The Cleveland Browns are 1-2 and Deshaun Watson’s poor play by three video games is a fairly large motive why. The Browns’ newest loss was to a beforehand winless staff with a reasonably awful quarterback state of affairs as nicely however that did not cease the New York Giants from successful in Cleveland in opposition to a staff that made the playoffs a season in the past.
Watson was horrible within the recreation however at this level, that is not breaking information for Browns followers. He threw for 192 yards (a season-high) and two touchdowns (additionally a season-high) with zero interceptions however continued to not get the job completed. He was delivered to Cleveland to assist the staff win and he is not doing that. Not solely that however he is performing horribly.
Effectively, to throw salt on the wound right here, just one quarterback within the NFL has a worse QB score than Watson. It isn’t Daniel Jones, who the Browns protection struggled to cease on Sunday. It is also not Wil Levis, who’s quarterbacking the 0-3 Titans and making numerous errors.
Need a trace? This participant was just lately benched. For those who guessed Bryce Younger, you bought it! In accordance with Seth Walder of ESPN Analytics, Watson’s QBR (quarterback score) is barely higher than one qualifying quarterback and that quarterback is Bryce Younger, who was benched after two depressing performances.
Deshaun Watson has a QBR of 23.2 this season, higher than just one different qualifier — Bryce Younger.
For these not totally conscious of the Younger state of affairs, I am going to break it down for you. Younger was the primary general decide by the Panthers in 2023 and began all however one recreation for them as a rookie. He received simply two video games as a rookie however many pointed to the dysfunction of the Panthers and the dearth of expertise surrounding him for the explanations he did not play nicely.
Effectively, after Younger began the 12 months with back-to-back dreadful performances, Panthers head coach Dave Canales benched the previous first general decide and former AFC North resident Andy Dalton took over because the starter. The Panthers proceeded to blow out the Raiders.
So, to sum up, Deshaun Watson has solely been higher than a quarterback who was benched after two video games and whose staff is best off with out him beginning. Not good.
The Browns sunk some huge cash into Watson and it hasn’t panned out. Getting out of the contract would not be a simple transfer, because the Browns could be on the hook for almost $100 million, in keeping with CBS Sports activities. That being mentioned, the Browns could make the choice to maneuver him to the bench and attempt to begin successful video games with Jameis Winston.
Sure, the offensive line accidents would make it tough for anybody taking part in quarterback in Cleveland however Watson would not assist himself there by holding onto the ball for too lengthy. He additionally misses wide-open gamers and whereas he did not flip the ball over on Sunday, he sometimes does.
It is excessive previous time for the Browns to bench Watson and this newest revelation would not assist their case in persevering with to start out him.
(Beyrouth) Des frappes israéliennes de grande ampleur visant le Hezbollah ont fait 492 morts lundi au Liban, et font craindre un embrasement de la région près d’un an après l’attaque du 7 octobre perpétrée par le Hamas.
Layal ABOU RAHAL, avec Benoît FINCK à Jérusalem
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Ce qu’il faut savoir
Les frappes israéliennes dirigées vers le Liban ont fait près de 500 morts, lundi.
Il s’agit de la journée la plus meurtrière, côté libanais, en près d’un an d’affrontements.
La diplomatie européenne s’est inquiétée de voir la région « au bord d’une guerre totale ».
Les États-Unis comptent présenter devant l’ONU des idées « concrètes » pour faire baisser la rigidity.
L’armée israélienne a confirmé avoir frappé jusque tard dans la soirée « environ 1600 cibles terroristes dans le sud du Liban et dans la vallée de la Bekaa », des bastions du mouvement pro-iranien qui bombarde régulièrement son territoire en soutien à son allié gazaoui.
Le Hezbollah a revendiqué de nouveaux tirs dans la nuit de missiles Fadi 2 vers Israël. L’armée israélienne a confirmé avoir détecté une vingtaine de tirs, sans faire état de victimes.
Au Liban, les frappes aériennes israéliennes de lundi « ont causé le martyre de 492 personnes, dont 35 enfants et 58 femmes, et blessé 1645 autres », a déclaré le Centre des opérations d’urgence du ministère libanais de la Santé dans un décompte en soirée.
L’armée israélienne a fait état d’un « grand nombre » de membres du Hezbollah tués dans la journée.
« C’est une disaster, un bloodbath », a déclaré lundi à l’AFP Jamal Badrane, un médecin de l’hôpital du Secours populaire à Nabatiyé, une ville du sud. « Les frappes n’arrêtent pas, ils nous ont bombardés alors qu’on retirait des blessés », a-t-il dit.
Des milliers de familles ont fui les zones bombardées, selon le ministère de la Santé.
PHOTO AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Des secouristes se rassemblent sur le website d’une frappe israélienne dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth.
Risque de « guerre totale »
Des déplacés du sud ont afflué dans la capitale et à Saïda, accueillis dans des buildings d’accueil, ont constaté des photographes de l’AFP.
Réfugié dans une école de Saïda, Hassan Banjak n’avait pas quitté sa région « depuis le début de la guerre et des bombardements de l’ennemi israélien ». « Mais lorsque les frappes se sont intensifiées et rapprochées, les enfants ont eu peur et nous avons décidé de partir », dit-il.
Dans une vidéo, le premier ministre israélien, Benyamin Nétanyahou, a recommandé en fin de journée aux Libanais de « s’éloigner des zones dangereuses » dans l’attente de la fin de « l’opération ».
Son homologue libanais, Najib Mikati, a dénoncé « un plan de destruction » de son pays, où les écoles resteront fermées mardi.
Depuis New York, où se tient l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU, le ministre des Affaires étrangères français Jean-Noël Barrot a annoncé lundi que Paris demandait la convocation d’une « réunion d’urgence du Conseil de sécurité sur le Liban cette semaine ».
« Nous sommes au bord d’une guerre totale », s’est pour sa half alarmé le chef de la diplomatie européenne, Josep Borrell.
PHOTO MOHAMMED ZAATARI, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Des centaines de voitures transportant des familles étaient coincées dans des embouteillages à Saïda.
En une journée, l’armée israélienne a « neutralisé des dizaines de milliers de roquettes et de munitions », a affirmé le ministre de la Défense, Yoav Gallant, estimant que le Hezbollah vivait sa « semaine la plus difficile depuis sa création » en 1982.
L’armée israélienne a aussi annoncé une « frappe ciblée » à Beyrouth, visant, selon le Hezbollah, le commandant pour le entrance sud de cette formation, Ali Karaké. La formation a assuré que ce dernier était indemne.
M. Nétanyahou a affirmé qu’Israël était en prepare d’inverser le « rapport de forces » dans le nord du pays, où il est déterminé à permettre le retour des dizaines de milliers d’habitants déplacés.
Les échanges de tirs entre Israël et le Hezbollah – qui a juré de continuer à attaquer Israël « jusqu’à la fin de l’agression à Gaza » – ont gagné en intensité depuis la imprecise d’explosions des appareils de transmission du mouvement, attribuée à Israël, qui a fait 39 morts, selon les autorités libanaises, les 17 et 18 septembre au Liban.
PHOTO AZIZ TAHER, REUTERS
Un homme marche sur une plage alors que de la fumée s’élève au-dessus du sud du Liban, à Tyr.
Au menu de l’ONU
La crainte d’une escalade va dominer à partir de mardi la grand-messe annuelle de l’ONU, à laquelle participera pour la dernière fois le président américain Joe Biden.
Un porte-parole américain a assuré que les États-Unis, principal allié d’Israël, allaient présenter des idées « concrètes » pour faire baisser la rigidity.
De nombreux pays, dont la Russie, le Qatar, l’Égypte et la Jordanie, ont fait half de leur inquiétude. Le G7 a souligné qu’« aucun pays n’a à gagner » d’une escalade au Moyen-Orient, pointant le risque d’un « conflit régional aux conséquences inimaginables ».
La Chine a de son côté dénoncé mardi des « attaques aveugles » contre des civils.
PHOTO RONEN ZVULUN, REUTERS
Le Dôme de fer – système antimissile israélien – intercepte des roquettes lancées du Liban vers Israël.
Vendredi, une frappe israélienne dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth a tué 16 membres de la power d’élite du Hezbollah, dont son chef, Ibrahim Aqil.
L’Irak a dit vouloir une « réunion urgente » des pays arabes en marge de l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU pour « stopper » Israël, que la Turquie a accusé de vouloir « mener toute la région au chaos ».
Le président iranien, Massoud Pezeshkian, a également accusé Israël, ennemi juré de Téhéran, de vouloir « élargir » le conflit.
Dimanche, le secrétaire général de l’ONU, Antonio Guterres s’était inquiété que le Liban devienne un « autre Gaza ».
La guerre dans la bande de Gaza a éclaté le 7 octobre 2023, quand le Hamas a mené une attaque dans le sud d’Israël qui a entraîné la mort de 1205 personnes, majoritairement des civils, selon un décompte de l’AFP basé sur les chiffres officiels israéliens qui inclut les otages morts ou tués en captivité à Gaza.
Sur les 251 personnes enlevées, 97 sont toujours retenues à Gaza dont 33 déclarées mortes par l’armée.
PHOTO RABIH DAHER, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
De la fumée s’échappe du website d’une frappe aérienne israélienne à Marjayoun, près de la frontière israélo-libanaise.
En représailles, Israël a juré de détruire le mouvement islamiste palestinien, au pouvoir à Gaza depuis 2007 et qu’il considère comme une organisation terroriste de même que les États-Unis et l’Union européenne.
L’offensive lancée par son armée à Gaza a fait jusque-là au moins 41 455 morts, en majorité des civils, selon les données du ministère de la Santé du gouvernement du Hamas, jugées fiables par l’ONU. Elle y a aussi provoqué un désastre humanitaire.
La riposte lancée par Israël à Gaza a fait au moins 41 455 morts, en majorité des civils, selon les données du ministère de la Santé du gouvernement du Hamas, jugées fiables par l’ONU. La guerre a aussi provoqué un désastre humanitaire dans l’enclave palestinienne.
PHOTO HUSSEIN MALLA, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Frappes aériennes israéliennes sur le village de Taybeh, dans le sud du Liban
Liban/Israël : principaux affrontements depuis la guerre de 2006
Après les nouvelles frappes israéliennes contre le Hezbollah au Liban lundi, rappel des principaux affrontements entre Israël et le mouvement islamiste libanais depuis leur conflit en 2006.
La confrontation de juillet-août 2006 avait fait plus de 1200 morts au Liban, surtout des civils, et 160 en Israël, la plupart des soldats.
Affrontements et incursion
Trois Libanais et un officier israélien sont tués le 3 août 2010, lors d’affrontements dans le secteur du village frontalier d’Aadaissé.
Quatre soldats israéliens sont blessés le 7 août 2013 par des explosions revendiquées par le Hezbollah, lors d’une incursion de 400 mètres au Liban.
Frappes aériennes israéliennes
Le 7 octobre 2014, l’artillerie israélienne bombarde deux positions du Hezbollah dans le sud du Liban, en représailles à une attaque revendiquée par le groupe libanais qui a blessé légèrement deux soldats israéliens dans les Fermes de Chebaa (territoire occupé par Israël aux confins de sa frontière de la Syrie et du Liban).
Le 28 janvier 2015, deux soldats israéliens sont tués dans une embuscade du Hezbollah dans le même secteur, en réponse à un raid meurtrier attribué à Israël le 18 janvier sur la partie syrienne du plateau du Golan.
En riposte, l’armée israélienne bombarde plusieurs villages libanais.
Attaque aux drones et tirs de missiles
Le 25 août 2019, deux drones chargés d’explosifs frappent la banlieue sud de Beyrouth, faisant des dégâts matériels selon le Hezbollah, qui accuse Israël.
La veille, une frappe d’Israël en Syrie avait tué deux membres du mouvement.
Le 1er septembre, l’armée israélienne et le Hezbollah échangent des tirs de missiles à la frontière.
Nouvelle poussée de fièvre en 2021
En août 2021, Israël riposte par des frappes aériennes et des tirs d’artillerie à des tirs de roquettes depuis le Liban.
Depuis le 7 octobre 2023
Les échanges de tirs transfrontaliers sont quasi quotidiens entre l’armée israélienne et le Hezbollah depuis l’attaque sans précédant lancée le 7 octobre 2023 par le mouvement islamiste palestinien allié, le Hamas, contre Israël, qui a déclenché la guerre dans la bande de Gaza.
Le 2 janvier 2024, le numéro deux du Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri, est tué près de Beyrouth dans une frappe attribuée à Israël.
Cooks du Hezbollah et du Fatah tués
Le 27 juillet, une attaque à la roquette tue 12 jeunes à Majdal Shams, ville druze du plateau du Golan syrien annexé en grande partie par Israël. Le Hezbollah nie être responsable.
Une frappe de représailles israélienne tue le 30 un haut responsable militaire du Hezbollah, Fouad Chokr, près de Beyrouth.
Le 21 août, une frappe israélienne dans le sud du Liban tue Khalil al-Maqdah, un responsable de la branche armée du Fatah palestinien.
Attaque d’ampleur du Hezbollah
Le 25 août, le Hezbollah annonce avoir mené « avec succès » une attaque à grande échelle de drones et de roquettes contre Israël, ripostant à la mort de Fouad Chokr.
Israël dit pour sa half avoir détruit « des milliers de rampes de lancement de roquettes », déjouant cette vaste attaque.
Explosions meurtrières et nouvelles frappes
Les 17 et 18 septembre, une imprecise d’explosions de téléavertisseurs et de walkies-talkies utilisés par le Hezbollah dans ses fiefs au Liban, attribuée à Israël, fait 39 morts et 2931 blessés selon les autorités libanaises.
Les échanges de tirs se succèdent les jours suivants, une frappe israélienne près de Beyrouth le 20 tuant notamment le chef de l’unité d’élite du Hezbollah, Ibrahim Aqil.
Le 23, les frappes israéliennes les plus intenses depuis près d’un an font 274 morts dans le sud du Liban, selon les autorités du pays.
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns switched coordinators in the course of the offseason to rebuild their offense so it higher suited quarterback Deshaun Watson.
After three video games, there aren’t any detectable indicators of progress.
The truth is, Cleveland’s offense lacks creativeness, an id or any actual consistency, until you depend Watson taking a weekly pounding attributable to an absence of pocket safety and his seeming lack of ability to acknowledge coverages.
With extra run-pass choices (RPOs), shotgun formations and multiple-wide receiver packages, the offense was speculated to function higher, not worse. It was supposed to enhance Watson’s ability set, not stifle it.
The Browns have scored 17, 18 and 15 factors, respectively, of their three video games. They’re averaging 248 complete yards, with solely New England getting fewer.
It’s nonetheless early, and coach Kevin Stefanski has harassed persistence. However there are causes to imagine issues could not enhance any time quickly.
Let’s begin with Watson. Whereas he’s made some robust throws, and he doesn’t seem like restricted by his surgically repaired shoulder, his accuracy and timing are off and he’s not finishing any deep balls.
Watson’s longest completion in Sunday’s 21-15 loss to the New York Giants got here on his first throw.
Extra troubling, Watson was sacked eight occasions, took 17 different hits and spent a lot of the afternoon scrambling for security. By way of three video games, Watson has been sacked a league-high 16 occasions, and the blitzes will maintain coming till the Browns present they’ll cease them.
A few of it’s his fault for holding the ball too lengthy. A few of it’s on an offensive line that’s now ravaged by accidents. And a few of the blame has to go to Stefanski, first-year coordinator Ken Dorsey and their play design.
“It’s everyone,” Stefanski stated Monday. “It’s from myself, the coaches, the offensive line, tight ends, operating backs, large receivers, quarterbacks. It’s everyone. And everyone has a job to do with the intention to maintain the quarterback clear.”
The operating sport is caught in impartial.
Cleveland couldn’t get something occurring the bottom within the first half, and the offensive line’s lack of ability to get any push or open holes, coupled with taking part in from behind, prevented Stefanski from committing to the run.
Making issues worse, the Browns are with out Professional Bowl tight finish David Njoku, who missed his second straight sport with a sprained ankle. He’s arguably the crew’s prime playmaker, Watson’s safety blanket and a weapon Stefanski likes to deploy.
Njoku can’t be counted on to avoid wasting Cleveland’s offense.
However somebody had higher — quickly.
What’s working
A minimum of Watson was in a position to reconnect with Amari Cooper, who had seven catches for 86 yards and two touchdowns — together with one on Cleveland’s first offensive play.
Cooper’s lack of manufacturing within the first two weeks (5 receptions, 27 yards and two vital drops) had been a priority, however the crew’s No. 1 large receiver promised a dramatic enchancment and delivered.
What wants assist
The offensive line is in shambles, and will likely be at lower than full energy for a number of weeks with left guard Wyatt Teller anticipated to go on injured reserve with a sprained knee ligament suffered Sunday.
Teller’s harm, together with these to left sort out Jedrick Wills Jr. (knee) and backup sort out James Hudson III (shoulder), pressured a whole makeover within the second half. Jack Conklin had been anticipated to return following reconstructive knee surgical procedure final yr, however he suffered a hamstring harm late within the week at follow.
Additionally, proper sort out Dawand Jones, who’s coping with knee points, was benched at halftime earlier than being wanted when Hudson went down.
Refill
Professional Bowl cornerback Denzel Ward had one other robust sport regardless of a shoulder subject that restricted him to 11 performs per week in the past at Jacksonville. He was credited with 5 tackles, two cross breakups and a quarterback hit.
Inventory down
Cornerback Greg Newsome II’s penalty for roughing Giants quarterback Daniel Jones worn out an interception that might have led to the Browns opening a 14-0 lead within the first 5 minutes.
Blitzing from the appropriate aspect, Newsome left his ft and made contact with Jones’ helmet, a simple name for the officers.
As an alternative of a possible game-swinging turnover, the Giants stored possession, drove the size of the sphere and scored to tie it.
“We’ve got to be higher there,” Stefanski stated. “Greg is aware of that you may’t go up close to the quarterback’s head and neck space.”
Accidents
Myles Garrett’s ft escaped additional harm after they bothered him in Sunday’s sport. He’s “day after day” and “battling,” Stefanski stated. The reigning Defensive Participant of the 12 months twice wanted to be handled within the sideline medical tent and needed to be helped off the sphere within the fourth quarter.
Garrett stated that in compensating for the problems along with his ft, he’s created different issues in his legs.
Key numbers
7 — Cleveland’s speeding yardage within the first half on seven carries.
What’s subsequent
A weekend journey to Las Vegas for the primary of three straight highway video games for the Browns, who won’t thoughts the prospect to get away after being booed by their dwelling crowd for the second time in three weeks.
A Missouri demise row inmate set to be executed Tuesday within the 1998 deadly stabbing of a former reporter maintains his innocence and that he is by no means been forensically linked to the killing.
Marcellus Williams, 55, is about to develop into the third inmate executed in Missouri this yr and the fifteenth or sixteenth within the nation, relying on whether or not he is declared useless earlier than or after Travis James Mullis, one other inmate set for execution in Texas on the identical day. Two extra back-to-back executions in Alabama and Oklahoma on Thursday.
Williams was convicted of murdering Lisha Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Publish-Dispatch fatally stabbed throughout a housebreaking within the dwelling she shared together with her husband.
The St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Workplace helps Williams’ claims of innocence and not too long ago filed a movement to vacate his conviction − a transfer accepted by a county trial choose, however rapidly contested by Missouri Legal professional Common Andrew Bailey. The case was tossed again to the identical choose for a listening to, and on Sept. 12, he reversed his determination.
On Monday, Sept. 23, Missouri Governor Mike Parson, a Republican, and the Missouri Supreme Court docket denied clemency to Williams, and his execution will go on as deliberate, based on the Innocence Challenge.
In the meantime those that imagine Williams is harmless proceed to battle for a reprieve.
As Williams execution approaches, USA TODAY talked to his attorneys and is trying again on the crime and who the person is.
Extra about what Marcellus Williams was convicted of
On the morning of Aug. 11, 1998, Gayle was within the bathe when police mentioned Williams broke into her dwelling on a personal gated road.
The 42-year-old girl left the second-floor toilet and was strolling downstairs when police say she encountered Williams on the touchdown. In some unspecified time in the future, she was stabbed 43 occasions with a kitchen knife from the house.
Later that evening, Gayle’s husband, Daniel Picus, discovered his spouse’s physique and known as 911. Among the many proof police collected: bloody shoeprints and fingerprints, a knife sheath and the suspect’s hair collected from Gayle’s shirt, fingers and the ground. Lacking from the home have been Gayle’s purse and jacket, and her husband’s laptop computer.
A suspect was not instantly named so in Might 1999, Gayle’s household introduced a $10,000 reward for data resulting in an arrest and conviction within the case.
Not lengthy after an inmate named Henry Cole and Williams’ girlfriend, Lara Asaro, named Williams because the perpetrator. On the time of his conviction, Williams had simply began serving a 20-year jail sentence for robbing a downtown St. Louis donut store.
No forensic proof tied Williams to the crime scene however a jury convicted him of homicide and housebreaking.
Williams’ attorneys have argued that each informants stood to learn from their cooperation with prosecutors, and that their tales typically modified or conflicted with different particulars in regards to the killing. Each witnesses have since died.
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Extra about who Williams is
Born in South Bend, Indiana, on Dec. 30, 1968, Williams, his mom and two brothers moved to St. Louis when he was about 5.
Williams grew up in an impoverished and dysfunctional family the place he was uncovered to alcohol, medicine, weapons at a younger age, based on courtroom information. He was subjected to violent sexual and bodily abuse by some members of the family, deserted by his mother and father, and his household condoned legal habits and substance abuse, the information say.
The demise of Williams’ older brother in 1997 deeply bothered him, since his brother had been a father determine to him, courtroom information present. That very same yr, Williams burglarized a house, and spent a stint in jail earlier than his 1998 conviction for robbing the donut shot.
Williams’ attorneys introduced proof that he was “a caring and loving father” through the penalty part of his homicide trial.
A number of of Williams’s members of the family and associates, together with his son and his step-daughter, testified about Williams’s constructive relationship with the youngsters and mentioned that his execution “would have a big impact on his household.”
Whereas in jail, Williams has devoted a lot of his time to learning Islam and writing poetry, based on the Innocence Challenge.
Williams was beforehand set to be executed twice, however each have been halted
Williams was set to be executed in January 2015 and in August 2017.
Each deadly injections have been halted to conduct additional DNA testing and investigation. The latest keep of execution was ordered by then-Gov. Eric Greiten who appointed a board of inquiry to look into the case.
However through the summer time of 2023, newly sworn-in Gov. Mike Parson dissolved the board and lifted the keep. The courtroom, Parsons mentioned, would resolve Williams’ destiny and the Missouri Supreme Court docket issued a 3rd execution warrant for Williams.
What has Williams argued in his appeals?
In January, Williams’ attorneys filed a movement to vacate his conviction and sentence.
On Aug. 21, county prosecuting legal professional Wesley Bell’s workplace and Williams’ attorneys reached an settlement permitting Williams to enter a brand new, no-contest plea to first-degree homicide in change for all times in jail sentence with out parole. The sufferer’s husband, Daniel Picus, signed off on the plea.
Though Bell moved to overturn Williams’ homicide conviction, state Legal professional Common Andrew Bailey argued it ought to stand and ordered St. Louis County Circuit Choose Bruce Hilton − who accepted the plea − to carry an evidentiary listening to on the matter.
The protection, Bailey mentioned, “created a false narrative of innocence in an effort to get a convicted assassin off of demise row and fulfill their political ends.”
Throughout the Aug. 28 listening to, the retired prosecutor who dealt with the case admitted proof was mishandled within the 1998 trial that would have exonerated Williams.
However on Sept. 12, Hilton declined to vacate Williams’ conviction and sentence, regardless of questions on DNA proof on the knife used within the assault. In appeals, his protection group produced proof that DNA taken from the knife revealed an unknown male profile and didn’t match Williams.
“There is no such thing as a foundation for a courtroom to seek out that Williams is harmless, and no courtroom has made such a discovering,” St. Louis County Circuit Choose Bruce Hilton wrote. “Williams is responsible of first-degree homicide, and has been sentenced to demise.”
Williams’ legal professional Tricia Rojo Bushnell, informed USA TODAY her shopper’s protection group will file extra appeals and search clemency.
Except the courts or the governor intervene, Williams’ execution stays set this week.
Williams is one among 5 males being executed in lower than per week
Williams is one among 5 males anticipated to be executed within the U.S. in a six-day interval. First was Freddie Owens, who was executed on Friday in South Carolina amid contemporary doubts over his guilt.
On Tuesday, concurrently Williams’ execution, Texas is about to execute Travis James Mullis within the homicide of his toddler son.
After Tuesday’s double execution, Thursday is anticipated to carry two extra back-to-back executions. Alabama is about to make use of nitrogen gasoline to execute Alan Eugene Miller within the taking pictures deaths of three co-workers in 1999 regardless of proof of his psychological sickness and a witness to the state’s earlier nitrogen gasoline execution in January who described the tactic as “horrific.”
Additionally Thursday, Oklahoma is about to execute Emmanuel Littlejohn within the demise of a comfort retailer clerk in 1992 regardless of his arguments that he wasn’t the shooter.
If all 5 executions proceed, the U.S. could have executed 18 demise row inmates this yr. One other six are scheduled earlier than the tip of December, and extra could possibly be added to the calendar.
This story has been up to date so as to add new data.
Contributing: Julia Gomez, USA TODAY
Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for USA TODAY. Attain her at nalund@usatoday.com and comply with her on X @nataliealund.
Autos wait in site visitors within the city of Damour, south of the capital Beirut on Sept. 24, 2024, as individuals flee southern Lebanon. Israel introduced dozens of recent air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon on Tuesday, a day after greater than 490 individuals, together with dozens of girls and youngsters, had been killed within the deadliest bombardment since a devastating struggle in 2006.
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Israeli forces and Hezbollah have continued to commerce cross-border missiles by means of the evening and into Tuesday morning, following the deadliest day of airstrikes within the nation for nearly twenty years.
In a single day, the Israeli army stated that it initiated airstrikes alongside tank and artillery fireplace on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah introduced early Tuesday it had fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel, geared toward a number of army installations, an airbase and a munitions manufacturing facility.
Israeli authorities say a regional hospital was broken as sirens sounded all through giant swathes of northern Israel. The Israeli missile interception batteries compelled a number of the rockets down, the Israeli army stated, however a number of buildings had been broken and firefighting crews had been working to extinguish blazes that resulted.
Lebanon’s well being ministry stated on Tuesday that 558 individuals have been killed since Israel launched its strikes on Monday. Amongst them, in line with Well being Minister Firass Abiad, 50 victims had been youngsters and 94 had been girls. Abiad stated 1,835 individuals have been injured, and that medical employees are working “above and past to take care of all sufferers.”
Elsewhere, Israeli strikes in Gaza’s southern metropolis of Khan Younis early Tuesday killed not less than seven, Palestinian officers stated.
And in an interview with CNN, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that the Israeli strikes threat pushing the area into wider battle. “We should not enable for Lebanon to turn out to be one other Gaza by the hands of Israel,” Pezeshkian stated within the CNN report.
On Monday, Hezbollah fired roughly 100 missiles, a few of them deep into Israel and across the northern metropolis of Haifa, had been largely intercepted and Israeli emergency providers solely reported a handful of accidents.
The overwhelming majority of the individuals killed on Monday had been within the south of Lebanon, in line with the Lebanese Well being Ministry, in a area the place the militant group Hezbollah has initiated lots of its cross-border assaults on targets inside Israel since October seventh.
Hundreds fled their properties and headed northwards away villages, cities and cities in that border area. On a four-lane freeway with two lanes of site visitors normally passing in each instructions, all 4 lanes had been full of escaping vehicles and buses, filled with passengers. Youngsters sat atop some autos or had been crammed into the again of vegetable vehicles, with some males sitting within the trunk of a automobile as Lebanese troopers waved them by means of.
Residents from southern Lebanon described being advised to depart their properties in nameless cellphone calls. “Please depart all of your work and go outdoors,” Bilal Hemadi stated he was advised by somebody talking in damaged Arabic on an Israeli cellphone quantity that known as his dwelling’s landline quantity. The businessman, who lives in a border village known as Nabatieh, stated he responded, “‘OK, thanks,'” and along with his spouse and three youngsters he quickly headed north to Beirut, the place he’ll shelter with pals.
With little discover, lots of the hundreds fleeing had little time to pack belongings, and never all had been positive in conversations the place they’d go.
Certainly one of Hezbollah’s most senior commanders advised individuals mourning at a funeral in Beirut this previous weekend that this battle now represented an open-ended struggle, whereas the Israeli army has stated it won’t rule out a floor invasion throughout the border into Lebanon’s territory.
This newest escalation in cross border violence follows the hundreds of sudden pager and walkie-talkie explosions that left members and allies of Hezbollah lifeless or severely wounded. Civilians, together with youngsters, had been additionally injured or killed throughout these explosions throughout Lebanon, and shortly after an airstrike Friday within the Lebanese capital killed dozens of different civilians, together with youngsters, in addition to Hezbollah fighters and the senior commander of the group that the Israeli army stated it had focused.
In a video launched Monday, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned individuals in Lebanon that Hezbollah – which is taken into account a terrorist group in a number of nations, together with the US – was endangering them and they need to depart areas near the border within the nation’s south and east.
“Please get out of hurt’s approach now,” Netanyahu stated within the message. “As soon as our operation is completed, you possibly can come again safely to your properties.” In sure border areas the extent of the destruction from Israeli airstrikes means some residents not have properties to which they’ll return.
An emotional victory for the Philadelphia Eagles over the New Orleans Saints Sunday did not come and not using a value. The Eagles misplaced a number of gamers with accidents through the 15-12 win, the most important being DeVonta Smith.
Smith was knocked out with a concussion and stayed on the bottom for a number of minutes after officers had been reluctant to blow the whistle on the finish of a play. As a number of Saints defenders pulled Smith again, defensive deal with Khristian Boyd got here at Smith’s blindside and knocked him down.
Whereas it appeared Boyd was going after Smith’s shoulder pads within the collision, Philadelphia’s beginning security, C.J. Gardner-Johnson, did not see it that means.
“Man, that is the dirtiest s— I ever noticed in soccer, bro,” Gardner-Johnson instructed reporters. “Y’all clearly noticed that ahead development was stopped. And for them to take an affordable shot on considered one of our key guys, it reveals what sort of crew that’s. They’re front-runners.”
The official not blowing the whistle when Smith was dragged again by a number of defenders instigated the Boyd hit, however that was considered one of a number of performs that put the Saints protection into query. Offensive deal with Trevor Penning obtained a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after blocking Darius Slay previous the sideline and into the bleachers the place the gamers sit. Slay was injured on the play.
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All of the Eagles might talk about was Smith’s harm and his properly being. Boyd was not given an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
“I might seen him (knocked) out, and that is after I waved to the coaching employees, like he is out chilly. It was scary,” offensive deal with Fred Johnson, who crammed in for Lane Johnson within the second half, stated. “You by no means need to see (one thing) like that, particularly on a play the place he catches the ball, and he is working backwards for like 5 steps.”
“It is on the refs to name that play useless, and take the required motion when he is hit late,” he stated. “DeVonta’s measurement, and so a lineman hitting him after 5 steps of him catching the ball, it is unprofessional. They are going to take a look at it and see that they should take obligatory actions.”
The Eagles weren’t blissful about what occurred, though Boyd reached out on Instagram wishing Smith properly. Boyd stated he would by no means “intentionally attempt to give somebody a severe harm.”
“Both means it goes, man, that bought no place (in) soccer,” Gardner-Johnson stated. “You all the time discuss CD this, CD this, however let’s discuss taking part in soiled on their aspect. On the finish of the day, the league will deal with it.”
One among my favourite line readings of the 12 months is in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, when Glen Powell’s character of Gary comes clear to Adria Arjona’s character Madison about how he’s been pretending to be another person. The second is completely deflated by Arjona’s hilariously high-pitched supply of “Who the fuck is GARY?!” It kills each time. I say all of this to say, when you watched the trailer for Marvel’s new film, Thunderbolts*, then you might have gotten to the purpose the place Lewis Pullman’s character “Bob” is launched and puzzled, to your self or out loud, “Who the fuck is Bob?!” with an analogous tenor and tone.
Expensive reader, that’s a superb query. Pullman is taking part in a personality named Robert Reynolds, which suggests he is probably taking part in an MCU model of the Marvel hero often called The Sentry. Initially developed within the late 90s by Paul Jenkins and Rick Veitch earlier than touchdown a mini-series in 2000 from Jenkins with artwork by Jae Lee, the character’s historical past is, even by comedian e-book requirements, a bizarrely lengthy and winding highway. The unique collection includes a middle-aged model of Bob remembering that he was as soon as a superhero referred to as Sentry, who has the ability of 1,000,000 suns that got here from taking a model of the tremendous soldier serum. Afraid that his archfoe “The Void” is returning, Bob seeks out different Marvel heroes to assist him. Over the course of the collection, it’s revealed that Sentry and Void are two sides of the identical coin, manifestations of Bob’s nervousness and schizophrenia. Mainly, Bob is Marvel’s Superman, if Superman had been additionally Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
In fact, the Sentry had by no means appeared in a Marvel comedian earlier than the unique Jenkins/Lee miniseries, however there’s a proof as to why he reveals up seemingly out of nowhere; we be taught that as a way to shield the world from his darkish aspect, Bob enlisted Dr. Unusual and Mister Incredible of the Incredible 4 to erase the world’s reminiscence of him. That first collection ends with him doing the identical factor once more, for a similar motive. However comedian books being comedian books, it was solely a matter of time earlier than different writers discovered a motive to contain Bob of their tales. Author Brian Michael Bendis ended up utilizing Sentry as a vital a part of his Mighty Avengers story, the place Tony Stark enlists his assist in trade for looking for a treatment for his psychological points. From there, he turns into a principal fixture throughout Bendis’ Darkish Avengers run, the place Norman Osborn coaxes out The Void to take over Bob and do his bidding.
As a result of Bob’s two personalities are continuously jockeying for management, he’s typically too harmful to be left unchecked, which is the aspect that Thunderbolts* seems to be to be taking part in up. When Yelena (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), and others encounter Bob within the trailer, he’s carrying what seems to be to be a medical robe. Whereas we don’t know at this stage who is strictly pulling the strings, the preliminary implication is that Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Val has despatched Yelena, Walker, and the opposite anti-heroes of the MCU to both rescue Bob or provoke him in order that he’ll take them out for her. Both approach, some of the complicated and complex heroes in current comedian e-book reminiscence will take heart stage in a serious Marvel film when Thunderbolts* releases subsequent Might.
Travis Kelce almost had no impact on the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ offense on Sunday throughout the group’s 22-17 victory over the Atlanta Falcons.
It took two full quarters earlier than Kelce caught a cross. He completed with 4 catches on 5 targets for 30 yards, however he’s failed to search out the tip zone within the first three video games of the season.
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Falcons security Jessie Bates III breaks up a cross meant for Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Sept. 22, 2024.(Brett Davis-Imagn Pictures)
Rodney Harrison, a two-time Tremendous Bowl champion who’s presently an analyst on NBC, made a stark admission about Kelce.
“He’s busy, he’s obtained loads on his plate,” Harrison stated. “You consider it, he’s doing a number of various things media-wise, he’s taking part in soccer, he’s obtained different issues happening. It’s a number of stuff happening. However if you’re in that state of affairs, you bought to give attention to every part else, and you bought to focus 100% on soccer and that’s the principle accountability.
“Guys making performs on him, you see Jessie Bates did a heck of a job on him tonight. He simply doesn’t have the identical pace. He’s an excellent participant nonetheless. I don’t consider he’s a fantastic, nice participant.”
NBC Sports activities broadcaster Rodney Harrison throughout the sport between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Buffalo Payments at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on Dec. 23, 2023.(Kirby Lee-USA Immediately Sports activities)
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Kelce’s demeanor on the sideline drew concern from Taylor Swift followers.
Patrick Mahomes remarked on Kelce seemingly being absent from the sport plan.
“The respect issue they’ve for Travis is simply unreal,” he stated of different groups. “It’s well-deserved, however we’re calling a number of performs for Travis, and it is like two or three individuals are going to him. So, I imply, he understands. I believe that is the wonderful thing about him is he desires to make an influence on the sport, however he desires to win on the finish of the day.
“I’ll attempt to do my finest to maintain feeding him the ball at any time when he is there, at any time when he is open. However I believe the extra Rashee [Rice] makes performs, the extra we’re capable of run the soccer, the extra we will get [Xavier] Worthy concerned, that is going to open Travis up extra. I imply, individuals are actually emphasizing attempting to take him away and it’s getting different guys open.”
Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce talks to Falcons lengthy snapper Liam McCullough after a sport at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Sept. 22, 2024.(Brett Davis-Imagn Pictures)
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The 34-year-old tight finish has been focused solely 12 occasions within the first three video games. It’s the second most on the group, as Rashee Rice has had 29 targets. Kelce has eight catches for 69 yards.
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After studies emerged suggesting Rodri might miss the remainder of the 2024-25 season with an ACL damage, we have a look at Manchester Metropolis’s document with out the Spanish midfielder.
When Rodri fell to the bottom after an innocuous conflict with Arsenal’s Thomas Partey within the nineteenth minute of Sunday’s 2-2 draw on the Etihad Stadium, it didn’t look like a second that would change Manchester Metropolis’s season.
Nonetheless, 24 hours later, studies now recommend Rodri will miss a big interval, and even perhaps the rest of the 2024-25 season after apparently tearing his anterior cruciate ligament.
There’s no query that Manchester Metropolis are weaker with out Rodri within the facet. Coach Pep Guardiola is aware of this too, as he used his compatriot extra usually than another participant in all competitions final season.
Rodri began extra matches (50) than any of his teammates in 2023-24, whereas he additionally performed probably the most minutes (4,325). He then went on to play at Euro 2024 for Spain, beginning six of their seven matches earlier than struggling an damage and being withdrawn at half-time of the ultimate victory towards England.
That hamstring damage additionally stored him out of Man Metropolis’s opening three league video games of this season, earlier than he returned as a half-time substitute of their 2-1 win over Brentford on Matchday 4.
Having performed the complete 90 minutes in Metropolis’s 0-0 draw with Inter within the UEFA Champions League final week, followers would have hoped Rodri’s damage issues had been behind him, however their worst fears have now seemingly come to cross.
Since signing for the membership in 2019-20, Rodri has solely missed 21 of Manchester Metropolis’s 195 Premier League matches. In all competitions, he’s performed extra video games than another Premier League participant in that point (260), whereas no outfielder has began as many (238). He’s additionally second (20,555) to solely Bruno Fernandes (20,727) for minutes performed in all competitions by Premier League outfielders at membership stage since 2019-20. You may add in 50 nationwide group appearances for Spain in that timeframe for good measure.
Solely final week did Rodri stress that gamers may need to take industrial motion concerning the variety of matches they’re anticipated to play in fashionable soccer, suggesting some might select to go on strike if the scenario doesn’t change. His potential season-ending damage towards Arsenal just a few days later was a merciless reminder of the stresses positioned on modern-day footballers.
What would possibly Rodri’s damage imply for Manchester Metropolis then? Properly, the stats clearly present they’re weaker when he’s absent.
Since his Premier League debut in August 2019, Metropolis have misplaced a 3rd of their video games with out Rodri within the facet (7 of 21). Three got here within the first half of final season, with defeats towards Wolves, Arsenal and Aston Villa coming earlier than his return to the facet steadied the ship and helped ship a document fourth consecutive Premier League title.
Total, their win price is over 12 proportion factors decrease when he’s lacking in comparison with when he’s appeared throughout these seasons, whereas they’re much less dominant at each ends of the pitch, averaging a optimistic aim distinction of 1.70 when he performs in comparison with 1.29 when he doesn’t.
Their common points-per-game determine with out Rodri will alarm Metropolis followers, too. In averaging 1.90 factors per sport when he’s lacking, Metropolis would tally 76 this season if that common had been to proceed throughout their remaining 33 video games of 2024-25; that may be 15 under their league-winning whole final season (91). In fact, that’s a really fundamental evaluation utilizing top-level knowledge, however it might nonetheless be sufficient to fret Guardiola.
Rodri was on the centre of all the pieces Man Metropolis did within the Premier League final season. He was the one participant to common greater than 100 profitable passes per sport (103), whereas nobody noticed as a lot of the ball as he did, together with his 126 touches per 90 minutes 24 greater than any of his teammates within the competitors. He additionally led the Premier League rankings for open-play sequence involvements per 90 (2,000+ minutes performed), with 8.4.
On the time of his substitution yesterday, Metropolis had been successful 1-0 towards Arsenal and arguably in management. Simply 43 seconds later, they surrendered their lead after Riccardo Calafiori’s excellent equaliser and fell behind simply earlier than half-time.
True, Metropolis coped simply nice with out him of their opening three video games of this season with routine wins over Chelsea, Ipswich and West Ham, however tougher challenges await the champions, together with a tough away sport at Newcastle United on Saturday.
It was urged that John Stones’ dramatic late equaliser towards Arsenal may very well be a big second on this season’s title race, however maybe it wasn’t probably the most vital second of Sunday’s sport in spite of everything.
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