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CHARLOTTE, Carolina del Norte, EE.UU. (AP) — Brandon Miller anotó 30 puntos, y los Hornets de Charlotte tomaron una ventaja de 50 puntos por segunda vez este mes el lunes por la tarde para superar por 130-93 a los 76ers de Filadelfia.

Los cinco titulares de los Hornets terminaron con cifras de dos dígitos. Kon Knueppel y Moussa Diabate anotaron 12, LaMelo Ball agregó 11 y Miles Bridges terminó con diez para Charlotte, que ha ganado tres partidos consecutivos por primera vez esta temporada.

El marcador era de 28-22 después del primer cuarto, y luego Charlotte superó a Filadelfia 81-37 en los siguientes dos cuartos, llevando una ventaja de 109-59 al cuarto final.

Kelly Oubre Jr. anotó 17 para Filadelfia. Jared McCain agregó 16 y Quentin Grimes tuvo 14 para los 76ers, mientras que Tyrese Maxey fue limitado a un mínimo de seis puntos en la temporada, con un tres de 12 en tiros en 25 minutos. El promedio de anotaciones de Maxey bajó medio punto completo a 29.4 por juego.

Charlotte se convirtió en el primer equipo desde Phoenix en febrero de 2009 en liderar por 50 o más puntos en dos juegos separados dentro del mismo mes calendario.

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“Americans are not liking what they see,” Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt said Sunday of the Saturday morning events in Minneapolis that resulted in the shooting death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by a Border Patrol officer.

Ya think, governor?

So what do you and your fellow Republicans plan to do about a situation that has gone so far out of control as to horrify and outrage even those who believe that the U.S. rule of law should include its laws on immigration?

During the election, as President Donald Trump insisted that this election would mean the mass deportation of the unauthorized, however deeply embedded in American society, wiser heads pointed out that this was a Sisyphean task that necessarily would involve guerilla-style urban warfare likely to cause collateral damage to both enforcement officers and members of the public, while resulting in merely performative results. Given the numbers.

This is an inevitable consequence of both political parties, fearful of their extremes, punting for years on an immigration policy that secured the borders and offered a path forward for those who have been here for years and likely now reside in families of mixed citizenship status.

Sure, mass deportations offered electoral red meat as Republicans realized most Americans were disturbed by the hundreds of thousands of people flowing across the border with impunity during the Joe Biden administration. Still, the plan for this kind of enforcement action was doomed from the start.

There were too many downsides in trying to deport people far in both geography and time from the U.S. border, people who are part of communities and institutions who enjoy the protection of American citizens who might have a variety of views on the matter of immigration in the abstract but are hardwired to protect their own friends, family members and communities.

Law enforcement officers well understand that the line between protesting peacefully and interfering is one that requires well-trained police officers to, well, police. Yet many states, including Illinois and Minnesota, already had laws specifically preventing local police from cooperating with immigration enforcement and thus being present at their clashes.

People have genuine disagreements about so-called sanctuary city laws, but the existence of those laws should have been no surprise. They were why Minneapolis cops were not present when Renee Nicole Good blocked the trajectory of ICE officers (and who might have persuaded her to move away without killing or even harming her), or when the armed and impassioned Alex Pretti showed up to protest alongside many of his peers.

Instead of a de-escalation of a situation, Pretti was killed. And while there are always as many views on these actions as camera angles, we know of no nonpartisan witness who has watched those images and come to the reasonable conclusion that the killing was inevitable. Or even justified.

We are familiar with what happens when stressed or otherwise unhinged officers with guns suddenly lose their minds under extreme pressure and their difficult professional job becomes a battle with a mortal enemy who must be eradicated. We watched what happened when Laquan McDonald was murdered by a police officer in Chicago in 2014. This felt to us like we were watching it all over again, just a few hundred miles to our north.

And let’s remember that Good and Pretti were U.S. citizens, thus outside the remit of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. Instead, the Trump administration now finds itself in an escalating war with its own people, including many of its prior supporters.

Clearly, Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino learned nothing from Chicago where he encountered similar neighborhood opposition that should have been predictive for his White House bosses. By the time the Border Patrol reached the much smaller city of Minneapolis, the opposition had hardened, and, by Saturday, already was angrily protesting what it saw as the unjustified killing of an ordinary citizen. All of this should have been anticipated and avoided. What is the job of a president if not to protect the lives of Americans?

Minneapolis is not some great center of illegal immigration. The Trump administration spends far too much time online, and the immigration enforcement surge to our north surely was driven by its anger over the massive welfare fraud scandal, which received so much focus online, with its emphasis on the many perpetrators who claimed the African nation of Somalia as their country of origin.

That welfare fraud was real, as the number of convictions attest, and its scale is a stunner and an indictment of the state’s officials, asleep at the wheel. But this was always a fraud issue, not an immigration issue, and the White House wrongly assumed that the perps mostly were in the U.S. without legal permission; on the contrary, most of them were and are U.S. citizens or permanent residents or legal refugees.

But instead of cooperative layers of law enforcement rooting out the criminality, which is the way it should have been, the White House unleashed its paramilitary Border Patrol, thus conflating national origin with legality of immigration status, which is about as un-American as it gets. That gave even more moral conviction to those hell-bent on stopping the enforcement actions.

We called for an independent investigation, a joint effort of federal, state and local forces, into the death of Good, and we do so today again into the death of Pretti. We’ve said from the start that the intemperate words of some (not all) left-leaning politicians have encouraged ordinary citizens to put themselves in danger, and we’ve not changed that view even as we respect the right to protest with every fiber of one’s being.

We are glad to hear that the lightning rod that is Bovino is leaving Minneapolis. If only his bosses were truly rethinking their plans for the rest of the country. We can’t abide more deaths.

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LIVERPOOL, Inglaterra (AP) — El delantero francés Thierno Barry anotó el lunes su cuarto gol en cinco partidos para darle a Everton un empate 1-1 en casa contra Leeds.

Leeds fue dominante en la primera mitad y tomó la delantera a los 28 minutos, cuando James Justin marcó cerca del segundo palo tras un centro raso de Anton Stach.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin casi duplicó la ventaja de Leeds tres minutos después, pero remeció el poste desde cuatro metros. La superioridad temprana de Leeds quedó reflejada por acumular 10 remates en el primer tiempo, más que en cualquier partido de liga desde septiembre de 2021.

Sin embargo, el entrenador de Everton David Moyes pasó a una defensa de tres para la segunda mitad y su equipo se recuperó.

Karl Darlow, el arquero Leedes, evitó que el empate llegara más temprano por cuenta de Barry. Iliman Ndiaye, de vuelta en el equipo después de ganar la Copa Africana de Naciones con Senegal, también estuvo cerca para Everton.

Barry logró finalmente consiguió igualar el marcador a 14 minutos del final. El delantero se adelantó a un defensor de Leeds para empujar un centro del también senegalés Idrissa Gueye.

Aun así, el empate fue un golpe para las esperanzas europeas de Everton. Una victoria lo habría llevado al séptimo lugar, pero se mantuvo en el décimo, uno de cuatro equipos con 33 puntos.

Leeds suma 26 puntos, seis por encima de la zona de descenso de la Liga Premier y dos puntos detrás de los clubes que están por encima, Tottenham y Crystal Palace.

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Appeals Court Denies DOJ’s Bid To Arrest More Minnesota Church Protesters

Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/26/2026 – 17:40

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The intersection of Waukegan and Westleigh Roads in Lake Forest is set for a major overhaul later this year as the city seeks to improve traffic flow and safety at the busy crossroads.

“It is both dangerous and at times very confusing and frustrating if you are trying to make turns, depending on which direction you are headed,” City Manager Jason Wicha said during a Jan. 16 forum hosted by the Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Chamber of Commerce.

City documents describe the intersection as accident-prone and prone to congestion, particularly during athletic events at Lake Forest High School’s West Campus, including football games.

Planned improvements include new left- and right-turn lanes on both roads, upgraded pedestrian signals, crosswalks, sidewalks, and ADA-accessible ramps, as well as drainage upgrades and pavement widening and resurfacing.

“It is a full intersection reconstruction,” said Byron Kutz, the city’s superintendent of engineering, at the Jan. 20 City Council meeting, where aldermen unanimously approved a $398,000 construction engineering contract with Gewalt Hamilton, the project designer.

Kutz noted the added turn lanes will result in longer pedestrian crossings. Lane closures on Waukegan Road are expected during construction, though Kutz noted at least one lane of traffic in each direction is expected to remain open at all times.

While Gewalt Hamilton submitted the higher of the two bids the city received — by slightly more than $20,000 — Kutz maintained the firm’s experience and communication outreach capabilities were key factors in the decision.

“They had a really good understanding of the project, which can be helpful during construction as well,” he said.

Utility relocation work is already underway, with construction scheduled to begin in March. City officials expect the project to be mostly completed by late July or early August, ahead of the start of the fall high school athletic season.

In separate action, the City Council approved a staff request to allocate nearly $430,000 in contingency funding between the Illinois Department of Transportation and the construction company handling the replacement of the Lake-Woodbine Bridge.

Funding for the estimated $4.7 million bridge project is split: 75 % from federal grant funds distributed by the State of Illinois and 25 % from the city.

As previously reported by Pioneer Press, the city is removing the original 1912 Lake-Woodbine Bridge, which will be replaced with a new structure designed to reflect the arch of the original bridge.

Rehabilitation work on the nearby Lake and Spruce Road bridge is scheduled to begin at the end of March.

Kutz said both bridges are expected to reopen by mid-September.

Following the meeting, the city announced it had received a $600,000 Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grant from the State of Illinois to support the second phase of planned improvements at South Park, located at 150 S. Maywood Road.

The grant will fund part of a roughly $1.265 million project that includes a new splash pad, ballfield upgrades, a fitness station, game tables, bag toss games and a picnic shelter. The city will cover the remaining costs.

The first phase of improvements at South Park was completed in 2020 and included a new parking lot, walking loop trail, basketball court, tennis court and a rain garden, city officials said in a statement.

Daniel I. Dorfman is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.

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VERONA, Italia (AP) — Keinan Davis anotó por séptima vez esta temporada para que Udinese derrotase a domicilio 3-1 a Hellas Verona en la Serie A el lunes.

Verona se mantuvo en el penúltimo lugar de la Serie A, igualado a 14 puntos con el colista Pisa.

Udinese se adelantó a los 23 minutos con un disparo desviado de Arthur Atta. Aunque Emmanuel Orban igualó para los anfitriones tres minutos después, las esperanzas de Verona no duraron mucho en la segunda mitad.

Alessandro Zanoli restableció la ventaja para Udinese a los 58 minutos. El tiro libre de Jordan Zemura pegó en la barrera y, aunque el balón cayó de manera incómoda para Zanoli, su volea con el exterior de su bota acabó en el ángulo superior.

Davis, el delantero inglés que jugó con Aston Villa, sentenció a los 66.

Udinese mantiene en el décimo lugar, pero ahora tiene 29 puntos, igualado con el noveno Lazio, y punto detrás de Bologna.

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Tehran Cheers US Unrest, Calls Minneapolis Protests ‘Instant Karma’

Tyler Durden
Mon, 01/26/2026 – 17:20

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iranian-state-tv-urges-americans-rise-lauds-minneapolis-protests-instant-karma 

A man stands to the side in Minneapolis, recording what is happening in front of him with his phone. Nearby, federal immigration agents deploy pepper spray on a female protester. The man steps forward. What began as observation becomes intervention.

Within moments, several agents move toward him and pin him to the ground. They shoot at him multiple times. Shouting follows, then chaos.

He is taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he is pronounced dead.

This man, Alex Pretti, was a U.S. citizen, an intensive care nurse at the local Veterans Affairs hospital and a licensed gun owner. Multiple videos show the agents restraining him and removing a handgun found on him before they fire.

When 3,000 heavily weaponized federal agents — armed with assault rifles and flash-bang grenades — are deployed onto city streets, death is not an accident. It is an anticipated consequence. Minneapolis’s entire police force numbers roughly 600 officers. Flooding a civilian city with five times that number of armed agents all but ensures violent confrontation. This is not restraint. It is escalation, and civilians are the ones who pay the price.

Pretti did not die because he was reckless. He did not die because he threatened anyone. He followed the law. Pretti was restrained on the ground and disarmed — his body curled inward — when immigration agents killed him. That distinction matters.

Pretti’s death reflects what happens when firearms and law enforcement intersect in volatile public settings.

In the hours that followed, a debate began almost immediately.

He had a gun.

That single fact became a dominant frame the administration used to interpret the event — crowding out what happened, the complexity of why it happened and what could no longer be undone.

We are physicians with different expertise. One of us, an emergency room physician, works in the trauma bay, where bodies arrive after violence has occurred. The other of us worked in quality improvement, studying how systems fail long before an ambulance is called. From those different vantage points, we see the same pattern.

In medicine, when a system predictably produces preventable deaths, we call it a sentinel event, a signal that something is structurally broken. We do not blame the last clinician involved. We investigate the system that made the outcome likely including training and protocols.

Militarized immigration enforcement should be treated the same way.

As an emergency physician, I, Halleh, experience moments like this differently. While others argue about what should or should not have happened, my mind moves downstream. I think about what happens to a body when bullets enter it. I think about anatomy, physiology and the narrow margin medicine has once gunfire is involved.

I am also trained, as a gun violence prevention advocate, to think in terms of risk. In medicine, I assess situations by probability and what reliably follows once certain conditions are in place.

Before a single shot is fired, the presence or perception of a gun reshapes how systems respond. Movements are interpreted through fear rather than fact. That shift does not depend on legality, intent or behavior — and once it occurs, individual compliance often no longer alters the trajectory.

From a clinical standpoint, this matters enormously.

People can survive being tackled. They can survive blunt force trauma. What the human body rarely survives is gunfire. Multiple gunshot wounds leave almost no opportunity for medicine to intervene. Often, even one bullet is enough.

This is not a moral judgment. It is anatomy and physiology.

As physicians, we are trained to look beyond individual tragedies and recognize patterns. Pretti’s death was not isolated. In another recent case, immigration agents fatally shot Renee Good, also a U.S. citizen, after perceiving her vehicle as a lethal threat, they stated. The circumstances differ, but the structure is the same: perceived danger, ready access to firearms and irreversible loss.

We are a country with more guns than people, where firearms are often framed as tools of protection and self-defense. For many Americans, that belief is sincere. But when immigration agents introduce guns into chaotic, emotionally charged situations, the likelihood of irreversible harm rises.

Fear does not create clarity. It narrows perception. It shortens the distance between misunderstanding and catastrophe.

I, Halleh, see the consequences of this repeatedly in the emergency department. Patients who carried a gun believing it would protect them. Patients whose fate was shaped long before force was ever used. By the time they reach us, the conditions that determined what happened are already in place.

Today’s immigration agents are uniquely positioned for escalation. Their mission prioritizes enforcement and detention, not crowd de-escalation in volatile public settings. They operate in politically charged environments where peaceful protests can be misread as threats. In situations like these, the combination of fear, authority and excess weaponry makes lethal results more likely.

From a public health perspective, this is not a question of individual intent. It is a question of institutional design.

What worries me now is the fatigue I see among my colleagues. It is not indifference, but exhaustion. I worry, too, that the nation is overwhelmed by the images coming out of Minnesota, choosing to turn away from the brutality flooding our screens.

Emergency medicine already demands enormous emotional investment. There is only so much preventable harm a person can witness before their self-preservation necessitates turning away. But the consequences do not end. They arrive by ambulance. They arrive with families who were not prepared to say goodbye that morning.

We do not expect every physician to become an advocate. We do not expect universal agreement on firearm policy. But we worry about what happens when those of us who see the aftermath most clearly feel pressure to stay silent. Silence widens the distance between decision and consequence.

In the emergency department, cause and effect are not abstract. There is no rewind. Just a body, a resuscitation room and the knowledge that Pretti did not survive.

We cannot look away. And neither should a country that accepts lethal force as routine once civilians are rendered powerless.

Dr. Halleh Akbarnia, an emergency medicine physician and national gun safety advocate, and Dr. Jennifer Obel are Chicago-area leaders of Doctors for America.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Liderados por los 23 puntos de CJ McCollum, los Hawks de Atlanta Hawks utilizaron una racha 17-0 en la segunda mitad para tomar la delantera y vencer 132-116 a los Pacers de Indiana.

Dyson Daniels anotó 22 puntos con nueve asistencias, Nickeil Alexander-Walker agregó 21 puntos y Atlanta consiguió su tercera victoria consecutiva.

Los Pacers lideraban por 15 puntos a mitad del tercer cuarto y estaban arriba 92-85 al final del período antes de que los Hawks anotaran 17 puntos sin respuesta en una racha que se extendió hasta el último cuarto. Un triple de Luke Kennard desde la esquina culminó la racha y le dio a Atlanta una ventaja 102-92.

Pascal Siakam lideró a Indiana con 26 puntos. Aaron Nesmith anotó 18 y Bennedict Mathurin regresó de una lesión en el pulgar para agregar 16. T.J. McConnell también aportó 16 puntos.

El inicio del partido estaba programado para la noche del lunes, pero se adelantó a la tarde debido a la posibilidad de hielo en las carreteras como resultado de una tormenta invernal que afecta al sur y noreste.

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Prosecutors dropped misdemeanor charges last week brought against a teacher at Calumet City’s Creative Communications Academy who allegedly gave students nicotine gum during a class in October, according to Cook County court records.

Seven families of sixth grade students who were given the gum are “exploring our civil opportunities to bring closure in this matter,” said Jarrett Adams, an attorney representing the families, who declined to comment further. No lawsuit was filed as of Monday.

The Cook County states attorney’s office said Monday prosecutors found evidence was not sufficient to meet their burden of proof.

“Prosecutors have an obligation in every case to evaluate the evidence throughout a criminal proceeding and act accordingly in the pursuit of justice,” a spokesperson said. “Throughout the pendency of this case, the (state’s attorney’s office) remained in communication with the victims and their families as we sought an appropriate resolution.”

Eric Baah was charged in November with seven counts of misdemeanor reckless conduct/bodily harm, a month after Dolton District 149 confirmed he was on administrative leave. The school board considered Baah’s resignation letter at its Nov. 25 meeting, according to the meeting agenda.

Calumet City 2nd Ward Ald. Monet Wilson in a statement Monday called the states attorneys office’s decision to dismiss the charges against Baah unacceptable.

“If this had happened in a more affluent community, I firmly believe the response would have been faster and more serious,” Wilson said. “Our children deserve the same urgency, protection and accountability regardless of their ZIP code.”

The district notified parents in November that students in Baah’s class had been reassigned to different classrooms “out of an abundance of caution and in the best interest of our students.”

Daphin March previously told the Daily Southtown she picked up her son Dae’jon, who goes by DJ, from the school at about 11 a.m. Oct. 3, after he was given the gum in a prior class. She said she received a call from the nurse’s office that he was feeling nauseous.

“My son was basically the reason why they started the investigation because he kept telling me, ‘Mommy, the gum packet said ‘for people who smoke,’” March said.

March said she first thought he misread the packaging, but she took him to urgent care as he had a headache and felt his heart beating rapidly on top of feeling nauseous. She was told DJ was showing signs of nicotine poisoning and was given medication to help.

She said she called Creative Communications Academy Principal Darryl Lacey, eventually learning multiple students reported feeling nauseous after chewing one or multiple pieces of nicotine gum.

The district said as soon as the issue was brought to its attention, it contacted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for guidance and followed all recommended health protocols and notified families with a letter home the same day.

March said she wasn’t made aware of the letter until a day later, as Lacey didn’t follow up with her until after she posted about the issue on social media.

“I said, ‘I’m kind of nervous even about letting my son go back to the school, because not only do I have to worry about my son with a student messing with him, now I’ve got to worry about teachers,’” March said she told Lacey.

March said she and other parents filed a police report to see if the teacher could face criminal charges.

District 149 also includes Caroline Sibley Elementary, Carol Moseley Braun Elementary, New Beginnings Learning Academy, Diekman Elementary, Berger-Vandenberg Elementary, the School of Fine Arts and the STEM Academy.

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