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‘Confidence’ may be the key to Camry Krueger. But the up-and-coming sophomore is Kankakee Valley’s engine.
Kankakee Valley sophomore Camry Krueger has come a long way since last season.
The 5-foot-6 guard recalls being intimidated by older, bigger and stronger girls as a freshman.
“I was definitely scared and nervous because I was playing against a bunch of juniors and seniors who were like a foot taller than me,” Krueger said. “But I just had to go out there and try my best no matter who I was playing and accept that I was not as big as them and give it my all.”
With that mindset, Krueger has become the leading scorer for Kankakee Valley (20-4), whose turnaround reflects her emergence. She has averaged a team-high 12.0 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.9 assists and a team-high 3.0 steals as the Kougars, who had a losing record last season, won the Northwest Crossroads Conference title and their first sectional title since 2021.
According to Kankakee Valley coach Dave Walstra, Krueger’s leap forward after committing 5.0 turnovers per game last season comes down to one thing.
“Confidence,” he said. “When she started out as a freshman, she was going against seniors. She would get trapped by 6-foot, 6-foot-1 guards, and she’s, what, all of 5-foot-6.
“She’s still not real tall, but her confidence — she knows she can go right up against them and not back down — is the biggest thing she’s really grown with.”
Krueger is quick to credit her teammates.
“I’m more confident, and I have more experience than I had last year, so that’s really helped,” she said. “But I have my other teammates, who also have more experience from last year, to help with that too.”
Kankakee Valley’s Camry Krueger, left, listens to coach David Walstra during the Class 3A Kankakee Valley Sectional championship game against Hanover Central in Wheatfield on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. (Andy Lavalley / Post-Tribune)
Krueger and Kankakee Valley sophomore guard Jenna Walker have known each other since preschool and have played together since elementary school. Walker said they can almost anticipate each other’s decisions.
“We know how each other plays,” Walker said. “So we know what to expect from one another. And outside of basketball, we’re really good friends, and that helps us bring good chemistry onto the court.”
That makes the Kougars, who will play Fairfield (19-6) in a Class 3A Winamac Regional game at 3 p.m. Saturday, hungry for a good postseason run.
“We want to win regionals pretty badly,” Krueger said, “because we won sectionals, and that’s hard to do. So we want to go as far as we can, and if we win regionals, get to semistate and just see how far we can get as a team.”
Walstra is cautiously optimistic that Krueger and her teammates can extend the season a little further.
“You’ve got to win one game,” Walstra said. “Regionals is one game, and it’s tough. No games from here on out are going to be easy, and they’ve just got to prepare. You know, we’re trying to prepare them the best we can.
“At the end of the day, they’ve got to go in, make plays and hit shots. If we do that, we can give ourselves a pretty good shot at winning that regional.”
Kankakee Valley’s Camry Krueger (13) guards Hanover Central’s Simone Parker during the Class 3A Kankakee Valley Sectional championship game in Wheatfield on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. (Andy Lavalley / Post-Tribune)
Win or lose, Walstra believes Krueger’s trajectory is clear.
“She could be one of the top guards that has come through KV,” Walstra said. “We’ve had a lot of good guards come through, but she still has two more years to work on achieving that, and she’ll put the time in.”
Noah Poser is a freelance reporter.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/kankakee-valley-high-school-basketball-camry-krueger/
Biatleta noruego lamenta confesión en TV que eclipsó oro olímpico de su compañero
Por MARTHA BELLISLE
ANTERSELVA, Italia (AP) — El biatleta noruego Sturla Holm Laegreid lamentó el miércoles haber hecho pública su vida privada durante los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno de Milán-Cortina, un día después de que sorprendió a la televisión al confesar en vivo que había engañado a su novia.
Tras ganar la medalla de bronce en la carrera individual masculina de 20 kilómetros el martes reveló en una entrevista con la cadena noruega NRK que había sido infiel “al amor de mi vida” en un aparente intento de recuperarla.
Sin embargo, su confesión entre lágrimas no fue bien recibida por los críticos, quienes dijeron que desvió la atención de la victoria de su compatriota Johan-Olav Botn con una actuación en la que no falló ninguno de sus disparos.
“Me arrepiento profundamente de haber compartido esta historia personal en lo que fue un día de celebración para el biatlón noruego”, manifestó Laegreid en un comunicado emitido por el equipo noruego el miércoles.
“No soy yo mismo estos días y no estoy pensando con claridad”, expresó. “Mis disculpas van para Johan-Olav, quien merecía toda la atención después de ganar el oro. También van para mi exnovia, quien involuntariamente terminó en el foco de los medios. Espero que esté bien. No puedo deshacer esto, pero ahora lo dejaré atrás y me concentraré en los Juegos Olímpicos. No responderé más preguntas sobre esto”.
El periódico noruego VG dijo que había estado en contacto con la exnovia de Laegreid, quien parecía no estar conmovida por sus comentarios de arrepentimiento en la televisión en vivo.
“Es difícil perdonarlo. Incluso después de una declaración de amor frente a todo el mundo”, la citó VG. “No elegí estar en esta posición, y es doloroso tener que soportarlo. Hemos estado en contacto, y él es consciente de mis sentimientos al respecto”.
El periódico no la identificó al decir que no buscaba la atención y quería permanecer en el anonimato.
La entrevista posterior a la carrera con Laegreid tomó un giro inesperado cuando cambió el tema del biatlón a su vida personal.
“Hace seis meses conocí al amor de mi vida. La persona más hermosa y dulce del mundo. Y hace tres meses cometí el mayor error de mi vida y la engañé”, dijo Laegreid, conteniendo las lágrimas. Más tarde dijo que quería contarle al mundo con la esperanza de que ella viera lo que significa para él.
Los críticos dijeron que su momento fue inoportuno, robando el protagonismo a Botn, quien fue superado por la emoción después de su victoria y rindió homenaje a su amigo y compañero de equipo Sivert Guttorm Bakken, quien falleció en diciembre.
“Tanto el momento como el lugar son completamente incorrectos”, dijo el biatleta noruego Johannes Thingnes Boe a NRK sobre la confesión de Laegreid.
El retirado biatleta alemán Erik Lesser, quien ahora trabaja como comentarista del deporte invernal, dijo que preferiría ver que la conversación en los Juegos se centrara en el biatlón.
“Concentrémonos de nuevo en el deporte”, dijo a The Associated Press. “Puedo entender lo que él quiere que suceda con su novia. Pero solo quiero pensar en el deporte, quiero ver deporte, quiero hablar de deporte”.
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Why are copyright problems plaguing figure skating at the Milan Cortina Olympics?
MILAN — One of the recurring issues during the opening week of the figure skating program at the Milan Cortina Olympics has been copyright problems, which have forced some athletes to scramble for approval and others to ditch their planned programs entirely.
Spanish skater Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate made headlines last week while working feverishly to obtain approval to use music from the animated film “Minions.” He eventually got it Friday, allowing him to perform his short program Tuesday night.
Russian skater Petr Gumennik wasn’t so fortunate. He had to alter his short program two days before the event after failing to secure permission for music from the film “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.” He pivoted to “Waltz 1805” by Edgar Hakobyan.
Then there’s U.S. skater Amber Glenn, who had been using music by Seb McKinnon the past two years. The Canadian artist was surprised to learn his song “The Return” was part of her free skate after Glenn helped the Americans defend their team gold medal last weekend. Glenn and McKinnon wound up talking and were able to resolve the issue.
“Even now, we don’t really understand what we can and can’t use, but we’re all working through that,” Canadian ice dancer Piper Gilles told The Associated Press. “Everybody is trying to get on the same page, but it does make it harder.”
Why are copyright problems happening?
The International Skating Union long forbade the use of lyrics in any discipline besides ice dance, forcing athletes to perform to older pieces of music — often classical tunes, such as piano concertos. Those pieces were considered part of the public domain, which meant they could be used or modified freely and without permission.
That changed in 2014, when the ISU lifted its ban on lyrics in the hope of appealing to younger audiences. Suddenly, skaters had the choice of just about any musical genre, from pop to hip-hop to hard rock and even heavy metal.
The problem is modern music is not part of the public domain, which means athletes must obtain permission to use it. During the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, the first Olympics in which lyrics were allowed, American skaters Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier used a cover of “House of the Rising Sun,” and the indie rock band ultimately sued them for using it without its permission.
Why is the approval process so complex?
Figure skaters have found that obtaining permission is hardly as straightforward as simply asking the artist to use a song.
Sure, the performer usually has a piece of the copyright to their music. But that copyright also might be held by someone who originally wrote the song, their recording label or publisher, even a movie studio if the tune was used in a film.
Depending on the music, different licenses might be needed for the music to be played in the venue, broadcast on television and used online. Still more hoops must be jumped through if the broadcast is recorded, and international copyright laws add another layer of complexity, especially given the global reach of the Winter Olympics.
Throw in the fact that most skaters use cuts from multiple songs in a single performance, and the process can be overwhelming.
“My experience has been chaos,” Glenn told AP. “First we get, like, a website or some sort of application to track things. And then once we’re like, ‘OK, yeah, it’s cleared. It’s good,’ suddenly it’s not a reliable source anymore. OK, then what do we do?”
What can be done to help?
The ISU has been working with a third-party company called ClicknClear, which serves as a clearinghouse for a vast number of artists and songs, and has created an online system that helps figure skaters more easily obtain copyright permissions.
National governing bodies also have tried to help their skaters through the process. In the case of U.S. Figure Skating, it has worked with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) to help ensure the music used by American figure skaters is not flagged at the last minute for any copyright infringements.
Yet the process remains so hazy and complex that problems still are arising.
“Things change rapidly every day, and we’re just trying to understand what this landscape looks like,” said Justin Dillon, who heads the high-performance program for U.S. Figure Skating. “There’s still so much to learn in this space.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/olympics-figure-skating-copyright-issues/
Zelensky’s Office Quashes False ‘Rumors’ Of National Election For Spring
Zelensky’s Office Quashes False ‘Rumors’ Of National Election For Spring
There are conflicting reports that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is actually planning on holding elections in a few months. It all started with this Wednesday FT headline: “Zelenskyy plans spring elections alongside referendum on peace deal after US push.”
Financial Times as well as the UK Times says that Zelensky is planning to announce a spring election alongside a referendum on any peace deal to end the war with Russia. The votes would be held simultaneously, and the target month would be May, the report claims.
“In the face of pressure from the White House, the Ukrainian leader intends to announce the move on February 24, the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday,” the report says.
This is of course in reference to the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022, as the war is entering its fifth year. But not all sources are in agreement as to Zelensky’s election plans.
So far he has resisted Trump admin pressure to announce an election, citing lack of security across the country to ensure a fair and smooth voting process. A key stipulation pushed by Zelensky is that Russia would have to agree to a temporary ceasefire for the vote to proceed, and this scenario is very unlikely at this point in the conflict.
The pushback against the initial FT report comes from local Ukrainian media. In this particular case it is probably the more accurate report:
As of now, President Volodymyr Zelensky does not plan to announce presidential elections or a referendum on a possible peace deal with Russia on Feb. 24, a source in the President’s Office familiar with the matter told the Kyiv Independent on Feb. 11.
The comment came after the Financial Times reported that Kyiv was preparing to hold both votes this spring and that Zelensky could unveil the plan on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
So Zelensky’s office itself is rejecting the claims of Western media. Again, this is consistent with Zelensky’s stance on this issue throughout escalating pressure from Washington, and clearly nothing fundamentally has changed.
The Kyiv Independent report went so far as to blast the initial reporting as “rumors”. A source in the Ukrainian president’s office said, “Well, I guess someone somewhere is talking about it. It’s not the first time they’ve been spreading rumors,” the source in the President’s Office said. “Next week, there are meetings. If there is progress, then maybe something will change.” The official added: “So far, there is no progress.”
Ukrainian media & sources in Zelensky’s office say this is fake news…
Zelenskyy plans spring elections alongside referendum on peace deal after US push https://t.co/Jpyy8s131K
— Financial Times (@FT) February 11, 2026
Parliament is examining the issue, after months ago Zelensky ordered lawmakers to prepare changes to election laws that would permit voting under martial law; however, no revisions have been passed and the issue has been essentially buried in committee debate. This itself (a formal committee examination of a potential election) appears just a symbolic move to placate the Trump administration.
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Wed, 02/11/2026 – 10:20
As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused
Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes to remove detention orders on people targeted for deportation.
At least two dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have been charged with crimes since 2020, and their documented wrongdoing includes patterns of physical and sexual abuse, corruption and other abuses of authority, a review by The Associated Press found.
While most of the cases happened before Congress voted last year to give ICE $75 billion to hire more agents and detain more people, experts say these kinds of crimes could accelerate given the sheer volume of new employees and their empowerment to use aggressive tactics to arrest and deport people.
Solidarity against ICE is not one-size-fits-all for immigrant-owned cafes and restaurants in Chicago
The Trump administration has emboldened agents by arguing they have “absolute immunity” for their actions on duty and by weakening oversight. One judge recently suggested that ICE was developing a troubling culture of lawlessness, while experts have questioned whether job applicants are getting enough vetting and training.
“Once a person is hired, brought on, goes through the training and they are not the right person, it is difficult to get rid of them and there will be a price to be paid later down the road by everyone,” said Gil Kerlikowske, who served as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection from 2014 to 2017.
Almost every law enforcement agency contends with bad employees and crimes related to domestic violence and substance abuse are long-standing problems in the field. But ICE’s rapid growth and mission to deport millions are unprecedented, and the AP review found that the immense power that officers exercise over vulnerable populations can lead to abuses.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said that wrongdoing was not widespread in the agency, and that ICE “takes allegations of misconduct by its employees extremely seriously.” She said that most new hires had already worked for other law enforcement agencies, and that their backgrounds were thoroughly vetted.
“America can be proud of the professionalism our officers bring to the job day-in and day-out,” she said.
ICE misconduct could become a ‘countrywide phenomenon’
ICE announced last month that it had more than doubled in size to 22,000 employees in less than one year.
Kerlikowske said ICE agents are particularly “vulnerable to unnecessary use of force issues,” given that they often conduct enforcement operations in public while facing protests. With the number of ICE detainees nearly doubling since last year to 70,000, employees and contractors responsible for overseeing them are also facing challenging conditions that can provide more opportunities for misconduct.
The Border Patrol doubled in size to more than 20,000 agents from 2004 to 2011 — six years longer than ICE took. It was embarrassed by a wave of corruption, abuse and other misconduct by some of the new hires. Kerlikowske recalled cases of agents who accepted bribes to let cars carrying drugs enter the U.S. or who became involved in human trafficking.
He and others say ICE is poised to see similar problems that will likely be broader in scope, with less oversight and accountability.
“The corruption and the abuse and the misconduct was largely confined in the prior instance to along the border and interactions with immigrants and border state residents. With ICE, this is going to be a countrywide phenomenon as they pull in so many people who are attracted to this mission,” said David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
Bier, who has helped publicize some of the recent arrests and other alleged misconduct by ICE agents, said he has been struck by the “remarkable array of different offenses and charges that we’ve seen.”
AP’s review examined public records involving cases of ICE employees and contractors who have been arrested since 2020, including at least 17 who have been convicted and six others who are awaiting trial. Nine have been charged in the last year, including an agent cited last month for assaulting a protester near Chicago while off-duty.
Some of the most serious crimes were committed by veteran ICE employees and supervisors rather than rookies.
While federal officials have justified ICE’s aggression, the behavior of agents is drawing scrutiny from cellphone-wielding observers and prosecutors in Democratic-led jurisdictions. Local agencies are looking into last month’s fatal shootings in Minneapolis of protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, as well as the killing of Keith Porter by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve.
Arrests have made local headlines
Around the country, the cases have attracted unwelcome headlines for ICE, which has spent millions of dollars publicizing the criminal rap sheets of those they arrest as the “worst of the worst.”
Among them:
__ The assistant ICE field office supervisor in Cincinnati, Samuel Saxon, a 20-year ICE veteran, has been jailed since his arrest in December on charges that he attempted to strangle his girlfriend.
Saxon had abused the woman for years, fracturing her hip and nose and causing internal bleeding, a judge found in a ruling ordering him detained pending trial. “The defendant is a volatile and violent individual,” the judge wrote of Saxon, whose attorneys didn’t return a message seeking comment. ICE said he is considered absent without leave.
__ “I’m ICE, boys,” an ICE employment eligibility auditor told police in Minnesota in November when he was arrested in a sting as he went to meet a person he thought was a 17-year-old prostitute. Alexander Back, 41, has pleaded not guilty to attempted enticement of a minor. ICE said Back is on administrative leave while the agency investigates.
—When officers in suburban Chicago found a man passed out in a crashed car in October, they were surprised to discover the driver was an ICE officer who had recently completed his shift at a detention center and had his government firearm in the vehicle. They arrested Guillermo Diaz-Torres for driving under the influence. He’s pleaded not guilty and has been put on administrative duty pending an investigation.
__ After an ICE officer in Florida was stopped for driving drunk with his two children in the car in August, he tried to get out of charges by pointing to his law enforcement and military service. When that failed, he demanded to know whether one of the deputies arresting him was Haitian and threatened to check the man’s immigration status, body camera video shows.
“I’ll run him once I get out of here and if he’s not legit, ooh, he’s taking a ride back to Haiti,” Scott Deiseroth warned during the arrest.
Deiseroth, who was sentenced to probation and community service, is on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation. “He did something stupid. He owned up to it,” said his attorney, Michael Catalano. “He’s very sorry about the whole thing.”
Several cases involve force and abuse
The AP’s review found a pattern of charges involving ICE employees and contractors who mistreated vulnerable people in their care.
A former top official at an ICE contract facility in Texas was sentenced to probation on Feb. 4 after acknowledging he grabbed a handcuffed detainee by the neck and slammed him into a wall last year. Prosecutors had downgraded the charge from a felony to a misdemeanor.
In December, an ICE contractor pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a detainee at a detention facility in Louisiana. Prosecutors said the man had sexual encounters with a Nicaraguan national over a five-month period in 2025 as he instructed other detainees to act as lookouts.
Outside Chicago, an off-duty ICE agent has been charged with misdemeanor battery for throwing to the ground a 68-year-old protester who was filming him at a gas station in December. McLaughlin has said the agent acted in self-defense.
Other charges cited corruption
Another pattern that emerged in AP’s review involved ICE officials charged with abusing their power for financial gain.
An ICE deportation officer in Houston was indicted last summer on charges that he repeatedly accepted cash bribes from bail bondsmen in exchange for removing detainers ICE had placed on their clients targeting them for deportation.
ICE said the officer was “indefinitely suspended” in May 2024, before his arrest one year later. He has pleaded not guilty to seven counts of accepting bribes and was released from custody while awaiting trial.
Prosecutors say a former supervisor in ICE’s New York City office provided confidential information about people’s immigration statuses to acquaintances and made an arrest in exchange for gifts and other gain. He was arrested in November 2024, has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.
Two Utah-based ICE investigators were sentenced to prison last year for a scheme in which they made hundreds of thousands of dollars stealing synthetic drugs known as “bath salts” from government custody and selling them through government informants.
ICE officials used badges to try to avoid consequences
The wrongdoing often included the use of ICE resources and credentials to try to avoid arrest or receive favorable treatment.
In 2022, ICE supervisor Koby Williams was arrested in a sting by police in Othello, Washington, while going to a hotel room to meet who he thought was a 13-year-old girl he’d arranged to pay for sex.
Williams had driven his government vehicle, which was filled with cash, alcohol, pills and Viagra, and was carrying his ICE badge and loaded government firearm. The 22-year ICE veteran offered a rationale that turned out to be a lie: that he was there to “rescue” the girl as part of a human trafficking investigation. Williams is serving prison time for what prosecutors called a “reprehensible” abuse of power.
“With a duty to protect and serve,” they wrote, “defendant sought to exploit and victimize.”
Real Madrid y la UEFA llegan a un acuerdo que pone fin al polémico proyecto de la Superliga
BRUSELAS (AP) — El fin formal del polémico proyecto de la Superliga en el fútbol europeo quedó plasmado el miércoles con un acuerdo entre el Real Madrid y la UEFA.
Las partes publicaron el miércoles un breve comunicado con un denso lenguaje legal días después de que el Barcelona se retirara formalmente de la Superliga, dejando al Madrid —15 veces campeón de Europa— y a su presidente Florentino Pérez aún más aislados.
Aunque el Madrid y el Barça ganaron un fallo en el Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea en Luxemburgo contra la UEFA hace más de dos años, ningún nuevo club se presentó públicamente para unirse al proyecto separatista que no tenía un camino claro hacia adelante.
El acuerdo del miércoles entre el Madrid, la UEFA y la influyente Asociación Europea de Clubes indicó que se acordaron principios que “también servirán para resolver sus disputas legales”.
Se anunció justo cuando los líderes del fútbol europeo se congregaban en Bruselas previo el congreso anual de la UEFA de 55 federaciones miembros.
El texto resaltó que “tras meses de conversaciones mantenidas en beneficio del fútbol europeo”, las tres partes alcanzaron un “acuerdo de principios para el bienestar del fútbol europeo de clubes, respetando el principio del mérito deportivo y haciendo hincapié en la sostenibilidad a largo plazo de los clubes y la mejora de la experiencia de los aficionados mediante el uso de la tecnología”.
El Madrid estuvo a la cabeza de 12 clubes españoles, italianos e ingleses que atacaron a la UEFA, organizador de la Liga de Campeones, en abril de 2021 al lanzar la Superliga que esperaba debutar con 20 equipos.
Pero el proyecto colapsó en cuestión de 48 horas en medio de una feroz reacción en Inglaterra por parte de los aficionados y el gobierno, que amenazó con legislación para proteger la estructura tradicional del fútbol europeo.
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De Zerbi deja de ser el técnico de Marsella tras humillante derrota 5-0 ante el PSG
MARSELLA, Francia (AP) — Roberto De Zerbi fue destituido como técnico del Olympique de Marsella tras sufrir una humillante derrota 5-0 ante el Paris Saint-Germain en el clásico del fútbol francés.
El Marsella, nueve veces campeón de Francia, informó a primera hora del miércoles que la salida del entrenador italiano fue una decisión tomada “de mutuo acuerdo”.
La contundente derrota el domingo en el Parque de los Príncipes permitió al campeón vigente PSG restablecer su ventaja de dos puntos sobre Lens después de 21 jornadas. El Marsella quedó en el cuarto lugar tras el revés.
La salida de De Zerbi se sumó a otro fiasco: la derrota 3-0 ante Club Brujas, hace dos semanas, la cual provocó la eliminación del Marsella de la Liga de Campeones.
De Zerbi, quien se había disculpado con los hinchas del Marsella tras la derrota contra su acérrimo rival PSG, llegó al club en 2024 después de dos temporadas al mando del Brighton de la Liga Premier. Después de modificar el estilo de juego en su primera temporada en el sur de Francia, sus recientes decisiones habían dejado perplejos a muchos observadores.
“Tras consultas que involucraron a todas las partes interesadas en la dirección del club —el propietario, presidente, director de fútbol y entrenador principal— se decidió optar por un cambio en la dirección del primer equipo”, dijo el Marsella. “Esta fue una decisión colectiva y difícil, tomada tras una consideración exhaustiva, en el mejor interés del club y para abordar los desafíos deportivos del final de la temporada”.
De Zerbi llevó al Marsella a un segundo lugar la temporada pasada. El Marsella no anunció de inmediato un reemplazo para De Zerbi antes del partido de liga del sábado contra Estrasburgo.
Desde que el propietario estadounidense Frank McCourt compró el Marsella en 2016, el antiguo gigante del fútbol francés no ha logrado encontrar ninguna forma de estabilidad, con una sucesión de entrenadores y crisis que a veces se tornaron violentas.
El Marsella dominó el fútbol doméstico a finales de los años 1980 y principios de los 1990. Fue el único equipo francés en ganar la Liga de Campeones antes de que el PSG se consagró el año pasado. No ha ganado su propio título de liga desde 2010.
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Evanston’s Interfaith Action provides overnight shelter, helps homeless with resources
The frigid winter of 2025–26 has challenged nearly everyone in the Chicago area, but for those without homes, the season has been especially harsh.
As people experiencing homelessness search for a warm place to sleep, residents in Evanston have an option through Interfaith Action of Evanston. The 70-year-old organization provides a range of services, including a morning hospitality center at St. Mark’s Church near downtown Evanston.
In addition, overnight shelters operate on a rotating basis at eight houses of worship: First Presbyterian Church of Evanston, First Congregational Church, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Beth Emet Synagogue, the Unitarian Church, First United Methodist Church of Evanston and Lake Street Church.
“Our mission is to serve people who are hungry and homeless and to be advocates for them,” said Interfaith Executive Director Sue Murphy.
That mission has been tested during the recent brutal stretch of winter weather. While Chicago winters are often severe, temperatures failed to rise above freezing from Jan. 16 through Feb. 4, according to the National Weather Service. On some nights, the temperature sunk to about -10 degrees Fahrenheit.
Murphy estimated Evanston’s homeless population at approximately 150 people and said more individuals than usual sought assistance during the cold snap. With a capacity of 30 beds across the overnight shelters, Interfaith was forced to turn some people away due to capacity limits.
“It’s so sad,” Murphy said. “We put them on a waiting list, but we only have 30 beds.”
Murphy said few people arrive without prior arrangement, as most know in advance whether they have been assigned a bed. She receives daily updates on whether space is available for new clients.
Interfaith Action of Evanston provides a number of services to individuals experiencing homelessness, including overnight shelter and job counseling in the computer room, shown. (Daniel I. Dorfman/for Pioneer Press)
While the city of Evanston opened warming centers during the cold stretch — including the Gibbs-Morrison Cultural Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Day — some individuals were still forced to brave the cold.
Despite those challenges, Interfaith continues its outreach to people without housing.
“Our goal is to build relationships with people who are struggling with homelessness and to be a place where they receive positive reinforcement,” Murphy said.
Interfaith’s roots date back to 1956, when a group of local pastors formed the Evanston Council of Churches. In 1970, the organization became the Evanston Ecumenical Action Council. Then in 2006, as Jewish and Muslim houses of worship joined the effort, it adopted its current name: Interfaith Action of Evanston.
Today, Interfaith operates four soup kitchens in coordination with religious organizations, while other meal programs operate independently. It also runs a hospitality center at St. Mark’s Church that is open year-round from 7–11 a.m. The facility includes activity and computer rooms for guests.
Volunteer Isaac Iles works in the computer room two days a week, helping clients with tasks such as creating résumés and checking email.
While many people regularly seek assistance, Iles said the most meaningful success stories are the ones he never sees again.
“They get a job, they find housing, and we never see them again,” he said. “That’s the best-case scenario.”
One new development this year is an initiative created by Assistant Program Manager Jernone Smith that allows Interfaith to provide simple cell phones to clients, helping them stay in touch with friends, family and potential employers.
“We wanted to help people get over their loneliness and maintain contact with friends and family,” Murphy said.
Interfaith operates on an annual budget of approximately $550,000, funded through a City of Evanston grant, private donations and fundraising events. Those include an annual dinner at the Orrington Hotel, typically held in October, and the Walk for Warmth, a two-mile walk through downtown Evanston on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Murphy estimated between 400 and 450 people participated in this year’s Walk for Warmth on Jan. 19, despite the cold temperatures.
Murphy is the organization’s only full-time staff member, supported by six part-time employees and seasonal overnight shelter staff. She first became involved 28 years ago while searching for a job and, despite limited experience at the time, was hired as a job counselor before eventually becoming executive director.
Assisted by staff and a large network of volunteers, Murphy said she remains deeply committed to the work.
“I’ve met people I never would have met otherwise,” she said. “They are amazing people.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/11/evanstons-interfaith-action-provides-overnight-shelter/
‘Our Institutional Geo-Economic Architecture’ Won’t Just Ride This Out, Rabobank Warns
‘Our Institutional Geo-Economic Architecture’ Won’t Just Ride This Out, Rabobank Warns
Authored by Michael Every via Rabobank,
24 Hours
US retail sales soft, yields down, stocks up, oil up.
That’s one way to look at the last 24 hours.
Or one can look at it –and the next 24 hours– more deeply.
Let’s start with geopolitics, then look at AI, and try to tie it all together into a better market take than the above.
As @desmondshum underlines:
“Europe isn’t merely “slowing.” It’s being structurally out-scaled and outbid – squeezed between an America that owns the high-tech frontier and a China that has moved from low-end volume into the mid-tech industrial core Europe once dominated…
…Without a hard turn –fast trade defence, real industrial policy, and bloc-level unity– Europe’s “model” doesn’t get reformed; it gets liquidated.”
Macron just declared a European ‘state of emergency’, arguing EU-US tensions are far from over, and the bloc must become a global economic power or risk being swept aside.
He called for Eurobonds to Make Europe Great Again. Within hours, Germany shot that down. Macron called for ‘Made in Europe’ policies.
They were also shot down by Germany and Italy. A new French report argues Europe needs to immediately impose 30% tariffs against China or devalue EUR vs CNY by 20-30% (how?) to retain its industrial core. That will get shot down – what then?
In 24 hours, an informal Leaders’ retreat with Draghi and Letta dedicated to ‘strengthening the single market in a new geoeconomic context’ will, zeitgeistly, be held in Alden Biesen castle to assess how the EU should position itself for increased –and not always fair– economic competition and trade imbalances.
Draghi now favours a multi-speed/tier Europe, not one speed for all. But what will the others say? There’s parallel talk of Ukraine entering the EU as soon as 2027. How literally market moving will it all prove? Don’t sweep those questions aside!
Finland’s President expects the US will use the looming Munich Security Conference to reset strained EU ties. That follows Europe agreeing to join the US critical minerals plan, which limits its options for strategic autonomy, and as: the EU parliament agreed to proceed with the EU-US trade deal; EU capitals say deleting US tech is not realistic; US-backed start-ups won a major German military drone contract; ‘even some of Mercosur’s biggest fans are nervous about moving too fast’, and the European Commission will unveil new security measures on access to public funding in March designed to shut out Chinese companies in particular.
Or Munich could go as badly as last year. The US is likely to be enraged by recent EU actions against its tech firms and claims of election interference, as the conference report released ahead of it warns Trump is a “demolition man” and “most of Europe is watching the US’ descent into ‘competitive authoritarianism’ with rising concern or even horror, wondering how resilient US democracy really is.” That said, the US ambassador to NATO just underlined the US just wants Europe to take primary responsibility for European defence as soon as possible, not as soon as comfortable – and there is a short shortlist of EU geostrategic options if Munich sees a new crisis.
Regardless, Europe needs to do much more and faster.
As Russian casualties in Ukraine surge, Estonian intelligence claims its shell output soared to 7m in 2025, up from 4.5m, and it’s bringing drone training into schools and sucking more of the private sector into its war economy. To match these “preparations for the next war”, as Norway warns Russia could invade it, Europe will need to keep pace. The former head of Britain’s armed forces, with eight days of ammo, says Europe ‘must become a military superpower.’ Add that to Macron’s list?
Meanwhile, Israeli PM heads for the US to meet Trump as we wait to see if an Iran deal is struck, or if Iran is struck; and underlining how fast things are moving, Turkey –next to Europe– says it could join the nuclear arms race if Iran acquires a bomb.
So, what will Greece then want?
Let’s now turn to AI, where developments are as rapid and tectonic as in geopolitics – and the two are linked.
Many talked about AI as a meme to chase, a bubble, or something that won’t really impact them that much. Yet @mattshumer_ argues this is like early reactions to Covid headlines from China.
(There, I guessed what would happen immediately, and recall being told a first estimate of the impact on the global economy was to lower Chinese GDP by 0.1% in 2020, full stop: I couldn’t stop my exasperated reaction.)
Shumer argues we already have commercial AI, with adverts to keep prices down, that’s transformative even for small businesses: and it destroys swathes of white-collar employment. Software now creates its own software, instantly. Wall Street is already shorting sectors seen as prone to being replaced by AI, says Bloomberg. Some may not exist soon: recall High Street travel agents? How long until we say, ‘Recall brokers? Coders? Lawyers?’ Or analysts who tell you what a Bloomberg AI said a few hours previously. I may risk looking like a horse’s backside after mocking early iterations of AI –I reprinted the hilarious first AI script for a John Wick movie also involving horses– but an analyst who can’t see this AI trend upends everything around them risks being a loyal workhorse staring in bemusement at the first car.
Neo-Luddites will arise: but failing a Butlerian jihad, every economy will demand AI that creates AI and AI-driven robots that build more robots, which can work and fight wars.
Human intelligence should be able to project what demand is going to look like. Human cynicism and history will speak to the rewards that will flow to the winners, and the penalties, in terms of relative loss of wealth and power, which will be dumped on the losers.
However, as @ctindale points out, and some humans didn’t get until recently, unlimited AI power still requires limited physical inputs. It will need vast amounts of cheap electricity; metals such as copper, where supplies are limited (and the US and China have built stockpiles); rare earths; oil, for the plastics; and midstream facilities like smelters and refineries – things the liberal world order told Western economies not to build.
This will be zero-sum because of the military component and demand vs supply. It will therefore require control of resources and mines; ports; ocean carriers; and naval chokepoints. It will essentially be the 19th century race for steel, or the 20th century race for oil or nuclear power – but this time with a sci-fi multiplier for those who get there first and can sustain a system which improves itself. If you can’t do any of the above, you either join a power who can, on its terms, or risk suffering the fate of countries who didn’t keep up with tech changes in the 19th and 20th centuries – which didn’t allow them comfortable artisanal lives in bucolic castles.
Obviously, this has major implications beyond markets and high-level summits.
If you think the liberal world order is holding on by its fingernails now, and it is, try adding mass white collar unemployment –the demographic that starts revolutions– to the mix.
Ironically, the one upside may be if one has a shrinking workforce, as Boomers and Gen X can retire, allowing the jobs that remain to be done by AI and robots. How non LWO economies, and those with growing labour forces, fare remains to be seen.
If you think our institutional geoeconomic architecture just rides this out, and an abstract national interest rate from a central bank has any meaning at any level in a world in which everything starts to revolve around free brainpower (AI) and free labour (robots), based on the supply of limited resources that some have and others don’t, but everyone wants,… then I have a nice carrot and some oats for you to munch on.
And you are already wearing your own blinkers.
Then it’s off to the glue factory, perhaps.
Tyler Durden
Wed, 02/11/2026 – 09:55
Secretaria de Justicia de EEUU comparecerá ante el Congreso sobre manejo de archivos de Epstein
Por ALANNA DURKIN RICHER y ERIC TUCKER
WASHINGTON (AP) — La secretaria de Justicia de Estados Unidos, Pam Bondi, será interrogada el miércoles por los legisladores sobre el manejo, por parte de su departamento, de archivos relacionados con Jeffrey Epstein que han expuesto información privada sensible sobre las víctimas, a pesar de los esfuerzos de censura.
Bondi enfrenta una nueva ola de críticas derivadas de la saga política que ha acosado su mandato tras la publicación de millones de archivos adicionales sobre Epstein, cuya divulgación ha sido calificada por las víctimas como descuidada e incompleta.
Será la primera vez que la secretaria de Justicia comparezca ante el Congreso desde una tumultuosa audiencia realizada en octubre, en la que esquivó repetidamente preguntas y contrarrestó las críticas de los demócratas a sus acciones con sus propios ataques políticos.
Más allá del caso de Epstein, la comparecencia de Bondi también se produce un día después de que un jurado investigador federal declinara procesar a los demócratas electos investigados por el Departamento de Justicia tras producir un vídeo en el que instaban a los miembros del ejército a no seguir órdenes ilegales.
Se espera que los demócratas del Comité Judicial de la Cámara de Representantes interroguen a Bondi sobre cómo el Departamento de Justicia decidió qué debía y qué no debía hacerse público en virtud de la Ley de Transparencia de los Archivos de Epstein, aprobada por el Congreso después de que el departamento anunciara abruptamente en julio que no se publicarían más archivos, a pesar de haber elevado las esperanzas de los influencers conservadores y teóricos de la conspiración.
Bondi ha luchado continuamente por superar la reacción negativa sobre su manejo de los archivos de Epstein desde que distribuyó carpetas a un grupo de influencers de redes sociales en la Casa Blanca en febrero de 2025. Las carpetas no incluían nuevas revelaciones sobre el magnate, lo que hizo que la base del presidente Donald Trump hiciera aún más llamados para que se publicaran los archivos.
La audiencia se produce días después de que algunos legisladores visitaran una oficina del Departamento de Justicia para revisar versiones sin censura de los archivos. Como parte de un acuerdo con el departamento, se permitió que los legisladores accedieran a más de tres millones de archivos publicados en una sala de lectura con cuatro computadoras y se les permitió tomar notas manuscritas.
Los demócratas han acusado al Departamento de Justicia de censurar información que debería haberse hecho pública, incluida aquella que podría llevar a investigar a los asociados de Epstein. Mientras tanto, las víctimas han criticado al departamento por ejercer una censura inconsistente o inexistente que permitió la divulgación inadvertida de fotos con desnudos y otra información privada sobre las víctimas.
El departamento ha defendido la más reciente divulgación de más de tres millones de páginas de documentos junto con más de 2.000 videos y 180.000 imágenes. The Associated Press y otras organizaciones de medios siguen revisando millones de páginas de documentos, muchos de los cuales eran confidenciales.
Una revisión de registros por parte de la AP muestra que, si bien los investigadores recopilaron pruebas suficientes de que Epstein abusó sexualmente de menores de edad, encontraron pocas evidencias de que el bien conectado financiero liderara una red de tráfico sexual que sirviera a hombres poderosos. Videos y fotos incautados de las casas de Epstein en Nueva York, Florida y las Islas Vírgenes no mostraban a víctimas sufriendo abusos ni implicaban a nadie más en sus crímenes, escribió un fiscal en un memorando de 2025.
El caso relacionado con el video de los legisladores dirigido a los miembros del ejército podría proporcionar material adicional para que los demócratas ataquen a Bondi y cuestionen la manera en que el Departamento de Justicia utiliza su autoridad de investigación.
El video, en el que aparecen demócratas veteranos o con experiencia en la comunidad de inteligencia, enfureció al gobierno, y en particular, al secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth.
El Departamento de Justicia inició una investigación sobre el video, en el que los senadores demócratas Mark Kelly de Arizona y Elissa Slotkin de Michigan, junto con otros cuatro demócratas, instaban a los militares a seguir los protocolos militares establecidos y rechazar órdenes que, en su opinión, fueran ilegales.
El martes, un jurado investigador en Washington declinó emitir alguna acusación. Hasta el momento, se desconoce si los fiscales han buscado acusaciones contra los seis legisladores, o qué cargo o cargos intentaron presentar. Sin embargo, ello constituye el más reciente ejemplo de un jurado investigador que contradice al Departamento de Justicia en casos relacionados con críticos del gobierno de Trump.
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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con la ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.
