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A volleyball match in Nebraska has turn into the most-attended ladies's sporting occasion in historical past.A whopping 92,003 individuals paid to see the hotly contested match between the University of Nebraska and the University of Nebraska-Omaha on Wednesday evening. The match was performed at Lincoln's Memorial Stadium, the common dwelling of the University of Nebraska's American soccer group.The attendance smashed the earlier file for a ladies's sporting occasion, which was set at 91,648, when Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 5-2 throughout a Champions League match on the Camp Nou Stadium in 2022. Image: Fans maintain up cell phone lights throughout match The sport additionally smashed the US file attendanc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former organizer of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Thursday to 17 years in jail for spearheading an assault on the U.S. Capitol to stop the peaceable switch of energy from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election. ...

Dire Straits guitarist Jack Sonni has died.The British rock band introduced the information on X (previously Twitter), writing "Jack Sonni Rest In Peace" with a photograph of the musician. He was 68, based on the Dire Straits official weblog.Sonni was affectionately known as the "other guitar player in Dire Straits" having joined the band - which was based by Mark and David Knopfler, John Illsley and Pick Withers - in 1977.He met the Knopfler brothers whereas working in a Manhattan music store and later travelled to London to go to their residence. Image: (L-R) Mark Knopfler and Jack Sonni in 1985 He was invited to affix the band in 1984 and was a member when the 1985 album Brothers In Arms achieved worldwide...

INDIANOLA, Iowa — Earlier this summer season, a GOP-controlled board in an Iowa county determined that the one who would oversee their native elections can be a fellow Republican who had no particular expertise operating elections and who made prior social media posts questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential contest. Local Democrats had been outraged - and David Whipple’s stint as county auditor didn’t final lengthy. ...

Following within the footsteps of their pilot coworkers, unionized flight attendants at American Airlines overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike if contract talks go nowhere. ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Unexplained Caribbean and European journeys that value taxpayers greater than $90,000. A $600 sports coat paid for by an occasion organizer. A $45 workplace Christmas cake taken as his personal. ...

A choose has thrown out a case by Ana de Armas followers who mentioned they had been tricked in to believing she would seem in a movie.The actress briefly appeared in a trailer for Danny Boyle film Yesterday - displaying her on the couch of James Corden's speak present as the principle character seems to flirt along with her. She doesn't communicate within the clip and does not seem within the 2019 Beatles-themed movie.Conor Woulfe and Peter Michael Rosza mentioned they'd been "deceived" by false promoting and would not have rented the film if they'd identified she wasn't in it.They tried to sue Universal Pictures within the US for a minimum of $5m (£3.9m) after paying to look at it on Amazon Prime. Despite his disappointment, Mr Woulfe paid for it once more on Google Play af...

For a long time, excessive ranges of radioactivity have been present in wild boars throughout central Europe - and a brand new examine explains why.It has lengthy been assumed the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe was in charge, however analysis suggests the foundation trigger truly dates again additional. Scientists have established that a lot of the contamination hyperlinks again to the testing of nuclear weapons in the course of the Cold War within the Sixties. Image: It had been assumed the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in 1986 was chargeable for excessive ranges of radiation in wild boars There are warnings that the discharge of radionuclides can pose potential threats to public well being - persistently cont...

PERRY, Fla. (AP) — Tropical Storm Idalia descended on the Carolinas on its manner out to the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, leaving a path of flooding and destruction all through the Southeast that stretched again to its landfall as a hurricane in Florida. ...

YAZOO CITY, Miss. — A gaggle of hunters have captured the longest alligator ever to be recorded in Mississippi, in response to the state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. ...