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USA soccer beats France, 2-1 to reach Women’s World Cup semifinal
Megan Rapinoe, right, scores her second goal of the match past French goalkeeper Sarah Bouhaddi. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images) Steven Goff Reporter covering soccer (D.C. United, MLS, U.S. national teams, World Cup), plus some college basketball. June 28 at 8:34 PM by Steven Goff in Paris This was a spectacle of women’s soccer, with a capacity …
Can science explain what people see and feel during a near-death experience?
For hundreds of years, people of all ages, from all over the world, have told similar stories about moments their lives were in real peril: an intense white light, a sense of tranquility and feeling as if they were somehow floating above their body. For neurologists, these so-called near-death experiences have a neural basis, one …
Trump tweets Kim Jong Un an invitation to ‘shake his hand’ at DMZ
In a Saturday morning tweet from his hotel in Japan, Trump said if Kim was interested he’d be open to a greeting on the border. “If Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!” Trump wrote. Trump is due to arrive …
Trump offers to meet Kim Jong Un at North Korean border
President Trump on Friday raised the possibility of meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un while in South Korea over the next few days, tweeting that he’s willing to meet Kim at the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. “After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I …
Min Hogg, World of Interiors Editor, Dies at 80
Mr. Coleridge added in a phone interview, “She lived in kind of Venn diagram of louche British aristocracy, louche Bahamian socialites and louche decorators.” Ms. Hogg dated, among others, the British photographer Ray Rathbone, who died in 2017, and the director John Huston, whose 9-year-old daughter, the future actress Anjelica Huston, would clomp around in …
Alabama man accused of feeding meth to a squirrel arrested
An Alabama man who authorities said kept a meth-fueled “attack squirrel” in his apartment was arrested Thursday on multiple felony warrants unrelated to the squirrel. Narcotics investigators found Mickey Paulk, 35, while they were conducting surveillance at a hotel in Killen, according to the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office. Paulk was arrested after he fled on …
Princeton grad found guilty of murdering his father after his allowance was cut
Thomas Gilbert Sr., a founding managing partner of the hedge fund Wainscott Capital, was found dead in his apartment in January 2015 with a gunshot wound to the head. Gilbert’s attorneys did not dispute that he killed his father but said he was not guilty by reason of insanity. Jurors dismissed the insanity defense; they …
How Megan Rapinoe and the U.S. Beat France at the World Cup
‘They are wired for this. They are built for this.’ Our preview of today’s match lays out a compelling case for each team to win today. A sampling: Why the United States will win: The French can take some confidence from their victory over the United States in a January friendly. But there is a …
Sources — Kawhi requests Magic-Buss meeting
Kawhi Leonard will speak to the Los Angeles Lakers in the next few days and has made a personal request that only owner Jeanie Buss and Magic Johnson, the team’s former president of basketball operations, be involved in the meeting, sources told ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith. Leonard did not opt into the final year of …
Elton John responds to Vladimir Putin’s LGBTQ comments following ‘Rocketman’ censorship
Elton John took to Twitter on Friday to respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent interview with the Financial Times. In the interview, published on Thursday, Putin said Russia has “no problem with LGBT persons. … Let everyone be happy,” but John, 72, called Putin’s words hypocritical since a Russian distributor censored LGBTQ-related scenes from “Rocketman,” …