Should he make the move to the USA, Neymar would be one of the biggest Brazilian stars ever to play in North America since compatriot Kaka (2014-2017 with Orlando City) and the legendary Pele, who starred for the New York Cosmos in the 1970s. Three years is a long time, but Neymar made it clear that he prefers MLS over a return to Brazil’s Serie A, where he was a breakout star for Santos....
The fan, Jigar Desai, told The Associated Press he’s doing OK but might visit a doctor Tuesday. Oh, and here’s new video: ORIGINAL ARTICLE: We hope this Eagles fan will be ready for Super Bowl 52 in two weeks. We also hope he gets home by then. The fellow earned himself a bruise — and a delay — when he failed to account for a pillar that stopped him in his ....
On Thursday, Twitter users came up with a number of new proposed faces to be immortalized on Mount Rushmore, the site where the 60-foot faces of four distinguished presidents gaze out over the landscape of Keystone, South Dakota. The permanence of the visages hewn into rock contrasted sharply with the brevity of the trending hashtag #NewFacesOnMountRushmore, but for a few fleeting hours social media users listed possible contenders to replace George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln....
“We’ve all come a very long way in the process of peace making and national reconciliation,” said Adams, the republican leader of Sinn Fein. “We are very conscious of the many people who have suffered. We owe it to them to build the best future possible.” Paisley, the Democratic Unionist preacher-leader known as “Dr. No” for his stubbornness, seemed to agree: “We must not allow our justified loathing for the horrors and tragedies of the past to become a barrier to creating a better and more stable future for our children....
He needs seven more to break the all-time record of 2,973 set by Ray Allen. The Warriors play Monday night at Indiana, though, and the sportsbook FanDuel has his odds at 6.5 against the Pacers. If Curry hits fewer than seven, then he’ll likely break the record the following night at Madison Square Garden barring an injury, COVID, or cold shooting. Even tickets for the Pacers have nearly tripled, according to secondary market operator TicketIQ....
Ronaldo tax evasion claimed denied Chelsea boss Antonio Conte was keen to lure the Belgium international to the Premier League during the close-season, but a transfer never materialised due to Nainggolan’s preference to stay at the Stadio Olimpico. “I do not regret not joining Chelsea, because I made the decision to stay here and I am happy with my choice,” Nainggolan told Sky. “I have said many times that I want to be successful here and I believe this club can win things....
Before she was elected to Congress, Greene appeared to endorse online conspiracy theories about the 2012 assault at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The two shootings left 43 people dead. This week, a video from 2019 resurfaced that showed Greene following and berating Parkland survivor and gun control advocate David Hogg, after he spoke with members of Congress....
Pelosi made the comments in a speech at Cambridge University in the U.K. on Thursday. The event was hosted in the university’s union’s historic debating chamber. “I say to my Republican friends—and I do have some—take back your party, you’re the grand old party of America, you’ve done wonderful things for our country. You’re now being hijacked by a cult that is just not good for our country,” Pelosi told an audience of students....
Appearing at a weekly press conference, Pelosi said she hoped another stimulus bill would be put to the floor by December 18, when lawmakers are slated to vote on federal government funding. But she added that talks could still go beyond that point. The top House Democrat also stressed that lawmakers needed to pass a second coronavirus relief bill before they could leave Capitol Hill for the Christmas holidays....
In a 6-0, 6-4 loss to Veronika Kudermetova in the second round, the 24-year-old was heckled by a fan in the Indian Wells crowd. The fan was repeatedly yelling “Naomi, you suck” as Kudermetova went to serve. After the game, Osaka, who was brought to tears during the match, asked if the fan could be removed. She also asked if she could speak to the fan via the umpire’s microphone....
Arsenal vs PSG’s curious statistic The Serie A side would have progressed to the knockout stages had they and Group B rivals Benfica both won on Wednesday, but the Portuguese outfit blew a three-goal lead to draw 3-3 before the later game kicked off at San Paolo. And after seeing his Napoli team booed by their supporters at the end of a goalless stalemate, Sarri admitted that the group’s other result was to blame as no result could guarantee qualification....
Bridenstine appeared on CBS’ Face The Nation Sunday to discuss NASA’s schedule for space exploration, which includes going back to the moon and then to Mars within the coming years. The administrator also shed light on what he believed were the reasons the space program had been prevented from returning to the moon and landing people on Mars in the many years since NASA’s landmark moon missions. No human has stepped foot on the moon’s surface since December 1972, when the crew of Apollo 17 departed on their return to Earth....
This means the telescope has achieved the first milestone in a three-month alignment process that will allow humanity to see further into space—and thus further back in time—than ever before. According to NASA, the arrival of photons at the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument marks the first of many steps needed for the telescope to begin capturing images. At first, these images will be unfocused, but the James Webb team will use them to slowly fine-tune the telescope....
The explosion, known as forced magnetic reconnection, is triggered by an eruption on the sun that causes tangled magnetic field lines to snap and realign, shooting out particles and energy. Previously scientists had only ever witnessed spontaneous magnetic reconnection, which is not necessarily linked to eruptions on the sun. But observations from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) revealed, for the first time in the solar corona, a forced reconnection event triggered by one of these eruptions....
Development of some kind of Mars plane has been continuing for several years with the hopes such a vehicle could collect atmospheric data or visual information. NASA experts provided more details in an Ask Me Anything session posted on Reddit, Monday. David Berger, STEM Engagement Embed to Aeronautics at NASA’s headquarters, confirmed it is possible to fly a plane on Mars, and that it would face similar challenges as Ingenuity....
Like the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb will be placed in space so that it can take photos of the cosmos without having to peer through the Earth’s atmosphere first. But while Hubble orbits the Earth at a distance of around 347 miles, Webb will orbit our sun, and be around a million miles away from us. It will need a heat shield to protect it from the glare of our nearest star, so engineers have designed the shield to guard the telescope’s delicate optics....
To put its speed into perspective, if it set off from New York traveling at that speed, it would cover the 2,446 miles to Los Angeles in just over 24 seconds, setting off again from New York it would cross the Atlantic and travel to London in just over half a minute. This was the probe’s 10th passage of the sun and speed records weren’t the only ones shattered during this flyby....
Among these is an event taking place tomorrow which will commemorate the launch of the mission on July 16, 1969. On this day, half a century ago, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins took off aboard a Saturn V rocket from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Just four days later, the mission made history when Armstrong and Aldrin landed the Lunar Module Eagle on the surface of the moon and took the first human steps there, while Collins remained alone in orbit piloting the Command Module Columbia....
Details of the space agency’s 2022 budget were released by Congress on Tuesday, though it is still subject to approval later this month. In total, NASA was given just over $24 billion—slightly shy of the $24.8 billion it had initially requested. The agency has big ambitions currently, not least the Artemis program that is aiming to return humans to the moon within a few years. One $500 million chunk of the budget has been allocated to NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is slated for launch no later than May 2027....
Its seven powerful cameras have been sending high-definition images back to researchers on Earth as they try to piece together billions of years of Martian history. The cameras can focus on tiny details from a huge distance, allowing researchers to identify rock samples that may be useful in their hunt for evidence of life on the Red Planet. “The imaging cameras are a huge piece of everything. We use a lot of them every single day for science....
