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Fox News
a day ago
- Fox News
WATCH LIVE: Hero cops stop deadly active shooter at casino resort, police speak out
At least two people were killed, several others were injured after a shootout at a casino resort in Reno, Nevada.
CBS News
a day ago
- CBS News
Shootout in Newark as U.S. marshals try to arrest fugitive in attempted murder case
A fugitive opened fire on U.S. marshals who tried to arrest him at a home in New Jersey on Monday, officials said. The suspect, a man wanted in an attempted murder case, was shot by Newark police during an hours-long standoff after he barricaded himself inside a home and began shooting at officers. Police said officers responded to Irvine Turner Boulevard at around 11 a.m. to assist U.S. marshals in arresting a man wanted for an attempted murder in Hillside. Neighbors said they saw the suspect barricade himself inside the home with a woman and child before the shootout started. "It was a wild shootout. They were shooting crazy," one woman said. "All of this started pulling up immediately, quick, fast," Tommy Easterling said. "The next thing you hear is pow, pow, pow, pow, while they're firing at the house, so, all the officers running up and down the street." U.S. marshals said the suspect fired first at police and officers returned fire. The suspect was shot by police and taken into custody sometime after 3 p.m. "He's no longer a threat to the public at this time," Mayor Ras Baraka said. "By God's grace, nobody was injured, nobody was hurt, nobody was hit." The suspect was hospitalized in unknown condition, U.S. marshals said. The woman and her newborn were taken to the hospital, but were not injured, the woman's stepfather told CBS News New York. "Scary, because we don't know if anything happened to her or the baby," Kenneth Brown said. "They said they didn't get hurt." "He passed the baby out and they put him in the back of a cop car and they got the baby and the mother out the house," another witness said. New Jersey State Police will take over the investigation, Newark police said.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Chloe Kelly brings magic and sheer chaos as England abandon all logic
Chloe Kelly walks up to the penalty spot as if she's in her back garden. She stops. She pauses. She picks the ball up and spins it back onto the spot, as if no one is watching or waiting for the kick to keep England's Euro defence alive, after three successive misses. So Kelly waits a little longer. She spins the ball back onto the spot three more times. Kelly actually needs to pee. Some England players on the halfway line have lost track of the score as Kelly steps back. She locks eyes with goalkeeper Jennifer Falk and can't help herself from grinning due to the sheer enormity of the moment. But Kelly sticks with what she knows: she lifts her left leg, skips a little, and, with her right foot, effortlessly places the biggest penalty of her life into the corner. Confident? That doesn't quite cut it. 'She was getting a lot of momentum, the goalkeeper,' Kelly said afterwards. Did Kelly know that Sweden's goalkeeper was up next, with the chance to knock England out and send Sweden through? Probably not. But given the way Kelly turned and roared at the England fans in Zurich as Falk picked herself up to walk to the spot, you wouldn't put it past her. 'It was the same as the Nigerian game,' Kelly said when asked what was going through her mind. 'I was bursting for a wee.' Pure Kelly. Pure chaos. Even when Falk then missed, there was a lot still to unfold in a remarkable, mind-twisting shootout in Zurich. But the player who needed to take the penalty to keep England in the Euros turned out to be the right one. It could only be the right one. Up fifth, Kelly had twice won a penalty shootout for England, against Nigeria in the World Cup and Brazil in the Finalissima. This was her moment to save them, just as Kelly had already done, around 45 minutes before. She began on the sidelines, back in a familiar place. Three years after her role as super-sub won England the Euros, Kelly had yet to escape from the bench and graduate into Sarina Wiegman's starting lineup. But if anyone knows how to make an impact off the bench, it's Kelly. And in Zurich, the Wembley match-winner of Euro 2022 was the saviour of England's Euro 2025. Brought on in the 78th minute, Kelly's first assist came in the 79th, the second in the 81st. Two perfect crosses, played with pace and the desire to change the game, found their targets to turn a quarter-final on its head. 'I felt good, coming onto the pitch, playing to my strengths and trying to put the ball in a box,' she explained. 'We know we have such strong headers of the ball. The girls put the ball in the back of the net and it was incredible.' There was not enough time for snapping her fingers, but England's 'positive clique' had delivered for Wiegman again. With a gameplan in tatters and the Lionesses heading home, perhaps the only souls in Zurich who still believed were those warming the bench. Kelly revealed this week that England's substitutes have their own group chat, separate from the squad, where they can motivate each other into taking their chance should it come. Kelly led from the front, as England forced extra time and then survived it, but she was not alone. Wiegman's substitutes were eclectic, random, and at the time surprising. Protection in midfield? Depth in attack? Control in the buildup? Wiegman appeared to laugh in the face of any concept that wasn't just pure chaos and England were better off with it. 'Sarina knows what she's doing,' Beth Mead said. 'There's method in the madness and I think that showed today.' But England had ended up with a formation that made no sense: Keira Walsh was left by herself in midfield, then it was down to Grace Clinton to cover such a wide expanse of the pitch on her own. Lauren James was allowed to float where she could, sometimes holding next to Walsh, sometimes pushing to join the Arsenal quartet of Kelly, Mead, Michelle Agyemang and the tireless Alessia Russo in attack. James was everywhere and stood up when it mattered most. Lucy Bronze, who has seen it all with England but may not have experienced a comeback quite like this, ended up as a right-winger and plundered England's route back into the game as she arrived at the back post. Alex Greenwood was the last one standing in defence, marshalling Esme Morgan and Niamh Charles, who made a crucial block to keep it 2-2. Hannah Hampton made big saves at 2-0, then helped England survive the onslaught. Never before had Wiegman's intended plan deviated to such a wild extent. England had named the same team that had so comfortably beaten the Netherlands and Wales, but Sweden tore right through it. For England, it came from a collective place of such naivety, bordering even on arrogance, that Sweden couldn't believe what had been handed to them as they raced into a two-goal lead while the Lionesses routinely shot themselves in the foot by playing out from the back. Off came Jess Carter, along with Georgia Stanway and Ella Toone. There was no replacement midfielder. 'People came on the pitch, they had to do different jobs,' Mead explained. 'I was playing as a number six, number 10, as a winger... weirdly, it didn't feel chaotic. I think if Sarina asks you to do it, you do it and as a player, you back yourself.' Instead, England went direct and Kelly produced her magic from the wings: her cross for Bronze's header came just 68 seconds after coming onto the pitch, the second delivery led to more mayhem and Agyemang's equaliser a couple of minutes later. Then penalties arrived and Kelly again knew where she needed to be: spinning the ball on the spot, playing her own game, this time to save England and send them through.
The Guardian
a day ago
- Sport
- The Guardian
England's Women's Euro 2025 penalty hero Hannah Hampton defies eye condition with study and strategy
Hannah Hampton had already saved one penalty in the shootout against Spain at Euro 2025 when Aitana Bonmatí, the back-to-back winner of the women's Ballon d'Or, placed the ball on the spot and stepped back, taking a moment before the strike. Bonmatí thumped the ball hard and left, but Hampton was there, arms outstretched, to block the shot with both hands. 'Better pens than the last time, let's be honest!' Hampton said after the match, a reference to the more painful shootout against Sweden in the quarter-final that went to sudden death before England prevailed. Hampton saved two penalties that time, too. It was an extraordinary tournament for Hampton, the Chelsea player who only became England's first choice goalie in May after the retirement of Mary Earps from international football. Hampton's penalty-saving record is perhaps even more impressive given that doctors told her that, due to an eye condition, she wouldn't be able to play football. Hampton was born with strabismus, or a squint, meaning that when she was looking at an object with one eye, the other would be looking in another direction. It was severe enough that she had three operations by the age of three to correct the misalignment. The surgery was not a complete success: Hampton told the i paper in 2022 how she would try to pour juice into a glass and miss if she wasn't holding it. During a medical check-up at Stoke City, when Hampton was 12, doctors diagnosed another problem. She had impaired depth perception, meaning she struggles to tell how far away objects are. It is often seen in patients with strabismus. 'Depth perception requires our eyes to be aligned, really from birth, and also for the visual input from the two eyes to be equal,' says Prof Jugnoo Rahi, an ophthalmic epidemiologist at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. If children have misaligned eyes, the brain suppresses the input from one eye because the brain cannot cope with double vision. 'If that goes on for a long time, if you can't align the eyes through surgery, for example, then you get permanently reduced vision in one eye,' she adds. But children who have limited depth perception grow up using other cues, the most obvious being that objects appear smaller when further away. It's often the finer perception tasks that are most affected – threading a needle more than intercepting a speeding football. 'People do learn,' Rahi says, 'And I suspect if you're also particularly talented and your hand-eye coordination is good, you may be better able to overcome that.' From Stoke City to Aston Villa and Chelsea, Hampton has certainly learned. After countless bloody noses and broken fingers from stopping the ball too near her face, or having her hands in the wrong position, she made a conscious effort to alter her hand position. It hasn't stopped all the blood: in extra time against Sweden, a collision left her with absorbent tissue up her right nostril. Hampton might be compensating in other ways, too. Setting aside the notes she had taped to her arm before the shootout with Spain – evidence she had done her homework – Hampton might be finely attuned to the subtle cues penalty takers reveal. And given the fraction of a second a goalie has to respond once the ball is kicked, these might be more important than depth perception. In his book, The Penalty Kick: the psychology of success, Prof Daniel Memmert at the German Sport University in Cologne dissects the science of the art. Body movement is particularly revealing, he says. When a right-footed striker aims for the left corner, the supporting leg, hip and upper body all start to rotate to the left. If the goalie is looking, 'they can anticipate the direction of the penalty', he says. 'It's extremely difficult not to move the limbs like this if you are going for the left corner, and good goalies have this picture.' Often, such cues are picked up subconsciously, he adds. And then there are the tricks goalies can play. When goalies make themselves big – throwing their arms out in a Y-shape – strikers tend to shoot closer to the goalie. But it's not the only tactic. 'One of the most important factors is that you make the striker feel that one of the corners has a little more space,' says Memmert. If the goalie stands slightly off centre – no more than 10cm left or right – a penalty taker who is still making up their mind will often shoot to the side with slightly more room. Even if they cannot perceive the extra space. If a goalie knows a striker favours one side, making a little more room can nudge them more in that direction, giving the goalie an advantage. 'It's the best trick a goalie can do because the striker will never know if the goalie is standing exactly in the middle or not,' says Memmert.
Arab News
2 days ago
- Arab News
Police say 3 militants, including mastermind of 2024 attack on Chinese nationals, killed in Karachi
KARACHI: Pakistani police said on Monday it had gunned down three militants during an intelligence-based operation in the southern port city of Karachi last night, among them the mastermind of an attack that targeted Chinese nationals last year. Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Deputy Superintendent of Police Raja Umar Khattab told Arab News police carried out a raid at a house in Karachi's Manghopir area on Sunday night, in coordination with intelligence agencies, where the militants were hiding. He said the three militants were shot dead after a shootout ensued with police. The CTD official said the militants were part of the 'Khawarij' group, a term the Pakistan military regularly uses for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant outfit. The militants have been identified as Zafran, Qudratullah and Matiullah alias Abu Nasir, Khattab said. 'Among those killed, Zafran was the mastermind behind last year's attack on Liberty Textile Mill in the SITE area of Karachi which targeted Chinese nationals,' Khattab said. 'He had recruited the attacker, Sharifullah, as a security guard, provided him with weapons, and later facilitated his escape to Afghanistan.' Khattab was referring to the incident which took place in Karachi in November 2024. A security guard, Sharifullah, had injured two Chinese nationals working on installing a machinery in Liberty Textile Mill by firing at them. Khattab said the government had announced a bounty of Rs20 million [$71,942] on Zafran's head. The CTD official said hand grenades, a suicide vest and a diary were recovered from the slain militants' possession. He added that the diary contained details of several potential targets the militants wanted to attack, among them the Police Training Center in Karachi's Baldia Town. Militant groups have previously carried out attacks against Chinese nationals in the country. In October 2024, two Chinese nationals were killed in a suicide bombing near the Karachi airport, which was claimed by the separatist outfit Baloch Liberation Army. In March 2024, another suicide bombing killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver in northwestern Pakistan as they were traveling to the Dasu Dam. This attack was claimed by the TTP. Chinese nationals have been in the crosshairs of separatist militants who believe Beijing is helping Pakistan exploit minerals in the underdeveloped southwestern province of Balochistan, where China has a strategic port and mining interests. China and Pakistan have both denied the allegations. Beijing has been pushing Islamabad to provide foolproof security to Chinese citizens working in Pakistan , frustrated by the string of attacks on its nationals. Pakistan has repeatedly assured China it will provide safety to its citizens in the country.
