Month: May 2021

Soccer-PSG Cling on to Title Hopes as Leaders Lille HeldSoccer-PSG Cling on to Title Hopes as Leaders Lille Held

Paris St Germain clung on to their hopes of winning a fourth consecutive Ligue 1 title with a 4-0 home win against 10-man Stade de Reims as Lille’s lead was cut to a single point with one game remaining on Sunday.

As PSG cruised to a routine victory, Lille, who have 80 points, were held to a goalless draw by mid-table St Etienne and now need a win at Angers in the final round to guarantee them a first title since 2011.

Monaco stayed third on 77 points, one win away from guaranteeing a Champions League spot, as goals by Wissam Ben Yedder and Aleksandr Golovin earned them a 2-1 home victory against Stade Rennais.

They lead fourth-placed Olympique Lyonnais, in the first of two Europa League spots, by one point after Rudi Garcia’s team secured a 5-2 win at Nimes thanks to a double by Lucas Paqueta and goals by Memphis Depay, Houssem Aouar and Islam Slimani.

Second-from-bottom Nimes were relegated to Ligue 2.

Six teams — Reims, Bordeaux, Racing Strasbourg, Brest, Lorient and Nantes – are separated by two points and will battle to avoid finishing 18th, which would mean taking part in a relegation playoff.

Olympique Marseille, on 59 points, occupy the other Europa League spot in fifth place as Arkadiusz Milik’s hat-trick gave them a 3-2 win against Angers, while RC Lens (56) are sixth following a 3-0 loss at Girondins de Bordeaux.

At the Parc des Princes, PSG were never troubled by a Reims side who played most of the game with 10 men in a warm-up before Wednesday’s French Cup final against Monaco.

Neymar converted a penalty in the 13th minute after Yunis Abdelhamid handled the ball in the area and picked up a straight red card in the process.

Kylian Mbappe doubled the advantage in the 24th, firing home from a terrible clearance by Thomas Foket.

Marquinhos added a third with a downward header on 68 minutes and Moise Kean netted a fourth from just inside the box.

Lille lacked inspiration against a sturdy St Etienne side and missed out on securing a victory that would have allowed them to head into the final round needing only a draw when Yusuf Yazici’s free kick crashed onto the far post in the last minute.

Parkland Sheriff Gets Job Reviewing Red Light TicketsParkland Sheriff Gets Job Reviewing Red Light Tickets

A previous South Florida sheriff who was eliminated from office by the lead representative due to his organization’s reaction to the Parkland school shooting that left 17 individuals dead has gotten another line of work assessing the recording of red light cameras.

Previous Broward Sheriff Scott Israel was recruited for the current month by the Davie Police Department as a traffic infraction requirement official, the Sun Sentinel revealed. He’ll make $65,000 per year, equivalent to his resigning archetype, Davie Police Chief Stephen Kinsey said.

The all day work includes Israel assessing the city’s five red light cameras and showing up in court in the event that anybody challenges a ticket. The work was posted for two days toward the beginning of May. Three individuals applied, and just Israel was met.

As per the Florida Division of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, 6,570 tickets were given through Davie’s red light camera program from July 2019 to June 2020, the last financial year.

Kinsey and Israel recently cooperated at the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, and Israel picked Kinsey to be his undersheriff when he was chosen sheriff in Broward County in 2012.

Gov. Ron DeSantis eliminated Israel from office in 2019, almost a year after the February 2018 slaughter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. DeSantis designated Gregory Tony to assume control over the Broward Sheriff’s Office. Tony beat Israel in the Democratic essential for the position keep going August and proceeded to win the overall political race.

Nikolas Cruz, 22, faces capital punishment whenever indicted for the Stoneman Douglas killings. His legal counselors say he would concede in return for a daily existence jail sentence, yet examiners have dismissed that.…

Arrests in UK Over Claims Antisemitic Abuse Hurled From CarsArrests in UK Over Claims Antisemitic Abuse Hurled From Cars

British police arrested four people on Sunday over videos posted on social media that appeared to show violent antisemitic language being shouted from a convoy of cars driving through London.

The footage appears to show several cars adorned with Palestinian flags driving through an area of north London with a large Jewish population. At one point a man’s voice can be heard through a loudspeaker shouting profanities and saying “rape their daughters.”

The Metropolitan Police force said officers stopped a car on a main road in the west of the city and detained four men on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offenses.

“This behavior was utterly shocking and will not be tolerated,” police Supt. Jo Edwards said.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the images, which came just before the Jewish festival of Shavuot.

“There is no place for antisemitism in our society,” he said on Twitter. “Ahead of Shavuot, I stand with Britain’s Jews who should not have to endure the type of shameful racism we have seen today.”

On Saturday, thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in London to protest Israel’s strikes on Gaza during a week of conflict. It was one of scores of protests around the world.

Oklahoma Governor Booted From Tulsa Race Massacre CommissionOklahoma Governor Booted From Tulsa Race Massacre Commission

The commission framed to notice the 100th commemoration of the Tulsa Race Massacre reported Friday that it has booted Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt from his seat on the board.

An assertion from the commission didn’t show the justification the splitting, and a representative said the commission had no further remark. Nonetheless, the move came after commission project administrator Phil Armstrong reprimanded the Republican lead representative for marking a bill into law banning the instructing of certain race and bigotry ideas in Oklahoma schools.

“The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commissioners met Tuesday and concurred through agreement to head out in different directions from Governor Stitt,” the commission’s assertion said.

It proceeded to say that while the commission “is demoralized to head out in different directions from Governor Stitt, we are appreciative for the things achieved together.” It likewise said, “No chosen authorities, nor delegates of chose authorities, were associated with this choice.”

The Republican lead representative was educated regarding his ouster just when the commission gave its assertion, said Stitt representative Carly Atchison.…

Tesla in Fatal California Crash Was on AutopilotTesla in Fatal California Crash Was on Autopilot

A Tesla engaged with a lethal accident on a Southern California expressway a week ago was working on Autopilot at that point, specialists said.

The May 5 accident in Fontana, a city 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, is being scrutinized by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The test is the 29th case including a Tesla that the organization has reacted to.

A 35-year-elderly person was murdered when his Tesla Model 3 struck a toppled semi on a turnpike at about 2:30 a.m. The casualty’s name has not yet been disclosed. Another man was genuinely harmed when the electric vehicle hit him as he was helping the semi’s driver out of the disaster area.

The California Highway Patrol, or CHP, declared on Thursday that the vehicle had been working Tesla’s halfway computerized driving framework called Autopilot, which has been associated with numerous accidents. The Fontana crash stamps at any rate the fourth U.S. passing including Autopilot.

“While the CHP doesn’t typically remark on-going examinations, the Department perceives the significant degree of interest based on crashes including Tesla vehicles,” the office said in an explanation. “We felt this data gives a chance to remind the public that driving is an unpredictable undertaking that requires a driver’s complete consideration.”

The government wellbeing examination comes soon after the CHP captured another man who specialists have said was in the secondary lounge of a Tesla that was driving this week on Interstate 80 close to Oakland with nobody in the driver’s seat.

CHP has not said if authorities have decided if the Tesla in the I-80 episode was working on Autopilot, which can keep a vehicle focused in its path and a protected distance behind vehicles before it.

In any case, almost certainly, either Autopilot or “Full Self-Driving” were in activity for the driver to be in the rearward sitting arrangement. Tesla is permitting a set number of proprietors to test its self-driving framework.

Tesla, which has disbanded its advertising office, didn’t promptly react Friday to an email looking for input Friday.…