Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice in Juventus’ 4-1 win over Udinese on Sunday to surpass Brazil legend Pele and become the second-highest goalscorer in history. The Portuguese forward’s brace took him to 758 career goals, according to Juve’s official website, edging ahead of Pele’s total by one. He is now only behind all-time record holder, the
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A university that published its annual list of “banished” words and phrases has named the ones it’d like to see less of in 2021. Among them: “unprecedented” and “uncertain times.” Sounds about right. Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can also get “5 Things
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The legendary activist investor Carl Icahn is dumping a massive chunk of his stake in Herbalife Nutrition and giving up his firm’s seats on the board. The nutritional supplements company announced Sunday that it is repurchasing some $600 million worth of shares from Icahn Enterprises, his investment company. Herbalife is buying the shares for $48.05
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The City of Columbia will consider an agreement for a coronavirus vaccine education campaign during its meeting Monday night.
Continue Reading South Korea recorded more deaths than births in 2020 for the first time ever, prompting calls for action to revive the country’s falling fertility rate. For years, South Korea has struggled with a growing demographic crisis. The country’s fertility rate — the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime — has
Continue Reading In his three-time NBA title winning career, Steph Curry has put in some dominant performances. However, he might have eclipsed them all on Sunday night in the Golden State Warriors’ 137-122 win over the Portland Trailblazers. Curry scored a career-high 62 points in his 36 minutes on the floor, finishing 18-for-31 from the field, 8-for-16
Continue Reading Washington’s battle with Beijing is escalating once more on Wall Street. The New York Stock Exchange will end trading in the shares of three of China’s largest state-owned telecom companies this month. It says the move is needed to comply with an order President Donald Trump signed late last year that bans Americans from investing
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California reported Sunday that 45,352 people newly tested positive for Covid-19, continuing a surge that has pushed hospitals and their exhausted staff to the brink. Around the United States, hospitals are racing to keep up with surges of Covid-19 patients at numbers they have not seen at any other time in the pandemic. On Sunday,
Continue Reading With more than 4.2 million people given their first doses of Covid-19 vaccines so far, experts say the pace of inoculation in the US needs to speed up. “No excuses — we’re not where we want to be, but hopefully we’ll pick up some momentum and get back to where we want to be with
Continue Reading The coronavirus pandemic transformed the working and social lives of millions of European adults in 2020. Children too have suffered immensely, with months of confinement only giving way to some sense of normality when schools in most countries reopened in the summer and autumn. Now even that is under threat. Students in the UK were
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Tons of trash have washed onto Bali’s famous Kuta Beach, prompting locals to spend the first day of the new year staging a cleanup. Residents from the Badung area on the Indonesian island cleared 30 tons of marine debris from the beach, according to the state-run Antara news agency. “Some 70% of the marine debris
Continue Reading Japan may enter a state of emergency this week as the country grapples with soaring coronavirus cases, a number of which have been linked to a new, potentially more infectious variant. Speaking at a New Year press conference Monday, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said an emergency declaration was being considered, and would apply to Tokyo
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) ABC 17 Sports Director Andrew Kauffman brought on Mizzou wrestling coach Brian Smith in this week’s edition of Sunday Sit-down. You can watch the entire conversation in the video player below. Smith’s squad went 3-0 on Sunday in its season opening quadrangle in Fargo, North Dakota. Up next – No. 12 Mizzou
Continue Reading A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. You can sign up for free right here. Sunday showed how. With President Trump’s anti-democratic conduct front and center, reporters and anchors used blunt language; challenged complicit politicians; and relied on primary source material, including Trump’s own words from his damning call with
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Days after ordering a United States aircraft carrier out of the Middle East, the country’s acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller has reversed that decision, instructing the USS Nimitz to remain in place due to purported Iranian threats “against President Trump and other US government officials.” Miller said in a statement Sunday night that he
Continue Reading CNN has obtained the full January 2 audio call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Trump is joined on the call by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and several lawyers. CNN obtained the audio from a source who was on the call and had direct knowledge of the
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President Donald Trump pushed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes to overturn the election results after his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, according to an audio recording of a phone call obtained by CNN and first reported by the Washington Post. In excerpts of the stunning one-hour phone call Saturday, Trump lambasted
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The latest turn in loser Donald Trump’s campaign to overturn the 2020 election reveals a desperate man willing to say almost anything to get what he wants but instead getting rebuffed by officials who are made of finer stuff. As he pressures them to abandon their duty and come over to the dark side of
Continue Reading Before he leaves office, President Donald Trump will award the nation’s highest civilian honor to two of his most vocal political allies who defended him throughout his impeachment, Rep. Devin Nunes of California and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, as the White House has been inundated with requests for others, multiple sources told CNN. Though
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