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A woman shows how Lil Kim dance moves saved her from an apartment shooting.Shariah Taylor explained how she narrowly avoided being hurt after several shots were fired at her apartment complex in Alabama on 26 April, attributing her escape to Lil Kim’s signature dance moves.Ms Taylor told WTVY News 4: “So I’m dodging, I’m ducking, I’m dodging, I’m ducking, I’m dodging, doing my ‘Lil Kim’.“I’m trying to get my baby in the car, then I threw my baby in the backseat and we just sped off.” Source link

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Chelsea and Tottenham meet in the latest Premier League London derby on Thursday with both sides seeking a much-needed win to aid their European qualification hopes. Mauricio Pochettino’s side salvaged a 2-2 draw away against Aston Villa on Saturday, but one win in four league games has left the Blues five points off the final European qualification spot with eight games remaining.Spurs, meanwhile, fell to a 3-2 derby-day defeat against Arsenal on Sunday to dent their Champions…

Donald Trump claimed President Joe Biden is “determined to create the conditions” of a 7 October style attack in the US during an anti-migrant rally speech in Wisconsin.Mr Trump claimed America is heading for its own “October 7 style attack,” in a fiercely anti-immigration campaign speech on Wednesday.The former US president told supporters Mr Biden was planning to bring “massive numbers” of Gazan people from the Middle East to towns across the nation.On 7 October 2023 militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in Southern Israel, abducting around 250 hostages. Source link

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Mauricio Pochettino insisted he has received positive feedback from Chelsea supporters on the work he is doing at Stamford Bridge, but only while he has been out walking his dog.The Argentinian has regular 90-minute outings with his Rhodesian Ridgeback, Sansa, during which he said he has enjoyed frank exchanges with fans about the state of the club across what has been a difficult first season in charge.And much of the word has been positive, helped he believes…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USBrittney Griner, the WNBA star whose 2022 arrest in Moscow sparked international condemnation, says she was holding it together until she saw her wife Cherelle’s face.Griner, 33, was taken into custody after cannabis oil cartridges were found in her luggage in February 2022 at a Moscow-area airport, and later sentenced to nine years in Russian prison. At that point, she was allowed a video chat with her wife.”I was holding it together until I saw her…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Ange Postecoglou remained defiant in the face of more debate over Tottenham’s set-piece issues and insisted they would not copy the “strategy” adopted by Arsenal.Spurs have shipped 14 goals from set-pieces – excluding penalties – in the Premier League this season after they conceded twice from corners in Sunday’s 3-2 home loss to the Gunners.Leaders Arsenal have become set-piece kings since Mikel Arteta recruited specialist coach Nicolas Jover and one of his tactics was to have Ben…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USAn American man is facing up to 12 years in a Caribbean jail for accidentally taking ammunition onto an island resort, a mistake that has triggered an internal TSA investigation in the US.Ryan Watson was returning from his 40th birthday vacation on 12 April when he was detained by police in the British territory of Turks and Caicos. Airport security found several large bullets from a hunting rifle in his carry-on luggage.The penalty for travelling to…

Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for freeSign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Might the story of the season suddenly be happening out of nowhere, like another sublime Jadon Sancho run? Nobody has given Borussia Dortmund a chance in these Champions League semi-finals but, in part because Paris Saint-Germain couldn’t take any massive chances of their own, the German club at least have one foot in Wembley.That came from the one goal in this tie, that was itself struck by another unfashionable figure in Niclas Fullkrug, but it could have…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USThe infamous Wally the ‘emotional support alligator’ has been stolen while on vacation in Georgia and released back into a swamp.Wally the Gator, best known for being an emotional support pet who often gives out cuddles to the public and has amassed thousands of followers on social media for his unusually friendly behaviour, was stolen over a week ago, his owner, Joie Henney, says.Wally’s Facebook page has been updating fans of Wally’s disappearance on the animal’s…

Sports presenter Jeff Stelling said he “could have never dreamt of” his decades-long career when he was a young boy growing up on a North East council estate.The veteran broadcaster, who fronted the Sky Sports Soccer Saturday programme for 25 years before stepping down last year, was made an MBE on Wednesday for services to sport, broadcasting and charity at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.Stelling said the honour, given by the Princess Royal, was “amazing, unexpected, thrilling and, on the day, nerve-racking”.The 69-year-old broadcaster is also an ambassador to Prostate Cancer UK – for which he has helped raise more…