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Jack Eichel has a goal and 2 assists in his 500th NHL game, Golden Knights beat Canucks 4-1

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:49:25 GMT

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Jack Eichel had a goal and two assists in his 500th regular-season NHL game and the Vegas Golden Knights beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-1 on Thursday night.Ivan Barbashev, William Karlsson and Brett Howden also scored to help the defending Stanley Cup champion Golden Knights improve to 15-5-3.Adin Hill stopped all 16 shots he faced before leaving because of precautionary measures for a lower-body injury. Logan Thompson took over in the third period, stopping five of six shots.Andrei Kuzmenko scored for Vancouver, and Thatcher Demko made 40 saves. The Canucks fell to 15-8-1.Barbashev opened the scoring, slotting a shot between Demko’s legs at 4:46 of the first period. Eichel made it 2-0 with 3:42 left in the first. Nicolas Hague drove to the net, passed it to Barbashev, who then slid it across the slot to Eichel for his ninth of the season.Karlsson sniped it past Demko midway through the second to make it a 3-0 game. Howden tipped in Alex Pietrangelo&...

Tom Wilson’s first hat trick leads Washington Capitals past slumping Anaheim Ducks 5-4

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:49:25 GMT

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Tom Wilson scored with 5:38 left to complete his first career hat trick in his 700th game, and the Washington Capitals extended the Anaheim Ducks’ losing streak to eight with a 5-4 victory Thursday night.Wilson, a Capitals stalwart since 2013, scored twice during Washington’s four-goal first period. He added a late power-play goal after Anaheim had trimmed the Caps’ lead to 4-3 on Brock McGinn’s goal with 8:15 to play.Frank Vatrano added another goal for the Ducks with 27 seconds to go, but the Caps hung on.Alex Ovechkin got his second assist of the night on Wilson’s third goal, giving him 1,499 career points. One more and the Capitals’ Russian captain will be the 16th NHL player to reach 1,500.Nic Dowd and Anthony Mantha also scored and Darcy Kuemper made 28 saves for the Caps, who have won seven of nine. Washington went 2-1-0 on the California portion of its five-game road trip.Wilson loves playing at Honda Center: He had his fi...

La amenaza de las enfermedades respiratorias ya está en marcha en EE.UU., según la directora de los CDC, al tiempo que aumentan las hospitalizaciones

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:49:25 GMT

(CNN) — La Dra. Mandy Cohen, directora de los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU., informó este jueves a una sumbcomisión del Congreso sobre los casos de enfermedades respiratorias en EE.UU. debidos a tres virus: la gripe, el coronavirus y el virus respiratorio sincitial, o VRS.“La temporada del VSR está en pleno apogeo”, dijo Cohen a la Subcomisión de Energía y Comercio de la Cámara de Representantes sobre Supervisión e Investigaciones.“La temporada de gripe acaba de empezar en la mayor parte del país, aunque se está acelerando rápidamente, y aunque estamos viendo niveles relativamente bajos de covid, el covid sigue siendo la principal causa de nuevas hospitalizaciones y muertes respiratorias, con unas 15.000 hospitalizaciones y unas 1.000 muertes cada semana”, dijo.“Estamos viendo muchos casos de VSR, sobre todo en el sur del país, así que yo diría que estamos cerca del pico de VSR”, dijo Cohen.“También ...

11 civilians are killed in an attack by gunmen in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:49:25 GMT

BAGHDAD (AP) — Eleven people were killed in an attack by a group armed with explosives and guns in eastern Iraq, security officials said Friday.The attacks took place Thursday night in the area of Muqdadiyah in Diyala province. A roadside bomb exploded and gunmen then opened fire on rescuers and bystanders at the scene, two security officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.The victims were all civilians, the officials said.The gunmen fled and no group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Diyala province has seen periodic attacks by Islamic State cells and sporadic violence due to sectarian tensions between Shiites and Sunnis, as well as fighting between rival militias and their tribal and political allies struggling over influence and lucrative racketeering networks. Diyala, bordering both Iran and Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, is a prime conduit for smuggling.Diyala governor Muthanna al-Tamimi vowe...

Stock market today: Asian shares slip after Wall Street ends its best month of ’23 with big gains

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:49:25 GMT

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares declined on Friday even after Wall Street closed out its best month of the year with big gains in November. U.S. futures rose while oil prices continued to drop despite the latest extension of OPEC’s production cuts. Even with continued cuts to output, other producers such as the U.S. are expected to be able to make up the difference, relieving pressure on prices. U.S. benchmark crude oil was down 10 cents at $75.86 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It lost $1.90 on Thursday to $75.96 a barrel.Brent crude, the international standard, dropped 22 cents to $80.64 a barrel.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 0.5% to 16,952.14, hovering around a one-year low, while the Shanghai Composite index edged down 0.1% to 3,027.38.A private sector survey released Friday showed Chinese manufacturing activity unexpectedly expanded in November, marking the fastest growth in three months. That report by Caixin contradicted one released the day ...

Palestinians say Israel is warning them to leave areas in southern Gaza

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:49:25 GMT

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Residents say Israel has dropped leaflets over parts of southern Gaza, urging people to leave homes east of the town of Khan Younis. The leaflets also warned that Khan Younis was now a “dangerous battle zone.”The leaflets signaled that Israel was preparing to widen its offensive, which has so far focused largely on the northern part of the Gaza Strip.Hundreds of thousands of people fled northern Gaza earlier in the war, with many taking shelter in Khan Younis and other cities in the south.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli fighter jets hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday shortly after a weeklong truce expired, the military said, as the war resumed in full force. Airstrikes hit southern Gaza, including the community of Abassan east of the town of Khan Younis, the Interior Ministry in the Hamas-run territory said. Another strike hit a home northwest of Gaza City.Loud, cont...

EU calls for higher ambition at COP28 with accelerated emissions reductions and clean energy transition

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:49:25 GMT

Today (1 December), President von der Leyen (pictured) will attend the World Climate Action Summit officially opening the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai. The EU will call on all Parties to take urgent action to bring down greenhouse gas emissions this decade and respect the commitments they made under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to below 2°C, and to aim for 1.5°C.On 1 December, in the EU Pavilion, President von der Leyen will host a high-level event on promoting Paris-aligned carbon markets, as well as a launch event for EU-Catalyst breakthrough energy projects, and an event on the Just Energy Transition Partnership with Vietnam. On 2 December, the President will launch the Global Pledge on Renewables and Energy Efficiency, together with the COP28 Presidency, aiming to triple installed renewables capacity and double energy efficiency measures by 2030. She will also speak at the Super-Pollutants Summit, attend the Coal Transition ...

Second man charged in shooting death of San Leandro barber

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:49:25 GMT

SAN LEANDRO — East Bay prosecutors on Wednesday charged a second man with robbing and fatally shooting a San Leandro barber inside his shop in late October, police said.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Alameda County to pay $7 million, reform jail training after settlement with family of Maurice Monk Crime and Public Safety | UPS employee charged in recent Oakland homicide Crime and Public Safety | Vehicular manslaughter, other charges filed in hit-and-run death of 86-year-old East Bay man Crime and Public Safety | East Bay businessmen sentenced to prison for tax fraud Crime and Public Safety | Man fatally shot in East Oakland Guillermo Camacho, 26, of Oakland, was arrested Monday in Oakland, according to the San Leandro Police Department. He was driving a stolen car, police said, adding that a loaded 9mm handgun with an extended magazine was found inside the vehicle.In addition to robbery and m...

Pittsburg family searching for answers after teen's shooting death

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:49:25 GMT

PITTSBURG, Calif. (KRON) – An East Bay family is looking for answers after a teen was killed in Lodi. The boy’s mother says the teen was visiting his dad for Thanksgiving when he was shot last weekend. The shooter is still on the loose.Lodi police say the shooting appeared to be targeted, but the 15-year-old’s mother and aunt find it hard to believe. They say Alan Ruiz was a good kid who stayed out of trouble, and now they’re left trying to figure out why he was killed. Second suspect arrested in connection to fatal Oakley house party shooting “I still can’t believe my baby is gone. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it,” said Alan’s mother Monique Ruiz. “He was a good kid. He didn’t deserve that. I feel like I deserve the truth. What really happened.” Monique Ruiz says details around her son’s killing have been spotty at best. The teen was staying at his dad’s apartment on Hale Road in Lodi Saturday night.His aunt, Maria Majaro says late that night Alan was lured outside by a fr...

ANÁLISIS | Elon Musk, el hombre más rico del mundo, sigue desesperado por llamar nuestra atención

Published Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:49:25 GMT

(CNN) — Elon Musk quiere desesperadamente caer bien, a pesar de su declaración de este miércoles de que no le importa que lo odien. “Que me odien”, dijo a Andrew Ross Sorkin en la cumbre DealBook de The New York Times.Esta afirmación es, como gran parte de la imagen pública de Musk, una mentira diseñada para mantener la atención del público centrada en él.A riesgo de patologizar en exceso a una de las figuras públicas más patologizadas del planeta, algo que la entrevista de Musk dejó claro es que parece adicto a la atención. Y cuando la adoración no está disponible, se toma la condena como una inyección de metadona.Por eso compró un megáfono personal de US$ 44.000 millones. Por eso, en la cumbre de este miércoles, dijo a los anunciantes que abandonan X (antes Twitter) que “se vayan a la m****”, saboreando cada palabra mientras parecía darse una palmadita en la espalda por utilizar un lenguaje tan picante delante de un periodista de The New York Times.Al...