IN FULL: The Ballon d’Or nominees They are joined in the final two rounds of nominees by Bayern Munich pair Manuel Neuer and Arturo Vidal, West Ham midfielder Dimitri Payet, Sporting goalkeeper Rui Patricio, Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy and Real Madrid defenders Pepe and Sergio Ramos. Neymar enjoyed a stellar campaign at Camp Nou as Barca won La Liga before captaining Brazil to its first Olympic gold medal, while Suarez won the European Golden Shoe during his second season at Camp Nou....

PSG sparkled in that additional round, recording a club-record home victory as they thumped Dijon 8-0 at Parc des Princes. It seemed to set them up perfectly for Sunday’s match, though they had to do without Neymar because of thigh trouble. It was a game that was eagerly anticipated in the Rhone Valley. Lyon felt a sense of injustice that they had lost the first game between the clubs and Nabil Fekir, in particular, was eager to build the game up on his social channel....

With his goal, the PSG star moved past Kaka as Brazil’s all-time leading scorer in the Champions League. The goal was Neymar’s 31st in the competition, one better than the 30 scored by Kaka throughout his stays with AC Milan and Real Madrid. Sitting in third place is Brazilian legend Rivaldo, who scored 27 during stints with Barcelona and AC Milan. In addition to just the goalscoring numbers, Neymar has 19 career Champions League assists, giving him a hand in 50 goals in 52 Champions League games...

The Ligue 1 giants shelled out €222million in August to activate the release clause in Neymar’s Barcelona contract and bring him to Paris. Neymar has since scored 26 goals in 24 PSG appearances, guiding them to the top of the table and through the Coupe de France, Coupe de la Ligue and Champions League. However, reported frustrations with strike partner Edinson Cavani, coach Unai Emery and the standard of French football have prompted reports from Madrid-based media that Los Blancos could make the Brazilian the subject of another blockbusting transfer....

“The NRA’s influence has been so powerful that the organization went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions of dollars into their own pockets,” James said during the major national announcement. James said they are suing the nation’s largest pro-gun organization for illegal conduct that diverted more than $64 million away from the charitable mission of the group in the span of only three years. The lawsuit is charging the NRA as a whole, as well as four individuals: CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, former Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer Wilson Phillips, former Chief of Staff and the Executive Director of General Operations Joshua Powell, and Corporate Secretary and General Counsel John Frazer....

The Portuguese star will attempt to collect the fifth Champions League winners’ medal in his career and fourth with Madrid on Saturday against Liverpool in Kiev. Ronaldo’s fifth European crown would put him level with the Argentine legend, who won five European Cup titles in a row with Madrid between 1955 and 1960. Di Stefano is widely considered one of the greatest players in football history, and Nacho believes his team-mate is on equal footing with the Argentine great, who passed away in 2014....

The La Liga champions scored all five goals in a scintillating first half as they claimed a win that moves them to within five points of league leaders Barcelona, having played a game more. Nacho opened the scoring in only the third minute at the Santiago Bernabeu before goals from Toni Kroos, Achraf Hakimi and a Cristiano Ronaldo double put the result beyond doubt before the half-time whistle. Nacho agrees it was probably Madrid’s finest 45 minutes of football in 2017-18 and he hopes the standard is maintained at the Club World Cup next week....

Nadler said Sunday morning that Barr deserves impeachment over a string of corruption allegations that came to a head Friday with the sudden firing of U.S. federal prosecutor Geoffrey Berman. The New York Democrat told CNN’s Jake Tapper that Berman is just part of an ongoing Trump administration purge of anyone who could pose a threat to the president’s re-election. Nadler responded to calls for Barr’s resignation by labeling it a “waste of time,” because Republicans hold a Senate majority and are in the president’s pocket....

This medication is a beta-blocker that binds to the beta 1 receptors on the heart muscle and the beta 2 receptors of the blood vessels and the bronchi (airways). These actions cause nadolol to slow the heart rate and lower blood pressure. What Is Nadolol Used For? Nadolol is approved for: Brand Name(s): Corgard (no longer available) Drug Availability: Prescription Administration Route: Oral Therapeutic Classification: Cardiovascular agent Available Generically: Yes...

NxGn: Football’s 50 most promising talents unveiled The Roma midfielder was heavily courted by Chelsea ahead of the current season as new coach Antonio Conte is a big fan. Rumours over a move have not died down completely as Nainggolan is once again being talked about as a target for the Stamford Bridge side among others. The Belgium international, 28, has been in Italy since he joined Piacenza’s youth academy in 2005....

The grisly discovery was made by a man walking his dog near the water in the Windy Hill area of Jacksonville on Sunday morning. Police divers pulled the container out of the water and discovered the man had been shot. A Jacksonville homicide detective told local media that the dive team retrieved a grey storage container from the pond in Dairy Drive, east of Southside Boulevard, a block from Windy Hill Elementary School....

Pelosi’s remarks came during a Wednesday morning interview with MSNBC’s Morning Joe, in which she strongly criticized President Donald Trump and said GOP lawmakers in Congress were in lockstep with the White House. The top Democratic lawmaker referred to Trump as a “rogue president” but said she hopes some Republicans will “intervene.” “One of my prayers is that the Republicans will take back their party,” Pelosi said. “The country needs a strong Republican Party....

Pelosi appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday for her first television interview since beginning the impeachment inquiry. The California Democrat told co-hosts Mika Brzezinksi and Joe Scarborough that Trump is violating the Constitution and must be held accountable. “Well first let me say that this is no cause for any joy,” Pelosi said. “This is a very sad time for our country. The impeachment of a president is as serious as our congressional responsibilities can be, apart from declaring war or something....

Napoli v Inter U2.5 goals 7/5 The Italy international came off as a precaution in the 57th minute of the 2-1 loss at the Etihad Stadium. According to a statement on the Partenopei’s website, Insigne underwent tests that have determined the nature of the problem. The 26-year-old has begun treatment but it is not known when he will return to first-team action. Maurizio Sarri’s Serie A leaders are due to face second-placed Inter at Stadio San Paolo on Saturday....

Astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt gathered the sample from the lunar surface in December, 1972 using a 1.5-inch-wide “drive” tube during Apollo 17—which is notable for being the last mission to take humans beyond low-Earth orbit. On November 5, 2019 the tube was finally opened in the Lunar Curation Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center as part of the space agency’s Apollo Next-Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA) project, which is using new state-of-the-art technologies to investigate samples from the Apollo era....

The map appears in a new study published by the science journal Geophysical Research Letters, according to a Tuesday news release from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Using resources already in place on a planetary body rather than transporting them from Earth is part of a process NASA calls “in situ resource utilization.” Due to the large amounts of water people require, along with the incredible amount of energy needed to transport materials into space, taking this approach will likely be necessary for any potential human exploration of Mars....

The launch was delayed a few hours due to weather, NASA reported. However, it officially left the ground at 9:35 a.m. EDT. The Minotaur I rocket was carrying “three national security payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office,” according to NASA. The mission, named NROL-111, is “to provide intelligence data to United States’ senior policymakers, the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense,” said a press release from the NRO. “NROL-111 was a classified mission in low Earth orbit and the NRO did not disclose any details of the payloads,” according to Space News....

The next transit of Mercury—where the planet passes directly between the Earth and our sun—will be 2032. After that, transits will take place in 2039 and 2049. A video posted by NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) showed the planet, which appeared to be a small black dot, moving across the sun from left to right. The video shows five and a half hours of footage condensed down to just 13 seconds....

He came into Sunday’s 2021 NASCAR All-Star Race having won two straight Cup Series races, at Charlotte and Sonoma. He added another first-place finish and picked up a $1 million check by finishing strong in a final-stage shootout to hold off Brad Keselowski and Chase Elliott for the win at Texas. This is Larson’s second All-Star win, with his first coming in the 2019 race. NASCAR went to a six-stage All-Star format for 2021, and Larson showed early that he would be tough as he won the first stage....

He still has a good shot at finishing well this weekend, as NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series will head to Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach Fla., where the No. 18 driver boasts a series-best driver rating of 96.2 and owns the highest average running position of 12.8. It will be the first time Busch has returned to Daytona since his February accident that broke his leg and foot. MORE: Sprint Cup winners | Dale’s defining moments | NASCAR’s eligible bachelors...