killed in the attack are also remembered. Obama cited them by name during the ceremony: Command Sgt. Maj. Kevin Griffin, Maj. Tom Kennedy, Major David Gray, and a USAID foreign service officer who had volunteered for a second tour in Afghanistan, Ragaei Abdelfattah. "These four men believed in America. They dedicated their lives to our country. They died serving it. Their families, loving wives and children, parents and siblings, bear that sacrifice most of all," Obama said. After the ceremony, Groberg gave a statement, saying, "this medal is the greatest honor you could ever receive." He added that the medal belonged to the true heroes who died in the attack. For the families of the victims, he said he would work to become the "right carrier for them and better myself as a human being for the rest of my life."


The Arizona Cardinals open their preseason at home on Thursday against the Los Angeles Chargers. Because this will be the first game ever in the NFL for Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury and quarterback Kyler Murray, this game is intriguing. However, the starters will play little and some won't play at all. Kingsbury won't likely show much more than very basic concepts offensively. Knowing that, what are things we want to see in the game? Just a taste of the Kliff Kingsbury offense Cardinals Training Camp 2019 The Cardinals won't show anything fancy, but it would be nice to get just a taste. How much will they line up with four receivers? How often is a tight end in the game? What do the basic run plays look like? What are the basic route concepts? We want to see how they line up at the line of scrimmage and see how the running game is built. View embedded content A healthy dose of the draft picks (AP Photo/Matt York) Kyler Murray will probably get a series. Andy Isabella might not play and Byron Murphy had a foot injury earlier in the week. However, we want to see a lot of Zach Allen, Hakeem Butler, Lamont Gaillard, Deionte Thompson, Jalen Thompson, Caleb Wilson, KeeSean Johnson and Michael Dogbe. We want to see them get reps and make plays. View embedded content Consistent kicking game Cardinals Training Camp 2019 The Cardinals have been very confident in kicker Zane Gonzalez. He has been very good with the exception of one practice last weekend when he missed three kicks over 40 yards. Seeing him kick with strength and accuracy in the game would go a long way to settling underlying concerns fans have for the position. View embedded content Players making plays (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri) While watching the Cardinals win is fun, the real measure of the preseason is how individual players do, so we want to see individual players flash. Whether that is Hakeem Butler with a great catch or a defensive lineman getting consistent penetration, some playmaking is necessary. View embedded content No injuries (AP Photo/Michael Ainsworth) The one thing no one wants to see is an injury, especially to a player expected to be a contributor during the regular season. Health is the most important thing to have in the preseason. Listen to the latest from Cards Wire's Jess Root on his podcast, Rise Up, See Red. Subscribe on Apple podcasts or Stitcher Radio . View embedded content MORE: ESPN's Molly Qerim walked off set after Max Kellerman said Kobe's on his 'all-NBA worst team' 6 quick takeaways from Packers' joint practices with Texans Sergio Llull 'not closing the door' on Rockets, NBA Brett to Bryant? Kicker Maher might be Cowboys weakest link, for now What Kyler Murray will face in the pros--and how he can beat NFL defenses


What Sean Mannion proves in August will likely be the start or the end of a chapter for him in his NFL career. Mannion, a 2015 third-round pick, will be competing with Kyle Sloter for the Vikings backup quarterback spot to Kirk Cousins. Mannion has spent the last four seasons with the Rams, but he appeared in just one meaningless game, so we really don't know a whole lot about him. If Mannion loses out on the backup spot, the Vikings can release him for just a $90,000 penalty while they'd save $735,000 against the cap. It could also be the end of teams seriously considering Mannion for a backup quarterback spot in the future. However, if he does prove himself and win the job, it will set him up for an opportunity like that in the future, whether it's with the Vikings or another team. Mannion hasn't had much pressure throughout his career. That changes late this summer, and his career rides on it. MORE: Video of Kevin Durant walking to practice predictably gets analyzed by NBA fans What does Kevin Durant want in free agency? Sleeping on Patriots WR Demaryius Thomas would be a huge mistake Steelers CB Justin Layne checks all the boxes for a shutdown cornerback BOS engaged in potential trade for Clint Capela, deal for Terry Rozier


Mayor Max II of Idyllwild, California sits in the back of his pickup truck, wearing a tie and hat, barking his greetings to locals. He's not your average mayor. He's a dog. The golden retriever, whose full name is Maximus Mighty-Dog Mueller II, has been mayor of the Southern California town since 2014. But he's actually the second dog to be elected for the town's highest office since Mayor Max I in 2012, when Idyllwild first elected a canine. In 2012, nonprofit Idyllwild Animal Rescue Friends ran a sponsored election for the non-incorporated town. Any resident could nominate their pets, and constituents paid $1 donations to vote. The proceeds went to help save animals , and the election raised $31,000 for the animal rescue. Max I was in the running with 13 other dogs and two cats. Max won with two-thirds of the vote. His owner Phyllis Mueller, who says she's his chief of staff, says she and her husband campaigned hard… but they also wrote a $20,000 check. (MORE: Meet the 'pilot' pup that has flown thousands of miles) "I thought it would be fun to have my dog be the mayor," Mueller says. "You were asked to pay a dollar a vote and you were encouraged to buy the election." But Max I was an old dog when he took office and passed away within two years. Phyllis Mueller looked everywhere for the right successor, and says when she first met Max II's litter it was obvious which of the pups should be the mayor. He apparently looked right at the camera and posed. He was a young politician beginning his term at only 11 weeks old, and in the third election Mayor Max II was appointed mayor for life. (MORE: Patton Oswalt on life with his cat, Addison, and 'The Secret Life of Pets 2' ) Mayor Max II and his deputy mayors (two other golden retrievers) make appearances at city events and festivals, go to local hospitals and schools, and even make house calls to those in need. Their fleet of "mayor mobiles" have custom license plates and the mayor's logos. "When people ask what party they would belong to, I always say they would be independent," Mueller jokes. Mayor Max II's ultimate goal is to help make the world a better place. Now, that's a paw-litician worth electing.


Ten years ago, Morneau's durability was off the (Twins') charts On June 21, 2009, the Minnesota Twins played a relatively innocuous game with the Houston Astros (then hailing from the National League). That Sunday afternoon, the Twins fell 4-1 and continued their mediocre slog (35-36) to begin the season. Starter Glen Perkins (7 IP, 4 ER) kept us in the game, as did a home run from Michael Cuddyer , but the bats could not solve Wandy Rodriguez (7 IP, 1 ER). Much more notable than anything that happened on the field that day, however, was who was off it: for the first time in over two years, Justin Morneau was not in the starting lineup. Beginning on June 27 of 2007, Morneau had been part of Ron Gardenhire's starting lineup for 319 straight ballgames. Not Cal Ripken Jr. (2,632 consecutive games), to be sure, but still very impressive in an era where baseball people were starting to recognize the importance of a day off here and there to help keep the mind and body fresh. That streak is tops all-time for the Twins franchise. On one hand, that type of durability and willingness to play through nagging aches-and-pains is admirable (and likely part of the reason why Justin is revered by Twins fans and the organization alike). The baseball season is a long one, and there's no way he was fully healthy at all times during his streak. I'm sure he was always "playing through something". I can only imagine the kind of leadership that mindset must spread throughout a clubhouse. On the other hand, however, the effects of that long streak were very evident even while it was transpiring. Down the September stretch in 2008, Morneau's bat largely went silent. I specifically remember him really struggling against John Danks in that year's Game 163. After his streak-busting off day on June 21 of '09, he did play most of the games through August, but again with diminishing returns. On September 12 of that year, he was shut down for the rest of the season and playoffs with a stress fracture in his lower back. Now, there's obviously no direct way to prove that Morneau's injuries or general fatigue in those seasons were a result of his playing every single day, but common sense would seem to dictate a strong relationship between the two. As sort of a general trend towards protecting players and maximizing their potential, most are now given more periodic breathers. In that sense, Ripken's record may be as unbreakable as, say, Cy Young's 511 career wins or Ricky Henderson's 130 stolen bases in one season. In fact, I don't even anticipate a Twins player in the foreseeable future topping Morneau's 319 streak. Looking back, it is astounding how quickly things changed for Justin following that '09 injury. Michael Cuddyer took over at first base for the rest of the season, Morneau would never really play an entire healthy season in a Twins uniform ever again, and eventually his pal (and then iconic catcher) Joe Mauer would replace him at the first sack. Crazier still, Morneau & Cuddyer would both go on to have late-career resurgences with the Rockies , winning NL batting titles in back-to-back seasons in Colorado ('13 & '14)! For a time in the late 2000s, however, Justin Morneau was THE given, day-in and day-out, at the ballpark for the Minnesota Twins.


Gov. Matt Bevin blamed the media for the visible cracks in his administration during a radio appearance Thursday, where he was peppered with questions about the firing of Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton's deputy chief of staff. "We're whipping this into a story that it isn't, trying to fabricate something out of whole cloth," Bevin said during an appearance on 84 WHAS radio. "And you know why? The media would rather talk about this than the fact they're stuck with a candidate on their side of the aisle ... and they've got Andy Beshear." Hampton, who Bevin dropped from the 2019 Republican ticket for state Sen. Ralph Alvarado, ignited a public feud in a tweet last Friday over top aide Adrienne Southworth being terminated . The lieutenant governor asked Kentuckians for prayers against unknown "dark forces" inside the administration who were behind the decision. CALLING PRAYER WARRIORS: Yesterday, person(s) unknown initiated unauthorized personnel action ending employment of my talented, stellar Deputy Chief Adrienne Southworth, against my wishes. Pray for me as I battle dark forces.   LG Jenean Hampton (@LtGovHampton) May 31, 2019 Background: Kentucky Lt. Gov. Hampton says fired aide will 'continue to assist' Radio host Leland Conway grilled Bevin about Hampton's tweets, asking "Who's in charge in Frankfort?" when someone as high as the lieutenant governor can have their staffers fired without knowing who was behind the decision. "What I think is weird is that people are talking about something that happens every single day in Frankfort and in America as if it's never happened before," Bevin said. "No, the media's paying attention to it because your lieutenant governor said 'dark forces' were at work. That's why we're interested, it's about transparency," Conway said. Bevin said he didn't know who the "dark forces" in the administration were, but that "no one is let go for no reason." He said that he didn't know why Southworth, who was hired in 2015, was terminated, but that he has known Southworth for some time and recommended her for the job in Hampton's office. Southworth was a nonmerit employee, meaning she could be terminated at will. She told the Courier Journal in her only interview about the firing that she isn't sure why she was sacked. "Honestly, I have no earthly clue," Southworth said. More: Beshear, Adkins, Edelen plan Democrat unity rallies amid Bevin's GOP quarrels In a Monday email, obtained by the Courier Journal through an open records request, Hampton told Bevin administration officials that Southworth isn't going anywhere. "Ms. Southworth will continue to assist me as deputy chief," Hampton said in the email. "She will track her time manually until she is officially reinstated, so personnel can process her pay retroactively to May 31, 2019." Hampton said in the email that the state official who signed the letter firing her aide "does not make a move without direction." Southworth is the second person on Hampton's staff fired by the Bevin administration in the last five months, leaving the lieutenant governor with just one staff member. In January, Hampton's chief of staff, Steve Knipper, was fired after he filed to run in the Republican primary for secretary of state. He lost the race in a four-way election . House speaker: Bevin's changes to pension bill haven't changed anyone's mind Support local journalism Support stories like this one by becoming a subscriber today! Get unlimited digital access here! Bevin said the media is covering Hampton's comments to help Beshear, the state attorney general, in the fall election. The governor said most reporters are voting for the Democratic nominee, before pouring out a litany of criticisms on the attorney general. "Andy Beshear is strongly pro-abortion. Andy Beshear's No. 2 guy is in federal prison for bribery and embezzlement," Bevin said. "He's a crook. His father (former Gov. Steve Beshear) was a crook. They want to give away free money to other people and expand other people's benefits at the expense of men and women who go to work every day. The guy's never created a job in his life." Beshear campaign manager Eric Hyers said Thursday that Bevin's policies have hurt average Kentuckians for three and a half years, "while fostering a culture of bullying and name calling in Frankfort." "His outburst (Thursday) morning was a new low, even for him," he said. "He is a weak, unpopular governor who refuses to be honest, even with his own lieutenant governor. Instead of picking fights, Andy will bring people together to improve our public schools and make health care more affordable and accessible." Reporter Phillip M. Bailey can be reached at 502-582-4475 or pbailey@courierjournal.com. Support strong local journalism by subscribing today: courier-journal.com/philb . This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Matt Bevin grilled about Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton's 'dark forces' claim


The Tampa Bay Rays have had no luck getting fans to come to games despite being a clear playoff contender this season, and they are practically giving tickets away for free in an attempt to change that. On Thursday, the Rays announced that they will be offering "thousands" of $2 tickets for their upcoming series against the Baltimore Orioles. They're also slashing some concession prices. #Rays offering $2 tickets for July 1-3 games vs. #Orioles , plus $2 peanuts and fountain drinks. Details on team website, "thousands" available per game, limit of 6 per game.   Marc Topkin (@TBTimes_Rays) June 27, 2019 The Rays have drawn an average of around 14,000 fans per home game this year, which is more than only the Miami Marlins. The Orioles are again the worst team in baseball, so even $2 tickets might not entice fans to head to Tropicana Field. Things have gotten so bad for the Rays that they are exploring an unprecedented idea to play half their home games in one city and the other half in another. Ultimately, they may end up just having to move the franchise out of Tampa. Related slideshow: Best images of the MLB season (Provided by imagn)


Curious just how far your dollar goes in Saint Paul? We've rounded up the latest rental listings via rental sites Zumper and Apartment Guide , to get a sense of what to expect when it comes to locating housing in Saint Paul if you've got a budget of $1,200/month. Take a look at the listings, below. (Note: prices and availability are subject to change.) Hoodline offers data-driven analysis of local happenings and trends across cities. Links included in this article may earn Hoodline a commission on clicks and transactions. 250 E. 5th St. (Downtown) Listed at $1,200/month, this 720-square-foot studio is located at 250 E. 5th St. In the unit, you can expect air conditioning, stainless steel appliances, ample closet space and in-unit laundry. Building amenities include an elevator, covered parking and a fitness center. Good news for animal lovers: Both dogs and cats are permitted here. The listing specifies a $250 pet fee. Walk Score indicates that this location is quite walkable, is very bikeable and is a haven for transit riders. (See the complete listing here .) 1880 Marshall Ave. (Merriam Park) Here's a 750-square-foot one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment at 1880 Marshall Ave. that's going for $1,189/month. In the unit, you'll get hardwood floors, ample closet space and stainless steel appliances. Building amenities include on-site laundry, garage parking and on-site management. Good news for cat lovers: kitties are permitted. According to Walk Score, this location is somewhat walkable, is convenient for biking and has good transit options. (See the full listing here .) 740 Victoria St. South (West 7th) Next, check out this 420-square-foot studio apartment that's located at 740 Victoria St. South. It's listed for $1,188/month. In the unit, you'll get hardwood floors, a dishwasher and air conditioning. Building amenities include a fitness center, a clubhouse and concierge service. For those with furry friends in tow, know that cats and dogs are welcome on this property. Look out for a $250 pet fee. Per Walk Score ratings, this location is somewhat walkable, is quite bikeable and has a few nearby public transportation options. (Take a look at the complete listing here .) 172 E. 6th St. (Downtown) Located at 172 E. 6th St., here's a 489-square-foot studio apartment that's listed for $1,185/month. In the unit, you can expect air conditioning, ample closet space and a dishwasher. The building offers on-site laundry, a swimming pool and a fitness center. Good news for cat lovers: kitties are welcome. Be prepared for a $100 non-refundable fee and a $200 deposit. Walk Score indicates that the area around this address is extremely walkable, is convenient for biking and boasts excellent transit options. (See the complete listing here .) 300 E. 4th St. (Downtown) Next, there's this one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment over at 300 E. 4th St. It's listed for $1,170/month for its 580 square feet of space. In the apartment, anticipate hardwood floors, air conditioning and a dishwasher. The building offers covered parking, a fitness center and a clubhouse. Pet lovers are in luck: cats and dogs are welcome. Walk Score indicates that the surrounding area is quite walkable, is convenient for biking and is a haven for transit riders. (Take a gander at the complete listing here .) (See the complete listing here .) This story was created automatically using local real estate data, then reviewed by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


Washington will see a return of last week's light rainfall in the coming days, according to drone-powered weather forecasting service Saildrone . Saturday should see the most rain, with a forecast accumulation of 0.53 inches. The immediate forecast also has hot temperatures in store for today. Temperatures will drop a bit from Sunday to Wednesday, getting up to just 82 degrees on Tuesday. Skies will partially clear on Monday, remaining partly cloudy through Tuesday. Winds will continue to be light over the course of the week, with the highest speeds on Monday at only 8 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 past couple months, 3-year-old Ailani Myers has had more bad days than good. May 23 was one of those rare exceptions her dad describes as an "almost pre-diagnosis day." "She had fun and felt good," Kurt Myers said. "We got to do things outside and she didn't even have to wear her mask. It was a nice day." Unless Ailani is able to receive a bone marrow transplant, it's unlikely that she and her family will ever be able to resume the lives they had to put on hold when the bubbly child was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia in early March. In the months since, Ailani has spent more time in hospital rooms than she has on swing sets or at gymnastics classes, said her mother Princecine Johnson. Ailani has undergone several rounds of chemotherapy that made her sick and lose her hair. And through it all, she's shown strength that her parents say surpasses their own. Though she has courage in spades, it's bone marrow that Ailani needs and unfortunately that's going to be difficult to come by, according to Amy Schatz of Be The Match, a bone marrow donor registry. The difficulty of mixed-race marrow transplants In order for bone marrow transplants to have the highest rate of success, the donor and the recipient need to be of the same ethnic and racial background. The challenge for Ailani, who is half black and half white, is that the majority of prospective donors registered with the National Marrow Donor Program, which operates Be The Match, are white. "It's difficult for any mixed-race person to find a match on the registry," Schatz said, explaining that while white people have a 77 percent chance of finding a perfect match on the registry people of other racial and ethnic backgrounds have much lower odds. Register to give Ailani marrow: BeTheMatch Latinos, for instance, have a 46 percent chance of finding a match and black people's chance at a match is 23 percent, according to Schatz. She didn't know how likely it is to find a mixed-race match though the registry, only that the chances are even lower for people like Ailani, whose life now depends on it. "The alternative of not getting a bone marrow transplant I think is grim," her father told the Citizen Times while FaceTiming with Johnson from the Ronald McDonald House they are staying in near Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Myers, 37, is active duty Navy, and Johnson, 43, is retired from the Navy. Myers had been reassigned to Baltimore, but Ailani's cancer diagnosis derailed the move and left them in limbo. What further complicates matters for Ailani is that she's an only child. Siblings typically share genetic profiles that make well for bone marrow donation. In the absence of brothers and sisters, however, Ailani's family members can only provide half matches at best, which can lead to serious compilations. Schatz, who is familiar with Ailani's case, said that finding an optimal match for the transplant, which is tentatively scheduled for mid June, is "absolutely critical." "In the back of our minds, we know it's a long shot, but we will do whatever we can to make it happen," Johnson said. "I just know she deserves the opportunity to live." 'Very strong, incredibly brave' Though her life was greatly altered a couple months ago, Ailani has rarely let her leukemia wreck her cheery disposition, her parents said. She recently spent her third birthday undergoing chemotherapy. "She takes all this better than we do," Myers said. "She's very strong, incredible brave. It's a lot to ask a 3-year-old to spend at least 40 hours a week in a hospital, but she still maintains her happiness." Myers and Johnson say that Ailani spends her time singing and dancing. She loves the color pink and princesses and favorite princess   at least for the moment   is Tiana. Friends and relatives have showered Ailani in gifts during the past couple months, so much so that that Myers and Johnson have had to hide most of them and doll them out gradually to avoid overwhelming their daughter. The gift Ailani truly needs, however, has yet to be given. She's still waiting on a marrow donor. 'A match would mean the world to me' Speaking to the Citizen Times at the newly opened Marion meadery that his children run, Charles Myers, Kurt's father and Ailani's grandfather, said that a marrow donor who matches Ailani would be giving the gift of "hope, life, love." "We're pleading because it's her life and someone might be able to save her," he said. "What greater gift could someone give?" Charles Myers will be holding a bone marrow donor registration drive at his business, Keeper's Cut Meadery, in downtown Marion on June 5 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. For those unable to make it to the registration drive but interested in helping Ailani, Be The Match registers donors online, Schatz said. To register for Ailani, visit the organization's webpage or text "4Ailani" to 61474. "Finding a match would mean everything," Johnson said. "My baby, my only child has a chance, an opportunity, to live a normal life   hopefully a healthy normal life. A match would mean the world to me. It would be like giving my child life all over again." Help the Asheville Citizen Times continue to provide in-depth reporting like this. Find our latest subscription options and special offers here. This article originally appeared on Asheville Citizen Times: Family of 3-year-old with leukemia 'plead' for bone marrow donor


If you've got Mexican on the mind, a recent opening is need-to-know. Located at 2015 Woodall Rodgers Freeway in Oak Lawn, the fresh addition is called Miriam Cocina Latina . Miriam Cocina Latina serves sophisticated and authentic Mexican dishes in an upscale atmosphere. From traditional tacos, sopas and enchiladas to Mexican beers and cocktails, this restaurant offers a wide range of fare from south of the border. Miriam Cocina Latina has proven popular thus far, with a five-star rating out of 10 reviews on Yelp. Yelper Dan D. wrote , "Finally a restaurant in Uptown that everyone will love. ... We visited and had Acapulquna Margaritas to start, then the food started with appetizers tostines de pollo, followed by Oaxacan cheddar cheese enchiladas and tacos de brisket. A new favorite." And Katie C. wrote , "I came here tonight for my birthday. It far exceeded all my expectations. First off, the location is perfect. From any table you can look into Klyde Warren Park. Secondly, the restaurant itself is beautiful. The atmosphere was open and inviting." Interested? Stop by to welcome the new business to the neighborhood. Miriam Cocina Latina is open from 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Sunday, and 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. This story was created automatically using local business data, then reviewed and augmented by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


The Philadelphia Eagles locked up their franchise quarterback Carson Wentz on Thursday night, signing him to a historic four-year extension. The deal is for $128 million and can be worth up to $144 million with an NFL-record $107 million in guaranteed money. Wentz, of course, was the No. 2 pick in the 2016 draft, one selection after the Rams took Jared Goff. They're on a similar path statistically but their financial timelines differ. Goff has yet to sign his second contract and is still on his rookie deal. Wentz signing an extension would seem to accelerate the Rams' timetable to extend Goff, but that's not the case. Chief operating officer Kevin Demoff spoke to reporters Friday and said Wentz's deal will have no bearing on when the Rams sign Goff. Rams COO Kevin Demoff said the Carson Wentz signing has nothing to do with the timing of the Rams reaching an extension with QB Jared Goff. No timetable set. Indication is talks won't get serious with Goff until after this season. "The franchise is very committed to Jared Goff" - Steve Wyche (@wyche89) June 7, 2019 He made that point clear, saying the Eagles are on a "different timetable" than the Rams are. Demoff on Wentz contract: "They seem to be on a different timetable than we are…. I don't think we're naïve enough to say that Carson signing is not relevant. I just don't think it changes the timing." - Gary Klein (@LATimesklein) June 7, 2019 Goff is under contract for two more seasons (through 2020), so the Rams can take their time with his next contract. That doesn't mean they aren't committed to him long-term, but financially, it makes sense for them to reap the benefits of his cap hit being a combined $31.5 million the next two seasons. When Goff does get a new deal, it'll likely be worth more than Wentz's $32 million per year, which will show just how much the Rams value their young quarterback. Demoff on Goff: "You've heard Sean and Les say throughout the offseason Jared is an important piece of what we do, he's an important piece of our future and I don't think the timing and of when we sign Jared or begin those talks really is reflective of how we value him." - Gary Klein (@LATimesklein) June 7, 2019 To further hammer home the point that the Rams are being patient with Goff, Mike Garafolo is reporting he could play out the next season on his rookie deal before signing an extension. Garafolo says a new contract could come at around this point next year, or possibly earlier in the offseason. From @nflnetwork : With Carson Wentz's deal done, it's time for his 2016 draftmates Dak Prescott and Jared Goff to get theirs, right? Dak and the #Cowboys aren't close right now, while it sounds like Goff might play out one more season before his extension with the #Rams . pic.twitter.com/EP3i5VVdbQ - Mike Garafolo (@MikeGarafolo) June 7, 2019 There's no reason to panic about the Rams' patience. They're simply not rushing to blow up the salary cap when they can keep Goff's cap hits relatively low for the next two years. MORE: Warriors injury report: The latest on Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant Giants' Daniel Jones quickly destroying critical narratives 5 Trade Options for Yankees After Missing on Dallas Keuchel Report: New Orleans likely to trade Anthony Davis to Celtics 5 takeaways from Pats minicamp


Robert Kubica is to run with a new chassis for the rest of the German Grand Prix after his Williams team discovered damage to the one he ran in Friday practice. During overnight preparations ahead of qualifying at Hockenheim, Williams found that parts of the car needed to be repaired   but that work could not be completed at the track. A decision was taken to switch the Pole to a new chassis, which meant Williams breaking F1's curfew restrictions to get the car built up in time. There is no penalty for the chassis change, because the official event does not begin until today, and teams are allowed two curfew exemptions over the season. Kubica had been testing a new upgrade package that Williams has brought to this weekend's race, but his work had been limited after some parts fell off during early running. "We were a bit too fragile, that's how it is, so we have to make sure everything will stay attached to the car, and hopefully tomorrow will be a better day," he had said after practice. Red Bull's Pierre Gasly has also had to switch to a new chassis after he damaged his car in a high-speed accident during second free practice. Marshals assists Pierre Gasly, Red Bull Racing RB15, after a crash in FP2 Photo by: Jerry Andre / Sutton Images


ROCHESTER, New York  Every summer, Mike Pereira drives north from his home in Sacramento, California, to spend some time with an old buddy in Oregon, and typically, his thoughts are consumed with which golf courses they're going to play and which streams or lakes they're going to fish. But in 2015, the former NFL official and officiating head who has forged a second career as a highly respected rules' expert on NFL and college broadcasts for Fox Sports, had a vastly different driving experience, one that led to a program of his creation that is changing lives. "I had met some military vets who were kind of downtrodden in Los Angeles," said Pereira, who was at Cobblestone Creek Country Club in New York on Monday for the third annual charity golf tournament that benefits his Battlefields to Ballfields foundation . "A couple of them were homeless and they were searching for something to do. I didn't serve, but I felt like I needed to try to give something back." Moved by the chance encounter, Pereira thought long and hard about what he could do to help men like this, men who served the United States in faraway places but returned to a country that didn't seem to have a place for them. "I was thinking about these vets and I was thinking about the shortage of (sports) officials that we have, so as I'm driving north I'm thinking about the characteristics it takes to be a vet," Pereira said. "The concentration, the teamwork, the mission, their goals, all the things I look for in officials. How can I marry the two together and recruit vets to become officials? "There's a little town called Weed (in northern California). I stopped there to get gas, and it was there where I thought if I started a foundation to give scholarships to vets to become officials, we could really address a couple issues. I could take vets off the battlefield and onto a ballfield, so boom, I had a name for the foundation. Now I was really excited." Fast-forward three years to Monday and about 3,000 miles east of Weed to Cobblestone Creek, where more than 100 golfers came out to play in the foundation's primary fundraiser, one which will help pay the way for perhaps as many as 30 to 35 scholarships to be presented to future youth and high school officials. Since the inception of Battlefields to Ballfields in the winter of 2016, more than 220 vets have been given scholarships to get them started on a career in officiating in football, baseball and basketball. The money covers the cost of their training, uniforms, equipment and local and national association dues for a period of three years. "I don't want a dime to come out of their pocket because many of these guys can't afford the outlay," Pereira said. More: How Coach K's story about Kobe Bryant motivated Jason Witten in return to Cowboys More: Dak Prescott, Michael Thomas among 16 NFL players next in line for big-money extensions One of the great success stories is 46-year-old Jamaison Pilgreen, a Lake Charles, Louisiana, native who now makes his home in Irondequoit, New York. He joined the National Guard in 1995, was called up to active duty in 1996, and did four Army tours in Afghanistan and two in Iraq. Pilgreen wound up at Fort Drum, where he was forced to retire in 2015, and he spent a couple years struggling to cope with life, and what his future held, as post-traumatic stress disorder nearly overtook him. "It took me a good year after I retired for it to finally hit," Pilgreen said of PTSD. "I wasn't planning on retiring, it was forced, and that's when everything started to catch up to me." He had relocated to Rochester in 2016 when he found that the veteran support center here was "much better than the one at Fort Drum" and it was here where he learned of Battlefields to Ballfields. "I was looking for something to do," said Pilgreen, who now works as an independent contractor for Corporate America Supports You, a military-affiliated nonprofit organization that provides employment-seeking services for veterans. "I was struggling with PTSD, I was struggling with depression, and I needed something to focus on, to take my mind off everything else. I was looking for programs for veterans to get into and this was perfect. I signed up, and within two weeks I was approved." Pilgreen is now officiating area football, basketball and baseball games at the JV level and below, though this fall he'll be moving up to varsity football. "Jamaison is a classic example," Pereira said of the type of person he hopes to help. "His fiancée (Lisa Deutsch) was with us and she said, 'You saved his life. He's a different man.' She said he was so low, so depressed, suicidal thoughts, and here he is now walking around officiating three sports and feeling good about himself. It's an unbelievable story. That's why I do it, that's why we have the foundation, for guys like Jamaison who really were struggling." One thing Pereira loves about getting vets into officiating is that of all the people out there equipped to ignore the abuse, it's them. "They've been yelled at by worse than the parents, and they've been under more pressure than anyone on a football field or basketball court," said Pereira. To which Pilgreen smiled and agreed, thinking back on countless drill sergeants and other military leaders he has encountered. "No coach or parent is going to say something to me that, I won't say push a button, but we're much more lenient on what we let them get away with before we get to the point where it's, 'OK, enough,' " he said. Crazy parents and aggressive coaches aside, Pilgreen loves officiating, mainly because of how it helped him reset his life, and that's what Pereira's primary mission was when he began Battlefields to Ballfields. "Some days I don't see it, but those that know me and see me every day, they say my smile is back, my demeanor and attitude has changed, and I know I can do whatever I need to do," Pilgreen said. "This has given me a purpose outside of the day-to-day work." Pereira has had a tremendously successful career on the field and off, but of Battlefields to Ballfields, he said, "It's been the most gratifying thing I've ever done. This means so much more to me." This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Former NFL official Mike Pereira helping military veterans try their hand at officiating


The CTA's 31st Street bus through Chinatown and Bridgeport will keep running at least through June of 2020 and will have morning rush hour service starting in September, under a plan approved by the agency's board of directors on Wednesday. The #31 bus is a pilot program, which will not be made permanent unless it gets enough riders. It was set to expire this June, before the board decided to try it for another year. Community activists have been pushing the CTA to add morning hours to the #31's current schedule, which runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays. North Side residents had blamed inadequate service hours for the failure of the #11 Lincoln bus east of Western Avenue -- that pilot ended in 2017. The Chinatown pilot has been running, with extensions, since 2016. The #31 has seen a bump in evening rush hour ridership, which means people are using it to commute, as well as for shopping and other activities. So the CTA decided to extend service hours into the morning, said spokesman Brian Steele. Starting in September, the bus will run from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., CTA officials said. The morning service is expected to serve Illinois Institute of Technology students going to class. It also connects with Guaranteed Rate Field and the Lake Meadows Shopping Center. "We wanted to do what we could to make it succeed," said Steele. The CTA plans to continue to market the bus service in the community to build ridership. Community members have said the service is needed especially by seniors, who have more trouble using the "L" or walking to parallel bus service at 35th Street. The CTA can face tough choices over bus routes, since it cannot afford to run empty buses, but gets multiple complaints if it discontinues a service. The more hours a bus route runs, the more riders it needs to make it worth the expense, according to the CTA. The new #31 extended service that starts in September will have a ridership target of 1,107 riders daily, up from the current target of 830 riders daily. In March, ridership on the route was 511, almost doubled from last summer. mwisniewski@chicagotribune.com Twitter @marywizchicago


Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, said at Thursday night's Democratic presidential debate that his city's police force remains disproportionally white "because I couldn't get it done." Buttigieg has faced criticism from community leaders and heckling from hometown audiences since a white South Bend police officer shot and killed Eric Logan, a black man who was allegedly armed with a knife, on June 16. The officer's body camera wasn't turned on during the incident. St. Joseph County prosecutors are investigating, and Logan's family filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the officer and the city on Wednesday. Buttigieg said during the debate in Miami that he couldn't "take sides" in the Logan case until the investigation is complete, but he acknowledged, "It's a mess, and we're hurting." "I could walk you through all of the things that we have done as a community, all of the steps that we took, from bias training to de-escalation, but it didn't save the life of Eric Logan," he said. "And when I look into his mother's eyes, I have to face the fact that nothing that I say will bring him back." Buttigieg blamed "the shadow of systemic racism" for what he called "a wall of mistrust put up one racist act at a time" between police and the communities they serve. "It threatens the well being of every community, and I am determined to bring about a day when a white person driving a vehicle and a black person driving a vehicle, when they see a police officer approaching, feels the exact same thing: a feeling not of fear but of safety," he said. Another candidate on the stage, Rep. Eric Swalwell of California challenged Buttigieg, saying the mayor should fire the police chief because the officer didn't have his body camera on. When Buttigieg tried to explain how state law limited his options, Swalwell jumped in and said: "But you're the mayor. You should fire the chief if that's the policy and someone died." Buttigieg has occasionally left the campaign trail in the last few weeks to address the Logan shooting at home. At a chaotic town hall Sunday, an attendee shouted at him, "You are lying!" and another said, "We don't trust you." Buttigieg, now in his second term as mayor, has also been under pressure over his demotion in 2012 of the city's first black police chief, Darryl Boykins, who had ordered the taping of the telephone calls of senior police officers who he alleged had made racist comments about him. Buttigieg said he demoted Boykins because the chief failed to disclose that the FBI was investigating him for allegedly having inappropriately wiretapped subordinates. Litigation, which has been ongoing for six years, has cost the city more than $2 million, the South Bend Tribune reported .


Serge Aurier is a doubt for Tottenham Hotspur's Premier League curtain raiser against Aston Villa after picking up a hand injury whilst on international duty with Ivory Coast. The right-back picked up the knock in the Elephants' second AFCON group game against Morocco, and was consequently ruled out of the rest of the tournament. Now, a statement on Spurs' official website confirmed that the 26-year-old had undergone surgery, where he is now "undertaking a period of non-contact training before reintegrating with the first team." The news will come as a disappointment for Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino, as following the recent sale of England defender Kieran Trippier , the inexperienced Kyle Walker-Peters is the only remaining, fully-fit right-back in his squad. This, combined with the uncertain future of Belgian centre-back Toby Alderweireld , will be a stark reminder to Pochettino that his is in need of defensive reinforcements - and it's claimed in France that the Argentine boss may have a young Monaco defender in mind. #thfc are one of several @PremierLeague clubs interested in signing Benoît Badiashile, but AS Monaco will only sell the 18-year-old if they receive a large offer | @JulienMaynard   Daily Hotspur (@Daily_Hotspur) July 31, 2019 TF1 (via GFFN) report that Spurs have joined Southampton and Wolves in the race to sign the 18-year-old Benoît Badiashile, who has previously attracted the attention of Manchester United in the past. Monaco are unlikely to want to part him with on the cheap, though, after the France Under-19 international took part in 36 games last season for the Red and Whites. His breakthrough campaign isn't one he will want to remember it must be said, with the former Ligue 1 winners narrowly avoiding relegation by the skin of their teeth. Despite this, Badiashile remains one of the most exciting prospects in French football and Spurs' reported interest, along with that of Saints and Wolves, suggests he has big future at the highest level.


Video by CBS News WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from Sept. 1, sharply escalating a bruising trade war between the world's largest economies and jolting financial markets. The announcement on Thursday extends Trump's trade tariffs to nearly all of the Chinese goods the United States imports and marks an abrupt end to a temporary truce in a trade row that has hurt world growth and disrupted global supply chains. Trump also threatened to raise tariffs further if China's President Xi Jinping fails to move more quickly to strike a trade deal. "I think President Xi ... wants to make a deal, but frankly, he's not going fast enough," Trump said. Trump made the announcement in a series of Twitter posts after his top trade negotiators briefed him on a lack of progress in U.S.-China talks in Shanghai this week. Trump later said if trade negotiations fail to progress he could raise tariffs further - even beyond the 25 percent levy he has already imposed on $250 billion of imports from China. Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told reporters on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Nations event in Thailand the additional tariffs were "not a correct way" to deal with the bilateral dispute. "Additional tariffs is definitely not a constructive way to resolve economic and trade frictions," he said. The news hit U.S. financial markets hard. On Friday, Asian stocks took a battering and the safe-haven yen jumped as investors rushed for cover. Oil prices plummeted 7%, with Brent crude registering the biggest daily percentage drop since February 2016. The benchmark S&P 500, which had been in solidly positive territory on Thursday afternoon, closed down 0.9%. Benchmark U.S. Treasury yields also fell. Retail associations predicted a spike in consumer prices. Target Corp tumbled 4.2%, Macy's Inc fell 6% and Nordstrom Inc was down 6.2%. Asked about the impact on financial markets, Trump told reporters: "I'm not concerned about that at all." Moody's said the new tariffs would weigh on the global economy at a time when growth is already slowing in the United States, China and the euro zone. The tariffs may also force the Federal Reserve to again cut interest rates to protect the U.S. economy from trade-policy risks, experts said. Raising tariffs would lower the prospects of a deal rather than expedite it, China's Global Times newspaper said. Beijing would focus more on efforts to survive a prolonged trade war, Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Communist Party-backed newspaper, said on Twitter. "New tariffs will by no means bring closer a deal that the U.S. wants; it will only make it further away," Hu said. CHINESE RETALIATION? Possible retaliatory measures by China could include tariffs , a ban on the export of rare earths and penalties against U.S. companies in China. So far, Beijing has refrained from slapping tariffs on U.S. crude oil and big aircraft, after cumulatively imposing additional retaliatory tariffs of up to 25% on about $110 billion of U.S. goods since the trade war broke out last year. China is also drafting a list of "unreliable entities" - foreign firms that have harmed Chinese interests. U.S. delivery giant FedEx is under investigation by China. "China will deliver each retaliation methodically, and deliberately, one by one," ING economist Iris Pang wrote in a note. "We believe China's strategy in this trade war escalation will be to slow down the pace of negotiation and tit-for-tat retaliation. This could lengthen the process of retaliation until the upcoming U.S. presidential election," Pang said. FRUSTRATED U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin briefed Trump on their first face-to-face meeting with Chinese officials since Trump met Xi at the G20 summit at the end of June and agreed to a ceasefire in the trade war. "When my people came home, they said, 'We're talking. We have another meeting in early September.' I said, 'That's fine, but until such time as there's a deal, we'll be taxing them," Trump told reporters. A source familiar with the matter said Trump grew frustrated and composed the tweets shortly after Lighthizer and Mnuchin told him China made no significant movement on its position. Previous negotiations collapsed in May, when U.S. officials accused China of backing away from earlier commitments. American business groups in China expressed disquiet over the latest round of U.S. tariffs . The U.S.-China Business Council said on Friday it was concerned the action "will drive the Chinese from the negotiating table, reducing hope raised by a second round of talks that ended this week in Shanghai." "We are particularly concerned about increased regulatory scrutiny, delays in licenses and approvals, and discrimination against U.S. companies in government procurement tenders," said the U.S.-China Business Council's President Craig Allen in an e-mail. Ker Gibbs, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, urged both sides to keep talking. Gibbs said that as market access in China "remains unnecessarily restricted," the United States should continue its dialog with Beijing, and "also work with like-minded countries to persuade China that fair and reciprocal trade and investment benefits all." CROPS AND DRUGS Trump said Beijing had failed to stop sales of the synthetic opioid fentanyl to the United States, as it had promised to do. He also said Beijing had not fulfilled a goodwill pledge to buy more U.S. agricultural products. Trump has failed to make good on a goodwill gesture he said he would make after the G20 meeting to relax restrictions on sales to Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. Trump had been pressing Xi to crack down on a flood of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances from China, which U.S. officials say is the main source of a drug blamed for most of more than 28,000 synthetic opioid-related overdose deaths in the United States in 2017. China had pledged that from May 1 it would expand the list of narcotics subject to state control to include the more than 1,400 known fentanyl analogs, which have a slightly different chemical makeup but are addictive and potentially deadly, as well as any new ones developed in the future. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday confirmed a small private sale to China of 68,000 tonnes of soybeans in the week ended July 25. It was the first sale to a private buyer since Beijing offered to exempt five crushers from the 25% import tariffs imposed more than a year ago. Soybean futures opened lower on Thursday as traders shrugged off the purchase because of the small volume involved, and losses accelerated after Trump's tweets. RETAIL IMPACT The new tariffs will jack up prices for consumers at the start of the back-to-school buying season, four large retail trade associations said on Thursday. "President Trump is, in effect, using American families as a hostage in his trade war negotiations," said Matt Priest, president of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America. Stephen Lamar, executive vice president of the American Apparel & Footwear Association, said his group's members were shocked that Trump had not allowed the resumed U.S.-China trade talks to proceed further before acting. The measure will hit U.S. consumers far harder than Chinese manufacturers, who produce 42% of apparel and 69% of footwear purchased in the United States, Lamar said. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal and Alexandra Alper; Additional reporting by Stella Qiu, Se Young Lee, Min Zhang and Beijing Monitoring Desk, and Brenda Goh in Shanghai; Steve Holland, David Lawder, Tim Ahmann, Susan Heavey, Makini Brice, Nandita Bose and Jonathan Landay in Washington, Chris Prentice in New York, and Mark Weinraub and Karl Plume in Chicago Editing by Sonya Hepinstall, Grant McCool & Shri Navaratnam)


DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM)   The implosion of a building in downtown Dallas will happen Saturday morning and will cause street closures for about four hours in the area. The building at 505 Ervay Street, also known as the Reserve Loan Life Building, will be imploded at around 7:30 a.m. Reserve Loan Life Building in downtown Dallas. (Credit: CBS 11 News) The safety zone for the implosion will be the area within Pacific Avenue, North Field Street, San Jacinto Street and North St. Paul Street. The City of Dallas created a picture to show the safety zone. (Credit: City of Dallas) According to the city, people will not be allowed to be outside or on top of buildings within the safety zone during the implosion. The street closures for the area begin at 6 a.m. and are expected to reopen at around 10 a.m. The city said off-duty Dallas police officers will be providing traffic control and blocking streets. DART trains near the safety zone will be delayed 10 minutes before and after the implosion.


PHILADELPHIA (CBS)   Hundreds of protesters closed down a part of Broad Street on Thursday as they demonstrate in front of Hahnemann University Hospital . Staff members are demanding state and city officials step in to save the hospital . Part of Broad Street is shut down as hundreds of protesters picketing the closure of Hahnemann University Hospital spills into the street. pic.twitter.com/m1siUOUZUQ   Kimberly Davis CBS3 (@KimberlyDavisTV) July 11, 2019 Demonstrators say this is a life or death situation and they are afraid their patients will die as a result of this closure. The protest, which started outside the hospital around 11:30 a.m., is made up of members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals. Patients are also here at Hahnemann protesting. An Oncology patient becomes very emotional when she talks about the care she's received at the hospital, and the relationships she's formed during her battle with cancer. Many in the crowd are crying. @CBSPhilly pic.twitter.com/cdGA7Qa5qT   Kimberly Davis CBS3 (@KimberlyDavisTV) July 11, 2019 Patients are also out here to join in solidarity with the hospital staff. Susan Bowes, a nurse at Hahnemann, says the atmosphere inside is very depressing and patients aren't sure where they will go next once the hospital closes. She says they can find new jobs, but they're concerned patients won't be as fortunate when it comes to their health care. "I'm a nurse and I'm going to find a job, I know that, but I just can't stop fighting," Bowes said. "It's very sad. The nurses here, and you can ask any of our patients, they get great care, they love us, and they're family and we're all a family, and it hurts." HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protestors picketing in an attempt to keep the doors of a Hahnemann University Hospital open. They say it's a life or death situation for their patients. Live update at noon on @CBSPhilly pic.twitter.com/fEymfCLdIw   Kimberly Davis CBS3 (@KimberlyDavisTV) July 11, 2019 The protest is expected to last until 1:30 p.m. There was supposed to be a federal court hearing at the bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware, but that may have been delayed.


KOSICE, Slovakia (AP) -- Anton Lander scored a hat trick to put Sweden's title defense back on track after demolishing Italy 8-0 at the ice hockey world championship on Sunday. Coming off a 5-2 loss to the Czech Republic, Lander opened the scoring on a rebound in the first period and added two in the final period, including a short-handed one, in the Group B game in Bratislava. Patric Hornqvist scored twice for the two-time defending champion Swedes who scored six in the third period. They outshot the Italians 58-13. Italy remains the only team yet to score a goal at the tournament after conceding 17 goals in two games. In the Group A game in Kosice, Matthias Plachta and Frederik Tiffels' goals lifted Germany to a 2-1 victory over Denmark. Earlier, the United States rebounded from an upset loss to Slovakia in the opening game by routing France 7-1. After losing 4-1 to the hosts, the U.S. was not ready for another upset. Alex DeBrincat scored twice and Frank Vatrano added one in less than two minutes to set the pace early in the opening period for the U.S. to take command of the Group A game in Kosice. Colin White also had two while Patrick Kane, who captained the Americans to the bronze medal at last year's worlds in Denmark, scored his first goal in Slovakia and added an assist. Chris Kreider added one for the U.S. while Anthony Rech had a consolation goal for France. The U.S. next faces Finland on Monday. In Group B, star-studded Russia recorded its second straight win after blanking Austria 5-0. Evgenii Dadonov led Russia with two goals for the second consecutive game and Nikita Kucherov had a goal and an assist. Alexander Georgiev made 15 saves for the shutout. Later Sunday, Canada faces Britain in Group A while Switzerland meets Latvia in Group B. --- More AP sports: https://apnews.com/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports Related slideshow: Best of 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs (provided by imagn)


The Trump administration has agreed to allow a Stanford University pediatrician to conduct an independent investigation into health conditions for migrant children at US Customs and Border Protection facilities. The pediatrician, Dr. Paul Wise, toured detention centers at the border last summer and was critical of the conditions there, according to a Stanford publication . In that interview, Wise described how migrant children are kept in a "kind of cage-like" processing center. "From there, they get moved to a different processing center, which is kind of cage-like, and labeled the 'perrera,' the dog pound," he said in the September 17, 2018 article. "And that's the photographs you saw of kids in cages." "One major concern was that the infrastructure of health care for children and their families coming through the asylum process is woefully inadequate," he added. Under the agreement, arranged as part of a lawsuit against the government in federal court, Wise will be able to conduct inspection of CBP facilities and assess children in the agency's care. US District Judge Dolly Gee authorized Wise's appointment on Monday, according to court documents. Advocates for children applauded the appointment of an independent investigation into what has been called deplorable and dangerous conditions for children in detention. "I think it's a huge step forward," said Jennifer Podkul, senior director of policy and advocacy at Kids in Need of Defense, which is not part of the lawsuit. "Third-party oversight is crucial to ensuring that the government is living up to the minimum standards it agreed to when holding children. The fact that he's a medical professional who has expertise and knows what to look for is crucial." The litigation between the government and the children's lawyers has been ongoing for years. "It's a travesty it took this long," Podkul said. "It's devastating that it took the deaths of several children for this to happen." Since September, four children have died in or just after being released from CBP custody. In the lawsuit, migrants and their advocates described "deplorable" and unsanitary conditions where babies were sick, flu was spreading and children didn't have access to essential and prompt medical care. A spokesperson for US Customs and Border Protection said the agency could not comment on ongoing litigation. A lawyer for the children said he fully supports Wise's appointment. "We believe he will play a critically important role in developing a range of protocols that if adopted would substantially decrease the unsafe and unsanitary conditions children are currently experiencing in Border Patrol custody," said Peter Schey, president and executive director of the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law. Conditions for children at the border Over the past five years, children have poured across the US border , seeking relief from violence and devastating economic conditions, mainly in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. From October 2018 through May of this year, more than 230,000 children have been apprehended at the border. Of those, about 170,000 were accompanied by a parent or legal guardian and about 56,000 were unaccompanied. In May, the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General found that at one point, 900 migrants were crammed into an El Paso, Texas, Border Patrol processing facility that had a maximum capacity of 125 people. According to court filings, Dr. Dolly Sevier, a pediatrician in Brownsville, Texas, who visited children in a detention center said they were kept in conditions that "could be compared to torture facilities. That is, extreme cold temperatures, lights on 24 hours a day, no adequate access to medical care, basic sanitation, water or adequate food." In his interview for the Stanford publication, Wise referred to detainees being kept for a period of time in a "facility which is freezing cold. It's called the 'hielera,' the ice box." He also mentioned that volunteer doctors working in border area clinics are often "overwhelmed." "A caring volunteer neurosurgeon may help fill in, but when is the last time that this doc saw a 5-year-old with diarrhea and PTSD?" he said. Wise declined to comment to CNN for this story. As part of the current litigation , migrant families have given statements about health conditions at the detention facilities. For example, one mother said she had no way to wash her baby's bottle, and her baby developed vomiting and diarrhea. She said she asked for help twice, but guards said her baby did not need to see a doctor. At a congressional hearing Friday, an attorney choked up as she recalled the conditions she witnessed for children at a Border Patrol facility in Texas. "They were coughing, they had fevers," said Elora Mukherjee, director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. "There was a flu epidemic and lice." She said children as young as 8 were taking care of younger children who were strangers to them. "Guards would bring in the little ones, and demand, who is going to take care of this one?' " Mukherjee said. Migrant children are supposed to be kept in Border Patrol custody for no more than 72 hours. But a recent report by an internal government watchdog found that nearly a third of children in the facilities they inspected were kept longer. Some children under age 7 had been held for more than two weeks. In early June, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan told CNN that the facilities were overcrowded and "not an appropriate setting for kids." On Tuesday, he told CNN that "we've been taking action" and that the agency was providing "additional medical care" from more than 200 certified providers. A CBP spokesperson said that includes nurse practitioners, physician assistants, emergency medical technicians, certified medical assistants and other medical support personnel. He also said there were fewer than 200 unaccompanied children in Border Patrol stations and only a few were staying more than 72 hours. A senior health official with Homeland Security told CNN last week that he was proud of the medical care being given to migrant children. "I'm a doctor and a parent," he said. "I would do for these folks what I would want done for my own children." CBP "makes extensive efforts," according to an agency spokesperson, "to ensure regular availability of appropriate food, water, sanitation, and hygiene in all of its facilities." The spokesperson added that most of the facilities in their highest volume sectors have around-the-clock medical support available on-site to treat migrants and refer them as necessary to local hospitals. 'Stuck in a hellhole' Friday's filing is the latest chapter in what's known as the Flores settlement . That 22-year-old agreement requires the government to provide detained minors a certain level of basic conditions, including food, drinking water, supervision and medical assistance in emergencies. In April, President Trump complained about the "very bad" Flores decision. "Judge Flores, whoever you may be, that decision is a disaster for our country," he said. But there is no Judge Flores. The settlement is named for Jenny Lisette Flores, a migrant teenager who was a plaintiff in the now-famous legal case. In June, Gee, the current judge in the case, gave the government just two weeks to come up with a plan to better the conditions for children. "If 22 years has not been sufficient time for Defendants to refine that plan in a manner consistent with their 'concern for the particular vulnerability of minors,' and their obligation to maintain facilities that are consistently 'safe and sanitary,' it is imperative that they develop such a comprehensive plan forthwith," she wrote. Podkul, the attorney at Kids in Need of Defense, said another part of upholding the Flores agreement is that the government must reunite children expeditiously with family members and guardians in the United States. "With the kind of resources our government has, there's no reason this can't be done," she said. "It's a matter of will and implementing smart policies." Mukherjee, the Columbia University attorney, said that was very much on her mind when she visited detained children in Texas. She described meeting with a detained 6-year-old who sobbed nearly unconsolably for almost an hour. "I had to break out of my role as a lawyer. I let him sit on my lap, I wiped away his tears," she said. "And I teared up too. Here was a child, the same age as my son, stuck in a hellhole." She said a Border Patrol guard brought the little boy a lollipop as an incentive to go back to his cell. Mukherjee said she "pleaded" with a Border Patrol lawyer to give the child appropriate care. She said the next day that lawyer informed her that the boy would be released and reunited with his brother. "Why didn't that happen sooner? What would have happened if I didn't meet with him that day? What is happening to hundreds of thousands of other children like him?" she asked.


Well, this will be tough. The U-17 U.S. national team have found out who they will face in the group stage of the 2019 U-17 World Cup in Brazil, as the Baby Nats will face Senegal, Japan and the Netherlands in Group D. Raphael Wicky's side, captained by Borussia Dortmund bound Gio Reyna , have plenty of top young talents in their ranks and they will be looking to be the first U.S. U17 side since 1999 to make it past the last eight. Alongside Reyna, Kobe Hernandez, Griffin Yow, Gianluca Busio and Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez will lead this team. If the U.S. make it out of their group there is the potential to play against the likes of Argentina, Spain or Brazil in the Round of 16. Canada's youngsters were placed in Group A alongside hosts Brazil, Angola and New Zealand, while Mexico have are in Group F with Italy, Paraguay and the Solomon Islands. Rounding out the CONCACAF representatives, Haiti will face Chile, France and South Korea in Group C. The tournament kicks off on Oct. 26 and runs until Nov. 17, with games to be played at the Estadio da Serrinha and Estadio Olimpico in Goiania, plus the Estadio Bezerrao in Gama and the Estadio Kleber Andrade in Cariacica. Below is the group stage draw in full. Your #U17WC line-up! 🙌 Here's how 24 teams will line up across six groups in Brazil, with @CBF_Futebol meeting @CanadaSoccerEN in the tournament-opener on 26 October 🏟 Which group is toughest? 🤔 🇦: 🇧🇷🇨🇦🇳🇿🇦🇴 🇧: 🇳🇬🇭🇺🇪🇨🇦🇺 🇨: 🇰🇷🇭🇹🇫🇷🇨🇱 🇩: 🇺🇸🇸🇳🇯🇵🇳🇱 🇪: 🇪🇸🇦🇷🇹🇯🇨🇲 🇫: 🇸🇧🇮🇹🇵🇾🇲🇽 pic.twitter.com/w3e1y9gP8h   FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) July 11, 2019 Follow @JPW_NBCSports


BORDEN, Ind.   As proof of a honeymoon period long-since ended, there was radio broadcaster Don Fischer warming up a packed ballroom of Indiana fans on Wednesday night. Or should we say … cooling off? While introducing Indiana's basketball coach, the "voice of the Hoosiers" ended up imploring them to give Archie Miller a chance. "This guy didn't forget how to coach," Fischer told fans, "and I've heard some real crap things said over the last year. … It's time to end that. It's time to support this program." More: Indiana basketball's Romeo Langford will 'take off' in the NBA, Archie Miller says The Hoosiers at Huber's Winery cheered in agreement. Miller wasn't heckled or jeered. Nowhere close, really. All his questions from fans were respectful and polite. Miller said the right things. He even got some laughs by acknowledging the obvious. "Anybody who thinks that you were frustrated or the angriest person in the world about Indiana basketball, the person before you is more pissed than anybody," Miller told them. "So make sure we all understand that. He gets a stern talking-to every morning in the mirror. So you don't have to worry about getting the message to him." It is going to be this kind of offseason. If Miller's seat isn't hot, it's at least uncomfortable. After a couple of relatively underwhelming seasons in Bloomington, Miller appears to already be entering a pivotal point to his tenure. Fair or not, that's how it works at a hoops-crazy university in a hoops-crazy state where everyone expects more than a 19-16 season and the NIT. Indiana, after all, fired Tom Crean after a 16-loss season in 2016-17. And those Hoosiers were coming off four NCAA Tournament appearances in five years. Crean averaged 23 wins and 11.5 losses during his final six seasons in Bloomington. And if that wasn't good enough, consider that Miller's record through two seasons is 35-31. New coaches at major programs don't need to reach a Final Four right away. But you'd like to see signs. It's more about creating excitement and hope for what's ahead. John Calipari offered that immediately at Kentucky through recruiting. There was no extended rebuild. Same for Louisville's Chris Mack, who managed to recruit well while also leading the Cardinals to the NCAA Tournament in his first season (after losing at Indiana, actually), a combination that has a once-reeling program back on track ahead of schedule. Struggles in Miller's first season at Indiana felt understandable, but the second team was supposed to be better, because he had started to build that excitement. A talented recruiting class highlighted by five-star New Albany signee Romeo Langford created a buzz about Indiana's program, suggesting Miller's second season could be a launching point for much more. But it wasn't. Last season's Hoosiers were 12-2 at one point, but then nosedived in Big Ten play, a stunning downfall of poor performances that led to a most unsatisfying end in the NIT. That was followed by a few recent swings and misses in recruiting. OK, so what now? For Indiana, it feels like its offseason momentum of a year ago has dissipated. Langford is gone. So is senior Juwan Morgan. Combined, that's 44.7% of the Hoosiers' scoring that must be replaced. Earlierr: Romeo Langford says he wants to prove the doubters wrong And it's fair to wonder why Indiana fans should feel confident that next season is going to surpass expectations when the last one fell short. Support local journalism Support stories like this one by becoming a subscriber today! Get unlimited digital access here! Miller is offering reasons. They aren't sexy, though. They are more the solid, meat-and-potatoes language of program building. Basically, hopes are that a maturing, more experienced group of players will be more confident and more cohesive, with more personality in the locker room and more ability to handle adversity. "When you're losing a lot of guys after your first season to graduation, you're bringing in a lot of young kids," Miller said Wednesday. "The mix of the young and the old is sometimes a tricky situation. Not all the times are you ready, the maturity level that it takes to be good, especially in the Big Ten. At times, we have to grow up faster. … I think we have a group now that should expect this is sort of how this goes. This is going to be hard work. It's going to be a lot of stuff, but we've got to hang in there through tough times and find a way to do it." A fan asked Miller about two open scholarships for this year's team that so far have not been filled. Miller talked about the need for roster flexibility and gearing up efforts for the Hoosiers' 2020 recruiting class rather than rushing into attempts at a quick fix. More: IU basketball coach Archie Miller preaches roster flexibility Is that prudent? Probably. Miller seems content to play the hand he's got this season, which might be a good thing. But if results don't follow, it's going to be asking a lot of a fanbase known far more for its passion than its patience. Especially since they're already being asked for that patience. Only a certain kind of fanbase, after all, gets the preemptive plea Fischer gave Wednesday night. At this point, though, Miller deserves the benefit of the doubt. He hasn't had long enough, and his own track record backs up what he's explaining. At Dayton, he went 37-27 in his first two seasons. Then in his third season, he led the Flyers to the Elite Eight. They were the first of four consecutive Dayton teams to win at least 24 games and reach the NCAA Tournament. It is too soon to think Miller can't get things rolling in Bloomington. It's just not too soon to wonder how he's going to do it. While fans of Kentucky , Louisville and even Western Kentucky all celebrate today the news of returning talent, Indiana fans need their own reasons to believe   sooner rather than later. Gentry Estes: 502-582-4205; gestes@courierjournal.com; Twitter: @Gentry_Estes . Support strong local journalism by subscribing today: courier-journal.com/gentrye . This article originally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Indiana basketball fans waiting for results from Archie Miller


Portsmouth's city jail will stay open, at least, for now. Inspectors on Wednesday condemned the Portsmouth civic center complex -- which includes the jail -- deeming it "unfit for humans." But Sheriff Michael Moore filed an injunction to keep the jail open, and on Thursday a judge granted a temporary hold on condemning the buildings, ruling the jail can remain open for now and the issue be revisited in 60 days. The 250 inmates and 80 employees were never removed from the jail. The condemned signs have been ordered removed while the injunction is in place. City Manager Dr. Lydia Patton said the initial decision to condemn the building stems from a four-month investigation into the building's structural, environmental and mechanical integrity. RELATED: Inspectors condemn Portsmouth civic center complex, including jail due to 'conditions unfit for humans'


WASHINGTON   The Mexican foreign minister said Monday that no secret immigration deal existed between his country and the United States, directly contradicting President Trump's claim on Twitter that a "fully signed and documented" agreement would soon be revealed. Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico's top diplomat, said at a news conference in Mexico City that there was an understanding that both sides would evaluate the flow of migrants in the coming months. If the number of migrants crossing the United States border is not significantly reduced, he said, both sides have agreed to renew discussions about more aggressive changes to regional asylum rules that could have a bigger effect. "Let's have a deadline to see if what we have works, and if not, then we will sit down and look at the measures you propose and those that we propose," Mr. Ebrard said, describing the understanding reached by negotiators last week. The public statement served as an official response to several days of tweeting by Mr. Trump , who has reacted angrily to the suggestion that he withdrew his threat of tariffs on all Mexican goods in exchange for a weak deal on immigration. Sign Up For the Morning Briefing Newsletter Mr. Trump has insisted that the agreement reached with Mexico on Friday evening is a strong one, rejecting criticism that it largely called upon the Mexicans to take actions to reduce the flow of immigration that they had already agreed to months earlier . In a Twitter post on Monday morning, he said , "We have fully signed and documented another very important part of the Immigration and Security deal with Mexico, one that the U.S. has been asking about getting for many years. It will be revealed in the not too distant future and will need a vote by Mexico's Legislative body!" [President Trump's immigration clampdown has pushed a surge of migrants into the harsh Rio Grande current as the fastest route to American soil.] American officials said Monday that what Mr. Trump appeared to be referring to was the agreement in principle to revisit the migration situation, and they said it gave the United States strong leverage over Mexico to live up to its promises. The numbers will be reviewed in 45 days and again in 90 days, officials said. The "U.S.-Mexico Joint Declaration" that Mr. Trump announced with fanfare on Friday did include a mention of possible "further action." It said the two countries agreed to "continue their discussions on the terms of additional understandings to address irregular migrant flows and asylum issues, to be completed and announced within 90 days, if necessary." One idea that Washington has proposed for years is a "safe third country" arrangement in which migrants who flee persecution in Central American countries would first have to apply for asylum in Mexico. Those who do not could be turned away if they seek refuge in the United States. Mexico has long opposed the idea. But there appeared to be a significant disagreement on Monday between the Mexican government and American officials about what the negotiators actually agreed to regarding further action and the possibility of implementing a "safe third country" arrangement. Administration officials characterized the Mexicans as having all but agreed to asylum changes that would effectively mimic the benefits of "safe third country" as long as it was done regionally, including countries like Guatemala. Mr. Trump did not specifically mention the idea, but said Monday that "we have an agreement on something they will announce very soon. It's all done." But that was not the understanding described by Mr. Ebrard at his Monday news conference. He told reporters only that Mexican officials would discuss changing asylum rules if the flow of migrants was not substantially reduced in the next several months. "They will propose safe third country," Mr. Ebrard said, describing what he expects would be the United States position in any future discussions. "We said it will have to be with the U.N.H.C.R., it will have to be regional," he said, referring to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Mr. Ebrard said Mexico preferred a regional asylum agreement that would review the flow of migrants across Mexico and Central America, with a number of countries, including Panama and Brazil. But Mr. Ebrard said any agreement on the asylum changes would have to be negotiated and then approved by the Mexican Senate before it could go into effect. He said the agreement announced Friday effectively delayed that discussion, giving Mexico time to prove to Mr. Trump that it would help reduce the flow of immigration that has so infuriated him since the beginning of his presidency. Mr. Ebrard also denied that there was an agreement reached on Mexico purchasing additional agricultural goods from the United States, rejecting a claim Mr. Trump made twice on Twitter. The deal Mr. Trump announced on Friday included two main provisions that he said would slash the number of immigrants flowing into the United States. One of those was a promise by the Mexicans to deploy their newly constituted national guard to the border with Guatemala. Mexico had agreed to do that in March, but officials said the Mexican government agreed to send more troops more quickly last week. The other provision in Friday's agreement was an expansion of a plan to allow the United States to force asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their legal case proceeds. The declaration said that "this means that those crossing the U.S. southern border to seek asylum will be rapidly returned to Mexico, where they may await the adjudication of their asylum claims." A person close to Mr. Trump said Monday that the new agreement was broader than a deal called the Migrant Protection Protocols, which the United States reached with Mexico in December, arguing that the older deal was merely a pilot program at three ports of entry. But that is not the way Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary at the time, described that deal when she announced it at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Dec. 20. "Today, I am announcing historic measures to bring the situation under control," Ms. Nielsen said , telling lawmakers that under the agreement, the United States had the authority to send asylum seekers to Mexico to wait while their cases are processed. "I cannot overstate the significance of these developments. We are taking lawful, unilateral action to stop illegal entry now," Ms. Nielsen said at the hearing. "Our two countries have committed to a major regional plan to solve this crisis." In a four-page "ACTION" memo to her top deputies on Jan. 25, Ms. Nielsen directed the Border Patrol and other agencies to implement the agreement. She did not describe it as a pilot program and made no mention of any limitations on where asylum seekers could be made to wait in Mexico. [ Read Kirstjen Nielsen's January memo. ] That same month, Mexican officials said publicly that they had agreed to begin taking some asylum seekers at the Tijuana crossing from the United States, leaving it ambiguous about how quickly the program would expand to other parts of the border. The program's speed soon became a source of tension between the two countries, with American officials demanding to move more quickly and the Mexican government arguing that it was not ready for such an acceleration. A federal judge in the United States briefly made the disagreement moot when he suspended the program after it briefly went into effect. But after an appeals court reversed that order at the beginning of May, the United States began quickly forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico. There are about 10,000 migrants waiting in Mexico for their asylum cases to be processed. But with 144,000 migrants crossing the southern border illegally or without documentation in May alone, the program has been overwhelmed. In a brief news conference on Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted that the new agreement with Mexico was more substantial than the one Ms. Nielsen negotiated. "The scale, the effort, the commitment here is very different from what we were able to achieve back in December," Mr. Pompeo told reporters. "It's a fundamentally different commitment about doing this across the entire border at scale." Asked about whether there were any other agreements with Mexico that had not been revealed, Mr. Pompeo said: "There were a number of commitments made. I can't go into them in detail here." Michael D. Shear reported from Washington, and Maggie Haberman from New York. Edward Wong contributed reporting from Washington, and Elisabeth Malkin and Kirk Semple from Mexico City.


Denver Broncos defensive lineman Shelby Harris sealed a win for the team in Week 12 last season when he intercepted Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger late in the game. That interception apparently led to a falling out in Pittsburgh's locker room. At the 3:41 mark in the video below, Harris says he "low key" takes credit for breaking up the Steelers' locker room. Harris is still a Bronco and Roethlisberger is still a Steeler but wide receiver Antonio Brown now plays for the Oakland Raiders. Harris is responsible for Pittsburgh's offense breaking up, at least partially. MORE: Most bizarre and incredible catches by fishermen in past decade NBA Free Agency 2019: The top players Steph Curry's Game 6 win keeps parents Dell and Sonya from splitting up Report: Broncos speaking with Chris Harris' agent Kyrie Irving 'has had discussions' about playing for the Lakers


STRASBOURG, France (AP) Fourth-seeded Caroline Garcia earned two wins Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the Internationaux de Strasbourg clay-court tournament. The Frenchwoman first finished off her first-round match with Shelby Rogers, which had been suspended on Monday, then beat Rebecca Peterson of Sweden 6-2, 6-3 in the afternoon. ''I feel good. This morning, I was ready for a long day,'' Garcia said. ''I was just focused on my first match, my last set, actually. I'm very happy with the way we managed the day at the office today.'' Garcia will face teenager Marta Kostyuk for a semifinal spot. Top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka also advanced with a 6-4, 6-3 win over qualifier Laura Siegemund. --- More AP Tennis: https://www.apnews.com/apf-Tennis and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports


Tom Brady's contract extension gives the New England Patriots more cap space, which opens up possibilities. They could make a major move, like trading for Washington tackle Trent Williams, who was rumored to be on the Patriots' radar . (They could also pay Rob Gronkowski, in the event he comes out of retirement.) The Patriots were previously operating with around $7.5 million in space. After Brady signed his two-year extension , the Patriots opened up $5.5 million more, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. That's some significant wiggle room for New England as they try to finalize their roster over the coming weeks during training camp and preseason. A deal for Williams isn't out of the question. Williams is set to earn roughly $11 million in 2019 and $12.8 million in 2020, but he is holding out of Redskins training camp this offseason. Interestingly enough, it's not all about money. He's also unhappy with how Washington has handled some of his medical issues. So perhaps if he joined the Patriots, they wouldn't immediately have to sweeten his deal. They probably wouldn't want to. They have second-year offense lineman Isaiah Wynn, who they have penciled in at left tackle for 2019. But he spent his rookie season in 2018 on injured reserve after tearing his Achilles in preseason last year. He has been limited for all of the team's training camp practices. On the other side of the line, the Patriots have Marcus Cannon, an injury-prone but talented tackle. Beyond those two, the team has rookie tackle Yodny Cajuste, who is dealing with a shoulder injury. And that's about it. A reliable veteran would immediately make a positive impact on New England's roster. But Williams would come with a significant cost in a trade, whether in draft compensation or proven veteran talent. Perhaps the Patriots would wait until late in the preseason when they have a sense of which position (like cornerback or linebacker) has so much depth that they could package a player (which they would have otherwise cut) and pick to dull the blow in a trade for Williams. Before Brady's contract extension, the trade wasn't a possibility. Now, it's in play. MORE: Cleveland Indians completely roasted Colin Cowherd after Baker Mayfield chugged a beer 2020 aggregate mock draft 1.0: Here are the top NBA prospects to know Matt LaFleur on Packers FB Danny Vitale: 'He's been awesome' How Andre Iguodala could still be attainable for Houston Roundup: Taylor Swift Secret Listening Party, Entenmann's Recall, Jason Mamoa Without Beard and Long Hair


US Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas, brother of Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro, defended his decision to tweet a list of people in his hometown of San Antonio who gave the maximum donation to President Donald Trump. Castro said Wednesday he wasn't trying to incite violence by sharing the list of publicly available information in the wake of a shooting that targeted Hispanic people in El Paso, Texas. The tweet, from his campaign account, said the "contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as 'invaders.'" Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, criticized Castro for "harassing Americans because of their political beliefs," adding that Julian Castro has failed to get momentum in the presidential race. Joaquin Castro shot back that McCarthy is "trying to distract from the racism that has overtaken the GOP." Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday tweeted a picture of his dinner at a barbecue restaurant owned by one of the Trump donors singled out by Castro. Sawyer Hackett, spokesman for Julian Castro, criticized the governor for that tweet when 22 of his constituents "were killed by a domestic terrorist 3 days ago."


Patriots linebacker Jack Rudolph died Sunday, the team announced Thursday. He was 82. The Lions selected Rudolph in the 17th round of the 1959 draft, but the Georgia Tech product chose to join the original Boston Patriots as a second-round choice in 1960. He spent six seasons with the Patriots before playing for the Dolphins in 1966. He played 64 games with the Patriots and 11 with the Dolphins. Rudolph retired to Valdosta, Georgia, where he coached and taught at Valdosta High School for 31 years. He was defensive coordinator there for 25 years. Rudolph's funeral and burial will take place in Valdosta on Friday.


Miami Beach is home to plenty of great Mexican food   but how exactly do you define the "best"? Though it may be hard to quantify what makes a winner, every local has their own favorite spot, and hundreds of Yelpers have made their opinions heard on the matter, too. Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top-rated Mexican spots around Miami Beach, using both Yelp data and insights from locals polled on Nextdoor to produce a ranked list of the best spots to to try next time you're on the hunt for quality Mexican. 1. Taquiza Topping the list is North Shore's Taquiza , situated at 7450 Ocean Terrace. With 4.5 stars out of 135 reviews on Yelp, it's the highest-rated Mexican spot in Miami Beach, and Nextdoor locals agree: 20% of those polled ranked it as their favorite. Specialties include tacos and totopos served on hand-ground blue masa tortillas, plus a full bar, rotating craft beer selection and signature sangrias. 2. Huahua's Taqueria City Center's Huahua's Taqueria , located at 1211 Lincoln Road, is another top choice, with Yelpers giving the Mexican spot four stars out of 746 reviews, and 33% of Nextdoor users naming it their top choice in a poll. Huahua's offers a broad menu, from nachos to tacos to quesadillas and more, along with beer and margaritas to wash it all down. 3. Naked Taco Next up is Naked Taco . Located inside the Dream Hotel at 1111 Collins Ave. in Flamingo Lummus, the party-friendly bar and restaurant has four stars out of 1,301 reviews on Yelp. It may be more a draw for visitors than locals, however: no Nextdoor locals polled named it as their favorite. 4. Tequiztlan Mexican Restaurant & Tequila Bar Then there's Tequiztlan , a Bayshore favorite with four stars out of 327 reviews, and 20% of Nextdoor locals polled saying it's their top choice. Stop by 1884 Bay Road to hit up the stylish sit-down spot next time you're looking for an extensive tequila selection to go along with quality Mexican fare. 5. Alma Mexicana Alma Mexicana , a Mexican spot in Flamingo Lummus, is another go-to, with four stars out of 696 Yelp reviews, and 4% of Nextdoor users polled naming it tops. Head over to 1344 Washington Ave. to see for yourself. 6. El Rancho Grande And over in North Shore, check out El Rancho Grande , which has earned four stars out of 599 reviews on Yelp and another 4% of Nextdoor users voting it their favorite. You can find the Mexican spot, which has been a neighborhood fixture for over 20 years, at 314 72nd St. This story was created automatically using local business data, then reviewed and augmented by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.


The Wright Motorsports Porsche squad will make its first IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship appearance of 2019 later this month at Lime Rock. After dropping off the GT Daytona grid this year to focus on its SRO America campaign, has confirmed it will enter its #91 Porsche 911 GT3 R for both the GT-only Lime Rock event on July 20 and the following race at Road America on August 4. at Road America. Both Campbell and Olsen, who are part of Porsche's factory stable, have partnered Imperato in SRO America this year. "All of us at Wright Motorsports are very pleased to see Anthony join the WeatherTech Championship for a few events," said team boss John Wright. "Since he joined us for IMSA GT3 Cup in 2016, he's worked very hard to get to this point and we're excited to see him in this environment. "I'm also looking forward to continuing to work with Matt and Dennis, who we've already had great success with in SRO America competition. As a team, we've always been strong at both Lime Rock and Road America, so we're eager to get started." Imperato added: "I'm really looking forward to running a few IMSA WeatherTech Championship races this season. Running in SRO America has prepared us for things like drivers changes and pitstops. The biggest difference is going to be dealing with multi-class traffic. "It will be a great learning experience and great to have the consistency of driving with Matt and Dennis for these races. I feel confident we will have some good results." At Lime Rock, Wright will be making its first IMSA outing since last year's Petit Le Mans season finale at Road Atlanta, while the Road America race will mark the one-year anniversary of its last GTD win with . It contested the California 8 Hours, the US leg of the Intercontinental GT Challenge, earlier this year with Olsen, Campbell and , but was forced to retire with gearbox issues.