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“For sure England is the favorite, and are worthy of that,” Hackworth told Goal ahead of Saturday’s quarterfinal in Goa, India. “They’ve been a good team, have a great record, and have been great in this tournament. But just like with Paraguay (which was unbeaten before the U.S. delivered a 5-0 thumping), I didn’t get why people made us a big underdog against Paraguay. We beat Ghana, one of the best teams in this tournament, and I don’t think we were getting much respect....

President Joe Biden aims to have the wind farms deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2030 as part of an energy plan. The farms would generate enough electricity to power more than 10 million homes. The Energy Department said in a related announcement it is spending $11.5 million to study the risks that offshore wind farms may pose to birds, bats and marine mammals. It will also survey changes in commercial fish and marine invertebrate populations on the East Coast....

In a statement delivered Thursday, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that President Donald Trump “has authorized economic sanctions against International Criminal Court officials directly engaged with any effort to investigate or prosecute United States personnel without the consent of the United States.” “The President has also authorized the expansion of visa restrictions against International Criminal Court officials and their family members,” the statement added. The statement accompanied an Executive Order, in which Trump extended the threat to include not only ICC probes targeting U....

The U.S. women cruised past Costa Rica 4-0 in their final tune-up for the Rio Games on Friday night in Kansas City, Kans. They got goals from two standbys and a pair of relative newcomers who could play significant roles in Brazil. MORE: U.S. roster set | Hope Solo’s 100th shutout Crystal Dunn (15th minute) and Mallory Pugh (22nd) opened the scoring for the U.S. before captain Carli Lloyd gave the Americans a 3-0 lead at the break by scoring in injury time at the end of the first half....

The Emirati midfielder was recognized for his “pivotal roles” in guiding Al Ain to this season’s AFC Champions League final, and his home country to within “touching distance” of a place at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, the AFC said on Thursday, reports Xinhua. Choi Kang-Hee of South Korea’s Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors won the AFC Coach of the Year for the club’s victory in the AFC Champions League final against Al Ain on November 26....

During a Q&A session following a Ubisoft earnings call with investors earlier today, Guillemot noted that ‘a few things were not perfect when the game was launched’. The remedy for these ‘few things’ was a 6.7 GB patch released a full month after the game itself hit shelves, which wasn’t quite enough to placate many fans of the series. However, according to Guillemot, the teething troubles that blighted the launch of Assassin’s Creed Unity will pay dividends in the future....

Far Cry 2 was released in 2008, and ever since then, The Jackal is one of the elements that framework the villains in the Far Cry series: a character who pops up occasionally to remind the character he’s watching and a long-term goal for the player to hunt that seems completely untouchable at the game’s start. Far Cry 2’s main character is a simple merc sent into an unnamed African country to kill a notorious arms dealer known simply as The Jackal....

The image focuses on the Belgian city of Ghent, a port city located in northwest Belgium where two rivers converge. Ghent is known for its stunning medieval architecture, including a 12th-century castle, but this image adds something even more striking: a strange spaceship. Posted in honor of World UFO Day, the image serves as proof that Ubisoft hasn’t forgotten Beyond Good and Evil 2 despite the game being stuck with Dead Island 2 in development limbo....

Judging by the newly released Chaos Theory screenshots, it seems that Sam still does what he does best: Sneaking, rappelling and choking people out, all while donning his trademark triple-lens night-vision goggles. While the look of the game is primarily from Chaos Theory, Ubisoft also added some visual elements from Splinter Cell: Conviction, most notably the floating text that gives the player a visual clue as to where they should be headed next....

In comparing their approach to Brotherhood with what was done with the second game, Ubisoft is well aware that people were greatly dissatisfied with having certain elements of their main quest removed only to be charged for them later. Not only were these sequences held back from the player, but they weren’t very engaging to boot. This move, while financially smart, put a smudge on an otherwise great game....

This is the first-ever meeting between these teams, which finished last season on opposite ends of the spectrum. Line: UCLA -21, Total: 57.5 Line movement and notes: The Cavaliers opened as 23-point home underdogs and have seen bettors back them early on, moving the line in their favor. Meanwhile, the total has remained stable for the most part, although it has dipped as much as 1 point down to 56....

The industry has equaled all the revenue U.S. casinos took in during 2020 amid shutdowns and health protocols that have stayed in place since the onset of COVID-19. According to the report, 2021 could be the best year ever for U.S. casinos, with gambling halls on track to surpass 2019 ($43.6 billion) as the highest-grossing year in history. During the first six months of the year, almost $25 billion has been won....

The seven-day moving average of daily new deaths in the country rose on a sharp incline from late March to late April, peaking at 2,256 on April 21, according to data compiled by Worldometer. From late April, average daily new deaths mostly declined through early July. From then, the average count mostly increased through early August, before dipping again through September, according to the data from Worldometer. Below we look at the five states with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths to date....

According to a Monday press release, the USNS Comfort “will provide a full spectrum of medical care to include general surgeries, critical care and ward care for adults. This will allow local health professionals to focus on treating COVID-19 patients and for shore-based hospitals to use their Intensive Care Units and ventilators for those patients.” Newsweek reached out to the U.S. Navy for comment. “We’ve all been through a lot these last few weeks,” said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday, “and we needed this boost....

MORE: Howard takes year off | Jones to MLS stalls | Jones in photos That wasn’t what the announcement turned into for some though. For a sizable number of U.S. fans, the news was met with the predictable, but still rather disappointing, response of derision and disdain. Not at Howard for taking a well-earned break, but rather at U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann for what the announcement brought back memories of....

According to reports from local news outlets throughout this week, vendors in Florida, Alabama and North Carolina have noted substantial rises in demand from their communities. One Alabama vendor, Rick Lowell, voiced concerns about the upward trend in comments to WALA FOX10 News on Thursday. “You’ve got a lot of people buying guns that are not real familiar with guns, and a gun is a dangerous tool,” he told the outlet....

In a press release, the U.S. Navy said Friday it “conducted four scheduled missile test flights” of the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles using Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska off the coast of San Diego, California. Two launches occurred Wednesday and two more on Friday, but they “were not conducted in response to any ongoing world events,” according to the statement. The news came a day after Putin told a plenary session of the Eastern Economic Forum that he had informed President Donald Trump back in June that he could buy some of Moscow’s upcoming, state-of-the-art weapons, including nuclear-capable and hypersonic missiles in order to “balance everything out” between the military competitors....

Lance Corporal Kahsai Tyree Hill, 21, was detained on 25 May on suspicion of punching a taxi driver in the face after not paying his $7 fare after arriving at his destination by the Washington Hotel in Shinjuku. He then allegedly assaulted half a dozen other people as he fled the scene. A spokeswoman for Tokyo Metropolitan Police said Hill will also be charged with attempted murder in relation to the attack on the 19-year-old Japan Self-Defense Forces official at the fast food restaurant in Shibuya, Stars and Stripes reported....

Catherine “CiCi” Bellis, the 15-year-old American who became an overnight sensation this week, saw her U.S. Open run end Thursday night. Bellis lost to 20-year-old Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan, the 48th-ranked player in the world, in three sets. MORE: Amazing photos | Day 4 results | Serena advances Bellis turned into a global phenomenon when she beat Australian Open runner-up and women’s 12th seed Dominika Cibulkova on Tuesday. She was in position against Diyas to make her story even bigger....