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29+ min ago (627+ words) Por ANNE M. PETERSON La "ltima vez que Estados Unidos fue anfitri'n de la Copa del Mundo, la federaci'n nacional de f"tbol (USSF) aprovech' la inyecci'n financiera y el fervor como trampol'n para lanzar la MLS dos a'os despu's. Entonces, "cu'l ser' el legado del Mundial para el organismo rector del f"tbol en Estados Unidos? La organizaci'n sin fines de lucro est' emprendiendo proyectos ambiciosos y extensos para impulsar el deporte desde las categor'as juveniles hasta las profesionales. El objetivo final de la federaci'n es difundir el deporte a nivel juvenil a trav's de programas escolares y comunitarios, expandir los esfuerzos de recaudaci'n de fondos y posicionar a las ligas profesionales y selecciones nacionales de Estados Unidos para el 'xito futuro. Es una tarea ardua, admite el director general JT Batson. "Ya tenemos este motor masivo que son las…...

29+ min ago (1343+ words) When Martha Ruiz returned to her Gary home on Nov. 13 after a couple of weeks in ICE custody in El Paso, she was ecstatic to see her children. "When I left them back at the jail, I didn't know if I was going to see them again," said Ruiz, 57. Her husband, Rosario Carrillo Lopez, who built fences, managed to escape U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The family alleges the agents rammed Carrillo's vehicle on Oct. 13 on the way back from taking his son Eli Carrillo, then 14, to school at Gary Lighthouse. Days later, immigration agents raided their Gary home near the Gary airport at around 6 a.m. Oct. 23. Ruiz said she was sleeping on the sofa when agents with flashlights started banging on the front door. "I got up, but they didn't give us time to answer the door," she said. Agents…...

29+ min ago (799+ words) STANFORD, Calif. " Notre Dame has one last chance to impress the playoff selection committee. The ninth-ranked Irish (9-2) wrap up the regular season Saturday night when they visit Stanford (4-7), knowing a loss would end any hopes of returning to the College Football Playoff. Notre Dame has spent most of the last two seasons in must-win mode. The Irish recovered from a Week 2 loss last season to Northern Illinois to run off 13 straight wins " including three in the playoff " before losing the title game to Ohio State. They dropped their first two games this season to Miami and Texas A&M, once again leaving no margin for error. "It's hard to remember what it was like in the moment. Like right now, we're in the middle of the game and it's high pressure," Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman said, reflecting on the…...

29+ min ago (171+ words) Davis consigui" 13 puntos y cinco rebotes al jugar bajo una restricci"n de minutos en su primer duelo en Los "ngeles desde que los Lakers lo canjearon por Doncic hace diez meses. Reaves anot" 19 puntos y Doncic a'adi" 17 en una impresionante segunda mitad. As, los Lakers consiguieron su sexta victoria consecutiva. Tambi'n barrieron cuatro juegos de la fase de grupos de la Copa NBA, con lo que ser'n anfitriones de un duelo de cuartos de final. LeBron James anot" 13 puntos despu's de lograr s"lo dos en la primera mitad, pero encest" un triple decisivo con dos minutos por jugar. Reaves logr" seis triples y Doncic hizo cuatro. P.J. Washington anot" 22 puntos y Ryan Nembhard a'adi" 17 por Dallas, mientras que Max Christie anot" 13 puntos contra su antiguo equipo. El novato Cooper Flagg sum" 13 puntos, 11 asistencias y siete rebotes, pero los Mavericks…...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago (756+ words) Aerol'neas de todo el mundo reportaron interrupciones de corto plazo al inicio del fin de semana mientras correg'an el software de un modelo de avi'n ampliamente utilizado, despu's de que un an'lisis encontr' que el c'digo inform'tico pudo ser el causante de una ca'da repentina en la altitud de un avi'n de JetBlue el mes pasado. Airbus dijo el viernes que un an'lisis del incidente de JetBlue revel' que la intensa radiaci'n solar podr'a corromper datos primordiales para el funcionamiento de los controles de vuelo en la familia de aviones A320. La Administraci'n Federal de Aviaci'n de Estados Unidos (FAA) y la Agencia de la Uni'n Europea para la Seguridad A'rea exigieron a las aerol'neas que abordaran el problema actualizando el software. M's de 500 aviones registrados en Estados Unidos se ver'n afectados. La agencia europea dijo que esto podr'a causar "interrupciones…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago (824+ words) Tom Serratore is looking for the next Tom Serratore. Back in 2007, the Tinley Park native was a freshman soccer and baseball player at Andrew High School, where he took part in a St. Baldrick's event. At the time, St. Baldrick's was new in the Chicago area and becoming wildly popular. The idea is simple. People raise money for childhood cancer research by getting their heads shaved at events usually held around St. Patrick's Day. Serratore and nine others lost their hair at an assembly at the Thunderbolts' athletic field. "I grew my hair out to be pretty bushy," Serratore recalled. "It was pretty long. It was windy and my hair was blowing all over the place. I felt really proud that as a freshman, I was one of the top 10 fundraisers for this. "All of my friends and peers got…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago (653+ words) While activists have been fighting arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the streets of Chicago, another unlikely party has been facing off against the agency in court. McHenry County has filed suit against ICE, trying to get the federal government to pay for potential liability for allegedly making immigrant detainees do forced labor. The court battle pits conservative McHenry County, which once fought in court for the ability to hold accused immigrants in the U.S. without legal permission in its jail, against the agency that once paid it millions of dollars every year to do so. Both county and federal officials have denied liability. The case comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether private prisons can immediately appeal their claim of immunity against a rash of similar lawsuits across the nation. Northwestern University professor Jacqueline Stevens, founding director of…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago (1822+ words) People who saw the strangely shaped house being built in Aurora " its red curved steel ribs, a black coal wall dotted with marbles and glass cullet " had different names for it, Life magazine reported in 1951. Some called it a "birdcage." "Big apple." "Dome." "Hangar." Their comments were enough for its owners, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts director Ruth Van Sickle Ford and her husband, Albert, to put a sign outside that read: "We don't like your house either." Nearly eight decades after it was built, the Ford House continues to be one of the best examples of the ingenuity that sprang from the mind of architect Bruce Goff " and the mixed reaction that creative wellspring could elicit. The Kansas native has been called an "outsider" and a "rebel," the best architect the public's never heard of, a master of organic…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago (596+ words) Any sensible person would agree that books make great holiday gifts, but not everyone is wholly confident selecting books for others, even others who they know are readers. Not me. I'm happy to tell everyone what they should be reading. And if you want a handy expert local to you, check with your friendly independent bookseller to help you pick out a title targeted to the important gift-receiving people in your life. But maybe you want a gift for the book lover in your life that's a little extra special, the kind of gift that will endure past the pleasure of reading a book. Here's some suggestions for the season. There's no shortage of these in the world, but let me suggest a few recent and enduring favorites of mine. "The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing" by…...

1+ hour, 29+ min ago (301+ words) We are nearing a tipping point with artificial intelligence. Scientists call it the singularity " the moment when machine intelligence surpasses our own. Some experts warn that it could come as soon as next year. AI already writes our code, drives our cars and designs our weapons " yet no one truly controls it. In Guillermo del Toro's haunting "Frankenstein" film, recently released on Netflix, Dr. Victor Frankenstein's tragedy is not that he conjures life from death. It's that he abandons it. Horrified by what he has made, he recoils, refusing to claim responsibility for what he's unleashed. The result is a catastrophe: a creature who, desperate for understanding and belonging, becomes a monster. That abandonment feels all too familiar today. Across the world, nations and corporations are racing to capture the promise of AI: the efficiencies, the profits, the competitive edge....