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Iowa State’s Caitlin Clark, who is about to become the NCAA’s all-time scoring leader in college basketball, announced Thursday that she will leave the Hawkeyes after this season and enter the WNBA draft.”While the season is far from over and we still have many goals to achieve, my last time in iowa,” Clark wrote on social media.Clark has become a focal point of women’s basketball, with her flashy play and three-point shooting often seen on the court. Many players would be benched for shooting from such distance, but Clark had her coach’s approval and she got the job done while…

It might be seen as the first US presidential debate of 2024. Two candidates and two lecterns but 300 miles – and a political universe – apart.Joe Biden and Donald Trump spent Thursday at the US-Mexico border, a vivid display of how central the immigration issue has become to the election campaign. Since it is far from certain whether official presidential debates will happen this year, the duelling visits might be as close as it gets.And it was as clarifying about the choice facing voters as any verbal clash on the debate stage. Biden came to push legislation and appeal…

AAfter weeks of drama that saw the sporting agenda pushed to the side, Formula 1 is finally putting some wheels in motion in Bahrain and, interestingly, it suggests that the same gripping spectacle could be on the track.As the team begins operations for the 2024 season, Red Bull is expected to make a triumphant return after experiencing turmoil surrounding the team and the ongoing turmoil in the context of Bahrain.Instead, they were overtaken by a surprisingly quick Mercedes in the hands of Lewis Hamilton, as he took the lead on the first day of the new season.Christian Horner supervised his…

The Senate has passed a short-term funding bill following a House vote on Thursday afternoon, narrowly averting a partial government shutdown that was due to occur this weekend.Ahead of the Senate vote, the majority leader, Chuck Schumer, addressed the chamber floor, saying that he saw “no reason this should take a very long time”.“This agreement is proof that when … bipartisanship is prioritized, when getting things done for the American people takes a high priority, good things can happen, even in divided government.”The temporary extension funds the departments of agriculture, transportation, interior and others through 8 March. It funds the…

Everton manager Sean Dyche says rules for fast-tracking financial irregularities should be changed to protect the competitive integrity of the Premier League.The rules, agreed by Premier League clubs and introduced at the start of the season, are designed to ensure standard financial breaches are resolved within 12 weeks. They were changed so that any points deductions can be applied to the season in which clubs submit their accounts.However, Dyche believes Everton’s experience exposed flaws in the system. In November, the club was deducted 10 points, falling from 14th to 19th place; on Monday, after an appeal, the deduction was reduced…

Construction noise is a near-constant across Israel; more high-rises join Tel Aviv’s tech boom skyline every year, and new housing is badly needed all over the country, as well as in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Since the 7 October Hamas attack that sparked a new war in the Gaza Strip, however, building work has come to an almost complete halt.The industry relied on approximately 80,000 Palestinian workers, who are now barred from entering Israeli territory. As a result, half-finished residential blocks are everywhere, yellow tower cranes waiting motionlessly overhead. In the West Bank, poverty rates have soared.The…

key eventsShow only key eventsPlease enable JavaScript to use this featureGame 101: Australia 339-9 (Green 144, Hazlewood 15) Ravindra is back. The disheveled 24-year-old all-rounder picked up the lbw wicket of Pat Cummins yesterday, a just reward for his energetic bowling in front of his home crowd. He missed a single to Green and was otherwise clean, but New Zealand’s offense was ineffective.share100 overs: Australia 338-9 (Green 143, Hazlewood 15) O’Rourke brought New Zealand to triple figures as he handed off his 100th innings to the dangerously composed Cameron Green, who led the way in a 70-run partnership and now…

The opening of the new Formula One season was dramatically overshadowed on Thursday evening after a leaked email purporting to contain images of messages between Christian Horner and the female member of staff who made a complaint against him was sent to media, team members and senior personnel within F1 and the sport’s governing body the FIA.Less than 24 hours after the result of the investigation into Horner for alleged inappropriate behaviour had exonerated the Red Bull team principal and dismissed the grievance, the sport was once more engulfed in speculation and conjecture after the anonymous email circulated around the…

JOsh Kerr disagrees with the old adage warning of the dangers of trying to ride two horses at the same time. The 26-year-old Scot is headlining the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow and is looking to add a 3000m title to his world outdoor 1500m gold. But he also wouldn’t mind stirring up trouble again with his arch-rival Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who did not travel to Scotland due to injury.On his U.S. visa, Kerr is described as an “entertainer.” He is worthy of this title both on and off the field. “I’m here to have an exciting game and go out…

The Democratic leadership in Congress has suggested it would protect the Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, if he bucks his far-right colleagues and brings a stalled $60bn Ukraine military aid package to a vote, as a new poll shows public support for Ukraine is now fractured down party-political lines.Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, floated the offer in an interview with the New York Times, saying “a reasonable number” of Democrats would vote to save the Republican speaker if the Ukraine vote resulted in a Republican mutiny.Far-right members of Congress including Marjorie Taylor Greene have said they would seek to…