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Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Liverpool Are Keen On Recruiting This La Liga Defender: What Will He Bring To Anfield?
Liverpool Are Keen On Recruiting This La Liga Defender: What Will He Bring To Anfield? Liverpool Are Keen On Recruiting This La Liga Defender: What Will He Bring To Anfield? In a recent report, Fichajes mentioned that Liverpool are keen on recruiting Sevilla defender Loic Bade. It has been revealed that the Reds are willing to match the French talent's €60m release clause to lure him to Anfield this summer. Bade's Impressive Form In Spanish Football Bade has enjoyed a solid campaign at the Andalusian club after he put in a series of impressive displays for them on the defensive third of the field. The 24-year-old has scored one goal and grabbed one assist in 26 appearances for Sevilla this season across all competitions. Advertisement The French talent has given a good account of himself inside his half based on his average of 1.6 tackles, 1.0 interceptions and 4.8 clearances per 90 minutes in La Liga. He has even been tidy when distributing the ball from the back based on his pass success rate of 86.4% in league football (stats via whoscored). His current contract at Sevilla will run out in the summer of 2029. Thus, it won't be easy for the Reds to get a deal done for him later this year. SEVILLE, SPAIN – JANUARY 25: Loic Bade of Sevilla FC scores his team's first goal during the LaLiga match between Sevilla FC and RCD Espanyol de Barcelona at Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan on January 25, 2025 in Seville, Spain. (Photo by) What Will Bade Bring To Liverpool? Bade loves a tackle and can sense the danger well to earn possession back for his side on the defensive end of the field. He doesn't hesitate to put his foot through the ball when needed and is an accurate passer of the ball. Advertisement The French sensation can even use his powerful 1.91m frame to dominate the opposition attackers in the air. However, only time will tell whether he can cope with the physical side and high intensity of the Premier League if the Reds manage to land him this summer. We can expect Bade to bring more bite and steel to Liverpool boss Arne Slot's defence. He is good enough to fight for a regular first-team spot at Anfield next season. At 24, Bade has a promising future ahead of them. Hence, the Merseyside club would do well to get him on board at the end of this season. However, Bade is still growing as a centre-back and would need time before he can fill the big shoes left by Virgil Van Dijk if Liverpool fail to retain him beyond this summer.
Yahoo
25-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Another federal judge protects transgender Air Force members from adverse government action
A federal judge in New Jersey granted a temporary restraining order Monday blocking the U.S. military from separating two transgender airmen under President Donald Trump's reinstated transgender military ban, offering immediate protection as the broader challenge to the policy plays out in court. Keep up with the latest in + news and politics. The order came in Ireland v. Hegseth, filed on behalf of Master Sgt. Logan Ireland and Staff Sgt. Nicholas Bear Bade, who were recently removed from their posts and placed on involuntary administrative absence under the Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness executive order, EO 14183. Both have served with distinction in the Air Force for years. 'These Airmen have risked everything to protect American freedoms — they deserve better than becoming the targets of a calculated, political purge,' said Jennifer Levi, senior director of transgender and queer rights at GLAD Law, which is representing the plaintiffs alongside the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the law firms Stapleton Segal Cochran, and Langer Grogan & Diver. The court's order halts the Air Force from continuing administrative separation proceedings against the two while litigation continues. It follows a separate ruling last week in Talbott v. Trump, in which a federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction blocking the ban's enforcement nationwide. D.C. U.S. District Court Judge Ana Reyes called it discriminatory, unsupported by evidence, and 'soaked in animus.' Despite that ruling, Ireland and Bade were still facing imminent expulsion, prompting a separate filing in New Jersey when the judge in the Talbott case denied an amendment to include their names before the injunction hearing. 'These are two guys who needed immediate relief,' Shannon Minter, legal director at NCLR, told The Advocate. 'We initially were trying to add them to the D.C. case, but by the time we were seeking to add them, it was too late to include them before the preliminary injunction hearing, so we couldn't wait.' In granting the temporary order, U.S. District Judge Christine P. O'Hearn wrote that Ireland and Bade demonstrated both a likelihood of success in challenging the ban and the risk of irreparable harm — including loss of career, damage to their reputations, and violation of constitutional rights. The court rejected arguments by government attorneys that the plaintiffs could seek relief through internal military channels, citing their removal from deployment and looming involuntary separation proceedings set to begin Wednesday. 'The loss of military service under the stigma of a policy that targets gender identity is not merely a loss of employment; it is a profound disruption of personal dignity, medical continuity, and public service,' O'Hearn wrote. Pentagon officials told Reyes in D.C. that separations would not begin until Friday. Bade, a six-year Air Force veteran inspired by his grandfather's World War II service, had been deployed in Kuwait as part of the base's security forces. He was pulled from duty and forced home. 'For six years, I've strived to embody what Americans expect from their military: expertise, character, and leadership,' Bade said. 'Now, I've been prevented from serving the troops I mentor and the nation I've committed my life to protect — all while living by the Airman's Creed that I will never falter, and I will not fail.' Ireland, a decorated 14-year veteran stationed in Hawaii, had been attending a training mission in New Jersey when he was ordered to leave and placed on administrative absence. 'My team in the Indo-Pacific wants their leader back — the one who wears the same uniform and swore the same oath as they did,' Ireland said. Monday's ruling comes just days after a tense hearing in D.C., where Reyes grilled Justice Department attorneys over the administration's last-minute effort to undo the nationwide block on the policy in Talbott. 'There's nothing in the record right now that tells me how many complaints there have been with respect to unit cohesion or military readiness with respect to gender dysphoria,' Reyes told DOJ lawyer Jean Lin, who was unable to identify who authored the policy or whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had even reviewed it. Reyes accused the administration of 'gaslighting' the court and called its claims 'frankly ridiculous,' warning that any transgender service member negatively affected before the stay on the injunction is lifted could seek a TRO — which is precisely what Ireland and Bade have now obtained. As both the Talbott and Ireland cases proceed, advocates stress that the stakes extend beyond a few individual careers. 'Thousands of transgender service members like me fill critical roles requiring years of specialized training,' Ireland said. 'Removing us creates dangerous operational gaps across every theater.' The New Jersey case was narrowly focused on preventing immediate harm to the two plaintiffs, Minter said. 'We're just seeking narrow relief for those two, just to prevent them from being put into separation proceedings while this is all getting sorted out in the D.C. and soon Washington cases,' he said. 'If the D.C. Circuit allows the injunction to go into effect, then their case is fine. They don't need to take any further action right now. If it does not, then they will need to seek a PI [preliminary injunction] from that judge.' The restraining order remains in effect for 14 days unless extended.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Chelsea, Liverpool Receive Transfer Boost on €30M-Rated PSG Target as Sevilla Set for Firesale
With Milan Skriniar now at Fenerbahçe, Paris Saint-Germain could be in the market for a new center-back this summer, as they are expected to move on from the veteran permanently. Last fall, SPORT reported that Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Liverpool, and PSG had shown interest in Sevilla's Loic Bade. Spanish outlet Diario AS later added that Liverpool sees the defender as a potential successor to Virgil van Dijk, with scouts attending Sevilla's match against Barcelona at Montjuïc in October. If the capital club still have an interest in Bade, the latest report on the defender's future is good news for the Parisians. On Thursday, Fichajes reported that Sevilla will need to make sales this summer to improve its financial situation. The club must raise €34 million before July and has identified six players who could be sold: Bade, Dodi Lukebakio, Juanlu Sánchez, José Ángel Carmona, Kike Salas, and Isaac Romero. These potential departures could not only help balance the books but also shape Sevilla's next sporting project. Fichajes also recently reported that Chelsea is looking to strengthen its defense and has identified Bade as a key target. The London club is reportedly preparing a €30 million bid to convince Sevilla to let go of the French center-back.
The Guardian
18-03-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
Deadly synthetic opioids 40 times stronger than fentanyl detected in Australian wastewater for first time
Deadly synthetic opioids up to 40 times more powerful than fentanyl have been detected in Australian wastewater for the first time, new research has found. An international survey, led by the University of Queensland's Dr Richard Bade and published in the scientific journal Addiction on Wednesday, detected two variants of nitazene in an Australian treatment plant. Developed in the late 1950s as a morphine alternative but never marketed because of toxicity concerns and their high potential to lead to overdose, the paper dates nitazenes' emergence on the illicit drug market to the late 2010s and claims they are now one of the fastest growing groups of new psychoactive substances in the world. The global study conducted during a week of wastewater testing over the New Year periods of 2022-23 and 2023-24 found two nitazene variants – protonitazene and etonitazepyne – at four separate treatment plants in the US and one in Australia. 'Protonitazene is about three times as strong as fentanyl, which has driven an overdose crisis in North America in the last decade, while etonitazepyne is 40 times more powerful,' Bade said. Due to confidentiality agreements, Bade could not say which Australian wastewater treatment plant returned findings of the synthetic opioids. But it is unlikely nitazene consumption is confined to the locations at which it was detected in this study. The first nitazene variant to appear on the illicit drug market in 2019, isotonitazene, quickly came to dominate the market of new synthetic opioids (NSO) – contributing to hundreds of fatalities in the US. Since then, their 'ease of transportation, higher potency, and lower costs for distributors' have seen the opioids rapidly expand to global drug markets. Fatal overdoses have since been reported globally including in Australia, Europe, New Zealand and the US. Sign up for Guardian Australia's breaking news email Consumption of nitazenes is often unwitting, with the NSOs illegally sold as or mixed into drugs including methamphetamines, cocaine, heroin, ketamine, oxycodone, synthetic cannabinoids, MDMA, GHB and counterfeit pharmaceuticals, as well as in vaping devices. Last July, police confirmed synthetic opioids were detected in four people found dead in a Melbourne home. That came just days after the Victorian health department issued a warning for cocaine laced with the NSO protonitazene, which it said was 100 times more potent than heroin and had been linked to a string of incidents where people had bought the powder thinking it was cocaine, which resulted in 'serious harm'. Australian Border Force issued a warning last December that the agency had detected 46 imports of nitazenes at the Australian border between January 2023 and September 2024. The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission regards nitazenes as a greater threat to Australia than fentanyl – 'due to its significant potency' – assessing that 'even the smallest amount can cause an overdose and a milligram of some nitazenes can be fatal'. The ACIC has said the trafficking of nitazenes is linked to, but not dominated by, serious and organised crime groups, with the AFP saying the drugs were primarily imported via international mail. '[S]upply of these lethal products is also being carried out by motivated individuals and members of drug-using networks,' it said in a September press release. Bade said his Australian results did not correlate with any other data sources and that the researchers 'were leaning more towards' the theory that the nitazenes were directly disposed of in the wastewater, rather than consumed. 'We are leaning more towards direct disposal, but it still meant nitazenes were in Australia,'' Bade said. The researchers said their work showed 'the promise' of wastewater-based nitazene surveillance as 'a form of both drug early warning and ongoing monitoring of trends in use'. 'So that people are warned in advance of new nitazenes or even new drugs that are out,' Bade said. 'If you are able to say that, in this area nitazenes have been detected, then people can be like 'ooh, I've purchased something there as well''. 'Then they can be a bit more careful.'
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Appeals court denies Trump's bid to immediately reverse fired federal workers' reinstatement
A federal appeals court in a 2-1 decision Monday declined to immediately block a judge's order that the Trump administration reinstate fired probationary employees at six federal agencies. The new ruling, which does not address the legality of the firings, refuses the administration's request for an administrative stay that would temporarily freeze the ruling until the next stage of the appeal. 'Given that the district court found that the employees were wrongfully terminated and ordered an immediate return to the status quo ante, an administrative stay of the district court's order would not preserve the status quo,' the court wrote in its ruling. 'It would do just the opposite — it would disrupt the status quo and turn it on its head.' U.S. Circuit Judge Bridget Bade, a Trump appointee, dissented from her two Democratic-appointed colleagues. Bade warned of a 'potential whiplash effect' where the employees rehired under the judge's order could be fired again. 'Plaintiffs do not contest these assertions. They argue that government services upon which they and their organizational members rely have been thrown into chaos by the terminations and that they will continue to be injured by the government's inability to render services,' Bade wrote. 'But Plaintiffs offer no reason to believe that immediate offers of reinstatement would cure these harms,' the judge continued. 'Instead, the administrative undertaking of immediately reinstating potentially thousands of employees would likely draw (already depleted) agency resources away from their designated service functions.' The Trump administration has moved rapidly to reshape the federal bureaucracy, including by firing thousands of federal employees in their probationary period, which typically extends for the first year or two of a given employee's role. The administration appealed after U.S. District Judge William Alsup, an appointee of former President Clinton who serves in San Francisco, last week ordered officials to reinstate those terminated at six agencies by finding the firings were unlawful. Hours later, a federal judge in Baltimore issued a similar ruling that covered roughly a dozen other agencies. As part of Monday's ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that written briefing be concluded by Thursday on the administration's motion to block Alsup's ruling, pending the full appeal. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
