Crosby bats rebound out of air for OT winner

Penguins star Sidney Crosby showed off his batting skills again Thursday night, swatting his own rebound out of the air for a walk-off winner as Pittsburgh beat the Devils 4-3 in overtime.

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Blackhawks' Seabrook plays in 1,000th game

The Chicago Blackhawks paid tribute to defenseman Brent Seabrook on Thursday before he skated in his 1,000th game. He joins Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull, Eric Nesterenko and Bob Murray as Blackhawks to appear in at least 1,000 games for the team.

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Kings, coveted D Brickley agree to terms

The Los Angeles Kings have agreed to terms with coveted free-agent defenseman Daniel Brickley.

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Predators sign 30th overall pick Tolvanen, 18

The Nashville Predators have signed forward Eeli Tolvanen of Finland, the 30th pick overall last year, to an entry-level contract, adding the talented 18-year-old to a roster already sitting atop the NHL.

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Rangers assistant Ruff concussed after ice fall

Rangers assistant Lindy Ruff suffered a concussion after falling on the ice at Tuesday's practice, and he consequently missed Wednesday night's game.

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Knights to limit rival fans at playoff games

The Golden Knights are implementing a unique program to limit opposing teams' fans from taking over T-Mobile Arena during the Stanley Cup playoffs, as well as a Cheer Now, Pay Later plan for their own fans who attend first-round games.

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Bruins captain Chara gets 1-year extension

The Bruins signed captain Zdeno Chara to an extension that keeps him in Boston through next season.

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Beer-league teammates toast goalie's big-league moment

As Scott Foster, a 36-year-old accountant and father of two, took a star turn in goal for the Blackhawks on Thursday, perhaps no one enjoyed his surreal moment more than his rec-league teammates, who were playing down the street at Johnny's IceHouse.

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Roundtable: How we'd fix NHL's draft lottery system

Start keeping track once teams are mathematically eliminated? Restrict the lottery to the bottom eight finishers? Prohibit franchises from getting a top-three pick in consecutive seasons? Or leave it as is? Our experts have some draft lottery suggestions.

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Fantasy hockey forecaster: April 2-7

Sean Allen breaks down fantasy hockey matchup data heading into the final week and looks at teams that might potentially coast to the end of the season and provide their players some rest.

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UConn Huskies, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Louisville Cardinals will reload with top recruits after Final Four

We've heard a lot about UConn recruits Olivia Nelson-Ododa and Christyn Williams this week. But Notre Dame, Louisville and Mississippi State also have some big-time prospects heading their way.

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What McDonald's All Americans will do for Duke, Kentucky, UNC and Kansas

Wednesday's McDonald's All American Game will go a long way to restock Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky. Will these new additions put their teams back in the Final Four?

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UConn recruit Christyn Williams dominates at McDonald's All American Games

The No. 1 prospect in the country looked the part at the McDonald's All American Game. MVP Christyn Williams had a double-double to lead the West to victory.

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Duke Blue Devils Mike Krzyzewski bests Kentucky Wildcats John Calipari one and done recruiting

The top three players in the country will play in Wednesday night's McDonald's All American Game, and all three are headed to Duke. It's a sign of how Mike Krzyzewski has learned to best Kentucky's John Calipari in the game of one-and-done recruiting.

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Adidas goes back to basics for McDonald's All American Game jerseys, sneakers

Gone are the sleeves and the camo, making way for a more traditional, red-and-white look for tonight's showcase of the best high school players in the nation (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).

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Met Police chief: Social media leads children to violence

Britain's most senior police officer says social media "revs people up" and leads to stabbings and murders.

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US may tie social media to visa applications

A state department proposal could require visa applicants to detail all their social media handles.

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Facebook 'ugly truth' growth memo haunts firm

The firm denies it believes that growth at all costs is "good" even if it leads to deaths.

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Lindsay Lohan loses GTA V privacy case appeal

The actress fails to convince judges that a character in Grand Theft Auto V was based on her.

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Can targeted ads really change votes?

Online political advertising that uses big data to target individuals - how influential is it?

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iPhone update adds privacy 'transparency'

Apple has updated iOS, MacOS and tvOS to let people know when their personal data will be collected.

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Cambridge Analytica files spell out election tactics

Newly released files detail election-swinging efforts by the consultancy and other linked firms.

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Brexit: Netflix 'passport' not yet decided

The UK government says online content portability is still subject to Brexit negotiations.

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iQiyi: 'China's Netflix' shares dip in US stock debut

Shares in Baidu's iQiyi streaming platform fell below their opening price on Wall Street's Nasdaq.

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Bonus pay gap revealed at Facebook UK

Women working at Facebook in the UK are paid bonuses worth less than 60% of those their male colleagues receive.

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BT made to cut rental fee for landline-only customers

People who have only a landline from BT will have their monthly line rental fee cut from Sunday.

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Fortnite 'not addictive' says researcher

The latest video game craze is hard to stop playing but not addictive says a researcher.

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Tommy Robinson banned from Twitter

The company permanently revokes access to the anti-Islamic activist after earlier temporary suspensions.

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YouTube 'prankster' sued by In-N-Out Burger

The accused is alleged to have posed as the firm's chief executive and abused its food.

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Trump attacks Amazon for paying 'little or no taxes'

As well as its tax record, President Trump launches into Amazon for destroying retail jobs.

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Facebook privacy settings revamped after scandal

The social network claims the overhaul will make it easier for users to find and edit their data.

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Huawei P20 Pro smartphone 'can see in the dark'

The Chinese company's news flagship has three rear cameras and can create handheld long-exposure snaps.

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Theresa May swaps Blackberry for iPhone

The prime minister was the "last member" of Downing Street team using the device.

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Tesla and Nvidia shares fall amid autonomous driving worries

Shares in Tesla and Nvidia dive amid fresh worries about the promise of self-driving car technology.

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Data row: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before MPs

The Facebook boss declines to appear before MPs and will send a senior executive instead.

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Uber barred from resuming Arizona self-drive trial

Arizona's governor says he was disturbed and alarmed by video footage of a fatal accident.

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Police 'should need warrant' to download phone data

At least 26 forces in England and Wales have begun using new technology to extract data from phones.

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Billion euro cyber-suspect arrested in Spain

The individual led a prolific gang that stole cash from banks for more than five years, says Europol.

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Tumblr deletes 'Russian troll' accounts

The accounts were used to spread disinformation during the 2016 US presidential election, Tumblr says.

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Facebook faces Federal Trade Commission privacy inquiry

Facebook shares fall as a federal agency investigates whether the firm broke data security laws.

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UK Anti-Doping confirms cyber attack but says no athlete data lost

UK Anti-Doping confirms it was the target of a cyber attack over the weekend but says no systems were compromised and no data lost.

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Apple wants to introduce new emojis for disabled people

The company says very few of the current emojis "speak to the life experiences of those with disabilities".

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UConn Huskies, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Louisville Cardinals will reload with top recruits after Final Four

We've heard a lot about UConn recruits Olivia Nelson-Ododa and Christyn Williams this week. But Notre Dame, Louisville and Mississippi State also have some big-time prospects heading their way.

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What McDonald's All Americans will do for Duke, Kentucky, UNC and Kansas

Wednesday's McDonald's All American Game will go a long way to restock Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky. Will these new additions put their teams back in the Final Four?

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UConn Huskies, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Louisville Cardinals will reload with top recruits after Final Four

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What McDonald's All Americans will do for Duke, Kentucky, UNC and Kansas

Wednesday's McDonald's All American Game will go a long way to restock Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky. Will these new additions put their teams back in the Final Four?

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UConn recruit Christyn Williams dominates at McDonald's All American Games

The No. 1 prospect in the country looked the part at the McDonald's All American Game. MVP Christyn Williams had a double-double to lead the West to victory.

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Duke Blue Devils Mike Krzyzewski bests Kentucky Wildcats John Calipari one and done recruiting

The top three players in the country will play in Wednesday night's McDonald's All American Game, and all three are headed to Duke. It's a sign of how Mike Krzyzewski has learned to best Kentucky's John Calipari in the game of one-and-done recruiting.

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The country where children fear election time

Parents in Sierra Leone have been warned to take extra care of their children this election period as it's feared they could be ritually killed.

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The men who had millions of lives in their hands

How do the families of generals who sent men into battle commemorate World War One?

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Gender pay gap deadline: What to know

Britain's biggest companies have less than a week to publish their gender pay gap figures.

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Is there a north-south divide in England's schools?

The Children's Commissioner said schools in the north of England were falling behind.

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Lake Chad: Can the vanishing lake be saved?

It's been shrinking fast, but could a plan to divert water to one of Africa's largest lakes stop it disappearing?

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Mexican driver Alexandra Mohnhaupt sports a formula for success

The trailblazing 18-year-old, who has her sights set on Formula One, makes her debut in the British F3 Championship.

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Vettel still lacking confidence in new Ferrari

Sebastian Vettel believes his new Ferrari has "huge potential" but admits it is not yet giving him the confidence he needs to drive it on the limit.

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UConn Huskies, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Louisville Cardinals will reload with top recruits after Final Four

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What McDonald's All Americans will do for Duke, Kentucky, UNC and Kansas

Wednesday's McDonald's All American Game will go a long way to restock Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky. Will these new additions put their teams back in the Final Four?

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UConn recruit Christyn Williams dominates at McDonald's All American Games

The No. 1 prospect in the country looked the part at the McDonald's All American Game. MVP Christyn Williams had a double-double to lead the West to victory.

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Duke Blue Devils Mike Krzyzewski bests Kentucky Wildcats John Calipari one and done recruiting

The top three players in the country will play in Wednesday night's McDonald's All American Game, and all three are headed to Duke. It's a sign of how Mike Krzyzewski has learned to best Kentucky's John Calipari in the game of one-and-done recruiting.

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Former Arizona track coach guilty of assault

Craig Carter, a former track and field coach at the University of Arizona, was found guilty on several assault charges after threatening a former athlete with a box cutter in April 2015.

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Minn. coach Motzko: 'I have a new challenge'

Newly hired Minnesota hockey coach Bob Motzko said the resources and allure of the storied program were too much to resist following a successful run at St. Cloud State.

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Mamadou Sakho's 'professionalism' not a problem for Palace - Roy Hodgson

Mamadou Sakho is facing a fitness race to be ready for Crystal Palace's match against Liverpool. Crystal Palace boss Roy Hodgson has defended Mamadou Sakho from accusations he lacks professionalism as the Frenchman prepares to face former club Liverpool. The 28-year-old joined Palace permanently in September for £26 million, having impressed while on loan at Selhurst Park after his relationship with Reds boss Jurgen Klopp broke down. Sakho was sent home from Liverpool's 2016 preseason tour of the United States for repeatedly breaking club rules. He did not play for the Merseysiders thereafter...

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Duke Blue Devils Mike Krzyzewski bests Kentucky Wildcats John Calipari one and done recruiting

The top three players in the country will play in Wednesday night's McDonald's All American Game, and all three are headed to Duke. It's a sign of how Mike Krzyzewski has learned to best Kentucky's John Calipari in the game of one-and-done recruiting.

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Adidas goes back to basics for McDonald's All American Game jerseys, sneakers

Gone are the sleeves and the camo, making way for a more traditional, red-and-white look for tonight's showcase of the best high school players in the nation (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).

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Controversial Concussion Doctor Says His Autopsy of Stephon Clark Contradicts Police Account of Shooting

An independent autopsy contradicts the official Sacramento police account of Stephon Clark’s death, the doctor who conducted it and the Clark family’s attorney say. The autopsy was conducted by Bennet Omalu, a pathologist who is well-known for being the first doctor to identify chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brains of football players. Clark, 22, was shot and killed on March 18 by officers who said they believed he was holding a gun; the only item found near or on his body was a cellphone.

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Adidas goes back to basics for McDonald's All American Game jerseys, sneakers

Gone are the sleeves and the camo, making way for a more traditional, red-and-white look for tonight's showcase of the best high school players in the nation (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).

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Sessions rebuffs GOP calls for second special counsel to probe FBI - Chicago Tribune

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Sessions rebuffs GOP calls for second special counsel to probe FBI Chicago Tribune FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, shown Feb. 22 in Washington, D.C., says he won't immediately appoint a new special counsel to investigate high-profile FBI probes, despite mounting pressure from members ... Sessions Says 'No' To Republican Requests For A Second Special CounselNPR Sessions: Federal prosecutor evaluating alleged FBI, DOJ wrongdoing, no second special counsel for nowFox News Sessions Rejects Republican Calls for Second Special CounselNew York Times NBCNews.com -ABC News -USA TODAY -Bloomberg all 239 news articles »

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Vatican tamps down report that Pope Francis denies existence of hell - Fox News

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A court once again orders a new trial for Adnan Syed, the subject of a 'Serial' podcast - CNN

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UConn Huskies, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Louisville Cardinals will reload with top recruits after Final Four

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What McDonald's All Americans will do for Duke, Kentucky, UNC and Kansas

Wednesday's McDonald's All American Game will go a long way to restock Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky. Will these new additions put their teams back in the Final Four?

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Haas defends 2018 car as rivals voice suspicions

Amid accusations the new Haas F1 car bears striking similarities to last year's Ferrari, team principal Guenther Steiner has defended his team's 2018 design.

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Mercedes gives further details of Australia software error

The Mercedes Formula One team has offered further details of the miscalculation that cost Lewis Hamilton victory at the Australian Grand Prix.

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White House Hires Former Disney Channel Star As Press Assistant

President Donald Trump's TV star-run administration has hired former Disney

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Case Keenum or not, John Elway would consider a quarterback with No. 5 pick

Unless the Browns trade one of their two picks in the top four, the Broncos will likely have a shot at one of the NFL draft's top four quarterbacks.

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49ers look to Richard Sherman to provide leadership for young defense

The veteran cornerback's ability to lead young players is just as important as how he fits on the 49ers' defense.

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Rivalry renewed: UConn, Notre Dame ready for next chapter

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Adidas goes back to basics for McDonald's All American Game jerseys, sneakers

Gone are the sleeves and the camo, making way for a more traditional, red-and-white look for tonight's showcase of the best high school players in the nation (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).

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UConn Huskies, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Louisville Cardinals will reload with top recruits after Final Four

We've heard a lot about UConn recruits Olivia Nelson-Ododa and Christyn Williams this week. But Notre Dame, Louisville and Mississippi State also have some big-time prospects heading their way.

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What McDonald's All Americans will do for Duke, Kentucky, UNC and Kansas

Wednesday's McDonald's All American Game will go a long way to restock Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky. Will these new additions put their teams back in the Final Four?

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UConn recruit Christyn Williams dominates at McDonald's All American Games

The No. 1 prospect in the country looked the part at the McDonald's All American Game. MVP Christyn Williams had a double-double to lead the West to victory.

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Duke Blue Devils Mike Krzyzewski bests Kentucky Wildcats John Calipari one and done recruiting

The top three players in the country will play in Wednesday night's McDonald's All American Game, and all three are headed to Duke. It's a sign of how Mike Krzyzewski has learned to best Kentucky's John Calipari in the game of one-and-done recruiting.

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Adidas goes back to basics for McDonald's All American Game jerseys, sneakers

Gone are the sleeves and the camo, making way for a more traditional, red-and-white look for tonight's showcase of the best high school players in the nation (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).

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UConn recruit Christyn Williams dominates at McDonald's All American Games

The No. 1 prospect in the country looked the part at the McDonald's All American Game. MVP Christyn Williams had a double-double to lead the West to victory.

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Duke Blue Devils Mike Krzyzewski bests Kentucky Wildcats John Calipari one and done recruiting

The top three players in the country will play in Wednesday night's McDonald's All American Game, and all three are headed to Duke. It's a sign of how Mike Krzyzewski has learned to best Kentucky's John Calipari in the game of one-and-done recruiting.

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Adidas goes back to basics for McDonald's All American Game jerseys, sneakers

Gone are the sleeves and the camo, making way for a more traditional, red-and-white look for tonight's showcase of the best high school players in the nation (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).

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NFL Insiders predict: Does Suh give Rams the best defensive line?

Suh unites with Donald in Los Angeles to form a powerhouse duo of interior linemen. Our panel of experts weigh in on the best D-line, plus which team is the favorite in the NFC West.

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UConn Huskies, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Louisville Cardinals will reload with top recruits after Final Four

We've heard a lot about UConn recruits Olivia Nelson-Ododa and Christyn Williams this week. But Notre Dame, Louisville and Mississippi State also have some big-time prospects heading their way.

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What McDonald's All Americans will do for Duke, Kentucky, UNC and Kansas

Wednesday's McDonald's All American Game will go a long way to restock Duke, Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky. Will these new additions put their teams back in the Final Four?

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Obituary: Johan van Hulst, the teacher who saved Jewish children

Johan van Hulst, who has died aged 107, saved children from the Nazis but wished he could have done more.

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Cambridge Analytica: Can targeted online ads really change a voter's behaviour?

Online political advertising that uses big data to target individuals - how influential is it?

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Russian spy: How big is the Kremlin's diplomatic network?

Russia is losing more than 140 envoys, but it remains one of the world's diplomatic powerhouses.

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Myanmar's Rohingya stuck in Bangladesh's 'no man's land'

Thousands of Rohingya Muslims are living on a small strip of land between Myanmar and Bangladesh.

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The dispute over how Labour's disputes are handled

The BBC's Iain Watson on the resignation of the Labour Party's disputes panel chief and who might replace her.

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New Zealand v England: Jonny Bairstow hits unbeaten 97 as batsmen struggle again

Jonny Bairstow makes an unbeaten 97 as England's batsmen largely struggle on the first day of the second Test against New Zealand.

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Australian ball-tampering: Steve Smith, David Warner & Cameron Bancroft punishments 'too harsh'

Ball-tampering bans given to Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft contain "glaring and clear anomalies", says the Australian Cricketers' Association.

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West Ham v Southampton: Extra security for London Stadium game to cost taxpayers £60,000

Increased security at West Ham's home game against Southampton at London Stadium on Saturday will cost taxpayers about £60,000.

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Tampering and tears - Australian cricket's week of woe

BBC Sport recaps a remarkable week in the world of cricket, in which three Australia players - Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft - were banned for ball-tampering and coach Darren Lehmann stepped down.

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Great Good Friday goals: Jurgen Klinsmann, Michael Owen & Thierry Henry

A look back at some of the best Premier League goals scored on Good Friday, including sparkling efforts from Thierry Henry and Jurgen Klinsmann.

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Mets' Staub, known for his philanthropy, dies

Longtime New York Mets hitter Rusty Staub, who tallied 2,716 hits during a 23-year baseball career, died Thursday at the age of 73.

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UConn Huskies, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Louisville Cardinals will reload with top recruits after Final Four

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The Weaponized Census

So far, 2018 has been the time for passionate fights about strange things. Facebook quizzes, self-driving cars, expensive dinner tables, and porn stars have all become critical pieces of the political landscape. The weird has become the mundane, and even the most obscure and arcane pieces of political machinery have had their day as hot-button issues that could define the country’s future.

Add the methods section of the 2020 Census to that improbable list.

On Monday evening, the Commerce Department announced that it would make a controversial change to the next Census that the Trump administration has signaled for months: the addition of a question asking participants about their citizenship status. While citizenship is currently a field in a major interstitial supplemental survey to the Census, the last time it was asked to the entire United States population during the decennial main event was in 1950. But, during the current administration’s crusade against unauthorized immigration and a related campaign against the specter of voter fraud, the Department of Justice in December sent a letter to the Census Bureau asking for the question’s reinstatement, calling it “critical to the Department’s enforcement of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and its important protections against racial discrimination in voting.”

In granting that request, the Commerce Department memo announcing reinstatement of the citizenship question in the 2020 Census said that “having citizenship data at the census block level will permit more effective enforcement of the VRA, and Secretary Ross determined that obtaining complete and accurate information to meet this legitimate government purpose outweighed the limited potential adverse impacts.”

The Monday evening announcement sparked renewed criticism from a wide spectrum of political actors, from voting-rights activists to immigration leaders to a coalition of America’s mayors. A blog from the Brennan Center for Justice said that “the move raises serious concerns that the upcoming census will be a major failure.” Following up on a February open letter asking Ross to deny the DOJ’s request, on Tuesday the United States Conference of Mayors decried the decision. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti declared that “the Constitution and our communities demand better than a mean-spirited attempt to intimidate immigrants and suppress participation in a count that means so much to our democracy.”

At play in the controversy are a number of different issues around both immigration and voting rights. The Justice Department argues that in order to properly enforce its mandate under the Voting Rights Act and avoid dilution of minority votes, it needs the most accurate count of the citizen-age voting population, which it argues can only be gained from asking people about their citizenship in the Census. Opponents of the measure point out that the Census Bureau’s annual supplement to the Census—the American Community Survey—already asks its sample of participants about citizenship, and that measure has been used for decades as the baseline for the citizen-age voting population.

What matters for the Justice Department’s purposes is the accuracy and the granularity of the data. The department argues that will be improved by using the Census instead of the ACS, which has a much smaller sample size and doesn’t allow researchers to peer into the composition of individual blocks, a level of detail that the Census allows.

But polling experts contend that the data extracted from this question will almost certainly be worse than the existing numbers. “Asking about citizenship on the Census is controversial because it is believed that such questions can suppress response among immigrant and other populations,” warned a press release from Kathleen Weldon at Cornell University’s Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. “The polling community is particularly concerned about adding a citizenship question to the Census, because survey researchers rely on accurate population statistics from the Census for weighting surveys.”

Unauthorized immigrants—and even authorized immigrants with undocumented family members—might have good reason to avoid taking this Census or to respond falsely, both of which would severely hamper the quality of data and make the DOJ’s claims moot. For starters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is currently involved in a massive dragnet for unauthorized immigrants, enlisting hotels and utilizing convenience stores as sites for stings. Those efforts likely already employ existing data from the ACS on where non-citizens live. Providing data at the block level would allow ICE to locate unauthorized immigrants with greater ease.

That power will be garnered legally. But immigrant advocates are concerned about the potential unethical or extralegal power such data can lend to an anti-immigration regime. The Census Bureau drew fire over a decade ago for providing data tables of Arab Americans in each zip code to the Department of Homeland Security. The Census Bureau does collect identifying information like names and addresses of respondents, but is not authorized to share those data. Still, in times of American turmoil the Census Bureau has broken that mandate.  In 1943, during the mass incarceration of Japanese American citizens, the Bureau complied with a Treasury Department request for the personal records of some such citizens in violation of the Census Act, according to the historians Margo Anderson at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and William Seltzer at Fordham University in New York City.

Such action today would be illegal. But in the past, not all ICE officials have proven scrupulous about data privacy. In an administration facing multiple data leaks, ongoing foreign infiltration into vital data systems, and a tidal wave of ethics concerns, would any non-citizen reasonably trust their data to remain safe?

The Census question could pose numerous other problems, as well. The data-quality issues resulting from immigrant avoidance of the questionnaire will hurt cities most, since a disproportionate share of non-citizens live in urban areas. The Census is the key mechanism for allocating billions of dollars in federal funding. Any undercounts of non-citizens would siphon money away from cities.

The biggest fallout will likely be political. Punishing liberal-leaning cities would offer Trump a victory in his ongoing culture war, even if it comes at the expense of good and useful data. In a political system where population size dictates everything from the distribution of presidential electors to the boundaries of local voting precincts, undercounts could also undermine the political power of immigrant-rich state like California, and of the urban pockets within the Southwestern desert that threaten to make swing states out of Texas and Arizona. California already announced it will be filing a lawsuit to block the new Census measure. (In a Monday op-ed, published before the latest announcement, the state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, and its secretary of state, Alex Padilla, had called on the Commerce Department “reject the Justice Department’s dangerous call to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.”)

Beyond hurting liberal states, cities, and districts, the other political effects will be in the exact arena in which the DOJ claims it will be using the new citizenship question: redistricting. The courts have held that redistricting and congressional apportionment be done by total population—not by citizen population—and a weaker dataset also weakens that constitutional mandate.

The fear for some advocates is that that might be the point. One far-right proposal to ensure conservative—and white—dominance in the coming years has been jettisoning the mandate for population-counting in exchange for a system based solely on counting citizens.

That proposal languished mostly on the fringes—that is until it was taken up wholeheartedly by Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state and the former vice chairman of Trump’s disastrous and ill-fated voter-integrity commission. In a January column for Breitbart, the Kansas politician, whose proposals to ensure white demographic advantage have been deeply influential at the national level, pondered the day “if and when the citizenship question is ever returned to the census, and Congress considers excluding illegal aliens from the apportionment process,” and floated the idea that the current system of apportionment by population might be unconstitutional.

According to the Brennan Center, “by requiring the census to track citizenship status, the administration might be laying the groundwork to push for redistricting based on citizenship figures.” This would face legal challenges, but could provide an irresistible option to Republicans still fighting the demographic tide.

Really, what’s at stake here is the same hard knot of policy questions at the center of many of Trump’s most controversial moves. White-nationalist groups decrying “white genocide” and fearing demographic shifts, anti-immigrant populism, the long reach of old Jim Crow, and plain-old backroom political strategizing all come together here, at the unlikely nexus of the Census. Because the Census, at its core, is the key to democracy. If the Constitution gives power to the people, then the Census is the main mechanism to measure that power. That also makes it an incredibly useful weapon, one with the power to warp democracy in the right—or wrong—hands.

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Mitt Romney Is Not Joining the Resistance

At first, it looked like little more than a classic Mitt Romney flip-flop.

It began Monday in Provo, Utah, where Romney—the former Republican presidential nominee, current Senate candidate, and noted Donald Trump antagonist—sought to make the case in a Q&A with voters that he was more conservative than the president on a range of issues.

Utah’s Daily Herald reported:

Romney went so far as to say he’s more conservative on certain issues than President Trump.

“For instance, I’m a deficit hawk,” Romney said. “That makes me more conservative than a lot of Republicans and a lot of Democrats. I’m also more of a hawk on immigration than even the president. My view was these DACA kids shouldn’t all be allowed to stay in the country legally.”

The DACA remark drew a predictable outcry from critics on both the left and the Never Trump right. Since 2016, Romney had positioned himself as one of the GOP’s most outspoken critics of the president—why was he now suddenly championing a Trumpian immigration platform?

Within 24 hours, his campaign appeared to be backtracking. When I emailed a Romney spokesperson a few follow-up questions about the candidate’s DACA position, she responded with a statement:

During his speech yesterday Gov. Romney made reference to his stance on immigration while running for president in 2012. Since then circumstances have changed. President Obama enacted DACA and Gov. Romney believes the commitment made by President Obama should be honored. Therefore, he agrees with President Trump's proposal to allow DACA recipients to legally stay in the country but does not support a special pathway to citizenship.

That statement, in turn, was greeted with a tsunami of Twitter snark, with critics casting it as the return of the craven, fence-straddling candidate they’d been ridiculing for years. Hay was made by Democrats, takes were made by pundits, and by Tuesday evening, everyone seemed to be moving on. But this brief episode offered an important reminder about what to expect from a Senator Romney.

While it’s easy to forget now—in the age of Trump, the 2012 election feels like neolithic history—Romney was actually quite restrictionist when he ran for president. In fact, immigration was arguably the one issue on which he successfully outflanked primary opponents like Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry on the right. In a truly epic twist of irony, when Romney lost the general election, Trump himself criticized him for being too “mean-spirited” with his immigration rhetoric.

“He had a crazy policy of self-deportation which was maniacal,” Trump told Newsmax at the end of 2012. “It sounded as bad as it was, and he lost all of the Latino vote.”

Many assumed at the time that Romney was simply pandering to the Republican base to win the primary. But the evidence suggests that his hardline immigration stance is sincerely held.

Take, for example, this little-noticed Salt Lake Tribune interview from last month, in which Romney offered a slightly more expansive version of the remarks that got so much attention this week:

I welcome legal immigrants to our country, and those who follow the process and come here legally are welcome and if they become citizens they’re as much an American citizen as anybody else. At the same time, we have to stop illegal immigration. I was probably more conservative on that than most Republicans. I won’t mention names but I was not in favor of the DREAM Act. Now that’s water under the bridge. President Obama made representations with regards to the Dreamers that have changed circumstances. But I’m pretty hard on stopping illegal immigration and that meant, for me, we need to have a border fence or wall or whatever you want to call it. We need to put in place a very effective e-verify system and heavily penalize companies that hire folks who are here illegally. I also agree with the president that we should stop the chain-migration approach that immigration has taken. And I think he’s right about this lottery program. But I don’t think we’re far apart on immigration. That’s probably a part of where I’m more conservative than most.

The interview suggests that his campaign’s statement on DACA wasn’t just a hasty walk-back from an unexpected gaffe—it was consistent with his apparent belief that, while President Obama should not have instituted the DACA policy in the first place, recipients are now owed some protection.

But in a broader sense, the interview also makes clear that Romney has not shed his immigration hawkishness since 2012. On virtually every policy question—from e-verify to the border wall to chain migration—he holds a position similar to Trump’s.

As others have noted, Romney has no obvious political reason to remind voters of this in Utah. A poll conducted last fall found that an overwhelming majority of Utahns—including even those who identify as “very conservative”—believe DACA recipients should be able to stay in the U.S. This is in keeping with other research that finds Mormon voters have significantly more moderate views on immigration than other elements of the Republican base—one of many reasons Trump struggled to win the state in 2016.

All of which is to say, Mitt Romney does not have to pander to immigration hardliners in order to win an open Senate seat in Utah. This appears to be one of many issues on which his views are decidedly—and genuinely—conservative.

When Romney first began exploring a Senate bid last year, many of the president’s opponents envisioned him storming Washington in a burst of truth-telling, bomb-throwing bravado—here to heroically wrest the Republican Party from the clutches of Donald Trump, and maybe even save the Constitution while he was at it. Suffice it to say, the reality will likely be less to their liking.

As I’ve reported, Trump’s rise was, in fact, one of the contributing factors in Romney’s decision to come out of retirement and reenter the political arena. But he was never going to join the resistance. Instead, he has framed his campaign as a means of championing Utah’s unique style of conservatism—that is, a challenge to Trumpism if not Trump himself. On the stump, Romney has repeatedly said he will support the president when he pursued conservative policies he agrees with, and will call him out when he does things that warrant censure.

As a senator from Utah, the 71-year-old Romney will likely have an extremely safe seat from which he is free—perhaps for the first time in his political career—to be unabashedly who he is, without any serious threat of electoral blowback. That could lead him to hold the president accountable in ways that other Capitol Hill Republicans have shied away from. (Romney is notably one of his party’s leading Russia hawks, for example.) But those expecting him to take up the fight against the more traditionally conservative elements of Trump’s agenda will be disappointed.

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The Problems at Michigan State Went Far Beyond Larry Nassar

A former Michigan State University dean—and the former supervisor to the serial sexual abuser Larry Nassar—is now facing his own set of sexual-harassment accusations. William Strampel, who served as dean of the university’s College of Osteopathic Medicine until December 2017, allegedly sexually harassed four MSU students and stored pornography on his university-issued computer, according to a court affidavit. Strampel, who stepped down as dean citing “medical reasons,” was arrested Monday night on four charges including criminal sexual conduct and willful neglect of duty.

The latter charge focuses on Strampel’s obligations as a public-university administrator who oversaw Nassar and allowed him to continue seeing patients even while he was the subject of a Title IX investigation into accusations that he had assaulted a female student. Nassar, the former MSU sports doctor, was in January sentenced to up to 275 years in prison for molesting dozens of young female athletes over his decades-long career. Strampel had been named as a defendant in earlier civil lawsuits against MSU contending the university failed to protect Nassar’s victims. Strampel, who was arraigned by video on Tuesday, is denying the charges, according to news reports.

The new revelations help explain how sexual harassment can fester at higher-education institutions like MSU. Rarely do acts of sexual assault happen in isolation; they proliferate, as The Atlantic contributing writer Marianne Cooper has pointed out, in part because such institutions tend to be “male dominated, super hierarchical, and forgiving when it comes to bad behavior.” To have one harasser in charge of another is a particularly extreme version of this dynamic, practically guaranteeing that harassment will last.

The court affidavit alleges that Strampel leered at and groped at least two students and made sexually suggestive comments to at least four. Investigators in February uncovered roughly 50 photos of “bare vaginas, nude and semi-nude women, sex toys, and pornography”—many of them apparently “selfies” of female MSU students, according to the affidavit. Also uncovered on Strampel’s computer: a video of Nassar performing a “treatment” on a young female patient.

One of the questions that has lingered since Nassar’s high-profile sentencing hearing: How did the one-time USA Gymnastics doctor get away with molesting young female athletes for so long? It’s clear that a lack of accountability at MSU is largely to blame, and the allegations against Strampel offer the latest clue as to exactly how accountability crumbled when it came to punishing Nassar. One victim is cited in the affidavit as saying she “was not surprised Nassar had been able to victimize so many women under the supervision of Strampel.”

In a statement, John Engler, the newly appointed interim president of MSU, said that Strampel’s “failings are unacceptable.” “That is why our work to change procedures, strengthen accountability and prevent sexual misconduct is so important,” continued Engler, who in February began the process of revoking Strampel’s tenure and terminating his employment. “While the crimes of one doctor and the misconduct of his dean do not represent our university, they do demand the scrutiny of everyone in order to assure individuals like these can never be in a position again to harm others.”

MSU’s organizational chart shows an immense university that, like many if not most large higher-education institutions, is highly hierarchical. The College of Osteopathic Medicine—which has numerous departments, its dean’s office alone comprised of more than a dozen executive staff—is one of 17 degree-granting colleges at MSU. Those report to the central administration, which, in addition to the university’s president, includes two executive vice presidents and the board of trustees.

Cooper, in her article for The Atlantic, cited research showing that “male-dominated organizations are more likely to have cultures characterized by aggressive and competitive behaviors and so-called locker-room culture” and that such organizations are more likely than female-dominated ones to condone sexual misconduct in the workplace. This factor may have contributed to the persistence of sexual harassment at MSU’s College of Osteopathic Medicine (where a slight majority of the top executives are men). All but two of MSU’s trustees are men, too.

Cooper also cited a tendency to forgive bad behavior as contributing to sexual harassment in large organizations, and this ingredient is perhaps the most pertinent when sussing out what went wrong at MSU. Nassar was effectively forgiven by MSU officials, including Strampel, until the very end. Strampel allowed Nassar to continue seeing patients before MSU concluded its Title IX investigation. And when MSU’s Title IX office did conclude its probe, it cleared Nassar of wrongdoing, concluding his behavior was “medically appropriate.” Then, Strampel failed to “enforce or monitor” protocols that had been set to govern Nassar’s behavior despite indicating to the Title IX office that he would do so.

For an alleged harasser to have supervised a serial harasser is to put too fine a point on the dynamics Cooper describes. Who in this system was looking out for the students? Who could students have turned to for real, meaningful intervention? Unfortunately, it seems that help, for many, was too far off.

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UConn recruit Christyn Williams dominates at McDonald's All American Games

The No. 1 prospect in the country looked the part at the McDonald's All American Game. MVP Christyn Williams had a double-double to lead the West to victory.

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Duke Blue Devils Mike Krzyzewski bests Kentucky Wildcats John Calipari one and done recruiting

The top three players in the country will play in Wednesday night's McDonald's All American Game, and all three are headed to Duke. It's a sign of how Mike Krzyzewski has learned to best Kentucky's John Calipari in the game of one-and-done recruiting.

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UConn recruit Christyn Williams dominates at McDonald's All American Games

The No. 1 prospect in the country looked the part at the McDonald's All American Game. MVP Christyn Williams had a double-double to lead the West to victory.

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Duke Blue Devils Mike Krzyzewski bests Kentucky Wildcats John Calipari one and done recruiting

The top three players in the country will play in Wednesday night's McDonald's All American Game, and all three are headed to Duke. It's a sign of how Mike Krzyzewski has learned to best Kentucky's John Calipari in the game of one-and-done recruiting.

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Adidas goes back to basics for McDonald's All American Game jerseys, sneakers

Gone are the sleeves and the camo, making way for a more traditional, red-and-white look for tonight's showcase of the best high school players in the nation (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).

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David Warner apologises for his part in ball tampering scandal

• Former vice captain takes responsibility for his role
• Batsman unlikely to face media on arrival in Sydney

Disgraced Australian cricketer David Warner has broken his silence to apologise for his role in the ball tampering scandal in South Africa, admitting such behaviour is a “stain on the game”.

Warner, who was identified by Cricket Australia as the architect of the events that unfolded during the third Test in Cape Town, is on his way back to Sydney.

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Gareth Southgate tells Dele Alli he is not a shoo-in to start for England

• Tottenham playmaker faces a fight for his place at the World Cup
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Gareth Southgate has warned Dele Alli it will not be easy to win back his position in the England team because of the competition for places before the World Cup. The Tottenham player featured for only 22 minutes of the past two friendlies.

Southgate intends to select his preliminary squad on 14 May, the day after the Premier League season ends, and confirmed that he was nearing a final decision regarding the strikers and attacking midfielders. Alli is assured of a place, injuries permitting, but the manager has slightly modified his system in the past two games and the player did not get off the bench in the 1-1 draw against Italy on Tuesday.

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BHA apologises for latest blunder in Kempton Park photo-finish error

• Odds-on favourite Oregon Gift incorrectly called as runner-up
• Action taken to ‘minimise the risk of a recurrence’

The British Horseracing Authority said on Wednesday evening that it will take action to “minimise the risk” of mistakes by photo-finish judges after it emerged that an odds-on favourite had been incorrectly called as the runner-up in a race at Kempton Park five days ago. The error is the latest mistake by a racecourse official to embarrass the regulators, following two cases in the last year in which a pair of runners from the same stable ended up running in the wrong races on the card.

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FA sexual abuse inquiry head ready to investigate any clubs who fail to cooperate

• Some clubs asked to detail how they reacted to abuse allegations
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The QC leading the Football Association’s independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in football is prepared to launch his own investigation into clubs at the centre of the scandal if he finds that they did not respond adequately to his request for information.

Clive Sheldon QC has given some of the dozen clubs thought to be the main focus of his review a month to produce a ‘structured report’ detailing how they reacted to allegations of abuse suffered by former players between 1970 and 2005.

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Fran Kirby leads way as Chelsea reach first Champions League semi-finals

• Chelsea 3-1 Montpellier (Chelsea win 5-1 on agg)
• Linköping 3-5 Man City (Man City win 3-7 on agg)

Chelsea Ladies were only just finding their feet as a serious force when an English team last won the Women’s Champions League, 11 years ago. Now, for the first time in their history they are in the semi-finals after they beat Montpellier 3-1 on the night, 5-1 on aggregate.

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Joe Root desperate to avoid full-blown winter of discontent for England | Vic Marks

Tourists need to make partial amends for Auckland debacle, and 4-0 Ashes rout, by defeating New Zealand in the second and final Test at the Hagley Oval

England embark on their first Test at the picturesque Hagley Oval on Thursday and the last on their interminable winter tour. It is a long time since they pitched up optimistically for the first Test of the winter in Brisbane in November and a fair bit has changed since then on the international scene.

In fact, since the last match in Auckland a lot has changed – especially on the other side of the Tasman Sea. While England players piously express their disappointment in public that the game has been stained, there are silver linings. Among them is the fact the Australian ball-tampering saga has deflected attention from England’s horrendous performances overseas.

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Everything you need to know about the Final Four field

The Final Four will be a battle of heavyweights as all four No. 1 seeds advanced. Before they take the court Friday, we look at the moments that propelled them to Columbus and preview the national semifinals.

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Why you shouldn't be put off that the Final Four is full of No. 1 seeds

Don't let the chalk fool you. Yes, all four No. 1 seeds -- UConn, Louisville, Mississippi State and Notre Dame -- advanced to Columbus. But remember: You thought last year's Final Four was a foregone conclusion, too.

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Why U.S. boxing fans should root for Joshua

There is a good reason why American boxing fans and followers of Deontay Wilder should be cheering on England's Anthony Joshua when he faces Joseph Parker on Saturday. Nick Parkinson explains.

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Southern Baptist Leader Resigns Over 'Morally Inappropriate Relationship'

A leading figure in America's largest Protestant denomination has resigned

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'Roseanne' Reboot Snags More Viewers Than 1997 Season Finale

"Roseanne" is loud, proud and raking in the ratings.

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Ecuador cuts WikiLeaks founder Assange's internet at embassy

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's government said Wednesday it has cut off WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's internet connection at the nation's London embassy after his recent activity on social media decrying the arrest of a Catalan separatist politician.

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Alabama settles with inmate after botched execution attempt

The agreement was reached in a civil lawsuit brought by convicted murderer Doyle Hamm against the state, court papers filed on Monday showed. Officials from the Alabama Department of Corrections and the attorney general's office have not responded to numerous requests to discuss the case. The botched execution prompted a federal court review of Alabama's death chamber protocols.

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Woman Arrested After Raunchy Come-On To Easter Bunny

Trying to make out with the Easter Bunny isn't egg-zactly appropriate behavior

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Pentagon confirms Qaeda higher-up killed in Libya strike

A senior Al-Qaeda operative and another jihadist were killed in a US air strike in Libya, the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday. The March 24 strike near Ubari in southern Libya killed "two Al-Qaeda terrorists, including Musa Abu Dawud, a high-ranking Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) official," the US military's Africa Command said in a statement.

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Parkland student protesters become right-wing targets

From inflammatory Photoshopped images to insults from legislators to far-right conspiracy theories, the teens are being smeared for their gun-control activism.

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Volkswagen Atlas Cross Sport Concept: Five for Fighting

A smaller, sportier Atlas.

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Political tensions cloud tribute to slain Holocaust survivor

PARIS (AP) — The silent decorum of a march to honor an 85-year-old woman who survived Nazi horrors only to be stabbed to death last week in an alleged anti-Semitic attack was shattered Wednesday, with crowds shouting "Nazi! Nazi!" and other insults at France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

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Adidas goes back to basics for McDonald's All American Game jerseys, sneakers

Gone are the sleeves and the camo, making way for a more traditional, red-and-white look for tonight's showcase of the best high school players in the nation (7 p.m. ET, ESPN).

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UConn Huskies recruit Olivia Nelson-Ododa dunks her way to the final at Powerade Jam Fest

As her future teammates were in Albany advancing to the Final Four, Olivia Nelson-Ododa was making dunk after dunk in Atlanta ahead of the McDonald's All American Games.

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Capitals goaltender Grubauer injured in win

Philipp Grubauer has been solid in goal for the Capitals since Braden Holtby went down, but now he is hurt.

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