“I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,” Trump tweeted Wednesday. The tweet came one week after as many as 11 fast-attack craft of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard appeared to approach and circle a group of U.S. warships including the USS Lewis B. Puller expeditionary mobile base vessel and Island-class USCGS patrol boat Maui as they transited the Persian Gulf....

Trump first announced Friday he signed a proclamation “recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara,” a 100,000 square mile stretch of sparsely populated land claimed both by the Kingdom of Morocco and a rebel group known as the Polisario Front. “Morocco’s serious, credible, and realistic autonomy proposal is the ONLY basis for a just and lasting solution for enduring peace and prosperity!” Trump tweeted. Seconds later, he said Morocco had made a shift of its own international relations....

Milan losing patience over Donnarumma renewal Navas came under fire from the Madrid media following a number of mistakes earlier on in the season and the club were set on signing a replacement in the summer as their transfer ban was reduced to six months. However, the Costa Rica international ended the campaign in fine form and made a key save from Miralem Pjanic in the Champions League final win over Juventus....

Mitchell now owns the highest single game score among active players after exploding for a career-high 71 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers rallied from 21 points down to secure a 145-135 overtime win over the Chicago Bulls. SIGN UP TO WATCH EVERY GAME ON NBA LEAGUE PASS: U.S. and U.K. | All other countries He added 11 assists, and eight rebounds on the night, sending the game into overtime with an incredible play, getting his own rebound off the missed free throw and putting it back in with just three seconds remaining in regulation....

MORE: Week 11 photos | Auburn runs wild What could be better than a four-touchdown performance? A four-touchdown performance that featured the best catch of the day. The Tigers beat the Wildcats 48-17 in a game that was never really close. (H/T SB Nation)

Wenger will stay, says Campbell The prolific Gabon striker opened the scoring in the Revierderby, which finished 1-1, but his celebration angered Dortmund’s kit sponsor Puma. CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke vowed to hold a “difficult” conversation with Aubameyang over the incident and Schmelzer also warned his team-mate about his responsibilities. “We already thought he would come up with something for the derby,” Schmelzer told Sky. “But what he did was stupid....

The 27-year-old completed his move to the Bundesliga club on Monday, putting pen to paper on a four-year contract. Dortmund 6/1 to win the Bundesliga His arrival comes on the same day Ousmane Dembele finalised his switch from Dortmund to Barcelona in a massive transfer worth an initial €105m. Yarmolenko’s move ends a 10-and-a-half-year stay with Dynamo, where he won Ukraine’s Premier League on three occasions. He will wear the No....

Goal understands that the France international will cost Barca an initial €120m, with Dortmund set to receive a further €30m in bonuses. Barca 11/2 to win Champions League Sources consulted by Goal assure that the deal is complete between the two clubs and Dembele, who will sign a five-year deal at Camp Nou. Dembele joined BVB in 2016 from Rennes, and quickly became one of the stars of the Bundesliga in a scintillating debut season....

The clip, which had three million views and 588,900 likes at the time of writing, was shared by TikToker @hannahcolson with a caption that read: “Baby daddy putting in the work #catdad #goldenretriever.” The video, which was overlaid with a message that read “Fig comforting Olive’s baby,” featured a cat—a mix of the Burmese, Ragdoll and Birman breeds, according to the original poster—swiftly swooping in to lick and caress a tiny golden retriever puppy whimpering on a carpet floor....

The Seahawks receiver says he’s received death threats since giving his opinion on to how to address recent police shootings of African-Americans. Week 4 picks: Straight up | Against the spread “You know, there’s issues going on in our society that people feel compelled to talk about and I’m not going to be quiet about," Baldwin told ‘60 Minutes Sports’ in a recent interview. “And if something was to happen to me, I think that would just further prove my point that there are issues in our culture, in our society that need to be changed....

The move, which was labeled “disgraceful” by many, left NFL fans in shock as the game played a key role in determining the NFL Playoffs. If Washington won the game, it would make the playoffs. If the Eagles won, then the Giants would have made it in as NFC East champions. But in the fourth quarter of a three-point game, the Eagles pulled their rookie sensation in favor of their third-string quarterback....

“It was an overreaction,” said Dr. David Altchek, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery who is also the medical director for the New York Mets and a medical consultant for the NBA. “There was no flood of ACL injuries. You get two or three in a row, and it looks like a trend, and really, it was just a blip. There is no trend, there is no panic....

Dozens of protestors at the Raptors vs. Nets game at Barclays Arena Friday night wore black T-shirts bearing the message, “Stand With Hong Kong.” Many protestors also wore black masks. According to the New York Post, another nine fans seated near the Nets bench wore white T-shirts with the message, “Free Tibet,” another sticky geopolitical point involving China. The Nets have been thrust right into the middle of the NBA’s China drama ignited by Rockets GM Daryl Morey’s Oct....

“We’re going to continue to see an escalation, also we should hope that within a week, maybe a little bit more, we’ll start to see a flattening of the curve and coming down,” Fauci told CBS News’ Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan on Sunday. “The mitigation … is absolutely key to the success of that. So, on the one hand, things are going to get bad and we need to be prepared for that, things are going to be shocking to some....

While speaking in the U.K. to Sky News’ Kay Burley on Thursday, Birx said, at the time, she felt the government was losing all the credibility it had built about coronavirus with the American people after Trump’s comments. Birx suggested there had been miscommunication with the president as she had asked the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a study looking into the effects of sunlight versus disinfectant on playground equipment, not as a treatment for individuals....

Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, displayed a graph that shows the mortality rates of countries around the world, and China is at the bottom with the lowest rate. Belgium tops the list with a 45.2 deaths per 100,000 people, with the United States close to the bottom at an 11.24. Then there’s China, with an asterisk next to its name, with 0.33. Birx explained why China was on the chart, saying the country where coronavirus originated should have also been transparent when first dealing with the virus that became a global pandemic....

The TV personality turned diehard Donald Trump supporter has come under fire over his links to the state from Democratic rival John Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor. Oz addressed the controversy directly during a campaign stop at a car dealership in York County on Friday. Speaking to reporters, he said: “Pennsylvanians do not care where you’re from, they care what you stand for. “But if you’re curious my father as an immigrant came and settled us just south of Philadelphia....

OK, they didn’t really slap his mom. He just envisioned it. MORE: Latvia’s Porzingis projected at No. 2 overall | Iverson sets the record straight | Must-see second-round playoff photos “I’m very crazy," Portis said, via CSNNE. “I play angry, I play mad. I play very angry. Every game, I sit in the locker room and I have visions of the players on the other team slapped my mom. So that’s why I get mad and now I get you because you slapped my mom....

Both of our Showdown lineups center around a potent scorer at the off-guard position, Ochai Agbaji for Kansas and Rocket Watts for Michigan State. In our main slate lineup, we stack both Oregon and Georgia Tech to try and find a contrarian look to contests that could still play a lot of players from the top four teams, despite plenty of potential for production elsewhere. Duke vs. Kansas DraftKings Showdown advice CAPTAIN (1....

When it comes to the two-game slate, we’d avoid cash games. You’ve got to take a shot at some differentiation and winning a GPP tournament. There just aren’t enough players to choose from to feel overly confident in a cash lineup. The Showdown lineups are both pretty straightforward. We avoid the best of the best in our captain’s slot in both in order to load up more of the FLEX spots with studs....