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But in Round 2, a quick exchange of punches ended with a short right jab from Crawford that put an off-balance Spence to the canvas. The knockdown marked the first time either fighter had been dropped in his professional career but in the moment it seemed brief and inconsequential. Spence opened the next round on offense, as if to prove the punch had not damaged him. As the fight wore on,…

The New Zealand team celebrated its win over Norway in its opening match. But now the host nation is in danger of being eliminated on Sunday. Credit…David Rowland/Reuters It’s a tale of two World Cup groups on Sunday: Group A is almost entirely undecided through two games and Group H is under firm control after a win by Germany, one of the most powerful teams in the field. The angst is palpable…

Candidate after candidate at an Iowa Republican dinner on Friday avoided so much as mentioning the dominant front-runner in the race, former President Donald J. Trump. But when Mr. Trump took the stage after more than two hours of speeches by his lower-polling rivals, it took him less than three minutes to unleash his first direct attack of the night on his leading challenger, Gov. Ron DeSantis…

Savannah DeMelo said the reality that she was playing for the United States in the Women’s World Cup finally hit her as the fans in the stadium counted down the final 10 seconds before her first match. She only started to get truly comfortable, though, once people starting kicking her. The hair pulls and the shoves and the elbows? Those were just a bit of welcome familiarity for DeMelo, one of…

The United States and Europe have wrestled for months with the question of how to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction from the war. As Russia pounds cities, factories and infrastructure in Ukraine, the estimated costs have swelled to $500 billion, with some experts citing numbers as high as $1 trillion. One solution seemed brilliant in its simplicity: What better way to foot the bill, and to make a…

New York City’s power company asked customers to cut back on electricity use Thursday afternoon, and Philadelphia declared a health emergency as the dangerous heat that has scorched other parts of the country for more than a month spread to the nation’s most populous region. Soaring temperatures and a blanket of oppressive humidity prompted widespread warnings in New England and the Mid-Atlantic…

The algorithms powering Facebook and Instagram, which drive what billions of people see on the social networks, have been in the cross hairs of lawmakers, activists and regulators for years. Many have called for the algorithms to be abolished to stem the spread of viral misinformation and to prevent the inflammation of political divisions. But four new studies published on Thursday — including…

YAMHILL, Ore. — Before I make an argument about affirmative action, let me tell you how I was a beneficiary of it. I wasn’t a student of color, but I grew up on a farm and attended a small, rural high school where there wasn’t much math and nobody had ever applied to an Ivy League college. My grades and scores were strong but not extraordinary. But I did have one thing going for me. Elite…

The reading from a buoy off Florida this week was stunning: 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit, or just over 38 Celsius, a possible world record for sea surface temperatures and a stark indication of the brutal marine heat wave that’s threatening the region’s sea life. But determining whether that reading was in fact a world record is complicated. First things first: The buoy’s reading is so…

Three Russian attack helicopters swooped in low over the city of Kreminna, strafing Ukrainian frontline positions just outside the city. Russian drones circled overhead while Moscow’s ground forces fired heavy machine guns to flush out Ukrainians from foxholes hidden in the dappled light of the pine forest. As exploding artillery shells shook the ground around him on Saturday morning, Vlad, a…

The crackling flames have left charred forests, drawing in thousands of firefighters to stop their hungry march. Residents are filling buckets of water to douse blazes in their hometowns. And tourists are huddled with their belongings, not in hotels or resorts, but in evacuation centers. The hundreds of wildfires that raged in recent days across southern Europe and northern Africa forced the…

Susan Faludi suggested we show up to the “Barbie” movie in a pink Corvette, but unfortunately, the only car available was a pickup truck. So that was how one of the world’s leading feminists and I showed up to her local mall: in a 2002 black Toyota Tacoma, with tickets to Auditorium 2 for “Barbie.” I’d asked Ms. Faludi, the Pulitzer-winning journalist and author — whose 1991 book, “Backlash,”…

No Labels is still around, and its diagnosis of American politics still rests on the idea that the parties are too partisan — each captured by the most extreme members of its coalition. “These partisan extremes are in the business of feeding political division and dysfunction everyday,” writes Manchin, whose appearance at a No Labels town hall in New Hampshire came amid speculation that he might…

It is the stuff of viral internet legend now. After snow disrupted their flights, Will Hurd, the former Republican congressman, and Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat from a neighboring district, climbed into a rented Chevy Impala and took a cross-country road trip from their home state of Texas to Washington. As they live streamed what they called “a bipartisan town hall” to millions of Americans on…

Long before moving into the White House, President Biden compared the relationship between the United States and Israel to that of close friends. “We love one another,” he said, “and we drive one another crazy.” The United States and Israel are currently in one of those driving-each-other-crazy phases of their usually tight but often turbulent 75-year partnership. Prime Minister Benjamin…

Katina Curtis: Where does WA sit in Anthony Albanese’s inner-circle?

The whispers crept in only slightly slower than the flood waters that devastated Fitzroy Crossing and communities across the Kimberley last week. In the letters pages here in The West and on talkback radio a few voices — perhaps conditioned by four years watching Scott Morrison — started wondering where the Prime Minister was. Never mind that the weather was making it difficult for emergency…

Perth Wildcats coach John Rillie laments fatigue from schedule during big NBL loss to Sydney Kings

Perth Wildcats coach John Rillie has declared his team’s five consecutive games on the road played a part in their 108-87 loss to the Sydney Kings, but admitted the reigning champions “kicked our butt.” The Kings extended their winning streak over the Wildcats to four games after dominating all night. Having broken away to a 21-point lead during the first half, commentator Corey Williams said…