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The U.S. and Canada women’s national teams played in puddles Wednesday night in a W Gold Cup semifinal in San Diego. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/USSF/Getty Images for USSF) The U.S. women’s national team beat Canada on penalties Wednesday night in a wild Gold Cup semifinal that, by any reasonable measure, should not have been played. Torrential rain soaked Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego. Standing water covered the field, and turned the first half into a farce. The ball wouldn’t roll. Passes… Source link

MUNICH (AP) — A Republican opponent of new U.S. funding for Ukraine argued at an international security conference Sunday that the package stuck in Congress wouldn’t “fundamentally change the reality” on the ground and that Russia has an incentive to negotiate peace. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and others have advocated passage of the $60 billion in aid at the Munich Security Conference, which coincided with Ukraine withdrawing troops from… Source link

I’m beyond excited to bring my unique blend of neuroscience and fantasy football love to Yahoo Sports this season. I earned my Ph.D. in Neuroscience and am currently a professor in the Brain and Cognitive Science Department at the University of Rochester. Living in Rochester does make me a Buffalo Bills fan, though I’m not quite as rabid as most of my family since I’ve always put fantasy before fandom. I’ve been playing fantasy football since 2006 and I’ve been an avid NFL and NBA… Source link

President Biden on Wednesday announced new efforts that he says will help American farmers mitigate some of the effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine on the food supply. As part of a trip to Illinois, the White House announced three new initiatives it says will support farmers, including $500 million for domestic fertilizer production. The effort comes as overall inflation remained near a 40-year-high in April, largely driven by food prices. The food index has risen 9.4% over last year and Source link

Rite Aid’s (RAD) outlook is a hot mess — so hot the company may not be in business much longer. At least that’s the word from Deutsche Bank analyst George Hill, who issued a damning downgrade of the struggling retailer on Thursday. Hill slashed his rating on Rite Aid to Sell and slapped the stock with a $1 price target. Most worrisome — at least if one still owns Rite Aid’s stock — is that Hill suggests Rite Aid may go under. “We see a likely risk that the company provides guidance next… Source link

After a prolonged back and forth, Congress passed a $1.5 trillion government spending bill last week but dropped from the final package $22.5 billion in pandemic relief that Democrats wanted to include. On Tuesday, the same day as President Joe Biden signed the 2,741-page bill into law, his aides warned that the omission could “have severe consequences as we will not be equipped to deal with a future surge.” The U.S. could soon run out of funding for COVID responses such as booster shots,… Source link

Congress is getting better at heading off devastating recessions. Yet the gusher of stimulus money Congress provided to offset the COVID recession during the last two years included hundreds of billions of dollars for wealthy Americans, with little benefit to the ordinary workers the money was supposed to help. New research by MIT economist David Autor and nine others finds that the Paycheck Protection Program, an $800 billion aid package Congress passed in March 2020, was one of the… Source link

The Dallas Cowboys entered Sunday leading the NFL in yards and points per game.  The Arizona Cardinals did not care.  In a matchup of two teams with their playoff dates secured, the Cardinals stymied a previously red-hot Cowboys offense in a 25-22 road win. They also caught a late break when officials missed a fumble that could have given Dallas a chance to tie or take the lead in the game’s final moments.  Mike McCarthy couldn’t challenge late missed fumble With 2:44 remaining in regulation… Source link

Many people in the country are out now again looking for COVID-19 tests and vaccines with the Omicron variant raging, but that isn’t stopping publicly traded Rite Aid (RAD) from closing underperforming locations in a bid to further improve its profits.  The pharmacy chain revealed Tuesday it will shutter up to 63 stores in coming months. Closures began in November, Rite Aid said. The closures are expected to pad earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization by $25… Source link

In a big week for pandemic relief, Americans just got $20 billion in new aid Though politicians, researchers, advocates and everyday Americans have been calling for additional direct payments for most Americans, the government already is providing additional support for people struggling to make ends meet and deal with debt as the effects of the pandemic linger. More than $20 billion in COVID relief was paid out in the last week alone. Some of that may be on its way to you. $15 billion from the… Source link