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It would go a little like this. A man would arrive at a house after chatting to someone he believed was underage, with a plan to have sex or engage in a sexual act. The house would be rigged with hidden cameras and the child would be an actor of age, playing the role of an excitable pre- or young …

Without him though, United would have been in a sorry state. There were plenty who felt it was time for Fernandes to move on in the summer when he received a huge offer from the Saudi Pro League. But given their poor judgement in terms of recruitment, it could easily have pitched United into even more strife than they have …

Jazz Chisholm Jr. called his shot seven months ago. “I think it’s gonna be career numbers — and not even career numbers like last year — I’m talking about substantially better,” he said during spring training of his upcoming season. Fueled by his fit with this franchise, the New York Yankees’ second baseman has backed up that prediction with career-high …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – During their uncharacteristically poor start, the Kansas City Chiefs have produced some bad numbers. Here’s one they’ll strive to keep off their ledger this week: 0-3. In the Super Bowl era, no team has reached the league’s biggest game after opening the regular season with three consecutive losses. Through the first two weeks, the Chiefs (0-2) were …

Starting next month, green card holders seeking to become U.S. citizens will be taking a new and longer version of the naturalization test. The 2025 Naturalization Civics Test will have more potential questions — from 100 to 128 — and test takers will be asked 20 randomly selected questions instead of 10. To pass, they’ll need to answer 12 of …

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone produced the second-fastest 400-meter ever to win the world title and make history Thursday in Tokyo. The 25-year-old American, on a wet track at the Japan National Stadium, ran a championship-record 47.78 seconds from Lane 5 to take down the Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulino and Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser — two of the past three world champions — …

Each year after the second week of the NFL season, the long odds that teams face to make the playoffs after losing their first two games get bandied about. The odds have hovered at just under 12% ever since the NFL expanded the season to 16 games and added a second wild-card team in 1978, with little fluctuation when additional …

Sept. 16 felt like many other Tuesday nights before it in Seattle Sports. Until it wasn’t. It’s a testament to the incredible sports scene in Seattle, that it’s not uncommon to have several major pro sports teams in action on the same night. To that end, the Mariners continued their playoff push in Kansas City, the Storm fought with their …

Sept. 16 felt like many other Tuesday nights before it in Seattle Sports. Until it wasn’t. It’s a testament to the incredible sports scene in Seattle, that it’s not uncommon to have several major pro sports teams in action on the same night. To that end, the Mariners continued their playoff push in Kansas City, the Storm fought with their …

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday excoriated President Donald Trump as “the most ridiculous litigant” in U.S. political history for suing The New York Times and four of its reporters over articles and a book he said were published to damage his reputation. The lawsuit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida accused Times …