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Soccer

UEFA goals to pretty share revamped Champions League cash

GENEVA — UEFA expects income from broadcasters and sponsors to rise about 33% for its revamped membership competitions in 2024, and pledged Tuesday to unfold most of any surplus amongst lower-ranked leagues if whole gross sales method 5 billion euros ($5.5 billion). The Champions League presently drives wo...

Madrid Apologizes for Muting Women’s Doubles Finalists

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Tennis

Madrid Apologizes for Muting Women’s Doubles Finalists

By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, May 11, 2023Madrid says No Mas to giving ladies the silent therapy.The Mutua Madrid Open has apologized for muting ladies's doubles finalists—and guarantees it will not occur once more.More: Madrid Mutes Women's DoublesMutua Madrid Open CEO Gerard Tsobanian issued an apology to all 4 ladies's doubles finalists—Victoria Azarenka, Beatriz Haddad Maia, Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff—who weren't permitted to talk after the Mutua Madrid Open doubles finals in addition to tennis followers.The transfer sparked widespread criticism and expenses of sexism as followers identified males's doubles finalists had been permitted to talk.Tournament officers vow the silencing snafu won't ever occur once more."We sincerely apologize to all the players and f...

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US

Homeless veterans booted from NY accommodations to make room for migrants, nonprofit says

Nearly two dozen homeless veterans dwelling in New York accommodations had their stays reduce brief so as to make room for migrants arriving from the U.S. southern border, in line with a nonprofit. An govt with the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation mentioned the upstate accommodations knowledgeable the veteran...

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World

Formidable agenda for Biden on upcoming three-nation Indo-Pacific journey as debt default looms at house

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has an bold agenda when he units off this week on an eight-day journey to the Indo-Pacific. He’s trying to tighten bonds with longtime allies, make historical past as the primary sitting U.S. president to go to the tiny island state of Papua New Guinea and highlight his adm...

Pension financial savings platform Smart secures £75m funding injection

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Business

Pension financial savings platform Smart secures £75m funding injection

A retirement financial savings platform which beforehand secured backing from Legal & General will this week unveil a $95m (£76m) fundraising led by a New York-based personal fairness investor.Sky News has learnt that Smart, which was based in 2014, will announce the capital increase on Monday. It will likely be led by Aquiline Capital Partners, which manages over $9bn in property and specialises in backing monetary providers and expertise firms.The funding deal will likely be one of many largest struck by a UK-based fintech this 12 months amid a harder financing atmosphere for early-stage - typically loss-making - start-ups.Sources mentioned the proceeds of the spherical can be used to finance quite a lot of impending acquisitions. They may even speed up Smart's funding ...

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Politics

House Foreign Affairs chair warns default could be reward for China

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul says failing to lift the debt restrict and defaulting could be a present to one in every of America’s most outstanding international adversaries: China. “Our adversaries look at this very closely. They look at when we’re divided too as a nation,” the ...

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Technology

Baby social media stars have few protections – Illinois goals to repair that

CHICAGO — Holed up at residence through the pandemic lockdown three years in the past, 13-year-old Shreya Nallamothu was scrolling by means of social media when she observed a sample: Children even youthful than her have been the celebrities - dancing, cracking one-liners and being usually cute. “It seemed...

BAFTA TV nominations: The full record, from This Is Going To Hurt to The White Lotus

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Entertainment

BAFTA TV nominations: The full record, from This Is Going To Hurt to The White Lotus

The BAFTA TV nominations have been revealed, with The Responder, This Is Going To Hurt and The Crown all main the pack.There are additionally a number of nods for Sharon Horgan's Bad Sisters, Jack Rooke's Big Boys, Hugo Blick's The English and Daisy May Cooper's Am I Being Unreasonable? Below is the complete record of the predominant BAFTA TV nominations for 2023.The winners might be introduced on 14 May in a ceremony hosted by Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett at Royal Festival Hall in London.Comedy leisure programmeFriday Night Live - Channel 4The Graham Norton Show - BBCTaskmaster - Channel 4Would I Lie To You? - BBC Current affairsAfghanistan: No Country For Women - ITVChildren Of The Taliban - Channel 4The Crossing - ITVMariupol: The People's Story - BBCDaytimeThe Chase...

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Health

One nation, divided by abortion: Blue, purple state chasm widens after fall of Roe

Polls present Americans favor limiting abortions to the primary trimester generally, however that’s not the place lawmakers are heading within the aftermath of Roe v. Wade. Since the Supreme Court freed states to craft their very own abortion legal guidelines, the frenzy has been to the fringes, not the mi...

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Baseball

Wells shines over 7 innings, surging Orioles hit 2 HRs, beat skidding Pirates 2-0

BALTIMORE — Tyler Wells and the stellar Baltimore bullpen made fast work of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who struggled mightily to get on base and by no means did discover a solution to cross the plate. Wells pitched seven innings of one-hit ball and the Orioles used dwelling runs by Adley Rutschman and Gunnar ...