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Seahawks take Witherspoon at No. 5, Smith-Njigba at No. 20

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:11:54 GMT

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — When the first round ended, the Seattle Seahawks had nabbed the top-rated cornerback, the top-rated wide receiver, and didn’t do any wheeling and dealing of trades with either of their first-round picks. None of those three outcomes fits directions the Seahawks were expected to go on the first night of the NFL draft. Seattle held on to both of its first-rounders, selecting Illinois cornerback Devon Witherspoon at No. 5 overall and coming back to get Ohio State wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Ngjiba at No. 20 on Thursday night. Both positions were expected to be addressed at some point by Seattle, but not necessarily in the spots the two players were selected. Most believed Seattle — holding the highest draft pick in the long tenure of general manager John Schneider and coach Pete Carroll — would go with a defensive lineman or one of the quarterbacks. But with three QBs gone in the first four picks, the Seahawks’ leadership bypassed the likes of defensive tackle Jalen ...

Chiefs pick hometown star Felix Anudike-Uzomah of K-State

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:11:54 GMT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs picked a hometown boy with the last selection in the first round of the hometown NFL draft.The Super Bowl champions bolstered their pass rush Thursday night when they chose Kansas State’s Felix Anudike-Uzomah with the 31st overall pick. He was born in Kansas City and became a prep star in the suburb of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, before helping the Wildcats to a Big 12 title last season, when he was voted the league’s defensive player of the year.“I got drafted by literally my favorite team growing up,” Anudike-Uzomah said. “It’s definitly a dream come true.”Anudike-Uzomah fills a big need for the Chiefs, who released Frank Clark not long ago to create some salary cap space.The Chiefs also used a first-round pick last year on defensive end George Karlaftis, and now they have two young players to anchor their pass rush for years to come. Karlaftis had six sacks while helping the Chiefs win the Super Bowl as a rookie.“...

2 US Army helicopters crash in Alaska, killing 3 soldiers

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:11:54 GMT

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — Two U.S. army helicopters collided and crashed Thursday in Alaska while returning from a training flight, killing three soldiers and injuring a fourth.Two of the soldiers died at the scene of the crash near Healy, Alaska, and a third died on the way to a hospital in Fairbanks, the Army said in a statement. It said a fourth soldier was being treated at a hospital for injuries. The names of those killed were being withheld until relatives could be notified, the Army said.Each AH-64 Apache helicopter was carrying two people at the time of the crash, John Pennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Alaska, said earlier Thursday.The helicopters were from the 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright, based near Fairbanks.“This is an incredible loss for these soldiers’ families, their fellow soldiers, and for the division,” Maj. Gen. Brian Eifler, commanding general of the 11th Airborne Division, said in the Army statement...

Summer Movies: Indy, Barbie, ‘Fast X’ zooming to theaters

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:11:54 GMT

The stakes are always high in the summer movie season.But even in a schedule that has heavyweights like Indiana Jones, Ariel, Ethan Hunt and Dominic Toretto vying for box office supremacy, the biggest, funniest showdown is happening on July 21. On that fateful Friday, cinephiles will be faced with a difficult choice: Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” or Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”?The “Barbieheimer” showdown is, naturally, a bit silly. First, it’s entirely possible to see two new movies in one weekend. Second, while opening weekends are important, they’re also not everything. In 2008, “The Dark Knight” debuted on the same weekend as “Mamma Mia!” and both went on to be major successes.But it has inspired the kind of feverish, half-serious, half-joking discourse online that no marketing can buy, with memes, jokes, bets and Highlander references galore every time either film drops a new advertisement. There were even a few hours in April when the internet panicked that the beach-off was ca...

Taiwán afirma que un dron militar chino circunnavegó Taiwán por primera vez

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:11:54 GMT

(CNN) — Un dron militar chino fue visto circunnavegando Taiwán, según un mapa de vuelo publicado por el ministerio de Defensa taiwanés este viernes.Es el primer incidente conocido de este tipo desde que el Ministerio de Defensa taiwanés comenzó a publicar regularmente las actividades de las fuerzas aéreas chinas en 2020.El dron militar fue identificado como un dron de reconocimiento TB-001. El mapa mostró que entró en la zona de identificación de defensa aérea (ADIZ) del suroeste de Taiwán, antes de volar a lo largo de la costa oriental de la isla y regresar a China continental en el norte. China ha declarado que no reconoce la ADIZ de Taiwán.ANÁLISIS | Una reserva de armas y una guerra asimétrica: cómo Taiwán podría frustrar una invasión de China, con la ayuda de Estados UnidosEl dron fue uno de los 19 aviones de guerra chinos que entraron en la ADIZ de Taiwán entre las 6 de la mañana del jueves y las 6 de la mañana de este viernes, según informó el Ministerio de Defensa taiw...

Cowboys get Michigan DT Mazi Smith 26th overall in NFL draft

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:11:54 GMT

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — The Dallas Cowboys targeted the leakiest part of their solid defense in the NFL draft, taking Michigan defensive tackle Mazi Smith with the 26th overall pick Thursday night.As much as the Cowboys would like to add offensive firepower for quarterback Dak Prescott, the run defense on a unit led by pass rushing star Micah Parsons needed some help, too.Dallas led the NFL in takeaways for the second consecutive year in 2022 — with the Cowboys reaching the playoffs both seasons — but the run defense dropped six spots to No. 22. The Cowboys were getting pushed around enough to trade for Johnathan Hankins during the season, and re-signed the player acquired from Las Vegas. The 6-foot-3, 323-pound Smith gives the Cowboys even more size on the interior of the defensive line. Parsons approved, tweeting “Man, let’s freaking work!!!!!!”“I’ve been strong my whole life,” Smith said. “My mom say I came out of the womb looking like I did pushups in there.”Asked what ...

Bills trade up to take TE Dalton Kincaid 25th in NFL draft

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:11:54 GMT

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The mere presence of Utah tight end Dalton Kincaid still being available as the Buffalo Bills’ late first-round selection approached was enough to convince general manager Brandon Beane to switch gears.Rather than follow through on trading back in the order or out of the first round entirely, Beane moved up two spots to select Kincaid with the 25th pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night.“Well, I lied. We traded up,” Beane said with a laugh in reflecting back to last week, when he said the odds were better he’d trade back. “Well, I didn’t lie. I just didn’t know he’d be there.”The Bills traded their 27th overall selection and their fourth-round pick, 130th overall, in a deal with the Jacksonville Jaguars in making Kincaid the first tight end selected. The move allowed Buffalo to jump ahead of Dallas, with Beane saying he had “a good feeling” the Cowboys were going to select Kincaid.Listed at 6-foot-4 and 246 pounds, Kincaid was Utah’s top receiving th...

NFL draft: Lions take RB Gibbs No. 12, LB Campbell at No. 18

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:11:54 GMT

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions made a move that even surprised the first player they picked in the NFL draft.Detroit traded down to take Alabama running back Jahmyr Gibbs No. 12 overall on Thursday night, giving up its first pick and a third-rounder to Arizona for a first-round selection and the 34th spot overall.“I was shocked,” Gibbs acknowledged, adding he expected to be drafted in the 20s.He joins a crowded backfield with D’Andre Swift and David Montgomery that may be in flux.When general manager Brad Holmes was asked about Swift, he said the dynamic running back was still on the roster.“It’s early,” Holmes said.The Lions added much-needed help on defense later in the first round, drafting Iowa’s Jack Campbell at No. 18 overall. The 6-foot-4, 249-pound Campbell, who is from Cedar Falls, Iowa, became the first player in school history to win the Butkus Award as college football’s best linebacker.“He is a Dan Campbell guy,” Lions linebacker Kelvin She...

Russia fires cruise missiles at Kyiv, other parts of Ukraine

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:11:54 GMT

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired more than a dozen cruise missiles at Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine early Friday, killing at least two people in an eastern city and striking a residential building in central Ukraine, officials said.Air raid sirens sounded around the capital in the first attack against the city in nearly two months and Ukraine’s air force intercepted 11 cruise missiles and two unmanned aerial vehicles over Kyiv, according to the Kyiv City Administration. There were no immediate reports of any successful strikes in Kyiv but fragments from intercepted missiles or drones damaged power lines and a road in one neighborhood. No casualties were reported.But a young woman and her 3-year-old child were killed in the eastern city of Dnipro in another attack, according to the city’s Mayor Borys Filatov in a Facebook post. He said more details would be provided later. Two cruise missiles also hit a residential building and storage facilities in Uman, around 215 ki...

US Army says 3 soldiers were killed and another injured in a collision of helicopters after an Alaska training mission

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:11:54 GMT

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) — US Army says 3 soldiers were killed and another injured in a collision of helicopters after an Alaska training mission.Source