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Japan’s penalty shootout defeat to Croatia followed by Brazil’s solid 4-1 win over South Korea have ended Asian hopes at the World Cup in Qatar. The earlier loss by Australia to Argentina in the group of 16 knockouts means that all three Asian Football Confederation teams have now been eliminated in the first knockout round of the World Cup. But the Samurai Blue and the Taegeuk Warriors have much to be proud of, not least Japan’s shock upsets in winning matches against European heavyweights Germany (2-1) and Spain (2-1) in the group stage, and South Korea’s stunning 2-1 win over…

Aiden Chase says no words can stop him from returning to the rink. Not even a derogatory epithet allegedly hurled his way by an opponent. “My love for this sport is too strong to let something like that affect me,” he told Global News on Friday.Chase is a forward with the Île-Perrot Riverains hockey Midget A team. The club faced off against the Braves de Valleyfield on Saturday evening. The 16-year-old says an opponent called him the n-word near the end of the game“At first I was in shock and then I was like, really upset,” said Chase.In a video…

The University of Washington is facing a lawsuit over its alleged failure to release documents detailing the alleged coordination between one professor and the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) disinformation project. Independent watchdog Protect the Public’s Trust filed a lawsuit in its pursuit of documents from professor Kate Starbird about her work on the advisory committee for the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The committee, which also consists of current and former employees of Big Tech firms such as Twitter, Meta and Google, drafted a report to the CISA director that concluded the agency should shape the “information ecosystem” as it…

Courtesy of Kayla Rae Reid/Instagram Future swimmer! Ryan Lochte’s wife, Kayla Rae Reid, is pregnant with the couple’s third child. “Ryan is such an amazing, hands-on dad but you can’t be as hands-on as you’d like [when] you’re training so hard and it’s such a demanding schedule that you physically cannot do both. This go-round, it’s been really nice to just be able to have him be present,” Reid, 31, told Good Morning America in an interview published on Friday, December 9. “It’s been this kind of wave of relaxing, ’Oh, my gosh, we can actually enjoy this pregnancy together, we can…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. is criticizing Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema after she announced her decision to leave the Democratic Party and register as an independent on Friday.Sinema announced the decision in an Arizona Republic op-ed published on Friday, criticizing America’s two party system.”Americans are told that we have only two choices – Democrat or Republican – and that we must subscribe wholesale to policy views the parties hold, views that have been pulled further and further toward the extremes,” Sinema wrote. “Most Arizonans believe this is a false choice, and when I ran for the U.S. House and the Senate,…

Cardi B has an important PSA for any of her fans who might be thinking about getting plastic surgery on their buttocks. In a recent Instagram Live video, the rapper got candid about her decision to remove the majority of her buttocks injections, and she cautioned her fans that the procedure can be dangerous.“In August, I got surgery, and I removed 95% of my biopolymers. … If you don’t know what it is, it’s a– shots,” the 30-year-old said in the video, as reported by People.In 2018, the rapper discussed the procedure with GQ and revealed she had silicone illegally…

A Florida man is facing charges after allegedly throwing two tiny kittens out of a moving car onto a 70 mph highway.The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said a witness spotted Diego Torres Ruiz, 29, tossing the cats from the window of his Hyundai Santa Fe SUV on November 28. Witnesses told deputies cars had to swerve to avoid hitting them after the kittens tumbled onto the pavement. The witness provided a description of the SUV and Ruiz was stopped a short time later. Deputies said he denied knowing anything about the kittens. The cats were not immediately found and Ruiz was released. …

After Bitcoin’s surge of 2.32% from the $16,800 support level yesterday, the cryptocurrency market seemed to regain its footing Friday in the $16,800 to $17,300 range. However, as risk asset markets took a turn downward in the afternoon, crypto markets followed the trend, with Bitcoin losing 0.43% so far today at $17,118 and Ethereum losing 1.14%, to trade at $1,263 as of writing. For those looking to take positions in the crypto markets, today’s picks of promising coins include both higher cap coins as well as some that are currently in presale, including IMPT, TWT, D2T, GRT, and RIA. If you…

A U.S. military leader warned Friday that China is continuing to build capabilities that potentially threaten American assets in space. Commander of U.S. Space Command Gen. James Dickinson told reporters that China continues to “build capabilities that, really quite frankly, hold most of our assets at risk in the space domain.””I’m seriously focused on our pacing challenge, China,” he said.”The unified stance of our allies and partners is critical in countering the coercion and subversion that threatens the international rules-based order here in the Indo-Pacific and beyond,” Dickinson noted.NASA’S ORION SPACECRAFT CAPTURES STUNNING VIDEO OF MOON, EARTH The head of American…

Sad girls are in. These days, emotional expression has more to do with celebration than suppression—tearing up on social is almost as common as weeping (quietly) on the subway—and the shift puts the aesthetic merits of a good cry on full display. Rosy cheeks! Glistening eyes! Defined lashes! Crying makeup is making the rounds. It’s on TikTok (another trend popularized by creator Zoe Kim Kenealy) and even on-screen in HBO’s Euphoria, and for good reason: Once the actual tears are wiped away, the remaining effects converge for a look that veers into romantic territory. “Crying gives us a natural flush to our face!” says…