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London (AFP) – The Premier League will finally reach the end of its longest season on Sunday with plenty still on the line at both ends of the table. Manchester United and Leicester face each other in a shootout for a place in the Champions League next season with Chelsea also hoping to secure their place in the top four. Wolves and Tottenham are vying for one place in the Europa League. And at the bottom it could not be closer with one goal separating Aston Villa just outside the relegation… Source link

James Carville and President Trump. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Jason Kempin/Getty Images, AP[2]) Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville doubled down Friday on his prediction that President Trump may yet abandon his run for reelection when confronted with poll numbers showing that he is in danger of getting swamped in an electoral “tsunami” that might rival Herbert Hoover’s 1932 landslide defeat to Franklin D. Roosevelt. In an interview on the Yahoo News podcast… Source link

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army plans to conduct a few fly-offs to test possible long-range precision munitions for its fleet of future helicopters, according to the chief of operations in charge of the service’s Future Vertical Lift modernization efforts. While the Army has picked Israeli company Rafael’s Spike Non-Line-of-Sight missile as an interim solution to deliver long-range lethality from its current and future helicopter fleets, it is also in the market for other options. “The Army… Source link

More than 12 million Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic to work as slaves A major DNA study has shed new light on the fate of millions of Africans who were traded as slaves to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries. More than 50,000 people took part in the study, which was able to identify more details of the “genetic impact” the trade has had on present-day populations in the Americas. It lays bare the consequences of rape, maltreatment, disease and racism. More… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Don’t expect Joe Biden to weigh in on ‘cancel culture’  Yahoo News Source link

LeBron James’ group More Than A Vote plans to donate $100,000 to help register Florida voters with felony records by paying their court debts and fees. More Than A Vote said it will donate the money to the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition to help pay outstanding court debts of former felons so they can register to vote in the November election. The group was founded by James, but is comprised of many fellow Black athletes and entertainers. Florida’s ex-felons unable to vote due to… Source link

Florida surpassed 400,000 total coronavirus cases on Friday, one day after Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state had “clearly stabilized with the cases.” As of 9:25 a.m. ET Friday, Florida had recorded some 402,312 cases of COVID-19, according to data compiled by the state Department of Health. The state logged an average of 10,700 cases per day over the last seven days. In all, some 5,653 people have died of COVID-19 in Florida, according to the state health department. The somber milestone follows… Source link

Subscribe to The Yahoo Fantasy Football Podcast Welcome to the Yahoo Sports Fantasy Football Podcast! Liz Loza is joined by Mauricio Gutierrez, the founder of Estadio Fantasy, which is the No.1 site for Fantasy Football analysis in Spanish, to talk all things football and fantasy on this latest episode. [Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Football League for free today]  Recently, Mauricio wrote about where the first pick fantasy drafts usually ends up at the end of the season — and the… Source link

WASHINGTON — Don’t expect any Sister Souljah moments from Joe Biden regarding “cancel culture.” In 1992, Bill Clinton signaled independence from his party’s own base voters by rebuking Sister Souljah, a Black rapper and activist, in front of a majority Black audience at a meeting of Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition. After the Los Angeles riots that year, Souljah was quoted as saying that “if Black people kill Black people every day, why not have a week and kill white… Source link

The Atlanta Braves, hours before their opening day game against the New York Mets, are giving us an example of how playing baseball during a pandemic can quickly turn chaotic. Both Braves catchers, Tyler Flowers and Travis d’Arnaud, won’t be available to play Friday after showing coronavirus symptoms. Mark Bowman of MLB.com says both players tested negative but are back in Atlanta. The Braves, instead, summoned two catchers from their taxi squad: While things like this are to be expected —… Source link