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Raynaud has 23, 15 rebounds, 3 blocks to help Stanford beat Cal State Northridge 88-79 in opener

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:39:57 GMT

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Maxime Raynaud had 23 points, 15 rebounds, three blocks and two steals, Michael Jones scored 20 points and Stanford scored the final 13 points Monday night to beat Cal State Northridge 88-79 in the season opener for both teams. Brandon Angel added 17 points, eight rebounds and three blocks for Stanford. Keonte Jones converted a traditional three-point play with 2:59 remaining that gave Northridge a four-point lead. The Matadors, however, went 0 for 4 from the field with two turnovers the rest of the way as Stanford took control. Raynaud put back his own miss 16 seconds later and Jones followed with a 3-pointer that made it 80-79 with 2:20 left and the Cardinal led the rest of the way. De’Sean Allen-Eikens led Northridge with 22 points and eight rebounds. Dearon Tucker scored 12 points and Jasman Sangha added 11. Stanford shot just 43% from the field, compared to 48% by the Matadors, but made 19 of 25 from the free-throw line, where Northridge hit just 6...

2023 Virginia Local County General Election Results

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:39:57 GMT

Visit WTOP’s Virginia Election 2023 page for our comprehensive coverage. Here are the unofficial results of some local races in Virginia.Leading candidates are in bold. Since mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day can still be counted if they arrive by noon on Friday, Nov. 10, these results are incomplete; Virginia election officials will certify election results on TK.Some uncontested races are not included below.This page will be updated as results come in.Arlington CountyFairfax CountyFalls ChurchLoudoun CountyPrince William CountyStafford CountyYou can see the results of statewide races here.ArlingtonCounty BoardVote for twoJuan Carlos FierroMaureen E. CoffeySusan R. CunninghamAudrey Rose ClementSchool BoardVote for oneJames “Vell” Rives IVMiranda H. TurnerFairfax CountyClerk of the CourtVote for oneGerarda Marie CulipherChristopher J. FalconSheriffVote for oneStacey Ann KincaidJerry L. McMillianChristopher F. DeCarloChairman of the Board of SupervisorsVote...

Adem Bona scores 28 points to lead UCLA over St. Francis (PA) 75-44 in season opener

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:39:57 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adem Bona had a career-high 28 points and nine rebounds, and UCLA routed St. Francis of Pennsylvania 75-44 on Monday night in the teams’ season opener.Bona, the Pac-12 freshman of the year last season, had his rookie year end early because of a shoulder injury in March. Now he’ll be counted on as UCLA experiences its biggest roster overhaul under coach Mick Cronin after losing veteran players.Bona scored eight of the Bruins’ first 12 points of the second half as they stretched their lead to 44-27. He later picked up his third foul, along with 7-foot-3 freshman Aday Mara, who had two points in his college debut.Gestin Liberis led the Red Flash with 12 points. They had 21 turnovers.Bona and Kenneth Nwuba dominated the game’s first five minutes. They had two dunks apiece and Bona blocked a layup attempt by Liberis. Bona later blocked Cam Gregory, sending him into a baseline seat. The Red Flash tied the game four times in the first half and took their only...

LeDee’s career-high 27 points carry No. 17 San Diego State to 83-57 win over Cal State Fullerton

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:39:57 GMT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jaedon LeDee scored six of his career-high 27 points in the first three minutes of the second half and No. 17 San Diego State broke open a close game to beat Cal State Fullerton 83-57 in their season opener Monday night.LeDee also pulled down 10 rebounds for SDSU, runner-up for last season’s national title. Before the game, the school unveiled banners for being an NCAA finalist and for winning the Mountain West regular-season and tournament crowns. The Aztecs reached their first Final Four, beat Florida Atlantic 72-71 on Lamont Butler’s buzzer-beater and then lost to UConn 76-59 in the championship game.“It’s great. I’m going to look at it every day and then go to work,” coach Brian Dutcher said. “Step onto Steve Fisher Court and look at a Final Four banner. A lot of good stuff’s happened here. And the crowd tonight, come on. The energy in the building was incredible. We feed off that. It’s a fun place to play and a fun place to come watch a ...

Israel open to ‘tactical little pauses’ to let aid into Gaza, Netanyahu says

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:39:57 GMT

Israel is considering small pauses in the fight against Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday amid mounting international pressure to halt hostilities to let aid into the Gaza Strip.“There’ll be no cease-fire, general cease-fire, in Gaza without the release of our hostages,” Netanyahu told American broadcaster ABC News.“As far as tactical little pauses — an hour here, an hour there — we’ve had them before,” the prime minister added. “I suppose we’ll check the circumstances in order to enable goods, humanitarian goods to come in; or our hostages, individual hostages to leave.”Israel has been under growing diplomatic pressure to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, where it has launched a major offensive against Hamas in retaliation for the Palestinian militant group’s violent attacks, which killed more than 1,400 people on Israeli soil on October 7.During its surprise incursion, Hamas a...

Law and order and the economy are focus of the British government’s King’s Speech

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:39:57 GMT

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative government is setting out a pre-election policy slate including tougher sentences for criminals and measures to tame inflation and boost economic growth at the grand State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday.King Charles III will read out a speech, written by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government, outlining its legislative plans for the next year.It’s almost certainly the last such speech before a national election, and Sunak’s first chance to set out major legislative plans since he became prime minister just over a year ago. The last session of Parliament opened in May 2022, when Boris Johnson was prime minister and Queen Elizabeth II sat on the throne.Charles became monarch when his mother died in September 2022 after a 70-year reign. He will deliver the first King’s — rather than Queen’s — Speech since 1951.The parliamentary opening ceremony is a spectacular pageant that reflects the two sides of Britain’s constitutional monarchy: royal pomp a...

New measures to curb migration to Germany agreed by Chancellor Scholz and state governors

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:39:57 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — New, stricter measures to curb the high number of migrants coming to Germany were agreed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the 16 state governors in the early hours of Tuesday, reaching a compromise on an issue that has become a huge political problem for the government and a hot-button topic in society.The new measures include speeding up asylum procedures, benefit restrictions for asylum seekers and more financial aid from the federal government for the states and local communities dealing with the influx.Speaking early Tuesday after an overnight meeting that lasted several hours, Scholz called the agreement “a historical moment” — a remark that showed how much of a burden the topic had become for the government.Shelters for migrants and refugees have been filling up in Germany for months, and Scholz, who faces enormous pressure from the opposition and elsewhere to halt that trend, has said that “too many are coming.” The number of new asylum applications for the year to...

Japan’s Nintendo profits jump as its game sales get a boost from the hit Super Mario movie

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:39:57 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo reported an 18% rise in net profit for its first fiscal half on Tuesday, as sales continued to get a boost from its hit Super Mario movie, and the popularity of its software for various new video games.April-September profit at Nintendo Co., which didn’t break down quarterly results, totaled nearly 271.3 billion yen ($1.8 billion), up from 230 billion yen a year earlier. Sales surged 21% to 796 billion yen ($5.3 billion).Demand remained strong for Nintendo Switch game software, which got a healthy lift from the film starring the jumping plumber, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.” Among the games that sold well as a result of the film was “Mario Kart 8 Deluxe,” which sold 3.2 million units during the period, for cumulative sales of 57 million games, Nintendo said.This year’s Super Mario movie is one of the top-selling animation films on record, second only to “Frozen II,” and the top animation film based on a video game.Also helping lift results was the popularity o...

Israel-Hamas war crowds crisis-heavy global agenda as Blinken, G7 foreign ministers meet in Japan

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:39:57 GMT

TOKYO (AP) — Fresh from a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shifted his intense diplomacy on the Israel-Hamas war to Asia on Tuesday, as he and his counterparts from the Group of Seven leading industrial democracies began two days of talks in Japan.The devastating monthlong conflict in Gaza and efforts to ease the dire humanitarian impacts of Israel’s response to the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack were set to be a major focus of the meeting. Yet with the Russia-Ukraine war, fears North Korea may be readying a new nuclear test, and concerns about China’s increasing global assertiveness, it is far from the only crisis on the agenda.“Even as we are intensely focused on the crisis in Gaza, we’re also very much engaged and focused on the important work that we’re doing in the Indo-Pacific and in other parts of the world,” Blinken told reporters in Ankara, Turkey, before leaving the Middle East for Asia.In Tokyo, Blinken and foreign minister...

Live updates | Israel open to ‘little pauses’ as it bombards Gaza

Published Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:39:57 GMT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will have “overall security responsibility” in Gaza “for an indefinite period” after its war with Hamas and expressed openness to “little pauses” in the current fighting to facilitate the release of hostages.His comments, in an interview that aired late Monday on ABC News, offered the clearest indication yet that Israel plans to maintain control over the territory that is home to some 2.3 million Palestinians.Netanyahu ruled out any general cease-fire without the release of the more than 240 captives seized by Hamas in its Oct. 7 raid into Israel, but he said he was open to “tactical little pauses.” U.S. President Joe Biden had raised the need for humanitarian pauses directly with Netanyahu on a call earlier Monday, but no agreement was reached, the White House said.The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war surpassed 10,000, including more than 4,100 children and 2,640 women, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in...